The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-05
CORTI AND MENABREA.
Arresting the Officials Of
the Moscow Station.
WEST AFRICAN WARRIORS.
Afghan Hillmen Put Their New
Governor to Death.
"AMERICA'S FRIEND."


[BY CABLE TO THE HERALD
LONDON Dec. 8, 1879.
There has been heavy snowfall at Pesth and
throughout Hungary.
The Sportsman announces that the oarsman
Elliott has commenced training for his match
with Boyd.
The Standards Vienna despatch says 1.-THE
subject of submitting the Greek question to an
international tribunal is now under considera-
ton"
The Inman steamship City of Berlin has been
fitted with an electric light If the experiment
succeeds all the Inman steamers will be sup
piled with these lights.
Twenty villages in the Kirdschali district Of
the Rhodope mountains have risen in arms and
500 of the insurgents have seized the local fund
and made prisoners of the gendarmes.
The Australian bark Olive, Captain Barbavo-
rich, from New York October 81 for Gibraltar,
has been abandoned in sinking condition.
Her crew have been landed at Gibraltar.
A heavy snow storm fell yesterday at Paris
and all over France. Railway traffic was par
italy suspended in some districts. At Cher
bourg terrific storm was blowing off the coast.
Some disasters to shipping are reported,
The Daily Nescs Berlin despatch says 1.-THE
famine in Upper Silesia has become SO serious
that in many villages over one-third of the
population starving. Famine distress is
appearing in Saxony among the peasants and
veayers." aF ,v-1, A
The French government has directed the
Governor Of Senegal, Western Africa, to send
an expedition to explore the region lying be-
tween the Upper Senegal and the Niger rivers
and report on the feasibility of the construction
Of a railway between the two rivers.
cLEoPATRAs NEEDLE.
The obelisk presented by Egypt to the United
States, and on which operations for it's transfer
to New York have been progressing for some
time, is still standing at Alexandria, but the
preliminary labors for its removal are nearly
terminated, and its embarkation is expected in
q few days.
NATIVE CAvAGNARIs.
despatch from Cabul to the Daily Nc,rs
reports that the Governor of Madam was killed
by party of Afghan regulars and hill-men on
the Sd inst. The Governors of Kohistan and
Logar Valley have been menaced with the same
fate.
WHY THE GoLcs WAS SUSPENDED.
The Times st. Petersburg correspondent
states that the Golos was suspended
for its outspokcn articles upon the
widespread misery and poverty in the
interior provinces, the university ques-
ton, agricultural schools, and the dishonesty
and barbarism OF the communal authorities.
There is some hope that the term Of suspension
will be shortened if the Golos promises to be-
have better in future.
ITALIAN AMBASSADORS.
1t is announced that Count Corti, the present
Italian Ambassador at Constantinople, will go
to London, and that Count Menabrea, the
present Ambassador at London, will replace
General Cialdin as Ambassador ut Paris.
[Count Corti is one of the last pro-
fessional diplomatists in Italy. For thirty
years he has served his country in various
Foreign Offices. After holding the Spanish mis-
sion he was sent to Washington, and took an
active part in the international arbitration,
which was highly favorable to Italy. He has
been Ambassador at Constantinople since 1876,
and had a seat at the Berlin Congress. Count
Menabrea is chiefly noted for his services in the
field. His name ranks high among living Italian
generals.]
BELGIAN BISHOPS AND THE POPE.
A Brussels despatch of yesterday says 1.-THE
Archbishop of Malines will publish a decIara-
ton this evening stating that no differences
CAist uctWccu thc noiy Scc uIt TIC DcIHlan cplS-
copacy relative to the Education law. FIN an ar
ticle published in the Dfbats which has attracted
attention, M. John Lemoinne says :-''While
granting concessions enforced by necessity,
while advising compromise, the Pope has
yielded in no matter of doctrine. Ii there
could be an 'opportunist' Pontiif the former
Nuncio to King Leopold l., the former
Bishop of Perugia, Leo KILL, would be
he. Even Leo MIL, however, cannot go
beyond certain point lie will warn
the Belgian episcopacy to BIO more prudent and
SILENT or in other words, to commit fewer blum
ders and give way less to Impotence.
All such counsels, however, are merely
dictated by policy. At bottom, and from
: doctrinal point of view, His Holiness
Is, and necessarily must be- of their opinion.
In fact Leo XIII. is u monarch who sides with
the insurgents. The present occupant of the
Papal throne Is more prudent, more patient
and more humancly wise than his predecessor,
and he seeks u modus rrendi; but any one who
reads the details of the negotiations between
the Belgian government with the Vatican VIII
sec that practically speaking Rome makes no
compromise on any pont."l
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