The New York herald., 1879-10-02
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
Politics and Personalities from Over
the Atlantic.
THE MIRROR OF SOCIETY.

PrlnceSS
miners and peasant girls at Agram. she finds difnr
Guilty in inducing her subjects to ''sit.
Tho Baroness Stoerck, of Vienna, while stay.
ing Untervintl in the Tyrol left her lodgings on
the 18th and did not return. In drawer was found
paper with the words, "When you read these lines
shall be longer among the living" Her hat
shoes and umbrella were picked up on the bank OF
the Renz. and it is feared that illness and melan-
choiy led her to commit suicide She only
twentysix years of age.
Count Toreno the Spanish Minister of Public
Works, has had under consideration the design sug.
gested by NJ Colbert. the French architect. for
international exhibition to be opened at Madrid in
May 1881. The Minister promised M. Colbert ia
submit the plans to his colleague.
Apropos of the capture OF Cetywayo. . story IL
told in Natal which deserves to be true. When S1
Garnet wolseley in Natal some years ago no
called together meeting Of all the great chiefs ana
sent u special invitation to the Zulu monarch to be
present Instead of complying with this request
Cetywayo caused bag of wheat to be despatched to
Sir Garnet Wolselcy. accompanied with notification
that the Zulu warriors numerous as tho
of wheat. Sir Garnet, equal to the occasion.
caused the to be ground, and in that form 10
turned it to the King with message to tho effect
that If he (Cetywayo did not take care. he tSir
Garnet, would have him pounded like the wheat. 1t
had upon the alesory-loving King Of the zulus.
The Royal City of Gems. Mandalay. the residence
of King Theebau is becoming more and more like .
Pandemonium upon earth. The streets are thronged
with multitudes on their way to or from the gam-
bling hells Men selling their wives to buy tick.
cts; fathers their daughters to get money Tor
another chance bands robbers infest the suburbs
and outlying districts; all trade is at an end When
the craze is gone with the money, and His Majesty
sends round the collector to repenish his coers
there will be of riot in the capital which will
avenge and exceed the atrocities OF February In tho
provinces rebellion stalks about unchecked and APP
parently unheeded. The whole Kingdom is going to
ruin
Major Serpa Pinto's new work. giving the account
of his great journey Africa. Will be entitled
the "The Kings Rifle from the Atlantic to the
Indian Sea. Across Unknown Countries. and Dis
covery of the Great Zambesi Afiuents." 1t will be
enriched by numerous woodcuts from Major Pinto's
own sketches and photographs. also by about fifteen
maps. Editions in French. Portuguese. German and
English are being simultaneously prepared.
The five conspirators who were hanged in Russis
few weeks ago Nihilists old in political crimo
Nothing" says the Examiner. twas too audacious
for their conception. On occasion they decided
to blow up the Court House at Odessa with the Gov
and political judges and stole from the Nico-
laeff dockyard wagon load of dynamite; but ru-
NOR Of tho plot reaching Count Levoshof the court
removed to building surrounded by large
garden and Cossack pickets were placed 1T every
point commanding the enclosure. Finally, they
ranged to blow up the Czar with pyroxyline when ho
landed Ncolae in August last year, and had fixed
tho explosive under the head of the pier when the
chance arrest of one Of the conspirators revealed
the plos the authorities At the trial OF the
Ave conspirators attempted to defend themselves.
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their latest breath
remark said to have been uttered by Sir Louis
Cavagnari just before his departure for Cabul
ceives melancholy interest from what has since
occurred. The story goes that military friend Of
the Envoy was indulging in some Cassandrslike
the possible fate Of the Embassy. at the
time warning Sir Louis to be on his guard
against Afghan treachery. "Che sara SARA" replied
the doomed man; seven If am knitted my death viii
only hasten tho accomplishment OF the splendid
work to which have been allowed to set my hand"
"what work is thaty' was the immediate question
The carrying forward OF the frontier to the Hindoa
Koosh" answered Sir Louis; nothing short Of that
will ever secure India on the northwest. and even IL
my life is to be the price am ready to pay it ia
finish tho good work had some hand in beginning"
EGYPT AND THE SLAVE TRADE.
was told in Jeddah last week. says English
clergyman in writing from the Red Sea to the Lon
don Times that Colonel Gordon had either resigned
or had been dismissed from the post Of Governor.
General OF tho Soudan. l sincerely trust that tho
European Powers will not allow Colonel Gordon's
work to be thus destroyed but that they will insist
upon an Englishman being sent to replace HIM.
We have a party of Khartoum slave dealers
with us, passengers bound tor Alden, and
they told us with great delight that
Gordon Pacha had been dismissed, and that
Hassan Pacha will succeed him. II this be true. the
vast territory of the soudan. into which Colonel
Gordon has with immonse labor. introduced good
government and kept tight hand on the slave
trade will relapse into anarchy. The slave
trade will revive. and all Colonel Gordon's work
will be eifaccd. King John of Abyssinia openly
presses his determination to recover possession Of
all Abyssinian territory in the hands
OF the Egyptians. If Colonel Gordon. for
whom he has great respect, should resign. Tho
Abyssinian army is in magnificent condition. well
supplied with rifles, including $4,000 Remingtona
taken from the Egyptians in tho last war. Al
Adowa King Johns capital. there is powder and
cartridge manufactory. in which good cartridges
made for 81 per hundred 1t Is incredible that the
European Powers should allow great country like
Abyssinia to be perpetually blockaded by such Q
government the Egyptian. On May 10.
1877, Mr.. Vivian. the English Consul Gem
eral for Egypt. wrote to Lord Derby that.
.srhe Khcdive has promised mo to consult
Colonel Gordon by telegraph upon. the propricty Of
now removing all restrictions upon free communi-
cation and the passage OF foreigners into Abyssinis
II decree was issued to this effect 1t certainly
was never acted upon. for an English gentleman
was not allowed to enter Abyssnia three weeks ago.
and was turned back at Csssala. although his pass
ports were quite rsge by what law of nations or
by what right does Egypt dare to establish this
blockade round another country? believe that IL
Egypt were forced to ccdc port to Abyssinia and
TO remove the blockade King John would be satis3
fed and a war. which Egypt is in no position to
maintain, would be avoided. The Turks have very
ingenious plan for the suppression OF tho slavo
trade and at the same time filling their own pockets