The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-21
Effect Of American Products
on British Trade.
LIEUTENANT CAREYS ARRIVAL
Distress Among English
LabOrerS.

Another person has just died at Lurgan, Ire
land. in consequence OF wounds received at the
hands of the police in the recent riots there.
The Ne,cs Paris correspondent reports that
$500 pilgrims have started for Lourdes This
is double the number in last years pilgrimage.
A telegram to Loyds reports that steamer
grounded in the Suez Canal yesterday, and
that traffic through the Canal has been stopped.
The Times correspondent at Eucharist is
informed that the Austrian Hospice organiza-
ton in Bosnia and Herzegovina is simply de-
plorable.
The Times correspondent at Rome announces
that General Garribaldi, not having experienced
any advantage from the baths at Civita Vecchia,
will soon return to Caprera.
The Standards Paris despatch says cit is
reported that M. Gambetta will visit England
during the of the Assembly, where he
will be the guest OF Sir Charles Dixie"
The nomination of Herr Won Forckenbeck,
late president of the Reichstag, as life mem
Der Of the Upper Prussan Chamber, was at the
unanimous recommendation of the municipality
OF Berlin.
The Standards Paris despatch says the
from the government to establish telephone
Paris.
The employees at the Turkish Ministry of War,
at Constantinople, have refused to continue in
the discharge of their Duties their salaries being
in arrears. The War Office is consequently
closed.
The Times Bucharest correspondent thinks it
is probable thai when the first Bulgarian Ma
tional Assembly is convoked, the Bulgarian
Ministry will be impeached for violating the
constitution.
lie SOir, of Paris, announces that Count de
Chambord, the legitimst pretender, has started
for England, but the Union and the Civilization
deny that the Count intends going to either
England OF Switzerland
The Standard announces, semi-otiicially, that
England is the only Power which has not been
invited to send officers to witness the great Rus
sian military maneuvres, commencing on Mon
day, the 25th inst
The Grand HOTEL of Paris, was sold by auc-
ton yesterday for fS54. 400 ($4, 135, 296j.
despatch to the Standard states that M. Phil
ipport, financier, has bought the Grand Hotel,
paying over FL 100000.
The British Post Office Department announces
that in consequence of the damage by floods on
the Welsh railways it is not advisable to send
letters by the way of Holyhead to catch supple
mcntary American mails at Queenstown.
The liberal party is active. Mr.. Gladstone
and Sir Charles Dixie Tuesday night add
dressed large meetings ut Chester and Chelsea
respectively. Mr.. Gladstone urged that the
liberals could force on Il dissolution of Parlia-
ment by bringing their candidates prominently
forward.
NJ de Lesseps, the promoter of the Panama
Canal scheme, is already preparing for his
Journey to the United States. His wife will &C.
company him. The Times Paris correspondent
telegraphs:-"La France states that M. de
Lesseps will start for America in September or
October"
AMERICAN BUILT RUSSIAN CRUISERS.
Berlin despatch to this evenings Globe
says:-.The Russian government is on the
point OF signing contract with the agents of
certain American firms for the construction of a
number of cruisers ut aggregate cost Of
$4,000, OOO rubes.'
MANCHESTER TRADE.
The Manchester Guardian, reviewing the Do
sition of trade ut Manchester, says:-"At
current rates the demand and supply are about
equal At a very little advance more cloth and
yarn would be offered than could readily be
taken of the market. In short, the market is
In very sensitive condition. Meanwhile
good deal of machinery is either idle or not
working to its full capacity, and there is GER
tainly, at present, no inducement to increase the
production. Buyers seem agreed that steady
buying from day to day is best. Indeed IL NAV
be broadly affirmed that trade is becoming more
healthy, and that speculation has all but dis
appeared from the market"
AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION IN EUROPE.
Mr. X. Assheton Cross, Secretary of State for
the Home Department, in speech delivered at
Liverpool yesterday on the depression of tho
agricultural interests in the United Kingdom,
said the agriculturists in the ncghborhood of
New York were suffering far more from the
great importation of corn and cattle which come
across from their great Western States than the
British agriculturists were suffering from the
present depression lie said he was not alarmed
Mt the great amount of food which was coming
from America. The Statistical Department
of the Board of Trade announces that the
acreage under wheat is ten per. cent less than
that III 1878, under oats one per cent less, and
under hops five per cent less. Eight per cent
more acreage is under barley and six per cent
more under potatoes. The failure of the maize
crop in Bulgaria will entail u largely increased
consumption of wheat. AS the wheat crop,
though of good quality, has been somewhat re-
duccd by dry weather, prices of brcndstuifs will
be high on the Lower Danube during the next
year. The Standards Berlin correspondent re-
ports that the statistics of the crops in Russia
show that the yield of wheat in 1870 as
compared with 1878 is the same, the yield of
rye and oats is larger and that of barley and
potatoes smaller.
BRITISH LABOR DIsTREssEs.
At a crowded meeting of cotton operatives at
Burnley on Tuesday night resolution was
passed declaring that the conduct of the en-
ploycrs in violating their agreement and re-
ducing the wages fully fifteen pcr cont no