The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-12-09
FOREIGN.

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BERLIN, Dec. 3.-The government has
purchased the Berlin & Settling, the Magburg
& Hallberstadt, the Hanover u Altenberken |
and Cologne & Minden railways. Having
been submitted to the railway committee Of
the Prussian Landtag for examination that
body appointed a subcommittee to prepare
and settle the conditions furnishing guaran-
tees against any abuse of the powers which
the government would derive under the new
| measure. The subcommittee recommended
| that the concessions of the railway committee
measure depended upon the governments in
PRODUCTION Of a bill during the present session
or at the latest during the next, guaranteeing
separate financial administration for railways,
so that revenue therefrom shall be applied
solely to meeting the charges on railway
debts, management and extensions. The
subcommittee also recommend that railway
administration shall be assisted by a general
railway concil to cooperate with the central
railway administration vested in the Ministry
of Public Works, and by district railway
councils to cooperate withthe managers ofthe
railways. These recommendations have been
accepted with slight notifications by the rail-
way committee, and will doubtless be adopt
ed by the Landstag.
LONDON, Dec. 3.-The attempt on the life
of the Gar has created great indignation in
London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
VIENNA, Dec. 3.-The Lower House of
the Austrian Diet continues the discussion of
the army bill. Several well known Consti-
t%utionalists and forme leaders, including
Prince Charles D'Auersburg, who in 1868
was President of the Cisseithan Ministry, and
La Schmeykal, have forwarded letters stongly
urging the necessity of voting for the bill on
patriotic grounds. The latter has made the
| l.,-ao% .-a-,oooso- o-l ,Ysl ,~roholfxv oo,,ro
the necessary twO-thirds majority. Many
Constitutionalists will vote for it after its re-
turn from the Upper House. .
VIENNA, Dec. 3.-The Lower House of
Reichstag, with only 20 negatives, to-day
decided to pass to the discussion of the
clauses of the army bill. After a warmly ap-
plauded speech from Baron Won Horst, Min
lister. of National Defenses, he said the gov
eminent could not economic to an extent
that would weaken the military power of the
Empir. He said the people themselves in
great importance, and do not wish the gov
eminent to be taken by surprise.
BRANTFoRD, Ont, Dec. 3. 1.-The stables at
the Bow Park stock farm burned last night
ogether with a number of valuable prize
cattle. Loss, $4,000. .,....
LONDON, Dec. "A correspondent at Ber-
lin, discussing the attempt on the Cars life,
saws 'sCommitted but a day or two after
the Gar, in leniency, had committed the
sentence of death passed on the Nihilist,
Melsky, the outrage of Monday night can not
but Undue the government with a repentant
spirit and intensity its resolve to show no pity
to those incapable Of compassion.
LONDON, Dec. 4.-The correspondent of
the Times, commenting on the present politi-
cal situation In France, says: "No member
of the Left center or of the pure Left will
support the Interpolation designed to over
throw the Cabinet therefore the Cabinet
will be overturned by the extreme Left, and
an order of the day will be framed to disguise
the disunion among the Left and cover their
retreat as in the former case, as Gambetta,
President of the Chamber of Deputies, would
refuse, and the duty of forming a new Cabi-
net would devolve upon Boisser, one of the
Vice. Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies,
Floquit or Lockroya, member of the Cham,
Der from the department OF the Seine, OF
upon some other of the Cabinets assailants
Such a Cabinet would have deplorable conse'
qllences at home and abroad. In the latter
case there will be a barren agitation which
might have been spared. However this may
be, the Left are once more proving that they
do not know how to form a governments
party, nor how to set public interests above
party passions.
l AllS iCC. f.-<AitC III "SootS VII VAN
Floquit-Brisson interpolation, and explana
: tions by Waddington and Ferry, the Chamber
= of Deputies this evening passed, by a vote O
243 to 107, an order of the day favorable tt
t the government.
. LONDON, Dec. 4.-AccoUnts from Egyp
9 state that the government is actively com
: pleting preparations for war with Abyssinia
). The war office at Cairo and the harbor o
SueZ, where the troops are to embark, Is yer!
1 animated. If hostilitieS are resumed thu
r Egyptian forces will be divided into W
, armies, offensive and defensive, the forme
f to be composed of eight thousand men ant
! the latter of twelve thousand. The ofiensiv'
army will be directed Oh the Egyptian harbo
= of Arkiko, near Adna, capital of Abyssinia
i and the defensive army Will take up tw'
i%ntrenched positions, one at Gasun, near tn
a Rabal river, and the other at Bahia, on th
Render river, thus commanding the two mali
roads of Abysinia leading from the north t.
q the Soudan. Gordon Pasha will cninman
d the defensive army.
LONDON, Dec. 4.-Parncll and FiTigan ar
It expected to start for New York on the lit
n inst. Parnell vii! be present at the trial G
the prisoners at Carrick on the Shannon
If which it is expected will terminate by Dec
Q 18th.
o LONDON, Dec. 4.-fhod. Bayley Potter
A.. p, recently returned from America
speaks enthusiastically Of tie progress an