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n. Military precautions have been

drawn. Military precautions have been
taken.
A LONDON cablegram of Jan. ID, says:
The recent sudden thaw has caused
numerous floods in England and Scot
land. At Nottingham the flood is the
greatest for fourteen years. The couu-
try around Darlington and Wrexhanl
is flooded for miles. Much damage is
reported at Berwick and Aberdeen.
a LONDON cablegram of Jan. and
says over one thousand dock laborers
struck work at Hull, contrary to expec.
taton. Nearly all the masons at Shelf
field struck against the reduction which
they were notified on Dec. 90, would
take effect to-day.
THE French elections which occurred
on Sunday, January 9Th, resulted in 81
great republican victory, all republican
senators whose terms expire on the
18th inst. having been returned. The
republican majority in the senate will
be about 81.
A Cork dispatch of Jan. 9th says At
II meeting Of the town council yester-
day, after several bitter speeches by
catholic members, the motion that the
letter of the U. S. consul at Queenstown,
announcing General Grants coming, be
simply marked "read," was carried
without dissenting vote. A previous
motion to give Gen. Grant proper
reception was ignored.
The Cornish Bank at Truro, Cornwall,
England, closed January 4th. 1t is
hnnaI ~ OF ha will 10
temporary. The bank did very large
business in mining and other CONNER
cial enterprises. The bank belongs to
Tweedie, Williams a. Co. 1t was estah-
lished Ito years ago, and has branches
at Falmouth, Penryan and Redruth-
shire. Frederick Williams, a member
of Parliament for Truro, who died re-
Gently, held one-thrd of the concern.
The bank had authorized securities of
forty-nine thousand pounds.
The London Times in its financial
summary for 1873, says the industries
have been disorganized, credit shaken,
and failures multiplied on every hand.
The failures will he nearly 5000 more
than last year. Not only have wages
been reduced, and thousands Of artisans
thrown out of employment, but many
thousands of those above the artisan
class are either in actual want or on the
confines Of it. The increasing numbers
driven TO grant bills of sale on their eff
fects is one significant proof OF what is
going on III the ranks Of the lower and
middle classes.
ADMIRAL HORNBY, commanding the
British fleet in the See. Of Marmora, tel
egraphed Jan. 3rd that one of the
thirty-eight guns of the turret-ship
Thundefer burst on the second of Janu-
airy, killing Lieuts. Coker and Daniels.
two petty officers and four seamen and
marines. The gun burst just
in front Of Trumions, and the muzzle
was blown overheard. The gun had
Just been fired with Il battery charge,
but when it burst it was loaded with Il
full charge and empty shells. The
boatswan and 80 men were wounded,
twelve of them badly. The turret of
the disabled ship was otherwise unin-
jured.
THE vieeroy of India telegraphs the
details of the ameer's withdrawal
from Cabul. The ameer held Durbar
until December 10Th, when it was re-
solved that after the fame of Ali NIuslid
at Pawar, no further reliance could
be placed on his troops or resistance
offered. The ameer therefore conclud-
cd to seek Russian protection and place
his ooso bofore a European congress,
leaving 4akook Khan, his son, in
charge. Yakoob was released the same
day, and an oath was administered to
the effect that he should do as the ameer
directed. The ameer left Cabul Dee.
Is. His authority had almost disap-
peared. The Cabul chief has written
Gen. Roberts, offering his services, and
says the ameer has gone to st. Peters
burg.
The Russian university students are
still boisterous. "A London dispatch OF
Dec. 3lst says: An account of the
riot Of the students in the university Of
Keitl, Russia, says that the students, in
a meeting outside Of the town. made
decided protest against the closing Of
the university, forcing their way in, af-
ter disarming the police, and fixed on
the blackboard an energetic protest
against any arbitrary proceedings OF the
authorities. The companies OF local
Hlllltlt lIIeu " ulSptTSe lne students.
A collision ensued, and eighty persons
were killed and wounded. A cavalry
company finally charged the square
in front Of the university, and many
Of the students were arrested.
Similar riots, on smaller scale, have
broken out in other university towns.
1t is believed it is the intention to pro
claim state of seige in keif
The police are instructed to stop the
of revolutionary pamphlets
and prevent the entrance of rqvolu-
tionary emissaries from Germany.
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