The New York herald., 1879-11-09
Ireland's Catholic Bishops Exhort the
People to Patience.
TERMAGANT CHIEF SECOCOENI.
Financiers Proceed to Cast Lots for the
KhedivaI Estates
ATTACKING BISMARCK WITH A P0PGUN
IpY CABLE TO THE HERALD.l

bx CABLE To The dEhALD.
LONDON, Nov. 8, 1879.
waterspout has seriously damaged the vii
lage of Rociana, in the province Of Huelva.
Another contingent of reinforcements for
Cuba will sail from Cadiz on Monday next
The Comte de Chambord has despatched the
Comte de Blancas on mission to England.
The whereabouts OF NJ Phlippart, the de-
faulting chairman Of the Banque Europeenne,
is still unknown.
The Russian government is contemplating
new tax, from which bondholders will suffer.
The tax is to be levied upon the dividends pay
able ON bonds and other securities.
The committees Of the German Bundesrath
have approved the scheme tor the Introduction
of biennial budgets, and extending the period
of the existence of the Reichstag to four years.
The government at Madrid has received q
telegram which states that two Kabyle tribes in
Morocco have had a desperate conflict, during
which 100 were killed on one side and 80 on
the other.
The constitutional party at Madrid has re-
solved to support the bill for the immediate
abolition of slavery in Cuba, with an amend
ment that the freedmen may work for whom
they please.
A despatch frov1 Cape Town, dated October
2S, says:-"H "Hostilities will be resumed against
Chief Secocoeni if he refuses to submit to the
British. Sir Garnet Wolseley is on the road to
Chief Secocoenis country"
The projected railway through the Arlberg
Mountain meets with increasing favor in
Austrian official circles. As soon as the plans
have received the sanction Of the Emperor they
will be laid before Parliament.
The Sporting Life says 1.-THE sumof ESQ, de-
posted with the editor Of the Newcastle Journal
on behalf of the American oarsman, Courtney,
for match on the Tyne in America with
Boyd or Elliott, has been withdrawn, as the
English rowers have made no response"
CLOSE OF THE LABOR STRUGGLE.
The short-time labor movement in the Old
ham Cotton Mills, which has now lnsted eight
weeks, shows signs of breaking up. A meeting
of the mill owners is to be held tonight, at
which it is extremely probable they will formally
sanction the abandonment OF the short-time
system Many companies have already pre-
pared for the change, The results of the ex-
pertinent, however, are regarded as highly
satisfactory.
EGYPTIAN FINANCES.
1t is stated at Vienna that France and Eng
Ian have accepted Austria's view of the Roths-
child loan that the Rothschlds must redeem
the prior liens, amounting to Ell 400, 900, in
order to have the first security on the surrender
of the Khcdival estates, and that Austria and
Germany will accept Anglo-French represen-
tation in the commission of liquidation and
the resulting control over the Egyptian tinan-
cial administration. This agreement, If accom-
plished, removes the threatened hitch in the
Anglo French scheme.
DEEPENING THE SEINE.
The Journal DIES Dcbats describes plan about
to be carried into effect for deepening the Seine
by which vessels drawing nine feet of water will
be enabled to reach the eastern extremity of
Paris. The works will cost 36,OOO,OOOf
DEBATES IN THE PRUssIAN DIET
In the Lower House of the Prussian Diet
to-day the debate on the budget was continued
The Minister of Public Works defended the
projected conversion of the railways into "a
State institute on the grounds of public utility
and national defence. The railways, he said.
must be brought back from the source of specu.
lation to the service Of the country Herr vir-
chow urged doing away with the present sys-
TEN OF government, and especially with Prince
Bismarck. Herr Bitter, Minister Of Finance.
characterized this attack as all the more ndec
orous as Prince Bismarck had just rendered a
great service to the German people The esti-
mates were referred to committee.
FRENCH WINE CROPS.
The Moaiteur Vinicoie journal of the wine
growers) estimates that the results of the yint-
ago in nine departments of the Southeast CON-
pare favorably with those Of last year; in nine
departments of the Southwest the deficiency
varying third to tenth. In ten departments
Of the South-Central regions the deficiency is
quarter; in nine departments of the Eastern
region, over o half; in nine departments Of the
Western region, about two-thrds; in ten de-
partments Of the NorthCentral regions, nearly
two-thirds. In sixteen departments of the
Northeastern and Northwestern regions the de-
fciency. is even worse The loss in the cham
pagnc district by the failure of the vintage is
estimated at 3O,OOO,OOOf
IRISH BISHOPS ExDoRT THEIR FLocKs.
The Catholic bishops of Ireland have adopted
resolutions appealing to the government and to
all public bodies and private individuals to help
the poor, as the Poor Law act is insufficient to
meet the necessities Of the impending crisis
The bishops, Mt the same time, exhort their
flocks to bear their trials patiently, to respect
the rights Of others, ray their just debts as
fully as they are able, and to obey the laws,
while using all peaceful and constitutional
means TO reform the land laws which the
main cause Of the country's poverty and help
lcssness.
THE Rivals IN ASIA
The Pohtische Correspondence announces that
po1rpdrfcrs are proceeding between the govern
mcnts ut London and 81 Petersburg for the
purpose OF fixing upon aamodus cirendi regard
ing affairs in Central Ashl. A st. Petersburg
letter 10 the .Abend Post, Of Vienna, says:--"If
new brtish Parliament sustains Lord Bca-
conshelus policy Russh will occupy Northern
Afghanistan."