The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-05-27
LATEST F0REIGN NEWS.
England.


LONDON, May 2G.-The old sde-wheel
steamship Scotia, OF the Cunard line, has
been purchased by the Geographic Con-
slruc.ion aud Maintenance Company. She
will be converted into Il propeller, and be
used to lay cables.
CIVIL AND MILITARY COMMANDER APPOINTED.
LONDON, May 2G.-It has been officially
announced that General Sir Garnet Wolse-
ley has been appointed supreme military
and civil commander of Natal. The Trans
vaal and certain other districts that adjon
arc included in the seat vi war, 1t having
been deemed wise in the present emergency
TO divide the Cape-oi- Hope govern
men1s into four districts. Sir Stafford
Nortbcote, Chancellor Of EXchequer, an
nounced the charges in the House OF Com
mons this afternoon. Sir Bartie Frcre re-
mains as Governor OF Cape Colony.
Spain.
LONDON, May 26-The Madrid CORE.
spondent Of the Daily Ae,cs says: 1.-The
Chinese ENJOYS have been received by the
King. The negotiations for a treaty rela-
tive to the importation Of coolies into Cuba
commences this week. but the Spanish GOV.
eminent will insist upon the coolies paying
their own passage, and requires the Chinese
to agree never TO employ foreigners as con
sular or diplomatic representatives in Span
ish dominion"
A Madrid telegram to the London Stand
ard states that directly the treaty is con.
Guided the Chinese cuvoys will leave fol
Mexico and Peru to establish commercial
conventions and protect their FELLOWSHIP.
iecs there.
General Martinez Campos, president of
The Council, and the Marquis dOrovio, Min
i>ter of FINANCE, are examining Cuban
finances with view to consolidating the
recent issues Of bonds and the floating debt
by means OF the guarantee Of tue customs
and direct taxation OF the Island.
Ocean Steamship Sunk.
LOSS OF THE STEAMER AvA-sEvESTY PER-
SONS LOST.
CALCUTTA, May 2G.-The British India
Steam Navigation Company's steamer Ava
was in collision with another vessel, and the
Ava sunk. SiXty-siX Of her crew and four
Messengers were drowned. The Ava was
an iron screw steamer "f 1900 tons, and was
built at Dumbarton in 1873.
Tkc AfshanIstan Treaty Signed.
LONDON, May 26.-Lord Cranbrooke. Sec
rotary OF state for India, announced in the
House of Lords this afternoon that he had
received telegram from Major CaYa@nari
stating that he had signed the treaty with
the Amer Of Afshanstan.
NeaIti, OF Cardinal Newnan"-Bur-
mali. &c.
LONDON. May ga dispatch from Rome
to the Times says that Cardinal Newman is
much better.
There are contradictory reports from
Burmah, some OF them asserting that the
war party is gaining ground.
James Grant, former editor Of the AdreT-
tiser, is dead; aged seventy-four.
4 dispatch from Berlin 10 the Daily NeUs
mentions the possibility Of another dissolG'
ton of the Re:cbstag.
Brief Foreign Items.
. PANAMA, May lit is learned from the
State OF Cania that the former President OF
the State, Garccs, is the candidate OF the
Goyernment party. Searria and all the
revolutionary chiefs are prisoners OF war.
The arrest of the party under Sancne,
who were waiting to surrender to Genera'
Payan, will remove for the present oil oppo-
sition to the elevation OF General Huntodp,
who, once established in power, Will un-
doubtedly keep his seat.