The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-02
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Liverpool Election Excitement.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Liverpool Election Excitement.
LONDON, January 3l.-The popular ex.
element in Liverpool over the approaching
election for a member OF the House OF Com
mons, to ill the vacancy caused by the
death OF Mr.. John TORI, increases daily.
The Liberals are confident that the Home
Rule vote, estimated at 10, 900. will give
them the victory. They also have the vote
OF the temperance organizations, and Lord
Derby's local Influence. The conservatives
declare that a bargain with the Home-Ru-
lers Will ALLEVIATE many Liberals, and that
their candidate, MIR. Whitley. is a man Of
great personal popularity. The contest is
very keen.
There will be similar contests shortly at
Southwark, to ill the vacancy caused BY
the death OF Mr.. John Locke. Southwark
has a Liberal majority Of 500 on the Biz
mingham plan, and the Liberal candidate
VIII likely be a tborough-going radical.
Dyers' strike i'm England.
LONDON, January 31.-The dyers at Brad
ford have struck for a reduction in the
hours Of labor. Two thousand persons
made a demonstration to day.
HOnOrs conferred on Rosa R0nheur.
LONDON, January 31.--The King of the
Belgians has conferred the Leopold Cross
on Mademoiselle Rosa Bonheur, the artist.
She is the first lady who has received this
distinction. The King Of Spain has also re-
Gently conferred on this distinguished
painter an equally high order, which has
never before been granted to a lady.
Death of n Politician.
BRUSSELS, January 31.-M. Paul de Vaux,
the Belgian politician, is dead aged seven
ty-nine.
Moorish B~arbarifies Against the Jews.
LONDON, January 31.-The Gibraltar
Guardian says the Moors at Fee, Morocco, |
have attacked the Jews, wound!ng several.
They covered an old man, over seventy |
years OF age, with petroleum, and burned
him alive amid shouts Of Joy. Two OF the
wounded Jews are French subjects.
Independent Poland.
LONDON, January 31.-R Regarding the re-
ported remarks OF the CZarowitch to some
magnates that he should be glad 10
wed their glorious crown, ETC., the ST.
Petersburg GOLOS again asserts that negotia-
tons for the establishment OF an independ-
ent Polish kingdom under Prince Radzi-
will have been unsuccessfully made be-
tween representatives Of Russia and the
National Government.
Pere Hyacinthe's Appeal.
PARIS, January 31.-M. LOysOn-Pere
Hyacinthe-has asked the project OF the De-
partment OF the Seine TO grant him the use |
OF the Church OF the Assumption, in Rue St. |
HonorP, at present occupied by the Polish |
Confraternity. VI. Loys0n pleads that his
present church is unsuitable, being too
guno1I and foo nh- fol aud fhof biS |
work addresses itself to persons requiring
a religion free from superstition and fInati-
His application will certainly be re-
fused, as his community occupies exactly
the same position as the Protestant free
churches, which provide their edilices and
pay their own pastors.
Fever and Famine in Italy.
LONDON, January 31.-A dispatch fron
Rome TO the Standard says "The accounts
from Terra de LayorO, Naples, continue to
be terrible. The population OF seventeen
cOmmunes especially affected numbers o.
3S2. OF this number 81 $40 have been at
tackled by fever up to December 18th, of
whom 5,02S died. This fever means famine.
Government aid is not sufficient"
Russian Robbers.
onrssA. %Jsnnary 31.-The nersons charged
With the robbery OF 1,5Q0, 600 roubles from
he Government receivers office at Cherson,
South Russia, last June, have been tried by
court-martial. Three Of the prisoners were
sentenced TO fifteen years Imprisonment,
With hard labor, and the women who Origi-
mated the scheme Of robbery were sentenced
o imprisonment for life at hard labor.
Two Of the accused were acquitted. It is
supposed the robbery was committed to aid
he NihIlist cause.
Thirteen Lives Lost by Sbipwreck.
The steamer BeDgore, laden with coal,
rom Penarth for Gibraltar, foundered when
.wo DAYS from port. Thirteen OF her crew
we're drowned. Six were saved. A violent
storm has ragged in the Mediterranean for
wO days past, and disasters to shipping are
cared.
Various Foreign Items.
CANNES, January 31.-The Empress Of
will leave here this Saturday after
room, and is expected to arrive in It. Pc
erSburg on Monday or Tuesday next.
LONDON, January 3t.-The Empress Eliza
,eth Of Austria will leave Vienna to-mor-
Sunday for Dublin, where she will
rrive on Wednesday next, and will pro-
,eed thence TO Summer Hill TO participate
II the foX-hunting this season.
A h~undred-tOn gun has been tried at
with results which surpassed X
,ectations. 1t attained a range OF 10000 I
metres, with a charge OF 220 kilogrammes.
The Marquis Of ADglesey, Liberal MEM
'er Of the House OF Peers, is dead, at the
&c OF fifty-nine. ,
In anticipation Of the state ceremonial on
he 9TH OF February, when the Queen will
pen Parliament, arrangements are being +,
ompleted for the royal procession to and :
rom Westminster. '
LONDON, January 31.-A Paris dispatch
avs an. John Emile Lemoinne Publi- c
has been chosen as a candidate for the J
acancy in the Senate caused by the death c
1 NJ. Jules Favre by the Left Centre" 4
LONDON, january 3l.-A rich landowner
ear Barcelona, his wife, three daughters, .
and two women servants, have all been \
Dund murdered in their beds. The decd q
1as apparently dom with a Ratchet. The n
Ouse was ra%nsacked. A swineherder and 5
is two sons have been arrested, charged :
18th the crime.