Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
FOREIGN NEWS.

Russia's Preparations for Another War.
BERLIN, May 1Sth.-Letters from st. Pc
tersburg express a belief that General Todle-
ben, while staying at st. Petersburg prior to
assuming the Governor -Generalship of wilma.
will be consulted regarding the erection of
Notifications at Vladivostock and in the
Amoor district generally. A vast amount of
material is being shipped thither. Vessels
belonging to the volunteer fleet now at Cron-
stadt will shortly start for Vladivostock with
a quantity of torpedoes. Several. other yes
sells are being fitted out for voyage to the
Pacific. A possible postponement of the
Tekke expedition, in view of the threatened
complications with China, is generally dis
cussed in st. Petersburg. 1t is thought that
General Skobelotf or Prince Ineratousky will
be appointed commander-in- on the Rus
so-Chinese coast A well accredited report
is in circulation that an officer has left st.
Petersburg with orders for General Skobeloff.
Russian GovernOrshIps.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 1Sth.-The Golos
announces that General Albedinsky has been
appointed Governor of Warsaw. General
Todleben will succeed General Albedinsky
in the Governorship of wilma, Kovno and
Grodno. General Drenteln, former chief of
the third section of the Imperial Chancellory,
will succeed General Todleben in the Govern
orship of Odessa.
The American Minister at Constantine.
pie.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 1Sth.-After the
return of Maynard. the American Minister,
to Constantinop.e, Sawas Pasha renewed his
protest against the jurisdiction which May
nard had assumed through orders from Wash
ington. Maynard has gone to Alexandria to
try another American accused of numbering
an Egyptian. 1t is believed the Egyptian
Government will protest against Maynard's
assumption of jurisdiction and ignore it.
The Financial Control OF Turkey.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 1Sth.-A consider
able anxiety exists at the Palace and Porte
regarding the tenor of Goschen's instruc-
tions. The creation of an International FL
nancial Commission is much dreaded, and the
Sultan, with the fate of the ex-Kedive of
Egypt before his eyes, will certainly resist
energetically any attempt to take the inan-
cial control Of the Empire out of his hands.
The Italian Elections.
ROME, May 1Sth.-Returns from 1856 defin-
itive elections show the following results
The Ministerialists have elected 156, the
Constitutionalists III and 63 members of the
Dissident Left. Returns from Electoral Col
leges up to the present time show that the
Dissident Left has lost IS seats and gained 8.
The Ministerialists lost 20 and gained 10, and
the Constitutionalists lost and gained 25
seats.
The Famine I'm North Persia.
LONDON, May 18th.-Rev. B. Larabee,
the well-known American missionary at
Oroomiah, North Persia, where the famine
chiefly prevails, writes: ''Grain is selling at
eleven times ordinary rates. Rye has risen
enormously, and people are living largely on
scanty roots. Robberies are becoming alarm
r,r1xy -
ceived from helpers among mountain Nes-
torians are equally distressing From this
city, Oroomiah, to the Tigris, the famine is
alike severe"
Home.Rule Meeting.
DUBLIN, May 1Sth.-Parnell was chosen
seasonal Chairman of the Home Rule meet
ing. 1t was suggested as a compromise be-
tween William Shaw and himself that Justin
Mccarthy be chosen Chairman.
A RebeIlious Home Ruler.
LONDON, May 1sth.-William Shaw, in
speaking at the Home Rule conference at
Dublin to-day, said if Parnell's policy on the
land question was identical with the views he
enunciated in America and in Ireland, he
(Shawl would not remain as a member of the
party.
Train Wreckers sentenced.
MADRID, May 1Ssh-The persons who
wrecked the train on the Andalusian Rail-
way recently have been court martialed.
Thirteen were sentenced to death and thirteen
to imprisonment for twenty years.
Proclamation OF the Cuban Insurgent
General.
PHILADELPHIA, May 1Sth.-Geueral Ca
lixto issued a proclamation to the people of
Cuba upon his arrival, in which be denounces
the Spaniards bitterly, and advises that the
hottest kind of warfare against them be
waged in behalf of all kinds of liberty. In
his address to the army he calls them to arms,
declaring his willingness to die with them,