Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-29
Additional Cabinet Appointments

LONDON, April 2Sth.-The following ad-
ditional Cabinet appointments have been
made: Chamberlin, President of the Board
of Trade, and John George Dodson, Presi-
dent of the Local Government Board. The
following appointments outside of the Cabinet
are also announced: Deny Fawcett, Post
master-General Anthony j. Mundell, Vice
President of the Council; Grant Duff, Under
Secretary for the Colonial Department
Lord +. Cavendish, Secretary to the Treas
ury DR.. Lyon Playfair, Chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means; Sir II.
James. Attorney General; J. McClaren, Lord
Advocate of Scotland; Mr. Balfour, Solicitor
General for Scotland Earl of Cork and
Orrey, Master of Buckhounds, instead of
Master of Horse, as reported yesterday; Duke
of Westminster, Master of Horse Marquis of
Landsdown, Under Secretary for India
Earl of Morley, Under Secretary for War;
Thomas Brassey, Civil Lord of the Admiralty
Campbell Bannermans, Financial Secretary
of the War Office; Lord Sarlingford, EN-
bassador at Constantinople.
Disabilities Removed Winter Palnce
ConspiraiOr.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 2Sth.-The churcbee
of the Old Believers, closed for 40 years, are
to be reopened, their disabilities being re-
moved.
The workman Shevitch, arrested for cans
Il
the 18th of February, and who is reported to
have confessed the deed, left the St Peters
burg University in 1870. He was known
there as entertaining visionary schemes.
After leaving the University he associated
himself with the revolutionists, and in ac-
cordance with their frequent habit learned a
trade IN order to more readily influence the
working classes. He was known at the palace
as a clever carpenter, and had been recog-
W yyho ba
Report Discredised.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 2Sth-No official
information has yet been published respect
ing the capture of Shevitch The AqeRce
Russe says it may be positively affirmed that
the.report of his capture is untrue
The search for the AsaIanta.
LONDON, April 2Sth-The corvette Keene
has been ordered to cruise from latitude AZ
to 80 north in search of the training ship Alta
lanta. The vessel was last seen at Bermuda.
January 29th, and is therefore ninety DAYS
out. She was expected at Portsmouth some
weeks ago. She had water for sixty days.
The Channel feet have been ordered to
search for her in Bantry bay, and ilstruc-
tions have been sent to Gibraltar directing
the steamship Wye to call at the Azores on
her way home for possible tidings of the
missing vessel. She carries eleven officers
and 300 young seamen. Her commander is
Captain Stirling. She is sister vessel of the
Eurydice, which foundered off the Isle of
Wight in the spring of 1873, having on board
325 officers and seamen, of whom 270 were
young men In training, 20 officers and the
rest invalids, time-expired men and court
martialed prisoners on their way home from
Bermuda.
LoNDoN, April 2Sth.-A bottle has been
picked up at the junction of the rivers
Weaver and Mersey containing paper in
scribed III. NJ S. Atalanta, 18th March.
Fearful hurricane. Dismasted. Going down
fast. Of the Lizard" The Admiralty Office
has been communicated with in regard to the
paper.
Germany and BimetaIIlsn.
LONDON, April 2Sth.-The Times. in it's
financial article, says: The statement to the
effect that leading German statesmen are
highly favorable to bimetallism, published In
the Paris Bourse, if well founded, the Ger
man Government appears at length TO have
realized what was predicted from the first
that in her existing commercial POSITION Ger
many is incapable of maintaining a single
gold standard. The Paris Boprse says that
leading men of Germany have been won over
to the cause of bimetallism, not through con-
viction, but necessity, and the advocates of
the new plan for an international agreement
on common basis include Won Kardorffe,
Won Merliash and Schoilemerolst. We 1.-THE
Times have no sympathy with their dream
of a uniform ratio between gold and silver,
which is about as realizable as a uniform
ratio between cheese and corn hut the fact
of an agitation having arisen in any shape
for the rehabilitation Of silver in Germany is
too significant to be overlooked.
Races In Eng land.
LONDON, April 2Sth-The four thousand
guineas stakes at Newmarket were won by
Petronet, Muncaster second, The Abbott
third. Seventeen started.
The Situation in Turkey.
CoNsTANTINoPLE April 2Sth.-Sir Austin
Layard received a telegram from Lord Sails
bury asking him to specify the points of the
Treaty of Berlin which are still unexecuted,
and to forward statement of the financial
position of Turkey, in order that Lord Sails
bury may leave a correct account of those
matters to his successor. The Marquis of
Harrington has written to q friend in Con-
stantinople, stating that one of the chief tasks
of the new Cabinet will be to effect an i'm
provement of affairs in Turkey.
The Tobacco Question In the German
Reichstag.
BERLIN, April 28th.-The Reichstag to-
day, by a vote of 181 to GO, adopted resolu-
tions that it is unnecessary to reopen the
question Of taxation on tobacco by proposing
the introduction of the tobacco monopoly
No member of the Government participated
in the debate, which was raised upon the
abstract resolution, but Prince Hohenlohe
Langeburg, one of their usual supporters,
proposed an amendment that it was inoppcr-
tune for the House to express an opinion on
the subject. The amendment was negatiyed.
Telegraph Cable laying.
MADRID April 2Sth.-The telegraph cable
between Singapore and the Philippine
Islands has been laid a distance Of 200 miles.
The laying of the cable will probably be COM
pleted in the course of week.
Another Engagements In Afghan stan.
CABUL, April 2Sth.-Native messengers re-
port an engagement at Hy Hydrsbad on the 18th
instant between General Ross and mixed
tribesmen. The enemy was defeated with
loss of ], 200 The British loss Is unknown
Great Surprise.
Rrprrv Anril o0th-The Socialist victory