Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-15
Foreign Affairs.


LONDON, July 15.-The Manchester Guardian
in its commercial article this morning says
The market has not improved in any respect.
The transaction of business is becoming more
difficult. the continued rise in cotton compelling
sellers to advance quotations amid very adverse
and unpromising circumstances. The great
eastern markets have abundant stocks on hand
or under contract. The native dealers buy very
little. and India merchants are therefore acting
with great caution buying only when they can
make sales abroad. The telegrams from China
are not encouraging. and very little is doing for
the market. The smaller foreign and home trade
is doing some business. but here. also, the
amount is seriously lessening in consequence of
the advance in prices.
SOCIALIST RULED OFT.
A Berlin dispatch to the Times says: Herr
Bebel. the socialist who has been elected MEM
Der of the Saxon Landtag, will not be allowed
to take his seat at Leipzig. as according to the
local law those only are eligible AS deputies who
pay more direct taxes than Herr Bebel does.
THE ENGLISH RESERVE SQUADRON.
The English reserve squadron. the Duke of
Edinburgh commanding, has arrived at Kiel
Prussia. The town is decked with flags i'm
honOr of the occasion, and great enthusiasm is
manifested
THE DISTURBANCES IN ROME.
ROME. July 15.-The Diriuo says:-The archi-
tect of the Vatican who acted as intermediary
between the cardinals who are the executors of
the will of the late Pope and the prefect of Rome
promised the latter in writing that the cortege
accompanying the body of the late Pope in its
removal from st. Peters to the Church of San
Lorenzo should consist solely Of a funeral car
and two or three carriages without any outward
show. This promise was not observed; hence
the disturbances which attended the removal.
THE FRENCH NATIONAL FETE.
LONDON. July ia Paris dispatch to the
Times says the national fete. which was cele-
brated yesterday, was on the whole great sue
cess.
THE PLAGUE IN RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBUG, July 15.-The GOlos SAYS the
peasants in one district near NOogorod are suffer-
ing from constant bleeding at the nOse accom-
the body. The local sanitary committee has es-
tablished quarantine in the environs of st. Pc
tersburg. The deaths in st. Petersburg last
week exceeded the births 10y :,16.
NEW BULGARIAN MINISTRY.
LONDON. July ia new Bulgarian ministry
has been formed as follows. NJ Starloff. minis
ter Of foreign affairs; NJ. Kaeloff minister of
war; NJ. Remelingen, minister of the interior;
M. JeleskOviez. minister of finance; NJ. Theo-
charof minister of justice.
REDUCTION OF CABLE RATES.
LONDON, July 15-The Anglo American Tele-
graph company, the Direct United States Cable
company and the Compagnie Francaise De Tele-
graphic De Paris New York. have given notice
that on and after August 1st proximo. the rate
for the transmission of kilograms between New
be reduced to 25 cents per word.
LIVERPOOL WATER WORKS.
LONDON, July 15.-Yesterday the first stone
was laid of new water works i'm Med Wales to
supply Liverpool with water from the river
Vyrnwa, a tributary of the Severn. This Times
prefaces detailed description with the state
ment that the works, alike by reason of their
magnitude and novelty. are amongst the most
important in modern times.
THE NEW ITALIAN LOAN.
LONDON, July 15.-The Financier saws: There
is no reason to doubt that the placing of the
new Italian loan has been successfully accom-
plished.
EMIGRATION CLAUSE OF THE LAND BILL AMENDED.
LONDON, July 15.-In the House of Commons
last night, committee besides the elimination
OF Canada. from the emigration clause of the
land BILL all mention of particular localities was
omitted, so that the clause as amended simply
gives the commissioners to be appointed under
the bill power to arrange for emigration with
public bodies or cOmpa nies the solicitor general
holding that colonial or foreign governments
will be covered by the words ''pubc bodies"
The amendment offered by Mr.. Forster, chief
secretary for Ireland, limiting the tOta, sum to
be expended on emigration to 10000 pounds,
not more than one third of that sum to be ex-
pended In single year, was agreed to.
STRIKE IN GENOA
GENOA. July 15.-Business here is impeded by
a strike which began among the Goa, beavers,
and which has extended to other laborers.
EXAMINATION OF LEROY.
LONDON, July 15-The examiE atiOn OLA. LEROY,
accused Of the murder of F. J. Gold, In COM
partment of the Brighton railway express train,
on the 9th ult., was begun to-day at Cuckfeld,
In the district where the body of Mr.. Gold was
found. Mr.. VIM. II. Pollard. appeared for the
prosecution on behalf of the treasury, and Mr.
button solicitor for the defence.
Mr. Pollard of the treasury, in opening the
case for the prosecution, mentioned Lefroy's
of his victims watch; his disappesr-
ance and hiding; the removal OF his mustachc
and whiskers and his redemption of pistol from
pawn only few hours before the murder. as
links in the chain Of circumstantial evidence
against him.
HOT WEATHER m RHGLAND.
LONDON, July 15.-The heat to-day is intense
The THERMOMETERS at Wimbledon indicates 1877