The Newtown bee., 1881-01-12
Foreign News.

a French communist, is dead in his seventy sixth year. During his eventiul and stormy life he was confined in thirty -four French prisons.
 TIE district governor of Orenburg, Russia has resigned because the central authorities refused to provide 500 GOO rubles to relieve the distress of the Kirguiz aud other inbabi- tnnts of the province who, because of the suc- cessive bad cattle years, a.e starving to death by hundreds.
 TIE Russians and Turkomans have been fighting with heavy losses on both sides.
 THE Gallena and Tarnet tribes of Sierra Leone, Africa, have been slaughtering each other in great numbers. Prisoners were either killed immediately or put to horrible tortures.
 A BAND of forgers oi bonds and receivers of stolen bonds have been arrested in Milan, Italy. They belong to an organization con- prising Italians, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Poles and Americans, having branches and agents in the chiet cities of Europe, and were selling forged or stolen French bonds in Italy. Italian bonds in France and so on.
 THE gross revenue of Great Britain for 1880 was in round numbers SAG, 1000, ,00O.
 THE minister ot Holland to Spain was found dead in his bed at Madrid.
 MONSTER land league meetings are being held in various parts of Ireland At one which was held at Drogheda the riot act was read and the crowd dispersed.
 THE British government intends to crush the rebellion of the Boers in the Transvaal South Africa, and then lay before parliament the question of restoring the territory to the Dutch settlers and recognizing their republ C. |k THE famine IS spreading through Russia, aud it is said that of the 1000 German col onists on the Volga, one oi the best agricul- tural districts in the country, not moro than six families are wholly able to support them selves, the remainder being compelled to beg for food.
 THE Berlin correspondent of a London daily paper telegraphs as follows: "Reports received here of demonstration in the United States with the object of protesting against the anti Jewish agitation here are producing a very unfavorable impression, the feeling being that Germany cantolerate no intervention in home affairs by a foreign state." The other day a large crowd, mostly composed ot students, smashed in the windows of Berlin restaurant much frequented by Jews and mobbed all the Jews they met. Large and stormy meet ings against the Jews continue to be held, and the crusade seems to be gaining force, the fist LOW being substituted for the tongue.
 IN the province ot Saratoif, Russia, 750,000 peasants are starving, and in the province of Samara upward of million persons are reported to be in absolute want.
 GENERAL MoRIoNEs, one of the ablest officers in the civil wars of Spain, is dead.
 A DISPATCH from Paris announces the death of Hector Martin Leluel, celebrated French architect, at the age of seventy years.
 THE Russian troops under General Skobe- Jeff have been badly defeated by the Turco- mans.
 A NEW play by Tennyson--'' The Cn""- hae met with great success in London.
 AT Claremorris, Ireland, a process server, guarded by constables, was on his way to serve writ when the party was halted by a ditch dug across the road and assaulaed with shower of stones thrown by crowd oi peasants. The police charged upon the crowd, killing one man, fatally wounding three others and injuring several more.
 THERE has been another violent shock ol earthquake at Agram, Austria.
 THE queens speech lead at the opening oI the Br tish parliament, is devoted largely to Irish affairs. It promises land reforms in Ire land, but intimates that coercive measures will be promptly put into effect. trtTu Rr;tisb chin Indian Cb:ol I~i the mouth of the Thames, and eighteen men out of twenty-nine persons on board were drowned. A BRITISH and Spanish steamer collided of the coast ot Portugal and both were sunk Forty five persons are reported lost. A LONDON dispatch reports fearful disasters at sea during recent storm. The ships Cape Sable and Wild Rose have both ioundered at sea, with their crews, numbering eighty five men, and large steamer was seen to go | down, with all hands, on the Good "in Sands. Ar fire in Havana large cigar manuiac- 1 tory was destroyed, seven persons were 1 burned to death and damage amounting to | S150, 1000 was caused.
 DURING a debate in the British parliament | on Irish affairs Mr. Forster, chief secretary I for Ireland, stated that 153 persons were under police protection in Ireland and there had been 2,573 agrarian outrages during last year. A RUSSIAN imperial decree declares the l Princess Dolsoruki, whom the empe; or mar
 Iied shortly after the death ot the empress, te l be q Serene Highness.' l AN American bark has been sunk in tte l strait of Dover and six men on board have been drowned. ss.s