The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-04
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
The Government of the Netherlands
has appointed a commission to examine the
proposal for a liberal revision Of the constitu-
ton.
The appointment of Baker Pasha to
the command of the Egyptian army has been
sanctioned by the Sultan and England.
LECLANCHE, inventor of the Leclanche
electric pile and other improvements in cleo
tricity, is dead.
Four convicts overpowered the guard
at the Little Rock, Arkansas, prison on the
26th, and jumping into a wagon, made their
escape.
The report of settlement of the
Turkey-Greek frontier question by the sur
render by Greece of the whole frontier fixed
by the international commission was officially
confirmed on the 9th.
THE grain warehouse of Richardson &
Sons, at Kingston, Ontario, was burned on
the 9th. Loss, $4,000; insured for SIS, 700.
LORD DUFFERIN communicated to
Lord Granville on the 2sth a note from the
Porte thanking Great Britain for restoring
order in Egypt, and expressing hope that the
bonds of friendship at present existing be-
tween Turkey and England may become closer.
Lord Granville replied, expressing satisfaction
at the sentiments Of the Ottoman Govern
ment.
A VIENNA newspaper publishes a
rumor that the Emperor and Empress of all
the Russias were secretly crowned during
their recent visit to Moscow. II the Emperor
survives the public coronation the ceremony
will be considered void In event of death it
will be made known so as to avoid any diff
Guilty in proclaiming the Czarwitch Alexander
as the lawful successor Of the crowned mon
arch.
DwYER GRAY, who is confined in the
Dublin Jail for contempt, is suffering acutely
from affection of the chest.
FIVE battalions of troops were sent
from Constantinople on the 2Sth to Hedjaz,
Arabia, where an outbreak was reported. 1t
is probably connected with the recent disposi-
ton of the Grand Shereif of Mecca.
THE treaty fixing the boundary line
between Guatemala and Mexico was signed at
the city of Mexico on the 18th. The line pro-
posed many years ago was accepted.
A VICTORIA dispatch of the 29th says
The Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise
opened the Agricultural Show on the 27th in
the presence of 2, 900 persons. Replying to an
Kicking Horse Pass gave an easier grade than
that of the American roads, and 1t is expected
to have the through line open by 1887. Re-
garding the Chinese question he said the col
ony will be distanced in the railroad race
unless it ayailed itself of all labor that came.
ALL the suspects in custody in Ireland
were released on the 29th, in view Of the e1-
piration Of the term Of the coercion act on the
Both ult.
A GREAT comet was observed at vi
emma on the morning of the 29th ult. at Sis
O'Clock, in right ascension ten hours and
forty-six minutes, and decliuation five degrees
and fifteen minutes south.
AN explosion of ammunition occurred
at the depot at Cairo on the 2Sth. The passen.
ger station was saved, but all the freight sheds
containing ten days provisions for the army
and about two hundred trucks of ammunition
twenty wounded. The fire was of inoendiary
origin. Subsequent to the first explosion two
Arabs were seized in the act of firing trucks.
THE London Times of the 29th ult
says it has been decided to retain for the pres
ent L, 900 men in Egypt to carry on and con
solidate the work for which the repression Of
Arab Pasha has done little more than cleal
the way.
JUDGE LAWSON, on the S0th ult.
ordered the release of E. Dwyer Gray from tn,
Dublin jail, on the payment of the 45O0 fine
which had been imposed. The Judge, while
| defending his act in imprisoning Gray fo'
| contempt of court on legal grounds, said that
he felt justice had been vindicated, as better
things were observable.
A CAIRO dispatch of the S0th ult. state.
that many natives were going about that city
shouting with delight over the explosions al
the depot in that city on the 2Sth, This /:
the peoples bonfire, lit by the people in honol
of the Khedive's infidel friends"
The Khedive has conferred the Grand
Cross Order Of Osmanlesh upon admiral Sey
mour.
ADvICEs from the Friendly Island:
give the particulars of terrible hurricane that
passed over one of that group recently. Thir
teen churches and 1,500 houses were blown
down and wrecked. The crops and plantation:
were destroyed. The loss was very heavy.
HENRY M. STANLEY, the African ex
plorer, arrived at Brussels on the 3Oth ult. and
had conference with the King.