The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-25
FOREIGN.

A BERLIN dispatch of the 10th says
that the preliminary election for members of
the Prussian Diet resulted, as far as estimated,
in the choice of :, 900 electors belonging to the
Progressists and Secessonists groups, against
$50 Conservatives and and anti-Progressists.
A CAIRO dispatch of the 18th states
that the crisis has passed, and the Egyptian
Ministry have intimated their intention to
permit Broadlev, Eve and Napier to defend
Arab Pasha on the condition that the wit
nesses in the case undergo preliminary exam
| nations.
JOHN HIBBARD, United States Consul
at Goderich, Ontario, Canada, died on the 19th-
HUGH ODoNNEL, M. P, writes under
date OF the 18th, to friend in Dublin, that
though he is determined to support the Con-
ference programme, he cannot join the coun-
ell, which he says is so constituted that IL only
a small number of the county delegates are
sufficiently flexible, its whole control will be
in the hands of the sixteen nominees Of the
Irish Parliamentary party.
TIE banks of Austria and Hungary
have increased the rate of discount to five per
cent.
AN important convention of Baptist
clergymen and laymen was held at Hamilton,
Ontario, on the 10Th and Goth. They had
under consideration the proposed introduction
of the Bible rs q text book into the public
schools OF that Province, and declined to take
part in the depu alton which waited on the
| Premier on the oath, assigning as a reason,
that while heartily approving the proper use
of the Bible in the public schools, they hesi-
taied to take any action WHICH would inter-
| fere in any way with the religious liberty of
| any citizen.
ACAIRo dispatch of the Goth stated that
Baker Pasha had submitted report on the
,1f- ,f-f,
| He says the Egyptian officers and troops are
so compromised by their continued loyalty to
| Arab, and are SO strongly imbued with de-
sire to establish the National party in Egypt,
that no dependence can be placed in them.
That the reorganization of an army COM
posed of such material would be impossible.
| He recommends that a body of troops
| be rescued from among those who have
| not served under Arab during the late war,
| and from the population whose loyalty Is un-
| questioned; that non-commissioned officers be
| composei of Bosnians, AlbaDians and Bull
| earians; that the officers be half British and
half loyal Egyptians; that each infantry bat
| TALON have an English Colonel, Lieutenant
Colonel and Adjutant, and the remainder of
the officers Egyptians; that staff officers be
half English and half Egyptians.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has entirely recov-
cred from his indisposition.
PARNELL issued call to his support
ers, on the 10Th, inviting them to meet in the
conference room OF the House of Commons
previous to the re-assembling of Parliament,
where business of great importance, including
the imprisonment of E. Dwyer Gray, will be
| discussed.
A DESPERATE fight between Mexican
custom house officials and smugglers occurred
near Lamparas, Mexico, on the 18th. Six
smugglers were killed, two were wounded and
captured and seven escaped. The two pris-
| Ora oil in
| jail. The goods captured and contiscated were
| principally American prints. This encounter
| and seizure will break up large and daring
gang. The survivors were being closely
hunted in the Mineos Mountains.
PLAcARDs were found posted on the
Faubourg Saint Antoine, Paris, on the morn
ing of the 21st, calling upon The workmen to
rise and revolt against the middle-class tyr
amy,
AN outbreak is anticipated in Sonora,
Mexico, by the Yegen and Mayo tribes, num-
bering 1900, who have heretofore been
pesceful.
The police of Leicester, England,
found a number of Fenian documents in pos
session of ARIEL, who was recently convicted
/ there of assault. Most of them relate to
American Fenianism, and show there has been
/ a constant correspondence carried on between
the Fenians of both countries.
A SLIGHT shock of an earthquake was
felt at Lima on the morning of the 21st.
NINET, Arab Pasha's European ad-
wiser, declares he received no reward for his
services, and he can prove that the evacuation
of Alexandria and defense of the country
were ordered by the Ministry and sanctioned
| by the Khedive.
WINNIPEG. Manitoba, celebrated the
opening of her first street railroad and the
successful lighting of the whole of the main
street of the city by electricity on the 2lst.