Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23
EnREIGN rTEMa.

A dispatch from Vienna says the Sultan has agreed to convoke Turkish Parliament, which will resemble the Assembly of 1876. It will be composed of representatives of all religions and will meet in October.
 News has been received that King Cetewayo having advanced to attack Cham and Usibepu, the latter chiefs combined their forces and utterly routed Cetewayo. The first accounts of the engagement put the loss at 5000 men, but this is probably exaggerated.
 The Paris Figaro publishes a letter from Count de Lesseps stating that the Suez Canal Company propose to cut a second canal across the isthmus.
 The Phoenix Park murder trials are ended and the special jury has been dis charged.
 A German journal states that the danger of trichinosis from American pork is sixty times greater than from German pork.
 The United States Steamer Lan- caster has arrived at Cronstadt with the envoys who are to represent America at the coronation of the Czar. They were received with the usual honors.
 At a meeting of the National League, in Dublin, the members re- solved to take their theology from the Pope and their politics from Parnell.
 -Fitzharrjs, the cab driver, has been convicted of being an accessory in the Phoenix Park murders and was sentenced to penal servitude for life.
 The King of Belgium, while riding near Brussels, on Tuesday, was run against by bicyclist and the King was thrown to the ground.
 During popular fete in village near Lisbon bomb filled with dynamite exploded, killing four persons and wounding twenty.
 The town of Samara, Russia, has been almost destroyed by fire.
 A collision occurred on the Caledon- ian Railway at the Lockerby junction. A heavy goods train from Carlisle col lided with passenger express train from Stanraer. Seven passengers were killed and others injured.
 The Pope has expressed his dis dleasure at the participation of the Irish clergy in political affairs, he wishes that no clergyman should recommend subscriptions to the Parnell fund.
 There has been rumor in London that an attempt was made to destroy an ocean steamer by means of an internal machine on her voyage to America. The box was given to 8 steward, but was opened and the machine destroyed.
 Joe Brady who was convicted of participation in the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mir. Forster on the 9th of last May, was hanged in Dublin, Monday morning, in the pres- ence of 8 large crowd of people. Brady submitted quietly while his arms were pinioned, and walked slowly and un- finchingly to the scaffold. His death was instantaneous. He was visited by his mother Sunday evening" She was heard to exclaim, " Mind, Joe, no state- ment." Brady smiled and replied, Don't be foolish; do you think am fool"
 General Wallace. the United States Minister at Constantinople, has sent a note to the Porte demanding that, until the negotiations now pending have come to conclusion, the regulations in regard to the petroleum depots, which existed previous to the recent order, be continued in force.
 Berlin, May l2. - The Assistant Secretary in the Royal Library has been convicted of charge of distributing seditious writings and sentenced to six months imprisonment.
 The Japanese Government has pro- posed to China that they establish a joint protectorate over Corea. China, however, is not inclined to accept the proposition.
 The greater part of Koniginhof, Bo- hemia, has been destroyed by fire. Rewards are offered in Russian Reg | iments to induce the soldiers to denounce any of their comrades who are known to be Nihilists.
 The Prince of Anhalt and the Prin- cess Frederika, the second daughter of the Grown Prince of Germany, are to be l married.