The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-20
CABLE NEWS.
ENGLAND.

LONOON, MdICll 1O.-OCu uOluO
reports five officers and eighty-six me
were killed, and eight officers and 1C
men wounded. There are nine me
missing. The rebels numbered froI
10000 to 1900 men. Three officer
and seven men of the naval brigad
were killed at the guns, and over tw
thousand rebels laid down their live
during the progress of the battle
The rebels charged, regardless of thei
great loss, and they left six hundre,
dead at one point alone.
ADVANCED IDEAS AND MOB OUTRAGE
LONDON, March 15.-Bradlaugh
while delivering a lecture at Bride
water last night against perpetual
pensions to members of the Roya
family and others. was attacked BY
roughs and driven from the platform
by a shower of rotten eggs, diseased
fruit and fireworks. The roughs af
forwards wrecked the chairman:
house.
GIVEN OVER TO PILLAGE.
LONDON, March 15.-The Paris cor.
respondent of the Times, says the &C.
cupation of Bacninh ends in nothing
as the rainy season begins in two
weeks, ard will postpone operations
six MONTHS Meanwhile the delta OF
the Red river is handed over to pill.
lrge and anarchy. The French gov.
eminent will shortly he compelled to
ask an appropriation OF 25,OOO,OOC
francs, and eventually one>of 100000
600 francs, which the chamber will re-
fuse. The expedition to China, IN
order to be successful, will require 6S
ships and 10000 men, and the end to
be gained is out of all proportion to
the outlay.
A GRAVE DIFFICULTY.
LONDON, March 15.-The commits
sioner's have announced meeting to-
at the grave Of the famous
socialist, Karl Marx. The police will
prevent the meeting, and the cemeta-
ry will be closed.
The midland hosiery factory at
Bashford burned to-day. Loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
A WARLIKE MOVE.
LONDON, March 15.-In Paris much
uneasiness is felt in diplomatic circles
by official information from Berlin,
describing the sudden and extraordi-
nary activity that has been developed
IN the German navy, and the imperial
has just issued an order
Immediately an immense
increase IN the number of German
marines and sailors. New snbmar-
inc batteries on a most extensive scale
have also been ordered by the German
and it has also taken
steps to establish on permanent
basis a German commercial station in
west Africa.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE PANIC.
LONDON, March ia Suakim dis
patch, dated II o'clock this morning
gives another account of the panic
last night among the Egyptians in
Baker Pasha's camps at Zereba. 1t
says a false alarm spread that Osman
Digma had rallied and routed Gen.
Graham's forces, and was then ad-
Yancing and menacing Zerebe. The
report produced a panic among the
many of whom openly an
n0unced their sympathy with Osmar
Digna, riot ensued, and order was
only restored by the arrest and i'm
of the mutineers, two of
whom had been ba yonetted.
FALSE ALARM AND PANIC.
LONDON, March 15.-Suakim advices
state a panic occurred last night
the troops under Baker Pasha,
who is still in camp at Zereba. They
got notice that the rebels were ap-
preaching, became frightened and took
to their heels. Before the panic was
allayed two men, enormously sup
posed to be rebels, were killed. The
troops are now returning to Suakim,
cheering the personal heroism of Ad-
ans Frazer, who is the largest man of
the black watch regiment. Twelve
Arabs were laid low by his single bay
net. Drummond, of same regiment,
bayonetted Osman Digma's nephew.
Fifty men have left Chatham to fill
The vacancies in the Black Watch
regiment.
INTHE HOUSE OF COMMo MS.
LONDON, March 15.-In the house
of commons to-day Harrington, war
secretary, announced that Geographic
with Khartoum was
broken, and that a steamer, in her
passage down the Nile, from Khar-
5oum to Shendy, had been subjected to
a continuous fusilade for three7 days.
He believed the tribes of that region
were in revolt. A battalion of Brit
ish soldiers had been dispatched to
AsSoran.
Ellis Bartlett, conservative and
Labouchere, (radicaD attacked the
Fitz Maurice, under foreign secre-
tary, refuted the charge that the rela-
lions between England and Germany
were unfriendly, and denied General
Gorden was in eXtremities. He as
serted the withdrawal of the garrison
from Kassala would be perfect
ly easy as soon as the
differences was settled with Abyssinia.
A friendly mission had been sent to
to settle these differences
with the king and Egypt in regard to
the frontier, and upon religious cues
lions. 1t was necessary, as a civilized
power, that we should contest the
Red Sea ports so as to insure the sup
preston of the slave trade, and main
tain communication with India. In
were sent to Gen. Graham
not to proceed to Barboi.
Laboucher then offered a motion
that the loss of the British and Arabs
in Soudan wos unnecessary.
Rejected by l12 to 9.
Hicks Beach conservative stated
he overheard Harcourt, the home sec
rotary, say, after the vote was taken,
$50 this dirty trick did not succeed"
Harcourt expressed regret having
made use of the words complained of
He said he had no intention of giving
pain to any one.