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3 was appointed Regent. In accordance with
: aw the Ministers of the Cabinet have ten
iered their resignation, but will remain inl
office pending the Regents pleasure. The
s body OF Alfonso VIII be buried in thepalaceI
s0f the EScurial. Orders have been issued
that the troops be confined to their bar
racks. Great anxiety prevails here and i
{ rigid censorship Is exercised over press tel
fegrams. 1t is stated that Princess Mer-
5cedes, the fve-year-old daughter of Al
fOnso, will be Queen, under the regency Of
her mother Christina. Senior Segasta has
Horned a new Cabinet. Spanish per cents
closed per cent lower
The deceased sovereign was born on No
& yember 3, 1857, and was therefore p years.
{ of age He was expelled with his mother
sQueen Isabella. During his exile he re
sceived military training at the Royal
Military Academy, Sandhurst He left the
Academy to spend the New Year of 1891
: with his mother at Paris, when he received
! news that he had been proclaimed King of
aSpain. He was in Madrid a fortnight after
wards, and suppressed the Carlist revolu-
stion within month from assuming COM
Smand of the army. He likewise consented
StO limited monarchy in 1876, and thereby
: made friends of the Liberal party and the
SCOnstitutiOnaliSts of Europe. In January
s l878, he married his cousin Mercedes /
8daughter of the Due de Monpensin, and
granddaughter OF King Louis PHILIPPE OF
2France. She died in June of the samel
3year, when Alfonso married Maria Christ
Stina daughter of Archduke Ferdinand of
8 Austria, who is now Regent and by whom
Che has left two daughters. The Queen Re-
ggent opposes Mercedes being proclaimed
@Queen, having given the Council of State
Cher belief that a poSthumous male heir TO
Sthe throne will be born in March.
q Fears of a revolutionary rising in SPAIN
gare prevalent. The CarlistS have album
%dance of money and are well organized.
&The Republicans are not prepared for revo-
:ssution. Old CASTLE has been proclaimed in
"a state of siege, and 100 900 of the reserves
shave been called out.
The news of King Alfonso's death spread
ssgloom in Cuba, where a revolutionary out
Sbreak is threatened at the first note of civil
swar in Spain.
S. Death of Marshal Serram0.
Marshal Serrano of DOminguex, Duke
ode la Tore, one of the most conspicuous
) characters in modern Spanish history, died
s5on November Doth, two days after the death
kaof King Alfonso, whom public scandal de-
ssclared was closely related to him.
Conquest of Burmah.
81 RANGooN, November 27th.-An official
3 dispatch from General Prendergast, Com
s mander of the British expeditionary forces
Estates that the British have had a success
full fight with the Burmese at Hagan on the
9th instant and expect to reach Manda
Hay, the capital of Burmah, tomorrow
a Mandalay is about one mile from the IRA
s iwaddy river, but the boats cannot get
fnearer than three miles, SO it will he rather
5 too far away for anything like an effective
Sire from the British gunboats, should they
sget that close up to it. There is a massive
Rbrick wall around the four sides of the city
and each wall has gate, and over the
gates are towers with seven roofs, all o
them bright with gliding. At regular in
tervals there are smaller towers, which
serve for the purpose of guardhouses. Thu
walls are surrounded by deep ditch 15t
sfeet VIDE. The British expeditionary fore
with the Burmese. Three of the British
were wounded.
81 The British expedition reached NyeenyaI
sNfon the 25th instant, and proceeded 70
s. Mandalay the same evening. The Madra
Sappers, supported by the Hampshire regi
ment, scaled the earthworks at Pagan, ant
sthe enemy bolted into the jungle. Tn
Burmese were strongly intrenched a
Nyeenyan, their line extending two miles
sSThey opened n sharp fire on the British
Sfotilla and the latter replied with shells
After two hours of bombarding the enemy
afed into the jungle, leaving thirteen mel
killed and large number wounded. TIL
Burmese leader FASTENED to Mandalay.
appears the Burmese imported their am
munition in biscuit and Sardine tins, ant
Is their rifles as consignments of machinery
81 The inhabitants are delighted at the al
B rival of the British.
Four Deputy Commissioners and fou
assistants have been appointed for Burmah
This is tantamOunt to annexation.
CruShing Liberal Defeat i'm the Unite:
A Kingdom.
6 The general election in Great Britain an
e Ireland has resulted disastrously to tn
"a Liberal party. The London Times say
81 the disruption of that party is inevitable
E&Old time Liberal constituencies hav
elected Tories. Parnell has been successful
lin Ireland Mr. Childers, Chancellor {
the Exchequer under Gladstone, Mr.. Ii
~ fevre, another Cabinet Minister, and hi
y two Under Secretaries, Hayter and Holmes
were defeated. Sir Charles Dixie has bee
elected at Chelsea by a narrow majority
1t. p. O'COnnOr, an Irish Nationalist, ca
ried one of the Liverpool divisions agains
the Tory candidate by a majority of l %
aParnell and Healey have been returned fC
Cork. The Marquis of Lorne was defeated
A dispatch Of the 2Sth states that the lii
serals sustained 4 crushing defeat at til
hands of the constituencies. Chamberlai
Els blamed for this defeat, owing to his a
Htacks upon property. This added to tn
scry of The Church is in danger caused
general detection among the Liberals.
is said that Chamberlain will organize an
lead a Radical party in Parliamen
n Another rumor is to the effect that Glac
stone offers the Liberal vote to Lord Sail
bury, to prevent the ruinous domination
Parnell and the Irish Nationalists TIL
Liberal press appears to be stunned at tn
defeat of their party. Full returns had Nc