Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-12
RUSSIA AND ENGLAND
Still Bicksring Over the Afghan
Question.
EARL DUFFERlN REMAINS SILENT
On GladstOne's POIicy---AlI Reports Of
His Resignation are Utterly
Grouudless.
LATE FOREIGN NEWS IN GENERAL,

Ameer to Cabul, he issued orders that
British officers should be allowed to inspect
the forts at Herat. The Ameer has re-
ceived detailed plans for the defences OF
Herst from the Indian Government. Ac-
cording to q report in circulation here the
Ameer bound himself to insist upon from
tier passing through three points, the names
of which the government refuses to disclose.
Pepjdeh, however, is cne of the places. The
Ameer desires the Joint Boundary Commis-
sion to examine the Oxus Valley also.
The Russian exports to England for the
first quarter of 1885 amounted to E ,O62 900,
while the imports from England were valued
at G282,OOO.
He Was In the Way.
It is stated that Fehmi Pasha's recall is
due to the influence of the Turkish Minister
to st. Petersburg and the Russian Minister
at Constantinople, who believed the recall
would have good effect on the settlement
Of the Afghan difficulty.
A dispatch from Teheran says the Ameer
of Bokhara urges the Shah Of Persia to re-
lease Ayoub Khan.
A Calcutta dispatch says: An official
statement from Earl Dufferin approving Mr..
Gladstone policy would do much to reas-
sure the public here, but the Ficeroy re-
mains silent.
A dispatch from Calcutta to the Standard
states that orders were issued yesterday 10
stop the purchase Of transport animals aud
the further despatch of stores and war ma
terial to Quetta.
Influencing Public Opinion.
The Conservative papers generally do not
wish vote adverse to the Government on
the war credit, but considers that the Gov
ernment ought to give the opposition more
information as to the present state OF at
fairs. All the kilograms from India deny
the reported resignation Of Lord Dutferin.
The military party ii Russia continues to
spread reports to the discredit Of England
The latest is that the Russians captured at
Penjdeh some of Sir Peter Lumsden's dis
patches, proving that he encouraged the
Afghans to invite a collision with the Rus
slams; that copies Of these documents were
sent to the English Cabinet and that, there
:ore, Lumsden was recalled.
Gunpowder and Dynamite.
St. Petersburg advices through Vienna,
report that quantities of gunpowder and
dynamite are being stored al several coal
ing stations. Work continues on the Con-
stadt feet.
Odessa kilograms state that the troops
which passed there, Just mobihzed from the
reserves, were horde..ot unkempt peasant
youths, ignorant Of the use OF rifles, which
some of them were hardly able to carry.
Hungarian papers report that Peter, son
Of the late Prince Karageorgewitz has gone
to ST. Petersburg to endeavor to obtain Rus
sian support should he issue manifesto as
sertipg his right to the throne of !Servia. He
also hopes that his fsther-in-lsw, the Prince
of Montenegro, will support his claim by
force of arms. The Vienna newspapers
are agreed that the Prince, as a possible
tool of Russia, must be closely watched. A
Belgrade official paper denies his heritage
right to the title of Prince.
A railway plant which had been con-
structed at Odessa for Russian line from
the Caucasus to the Black Sea, had been
diverted to the construction Of a strategic
line from Yladikavkaz to Petrotfski, on the
Caspian Sea. 1t is reported that u perna.
toned at Sebastapol.
The Samoa Islands
LONDON, May ll.-Earl Derby, Colonial
Secretary, replying to a strong request Of
the Government of New Zealand to the Eng
Iish Government to annex the Samoa
Islands, on the ground that the native chiefs
wished a union with England, sent dis
patch on January s. announcing that the
German Government had given ample as
surance that it would respect the independ-
srce of Samoa. If therefore, he con-
cluded, New Zealand should unfortunately
send Colonial Secretary to Samoa, Ger
many would be justified in annexing the
islands The Premier of New Zealand then
suggested as an alternative treaty between
England, Germany and America to respect
the neutrality of the islands.
.Gounod Very Angry.
PARIS, May I'm. Gounod has been in
terviewed on the subject of the recent deci-
sion of the Sherif's Court of London in
awarding Mrs. Weldon $4,000 damages in
her suits against him for libel for slauder.
VI. Gounod considers the decision ofthe
Jury simply monstrous He said he did not
know of the publication of the article uutil
months afterwards, when he becaGe so
angry over it that he wished to challenge its
writer, Albert Wolfe, to a duel. He has
abandoned the intention of conducting the
"Moos ct Vita" at the Birmingham festival,
declaring that he will never go to England
again.
Stanley tho Governor of the Congo,
VIENNA, May IA Brussels dispatch to
the Politsche Correspondence says Mr..
Henry Stanley has been appointed Governor
of the Congo States Herr Elwalde, Con-
sui at Bombay, will be made Minister OF
Commerce, and Herr Neuss Minister Of
Finance of that country.
Osman Digna at Berber.
DoSGoLA, May ll.--It is reported that
Osman Digna, with few followers, has ar
rived at Berber, and that the Euir of Ber-
Der has gone to Kartoum to solicit rein.
forcements to oppose the British advancing
rom Suakim.
The Pope and the Irish Clergy.
LONDON, May 1.-THE Vatican opposes
the introduction Of The question of the rela
tions of the Irish EpiscopacT with the Eng.
Gsh Government into the programme of the
Bishops reunion in Rome. The Pope pre-
fers to leave to the Council of the Clergy,
to be convened at Dublin, the decision
of its policy toward the English Govern
ment.
Koyalty's Visit to Maple.
LONDON, May IA dispatch from Ma,
Piles to the Standard says that King Hum
bert and Queen Msrgherits were rapturous,
ly received at Naples. Taey drove through
the streets in sn open carriage unattended |
BY any guard, either OF soldiers or police,
and the carriage WAS surrounded BY crowds !
of people, all cheering enthusiastically for
their Msjesties. At night the new water |
works were msrvelously illuminated with !
electric lights, producing brilliant and |
unique spectacle, In every respect the |