, 1885-08-21
FOREIGN POINTS.
Cholera Continues to Increase
in Stricken Spain.
the Murderer, and
Hugh Brooks, the Same.
The Queen and Prince of Wales
Going to Norway
Foreign Affairs.

LONDON, Aug. 20.-Tho majority Of
reports received here give the number of
deaths from cholera at Marseilles at al-
most double that already announced. A
dispatch to Reuter- says the sanitary con.
dition of the city is alarming. and that
the epidemic is extendi ~ n~orthward.
The Standards Berlin correspondent
says that eminent Turkish diplomats de-
clare the sultan and grand vizier oppose
an alliance of Turkey with England
against Russia.
Queen Victoria and the prince of
Wales will start for Norway on one of
the royal yachts tomorrow. The princess
of Wales and her daughter have zone to
Ynumden to visit the duke of Cumber-
land.
The Paris correspondent of the Nelcs
says that Count Kalnoky and Prince Bis
marck have agreed upon n basis of future
negotiations for the admittance of Austro-
Hungary to the customs union. Prince
Bismarck has renounced the duty of 3
marks per 100 Kilograms on cereals. The
Prussian minister Of commerce, Cohois,
visiting the Pesth exhibition, has received
ovations everywhere. The agreement be-
tween Germany and Austro-H Hungary is
mainly the result of the Ferry protection
policy. Austria would never have en-
tered the customs union as long as France
admitted cereals free.
The Standard urges the great impor-
lance Of securing an alliance between
England and Turkey. 1t expresses the
hope that Sir Henry Drummond Wolf
will be successful in securing the desired
alliance.
Phelps, the American minister. is suf-
fering from cold and a slight attack of
lumbago. He is better this morning. He
will to-day go to the country with his
wife and take a short rest from official
duties.
PARIS, Aug. %. The government has
ordered Admiral Courbet's remains to be
landed at Brest instead of at Toulon,
owing to the prevalence of cholera at the
latter place. Extensive preparations have
been made at Toulon for the reception of
the body.
The Figaro states that the king of
Spain has, in order to show his displeas-
ure at the assumption by Germany of the
control OF the Caroline islands, resigned
the honorary colonency of the regiment
of German Uhlans. which was some time
AGO bestowed upon him.
MADRID, Aug. 20.-There were 4,IO9
new cases of cholera and l.54l deaths in
Spain yesterday.
Two doctors who went from Madrid to
Genoa have died of the disease. A doc
tor who saved fourteen ont of fifteen
patients in the second stage of the infec-
ton by administering an enema of ether,
has been authorized 10 apply the remedy
in hospitals.
DUBLIN. Aug. 20 -Pamell has sum
moncd the members al the Irish parlia-
mentary party to meet il this city on the
18th inst. The object of the meeting is
to consider what plans are best to advance
the cause of the party in the approaching
campaign.
TURIN, Aug. 20.-A valuable collection
has been stolen from tho royal armory,
including four collars of the order of
Annunziatia which were studded with
diamonds.
BERLIN, Aug. 20.-rhe National Ga
sette referring to the excitement in Spain
over the alleged seizure by Germany of
the Caroline islands, says the German
government has not yet been officially no.
tilted thai the islands have been an
nexed.
CAIRO, Aug. 2O.-The news that rebels
have taken and occupied Debbeh and
Ambugusi and are now marching on Dou-
COLA, is confirmed.