Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-10
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The Great storm in Europe.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The Great Storm in Europe.
LONDON, December 9th-A. M.-Yester-
days gale was of unprecedented violence.
At Liverpool and the Isle of Man the
barometer sank to the lowest point on rec
ord. In the morning the center of the
storm lay off the northwest of Ireland, and
it is now passing to the eastward of Scot
land. of all the coast line were seen ships
flying signals of distress, and it is feared
that there has been a great loss of life. The
papers had no kilograms from the Cont
nent last night.
In the west of Ireland the storm was ter
rife. Steamers were delayed in making
Queenstown, and all harbors were filled with
shipping. The nigh tide at Limerick
fioated the warehouses on the water front
and at Armagh the spinning mills were
stopped by floods. Damage to property,
accidents, and in some cases of houses being
set on fire by the lightning, are reported
FROM all parts of the Kingdom.
A French vessel fOundered of Dym-
church, and six persons were drowned. On
the Danish coast many vessels have been
wrecked.
AN OLD CASTLE DEMOLISHED.
LONDON, December 9th.-The storm to-
day was worst in the Bristol Channel. The
sea-walls were demolished and many
freight cars overturned. The storm has
not yet abated on the northwest coast. The
sea is running mountain high at Holy
head. Ballinamore Castle fell in to-day, and
Miss Cody, one of the inmates, was killed.
The New French Ministry.
PARIS, December h-General Boulanger
and three other members of De Freycinet's
Cabinet have Joined the Goblet Ministry.
Goblet will ask the Chamber of Deputies to
authorize provisional three months bud
get ard adjourn the debate on the esti-
mates until January. The Radical and
Royalist newspapers do not favor Goblet.
The Reputiiqte says he must abandon DEM
agogisn if he wants to establish durable
Government.
GoBLET's CABINET.
PARIS, December 9th.-The following
named will be the probable members of
the new Ministry Goblet, President of the
Council and Minister of the Interior Du
Clerc, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dau-
phin, Minister of Finance Burdeau, Min
lister of Public instruction Sarrien, Minis
ter Of Justice General Boulanger, Minis
ter Of War; Admiral Aube, Minister of
Marine and Colonies Granet Minister of
Posts and Teiegraphs; Lockroy, Minister
of Commerce.
Replies TO the Porte's Bulgarian Circular.
CoNsTANTNoPLE, December 9th.-A ma
iority of the powers have replied to the
Porte's circular asking advice as to a solu-
ton of the Bulgarian difficulty. The re-
plies are all either evasive or indefinite.
Some of them ask for further explanations
that will throw any new light on the mat
ter. Iddesleigh, British Foreign Minister,
refers the Porte to England's views on the
Bulgarian situation previously expressed.
Italy is a little more explicit, and alludes
to the alleged difficulty the Bulgarians
must experience in accepting Nicholas of
Mingrelia. 1t is now thought the Porte
will suggest a solution of the difficulty
Italy refers to.
The Lion Must Leave the Land of the
Nile.
CoNsTANTIEoPLE, December 9th.-Sir
William White. British Minister here, has
received from Lord Iddesleigh dispatch
saying the Porte had intimated very dis
tinctly its desire to discuss the subject Of
the evacuation of Egypt by the British.
and that he has promised to consider the
Porte's ultimatum. Count DAunay,
French Agent at Cairo, has informed the
Public Debt Commission that his Govern
ment will decline to enter into any ar
rangement looking to Egyptian admins
trative reforms until date is fixed for
British evacuation.
The Foreign Mails Squabble.
LoHDoN December 9th.-At the request
OF the Solicitor General the Court OF
Queens Bench telegraphed the White Star
Steamship Company at Liverpool that an
injunction has been issued restraining the
company from refusing to take on board
the Britannica-which sailed this afternoon
for New York-such mails as might be
rendered. The Britannica took them.
Great Loss of Life.
LONDON, December carbohydrates from
Brisbane state that the steamers Kielawah
and Helen Nicholl have collided of Queens
land, resulting in the drowning OF forty
two persons.
On the American Plan.
LONDON, December 9th-A dispatch from
Odessa says the position and guard on the
mail train from Ekaterinodar to Koakaskai
were murdered yesterday and that 10000
roubles of Crown money in their charge
was stolen.
Partisan Sensation.
PARIS, December 9th.-A man tried to
stab Deputy Case in the lobby of the
Chamber of Deputies to-day. The Deputy
was rescued and the assassin arrested.
a Gold Shake Awaits Them.
PARIS, December 3th.-It is learned from
a Government source that the Bulgarian
delegates will get the cold shoulder here.
Hot Weather and Cholera.
BUEEos AYREs, December 9th.-Tele-
grams from Rosario, dated December 7th,
say that on Monday the heat was terrific,
and that heavy rain fell during the night.
That day % deaths from cholera occurred.
During the past twenty-four hours there
have been seven deaths from cholera and
no new cases.