Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-24
FOREIGN NEWS.
Malay Rising in Pahang Arrest of Nihilists in Russia - Serious Illness

Malay Rising in Pahang Arrest of
 Nihilists in Russia - Serious Illness
 of the Pope - Fatal Explosion in
 Africa-The Trouble in Brazil.
 LONDON, Dec. 25.-A Singapore dispatch contains news of Malay rising in Pahang, a state of Malay peninsula. An English magistrate has been fired at, and body of armed police has been dispatched to quell the revolt. The disturbance is attributed to local hostility to the Malay sultan.
 TEN Ts1N, Dec. 23.-An additional de- tachment of cavalry has been sent north ward against the rebels.
 ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 23.-Numerous arrests have been made of workmen in mills and factories in the suburbs on the charge of being concerned in an alleged nihilist plot. Plans of the czar's palace were found in the possession of many pris- | oners. Gossip says professors wife has been arrested on the same charge. Further arrests of alleged nihilists have been made at Warsaw, the total number of the pris- oners now being 150.
 LONDON, Dec. 24.-The Lancet's Italian correspondent asserts that the pope had 8 fainting fit followed by extreme prostra- tion after the last consistory, and that the fact was kept profound secret in compii- ance with Pope Leo's secret orders enjoin- ing secrecy in event of his death until cer- tain formalities regarding the conclave have been concluded.
 LISBON, Dec. 23.- -Advices from South Africa state that while the Coutinhos ex- petition was en route from Quillimaine to
 Maghamba an explosion of gunpowder oc-
 cured, by which 60 persons were killed
 and ITO wounded. Coutinhos himself is
 among the wounded.
 ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 2S.-It has trans pired that 12 ,000 persons are starving in
 the north of Finland, which country hith-
 erto has been supposed to be free from
 famine.
 LONDON, Dec. 23.-A dispatch to the
 Times from Santiago de Chilli says tha
 General Campo with force of 250 mer
 has attacked the town of Santa Victoria il the province of Rio Grsnde do Sul, Bra
 gil. The telegraph wires have been GU
 and the result of the engagement is un ; known.
 ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 23-It is stated
 that the czarina has decided to accompan,
 her son on his coming visit to Paris. Sh 1 will be conveyed to Brest on the roya . yacht, and will be escorted by men, -of-war , Thence she will go direct to Paris, wher
 she will make a short stay, prior to he 3 trip to Nice. She will be feted throughou : her visit to France, and the indication l are that her journey will be one long ovs f ton. , BUENos AYREs, Dec. 23AThe rivers @ the province of Cordoba have overfowe l. and are devastating the surrounding cour @ try.
 @ LONDON, Dec. 23.-The Chronicles co > respondent at Shanghai says: The recer t outrages were merely due to hatred ( e foreigners. The soldiery sided with th d rabble General Lo and two hundre y soldiers with magistrate and bod. es guard were sent to protect us, sal l. MT. Coburn, but instead of doing tn re General Lo sat drinking champag1
 while the soldiers assisted in footing ol 2 property. A squad which undertook escort the nuns to place of safety to' 3 them to the river and drowned them. a can only suppose that General Lo, who 3 generally a just man, was acting und 3 orders to do nothing to prevent the o, 2 rage. It is well known that the autho { ties privately hate foreigners"