Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-03-16
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Foreign News.


day referring to the New Orleans tragedy,
says that relying on the foresight OF the
American authorities and out of regard for
g sincerely friendly power, Italy has re-
Trained from sendining an iron-clad to the
mouth of the Mississippi.
The Don Ciisciote della Mancia remarks
that Italy ought to demand that Instant
measures be taken to protect the Italian
colony In New Orleans, adding however. ut
Is just also to recoen!zs the fact that similar
Incidents would not occur If the towns on
the Atlantic Littoral were not infested With
The ex-galley slaves OF Europe"
LONDON, March 16-Her Msjssty's high
court OF justice to-day refused to grant a
writ OF habess corpus to compel MIR. h. d.
Jackson, of Clitbroe. to produce his wife In
,ourt. Mr.. Jackson, on March 8. abducted
his wife, a wealthy lady 10 her OWE right,
az she was leaving a church at Clitheroe.
near Manchester.
The St. James Gazette referring to the
New Orleans affair says: 1.-THE men who
organized this defiance Of formal justice
have defeated society OF foreign rufians
who we're trying to terror;zs whole city.
II is doubtful II John Bull has enough
grit left In him to protest In as emphatic q
manner as the citizens OF New Orleans have
protested
The Star says "The impressive feature
of the New Orleans affair was the perfect
orderliuess maintained throughout the pro-
csedinge: Here, champions Of law and or
der stand aghsst at spch proceedings. The
American democracy has sounder notions as
to what law and order really mean"
TORONTO, March 16 1t Ia understood
that the government has been considering
what it should do with such men as Ell
ward Farrer and other members OF paria-
ment, as their conduct comes within the
law relating to high treason. 1t Is also said
that the government is beiog urged to ask
Lord Salisbury to station In Canada from
I've to ten British regiments, quarteriog
them In Haliisx, 0 lebec Montreal, To.
ronto. Winnipeg and Van Couver. 1t is
argued that the presence Of these regiments
In Canada would do more to put down the
annexationists and put check to their
conspiracy than anything else they could
d..
TORONTO, Ont., March 16-A special to
the Empire from o tawa says: "a favorable
termination OF the Bshring sea negotiations
honorable and fair to both countries Ia con.
fdently expected here"
CAIRO March 16 "A terrible disaster oo.
CURED to-day a, the arsenal OF Omdurman
From the reports received 1t appears that
about 100 dervshes were killed by an ex-
plosiou there which destroyed immense
stores Of ammunition and shattered the al
senal building and everything 10 the imme-
dIate reighborhood.
LONDON, March 18.-Tne British steam
or Ardancorran. from Mobile for Liverpool,
10 arrived a. @ ;eens.own with her bows
stove and her forehold full of water. She
reports that on February "a. she ran into an
iceberg. She narrowly escaped laundering.
Sir Joseph B,zl'gs;te, O. B., the English
engineer, who bss been Ill for some time,
and who has once before been reported
dead. died to-day.
The British steamer Atlato, frJm Bstoum for
Calcutta, has b,en sunk in collision with the
Turkish steamer sslonics. Her crew have or.
rived at Constsntinople.
The Netherlands steamship Co. is about to put
on its line between New York and Rotterdam
four large boats to take the place of four to be
Withdrawn from that service and to FORM new
limo between Baltimore and Rotterdam.
DUBLIN Mar. 1G-Hr Timothy Healy, during
tho course of his speech at Nowry yesterday, said
that when Mr.. Parnell WAS wanted at the Tenants
Dsfcnce Lesgue meetings he had always bad
cid. The air Of dublin did not agree with him,
bat the seaside air of Brighton did. The decree
OF divorce granted to Capt Oshes had afflicted
Mr.. Parnell with political ophthslmia, but the
most revolving thing in the whole business was
that Mr.. PARCEL seemed to think that they were
all fooe.