The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-03-28
FOREIGN News.

The Panama Canal scandal is still
| shaking the French republic to its
foundations, and it now looks as
| though the only salvation for the
country from a great crash is the re-
moval or resignation of President
Carnot. The evidence given in court
on March 18th by Madame Cottu, one
of the condemned prisoners, has COM
pletely destroyed what faith remained
in the honesty of the present Govern
ment. The tables have been turned.
The Government which prosecutes
has found its own venality exposed.
The guilty were pressed too hard.
They began to confess, and their con-
LESSONS have COMPOUNDED and over
whelmed their prosecutors. The con-
fusion began when De Lesseps made
| his sweeping expose of his own guilt
| and the causes of it. Madame Cottu
went upon the witness-stand and
swore that a representative of the
| Government offered to secure her hus-
bands liberation if she would disclose
the names of the Deputies of the
Right who had received Panama
Doodle. Since the outset of the Pana
ma scandal the Government has used
its utmost efforts to implicate mem
bers of the Right as an offset to the
corruption of their own supporters.
Attempts were made to explain or
contradict Madame Cottu's startling
! testimony, but they only made mat
tiers worse. Bourgeois, the Minister of
Justice, has resigned on account of
the woman's evidence.
A delegation of prominent Irish
merchants, bankers, ETC., have visited
Gladstone and protested against Home
Rule. They declared that it would
complete the ruin of their country, as
it was not rich enough to take care of
itself.
The town of SYNDICATE, Kent, Eng
land, covering square mile, was I'M
dermined by the sea, and 200 houses
destroyed.
a London dispatch says that the
House of Commons is to be asked at
this session to sanction the construc-
ton of bridge across the Straits of
Dover, connecting England and
France Messrs. Scheaffer and HOr-
sent, Frenchmen, and Sir John Fow
Ter and Sir Benjamin Baker, engineers
for the bridge, are responsible for the
latest designs, which provide for a
bridge on the cantilever principle,
carrying a double line of rails with
clear Roadway underneath of 200 feet.
The bridge will consist of seventy
three spans, alternately of 1880 and
1910 feet, supported on seventy-two
piers. The cost is estimated at S169,-
$4,000 and the period required for the
construction is seven years.
The programme of the cholera con-
ference to be held at Dresden is still
the subject of communications be-
tween the governments that will be
represented.
In western Russia and eastern Ger
many enormous losses of property
from floods are reported. In Hungary,
also, the rivers are overlooking their
banks, submerging villages and
sweeping away thousands of cattle.
The small river Raab is swollen to
three times its usual size and has
wrecked some three hundred houses.
Europe is again menaced by the
phantom of war owing to the attitude
and words of Chancellor Won Caprivi
with reference to the Army bill and
what Germany must prepare itself to
do in case of necessity. 1t is said that
Russia is the object, on account of the
great military preparations in that
country.
1t is announced that the Austrian
Emperor will abdicate, owing to poll
teal complications which he cannot
adjust.
A dispatch from Valparaiso states
that the rumor prevails that Santa
Anna, in the State of Rio Grande Do
.,,I Sal, hn- nj nv
rebels, has fallen and that the leader
of the Government troops, General
Isidore Fernandez, has committed
suicide. Previous to the receipt of the
rumor the Herald's correspondent at
Montevideo telegraphed that General
Favarty, with 1000 well-armed troops,
was encamped three leagues from
Santa Anna. He was then planning
to give battle to the Government
troops commanded by General Isidore
Fernandez. On the result of this bat
tie would depend the fate of the revo-
luton. Foreign residents in the
State of Rio Grande Do Sui have been
attacked by the adherents of both
sides. Previous reports of the defeats
of the revolutionists, except at San
LONE, are now vigorously denied.
The Herald's correspondent at
Buenos Ayres telegraphs that Min
lister of War Victoricas has resigned
owing to the unfortunate position of
his son, who was one of the condemn
ed officers of the war ship Rosales.
Again Procurator Fiscal has demand
ed that the extreme penalty be melted
out to the condemned officers of the
Rosales. This would mean death.
Among the officers over whom this
penalty hangs is ex-Minister of War
Victoricas' son.
England is rapidly increasing her
army of occupation in Egypt, and the
preparations are so ominously warlike
that great sensation from that quar-
ter is daily looked for.
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, the great
French author, died in Paris on March
9Th. Taine, perhaps, had more inhu-
ence on the intellectual development |
of his time than Renan. Without |
him the Psychological school of Bour
get and Barres would not have eX-
listed. 1t is to him that lola owes his |
theories of atavism. He created and |
developed among the French taste |
for travel. AS historian he initiated |