The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-11-26 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

III." One of the Duke's sisters is I Countess of Chambord ; the other is the mother of Don Carlos. The Vienna correspondent of the Times says there is no foundation for the reports circulated of a plan of Austrian intervention in Herzegovina. The subject has not been touched upon in the negotiations. Equally unfounded is the guaranteed plan attributed to Austria, Circulated in the German papers, according to which International Commissions would be established in the chief places of the Herzegovina. A communication from the Colonial Office states that a telegram from Singapore, dated the 21st instant, announces the departure of General Colbourne, with 300 men of the 80th Regiment, for Perak, on Thursday. On Monday the troops from the Perak Residency took four stockades at the village of Passia-Sala, where Mr. Birch was murdered, and some of his property was found in the house of the Maharajah Lela. An important decision of the Supreme Court of the United States determines the penalty incurred by national banks for charging or receiving a rate of interest exceeding that allowed by law. In New York State it had been decided by all the courts that the penalties were those prescribed by State law, and included the forfeiture of the principal and interest of the note on which the illegal interest had been charged or received. This decision has been reversed by the Supreme Court, and it is declared that only the interest is forfeitel. The floods in France are subsiding, but the reports from all parts of the country represent the damage as enormous. In the forest of Droux, 3,000 trees have been blown down. A Vienna telegram states that a circular has been issued by the Russian Minister of Public Communications to the various railway companies, containing instructions as to ,the transport of large I bodies of troops in the event of the outbreak of 'I war. The Turkish Government is said to be preparing a note with reference to the reforms it proposes carrying tot in its Christian provinces. It is reported that these will embrace the substitution of a money tax for the existing tithes, an equitable readjustment and regulation of the ground rent, and theveduction of the arbitrary power at present exercised by Turkish landlords over the Christian peasants. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald ventures upon an anticipation of the probable tenour of President Grant's forthcoming message to Congress. He believes that the President, leaving financial matters to be dealt with byl Mr. Secretary Bristow, will devote himself chiefly I to a review of the national position in connection I with the Cuban difficulty. Should Spain positively I refuse to cede Cuba to the United States, the policy of a recognition of the Cuban Republic will I be recommended. The medical education of women is progressing most satisfactorily in Russia. During last year the students at the Female Medical School numbered 171. 'Of these 102 were noble, 17 daughters of merchants, 12 daughters of clergymen, and the remaining 24 belonged to other I social classes. The Kofessors are highly pleased with the attention shown by the students, who display in their clinical studies so much acquaintance with the course of diseases as often to surprise the professors, audit is by no means unusual for them to remain for the night in attendance —.goes cases.