The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1884-10-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.  Telegrams from Egypt state that Colonel Stewart end his party have been massacred by a Sheikh who offered to conduct them across the desert to Iferawee. It will be remembered that after recapturincr Berber the gallant Colonel was on his way to Dongols when his steamer ran aground. Another account states that his force was attacked by the natives and killed. Although up to a late hour on Tuesday, no inferElation had been received at the War Office respecting the murder of Colonel Stewart, there seems *ply too much reason to believe that the news is correct, and that all the gallant colonel's pany, numbering perhaps over 100, shared the same fate. It is co.ijectured that Colonel Stewart left his steamer trusting to the good faith of a Bedouin Wet to conduct him to lierawi, from which place be was distant about a camel's ride. It is reported that M. Berbin, the French Consul at Khartoum, was killed at the same time as Colonel Stewart.  The expenses of the Nile Expedition, a Caine correspondent says, continue to increase. The Paymaster General has notified to the authorities that he now requires one hundred and fifty thousand pounds per week. Preeeedinge have been commenced at the instance of the Coils, of the Public Debt of Egypt against tit • Government, several Pashas, and other persons aeootint of the non-payment of the Sinking Fund. The matter will come before the Tribunal xtext week. General Gordon has struck medals in commemoration ot the siege of Khartoum, whieh he has distributed to women and children, as well as to officers and soldiers. 'l'he camel corps has disembarked at Alexandria, and will proceed up the Nils as soon as the transport arrangements are completed. A Reuter's telegram from Cairo states that Lord Northbrook has proposed the complete abolition of the Egyptian army and the substitution of a police force of 9,000 men. It is said that the scheme is opposed by the Egyptian Ministry. The municipal police force at St. Petersburg is to be completely reorganised, and better pay is to be offered to the men who hold inferior posts, in order that men of higher intelligence may be secured. . .  The French Ministry have received a telegram from Admiral Courbet announcing that he has occupied Kelung after an engagemcnt. Admiral Lespes has commenced an attack upon Tamsui. In Tonquin the Chinese have resumed the offensive, and there has been some sharp fighting, ending in the victory of the French. The French Naval Minister has declined to assent to any reduction in the expenditure upon ironclads in course of construction, and the War Minister will only consent to a reduction of fourteen and a half millions of francs, instead of the twenty-three millions demanded by the Budget Committee.  The funeral of the late Hans Makart took places on Monday in Vienna, and, in spite of the downpour ofrran, presented an imposing spectacle. A. New York correspondent states that, owing to the French objections to the choice of Greenwich as the place for the Common Meridian, the International Conference has separated without having come to an agreement. An unusual scene was witnessed at the Church of St. Nicholas in-the-Fields, in Paris, on Monday morning. Summoned by the municipal authorities to give up polseagion of the vestry, required for street improvements, the Abbe refused, as he had appealed to the Council of State against the proceeding. The official who made the demand took no further action, but a number of boys who bad gained admission to the budding behaved in an unseemly manner, washing their hands in the consecrated basins, and throwing the water about the walls. Many deaths from cholera continue to take place in Italy, but in France and Spain the epidemio is lessening. The decree summoning the French Chambers to meet on the 14th was issued on Sunday, and a Paris correspondent remarks that the Opposition are already preparing for the fight. The foreign and colonial policy of the Ministry especially will be called into quEstion. From Copenhagen a correspondent sends some further particulars respecting the fire at Christiansborg Castle, which has been totally destroyed. In consequence of the destruction of Christianaborg Castle the Danish Rigsdag had to assemble on Monday in the University Festival Holland adjourn for a month. The first Christiansborg Castle was destroyed by fire in 1794. The second, which is now a smouldering ruin, was opened in 1828, on the eccasion of the marriage of the Prince, who afterwards became King Frederic