The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-10-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OCTOBER 7, 1893.  July 7th. Ile reports that he luta lIaYV:Vi successful engagements with the Arah,, ~nd released several hundred slaves.  Tnoimi a Franco-Siamese treaSy has now teen concluded. the Siamese people are far froni On Monday was the 25th anniversary of tho atees. sion of their King, but they were too dei0.,..5.13 in spirits to organise any jubilation.  WAR has suddenly broken out between Mom and Spain. On Monday the Moors M force attacked the Spanish garrison at nisi and in two stubbornly contested engagenni.tit seem to have had the bENt of the lighting: Minister of War at Madrid has orderpd ,despatch of reinforcements.  THE Finns are no longer the &voted sub.iwt; the Czar. Many of them are leaving their nAire land on account of the Russianising-poliey of the Government of St. Petersburg. In Finland .Aery. thing German is being stamped out, and ,no than 3,000 Lutheran schools have been el,..qcd during the last three years by order of the Governor-General.  THE news regarding Rio de Janeiro is depl, EAU, Bombarded by Admiral de Mello's fleet. it is-at the same time overrun by a • ruffianly military force that claims to be its defenders. Peixoto and his 5,000 troops adhere to eaeh other, and they still continue to rule the roost. '  THE Grand Old Man of the Hungarian* h endowed with an invincibly heroic spirit. In A letter to a patriotic lady admirer, M. I(.)Fsnlti writes:—" I am 'weighed down by the burden of years, and-my eves grow dim. I now only ,i2i; outlines, and not details. I cannot read, and, when writing, only guess the charaCters which trace. Nevertheless, impelled by asense of duty, I completed the thirst volume of ray memons* few days ago."  EVERT day's news regarding the attitude of the Matabele to the white men seems to in:E.-ate a fresh advance towards hostilities. From Cape Towv we are told that some of the scouts of the South Africa Company have been fired on by a h:Aly Matabele, estimated at 7,0® strong, who passed to the north-east of Fort Victoria. The Alt ministrator has received permission to devatell a strong patrol to watch the movement: of dm Matabele.  TiR principal forts of the South Africa,: Corn. piny in Mashonaland are each garrisoned by 200 men, besides a body of 300 mounted men equiPped for scouting purposes. Not only in South Africa is trouble threatened. On the West GT:A thi Ashantees seem to have recovered something et the military power which the British overturned: having defeated a neighbouring trils, thej are reported to have assumed a menacing attitudi towards the British Protectorate. Mr A. J. Swann, the missionary who gave the first account of the murder of Emin Pasha, has been interviewed al to the prospect of civilisation in Central Africa Mr Swann is a pronounced Arabphobist He predicts a general European massacre unless stern measures be promptly adedted 'against th traffickers in human flesh.  Tnx captain of a steam whaler mulled the Newport has satisfied himself of the practicability of reaching the North Pole. He passtsl last winter in the Herschel Islands. Takin3 advantage of an unexpectedly open sea, he this summer worked his vessel North in pursuit of whales as far as 84 degrees, et within 6 degrees of the North Pole—the most northerly point, it is believed, that man has ever reached. The ship was unable to proceed further: liut the captain and his crew are confident that if they had been supplied with dogs and sledgcg they could easily have reached the Pole over the ice.