Widnes Examiner. — 1882-12-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. A Lyons telegram says :—Prince Krapotkine was arrested on Thursday morning, at Thonon, and has been lodged in gaol. No fewer than fifteen of the women who were injured by the explosion of cartridges in Ment Yalerien (Paris) have  itself for clearing the ground of facts from the error with which a shameless misrepresentation of history had clouded the usually clear right of Russian public opinion." i A Berlin telegram of Thursday's date says :—"The North German Gazette' to-day refers to the observation made in an article of the Gobs on the 7th inst. to the effect that Prussia ; was the first to commence works of fortification and armaments on the eastern frontier, and that Russia was thereby compelled to take correspondine. measures. The semi-official I organ says any Government has indubitably the right to arrange its defensive measures as it may think fit, and no ; one, not even the Cologne Gazette, could regard this as affording ground for complaint, or as signifying preparation for immediately impending wars. It is true, however, that I frontier fortifications though defensive are at the same I time useless for attack. They serve to some extent the same purpose as the arming of war vessels. In view of increased penetrating power of artillery, armour plates are • being made stronger, and the increasing offensive strength of the empire makes the necessity of stronger defensive positions felt on the other side of the frontier. This, however, just as little constitutes a symptom of the insecurity of peace as would the strgngthening of armour plates on the war vessels by England and France afford ground for apprehension in regard to the relations between those two countries. The National Gazette states that the contemplated movements of troops on the Prusso-Russian frontier will be made with the object of stationing larger garrisons of infantry, and eventually also of artillery, on the frontier territory. The Gazette adds that the erection of large barracks is projected, and that it is also intended to lay second lines of rails on several of the eastern railways."  since died. Cetewayo will return to Zululand under the protection of an escort of British troops, under the command of Colonel Curtis, of the 6th Dragoon Guards. The Berlin correspondent of the Times declared that, notwithstanding the visit of M. de Giers to Berlin, the relations between Germany and Russia are of a very mysterious and  unsatisfactory character. M. Bontoux, the founder of the Union Gen&ale—the great financial institution which failed some months ago— has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment on various charges of fraud. His college M. Feder receives a sisnilar  sentence. According to a Vienna correspondent, no proposals have yet been snbmitted by England to the Powers with regard to the international control of the Suez Canal, but an impression prevails that such proposals may be  made soon. Those Powers which have denounced their existing treaties with Turkey are invited by the Porte in a semiofficial manner, to agree to certain modifications by which it is believed by the authorities at Constantinople that commerce will be facilitated and the revenue of the Otto man Empire increased. The Calcutta correspondent of the Times states that the Indian Education Commission have reassembled in Calcutta, and are now devising a scheme for the distribution of the final work among committees. Six committees will be formed ; and when the mass of evidence collected has been digested, recommendations of the suggested legislation will  be-rnade. A correspondent of the Times, telegraphing from Durban, gives currency to a report from Madagascar, dated the 9th inst., to the effect that a murderous attack was made by some natives about three months since, near Tullear, on two Englishmen. One of the two was killed. The survivor escaped, and is now there. The object of the assassins in this particular case was plunder, but the general temper of the natives towards Europeans is hostile. Anaav CHANGES IN Faarrez.—A decree just issued by the French Minister of War, affords a fresh illustration of the minor inconveniences to which the frequent changes of government in France give rise. The white gloves of the troopers, the abolition of which was ordered by General Farre, the late minister, are to be reinstated in favour. It appears that the order for their suppression had not even had time to be carried into effect.