The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-07-24 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

FOREIGN.  The Spanish Official Gazette of Saturday, announces that General Quesada has arrived at Penavunda, in the province of Burgos. The Carlists are stated to be retreating from him, abandoning their provision trains. The Turkish Financial Commission to examine the means of developing the resources of the Turkish Empire, has commenced its aittincr.s. The Bureaux of the Three Fractions in France, at a meeting on Saturday, decided to persist in a proposal to dispose of all motions on the order of of the day without interruption, so as to bring about a dissolution before the 15th. The Bureaux of the Assembly, on Saturday, elected the committee to report upon the question of prorogation. The Ministers present declared that they did not oppose a prorogation, but were of opinion that the House should resume at the end of October or beginning of November. The Figaro reports two heavy failures at Marseilles.  According to present indications, the approximate result of the voting in the Munich electoral colleges for members of the new Chamber of Deputies, is expected to be as follows :—Liberals 77, and Ultramontanes 79. The situation of affairs at Brunn, in Austria, with regard to the weavers' strike, remains unchanged, The conference with the masters and delegates led to no result, the latter insisting on the simultaneous re-opening of the mills. It is stated, at Pekin, that the Chinese Government proposes to send an embassy to England in reference to the murder of the late Mr. Margary.  It is stated that the town of Lefke, in Aisitic Turkey, was almost completely destroyed by fire, on the 11th instant.  The French Minister of Public Works gave a banquet, on Tuesday evening, at which the delegates sent by the Lord Mayor to Toulouse, to distribute money subscribed to the Mansion House Fund, were present. Complimentary speeches were made.  The Temps of Wednesday stated that according to official advices Dorregaray has been wounded, and has crossed into French territory at Canterets.  The official returns of the revenue of France for the first six months of the present year show the total amount collected to be 608,000,000 francs, or 79,500,000 above the amount for the first six months of last year. Custom-house receipts were 23,000,000 francs, and indirect taxes 56,000,000 francs in excess of the corresponding period of 1874. Natal news, received by the Cape mail steamer on Tuesday evening, represents Sir Garnet Wolseley as steadily winning for himself and his policy approbation from the party which most resented his mission. He had ordered a prosecution against Kaffirs, who, in the town of Durban, had executed their war dance, which included brutal ill-usage of bullocks. The Union Steamship Company has been cast in I:2,000 damages, for detention of a consignment of muskets. They were seized by the Customs authorities, not having been duly declared. A robbery of £3,000 had been committed on the premises of the Standard Bank of South Africa, at Natal, and a bank official had been suspended for supposed carelessness. Captain Armitage master of the ship Tonga, of London, has been tried for shooting the steward on the occasion of the wreck of the Tonga. It was shown, however, that the steward was drunk and endangering the passengers' lives, and the court held that under the circumstances the captain was justified in shooting him. The captain's certificate was suspended for three months, however, for negligently losing his ship. The salaries of the Grand Vizier and Ministers of Turkey are reduced by two-thirds, and salaries exceeding 3,000 piastries monthly are reduced by one half. According to an official return published in Paris on Thursday, the total amount of direct and indirect taxes collected during the first half of the present year exceeds by 63,000,000 francs the amount under these heads in the first six months of 1874.