The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-08-28 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

FOREIGN.  The French Minister of War has made a speech at Contriville, in which, while mentioning that a certain class of the army would shortly be called out, he said "France confines herself to carrying out a military law suitable to a time of peace, and Is pursuing the plan of military re-organisation with purely defensive objects." The Echo Agricole states that the total quantity of the wheat crop in France is 106,000,000 hectolitres. The Herzegovina insurgents took possession of fort Kirstaz, on the Nicsic Road, on Saturday. Commodore Goodenough, of the British steamer Pearl, and a seaman have been murdered by the natives of the Santa Cruz Islands. Three other seamen were wounded. The Minister of War, at Belgrade, has issued an order calling out for camp exercise the first and second classes of the Servian Landwehr, numbering together about one hundred thousand men. Austria, Germany, Russia, Italy, France, and England have urged the Porte to send a special commission to the Herzegovina empowered to redress grievances. The Porte replied that this had already been done. The Porte is concentrating a large military force in the direction of Nissa. The complaints preferred against the great French railway corppanies, in a recent discussion in the National Assembly, have induced the Minister of Public Works to appoint a commission to investigate the causes of the delays attending the transport of passengers and goods. The commission is to report on the best means of facilitating exchange of traffic between different companies, and to study all questions affecting the relations of companies at points of junction, One thousand five hundred more Turkish troops have arrived at Kleck. The insurgents have set fire to Dubriza. Two men have been sentenced to death at Paris for participation in the execution of a Federal volunteer during the Commune. According to a despatch received at Ragusa, the insurgents have captured and burnt Forcenzia and Rorito, near Stolatz, taking 400 prisoners, whom they disarmed and set at liberty. The insurgents are now stated to be cannonading the small fort of Drien, two miles distant from Ragusa. Cases of death by sickness of soldiers in Germany, in consequence of the fatigues of the autumnal manceuvres, have reached an alarming height, in some regiments attaining the proportion of war losses. One company has 54 sick in consequence of the fatigues of the manceuvres. Even the papers most friendly to Government demand a radical change in the regimental exercise. Garibaldi's wife, the mother of his children Mantic. and Clelia, has just died at Caprera. Essad Pacha, Grand Vizier of Turkey, has resigned. It is thought he will remain in the Cabinet as Minister of Foreign Affairs, that mahrnond Pacha will be the new Grand Vizier, and Ruchde Pacha will succeed the latter as Pre,lident of the Council. The new Servian Cabinet has not yet been 4ormed. Popular feeling throughout Servia runs so strongly in favour of the Herzegovina insurgents that, whatever may be the government in power, it is feared that extreme difficulty will be experienced in preventing a conflict with Turkey.