Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-07-30 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ISSO. From this it appears that in the province of -Upper Bavaria, only 0•2 per cent. of 2457 recruits examined were defective in their knowledge of the elementary aubjeete. In the province of Lower Bavaria, out of 2207 recruits 08 were judged deficient. lathe Palatinate 03 per cent. out of 2123 recruits ; in the Upper Palatinate 0.9 per cent. out of 1761 recruits; in Upper Franconia, 0.2 per cent, out of 1936 recruits; in Middle Franconia. 01 per cent. out of 1887 recruits; in Lower Franconia, 01 per cent out of 2000 recruits; and in Swabia 0-2 per cent. out of 198 recruits were judged to be educationally deficient. The recruits so judged deficient are obliged to spend additional time in the regimental schools. General Sauesier reports to Paris that it is absolutely =potable at this season to take any decisive measures for the repression of the insurrection in South Oran. No effective action can be taken till October. In three months the railway from Saida to Krejder will he finished. Then the expeditionary columns may receive provisions, which ill then could I only be sent precariously and at greet sacrifices by ' camel.. The General thinks three columns necessary. I He recommends fortifications near Geryville or the 'Morocco frontier. Toe Minister of War and the IGovernor-General have decided for the present not to I go further south than El Hazern on the Morocco ! frontier. I A Constantinople correspondent says the rumour is generally believed, and he is disposed to give credit Ito it, that Slidhat Pacha recently attemp'ed to commit suicide. He was afterwards taken before the Sultan, who expressed his regret at the occurrence. Slidisat extola is said to have replied that life was not worth lbeving, and that he would rather be executed than I banished. Nothing is known, the correspondent adds, I as to the fate of the accused, bate decree for the ens' eution of their !sentence is being prepared. 1 The Emperor of Morocco has made an urgent appeal to the Sultan of Turkey to put • stop, at the I earliest possible moment, to the agitation at present prevailing in North Africa. The Morocco Sovereign fears that the ferment may spread to his own dominions, in which case it would probably lead to an in. surrection, to the expulsion of himself from the throne and to the Barbary States finally declaring themselves completely independent of the Porte. The representations of the Morocco potentates are etated to have produced a profound imerewion at Constantinople. Mr. C. G. Ethelistoo, civil engineer, has published some interesting 110rae of a recent examination by him of the worksof the St.Glothard Railway. Thetotal length of this line, which will connect the Swiss lines with the Italian railway system, will be 152 miles, of which 59 miles, or 17 per cent. ot the entire length, is represented by tunnels, 59 in number. The total coat will be £6,800,000, to which amount the Governments of Germany. Switzerland, and Italy have contributed largely. The length of the great St. Gothard Tunnel is 9 miles 468 yards—about a mile and three quarters longer than the Mont Cenie. For reasons stated, the conditions for ventilation in the St. Gothard will be less favourable than thew of the Mont C. nis. It is ezpected that this, great work will be finished and ready for the laying of the permanentway in December  THE EDITOR OF THE Boslon Missionary Herald writes to a Boston newspaper expressing the belief that the report of the Fiji leland massacre is an exaggerated version ot the massacre which occurred at one of the Gilbert lelande in September last, when 300 persons perished.