Weekly News. — 1890-07-31 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TIIE CONDITION OF MOROCCO.  Mr. Donald Mackenzie. director of the North• %Vest African Trading Station at Cape Juby, has just arrived in Liverpool. after • lengthy journey through Morocco. Its states that Morocco has abundant wealth and immense natural resources, which require only to be tapped by Eiiropean capital to yield employment, comfort, and happinese to a large population, but, unfortunately, it possesses a most despotic and corrupt government. Mr. Mackenzie's general conclusions eliew that protection was first established for guarding the commercial interests of inereliante in Morocco, but that the oyster,. has been abused to an enormous extent by foreign ministers and consular merits, and that indincriminate protection has been injudiciously granted to Moors and Jews. Abundant .teotirriony proves that crime and oppression of every kind flourish under this system, which has Lien used am an engine of extortion by unscrupulous proteges against defenceless Arabs, unjust claims have been enforced against innocent pteple, and persons have been in.. prisoned without all redress. Mr. Mackenzie says that the European rowers do not appear tube fully aware of the abuses carried on under their name ; for, if they were really acquainted with all the facto, they would adopt measures for removing scandals which are a danger and disgrace to Etirope. Ile is of opinion that protection, as now established in Motocco, should be abolished altogether, and considers that every one of the Sultan's subjects should pay legitimate taxes towards the support of the Government. But, am Mr. Mackenzie remarks, it nowt be • Government that will give liberty and security to life and property and administer the law justly. He urges that England (which carries on two-thirds of the commerce if .Morocco) should proinote this beneficent measure by calling a conference of the various European Ponore tygether for determining the reforms which are need,sary for the well-being and prosperity of the Moorish people, as weil as for the interests of trade and civilisation.  The Empress and the Archduchess Valerie Austria on their drive from Gastain to the railway station oti Sunday, happily 'escaped a bad accident. The shaft pm of their carriage suddenly broke on a road which is one of the most rapid descents in the Alps. The horses shied at first, but the coachman succeeded in stopping them, and the Empress and her daughter jumped out of the carriage, one on either side, aud walked the rest of the way. On Sunday afternoon Miss Blanche Harding, of New Racluor, • pupil at the Ladies' College, Worcester, was drowned in the Severn. She flung herself into the rivet and then cried for help, but before her body oould be recovered life was extinct. She was only 13 years old, and had previously, it is said, threatened to commit suicide.  Deplorable accounts are to band of the sanitary condition of Saint-Louis, in Senegal. The " dengue fever" is rsging there, and not a single European has escaped. Deadly miasma conic up Irons the river, no attempt is made to cleanse the streets, and the quays are covered with all sorts of rubbish. A correspondent declares that it would be impossible to estimate the havoc whioh would be wrought among the population if a more serious epidemio wore to follow.  . A a _ rs, occasioned by a spirit lamp exploding, bas occurrde at 23, Devonshire , Cambridge-road, Mile-end. A lodger named John Kaminski WM terribly burned„ and died at the hospital.  i; reported that the British steamer Charles Morand, 760 tons. of Liverpool, has tounder•d off Delaware Breakwater, after collision with • large schooner,uame unknown. All the crew were rescued.  A telegram troni Savona state" that the German petroleum 'teenier Vorwards 11101 arrivod there with the afterpart on tire. The authori tie" have ordered her to be towed outside fur the security of the harbour.