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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Advocate, 1887-12-01, Page 2SVIIIC AT SEA!. 57. 77"4107,..r.• The Dutch Steamer W. A. Soholten Ool- Ede)) witb Another Steamer. "EARLY A MIDI= OD Piny PERISH. raeeeregen& stories or the cidamity—whe saved. A last (Stuaday) night's London cable nye : The etearner W. A. Scholten, Cent Teat, which left Rotterdam yesterday for bler York. Wes Bunk by t collision with the Meaner Roes Mery, of Hartlepool, let 11 o'clock last night, ten miles off Dover. The Scholten mimed a complement of 230 pas- sengers and crew. The steamer Ebro, of Sunderland, rescued ninety of the crew and pateengere end landed them at the Sailor& Home, Dover. One hundred and forty of the passeng:ers are missing. Onepaseenger and a child of the party brought to Dover were found dead from exposure. It is hoped that passing vessels have rescued the miss- ing ones. The W. A. Scholten'e maste are visible from Dover pier. Boats have left Dover bound in all directions for the pur- pose of saving Mend property, if poesible. The Rosa Mary ie anchored off Ramsgate, with her bows stove in. szcoinninio rilS poems. § p.m.—Up to this hour 22 bodies from the W. A. Soholten have been landed at Dover. The W. A. Boholten left Rotter- dam Saturday morning. At the time of the secident a dense fog prevsiled. The Soholten wee strnek on the port bow by the Rosa Mary. Immediately after the shook was felt the Soholten'e passengers, all of whom lisd retired for the night, rushed on deck in their nightgowns. The boater were promptly ordered to be lowered, but it wee found that only two were available. The three others were useless and were not lowered. The water rushed swiftly through the hole in the bow and a terrible scene ensued. The panne -stricken passenger' uttered piercing shriek", and manyfell upon their knees and preyed aloud. Little children clung to their mothers, who them - Naives were shrieking with terror. The officers were cool and self-possessed, and remained on the bridge to the last. Several liens's procured lifeepreeervers and leaped into the sea. Within twenty minutes of the shook the Scholten was engulfed. All those who had put on life -belts floated and were reamed by the boats from the steamer Ebro, which cruised around until 4 o'clock in the morning. Many of the -rescued led wives, husbands, brothers and sisters. The survivors were supplied with clothes and everything possible was done to ensure their comfort. courLicritio ACCotoms. :The passenger& accounts differ regarding the circumstances of the collision, and the reports of the officers of the Scholten clash with those of the officers of the Rosa Mary. Sense of the passengers state that the even- ing's merriment had ceased, and most of the passengers had retired to their bunks, only a tow remaining in the saloon, when a tremendous crash WaS heard on the port bow. They say it is impossible that the c &Haien could have occurred by the Scholten striking an anchored vessel. The second mate.ofethe ,Scholten reports that he was on deck, when he saw in unknown steamer coming through the fog. Before anythin.gcould be done the Scholten was struck Intl* fore rigging and port.hotr. The other Yawl, which he now presumes wies,the Boea Msry, backed off and dieip. peered. Within twenty minutes the Scholten sunk: The captain of the Rosa Mary states that his vessel was rein into while anchored southeast of South Sand. head by an unknown steamer. Finding that his vessel was damaged he proceeded to Dover Road, where the vessel is now <looked. The Rosa Mary was laden with *oil for St. Nazaire. LIST Or viz num. The following is a list of the persons -"eyed and landed at Paver: ;Passengers—Sarah Zuherman, 'Fred. Stepney, Sarah Gold, Maria Steiner, L. Robinson, Vanden] rogbrum, John Binkie, Reid Brownhof, Albert Hensler, Madelena Sieniel, Anna Roney, C. F. Andeistie, Judi .Leyeneeii, H. Hastuor, S. Wilnie, E. Siosky, S. Alpser, I. Sibati, E..Suscarich, Charles Mills, A. F. Bergstein, G. Apple. by, P. Schatmider, F. Wilma, Francois Reiter, J. Gomm, C. Teske, Mayer Sobel- sneider, L. Streit*, Bars Spat', Marie. Hobeld, Bergen Kier: Crew--Moutz, Aims. Bulging,,Kenne- kampf., Meikelbaoh, Link, Felling, Meyer, Dimes, Stem, Felbert,Wegendon, Chriske, Zetloven, Gither, Hallman, Barter, Flekvois, Konig, Bredins, Kibiengen, Mardevooye, Jacob Devreis, Dreieen, Reekers, Nielsen, Debi, Dohm, Springeinaye, Laneperter, DanoWer, Hake. According to the 'latest report there were 210 persona on board the steamer, leaving 132 drowned and missing. The first nude and fourth engineer have been recognized among the dead. The stestner lies four miles from the Admiralty pier. Her three nestle ere visible. She it in a 'position dangerous to navigation. Abney and lights 121,Ve been placed at the wreek. • variations' Sroitiss. One of those saved is Monte Colio, from the Tyrol. He states that the scenes on the sinking ship were terrible. The steerage passengers, stricken With terror, ran about the deck in wild confusion. The captain tried his titinoet to reettire order, but with- out effect. The passengers rushed for the boots, and it was with theensietestdifficulty thief the officers could keep them from jumping into and sinking them. Collo was in the water two hoist when teakintent„.„trei was dt'esilY,eshenete4,6w iIC the extreme escuenis'eiliirte to keep afloat. After .the reeeelicinit the cries of persons in the Witter Could be heard for a long time in all directions. George Moore,- le passenger, states that When the cretin Oceihried a general resh was made for the deck: " I was told that nothing setiont bad, nO0iiirreito he gam bat Isecnred a life belt. There were sit OU bbeidthe vethiel, and the of tholes, te girlineked,int 16keep in a stoup that, the ,English ititight go down together.. Wag in thee.Wieter a long time lieferelfeitigPieked nth When the Scholten slink the brie" were heartrending.' The contain Of the Ebro, the resetting vessel, Wilfred nobly. Ile had all his deckload of tiMbeir thrown OVetbeerd, and thisiedicious act Saved Many liveih Only two of the Scheltencs beets were towered. The others 0040 he 900 'adr01. I de not knew whether shicwas due to anyfault on hoard. The vessel listed OM so much that all the beat; gold not ha dropped into the waiter. The people nahed about in the Or*teet state of excitement, 111 trying to get s pleee in the two boats which'hiadleen sac? (usefully launched, These:are and dieorder prevented many persons being saved. The water was freezing cold. Thib.haetoned the death of many, rendering them power- lese." . Charles Mills, of Redhill Storey, says: "The lifeboats appeared as they had not been used for c long Sirtie• TbeY bed to be chopped *way with axes wad with the assistence of the passeugers. I called out to those on the bridgeito fire rackets. It was a long time before they did. The greatest confusion prevailed. The ship was right over on her port side before they fired the rockets. 1 waited until the wider touched the boilers, putting out the fires. Then I got hold of- e belt, but a Dutch !eller snitched it away. We were ell mixed to. gether,roreignere and English, clinging to one another in the water. I saw severed drowned in this way and had the greatest difficulty to keep clear of then*. I gave ,a spar to a WOMBO to hoid on to. The Dutch eailore wanted to save themselves and even thrust women aside. I can swim well, and I SWAM about tin I got to the Ebro, when o rope was thrown to me. After the collision I went down into the cabin and woke two Deitch ladiee, but they were paralyzed with terror and wouldn't get up despite all entreaties. 1 heard other complaints about the conduct of the Dutch sailore. The confusion was extreme. Everybody seamed terror-stricken. This may account for the apparent want ef die - alphas. The frantic passengers unnerved some of the crew, preventing them from acting es bravely as they might have done. The captain aid his best to restore -.order. I believe a good outlook WWI kept. We had Oar lights up." The officers of the Rosa Mary avow that they were lying at spohor and were run into. They say that they. did not weigh anchor until morning. Is 1B reported that the captain of the Rosa Marydenies the statement that his vessel was in collision with the W. A. Scholten. He averse that the Rosy Mary was ,injured by a collision with another vessel while lying at anchor. • A HOLZ IN TUE GROUND Imirr. Awful sweeten in a Michigan Fernery— Ma Men Annihilated. A Hancock (Mich.) despatch says: This town was greatly shaken shortly before noon yesterday by an earthquake. Houses rooked and the church spires swayed:. This was followed by a report like distant thun- der. Four miles from the *own, on the i shore of Portage Lake, and in an solated spot, were situated the works of the Han- cock Chemical Company. Among the other products of the works were dynamite and nitroglycerine. These explosives were kept in the pecking -house, a building 150 by 75 feet in size. It was • known that the works had 1,500 pormds of dynamite on hand, and Hancock was shaken. The chemicalworks were at once thought to have blown up, and a delegation set out for the factory. Arriving there they found that not a vein tip of the buildings remained. Where they had stood was a hole 100 feet in diameter, 30 feet in depth and conical in shape. The concussion hod packed the sand around the) side of the great cavity as hard as cement. The locality was Marched for pieces of the works and in the faint hopes of finding the bodies, in part or whole, of the ‘six men employed in the factory, but not even a button from their clothes has been or ever will be found. The monuments in a cemetery about half a mile away were shattered and knocked down. On the further shore of the lake was found a timber, thought to be part of the building -e -and this was all. Five of the six men were single. They all lived across the lake from the scene of the ex- plosion. Their names are as follows Willie Renaud, Charles Burkett, Thomas Thompson Timothy Crowley, William King and Willism Lapp. The latter leaves a widow and one child. TH74 PANAMA CANAL. Ifiaancial Embarrassment—Forty Thousand Lives Reported Sacrificed. A New York deepatch say.: Private letters received in this city from Panama report as follows: No work of importance is being done on the canal. Two leading firms of Contractor" are eaid to be ember. raised financially) Anethir prominent con- tractor claims over 11900,000 from the eompeny. Several important judgments have been filed against the Canal Com- pany, and several seizures and isles are edvertieed. The importation of the poor Liberian still cantinues. They are magne. ficent specimens of manhood, coal black. It was believed they could resist this death. dealing climate, but events have proved otherwise. Of the 282 who were the first to be brought here 36 died withih four months. The stetenient of Mr. Blanchett, in his work on the Panama Canal, that the cancel has already cost over 40,000 lives is believed by careful observers here to be no exaggeration, *Molted* Sziapping4nrile. A. Chicago despatch eays : Mise Minden, 19 years old, was buried on Wednesday. Her death 'WIN unexpected, though the young ledy had been subject to violent omens and fits of vomiting for menrdnys. No doctor Wee able te) dime:seat the'eause of her death.. Onthe' .day ' before her death -She; WAS eelled with n More violent peretylion than ever before. There wet 0 choking senestiOn in her throat, and tinnily there was forced tip from her stomach ii live yew* snapping turtle with 1 shell as large as a silver hal! doller. The phyieiciein in at denee said the, peemtient bedtime rui- con # s and thrusi t mediately began to liwel ' in her limbe like one eillioted with dropay. She never rallied. It is believed the turtle grew front a germ swallowed in water from Lake Miehigien. The eolleetor t Ciletoins at Quebed bas Seized 910,000 Werth of jewellery imanggled ititecthe country by some Belgilen 'num - grants. . Mrs. Barbara Kandla, eged 60, WAS tonna murdered near her he/no at Vnionvillee en Friday. George Dunham, her son, in.law, Who is' supplicate be the Murderer, hat beeh PROTECTION FOR FISM. Froce•diegs or the Rational Fishery Association at New York. A, New York .despeatch says: The 'National Ftehery Association met yester- day .1n this Q1SY, with President F. B. Bab - emu; of Gloucester, Mass, in the chair. He med. an Address co American fishing interests, past and present. He claimed thee* the fisheries and their attendant hisome„.. matter of etrong national interest, and that it was of vital importanee thatlhe Government sheild at Once take' action so prcitect itis interests. lleperts from different perts of the country were presented, showing that the fishery interest *as in, need of legislotion to, leave it from destruction. Secretary Wilcox reported that there were 221 firms in the association, and that e movement is on foot bo bend a, theet of Atlaotie fishermen to the Pacific slope, where the trade has not been developed. The mackerel fishermen did 'fairly well off the New England coast this year, and the cod fisher" off Labrador did better than ever before. The demand for fish hasbeen greeter than ever. Treasurer Few spoke against Commercial Union with Canada, on the ground that it would destroy the Selling industry. Canada, he ,asserted, would never consent to a union that ebe did not have the beet of. The policy of the United States should be to build up its own cionamerce, not that of another country., The Committee on Plan of Action pre- sented a report recommending that the representatives of the wisoeistion in each locality interested should be considered a conunitise to collect money for the support of the association and look after its inter - este, and that F. L. Babson be appointed as the agent to represent them at Washing- ton. ReselotiOns were adopted dermuiding the recognition of the fishery industry as an importer:it notional affair, which should be placed on an equality with other indus- tries by protection agamet the importation of foreign fish, and securing equal rights for tlehermen in foreign ports to those i accorded -to foreign vessels n our herbors. The resolution., disavow' any desire of the right to fish in foreign waters. WHOLESALIS INTERVIEWING. --- 11r. Chamberlain Talcs to Newspaper Men aadfravorably Impresses Them. A Washington despatch soya: Mr. Chamberlain gave audience lest evening to aboutitweitty newspaper , men. It 'bested nearly an hour and was chiefly remarkable for the affable and cordial manner in which the distinguished envoy declined to en- lighten his visitors upon the subject of their more searching inquiries He was understoodlo Nay at one point that the purpose of the cominiesion was to make an entirely new treaty, the existing treaty haying proved unsatisfactory, bat upon further inquiry,eepecially as to whether.an interpretation of the existing treaty mighl not be found which would'ineet the views of both sides,. he became non -committal beyond the point of admitting thst such restIhStbnothe,possible outcome of the, con. ference: He said that thoogh, as a matter of fact, he sdpposidthatMinister West and himself being a majority of the British Commiesioo, could decide, any mooted, point, he should consider any arrangement which did not have the full concurrence of Sir Charles Tupper a very dame and un- satisfactory one. He thought it unlikely that the subject of Commercial Union with Canada would Come before the conaniiesion in any way. There was scarcely a shadow of doubt that any arrangement agreed to by the British Commission would be held binding by their Government. He did not think any sane man on the other aided the water ever though* of war as a remote possibility in connection with the fisheries dispute. BIIENED TO TRIM WATER'S EDGE. The Steamer Arizona Cremated —The Crew's Escape. -A Mierquette, Mich., despatch says: The Mesmer Arizona, of the Like Superior Transit Line, was Wined to the water's edgeyesterday morning. She left this port at.9 o'clock on Thursday night, bound for Portage), and carrying a full cargo of mer- chandise. When out thirty miles a heavy ma wan 'enoountered, and the boat turned about to come back to Marquette. When she wee still five miles out the boat com- menced to roll heserily, and a tank et acid set her on fire. Nothing could be done to put out the fiamee, every man being driven from his post by the fumes of the acid, lint the boat "kept on moving. When fiame" were discovered a good fire was put under the boilers and the steamer swept on under full steam without the engineer at his pod. Capt. Gram stood at the Wheel, and, rounding the breakwater, ren the steal:Mr up to it, while the crew jumepd off. She Shen started up into a narrow slip, chasing the crew, who ran to escape the fennel of the acid. The boat just missed immense lumber piles on the docks. Tuge and the eity fire department went te her assistance, but could do nothing and she burned to the weter'e edge. Ship and cargo are a total lose. The Arizona was 4 freight 'boat, valued at 1140,000. She was on her last trip for the Beason. Norman Lockyer's New 'Theory. A London cable says: The mientiflo world is startled by what menu nothing lees than a new theory or the Constitution of the universe. This conies before the peiblio' with all the sanction derived from a peeper read before the noyel Society, and with all the authority attached to the theme of the distinguished estronomer, Mr. Norman Imatikyer. The new 'theory, he declares, is the remelt, not of epeoulation, but a op...tette/sepia reclean*. It is d immed op in the statement that all the self-hieninous bodies in the celestial Reams are composed Of meteorites or masses of ineteorie vapor produced by heat brought about by the condensation of meteor Sivarrati due to gravity. This- hypothesis, if accepted, may, as one eulogist remarks, Weld ill previous knowledge into one bar- nionietie Whole. At present kt is received by men of science under all Minima. —X6- *Sachets ben be given of the great traste'bf fertilizing Metter thst is tennuelly berried oft .by, the- Water into the sies...13tet for the fieh taken the ries Would soon ethernet the land. The great cities are the Mealtime by which the heaviest loss °donne. The Sewers conduct away More weilth thou 6an be fotind Over theta. Ps* GPENou! totm Tha * telieener Wretched a!stl ire 'Treat of She CrettR A lest (Friday) Plabl'ORinlistandesineteb says: The Glengarry, with' the • Gelatin and Glenere in tow, left Fort William some time ago with grain for Kingenon. While on Lake Superior they encountered a gale which blew so hard tic* the Glenora's tow- line parted and she was left in the rearr4 She mansgal to follow up safely, however; and get into Jeclifish Bay. After that everything went fairly well until off Presque Isle, in Lake Ontario, yesterday Moron* at 11 °idea. A heavy dile came after them all the way down, and at the place named the Glertore's tow line Again parted and once more she was left to book after herself. Theis on board the Glengarry sow her jibs being carried away, a serious loss in the therm. They also paw her roll inbo. thetrough of the sea. She disap- Peered in the distance and has not been heard of since. A three -masted schooner is ashore at West Point above.Long Pelee old it is thought thet the is the Manors. The sea was so high that on one occasion the Ciaskin'm crew were going to out the tow line, thinking that because they had not leen the Mesmer for two minutes she had gone to 'the bottom. The miming schooner has the following crew: Matthew Patterson, captain; Wm. Patterson, the captain's nephew, mute; John Moreland, Weston ; Harry Middleton, Kingston; John Murray, Kingston; Anthony Seabrooke, Seeley's Bay, and a man 11141MOWEI, Beb• man ; Mrs. Middleton, . wife of Harry Middleton, and the cook. The Glenora was hunt in Kingston two years ago, .and cost 518,000. She is sohooner-rigged, iand was built' so thet the could take care of herself in a gale. The tug Active, which went to look for the Gleaners, has returned without finding any trace of her. The craws 01 the Glengarry arid .Gasken had a terrible experience. James Crozier, on the Glengarry, wee aserly washed over- heard on one occasion, and so also was D. O'Coeiruir: I The latter clung to a fender and was rescued. THIll rowan's ADTENTLIBB. • The schooner B. W. Folger arrived from Oswego with coal. Between the Main Ducks and `Oswego the wheezier sprang *leak and lost one of her mastheads. The water rose above the forecastle. A heievy sea rolled all the wbile and threatened the destruction of the:craft. Six men were kept it the pump", and their exertione kept the best froth sinking. , • HABER PASHA MIIA.D.1 Ilis Death from raver at Tel-etiKebir— Brief Sketch of 'Ills Life. • A >London cable days: Baker Pasha died at Tel-elKebir yesterday from.fever!,con- traded' at 'Port Said' while proceeding to Cairo. Valentine ;Baker, son oh Mr. Samuel Baker, and brother of Sir Samuel, wss born in 1825. He entered the British Army in 1948: served through the Kaffir war of 1852-3, and in the Crimea during the cam- paign ;of 1855. In 1860 he took command of the /Oth Hustlers, whith he resigned in 187' by reason of seniority. After exten- sive travels through Persia and on the borders of Afghanistan, he returned to Eng, land and pablished "Clouds in the East." In 1874 he wee appointed Assistant Quarter, master -General at Aldershot. In the August of the following year he was tried for assaulting Miss Dickenson in a railway carriage, for which he wee fined £500 and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and dismissed the service. In 1877 be began a new military career in the Turkish Empire. He was 'employed in organizing the.genderrnerie, and held the position of Major•General in the Turkish army. In the August of that year he went to Shumla as Staff Military Adviser to the Turkish Commander,and was conspicuourthrough- oaf the campaign on the Lom, and shortly afterwards he WaS given the rank of Pasha. The Prince of Wales was a staunch friend of the banished oolonel, and he and other friend" made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to moue his reinstatement in the British army. He was considered one of the most brilliant cavalry officers in the service. A MAGNET MADE OF CANNONS. It Lifts a Cannon Ball as if 11 Were a Needle. A Bridgeport, Conn., desist* says: One of our leading army engineers has brought before the engineer classes of late an experiment of so "Wiling a nature in its inception as to promise wonderful re. wine. It is a monster magnet made of two Rodman guns, Which are connected at the breech. Around the magnet thus formed is wound about twenty miles of Ithinarine cable. The cable is some that has been need in the torpedo liervice. It is wound and fastened in a substantial manneroisk. ing a permsnent magnet. When electricity is applied some strange results take place. For instance, a bar of rained iron thirty feet long, if plitecd in the open cannon's mouth, cannot be drawn out by as many men aM can grasp it. Another instance Of the -strength of this big Imagist was illustrated Saturday with a350 -pound cannon ball. The shot was placed in the mouth of the cannon on the negative aide. On reversing the) electrical current it fell from tie position, but was attracted to the opposite cannon and clung to its side. The positive current Was then reversed alternately With the negative, and the heavy cannon ball pleyed between 'the two cannon like a tuck between the poles of a toy magnet. 'The Grit of a Nine-Vear-Old Boy. A geinall City despatch says: About 5 o'clock last evening es a 13roadway oar was crossing the cable railroad tracke at Ninth street, the 9 -year-old son of John Tarsney, attorney for the eyeteen, who waii rid, Ing on the frontplAtform, lost his balance and fell front the bar. Ilie right leg went imehir the wheels and was frightfully Mangled,- but the little fellow' did not lois his nerve in the least, and when carried to his home cautioned the pereene with hien to break the news gentlY hi hie Mother, as she was nervous. While thejeurgeons Were amputating the mingled limb the little folio* :did not even so Much' air-gin/M. Xt lo Mired 'that the shock and loan of blood will profs fatal. The father is one of the most prominent attorneys in the election end is a brother Of Congreeemen Tenney, of Michigan. TE1L011131.114PI#10 , felThseejionrkin CT°oluirein7C° 10 Y0111n1ecricli sy°Pe, Weahent resolution iu favor of Commercial Unica was dismissed, bub uo decision who arrived at. It is reported frorn Ottawa that the mat- ter of the Canadian Pacific crossing law Grand Trunk at its eastern entrance km Toronto will boleti in, teheyenoe till Farlia- ment meets. Charles Arial, a boiler -maker in the M. C. R. shops at St. Thome, had his rig* , eye ruined for life on Monday evening by a nye* fing from a plate when struck and strikingdirectly in the eye. Aggie Bell, a servant in the house, of Me. . A. McOrimmon, barrister, St. Thornes,had her face burned into Meters and her eye- brows burned off yesterday morning by pod oil igniting while being peed for kindling a fire. 44 the regular meeting of the Fergus Beard of Education on Monday evening it decided to introduce Dr. Richardson's taxi book on temperance in the Ilighflehool, also in the two higbeet departments of the Public Scheel. At theendjourned meeting of the share- holdersof the Ontario Investment Associa- tion at London lest night, a proposal to prosecute Mr. Taylor WAS carried' by &show ' of hands, but a stook vote being demanded the matter was laid over. A great number Of MEM Of typhoid aid - I:nebui la' fever have appeared n °WAWA recentiy, and it is believed by many that the disease is dtle to -the continued drouth and the low state of the Ottawa River, from which the city water supply is drawn. At yesterday's meeting, of the Oxford Ccunty Temperance Association, held at Woodetooh,t,s. fell report was ,preeented dot the eperietiOnie„ef the Scott Act since its : coming intnfo in May, 1885. The re- 4 port showed thari,sring that jperiod them have been 122 convictions and 117,000Im- posed te fines /Ape calmly. ' Messrs. Miller ae Bathhouse, of Aylmer,. solicitors for Mrs. )dary Ann 'MoKenney, widow aged -40, Being near Richmond, toivnthit of 13eyham, claims ,112,000 Irons Solomon Moore, a bachelor farmer about the same age, also a resident of Bethany for breach of promise, of marriage. The ObBe will be tried at the spring Atones. The wifecd'iohn Stokes, a St. Theme. ' brakeman, narrowly escaped being poieoned, on 'Monday evening. Feeling fatigued after washing she sat down and •drank a cup of, tea., ,Shortly afterward' she was attacked by vomiting and has bean ; seriously ill since. Her child, it appears bad unnoticed dropped a ball of blueing La the tea pot during the day. Spain has seised the Island of Peetegil. „ near Ceuta, On which she intends to erode lighthouse. The Moors are excited over the seizure. "-• .Advioes from ,Teheran state that tbo Shah in April will start on a tour cd Europe. lie will visit Russia, Germanyy, Arietrio Frani*); England, Italy and Tur- key. Private. telegrams have been receivel .stating that on October lth Henry N. - Stanley was 400 miles from .Emin Pasha, and that he was taking half his force est forced marches. • • ., John Bright writews long letter protean- ing -'iegainet any Land -Purchase Aot tee Ireland., Hocontends that the Ashbourne - Act, improved 1! neceentry, will serve a purposes fcr a gradual transfer of land tel tenants when euch' is needed. The British barque Coronet, from Bull River, has. arrived at Falmouth. She re- ports thiet she 'signalled on Nev. 555*. in lat. 43 deg. 42 moiorth, long. 33 deg 22 m. = weeKthe British •steamer Naworth Oast* from New:Orleans. Oct. 18th, for RevaL The steamer Was leaking badly. Portions of her cargo had been jettisoned. She . refrieed 'agenstance Other. than to extent some,primp loather, of whioh she had none. Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, referring to his se- oession from the Baptist Union, says that when he entered the 'conflict he made up his Mind thiet even if he were left alone ha • would be none the lees decided as to the propriety Of his Course. It is pleasing to' find, however, hweeye, that many valued friends approve of his action. He urgep that continual prayers be offered that some good may come Out Of the inquiry whicii hal been aroused. On Saturday afternoon admit and dumb man named David I:immolator, aged 1111, while walking on the Grand Trunk Railway track if short distance east ' of Kingston. was etruck by a freight train and mond', to such an extent that he died shortly after. " rapers on his person 'showed he was on the way to Toronto and that he wes lately out from EnWand. As Wit Ogilvie, ale* in the dry goods store of Robertson de Co., St. Thomsen Wes pining the Grand Central eilley on Talbot street abou 11 o'clock on Saturday evening he Was felled to the ground by a man who fished from the paesage. in fall. ing on the stone pavement he knocked out mayoral teeth. A deep out on the left elds), of his head bled copiously along the payee ment as he was carried to a surgery. Thera ' it no ohs to the perpetrators of the 'deed. The French Ministry were defeated Is the Chan:thee Of Deputiescitt Saturday, and immediately reeigned, their reeignatios being accepted by the President. It it reported from St. Petersburg that Reeds is Mashing 300,000 goldiere near the German and Austrian frontiers. The Polish Jews are said to) he keeping Germany, and Austria well informed regarding the move - Menta of the Russian troopii. The rumor that the Duke Of Norfolk ie to be Married is eintrue: His Grace starts for Rime in a fortnight as Queen'e moisten. ger. It he more than 'probable that he will enter a monastery, 'se his unnatural aeoetleiern hal inereineed eine° his young Wife's death and the hopeless idiocy of his only ion. Mr, Fronde, the historien, has written a letter, in'which he (Aye : Any form of self.governinent Which might be conceded tO the Irish *ante, Whether it be locals councils or a Parliarnent, Would be used to itiokeese England's diffieulty in keeping Ire- land ottoolied, totheMinecioni. The hi* On be governed rtiore'ekeilY then any Mit& people in the world tinder military or Otaic-rnilitarY rule. The police ere ferrety faithful end loyal. Englund hee nienit yet etuseceded in Wetting holing constitutionally Wad never will."