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mm T SDITKATSEA. The Datcb Steamer W. A. Sobolten Ool- lidis with AnotlMT Btaamer. ^1 • â€" NEARLY A HDHDRGO ABD FIFTY PERISH. I'WMengeTt' Stories of the CaUunltjâ€" The Sared. A laBt (Sunday) night's London cable «aya : The steamer W. A. Bcholten, Capt. Taak, which left Rotterdam yesterday for New York, was sank by a coUisiou with th« steamer llosa Mary, o( Hartlepool, at 11 o'clock last night, ten miles off Dover. The Bcholten carried a complement of 230 pas- senger! and crew. The steamer Kbro, of Sunderland, rescnod ninety of the crew and passengers and landed them at the Sailors' Home, Dover. One hundred and forty of the pasaongers are missing. One passent^er and a child of the party brought to Dover were found dead from expoaare. It is hoped that passing vessels have rescued the miss- ing ones. The W. A. Bcholtan's masts are viiiible from Dover pier. Boats have left Dover boond in all directions for the pur- pose of saving life and property, if possible. The Koea Mary is anchored oft Ilamsgate, with her bows stove in. accovBiujia the uohuk. fi p.m. â€" Up to this hoar '2'2 bodies from the W. A. Bcholten have been landed at Dover. The W. A. Bcholten left Rotter- dam Satardey morning. At the time of the accident a dense fog prevailed. The Bcholten was struck on the port bow by the Itusa Mary. Immediately after the shock was felt the Hcholten's passengers, all of whom had retired for the night, rushed on deck in their night^^owns. The boats were promptly ordered to be lowered, but it was ... found that only two were available. Xlie j The captain did his best to restore order. throe others were aseleas and were not ' ^ *>«''»*«â-  Kood ou'l»li was kept. We had lowered. The water rushed swiftly through • ir lit^hts up." the hole in the bow and a terrible scone I '^^^ officers of the Kosa Mary avow that ensued. The panic-stricken passenijurB '*>»> weâ„¢ '>">« »» anchor and were run - ' - - - into. They say that they did not weigh anchur until morning. It is reported that the captain of the llosa Mary denies the statement that hit vessel was in collision with the W. A. Bcholten. He avers that the Rosy Mary was injured by a ooUiaion with another vessel while lying at anchor. obnld not be got adrift. I do not know whether this was dua toaay fault on board. The vessel listed over so innch that all the . sboats could not be dropped into tbe water. ilTha people roshed ^out in the greatest stata of exoUement,^«ll trying .to gat a place in the two boats which ha^Wn anc- oessfuUy launched. The scare and disorder jirevented many persons being saved. The water was freezing cold. This hastened the death of many, rendering tuem power- less." Charles Mills, of Redhill, Surrey, says : " The lifeboats appeared as they had not been used for a lor.g time. They had to be chopped away with axes and with the assistance of the passengers. I called out to those on the bridge|to lire rockets. It was a long time before they did. The greatest ooBfnsion prevailed. Tbe ship was right over on her port side before they fired the rockets. I waited until the water toached the boilers, patting out the fires. Then I got hold of a belt, but a Dutch sailor snatched it away. We were all mixed to- gether, foreigners and English, clinging to one another in the water. I saw several drowned in this way and had the greatest difficulty to keep cl^r of them. I gave a spar to a woman to nold on to. The Dutch sailors wanted to save themselves and even thrust women aside. I can swim well, and I swam about till I got to the £bro, when a rope was thrown to me. After the collision I went down into the cabin and woke two Datob ladies, bat they were paralyzed with terror and wouldn't get up despite all entreaties. I heard other complaints about the oondnct of the Datch sailors. The confusion was extreme. Everybody seemed terror-stricken. This may account for the apparent want of dis- cipline. The frantic passengers unnerved soniu of the crow, preventing them from ting as bravely as they might have done. uttered piercing shrieks, and many fell upon their knees and prayed aloud. Little children clung to their mothers, who them- selves were shrieking with terror. Tbe officers were cool and self-possessed, and remained on the bridge to the last. Several persons procured life-preservers and leaped into the sea. Within twenty minutes of the shock the Bcholten was engalfed. All those who had put on life-belts floated and were reacued by the boats from the steamer Kbro, which craiaed around antil 4 o'clock in the morning. Many of the rescued lost wives, husbands, brothers and sisters. The survivors were supplied with clothes and everything poasible was done to ensare thair oomfort. CONFMCTrNO ACCOirKTS. Tll9 passengers' accounts differ regarding the circumstaiioes uf the collision, ami tba reports of the ofliixjra of the bcholten ulaah with those of the officers of the Kosa Mary. Soma of the passengers state that the even- ing's marriment had ceased, and most of tbe paaaangers had retired to their bunks, only a few remaining in the saloon, when a treraendona crash was heard on the port bow. They say it is im|ioasible that the ooUiaion could have oconrred by the Boboiteu striking an anchored vessel. {The Heoond mate of the Bcholten reports that he was on deck, when he saw an unknown utoainor coming through the fog. Before anything could be done the Kcbolten was struck in the fore rigging and port bow. Tbe other vessel, whicti he now presumes was the Kosa Mary, backed oft' and diaap- peared. Within twenty minutes the Boholtan sank. The captain of the Itoaa Mary states that his vessel was run into while anchored southeast of Kouth Band- head by an unknown steamer. Finding that his vessel was damaged he proceeded to Dover Koad, where the vessel is now docked. Tbe Itosa Mary was laden with ooal for St. Nazairo. UST or TIIK S«VKI>. following is a list of the ) The following is a list of the persons saved and landed at Dover : Passengers â€" Sarah Zaherman, Kred. Btepney. Sarah Uold, Maria Btelser, L. Ilobinson, Vandam Fogbrum, John lUnkie, Ueid Hrownhof, Albert llensler, Madelena Bimiel, Aana Koney, C. F. Andeastie, Judi Ijevensea, II. Hastuor, B. Wilnie, E. tiiosky, B. Alpaer, I. Bibati, 10. Bascarich, Oharha MUls, A. I'. Dergatein, U. Apple- hy, P. Bchatmider, F. Wilma, Franooia lleitor, J. Uerung, ('. Teske, Mayer Bohal- sneidrr, L. Btreiok, Kara Hputz, Marie Ilobeld, Uergen Kiev. (;ruw~Moatz, Aime, Hulaing, Kenue- kampf, Meikelbach, I^ink, Felling, Meyer, Devreis, Htom, Felb«rt,Wegendon,Chriske, /etlovan, Ouber, Hallinan, liarto, Flekvois, Konig, Bredias, Kabicngon, Mardevooye, ,laoob Devreis, Dreisen, Kiekers, Nielsen, Debt, Dohin, Upringumayo, Lansperter, Danower, Kake. According to the latest report there were 'JlO persons on board the steamer, leaving IHU drowned and missing. The first mate and fourth engineer have been recogiii/.od among the dead. The steamer lies four miles from the Admiralty pier. Her three masts are visible. Hhe is in a |>08ilion dangerous to navigation. A buoy and lights have been plaoui at the wreck. rAHHP.NOKIts' KTUUIEH. One of those savail ia Monte Colic, 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 ooufnsion. The captain tried his utmost to rostore order, but with- out effect. The panKongers rnshed for the boats, and it was wilhthegreateatdiffinalty that the officers could keep them from jumping into and sinking them. Colio was in the water two hours when taken out. He was greatly eihatnAed.owing to the extreme cold and his c'ffoHp to keep afloat. After tha veaael sank the cries of persons in the water coald be heard for a long time in all directions. George Moore, a passenger, states thai when the crash occurred a general rush was made 'or the dcMk. " I was told that nothing serious had occurred," he says, " but I secured a Ufa bolt. There were six English passengers on board the vessel, and one of those, a girl, asked us to k(iep in a group that the English might go down together. I waa in the water a long time iHifore oeing picked up. When tha Bcholten sank the cries wore heartrending. The captain of the Ebro, the rescuing vessel, behsved nobly. H« had all his deokload of timber thrown overboard, and this judicious act saved many livus. Only two of the Bcholtan's boats were lowered. The others A HOL.B IN TUK OROUNO LETT. Awful KxplOMioii lu M MIoblKan Factory â€" Hlx Mrn Anulbllated. A Hancock (Mich.) deB|>atch says: This town was greatly shaken shortly before noon yesterday by an earth<iuake. Houses rocked and the church spires swayed. This was followed by a report like distant thun der. Four muas from the town, on the shore of Portage Lake, and in an isolated spot, were situated the works of the Han oook Chemical Company. Among the other products of tha works were dynamite and nitroglycerine. These explosives were kept in the packing house, a building l&O by 7.'> feet in size. It was known that the works had LftOU pounds of dynamite on hand, and Hancock waa ahakan. The chemical works were at once thought to have blown up, and a delegation set out tor the factory. Arriving there they found that not a ves- tige of tha buildings remained. Where they had stood was a hole 100 feet in diameter, 30 feet in depth and conical in abape. 'I'ha conoussioD had packed the sand around tbe side of the great cavity as hard as cement. The locality was searched for pieces of tba works and in the faint hopea of finding the bodies, in part or whole, of the six men employed iu the factory, bnt not even a button from their clothes has >>e«n or »ver will be found. The monuments in a cemetery about halt 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 buildingâ€"and this waa all. Five of the six men were single. They all lived across the lake from the scene of tha ex- plosion. Their names are as follows : Willie Kenaud, Charles Itnrkett, Thomas Thompson, Timothy C!rowUiy, William King and William Lapp. The latter leaves a widow and one child. THE PANAMA CANAL. Flaanclal KiiibarraMuietit â€" Forty Thousanil Lives Keported Saerlfloeil. A New York despatch says : Private letters received in this city from Panama report as follows : No work of importance is being done on the canal. Two loading firms of contractors are said to be embar- rassed financially. Anather prominent con- tractor claims over 9U0O,(X)O from the company. Heveral imiiortant judgments have been filed against the Canal ('on)- pany, and several seizures and sales are advertised. The importation of the poor Liberian still continues. They are magni- ficent specimens of manhood, cual black. It was believed they could resist this death- dealing climate, but events have proved otherwise. Of tho '28'i who were the first to be brought here 30 died within four months. Tho statement of Mr. Illanohett, in Ilia work on tho Panama Canal, that the canal has already coal over 40,000 lives is iMilioved by careful observers here to be no exaggeration. PROTECTION FOB WISU. ProcMdlac* of tbe Matloial < Flfkcry Asaoolallan at Mew V(ark. A New Yodi deap«tch aays: The National Fishery Assooiation met yester- day in this cily, with President F. B^ab- aou, of Gloucester, Mass., in the chair. He made an address on American fishing interests, past and present. Be claimed that the fisheries and their attendant induBtried had become a matter of strong national interest, and that it was of vital importance that tbe Government should at once take action to protect its interests. Keports from different parts of the dountry were presented, showing that the fishery interest was in need of legislation to save it from destruction. Secretary Wilcox reported that there were 221 firms in the association, and that a movement is on foot to send a fieet of Atlantic fishermen to the Paoilio slope, where the trade Las not been developed. The mackarel fishermen did fairly well off the New England coast this year, and the cod fiahers off Labrador did better than ever before. The demand for fish has been greater than ever. Treasurer Pew spoke against Commercial Union with Canada, on the ground that it would destroy the fishing industry. Canada, he asserted, would never consent to a union that b>4 did not have the best of. The policy of the United States should be to boild up its own oommeroa, not Uiat of another country. The Committee on Plan of Action pre- sented a report recommending that the representatives of the association in each locality interested should be considered a committee to collect money for the support of the assooiation and look after its inter- ests, and that F. L. Babeon be appointed as the agent to represent them at Washing- ton, liesolutions were adopted demanding the recognition of the fishery industry as an important national affair, which ahoald be placed on an equality with other indus- tries by protection against tbe importation of foreign fish, and securing equal righta for fishermen in foreign ports to those accorded to foreign vessels in our harbors. The resclution disavows any desire of the right to fish in foreign waters. VomlteU a Bnapplng-Turtle. A Chicago despatch says : Miss Keiidati, 1".) yeara old, was buried on Wednesday. Her death was unexpected, though the young lady had been subject to violent snaainaand fits of vomiting for many days. No doctor was able to discover the cause of her death. On tho day before her deatli she was seized with a more violent paroxyam than ever before. There was a choking sensation in hor throat, and finally there was forced up from hor stomuch «. live young snapping turtle with a ahell as large as a silver half dollar. The physician in attendance said tho patient booamo un- conscious and almost immediatfily began to swell up in her limbs like one aflliotjxl with dropsy. Hhe never rallied. It ia believed the turtle grew from a germ swallnwod in water from Lake Michigan. ♦ The Colleotor of Customs at (juebec has aeized 910,000 worth of jewellery smuggled into the country by some Belgian immi- grants. Mrs. Barbara Kaudle, aged )tO, was found murdered near her homo at llnionville, N. J., on Friday, (loorgo Dunham, her Ben- in law, who is supposed to be tho murderer, has boon jailed. WUULKSALK INTKKVIBWINC. Mr. Chamberlain Talks to Newspaper Meo and Favotably Impraases Tkaak A Washington despatch says : Mr. Chamberlain gave audience last evening to about twenty newspaper men. It lasted nearly an hour and was chiefiy 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 understood to say at one point that the purpose of the commission was to make an entirely new treaty, the existing treaty having proved unsatisfactory, but upon further ini|uiry, especially as to whether an interpretation of the existing treaty might not be found which would meet the views of both sidaa, ha became non-committal beyond the [xjint of admitting that such might be the possible outcome of the con- ference. He said that though, as a matter uf fact, he sap|>osed that Minister West and himself being a majority of the British Comiiiissiou, ai|(d daoida any mooted point, he shoulooonstder any arrangement which did not have the full concurrence of Sir C'harles Tapper a very lame and un- satisfactory one. He thought it unlikely that the aubjeot of Commercial Union with Canada would come before the commission iu any way. There was scarcely a shadow of doubt that any arrangement agreed to by the British Commission would be held binding by their Uovernment. He did not think any sane man on the other side of the water ever thought of war aa a remote possibility in connection with tha fisheries dispute. DURNKO TO THE WATER'S RDOE. Tlie Htaauier ArlBona Cremated â€" TUa Crew's Kacape. A Manjaette, Mich., despatch says : The steamer Arizona, of the Lake Superior 'Transit Line, was burned to the water's edge yesterday morning. She left this i>ort at o'clock on Thursday night, bound for Portage, and carrying a full cargo of mer- chandise. When out thirty miles a heavy sea was encountered, aad the boat turned about to come back to Marquette. When she was still five miles out the boat com- menced to roll heavily, and a tank of acid set her on fire. Nothing could be done to })ut out the flames, every man being driven rem his post by the fumes of the acid, but tho boat kept on moving. When flames were discovered a good fire was put under the boilers and the steamer swept on under full steam without the engineer at his (wst. (!apt. Uraser stood at the wheel, and, rounding the breakwater, ran the steamer up to it, while the crew jumepd off. She then started up into a narrow slip, chaain the crew, who rau to escape the fumes the acid. The boat just missed immense lumber piles on the docks. Tugs and tho city fire department went to her assistance, but could do nothing and she burnod to tho water's edge. Ship and cargo are a total loaa. The Arizona was a freight boat, valued at 910,000. 8he was -on her last trip for the season. 'o? Norman I.ookyar*s New Theory. A London cable says : The scientific world is startled by what seems nothing leas than a now theory of the constitution of the universe. This comes before the public with all the sanction derived from a paper read before the Koyal Society, and with all tho authority attached to the name of the distinguished astronomer, Mr. Norman liockyer. The now theory, he deolaros, is the result, not of speonlation, bnt of speotroBcopio research. It is summed up in the statement that all the self-luminoua bo<lias in the celostial epaoofl aro composed of meteorites or masses of meteoric vapor produced by heat brought about by the condensation of meteor Bwarma dae to gravity. This hypothesis, if accepted, may, as one eulogist remarks, weld all previous knowledge into one har- monious whole. At present it is received by men of soienoo under all reserves. â€"No eatimata can be given of the great waate of fertilizing matter that is annually carried off hy the water iftto the sea. But for tho fish taken tha sea would soon exhauBt the land. The great cities are the medinniB by which thehoaviuat loas occurs. The sewers conduct away more wealth than can be found ovar tham. I'OB SKBMOBA LOST. The (Mtuoner W^e«k«4 and )(o Trace of «k»C>aw. A l«|t (Friday) night'llKingtton despatch ^s : -'The Glengarry, with the Gaskin aid QlenoWt in tow, left Fort Williaui some time ago with grain fur Kingston. While oo Lake Superior they encountered a gale which blew so hard that the Glenora'a tow- lino parted and she was left in the rear. She managed to follow op safely, however, and get into Jaokflsh Bay. After that everything went fairly well until off Presque Isle, in Lake Ontario, yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. A heavy gale came after them all the way aown, and at the place named the Glenora's tow line again parted and once more she was left to look after herself. Those on board the Glengarry saw her jibs being carried away, a serious loaa in the storm. They also saw her roll into the trough of tha sea. She disap- peared in the distance and has not been heard of since. A three-masted schooner is ashore at West Point, above Long Point, and it is thought that she is the Glenora. The sea was so high that on one occasion the Gaskin's crew were going to cut the tow line, thinking that because they had not seen the steamer for two minutes ahe had gone to the bottom. The missing schooner has the following crew : Matthew Patterson, captain ; Wm. Patterson, the captain's nephew, mate ; John Moreland, Picton ; Harry Middleton, Kingston ; John Murray, Kingston ; Anthony Seabrooks, Seeley's Bay, and a man unknown, sea- man : Mrs. Middleton, wife of Harry Middleton, and the cook. The Glenora waa built in Kingston two years ago, and cost 91H,000. She is schooner-rigged, and was built so that she could take care of herself in a gale. The tug Active, which went to louk for the Glenora, has returned withuat finding any trace of her. The crews of tha Glengarry and Gasken had a terrible experience. James Crozier, on the Glengarry, wus nearly washed over- board on one oocasiou, and so also was D. O'Connor. The latter clung to a fendar and was rescued. THE roLOCa's ADVINTUBB. The schooner B. W. Folger arrived from Oswego with coal. Between the Main Duoks and Oawego the schooner sprang aleak and lost one of her mastheads. The water rose above tho forecastle. A heavy sea rolled all the while and throatened^the destruction of the craft. Six men were kept at the pumps, and their exertions kept the boat from sinking. H.IKKR PASHA DBAD. BU Ueuth from fever at TeI-eI-K«birâ€" Brief Sketch of His Life. A London cable aaya : Baker Pasha died at Tel el-Kebir yesterday from fever, con- tracted at Fort Said while proceeding to Cairo. Valentine Baker, son of Mr. Samuel Baker, and brother of Sir Samuel, was bom in 1H25. He entered the British Army in ItMH, 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 10th Hussars, which ho resigned in 1873 by reaseu of seniority. After exten- sive travels through Persia aud on the borders of Afghanistan, bo r*tu»< land and published " Clouds in the East In 187-1 he was 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 was fined i:.~>00 and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and dismissed the aervice. In 1877 he began a new mihtary career iu the Turkish Empire. He was employed in organizing the geuc'armerie, and held tho position of Major General in the Turkish army. In the August of that year he wont to Hhumla as Staff Military Adviser to the Turkish Commander, and was conspicuous through- out the campaign on the Iiom, and shortly afterwards he was given the rank of Pasha. Tha Prince of Wales was a staunch friend of the banished colonel, and he aud other friends made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to secure his reinstatement iu tho British army. He was considered one of the most brilliant cavalry officers in the service. A MAONKT MAOB UF CANNONS. It Llftii a Cannon Ball Needle. atf If tt Were a A Bridgeport, Conn., despatch says : One of oar leading army engineers has brought before the engineer classes of late an ex[>eriment of so startling a nature in its inception as to promise wonderful re- sults. It is a monster magnet made of two Kodman guns, which are connected at the breech. Around the magnet thus formed is wound about twenty miles of submarine cable. The cable is some that has been used in the torpedo service. It is wound and fastened in a substantial manner, mak- ing a ]>urmanent magnet. When electricity is applied some strange results take place. For instance, a bar of railroad iron thirty feet long, if placed in the open cannon's mouth, cannot be drawn out by as many men as can grasp it. Another instance of tho strength of thia big magnet waa illustrated Saturday with a850-i>ound cannon ball. The ahot was placed in the mouth of the cannon on the negative side. On reversing the electrical current it fell from its position, but waa attracted to the opposite cannon and clung to its side. The jioaitive current was then reversed alternately with the negative, and the heavy cannon ball played between the two cannon like a tack betwasu the poles of a toy magnet. inoy, rid- Tho Grit of a Nine- Year-Old Itoy. A Kansas ('ity despatch says : About 5 o'clock Inat evening as a Broadway car was crossing the cable railroad tracks at Ninth street, tho Dyoar-old son of John Tarsno; attorney for the system, who was ing on the front platform, lost his badanoe and fell from the oar. His ri^ht log wont under tho wheels and was frightfully manglod, but the little fellow did not lose his nerve in the least, and when carried to his home oautioncd tho persona with him to break the news I councils or a ^arliaiuant, would be used to [ently to hia mother, as she waa nervous. | increase England's difficulty in keeping Ir«- (Vhilo the surgeons wore amputating tho , lai„l attached to the Kingdom. Tho Irish mangled limb tho little follow did not even can be governed more easily than any other so much a« groan. It IS feared that the i^ople in tho world under military or shook and loss of blood will prove fatal. .,uasi-military rule. The police aro uni- Ihe father la one of the most prominent f„rinly faithful and loyal. England has attorneys in the section and is a brother of never yet succeeded in geverning Ireland Oongreeaman Tarsnoy . of Michigan. constitutionally and never wUI." TBItHGBABHXO aPMMAKY. Th^jvYork Coanty Couacil c^ierad it* fall aafiion in Toronto testvday, when a retfoMionin favor of CoiMKiercial Union was disqpsaed, but no>: decision wala ,arriva^ at. It is reported from Ottawa that the mat- ter of the Canadian Pacific crossing the Grand Trunk at its eastern entrance to- Toronto will be left in abeyance till Parlia- ment meets. Charles Arlein, a boiler-maker in the M. C. R. shops at St. Thomas, had his right eye mined for life on Monday evening by a rivet flying from a plate when struck and striking him directly in tha eye. Aggie Ball, a servant in tha houaa of M>. A. McCrimmon, barrister, St. Thomas.had her face burned into blisters and her eye- brows burned off yesterday morning by coal oil igniting while being usisd for kindling «. fire. At the regular meeting of the Fergna . Board of Education on Monday evening it decided to introduce Dr. Richardson's text book on temperance in tha High School, and also in the two highest departments of the Public School. At the adjourned meeting of the share- holders of tlie Ontario Investment Associa- tion at London last night, a proposal to prosecute Mr. Taylor was carried by a show of hands, but a stock vote being demanded the matter waa laid over. A great namber of cases of typhoid and malarial fever have appeared in Ottawa recently, and it is believed by many that the disease is due to the continued drouth and the low state of the Ottawa River, from which the city water supply is drawn. At yesterday's meeting nf the Oxford Cionty Temperance Association, held at Woodstock, a full report was presented on the operations of the Scott Act sin<« its coming into force in May, 1886. The re- Ct showed that daring that period there e be«n li'i convictions and 97,000 im- poeed as flnaain th»<]oanty. Messrs. Miller it Backhouse, of Aylmer, solicitors for Mrs. Mary Ann McKenney, ik widow aged 40, living near Uichmond, township of Bayham, claims 82,000 from Solomon Moore, a bachelor farmer about the same age, alao a resident <af Bayham, for breach of promise of marriage. The case will be tried at the spring Assizes. Tha wife of John Stokes, a Bt. Thomas brakeaman, narrowly escaped being poisoned on Monday evening. Feeling fatigued after waithing she sat down and drank a cup of tea. Shortly afterwards she was attacked by vomiting aud has been seriously ill since. Her child, it appears bad unnoticed dropped a ball of blueing in the tea pot during the day. Spain has seized tiie Island of Peetegil, near Ceuta, on which she intends to erect a lighthouse. The Moors are excited over the ieiziue. Advices from Teheran state that tha Shah in April will start on a tour of Europe. He will viait Russia, Germany, Austria, Franoe, England, Italy and Tor- key. Private telegraraa have been received stating that on October 7th Henry M. Stanley was 40 Q mil es from Emin Pasha, (Mitt be wa^llpbting halt hia force on forced marches. John Bright writes a long letter protest- ing against any Land-Purchase Act for Ireland. He contends that tho Ashbourne Act, improved it necessary, will sarve all purposes fcr a gradual transfer of land to tenants when such is needed. The British barque Coronet, from Bull Kiver, has arrived at Falmouth. She re- ports that she signalled on Nov. 5th, in lat. 4:i dag. 42 m. north, long. 33 deg 22 m. west, the British steamer Naworth Castle, from New Orleans, Oct. Mth, for Keval. The steamer was leaiking badly. Portions of her cargo had been jettisoned. She refused assistance otlter than to except some pamp leather, of which she had none. Kov. Mr. Spurgeou, referring to his ae- oeaaion from tha Baptist Union, says that when he entered the conflict he made up his mind that even if ho were left alone he would be none the leaa decided aa to the propriety of his course. It is pleasing to find, however, he says, that many valued friends approve of hia action. He argea that continual prayers be offered that some goo«l may come eat of the inquiry which has been aroused. On Saturday afternoon a deaf and dumb man named David Parmenter, aged .H2, while walking on the Grand Trunk Railway track a short distance east of Kingston, waa struck by a freight train and injured to such an extent that ho died shortly after. Papers on hia person showed he was on the way to Torunto and that ho was lately out from England. As Wm. Ogilvie, clerk in the dry goods store of Robertaon 4 Co., St. Thomas, was passing the Grand Central alley on Talbot street abou 11 o'clock on Saturday evening he was felled to the ground by a man who rushed from tho passage. In fall- ing on the stone pavement he knocked out several teeth. A deep cut on tho left side of his head bled copiously along the pave- ment as ha was carried to a surgery, 'rhere is no olua to the perpetrators of the deed. The French Ministry were defeated in the Chamber of Deputieson Saturday, and immediately resigned, their resignation being accepted by the President. It ia reported from St. Petersburg that Russia is massing 300,000 soldiers near the German and Austrian frontiers. The Polish Jaws are said to bo keeping Germany and Austria well informed regarding the move- ments of the Busaian trospa. Tho rumor that the Duke of Norfolk is to be married is untruo. His Grace starts for Uomo in a fortnight as Queen's messon- gor. It is more than probable that he will enter a monastery, as hia unnatural asceticism has inoroaaed since hia young wife's death and tho lioi>oless idiocy of his only son. Mr. Froudc, the historian, baa written a letter, in which ho says : " Any form of self-government which might bo conceded to the Irish people, whether it be local