o Iry s
r14:
e0 'WM %stalk C No. 58.-Vol.. V.
lit ltrixtf.
SUBIACO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1878.
Menertal 6Itanings. THE THREE EMPERORS.
The statement that the three Emperors intend to have an interview at Teplitz has been formally contradicted. The Emperor of Austria intends, however, to pay a visit to the Empe:or William either at Teplitz or during his passage through Austria on his way to Bad Gastein.
THE RELEASE OF ROBERT KELLY.
their way to Sebastopol, where ten fresh batteries are in course of erection. It has been arranged that most of the military stores removed from Turkey after the close of the occupation shall be despatched to Sebastopol, and that the naval establishments of the place shall be partly restored to their formel
capital, according to arrangement, on Thursday morning. He went merely to pay a visit of courtesy to Kaiser William, whose broken health is understood to be already improving under the effects of the alkaline baths and reviving air of the Bohemian watering-pla6e. In political and diplomatic circles the event prominence. Several million roubles is considered to have no other signifihave been assigned by the Minister of cance. The Emperor was greeted on Finance to complete the defences his journey by the most enthusiastic originally designed by General Barant- popular manifestations. soff, and the works in connection with this arrangement will be carried on during the current year. The Active Black Sea Fleet will for the future A TON OF GUNPOWDER EXPLODED BY always rendezvous at Sebastopol. LIGHTNING.
The Release of Robert Kelly, who was tried for the murder of Talbot, During a thunderstorm which passed from Mountjoy on Saturday, it is over Morley on Tuesday afternoon, a confidently stated, was directed on the vivid flash of lightning struck a powder WORKS OF PEACE. recommendation of the Lord -Lieutenant, magazine, containing one ton of powder, and was forwarded as far back as May, We learn from the Voce della Verita belonging to Messrs. John Haigh and but has ever since then been in conthat works of peace are being vigorously Sons, Victoria Colliery, Bruntcliffe. sideration by the Irish Secretary. carried on in Berlin, as a commentary The magazine was situate in the middle on the treaty which has recently been of a field, 400 yards from the colliery. signed there by the representatives of The shock was something terrific, and THE NEW PRISON RULES. Europe. but for the incessant rain which preThey are trying a krupp gun, which ceded the explosion, and had the effect Much satisfaction is expressed by the Irish members with the Home Secre- at the distance of ten Kilometres or six of stopping all traffic in the vicinity, tary's answer to Mr. Mitchell Henry's miles and a quarter breaks to pieces the many lives it is thought must have been question respecting prison treatment. thickest iron plate. lost. The effects of the disaster are At a distance of two thousand metres stated as follows by the Leeds Several queries relating to the treatment of political prisoners are understood to or one mile and a quarter this Ordnance Mercury A field of oats is comof Peace is capable, with only tow of pletely destroyed, being laid to be in preparation. the its projectiles, to sink the strongest ground as well as scorched. At the pit e. ironclad vessel. a man named William Haigh was struck Every shot costs seven hundred francs with a brick and hurled into an adjoinTILE Loss TO TURKEY OF BOSNIA. or f28, and it requires six minutes to ing coal screen. The man in the engineThe Loss to Turkey of Bcsnia, as load -125 francs per minute. Twelve house was fearfully frightened by the the Morning Post points out, is the loss minutes and 1400 francs are enough to engine -house window squares being of 80,000 men, which the Porte levied destroy and sink a vessel that costs 8 blown in. At that moment he had as soldiers. The gain to Austria, if she Million ! A mere bagatelle drawn four men up. They had just can hold the new provinces, is not less The loss of life of some six or seven risen in sight when the explosion took than 120,000 recruits, as she will enrol thousand men is comprised in this little place. The engine man shut the steam the Christians. account. off, and ran out of the engine-house. The four men managed to escape alive, but the cage was fearfully damaged RETURN OF TROOPS TO RUSSIA. among the head -gear. Two girls, who THE INDIAN FAMINE. Russian troops are returning to were playing about, were dreadfully Russia at the rate of 5,000 daily. Rain The Indian Famine, it is still feared, injured. The great bulk of the prohas fallen continuously, and the officers has not even yet been completely con- perty in the vicinity, although 400 in command at the different stages of quered. The next few months, it is yards away, had most of the windows the march in Bulgaria and Roumania thought, are likely to prove a period of smashed and otherwise injured. No report regularly to General Todleben great anxiety and of severe pressure. lives are reported to be lost." upon the state of the roads. The south-west monsoon has broken very mildly in some districts ; in other
:-"
!
THE
AUSTRIAN
OCCUPATION
OF
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.
The columns of the 13th Army Corps continued their advance on Friday last week. The 18th division occupied Lyubuski, on the road to Mostar, at noon on that day without opposition. Deputations of native Mahommedans and Catholics went to meet the troops to offer assurances of submission to the Austrian authorities.
THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.
The Presse of Vienna intimates that no foundation exists for the statement
that the Empress Eugenie intended sounding Court circles in that capital with regard to a matrimonial alliance for the Prince Imperial. The same journal adds that thp object of the ex Empress's journey is only political in so far as it is destined to pave the way for an eventual formal visit of Prince Louis Napoleon to the Courts of the Great Powers, in pursuance of what has beet determined upon by the Imperial family council.
SUSPICIOUS
RE -ARMING
OF
SEBAS
TOPOL.
Daring the last few weeks a large number of Krupp guns have passed through Warsaw from Germany on N
localities locusts have done immense damage, and are still continuing their ravages. Food prices are steadily rising, and there seems no hope of a fall for several months at least. The prospect, therefore, is decidedly the reverse of encouraging. It is not anticipated that there will be scarcity in the sense in which there was last year, but that there will be considerable pressure is certain. Prices are now nearly as high as they were at this time last year. The fund actually at the command of the Madras Committee amounts only to
MIXED MARRIAGES.
The evil of mixed marriages was never more painfully illustrated than it has been within the last few days by the decision of Sir Richard Matins, the Vice -Chancellor, in regard to the case of Mr. and Mrs.,Agar Ellis. That decision was in favour of the right of the Protestant husband to change his mind, whenever he so pleased, as to the religion in which his child or children should be brought up ; although, as in this very instance, prior to his marriage he had deliberately, formally, and solemnly pledged himself to have whatever children might be born to him as the fruits of that marriage brought up in the Catholic religion, that being the religion of his wife. Mixed marriages are alone assented to by the authorities of the Holy Catholic and Roman Church
PRICE 6D. Had he not given it he would not have been enabled to contract marriage with the lady of his choice. A son and three daughters are the fruits of this marriage. All tour are baptized as Catholics by the hands of Catholic priests. The infant son dies a Catholic. The three surviving children, the daughters, are brought up as Catholics. The Protestant father having from time to time during the lapse of a dozen years objected to all this as the consequence of his own agreement with his wife prior to their marriage, at length appeals to the law for help to enable to him break his sacred word of honour. The law, speaking through the lips of Vice -Chancellor Melina, decides that Mr. Agar Ellis's parole d'honneur can be so broken, and it is broken accordingly. There is the ,whole case in a nutshell and convected though it is into a nutshell, it speaks trumpet tongued against mixed marriages. SIR W. LAWSON.
During the course of the last night of the great debate which closed at a very early hour on Saturday morning last Sir Wilfrid Lawson startled the House of Commons by speaking of the Indian troops recently quartered at Malta, and now in Cyprus, as" savages and cut-throats." Called to order in the midst of indignant shouts of " Shame" and "Withdraw," the hon. baronet was severely reproved by the Speaker, and eventually recalled his words, with the characteristic assurance that he had merely employed them in a Pickwickian sense. His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in Chief, who has recently, it will be remembered, inspected these very troops during their temporary sojourn at Valetta, seized the opportunity, on Saturday afternoon, of repelling the charge with indignation. The occasion selected by the Duke of Cambridge was afforded him when, in his capacity as Ranger of the Regent's Park, be opened the new bridge and approach road from Camden Town and the northern districts of the metropolis at Gloucester-gate. " The Indian contingent I saw," he said, "deserves well of this country:" adding, " I have seen very severe remarks with regard to it. I may only say that they came from persons who knew nothing about it. I can tell you, as a matter of fact, that during the time that I was at Malta, and up to the period when I left, not one single case of misconduct had been brought before the civil magistrates of the town against that contingent. venture to say that that is sufficient proof that the discipline of that force is quite as good as we would desire it to be. As regards the rest," said his Royal Highness, " happily for this country, we have now avoided a very serious aspect of affairs, and our friends will return to their homes with a conviction of what I cannot help thinking_ is the fact, that they have aide largely in the preservation of peace." So much for what the head of the Army thinks of the Indian soldiers vilified by Sir Wilfrid Lawson as " savages and cut-throats."
143,250 rupees. Sad accounts of the distress have been received from the Basel German missionaries at Calicut, Bettigeri, Kodokal, and Guledgudd. One of them says that this year's misery, starvation, and famine will be greater even than last year's. The people in the districts named are quite emaciated and incapable of undertaking any employment. upon that distinct understandingnamely, that whatever offspring there may be to the marriage of a Protestant husband and a Catholic with, or vice THE Two EMPERORS. BISMARCK'S DEEP -LAID SCHEME. versa, the whole of the children, without Already two of the European Sove- exception, shall be brought up as The Sokil has made another discovery reigns have met since peace was Catholics. The agreement thus entered -the Treaty of Berlin is nothing more proclaimed to the world as the result of into is the most solemn pledge of all- or less than a deeply -laid scheme of the great Diplomatic Congress at Berlin. it is a sacred and religious compact, Prince Bismarck. Before proceeding ie No political importance whatever, it is and it is one solemnly entered into upon explain the discovery, it gives us a said, need be attached to the interview that word which everyone regards in short sketch of the German Chancellor's which has just taken place between the the light of one as binding as an oath, character. Bismarck, we are told; Emperor Francis Joseph and the Em- the parole d'honneur l That word of combines the finesse of the Italitun with peror of Germany at Teplitz. The honour was pledfed by Mr. Agar Ellis the stubbornness of the Gotha". Eta Emperor of Austria left Vienna on when he married the Hon. Miss. has *Ocala the suppleness of Tuesday night, and returned to his Stoaor, the daughter of Lord Camila. the boldsheil of Biehedisa, ate'
-