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The Week.
ment . — -The Sultan ' s vast dominions continue to be much agitated . An insurrection has broken out in several points of Bosnia . The insurgents are Christians ; several Mussulmans were put to death . An explosion is also imminent in Candia ; the Albanian troops are exasperating the Christians . The Turkish loan having been completed in England , the exchange has fallen at Constantinople . The Mussulman pilgrims who visited Mecca this year brought back with them a disease ir i ¦ '_ l _ I 1 _ t »_" U "L _ J 3 _ - _ J _ ! - ' '__ , i . ill . 1 called wnich had not been since the middl the
purulent leprosy , seen e ages ; Egyptian authorities adopted very strict measures to prevent the contagion from spreading . It was said that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe would leave Constantinople on the 19 th . -From Portugal the news is that the dispute with France has been accommodated . A French envoy , M . de Piennes , charged with despatches for the French minister at Lisbon , has arrived in that city . The Portuguese minister for foreign affairs , M . de Paiva , was to arrive on Thursday at Lisbon . We understand that the British channel fleet has been ordered to Lisbon . —
The Jew Mortara ' s little boy still remains in the hands of the inquisition at Bome ^ The French ambassador has tried to intercede , and obtain from the Pope the restitution of this child ; but Pio None answered that he could not , in conscience , replace in the path of perdition a soul which had , as though by miracle , been won for paradise .- — -At the burning of the New York crystal palace , no lives were lost . The loss is estimated at over a million of dollars . The property had recently become the possession of the corporation of the city . Among the works of art
destroyed was Kiss ' s famous statue of the amazon and Marochetti ' s mammoth statue of Washington . The deaths from yellow fever at New Orleans on the 3 rd were 68 ; the epidemic has nearly died out at Savannah . Matters are all quiet at Utah ; Brigharn Young is still in the city , but confines himself indoors . Trouble is anticipated with the Indians . General Cass has notified to the New Granadian minister of the American government not to permit any obstruction of the isthmus route to the Pacific . Two vessels of war have been ordered to the isthmus to
give weight to these instructions .- The Bombay mail received this week , brings particulars of the defeat of Tantia Topee by General Michel . Tantia ' s army is completely broken up and disorganized . A successful attack on a body of rebels in Oude , numbering about 3000 , posted on an island of the Gogra , took place on the 19 th September . Two companies of Europeans , the Kupperthela contingent , and some of Hodson ' s horse , attacked and drove them out of their entrenched position , killing 1000 . The artillery did great execution among the fugitives . Two rebel leaders are reported to be slain ; the British loss not severe . The
Gwalior rebels are still at Seronge , but it is thought they will make an attempt to cross the Nerbudda , between Saugor and Bilsa . West Indian news is unimportant , with the exception that a powder magazine has exploded at Havannah with the most disastrous results . Twenty-eight persons were known to have been killed , one hundred wounded , and a large number were under the ruins when the despatch left Havaunah . No less than ninety sugar houses were destroyed by the violence of the shock . ——A horrible accident occurred to two poachers on the
London and North-western railway , near Winsford , who attempted to cross the railway while a night train was passing . One man was knocked down , one leg cut off , and one arm put out of the socket ; he died next morning . Another was run over apparently by the whole train . A man and his three children have been suffocated by an escape of gas , which took place in their cottage , in a wretched row of buildings at Pillgwenlly , near Newport . An appalling accident happened .-at St . Vincent ' s Rocks , near Bristol , on Saturday . A granddaughter of the famous
Leigh Richmond approached too near the edge , and was precipitated down the rocks a distance of some hundred feet . She was dashed to pieces .- -Woolley , tho two Webster ^ and Barnard , in custody on a charge of engraving and having in possession plates purporting to be for tho issue of Russian bank-notes , intended to defraud the Russian government , have been again examined at Lambeth police-court , and were again remanded . The three men , charged with being concerned in stealing the copper coffin from the vaults of tlio
church of St . John , Stratford , have' been again remanded . The Daily Express penny paper at Newcastle , having made some offensive remarks upon the French consul there , the Count de Manncqurt , with regard to the count ' s
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
ment . — -The Sultan ' s vast dominions continue to be much agitated . An insurrection has broken out in several points of Bosnia . The insurgents are Christians ; several Mussulmans were put to death . An explosion is also imminent in Candia ; the Albanian troops are exasperating the Christians . The Turkish loan having been completed in England , the exchange has fallen at Constantinople . The Mussulman pilgrims who visited Mecca this year brought back with them a disease ir i ¦ '_ l _ I 1 _ t »_" U "L _ J 3 _ - _ J _ ! - ' '__ , i . ill . 1 called wnich had not been since the middl the
purulent leprosy , seen e ages ; Egyptian authorities adopted very strict measures to prevent the contagion from spreading . It was said that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe would leave Constantinople on the 19 th . -From Portugal the news is that the dispute with France has been accommodated . A French envoy , M . de Piennes , charged with despatches for the French minister at Lisbon , has arrived in that city . The Portuguese minister for foreign affairs , M . de Paiva , was to arrive on Thursday at Lisbon . We understand that the British channel fleet has been ordered to Lisbon . —
The Jew Mortara ' s little boy still remains in the hands of the inquisition at Bome ^ The French ambassador has tried to intercede , and obtain from the Pope the restitution of this child ; but Pio None answered that he could not , in conscience , replace in the path of perdition a soul which had , as though by miracle , been won for paradise .- — -At the burning of the New York crystal palace , no lives were lost . The loss is estimated at over a million of dollars . The property had recently become the possession of the corporation of the city . Among the works of art
destroyed was Kiss ' s famous statue of the amazon and Marochetti ' s mammoth statue of Washington . The deaths from yellow fever at New Orleans on the 3 rd were 68 ; the epidemic has nearly died out at Savannah . Matters are all quiet at Utah ; Brigharn Young is still in the city , but confines himself indoors . Trouble is anticipated with the Indians . General Cass has notified to the New Granadian minister of the American government not to permit any obstruction of the isthmus route to the Pacific . Two vessels of war have been ordered to the isthmus to
give weight to these instructions .- The Bombay mail received this week , brings particulars of the defeat of Tantia Topee by General Michel . Tantia ' s army is completely broken up and disorganized . A successful attack on a body of rebels in Oude , numbering about 3000 , posted on an island of the Gogra , took place on the 19 th September . Two companies of Europeans , the Kupperthela contingent , and some of Hodson ' s horse , attacked and drove them out of their entrenched position , killing 1000 . The artillery did great execution among the fugitives . Two rebel leaders are reported to be slain ; the British loss not severe . The
Gwalior rebels are still at Seronge , but it is thought they will make an attempt to cross the Nerbudda , between Saugor and Bilsa . West Indian news is unimportant , with the exception that a powder magazine has exploded at Havannah with the most disastrous results . Twenty-eight persons were known to have been killed , one hundred wounded , and a large number were under the ruins when the despatch left Havaunah . No less than ninety sugar houses were destroyed by the violence of the shock . ——A horrible accident occurred to two poachers on the
London and North-western railway , near Winsford , who attempted to cross the railway while a night train was passing . One man was knocked down , one leg cut off , and one arm put out of the socket ; he died next morning . Another was run over apparently by the whole train . A man and his three children have been suffocated by an escape of gas , which took place in their cottage , in a wretched row of buildings at Pillgwenlly , near Newport . An appalling accident happened .-at St . Vincent ' s Rocks , near Bristol , on Saturday . A granddaughter of the famous
Leigh Richmond approached too near the edge , and was precipitated down the rocks a distance of some hundred feet . She was dashed to pieces .- -Woolley , tho two Webster ^ and Barnard , in custody on a charge of engraving and having in possession plates purporting to be for tho issue of Russian bank-notes , intended to defraud the Russian government , have been again examined at Lambeth police-court , and were again remanded . The three men , charged with being concerned in stealing the copper coffin from the vaults of tlio
church of St . John , Stratford , have' been again remanded . The Daily Express penny paper at Newcastle , having made some offensive remarks upon the French consul there , the Count de Manncqurt , with regard to the count ' s