NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 438, 8 April 1890, Page 3

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[«Y KLXCTRIC TKLEGBAPH —SPECIAL TO STANDARD.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. PROSTITUTING RELIGION. SARAH BERNHARDT S MOCKERY. WASHING AWAY THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION. ALARMING REPORTS ABOUT RUSSIA. ACCUSED OF FURTHER INTRIGUES. RUSSIA’S POLITICAL TROUBLES. THE GAOLS FULL. The strike of masons at Vienna is subsiding. Major Pinto is on his way back to Lisbon. The Union Company’s new steamer Rotokino has been launched at Dunbarton. The Economist asserts that real estate m Victoria is unsaleable. Nothing will be done in regard to the Victorian loan till after Easter. New Zealand butter at London is at 965, and cheese, best quality, averages 48s. It is understood that Lord Carrington is to be created an Earl.

France is bkckading the Dahomyan Coast, to prevent the importation of munitions of war.

The Porte is re-opening parleying for an Anglo-Egyptian Convention on the basis of British evacuation.

Notwithstanding the great outcry raised at the proposal to engage Sarah Bernhardt to represent the Virgin Mary in the Passion Play in Paris, she took the character, and a great sensation has been caused throughout France. The French Government have decided to send three warships to rendezvous on the coast of Dahomney to assist the troops in obtaining reparation for the arrest of the Governor of Senegal and other French subjects. The Novosti newspaper, published at St Petersburg, considers that the resignation of Prince Bismarck has washed away the foundation of the Triple Alliance, and asserts that Austria will shortly evacuate Bosnia and Herzegovinia. Kemp has accepted McLean’s challenge for £soo a-side and the Championship of the World, should the former hold it. Preliminaries are being arranged for a match between McLean and O’Connor. The latter offers to row Stainsbury for a-side after his race with McLean.

The Czar has abandoned his annual visit to Gatschina, owing to the discovery of bombs in the vicinity of the place. It is suspected that the Czar's illness is assumed, in order to avoid appearance in public. The St. Petersburg prisons are crowded with the students arrested in connection with the recent disturbance. The Austrian Press declare that Russia is on the verge of a general explosion, and that she is inciting Servia and Montenegro to attack Bulgaria, while the latter, acting under advice of Russia, seeks to avoid a quarrel. In the meantime Bulgaria is fortifying the Plain of Sltvinitzka.

The English in the East African settlements are indignant at the action of Emin Bey. Earl Spencer, in a speech he delivered at Skipton, characterised the Irish Land Purchase Bill as cumbrous, costly, and unworkable.

Lord Randolph Churchill, in a letter to the Morning Post, has denounced as monstrous the manner in which the Irish Land Purchase Bill has been forced on an unwilling people, with no certainty ot the repayment of the money advanced to buy out the landlords, and the debt will in all likelihood be repudiated. The Servian Ambassador has left Sofia. The French Consul will attend to the interests of the Servians in Bulgaria. The rumors that an assassin had injured the Czar turns out to be bogus ; and the reported illness of His Majesty has beeu officially denied. It is asserted tha| he is suffering from fainting fits through weakness.

The students’ agitation at St. Petersburg has been renewed. Fifteen of the Moscow students are being tried for political rebellion. Several arrests have made, and many of the students have been expelled from the University at Tcherikoff.

General Caprivi is about to visit Count Kalnoki, Premier of Austria, and Signor Crispi, Premier of Italy. Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, has refused to accept the proceeds of a forced sale of his property in Brazil. The “ sweating ” agitation is spreading. The creditors in the estate of Lord Deerhurst demand 20s in the £.