Morning chronicle and commercial and shipping gazette, 10 septembre 1879, mercredi 10 septembre 1879

[" COMMERCIAL AND SHIPPING GAZETTE VOL.XXXI1J.QUEBEC, WEDNESDAY.SEPTEMBER 10.1879.No.12,310 NORTH BRITISH *.\u2014AND\u2014 MERCANTILE Fire and Life Insurance Company ESTABLISHED isoo.Edinburgh and London Capitil, £2,000,000 Stj.ASSETS, 31st Dec., I8T8, Æ4,879,123,12,2 Stg.Insurance against Fire ?OOCPTSU AT THS Lowest Current Rates.LOSSES SETTLED PROMPTLY AXD LIBERALLY.JO HIV | LAIRD, AGrETNT.113, Peter Street.Anguat 21, 1879.\tCm IfIKEIOUX\tMS PATCHES.GREAT BRITAIN.The Afghan Revolt\u2014C'abnl Reported Sacked by the Mob\u2014Condition of the British Troops\u2014 Re-inforcements to be gent from England.Lotoob, Sept.9\u2014Sir Stafford Northcote, Gbaocallor of tbe Escbeqaor, speaking at Szeter Hall yesterday, said :\u2014Tbe outbreak at Cabal appeared to have been unpremeditated.The Ameer bad been true to the Bri* tish and the assistance be implored would not be refused.There seems to be great doabt whether a prompt advance is possible.A military correspondent reviewing the sitoatloo says 25 per cent of native troops on «be hontier have gone on furlough.Tbe season has been an nonanally tickly one.Tbs hospitals are fall cf men unfit (or servies by fever and tbe hardehfps of tbe campaign.There are very few couu'ry regiments In the Trans-lodas wbicb could muster 500 men.Probably no cavalry regiment in the Papiaob could muster 300.Tbe transport department baa been broken np and i:a reorganisation will be difficult.Upwards of \u2022 000 camels are officially reported to have perished in the late campalgu.General Roberts may have sufficient mules and came s for the hasty advance of a brigade in light marching order, tut tbe Government cf India mast strain every nerve to guard bis comma-nicatioossnd keep him provisioned.The regiment* in India nearest Afgaanistan, wbicb have mostly soffertd frem cholera, are nr-ssedcally weak ; tbe men have been debt Hated and they will require heavy drafts to bring them to war strength.Two months most elapse before recruits can arrive from Snglsnd.News from Allahabad gives assurance that General Roberta will be at Cabul in a fortnight.It is said In military circles at Simla that October Is tbe probable date of the commencement of a for sard movement, because of deficiency In wheeled transportation.A correspondent at Bimia etates that by those who know tbe petition of ibings, no sdvsnce is declared impossibie.It is reported that Cabal itself bas been sacked by the mob.It is stated that tbe military authorities in India bave been empowered to hold back any troops whose term of foreign service has expired.Large reinforcements of troops are to be dispatched to India for Afghanis an, the first batch leaving England on the 16th by the troopship \u201cMalabar.The troopships «Jumna'' and \u201cEuphrates\u201d follow speedily \u2022ith reinforcements.Mr.Bell, architect and surveyor, Manchester, has failed.Liabilities .£43,500.FRANCE.The Crop Deficit.Piaf September 9\u2014Though France will Mt bave to purchase wheat abroad so largely as last year, she will require fifteen or twenty-five million hectolitres and must buy it almost exclusively in America in competition with England.INDIA.Adhesion oi the Governor of Candahar.September 9\u2014The Governor of Can-dabar has expressed his absolute devotion to tha British, and has offered to raise a contingent of troops.\u2022 UNITED STATES.The British Agricultural Conusta-sioners\u2014The Returned French Communists, &c* Nkv Yosx, September 9\u2014Messrs.Albert Fell and Clare Sewell field, tbe sub-cornmU-sioners who have come from England to ¦tody American farming, visited the (Jonenl-GeneraTa cffice yesterday and afterwards called at tbe Produce Exchange, and were Introduced to some of the prominent members.They expect to visit the great cattle yards of the city to-day, and will be shown the mode of packing fresh beef tor export if tbeir time permits, they will also look at tbe abattoirs and grain elevators.On Wednesday they will go to Albany and then into the large.datry farms in tbe Northern part of the State.They expect to arrive in Toronto by the end of the month.Another paper states that tbe commissioners will probably leave for Toronto this evening, and visit tbe dairy shows in Canada as well as those of the Northern States.Mrs.Eliaa Greifelt, wboae husband died in January of trichenos in pork sold by Figge Bros , pork-packers, has sued that firm for $5,000 damages as executrix of her husband\u2019s estate,and $25,000 damage* to her own health by partaking oi nnwholesome pork.Tbe Berald't Paris special, dated tbe 8tb, says tbe amoecthd Commnoists who arrived Pert Vendre in the \u201c Picardie,\u201d will reach Faris to-morrow merning.Among tbe pas sec gets are Rcqnes, f rmerly Mayor ; Bateaux .Humbert, formerly an editor of Le Pere du Ckene ; CMimera Bannis, formerly tbe editor of Le Crû du Peuple; Victor Greider, Minister of Interior nnder tbe Commune, lately a cook at Noumea ; Friiton, ex-Governor of Vincennes Commune ; Capt.Watutswlcb, ex-aide-de-camp to Emperor Maximilian and ex-chief de legion Belleville ; Dubois Der-ville, formerly of La Comedis Française, lately director of the the theatre at Nonmei ; Mme.Lemet, the friend of Louis Michel, and M.Bonrdraa, arcb contractor of public works at Nou nea, who, when be leit, bad not a tou, bat is now worth 500.000 francs.Of tbe amnestied Communiais wbo embarked at Noumea five died on tbe voyage, tight were landed at Port Vendre In a dying condition, and saventeen are seriously ill.The cblef complaint of the passengers was regarding the poor qnalhy and insufficiency of food.They stated that only 35 meals of fresh meat were served daring the entire voyage, and to this fact nearly ail the sickness and deaths are at-tdbwted.Tbe disembarkation of tbe passengers was effected with much less order from tbs \u201cVsr,\u201d bat with perfect tranquility.***-venu touching scenes occurred at tbe landing between tbe amnestied and tbeir relations wad friends.The Inhabitants at Port Vendre received the patdoned with great hospitality.Q.SI.0.X 0.R'Y EASTERN DIVISION.Trains Leave Qiebec 2.20 P.M.and 6.16 P.M M\tArrive Three Riven.5.10\t«\t