Morning chronicle and commercial and shipping gazette, 29 avril 1885, mercredi 29 avril 1885

[" ?COMMERCIAL.AND SHIPPING GAZETTE.VOL.XXXIX.QUEBEC.WEDNESDAY.APRIL 29.1885.tfo.14,051 AFTERNOON Brussels, April 28\u2014The Chamber of Deputies unanimously adopted the bill authorizing King Leopold to accept the title of Sovereign of the Congo Free State.London, April 28\u2014The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived this morning.The race for the great Metropolitan Stakes at Epson was won by \u201cAlthrop,\u201d \"Hermitage ' second and \"Criterion\u201d third, Doxoola, April 28.\u2014The Mahdi sent four boat loads of troops against Senaar.The attack was repulsed with great loss to the Mahdi's forces.AMERICAN.Newburgh, April 28\u2014The Highland brewery, owned by C.& J Leich, was burned this morning ; loss $100,000 ; insurance $40,000.New Yore, April 28\u2014Paul Leath, aged 85, died last night from gas escaping from a pipe in his bed-room.A Panama special says : French influence Is supreme here, and the French people boast that the protest from Paris caused the American troops to leave the city.A local paper declares the same thing.The American bark which was captured by the rebels has been retaken by the \"Alliance\u201d and sent to Colon.Ruize and 60 insurgents are aboard.Little Rock, April 28\u2014HaH of the cotton crop of the Arkansas Valley has been destroyed by floods.Charleston, April 28\u2014In Marion County a young white man named Williams was fatally shot in a store by Daniel Hinds, whose father stood by with a pistol ready to fire on Williams it he resisted.Williams had defended a lady whom Hinds had insulted.Hinds and his father escaped.Philadelphia, April 28\u2014Henry Smith, aged 22, shot and killed Hatite Si.Null, aged 31, at her home, yesterday afternoon, and then committed suicide with prussic acid.THE DISPETE.RUSSIA\u2019S EFFORTS TO FORM AN ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE.ENGLAND'S NOTIFICATION TO THE POWERS.Bismarck on the Situation.MR.GLADSTONE\u2019S SPEECH ON THE WAR VOTE.GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS THE OFFER OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT.The Bermuda Islands Being Strengthened.The First Division of the Russian Army Secretly Mobibized.CANADIAN.Montreal, April 28\u2014The stock market is dull with limited transactions.The flood has subsided about three feet since yesterday, and it is considered the worst is over.Half of the village of Lon-gueuil is under water and the people have been obliged to abandon their houses.The water has lowered slightly this morning.Ottawa.April 28\u2014The House of Commons was in session all forenoon, having been in session all night.Sir Leonard Tilley was somewat better to-day.The Department of Public Works have received seven tenders for the supply of firewood for the public buildine.The contract extends over a period of three years.The lowest tender is that of Mr.D.Quinn, as follows : hardwood per cord of 128 cubic feet, $4.95 ; mixed wood, $4.75 ; kindling, $2.75.Lient.Gordon, R.N., arrived here this morning and goes to take charge of the \u201cAlert\u201d at Halifax, which steamer is to be used in connection with the Hudson Bay expedition.The expedition will leave about the 25th May.Toronto, April 28\u2014Parcels and boxes for our volunteers in the North-West have been pouring in since ten this morning and the ladiW are kept busy.The public have responded most liberally, both in money and kind.\t_______________________ ____ Seven newsboys were arraigned at the I uked for since the Crimean war.Police Court this morning for selling papers on Sunday and wore rewarded till to-morrow.In the Metropolitan Church on Sunday the preacher delivered a stirring sermon warning his congregation against desecrating the Lord\u2019s Day by purchasing papers.When the congregation were dis persing several newsboys were standing out doors with papers, which were all quickly disposed of and eagerly perused.The bazaar held here last week for the benefit of the Church of England in Algo-ma has netted the handsome sum of $1,800, which has been handed over to Bishop Sullivan.Green the Proper Thins.(London Correspondence N.Y.Sun.) Women with doubtful or unfortunate complexions must hasten to adopt or invent a coemetic, paint or enamel which will enable them to wear green.Yes, plain, honest, unmitigated, verdant green is to be the fashionable color for dinner and ball dresses.Queen Margherita, of Italy, has worn it.The Queen of the Belgians and her sister-in-law, the Countess of Flanders, appeared in green at the last Brussels court ball.The best Parisian dressmakers are sending out dream-like costumes in that trying and long-discarded color.Even in tardy London signs of its introduction are faintly visible in shop windows and in the sanctums of the first-class milliners.We are always a trifle dilatory in the matter of fashions, and pick them up when they are of yesterday, but, with national thoroughness, when once we have laid hold of them we make up for lost time and adopt them with an energetic heartiness that puts in the shade the original creators, and, it must bo allowed, tends to hurry them to an untimely end.The Price of a Fiddle.A Paris Tradesman Taken in by Two Artful Dodgers.(From the Paris Morning Neves.) A few days ago a little street musician with his violin under his arm entered a pork butcher\u2019s shop in the Rue-dea-Martyrs and purchased a knuckle of ham for 3 francs.On feeling in his pockets he found that he had left the money at home which his mother had given him to (ay for it.As it was luncheon time and he would be scolded if he went home empty handed, he asked the shopkeeper to take the violin in pledge ; he would come and redeemit in the afternoon.The shopkeeper consented and put the instrument away in a corner.A quarter of an hour later a gentleman of distinguished appearance drove up in a ladnau, made purchases of pate de foie eras to the amount of 40 francs, and carelessly taking up the violin exclaimed : \u201cWhat a superb instrument ! \u201d He tried it en connoisseur and offered 100, 200, 500 and finally 1000 francs for it.The shopkeeper could not dispose of what did not belong to him, but promised to try and obtain it for his wealthy customer, who took his departure, leaving as his address: \u201c Lord Russell, Grand Hotel.\u201d A very gretty scene ensued on the return of the pocr little musician.He for some time objected to parting with his favorite fiddle, but at last, after going home to obtain his mother\u2019s consent, he gave it up for 850 francs.The pork butcher dressed himself in his best, called a cab, and drove to the Grand Hotel, where he was politely informed that no such person as Lord Russell was staying there.The unfortunate tradesman turned all colors, excitedly insisted that he was not mistaken and brandished his fiddle with snch energy that he had to be turned out.The value of the instrument has since been ascertained to be 6 francs.London, April 28.\u2014le is reported that Russie, is meetiog with great opposition in her enieavors to pnrebase transport animals.There has been some rioting In Turkestan and Calcutta.The Nawabs of Dacca and Moorehedabad have provided the government with ten lacs of rupees towards the operations in Afghanistan.The declaration of war is not expected to follow directly upon the rupture of diplomatic relations.Baron de Staai would be recalled and Rnssia would then probably order Komaroff to advance on Herat, England meanwhile occupying Quetta and Candahar.The fact that a Russian transport which passed through the Suez Canal and was ordered) back is still waiting at the entrance of the canal, causes some anxiety.It is reported the whole Russian shore of the Baltic has been strongly fortified and approach at any point is dangerous owing to the presence of torpedoes.Immense quantities of coals are being shipped to Capetown for British cruisers in the event of the Suez Canhl being struck.Four torpedo boats lying at Sheerness have been ordered into service.St.Petersburg, April 28\u2014The break in diplomatic relations between France and Egypt «anses th e greatest satisfaction here, and it is being utilizei as a basis for a Francc-Rusaian Alliance which is now warmly favored by the Czar.Active negotiations are being interchanged by St.Petersburg and Paris with the object of vigorous common action against England.Vienna, April 28\u2014 There is a constant interchange of notes between the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin in relation|to the Anglo-Russian conflict.Bismarck is reported saying : \"Asiajthreatens to destroy my labors tending to peace in Enrope.\u201d England has notified the powers who signed the Paris convention that her warships will enter the Black Sea in case of war and bombard Russian ports, since Russia has fortified Batoum, which is in defiance of the treaty.\u201d Lima, April 28.\u2014The fast Russian cruiser Dymhit \u201d is lying off the coast somewhere.There are five English warships on the South Pacific Station.New York, April 28.\u2014It is stated that the British are putting the Bermuda Islands in a complete state of defence.London, April 28\u2014In moving the vote of credit in the Commons, last night, Mr.Gladstone said the Government consider it necessary to have the entire resonrees of the Empire well in hand for use and application whenever required.Events since tbe fall of Khartonm have shown that the Mahdi\u2019s power has collapsed.England\u2019s possession of K hartoum would not stop tbe slave trade, and therefore it would be nseless to shed blood and treasure in the Sondan.In regard to tbe smallness of the special vote, he re minded the House that it was the largest In order to folly appreciate the amoant entailed it is necessary to know the extent of the measures being taken in India.The case is not one of war, actual or perhape proximate.He did not feel called upon to define the degree of danger, but be would say in regard to the sad contingency of an outbreak of war, or rupture of relations with Russia, that Her Majesty\u2019s Government had striven to conduct the diplomatic controversy in such a way that if it un happily ended in a violent rupture they might be able to challenge the verdict of civilized mankind, whether or not they had done all that men could do, and had used every just and honorable effort to prevent tbe plungin of two snch countries into bloodshed an despair.(Cheers.) The question before the Committee, he said, was simple and narrow although important.Negotiations continne but to give Parliament information wonld mislead them.The Government submitted its case upon the facta with which the whole world is acquainted.There exists abondant cause for the war preparations which are be ing carried on.(Cheers.) The starting point was the obligation to the Ameer, whioh should be fulfilled in no stinted manner.(Lond cheers.) The covenant with Russia of March 16th was one which England hoped and be lieved would be recognized as one of the most sacred ever made between two great nations, and if any deviation occurred there shonld be a jealous rivalry between the two nations to silt to the bottom all that remained in sus nae.A bloody engagement ocenrred on arch 30th, showing that one or both failed to fulfil the covenant.England considered it the dnty of both countries to ascertain how that calamity occurred.He would not anticipate that the British were right ; he felt perfect confidence in the British officers, but would not assume that they might not have been misled.He wonld not say tbe Government possessed all the facts in the case.They possessed facts which created an impression adverse to some of those formed by the other party to the covenant, hot they wonld not deviate from the strictest principles of justice by antici paring anything of the ultimate issue of the fair inquiry they are desirous of prosecuting, The cause of the collision is perhaps doubtf u I but it is certain the Russians were the attack ing party and that the Afghans suffered in life, spirit and repute.Knowing that a blow bad been struck at th» credit and authority of our ally, we are unable to close the book and say we will not look into any more.We must do oar best to have right done in the matter There is the cause for the war preparation He hoped tbe House would not delay its sent, which would only tend to propagate there and elsewhere the opinion that thi to the Russians was the first fruit of Gen.Komsroff\u2019s victory near Penjdeh, are a tribe that formerly resided in the Merv oasis.Twenty-seven years ago, when the Russians were hardly more than the shadow of a name at Khiva and Merv, an incursion of the Uabegs from Khiva drove the 8ariks out of their old districts.The tribe, to the number of some 12,000 families, moved southward up the valley of the Murghab river.Three thousand families took up their residence near Yolatan, on the border of the oasis, a district quite outside of the Afghan frontier.In September last, seven months after the Russian occupation of Merv, these Sariks of Yolatan became subjects to the Czar.Tbe remaining 9,000 families poshed on up the Mnrgbab eighty miles farther, and settled down round Penjdeh, as well as along the lower Knshk.For a time'they led their old Turcoman life, fighting with their neighbors, the lamshides, and raiding into Persia for cattle and slaves.Bat of late years they have lived more quietly, and since the establishment of order in Badghie by the present Ameer they have acknowledged his sway and turned their attention to the cultivation of the soil.Sir Peter Lumsden, on his recent visit to Penjdeh, found the onoe dreaded Sariks engaged in works of irrigation and reclamation.Gen.Komaroff brought with him a body of the Sariks of Yolatan, and these men have for many weeks being intriguing to detach their kinsmen of Per.j