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1818 THE GT7ARMAN, NOVEMBER 17, 1897. special benefit of antagonists. The men's leaders say they can hold out another five or six weeks. (From a Univers having cast doubt on the of the offer to accept M. Loyson as a married priest, M.

Loyson has sent another letter, with copies of two others from Prince Gdescalchi, who was the promoter of the negotiations. He says that, when in Rome, ho had at the Prince's houstf-several interviews with one of eminence in the religious orders," a consultor" of various Roman congregations, who, "as delegate of the Vatican proposed to me to enter one of the Oriental Rites, with the faculty of residence in France and exeroise of priestly functions as a married priest." The condition attached to this extraordinary favour" was the acceptance of the Vatican decrees, at which the negotiations failed. But the matter is not yet ended. M. Loyson is invited to spend next winter in Rome.

The notoriety given to certain duels lately, actual or prospective, in France reminds me of a recent incident that should be more widely known. An officer of tho Reserve, M. Fourgny, was struck by another man, and, instead of challenging him, sued him at law, and made him pay 300f. damages. His name was at once removed from the Array List.

The cashiered officer petitioned the Chamber of Deputies for redress, and the matter was officially sent to General Billot, tho Minister of War. He replied that the indeed forbade duelling, and that it was the duty of the to hinder it as far as possible, but the spirit of tbe service was against any affront to honour," and therefore this officer had been correotly cashiered. An important and long demanded change procedure now seems likely to be carried into effect. The Bill to remodel criminal investigations, passed by the Senate, was on Friday read a first time by the Chamber. The principal clause provides that a man arrested shall be promptly interrogated, and that, if bo doairos it, his counsel shall be present.

This clause, which will put a stop to prisoners being worried or entrapped into confession, was agreed to by 4G5 votes to 32. A correspondent writes St. George's Church, Paris, opened at Christmas, 1888, was consecrated 1889. It possessed at that period not much more than its bare walls and an endowment of 921. a year, one priest, and an irregular choir; no organist, no organ, and no ritual.

The endowment has been increased by a legacy of from the late Lady Wallace. An organ of 1,2001. value (Messrs Bishop's) replaces the hard-worked harmonium. A capable organist (Assoc. Coll.

of Organists) rules a most reverently- behaved choir cf men and boys (the former being all communi cants), numbering from twenty-five to thirty members. The music is Gregorian, and all the offices are choral. The clerical Btaff of the Church consists of three priests, duly attached; full Catholic ritual is in use, and all points are observed Complete sets of vestments are in use, all being gifts. The crowning act has been the offering of the stained-glass windows which havo just been two large rose windows, seven minor lights, two clerestory windows, and five west windows. The last five will be in position in February next They are all London work.

On All Saints' Day the dedication of those most recently presented took place. This is all the work of the congregation, and the effort of those who have felt that the Anglican obedience in Paris had need to be represented in a more befitting manner than had contented worshippers in the lethargic years gone by." degree shake the opinion of the Government about the importance of the German race, and about the position dne to that nationality in Austria; and just aa to do justice to non-German nationalities, so it will, serious and conscientious way, do its dnjtf towards the German nationality. I appeal nfbre to yottleaviliir it3fo yon whether the interests of your constituencies wouldjttot better served by a temporary truce. For this reason I' say that I do not question your goodwill, bnt. I leave ft to you to decide whether there is the necessary ability." The debate wa3 continued for some the House finally adopted by 177 to 171 the motion of Herr Pacak (Toung Czech), which was simply to the effect that the House passed over the motion for the impeachment of.

Ministers and the order of the day. Two more impeachment motions remain. -i, triumphant career of the Saltan hai received two He has received warning from Russia that he is not to spend money on war material in Germany while the Russian war-indemnity is in arrears, and he has also got Into a difficulty with Austria. Some little time ago the Austrian Lloyd's agent atMersina.an Austrian subject, was intrusted with a sum of money to convey to an Armenian at that place, and it is a common practice for the company's agent to be intrusted with the forwarding of money. The Turkish officials came to the conclusion that this money was intended to serve treasonable practices, and this may have been so, though tn i local Armenians maintain that it was simply a contribution to the distressed Armenians.

Still they determined to expel the agent on suspicion. The Austrian authorities sent him back to Mersina, but there the Turks not merely refused to admit him, but treated the Austrian Consul with disrespect. Baron has now demanded satisfaction; threatening in default his departure from Constantinople and punitive The Turkish Government is expected to yield at once The settlement of Crete makes little progress and it seems now that the idea of appointing Colonel Schaffer as provisional governor has been given up. Reuter's correspondent in Constantinople writes under date of Thursday that letters from Mush depict the misery among the Armenians as pitiable in the extreme, owing to the exactions of the tax collectors No account is taken' of the two years' exemption from the military tax, and tho arrears of persons who have died, who have emigrated, or who have been massacred are demanded by the collectors. The registers and receipts having been lost during- tho late disturbances, the authorities are demanding the taxes for the last thirteen years.

The peasants are, in consequence, obliged to sell everything, even the bare necessaries of life, to meet these demands. No attention is paid to the formal ities of the law in the matter of the collection of the taxes, the money being simply taken without giving the proper receipt for the amount paid. The massacre of many of the Armenians of Van and the emigration of others have resulted in another kind of vexation. Wherever in tho villages some of tho Armenian proprietors were killed or had fled the KriHs, supported by the local authorities, took possession of property, and gradually expelled the remaining Armenians or compelled them to become their cultivators. This manner of usurpation is begining to extend also to those of the villages where the Armenians are still in a majority.

The Armenian emigrants in the Caucasus, hearing of these- spoliations, are anxious to return to their homes, but the Ottoman Consuls refuse to visa their passports." D. Underwood Hull, Sergeant A Privates: Privfep H. Trent; J. Barton? J. W.

TTnrir A. Smith; M.Jhaughn.ess^ F. Smith, W. Kales, T. Keshan.

8inan, Srebbv W. Underdown, Lancet cSal Auburn, G. nce Ipicer.G. Harris, J. A.

"1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. wounded-PtiyateB W. Gregory, C. Guy Lieutenants O. T.

S. Ingham, A. A. White. Privates: J.

36th wounded 15th. killed) two Wednesday a foraging party was sent to the of Camp Maidan. During the day the were Highlanders h. E. P.

Cameron, well. Corporal J. Cooper, Private J. The next day General Gaselee Brigade, with two batteries Mountain Artillery and one company of Sappers ascended to Saran Sar, completed survey, and destroyed defences of forty more Zakka Khel villages. In the West Surrey Regiment, Wright was severely wounded, and Private T( doing Scott.

Lieut. W.D Morritt. killed. One of the 3rd Gpprkhas was ate F. HI wounded.

Oa Friday, another foraging party was sent out, and tho King's Own Borderers lost Privates W. Morns (wounded severely) and Galtee (slightly). In the Mastura Valley, on Saturday, a foraging party of the Derbyshire Regiment was attaoked by the enemy, several hundred strong, but repulsed them with loss. Our casualties were Captain Bowman, Derbyshire Regiment, severely wounded; Major Money, 18th Bengal Lancers, slightly and two privates of the Derbyshire Regiment arid two Jhind wounded. Sepoys, Chamber assembled last week, and on Monday M.

Roma, candidate of M. Delyanni, was elected President by 83 votes to 64 for the candidate of the Government and the rest of the Opposition parties. M.Delyanni had, however, stated that he At the Vienna Congress Miraglia I would not look upon the election as a party question. (From an Occasional Correspondent.) Dtutscher MerJcur (November 6th) gives the following account of an important step taken by the Catholio reformer, the priest Miraglia, at Piacenza, as the result of his attendance at the International Old Catholic Congress at Vienna in the beginning of September After his return he read to his congregation from the pulpit on Sunday evening, September resolutions passed the congress, to which the congregation assented with acclama tion; and he also gave an account of the congress in his organ, Girolamo Savonarola. Since then the ecclesiastical movement set on foot by him has taken a forward step.

Hitherto the friends and adherents of Miraglia had not formed any proper ecolesiastical organisation. Although they regularly attended his services and had incurred their excommunication from the sacraments of the Romish Church, they had not taken any step to form themselves into an independent congregation. The whole undertaking was thus a mere personal affair, which would become without significance if Miraglia left Piacenza, or was silenced in anyway. At the Vienna Congress Mil understood that he could not continue in his isolation. He therefore, immediately on his return, took the necessary measures for the organisation of his congregation and for an alliance with the Old Catholic Churches.

On October 21st, at a meeting called for the purpose, his adherants declared themselves to be the Chiesa Autonoma Italo-Internazionale, and passed the following resolution After hearing the account given by the Rev. Don Paolo Miraglia, the founder of the Oratory of St. Paul and of the Italian Union Girolamo Savonorola, of the International Congress at Vienna, and of the present condition of the Old Catholic Churches.iand with a view to the restoration of the Old Catholic Church to its original organisation and the faith and worship of the undivided Church, we declare (1) That we greet with reverence the Old Catholic Churches of Holland, Germany. Switzerland, and Austria, with which we feel ourselves in accord in Christian faith and love; (2) that we assent to the resolutions of the International Congress held from the 1st to the 3rd of September at Vienna, as well as to tho resolutions of the international congresses at KOIn, Lucerne, and Rotterdam: and (3) that we desire to enter into close relations with the sister Churches named, in order to contend against the uu-Christiau despotism of the Roman Curia and the semi-heathen moral syptem of Jesuitism, and in accordance with the example of the ancient Church, to unite ourselves to the autonomous Catholic Churches, independent of H. Kitchener arrived at Cairo on Thursday, having traversed the distance from Berber in six and a half days.

From Abu Hamed to Wady Haifa by train on the new railway he took eighteen hours. The extension to Berber is now in progress, and is expected to reach that place in April. The Egyptian garrison of Kassala will travel by way of Massowah, and reach Kassala towards the end of next month. Five of the correspondents in the Soudan reached Souakim on Wednesday, having taken eleven days on the desert journey from Berber. On the way they met a caravan owned by Greek merchants at Souakim going up to Berber.

The Pope has authorised the Synod of the Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria to assemble at Cairo for the purpose of officially proclaiming the establishment of a Patriarchate united to the Roman Pontiff. Mgr. Bonfigli, Vicar-Apostolic for Egypt, will preside over the Synod. Sir W. Lockhart received the Orakzai jirgahs on Friday, when the following were announced to be the terms offered (1) Full restoration of all arms and property looted in the Khaibar Pass or on any other occasion.

(2) The surrender of 500 breechloading rifles. (3) The payment of a fine of 35,000 rupees. (4) The absolute, forfeiture of all previous subsidies. (5) Formal submission to be tendered in Durbar." The coming in of the will, it is thought, accelerate the submission of the Afridis. The Times correspondent adds under date of "Sir W.

Lockhart is anxious by all fair means to conciliate the tribes whose jirgahs have come in, and has arranged through the political officers to pay for forage and supplies taken from this date on the. understanding that jf support is refused we tako without pay and punish obstruction." According to Reuter, representatives of tho Mailikdin-khels on Sunday met a foraging party in the western Maidan Valley, and some peaceful traffic in forage took place "The tribesmen's spokesman, who had been a reservist in the Guides, said in conversation that these sections wanted no further fighting, but he was afraid that the tribesmen would never part with serviceable rifles. He declared that all the Afridis who were connected with the Indian Government as pensioners, reservists, or in other capacities, had been utterly opposed to the outbreak from the beginning, but the young bloods, who were eager to fight, had carried the day. In his opinion, there was now a general desire for peace, but he would not answer for the Zakka-khels, who, he felt convinced, would never consent to disarm." In the assembly which passed this resolution 753 persons took part. October 21st was a week day, which naturally made it impossible for many of the friends of the cause to give their personal attendance; but the beginning hap been made, and the aim is correct." Daily Chronicle states that the elections were brought toaclose onMonday with another Liberal "The Liberals have altogether seats, conflicts of the past week in Tirah have resulted in further heavy British losses.

On Monday week foraging parties were sent who destroyed the Zakka Khel towers whence the camp had been fired into. Private G. Boocock, King's Own Borderers, was dangerously wounded, and two natives were killed and three wounded. Captain E. Y.

Watson, Commissariat Department, was killed by firing into the camp. The Yorkshire Regiment and 1st Goorkha Regiment encountered the enemy to the south of Arhanga Pass, losing one native killed and one wounded. The next day General Lockhart reconnoitred Saran Sar, to the north-east of the camp, and destroyed the defences of a large number of Zakka Khel villages. When the summit had been occupied it was hoped that the force would be able to secure connection by heliograph with the Fort Bara column; but this was found to be impossible, the opposite valley being enclosed and thickly wooded. The retirement later was attended by serious consequences, the enemy following up in force and inflicting heavy loss.

The Northamptons wero covering the retreat, three companies being posted on the crest line and five on the summit of the left cliff, while the 36th Sikhs were on a path below the cliff. The retirement was slow and difficult, and the enemy collected in great numbers aided by the broken ground. The five companies of the Northamptons ou the summit of the cliff were making no progress, and Several wounded; cannot carry them down; need support." General Westmacott then ordered up the 36th Sikhs in support, and with their aid all having now seventy-nine seats against thirty-five held by the were withdrawn, without further loss, to the foot of the hill Conservatives. This is one of greatest majorities since under cover of the guns. But the necessity of transporting the' wounded still greatly retarded the retirement of the force through very broken country while the enemy, being well acquainted 3814.

Last session there were fifty-nine Liberals, against fifty- five Conservatives." Hungarian Premier, Count Banffy, came to Vienna on Thursday and had a conference with Count Goluohowski and an audience of the Emperor. He is believed to have repeated that Hungary cannot concur with any unconstitutional prolongation of the compromise. The debate on tho impeachment motion dealing with the language decree dragged on through Thursday and Friday. At the beginning of tho latter sitting Vice-President von Abraha- niovicz was elected President by 186 votes. The Opposition handed in blank voting-papers, and when the President addressed the House the German parties and Social Democrats walked out and did not return till he had finished.

The Premier (Count Badeni) then spoke, and, in tho course of his remarks, The deplorable even's in this House will not in the slightest A movement to the western Maidan Valley is to bo made to-day via Bagh and Raj Gul, and this is the route which will probably be taken to the Bara Valley. The plague in Poona city and the cantonment shows no ment. treasurer of the Armenian Rescue Fund has received a letter earnestly pleading for more help for the refugees, whose number is estimated at families; 500 of these have been assisted to settle in the Oroomiah district, and have become more or less self-supporting, shelter, land to cultivate, ploughs, oxen, and seed being furnished from the fund Butthe condition of far the greater number is most pitiable. Only a few have been provided with enough to make them comfortable, tho majority are sorely in need of help before they can maintain themselves. Want and hardships have pioduced much sickness, 500 at least are disabled for work and are 'suffering intensely' for lack of food.

The dispensaries of the American Mission station are crowded with applicants for relief, and we need not say that the missionaries are straining every nerve to help, but many they say have still no shelter and almost nothing to protect them from the chilly nights, and many havo perished. The new-comers need clothing and bedding, the sick and cripples food. The seed that has been sown can yield no return till next July, and winter, when outdoor work must cease, is coming on. Will the friends of the oppressed and many have helped generously in the by the little band of missionaries, who are striving to succour the refugees, this winter also? With this earnest appeal the letter closes." with it, could oreep up the ravines to within short range. The Northamptons fought with the utmost bravery, and most of their casualties occurred while they were engaged in saving their wounded.

All the wounded were brought into camp as darkness was setting in, but Lieutenant Macintyre and twelve men were cat off. They were found afterwards all together, and appear to have been detained by inability to bring on their wounded. As they were all killed by gun-shots, it is supposed that the enemy did nob venture to rush upon them. The casualties "1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed Lieutenants J.

T. Waddell and Macintyre; Colour Sergeant Luck, Corporal J. Roddy, Lance-Corporal F. Gardiner. Drummers: J.

Simpson, H. Little. Privates J. Butt, D. Worth, W.

Quinn, H. Burgess, R. Plummer, G. Passingham, J. Woolford, Q.

Prosser, W. Paokington, D. Hearne, O. Newell, East Church Missionary Intelligencer publishes a series of letters dealing with Mwanga's revolt. We quote some of the more important passages.

On July 9th Archdeacon Walker On Tuesday last (July 6th) the King ran away. At 3 a.m. he went down to the Lake and set off in a. few canoes for JBudu. It was twelve, noon, before it was discovered that Mwanga had actually gone.

For some time past the King had been sending people about the country with disturbing reports. One chief, Gabrieli Mujassi (Roman Catholic), openly rebelled; two others were in the Mukwenda, an excommunicated Protestant, Kaima (Roman Catholic), and several others. There has been a strong reaction going on against religious control, and now the King thinks the time has come for him to be off. I think the immediate cause 21 was that he was afraid that he might be punished for the way in which he was upsetting the country, and because he was tired of being under control Every one who is of the King's party is so secretly, and they are waiting to see now things turn out before they involve themselves in rebeUioa against the European Government. Mr.

Forster has been sent with a force of 100 Soudanese to Budu, and if he is successful in aiding the faithful Roman Catholics to stand against tho King, very few of the others will join the King. There is no danger at present, as the Christian chiefs are all faithful men, and being men of education and intelligence, they havQ a large influence and command respect. The King's party the people who have no religion, but who wish to live openly evil lives. They can never form a very formidable party, I few sure. Their first defeat will be the collapse of the whole thing." "July country is much excited.

Some ofthe. most important Roman Catholic chiefs have joined the KlBgi ancT large numbers of others. One man, who was Eoma Catholic Musalosalo in Captain Lugard's time, speared all ins cattle the night before he left to join the King, hoping thereby show his devotion. To-day Major Ternan and a vast native army, under the command of Apolo Kegwe, theKatunro and all the leading Protestant chiefs have gone toBaduw settle up matters with the King. Major Ternan has with nun some four or five English officers and about 400 Soudanese, so be no fighting, I think.

When you that Mr, Wilson was reading to the chiefs the CommiBSwneni.