Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1872 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLII WORLD. Terrific storms have recently occurred on the coasts of England and Germany, causing great loss of life and destruction to shipping. Serious floods had occurred In Germany, and the town of Lubec was reported under water on the 14th. ThcPelsall coal mine In Staffordshire, En-, gland, was suddenly Inundated on the 14th/ while the men were at work. Eleven miners were rescued, but twenty-two remained in the mine, and there was little hope that they would be saved. Rome journals of October 26 announce the arrest of M. V~. Brewster, an American, who recently killed Count D 1 Parma in a duel near Leghorn, Italy, for making insulting allnsions to the United States. The Royal Geographical Society (London) has sent a letter of thanks to James Gordon Bennett for the part which he took in the discovery of Livingstone, and has voted Stanley a Victoria medal of 1873. Hon. Charles Sumner left Liverpool, England, on the 14th for New York. A church has been built at Tueng Chow, China, for Rev. T. P. Crawford, of the Southern Baptist Church. dates to October 23 say the completion of the first railroad in the country, froraYeddo to Yokohama, was cetebraten, the Emperor participating, in grand style, on the 14th of October. The Emperor passed over the road. The rinderpest Was ... making terrible havoe among cattle in the rural districts. *A dreadful famine was reported among the people of Corea. Cable dispatches of the 16th report great destruction of life and proporty by the recent fearful storm on the coasts in Germany, Denmark, etc. Half of the town of I’raestoe, in the Island of Seelaml, on the Baltic, was laid waste by- the force of the wind. Other disasters are reported, and great suffering had been caused in many localities. The Pope refuses to accept the annuity voted him by the Italian Parliament. The German Parliament lias enjoined the German Rail ways to cease carrying emigrants tyrthc sea-hoard at less than full rates. The flood in Italy has made 20,000 families homeless, and has established permanent lakes where there were none before. President Ttiiers has contributed l,ooof. for the relief of sufferers by the fire In Bolton. In the French Assembly, on the 18th, there ~was an exciting debate on a motion censuring Gambetta for his inflammatory speeches in the provinces. Thiers mounted the tri bune in defense of the Government. He protested against being placed at the bar as a criminal, and threw out intimations that tie might appeal to the country. He admitted that the speech made by Gambetta at Grenoble was offensive, but claimed that the Government was not responsible. A voto of confidence was passed by 267 to 117, many members abstaining from voting. A Copenhagen, Denmark, dispatch of the 18th says: “Advices from the provinces show that the wreck and ruin caused by the hurricane is enormous. At many points the sea embankments and draining works have been demolished. The loss-of life is Very great. The damage done in the Island of Falster, known for its fertility as tlie orchard of Denmark, will amount to millions of pounds. * President Tliiars was greatly excited about the proceedings of the French Assembly on the 18th, because of the comparatively insignificant majority by which the vote of confidence was passed. A Committee of the National Assembly, appointed to draw up a reply to the opening message of President Thiers, on the 20th, by a vote of 0 to 6, elected the Due de I’asquier d’Audriffet, President. This choice was regarded as unfavorable to the Government,