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Show NIGHT REPORT. FOREIGN. From 8p&l n. Madrid, 20. Rosas, ministerial candidate, candi-date, is elected president of the Cortes, by eight majority. The other officers of the Cortes are also ministerialists. Zorilla Moret, a leading radical, was presented to the king yesterday. The circumstance is regarded as important in view of the reports that the Republicans Republi-cans are in league 'with tho Carlist insurrection. insur-rection. It is officially Elated that the number of insurgents, actually in the oeid, is 8,000. Paris, 2u. It is posit'iTely stated, on Geneva disguised on the nitrht of the 24th, and cannot yet have reached the frontier. If captured in Spain in arms, he will be shou Coming to Bo-toa. Vienna, 20. Johann Strauss starts for Boston shortly, to conduct somo musical performances at the World's Peace Jubilee. Ju-bilee. The Eruption of ynuvlus. Rome. 20. In the chamber of deputies depu-ties this evening the prime minister, .Lanza, read a dispatch, dated Naples, saj-ing the eruption of Vesuvius was increasing in-creasing and becoming more serious: two hundred persons have been burned by lava, and the flames burst from the earth under tho feet of the inhabitants. Lorre Del Greco is in danger of destruction. destruc-tion. The peoplo are fleeing from tbe town, and temporary provision is made for them by the authorities. .Nfiples, 20, evening. Fresh crater opened in Vesuvius to-day. Tho ashes and lava threaten the village on the mountain side. The people are removing remov-ing by thousands and encamping in the lields. Tho bay is covered with boats filled with spectators. Tho sceno is indescribably in-describably grand and terrible ; the ilames sometimes shoot to agreat height, and masses of rock aro ejected, with earthquake shocks distinctly felt here. From Loudon, London, UO. In the lords lo-night, tho marquis of Jjandsdowne, junioi lord of the treasury, replied in the negative ne-gative to a question by earl Carnaervon, as to whether the government intended to defray a portion of the expenses of the coming International Prison congress; con-gress; and said the government thought such use of the public- moneys a bad precedent pre-cedent In the commons, a motion of Trevo-lyan, Trevo-lyan, seconded by Fawcett, to give householders outside of parliamentary boroughs the franchise, was opposed by Gladstone and others, and defeated by 148 to TO. The Austrian and Hungarian governments govern-ments have decided to send delegates: to the International Prison congress. Now It'i Bed Klver. Toronto, 20. Fort Garry dispatches renort tho discovery of valuable silver mines, said to oxceea in richness the Silver Sil-ver Islet mines. |