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Show RrltlNh Menu. London, Tho report in thu afternoon papers of tho terrible mining min-ing disaster at Clay Cross proves unfounded. un-founded. Thc corre.sj-ondenco of the British Foreign Office arising out of the capture cap-ture of thc Yirtjiitiu.1 and sulwqucnt execution of her passengers and crew, is officially published. It contains a dispatch of as late a day as May 7lh, 1874, sent bv Earl Derby to Layanl, British Mimstor at Madrid, in which the former says: "Jn view of the grave difficulty of the government of Spain, her Majesty's government hat hitherto been unwilling to pn-ss for an answer to its demands for acknowledgment ac-knowledgment of wrong done and for compensation to Ihe relatives of tho victims who wore subjects of Croat Britain, we now trust that there wlli bo no further delay on the part of thc Spanish government." |