Delagoa Bay has as yet been accepted by Portugal.

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The news from India is of a very serious character.

We told you some months ago how the trees in Bengal province had been
marked, and how the European residents in India feared that it might be
the signal for another mutiny.

It would almost seem that their fears were well grounded.

On the clay of the Jubilee celebration in India the natives killed
Government officers in various parts of the country, and assumed a
hostile and impudent attitude toward Europeans generally.

Last week a riot broke out in one of the suburbs of the city of
Calcutta, and for more than forty-eight hours the mob held the town.

The trouble arose over a mosque or Mohammedan temple.

It is contrary to the rules of their religion to allow mosques to be
built on ground that belongs to unbelievers, but of late the Moslems
have been seizing on buildings owned by Europeans and Hindoos,
converting them into mosques, and then refusing to pay rent for them.

This practice has annoyed the land-owners very much, and at last one
owner, a Hindoo, determined to put an end to the nuisance.

The Mohammedans had seized a mud hut which he owned, and as usual they