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VIENNA.

Vienna, 13. A despatch from Pesth states that the people of Agulia, a town in Croatia, are in revolt on account of the sale of the forests in the district known as the Military Frontier. Vigorous measures will be taken to suppress the outbreak.

LONDON.

London, 13. The losses of Liverpool Insurance Companies by the fire at Chicago, are estimated at £400,000.

The difference between the employees and employed at Newcastle, seems as far from settlement as ever. The masters now refuse to re-employ all their old hands and the employers will not agree to pay an advance or make concessions on time, unless they can thereby secure the skilled labor of old workmen. Therefore the strike continues and threatens to be attended with serious disturbances. Last night the services of the police were necessary to quell an incipient riot in which several men were seriously hurt. A large number of the rioters were arrested.

Ex-Empress Eugenie shortly returns to Chiselhurst.

By accident to a Scotch express train last night several persons were injured.

The British training ship Racer has again been damaged.

The health of Queen Victoria is improving.

MADRID.

Madrid, 13. The rupture between the adherents of Senors Sagasta and Zorrilla is complete. The republicans are said to be ripe for an offensive movement against the government.

PARIS.

Paris, 13. The radical journals unanimously censure the appointment of Pervier to the ministry of interior, and accuse Thiers of pretending to conduct the Republican Government without calling republicans to his aid or counsel.

Mr. Washburne has issued a call for a meeting of Americans to-morrow to contribute to the relief of Chicago.

VERSAILLES.

Versailles, 13. At a meeting of the permanent commission yesterday, Pervier stated that all the difficulties in way of the ratification of the customs treaty with Germany were removed. He also brought up the subject of trial of communists and urged that those now remaining in prison be speedily brought before a tribunal.

ROME.

Rome, 13. It is asserted that many of the congregations of Roman Catholic orders are about to leave and go to England and America, where they propose to found convents.

DUBLIN.

Dublin, 13. Many prominent citizens request the Mayor to call a public meeting for establishing a Chicago relief fund.

THE FIRE.

Chicago, 13. The dawn of each day brings brighter prospects and the hope of the energetic men who made Chicago what it was, is strengthened.

Twenty-one columns of the Tribune this morning were filled with advertisements of business changes. Builders are overwhelmed with applications to put up new houses. One man made sixteen contracts last night.

Little is doing in produce circles, but commission merchants and grain dealers are hard at work preparing to open on their usual scale by next week.

The agents of the Etna Insurance Company are paying their losses which they claim will reach $3,000,000. Evidence is accumulating that the loss of life is greater than heretofore estimated.

The county supervisors to-day resolved to rebuild the court house at once.

The amount of funds saved from the vaults of the banks added to the balances in New York leaves them an amount of cash equal to forty or fifty per cent. This with the insurance that will be paid, insures the collection of seventy-five per cent. of the loans by the banks.

The Liverpool, London and Globe insurance companies have ordered the payment of their losses immediately. The aggregate losses of their companies is about a million.

The loss of the Commerce of Albany is $40,000. This company has been placed in the hands of receivers.

The following elevators were burned:--Munger & Armour's, Galena, Illinois Central. Hiram Wheeler's National, and Vincent, Nelson and Co. The following elevators were unharmed: Illinois Central, Flint & Thompson's, two of Munn and Scotts, two of Armour, Dale & Co., the Burlington and Old Iowa and Illinois River.

The total amount of grain remaining in elevators is 5,000,000 bushels. Temporary trade rooms are established at 51 and 52, Canal street.

So far none of the bank vaults found are injured. The Union National is in perfect condition, and every dollar of the millions of deposits in the Fidelity Safe Deposit Co.'s vaults is safe.

The Tribune says that there is one way in which the government may be of a substantial benefit. The government must have public offices here, custom house, post office, court rooms, &c., and also warehouses. These are absolutely and immediately necessary. Let Congress provide for these to be of the most liberal dimensions, and the best class of Congress will appropriate one or two million dollars to begin this work at once and order their construction. It will do more to restore confidence and stimulate private enterprise than any impracticable attempts to loan the public money to back up the stockholders of insurance companies. The fact that Congress voted five million dollars to build the necessary government buildings, would be the best tidings to unemployed labor of the city.

There were eighty-nine newspaper establishments destroyed in the burnt district, embracing dailies and monthlies.

This afternoon Postmaster Eastmore addressed his clerks in a body. He said it was his grateful duty to thank them for their perfect fidelity in a time of calamity. The Postmaster General had promptly telegraphed words of sympathy with the post office employees and the people, and also clothed the postmaster with the requisite authority and directions looking to the re-establishment of the office.

It is rumored that Henry J. Ulmann, banker, was murdered instead of suffocated. His body was found near the banking house which he had evidently just left, with money and valuables in his arms.

There has been some unpleasantness for a day or two in regard to the management of the contributions of relief funds, &c., but a thoroughly organized committee was effected this afternoon, consisting of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society assisted by prominent citizens. All bills will be audited by the executive committee of that society, consisting of some well known citizens, the comptroller and mayor. This organization makes the following suggestions:

"As far as practicable, we suggest that money be remitted as with that we can buy the articles most in need. All funds collected, also where, should be remitted direct to or held subject to the order of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society. Funds already deposited in other cities will be drawn upon by orders or drafts of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society committee, signed by R. B. Mason. All materials should be consigned to the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, great care being taken to mark the contents on the packages and send invoices promptly by mail. Send cooked or perishable food only upon a special order from our society."

Mayor Mason notifies the public that the contributions have been turned over to this society, and calls on all citizens to aid the organization in every possible way. They are given power to impress teams and labor and to procure quarters, and as far as necessary transportation and care of the sick and disabled. Gen. Sheridan has promised his aid.

The following is a despatch to the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 13.

Let me say to the people of Connecticut, from a personal view, that the world never beheld such ruin and suffering as there is here. Were New York in ashes from 14th street to the Battery and from river to river, it would not exceed the destruction that appalls one here. In the name of christianity let our people come to the rescue of this distressed city.

(Signed)

D. H. Benjamin Douglass.

The following proclamation is furnished to the Associated Press:-

"The Mayor of Chicago is happy to announce that the city remains quiet and peaceable. There is no lawlessness, incendiarism or riots. Order reigns supreme and life and property are as secure as before the burning of the city. The city government in all departments is now in full and complete operation. None of our inhabitants are without shelter of some kind. Food to relieve the present necessities has flowed in upon us in abundance from all quarters. But a long winter is before us and we shall need all the aid sympathy can render. Such an exhibition of sympathy and generous aid as was called forth by our great calamity never before was equalled in the history of the world. It has cheered and encouraged our citizens. Business has been resumed. Houses mostly of a temporary character are springing up in all parts of the 2000 acres of ruins. Many permanent buildings are being erected, and the energy of our citizens being everywhere displayed. In the name of our citizens, I tender heartfelt thanks to all who so nobly and generously have sympathized with and aided us in our great distress.

(Signed)

R. B. Mason, Mayor.