The Portland daily press., 1867-08-09

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| FoREIGN.-Our latest European intelligence
received by steamer, is to the 18th ult. The
London correspondent of the New York Times
says. t---4 -l- a-+-is i.-.tistl --4s11.it 81
Z The Continent is once more full Of RI rf1ors of
! war. No one can see why, hut French and
Germans seem ready to fly at each others
throats. The Russian Journals are ffercely in
| dlgnantbecause French jury would not con-
demn to death the man who attempted to kill
tneir Emperor Mazzini and GaribaIdi are re-
ported To have organized new revolution in
Italy, involving thestaking of Rome and nro
claiming Republic. The visit of the Empress
Eugeme to Queen Victoria at Osborne, has
given rise to thousand speculations The
very crushing of the Cretan ihsurrection makes
people expect other outbreaks, for it is believed
that o Great Power, interested in the d;sipte-
grafton OF Turkey, pulls the wires of these
outbreaks. There is q bitter feeling among
@ those who have given sympathy and money to
sne Cretahs, 10 think that Englshmen should
nave been paying the highest honors to the Sui
tanTalmost grovelling in the dust at his feet,
at the very moment the news arrived that his
generals had crushed out the last hone of Gre
tan Independence. ~ lsl,g r - -
Heavy rains in England were causing appre-
hensions as to the crops, and these apprehen-
slonsaggravated the extreme depression which
continued to prevail on the London Stock Ex-
change %
~ ustrian Journals assert that the Emperor
FRANCES Joseph, on learning the execution Of
ms Drother Maxmilian, declared that he would
never again Sign a death warrant. A q i''i7A "A
aThe French Charge dc Affairs at Berlin, had
delivered to the Prussian Cabinef diplomatic
note from his Government on the subject of
North Schleswig. Its purport is unknown
Zeidlers Correspondence, of Berlin, MAIN
tains that, despite the ornaments going on in
france, the policy of the French Government
has not taken up q decided ground in any par
ticular direction. 1t adds: u a ,ss.. ...,....-,
Jt NPerhaps the French policy will shortly find
cause to occupy itself with thoughts of annex
ing Latin races from Spain or Italy" 3TE Be-,
The reply of the Danish Government to the
last Prussian note upon the North Scbleswip
question, declares that in the matter of the
guarantee asked for by Prussia, Denmark has
not not been able to recede from the point she has
hitherto maintained. g a
Inc Paris correspondence of the Pail Mall
Gazette says the French Ambassador at Rer-
lin had been instructed to demand an expla-
nation of the calling out of the Hessian Con-
tingent of 25,O00, which was not to have been
assembled till next year O. iiniiEDsq
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The REFORM BILL has at length passed both
branches of the English Parliament, unmuti-
lated by those oldest of all old fogies in the
House Of Lords, These gentlemen made
feeble attempt to insert a property quali6ca-
tion clause for householders, and to increase
the rental required to be paid by the lodg, rs to
enable them to vote, but finally they concluded
they must succurnb to Disreli's revolution
So if Queen Victoria deigns so far to foreeo in
diligence in "reminiscences of the late Prince
Consort as to give her royal assent to the do
lngs Of her faithful Lords and Commons, the
Dill will become a law. 1t is " sweet and COM
mendable" in the nature of the British neers
10 commit suicide without direct compulsion.
The new law republicanizes the CONSTITUTION
VI 'ne ieaih' anu the existence of House of
Lords Is no more consistent with the new or
der OF Things than would be the Star Chamber
or the Inqulsition. My Lord of Shaftsburv
exclaims, it topples us over like criminalsi.
To be sure, and serves them right. They are
criminals of the worst sort. With q few thou
sand associates, belonging to the upper classes,
they have robbed the people of all the real es-
tate in England.
t Will be surprising if the representatives
returned by the new electors do not make
iurtner innovations upon the old order of
thlhgs. There Is a little matter of the exclu-
slve privileges OF ofchurchmen in the Universities
to be settled. There is a question of church
rates in ireland to be adjusted. A bill present
ell by Mr.. Bruce at the present session, having
for its object the education of the poor, is to be
passed. There too, are the game laws. Tt
has been said that in England, it is more haz-
ardous to kill hare than man.. Democracy
y. VIII hardly endur enormities like these, even
II tneir reform D.ecessitates the political de-
'''uo''oh OF Shafissbury and all his clan.
A POLISH COLONY IN v1RGN1A.-A Polish
Hoiony IN opotts.'lvania couuty, Va, founded
py thesactive exertions of Gen. To .hman. is |
represented to us as in most fiourisbinp con-
dltlon. 1t is composed mainly, if not entirely
Of ex'ied Fodes-men and women too noble far
a despots security, and therefore ban;sbed
from the Ia md that gave them birth.
New Poland is composed of some seventeen
families, a. ad each family has about one hun
lred y acres of land. They took possession of |
@ .ner nome g too late last year to put in wheat |
,rop-and as is generally known, so poor as to
,e uhapie TO surround themselves with even |
ohe OF tn'e necessaiies of life, and of course 4
lou many of its comforts"