The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-17

ITEMS OF FOREIGN NEws.-A correspon-
dent OF theC5arrier des Eats Uris, who claims
to be well informed asserts that the hesitation
Of the Emperor Francis Joseph to visit Paris
is due to the letter of Porfro Diaz on the con-
duct Of Marshal Bazaine in Mexico. The EN-
peror made it the condition of his visit that
Marshal Bazaine should not be in Paris dur
ing its continuance. The French government
has given the required assurance, and Napo-
Icons invitation has been formally accented.
Enormous are the efforts being made to put
st. Peters, and indeed, all Rome in festive
trim in order to produce scenic effect for the
benefit of the great crowd of visitors. now
drawn thither. The Holy Father goes about
Rome on foot, distribu ing his blessings from
the ends OF his fingers. He made a new
Spanish cardinal the other day, and the red
hat was carried by night from the Vatican
on scarlet velvet cushion, accompanied
by men bearing lights, and followed by a pro-
cession of empty court carriages
The Trades Union developments grow more
and more astounding. A correspondent states
that few days since, a man came upon the
stand at Sheffield and confessed that he threw
can of powder into the room of fellow
workman, which exploded, set the house and
the clothes of the family on fire, burning one
woman to death, and previously wounding
another. For this job the man was paid $50.
and was very angry because they would not
give five more. He and those who hired him
allowed an innocent man to be tried for this
murder, and would have allowed him to he
hanged, they admitted, if he had been found |
guilty. The correspondent adds
=. Among the witnesses examined before the |
commission, has been Mr. Abram S. Hewitt. |
an iron man from New Jersey who told them |
now strikes Were managed by the miners and |
by the puddlers in America, and rath-
e 81, aseon,shed the Commission, even after the
Sheheid revelations, by telling them that an |
attempt to employ outsiders in strike at |
Pittsburgh had resulted in finding three or |
Tour OF them in the street, murdered.
In the French Corps Legislatsr M. Theirs |
announced that he would postpone the deliv- |
cry OF his speech in Mexico, in consequence of
the death OF the Emperor Macmillan.
The Prussian government has seized the
journal of Frankfort for publishing MaximiI- |
ans alleged proclamation.
The correspondent of the London Daily |
News writing from Athens in reference to the |
affairs of Crete, states that Omar Pasha has |
aroused hercer spirit of resistance than old |
Mustapha Pasha. The state of the island is |
dreadful in the extreme. This correspondent |
writes
Crete is blockaded it is full of human suf- |
fering, and reeks with the blood of its bravest |
patriots. 1t seems that the battles fought are |
seldom decisive. They usually end BY the |
Cretans changing their positions, and by the |
Turks burning few defenceless villages, as if |
in revenge for resultless fighting. On the |
south coast are some hundreds of homeless |
families, who have brought with them across |
tne mountains as much as they could save |
rom their burnt villages. The Arcadian is |
empioyed IN carrying away these wretched |