The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-17
E u II o p e.
GREAT BRITAIN,

LONDON, Nov. 16.-The corporate authorities
OF Brighton will give banquet in honor of
Reverdy johnson and George Peabody on
Saturday next.
The announcement is made to-day in the
London journals that the Rev. Archibald
Campbell TAFT, D. d.. Bishop of London, has
been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
parliamentary nominations were made to-
day in nearly 200 boroughs and in nine coun-
ties in England, Scotland and ireland. Great
excitement prevails in all parts of the king
dom. but so far the elections have been attend
ed with little or no violence. Returns from
forty-one constituencies show that the Liber-
ais had gained six members. The election of
the following candidates have been decided or
may be considered certain:- Conservatives
Ben!. Disraeli, the present Premier, from
Buckinghamshire; Geo. Ward Hunt, present
Chancellor of Exchequer from Northamptop-
shire North; Claiborne Hardy, present Home
Secretary, from Oxford University; Charles
b. Adderly, present under Colonial Secretary,
from Staffordshire North; Lord Robert Mont
gomery, from Huntingtonshire; Col Tay Tor,
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from
Dublin county; George Scloter Booth, from
Hampshire North; Spencer Horatio Walpole,
from Cambridge University; John Robert
Mowbray, from Oxford University; Stephen
Cove, from Shorebam; Beresford Hope, from
Cambridge University; Liberals John Evelyn
Dennison, Speaker of the last House of Com
mons, from Nottingbamshire North; Robert
Lowe, from London University; Geo. Green
fel.
LONDON, Nov. 16-There was a slight dis
turbance at Manchester to-day, but it was
soon Quoted by the efforts of the police. No
reports of serious disorder have been received
from any part of the country.
SPAIN.
MADRID, Nov. 16.-There was an immense
demonstration here Saturday in favor OF
monarchial form of government. Addresses
mazda hu OIo1aza Mortau inn,
Topete and others. No less than fifty thousand
people were present. and there was much en-
thusiasm.
The Republican party is gaining largely in
numbers and influence in the cities of Seville
and Cadiz.
LONDON, Nov. 16.-A dispatch from India
announces the death of Che Pha Mongkout,
King of Siam.
FRANCE.
PARIS, Nov. 16-Baron James Rothschild,
head of the house of Rothschilds, bankers,
died here yesterday.
La France finds fault with Lord Stanley for
his reference to France in his recent speech at
Kings Lynn. 1t says he should recommend
moderation to Prussia, not to France, and as
serts that the general impression produced by
that speech is not reassuring either as to the
result of American negotiations or the pros
pect of peace in Europe.
LONDON, Nov. 16-Dispatches from Paris
state that NJ: Barocbe, Minister of Justice, and
M. Perrard, Minister of Interior, have issued
instructions to the Projects of Departments
requiring them to suppress all public manifest
atoms in regard to the coupt detat of the I'd of
December.
The office and material of the Temps news
paper have been seized by the police, and the
publication of the journal is suspended. The
French Government has commenced prosecu-
tons against other journals for alleged viola
tons of the press law.
AUSTRIA.
PEsTH, Nov. 16.-Baron Won Beust to-day
opened a meeting of delegations in this city.