The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-24
GREAT BRITAIN.

take aCfIVQ
measures to prevent the repetition of snch
horrors in the future.
GREAT BRITAIN. q
LONDON, Aug. 22.-The international race
Detween the American yacht Sappho and the
English yachts Condor, Omara, Cambria and
Onve, which was arranged to come off yester-
day, has been postponed until Tuesday next
Inc following regulations have been agreed
upon: The race be subject to the rules Of The
royal yacht squadron, and tine course to he
once around the Isle of Wight; no square sails
10 10 De allowed. There is no limit to the guam
thy or extent OF other sails or number of men
carried. The Sappho, which is registered i'm
tons. NN 81 'io
It's proper to state that the dispatch an
nouhcing the intended assassination of Oueen
Victoria in Switzerland, by a person sI,nnosed
10 oelong TO the Fenian organization, was re-
celved through the regular news channel The
Foreign Office here has received no advices nf
the aitalr beyond that contained in the tele-
gram in question.
FRANCE. -
PARIS, Aug. 22-The proprietors Of the To
Lanterne, the editor of which was recently
sentenced to pay a fine of 10000 francs for thea
violation OF the press law, yesterday attempted
10 resume its publication. The police. howey-
er, were notified and the edition was seized and
conhscated before it left the office of the prin-
ter. " 'Ao pm
PARIS, Aug. 23.-The Patrie, in an editorial
on Amer can affairs, advises that the DISPUTE
between United States and Great Britain con-
cerning the Alabama claims, be referred to the
.al atIi OF the great powers as the only
inethou OF arriving at definite and final SET
Element. wv
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug 22-The government
Is In receipt OF later dispatches from Bokhlra.
Inc Emir had signified his willingness to ac-
cept tne terms OF peace offered by the Gar,
RYcanfinn hnx a..
ment to build Notifications.
TURKEY.
LONDON, Aug. 23-Dispatches from Con-
stantlnople report that Admiral Farraeut still
remained in that city last week He had an
interview with Gen. Ignatief the Russian EN-
pasSador 10 the Sublime Porte, and subsequent
~ the Admiral in company with Ignatief Wis
tied the Turkish Ministers Fuad Pash and All
Pasha. '''D "H" All
by Steamer.] eH
NEW YORK, Aug. % --The steamer Citv of
antwerp brings mail advices from Oueenstown
to the 18th.
Active preparations for the forthcoming u w.
hamentary elections were in progress throuah
out Great Britain. The test question ia the
qiSestaDllShneDt of the Irish Church. and the
Liberals and Tories are obliged to declare for
OF against that measure before their consttu-
ents.
w: E. Forster, Member of Parliament for
bradford, has made speech in which he cor
demned Disraeli and his policy but praised
Lord Stanley's course with regard to the Ala
Dama claims and the naturalization question.
.Douglas Cooke, editor of the Saturday Re-
view, is dead.
A telegraph cable is to be laid between Den
mark and Prussia - :,
Sem-official correspondence of Berlin prais-
es Baron Won Beutz's recent speech at rifle
meetlng IN Vienna, ON account of its admis-
sion that Austria is no longer German State,
nor considers herself called to exercise a guild
ing influence in the destinies of Germany, and
adds that Prussia will not quarrel with Aus
ira as long as she adheres faithfully to the
principles of peace and reconciliation thus laid
down.