Middletown transcript., 1869-09-04
Summary of Fol eign News.

tne emperor ) lll~nealln, out as ne Is wei
again, or declared to be so, public conf
dence is returning. A poor fellow was
lately tried on an accusation of having
said that the national debt would make n
pile of obligations as high as church
lsteeple. He escaped punishment by proc
ing that whot he said is true. How high
o pile our national bonds would make is
yet uncalculated.
In England the crops are promising
better. The Australians are much insul-
ted at the demand upon Parliament to re-
imburse the Duke of Edinburgh for pres
ents made in that colony. A motion has
been made in the Provincial Assembly to
inquire into the value and personality OF
those presents. Prince Arthur it is to be
hoped, will behave better in Canada The
throne is not so firmly fixed in the colonies
as to bear the driving under it of wedge
after wedge of royal princes, such as Wales
and Edinburgh. By-the-bye the 'Domin-
ion" is quite as restless as the colony was
Yhe Canadians and Nova Scotians will not
fuse into nation, and the probability is
that the whole concern will one day gravi-
tate to the Union.
From Cuba there is nothing new Spain
as unsettled. and Cariist instructions are
get threatened. A king IS sadly wanted.
There has been terrible nun affair in
Cracow. Information WAS in some way
obtained that a nun was in rigorous con-
finement in the Carmeite Convent u n
visitation she was discovered in dreadful
condition. She had been eonfued in a
dungeon for more than twenty years, and
was foppd ip ipdescribable filth and mise
Fy. The excitement of the populace was
so great that they demolished the building
and the other converts were preserved on
ly by military interrentiop. The Austrian
government has taken Up the matter and
the result will be to put the religions hou-
.ses under the supervision Of the law. The
ppiverg says the nun was insane If so,
the nuns were not the sufficient judges of
Insanity and certainly their treatment of
the malady was not of KIND to create
much confidence in their practice.
Correspondents in Spain, writing to the
English journals, assert that the Spaniards
generally are dissatisfied with tie present
condition Of the qdpipistration of justice
and, unless the effective remedy b. applied.
will resort to lynch law. The adlpllisira-
tiop of criminal justice is SO corrupt, thar
persons linger out their lives waiting for
trial, because the judge will not adrpjt III m
to bail without bribe La Aidtmsia q
species of territorial socialism prag5,is
produced hy qvergEovn estates aud gtstn-
tee lapGlordS fonr persons oea most of
@hn l,n
them lives his life in st. Petersburg. U :
gandage is beginning to pfass;l eserg-
where, and General Prm pas ar.ierea ..ll
Generals in the field to shoot ali Carlists
taken in arms.
The Great Eastern Steamship, for lay
ing the French Atlantic Cable, received
$1,000 month during the time spent in
doing the work, and 1000 shares of til.
Gable Company, the market value Of viii n;h
was 500, 900, or 500 share. yhe re-
suit Of the recent expedition showed that
the work of laying seq cables would Away,
be exceedingly hazardoqs, and that the
Great Eastern possessed great advantages
over smaller vessels, TIE Great Easte4n
will sail for india in the first week of Oc-
tober, to lay the new East India Cable in
February, and will receive $3.50, 900 in
stock for her work. She is expected to
return to England in May, and will then
probably be engaged in laying the Fal-
mouth and Gibraltar Gable.
The Amnesty for political offences re-
Gently proclaimed by the Emperor Napo-
icon Ill, on the occasion of the hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Napoleon |, has
been received with great approval by the
Paris journals. The course of the Empe-
ror, it is asserted, is the manner in which
Government acts which is strong enough
to fear nothing from its adversarics, and
which has just revived its popularity by
entering into new and harmonious rela-
tions with the country Attention is call
ed to the fact that the decree of amnesty,
as far as. it applies to press and political
offences, is countersigned by all the minis
tiers. That circumstance it is alleged,
proves that she measure was deliberated
in Council. The amnesty is therefore
considered as a manifestation of the line of
conduct the Ministry intends to pursue
This act Of grace, it is is contended, is the
compliment and the best commentary on
the Imperial message aud the Senatus
Consultum, and is a pledge that liberal
laws will be literally applied.
Ihe Spanish people are sanguipe of the
extinguishment of the Cuban insurrection
10y the rein4orcements they are about to
send over.
The Paris Constitutional says that Mar
.shal Serrano is becoming more and more
prominent as candidate for the Spanish
throne