Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-08
FOREIGN.
Proceedings Of the House Of Commons
The Carlists Petition for Amnesty
Affairs Unsettled Ia Japan.


LONDON, August The Oxford
crew are expected at Putney Wednes-
day. Their new boat has arrived; it
is forty-twO feet long. The Harvards
were out for practice last evening.
Their speed was greater than ever.
In the House Of Commons last even
ing, Mr.. Bruce, Secretary of State for
the House Department, in reply 10 a
question from Palmer, said the press
ure of public business prevented the
introduction OF bill to establish
uniform marriage law for the United
Kingdom. When the opportunity pre-
sented he would present it, 10 be dealt
with on liberal and unseetarian prin-
ciples.
Mr.. Moore, member for Tipperary,
inquired as to the course Of the Gov
ernment IN regard TO FeDians.
Mr.. Bruce replied that O'Don0van
and Rosa were subjected 10 a punish
ment which strict discipline and their
misconduct required. The treatment
was unnecessarily severe. Mr.. Ma
guire, member from Cork, appealed to
the Government to extend ciemency
to the Fenians.
Xiscount Melton made an inquiry
respecting boundaries between British
possessions and the L. 5. AltOeva
replied that the land question was al
ready settled, and in respect TO the
water boundaries Earl Russell in 1860,
had proposed that that matter be re-
ferred for arbitration, and that the
United States agreed to this proposal,
but the negotiations were interrupted
by the breaking out of the war, and in
October last the American Govern
ment resumed the proposition for the
arbitration, and convention was
signed, which now awaits the ratiti-
cation of the Senate.
MADRID, August After the exc
cution of the Carlist insurrectiOnists,
recently, the band to which they be
longed petitiOned the Government for
amnesty. Their bands everywhere
are dispensing.
Affairs in japan are unsettled, and
snch hostility is shown to foreigners
that an English man-0f-waF that was
in Chinese Waters was ordered 20 10
kohomo, and the English regiment
there. which was about 10 leave, was
ordered TO remain.
LONDON, August THE purposes
Ol Aiit W Isl IlltAla alANa EltAittU wv
graph Company has just been issued.
The design is TO connect South AmeTi-
ca with Europeand the United States,
by means Of q cable from Cuba TO
Central America.
The Spectator to-day has an article
on the difficulties between Turkey and
Egypt. The writer says: 1t is for
tunate that the Sultan and Niceroy
always want money, otherwise war
might result; but the Western pow
ers are likely to put a pressure on
the disputants that will make Ismore
Weld, and the Sublime Porte express
satisfaction. .. 't
PARIS, August 7.-GVstaye Elau-
rims. who was-gOgndcd Ia duel yes
terday by Paul Gassigreae, is to-day
pronounced out OF danger.
CONsTANTlSOPI.E, August "A
proposal was made in the Council yes
f.srday to demand the presence at Con
stantinOple OF Ishmael Pacha to IT,
port upon his proceedings in Germa-
ny, France and England. II is said
Representatives of the Great Pachas Of
Germany, France and England, in
this city, win use their influence to
pTeEent tnis step.
u is probable that the EieerOy viii
come here next month, and remove
all unpleasant feeling, before the open
inc of the SueZ canal.