The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-01
Foreign News.
ENGLAND.

LONDON, December 81. - Hlstorl-
Gus. of the Times, has an article to day
assailing the dispatch Of Secretary
Fish on the Alabama question.
Mr. Ashbury has forwarded to the
-MorniRg Post the correspondence be-
tween himself and Mr.. Bennett on
the ocean yacht race. lie accompa
MES the correspondence with letter
wherein he says he accepts tho terms,
aud will be ready on reaching New
York to race for the cup won By the
yacht America. In 1851.
LONDON, Dec. 31.-The IFeelstg
E.rGnaiaer has an article on. the A Ia
bana difficulties. 1t says that when
the nature of the American struggle
was understood England restored her
svmpathies to the North, aud that
reclamations now based on the earliest
wrongs are simply unduly vindictl7e.
The Shipping Gdzette, IN its money
article, ascribes the ease n the money
market to the diminished capital re-
quired, owing to The shrinkage of
prices for conducting business since
1865.
LONDON, Dee 31.-Heavy gales
have prevailed all around the coast
during the past few days. aud many
shipWrecks, attended. in some In
stances, with loss of life, have already
been reported. The American bark,
G. w. Minot, from Mobile, with q
cargo of cotton for Havre. experienced
one Of these gales when about two
days sail from the Cornish coast, but
weathered the storm and made the
port Of Penzance. She lost two masts
and suffered other. damage. The
bark Edna, from Montreal to Green
ock, was driven ashore en the coast Of
Ireland, by previous gale. The
Captain and seven of the crew were
drowned. The bark will probably be
total loss. So
~ 3o FRANCE.
PARIS. Dec. 3l.-Prince Charles, Of
Prussia, and his wife, are at the
Grand Hotel, The Emperor called
upon them yesterday
PARIS, December 31-The French
Cable Company forward, free of
charge, and beg you will publish the
following telegram, copied from the
Journal O6tcidle Of this morning.:
OFFICE OF THE DIREcToR GENERAIsl
OF TELEGRAPH LINES. j
The message of the President of
the United States to Congress at its
opening, as it is published by the
newspapers. contains, in the part Tela-
tive to the French Trans Atlantic Ca
BILE Company, an assertion which this
administration considers 1t duty 10
correct.
It states, in substance, that accord
ing to the terms of the concession
dispatches from America transmitted
by that route are subject to the exam
ination and control of the French
Governments, aud it is evident that
the passage was written under the
impression that such are the ccndi-
tions of the concession. This Ad-
ministration exercises no control
of that nature either over dis
patches from America or from any
other quarter, but il is its duty to
see that communications are trans
mitted over the cable in the order Of
their filing, or of their reception at
Brest, aud that there is 10 fayoritIs is IN
in that respect. 1t must also, on ac-
count of the taiegraphio monopoly
held by the Government, see that no
dispatches are clandestiRely intro
duced upon the line, and so avoid the
tax which legitimately accrues to the
State.
Such is the double aims Of It's con-
trol TO protect at once the Interests
Of the public and the Treasury. FL
nally, the conditions under which this
department exercises control over
the business Of the line, arc without
political intention. It's subordina5es
and employees are charged with the
task, and their duty is restricted
TO the Yerifcation of ciphers, such as
thesignals Of place and time of fling
and of forwarding, and the numb Der
of words which torm the basis for
application Of the Government tax.
The most of the dispatches, partieu
larly those designed for Nantes, B3r-
deaux, Toures, Toulone5 and those
sections, arrive at their destination
without passing through Paris at all,
The same is true of correspondence
addressed to any part of Spain or
England, such messages being trans
mitted direct from Brest to london.
PARIS, December 31-1I P. M.-UI
to the present time the new ministry
has not been formed. but it is report.
ed It will be morrow.
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