New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-24
FOREIGN.

OnIy Half of DickenS Edwin Brood
Wrlsten-The Story to Remain Un-
nnlshed-Two Thousand Lives Lost
by the ConstaBtinOple Flre-Defeat
ef Immediate Emancipation Bnl In
spain-Punishment by the Lash Pro-
hibited - Riot Between Irish and
German TallOrs at C0rk-High Re-
gicids Court In Paris adjourned =
The Steele onI Spanish Atrocities -
Spain Needs Money, Cube Needs
Peace, and the United States Needs
Cuba.
CoNsTANT1NoPLE, June 23.-The journals
state that two thousand lives were lost in
the confagration, which recently occurred
here.
MADRID. June 23.-Senor Castillar's bill
for the immediate emancipation of slaves,
was defeated in the Cortes to-day by vote
of IS to 48.
The matter of emancipation has been post.
poned until the next session.
resolution prohibiting punishment by
the lash, was passed.
CORK, June 23.-A severe riot occurred
between the home and German tailcrs, re-
Gently imported to supply the place OF the
strikers.
The police used their clubs freely. Many
were stabbed, and number of the Irish
tailors were arrested.
PARIS, June 23.-The high Regicide Court
| adjourned to Wednesday. Two more regi-
| eide arrests were made last night.
The Siecle, after describing the Spanish
| atrocities in the Antilles, quotes with ap-
proval the following passage from the Lon
| don Messenger: ''Spain needs money,
Cuba needs peace, and the United States
needs Cuba" The Steele adds in this state.
ment: "We see practicable solution OF
the situation"
LONDON, June 23.-Mr. Chapman. the pub.
Usher of Mr.. Dickens works, publishes
| statement that only one half of Mr. Dickens
story, "The Mystery OF Edwin Brood" had
been written. The story will be published
as far as written, and no one will be per-
mitted to finish it. .:
/, The Keble College of Oxford University,
named in honor of the late Rev. John
Keble. author of s"The Christian Year, twas
Rev. Dr.. Pussey and Claiborne Hardy,
MP. for Oxford, oficiated in the inaugu-
raj ceremonies, which were attended by q
large number Of people.
The Times alludes to the butt of Strahan
Va. Forester, for importing and selling an
this is leading case, the trial will soon
commence at Glasgow. The plaintiff lays
damages at $500.
The funeral of Lord Arthur Clinton. one
of the parties involved in the female
masquerade scandal, was strictly private.
| The only attendants were tne luke vi Ne~'
castle and Lord Thomas Clinton, and the
solicitor and physician of the deceased.
The place OF burial is left unmarked.
A deputation representing sixty thousand
operatives in Lancashire waited on. the
committee of cotton manufactures at Black
burn to day, and asked for an increase OF
wages. They were assured that, if the
prices obtained for goods after the harvest
was over should warrant it, their wages
should be raised five per cent.
Mr.. Evans, partner in the firm OF Brad
bury & Evans, who were formerly the pub
fishers of Dickens works, is dead.
HAGUE, June 23.-The government has or
dered the frigate Wassanaer to Curacao, to
exact redress for outrages committed on
Dutch subjects by the new government OF
Venezuela.
LONDON, June 23.-The extent of the
damage to the crops caused by the drought
in France, can not as yet be correctly esti-
mated.
Accounts from the provinces are contra.
dictory, but the grain markets show much
weakness.
The effects of the extraordinary heat are
still felt in Paris. The Seine is so low that
the grass is growing at the foot OF the qusl.