Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-05-24
FOREIGN News.


trial trip made fifteen knots per hour.
The Cotton Supply Association at recent.
meeting congratulated the Brazilian Minister
on the production of Santos cotton.
The bill for the abolition of University tests
has been ordered to ID reading in the British |
House of Commons. The lrish Land Bill has
been passed through the Committee OF the
whole, and ordered to be reported to the House.
A meeting was held at the Mansion House in
London, and delegates appointed to the World s |
Evangelical Council to be held in New ork.
Mark Lemon, editor of the London Punch, died
yesterday.
The armor.pIalcd steamer Audacious, just
completed for the British Navy, had trial trip
Yesterday. She attained speed OF thrter n
and one half knots.
Yesterday the Postmaster General of France
| was dangerously injured by 4 runaway horse:
it is reported the French High Court will
! meet June 18th, TO Try those arrested ior
completely 10 the regicide plot. 1t is not yet
| known whether the Court will convene at Tours
| or at BIois.
In the Spanish Cortcs on Saturday. one OF
| tho DEPUTIES questioned the Ministers a. TO
the truth OF the rumored concert of action on
| the part OF Great Britain and Tho United
States to effect mitigation OF the 50 called
Spanish horrors in Cuba Senior Morat, Min
lister for the Colonies, replied lie said that
while such rumors had been extensively pub
lished, the Government was without Official
| information on the subject. While the matter
vas before the Deputies lie desired to remind
| them that De Rodas, Captain General OF Cuba
had repeatedly invited American CommlS-
sioners to visit Cuba and sec for themselves
how utterly false these stories were.
| An Imperial decree has just been Issued Tor
1 .ort ~, \ At II.
srath and of the Diets in the various provinces
| of the Empire. A new election Tor these bodies
| has also been ordered Should the Diets de
| cline to choose Deputies 10 the RcichSrah the
| Government engages to order direct appeal
| to tho Inhabitants OF the provinces Tor that
purpose.
| Dispatches fr,m Bombay state thai nearly
half Of the cotton DOW shipped from Indian
ports goes Ly way Of the SucZ tanrl: OnIy
small portion of this, however, reaches Eng
land. The bulk OF cotton SO shipped goes 10
various ports in the Mediterranean.
Letters from Madrid confirm previous reports
that Prm has direct understanding with
Sadanha, whereby an lbarlan. Union Is to be
established.
| WASHINGTON ITEMS. The Supreme Court
Of the District OF Columbia, sitting IN general
term. has ovcrruIcl the decision OF the court
below, in which the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road was convicted 10 two cases OF committing
nuisance, and sentenced 10 pay ilno and re-
move the nuisance.
Kate V. Jennings, quadrooa, has been ap
| nnintcd 4 clerk in the Fourth Auditor $ ONCE
: This is The second colorcd appointment among
the female clerks in the Treasury Department
On the first Of June Professor Henry INTENDS
! to sail for Europe. llo is going tor the benc
fit OF his health, by special aud unexpected
invitation Of the board o. reS*n!s 81 th'
Smithsonian Institution: and Will be accom-
panied by his eldest daughter.
: On Saturday, iu the Criminal Court, ltobsrt
,, Banks, convicted OF an outrage on little or
ten years old, was sentenced to ten years IN
prisonment in the Albany pcntentlary.
MIR. Colbert, q carpenter, on Saturday even
inc nlacel bill tor IS OF IN the hands y; L
constable ior collection, Tor work done Tor the
,, corporation months ago, and the constable has
obtained Judgment and execution on the
same. which will be enforced As soon as nc can
@ penetrate into the city hall As lar Is Tie may
7 ors Office. to seize the furniture.
r The Judgment against the corporation OF
WASHINGTON for $500 and costs TO ThoS. Aiur
} ray and wife, Tor injuries sustained by iaEIng
Gown an embankmcnt, was satisfied by Mayor
: Bowen to day. lot known as the spring
S Iot," bclonping to the corporation, was about
to be sold tc satisfy the judgment, but MIR.
Bowen drew a check on the First National
Bank for the amount OF Judgment and costs,
amounting altogether to over seven hundred
| dollars The bank refused TO pay the check,
and it was returned to the mayor, who, seeing
, that it would novor do to let the property br
sold by the sheriff, finally paid the clam out
) oil his own pocket.
i Our Washington dispatches state that Bra