Evening star., 1870-03-02
LATE TELEGRAMS, &c.

The blondes all reached Detroit on Monday.
ID uring the day hand-bill had been circulated
on the streets purporting to be addressed to the
troupe, and containing a savage attack on Mr..
Storey, and a letter written To him by Lydia
Thompson. number of prominent citizens
protested to the Mayor against giving the troupe
q license To exhibit, on the ground that it was
indecent. The Mayor called the License Com
n ittee OF the Common COancil together. and
u nder their instruction finally granted the Ii
cense.
Mayor Hall, of New York, has returned the
RESOLUTION of the Common Council rendering Mr..
Seward the hOspitalIties OF the city, saving it
does not require either approval or disapproyaI
but at the same time calls attention to the pro-
Vision OF the charter forbidiing expenditure for
any celebration, &C., without three-fourths
vote
In the British House of Lords yesterday a bill
was introduced by Lord Redesdale to amend
the Irish Church act The bill was passed to
lts MS. reading, and the House adjourned. In
the House of Commons, Rylands gave notice of
motion for the reduction OF the African squad
ron.
At caucus of the Conservative members of
the Legislature OF Virginia last night John l..
Marye, Jr-, the present Lieutenant Governor
was nominated for that office, and W. III. Ruff
ner, of ROckbridge, for superintendent OF public
INSTRUCTION, which - equivalent to election.
In the Reichstag of Prussia Yesterday Count
Won Bismarck made a long speech against the
abolition OF death penalties. He declared the
adoption OF such measure would be fatal to the
new code. The Reichsiag, however, voted in
favor of abolition by majority of 81.
The Bishop of Osma has arrived in Madrid in
custody of the civil guards. Senior Nartos in
tends 10 interpelate the Government respecting
the visit which the Spanish bishops in Rome
made to Prince Alfonso on his arrival there
with the Duke de Cheste.
John Purcell was on Monday convicted in
New York OF the murder of w. Herman, and
the court Immediately sentenced him to be
hung. The murder grew out of a fist night
among number of butcher-cart boys.
The clerical trial of the Rev ID. c. Wright O
the Methodist Church, at Quincy, ILL.,, has been
concluded He has been found guilty of re-
Peated adultery with Miss Clisbee, and dismissed
from the ministry.
Yesterday. at the Baltimore CITY Jail Sheriff
Albert read to James Lewis Collins, convicted
OF muI der in the first degree. his death warrant
assign ng Friday, the lst day OF April, as the
day Oi execution.
The Senate of Virginia yesterday passed the
enabling act. and II il now a law. After its sig
nature by the Governor the Offices in the State
now held by military appOintees will be filled by
the Governor.
Another Cuban expedition is reported to be
about TO leave the country. -Four hundred
York on Saturday under COlonels Harper and
Romero.
For the first time since 1850 the police in Rome
permit the wearing Of masks in the streets
during the carnival. No disturbance has oc-
CURED.
During February thirty-One vessels belonging
TO OF bound to OF from ports in the United States
were reported totally lost OF missing.
Franklin IL. HOvev. of New York who was
shot a few days since in Richmond by a drunken
soldier, died yesterday.
The Government has gained the Nation and
GOOdeH whisky case, at 81. Louis, inyol wing
$4,000 worth Of spirits.