The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-21
SUMMARY OF FOREIGN NEWS.
BY Mail and Cable.

The released Fenians are to have fine re-
ception in Dublin.
The usual street parades in Paris, on
shrove Tuesday, will be prohibited.
Tho Irish members of s4he English House
of Commons have all agreed to accept the Re-
form bill introduced by Mr.. Gladstone.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte will be tried be-
fore the High Court of Justice on the charge Of
homicide through imprudence.
The Spanish Cortes are considering a bill
which abolishes the duties levied on the coast
ing trade OF the Antilles
-Advices from Stockholm state that the
Diet has passed law admitting dssenters and
Jews to political rights.
The merchants of Glasgow held a meeting
on Wednesday and denounced the new Eng
lish telegraph system.
-Adylces from Spain state that the Carlsts
are plotting general outbreak in the spring.
The outbreaks that have been reported were
promptly suppressed.
of interest by the banks in Europe will create
an improved demand for United States secu-
rites.
AN address, signed by London and Liver
pool merchants, is in circulation in Madrid, hop
ng the Spanish troops will soon subdue the
Cuban insurgents.
-Advices from London state that o Fcnian
demonstration was announced to take place at
Cork on wednesday, but was repressed by the
authorities.
The Paris Journal Offlciel published an Inn
perial decree on Thursday, which annuls the
decree OF 1851, giving the French Government
the power OF transporting to the penal settle
ments parties who belong to secret societies.
From latest Paris advices Gustave Flou-
rens has been sentenced to six months impris-
onment and fine of one hundred francs n.
DevereuY. publisher of La Aarseillaise, has
been sentenced to two months imprisonment
and fine of five hundred francs.
Prince Napoleon will be tried for the vol
untary homicide of Eolr, followed by an at
tempt upon the life OF Fauveille, and, upon
conviction, be. sentenced to death. It is
, thought the court may, upon extenuatlng
circumstances, lessen the punishment two de-
grees.
Explanations have been given to England
and Russia, through the medium of their re-
spectlvc representatives, on the subject of the
concentration of troops on the frontiers Of
Montenegro aud Dalamatia. 1t appears from
these explanations of the Grand Vizier that
the troops will be gradually withdrawn as
tranquility is re-establishcd In the Bocchl dl
Cattaro.
Queen Isabella has, according to the Gau-
lois, magnanimously resolved to suspend all
warllke projects to obtain her restoration. She
has opened negotiations with the members of
the actual government, with view to their
accepting the candidature for the throne. OF
the Prince Alphonse. If they will have the
young Prince for King, the Queen promises
that she will abdicate, and that her son shall
accept the constitution voted by the Cortes.
"A fearful tragedy occurred January 2Sth
in the Rue du Faubourg st. Honore, in Paris,
lady named Lombart, residing at No. 80,
having been murdered by her footman, who
also dangerously wounded the lady's maid and
the cook The man during the day had had
an alteration with his mistress, and when,
about six In the evening, she ordered him to
serve the dinner, he rushed at her with knife
and cut her throat, killing her on the spot.
The two female servants came to the assist
ancc of their mistress, and in the struggle
which cnsucd one was cut 80 severely that her
life Is despaired of. The murderer, who is q
Belgian by birth, and Is believed to haye been
at the moment In state of intoxcation, was
eventually secured by IN upholsterer living In
the house, and was given into the custody oi
the police A terrible detail in connection with
this crime is that the husband Of Nine. Lom-
bart is stricken with paralysis, and saw his
wife murdered before him without being able
to afford her assistance.
The foreign mails bring an examination by
| Sir Rodcrlck l. Murchlson into the story that
Livingstone had been killed and burned by the
natives on the lakes at the head OF Congo
River, ninety days. journey from the mouth
On comparing dates 1t appears that Living
stone, on May 30th, 1869, wrote from Ujij to
Zanzibar, requesting to be supplied from that
point with boatmen and goods, to enable him
to proceed to the north of Lake Tanganyika,
so as to connect the sources he had discovered
with the Nile of Spekc and Baker. On October
I'd, 1869, DR.. Kirk, British Consul at Zanzibar,
in his dispatch to Lord Clarendon, stated that
he would lose no time in sending the men and
supplies to Livingstone. Sir Rodcrick Murchi-
son argues that Livingstone had not sufficient
time, even if he had proceeded without wait
ing for supplies, to proceed to Tnganyika and
then round to the head Of the Congo River by
the date required to verify the rumor of his
death. The story, said to have been brought
bya Portuguese trader, was contained in let
ter from the west coast Of Africa, anl dated
January 9th, 1870.
PERSONAL GOSSIP.