The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-01
AFFAIRS IN EUROPE.

From France.
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN PARASITIC Sc
-- vRES PORCELAIN FACTORIES.
PARIS, July 3l.-The fact that but few
ballots were cast ut the municipal elections.
and that the great mass Of voters abstaned
from the exercise of franchise, is generally
attributed TO the continuance of the State
siege Of Paris, which exercises baneful
influence in all classes Of society. ..s
The immense porcelain factories at Sc
vres, in which work has been entirely sus-
pended since the siege of Paris by the Ger
mans commenced, are to be at once re-
established. Sc '.-. .'.
RESULT OF THE PARIS ELECTIoNs-THE COM
MUNIsT TRIALS, &C.
PARIS, July 31.-The result of this and
the supplementary elections for members
of the Municipal Council of Paris has been
declared. The Council is composed Of 80
Conservatives, Moderate Republicans, q
Republicans, and 10 Ultras.
The number Of Communists awaiting trial
is g., 900. In order to render possible the
disposition Of so many cases, bill has been
introduced in the Assembly increasing the
number of judges and removing from them
all restrictions for having committed them
selves against the Versailles Government.
President Thers, in replying to a delega-
ton from the occupied provinces, intimatcd
tnat in six weeks the German occupation
would be limited to Champagne and Lor.
raine.
The acceptance of the resignation of Jules
Favre rs Minister of Foreign Affairs is con-
tirmed
President Theirs is consulting with Gen.
Clsscy with Il view to increasing the army.
.r. From England.
LONDON, July 31.-A meeting Yesterday
in Hyde Park to agitate against the allow
ancc to Prince Arthur was 4 feeble affair.
Another meeting has been called, which
the Government has prohibited.
The chief theme of conversation in all
circles to. day, Is we'll as of the editorials in
the journals, is the expected introduction
in Inc House of Commons Tonight of a
proposition To rensure the Government for
abolishing the system OF the purchase of
army commissions by royal warrant.
PROTEST AGAINST THE PRINCE ARTuUB-AL-
LowANCE- BOISTEROUs DEMONSTRATIONS.
LONDON, July GA meeting was held
tonight at Trafalgar Square to protest
against the proposed allowance to Prince
Arthur. Five thousand people were pre-
sent. Speakers addressed the masses ut dit-
tcrent points, and much excitement was
manifested.
The entire police reserve was called out.
A communist flag which was carried in the
crowd was seized amid boisterous Demon
STATIONS. Some fighting is reported to have
taken place, and arrests have been made.
The meeting adjourned i'm disorder, aud the
crowds were dispersed by the police.
ENTHUSIASM IN IRELAND OVER THE EXPECTED
VISIT OF TIE PRINCE OF wALES-STRIKERS
COMING TO THE UNITED sTATEs-sTIKRING
TIMES IN TIE HOUSE OF LORDS, ETC.
LONDON, July 31.-Dlspatches from Dub
lin report that great enthusiasm is mani
tested over the expected visit of the Prince
of Wales. The Prince is already on the
route, and is accompanied by Prince Ar
thur, Duke of Cambridge, Marquis Of
Lorne. and a number OF other members of
the nobility.
Rev. Henry L. Manscl, dean Of st. PauTs
Church, is dead, aged 81 years.
Thirty of the New Castle strikers have
gone to the United States.
In the House of Lords to-day the Earl of
Granville, in moving favorable answer to
the royal message on behalf of Prince Ar
thur, urged that the demand merely full
filled a contract made at the beginning of
the reign of the Queen. He spoke in warm
eulogy of the Prince, whose visit to Can
ada had secured the affection Of the Colo
nists. ..g4. -
The Duke of Richmond heartily seconded
the motion, which was carried without di-
vision. "r.
The Duke of Richmond then moved a
vote of censure of the Queens message as
an unworthy ministerial resort. He de-
noupced in strong language the speeches
made at the banquet at the Mansion House
Saturday in relation to the treaty of Wash
innton, and claimed that the royal preroga-
tive was much strained in the ratification
of that instrument without the assent OF
Parliament.
Earl Granville spoke in defepce OF the
MESSAGE as responding simply to the pre-
yious action of the House of Commons.
In the House of Commons, Mr.. Glad
stone stated that unless the bill relative to
elections was passed by Tuesday, an Octo-
Der session Of Parliament was imminent.
Peter Alfred Taylor denounced the max
ing of appropriations to Prince Arthur,
who, he said, had better serve the country
than he its pensioner. ~s. y.
LATEST-THE ALLOWANCE BILL. PASSED IN
.s@E THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
LONDON, July 3l.-The House of Com
mons tonight passed the bill granting an
allowance of Gl5,000 per anuum to Prince
Arthur by a, vote of 276 to IL. s.,..-...
az uri.iT iHro" fru ssia.. = 4 7s!}s..
SENTENCE OF ExcoNhUNIcATioN-"s TRIKE''
IN BERLIN.
KoRIeSBURG, PRussIA, July H,-The
Archbishop of Eimband has pronounced
sentence of major accommodation against
DR. w Gilman, and directs that it be read
from all the puIpits in his diocese. p.
! BERLIN, July 31.-The journey men ma
sons OF this city have struck work and APP
pointed a committee to confer with the
master masons with a view to more speedily
accomplish the object Of the strike. A re-
solution has been adopted that it Is the
duty of all unmarried masons to leave Ber-
l;,> .,5 coak tcmporary work elSewhere.-~