New-York tribune., 1871-04-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

mo polish Jews in the Polish provinces,
s,eSt to Russia, have been forbidden 10 wear uei'
navonal dress. -, 5
/rho law courts of Paris are closed, and
cases arc waiting trial since the ith OF september
49, 49,, stiiSs nj least TOC0 nugans in suspense
Tbe cotton merchants at Havre, after long
.oro,ion have resolved adopting in the classified
,n Of cotton the designations employed IN America and
aaeses1'' a'oses,
T,be'Commandant of Laon who was suspected
NJ heuc the prime in the blowing up Of the otidel
after town had been Invested by tho % SSSS rns
Nrcitsten, has just been noeratcu
There is a story in Paris to the effect that
when the Government decided TO Danish from tho city all
she "boueAes inuhies," Emile do Girardin twho had
peyousy declined to on rampant duty because ne
vas nearsgbtedl, at once made up his bundle, ana,
~ INC eilway station sald with tears IN his eyes An
son aaii II requires great courage TO leave rsfis @
each momenti
The Strasboaro Gasette publishes list of
2rAch officers who according to the evidence OF Tis
cners supposed to be dead 1t contains compare
lively few names; but there is second list Of those
officers who are missing and this is terribly long. II
includes OF Generals of Division, IL Generals
commanders Of bsttalons. Tho impression abroad evi
denty that they are not dead. But" remarks the
they are-how they were wounded or In what battle.
A dispute exists in England between the
Midland and Great Northern Railway Companies as to
the rate coal going London the two lines in
consequence Of which the Directors Of the former have
further made reduction OF eight cents per tun Inc
rate by the Midland is now 7s cents ana 10y tne & Grea
Northern 20 cents per t19 less nan %Ss ~ W 20 pf cent
the price of coal at the PIT mouth IDe Two copS,
es ~ are now onS be ~ tbe price to the London con-
sumer is without alteration
Some observations on national defenseS were
lately made at Birmingham by L. ]. Reed, the late
Chief Constructor of the British Navy, which are OF
general application. He said that in case OF war the
great British commercial ports would be found defense
less; and he proposed scheme by which the great re-
sources furnished by the mercantile marine OF those
ports might be available for defensive purposes
Each of the great rivers should possess otila strong
enough 10 repel the attack OF invader. For this pur-
pose each great seaport should be supplied with few
incXpensiv ghtdraught vessels 70 be manned In an
emergency by the seamen frequentng these ports VINO
woald previOusV be trained to such service IL would
not be necessary in all cases to have these g9nooats
parts which took time for their construction should be
kent AT hand and could soon be fitted up. With those
essential parts provided in the hands Of the Govern
neut the country would soon be necessity arose
"a complete the number of vessels required ana adapt
them 10 any changes in construction which might be
considered expedient. All this could be done without
Any increase in the present naval expenses.
J. George Eccarius, the General Secretary OF
The Interuatonay yworkmgmen's Association, writes to
London paper, in regard to the French Anti German
League "that statement has gone the round OF the
English press that the Paris members Of the 'Interna
tonal Workngmcus Association had in so far joined
the socaled Anti German League as to declare all Ger
mans 70 be henceforh excluded from our Association"
This statement is The very reverse OF fact Neither the
Federal Council OF Association in Paris nor any OF
She Paris sections represented by that Council, have
ever passed any such resolution. The sO-caed Anti
German League. far as il exists at all Is the exclusive
WORK OF the upper aud middle casSes II was stareg 6y
the Jockey Club and kept UP by tine adhesion OF the
Academy, the stock Exchange, Of some bankers and
manufacturers &C. The working classes have nothing
whatever do with it, The Object Of these calumnies Is
evident short time before the outbreak OF the ate
war the International made the general scapegoa
for all untOward events. This Is now repeated over
again While the and the Prussian press accuse II
Of having created tho late Outrages upon the Germans
at Zurich, French papers such The Courier de Lyon
6oarier Ia GffOade, La LfbeTt &C., tell Of certain
meetings Of nternatOnas having taken place at
Geneva ana BeTHc, the Prussian Emb8SsadOr III the
chair in which meetings plan cOncOcted 10 hand
over Lyons 10 the united PruSsags and lnternat0nals
for the sake Of common plnnder.