New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-20
FOREIGN NOTES.

TIE German colony in Metz increases daily.
The London Times in commenting upon MT.
Gladstones speech at Wakefield. recommends rest "
Mr. Gladstone, and says that In seclusionsaSSn re
sion Is to be allowed to ambitious men-'nins' 0
brought to their true proportions. ga
VIM. Morgan, on behalf Of the Committee
Of the Confederate Bondholders in England has written
a letter to The London Standard In which be says:
beg to state that the Committee has been and Is nong
everything they can for the benent OF ;ne nd Tie
CORES pondence with Her Majcstys Governmeh' WI" "0
published"
The detailed census returns show that the
population Of the colony OF Victoria is 7s6ot, OF "non
4OoOs2 are male and $40 o2 females Among the iorner
are Ito Cinnamon and only % Monaghan females
while the sborgines number SIG males and $40 females
The European population Therefore . s S s a"%
SHlT6elds the numbers OF the nearly equal
and the disprOporton exists ID the agrlcntrai anu poo
tOral districts and at the more remote mines
The Governor of Paris, Gen. de Ladmirault,
acting upon the powers conferred upon him a. military
Commander In Chief during the state OF siege has
ordered the suppression OF the newspaper La verne on
the ground OF It's publication OF articles calculated W ex
cite "subversive passions, and even cV wal. ~ M
measure although tue Temps doubts whether it is not
now time that the state OF siege should cease tne
the venosmr and tie Cri du Peuple which has yillihed
the army our last safeguard and our last nope, mos
that Ladmirault has done quito rght III suPprees
Ing so dangerous an organ
The Paris correspondent of the Nord-
deutsche AHgemeine Zeitung says OF the "L9"e de Ia
Dfrrance for the avowed purpose Of severing Asace
and Lorraine from Germany: "T1s society has c0nst-
tuted itself It has opened Office in the Rue dc Pro
yence it has officially announced its designs IN the pnn
of week, which the public are invited through
the to attend 81 bc as besn openly a
nounced will involve dagrant breach OF the treaty OF
discussions am informed that at present Frenchmen
and few Asatans and Lorrainers are members OF 'niS
Liberation Society,"
On the 5th inst. the Manchester and Liver
pool Agricultural Society opened most successful three
days show In Liverpool. In the evening there was
dinner at which Lord Derby presided About $50 people
sat down the table. Lord Derby, in proposing the
toast Of the evening, Prosperity to the Maehester ana
Liverpool Agricultural Society,"" took occasion 70 gay:
"My belief is-tlOugh / give it only as thing which
seems to probable not as thing proved-tnat Dol
great a and very % e srs Poof
landowners prefer 10 cent IN trade to per cent from
andhey sell and go into s a1 on mem ene do NOT
desire to extend thcr holding Of what Is essentially an
unremunerative investment"
A Congress of schoolmasters and school
mstresses consisting Of about 1900 persons has recently
been in session at Linz in Upper Austria The Governor
Of the Province opened the Congress with an address IN
which he said that the Austro Hungarian Government
continued to he animated by progressive spirit In cd-
catonal matters. and that it would never permit any
retrogession This declaration produced very depres
sing effect on the fen members vino GeoIS S tns
The teaching Of religion according to creed is opposed
R r. fhd teashns deVe"p simply %
ituay possibly the knowledge OF the ORIGINAL sore
of existence by means Of science and history D. me
teaching of morality should proceed by example as well
as by precept 1t being admitted that the teachlng OF
religion and morality IL irrespective OF creed the neces
sy for an ecclesiastical teacher Of religion in national
schools disappears The other speeches and resolution.
equally liberal In tome and the Congresses resarueu
event OF no small Importance