The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-19
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NOON DISPATCHES.
PROCEEDINGS OF PARLIAMENT-CHo1ER
sPREADINa-swORD TO GEN. unnIoH-
TOAST TO THE QUEEN H1ssED-FIRE AND
LOSS OF nIFE-FnENoH TAxAT1oH-NA-
PoLEoN's PETR, &U., 40.
LONDON, August 17.-In the House of
Lords, to-day, the Queens assent to the
army regulation bill was announced.
In the House OF Commons, Viscount
Enfield, Under Secretary of Foreign AT
fairs, said q searching investigation had
been ordered into the facts of the recent
murder of six Englishmen in Peru.
Gladstone spoke at length in defence
OF the action of the police at the Dublin
meeting Of tie 18th instnnt, in reply to
remarks OF Mcguire, member for Cork,
and o.hsss.
A despatch from Suwalki, Poland, says
cases of cholera are decreasing. In that
town, whose population does not exceed
5000, about one-half OF whom are Jews,
there have been 443 cases Of disease, SO
OF which were fatal.
PARIS, August 17.-A sword, sub
soribed by Alsatian residents OF New
York for Gen. Ulrioh, defender of Stras-
burg, was presented to the general to-
day. In accepting the gift Of his coun-
trymen in America, Gen. Ulrioh said he
would only draw the sword when an at.
tempt was made to re-conquer the pro-
vinces which had been torn from France
by the results of war.
La Presss says the German troops who
occupy tho Eastern Department still
treat the inhabitants in the most exaspe-
rating manner.
LONDON. August 18.-Prince Gorts-
chakof publishes q report of whnt
passed between him and the Evangelical
deputation at Frederickshofen, in July.
He says, having heard them, he replied
that their mission had the appearance of
interference in the domestic affairs OF
Russia; that he could permit no foreign
Intervention whatever, and that the Rus
sian Governments could not tolerate
shadow of intervention, from whatever
eide it came. The missionaries ex-
PRESSED their respectful regret. He &C.
oepted the address of the American dele
cation, to hand to the Emperor. The
address of the Swiss delegation to the
Emperor, which was written in London,
he decidedly refused to accept. He then
explained that it might seem invidious
to only accept the address OF the Ameri-
can delegation, and requested them to
withdraw it. which they did.
The House Of Commons. by q MAORI
ty OF fifty-two, sustained the course of
the Government in preventing the
Phoenix Park, Dublin, meeting.
The great lambs wool spinning factory
ut Leicester was burned. Several were
killed by the falling walls.
An unknown yacht capsized, and six
persons were drowned.
DUBLIN, August 1S.-At the banquet
given to the French deputation, to night,
the Lord Mayor proposed as toast
''The Queen" which was received with
storms Of misses, lasting for several
minutes. .,.a.
BERLIN, August 18.-Cholera has ap-
peared in the neighborhood of Stettin.
The disease continues it's ravages ut Ko-
nigsburg, where, on Tuesday, there were
seventy new cases and thirty -four deaths;
and. on Wednesday, eighty new cases
and twenty deaths.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
.I LONDON, August 18.-One franc per
ton is exacted from foreign vessels en-
tering French ports.
Bullion in the Bank of Paris has in
creased II. 10000
Emperor Napoleon has given .tete Mt
Chiselhnrst, at which kilograms were re-
ceived from the Ozar OF Russia King of
Sweden, Emperor of Austria, King of
Portugal, King of Holland, Prince of
Wales, and others.