Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-09
FROM EUROPE.
GrenI Britain.

LONDON, Aug. s.
1t is again rumored that eX-Emperor Napoleon
intends TO take up his residence in Switzerland
The latest advices which have been received
from the Cape of Good Hope state that the dia
mond fields lately discovered in that vicinity are
found to be in much greater number and extent
than was at first supposed, Precious stones OF
great beauty and value are constantly being
discovered, arousing the greatest excitement
among both settlers and natives.
The new steamship Spain of the National
line, has sustained damage 10 her stern plates
from two strikes against the dock, and has gone
into dock for repairs,
In the commons today, there was severe
encounter between the leaders of the tory and
liberal parties. Disrael savagely charged Glad
stone with bad leadership, both in the house
and in his party; with wasting many weeks on
subjects subsequently abandoned; with need
essly invoking the exercise of the royal prerOg-
alive, and with pOstponing important and even
vital legislation. Gladstone retorted that Dis
raelps sO-called facts were but the offspring OF
his Imagination and lingual powers, and that
the lost time of which Disraeli complained was
due to the resistance by tories to electoral re-
form.
Mr. Gladstone implored the house to pass the
ballot bill forthwith, and violent personal and
partisan debate followed, after which Mr. Fors-
ter summed up for the bill as one demanded by
the people. The bill then passed.
Sir John Gray member for Kilkenny city, has
given notice of his intention to call the atten-
ton of the commons on Friday TO the subject
OF the riots in Dublin on Sunday.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. S.-Ihe ship Southampton,
which took fire Saturday when ready to sail for
New York with cargo of coal, and burned
nearly to the waters edge, has since filled with
the tide and will be total loss.
The naval court martial for the trial of the
officers the iron-clad "Agincourt," which got
ashore at Gibraltar, has pronounced the defend
ants guilty of negligence, ETC., but under extern
Mating circumstances, and sentenced Captain
Beamish and Staff Commander Knight to be Sc
verely reprimanded and admonished and
Lieutenant Bell TO be admOnished.
Ireland.
DUBLIN, Aug. s.
The city is quiet. All the persons arrested for
obstructing the thoroughfares on Sunday have
been discharged from custody on the payment
of small fines. Smith, the member of parlia-
ment who was instrumental in getting up the
amnesty demonstration, and who was among
those beaten by the police, has written a letter
to The authorities, demanding an immediate in
qury of all the facts of the case.
The foot and mouth disease of an extremely
yrulent type has broken out among the cattle
in county Meath, Ireland.
France
VERSAILLES, Aug. s.
George Wilkes, director of the Lower CalifOr-
MIA company, proposes to President Theirs to re-
ceive all communist prisoners as cOlonists, and
Theirs has promised to lay the offer before the
assembly.
The war budget has been increased two hun
bred and seventy-one millions of francs. Theirs
and the committee upon the subject have come
to an agreement respecting the proposed law for
the regulations of the departments, and q COM
plete understanding will shortly be reached upon
the bill for the Naturalization of the provinces
devaSted by the war.
Advices from Algiers say that the insurrec-
tiOnists have been routed, and that MOredden
has been subdued, The revolt, however, contin-
ues in the province of Constantine, the most
eastern of the three departments of Algeria.
Numerous murders are still committed by the
rebels in that province, and several forests have
been burned.
The assembly to-day passed an indemnication
| BILL 1t compensates the inhabitants in the de-
partments for loss, damage and suffering dur
| ing the war, either from war or the French
| troops, after due examination of the claims,
| and authorizes the settlement of the amount.
1t also authorizes the minister of finance to dis
| tribute Immediately the sum of one hundred
million francs among the most needy of the
claimants.
bin providing for system of compulsory
| and gratuitous education throughout the coun-
try was introduced to-day.
| PARIS, Aug. S.-The government, it is stated
| proposes indemnifcaton of the provinces in
| vaded by the Germans, in three classes, and in
| proportion to the amount oil losses, precedence
| being given to those utterly ruined by war
The French ambassador to the Austrian court
will. at his own request replace Marquis de Ga
| briac as minister to Berlin.
Goulois and Paris journals both state that
Jules Simon is member of the International
| society.
II is reported that after this week the Prussians
will evacuate the departments of the Disc and
Seine, and two departments Immediately con-
tguous thereto,
Al the council of war held yesterday for the
consideration of state affairs in Algeria, Theirs
and MacMahon were present and took par in
the proceedings. The result was an adoption Of
energetic measures for final suppression of the
revolt.
The second municipal election was held IL
Strasbourg yesterday. Fully one-half of thu
| voters abstained from the exercise of the fran
chise, and only eight hundred and seventeen per