The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-17
Foreign.

PRESIDENT THEIRS refuses to modify his
ultimatum to England regarding the com
mercial treaty.
THE conspiracy in Barcelona, Spain, among
the troops at that station, proves to have been
adeep-lad plan of the Internationale. Three
| large bombs were discovered in a position
where they evidently had been placed with
the intention of exploding the magazine, the
consummafion of which plot, it is probable,
would have involved the destruction of
thousands of lives."... President Theirs, ac-
companied by the Ministers of War and
Marine, will lay the corner stone of the
projected military establishment at Rouen
on the 9th inst...... The British mail steamer
! Venezuela took fire at sea on the voyage
from Liverpool. he flames were extin-
guished on reaching the harbor of Santa
Martin by scuttling the forward part of the
vessel and submerging one of the water
tight compartments. The fire lasted thirty
! one hours.
THE New York Tri6une's London letter, of
Oct. 81, says Nothing would be better
proof of the English interest in Chicago
than the extraordinary efforts of the Lon
don press to get early and full accounts. A
! sharp lookout was kept for the Java at
! Queenstown, bringing the New York papers
of the 18th. Newspaper reporters went off
in a steam tug, caught her some distance
out at sea, got the papers, and this morning
we have from three to six columns in each
of the morning journals......The New York
Sun doubts whether Alexis is coming here
at all. 1t says that the Russian Admiral is
bound on a general voyage of observation,
and has full authority to go where he Ii es.
His going to Madras shows that it is not his
purpose to visit the United States at present.
.", President Theirs is uncertain of his
tenure of life, and has made his Political
will hoping to secure the succession of the
Presidency fOrCasimire Periere. he Rap
pei is again published, and advocates the
claims OF Victor Hugo for the Presidency.
INTELLIGENcE has been received of the en-
tire suppression of the inaurrecton in AL
geria....The Italian Government contem-
plates the iortifcation eff the Alpine passes
at cost of some 100000 rancs.
The amount received at the Mansion
House, in London, up to Saturday evening,
for the benefit of the Chicago sufferers, was
SAC, 800. Contributions continue to be re-
ceived from individual donors, and from
committees in provincial cities and towns.
1.-THE London Telegraph prints special
dispatch from Paris, stating that a plot
against the government OF Spain has been
discovered in that city The trial of those
members Of the Commune who have been
held under o charge of being directly con-
cerned in the murder of the Versaillist Cen
erals Lecompte and Thomas, during the first
days of the instruction in Paris, was begun
Saturday ..,... Letters from Paris say that the
offering to Washburne, on Thursday, was a
We agreeable affair. The dinner and tea
services were Of fine silver, the product oil
American mines, and of American manufac-
ture, presented by large number of Amer
lean gentlemen An appropr ate address
was delivered, to which Mr.. Washburne re.
piled in a few graceful remarks, in the
course of which he complimented Colone
Hoffman and other members of his diploma.
tic household -, Victor Hugo has made 6
second visit to Theirs to procure the pardon
Of Henri Rochefort. The President received
him kindly, but declined to interfere .... TIL,
Communist Quesnel has been convicted o
firing buildings in Paris, and sentenced t
death"..San Domingo advices say that thu
revolutionary army in two bodies is prepar
ing to attack the town of Azna. Presiden
Baez is visiting the towns in the northern
provinces.
THE emigration returns of the port of Liv
erpool, for the month of October, show
total Of 1868 departures for the United
States......The British expedition for the OBJ
servation of the total eclipse of the sun oil
the 18th of December prox., has arrived a
: | the island of Malta