New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-14
FOREIGN,

The EmperOrs' Advice to the POpe-HenrF
RochefOrr Very Il-A Parliamentary
ElectiOn-Grear Excitement-The Pope
Will Not Leave ROme-IIurricane in
the West Indies-Grent Loss of Life.
LONDON, September ia special dis
patch to the Daily News from Rome says:
The Emperors of Germany, Austria and
Russia, at the conference in Berlin, re-
solved to advise the Pope to abandon the
Jesuits, and agreed to use their good offices
with the Italian government for the pro
lection of foreign religious corporations in
Italy.
A Parliamentary election is in progress
to-day at Preston, and is attended with
great Excitement. As the candidates rode
! to the polls their supporters detached the
horses from their carriages and drew them
through the streets. The contest is very
close; both sides claim success. Under the
new ballot act the process of voting and OF
| counting the ballots is slow, and the result
| is not yet known.
The Rio Janeiro papers are filled with de-
scriptions of the riotous scenes which Oc-
Cured during the recent elections for Com
gress. An electoral meeting in one of the
churches was broken up by the police who
charged upon the assemblage with their
swords, and dispersed it. The president of
the meeting and several other citizens were
wounded. The conduct of the police in this
and other cases is severely condemned by
| the press, and caused great indignation in
the city.
General Mitre, Argentine envoy, was pre-
pairing basis for a treaty of settlement tG
| all differences between Brazil and the Con-
federation.
The Norwegian bark Byfoget, Christian
sen, master, from Pernambuco, for the Bal
tic, has arrived at Stavanger, Norway, dis
abled, nearly all her crew having died on
the voyage. The cause of mortality is not
in hpia +ah yuEt
nounces her arrival.
PARIS, September l3.-Henri Rochefort,
who has been exiled to the Island of New
Caledonia, is dangerously i'll. 1t is feared
he can not live.
President Theirs has been informed by
NJ. Bourgoiny that the Pope has abandoned
all idea of leaving Rome
The proprietors of several collieries in the
department Of Pas-de-Calais have executed
their first contract for furnishing coal to
England. The quantity sent is two hun
dred and fifty thousand tons.
GENEVA September 13.-The gentlemen
of the court of arbitration returned to
Geneva to-day. They express themselves
highly gratltied at their reception at Inter
lacken. The dinner given in their honor by
the Swiss government last night was at
tended by the President of the repub-
lie, members of the Federal Council
and the entire diplomatic body of
Berne. In speeches exchanged on
the occasion there was marked tone
of satisfaction at the happy conclusion of
the work of arbitration and the achieve
ment of result which the speakers said
was bound to have such a powerful infu-
ence for good not only on the two countries
mere Immediately concerned, but on all
civilized nations.
This feeling was more fairly and definitely
expressed than at the dinner at Geneva on
J,,rr iV1tr
have still existed regarding the form Of the
decision and the unanimity of the court or
the main points at issue. 1t was evident
last night that all uncertainty had been
dispelled.
GENEVA, September 12.-Sir Alexander
Cockburn, the British member of the board
of arbitration, will deliver an elaborate
opinion on the points wherein he differs
from the decision of the court. His secre-
taries are now engaged in the work of
copying the opinions.
BERNE, September Yesterday, shortly
after the reception of the gentlemen CON
nected with the Geneva tribunal by Presi-
dent Bruner and the members of the Fed
eral Council, the entire party, accompanied
by several members of the diplomatic corps
in Berne, including General DeRoeder, Ger
man minister, took the railroad train for
the town of Thun where they embarked on
a steamboat and crossed the lake of that
name to the village Oh lHCeflaCReus A1Jer
viewing the objects of interest at that place,
thew Iunched at the Victoria HOTEL and re
turned to Berne in the afternoon.
The weather during the day was spIen-
did. Berne and. Interlacken as well as in
termediate places through which the party
passed were profusely decorated with flags
in honor of the distinguished visitors. The
excursionists numbered about thirty. At
banquet in this city last evening, given by
the Swiss Federal Council in honor of the
arbitrators, sixty persons were present, All
the English gentlemen connected with the
court we're absent except Lord Tenterden.
The President of the Federal Council made
the principal speech of the evening He
expressed the pleasure felt by the govern
ment at the selection of town in Switzer-
land for the meeting of the tribunal.
Count Schlopis president of the court, re-
piled. He returned thanks ON behalf of
himself and his colleagues for the hospital-
ties they had received from the Swiss gov
eminent and people.
KINGSTON, September 13.-A hurricane
visited Windward islands, and vessels are
ashore at st. kits, Guadaloupe and Mar
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