Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-29
Foreign Intelligence.

Foreign Intelligence.
Minister Washburne, accompanied by
Count De Rcmusat, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, had an audience with Theirs ON
the 10th, and presented to His Excellency
Mcssrs. Cushing Evarts and Waite, Coun-
sci of the United States before the Geneva
Tribunal. Hon. Bancroft Davis was UNI
able to be present on the occasion.
The case submitted to the Geneva
Board of Arbitration by the Counsel Of
Great Britain In regard to the Alabama
claims has been laid before Parliament.
The body of Earl Mayo, late Governor
General of India, was brought to Calcutta
on the 18th.
A Paris telegram of the 18th says the
activity of Bonapartist agents, who were
intriguing throughout France to secure
the return Of the OK Emperor, was Great
circles at Versailles.
Passengers from Mexico, who arrived
ut Havana on the nth, state that the
Government is certainly able to defeat the
revolutionists, and that the accession of
Lerdo dc Tejada TO the Presidency is GER
tain IN case of the downfall of Juarez.
The Paris Opinione Nationale of the 10Th
asserts that a conspiracy had been discov
cred in which three Generals under the
late Emperor were leaders. Their plan
was to disperse the Assembly by force
and take possession of the Government,
when they were to be supported by a
large number of ex officers and soldiers of
the Empire from the North. The Opiaione
says that in consequence OF this revela-
ton the Belgian frontier was carefully
guarded, and no one. was permitted to
cross into France without passports.
The London Nesos of the 10th contains
q telegram from Paris to the effect that
Michaud, Vicar of the Madeleine, who is
honorary Canon of Chalons, in letter to
the Archbishop, had resigned all his eccle-
siastical preferments The reason he gives
for this step is that the Archbishop re-
4uires the clergy not only topublicly pro-
TESS belief in the dogma of the Pope's in
fallibility, but to believe sincerely
in their hearts. Michaud declares
open war against the Archbishop, and di-
rectly deiies tho accommodation which
he axpents VII be launched against him.
He cases aching for the scandal which
- kncws Ms protest will create. He
viii resnain priest and Catholic, but a
Catholic believing with regard to Christ
what has been everywhere always and by
everybody believed, and not in belief
decreed by man in Rome just as fallible
% himself.
A dispatch from Madrid on the 10Th an
nounces the resignation of the Spanish
Ministry.
The London Times of the Goth, in an
article on the Alabama Claims question,
says: ''Our relations with the United
States are such that nothing should be
done to lessen the authority of our Gov
eminent" The Times hopes, though
family, that the American Cabinet will
yield to public opinion.
A Paris dispatch Of the Goth says there
was much excitement there over the dis
covery of the last Bonapartist conspiracy
In that city and at Versailles the police
force had been doubled, and the troops
had received orders to remain at their
barracks ready for action.
General Won Moltke and Won Room
have been created life peers by Royal de-
cree, and will take seats in the upper
chamber of the Prussian Diet.
It is said that General Sherman will go
from Naples to Egypt, and, after making
. trip through that country, will return to
the United States.
An Ottawa (Canada) letter to the New
York Eaprsss Of the goth says there is not
. word of truth in the statement that
secret treaty has been made between En-
gland and the Dominion.
Premier Gladstone entertained Minister
Schcnck at dinner on the 18th.
In the Tichborne case, the Attorney