The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-08

the ungovernablenesso of the Spanish people,
and has urged his father, King Victor En-
manuel, of Italy, to sanction his abdication."
The Gauiois further says that Emmanuel
counsels patence......T The police authorities
of Berlin have information that man is
concealed in that city who has sworn to take
the life of Bismarck, and an active search is
going on for the would be assassin......The
Pope has asked permission of England and
Austria for the meeting of the Ecumenical
Council in their dominions.
TnE publication of the newspapers lie
Gaulois and L'Aimce has been suspended
by order of the French Government.....Sev
eral Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church
are urging the Pope to hold the Ecumenical
Council at Trent, in the Tyrol. The Aus
trian Government, however, does not seem
disposed to grant permission asked by His
Holiness, for the assembling of the Council
within it's mnion. Should the Pope be
successful in his application, he will not at
tend the sessions OF the Council in person,
but will remain in Rome, and be represent
ed at the meeting by Cardinal......lt Is si'
ficially announced that an apothecary from
Posen, Pole, has been arrested at Berlin
on suspicion of contemplating the assassina-
ton of Bismarck. The man is fanatical
Catholic, formerly in the Papal Zouaves. He
threatened to take the life of the Prince
upon his arrival. A pistol was found upon
| the prisoner.....T The United States steamer
Kansas has sailed from Havana for Key
| West, to take on board the expedition for
the survey of the Nicaraguan route......
Troubles are multiplying in Hayti, and the
| stability of the present Government is more
| uncertain than ever. An attempt was made
on the night of the 5th inst. to burn the city
of Port au Prince. Flames burst out stimuli
taneously in different quarters OF the city.
! CONSERVATION prevailed. revolutionary
outbreak was feared. Troops were ordered
rut, and the President and Ministers were
| in the streets all night. The fires were ex-
tinguished before great damage was done:
Seven supposed incendiaries were arrested
and await trial.
Mr.. MoYcKToN, Conservative, has been
elected to the English Parliament from North
Nottinghamshire TO fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation Of Speaker Dennison......
! A letter from Florence, Italy, Jan. "a, says a
| fire there the day previous rendered two
hundred families houseless, and dependent on
| charity for Mail advices from
| Brazil state that band of Gauchos assass-
ms, under the lead Of Gillian, killed in one
day some fifty foreigners, near the River
Platte. The foreigners, aided by the autnor
tiles, turned upon the murderous oand, kllleu
ten, and took eighteen prisoners. Inc ieao
and lynched. 1t was expected that the
rest of the prisoners would be shot by the
townspeople.
DISPATCHES from Dundee, Scotland, give
accounts of widespread and devastating
flood in the valley of the Tay. The waters
of the Firth and the river Tay overhowed
their banks and poured into the plains on
both sides, sweeping everything before them
from Dundee, at the mouth of the Firth, to
a point above Perth, on the south side of the
river Tay, and head of navigation. The
level country around the latter city is COW
cred with water, and portions of Dundee are
rendered uninhabitable. The damage to
property is immense....A vessel named
Marie Francois capsized in the harbor at
Brest, on Friday, and twenty-five passengers
were drowned.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the national voluntary
fund to pay the German war indemnity
continue. The fund now amounts to twenty
three mllions...... The Temps says the French
Bishops secretly encourage the Legitimists
in their efforts to bring about a restoration
of the monarchy in France.....The impress
sion prevails in well-informed quarters that
the present King of Spain cannot cope with
the difficulties by which he is beset, and
that serious crisis in Spanish affairs is i'm
mnent.