The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-01-05

northwestern boundary queston......The
press of Lisbon show much anxiety over the
| largely Increased emigration of workmen To
| the United States, and recommend remedial
measures ....The Sublime Porte and the
Khedive of Egypt have refused the purchase
| of the Suez Canal, which is now offered for
| sale.
ENGLISH journals, while expressing no
| opinion as TO the merits of the case, regret
the difficulty into which the American Min
lister, Schenck, has fallen. and cite as prece-
dents the cases of other Ambassadors, nota-
| bly, that of Duke Saldanha who, while MIN
| ster from Portugal to foreign power, was
permitted to engage in private speculations
......Queen Victoria has received the congrat-
| ulatons of the President of the French Re-
| public on the recovery of the Prince OF
| Wales from his dangerous illness......John
| G.. Heenan, who is in London, pronounces as
| untrue the charges published in New York,
| duplicating him in the voucher robbery. He
| threatens the news company which cabled
| the report with libel sut.....A deputation
| of French protestants had an interview on
Wednesday with Theirs, who received them
with affability, and promised that religious
| equality should be maintained.....The work
| OF trying Communist prisoners is progress
| ing in France as fast as possible, and addi-
| tional courts are to be created, the more rap
| idly to dispose of the remaining cases. Up
| to the present time Ia, 1878 persons have been
| tried. OF these 1922 have been found guilty.
IT was the British ship Windsor Castle
which ran down the French bark Costa Rica.
Her officers deny that they heard cries of
| distress from the Costa Rica..... The steamer
| Delaware, which sailed this week from Liver
! pool for Calcutta, was totally lost on Wednes-
| day off the Sicily Islands. All on board are
supposed to have perished.. Count Won
| Beust presented his credentials as English
| Ambassador from Austria at Windsor Castle
on Thursday ...... Ex- Empress Eugene has
arrived at southampton from Spain......The
| Messenger, official organ of the Russian Gov
eminent, announces the removal of Minister
Catacazy from Washington, owing, it says, to
personal difficulties which might prejudice
the good relations existing between Russia
and the United Statesman imperial ukase
| makes compulsory the use of the Russian
! language in the schools in Poland. Bis
marck has sent dispatch to Baron Won Ar
| MIN, German representative at Paris, setting
| forth the feeling of evaporation caused in
| Germany by the outrages perpetrated on her
| soldiers in France. He threatens to seize
hostages in the occupied provinces unless the
assassins who in future escape into neigh
| boring provinces are delivered up to the
German officers by the French authorities,
and declares that unless these horrible out
RACES cease, the army of occupation shall be
increased, and the expenses and burden Of
| its support, which ispaid by France, doubled
"... Letters from South America state that
an earthquake occurred at the town of Orau,
| lasting nine hours, with forty different
shocks. The streets were split open, and
every house tumbed into ruins. The inhabi-
tants all fled to camps outside the town.
THE Prince of Wales was again reporte
worse on Friday. The Imperial Committee
of the French Assembly has rejected pro-
position for the return to Paris..... The
Roman Catholic Bishops of the Netherlands
have united in memorial to the King, pray
ing him not to discontinue the Dutch lega-
ton at the Vatican.... The statement is
made on credible authority that the forth
coming Austrian budget will show surplus
of q 100000 forms receipts over the expen-
ditures for the u ear, instead of deficit as
an icipated .....T The recent dispatch from
Bismarck to Baron Won Arnim excites the
French to renewed bitterness against Ger
many. The tone of the journals generally is
one Of indignation.