Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-09-28
FOREIGN NEWS.

+ Paris, 81. Gambetta arrived at Greenoble
yesterday. Although no preparations had
been made to receive him, the citizens gath
cred In great numbers at the railway station
and greeted his appearance with enthusiastic
cheers. XIII.
The flow of emigration from Metz since
| the occupation Of that city by German troops
has been SO heavy that the population now is
but one third what it was before the late war.
Berlin, 81. The government has issued an
| order stopping the emoluments of the Bishop
of Ermeland.
The Prussian Gazette contradicts the re-
port of yesterday that Rosenberg was to be
appointed minister to Belgium, and says that
he will replace Baron Won Maknus as Prus-
sian representative at Hamburg.
Vienna, 81. Arch Duke Albrecht, field
marshal and inspector general of the Austrian
army, continues to improve and his complete
recovery is looked for at an early day.
London, 81. 1t is reported that Lord John
Russell is preparing review of the proceed
ings and awards of the Geneva board of arbi-
tration.
The chambers of commerce in several lead
ing cities of England, ave adopted resolves
congratulating her majesty's government on
the happy termination Of the Alabama arbi-
tration, and copies of the resolves have been
forwarded to the United States.
Right Hon. Mr.. Foster, in an address to his
constituents at Brandford tonight, said that
the object Of the Geneva tribunal was not
merely to preserve peace, but to preseve
friendship between England and America.
Such friendship did not exist before the set
Element of the Alabama claims. The state of
feeling was such that it might at any moment
have caused war. Forbearance on both sides
was necessary to bring the dispute to settle
ment. Through a slow process of negotia-
ton, by forbearanee alone England got rid
Of the indirect claims. The decision at &C.
neva not only gives America three million
pounds, but gives her peace and gives both
countries new international rules ofthe high
est value, besides establishing a precedent
that cannot fail to be beneficial to all nations.
Mr.. Lowe in his speech at Glasgow last
night expressed his opinion that it would have
been better had Chief Justice Cockburn signed
the Geneva decision with the other arbitra-
tors, instead of reviewing the argument af-
ter the dispute had been settled. 1t was also
unnecessary and unusual for the arbitrators
to give reasons for their award. The arbitra-
tors had no power to lay down principles of
international law. The tribunal wasn't consti-
tuted for that purpose. He did not believe
that England was bound by the principles
which guide the arbitrators. He thought the
necessity for ratification by the Senate Of the
United States of every treaty with a foreign
power a most dangerous and perplexing diff
Guilty, but hoped England would enter on a
new era with America; an era in which all
jealousies and animosities would disappear,
and the two coun ries would confine them
selves to rivalry in the work OF extending the
the interests OF civilization.
Copenhagen, 27. The elections for mem
bers of the Danish Diet have resulted in the
| return of a majority against the present mi
nority.
Madrid, 81. In the Cortes, to-day the min
lister of finance presented the budget for 1873.
He estimates that the revenue from all sour
ces at sos, 1856, ZIG francs and the expenditure
545, 394,7il francs.