Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-10
Foreign.

DEATH is knocking at the palace-gate in
Europe. The death of the King of Sweden
has just thrown the English Court into
mourning. The Princess Hohenlohe, a half
sister of Queen Victoria, is dead, and the
King of Denmark lies very 1ow."..The Ger
man authorities recently stopped thet trans
mission by telegraph of a cipher dispatch of
500 words, signed by Napoleon.-...The King
of Abyssinia has sent a messenger to En-
gland with letters for the Queen, asking for
the interventisn n of Great Britain a6ains
Egypt. 1t is said similar appeals have been
addressed to France, Russia and Germany.
......It is announced that the French Gov
eminent will shertly release about one-half
of the $4,000 Communists yet in c%onfine-
ment, and that only those accused ofassassin-
alton, thieving and arson will be tried.
GAMBErrA is making speeches in France,
in which he advocates the dissolution of the
National Assembly-.-.The Sultan of Turkey
has dispatched a messenger to Egypt to pre-
sent to the Vjceroy a frman sanct oning his
title of Khedive, and making it hereditary.
IT is reported that an effort will be made
by the British Government to compel
| Messrs. Laird, contractors of the Confederate
privateer Alabama, to pay a portion of the
damages awarded to the United States......
The bark Newcastle, from Liverpool for
Havana, has been wrecked, and thirty of
tho ere lost q e.
SIR SIDNEY WATERLow has been elected
Lord Mayor of London IA Berlin letter
states that during the reception of the i'm
perial party, in that city, eight persons were
sufocated and trampled to death in one
night, and fifteen more were mortally
wounded 1.-THE health of the ex-Empress
Carlotta is improving-.". The NCarlists are
again beco ing troublesome in Spain.-..
President Theirs has received positive as
surances from the Emperor Of Austria and
the Gear of Russia that neither would have
allowed themselves to be decoyed to Berlin
had anything inimical to France been con-
templated. %
THE lord Chancellor of England Lord
Atherly) has resigned. Sir Rounded Palmer
is spoken of as his probable successor......
| Victor Hugo has been nominated by the Re-
publicans of Algiers for member of the
French Assembly.....I is reported that
Spain will submit to the other European
powers the question of, the justice of her
claims against the United States for damages
by Cuban flibustering expeditions..--.For
| the first time since the occupation Of Rome
! by Victor Emanuel, the Pope has Just ven
tured beyond the sacred precincts of the
Vatican,
! ADvIcEs from Japan report a crisis in pub
lie affairs, and indicate the ascendancy OF
the bid Japan party over tie Reformers, and
an end for the present of the spread of civil
ization in the Empire. Minister Mort,
Horace Capron (who went from Washington
as Commissions of Agriculture to fill the
same post il Japan), and Mr.. Smith, who
| went to organize a Law Department, have
all been dismissed, and succeeded by repre-
sentatives of the non-progressives. And
thus the dreams cherished by some en-
thusiasts of seeing that ancient Empire, in a
few years, living, moving and having its
being American-wise, must be abando ned.
1.-THE exodus from Alsace and Lorraine is
on the increase, and bids fair to almost
who'll depopulate those departments. Over
1900 mon, women and children left in one
day for French territory, recently. The rail-
roads are taxed to their fullest capacity in
furnishing Transportation to the self-exiled
emigrants.