New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-12

The Assaiiant of the Queen-Arthur O'Con
n0r-Sentence. Twelve Mouths Har,
Labor and Twenty .La.hes-No Pros
pect of Change in French Ministry
Cotton Laden ships-New Admiral fol
British Pacific Fleet-A Fourth Atlantic
Cable-Still Another CabIe-Disorderiy
Meeting - Change in the Ministry
Needed.
LONDON, April 1.-THE trial of O'COnnol
was brought to an abrupt termination this
afternoon. The jury impaneled to inquire
into the medical condition OF the prisoner,
after hearing a number of witnesses, re-
ported that the boy was perfectly sane, al
though an expert DR.. Harm gtOn, who has
studied the subject of insanity for quar-
ter of a century, testified that the prison
er's head measured nineteen inches, and
that he regarded him as insane, and too
dangerous to be at large.
The verdict of guilty was then pro-
nounced, in accordance with the prisoner s
plea, and O'COnnOr was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for twelve months at hard la.
Dor, and to receive twenty lashes.
In the House of Commons tonight John
Bright took his seat for the first time since
his protracted illness.
Mr.. Disraeli gave notice that he should
interrogate the government as to what
course it intended to take with regard to
the meeting of the board of arbitrator at
Geneva.
Rear Admiral Coote has been commits.
stoned to succeed Admiral Farquhar in
command OF the British fleet in the Pacific.
The French Transatlantic Telegraph Com
pany have concluded a contract with the
Telegraph Maintenance and Construction
Company for the laying Of a fourth line of
telegraph cable between Europe and
America.
The prospectus of the America-Atlantic
Telegraph Company, proposing to lay a
cable from Milford Haven. on the coast Of
Wales, to Rye Beach, New Hampshire,
direct, will be issued next week. The
press generally express satisfaction at the
prospect of cheaper rates through the null
uplylng of lines of telegraph cOmmunica-
ton between the continents.
Mr. Odger addressed public meeting at
Norwich tonight, and declared that a
change in the ministry was needed: The
only way that workingmen could get
power was to embarrass those who held it.
The meeting was disorderly.
The bark Everette Gray, which left New
Orleans February IA, for London, has been
sunk in the Thames river. She belonged
to Yarmouth, Maine.
The bark Anda, of Bath, Maine, foun-
dered at sea on the thirteenth ultimo, and
seven of her crew were lost.
PARIS, April 1l.-There is no immediate
prospect Of a change in the French minis
try.
LIVERPOOL, April 1l.-Arrived Cotton
laden ships Lesbia, from New Orleans,
Fox, from Galveston, Maxwell. from Savan-
nah.
ROME, April 1.-THE Pope will hold
consistOry on the twenty ninth instant for
the RECOMMENDATION OF number Of Polish
and Italian bishops.
Avn IT To-
was rendered the Ministry Of Finance, has
positively declined accepting the appoint
ment. 1t is now probable that there will
be no change in the Cabinet for some time,
and that NJ. GOulard, Minister Of Agricul-
ture and Commerce, who was appointed
Minister OF Finance pro tenn, upon the re-
tirement of NJ. Pouyer Quertier, will con- |
tinne to occupy both positions
There is no truth in the report which has |
been current in this city for the past |
two days, that NJ. Rouher took three mil |
lion francs to the ex-Emperor Napoleon at |
Chiselhurst.
LIVERPOOL April 1l.-Arrived-Steam-
ship Samaria, from New York.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 1.-THE Gov
ernor Of Panama has protested against the
interference of the Spanish men-ofwar with
the steamer yirginius
War has been declared by Guatemala
against Honduras and San Salvador.
A large fire has occurred in Valparaiso,
with loss of life.
A revolution has broken out in st. Marc,
Hayti. Troops were massacreirg the in
surgent by wholesale. Citizens of the
United States were protected by the French
consul.
HAVANA, April Il.-Ten insurgents,
armed with Remington rifles, surrendered
near Trocha yesterday.
Madrid, April ll.-Zabalza is gazetted
rs Governor of Havana, to succeed Moreno
Official advices show that the Carlist
movement in Catalonia and Aragon is be-
coming more pronounced. There was
slight engagement yesterday between the
troops and one of these bands near Olot,
5wenty-one miles northwest of Corona.
The frontier is carefully watched by the
French. and the Carlists who escape into
France are arrested, disarIIed and returned.
The Governor of Catalonia reports that
Carlist band has appeared in the province
IF Barcelona, numbering ninety men, and
hat its leader was prominent member of
he International Society. The Information
Ills are very active in Spain, and there is
,eason to fear that the society is organizing
\ movement which will declare itself stimuli
aneously here and in other countries of
CurODe