New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-18
FOREIGN.

Munitions ofWar for Carlfsts SeiZed-sur.
render of Metz-Rep0rt of Committee
Trial Of Communists-Seizure Of Funds
by spanish Marauders-Cuban Revolu-
tiOnists' Supplies Seized-GovernmeDt
Measure Defeated in the House Of Com.
mons.
PARIS, April 1.-THE authorities of
BayOnne, the capital Of the department OF
Bases Pyrennees, which adjOins the
Spanish border, have seized quantity of
munitions of war, which were destined for
the use of the Carlists.
The government has issued orders to the
commanders of troops on the frontier to
exercise extraordinary vigilance to prevent
any movement which may be on French
territory in sympathy with the Carlists.
The committee which was appointed to
the capitulation of French cities and fOrtif-
cations during the late war have finished
their investigation Of the surrender OF Metz,
and submitted their report.
The conclusions arrived at by the commit
tee have not been made public, and it is
stated that they will be kept secret for some
time. The committee have vet to examine
tons. including that of the city of Paris.
The trials of persons charged with parti-
cipating in the communist revolt continue
to be held at Versailles. The court yester-
day disposed Of the cases of number OF
men, two of whom were sentenced to death,
and two to imprisonment for life.
The Papincourt barracks. in the eleventh
arrondisement of Paris, were entirely de-
stroyed BY fire last night. Fifty horses
were burned to death.
MADRID. April IA hand of marauders
entered the village Of Mancha and seized
| 5000 ducats belonging to the municipal
| funds. The commander Of the band gave
| the town authorities a receipt for the
money, to which he signed his name as
| "PecO General and commander chief Of
| the federal armies of Don Carlos"
KINGSTON, , Jamaica, April 15-The
steamer Edgar Stuart, with a cargo OF war
material, flying American cOlors and sup
posed to belong to the Cuban revolution
lists, arrived here in distress to-day, and
| was seized by the commodore commanding
at this port as a legal prize, the steamer not
being provided with clearance papers.
The American consul protests against the
seizure, and forwards the documents in the
case to Washington to-day, on the steamer
Suffolk, via Havana.
LONDON, April 7.-Charles Reade, the
author and dramatist, has announced his
intention to prosecute five journals for a
libel which he alleges was embodied IN
several unfavorable criticisms upon his play
entitled "Shilly Shally."-
l
ment made by the London Telegraph, both
in it's continental correspondence and ed
itorially, that the relations between France
and Germany were in critical condition,
is pure invention.
| LIVERPOOL, April 1.-THE steamship
Mississippi, from New Orleans, arrived TO-
day.
LONDON, April 1.-THE ship Derry Castle
| recently burned at sea. Ten Of the crew
persisted.
The counter case presented at Geneva on
behalf of the British government, and
which was heard before the House of Lords
last night, is printed this evening. 1t con
cludes with description Of the position Of
neutrals under the views paesented in the
case of the American government which, Il
says, would render their situation one OF per
petual and unremitting anxiety, surrounded
by dangers and harrassed by new obliga
tions which nothing but sleepless vigilance
could satisfy, while the lapse of even 8
subordinate officer might he visited witt
heavy national penalties; private com
merce would be subjected to minute in
ouisition and incessant supervision; indi
viduals would be tracked by spies and in
formers; the trade of belligerents would b'
fettered, and hospitalities OF the country
guarded with impossible precautions.
The court of the Queens lhach to-day
granted, upon motion of Serg, -: Ball, n
tine, a rule requiring the a:tasur$ general
Sir John Duke COoleridge, 10 .o~ why tb'
claimant of the TicnbOrne est has 10
been admitted to bail.
The vote in the House of Commons yester
day, on q resolution relative TO local taxa
ton, resulted in the defeat of the govern
ment by 100 majority.