Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-18
Foreign News.

ENGLAND.
LONDON, Sept 17.-Charles Sumner has ar
rived. He will leave Tor Paris IN a short time
His health is much improved.
At a meeting OF the International society
Yesterday thirty persons attended. The subject
OF the cniranchisement of the working classes
was discussed. The majority Of the members
are IN favor of complete secession from the
Karl Marx section of the society.
Tory journals condemn in unmeaSured terms
the action of the Geneva tribunal. The Adyer-
User says: What farce has been PLAYED at
Geneva, where England has been adiudged TO
pay tribute to a bully who repudates his own
obh@ations. America is no. vet cOntented with
the settlement OF the claims against England.
The Herald breatheS defiance and hatred OF
America, and saws the breach between the two
countries has only been widened OF course.
had the Irlntra rs dCcid upOn a lar0e sun Of
indemnity, England would pay it. If they had
awarded nothing, America could but show her
teeth. What humiliation next awaits usp
The Standard comments upon the award
in similar strain. l. saws: We went TO
Geneva for just and reconciliation, Ibut
instead met with inv. Gives from the
Ame..can counsel, aid partially
adverse award, dict ted rather by desire for
compromise than by equity. The whole pro-
ceedings in connec ion with the arbitration are
entirely unsatisfactory to England.
Geo. Lart Phillips, formerly member of par
lament for PembrokeShire is dead.
Difficulties between the bakers of the city and
their employers, which threaten strike, have
been amicably arrang I.
The suicide in this city of young American
woman named Alice Blanche OSwold, has added
fresh impetus tie project for the establish
ment of strangers tomC. Hundreds of persons
are anxious 81 subsc be money 70 CO " out the
idea, l?rg2 numl az Of whom are Ameii ems
The meeting OH ationslists here adopted
platform in favor OF III verS SuffrG re by bal
lot for legislative and mrgist al officers, com
ca. nd pttriA
ton, disarmament of standing armies, abolition
OF indirect taxes, and substitution therefor of a
progressive income tax and the suppression of
usury.
IRELAND.
LONDON, Sept 17.-Yesterday, while rail-
way tram was standing at station in the town
of Bray, Wicklow county, Ireland the boiler of
the engine eXplC led causing the death of two
persons and the demolition of the station
building.
SCOTLAND
LONDON, Sept. IA collision between two
railway trains occurred last night, near Glas-
gov. Two persons were killed and several
wounded. number of the wreck / ears took
fire and were burn /.
FRANCE.
PARIS, Sept. 17-EUeniRg.-M. de Remusat,
minister of foreign affairs, assures the friends of
M. About that he has strong hopes that ener
getic intervention of the government will result
in his release
Gambeta has ms lie deposition with regard
to the capitulation of Metz. He was examined
by Gen. Ervierc.
Mr. Evarts has arrived here from Geneva.
MIR. Davis is expected tomorrow.
Sentences Of seven of the ten communists
condemned to death for the assassination of
hostages have been committed to Imprisonment.
The remaining three will be shot tomorrow.
GERMANY.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE report of the arrest
of Edmund About by the Germans, as first r.
ceiyed here was treated as a triding affair. 1t
now appears, however, that the case presents a
serious aspect, and creates considerable ex lite
ment. About is confined at StrasbOurg and his
wife and children are not permitted to see him.
The cause of his arrest is said to be the publca-
ton of articles from his pen on the German &C.
cupaton Of the French Rhinish provinces.
A Paris dispatch says that Count de Remusat,
minister of foreign affairs, has asked an expla-
ton Of the PruSsian Government respecting the
arrest of Edmund About.
The German government has issued a second
circular, in still more threatening terms than
the original one, against emgrants, who it de-
clares will be treated as outlaws, over whom
special surveillance and supervision has been
instituted. Despite the menace of the govern
ment, emigration from Germany has been only
slightlysaffected.
MADRID, Sept. IA railroad collision last
night between Corona and Barcelona resulted in
casualties to twenty, including several killed.