The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-12-13


of the streets, the Strand being wholly With
out police.
The police difficulties in London were still
unsettled at last accounts. The letter-car-
riers have Joined the movement for an in
crease of pay.
Late European mail advices furnish details
of the hurricane that swept over the Island of
Sicily in the early part of November. The
description IL almost incredible in the phe-
nomena of destruction it portrays. The town
of Palazzolo, containing apopulation OF 5000,
was literally swept out OF existence, and the
inhabitants left without shelter. The de-
struction of life is the most appalling feature
of the calamity, upward of fifty people being
killed outright and many manned for life.
Dispatches from Rome intimate that an
other Ecclesiastical Province will be estab-
lished in England, with Liverpool as the Me-
tropolitan See. This would indicate that tho
Catholic Church is making formidable pro-
gress in that country.
Marshal Mcmahon has intimated that he
will not accept the Presidency of the French
Republic should Theirs resign.
The famous Tichborne trial ia again up in
the London courts.
King Amadeus rheumatic pains continue to
grow worse.
Revolutionary symptoms" g Carlist up
risings," " Armed bands, and similar express
sions continue to form the chief staple of the
dispatches from Spain.
A meeting called in Rome in the interest of
,,,;yaroaI ~, Fro o,a baa haan
The conservative or opposition members of
the French Assembly have agreed upon a
platform Of measures that they intend to adj
vocate, among which are the prolongation of
President Theirs term for four years, the
creation of the Office of Vce-President, and
the establishment Of a second Legislative
body. The Assembly has just passed two inn
portant bils-one restoring to the Orleans
family the estates that were confscated after
the revolution of 1852, and another providing
more literally for trial by jury.
Robert Bowles, senior member of the
American banking firm of Bowles Brothers,
who recently failed, has been arrested and
imprisoned in LONDON on the charge of fraud
and embezzlement.
The captain and mate of the British brig
Carl, tried at Sydney, Australia, for the in
human butchery of a number of South Sea
Island natives whom they had kidnapped to
sell into slavery brief account of which we
have printed-have been found guilty and
condemned to death,
Late advces from Paris indicate that the
political complications in the National Assem-
bly,, which at one time seriously threatened
the peace and harmony of the new Republic,
have been brought to a happy termination,
and friendly relations established between
President Theirs and he Conservatives. The
former pledges himself to make all reason
able concessions to secure harmony in the
Government. A bill has been drawn up-to
which it is said there will be little or no oppo-
providing for VIce-President the President
and yice-President to be re-eligible to Office
only for second term, and one-third OF the
Assembly to be renewed annually; the frcsi-
dent to be entitled to suspend the sromulsa-
ton of bills passed by any Assembly until
after the annual election, then, if the Assem-
bly, insists on the law, it must be promulgated.
Il
meets the approval of Theirs.
The German Government has pledged itself
to aid Great Britain in the suppression of the
slave trade in Eastern Africa.
The latest news from San Domingo is that
President Baez has succeeded in capturing
two of President Cabrals Generals. and has,
as is the custom in that climate, murdered
them both
The health of the King of Spain is gradually
improving.
A serious outbreak of the Republicans is
threatened in Italy.
The New York HerdldS Paris correspond
ent says. in regard to the division of the politi-
cal forces in the French National Assembly
that there are six distinct groups, classified
thus First, the extreme left or republican
union; second, the republican left or moderate
republicans third, the left center or still
more moderate republicans fourth, the GEN.
ter of the right, who prefer ORGANISM fifth,
the right, who desire a monarchy, prefeTing
Henry V. and sixth, the extreme right who
believe in extreme legitimist notions, the
white flag of the Pope, and no dynasty not a
thousand years old. No party has majority,
and NJ. Theirs exists by dealing with the six
parties like a juggler with six eggs on six
plates in his hands. He never holds more
than one party at time, and keeps the rest
spinning through the air.
Political.
The New York Times Washington cores
pendent says there are indications that a
sharp attack will be made in Congress on the
new civil service appointment machinery.
Two female ballots were cast at Browns
town, Ind, at the late election.
O'Conor received about 5000 votes in
Georgia
Gen. Banks has declared his determination
to resign the Chairmanship of the Honse