Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-04-11
General News Summary,
THE OLD WORLD.


THE OLD WORLD.
Mrs. james Gordon Bennett died on the
3lst at Koenigstein, n SaxonY.
NJ. Grevy, on the I'd, resigned the Pr 81
dency of the French Assembly, was again re
elected by vote $40 against ISL but it wa.
thought would peremptorily decline to accept
the position.
A man named George Bidwell, alleged to be
implicated in the Bank of England frauds, has
been arrested in Edinburgh.
A Madrid dispatch of the Sd says that Senol
CASTELAR, threatens to resign unless the Minis
try adopt more decisive and energetic policy
His colleagues hesitate to interfere in the con
fict between the people and municipality OF
the capital The popular leaders declare the
corporation responsible for future events
The Carlists are reported to have shot sixty
prisoners at Berga.
A Vienna dispatch of the Sd states that the
Emperor had given his sanction to the Elec-
ton Reform bill. The announcement was
made in the Reichrath and received with pro-
Ionged cheers. t@
The French Assembly on the 4th elected NJ.
Louis Joseph Buffet President vice M. Greyy,
resigned.
George Bidwel and Edward Noyes, who
were arrested in London on charges of COM
plicity in the frauds on the Bank of England,
were subsequently released on filing bonds
for their future appearance
The Parliament of New South Wales has
voted 5000, 900 to aid immigration.
The official report of the surrender of Berga,
oh +l,o of tho TOWN
with treason, and attributes the disaster to that
cause alone. 1t also confirms the statement
that the Carlists bayoneted 81 prisoners. The
Federal Republican committee at Barcelona
has sent circular to Catalonian towns, order
ing the inhabitants to place them in state of
defence and force the Carlists to encamp in the
fields, where the volunteers and regulars can
eXterminate them. Each local committee is
directed to send to headquarters at Barcelona
for what arms they may require. sff
The Madrid correspondent of theIndepeadence
Beige says the reports published in the French
and English papers of popular disturbances
and military insubordination in Spain are great
ly exaggerated
A dispatch from st. Petersburg, 9th, states
that the Russian forces, in three detachments,
had taken the field against the Khivans.
In the English House of Commons, on the
7th, Mr.. Lowe, Chancellor of the Exhcequer,
presented the annual budget, showing the state
of the Government finances for the year ending
March 81, 1878. Following are the principal
items:
Grants by Parliament Ell SS1 900
Expenditures Observation-Disclosures. 70714, 900
Estimated revenue nue................. 71,S46. 900
Actual revenue Observation-Disclosures. 766O8, ,775
Present debt ................ 785 SOC, 900
Reduction of the debt durng;the year. 6,s61, 900
Estimates for the year ending March 81, -
1874, expenditures. 7l,o7l,OoO
the enhanced m price of coal, etc. ....... 10000
Revenue 76,617,OO0
Balance on hand at the end of the year
close upon NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. E,OUU,OUU
After making this fiattering financial exhibit,
which put the House in great humor, Mr..
Lowe said: ''The Government has some
propositions to make. 1t had to provide for
the Geneva award, and proposed to pay half
of the amount out of the revenues of the
present year without the addition of penny
to the taxation" He next surprised the
House by announcing that the Government
was enabled to prepare a reduction of 80 per
cent in the duty on sugar, and to take off a
penny from the tax on incomes. These pro-
posals, if adopted by Parliament, would
change the estimates to the following figures:
Revenue, e733, 762, 900; expenditures, e73, ,471,-
0O0 Thus heavy payment would be met,
a large reduction made in taxes, and
a satisfactory surplus shown. Mr..
Lowe was frequently cheered while making
his statement, and at the close was loudly ap-
plauded. He then moved, in accordance with
the recommendation of the budget, that the
income tax be reduced one penny on the pound.
Several members criticised the budget Sir
Wilfred Lawson remarked that the Govern
ment held ON to the malt and spirit taxes, and
it was evident that habitual drunkards were
the sheet-anchor of the British constitution.
Mr.. Fawcett complained of what he termed a
cowardly way of partially paying the
Alabama claims by borrowing from the
income tax and from sugar and other duties.
The budget was approved pro tornaa, and the
House adjourned over the Easter holidays un-
til April 81.
The French Assembly, on the 18th, passed the
bill reimbursing the city of Paris its wal con-
tribution of 2S,OO0,0OO francs, and granting
indemnity on the same account to the depart
ments to the amount of "a, 100000 francs. The
Chamber adjourned until May 10.
Paris advices state that the Republicans had
carried the municipal elections in Nantes and