Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-06-20
General News summary.
THE OLD WORLD.

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A Ministerial circular addressed to the Pre-
fects of Departments, suggesting confidential
ly the employment of subsidies and such Other
means of influence as could be secretly brought
to bear for the control of the Press, was rea6
in the French Assembly ON the 10TH NJ. Beule
Minister of the Interior, admitted the authen
ITCHY of the circular, and accepted the respon
| sibihty for issuing the same. After a pro
tracted scene of confusion and excitement, 6
motion supporting the Government was car
ried by a vote of $50 yeas against 315 nays
| The result shows that the coalition of the Con
| seryatives was still unbroken. - a@<- g
| report was current in Paris on the 10th
that Count Won Arnim, the German Ambassa.
dor, had been recalled, because he made un
necessary calls upon President MacMahon.
The Spanish Ministry rendered their resigna.
tions on the 10th, and during the afternoon the
Cortes entrusted to Senor Figueras the organi-
zation of a new Ministry. After consultation
with his friends and with leading members OF
Cortes, Senor Figueras reported that he was
unable to form Cabinet. Senor Orense has re
signed the Presidency Of the Constituent
Cortes.
Several French officials rendered their resig-
nation on the 18th, in consequence of the cir
cuar issued by the Minister of the Interior
suggesting the subsidizing of the Press.
Commissioner Schultz, General Van Buren's
successor at Vienna, in a recent letter says the
American Department of the Vienna Exposi-
ton would be in complete order by the 18th
of June, which could not be the case with
that of any other nation, not excepting En-
gland, which had the advantage of a corps of
workmen brought to Vienna to hasten to COM
pletion and perfect that department. The
Austrian Government, he says, should have
taken another year to prepare for the Exposi-
ton. Not only were the grounds not finished,
but all those facilities which they had promised
were incomplete.
A Madrid dispatch announces that on the
18th the Cortes accepted the resignation of the
Figueras Cabinet, and at a meeting of the
majority held subsequently, the following
Ministry was agreed upon: President of the
Council and Minister of the Interior, Senor Pi
Margall; Minister of the Colonies, Senor
Sorin; of Foreign Affairs, Muzo; of War, Esta-
vanz; of Marine, Aurich; of Finance, Ladus;
of Public Works, Benot; of Justice, Gonzales.
The authorities were determined to resolute-
ly sustain the majority in whatever measures
they might adopt. Figueras had left Madrid.
1t is reported that treaty of alliance has
been concluded between Germany and Italy.
Khivan news to May IL reports the junction
of the two columns of the Russian forces and
the defeat of the Khivans at Chalaot after a
severe fight, in which two Russian Colonels
were killed; and at the Amur Daria River,
where $500 Khivans were routed without the
loss of single life by the Russians.
1t is stated in recent dispatches from Japan
that the Ministers of Finance of that country
had resigned. They published letter stating
the Indebtedness of the Empire at $104, 900, 000
The people are excessively taxed. The debt is
increasing yearly, owing to the new schemes
of the Government. One dispatch says it was
possible the Ministers might receive an order
to commit suicide.
The French Government, it is said, has de-
cided to Immediately transport Henri Roche
fort to New Caledonia, French penal colony
in the South Pacific.
An official statement of the future policy of
the new Spanish Ministry was read in the
Cortes on the 18th. 1t favors the speedy de-
markation of the Federal States; the restora-
ton of discipline in the army; the proclama-
ton of martial law against the Carlist
insurgents; liberty of the Antilles, and sup
preston of slavery. 1t estimates the deficit
in the finances at the end of the present month
at 2,SOO0OO reals.
The Russians, on May co. took Kungrad a
Khivan town on the Amoo River, about 100
miles from Khiva. The Russian forces were
advancing triumphantly, meeting with little
resistance.
A Rome dispatch of the 18th announces that
the Pope had completely recovered from his
late indisposition.
A dispatch from Berlin on the 18th says that
the Emperor continued very weak and required
absolute quiet. ..@.s
At the session of the Spanish Cortes on the
night of the 18th, the Government announced
that a separation of Church and State was
part of its programme. Salmeron has been
elected President of the Cortes by 176 votes to
"a for Figueras majority of the Cortes has
appointed Directing Committee, of which
CASTELAR, is Chairman.
The steamship Great Eastern has commenced
the laying of the new Atlantic cable from Val
entia Bay, Ireland, to Sydney, Cape Breton.
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