Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-26
Foreign News.

our bill for distributing the Geneva award,
saying it shows the award exceeds the claims
by million dollars it uses up the Tory vo-
cabulary of strong words in denouncing the
| whole concern.
| The owners of the steamer Murillo. which
sunk the Northfeet in the English channel,
have brought an action for libel against the
Lloyds, claiming $4,000 damages.
An explosion occurred the 18th, at Talk
o'-tbe-Hill, in Staffordshire. while the men
we're at work. Twenty miners were killed.
The fire was extinguished, and the bodies
recovered
| The annual race between the Oxford and
Cambridge boat crews is fixed for the Goth of
| March, at three in the afternoon.
FRANCE Over 100 drunkards were arrest
ed at Paris in 49 hours, under the law re-
Gently passed by the Assembly Furnishing
drunkenness.
The case of Prince Napoleon against Min
| lister LIE Franc for illegal expulsion from
France has been dismissed for want of jurls-
diction.
The committee of thirty adopted the
amendment proposed by Dalaure, which pro-
vldes that, before its dissolution, the Assem-
| bly, shall enact laws organic ng and directing
the transmission of legislative and executive
powers and creating second chamber.
| In the Assembly, Friday. the report of the
Committee of Thirty was presented and read
by Due de Brogie. L Duke seeks to dem
onstrate the necessity of making Ministers re-
sponsible to the Assembly for their acts. A
warm eulogy is paid to President Theirs.
Much space is devoted to the proposal for
the creation of second Legislative chambe
Such body, the report argues, would act as
la tcr pla of
the absolute sovereignty of numbers. 1t
would be eminently chamber of resistance.
The report concludes by urging all parties to
work together in the spirit of Cancellation
and give the country sound Constitution.
The Assembly appointed Thursday next for
the consideration OF the report. The Lett
dsapprove the establishment of second
chamber, and this also caused rupture be-
tween different wings of the Ri 5ht. The
Legitimlsts and Orleanists are quarrellng
again.
RUssIA-A letter to the North German
Gazette, from St. Petersburg, says the force
of the Khvan expedition will not exceed
1000 men,
ITALY.-The Parliamentary Committee on
Religious Corporations has decided to abol-
ish the houses of the heads of religious or
ders, but to provide for the support OF the
heads themselves and their Naturalization
for the loss of property.
Two men were recently lost in the crater
of Vesuvius while trying to explore it.
| SPAIN-Don Carlos is said to have entered
Spain.
A proclamation to the Carlsts offers them
amnesty if they will lay down their arms IN
Two weeks.
Advces from st. Sebastian state that the
passenger traffic on the Northern Railway
has been re-established Troops accompany
the trains through tue Pyrenecs. All points
threatened by the CarIists have been fortified
and garrisoned by suth; ient forces to repel
any attacks.
The Gaceta publishes official confirmation
of the rep prt that OIlos band of Cariists has
been defeated at the nights of Miavalles by
the troops of the republic. The insurgents
lost heavily in the action.
| Topete and other conservatives haze held a
meeting at which they decided not to oppose
the present government, but To press Tor a
dissolution of the Assembly and the convOca-
ton Of constituent Cortes.
Gen COrdova, minister of war, has asked
for supplies for arming the people, all the
available arms having been distributed.
Repu bllcan prisoners set free by the late
amnesty, were enthusiastically chcered at
Barcelona.
The bill for political reforms and the abo-
lition of slavery in Porto Rico was again dis
cussed, and an amendment proposed that no
indemnity shall be paid for slaves brought
into the island since the abolition of slavery
there.
The impartial advocates the withdrawal OF
the Porto Rico abolition bill now under con-
sideratioD, and the substitution of project
for gradual emancipation OF slaves in all
the domlnons OF spain, after the plans FRO
posed by Seniors Gassett and Becerra.
In the Assembly, PRIME Minister Flgueras
made speech in the course OF which he de-
fined the powers OF tie existing legislature.
He reminded the members that the National
Assembly was transitJry, and not constitu-
ent and in its DEGREES aud acts should strict
ly observe the constitution.
The National Assembly will adjourn sine
die in six weeks, when elections tor the new
Cortes will Immediately be held.
Gen. Stckles has intlmated to the Spanish
Government that the United States is not
disposed to press embarrassing questions rel
alive to Cuba, desiring to place no obstacles
IN the way of the Republic.
The republicans OF gar gossa held grand
celebration, Saturday, with an illumination
IN the evening, the occasion being the prac
teal delivery OF the CITY iut) the hands OF the
people. The monarch al members OF the
city government resigned, republicans being
appointed to their places, ali the political
prisoners being released, and the red taG
displayed from the governor residence.
The Governorsbip of the As provinces Of
Spain are to be divided equally among Ridl-
Gals and Republicans. Inc Secretaries oil
Radical Governors are to be Republicans and
those of Republican Governors Rad Icals
oepor Fiol Will Ie|an the Governorship oi
Madrid for the preseLt.
MISUNDERSTANDING Portuguese Govern
ment organs officially deny that there is any
movement IN Portugal Tor the establishment
of a republic.
report has been received that cafe in
SMYRNA, situated on the shore OF the guilt
having been undermined by the tides, wat
suddenly swallowed up III the waves, anC
between 100 and 200 persons, mostly Greeks
were drowned.
Advlces from the Sandwich Islands as late
as Jan. 18th, say: 1.-The Kings Inaugural
|, address prop, sed important amendments tt
the constitution. The most important is tina
the LIE sisature be divided into two distinc
branches-nobles and representatives. IL
also proposed free suffrage, and that the At
torney General be Lo longer member of th'
Cabinet.
> The Legislative Assembly adopted thes
amendments, and it now only remains TO
the Legislature to ratily them next year. On
January 20 the King pr0rogued the Assem-
, bly,.
Last week we gave the substance of thu
explanations of Messrs Cofax and Patter
SOD. They have since been explaining som'