Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-09
: EOreirn News.

Foreign News.
ENGLAND.-Another effort to defeat the
government was made in the House of Com
mons, on the 26th, upon the passage of the
second reading of the burial bill. The at
tempt, however, proved unsuccessful, and
the second reading was carried by vote of
$50 to 2l7.
The House of Commons has been exercis-
ing itself over an article in the Pail Mall
Gazette, which some of the Irish members
considered a breach of the privileges of the
House. The motion to declare the article
libelous was, like most of the motions intro
dueed to give an opportunity to make haran-
CUES against the Geneva arbitration, after
debate L" withdrawn"
The Gazette of Friday confessed that its
article was rude and owing to the accidental
failure of editorial supervision, but insisted
on characterizing much of the agitation in
Ireland as species of noisy disloyalty, and
maintains that certain members of Parlia-
ment are at the disposal of the priestly
party.
A grand banquet was given at the Man
sion house, by the lord mayor, at which Mr..
Gladstone said the ministry had had a fall
and recovery, and were ashamed of neither.
Though they had failed to give Ireland a
national university, history would prove that
| the principle was indestructible.
Count Bernstorff, the German embass ,dor
to Great Britain, died at O'Clock the Goth.
He was IS years old, and has long been in
the diplomatic service of his country.
The steamer Bristol, for New York, took
out 100 farmers, who intend settling in
IL Il
cifc railway.
An insane American appeared at the lodge
gate of Windsor Castle March 9th, and
demanded admittance to see the Queen, al
leging tina. she was his. mother. He was
arrested by the guards, and upon being
threatened with incarceration in a mad
house, promised to return to the United
States.
The American Commissioners to the vi
emma Exhibition have arrived in London.
George Bidwell and E iward Noyes, who
are charged with completely in the recent
beflre the lord mayor of London, and both
released on bonds for future appearance.
FRANCE.-The petition of Prince Jerome
Napoleon, praying for French citizenship, was
presented in the French National Assembly
the Goth, and gave rise to an excited debate.
Minister Dufaure, on the part of the gov
eminent, refused to accept the special COM
mittee's report on the subject, which was
conservative in. character and, by implica-
ton, censurei the government. lie argued
that the Bonaparte princes rejected the de-
cree which deposed their dynasty, and there
fore it was impossible to treat them as mere
citizens. He spoke in terms Of scathing con-
tempt of the coup q 'etat on which the pow
or OF the late emperor was funded. Nj.
/ Depeyre, on behalf of the Committee, repu-
dated any intention of censuriug the govern
ment, and defended the report. Dutaure, to
remove all doubt as to the opinion of the
chamber, then submitted bill exiting the
Bonaparte family, and moved the pie order
of the day, which after prolonged excite
ment, was carried by vote of 341 to 29l.
There was an exciting scene in the Assem-
bly, on the LIST, during the debate on the
Lyons Municipality bill. NJ. LIE Roger
criticized the report of a committee, where
upon Duke de Gramont called NJ LIE Roger
Impairment ID Grevy, president of the
members of the Right then threatened to
sitting and the next day resigned. He was
1 Ie- ClCCttu Dub " dCCtpbs dDQ
Louis Joseph Buffet was elected to succeed
him. The Lyons bill was passed. The re-
pubiicans gain good man upon the flor OF
the Assembly by NJ, Crews resignation.
Judgment has been rendered IN the Mem
phis and Ell P4so railroad case. The de-
PENDANTS are pronounced guilty of swindling,
and sentenced to various terms of mprIs0n-
ment. Gen Fremont is condemned to five
I,nprisOumpDt First Itch VOur
hare
Twelve members of a secret socialist socie-
ty have been arrested at Ydes Two of the
prisoners are Spaniards, AID style them
selves representatives of the government al
Madrid
There have recently been serious dIstur-
Dances among the cadets at St, Cyr. Gen
Cissey, minister Of war, visited the instltu
ton to-day, and sentenced 10 of the stu
dents to months imprisonment.
Gen. Ducrot who COMMANDED in Paris
during the Siege, and was a failure as a gen
eral, thinks the republic is failure.
GERMANY.-Tne North German Gazette o
Berlin, the Doth, retracted an article it pub
lished, some time ago, rldiculIng Presiden
Grant S inaugural address, bAslng Its retrac-
ton on the TACT that the tull text, now re
mary.
AUsrRn.-Three American gardeners vii
be allowed to raise vegetables 10 Austrian
soil, to compete tor the agricultural preml
ums OF the Vienna exposition.
An international patent rights congress
will be held 10 Vienna during the world
exhibition. compo:e1 of manufacturers, sci
entific men, and other experts.
RUssIA-rhe St. Petersburg Gaulois de-
ciares that the only issue of the expedition
TO k1Iva must be the complete and uncon
!, ditlonal submission of the khanate to Rus
sian sway.
A dispatch from Baku, on the west
ern coast of the Caspian sea, last Wed
uesday, announced that the rcngschlar col
umn would take the fl Id against khIva OF
Saturday. The expedition against khlva
IN three detachments. The first starting trol
Orenburg, concentrates at Ubaposa and pro
ceeds over the table-lands of OcJurst
The second, or Atrek valley detachment
will march through Astrabau, and mus
overcome the Turkomans before reachin
Khva. The third detachment, startin
from Turkestan, will probably avoid the do
sert in the neighborhood of the sea of Ara
and march along the Syr Diria river
Petrosk thence 1t will take the banks of th
Dllani Diria river to the frontier of Khiva
The hhivan force is Insignificant.
SPAIN.-Senor Olozaga resigned as Spar
4 ISL Minister at Paris because he disapprove
t of the insufhciently conservative policy pun
=, sued by the Spanish Government. The GO
= eminent accepted the resignation.
!. Advices from Carlist sources say that
r full inquiry acquits the Cure of Santa Cru
from the charge of committing atrociot
- acts of cruelty upon prisoners.
1t is stated that the Carllsts aim at I'll
r canture of Pamneluna as a base Of oneratior