Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19
Foreign News.

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which has been organized to lay cable from
Plymouth to Rye Beach, N. H.. is published.
All the money necessary for carrying out the
project has been secured, and contracts for
the construction of the cable have been con-
cluded. The company is forbidden to ANAL
gamate with any like enterprise.
There is fault in the old Atlantic cable
between 800 and 400 miles from the Irish
coast, and a steamer leaves Immediately to
mend it,
taThe first mortgage bonds on the New York,
Boston and Montreal railroad, amounting to
| Sc, $50 900, were offered, and all taken i'm
mediately, at premium of two per cent.
| Ill-health will forbid John Bright running
again for Parliament in case of dissolu-
ton.
The John Bull says marriage is projected
between the duke of Edinburgh and daugh-
ter of the Gar.
A ministerial crisis has resulted in the re-
tention of the Gladstone ministry.
FRANCE.--The Assembly on the 18th,
adopted the Constituent project reported by
the Committee of Thirty. The vote stood
AL yeas to 234 nays.
Theirs and Count Won Arnim signed a con-
ventiOn on the part Of their respective gov
ernments, yesterday for the payment OF the
fifth milliard of the war indemnity. The
final payment is to be made September 9Th,
when all French territory occupied by Ger
mans is to be evacuated.
The German forces are to evacuate all
French territory occupied by them by the
first of July, with the exception of Verdun,
from which they are to withdraw on the 5th
of September. Barring Brothers and Roths-
child will transact the business.
| Troops have been sent to the Spanish from
tier, to assist the local authorities in the exc
ution of the order requiring that all Car
| lists crossing into France be arrested.
! RMANY.--The German Parliament at
Berlin convened the 10Th. The emperor
opened the session in person. He predicted
an early evacuation of French territory !;
and since his speech negotiations to that eff
feet have been completed.
The German geographical societies propose
to send an expedition to explore the western
part of Africa, and supplement- the discove-
ries of DR.. Livingstone.
ITALY.-Amadeus has formally resumed his
rights as an italian citizen.
| Bishop MacIlvaine died on Friday in Flor
ence.
| SPAIN.-A special dispatch to the London
| Standard says that General Nouvllas has
been defeated by the Carlist Dorregary, neal
Pampeluna. The government troops attack
ed the Carlists on the nights of Monral, but
| failed to disl0dge them, and were forced to
retreat. They lost three commissioned off,
GERS and 20 privates killed, and 20 officers
and 100 men wounded. The Carllst loss was
heavy
The government has received a dispatch
announcing that 5000 Carlists at Vera have
been routed by General Nordes, after san
culinary battle which lasted several hours,
and that General Nouvilas is actively press
ing forward the campaign in the North.
A dispatch from Madrid says an express
train from that city for Castiruela vas
thrown from the track by Carlists, near Villa
Franca. The insurgents opened fire, and
killed the engineer, the fireman and two
brakemen The pa sengers and guards bar
ricaded themselves in a neighboring house,
from which they began brisk fire Of mus
kerry and pistols. The Carists finally fed,
and the government forces shortly atterward
set out in pursuit. The band fed toward
Monte Acasta. The impartial believes 1t
was led by the cure of Santa Cruz, who de-
stroyed four railway stations Monday of last
week. Socialist disturbances are reported
in Estramadura.
The cure of Santa Cruz, who leads Car
list band, treats the Spanish troops who tall
into his hands with great cruelty. lie re-
Gently logged several with such severity that
thew died from the effects Of the blows.
Figueras, accompanied by the governor OF
the province of Barcelona, and Henry Rug
giles, United States consul, visited the United
States squadron in the port of Barcelona
and the company were received with tul
honors. Captain BrysJn of the Brooklyn
proposed the health of Senior Flgueras, and
the president responded by paying tribute
to the memory of Washington, and thanking
Americans Tor their expressions OF sympathy
with the new republic.
1t is reported that reaction has set II
among the Radicals, in favor of the indlvlsl'
bic Republic as opposed to the federal system
Senior Figueras, in an unofficial telegram
to Ministers PI Margall and Tetuan, ex
presses fear that the people at Barcelona are
determined to stand by their proclamation
of Federal Republic.