Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN

Government has received dispatch an
neuncing that 5 GOO Carlsts, concentrated
at Vera, had been routed by General Nordas,
after sanguinary battle, which lasted sew
eraI hours. General Nouvillas was actively
pressing forward the campaign in the north.
Senior Figueras, accompanied by the Civil
Governor of the Province and Henry Rug
giles. United States Consul, visited the
United States squadron in the port of Bar
celona, and were received with full honors
on board the steamers Brooklyn and She
nandoah. Captain Bryson, of the Brooklyn,
President responded by paying tribute to
to the memory of Washington, and thanking
Americans for their expressions of sympa-
thy for the new Republic.
The new treaty between France and Ger
many, providing for the evacuation of the
French provinces, was signed at Berlin on
the 18th. The German forces are to evacu-
ate all places they now hold in France by
the LIST of July, with the exception of Yer
dun and vicinity, from which they are to
withdraw on the 5th of September.
The Irish residents of London made a
grand public demonstration at Hyde Park
on the 10th, in favor of home rule in Ire
land and amnesty for the imprisoned
Fenians. Everything passed off quietly.
A Madrid dispatch of the nth, says the
Spanish Government had received official in
formation of the defeat, near Pampeluna, of
the united Carist bands led by OLA Perula
and Dorregaray, by a force of Spanish troops
under General Castrano. The insurrection-
lists were completely dispersed.
serious riot between Englishmen and
Irishmen occurred at Wolverhampton, near
Birmingham, on the 18th. At least 5000
persons were engaged in the conflict. Fire
arms and knives were freely used, and there
was much blood shed, though no cases of
fatal injury are reported.
The French Assembly on the 10Th ratified,
without dissenting voice, the treaty signed
by Theirs and Count Won Arnim, German
Ambassador, providing for the payment of
the war indemnity and the evacuation of
French territory.
A dispatch from Geneva, Switzerland,
10Th, says the religious excitement in that
city, caused by the preaching Of Father Hy
acinthe, was increasing. The ultramontanes
were much exasperated.
The Cabinet crisis in England was termi
mated on the Goth, by the announcement OF
Mr.. Gladstone in the House of Commons
that, the Opposition having refused to form
new Government, he and his colleague:
would resume their offices. Gladstone added
that the Queen had given him permission tc
read an extract from the statement he haG
made to her Majesty. It was to the
effect that he did not suppose that
the efforts of the gentlemen of the
Opposition to defeat the Government were
made with the deliberate intention of refus
ing to organize a cabinet, if it should be re
CURED of them, but the summary refusa
given when the occasion arose he considered
not fully in accord with the exigencies o.
the case, nor with parliamentary usage
The Premier's statement was frequently
interrupted by applause, which was warn
and long continued at the close
Disraeli explained the course he hat
thought proper to pursue since the begin
ming of the crisis. He confessed that tn,
difference between himself and the Irisl
Catholics were insurmountable. A new
Cabinet would require until Easter to gel
into working order. Even then it would
have to deal with the financial es
Inmates made by its predecessor
and would probably be outvotee
every night in Parliament. A dissolution O
the House had been suggested. But VIII,
dissolve the sitting? On the Opposition
benches, he heard, his friends had difficult,
in forming a policy On SO short notice, ant
it was not to be expected that they coult
appeal to the country without policy OF
questions more important than tina
of the Irish University bill
All things considered. be had felt it hi
duty to decline the responsibility Of or
ganizing a new Government. The Queer
herself had suggested dissolution of Par
lament. He had declined to advise such 6
step, and stated to her Majesty that in hi
opinion there was no adequate reason fo
the Government to resign, and that i
might return to office without thu
slightest loss of honor and the greatest
possible convenience of the public interests
Disraeli closed with the remark that posi-
bly, some of his supporters in the House
might be dissatisfied, to which there were
loud cries of ''No. Non' In the House Of
Lords Earl Granville announced the decision
of the Government in speech differing bu
little from that of Gladstone. The Duke OF
Richmond: also defended the conduct of the
leaders of the Opposition in the crisis
The French Government has issued al
order prohibiting the expectation of wal
material from that country to Spain.
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