The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-17
Foreign.

A rumor comes from London that a large
Russian loan is about to be placed upon the
market This information will tend to confirm
the belief that the Car has determined to
prosecute All aggressive policy in Asia upon
formidable scale.
The revenue receipts of Great Britain for
the quarter ending Dec. 81 amounted to S7S,-
600 900.
Prosecutions have been instituted in Ger
many against the Roman Catholic journals
which published the recent Papal allocution.
The excitement on this subject is increasing
throughout the empire.
Gen. Won Room has been specially appointed
az President of the Prussian Council Of Minis
ters.
Russia, in order to allay British uneasiness
az to the possible reach of her Asiatic move
ments, and to gain for them a clear field,
offers to lay her plans before the English
Government and even consents that English
officers be allowed to accompany her expedi-
tons.
citizen of the United States has been
sentenced to six months imprisonment i'll
Hungary for talking disrespectfully of the
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. An
Englishman, who was travelling with him and
resisted arrest has been committed for three
months
Cuban news reports several fights, in all of
which the insurgents have been whipped; but
it is to be remembered that these accounts may
be colored by the censorship under which they
pass. The insurgents are certainly busy, and
their activity has compelled the withdrawal of
all regular troops from Havana for service in
the field. In order to infuse still greater
vigor into the conduct of their affairs, the
reyoutionists propose to make Agramonte
President Mt the next election, instead of Cos
| pedes their present chief.
Randolph Stewart, ninth Earl of Galloway,
died in London recently, aged ~.
The coast Of England has been visited by an
other violent tempest.
Kaiser William has conferred the order of the
! Black Eagle upon Bismarck.
II is stated that an understanding has been
arrived at between England and Russia with
regard to the war against Khiva the Car as
surfing the Engligh Government that he has no
hostile designs on Afghanistan.
John F. Pawson d Co., of London, dealers
| in Manchester goods, have failed for 10000
900. 1t is feared other failures will follow.
Ex-Emperor Napoleon who has been suffer
ing for some time from symptoms of stone i'll
the bladder, has just undergone the first OPP
Grafton for it's removal by lithotomy. The
London papers announce that the operation
WAS successful and that the condition of the
patient is encouraging.
The British Government declines to aid the
Royal Geographical Society in sending out an
Arctic expedition.
Greece has consented to submit the question
Of the Laurium mines to arbitration.
The new census of France shows the popula-
ton to DO &C. 102, 921, decrease of sec, 995
since 1866.
The commercial treaty between France and
Great Britain has been finally concluded.
The irrepressible Cnrlists are growing more
troublesome in Spain.
The city of Bogota, in South America, has
recently suffered disastrous inundation,
caused by the overflow of two small rivers.
President Morales, of Bolivia, was shot
! dead by his nephew, on the 9th inst, on ac-
count, apparently, of political differences. A
successor was at once elected by the Bolivian
Congress.
Louis Nspoleon's condition il improving
Several Internationalists, with Orsini bombs
in their possession, have been arrested in
Paris.
The French Assembly has ordered the prose-
cution of Deputy for acting "a second in
duel.
General.
Montreal was visited 10y destructive fire on
New Years eve. The loss is estimated at
$500, OOO
The public are likely TO be accommodated
with another sensation in the way of what is
called watering stocks. Ii il understood saws
the New York World that Commodore Wander
bilt intends selling New York Central stock to
the extent of iO,OOO, 900, instead Of wasting
further time in trying TO negotiate the bonds