The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-07-17
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Hon. T. Thomington, lately appointed
United States consul to Aspinwall, on apply
ing to Bogota for tho usual exequatur, was
refused on the ground that the government
, Of Columbia recognized no such place as AZ
@pinwall, only that of Colon. Secretary Fish,
upon being informed Of the refusal, appointed
Thorrington commercial agent at Aspnwall,
with powers of consul, requiring no exequater'
Madrid. A drift OF the new constitution,
submitted to the Cortes by the committee
which was appointed to draw up the measure,
provides that tho president OF the republic
must have been born on Spanish territory,
aud be twenty-five years of age. The country
is divided into two cantons, like the Swiss re-
public. The assembly OF each canton elect
four senators, ana deputies are to be chosen
by universal suffrage. China and Porto Ri
co are to be assimated with cantons of Spain.
The central power is authorized to suspend
constitutional guarantees, and order leyles for
troops without first consulting the authori-
ties OF cantons
The failure Of E. b. Eddy NJ. P. p, a
leading lumber manufacturer of Canada, for
something over ) ,OOO, 900, causes profound
sensation in commercial and lumber circles at
Ottawa. Over 300 men have been discharged
from his mills and manufactures, besides wo-
men aud children, causing much trouble
among tho poor people of Hull,
The Catholic clergy of Brazil are forbid
den by council OF state to publish the bulls OF
the pope until the government las accorded
its permission, and the same authority denies
any civil effect to sentences Of excommunca-
ton.
The archb shop OF Cologne and his suf-
fragans have been summoned by the German
government to explain their reasons for ex-
communicating two priests for joining the old
Catholic organization.
The new Prussian court for the admins
tration of tho ecclesiastical law has been formed
by royal decree, and is composed OF eleven
iudges, five of whom are Roman Catholics.
-Finling themselves worstedin the appeals
to arms which they made to support their ag-
gressions on the Acheenese, the Dutch have
descended to negotiations. They offer to repay
the A,heenese government the cost of its
defense, and reimburse it for all the damage
done by the Dutch troops, and to respect its
religious and political rights provided it will
grant Dutch traders privileges similar to those
which they enjoy on the neighboring islands.
BY its subjugation of the Independent
Khanates of Turkestan, Of which Khiva was
the last to yield, Russia, despite English
opposition, has carried its territorial aggres'
sions in Asia up to the boundaries Of India. 1t
now proposes to extend its railroad connections
through Baku on the Caspian, to Teheran in
Persia. In this way Russia hopes to tap the
East India trade which now goes by water
along the dangerous route skirting the shores
of the Arabian gulf, and passes up the Red
sea, through the Suez canal, into the Mediter.
ranean. This plan has redoubed English ap-
prehensons of the designs Of Russia, and is
considered BY tho Daily News as formidable
attempt to paralyze British commerce in the
east.
Tho Mahommedans are carrying ona cruel
persecution among the Sclayes Of Bosnia, in
European Turkey, most Of whom belong to
the Greek church. In six weeks 27O OF them
: have been killed in one district. The local
Turkish magnate gives the poor natives no
protection, and the representatives of the
Christian powers at Constantinopls have
called upon the sultan to stop the outrages
aud bring their perpetrators to justice.