Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29
FOREIGN NEWS.
Grand Carlist Victory in Spain.

ceived The defense was brave and
obstinate to the last.
On the 18th the Republicans defend
ing Faubourg Carristea, repealed three
assaults made by Don Alphonso with
5000 men. The Carlists ultimately
captured Faubourg. The Repub-
licans retired to the principal square of
the town and refused to surrender.
Four more attacks were made upon
them, in each of which the Carlists
met with repulse. During the morn
ing of the 18th, after the firing had
lasted fifty six hours, the Carlists gain
ed the square. The Republicans be.
gan to retreat to a citadel when they
suddenly encountered a fresh force of
1000 Carlsts who, 10y some unexplains
ed means, had gained possession of the
citadel. Gen. Z'glesias, the Republi.
can commander, and all his officers
and men then surrended as prisoners
of war, The Carlists sacked and burns
ed many houses, murdered many in
habitants, made heavy acquisitions for
provisions, demanded a contribution
amounting in aggregate to two years
taxes to paid by the city and destroyed
the Notifications. The enemy report
their losss at $50 killed and 700 wound
ed.
PARIS, July 22.-In the Assembly
to-day the Minister on foreign affairs
stated that it was impossible for
France TO hold aloof from the Brus-
sells Congress, but that the Govern
ment would undertake nothing in
connection with it without the consent
of the Assembly.
The Government will insist on the
exclusion Of neval questions, in ac-
cordance with the example of Eng
land.
LONDON, July 22.-The Times Paris
special says the committee of thirty
have agreed to the electoral bill fix
ing the age of a voter at %, providing
for elections by ACCOMPLISHMENTS, iu-
stead of departments, and giving an
additional member to every fifty thou
sand inhabitants.
MADRID, July pa terrible land
slide occurred at Aava, in the
Province of Navarro. The overhang-
ing rocks fell upon and utterly de
stroyed the village. The disaster was
so sudden that few of the inhabitants
escaped. 200 corpses have already
been recovered
A Carlist magazine exploded last
week at Quiza, by which thirty men
were killed and a large number
wounded.
LONDON, July 26.-An extentive
open air demonstration against the
money grant to Prince Leopold was
made by the Republicans in Clerken-
we'll to-day.
The Nationalist of Limerick pro.
pose to give dinnerin honor of John
Mitchell, who recently arrived from
! America. 1t is reported that the home
rule member of Parliament will retire
in order to give Mitchell an opportu-
nifty of being returned to the vacant
seat. Detectives are watching Mitch
ellis movements.
Abraham Brewster, formerly Attor-
ney General, is dead.
LONDON, July 81, $50 A. M-The
morning papers announce upon official
authority, that Prince Leopold is seri-
ously i'll. Although there is no cause for
alarm, his recovery will necessarily be
tedious.
A special to the Daily NelVs reports
n majority of the delegates to Congress
have arrived in Brussels. The session
opens to-day, but the sitting will be
! devoted only to the exchange of ere
dentials and other preliminaries.
| Sir Alfred Horsford, is the Repre-
sentative of Great Britain.
| VIENNA, July ga shock of an
earthquake was felt here to-day during
a violent storm of rain and hail. 1t il
reported that on the border of Moravia
several lives were lost and fifty houses
were destroyed and many vineyards
were flooded and ruined at Asegra
where it is rumored only IA of the in.
nabitants escaped.
PARIS, July 26.-In the Assembly to-
morrow, on the presentation of the re-
port of the committee on Parliamentary
| initiative on a motion for the dissolu.
! ton offered by Leon de Malleville
and Duvall, the Left will move that the
| Assembly do not separate until the
| question of dissolution is decided.
The Conservative journals to-day
earnestly appeal to absent Deputies Of
their party to return. Fears that the
! dissolution will be carried are prevail
ent, and tend TO flatten funds.
LONDON, July26 The Impartial, in
strongly-worded article, denounces O
viewed completely of France with the
Carlists, and declares if diplomatic
representations prove Intellectual, Spain
must adopt a cold attitude toward
France and seek more congenial
alliance.
French journals assert that the
| Spanish frontier is well guarded by
the French authorities, and the con
band of war which reaches the Car
lists are imported by sea from Eng.
| land.
... The Situation in France. ...
PARIS, July 27.-The Committee o
Thirty have adopted and the Govern
ment has accepted the proposition o
M. Payas Dupont, introduced in III,
Assembly on the 10th inst, for tn,
creation of a Senate, which provides
that the Senate shall consist of lOl
members nominated by the Presiden
and 80 selected from and by the As
sembly, the Cardinals, Marshalsl anC
Admirals to be members ex officio. AL
SO, that the President of the Senat,
shall become Provisional President o
the Republic in the event of va
oancy, and the President of the Re
public be empowered to dissolve tn
Assembly with the approval of tn
Senate. -... .e.....l'.
The Committee on Parlimentar,