Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-11
FOREIGN.

London, 10. The Times, in an article on
the American Pilgrimage to Rome. expresses
surprise that a race priding itself on its
shrewdness and precision of thought should
indulge in such antiquated superstitions. Pos
sibly after contrasting the desolation and
wretchedness of the late Papal States with
the cultivation and fertility of America, they,
as eminent practical people accustomed to
judge of institutions by their results, ill find
heir minds disabused.
The Times publishes despatch from Ber-
lin, which gives the probable action of Con-
gress which assemblies at Brussels next month
to consider the subject of International rights
in time of war.
The Times correspondent says the Con-
gress will codify recognized usages of inter-
national law so far as they afiec. the actual
conduct of war.
A new code is to be enacted in the form of
an International treaty, which promises to be-
come the first law common to the whole civ
ilized world.
The draft of treaty, to be submitted to
Congress has been prepared. 1t contains &c
clauses which state belligerents from the mu-
tual claims of belligerent states down to the
relations of those states to private individu-
ais.
They also specify what classes of arms
regulations for the treatment of prisoners.
London, IL. The Paris correspondent of
the Daily News reports that while Gambetta
was waiting for the Versailles train he was
hustled and insulted by band of well known
Bonapartists, lead by NJ. Pietris, the former
Secretary, and Casanova, an officer of the
Imperial Guards. The latter attempted to
strike him.
She extensive cotton mills of Mosely &
Mar, at Manchester, were destroyed by fire
yesterday. Loss, $250,000.
A special dispatch from Berlin to the Times
says the Governments of Germany, Servia
and Roumsins have confdentially informed
the other Europeon powers that they have
concluded an agreement to mutually protect
their interests and positions against the de-
signs of Turkey.
A special despatch to the Daily Telegraph
from Berlin, asserts that the differences be-
tween the Khdive of Egypt and the Sublime
Porte are serious, and intimates that grave
complications in the East are probable.
Paris, 10. The Assembly, to- day, by a
vote of 34S TO 3S7, adopted an amendment to
the municipal electoral bill, fixing the age of
electors at 81 instead of 20 years, as proposed
by the Government which is thus defeated in
a vital provision Of the bill.
A strong guard was placed on the train
which conveyed the depaties from Versailles
to Paris this evening. to protect the Bonapart-
lists, against whom the feeling is very bitter
on the part of Gambetta's supporters.
On the arrival of the parliamentary train
at the Paris depot last evening several Bona.
partists accosted Gambetta and defied him to
repeat the offensive words he used in the As.
sembly chamber.
The Imperialist journals contain violent at
tucks on the Left. There is a general uneas-
mess over the quarrel.
document similar to that read by Girerd
In the Assembly, yesterday, has been discov.
cred circulating in the Paris Barracks.
Bayonne, TO- Twenty-Five battalions of
Carlsts, with twelve guns, are posted between
Estella and the Arga Valley, awaiting the Re-
publicans, who are advancing from Tafala.
Havana, 10. Spanish gold sold to-day at
2G0a262.