The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-02
FOREIGN.

In most of the French elections,
Sunday, the Republican candidates
were successful.
The Chinese government has or
dered large quantity of breech~
loading rifles from Berlin.
Endeavors to bring about revo
cation of the state of siege in Par,
Is are being strongly made.
The Pope has written a letter of
thanks to Cardinal Cullen, of Dub
lin for his condemnation of Tyn-
dali.
A rhinoceros in the London 70
illogical Gardens fatally gored two
of the keepers of the animals,
Wednesday.
Lady Franklin has renewed her
offer of $4,000 for the recovery of
the official records of Sir John
Franklin's expedition.
By an explosion in. the Warren
Vale Coal mine, in Yorkshire, Eng
land, on the Goth, "a men lost their
lives.
Louis Blanc, of the French AS
sembly. advises a union of all the
Republicans in that body for pur-
poses offensive and defensive.
In Spain. on the Goth, the Carlists
shot ~ prisoners captured at Ca
vello. Civilized nations should put
an end to these butcheries.
Last weeks Mark Lane express,
of London, England, reports a
general advance in the continental
markets, since the previous issue,
of one shilling on the price of
wheat.
Gigioux, one of Marshal Ba-
zaine's guards, convicted of aiding
his escape, has appealed, and is lib
Grated to await the result. Four
months of Plaintain's term of i'm
prisonment have been remitted.
Prince Bismarck has assured the
Turkish Minister at Berlin that the
conclusion of the direct treaty of
commerce with Roumenia will in
no wise prejudice the political SOW
ereignty of Turkey in that princi-
pality. ~
A Madrid special to the New
York Herald. of Tuesday, says the
Spanish government has expressed
willingness to pay indemnity in
the Virginius case to the United
States on the same basis as that
with which Great Britain was sat
isfed for the outrage perpetrated
on her subjects.
Owing to the severe storm of the
beginning of this week, the water
in the Welland canal reached the
level of Lake Erie, and the lock
gates were thrown open by the
shock Of water passing through.
This never happened before in the
Welland canal The water in the
harbor of Port Colbourne, Ont,
has risen six or seven feet
United States Minister Baker, al
Constantinople, recently received a
communication that the residence
of the American missionaries at La
takia, Syria, had been violated by
an armed force. Minister Baker
called upon the Grand Vizier in
reference to the matter, and that
official promised positively that the
Porte would give the United States
government full and complete salts
faction if wrong had been done.
A letter from Havana states tina,
a party of twenty five Spanish ar
tillerymen, garrisoning Fort st. Hi
laire, in the central department
revolted, seized a coasting schoon
er at Puerto del Padre, on the nortl
coast, and under threats of deatl
ordered the captain to take them t.
Key West, st. Thomas, or any o
the neighboring islands. The cap
tain, seeming to accede, set sail, bu
ran the vessel aground on neigh
boring key. Then in small boat
under pretext of getting aid, h,
went to the nearest military head
quarters and informed the com
inander, who sent a force to arres
the deserters. They were tried b,
courtmartial, and on the 9Th inst
eleven were shot and the remainin,
foul teen imprisoned