The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-02-13
FOREIGN.

-Rioting appears to be the favorite diver
sion Of the average EnSlishman IN election
day. Reports from across the water ever
chronicled riotous demonstrations at nearly
every polling place in the Kingdom. Seldom
has an election in that country been at
tended with so much excitement and disorder.
The returns show large Conservative gains.
and foreshadow the overthrow OF Premier
Gladstone. Up to the 9th inst. los Liberals
and al Conservatives had been returned to
Parliament.
-Advices from the Gold Coast report that
the Ashantees have released the German mis-
sionary and sent him to Sir Garnet wolseley,
with proposals of peace.
"A dispatch from Berlin says Alarming re-
ports are current concerning the relations be-
tween Germany and France.
London dispatches are full OF details Of
the exciting contest over the Parliamentary
seats, which, judging from the accounts, is
productives of far more rancorous feeling and
disorderly proceedings than any political cam.
paign on this eide of the Atlantic has ever
wrought. A few extracts, cullcd at random
from the kilograms, will afford the reader an
ides Of the exciting times our transatlantic
Cousins have been having over their elections:
"Mr. Ayrton addressed q large and disorder
ly assemblage in Tower Hamlets. Ayrton was
compelled several times to stop speaking, ow-
ing to the fighting. Conservative meetings in
Greenwich we're attacked, and the candidates
were compelled to cease speaking. There was
also a very disorderly meeting in Deptford.
There are apprehensions Of disturbances in
Greenwich, when Gladstone speaks. 1t is
! said that the thoroughfares will be closed an
hour before Gladstone commences, and that
the troops win be confined to the barracks.
Gladstone spoke at Greenwich, according to
another dispatch, to 10000 people, who were
very disorderly.l Disraeli addressed a large
assemblage at Aylesbury. He said the dissolu-
ton Of Parliament was an act of black treach-
cry, which Gladstone learned from the tactics
Of the Ashantees."
There had been elections in forty-eight
boroughs of England up to the I'd inst, OF
which the Conservatives carried twenty-eight
and the Liberals twenty.
A dispatch from Cape Coast Castle states
that - ambassadors from the Ashantees re-
Gently arrived in the British camp, suing for
peace. Sir Garnett Woolseley replied that he
would only treat with the king himself, at
Coomasie.
The cholera has broken out in Acheen,
and it is reported that the Sultan has died Of
the disease.
Six persons were killed and several fatally
Injured, the other day, by the giving way of q
floor in a factory building where a Liberal
meeting was being held, in Lancashire, En-
gland.
Spain has withdrawn her representatives
from the leading European capitals.
-lbe French candidates for seats in the
German Parliament from Alsace have been
elected by overwhelming majoritities
Russia refuses to send goods to the
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, because
the affair is a private enterprise.
Archbishop L~edochowski has been i'm
prisoned by order OF the German Govern
ment.
-Ensland's military expedition against the
hrhdilltco vi AlT.ca mas terminated III forcing
the barbarians to accept the terms of the
Britishers, a part Of which is q little indemnity
of 81, GOO, 900.
-Advices from Cuba report that the Span
iards are sorely in need of men and money to
carry on the war against tho insurgents.
The Carlists have been defeated by the
Republicans in a desperate engagement near
Lerida, Spain.
The conflict between the U~ltramontanes
and the German Government threatens q rup-
ture of the peace of Europe. France, of
course, ~sustains the clerical party. The Pope
exhorts his followers to resist the demands Of
Germany even unto martyrdom- The agits-
ton has produced a depression on the Paris
Bourse, and securities of all classes are falling
rapidly. In view Of the alarming reports of
impending wal, Il e Emperor's speech to the
German Parliament is somewhat reassuring.
He declared that ell the nations of Europe, in.
GLIDING the one over which he is placed, are
determined to maintain peace.
Thirty thousand unemployed workmen Of