The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-17
FOREIGN NEWS.
LONDON

LONDON, May 16-In the Commons. upors
the question granting leave of absence 10
Capt. Tyler, to examine into the Erie af-
fairs, one speaker thought it derOgatory to-
the national dignity to send only Govern
ment officer to investigate what he termed
"A bankrupt transatlantic concern"
although it was satisfactory to know that
the Erie road was in good hands.
Sir c. B. Adderly, President of the Boartil
OF Trade, and Sir Stafford Northcute main--
! tanned that permission given Capt. Tyler to-
absent himself from his duties was proper
and the subject was then dropped.
LONDON, May IA, S A. MA special frors
Paris to the Standard says, if the Ministry is
defeated Buffet, President of the Assembly -
will probably be called upon by MacMahora
to form new Cabinet. The question Us
about forming an Upper House.
The Gar visited Eugenie to-day.
LONDON, May 16.-The Times Of this
morning says the Car, at the reception
given by him yesterday to the diplomatic.
corps, declared the policy of Russia is to
preserve the peace of the Continent, ard he
hoped the principal governments of Europe
would be united in this purpose.
The Gar went to Chiselhurst this morn
ing to see the ex-Empress Eugene. Upon
his return this afternoon he will visit the
House of Commons. This evening, his Ma
jesty will be present at the Crystal Palace
where he will witness grand display Of
fireworks gotten up for the occasion.
PARIS.
PARIS, May 16,--Gabriel Charles GIeynes
the French painter, is dead.
The Government was defeated by So
votes on priority of measure to be voted
upon, whereupon the Ministry resigned
PARIS, May I6.-As it was known that the
vote To Ia toEnn On bo ~; 10 rx;vo
the priority of discussion to the election law
over the municipal bill, which motion had
been made Cabinet question, when the
hour for the meeting of the Assembly ar
rived the Chamber presented an animated
appearance
After the transaction of the usual routine
OF business, Batbie rose to open the debate
He offered motion requiring the debate
on the electoral laws to begin next Wednes-
day. The motion was supported by Duke
De BrOglie in an exhaustive speech. He
declared that the Government did not wish
to evade its engagements in relation to the
municipal bill, but it believed tho country
desired that the electoral law should be first
discussed.
He refused to accept an offer of M. Lucien
Boun, OF the Extreme Right, that that
party should oppose the motion giving
priority of discussion of the Electoral law,
Ministry. The debate continued until late
hour and the excitement in the Chamber
was frequently so great that it became
necessary to suspend proceedings.
Upon conclusion of the discussion the
question was put to the Assembly and the
President announced that the Government
had been defeated, the vote standing 317 to
35l, showing majority of "a against discus
sing the electoral law before the municipal
oh, %,,v Ahor
Der after the declaration of the vote. When
it had subsidized, Duke de Cazes rose and
offered motion for the approval Of postal
convention between France and the United
States, which he announced as his last act
as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Assem-
bly, thereupon adjourned, and the ministers
soon afterwards handed their designations
to President MacMahon.
MADRID.
MADRID, May 16-The Government has.
issued an order calling into active service
forty battallOns of reserves
BERLIN.
BERLIN, May 16.-Additional information
with regard to the arrest of member of
the Imperial family, in St. Petersburg, shows
there was an rrror in the first dispatches, az
not the Grand Duke Nicolas, brother of the
Car, but one of the Emperor's nephews OF
that name who was arrested. All that u.s.
known Of the cause of arrest is contained
in the following dispatch to the Angsdarg
Gazette, which mentions no names, and re-
duces the affair to mere private scandal.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 14.-An exalted
parsonage in this city, having missed her
communicated the fact to the DO
lice who discovered that the perpetratOr of
the theft was her own son. Intelligence of
the affair coming to the Emperor, no direct
ed that the legal proceedings should take
their course, notwithstanding personal COR
,ideratiOns. 1t seems the diamonds were
given by the prince to a well-known French