Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-02-11
Foreign News.

ENcLAND.-The elections for the new
narl;ament result in conservative victory,
which is more fully spoken of in another
column. The elections have in many
places been attended by serious riots.
Mass meetings have been held express
inc sympathy for each of the parties In
the struggle in Germany.
FRANCE M Buffet has been re elect
ed president of the French National AS
sembly.
The budget committee of the French
National Assembly has voted to recon-
mend an appropriation of Sooo'oo" to
repair the damage to public buildings, IN
cluding the Tuiieries and palace Royal.
There are 600 communists awaiting trial
| in France.
GERxANY.-The Emperor is better and
whenever the weather permits he takes
his usual drive. and during the last week
he has received the reports of the ministers
of state and others with the same regular
ity rs previous to his illness.
The newly elected Reichstag has ma
iority in favor of Bismarck policy against
The Catholics. Bismarck's supporters are
about 235 to 100 of all shades OF opposition
The French candidates from Alsace were
elected to the Reichstag by overwhelming
majorities.
The Reichstag was opened at Berlin the
9th, with II speech from the throne The
Emper enumerates rs among the prInci-
pal measures to be submitted during the
session, bills relating to the army, press.
trades-unions, and marine jurisdiction, and
concludes with the assurance that all the
nations of Europe are prepared to pre-
serve peace.
Archbishop Ledochowski was arrested at
Posen on the Sd, by order of the govern
ment, and sent to frankfort for imprison-
ment. The Archbishop is the most refrac-
tory of the Catholic clergy. and Prince
Bismarck proposes evidently 10 - deal =
with him. He will be tried on the llth
lust, on no other charge except a refusal
to pay his fines. He may yet be released
if the fine is paid. The Emperor has de-
clrned to intervene in the case, notwith-
standing great Influences have been brought
to bear in the Archbishop's favor.
An anti-Catholic Meeting was held ri
Berlin, Saturday night, at which a number
of members of the Reichstag and Landtag
were present. A resolution signed by
tield-Marshals Won Moltke and VOr
| Wrangel. Prince Hohenlohe and others
was adopted thanking the people of Eng
land for Il recent manifestation of sympa
thy for Germany.
SPAIN-Gen. Sickles took final leave Of
the Spanish government the 9th, and placed
Secretary Adee in charge of the legation
| Gen. Dorregarrav succeeds Gen. Elio as
chief of staff to Don Carlos. Flo being
disabled by rheumatism.
The government announces the blockade
r.. l.. ID
to Fuenterrabia, except the ports of Gijon,
Santander and San Sebastian.
A desperate engagement is reported
near Lerida between the Spanish republi-
cans and Carlists. with the defeat of the
latter with heavy loss in killed and
wounded.
ASIA. The famine in India is increasing
rapidly. 1t is estimated that there are
l50,o 01 natives already severely distressed.
Dispatches from Penang report that the
cholera is decreasing in Acheen. \ re-
connoitering party OF the expedition hal
been attacked, and twenty killed or wound
ed.
Advices from Sumatra show that the
Achenese chiefs still hold out and are
building forts in the interior.
AFRICA The Ashantees have at last
Welded before Sir Garnet Wolseley's forces
and peace is assured, The defeated king
accepts Sir Garnet's terms for a cessation
of hOstilities. and agrees to pay an indem
nifty of = .000, 900. All the white prisoners
held by the Ashantees have been released
and delivered to the British forces Tn,
latter had advanced to within days march
of Coomassie, he Ashantee capital, whel
the treaty of peace was agreed upon.