Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-06-22

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during the war was passed The House took
a recess until 10 o clock this morning.
FOREIGN NEWS.
PARIS, June 2O.-The Chambers of the As
sembly was crowded to-day With deputies, and
the galleries well filled with eager observers of
the proceedings The municipal organization
bill was again before the body, it appearing
that though the reporter Of the Decentraliza-
ton Committee yesterday announced its with
drawal, the minority OF that committee subse-
uuently took up the bill, and secured the adop-
ton by vote of $40 against "a Of an amend
nent maintaining the present system OF NUM-
cipal elections, thus overthrowlng the three
clauses of the bill which provide for the repre-
seutation of the minority by cumulative voting
These clauses having been stricken from tie
bill, it again came up in the Assembly to-day
in its modified form.
NJ. Fourtou, the Minister Of the Interior, an
uouuccd that the Government had accepted
the amendment proposed by NJ. Clapier to the
| bin, which extends for two years the operation
of the present law, providing that the nomna
ton of mayors shall be made by the Govern
| ment.
The amendment was tbcreupon adopted by q
vote Of $50 yeas to 329 nays.
The Committee of the Assembly has unan-
mou,ly resolved to uusea4 M. Ranc, because Of
the sentence imposed upon him by the military
tribunal for participating in the doings OF the
Commune.
CoNsrANTINoPLE. June 2O.-The Turkish
vessel karr, Gu route for Salanica was run into
yesterday 10 the Sea of Marmora by an Egypt
lao vessel named Behera, and sunk in few
minutes The Karr had three hundred and
Iorty persons on board, including passengers
and crew, and Ut this number three hundred
and twenty we're drowned.
LONDON, June 2l.-The Observer publishes
the text of the home-rule resolve which DIR.
Isaac Butt. member of Parliament for Limer-
| ick, proposes to move on the 30th instant in
the House of Commons, in substance as fol-
lows That in the opinion OF the House it is
expcdent and just to restore to the Irish ma
ton the power of managing exclusively Irish
affairs 10 an Irish parliament, provision being
made at the same time for maintaining integrity
in the empire by leaving to the imperial Par
lament the control ofimpera affairs.
The strike in which more than ten thousand
miners were engaged iu Cleveland, Yorkshire,
is now ended, with the acceptance of the mas
ters' terms, which impose reduction oftwcVe
and ahalf per cent. 10 wages.
LONDON, June Ola great demonstration of
sympathy for the agricullu ral laborers, locked
out from work, was made in Manchester yes
terday. Members of trades unions, to the number
of twenty-five thousand, with fifty bands of
music, marched in procession through the
principal streets. A mass meeting was subsc-
9uentIy held at the Pomona Gardens, at which
it is estimated, fifty thousand people were pre-
sent. Arch and other prominent friends of the
workingmen delivered addresses.
LONDON June 20.-The Parliamentary cleo
ton 10 North Durham has resulted 10 the re-
turn to the House of Commons Of Palmer,
| Liberal, one OF the former members, and Elliott,
Conservative. The election of Elliott is gain
for the Conservatives.
| The Pail Mall Gaz lite says the success of
the Congress of International Lw, called to
meet at Brussels, is very doubtful. The gov
crnmeuts Of England, Frnnce and Austria, says
the Pail Mall Gazette, raise objections to the
scheme aud Switzerland extends to it but fee
| BILE support.
BREMEN, June 2O.-At the agricultural ex
hibition being held here the Crown Prince
Frederick William of Germany spoke 10 reply
to toast to the Emperor William, aud 10 his
remarks expressed the hope that foreign exhibi-
tors would on their return home convey assur-
ances that nowhere was the wish for q peaceful
continuance of the labors ofcivization stronger
| tDaD III the TeHtUlllluLcu UcTudu LluplTc
| BERLIN, June 2l.-rhe members OF the
Academy of Science and the university authori-
ties Joined in giving farewell dinner. on Sat
urday night to Hon. George Bancroft, Minis
ter of the United States. Prof Curtus, the
historian of Greece, toasted Mr.. Bancroft and
| lady, aud Prof Mommson, the Roman histor-
| ian, made some remarks, In the course Of which
| he spoke of the union of Germany and the
United States 10 the struggle for intellectual
| freedom.
PARIS, June 2O.-The latest adviccs from
| Spain state that the frontier town Of FIigucras,
10 Corona, is closely invested by the Carlist
| Chiettian Sabas.
Herr Hatfield, who was sept from Germany
| to Spain, with an offer of a loan to be guaran
teed by a mortgage upon the philippine Is
labds has failed 10 his mission and will return
to Berlin.
Telegrrphic communication between Spain
and France has been severed.
MADRID, June 2l.-Gtneral Concha reports
the roads 10 the neighborhood of EsteIla im-
practicable for heavy artillery. He was obliged
to suspend operations tor the present.
ROME, June 2l-As the multitude was re-
turning from the grand TIE Deum at St. Peters
the Pope was seen at one of the windows of
the Vatican. Hundreds of people waved their
handkelchiefs and some ex-Ponti6cal police
men shouted Long live the Pope, our King. y
Several arrests we're made. The troops cleared
and took possession of the streets.