The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-01-09
FOREIGN NEWS.
England,

FOREIGN NEWS.
England.
1t announced that the health of Disraeli
has so much improved that he will doubtless
be fully ready for work on The re.assemblng
Of parliament
II Is as ascertained that, by the burning Oft
the emigrant ship Cospatrick, from England
to Australia 400 lives were lost She was
burned November 18th, in latitude 81 north,
longitude 10 west,
The Duke of Montrose is dead. The death ISL
also announced Of Mrs. j. Lothrop Mo,leyI'
wife Of the American historian. Y
Eight persons were killed on the 9Th by sn'Y
explosion of fire damp at Rotterdam nl'
Yorkshire.
Judgment has been rendered in the eccesiJ'
astical court removing Bishop Martin from)1
his see. The bishop is absent from Eng)|
land NJ
The planners, riveters and boilermakers aD|
Hull England, have struck work on accoun0|
OF reduction of ten per cent on their wagesO
Sixty thousand golfers in South Wales have
also struck in consequence of a reduction. 4
The London Times has information that thI
governments OF Switzerland, Austria and Bell
GUM have adopted stringent measures against
the importation into those countries OF
American potatoes infected with the Colora
do beetle.
France. 7
President McMahon sen: a message TO ths
assembly on the 9th urgently requesting the
following legislation: First, the passage Oh
bill creatinga second Chamber Second
Provision for the maintenance ofthe state qui
until 1880 in the event of MacMahon's death
before the expiration of his term of office
Third, that when the second Chamber is or
ganized, both Chambers decide upon definj
lite Government to succeed the Septennate.
After the reading of the Presidents mes
sage, NJ. Batble moved that the constitutional
bills be placed on the order of the day after
the Army bill, and that priority of consider
alton be given the Second Chamber bill
n. Laboulaye, of the Left Centre, demanded
priority for The bill on the organization of til,
Presidents powers.
ID. Chaband Ia Tour, Minister OF the Inter .
ior, theoretically supported NJ Batbies mo-
ton. The House divided, and Batbie's mo (
ton was rejected by vote Of $50 yeas 10 FAC !
nays. The majority was composed of all Sect
tions Of the Left the Legitimists and Bona Z
partists The assembly subsequently decided \,
without opposition, to place the constitution. G
al bills on the order of the day after the Armyr
bill, which will be taken up next Monday d
The new opera house in Paris was openeGsI
on Monday night with great ceremony and 90
brilliant display. Among the distinguished
persons present were President MacMahon
Gen. Ladmirault, the lord mayor of London
the Duke D'Aumale, King Alfonso and ex
Queen Isabella of Spain, the ex-king of Han,
over and all members the French ministryts
and the entire diplomatic corps. !.
The rejection of NJ. Batbie's motion wa.
such defeat of the ministry, that few hour,
later they rendered their resignation, which .
President Mcmahon, however. refused to &C N
cept until he should have succeeded in form
ing cabinet out OF the new majority in tn,
assembly. ol
This movement in France, following s,T|
closely in the wake of the Bourbon restora.
ton III Spain, looks significant. 1t lndiT|
Gates far greater degree Of dissatisfaction q
with the existing order Of things than dis
patches from France have limited at. A coypt
respondent writes from Paris to a Londorbl.
paper that dissolution of the assembled
would render Mcmahon very popular, anD,
influence the general election in favor of hiO
government, the president will very probablSS
break of negotiation with the left and form o.
dissolution ministry, comprising BorgliCS
Fortuna, Depeyer, Cissey, Dletzcs, ano.
D'Audifirct Pasquler. Such a step, however
would not necessarily involve the MAINTENANCE
of the republic. 1t is well known that III
dissolution Of the assembly and the ordering
of Il new election has for years been the pc.
project of the adherents of the empire; fol,
they are confident that ii the people but hack
a chance, they would pronounce emphaticallj
in favor of the restoration of the Napoleonit
dynasty. Such movemen: IN the part o''
Mcmahon, therefore, would be a play in.o thtss
hands of the Bonapartists that they would noihi
be slow to take advantage OF. Indeed
Mcmahon has been strongly suspected o.
friendly leanings toward the empire, ant
while seeming to oppose its restoration,
Serrano did in Spain, he could so adjust an
fairs as TO render the eonsummatiOn Ger
tainty
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