, 1875-02-25
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.Y1UsIyE1Y TO THE DAILY DISPATCH.

srxIUs1vELY TO THE DAILY DISPATCH.
LONDON, Feb. 16.-The British steam
er Geo. Batters is supposed to be lost
with 81 persons On board. -s- ~.
MADRID, Feb. 16.-The Carlists of the
Northern Coast have again fred on
steamship engaged in the telegraphic
cable service.
The ead-quarters of Gen. Marionez,
commander OF the Army of the North,
are established at Puenta La Reina, Ma
varre.
Gen. Lazama is appointed chief of Al
tonzo's military cabinet.
LONDON, Feb. l6.-John Mitchell is
returned to Parliament from Tipperary
without opposition. DIR. Kenealy .eoun-
sci for the Tichborne claiment.is elected
to Parliament from Stoke on Trent by
1900 majority.
In the House of Commons to-day,
11aIluy he, SOuS0l AhofSA AoA ~
pies of the certificate of the trial and
conviction of John Mitchell in 1S4S and
Of the official notification of his escape
and the proclamation offering reward
for his apprehension. Also for copies
of dispatch from the Governor In Van
Diemen's Land. relative to granting a
ticket-cf-leave to, and the subsequent
escape of, John Mitchell. Nolan re-
eretted that nearly all the Irish Mem
bers had left the House, thinking busi-
ness was over. He called attention to
the fact that the Government did not
arrest Mitchell when he was in Ireland
last year.
Disraeli gave notice that he would
move on Thursday a resolution declar-
ing that as John Mitchell had been ad-
Judged guilty of felony and sentenced
to transportation. and as he has neither
endured the penalty nor received par
don he is in,apacitated for election to
the House of Commons and that fresh
writ of election be ordered for Tlppera-
~. Sullivan, member from the South,
attacked the Government for percipi.
fancy in its action and said that e ninent
Irish legal authorities supported the ell
igibility of Mitchell.
PARIS, Feb. 16.-It is reported that
the father of Don Carlos and Don Al
fonzo. with others, raised a large sum
in London last week to carry on the war
in Spain.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Recorder John
Hackett, in charging the jury before
which the proprietor of the Metropoli-
tan theatre was tried for keeping dis
orderly house. because of cancan exhib-
ition, held that the theatre complained
of was nuisance at common law, and
that every public show and exhibition
which outrages decency, shocks human
ity, or is contrary to good morals, is
punishable at common law.
Jules Salomon, of San Francisco
whose trunk was seized on Saturday OF
the arrival of the st. Pierre, says tn
dutiable goods contained therein wer
intended for certain wealthy gentlemen
named. Among the articles we're thre
gold watches, six dozen gloves, diamonl
studs, bracelets, earrings, numerou
scarfs, scarf pins, hair fronts. thre'
bead lace jackets, superb india shawl
thirteen gentlemen's coats, children!
over -cloaks and dresses, etc.
CHICAGO, Feb 16 DIR De Koven stated
that he has sent letter accepting tht
Bishopric Of Illinois, to which he wa:
recently elected.
New YORK, Feb. 16.--Gov. kellogg
to-day vetoed the bill appropriatlne
$1SO,O00 for the expenses of the Legis.
lature. Ee says this is $4,000 more
than is necessary and that several pro-
visions of the bill are unconstitutional.
The House sustained the veto.
New York, Feb. 17.--Matter under
consideration by the Board of Educa-
ton to make obligatory the study of
German in the pnblic schools of this
city, meets with influential opposition.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE award of
S197, 900 gold, make by the British and
American Mixed Commission, to A. R.
Mcdonald, a British subject, resident
of Louisville, Ky, has been paid by the
United States Government. The claim
was for the loss sustained by the burn
ing Of cotton during the war, and was
originally for S2,5O0, 900, and was the
second largest claim adjudicated by the
Commission.
The House Committee on foreign
affairs today agreed to report bill
supplementary to acts in relation to
immigration, which seeks to prevent
importation of women from China and
Japan or any other oriental country for
immoral purposes, to be visited with
severe penalties.
LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE electors of
Tipperary ador resolution declar-
ing thatif Mitchells election is annulled.
they will again return him. 1t is re.
ported that Mitchell will refuse to take
the oath of allegiance, and that the
Home Rule members of Parliament will
therefore refuse to support him. John
Mitchell declares he will run again If
his election is annulled, and if defeated.
will continue to contest any place where
a parliamentary election is to be held.
He was most enthusiastically received
in Tipperary.
z. J. Reed, late Naval contractor, will
move in the Commons that the Admiral-
ty be instructed to postpone for year,
the Polar expedition, now organizing.
with the view that Austria and other
governments may cooperate.
HAVANA, Feb. T.--In the engagement