The Portland daily press., 1875-04-16
F OR E I G. N.
British Parliament.

LONDON, April 15.-In the House of Com
mons to-day there was long and excited de-
bate on a petition praying for the dismissal
from the bench of the judges who sat in the
Tichborne trials, on the ground OF partiallty
and corruption, and for the impeachment OF
the Speaker of the House of Commons for SIM
liar reasons.
jected.
The annual budget was submitted to the
House tonight by the Chancellor of the EX-
cbequer. 1t shows that the surplus OF receipts
over the expenditures for the fiscal year ending
March 81, 1876 was G593,833 The expendi-
lures for the current fiscal year are estimated
at 81 $40, $780, leaving surplus of g417,C Zoo.
The Chancellor stated that these estimates are
liable to be affected by supplementary .esti-
mates in connection with the Irish educational
measures and other matters. The only change
in taxation he proposes is the readjustment of
brewers licenses and of stamp duties through
which he expects the surplus will be reduced to
1851, 900.
MI. Childers objected that the estimates
were too finely drawn, and he anticipated
deficit.
The budget includes the following plan for
the reduction of the public debt. The charge
on account OF the debt for the fiscal year end
ing March Il, 1876, is estimated at 1921, 216,000.
The charge is to be gradually increased till it
amounts to $2S, 900 in 1877, at which figure
it shall permanently remain. The yearly over
plus which is not required for the payment of
the interest shall be applied TO the redemption
of the debt Thus ia thirty years $213,000, 900
of the debt can be cancelled.
Brutality of the Governor of Puerto
Principe.
NEW YORK, April ia Havana letter of
the 10th inst. says General Ampudria was
brought back to Cuba by Valmaseda and ap-
pointed Governor of Puerto Principe. He has
already shot two Cubans and ordered sixteen
more assassinated. He has been notified by
Al, E,,I, ,Iar oft hot6 iyfr fbaf
more lives of Spaniards will be saved here
after. Valmaseda's campaign does not seem
to accomplish much, and old Spaniards say
that another proposition of Sickes to purchase
the island would be more favorably received
now. Cartagena and several small towns and
many estates near Cienfuegos have been burned
recently The celebrated estate of NOME, in
the Cardenas district, has been burned, and the
patriots have occupied Macaqua, in the rich
jurisdiction of Colon. An attack on Cardenas
is daily expected, occasionlng considerable ex-
element there.
From Jamaica.
NEW YORK, April ia letter from King
ston, Jamaica, of the 9TH completely explains
the reports of the negro instruction at St.
Thomas in the east. The cane was set fire to
by sparks from locomotive, and TO schooner
by an incautous application of light to a
cargo of rum.
From Hayti.
Haytien advices say English gunboats at
Port au Prince are making a demand On the
Haytien government for reclamations, which
they have hitherto failed to pay.
The spring rains have set in, and there are
excellent prospects for the coming coffee crop.
Affairs are very much disturbed. Several
persons fled to the British aud American con-
sulates for protection and remain safe against
arrest by the government
Death of a Cardinal.
ROME, April 15.--Annibal Capalt, created
Cardinal in 1868, is dead.
Foreign Notes.
The owners of Her Majestys Opera House
have filed bill to restrain Moody and Sankey
from usug that building.
The French Academy has elected Ward
Sabine, the English general author, correspond
ing member of the class of geography and
and navigation, in place of Antoine Marie
Rem Chase Alon, deceased.
On motion of want of confidence last night
the Nova Scotia government was sustained by
a vote of % 10 IA.