The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-14
FOREIGN NEWS.

| MADRID, Jan. IA royal decree, issued
to-day, disqualifes Generals and all public
functionaries receiving above five hundred
pounds per annum from sitting in either
House of the Cortes.
The government has authorized the publi-
cation of fourteen new journals.
| LONDON, Jan. ia special dispatch from
| Berlin to the Times, says Turkish representa-
| tives declare that any Intervention incompati-
BILE with the dignity or independence of the
Porte will be rejected
1t is expected that England will advise the
Porte to consider Count Andraseys program-
me. If the Sultan declines to do 80 the rebels
will be likely to derive greater advantages
than ever from the countenance of the Mon
tenegrins and Dalmatians.
LONDON. JAM ia dispatch to the Ne,os
from Paris says it is asserted that all the
Ministers will sign the proclamation. Another
report has it that Buffet alone is prepared to
sign it. and all who do not sign it to- day will
be considered as resigning
LONDON Jan. ia Pail Mall Gazette Paris
special says Marshal MacMahons proclama-
ton caused great sensation. The Liberals
blame what they call MacMahcn's inter-
ference, and apprehensions of recall Of the
Assembly are expressed. The fate of the
Ministry has not yet been decided. Further
announcements by the official journal are
expected tomorrow.
LONDON, Jan. 13-The Telegraph's Paris
special says the Ministry of Public Works
will send to the Philadelphia Exhibition
plans of the recent public works in Paris
The Municipal Council will send models of
squares aud public buildings which figured at
the Vienna Exhibition
LONDON. Jan. 13.-The brig Rhone, from
New Orleans for Bremen, which put into
Nieuve dep after touching on the Texel
coast, is discharging. She has six feet of
water in her hold.
not visit Philadelphia. Among other reasons
the conditions Of the Emperor's health rem
ders the absence of his heir inadmissible.
BERLIN, Jan. 13.-It is reported the Austrian
Ambassador at Oonstantinople will deliver
Count Andrassys note supported by the pow
ers, which it is thought will render the Porte's
refusal difficult.
ORAN. Jan. IA violent gale occurred on
the Western Mediterranean to-day and swept
the Algerian coast with great fury. The
damage to property here is estimated at
100000.
PARIS. Jam 13.-The Paris correspondent
of the Times says, in Clbinet meeting yester-
day. Dufaure protested against Bullets pro-
posed programme, and positively refused to
sign it.
President MacMshon interviewed, and pro-
posed he alone should sign the programme.
He appealed to the devotion of the Ministers
to terminate the crisis
The Ministers accordingly agreed that the
proclamation of the President be published
to-day, and that each minister shall, as form
erly. follow his own line of policy. but all shall
rally around the marshal and give him their
cooperation.
After decision was arrived at some official
announcement was published that NJ. Buffet
would countersign the proclamation reafirm-
ing the programme Of February IL, 1875.
The tenor of his announcement convinces
every one that the crisis continues. If the
entire Cabinet had. as agreed to, kept silence
and allowed MacMahon to speak alone, Buff
fet would have undergone defeat as Leon
Say resignation, which he provoked, could
not be accepted. Buffet, by countersioning
the proclamation, gains double result. He
puts himself forward as the inspirer of the
President, and pledges theCabinet collectively
to the policy set forth in the proclamation.
This means that Say and Dufaure can only
retain Office because they have sacrificed their
wills and ideas to those OF NJ. Buffet.
Say and Dufaure doubtless yielded because
they felt that prolongation Of the crisis was
perilous. The peril, however, has simply
changed shape By means of the proclsma.
ton MacMahon, instead of the Cabinet, en-
tiers the electoral arena and indorses Bullets
policy, which seems destined to defeat The
principal feature of the programme is to op-
pose as enemies Of order those who deman