The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

port the Republic and President MacMahon.
......It is said the select COMMITTEES of the
| Parliament at Berlin, to whom the proposed
amendment to the Criminal Code was refer
red, has resolved upon direct opposi-
ton to the Government, and to favor
| jury trial for all press oilenses. Owing TO
| the opposition OF some OF the smaller States.
the government has for the present limited
| the scheme for purchasing all the railways
| to Prussia alone. The report of the pro-
posed sale Of st. Thomas TO Germany is con-
/, tradicted. The idea was mooted In 1873 Of
exchanging st. Thomas for Heswich, but
dismissed as impracticable... The Spanish
Government grants amnesty to MANY per-
sons ia prison or in exile on the occasion of
the anniversary OF Alfonso's entry into
Madrid.
LaPatrie gives the following as the gene
raj result of the French elections for Sena-
torial delegates, professedly from an Official
source: OF $4,000 Communes, 10000 have
returned conservative delegates. Extreme
Radicals have been victorious IN very lew
Instances. The successful candidates are
Bonapartists, Orleanists and moderate Re
pubicans. The Bonapartists prepondera'e
| in seventeen departments........G General Le'
NAL, acting commander at Marseiiies, mas
prohibited projected political banquet TO
Gambetta.... A Madrid correspondent says
the Romanist electoral agitation is increas'
ing, but the ministerial candidates are Ger.
tain of majority The archbishops ana
bishops have signed petition TO the Ming
in favor of religious unity. Pastorals have
been issded by the bishops or Catalonia,
Saragossa and Burgos, advising the people
to vote only for candidates who support re-
ligious unity.
The Carlist leader, Tristany, notified the
Spanish consul at Bayonne OF his unre'
served submission TO Alfonso......G General
Martinez Compass army is concentrated in
the neighborhoOd of Pampeluna......Samu
Radf0rd & Son, extensive grain merchants
at Lii, erpool, have suspended. Liabilities,
it is thought. will be exceeded by the as
sets...... A special to the London Times from
Ragusa confirms the report Of the defeat OF
the Turks by the insurgents under General
Peko, between Ragusa and Trebinje, and
| gives the following particulars: The turks
disbanded after the first attack without tur'
ther resistance. A majority OF killed, who
probab y number over three hundred, Tell
during the fight. The bulk of the survivors
took refuge on hill, where at last accounts
they were surrounded by the whole insur'
| gent army, three thousand str0ng......Ihe
London ID .iy NeaoS has the folio wing special
dispatch from Berlin: A paper which often
has relations with the government publishes
an alarmist article, similar TO those which
caused so much uneasiness year ago. The
article mentions the reports OF the forma'
tiou OF a French squadron in the Med terra
mean, the collection OF military stores at
Nancy, etc, as reasons for Germany to be
watchfur
The London Anti-Slavery Society recently
presented memorial to Lord Derby, Minis
ter OF Foreign Affairs, on the subject of the
American circular note. They reminded
him that in June last they said the British
Government sympathzed with the object o
their proposal, that England should en-
deavor, in conjunction with the UaiteC
States, to obtain settlement of the Cubar
difficulty by friendly mediation. They
now earnestly commend the question
IN its present critical aspect to hi
management. Lord Derby replied that tn,
government would give the question the at
tention its importance deserved. TIT
society also say they have reliable informa
ton that Spain is willing to place Cuba il
thesame relations as Canada occupies towar,
England on condition that slavery be re
tanned. They point out that in view OF tn
recent American circular, the obstacle II,
longer exists which was advanced by Lor,
Derby last year, that England's inter erenc
On the Cuban question would cause Jealousy
in the United States.