The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-06-25
VOLUME TX.
Morning Star and Catholic messenger.
NEW UeLEANs, SUNDAY, JUNE s5. 1878.
1RLReRAPH1c SUMMARY.
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
BEIGIUM-The disturbances at Client and
Antwerp continued during the week. At the
University of Louvain the lectures had to be
Suspended in consequence of hostile demon
strations
FRANcE.-By coalition of the Legitimists,
Bonapartists and Right Centre, ex-Minister
Buffet was. on the 10Th, elected q life Senator
by majority of three. The Senators belong
ing to the Right have published statement
declaring they voted for Beffet as Catholics and
Conservatives, not as Royalists The bu-
reaux of the Senate elected the Committee on
the University Education Bill. The committee
consists of six oppouents and three supporters
of the bill. This result is due to the fact that
members of the Right are more equally dis
tTibuted among the variou s bureaux instead of
their strength being wasted by concentration
toone or two. An examination of the total nu M
Der of votes cast in the bureau shows that 1872
Senators were opposed to the bill and 13l in fs-
vor of it. Several Senators, however, abs tanned
bill on the final ballot. Tho Ministry, it is
said, will adopt the bill as Cabinet question
and resign if it is not passed.
PRUssIA.-The Chamber of Peers passed the
bill making. German the official language
throughout the kingdom. The Polish members
were violent in their oppe sition to the measure,
and were several times called to order.
AUsTRIA-The Government has ordered the
concentration of l5S. 900 regulars and 10000
landwehr in the Eastern and Southeastern
provinces for autumn drill.-Von Roller,
Minister of War, has resigned, and Rheidt has
succeeded him.
sPAIN.--The Senate adopted the new Con.
stitution as whole.-A crisis is imminent
in consequence of the proposal by Ministers to
increase the land tax two per cent.
ENGLAND.-The great carpet and woolen
works at Ayr burned on the 10th. Twenty
five women were buried in the rnins and per-
ished.-Another reduction of 12i per cent of
the miners wages is about to be made in West
Riding. 1t is thought the miners will accept.
The Secretary of the Miners Union has written
all the miners lodges: We are on the eve of
o terrible crisis; there is to be no strike, but
terms are to be made somehow"
The BARBADoEs.-The Bishop and thirty
four clergymen signed statement to Earl
Carnarvon that fhe riots in that island were not
caused by suffering among the negroes, but by
a mischievous report that the land of the
planters was to be divided among them. The
clergy have no idea how the Impression was
crested, but it still exists. IL will require
hrmness on the part of the Government to re-
move said impression.
!HE PLAGUE.-Dr. Dickson, physician of the
British Embassy at Constant tinople, writes ::
" Undoubtedly the disease which ia prsvailinp o
in Mesopotamis is real plague. Since the
beginning of June, with rise of Temperature
to about lO4 degrees, another characteristic of
the plague has been exhibited in tho RAPIDLY
diminished number of attacks and deaths The
scourge will doubtless cease entirely during
the great heat of summer. During the month
OF May the number OF attacks at Bagdad was
2,079, and deaths Pr"
TURKEY.-Oo the 18th a dismissed army
officer named Haesan, on the pretext of confer
ring with the War Minister, secured admission
to the palace where the Council was in session.
AS soon as he got near the Minister he shot him
dead, and in the scufhs which epsued he killed
the Minister of Foreign Affairs and wounded
the Minister of Marine. He was hanged last
Tuesday.-The fastest news from Belgrade
causes fears that war will break out at any
moment between Turkey and Servia.-The
insurgents have defeated the Turks in two en-
gagements of minor Importance.
UNITED STATES.
WAsHIEGToN.-Secretary Bristow, Treasurer
New, Solicitor Wilson aud Chief Clerk Wilson
have resigned. Senator Morrill,, of Maine, has
oeen nominated and confirmed as Secretary Of
the Treasury.-On the 29nd an order waa
Issued from the War Department assigning
Gen Scho6eld to the command of the West
Point Military Academy, relieving Col. Ruger.
zen. Mcdowell, who ie now in command of the
DIVISION of the South, will 60 the Pacifc to
lake lake command of that military division. The
DIVISION of the South has been discontinued.
yen: Ruger will command the Department of
tne soutn-The impeachment court decided
proceed with the trial of w. w. Belknap
ouly 9th. 1t was further ordered that trial
can only proceed while Congress is in session.
The PRESIDENT has sent message to Con-
StesS, calling attention to the embarrassing
S;SOnaaltion ~ OF all branches of the Government
II Inere should be q failure to pass the neoes.
oy appropriation bills before the 1ss of July,
otherWise provide for an emergency. He
aIi IiSmende an extension Of the provisions of
Us. appropriation bills covering the present
fber.to 70 the next fiscal year in all Gases where
tnras \ 10 failure to provide for the expendi-
fereSon Ge me Government by July 1st.-C0n-
botb 8 committees have been appointed by
fero1.Sees aonees to compromise the existing diff
eeS econUSS which relate entirely to questions of
eTnsUny' the House having greatly reduced
GoyorSSes IN the various departments of the
sboT ment, while the Senate insists that they
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