New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-13
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Count Schouvaloff left Paris on the tenth
for London. The Observer says he brin 70 a
note, which he ia ordered to communicate
to Lord Derby Immediately, proposing that
the European powers and the Porte sign
protocol, guaranteeing the reforms and
placing the rarahs under The protection of
the powers.
Reuters dispatch from Constantinopls
says that the coun ell of ministers raised
objections to several of Mont negros de-
mends, particularly to the cession of the
Nicsoo The MontenegrIns have resolved
to maintain all demands.
The London Observer, in leader, says:
1--WE have reason to believe that when a
proposal was recently made in the French
Chamber of Deputies for the extension of
the Notifications of Paris the scheme was
dropped in difference to peremptory decla.
rations from Berlin that any addition to the
| defenses of Paris would be considered a
cdSus 6eli
A Reuter- telegram from Paris states that
President MacMahon will entertain General
| lguatietf at banquet on Tuesday.
An interview reports that General Igna-
| tietf intimated that he had net wholly relin-
quished his idea of going to London.
Pardons or Communication of sentence have
been granted to 224 Communist convicts.
The Eoening Standard publishes special
/
spondent says:
"Iuformation of the gravest kind reaches
| me from a well informed source. ! think
| it is very doubtful that the government
will allow it to be transmitted by tele
graph. and l, therefore, send it by post
The German government has assumed al
attitude toward France which is calculated
to cause serious uneasiness as to the main
tensnce of peace.
THE German government has beer
consistent in their manifestation of i'll will
First came their refusal TO take part in tn
| exhibition of 1873; next the attacks of tn
German press against France, and now
understand that the Cabinet at Berlin hav
intimated to France that they regarded tn
construction of a second line of tOrtresse
was intended to create an artificial frOntie
line between Germany and France, withOu
which the latter country is open to invi
sion.
"Monstrous. The French have as good
right to tOrtify Arraz, Verdon, BesancOl
aud the plateau of LaDgres, ss the Ge
mans have TO increase the Notifications
Mayence, StrasbOurg and Metz, and to 70
tify the Nosges. The French governmer
have, l understand, complied partially
least with the demands of Germany, an
have undertaken not to continue tine fort
: tiCaUions of Arrsz, But it is feared fret
| concessions will lead to fresh exigencie
and that these will be carried so Tar tht
France will, in selfdefense, have to IS
No. and bid the Germans do the
= worst"
A special dispatch to the London Sta,idal
from Madrid says: The journals of th
: city express marked displeasure at the a
pOintment of Messrs. Evarts and Sohu
to positions in the new American Cabine
They say both have supported the Cubs
ilibusters in the United States, and the
Q entertain fears of the result of their acce
3 sion to power
, A dispatch to the Cologne Ga=ette say
the greater part of the Turkish tlotilla (
, the Danube, which numbers seventeen We
sells, with sixty guns, have left Sulina ha
! Dor and been stationed at various points {
. the Danube.