The New York herald., 1879-12-18
GENERAL. EUROPEAN NEWS
LAST DAYS OF THE SPANISH CRIsrs-CoNTEsT-
ING THE AUSTRIAN ARMY B1LL--aoRrscHAKoTr
AND THE REIGN OF INTRIGUE BURNING
IQuIQuE-MoRE COMMUNISTS PARDoNED.
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AND THE REIGN OF INTRIGUE-BURNIN0
1ou1oUE-MoRE COMMUNISTS PARDoNED.
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LONDON, Dec 1S, 1870.
An official decree has been issued pardoning
$50 Communists.
Lord Dufferin, the British Ambassador to
Russia, has arrived at st. Petersburg.
Count Felix Won Wimpffen is gazetted as
Austro- Hungarian Ambassador to Italy.
Before abandoning Iquique the allies burned
the town and blew up the Notifications.
kilograms from Rome announce that an
international exhibition will be held there in
1882.
The Upper House of the Prussian Diet has
adopted the bill providing for the acquisition of
several private railways by the State.
The Daily Ne,cS correspondent in Berlin
states that the famine in Silesia has spread to
four more districts, making seven in all.
The Posts Berlin correspondent asserts that
Prince Bismarck concurs in Premier Waddng-
toms proposal of collective mediation in the
Greek question.
1t is stated that arrangements have been con-
cluded for the completion of the new national
opera house ON the Thames embankment, the
construction of which was suspended some years
ago. Work will be resumed shortly.
The London correspondent Of the Daily Post
states that the decision of the Attorney General
to reopen the case of the Tichborne claimant
was influenced by the citation of the decision in
the case of William NJ. Tweed on the question
of cumulative or concurrent sentences.
The vote of Tuesday night in the French
Chamber of Deputies on the order of the day,
which was accepted by the Cabinet, was 255 to
81, thus showing that the government was not
supported by majority of the full House.
Hence the vote does not strengthen the position
of the Cabinet.
Dispatches from Cairo announce the death
of General Marriott, President of the European
Railway Administration in Egypt General
Marriott was an old East Indian officer, who
entered the late Khedivc's service some years
ago and temporarily acted as Governor of the
Household.
SPANS NEW GOVERNMENT.
The Standards Madrid despatch saws the
West Indian members of the Cortes are so irri-
tated at the continued crisis that many intend
returning to Havana in the spring. The News'
Madrid despatch says the opposition declare
they will accept nothing but an explanation by
Scfor Canovas del Castillo in the presence of
the offended members. The Cabinet has re-
fused to allow an abolitionist meeting. a,i-
thorizcd by General Campos, to be held
here. The Home Office has ordered the prosecu-
ton of seven newspapers here and six in the
Provinces for criticising the new government.
King Alfonso has summoned Scfor Canovas del
Castillo to the Palace and expressed to him the
desire that an end be put to the crisis. The
Senate also discussed the Abolition bill yester-
day.
L'ANcIEN REGIME.
The Daily Nc,cs' St. Petersburg despatch
says :-"Count Schouvalof has arrived here.
1t is said that basis of arrangement was ar
rived ut at varzin with view to re-establshing
the former relations of the three empires under
new conditions The Standards Vienna corre-