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NEWS BY THE MAIL.

FRANCE. • The French War Minister 1 hka asked for a grant of L 173,000,000 francs as a necessary expenditure for restoring war iriaterial ; Twelve French candidates have ■ been • elected from Alsace and Lorraine to sit-in the German Parliament. • . o£ M. Rouher adyipes the Buopapartists, to respect the septepnate as necessary for the recuperation of, France. ‘ The' French Government are dismissing Republican mayors. : ■■ r ■ The'friendly relations between France and Germany and Italy are dependent on Broglie’s policy towards Rome; . ; ‘ . ITALY. In Italy a considerable'stir has been created by- the'surreptitious publication of an important document in the form' d! a Pajpal hull; absolving the cardinals.Jrom_ their .oaths, binding them to observe the constitutions now in force, and. permitting them to arrange for the election of a pontiff before the death of Pius IX. ■ Papal organs again pronounce the bull a forgery, but ‘ The, Times \ .published the Latin text of the bull, dated May, 1873. It probably has.not been authoritatively issped yet,-. Cardinal Antdnelli has been dangerously ill of gout in the stomach. The Pope.administered extreme unction to hlhi. ' At the next consistory, in March, several new cardinals are to be made, including Archbishops Manning, D.erchamptsi and Ledocnowski. ‘ ■ *. GERMANY:- • . Seventeen foreign bishops have been appointed mGerinapy. U 7r~| . The project of a reggppy has been abandoned, as the Etnperor is recovering. The recent elections being a struggle between ]dnd the Pope,'intense interest was exoitfid, The XJRrainontahes securedlGOaeats, and the Ministerialists and. Liberals 285, giving a working.majority to the Ministry of eighty votes. ’ ” Great uproar was excited in the Lower House by a deputy, ventilating, a scandal accusing Bismarck of entertaining proposals for the concession of territory on the left bank of; the Rhine. Bismarck, in passionate language, denounced the statement as an .iudacious falsehood, and his accuser subsequently explained that he La.Mannora’s recently puhlishcd book, which lias since Been pronounced $ forgery.- ( -. , j INDIA AND THE EAST. , Nearly 800,090.t0ns of steamships entered Galle Harbor during .1873, comprising P. and 0«, and, British India companies, as well as canal steamers. The news of Dr Livingstone’s death has been received with deep regret in India and Ceylon The official hews leaves little hope of there being a mistake, but the ‘ Times of India’' still clings to the belief that the report is... not correct, living reasons connected with the doctors intended last journey leading him far from the place where, he is said to have expired. l ! The news of the d feat of Mr Grace and his English. cricketers in Melbourne and gtawcll has been received with surprise. In India the latest Australian intelligence is now ‘received through' the English Press, telegfaphie intelligence not being supplied to the Indian papers, although passing through Madras aadi Bombay, _ Australian alahave been proved in Golbmbd to be far.better adapted for gasmaking purposes .W any, ?nglfah coal, and preference is > now invariably given f-othe former, 'although the coke made from it-is not so good. . The Persian nobility have split into two factions, Liberal.and Conservative, over the Shah’s recent innovations, and the latter opposed Baron Reuters concession,' ' - , : THE STRAITS. SETTLEMENT. .The Acheen., w; is being prosecuted with I vigor by the Dutch, hut sue- . cesses strenuous opposition, and the Acheenese vow they will never 1 yield f6 their hated invaders. While the Dutch have Ashantees from Western Africa among their troops, it is said that the Acheenese 1 are aided ;by Soldiers from ‘ the discharged Ceylon Rifles' and a Malay corps, the men of which are co-religionists <and partly countrymen of the Acheenese. ... The ex-Prime Minister of Apheen has pubdished in the ,* Penang; Gazette.’a statement that he.is prepared to swear 'that the treaty ip a fabrication. 'An independent correspondent asserts that the Dutch are uncertain whether the fort taken in which were 14 useless guns in the real Kraton or not; the real Kraton is declared to be further inland. The Acheenese ambassador had an interview with General Van Swieton,: and declared that the Acheenese will never surrender to the I )utoh. Cholera continues among the troops. Governor Sir Andrew Clarke is very popular at Singapore. The latest from Acheen states that the Commissioner - Generalreports that - tbe - ' grandnephew of the ate SWtarj,-agpq, pipe, is elected of ' ' '-T; CHINA. A printing office, with'foreign type, has been ; established at Peking and .Prince Kung after inspection expressed himself highly pleased with the operations and results. . A new steamer, the Tartar, of the New York, London, and China line, to run via the Suez Canal, has made a wonderfully quick passage, and is highly spoken of. Her engines workjup toziOWnorse-power. / - , v t , JAPAN, the. Japanese officials are becoming highly obstructive towards foreigners, to the treaty ports. ; - ’ *' ■ - - The recent fire pt; Yaddp cohered 1,500* acres.

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Evening Star, Issue 3457, 21 March 1874, Page 3

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NEWS BY THE MAIL. Evening Star, Issue 3457, 21 March 1874, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL. Evening Star, Issue 3457, 21 March 1874, Page 3

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