CONTINENTAL AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 300, 29 May 1875, Page 3

CONTINENTAL AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

{From Telegrams to the London Papers.') Berlin, March 19,

The Empress Augusta was in great personal danger when driving the day before yesterday in the Unter den Linden. Owing to the negligence of an omnibus driver his vehicle came into collision with her Majesty’s carriage, and with such violence that the horses of the latter were thrown down, and one of them was killed.

Munster, March 19. Herr Wendt, the responsible editor of the Mercw, printed here, has been condemned to a year’s imprisonment for publishing the Pope’s Encyclical, He was taken intocus-

tody as soon as the Court delivered its judgment. The Public Prosecutor had asked that the sentence should be imprisonment for two years.

Rome, March 19.

There has been an extraordinary celebration to-day of the Feast of St. Joseph. From the Porta Pia to Garibaldi’s villa thousands of pedestrians passed, as well as many carriages. Innumerable bouquets were presented to the General. The Duchess of Sutherland was present at the review of the National Guards, and stood by Garibaldi’s side. Berlin, March 19th, Evening.

At the request of the German Consul at Canton, the German corvette Ariadne has proceed to Swatow, in order to better sup port the claims put forward by Germany in connexion with the robbery and pillage of the German barque Fuerst Bismarck on the 3rd of December last, while she was in danger at the mouth of the Swatow River through stress of weather. With a view to the more effectual repression of the piratical attacks, which have lately increased in frequency in Chinese waters, the reinforcement of the German war vessels stationed in those parts by a flat-bottomed man-of-war is contemplated. St. Petersburg, March 19. The date for the resumption here of the deliberations of the Brussels Conference is, as already mentioned, not yet fixed. A decision on this subject can only be taken when the reply of the German Government to the letter of invitation shall have been received. This reply has been somewhat delayed by the illness of the Emperor, but is expected to arrive here shortly. Madrid, March 19. Senor Castelar has resigned the chair he has held at the University for the last fifteen years, giving as his reason the reactionary circulars issued by the present Government with reference to public instruction. Paris, March 21. Fifteen out of the nineteen states represented at the Berne Postal Conference have ratified the treaty—namely, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the United States, Sweden and Norway, Russia, Holland, Roumania, Hervia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Egypt. The representative of France, it will be remembered, did not sign the convention, and the adhesion of this country is -still uncertain. Berlin, March 21. The Chinese campaign of Yakoob Beg of Kashgar has been successful. He has annexed the important districts of Manas and Urmutchees, and keeps a garrison at Turfan, south east of Manas, for the protection of the new province. The inhabitants being Dungans or Mahomedan Tartars, make common cause with him against the Chinese. The latter, sluggish and persevering as ever, are collecting troops at Tchugutchak, Hami, and Barkauh, the latter being intended to attack Kashgar, while the former are to recover Manas.

The Journal de Paris says that Marshal MacMahon will be invested witq the Order of the Golden Fleece during Easter week. The investiture can only be effected by a Knight of the Order, and at the present moment there are only three in Paris—the Duque d’Ossuna, the Marques de Molins (the Spanish Ambassador), and M. Thiers. The Marques de Molins will probably be selected for the purpose, the two secretaries of the embassy acting as his assistants. A court martial has been engaged from Tuesday until to-day in trying five persons charged with one of the many outrages of the Commune on the 12th of April, 1871. A band of men, composed of the scum of the Federal National Guard of the Eleventh Arrondissement, entered the Convent of the Sacred Heart in the Rue Picpus, and carried off the chapel plate. They next proceeded to a monastery in the same street, declared all the inmates prisoners, threatening them with death if they attempted to escape, pillaged the place, and carried off thirteen monks to prison. Four of them were murdered in the massacre of the hostages at La Roquette, while the others, after forty-five days’ imprisonment, were liberated by the Versailles troops. Both establishments were occupied by the Communists, and the monastery was literally sacked by them, the lay brethren remaining there being forced to act as their servants. The question turned, of course, on the identity of the prisoners, Three were acquitted, while two—a marble polisher and a wine merchant’s messenger—were convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.

A rumour that Prince Bismarck is about to be created Duke of Lauenburg does not find credence, according to the Magdeburg Gazette , in well-informed quarters. At the close of the last war the Emperor proposed to confer titles on Bismarck, Moltke, and Boon associated with the conquered territory; but the Prince expressed a desire to be known exclusively by the name he had inherited from his forefathers. In deference to this feeling ha was created a prince, while Moltke and Boon were created counts. The same considerations would still doubtless prevail, and if the Emperor desired to confer on him a higher rank, it would probably consist in the appellation “ Hoheit,” instead of “ Durchlaught.” Paris, March 23. The Journal des Debats , organ of M. Leon Say, Minister of Finance, announces that the French Government, in conformity with the vote of the Assembly of the 17th inst, is about to order a fresh investigation of the circumstances under which exceptional pensions were granted to former functionaries of the Empire on the ground of physical infirmities. The Debats estimates that forty-two pensions will have to be reconsidered, particularly those of M. Chevreau, formerly Minister of the Interior, M. Boitelle, exPrefect of Police, and a number of subprefects. The Echo Universel of to-night publishes a letter from St Petersburg, which says that the International Conference on the Usages of War which was to have been held in April is to be further postponed, with the hope of overcoming the objection of England to take part in it. The arrival of Count Schouvaloff from London will, perhaps, determine the question. The Italian Government having denounced the existing treaty of navigation and commerce between France and Italy, and at the same time expressed a wish that negotiations should be commenced as soon as possible at Borne, the French Government has appointed a commission to consider the various questions which are likely to be discussed.

A telegram from Constantinople, which arrived this morning, says the Sultan has recalled Mahmoud Pasha. It is naturally concluded that the latter will re-assume the direction of affairs, and the reason for the

change is debated. The telegram says that in the interview with the Sultan, Mahmoud Pasha stated that he had reflected since his fall on the causes which occasioned it, and that he no longer desired those reforms which he had sought to introduce during his former ministry. Some people affirm that the recent difficulties with Spain, Austria, and Montenegro are the causes of the Grand Vizier’s fall, and of the recall of his rival. Vienna, March 23,

Fifty Servians residing in Herzgovinia have fled to Montenegro pursued by Turks, and it is feared a new conflict will arise Telegrams from Belgrade report that in Bosnia also a persecutions of Christians has broken out.