CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 325, 28 June 1875, Page 3

CONTINENTAL NEWS.

( Pall-Mall Budget .)

The principal event in France has been a speech delivered by M. Gambetta to about 2000 of his constituents at Belleville on Friday, the 23rd inst. The meeting was held in the ball room of the Rue Menilmontant. Each person who attended had received a special invitation, and the meeting was thus legally a private one. The speech was in the main a vindication of the policy of compromise which carried the Constitution of February 25th. Admitting that it would have been more pleasant to have secured the complete triumph of his principles, M. Gambetta urged that progress is a work of time and patience. The first gain already achieved is that all Frenchmen, from the head of the State downwards, owe Republican ideas and Government respect and obedience on pain of committing treason. The duty of electing senators would be a political education for the electors of the 36,000 communes of France entrusted with the duty. The rapprochement of the worker of the fields and the worker of the towns was now going on, and it was necessary that this should continue without distrust or exclusiveness. It was necessary, he said, that France should be led back to its true traditions by assuring the principles of 1789, in the front rank of which stood the principle that the State should be lay and not theological; In reply to a question as to what he thought of the seventy-five senators to be nominated by the Assembly, M. Gambetta said he had always regarded this as a sacrifice; but the consolation was that not one Bonapartiet, he believed, would be included in the seventy-five. He expressed his belief that if the same activity and ardour were shown in the election of senator as of deputies, many of the smaller and less populous departments might be carried by the Republicans. M. Gambetta was loudly cheered on concluding his speech. The Daily at Paris says that the views of M. Gambetta respecting the Senate are deemed too sanguine by many members of his party, M. Louis Blanc, M. Peyrat, and others are afraid that perhaps the very first Senate may endeavour to overthrow the Republic. M. Grevy is said to share this apprehension. At a meeting of members of the Extreme Left who have returned from the provinces, held on Wednesday, however, the members are said to have reported that the people are well satisfied at the definitive establishment of the Republic, but demand a change in the staff of mayors and prefects. Throughout the departments preparations are being made for the forthcoming general elections. A semi-official note has appeared in some of the French papers deprecating the idea that “ the work of reorganisation at present going on in the French army contemplates

anticipations of war which all Governments are bent on avoiding. The Berlin Post meanwhile congratulates itself upon the quieting and pacifying effect produced by its recent leading article upon the chances of war. France, the Post says, will only go to war if she can find an ally. At present the Ultramontanes in and out of Germany are the only allies at her disposal; but these allies, fortunately, have no soldiers to call to arms. There are certainly a good many friends and, representatives of the ancien regvtne on the Danube and elsewhere who would like to destroy the German Empire ; but they are dangerous only while allowed to carry on their intrigues in the dark. Should this conspiracy continue their operations against this Government and nation, the Government will again warn the public against the incorrigible disturbers of Eurpean peace. An account of a recent conversation between the German Emperor and the French Ambassdor at Berlin, which has appeared in theJFrench papers, is confirmed at Berlin. The Emperor is stated to have said that ithe endeavors to sow discord between France and Germany have fortunately failed. From Germany we learn that Prince Bismarck has left for hie Lauenburg estate, and will return to Berlin for the Czar’s visit. Serious disturbances have occurred at Plusnitz, in the province of Western Prussia, on the occasion of the installation of a Eoman Catholic priest who has subscribed to the Ecclesiastical Laws. A crowd of Ultramontanes belonging to the parish besieged and eventually demolished the vicarage, carrying off the newly installed vicar by force beyond the parish boundary. The mob also seized the keys of the church. A military d( tachment has been sent to the place, and the ringleaders of the riot arrested. Disturbances have since occurred at Briesen, a town near Plusaitz. Herr Golem be wski, the State-appointed vicar of Plusnilz, sought to obtain a lodging, his own parsonage having been destroyed by the mob, but nobody could be found to take him in, and he was insulted by the His repeated appearance in the strtr fß has caused a fresh tumult.

The German Grown Prince has paid a visit to the King of Italy at Naples. The Crown Prince travelled for the purpose from Florence, where the Crown Princess remained daring his absence. The Prince arrived at Naples on Sunday, and left on Monday evening. During hia visit he stayed, by the King’s invitation, at the Royal Palace. On his arrival at Florence on Tuesday, the Crown Prince was received at the railway Station by Prince Humbert, who accompanied him’ to his hotel, and on Wednesday the Crown Prince and Princess dined at the Pitti Palace. The Opinione says that the Prince, on his visit to King Victor Emmanuel at Naples, was entrusted with a mission of a political character. The Opinione adds —“ In two long interviews between his Maiesty and the Prince politics formed partly the topic of conversation. If, as we have no reason to doubt, the news furnished to us is correct, the existence of a complete understanding and mutual confidence was made manifest in these interviews.” It is also stated in a Naples paper that King Victor Emmanuel has sent an autograph letter in reply to the one he received from the Emperor William. His Majesty expresses satisfaction at the arrival of the Crown Prince and Princess, and presses the Emperor to come himself and visit Italy as soon as bis health permits. There is very little news from Spain. A Oarlist defeat by General Aarando at Santa Oolonna is reported in the Madrid telegrams, and General Loma, who is said to he “ driving the Carlists into the interior of Biscay,” is stated to have fought an important engagement with them on the 22nd of April near Vahnaseda, King Alphonso and the Princess of Asturias, accompanied by the Ministers and the members of tie Diplomatic body, attended on the 23rd of April a splendid fete given in the Senate House at Madrid in commemoration of the anniversary of the death of Cervantes. A Santander telegram states that the Papal Nuncio landed there on Monday from the Spanish war vessel Ferrolano. The Spanish ships in the harbour manned their yards and fired salutes in his honour. The commander of the French gunboat Oriflamtne went on board the Ferrolano to pay his respects. The Nuncio was received on shore by the civil, military, and ecclesiastical authorities, and the mayor welcomed him in a congratulatory speech. He was lodged at the mayor’s residence, where a guard of honour was stationed to receive him. The balconies of the houses were decorated with draperies, and the church bells were rung. A Vienna telegram of the 29th of April states that for two days offensive demonstrations bad been made by the students and populace of Graz against Don Alphonso, brother of Don Carlos, and his consort, Dona Blanca, who are staying in that town. The intervention of the police and the arrest of several of the ringleaders had hitherto sufficed to quell the disturbances, On the evening of the 28th, however, they were renewed in so serious a form as to necessitate the interference of the military. Many persons were wounded, and a large number of arrests were made. At eleven o’clock order was restored.