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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 636, 15 February 1870, Page 2

s The steamer G. D. Haskin /foundered in the Gulf Stream, and a portion of the crew were drowned. The Carlist chief Pano was sentenced to death at Madrid. ' : ' ; -c>:.v The English Ministers have refused to accept the proposed modification of the '} commercial treaty between France and England.' . The reigning prince of Montenegro has published a protest against Austria occupying his territqry. Prussia supports him. Cialdini is foriniug a new Italian Ministry. Austria acenses Prussia of fostering re«

bellion in Dalmatia. Complications are feared. The Emperor of Russia has cenferred i the order of St. George on the King of Prussia. Mr Peabody's remains were to leave England on the 12th December. The Viceroy of Egypt has accepted the conditions imposed by the Sultan's ultimatum. The (Ecumenical Council was opened on the 9th December by the Pope. The weather was unfavorable, the rain falling »t intervals throughout the day. An enormous crowd filled the Vatican, and lined the streets through which. the, members of council passed. The Pope, followed by 700 bishops, proceeded to the hall of council, amid the ringing of bells and the thundering of cannons from the forts St. Angelo and Mount Aventine. The Pope is in fine health. The galleries of the hall of the council were occupied by the Sovereijm Princes now in Rome, and by the members of the corps diplomatique. The ceremonies exceeded anything of the kind seen in Rome for the last century. The majority of the French and German bishops oppose the dogma of the Pope's infallibility. The Spanish Government havingpledged itself to President Grant not to use the gunboats detained at New York against any nation at peace with America, the k vessels were released.