FOREIGN.

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FOREIGN.

Tliiers, on the occasion of closing of the Assembly for the Easter recess, said that order in the interior and peace abroad had come to France. Europe was well disposed towards us. Revenge would he to reconstitute Fiance. With regard to the alliances Europe was holding itself in reserve now that our wish binds itself The Treaty of Commerce between Franc* and Belgium denounced by the Assembly.

The prttpb&ibTfo? tax raw material has -been abandoned for 1872. An ambassador from Kliird lias been despatched to St. Petersburg!!, courting thefriendship;of the Czar. , ;-j; ' \ Some Municipalities in Spain have associated themselves together to obtain the restoration of Gibraltar. LATEST. The Commons have rejected Vernon Harcourt’s ipotion to reduce national expenditure. The English Press comment on the absence of any programme in Disraeli’s speech at Manchester. Washington, April 4. Foreign Committee of Congress recommended suspension of action in fishery Hills, owing to the condition of the Washington treaty. Republicans liave carried the Rhodes Island elections. University boat-race was rowed during a snow storm. The ship Yatnla, from Adelaide, stranded near Boulogne. Crew and passengers were saved. Masts were cut away to save the ship. The Nebraska mails were delivered on the 28tl>. A destructive earthquake has occurred in California. Many people were killed and injured. London, April 12. Tichborne claimant, on being arraigned, pleaded not guilty. He was removed to Queen’s Bench. His trial commences in June. Boy O’Connor, who insulted the Queen, was sentenced to a year’s hard labour and twenty lashes.