FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3212, 5 June 1879, Page 3

FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

.; A; treaty, of commeroe; has been conceded; between- England and Sevvia; Eeports hare been received at Buenos Ayresl that the Chaco > Indians rre menacing the Parana settlers. Dr Antonelli, Professor of Cherristry at the University of Modena, has just died in thait city. "' The Swiss Counci! of States has resolved by twenty-sey'en against fifteen rotes upon the re-establishment of capital punishment in Switzerland. Mrs Lockwood has been admitted to praetiie in the TFnittd States Supreme Cocrt. Having succeeded so far, she may yet become Lady Chief Juslice. The French Governmeat hare" threatened:^o ; take' Criminal .proceedings against; the prefects who have placarded the " order of the day " of M. Kamsau in their respective departments. ■ly;A'-> " The Pope has -made i at donation* of 100,000f. to thej-fund for- extending and improving the Catholic schools in Borne. r The Madvid Patrie says it lias Teasonto believe that a' marriage- wi!\ be .celebrated in July next between, King 7 Alfonso of Spain ehd^ the'- Archduchess Marie of Austria. „, „ The Infanta Christina, sister of the' late Queen Mercedes and daughter of Duke of Montpensier,. is seriously ill of typhoid fefer 5 at Sevi'leii' Much anxiety ;is -.) feltsiin^the' Spanish Court. # , . T ,,, Two hundred and eight ybun^ mfen have been fined 1300 marks' each at Mulhouse for .ndt: presenting themselves for the conscription. And yet Prince Bißznarck wonders at the spread of Socialism;* a,,,,..^ f ,.^\^\^i y/^i'c.\:ji:^7i, i''ltt^?Sv3go^spiia' l are:. repprtcd to have ?iß ; mi|fpd^ia->tVeV-;!Eigyptiaii, iGrov ; ernment a suiooo «f i i|£QQ*QG!P.'iinherewithv to. payrthe arrears of the army. A bill authorising the. opening of a' credit of 4,OQQ,QOQf. > to sidbinlremedying tha.efifeclQf.theindustrialcrisis.in France hai been distributed in the Chamber of Deptiiies. t-.-.*A>2iM J -:>i. '•._■-• '<''- \/;';; :r . ■':'■ y\ - 5«iA;; liew decreei free pardon £6120 moreiijf the Oojcdniuniit convicts, has been signed in Paris. This tVesh list of those'^b' whom the clemency of the Government i lias been extended will include the ; names of) MM. Humbertrjand Mebril-Blancourt. J; ; i I ■«.■; -.;»:■/.> h:- 'f Chtoge of scene; it; itis believed, was not. tfflfcnly-«motive, .which,, has,induced, the Crown Prince and family to leave Berlin-for a residenceof several weeks at Wie^baieni. Two; slighter cases' of diphtheria) have occiirfed' in the Crown Prince's household. ;rr: ,ur mThe apprehensions^ entertained that the Russian police- are secretly leagued with the Nihilists appear to be. well founded. The Goterhment - has 'deposed Colonel Anatpff,: chief of the; police at Odessa, owing to his participation in the revolutionary propaganda. The final appeal of Passanante, who atiempted the life of King /Humbert at Naples last year,: has: been rejected. King Humbert having signified to the ■\ Ministers his wish to extend his clemency. a decree has been signed, commuting the sentence of death, to penal servitude for life., ... ■ ,