SPIRIT OF TELEGRAMS BY ELECTRIC CABLE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume IV, Issue 220, 18 April 1872, Page 6

SPIRIT OF TELEGRAMS BY ELECTRIC CABLE.

Under dates Feb. 16 to Feb. 22, we gather that in France there is a strong Bonapartist party who are endeavoring to raise a feeling in favor of the return of the ex-Emperor. In the Assembly parties are hopelessly divided. Orleanists and Legitimists oppose - each other, and both oppose Bonapartists. Opinion in France on the American claims is, that both Great Britain and America fear any long delay in settling the Alabama claims may lead te rupture beween the two countries. It was -reported in Paris, on the 20th of February, that a Bonapartist conspiracy had been discovered, and as tbe police force was doubled both in Paris and Versailles, and other precautions taken, it may have been true. The news from ~ Home consists of rumors about holding a Consistory, and the summoning of another (Ecumenical Council. .Nothing definite is determined upen. There has been a change of Ministry in Spain, but nobody feels interested in the personnel. The English telegrams mainly refer to the Alabama claims, respecting which there have been several debates in Parliament. As a matter of course the Stock Exchange became the arena for speculation. United States bonds fell to 62 and 68, and consols declined quarter to three-eighths — not a very alarming falL So slight a depression in English securities tends to indicate little appreteasion of war. The Times of Pebruary 13th, seemed better satisfied with the appearance of matters. Mr Gladstone is said to have despatched a reply, by cable, to an amicable letter to the World (New York), asking if certain offensive passages attributed to binhad been spokeu by him, denying having used them, and stating he was erroneously reported. In the House of Commons* Mr Aytoun, member for Kirkajdy, ex-

pressed the hope that something would be done to divert the stream of immigration from America and Australia. Sir Charles Dilke addressed his Chelsea constituents on the 19th of February. There was slight disorder at the outset of the proceedings, but the platform had been raised so high that it could not be scaled, the seats were nailed down to the floor, and a strong body of police was at hand to preserve order. Hi-s bpeech seems to have been merely a repetition o£ what he had said before.

Later telegrams tell us that at Antwerp there was a gathering of Legitimists, as they are pleased to term themselves. There were French, Spanish, German, and Italian representatives, and amongst them the ex-Kiug of Hanover. It is rumored that their object; is the organisation of plans for the restoration of deposed sovereigns. From Berlin it is announced that an apothecary was arrested on suspicion of contemplating the assassination of Prince Bismarck on his arrival. He is described as having been oneof the Papal Zouaves.