Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1871 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. The supplementary elections to tho French Assembly have been fixed for the 9th of July. It has been determined that the courts-martial shall treat offenders against the government as military, not political prisoners. The Prussian troops remaining In France bugun their homeward march on the 9th. A Paris special of the 9th declares that a number of Communist leaders reported shot were still alive, having escaped from the city in disguise. It is now reported that brigandage has been nearly extirpated from Greece. Turkey has given valuable assistance by arresting all brigands on the frontier. The idea of burning the bodies of victims of the civil war in Paris has been abandoned, and they will be exhumed from thpir present burial places in the Park of Monceaux and the Garden .of Luxembourg, and transferred to a new .cemetery beyond the village and fort of Vanvres. 1 It has been officially announced that the" capital of Italy will be transferred to Rome on July 1. Cold weather has recently been experienced in England. There was a snow storm of an hour’s duration at Birmingham on the 10th. A Paris dispatch of the 12th says the harvest prospects of France and Prussia were discouraging. Much of the seed had perished. In the more eastern provinces of Europe, however, the crops promised an abundant yield. It is stated that the owners of houses destroyed during the recent fighting in Paris are to be indemnified by the goverament. ; —— : The Communists who are to be transported to New Caledonia will be allowed to take their families with them, and form colonies. News from Buenos Ayres to May 16 is to the effect that deaths from yellow fever were diminishing at the rate of twenty per day, and business was resuming its Wonted course. News is received of a terrible famine in Persia. In one district children were being killed and eaten. A Paris dispatch of the 18th says: “The public gardens have been reopened. The work of restoration in the Bois de Boulogne has begun. Laborers are replanting trees and shrubbery, filling ditches, and levelling the works of the troops. The weather is warm and pleasant, and the streets are crowded with people.” The Lord Mayor of Dublin died on the 12th. A recent Berlin dispatch says there were rumors of negotiations between the German and Swedish Governments, with a view to internal relations that may result in the union of Sweden and Germany before many months. «- Details have been received of the total destruction of the Peruvian ship, Don Juan, by fire, at sea—supposed to have been set by Chinese coolies who were entrapped on board at Macoa. The crew abandoned the vessel with 550 coolies fastened under the hatches. Five hundred of the coolies were roasted alive; others escaped when the hatches were burned off. Hon. E. B. Washburne, L T nited States Minister to France, has received permission to make a short visit home this summer, ami will avail himself of it should affairs in France become sujfflciently settled to make it practicable for him to be absent from his post. The Ojficiel Journal of the 14th says the story that condemned insurgents had been shot in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, with mitrailleuses is an erroneous and absurd calumny. Many of the Communist prisoners were discharged on the 14th, for want of evidence against them. The German Parliament has unanimously sanctioned the grants made by the Crown to the relatives of members of the reserves and landwehr who fell during the M .’lf war. A bill (pr the immediate emancipation of all slaves belonging to the Brazilian Crown has been introduced in the Imperial Chambers of that government, and will probably become a law. - ; The London Times, in an editorial on the 14th, considers it unprecedented that such a grave difference between nations as that of the Alabama claims should have been settled without a resort to arms. The demand for consequential damages for injury done to American commerce, by the Alabama and kindred vessels, was unacceptable to the English Commissioners, and was abandoned by the United States. The Times, in conclusion, expresses the hope that, taking pattem from the American question, the nations of Europe will rise to a higher conception of the aims and duties of international fellowship. A recent dispatch from Ottawa, Can., says the English Government gives its consent to the union of British Columbia with Canada, and directs that it shall take place on July 20. A special from Paris to the London Times of the 15th says an average of 24,000 persons were arriving in daily by the Northern and Western railroads. Tho Paris Gaulois of the 15th states that the fusion of the Orleanista and Legitimists was complete. A person arriving in London from Paris on the 15th says half had not “ been told of the troubles there, and that the destruction of life and property immensely exceeds the government and newspaper accounts. The workmen of Paris are almost unanimously Communists. They are very Ritter because their cause has been defeated, and hate both Thibrs and the Bonapartes. , Many of them will emigrate to America.”