Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1871 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. The triumphal entry of the army and inauguration of the equestrian statue of King Frederick William 111., took place at Berlin on the 16th. The procession was one of the most magnificent of modern times, headed by eagles and standards captured from the French. When the procession had concluded its march, the Emperor proceeded to uuveil the statue of his father, Frederick William 111. All the dignitaries of the empire, victorious Generals and the members of the German Parliament, assisted at the ceremony. In the evening the entire city was illuminated. The Pope’s Jubilee, being the 25th anniversary of the Popeship of Pius IX., was generally observed by the Roman Catholics throughout Europe, and also in the United States, onthelCth. PopePiuswill, if he lives, be eighty years old on the 13th of next May. Charred corpses have been found in the rums of the Hotel de Ville, in Paris, and are undoubtedly the remains of prisoners left in the cells by the Communists. The German Parliament has passed a bill under which the Emperor will distribute 4,000,000 thalers among the Generals and statesmen who have achieved the results of the war. During the observance of the Pope’s Jubilee in Brussels, on the 18th, violent antiPapal demonstrations were made by large crowds, who passed through the streets and smashed the illuminated windows. Reliable information has reached Washington that the French Government has appointed Jules Ferry Minister to Washington, in place of M, Treilhard, who will return to France. The railway from Stockholm to Chris tiana, in Sweden, was opened on. the 16th. A Paris dispatch of the evening of the 19th says 2,500 women convicted of setting fire, or attempting to set fire to buildings in Paris, had been sentenced to transportation to New Caledonia. Late Indian mails mention an earthquake last month on the Island of Bingtang, in the Dutch city of Rhio, an active trading post, with a population of 40,000. There was great destruction of property, involving millions of dollars, and fully 500 persons perished. Rhio is fify miles from Singapore. V , - Concerning the terrible famine in Persia, a correspondent writing to the Turkish Journal from Tabreez, says : “ The details which reach us of the destitution and misery which the drouth of last year has caused in the central and southern provinces of Persia are fearfully heart-rending. Tjiat the people are dying of hunger, even in the streets of the capital, is a minor phase of this terrible calamity. In Khptjlssan parents are selling their children as slaVgs to the Turcomans, to keep them alive, and in Ispahan men have been seized in the act of digging up the corpses to serve as food for the starving families. Li Shiraz, Kehman, and" Yezo the wretched sufferers endeavor to live on grass and roots which they find in the neighborhood. Pestilence follows hard on the footsteps of famine, and between them half of the kingdom of Persia is becoming rapidly depopulated. A Rome dispatch of the 18th says a plot for the assassination of the Pope had been discovered. It was concocted in 'London, Florence, and Paris by members of the International Society. The assassination was planned to take place on the 17th.

In the French Assembly, on the 20lh, M. Thiers made a statement of the financial condition of .the country. He said the German war had cost France three milliards of francs. The deficit of the fiscal year 1870-71 reached 1,631,000,000 francs, but of this amount the Bank of France had advanced to the government 1,330,000,000 francs, so that the immediate deficiency for the year was reduced to 301,000,000 francs; but to this must be added 436,000,000 francs for expenses since incurred in suppressing the insurrection in Paris. The total deficit of 737,000,000 francs Thiers proposed to meet by imposing new taxes. The situation, he said, was difficult but not disastrous. A special dispatch to the London’»2)<n<y News of the 20th says that instructions had been given from Berlin to stop the return of German troops from France, and to discontinue the surrender of French prisoners. The French loan is popular in Berlin, and arrangements have been made for taking a large portion of it by German capitalists. Alexander Dumas has received a letter from Thiers congratulating him on an article lately, ■written by him (Dumas) for the Press in favor of the continuance of the Republic. The census of England, Wales and Ireland is completed. The population of England and Wales is officially stated at about 22,700,000, and that of Ireland at about 5,400,000. A hurricane has destroyed the cotton crop of the country around the town of Banda, in the district of Surat, India. The loss is estimated at £500,000, and it will take years for the planters Urrccovcr from the blow. The London Post of the 22d says: "There is an understanding between the governments of Germany, Austria and Russia, for the preservation of the peace of Europe.” - A terrible accident occurred on the 22d, on the Leipsic line of railway, to a train conveying Pomeranian troops from France. Four cars were thrown from the track, and two officers and twenty-one privates killed, and one officer aud forty privates injured.