Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1871 — Weekly News Summary, [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary,

THE OLD WORLD.' The Paris Palrie of the 29th ult. denies that there is any truth in the rumored triple alliance between Russia, Prussia and Austria. A Berlin dispatch of the 29th ult. states that the Emperor had granted amnesty to all natives of Alsace and Lorraine under sentence for political or military offenses not combined with ordinary crimes. In the British House of Lords on the 29th ult. the Treaty of Washington was under discussion and a resolution expressing “ regret that the Queen had been advised to sign the Treaty of Washington, a bargain eo unbecoming the honor and dignity of the country,” was defeated without division. s A Paris dispatch of the 30th ult. states that tho work of renovating Paris was progressing, sixty thousand masons being engaged. The city was being thoroughly disinfected. The Wurtemburg troops made a triumphal entry into Stuttgart on the 29th ult. The city was Crowded with people from all parts of the kingdom. The streets were splendidly decorated at night, and bril liantly illuminated. The Emperor William has presented the estate ot Swarzenbeck to Bismark.

A telegram from Hong-Kong says that, the fight between the American squadron and the Coreans caused much excitement in foreign circles there. It was expected that Rodgers would continue hostile operations, unless he received orders to the contrary. News from Paris on the 2d is to the effect that Gen. L’Admirault had been appointed Governor of that city. By order of the War Department, the army of Gen. Vinoy is dissolved. The army of Versailles is divided into six corps, commanded respectively by Gens. Montauban, Bataille, Barrail, Donay, Clinchaut and Bourbaki. The German troops commenced leaving Paris on the first, in conformity with ihe treaty of Frankfort A London dispatch of the 2d says: “ Tho German attempt to excite disaffection with the British Government among the inhabitants of Heligoland has proved a failure. Mr. Howard, Secretary of the British Legation at Washington, has been appointed agent in the United States to receive the claims of British subjects coming within articles 12 to 17, inclusive'*, of the Treaty of Washington. Odo Russell has been appointed Minister to Berlin.”

A Constantinople dispatch of the 2d •announces the arrival there of the Hon. Wm. H. Seward. Romo is now the capital of Italy, the Government officials, foreign ministers, etc., having transferred their offices to that .city. The general estimate at Paris on the 4th of tho supplementary elections in France sliows that “of 140 Deputies elected, 120 are Republicans, 8 Legitimists, aud 12 Bohapartists. The official returns will differ but little from this estimate. Faidherbe, Gambetta and Danfert are each returned from three different Assembly dis. tricts. A majority of the Republicans elected belong to the moderate wing of the party, the proportion being 75 Moderates br2s Radicals.” A dispatch of the sth says the election had increased the majority of the supporters of Thiers in the Assembly by frilly 100. A London dispatch of the Cth says the Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury,who was in that city, reports do napkin success in his negotiations’ for the sale of the new American 5 per cent, bonds.

It was stated in London on the 6th that the jury in the celebrated Tichbome case had privately informed the judge that they were convinced the plaintiff was an impostor, and that they were ready to give a verdict to that effect, without hearing a single witness for the defence. The judge refused to give his consent, and the trial would proceed. Frederick William, Crown Prince of Prussia and Prince Imperial of Germany, accompanied by Princess Victoria, arrived at London on the evening of the 6th. Juarez has been re-elected President of Mexico, receiving a majority of all the votes cast.