Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1871 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WOBLD. The French Assembly, on the 24th, passed a bill providing for the gradual disbandment of the National Guard. Some'of the English papers, comment-, ing on the death of Renforth, the oarsman, hint that he may have been poisoned. At Konigsberg, Germany, on the 23d, there were one hundred and twenty-seven cases of cholera, and forty-eight deaths, and at Dantzig, on the same day, twelve cases and ten deaths. Tho epidemic was decreasing in Russia. A Madrid dispatch of the 26th says: “The entry of the Carlists into Spain is imminent. Extensivo preparations have been made for tho threatened invasion. Five heavy columns of troops have been sent to the frontier. The Civil Guard has been concentrated.” The Archbishop of Madrid requires the clergy of his diocese to refuse the sacrament to persons married by civil rite, and announces that, unless publicly repented of, such marriages will be treated as concubinage. The governments of Great Britain and the United States have chosen Count Luigi Corti, Italian Ambassador to Washington, as the third arbitrator under tho treaty of Washington.

Intelligence has been received of the death of Charles Scribner, the publisher, at Lucerne, Switzerland. He went abroad in May last, in search of renewed health, and was expected homo in August. Foreign advices received on the 28th, concerning the Dellinger movement in Germany, report a meeting of Liberal Catholics at Heidelburg, August 6 and 6, which was attended by some forty delegates, representing tho countries of Bavaria, Prussia, Austria and Switzerland. It was resolved that the coming Congress of antUnfallibilists, at Munich, September 22, should have public discussions of the Church questions., A correspondent at Salisbury telegraphs to London on the 27th: “I am in a position to affirm that a new secret treaty, offensive and defensive, has been concludedbetween Prussia and Italy. The Emperor of Austria says he will return the visit of the Emperor of Germany at Coblent z.” Foreign papers state that on August 14 a train went through the Mont Cenis Tunnel with perfect success. The opening of the tunnel will take place on the 17th of September. Foreign advices of the 29th report the Pope as having recently spoken as follows concerning the course of the Prussian Government toward the German Catholics: “I had expected that the German Catholics would bo treated with greater justice. Ido not conceal from you that I hoped so able a diplomatist as Prince Bismark would not have provoked discord in the new Empire. All wars that are undertaken against the church are always converted to her ultimate gain. They have always reinforced her; have made her members more compact; have fortified them in their faith.” A Paris dispatch of the 29th says the Prussians will evacuate the forts near Paris possibly on the sth of September. It is said that since the annexation of Strasbourg to Germany, 23,000 inhabitants of that city havo emigrated to France and America. A telegram from Berlin the 29th says there were 329 deaths from cholera in Konigsberg through the week ending on the 25th inst., including 127 children. No deaths have occurred from cholera at Dantzic during the last two days. A Russian official journal publishes the report of Prince Gortschakoff to the Czar In reference to his interview with the delegates of the Evangelical Alliance, in which he says that he informed the deputation that the question of freedom of conscience was one pertaining to the Government of Russia, and one which that government desired to maintain. He declared that compliance with *ome of their request? involved the abrogation of some laws of the empire, aud in that matter no foreign intervention whatever was permitted. A London dispatch says the British Consul at Zanzibar.writcs that Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer, is slowly .making his way homeward. A Paris dispatch’of the 30th says the members of the government have agreed upon a bill for the prolongation of the powers of Thiers, and which will receive the support of the entire left in the Assembly. The Paris Journal announces that Gambetta has withdrawn his proposition for the dissolution of the Assembly. The Bien Public announces that the payment of the third of the war indemnity of £00,000,000 franca was completed on' the 30th. • A dispatch from London of the 30th says the Duke D’Aumale has again declined to bo a candidate for the presidency of the French Republic. London mail advices of the 21st report the serious illness of Queen Victoria, and grave apprehensions were entertained concerning her. Her physicians Insisted on her immediate departure for Scotland. When she arrived at Perth, she looked extremely pale, and took no notice of the preparations made for her welcome, nor responded to the cheers of the people. Clarke, the American bond forger, says a London dispatch of the 30th, has been committed for* trial at’he next session of tho assizes. A Loudon telegram of the 29th says a violent demonstration took place in the streets of Rome on the 27th. A drunken crowd, led by one Tognetti, a brother 6f Tognetti who was beheaded, rushed through the/trests, shouting against the priests, until 1 it was dispersed by soldiers. Several shot# were exchanged. One per•ob was lulled and many wounded.

A dispatch dated Florence, 80th, says Count.fcSalapis had been appointed by the King as arbitrator of the Alabama claims under tho treaty of Washington. The Vienna Free Press says that a league for tho preservation of peace had been formed at Gastqln, and that Austria, Germany, Italy, and perhaps Russia, are its adherents. A Madrid dispatch of she 30th says a decree of amnesty had been promulgated. It applies to all political offenses committed in Spain. The preamble recites that the government is well aware of the powerlessness of its adversaries ®lind its own ability to repress all revolt. Duko Montpensier, who is In France, had offered to testify in relation to the death of Gen. Prim. In the French Assembly on the 31st ult. ( M. Picard made a fervent appeal for bar. meny in tho chamber and elsewhere. He said it was the duty of all Frenchmen inthe presence of the enemy to forget their dissensions, grasp the hand of fellowship and take all means to strengthen, rather than to weaken, the power of the government. The remainder of the preamble in relation to the constituent powers of the assembly was adopted, and subsequently Dufaure’s paragraph eulogizing the condflet of Thiers, was carried by a vote of 523 yeas against 34 naya One hundred members abstamed from voting. It is reported that the deputies of the left in the Assembly will resign in a body. A dispatch dated London, 31st, says : ■•" The conference of Gastein confirmed the agreement between Austria and Prussia on some important principles of policy. The details of this agreement were arranged in the nature of a treaty, but not a formal treaty. In the interest of general peace, this is regarded aa a happy augury for the application of similar Joint action for Allure difficulties. The league maintaining peace means war against any power that can be provoked to disturb the peace. Russia, knowing and understanding this, makes vast preparations for war." Garibaldi telegraphs from Caprera that his health is better. A Rome dispatch of the 30th uIL states that the Pope, in receiving the homage of the Papal Gaurd, said: “I cannot name the day of deliverance, but the time is not remote when wo shall issue forth together from our prison.”