SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 282, 27 September 1878, Page 19

SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS.

(From the New York Freeman's Journal). Ecuadob. All eye*ire turned on theAmbats Convention, a sort of farce in which President Veintimilla holds all the cards in his hand, the so" ShoirThf 611 ff 1 yes f ft he Pf pie being nothing but willing tools, t™? rt, a° S Pa^ lk^ n - d vote at the biddin S of «"> ridiculous rn™L/ // + S if mbl5 7S7 S dlVidcd into fchree P arfcs : first > the majority, composed of the creatures of Generals Yeintimilla and Urbina second, the radical^ minority, at the head of which we find General r, 0 ' » wrmer Minister, making a total of fifteen members ; and, ™5™ nimonty, whose recognised head is Monsenoi the JJishop of Ibarra, and which consists of six members. The plan of Assembly 1 " gl '° UP U confiued to Protesting against the acts of the *irtprtwrff th f- e VaH T. n * uties tter e is one who has attracted confrom Cuenc^ dG Di ° S Corral1 ' r epresenlatiye +,-tlpi II + h ifnt A v S?m f" y - 1 ? 0T ? menced by ratif yi°S -™d approving all the «S^n iwl. ntlm i lla h^ arr °g ated to himself. It then proceeded to sanction all the extraordinary power with which he has invested himself. It next refused amnesty to exiled citizens, and voted the most weighty taxes upon the nation. As it has also given the riHit of voting to the military element, it follows that the generals will lone enjoy an influence as pernicious as it is preponderating +w I? *VSV S tru / * hat voted f or Catholic unity, it is equally true that the law of the patronage is still in force and that thty rejected the motion asking for the restoration of the Concordat. One of the arguments presented by the government against this proposition was that S L e l1 Cted the mo , tlon askm S fOT thG restoration of the Concordat. SSSt?Jn w & TT£ S P rcsent^ d b y the Government against this proof blood Vti t? S r f esto f ratlol ?yould plunge the Eepublicinto asea L"; is the s fcrait t0 whlch the ]and Qf th n { and martyr, Garcia Moreno, has been brought to. BOLIVIA. ihere were great demonstrations of public mourning throughout this republic, on the occasion of the death of the late Pope Piui IX. The government closed all places of public amusement from the 11th to Uie lbtn of March. .^ o At *¥ ?1 U o* M. 0 . 11800 ? 1 Bosque, a meeting of distinguished persons was held with the object of taking steps towards the erection of a monument to the memory of Pope Pius IX. It was decided to the Pius" Cha C pcT Cafchedral of la Paz ' " nder of The city of La Paz, has decided to ask for sixteen Sisfws nf 23&* 0 '^ ChargG ° f h ° SpitalS aUd ° f