Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1856-11-13

Foreign News.

vpw YoRk, Nov. I0.-The steamer
iDj6c has arrived with Liverpool dates 10
I3glh ult. M, p:,
ra;,s9 the most attention in England was
ng;riaI paragraph in the Paris Moniteur
1n,oIaining that the English press pub
lTsbes calumnies against the French gov
lament. and holding out the menace that
u continuance of such conduct will break
L. ,be Anglo French Alliance. This par
soranh caused much excitement both in
Fn0iand and France, having even affected
The Bourse. 1t is reported that the Eng
ish Government will ask an explanation of
sTbis threat TO dissolve the alliance.
Z The total exports for the first nine
n months of the present year amounted 10
Il Ps4. .9O6, COS. against 500, ,226,s37 for the
j same period Of 1855. As compared with
the same period CT 1854 the increase has
been 48,248,68l.
The chief feature of the import market
continues to be large arrivals of Breadstuffs
Other articles of consumption have also
been freely taken, especially coffee, tea,
sugar. wines. spirits and tobacco.
Terrible Earthqrake.-A severe earth
quake had taken place, which was felt
throughout Egypt. Two hundred houses
were demolished in Cairo. The city of
Rhodes was in ruins. Some damage was
also done in Smyrna. Fortunately but
few lives we're lost.
The earthquake also did great damage
in Malta, Messina. Pazzaio, Syracuse,
Casana. Gambia, Cerigo. Gran Michael
and olter places in the Mediterranean.-
Houses, churches aud mills were reduced
10 ruins. Fifty lives are known 10 have
been lost.
Several vessels and steamers in The Med
iterranean felt the shocks severely. On
board many Of the steamers the machinery
vas stopped.
The SHOCKS extended from the lIth 10
the lGIh Of October, During the whnIe
time Mount Etna was emitting dense vol
umes of smoke.
In various parts OF Italy, also, the
shocks were teIt Al BrIndlsi the people
put to sea in boats. At other places the
people fled from their houses aud encamp-
ed for maay DAYS in the fields Another
saoez visited Naples on the night Of Oc-
toner i6.h. causing great Consideration
among the inha;,jlauls.
I.r4ic.-Despaiches received =! Lon
5ou and Paris on Tuesday. stale that the
French Ambassador to .he Court nf Persia
had returned trom Teheran to Cous;anli-
noplr. Ii Is SAID that His ExceIency has
engaged the Shah to make peace with
England.
The preparations for lue English exPc-
di,Ion 10 HE Cali were ronljnued. The
Persiaus were forutving Heral.
Fruucc--The Credit MobiIier will
probably be wound up, as in The present
momeHary pressure III France lis functions
cannot be continued without danger.
LoHDoN, "Wednesday, Oct. 29th Com
s,la1-iai letters from Paris describe trade
III Fraace as generally suffering from the
difficulty n obtaining discounts caused by
;he slgiue41@y OF The ruIcs of the Bank of
france.
RusS5z.-Ihe Czar has issued an ukase
allowing foreign merchants, with few ex-
cepunn-, the right al Tree entry INTO Rus
Sla.
There Is unusual activity exhibited in
fordlvIng .he shores OF tie Russian En-
pre-. 4 sea fortress Is contemplated on
The Island Of kasho, 10 replace that Of
3omarsund destroyed ja tie ale war
There will he FIVE new fortified CONNER
cial towns in Fin!an1, and oee htgh up the
Gulf OF Bo,hai2. they are ali intended
for German ee.ouIeie-
Sjoia.-A4,Eces from Madrid drHy The
report o( = fresh ministerial crisis.
There vas a great rise ia the price Of
wileat at Madrid. owing ,o ,te "perations
OF specuatnrs The government had IN
terfrrcd and was collecting large stores OF
corn 70. winter use.