The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-11-03
Foreign Matters, Gossip, &c.


We eondense from The current letter of the
London Correspondent Of the Sunday Times :
The English people continu. to feed their
fears with aprrehensions Of the result of q
growing intimacy between the Car and Louis
Napoleon. Sir Charles Shaw who in the Anglo.
Spanish army has invented an "infernal ma
chine" which it is hoped may "save the coun.
try" - We say in the United States. 1t is
composed Of a row of IS rife barrels all ON the
same level, each divcrging from the central
one 20 that their united discharge will cover q
space Of Eve yards at the distance If 500 yards.
This machine is designed for coast defence,
and it 10 believed that Monsieur Crapeau car
not get nearer than half mile Of the English
coast without great slaughter. ... ..-
The Gar has given notice of his intention to
drop in at Mrs. Napoleons shortly and this sets
Johnny Bull to believing. The sensible people
of England think that Alexander will probably
call on Vic after he has tested the Champagne
of the Emperor but politicians and panic ma
kers about London are surprising that this visit
to ST. Cloud has some awfully rortentous mean.
ing and they refuse 10 be comforted.
There is also cause for fear that England and
France will have rupture about another mat
ter and what, reader, do you suppose it is :?
Nothing less than the great ''negroqucstion"
which has been thus far the most proflcss
question to the whites and to the POOR negroes
themselves, that ever fana,icism invented or
demagogues agitated. The Portuguese seized
q French vessel containing "free" negroes,
s,me time ago, and believing the slave trade
treaties with the great European powers au-
thorized it. the Portuguese government con-
DENIED tho vessel and sequestered it. France
demands reparation and has sent two ships Of
war to Lisbon to enforce her demand. 1t is
the duty of England to back up Portugal, but
the French apprentice system embarasses
England and she does not feel willing to enter
the list in this dispute. Some hope exists that
Hughes may be able to make the Atlantic Ca
bic work, but the hope is faint. The French
are asitating the subject Of a Telegraphic con.
nccti@ with New York and in the present
sickness of the valentia Bay wire, the new pro-
ject has many arguments in its favor.
Rarey the horse.tamer has made . fortune
and is going to Lapland and other portions of
Continental Europe to see the sighss. He may
design to tame few white bears for Russian
sledgeseryice, before he returns!
Cough, the Temperance lecturer is quite sick
at Edinburgh. Mr. Webb the American Yacht
builder had arrived at Southampton in little
boat of as tons. She was 20 days frem New
York aud her crew consisted of one man and
two boys.
The electric cable between France and al.
giers does not work well. Turkey is getting
out new paper money in consequence of the
counterfeits of her currency. The Italian poet
Bettilloni shot himself recently through the
heart The American mesmeriser. Hume, is
creating perfect Juror in Russia. One hun.
dred young girls in the city of Troyes lately
pledged their lives to the care of the sick They
took the habit Of the Seurs de Bon Seoours
and will hereafter be subject to the call of the
suffering humanity. The sacrifice of all the
pleasures Of life for 50 onerous duty evinccsa
religious zeal that Protcstants have never ex.
hibited.