The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-11-11
FOREIGN NEWS.
Arrival OF the North American

dates of the Goth ult. She will be due at
Quebec about noon tomorrow.
The Asia, from New York, arrived at
Liverpool on the oath.
Nothing had transpired in regard to the
proceedings of the Zurich conference or in
relation to the treaties of peace. A dispatch
from Zurich states that Count Colerdo was
still alive, but no hopes were entertained of
his surviving.
GREAT BRITA1N.-All the Cunard steam
ers leaving Liverpool for Boston via Hall.
fax are hereafter to call at Queenstown, and
will thus be enabled to bring one days
later news by telegraph.
Sir j. Dean Paul and Strahan, the ex-
London bankers, have been released by q
pardon, after enduring four years of penal
servitude.
The first battalion of the military train
for China are under orders to depart by the
overland route.
The strike among the London builders
still continues, telling seriously against the
men who remain idle. They have resolved
to appeal to the public for aid in supporting
their families. Recent returns show an ex-
cessive mortality among the families of the
unemployed operatives, and there is reason
to fear that many will perish from want
and disease.
Parliament has been prorogued to the
18th Of December.
The correspondent of the London Journal
INDUCES in gloomy forebodings.
The correspondent of the Herald states
plainly that the impression has gained
ground that rupture between France and
England is imminent.
FRANcE.-The Paris Constitutional, in an
article by the senior editor, replying to the
assertions of the English press that the
policy of the Emperor had left state of
political incertitude in Europe, states what
the aim of the Emperor was in the beginning,
compares it with the advantage gained, and
accuses the English journals Of Inconsistent
cy. Several of the provincial journals have
published, simultaneously, violent articles
against England, which are known to have
been supplied by government official. In
these, England is warned that an hour of
trial approaches, which may put an end to
her greatness forever.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Herald, on the other hand, reports the state.
ment formerly made that the preparations
by France are suspended.
foundations have recently occurred in the
South of France, and have caused much
damage to life and property.
General Bedeteau and DR.. Landzet have
returned to France under the amnesty de-
clared by the Emperor.
OpArN A. Madrid OOJ Tho <,ouo.x,
ment announced to the Cortes that it was
going to begin war with Morocco, which
was received with great enthusiasm. ALI
the political parties offered to support the
ministry, and the newspapers express the
same political feeling. O'Dounell announced
to the Cortes that the government had or.
dered the Spanish representative at Tan
giers to take his departure.
The correspondent " Autografa," of the
23d, announces that an army for Africa is
to be organized about the middle of next
week, when General O'Donnell will leave
Madrid.
MADRID, Oct. 24.-It is reported that
the ministers stated that they would not
lave recourse to loan, ard that the float
ing debt would not be augmented.
Accounts from different parts of Spain
continue to speak of great preparations for
war, and troops are collecting in every part,
destined for Africa.
A Paris despatch states that General
O'Donnel had started.
A Paris letter in LIE horde asserts that
Lord Palmerston has declared to the French
Ambassador that England would not suffer
Spain to occupy both sides of the straits,
and will oppose it by force.
The English cabinet, it is said, will make
the question an European one.
The London Times is of the opinion that
any danger to Europe or the British posses.
sions of Gibraltar from the Spanish enter
prise against Morocco is absurd, but an at
tack by France on the inder endence of
Morocco, and an attempt to annex it to
Algeria, would justify the strongest remon-
STRANGE on behalf of Europe.
The London Daily News thinks that the
alliance of France and Spain against Mo.
rocco, or, at any rate, war simultaneously
threatened by both powers, as by no means
reassuriDg to Great Britain.
The London Times Paris correspondent
says that the convention between Lord Pal
merston and the French ambassador, as
reported in LIE Nord, caused much sensation
in Paris. While the French government
had asserted that it would not change its
policy as regards Morocco, Spain had re-
peated its disavowal of the ambitious pro.
ject attributed to her.
The Paris correspondent OF the London
NeaUs says, it is asserted that MIR. Mum had
sent despatch to say that England no
longer opposed the expedition against Mo-
rocco.
ITALY.-It is reported at Tunis that Ca
borunda will soon be succeeded by Count
Cavour in the ministry of foreign affairs.
The Pope returned to Rome on the goth
ultimo.
The reports of disturbances at Palermo
are confirmed.
The conflict began on the 9th and lasted
till the 18th, at Baylira, near Palermo.
Quiet was restored, but Palermo is still
in state of siege.
At the conferences between the Pope and
the French ambassador, it was stated that
the ordinances granting administrative re-
forms are ready, and will be soon published.
PRUssIA-Great preparations were maxi
ing in Germany for the Schiller festival.
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