Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-10-13
FoREIGN NEWS.

months of 1866, s74, 12s, ,636. British ex-
ports to the United States during the first pc
riod we're e12, ,o27, 4s8; and during the sec
ond e6,2l4,947
Judah P. Benjamin, Rebel Secretary of
State, is about to betake himself to the Eng
lish Bar.
Cholera is making alarming progress in
France, and the people of Toulon are fleeing
on account of the plague.
In England the cattle disease continues its
rayages, and on the Continent similar mala.
dy has attacked the poultry with very fatal
effects.
The vintage has commenced in France and
an abundant crop of wine is certain.
In Algeria the cotton fields give promise of
an abanduut crop,
The recently published foreign correspon
dence shows that the Chinese Government
forbade the Alabama and other Rebel cruisers
entering its ports.
Herr Won Bismark, Prime Minister to Pru.
sia, has received the rank of Count and visit
of congratulation from the King.
Fenianism is still the subject of much com
ment in England and Ireland Thirty.one
persons have been arrested in Dublin, and
large rewards are offered for the arrest of
suspected parties who have fed to England.
The baggage of all passengers from America
is searched. It is said the British Govern
ment derived from Mr.. Seward important in
formation in regard to the Fenian movement.
The tendency of U. S. securities in Europe
is upward. Five-twenties we're quoted in
London, on the 10th ult., at 6s8 a 6s5.
Earl Russel has addressed circular to the
European governments, denouncing the
Slave Trade as piracy, and suggesting that
Furnishing it as such be proposed to their sew
eral Legislatures.
The war news from the River Platte con-
tinues favorable to the Paraguayans, who
have now occupied the Argentine province of
Corrientes, and annexed it to Paraguay. On
the River Uruguay they have also been sue
cessful, and have occupiedthe importanttown
of Uraguayana, and crossed the River Ibicuy
into Brazil.
Marquis Tagliocarne, Italian Minister to
Spain, has been formally recognized.
The Imperial Government of Mexico has
issued paper warning foreign citizens against
the loans of the Republican Government.
Earl Russell and Drouyn de L,Huys ex-
press decided dissatisfaction with the Gastien
Convention charging upon Austria and
Prussia the violation of the treaties of 1915
and 1882.
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annexed to Prussia.
A meeting Of American bond-holders has
been held lately at Frankfort, Germany, with
the view of placing the soundness of Ameri
can finance before foreign powers in clearer
light.
Fenianism is still the absorbing topic in
England and ireland, and the discovery that
the organization extended to the ranks of the
British army has caused much uneasiness
The government organs assert that the United
States Government is strongly opposed to the
Fenians, and will do all in its power to defeat
them.
The Italian Minister of the Interior has an
nounced that measure viii be presented in
the new Parliament for the suppression of re-
ligious bodies and the readiustment of ecele.
siastical property.
Warliks preparations in Montenegro have
induced the Porte of Turkey to send reen-
forcements to tho frontier. Omar Pasha's
presence In Vienna is believed to be in con-
nection with these movements.
In San Domingo the death penalty for po-
litical offenses has been abrogated, newspa-
pers are being started, aud the prospects of
the country are in every way encouraging.
The Imperial Government of Mexico has
issued deerees appropriating 100000 70
building street-railroad; proclaiming Mexico
open to immigration from all countries, and
establishing military colonies along the route
between the capital and Vera Cruz. A ma
tional industrial exhibition is to be held in
the city of Mexico in MAY next.
The forces engaged in the Brazil Paraguay.
81, 900 and Paraguay $4,000.
The sales of cotton in Liverpool for the
week ending Sept. % we're lss,o0O bales.
The stock in port is $4,000 bales, of which
%. 900 are American.
Sir Henry Bulwer has resigned his position
as Minister in Turkey, and has been succeed.
ed by Lord Lyons.
The Cholera is increasing in the Turkish
provinces. Two American Missionaries, the
Rev. Mr. Dodd and the Rev. Mr. Morgan o
Antioch died recently at Marsopan.
The Confederate General Parsons and his
family we're recently murdered in Mexico.
Two hundred slaves have been landed on
the Island of Auguilla, to be transpor ted to
Cuba.
The Honolulu Sandwich Islands) iron
works, with capacity for turning out $780,
600 worth Of work yearly, are approaching
completion.
In knocking down a modern villa built on
the site of an antique Roman dwelling, some
fragments have been found which FIJI up GER
tain passages wanting in the Annals Of Taci-
tus Also few unpublished pages of the
"Republicu Of Cicero, and some fragments
of the lost books of Livy have been found in
an old convent.
The second volume of NapoIeon's History
of Julius Caesar viii soon be published.
NJ Claudet one of the oldest and best of