The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-10-31
FOREIGN M1soELLANy.


m. Arrnan, the famous ship-builder, has
submitted to the Emperor Napoleon ney ca
Bile Of Instrumentation. Tho principal quality OF
this cable is its extraordinary tghtness, SO thai
there is little danger Of it's breaking under lts
own weight.
THE British Parliament has been further
prorogued from the LIST to the 25d OF Novem-
her but it is not at all likely that 1t will assem-
BILE @for the despatch Of business" at the latter
date.
According to a census Of the city of Gen
GA, Just completed the population is now one
hundred and fifty thousand Seven years ago
it was but one hundred and thirty thousand.
The famous African traveller, Or. Barth,
has been treated in very offensive manner by
the Voieyode Of Montenegro. The. Doctor had
attempted to penetrate the mountains of Was
'ewitch from Albania, and was stopped by the
Foievode with body of armed men, who, af-
5er handling him very roughly sent him back
again. A
The Journal de So, Petersburg, paper ed
tied under the superintendent of the Russian
Foreign-office, cong.a.ulates the Washington
Government ON the rapid reconstruction Of the
Southern States. The Journal, after brief
survey of recent events in America, reminds
its readers that the CARAT the very beginning
Of the civil war, caused his Cabinet to express
MS sincerest wishes for the maintenance of the
Union. The very complimentary article closes
With passage from despatch Of Prince Gorts-
'hakoff to the Russian Minister at Washing
ON, dated june %, 1861, in which Russia and
America are represented as arising states, des-
lined to have interests and sympathies in COM
mon.'
Some curious caves have just been discov-
sred in Fife, by party of Scotch antiquarians.
On the wall of the caves were found sculptur-
ed the forms of elephants, birds, fish and other
objects. 1t is supposed that, in the early ages
Of Christianity, these caves were used as places
Of worship by anchorites, and that St. Adrian
iwelt in one.
-Retributive justice was melted out to one
Buhleer, of Berne, Switzerland, in a singular
manner It appears that he was in the habit of
raining dogs to perform tricks, and sometimes
cruelty ill-treated them. Recently he brutally
beat little dog which would not obey his or
Ter, and while doing so, one of his large dogs
prang forward, seized him by the throat, and
bit him so severely that he died on the follow
ing day.
A recent number of the Sicilidn mentions
chat at Trecastazni, within the province of Ca
5ania, another earthquake has been felt, but
happily without loss of life or serious damage
TO property. Etna is also in commotion, and
IN eruption has broken out in the same locality
as in 1852.
( The journal de Chartered states that an as
ISOLATION Of worlmen has been formed at Gilly,
Belgium, with the object of insuring to each
member the means of visiting the Exhibition
at Paris in 1867
The Project of the Pas de Calais has estab-
lished an international exhibition of fish at
Boulogno-sur-Mer, under the patronage of the
Minister of Marine, the object being to give the
fishermen in the department an opportunity of
learning the manner in which fish are caught
in. other countries, both in salt and fresh wa
ter. r1 T-71 rrfriTfE hEf oh
The members of the Norwegian Parlia-
ment have busy session before them. Among
other measures for discussion are those for the
establishment of trial by jury in criminal cases,
the reform Of the tariff, a commercial treaty
,
and the law which governs the sittings of the
Parliament. Gttt eG
"A late Liverpool paper says 1.-THE evacu-
alton of Rome by the French troops has actual
ly begun. Detachmen have already left
Frosinone and Velletri, and those which were
pursuing the brigands have been ordered to
join their respective regiments AS the Roman
Government win now be called upon to sup
press brigandage, and as alone it quite inca
pable of doing this, it will be absolutely neces-
sary that some arrangement is made with the
Ital On Government. AS soon as the elections
are over we may therefore expect to hear of a
revival of the negotiations between the Courts
of Florence and Rome"
Mr.. G. A. Sala has been delivering his lee
ture, "Men and Things in America" to upwards
of 1000 persons at Belfast
A company has been formed, and grant
obtained from the Queen Of SPAIN to lay sub
marine cable between Porto Rico, Cuba, and
the United States.
The Zurich Commission, which was ap-
pointed for the purpose of drawing up new
penal code, has decided by nine votes to two
against the retention of capital punishment.