The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-12-08
Foreign News Items.

England has got an inlntessina revolution close at
home The little Island OF iandy, celebrated i,r it,
granite refuses 10 let any shers Officers and policemen
iapd on It's shores
Roman tornbs more than fifteen hundred years old
containing cnerary and fragments OF pottery, have
WIndsr
Tho Liverpool butcher baker and ishmonger who
had been engaged TO supply the steamer City OF New
York, which reached this city ON Tuesday last all
carried on 10 in the steamer, having neglected
leave IN time.
An International horticultural Exhibition has been in.
augaraed in England with every prospect Of success.
II has just been decided that the Liverpool stock
Board is liable to loc9 TAXATION The windiai thus &C
crung the parish IL close upon hundred and City
thousand dollars, in the shape OF arrears.
The cholera spreading in Russia, Notwithstanding the
measures taken to prevent II.
The attempt to stock the Australian rivers with salmon
has been so far successful that the rivers Derwent and
Plenty now contain upwards OF two thousand Of that
valuable fish.
The town and canton OF yica, Andalusia, Spain, arc
being ravaged by invasion OF spiders All vegetation
Is eaten up by those insects and their bite produces
very painful swelling.
correspondent of the London Daily Neps Urges that
1t would be OF convenience IL United States
securities sold abroad at four shings the dollar
instead Of four and sixpence
The graves of the English who fell in the Crmea are
again said to be in most disgaceful condition. wae
the French cemetery is in perfect order.
In addition to the tunnel through Mount Cents
Mount Gothard, another of the Alpine irange 10 be
pierced and is expected the work will be completed
about the same time as the Gents tunnel.
1t is proposed to erect the grave Of
Tom Sayers, the pugilst
An old lady OF considerable property has inst oi,a
near Sheffield England, who washed faro TN
the dra peeled of in fakoswlo had never allowed her
be swept cleaned for seventeen ycars-whose
sole attendant idiot lad and whose principal food
was putrid meat.
Another new steamer, the Endymion, has been
launched for the British navy Her armament will be
four hundred FOUNDER Armstrong guns rcd muzzle
loading, and nine hundred and ten FOUNDER breach
leaders
A strike among the golfers of Northumberland has
lasted twenty three weeks and entaed loss $50
upon the employers alone
New Orleans merchant writes to tho Liverpool papers
with reference to the great deterioration in he weight Of
American cotton bales One vessel OF 10 tons burden
has just arrived with 200 bales of cotton when before
the war the same vessel could not have carried 1900
bales.
The hs built for the italian deputies at Florence
IS said to be ia.ire. 1t was supposed that it would
hold 500 visitors, but 1t really accommodate onv
about oo and the acoustic arrangements bad that
even the minister's TO say nothing Of the reporters w
ind 1t difficult TO hear what the members say.
Two gigantic porcelain figures forwarded from China
by Vice Admiral Jaures who had captured them in tie
have arrived Lyons Their conformation is iantast
cay monsrous, but they are supposed to do duty Tor
lions Their height is ten feet with length PROPORTION
atc-thclr antiquity several thousand years They viii
Inquire IN the courtyard OF the Louvre.
Two members Of the Par.s Academy Of sciences-sfaI
Pasteur and sainv eafe now engaged in dssocns tic
tain the germ Of this terrible evil and thus " ai6
covering remedy for It,
Robson, the English forger divorced on the Sth
ult he was convicted Of TIN Crystal Palace frluds IN
1885, IN November, 1858, he arrived PERTH in Ansrs
liza, and In the October following nc liberated Oh q
ticket OF leave In 1858 he position contract
a b2anous marriage with one Isabella Bell.
An Irish yachtman has Just made the voyage from
Liverpool 10 Sydney, Australia, In a twenty 1ve ton
yacht accomplishing the extraordinary feat in
bred and thirty -four days.
Firing from the turret Of tho British cupola Uar shin
Royal Sovereign has been successfully lccompi shed
when the vessel WAS rolling sixteen degrees IN heavy
sea.
In some departments Of France there regular Panic
among grazcrs TO the cattle plague though has rot
yet extended beyond few towns in the depait, of
the North and the graziers killing their cattle