Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-08-23
Foreign News.

Foreign news.
The Empress of Mexico has arrived in
France.
The Canadian parliament has given its
final adhesion to the confederation scheme.
The small ship-rigged yacht cred,
White and Blue" which left New York a
month ago, has arrived in England.
Our Canadian neighbors are uneasy, and
have telegraphed, without regard to ex-
pense, for breech loading rifles from Eng
land.
The Queen of the Sandwich Islands was
formally received at the Presidential man
sion on the 14th. The "king Of the can
nibal islands" may be looked for next.
Canada is excited over another Fenian
scare, and is fastening troops to the border
A monster Fenian pic mic that is, or is not,
to be held ON Grand Island, in the Niagara
river, is to be the occasion for assembling
fifteen thousand armed Irishnen who mean
business.
The cable over the Gulf Of st. Lawren ce
now being completed, intelligence is daily
received in all the Western cities from
Europe at a much earlier hour than it is
dated at London, Paris, or even ST. Peters
burgh. This Of course is owing to the diff
ference of time between the two countries.
The American officers dined at the Impe-
rial Palace at St. Petersburg on the 18th,
and every attention was paid to them. An
investigation shows That the attempt upon
the life of the Car was intended to effect a
general revolution in the empire, and was a
part of the programme Of the European
Revolutionary Committee.
| Mexican news is interesting, and fore
shadows the early bursting of the bubble OF
Empire in Mexico. The French have
r a driven out OF Monterey and Saltillo,
and the whole of Northern Mexico has been
abandoned by the Imperialists. The French
garrison at Tampico had been driven out Of
the citadel, and that city is ere this in the
hands of the Liberals. To add to the list Of
misfortunes, the Republicans had sunk q
French iron clad steamer in the channel
Louis Napoleon gave the Prussian EN-
ter presented his Kings reply to the demand
for an extension of frontier, declaring thai
it is inadmissible and that Prussia will mol
consent. Napoleon replied that he had
made the demand to satisfy public opinion
in France. He deemed the demand just
one, but acknowledged the fairness of the
Prussian view. He said that nothing should
happen through him to disturb the peace
between France and Prussia.
Dispatches over the cable, dated at Ber-
lin, on the evening of the 18th, state that q
Council of State is sitting in that city, con-
sidering the question of re-annexing the
Southern German States to the confedera-
ton. The British Government, it is stated
has given its consent to the proposed Cana
dian confederation. 1t is also stated thai
the terms of loan to the colonies for the
completion of colonial railroad from Hall
fax to the Grand Trunk Railroad have beer
settled. 1t is reported that Napoleon has
abandoned the idea Of annexing the Ger
man provinces on the Rhine. The Paris
Moniteur denies that the supposed warlike
purchases of the French Government show
an intent of war.
Dispatches over the Atlantic cable, dated
at London at noon on the 18th, state tina
Prussia has definitely refused to accede t.
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ritory. The Prussian official journal calls
it an absurd demand. Dispatches from
Paris of the same date, quote the N0n'tem
as saying that Napoleon's actions have beer
with single aim to the peace OF France
and of Europe The officers of the Amerl
can squadron at Cronstadt, made their OH
cial entry into st. Petersburg on Saturday
last. Fifty thousand people turned out t.
witness the scene. In the evening bal
was given by the yacht club, and the cit.
was brilliantly Illuminated. Prussia ha
informed Austria that she will MAINTAIN
Italy's right to Venetia. There is great ex
element in Vienna, and 49, men are to b
tried for treason. Crowds of people in tn
street hail the emperor with cries Of " ab
dicate," " abdicate." The four weeks arm
istice between Austria and Italy will con
tinue longer unless notice is g 'en by on
party Or the other, of its cessation. Their
is probability of the renewal Of the wal
between Prussia and Bavaria, on the soil
the latter.