Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-11-21
LATEST FIR ONT. EUEROPE.
BY THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
News up to Yesterday Noon.

Preparations for the evacuation OF Rome by
the French troops will be finally completed on
the 10Th of December.
IT It is said NJ. Mousticr, the French minister,
is preparing note on the Mexican question.
It is understood thatit it will be conciliatory
towards the United States and will not object
to the recognition Of the Juaez government
< Attic National Reform Conference, held in
Manchester, England, it was resolved to use
all possible efforts to counterfeit the tactics OF
the Tories and to prepare the outline OF the
reform BILL s22up5 a---. nv ~ $40
A new Russian loan Of seventy millions OF
forms has been introduced into the market.
1t is said that Napoleon has invited the
King OF Prussia to Paris. r, s.. -...;.=.
The cotton market is dull and unchanged,
and closed at lad. tor middling uplands; lhe
breadstuff market has shown an advancing ten
dcncy. Wheat closed at i'd. higher Flour
has advanced is. z.> RI. .a..:.
THE FAMINE IN INDIA The Rev. j. Buck
Icy, an English Baptist missionary, stationed
at Cuttack, Orissa, Whites =. ...: III
+ Orphans haze been brought dying to our
door, and many that we have received have
been TOO deeply famine stricken Tor nurslng
and medicine to restore. Alter few short
days death has closed the scene. Tender an
delicate women, laying on our Verandah, have
i'm pored rice, or money to purchase 1t, With
cries that have pierced our hearts. T~o cases
of eating humane flesh have been reported; IL
the one case it was proved that tho person was
insane in the other a child was found eating
it's dead fathers flesh, which had been roasted
and in a few days after the child died.
Mothers have left their children in the maid
an dunghill)to die, or have sold them for tc"
picc. In one case ali only son was sold for 4
pint of milk; the mother eagerly drank it up
gave up her child, walked a few steps, and thcI
dropped down dead The dying and the dead
have been seen lying IN our streets, though
this has not been seen so much at Cnttack a:
at Baasore and some other places At Po0ree
It has been common for the police to find
morning after morning, in the streets and lanes
sixty, seventy, eighty and more corpses. II
the Cuttack district, 5000 deaths from famine
aud pestiience we're reported in one week, ant
it is generally believed that at Balasore ant
Poorce the distress has been seyerer than here
BISHOP. HOPKINS ON DlShOP IOLh.--1A
the recent installation of DR.. Wilmer as Epis
copal Bishop Of Louisiana, Bishop Hopkin
said .-s.
our predecessor, the late Bishop Of Louis
lana, was man Of uncommon energy, ecvl
ton Of character, nobility Of soul You ait
the successor Of such man; none who knew
him but admired and loved him. was Otter
connected with and met him frequently at on
Of the universities of his founding, (many 0
these will you meet with, that were OF his cree
ton and upon frequent occasions OF Christian
duties, and it Us among the pleasant and sac
recollections of the past You will find in you
path many mementoes of his yea! monu
ments of his worth; it is indeed a high privi
to be his successor. We claim no perfection
| for bishops; he may have erred in his career
he may have made mistakes, but his soul 0
christianity and magnanimity, which his llf(
exhibited, is true prestige for you. ..-