The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-24
FOREIGN NEWS.
from the New York Herald Of Monday

SILL Abld, dl I1dlllOhy lCCOi0o GhO Out
break of a revolution in Spain. The Of
fetal accounts affect to make light of
the matter; but the movement appears
to be of a serious character. General
Prim is at the head of it, and associated
with him are Espartero and Generals
Carlos and lahore. AT the latest &C
| counts the insurgents had retreated to
| the mountains, burning the bridges
after them. DisaffectiOn has spread
rapidly in Spain for the last few years,
and the recent visit of the King and
Queen ofPortugal to Madrid was made
| the occasion of an enthusiastic demon
stration in their favor, in opposition to
the present Bourbon dynasty.
Our st. Petersburg correspondent II
nounces that the Russian government
has placed a war steamer at the disposal
of the Collins Telegraph Company, and
has given instructions to the Russian
authorities to afford every possible as
sistahce to the company in their opera
tons.
1t is added that the French opposition
have determined to concentrate all their
energies in the coming session of the
Corps Legislatifi in order to bring the in
tervention in Mexico to an end.
There is a panic in the Prussian cap
tai, second only to that caused by the
appearance of the cholera. The trichine
disease, a new and terrible malady, is
~ravaging Prussia, and Of those attacked
by it at least twenty-five per cent die a
death as horrible az that of Herod the
Tetraroh. Surgeons trace the origin OF
the malady to a species OF worm that
attacks pigs, and as the Germans are
! essentially q pork-eating people, and
prefer their food only partially cooked,
the new scourge has utterly disarranged
their habits, and caused q feeling of in
f tense alarm to pervade all classes.
Herr Won Bismark, the Prime Minis
ter OF Prussia. il e~ndeavoring nee, more
to patch up terms with the Prussian Leg
islature, whose struggles to obtain con
t stitutional liberty were temporarily sus
pended by the outbreak OF the war will
Denmark.
We have news from Asia this morn
, ing. Our Bangkok (Siam) correspond
: ent discusses-the approaching renewa
of the commercial treaty, made in 1856
between this country and Siam, ant
throws out important suggestions as t.
7 how American commercial interest
, might be improved and placed on a bet
ter footing in that part ofthe world. u
, shows that Siam bears a rich field 10
! American trade, which. If properl,
f worked, could not fail to yield an abund
ant return,
, From Japan we learn that the tw,
treaty ports of Riago and Ossaca hay,
been thrown open to commerce accord
inc to agreement. The operations Q
, the combined fleets of England. Franc
and Holland appear to have brough
: about this result. In India there wer
! fears of famine in Bengal, and of war
like trouble in Afghan and along tn
q Paniaub frontiers. Sir Rutherford AL
: cock, the British Ambassador to China
{ was pushing forward to Pekin withou
obstruction. His object is stated to b
to obtain authorityto construct an Eng
I lish railway in the Celestial empire
!, running as near to the capital as posi-
!. BILE.
From ever-vexed and long-sufferin
8 Mexico we have again news ofimpol
lance. Official intelligence has bee
President Juarez and his Cabinet fror
y chihuahua to FL Paso, on the Ri
@ Grande. on the 18th of December las
e thew having left the former city on til
:, 9th of that month, OH the approach {
= n strong imperial army, which occupie
Il It two days after. An armed force
It Republicans left chihuahua with tn
h President, but remained about fit
=, miles from the town, annoying the in
perialists.
10 The French Minister in Washingto
Y has applied to the State Department ft
~ information regarding the recent captul
: from the I~mperialists, of Bagdad, on I'll
Rio Grande; but, as nothing official r.
]atipg to it has been received, OF cour:
II he cannot yet be gratifed. Gen. Sher
# dan has been instructed from Washin.
" ton to investigate the affair, and punis
. apy United States soldiers who ma
,s have been engaged in it. Several Irene
= Officers lately in the service of Max
+, milan arrived in Washington yeste
: day. on their way back to their ow
} country. They give a highly colore
II picture of the fine prospects OF theM el
lean empire. .
;s Late Mexican papers supply us wit
- COPIES of protests of soldiers of the Be
II gian Legion in Maximilian's servic
lie made prisoners by the republican
1t against the Emperor's order decreein
n the death of all republican prisoner
= and particularly against one case OF l
'e' barbarous execution by Colonel Mende
ID one of the imperial officers, who cause
t. to be shot Immediately a number
n republicans whom he captured. One
:. these protests is addressed to Maximi
~ ian, and the other to the representative
N of the Belgian nation. The protestan
a. say they did not come to Mexico to figl
in this Ubiquitous war, but as an CISCO
to a princess of their country (Carlotta
. and that having been forced into acti,
ID service, their lives are now placed
jeopardy by the execution of the barba
r. Gus imperial decree, they being liable
as suffer if the republicans should retail
ate.
to The operations of the Mexican repu|
10 licans In the Northwestern section
a, their country are represented by our Sa
Francisco correspondence to be still ca
ried on with great perseverance an
energy. General Ogazon, who was son
ne time ago in New York, was about
Ia leave San Francisco in the beginning
this month for Guadalajara, the capit
of his State, having the authority an
40 means to raise there a force to take tt