Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-11-27
by UNITED STATES AND EUROPEAN
NEWS ASSOCIATION
FROM EUROPE,

Floods in Ensla Betwe.u
England and the United States suggested
The Neutrality Laws, &c.
NKw YORK, Nov. 21.-The steamer Scotia
arrived this morning.
Serious floods have taken place in I.anca.
shire and part of Cheshire, England, and have
OF properly. The Mersey, IrwelI, Donug glass
and RIbble rivers have been SO Hooded that
m Ills BY the dozen have been stopped, thou
sands OF hands thrown out of employment
ana hundreds OF families rendered homeless
besides considerable loss to live stock and ae-
riculture.
The statute Of Sir John Franklia has been
The London Herald advocates the considera
ton Of the questions pending between the
United States and England, even by arbritra.
ton II necessary.
A subscription for the relief OF the sufferers
by the Quebec fire has been started in Liver
pool.
The London Times says that Her Majesty's
government contemplates empowering a COM
mission to enquire generally into the opera
ton OF the neutrality laws and report upou
the possibility OF amending them so as to bring
them Int more complete conformity with in
ternationaI obligations. This inQ uIry will not
preclude futurS steps with regard to the adj
Justment OF the Alabama claims, which are
sun under consideration by the Government
and must be entertained upon their wn mer.
its.
A Paris letter to the London Herald saws that
there is stronger feeling there against Prus-
since 1s40, when war with Great Britain was
considered imminent The writer thinks, how
ever, that there will be no war until the ExhI.
bition rs over, by which time Germany may be
consolidated and Eren chmen reconciled to keen.
ing the peace with so powerful q neighbor
The Paris correspondent Of The London News
sumo that the French troops are withdrawn
from Mexico. Should their presence prevent
conclusion Of negotiations with Juarez, the
ianlt VIII be with France. As it is scarcely
~ ma Will
aquarrel with the Unitel States, Sherman,s
task will be comparatively easy.
At the sitting OF the Saxon Chamber Of Dep.
mites at Dresden, on the 10th instant, the State
Minister declared in the most positive manner
that Saxony had concluded no alliance with
Austria, either before or during the war. The
served her promise to that effect made by Ba-
ron Won Beust
AdvIces from Paraguay state that the defeat
OF the allies at Curuputa caused complete
dtssension among the leaders of the allied
forces Gen. Flores had been in Msnteye,do
since the 29th Of September. Gen. Mitre had
evacuated Curaza, and left with the rest OF his
army for Tuguity. He had refused to avail
himself of the Brazilian transports for the
conveyance of his troops.
Mr.. 2ladstane and Lord Clarendon had long
interviews with the Pope. Every body in Rome
believes they relate to the Pope's future resi-
denee, which 1t is generally supposed will be
at Malta.
Sicily 10 much disturbed All the prisons Ara
full. Two thousand arrests have beea made at
Palermo within q week or ten DAYS
The bands of brigands are increasing tn an
Unprecedented extent.
Former members Of Gen. Kiapkas Hunga.
RAN Legion have been arrested and court-mar-
tailed. VI.
A marine levy had been ordered i'm France.
to NIL the places Of sailors on furlough, and
four crews OF transport ships to bring back
French troops from Mexico.
A Berlin dispatch says the Prussian Govern.
ment had declded to decline for the present the
propotai OF Austria to open negotiations for
commercial treaty.