Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-05-24
Foreign Intelligence.

The rinderpest has again appeared in
England
McCafferty, the Fenian, has been SEN
fenced to be hanged.
The Sultan has granted the title of King
to the Viceroy of Egypt.
Colonel Burke, the Fenian, is lying so
i'll in his cell that his life is despaired of
Cable dispatches state that the King of
Prussia will visit Paris during the summer
in company with the Emperor of Russia.
The Luxembourg question may be re-
garded as definitely settled, Napoleon and,
the King of Prussia having signed the
treaty.
The injuries to the new Atlantic cable
will be repaired about the 18th of June.
Meantime the old cable, which was spliced
last year, does the work perfectly well.
A letter of recent date from Calcutta
shows that the terrible famine in that part
of India has not ceased its ravages. In
the one district of Cuttack forty were dying
every day.
Queen Victoria on the Goth inst laid the
corner stone of the Hall of Arts, in Lon,
don. A vast assemblage was present, and
the ceremonies were of very impressive
character
A plot to assassinate the King of Prussia
and Bismark has been discovered in Ber-
lin. Several arrests have been made, and
it is supposed that the scheme has been
frustrated. -
The new Franco-American Telegraph
Company, which proposes to lay an cleo
trio cable between Brest and Halifax, has
been promised the support and assistance
Of the Imperial Government
Advices from South America, by cable
from London, state that the Government
of Paraguay has accepted the proflered
mediation of the United States, though it
was uncertain whether the Allies would do
so or not.
Cable dispatches state that two sanguina-
ry battles have taken place in Gambia, in
both of which Omar Pasha was badly
beaten. His loss in both is estimated at
1900 men. The Great Powers have again
united in a petition to Turkey to cede
Crete to Greece.
The ram Dunderberg, which is reported
to have been sold to the French Govern
ment for $4,000, 900, was the private prop
erty of Mr. Webb, the distinguished New
York ship builder. 1t was constructed by
him as an experiment, with the expectation
that it would be purchased by the Govern
,nent, but the purchase was never com
pleted.
The Victoria Colonist, the oldest and
most widely circulated journal of Vancou
ver's Island, British Columbia, says, edito.
rally, April 3Oth: "Nine out of every ten
men in the colony, in their present state OF
wretchedness and poverty, would welcome
annexation TO the United States" This
remark was called forth by a rumor that
, England was about to sell her possessions
to the United States.
The Atlantic cable of 1866 has been rup.
tured by an iceberg near the coast of New
foundland. On the Sth instant it was re-
ported that the iceberg had disappeared,
but in passing over the cable of 1866 1t
seems that some damage must have been
done, for the signals through that cable be-
came imperfect, and have now ceased. The
cable of 1865, however, is unimpaired, and
there is no reason to doubt that the injury
to the cable of 1866 will be repaired with.
out delay or any considerable expense
The capacity of the cable of 1865 exceeds
the requirements of business, great as it is
between this country and Europe.
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