Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-30
Foreign News.

George Francis Train is delivering lectures
in Cork on American and Irish subjects. De
is very popular, and his houses are crowded.
The evidence Of Shaw, who turned lntormeT,
is generally discredited. Mr. Sullivan, the
editor of the Dublin Nation, las been arrested
for printing seditious articles, and for particl-
pating in the funeral ceremonies. Additional
particulars of the attack on the MarteHo Tower,
at DungaDnon, on Monday night, have been re-
ceived. The affair caused great excitement IN
Wexford county. No arrests have yet been
made; but the Government is using every
means to discover the leaders:
The bill for the reorganization OF the French
army, having passed the Corps LegIslatlt, came
before the Senate this week. Michael Cheva-
lier said France should maintain close relations;
with the neighboring European powers, all OF
whom should unite to resist the Empire OF nus
STA and the Republic Of America; nations who'
in the extraordinary growth of their territory
mower, and ambition, threaten TO overshadoW
the world. Marshal Neil replied TO the arsu-
ment addressed by Chevaer, declaring the
| grounds on which they rested were untenabIe
| Fears in regard to Russia are absurd. Such
tears are refuted by every event III history since
the war of the C.imca The debate ended
Yesterday, when the bill wOs passed. ,.~.
The Internal cunditinu nj Italy is becoming
! critical. and I,ars are entertained thar a coup
II et,t is contemplated at FIorencc. 1t Is abc-
| lieved in Paris that the relations between the
French and Italian Governments arc not so
cordial as they have bcen.
The policy recently adopted by Prussia on
| the Roman ull, stOn caused surprise; but an eX-
planation of this Course is ,und in the fact, that
| in sustaining the temporal power OF the Pope,
the prussan Government finds it powerful
means Of cancellation with its Catholic States
of South Germany.
1t is now considered certain that the general
| council of the Roman Catholic Church will as
! semble at Rome in November next ....
The Unta Catolica says special agent Of
the President of the u. S. has arrived at Rome
on a secret mission to tie Pope, and that ne
will be tollowered by Admiral Farragut, whose
fleet is hourly expected at Naples and whose
arrival in Rome is looked for at an early day.
| The journal has no information as to the char
acter Of the mission upon which the America
| agent was sent.
Miner Gibson, leading member Ct Parlia-
ment, in a speech ut Ashton, declared that
peace must be preserved between England and
| America Other cabinets would succeed those
now in power OH either side of the Atlantic,
and these Cabinets would not be pledged to
the policy or bound by the words of either
Lord Stanley or Secretary Seward.
Thomas Daley, who is said to be an Amer,
can Fenian, has been arrested on the charge Of
treason 1t is alleged that he is concerned in
plot for au attack on Woolwch arsenal.
Tie debate on the new law proposed by the
French Government for the regulation OF the
press commenced in the Corps Leglslat'f
yesterday. .
The intrigues of the Bourbonists in Naples
are causing much dlsquctude.
Carl Schurz who is on u special mission
| from the u. S., has arrived in Berlin He was
| visited by Count Won Bismarck.
| In the upper house OF the Danish Parlla
ment, the treaty concluded with the y. S. fol-
the sale of the Danish Islands was ratified by q
| unanimous vote.