Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-28
FOREIGN.
Summary in Brief of Foreign News to the
Eleventh Instant.


Emigration continues to flow stead
lily from Ireland to the United States.
Five hundred and fifty persons sailed
from Queenstown ON the 10th inst,
and many were left behind from want
of room in the steamers.
The Federal Council of Switzerland
have announced that the North Ger
man Confederation, Italy and Baden
have declared their readiness to open
negotiations in Berne relative to the
St. Gothard Railway.
The Lower House of the Hungarian
Diet has elected a committee of nine
members to draw up the address in re-
ply to the speech from the throne.
Upwards Of one hundred gold coins,
some Of them belonging to the reign of
Henry VIII, were recently discovered
at DUnblane while an old house was
being pulled down. The coins are in
a good state of preservation. 1t is said
that the value Of the metal Is about
eighty pounds.
3 The ApOca, of Madrid, states that
the candidature of the Duke de Mont
pensier for the crown of fSpain is gain
ing ground in the Cortes, even among
the progressist party.
The London Times and Standard, of
the 18th, and the London Morning
Post, of the 10th, again discussed at
length Senator Summers speech.
\ proclamation, published in the
Dublin Gazette of the eth inst. orders
that all persons in Londonderry not
possessing the requisite license shall
deliver up the arms in their possession
to the police to-day.
As proof that the embezzlement
mania iS~will raging, bank director
of BadeiTTthd the corporation clerk of
Zug have been respectively sentenced
to five and fifteen years imprisOn-
ment, for Justification of accounts and
malappropriation of funds entrusted
to their charge.
The Paris Journal O6iciel Of the
10th says that the EmperOr's speech at
ChaTUeS is a candid appeal to the good
sense and tirmness of all honest peO-
pie against subversive and revolution
ary passions, and, at the same time, a
supreme guarantee of the liberal spirit
which Will continue to characterize
the policy of the government.
In the Spanish COrtes of the 9Th the
Minister Of Foreign Affairs stated, in
reply to a question, that before any
negotiations for the cesSion of Gibrai-
tar were commenced Spain ought to
be strongly constituted and financi-
ally reOFganiZed, so as to take her
place as one of the great powers.
The international, of London, of the
Sth, mentions that Lord Clarendon
has received a telegram from Presi-
dent Grant, referring to Senator Sum-
ner's speech, and confirming the
friendly relations that have hitherto
existed between the two nations.
At Preston, England, affairs in the
cotton trade remain unchanged-tha
is to say, some masters will not re-
sumo work until the markets improve,
while others are running their mills
at various rates of reduction, and none
appear to be in want of hands.
The Independence Beige states that
owing to the impoverished state of the
finances the Turkish government has
the intention it lately had
of increasing its military forces. 1t
purposes, however, instead to throw
open the ranks of the army to all the
subjects of the Sultan without any
distinction, and law with this object
is being prepared by the Council of
Ministers.
The opening of the Suez canal viii
be attended by the Grand Dukes Con-
stantine and Vladimir, the Austrian
Archdukes, the Prince Royal of Prus-
sia, the Prince and Princess of Ho-
henzollern, Count Beust, and probably
by the Empress of France.