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FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS
BERLIN, Oct. 2S.-Prince Bismarck has been re-
appointed President of the Prussian Ministry in
place of General Won Room. 1t is understood that
the restoration carries with it the effectual control of
the whole Cabinet, which he demanded previous TO
his resignation some time ago.
DRESDEN, Oct. 29.-The death of King John, of
Saxony, at Pluitz, is announced this morning.
PARIS, Oct. 29.-The old opera house is burned.
Enetal Belleware wrote a letter to the Minister of
War saying if Monarchy was restored he would re
sign from the army. The Minister Immediately
placed the General ON the retired list.
New YORK, Oct. 29.-The piano, billiard table
and cigar manufacturers and other producers of
luxuries are conducting business with great caution.
Large factories are being run on half tiBle and with
half the usual force, while small establishments have
in the main closed altogether.
District Attorney Philips concluded his address in
the Stokes case. Counsel Tremaine, for the prisoner,
then summed up on some points to the Judge for the
consideration of the jury, and the Court then took a
recess. After r~eassembling Judge Davis began his
charge to the jury.
MORE "HERALD" ADMINISTRATIONS Gordon
Bennett, of the New York Herald, proposes to fit
out an expedition ON his own account to the Arctic,
to try how near the North Pole it can get.
Within q few months there will be two British
lines of steamers running to San Francisco, one
from Hongkong, and the other from Sydney, by way
of Auckland, FIJI and Honolulu. In view of this
llCl, II iS IuOuRuJ int EAllNcTiCtu HIT u OilOlul Will
not be %reopened.
NEW YORK, Oct. PA letter from Berlin shows
that that city has not only been affected by the
American panic, but is preparing for one of its own.
Scandals, irregularity and insecurity in every branch
of business, prodigality and waste among the middle
classes, great suffering among the poor, a swelling of
emigration and all forms of pecuniary distress, hang
over the city, and all is said to be owing to nothing
less than specie initiation.
PARIS, Oct. 27.-Elections of municipal officers at
several places yesterday generally resulted in Repub-
lican successes.
COLUMBUS, Oct. 25.-The official returns from all
but one county insures the election of all the Re-
publican State ticket except Governor.
PARIS, Oct. 24.-The Memorial DiplomGti9ue
says Count De Chambord has assured foreign powers
that his policy will not be aggressive, and that he
will not attempt to reinstate the Pope in his temporal
possessions.
PARIS, Oct. 25.-The Radical Republican journal,
La Venir, has been seized for publishing an article
violently hostile to Count De Chambord.
PARIS, Oct. 19.-Republicans are working with
great activity and energy to counteraet the designs
of the Monarchists. Ex-President Theirs, in CONVEX
sation with friends, spoke confidently of the result.
The Deputies of the Extreme Left will hold a meeting
on Monday, and the Moderate Republicans on Tues
day. They will probably unite in proposing TO the
Assembly that the question of the restoration of Roy
atty be referred to a commission.
PARIS, Oct. 2O.-An article in the Journal des
DebatS regards the restoration of Royalty as certain.
MADRID, Oct. 19.-The British dispatch boat from
C~artagena arrived at Alicante, with the news that the
insurgent frigate Numancia ran into the Fernando Ell
Catnico and sunk her. Over half of the crew of the
latter were drowned. The catastrophe is attributed
to the inexperience of the officers. Another version
of the affair current here is that the Numancia fired
into the Fernando ell Catilico because she parted COM
pany with and refused to obey the signals to rejoin
the former. The Minister of Marine has resumed
command in person of the squadron at Ilbraltar,
which sailed for Cartagena.
New YORK, Oct. 2O.-A letter from Sumatra says
the expedition to Acheen, to take place in October,
will consist of n fleet of 80 ships and steamers and
Il, 200 to $1,000 men. There will probably be hard
fighting on the first landing, and perhaps some heavy
loss of life in the first of the expedition, but the
enemy will find out that they cannot stand against
mitrailleuse and breech leaders.
ROME, Oct. 2O.-The General of the Society of
Jesuits was officially notified by the Government that
the Order must Immediately vacate the premises oc-
cupied by them.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2l.-Wool is very dull. Cali
fornia fine and medium, 25@30c; California coarse,
23@25c.
LONDON, Nov. IA private letter from Berne,
dated August 18th, says that DR.. Livingstone is a
prisoner in Central Africa, held by the Saragi tribe
in the interior, and is unable to pay the ransom de-
manded for his release.
LONDON, Nov. "a correspondent of the daily
.Ntps says under date of October 18th that at the
docks, shlp-bulldlng, ETC., on the Clyde, Is prosperous,
there being not less than 100 ships in the course of
construction at the various yards.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-The jury in the Stokes case
rendered 4 verdict of manslaughter in the third de-
gree. He was sentenced to four years in the Peni-
tertiary at hard labor. The verdict was received
with cheers by the friends of the prisoner. The
Judge, in sentencing the prisoner, said he was sorry
the law compelled him to pronounce so light q SEN
tence on his guilty head.
China is about to demand justice from Corea and
Japan, and if not granted will declare war. All
coolie ships have been ordered out Of Chinese waters.
Nothing has been heard Of the New York steamer
Ismalia, due at Liverpool q month ago. The con-
yiction is becoming general that she has gone down.
Calico printers to the number of over 10000, have
been thrown out Of employment by the partial sus-
pension of work at Rochester, COhoes, Little Falls,
Pleasant valley, Newburg, and Haverstraw, York
State.
LONDON, Oct 1S.-The Times Paris correspondent
TO the United States rs follows:
From exact information it appears that the Mon
archial portion of the Assembly have come to an
absolute agreement. Count De ChambOrd has made
which are satisfactory to the Liberal
Monarchists, and there will be submitted, at the
opening of the Assembly, n proclamation of here1i-
tary constitutional monarchy, the prospective king
promising liberty Of conscience and equality before
the law as the right of all. The Monarchists are
confident of a majority in the Assembly. 1t is said
41G deputies are pledged to support a restoration of