Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume VIII, Number 26, 26 June 1869 — English Column. FOREIGN NEWS. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

FOREIGN NEWS.

D-U? ; :o May vrere r*tv«m*\i from S»n Fmn:iiC 5 by tbe Amenean ship AUaīili-: vrh:ch arrive«i a; ihe por; of Hoaoluiu on Mondiy hiviag a mail. The fojlow;ng itetns of lite Rews may be founJ ef iniere?t. Washtxgtos. May 17. Ftfteen hunJreti ptipus ef the South Washington Sahbaih soboois pro»:ee<ied lo ihe maasion this moming\ «nd were receive«i by the Pre-; suient in the East room. lle expressed hīs piea3ure at meeting so many cheerful t inno- \ cent faoes. ; The Presbyterie?—o'd and New School— ) have proposeti a fcasis of reunion for the'twoj churcb,es. whieh is to be acted on after na- j tuje delib?ration. | There is a report that Kawiins wiU short-; ly res:£rn the War olnee and that Ho!t ts to be h. ; 5 sticcessor. The Memphis Commerciai Ccnvention has swe!led to l,loodelegates,andsti!i thev eome. ■ They have passed resolutions in favor cf the thirty-second parallel Pacific Kailwny, via • El Paso and the Gila river, with connectin£* bmnches centering in Texas from St. Louis, New Or!eans and Catro. The Committee ; gve the rensons, that this iine lavored. is the shortest conneoting the Guif of Mexico ' nnd the val!ey of the Mississippi with the • P;«citic coast, and though the Southem P,vc:fie coast is unoccupied, it presents easy grades and the cheaj>est construction, with ihe utost fertile ;»nd hospitable soil; th:it it is traversed bv means of \vater tninsportation at three points. niioniini: the greatrst facilities for constructio;i; that this line will open to the wor!d the great resources of Arizona, and render more valuable the great | stock-raisitig districts of Texas anJ New I Me\:co, ai;d stimulate enterprise there, serure ' a grent porti o n of hullion whieh now seeks Eiirope by hnz<rdous conductas and smuggliog vessefs ; fioally, th.*»t itwiil encour<je I emigration and direct tnde with Europe/ j Tlie State Department at Washington ean ; (<btninnonrvvsfrom theirMinister (MeMahon)! »t Pnrnguay, nnd the opinion prevails thnt'| Lopcz may have caused his murder. John i Cochrane is spoken of as McMahon's prob.\-' ble successor. ! Another indian war on the Plains is f» ared,! unless the newly nppointed agents soon reach their posts. j The Alabamaqucstion still seriously tronb-' les all the papers of England ; and there is a ! rumor that some ol' the Amprican Senators are bpgmnit!g to desert Suinner's side of the ' qiiestion. | The Liverpool Chamber of Co:nmerce on ! Wednesday voted resolutions of weleome to , Motlev, the new American Minister. ! Motley's iustructious are of a conciliatory ! and peaceful chnraeter. j One of the greatest meeting ever nssetn- 1 bled w.:.s hekl nt J3elfast, Ireland lately to ! protest agaii>st .the iiisestnblishment of the 1 Irish eiuneh. it is estimated that tiearly 200,000 persons were present. " < The rejection ol the treaty for the sa!e of St. Thomas by the United States Senate! causes mueh irritation nt Copenhagen. ! Thc Freuch election has resulted in gains! for the Liberals in the Corps Legislatif, and , in thc uttcr defeat of a political combination j formed betwcen moderate Kepublicans and ; Lcgiti;nists or J3oorbons. j The Austrian Consul at Lrghorn was • assassinated Mond-iy, while in company with ' an English officer.

Madkid, Mny 20. Senor Cnssillo mnele n 1 grent speech to ciny in the Cores in favor of: cstnblishing a republic. He c»loquentiy re- i ferred tu tiie e.K'imple of the Unileei States, and pniised their fcrm of governinent with pnthusiasm. There is grent agitation at Bnrcclona nnd j Saragossa in fnvor of a republic. j A dispatch is received announcing that I about 2.000 adherents of Queen Isubeila,! undc-r G»zzete and Pegiula, ossembled at! Perpignan, a French city on the Spanish j frontier. At last accounts they were nearly : ready to cross the border. The Governmenti has taken steps to prevent such an inv«ision.' The Spanish Government conten)plnte an j order commanding nll citizens of Spain, ! whereever they reside in foreign countries, ! who own property in Cuba, to go before the ! nearest Spanish Consul and tnke the onth o{ | ailegiance, otherwiss their property in Cuba I may he cotifiscated. j A party t>f 700 American fi!ibusiers recent- j ly landed in the Eastern DepartmentofCuba, 1 were attacked by the Spaniards and roughiy i hand!ed on the 18th instant. They lost a ! fl»g,some einnen, 60kiiledand 160 wounded. lt is rumored that General Quesad, the Cuban miiitary chief, was taken prisoner and ; shot. j The difliculty with the Chinese Govern«: ment, nrising out of the persecution of the i Chr!?tians, has been settled. Latest d?spat-' c-ies from the British Legationat Pekinstate I that the Mandirin that countenanced these t persecutions has been reraoved fro»n otfice. { Arrival of Japanese Immigbants. Herr| Schnell, a Prussian gentleinan for ten years 1 p;ist resident in the Nortbern Principalities 'i of Japan, has arrived in San Francisco with ; three Japanese famiiies. • These fumilies are i the precursors of iorty Japanese fami!ies now | on the xvay (or that port, and of a furrher ! accession of 80 famiiies t making in all J2O '« famiiies, or say, 400personsarecoming there j for permanent settlement. They are inostly stlk cuhivators and manufacturers; someare tea culturists. Thev bring with them 50,- [ 000 trees of the M?rus alba, three years oid. This is the most t«nder !eaf oi ail the muiberries. and it makes the best si!k in tbat • country. They bring a great number of ■ bamboo pbnts of tbe !arge varietv. asefu! for a thousand purposes. They are twe!ve ieet ; high. Also, 500 vegetab!e wax trees, four feet high, and three years o!d. Tbey br»ng, \ a!so 6,000.000 of tea nuts. The seed of the lea phnt is a smail nut. Herr Schnei! \vas Interpreting S€cretary to ihe Pruj>sian Legation, and !atteriy Ministerof Finatu*e to the Northero Princsp>i{itieis. at war with the Mikado. He is cotnp!ete j mssier of the Japauese !anguage. and was j attaehcd to Prince !dsu, ander whom he ? hek! an importui?t command. The defeat of j the North has ob!iged him to seek elsewhere \ f«»r and oci-upatif»n. It is not impro-; U thvit three Prin<v> wi!{ foihv.v hīm and share bis fortuues. Herr Schneil possessed retainers aud their families. They look \

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