Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume VI, Number 19, 11 May 1867 — English Column. FOREIGN NEWS. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

FOREIGN NEWS.

New Vor.K. March 21. — have a rumor that the United states Govern* ment through Minister Adams. haa cailed the attention of the British Goverment to the ncglected cond)tion of Ireland, and pointed out the rourse whieh in their opinion is best calculated to allay disnffection and the ill feeling whieh exists among the Irish popuiation īn America. —Kev. Thoinas K. Beecher, who is in Brazil for heahh, writes to the New York Tribune, warning Ainenean mechanics and laborers against immigTation to that countrr, except os organized colonies. He says lhat eren' ?teamer brings there from one to three hundred Americans, and that the greater pan of them are miserable and begging for bread in less than two daya. —The Prefect of the Seine, in the most thoughtful manner, aware that Paris will be crowded this sumtner with strangers, and that crowds are liable to develop epidemics, has purchased four hundred acres of land near that city for the ac<:ommodation of the bodies ofsuch foreigners as many dieduring their sojourn at the French capital. March 29.—The Senate amendment to the adjournment resolution was concurred in by 8 m;ijority. It provides for the adjournment to-morrow at twelve o'eloek, until the first \Vednesday in July. and then, unless a quorurn of eaeh House is present, adjourn until December. March 30. —Congress adjourned to meet on the first \Vednesdny in July. — \Vashington is rapidly increasing in population nnd weahh, an contains now a population of 100,000 inhabitants. If the 57 churches and chapels in the city are any indication of good morals, the people should j I>e very moral and pious indeed. There are but few fine private residences compared, with the thousands found everywhere in the Northern States. There are five or six large j and wellkept hotels and ns many more thatj are only third rate. ] The Southern Famine Kelief Commis-j sioners have issued a circular stating that j the f;«mine in the South is severe and in-j creas»ng, and unless generous contnbutions are made by the public the loss of life will beappalling. The Stnte of Georgia has brought n bill of compUiint in equity before the Supreme Court ngainst Stanton, Grant and Pope. —There are said to be not less then seventeen thousand men at work on the Eastern Division of the Pacific Railroad, and before the first of Mav, the number nf " active boys" on the line will have been increased to twenty-fivc thousand. The Senate ratified, April 9,.the purchase of Kussian America, only two members voting agninst it. The continental area ae(juired is 359,000 square miles. The Islands will add some 60,000 more. The United States have to pay $7,250,000 in gold within ten months after e.xchange of ratification. Kuroprnn Intelli&reiiee» New Youk, April Bth. —Kuinors on the street say there is to be war between Fmnce and Prussia. Chicago, April 9th. — Tbe English nnd French Ministers declare there is no prospect of immediate war in Europe. The London Standard says il is currently reported at St. Petersburg that an ofTensive and defensive nllinnee has been concluded between Prussia nnd Kussia. The HctMs correspondent of the 2Sth February, snys Turkey is concentrnting a large force in nnd around Constantinople. Kussia is reinforcing her regiments and advancing on the frontier. The Vieeroy Egypt» moved, it is thought, by French ad» vice, bears himself independently toward the Sultan, ns if he understood the near approach of war. . .On the 21st Gladstone invited his supporters to n meeting at hia houae, to eonsider their course on the Government Keform bill. Two hundred members of the Common»s attended. The relations of France nnd Prussia ore critical. Count Bismarck hns s»ent an energetie note to Paris, demanding ot Emperor Napoleon his reasons for arming. He B«ys Prussia holds France responsible for theconsetjuences of such steps, nnd nsks instant cessation of warlike preparntions. In case of \vnir between France and Prussia, Bavaria aml Baden will make eommon cause with Prussia. (The French and Prussian di(?iculty grows out of an attempt by the former to acquire the Duchy of Luxemburg from Holland. Prussia resist» the nlienation of any part of the Germnn territory.) Bkri,in, Aprtl 13.—Vienna correspondence of the Ba*k Gazette says the Austrian Embassador nt Beriin has been instructed to declare to the Prussian Government, that Austria will stand by Germany. The London Ttmes of Slarch 29th says that Great Britaiu is now ready to pay whatever sum an umpire may adjudge for the depreilations of the Alahama. The Liberals have been defeated on the Extended SufTrage question in the British Parliament. The tnumph of the Tories is !ikely to be short lived. Thc Prmcess of Wales is reportcd at the point of death.