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Show FOREIGN SCRAPS. Twenty of an excursion party were drowned in Lake Lucerne on the 1st I Ot' J HUG. Dispatches from India mention an alarmiii outbreak of cholera in Bewail, Bew-ail, in the Bengal presidency. The Russian ambassadors at the European courts are summoned immediately im-mediately to Eais, to confer with the Czar on what are conjectured i.o be matters of weighty importance. The M'tn'moni'd Xeics is the name of a four cent weekly just started in London, wliich is said to contain more than two hundred announcements from candidates f!r marriage. The British crown has seventeen graiidchil lien to provide for, and it is hoped by prudent matrimonial alliances alli-ances to leave them half a crown apiece. A decision was rendered in London, yesterday, in the Mordaunt divorce case, that, Lady Mordaunt being insane, in-sane, the proceedings for divorce can be carried no further. The Swiss government is trying to stop the Mazzioist refugees from returning re-turning into Italy. They are gathering gather-ing threateningly on the frontier, and and gendarmes are stationed to compel them to retire into the interior of Switzerland. It is announced that the Q ren of England will give a prize of 4-it- for the be,-t l'an, painted orcaived, by a l:i ly under twenty-live years ot a.e; I the competition being open to female I a; li.-ts of all nations. The fin must be j ready fur the exhibition of 71. Jules Simon, in the French legisbi-lature, legisbi-lature, in spCTkiti' of cooperative railroads, said he hoped yet to ride in a train driven by members of the company, com-pany, on which even the conductor and all the humblest ofti-dals will be holders of the company's stocks, and prophesied that the lime of theac-cotnp; theac-cotnp; i.-hmeut of this hope, is not far off. An immense iron fnca'c, (he Sultan, Sul-tan, extracted for the Turki-h government, govern-ment, and the iut powerful lr.iJ-side lr.iJ-side frigate ever built, was launched at London yesterday week. She is 5,2-10 tons burthen, and T.OnQ bor-e power. She ha a battery deck, o vi-i hangin z the upper deck, and mounting eight IS-ton Joo-pounders. The central main deck battery is composed of two 12 ton -jOO-pounders. and the port and stern are pierced for two :'W-pound chasers. L'nde-r the forecastle is a battery of nine Armstrong guns, completing com-pleting an armament the most forniid- j able ever placed on any vessel of war. I 'I he Pone evidently means business. |