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Show FOREIGN SCRAPS. The favorite watering place of the printers in Europe l s Ems. The telegraphic line that is to unite England with Egypt makes gratifying progress. The Chinese Embassy in Europe has recceived orders from Pekin to re turn homeward overland through Russia and Siberia. The King of Sweden meditates a tour around the world, in order "to see with his own eyes whether it is round." Mop is L Chester, colored, formerly of Harrisburg, but more recently of Liberia, has been admitted to the English Eng-lish bar as a barrister-at law. The London GMje believes that if a poll could be takn of the wives of England on the subject of legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister, the result would be largely against iu The exports of cotton from the Madras Pre-idency have increased nearly fcixty p-r cent, since 1806, owing ow-ing to the opening of the railway to the cotton growing districts. From Spain we Warn tuat the splendid splen-did mines of Alameda have been lt-a.-ed for a term of thirty years to the house of Rothschild for ooe hundred and thirty millions of reals. |