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Show FOKEIG" SCRAPS. Eight iron steamships are building in G'asgow. The American brig Thomas IIol-combe IIol-combe is ashore at Playa-Snntana. Czar Alexander is said to be about to abdicate in favor of his eldest son. The private Egyptian loan of .."), 000,000 has been taken by half a dozen bankers, all Israelites. The Cuban insurrection still continues, contin-ues, and the revolutionists are giving the Spaniards considerable trouble. The hair dressers' shops of Madrid are crowded with poverty-stricken Spanish girls, anxious to sell their hair. Espartero will not accept the crown of Spain, and the Cortes decline to invest the Regent Serrano with royal prerogatives. prero-gatives. jV board marked "Thomas Hamlin" has been picked up at Islay. The Thomas liamlin left Liverpool for Quebec about three weeks ago. All the Spanish Journals of Cuba redicule the expedition of the steamer (.limy B. L'pton, and say she will share the fate of the steamers Uornrt and Lillian. The Irish landlords who are obnoxious ob-noxious to their tenantry are pleasant ly reminded of the uncertainty of life by graves dug in their door-yaids over night. Three peers, disgusted with the small audience in the House ot Lords, are at present engaged in preaching in various parts of England Lord Hud-stock, Hud-stock, Lord Farnham and Lord Tyn-hain. Tyn-hain. A steamer has cleared from Liverpool Liver-pool for Japan, believedto have afterwards after-wards received a cargo of arms and ammunition and a heavy battery uf guns for Cuba. She is intended to be used as a Cuban privateer and to play the role of the Al'ib imi. This is the way they do tbiriL's in Bucharest. A brigand of herculctm strength was about to be hanged lor murder, lie burst the straps which bound him like flax, seized the executioner execu-tioner and huntr him before assistance could arrive. He was thereupon appointed ap-pointed to his victim's office A Mr. L'Arey Irvin, an Iii-h land i lord, whx-e life has been tfireateiH has taken measures to defend -l 'guarai 1 which carry one back ton ittniniei a-es. He has placarded. ned' iriah pen his neighborhood with i-e;urn w En;:', cattle and park have. ;Q wh;cl he ap state ol siege, ' "aj:iD r; companion's lt-i requested and eaut the ground, as 1 b ! any politeness. ' fir -,t shot... |