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Show FOREIGN ITEMS. Ole Bull is in Norway. Children are sold in Japan for three dollars each. Mr. Arthur Helps has been mado a civil commander of the Bath. The president of Costa Rica is about i to depart for Europe on a visit. A London paper complains of "rings" in the bouse of commons. The tin mines of Now South Wales are said to be more profitable than the gold fields. Anton Rubenstein, pro bably the most celebrated pianist iu Europe, will shortly visit this country. Several pojthumous novels by Paul de Kock have been discovered and will , soon be published in Paris. Napoleon and Eugenie arc expected ( to visit the Dublin exhibition on the 15th of August, the ex-emperor's fete ! day. The Russian government is said to ; bo now able to cast heavy guns of a steol superior in quality to that of . Krupp's. j A cargo of Coolies from Macao ar-: ar-: rived at Callao, Peru, lately. Out of ! 60 originally embarked, lol died on I the passage. imoog the euriosities in tho impc-; impc-; rial treasury at Vienna is an opal said ! to be the largest yet found, and weighing weigh-ing seventeen ounces. Queen Victoria does not intend to return to Windsor castlo until November. Novem-ber. She will bo at the Isle of Wight, Balmoral and other places in tho interior inter-ior rusticating. A Madrid special says Amadeus has not, as reported, eigned a decree pro-1 pro-1 viding fr tho gradual abolition of slavery in Cuba und Porto Rico. Tho document he signed is simp'y a code of rules providing for the enforcement of tho law pas:?ed by tho oortcz in 1869, preparing for tho emancipation of slaves in the colonics. |