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Show i FOREIGN NEWS. I Turkey It is reported on good authority au-thority that the Sultan is making unusual un-usual preparations. It is stated that fifty thousand needle guns have been recently purchased by the Turkish War! I Department, while large shipments of rirled guns have been made to theTurk-j j ish forces in Asia. It is also known , ! that the government has been restoring thecitadel, completing the walls, and otherwise strengthening the fort i Ilea- j j tions.. ; . - ' ' j I Maycncc, the famous fortress, by the; i laying of a cable under the Khine, hasj i jut been connected with the telegraph! ; network, which places all the fortresses i of the Ithino in communication with ; Uerlin, cr in case of necessity, with the, : Commander-in-chief of a Prussian army. , This will bo of great value to Prussia if hostilities break out next year. j By the new-pos-tal. treaty w'iitli has bocn negotiated between Belgium and ' the United States of America, the rate of postage on single letters weighing : hall-an-ouncc or less has been reduced 1 to fifteen cents. . Tho Archbishop of Paris, in a letter to the cures of his diocese, denounces the late invasion of the Papal States by the Garibaldians, . and lauds tho intervention interven-tion of France. Late : advices from TetsiD, China, represent that great hostility is shown to "all foreigners in that neighborhood. neigh-borhood. An English gunboat and an American steamer have been attacked. Serioua trouble was anticipated. Fenianism keeps bursting out in snots all over England: and as far north as Aberdeen, in Scotland, apprehensions have been entertained of trouble from the organization. . . . |