| Show FOREIGN NEWS ENGLAND the consequences of the famine in the cotton districts have not yet entirely I 1 disappeared but every lay day makes t them kom tom less felt at the I 1 last ast weekly meeting of the central relief committee in manchester january it was stated that the number of those parochially relieved had decreased by as compared with the previous week on the ath instant persons received relief against in 1864 this is a gratifying reduction during the tile last two months the improvement has been considerable in stockport the change has been so great that eliat the local committee have ceased operations and for the first time since tile the american war commenced a scarcity of hands was begin beginning ning to be felt the central relief committee have still 4 in their hands upwards of and this tilis with judicious management will tide over the disaster until the return of better days things are rapidly approaching their normal state in east lancashire the supply of cotton from various parts of the world soon set all the cotton mills again z in motion and except on the sc score rc of or price it matters little when the lie lle civil strife across the tile atlantic may cease the events that are occurring there give confidence to those who regard a comparatively high price of cotton for years to come as inevitable rimes times FRANCE it is reported that the number of ah ships s 6 to be disarmed in accordance wi with t h t the e economical views set forth inn in F foulds oui ts financial report is no less than t thirty hirt three the eur denies the rumors of of intended modifications in the administration of algeria and of dissensions between the 1 minister 1 nister of war and the duke of magenta the letter of bf the tile arch archbishop bishop of besancon re respecting acting the encyclical letter popes SE bull buli ull uli has been referred to the council of state as an abuse of ecclesiastical authority the yem tem remps temps ps publishes a letter from its naples correspondent in which the writer relates a conversation that had taken place between himself and cardinal andrea his eminence declared himself a mail man of progress and as sueh such regretted the publication of the encle anely he sympathized with the tile liberal catholics of france and expressed I 1 a wish that italy m might ight be entirely ini dependent throw throwing hig big oft the yoke of austria in vene Venc venetia tia the tile cardinal an drea said there were five or six other cardinals of the same opinion A marseilles journal says that negotiations tiati ons are going on for tile the cession by by portugal to france of one of the cape de verd islands which the latter power wants as a station on the way to senegal A company lately formed the agricole is is now engaged in sending klui out irrigating iril gating machinery of every klud from ato 1000 horse power to be used on the cotton lands of egypt this machinery is chiefly I 1 obtained from england SPAIN the madrid Correspond encia asserts thattie th atthe encyclical letter willbar will be read ead in all the tile churches throughout Spa irion day by order of the ecclesiastical authorities ITALY A dispatch from turin of jan says the minister of justice has addressed a circular to the italian bishops reminding them that the tile encyclical letter and the document appended append dd thereto must be submitted to lo the royal the circular further state states that the government reserves to lo itsell itself the right of declaring by decree with what restrictions the encyclical and appendix may be published and eions thereof must be suppressed pressed as con cop 7 arary to the tile laws of the state CHINA i i j the tile rebellion of the Tae pings jm an china lias has been suppressed as far as agthe th iq leaders and organized resistance to the th e imperial government go but troop the insurgents in the shape of bandit til cover portions of tile the land and commit great depredations in certain localities where the representatives of the pekin power are too few and feeble to resist them INDIA the difficulty with Bho otner was vas expected pe eted to be settled without much difficulty the whole territory of kokan kohan mis has been taken by the russians who were be preparing for a march against |
