Show FOREIGN NOTES f KI W Tir ph to th cynko tan LONDON sept 17 p an the following dispatch has just been re cowd from south africa capetown august til adelmar ter captured yesterday marter commanded a squadron of dragoons ely bore sept 17 the austrian state engineers have completed their plans for the proposed altberg railway tho mountain will bo pierced feet above ho level of the sea tho tunnel will be metres long tha minister of commerce favors making it a purely otate railway the sept 17 A corres thero is no prospect of ahe bi metal lio congress which america propose d to bo heldon london and to which government provisionally assented americas agents leave failed so far to obtain tho assent some of the leading nations another strike sept 17 tho cotton operatives at the bedford new mills at leigh yesterday struck against a five per cent reduction of their wages and the masters threaten to close the mill which are extensive alleging that they can buy goods cheaper than they can produce them sot so B LONDON sept 17 A correspondent at blackburn says one of largest firms of the agents in lancashire have taken abo past fortnight more orders for american cloth for india than they received during the game period for all engli th firms which they represent locuss for til sept 17 the times gay we ha vo every reason to anticipate the reviving trade will find our better able to take advantage of it than in former years in consequence of the cautious attitude that they havo maintained by refusing to support speculative concerns lika so many companies now being launched in parisi the course being pursued in paris is the one dangerous element which mars the otherwise generally promis ory commercial prospect although the res venus of brance have been wonder bully elastic of late years the rain harvest this is a failure and of silk there is not even half an average yield A regards england judging from the very sensible decrease of commercial failures there is reason to believe that the surging process has at length prepared the way for a revival of prosperity we hear so much less about the depreciation of silver affecting trade with the east to bt et sept 17 keechi about forty miles from babul is to be re occupied by the british in a few days and be converted into a rallying point for all the chiefs who may elect to join the engli sh |