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Southland Times, Issue 1034, 7 October 1868, Page 3

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Brigandage is active in Italy. I The tobacco monopoly contract has ' been completed. A theatre at Turin has been burned, without loss of life: Fourteen persons have been shot for conspiring to effect the death of Prince Michael, of Seryiu. The officer commanding the firing party was killed by a ball glancing off a post. . . : . . The new Erench loan of eighteen mil- | lions has been subscribed. | Rumors of an alliance between Erance, Belgium, and Holland have been denied. Breadstuff's are exempted from navigation duty m Erance till the end of December. A difficulty with Tunis is apprehended. In parts of Spain severe famine has > existed. A revolution is considered imminent. The Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, at Lisbon, protest against their exile. The Duke is about to renounce all his Spanish honors and dignities. Violent pamphlets against the Queen of Spain bave been circulated. General Prim bas left London for Lisbon, where all tbe military exiles will meet. A conspiracy has been discovered on board the frigate Ville de ; Madrid, the object being to embark the exiled prisoners at the Azores, and to land them on tbe Spanish Coast. The new Ministry is formed. A great fire °t Lisbon has destroyed the Custom-house, occasioning a loss of £100,000. The crew of H.M.S. Pandora, by order of the Covernor of Sierra Leone, cut down the Portuguese flag at Colonia, took, the' guard prisoners, and hoisted tbe British flag. Two Portuguese war steamers go to inquire into the matter. A meeting bas taken place between the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Russia at Schwalbach. Tb is expected that an alliance,, offensive and defensive, will be .entered into. Bismarck's health is in an unsatisfactory state, , . Erankfor't is to be fortified. The Danish plenipotentiary has ie'-' ' turned from Washington. The ratifiea--1 tion of the treaty for the sale of the West India Danish islands has been ■ postponed till next sitUng«of Congress; k '■' ' ' " ''-'