Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1868 — Foreign Items. [ARTICLE]

Foreign Items.

—l’rinte Adi-lbert, of Bavaria, i« about to pur«hqgfr4hfr-chnuteag oP Hopenbcrglbr th# Queen of Spain. —A woalthj lady near Paris lately committed suicido because her face was disfigured by a boil ,on her nose. , ■ —An Italian loan for £9,-104,702 has been issued, based on the tobacco monopoly of the Government, which passes into the hands of a private company for fifteen years. ’fi AiT '■ ))■■■■■ ,* 'j'lt'' 11 . " ' ■- —The British Kingdom had 3,933.924 ncrcß of wheat and 1,549,197 acres of potatoes in cultivation this year. —Tho Prince of Wales refuses to bo mado a Frco Mason nntil the theory and objects of the organization shall bave been revealed to him, —Baslo, in Switzerland, has a newspaper 200 years old. —Thje Princess Metternich spends 820,000 a year in bonnets. —Queen Victoria has ordered tho erection of a statue of Prince Albort, ns a young man, in front of a Scottish castle. are so plentiful in Austrnlia that mutton is sold for a cent a pound by travelling butchers. ---Prince Albert, of England, is a candidate for tho throno of Spain. —« f Pfaw~Kivrg~riT Nnim Ta nn natron. omer, and oditsan almanac. . - —Brandy is manufactured in Sweden out of the common reindeer moss that grows on rocks and sterile soil. —Somebody stole one of King Kufus’ toe joints when that monarch’s sarcophagus was opened recently. —About throo inchos of snow fell at Toronto, Canada, on tho 21st. Frnnce has this year produced T,SS4tU9 gallons of wine. —Many of the Liberal candidates for Pai Lament in England ure young aristocrats of Tory connections. General Serrano thinks tt monarchy best suited to tho 6tato of Spain. —A banker’s clerk at Antwerp has absconded with 90,000 francs—The British forces are ne w armed with Snider breec-b-loudcrs. —A Berlin engineer claims to have invented a land torpedo which will blow up u wholc battalion. —lt is reported that Ferdinand has accepted a proposal to come forward ns a candidate for tho Spanish throne. - - —Tho Central provisional Junta of Spain dissolved on the 21sl. —Tho Prince nnd Princess Gergenti arrived at Brighton, England; on the 22d. —The late Queen of Spain is expected jn England. —Peshawcr, India, was visited by fln earthquake on the 20th, of August: —The infant son of tho King of the Greeks has received tho titlo of the Duke of Sparta. —Prinoe Napoleon has written a letter to Gen. Prim udvocating the claims of Duke Aosta to tho Spanish throne. —The Spaniards want Alfred of England to ascend the vacant throne of Isabella. —Mr. Laird, tho builder of the pirate Alabama, was a guest at the banquet in honor of Reverdy Jomsbn, our Minister to land. • . —The Spanish crown has not yet been disposed of. The Duke of Montpensier fears that it will be offered to him, and has written a letter to Napoleon declining to accept it. —Admirable Farragut will soon start for America. —The Portuguese Queen is suffering from an incurable brain disease. —Jaurez’s daughter haß jus.t been married. ' —About 1,000 women will vote at the coming gcnfcral election in England. —Louise Mnhlback's daughter was hissed at her first appearance upon the stage at Berlin, recently which made her cry, and jthen she 1 was cheered. *. • ■ ■ . ~ • ■ | —A meteor fell over the stern of a ship at Crowdy Head, Australia, on the night of the 19lh inst., and burst, killing the steersman. The -Swedish Polar Expedition has returned home after penetrating tb tho eighty-second degree of latithde. London, October 25th, Midnight —Great Britain, France and Italy I bave recognized the Revolutionary If * _ 7 7 a■* a* w

Austria has given Lissa, a Dalmatian island, in Jho Adriatic. IQ. England, .. ~~ t 1 ranoo can raise 80,000 soldiery -ift-Adgitra; • “ ~ ■“ ! John C. Breckinridge is making agricultural speeches in Canada.