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Government , and tendering " sincere" support to President Johnson . Cholera , while abating in New York , is stated to be raging fearfully through the west and south-west . Eight cases of cholera had occurred on board thc Bavaria ; sho was accordingly p laced in quarantine upon her arrival . ——Prussia , in making peace with Austria , did nofc neglect her ally , Italy . One of the stipulations of the treaty of peace is that Lcmbardo-A cnctia shall be handed over to Italv with no more onerous

condition than the responsibility for the State debts . This is only what was to be expected . But it is by no means clear that all difficulties are thus removed . It is said that the Italian representative in the negotiations with Austria is authorised to demand thc restitution of national relics and objects of art which Austria has carried away from A ^ enctia , including tho iron crown of Lombardy . This statement is made on the

authority of the Nasione . Tho King of Prussia has received the deputation from the Chamber of Deputies appointed to present the address to him . The speech of His Majesty is remarkably characteristic . It is a mixture of pious words , obstinacy , and self-sufficiency . "Now , " says his Majesty in effect , " you see how right I was whon I set you

all aside and carried out my plans without you . I shall elo the same again if I think it necessary ; but after such an address as this the occasion will not arise . " And with that the deputies were bowed out . Oddly enough , Count Bismarck scarcely goes far enough in his annexation policy for the Prussian Chamber of Deputies . They demand an immediate personal union of the

annexed States wifch Prussia . He does not want to have the Prussian constitution introduced into the annexed States with Prussia . He does not want to have the Prussian constitution introduced into the annexed States just yet . His object , however , appears to be to leave himself and the King more liberty in dealing with the States . He does not object to the

introduction of the Prussian constitution into them a year hence . The Saxons do not seem to be satisfied with the position in which they are left by the peace . A meeting of the Liberal

National party has been held at Leipsic , and a resolution passed declaring it to be desirable that Saxony should be incorporated with Prussia . If that should be impossible , then all the military government should be in the hands of Prussia , and the legislation in civil and commercial affairs in the hands of the Government of the Confederation . The Empress of Mexico has

gone to Italy . She has been well received at Turin and Milan . A telegram from Paris gives rather a curious piece of news . It is that a message from A ienna has been received in Paris ' to the effect that Prussia insists upon having control of the Saxon military forces , which Saxony opposes . Austria agrees with Saxony , and has given her plenipotentiary afc Prague

instrnctructions to that effect . A week or two ago such a piece of news would have roused a good deal of curiosit y . Now it will most lilcely be properly set clown as a fable . Austria cannot afford to quarrel vsith Prussia just yet . She has enough to do with her own concerns . If we are to believe the account given by telegram of an incident which occurred at St . Cloud ,

the relations at present existing between France and Spain are of a very satisfactory and friendly character , Replying to a speech made by Senor Mon , when that gentleman presented bis credentials as Spanish Minister to the French Court , the Emperor is reported to have expressed his deep sympathy for the Spanish nation , and his sincere friendship for Queen Isabella

. The West India and Pacific mails have arrived . Among the passengers in the mail steamer to England was Sir Henry Storks . Sir J . P . Grant had arrived in Jamaica and had been well received . Sir Henry Storks received an address before

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having , and in reply prophesied a prosperous future for Jamaica . At the date of the departure of the mails , great preparations were being made afc Peru to celebrate the anniversary of tho country ' s independence . The British barque Nemesis , bound for England , with a cargo of guano , had been wrecked off the island of Maiden . The captain anel crew saved themselves , but

had to spend fifty-three clays on the island . The town of Monte Christo , iu Ecuador , hael been destroyed by fire , and property valued at half a million of dollars destroyed . The Italians have begun to act on the treaty of peace . Ifc is saiel that the Italian Minister of AA ' ar has ordered the disbanding of all troops belonging to the second category of the class of 1845 .

A letter has been published from Mazzini , declaring that he will not accept the amnesty which has been extended towards him . Austria is now beginning to feel again tbe pressure of her pecuniary difficulties . An Imperial decree has been issued empowering the finance minister to issue obligations , bearing interest at the rate of five per cent ., to the amount of fifty

million florins , and State bonds for ninety million florins . This is the way in which the Prussian indemnity is to be paid , though we may be sure Count Bismark will not be satisfied with Austrian paper money . It is said that in the new Hungarian Ministry Count Andrasy , vice-president of the Lower Hungarian Diet , will occupy a prominent place . The principal points in the treaty of peace agreed to by Austria and Prussia appear to be only a repetition of the peace

preliminaries , with a slight variation in the wording . The only important modification is made in the clause respecting the treaty of commerce between Austria and the Zollverein . By the alteration it is stipulated that six months' notice must be ^ iven before either party can withdraw from the Convention . Immediately after the ratification of the treaty of peace the Prussian troops will commence evacuating Austrian territory .

Indeed , Prussia seems already to have taken steps towards that end . The Empress of Mexico has arrived at Miramar . On her way through Italy she was received with much attention by the Italian royal family . Rumours have been current for some time that negotiations were about to be opened between the Pope and the King of Italy . An Italian paper denies the

truth of this—or , rather , it says that no overtures have yetbeen made to Florence by Rome . That may be , and no doubt is , strictly true ; but that negotiations will be opened shortly seems inevitably . French volunteers are going to Rome to take the place of tbe French troops -which are leaving there . The Pope , however , will scarcely put much trust in these .

A late telegram seems to show that the Turks have not yet been successful in their campaign against the insurgents in Candia . Thc plan of the Sultan's general Avas , if possible , to surround the rebels and thus to starve them into submission . In this he has failed , and the rebels are fortifying themselves more strongly . Meantime a general emigration of the Christians , -who are wot in arms , is taking place to Greece . The Brazilian Minister at Lisbon is dead .

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