AMERICA.
Indignation meetings hare been held in imeric* in consequence of the condemnation of the Fenians in Canada. Mr Seward has written to the Hon F. Bruce, urging an amnesty for the Fenian prisoners in Canada. The Radicals threaten President Johnson with impeachment. General Butler is to be his principal accuser, on being elected to Congress. The Mexico-Austrian war steamer Elizabeth hat been ordered to Mexico ; supposed to bring the Emperor Maximilian to Europe. An instalment of French troops, 10,000 strong, was to leaTe for France on October 25. The Report of Maximilian's abdication is contradicted in some quarters. The Main liberal army has been routed, but all the French troops were concentrated for speedy return to France. Large bodies of Americans have passed the frontier, it is said, in the serrice of the Liberal Gorernment. Serious com* plications are expected in consequence, but the dissolution of the Imperial system was looked upon as ineritable. There *as serere fighting in Paraguay between the Allies and tbs Paraguayan!. The Brazilians were repulsed.
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North Otago Times, Volume VII, Issue 166, 25 December 1866, Page 2
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