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DOMESTIC SUMMARY. United States Surveying Parties.— There r.re now two surveying exploring parties em ployed by the Federal Government and about taking the field under the direction of the To pographical Bureau. The first is dispatched to explore the San Juan river, in New Mexico, a tributary of the Colorado of the West, and to discover, if possible, a route between Santa Fe and Utah, in the vicinity of the San Juan. The other party is charged with an exploration of the Yellow Stone and Missouri rivers, a service of magnitude and importance, which will keep the expedition in employment for at least eigh teen months. Methodist Female Colege.— The citizens of Bainbridge,' Ga., have raised by subscription the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to secure the location of the Female College proposed to be established by the Florida Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This sum was demanded as a condition precedent. Dead Letters. — The dead letter office re ceived and opened, during the last quarter, two thousand three hundred and fifty-three dead let ters, containing twelve thousand two hundred and seventy dollars. It is believed, says the Washington Constitution , that the recent in structions to postmasters upon the subject of dead letters will have the effect to diminish the number of such letters, as far as any agency of the Department can compass such change. To Postmasters. — Postmasters being required by sections forty-six and sixty-eight of the recently published Regulations of the Post Of fice department, to enter in a separate column of their transcript of mails sent and mails received at their respective offices, we are authorized to state, for the information of postmasters, that the Department will regard as a sufficient com pliance with the above sections if each postmas ter will enter in the appropriate column of his “mails sent” the aggregate number of letters mailed, omitting a similar statement of those re received. The entry on the “mails sent” must, however, in no case be omitted, according to the Constitution. Post Office Statistics. — The records of the General Post Office Department show that during the quarter which closed on the 30tli of June, the number of postage stamps issued was as fol lows : One cent stamps, 12,059,100 ; three cent stamps, 36,601,800; live cent stamps, 113,560 ; ten cent stamps, 1,034,700 ; twelve cent stamps, 326, 575. Amount in money, 1,366,982. The stamped envelope account stands thus : note size, 243,300; letter size, 7,117,950; ten cents 40,000; official size 7,500. Amounting in money to $238,579 09. The Postmaster General has ordered G. F. Nesbit, of New York, the Contractor, one mil lion of stamped envelopes, with the new self ruling improvement. They will be furnished to the public at five cents per hundred mqfo than is charged for the present pattern. Death of Frank Chadwick. — Many of our city readers will remember Frank Chadwick, alias Williams, who left this city some years ago and settled in Philadelphia. The following notice of his death which appeared in a Phila delphia journal, was sent us by a friend : Died, on Saturday, July 2d, after a lingering illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude and resignation, Mr. Frank Williams, in tho sCth year of his age. Frank was born in Georgia, and had resided in this city about twelve years. He was born a slave, and continued in that relation until he had earned, by his industry and enterprise, sufficient means to pay his master the price demanded for him, and then caused his legal ownership to bo transferred to Col. William Cumming, of Augusta, Georgia, under whose guidance he soon acquired the means to purchase his wife—a servant of the Hon. Charles J. Jenkins —his children, and his mother, and brother. He continued to reside in Augusta, trusted and respected by its citizens, among whom he could number as his warm friends all of its most distinguished men, until he had accumulated a competency, when he transferred his residence to this city, where, by his enterprise and good judgment, he added materially to his fortune. During his residence in Philadelphia ho has been a prominent mem ber of the Baptist church, and has done much towards the advancement of his colored brethren, lie has passed from among us, honored and re spected by all who knew him, having faithfully fulfilled while here his duties as a Christian, a citizen, and the head of a family. He leaves to mourn his loss a mother, a wife, and a number of children. — Chronicle, Escaped Convict Caught.— Jesse Robinson, who was sent to the Penitentiary, some twelve months ago, from this county, and escaped from prison some months ago, passed through this city en route to Miliedgeville, on Tuesday night last. He was arrested in Memphis, Teun. Atlanta Intelligencer. Churches Shut in Summer. — The New York Express denies the assertion that the majority of the churches in New York are closed during the summer season. On the contrary, it appears that but two or three congregations, of the ultra fashionable sort, shut up during the summer, and permit the pastors and their flocks to visit the green pastures and still waters of Sargtoga and Ballston. The great body of the clergy act upon the conviction that tho hot weather causes no abatement in the energies of their great spiritual adversary, who, though he may be no strapger at the Springs, is too much ac customed to hot weather to desert the cities al together in the summer months. Knowing that this roaring lion is going up and down, seeking whom he may devour, the shepherds act wise ley in watching their folds. — Chronicle. The English Baptists on Slavery.— The English Baptists have addressed to their breth ren in America a protest against slavery. The English Baptists are a very good sort of people, and quite right in thinking that freedom is bet ter than slavery; but this is one of the questions that they really know very little about, and the less they say about it the better it will un doubtedly be. It will take this generation of English Baptists, and of all other Englishmen, to reduce their own social evils to such mode ration as will justify them in speaking other wise than very tenderly of ours. Providence (It. I) Journal. Purchase of Foreign Vessels. — We pub lished on Monday morning the correspondence between Mr. Kohler, of this city, the purchaser of the Bremen vessel “Admiral,” Judge Mason, collector of this port, and Hon. Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury, in which the latter referred tho collector for further information to the Secretary of the State Department. Since that publication, a communication has been re ceived from the latter, as follows: Department of State, ) Washington, 20th June, 1857. j To John Thompson Mason, Esq., Collector of the Customs, Baltimore: Sir: Your letter of the 18th inst., with the copy of correspondence which accompanied it, has been received. In reply to your inquiry on behalf of Mr. Kohler, S' xkx sotrsamsM sxs&s &kb vxxussxdx. as to the nature and extent of the protection which attaches to him as the purchaser of the Bremen vessel, “Admiral,” I have to state that in the opinion of this Department, when a citizen of the United States purchases in good faith, and without reservation, a vessel belonging to a for eign State, either belligerent or neutral, such vessel becomes the property of the purchaser, and is entitled to receivo the same protection from acts of aggression on the part of the au thorities of a foreign government as any other property of a citizen. The nature and extent of this protection cannot be determined in ad vance, and must depend upon the circumstances of each particular case. I am, sir, your obe dient servant, Lewis Cass. Baltivwre Sun. Appeals for Hungary. —Mr. Asboth pub lishes a card in the New York papers, in which he says: I have been instructed by Louis Kossuth, President of the National Hungarian Committeo in Italy, consisting of himself Gen. Klapkia, and Count Ladislas Teleki, to inform the sym pathisers aud friends of tho Hungarian cause, and my fellow countrymen in America, that a Hungarian legion, under the auspices of the Sardinian Government, is organizing, and is al ready formed at Genoa, under Hungarian com mand, officered by Hungarians, bearing Hun garian colors, and wearing the Hungarian uni form. I am directed to advise my lellow-countrymen, desirous of joining their compatriots at Genoa, that they may look with confidence to their proximate departure, the time for which will be indicated when final arrangements shall have been completed. They are further requested to forward their names, avocations, and other par ticulars, for transmission to the National Com mittee; also their respective addresses, for my own guidance. Donations of money and arms are solicited, and will be shipped to Genoa for the Hungarian service. Rights of Naturalized Citizens.— Letter from Caleb Cushing. —The following letter from Caleb Cushing, United States Attorney General, under the Pierce Administration, will be read with interest at the present time, when there is so much solicitude among our naturalized citizens as to what will be their status should they vol untarily return to the land of their birth : Boston, June 18, 1859. Sir: —ln response to your inquiry as to what legal condition you, born in Turkey and a natu alized citizen of the United States, will have in Turkey during a supposed sojourn there, I state: The laws of the United States do not admit the indefeasibility of natural allegiance. The assertion of the right of self expatriation is one of the principles of the fundamental public law of the American Union. We hold that the power to change domicil is of universal natural right, subject only to such conditions as may be requisite to reconcile the general with individual interests. These conditions are the exercise of good faith in the time and circumstances, and in the change of domicil, the actual or consumma tion of the purpose, and the discharge of all sub sisting obligations in or to the country left.— Such, according to my understanding of the matter, always has been, and still continues to bo, the doctrine maintained by the American government. It being material to you, however, to possess official assistance on this point, 1 have present ed your case to the notice of the Secretary of State ; and I have his answer to the effect, that, in the case of a person emigrating to tho United States, and becoming naturalized here, with no present liabilities in his native country, military or other, existing against him at the time of his emigration —in such cases the law of nations, or the opinion of the American government, gives no right to any foreign country to interfere with him, and the attempt to do so would be consid ered an act unjust in itself, and unfriendly to the United States. And, therefore, subject to the reservations above stated, you will bo entitled in Turkey to be regarded as a citizen of tho United States. I am, respectfully, C. Cushing. Mr. Alexander Sidi. From thirty' to thirty five passports continue to be issued daily from the State Department.— About three-fourths of them are to naturalized citizens. Mr. Webster to Ignacio Tolen, N. Y. Department of State, ) Washington, June 25, 1852. j The respect paid to any passport granted by this Department to a naturalized citizen, former ly a subject of Spain, will depend upon the laws of that nation in relation to the allegiance due its authority by its native born subjects. If that Government recognises the right of its sub jects to denationalize themselves and assimilate with the citizens of other countries, tho usual passport will be a sufficient safeguard to you; but if allegiance to the Crown of Spain may not legally be renounced by its subjects, you must ex (tec t to be liable to the obligations of a Span ish subject if you voluntarily place yourself with in the jurisdiction of that Government. Department of State, \ Washington, June 1, 1852. J Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter to Mr. Reddall, of the 27th ultimo, inquiring whether Mr. Victor B. Depierre, a native of France, but a naturalized citizen of the United States, can expect the protection of this government in that country, when proceeding thither with a passport from this Department ? In reply, I have to inform you that if (as is un derstood to be the fact,) the Government of France does not acknowledge the right of natives of that country to renounce their allegiance, it may lawfully claim their services when found within French jurisdiction. I am, sir, very respectfully, your ob’t serv’t, Daniel Webster. To J. B. Nomes, Esq., New York. Mr. Everett, in a letter addressed to our Min ister at Berlin, under date of 14tl) of January, 1853, in reference to several cases which had been presented by that Minister, wrote as fol lows : “ If, then, the Prussian subject, bom and liv ing under this stato of law, chooses to emigrate to a foreign country Without obtaining the certi ficate, which alone can discharge him frum the obligation of military services, he takes that step at his own risk. He elects to go abroad under the burden of a duty which he owes to his Gov ernment. His departure is of the nature of an escape from her laws; and if, at any subsequent period, ho is indiscreet enough to return to his native country, he cannot complain if those laws aro executed to his disadvantage, nis case resembles that of a soldier or sailor enlisted by conscription or other compulsory process in the army or navy. If he should desert the service of his country, and thereby render himself amen able to military law, no one would expect that he could return to his native land, and bid defi ance to its laws, because, in the meantime, ho might have become a naturalized citizen of a foreign State. “ For these reasons, and without entering into the discussion of the question of perpetual alle giance, the President is of opinion that, if a sub ject of Prussia, lying under a legal obligation in that country to perform a certain amount of milita ry duty, leaves his native land, and, without per forming that duty or obtaining the prescribed “cer tificate of emigration,” comes to the United States and is naturalized, and afterwards, for any purpos es whatever, goes back to Prussia, it is not compe tent for the United States to protect him from the operation of the Prussian law. The case may be oue of great hardship, especially if the omission to procure the certificate arose from in advertence or ignorance; but this fact, though a just ground for sympathy, does not alter the case as one of international law. —i»i FOREIGN SUMMARY. The steamship Astna, which sailed from Liv erpool on the 2d inst., brings the following intel ligence of the great battle: It is believed in some Parisian quarters that the French loss at the battle of Solferino is be tween sixteen thousand and eighteen thousand men, divided as follows: Marshal Neil's corps, six thousand to seven thousand; Baraguay d’Hillier’s, nearly five thousand; Gen. McMa hon’s, two thousand five hundred; and Canro bert’B, one thousand; besides many casualties in the artillery, and other special corps. Enormous masses of French soldiers were marching into Piedmont via Mt. Yiso and Mt. Cenis. Napoleon was in perfect health, and the sani tary condition of his army was excellent. The Austrian Account of Solferino. —The Austrian accounts admit a loss of twenty thou sand, killed, wounded, and missing. The right wing of their army occupied Bozzelengo, Solferi no, and Cavriana. The left wing marched on the 24th to Guardizalo and Goffredo, and repulsed tho advancing enemy. As the Imperial army continued to advance towards the Chiesc, the French, who had also assumed the offensive, with their whole force, pushed forward such large bodies of troops that there was a general engagement between the two armies, at 10 o’clock, on the morning of the 24th. The right wing was formed of the second army, under Count Sclilick, who maintained the position first occupied until 2 o’clock, P. M.; and the left wing, composed of the first army, under Count Wimpt sen, continually gained ground in the direction of the Chiese. Towards 3 o’clock, the enemy made a vehement attack on Solferino, and, after several hours’ hard fighting, obtained possession of the place, which had been heroically defended by the fifth corps d'armee. They then attacked Cavriana, which was courageously defended un til evening, by the first and seventh corps, but eventually left in the hands of the enemy.— While the struggle for Solferino and Cavriana was going on, the eighth corps—which was on the outer flank of tho right wing—advanced and repulsed the Sardinian troops; but the advan tage did not enable the Imperial army to recover the positions they had lost in the centre. The third and ninth corps, which, supported by tho eleventh corps, were engaged on the left wing, and reserved for cavalry attacks, made several brilliant attacks. Tho unusually heavy losses, and the fact that the left wing of the first army was unable to make progress on the right flank and centre against Volta, led to the retreat of the Imperial army. It began early in the even ing, during a violent storm. An English Account. —A correspondent of the London Herald sayß, so little did the French expect a battle, that on the previous night a message, received from the King of Sardinia asking for support in Case he should be attacked, met with a refusal, on the ground that an attack by the Austrians was not probable. At day break, however, the corps of D’Hilliers came in sight of Solferino, and was immediately set upon by a large Austrian force, and fought desperate ly. The Marshal resisted to Uie best of his power, and sent off for support; but not before three hours of dreadful carnage had passed, did Neil’s corps make its appearance. The Aus trians were then slowly driven back, and tho French continued to gain ground, heaps of corpses marking the fluctuations of the fight. Tho Austrians were thus slowly driven out of Solferino, but all of a sudden they made a tre mendous burst forward, aud the French were driven down the hill. They were admirably supported by their artillery, however, aud made a stand, and commenced once more advancing. It was like a hail-storm of bullets and balls, and whole files were mowed down by a single dis charge. In the meanwhile, the right and left wings of the Austrians were decidedly getting the best of it. The Piedmontese were slowly driven back. Canrobert's corps was also heavily pushed, and had there been a skillful General in the Austrian army, to collect and concentrate their forces against a weak point in the enemy’s lines, matters would have assumed a different aspect. Tho French commander sent forward the Im perial Guard and a strong division of infantry into the lino against the Austrian centre, and succeeded in breaking it. Instead of bringing up forces to repel this formidable attack, the supports were sent to the left and right wings, which did not need them. Desperate attempts were made to recapture Solferino, but the French held it, and presently tho Austrian bu gles commenced sounding a general retreat. An attempt was made by cavalry to pursue them, which led to an encounter between the French Chasseurs and Austrian Hulans, in which the former rapidly put to the right about, and retreated. The Times’ Vienna correspondent, writing on the 28th of June, says some days must yet elapse before the complete returns of the losses of the Austrians can be received. The same writer says the Italian regiments of the Aus trian army have become very hard to manage. The men desert by scores and fifties, and, in the neighborhood of Trieste, a whole battalion had risen in favor of Victor Emmanuel. A vessel on the coast, carrying American colors, had been detected taking deserters on board, after dark. The people of Milan had made threatening demonstrations against the Jesuits, who are accused of keeping up a correspondence with Austria.' It is stated that not a single Hungarian regi ment was allowed to take part in the battle, and the Italian regiments had all been previous ly sent into Tyrol. Tho military commission appoint by the Frankfort Diet, it is said, have appro* lof the demand of Prussia to move the army of obser vation on the Rhine. The French are making immense naval prepa rations for the Adriatic. Five ships of the line, eight frigates, six war steamers, thirteen float ing batteries, nine gun boats, nine brigs, and three three-masted schooners, were at Auteaca, with troops and enormous supplies. The Brest fleet is said to be composed of nine liners, two heavy frigates, and one floating battery. The Swiss Federal Council has decided that any soldiers soekiug shelter in Swiss territory, shall bo sent back to their country, the govern- Baltimore Sun. ment engaging not to employ them again dur ing the present war. New York, July 16.—The steamship Weser from Bremen has arrived, with telegraphic dates from Liverpool and London to the 4th of July. Disturbances had occurred at Messina. \ ienna, July 3.—The Piedmontese have sur rounded Peschiera. Milan, July I.—General Garibaldi with five thousand men, has been manoeuvering to close the valley on the Adige, and isolate Verona from the Tyrol. Prince Windisehgratz was expected at Berlin on the 3d of July, on a special message from Vi enna. The Borussia left Southampton on the evening of July 4th. She brings nothing later from the continent. There had been a Te Deum at the Church of Notre Dame in Paris, and thanksgiving was ob served in all the churches in France, for the vic tory obtained by the French at Solferino. Naval preparations on the greatest scale were being continued in France. Prussia has given positive assurances that the recent measures in regard to military prepara tions, Ac., were not taken with a view to engage in hostilities, and says France may rest perfectly tranquil on that score. A breach between the Archbishop of Paris and the court is regarded as certain. Tho double refusal to officiate both at the prayers at Notre Dame on the Emperor’s departure, and again at the Te Deum for Magenta, is the cause. His highness is said to have given the request to officiate at the Te Deum an answer to which there was no reply possible. “ I cannot join in thanksgiving for the murder of fifteen thousand human beings, nor raise a hymn of joy founded upon the pain and misery of others. But I will sing a De Profundis and Requiem for the souls of the departed with the greatest pleasure.” Farther Point, July 17.—The steamship Indian was boarded off here to-day. She brings Liverpool dates to July 6th. There had been no battles fought, up to the sailing of the Indian. The seige of Peschiera is still progressing. The French army is threatening Verona. The latest dispatches from the seat of war say that Napoleon’s headquarters is only about four leagues from Peschiera, and that cannon is heard night and day in that direction. The Austrian advance post is but a short dis tance from Villafranca, which is occupied by the corps of Marshal Niel. It is much doubted whether the Austrians will venture to accept battle in the present demoralized condition of their army. Fiume, Monday, July 4.—lt is asserted that French troops, amounting to ten thousand men, have disembarked at Lossino Piccolo, an islaud in the Adriatic, and that the bridge to Cherso an adjacent island, has been destroyed.'" [official.] . Vallegio, Monday, July 4.—The French army, increased by Prince Napoleon’s corps, will operate against Verona whilst part of the Sardinians begin the siege of Peschiera. The Emperor having sent back the wounded officers without exchange, and having requested an ex change of prisoners, an armistice has arrived with the announcement, that the Emperor of Austria will also send back without exchange, the wounded prisoners of the Allies, and that His Majesty is equally desirous for the exchange of others. [official.] Turin, Monday, July 4.—On the 29tli ult., the Sardinians more closely invested the inte rior fortifications of Peschiera, situated on the right bank of the Mincio. Our army crossed the river on the 30th, to invest Peschiera, also on the left bank. Berne, July s.—The Austrians have with drawn from Bormio. The Piedmontese are advancing towards the Stelvio pass. New York, July 18. —The steamship City of Washington arrived to-day. This steamer left Liverpool on the 6tli inst., but touching off Cork, on the 7 th, brings tele graphic dates from Liverpool to the afternoon of tho 7th. Ancona, one of the most important cities of the Papal States, is declared to be in a state of siege. The Paris correspondent of the London Times says that the Minister of War and Count Pellisier have had another conference for the purpose of concerting measures to complete the organization of the army of the East. A general disarming of the citizens of Trieste has been ordered. The Austrians, it is believed, have two hun dred thousand men in line on the Adige. Information has reached Vienna that Gen. Garibaldi's men had violated the Tyrol by en tering an important pass in their country. Gen. Windisehgratz had gone to Berlin to acquaint the government of Prussia of this fact, and pro pose to have a German army sent into Tyrol. The Jnvalide Russe says that Prussia has called out an army of three hundred thousand, which will be re-inforeed by one hundred and fifty thousand federal troops, and thinks that France, under existing circumstances, will not listen to her proposed mediation. Attitude of Germany. —On the 4th there was an extraordinary sitting of the Federal Diet at Frankfort, where Prussia presented new and farther proposals respecting the establish ment, extension, and command of the corps of observation on the Rhine. Immediately after the sitting, M. DeUsedon left for Berlin. Prussia, it is said, has given tranquilizing as surances to the French government. The Times has re-appointed an own corres pondent at Berlin. Until some time has elapsed, his’assertions must be taken somewhat on trust. The Prussian proposals, he says, are now in tho hands of Russia and England. With England, Russia has been unsuccessful; but she has more hope of Russia; and the writer is of opin ion that the Czar is not likely to take any active part against Germany. By the end of next week, the Prussian army will be in full march. The Guards will be stationed so as to be ready to march at a moment’s notice, either to the Rhine or Silesia. On the lower and middle Rhine 150,000 men will be stationed; 80,000 at Dusseldorf; 40,000 at Cologne; and 20,000 at Coblentz. This latter force she proposes to sup port by the ninth and tenth corps of the Federal army. When these preparations are complete, Prus sia will probably make her proposals to France. Should she do so, that will most unquestionably be refused, and then Prussia will be compelled either to support her diplomacy by bayonets, or to eat her leek. The Berlin correspondent of the Times gives an outline of the peace propositions of Prussia, which seems also to be known in France, as the main features, are adverted to by the Paris correspondent of the Advertiser , who says King Leopold is desirous of proposing to the diplomacy of Europe that 4 enetia must be a separate independent State. The erection of Venice into a separate kingdom, he deems ad visable. He even proposes to effect this settle- ment with the consent of Austria, which he engages to obtain the Crown, to be bestowed upon the Austrian Archduke, MaximiUian, broth er to tho Emperor of Austria, and the husband of King Leopold’s daughter, the Princess Char lotte. The Disturbance in the Pontifical States. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says that the bloody cdnflict at Perugia, between the Pope's Swiss Guards and the people, is con sidered in government • circles as a deplorable event, and tends to increase the difficulty of pre serving the temporal dominion of the Pope. The Romans claim the benefit of the Emperor Napo leon’s Milan proclamation, that the French army shall not interfere with the manifestation of their legitimate wishes. Unless the Swiss shall be supported by French troops, nothing is more likely than that they will be driven out of Peru gia by an overwhelming national force. The Pope has notified his protest against the dismemberment of his States to the Powers rep resented at the Paris Conferences. At Gaeta yesterday the Pope addressed the Consistory on the separation of the Romagna from the States of the Church. His Holiness communicated to the Cardinals a letter from the Emperor Napo leon, guaranteeing the independence of the Papal States. The official condemnation by the French Gov ernment of the article which appeared in the Paris Siecle, affirms that respect for the Papacy forms part of the programme which the Emperor is carrying out in Italy. The responsibility of the conflict at Perugia is cast on those who com pelled the Pontifical Government to make use of | armed force for legitimate defence. The Moniteur de Bologna publishes a letter of i Count Cavour, addressed to the Junta of Bologna, which says that the government of the King can not accept tho union of the Romagna with Pied ; mont, but will direct the Roman forces to con- I quer for the purpose of obtaining Italian inde pendence. Great Britaix. —Lord Lyridhurst strongly advocated vigorous measures of defence, both at sea and on land. He thought that a regular mil itary force of one hundred thousand men ought to be maintained, and an equal force of disem bodied trained militia. lie regarded the asser tion, that France had no wish to invade England, as undeserving of consideration. England ought to live in perfect independence of French for bearance, relying alone upon the vigor of her people. Lord Granville deprecated the introduction of a topic of so delicate a nature. He thought Lord Lyndhurst’s remarks were calculated to - annoy and irritate the French. He spoke, how ever, as did other members, in favor of strength ening military and naval defences. A deputation from the Atlantic Steamship Company (Galway Line,) had waited on the Chan cellor of the Exchequer to urge sundry improve ments at Galway harbor. France. —lt is again currently reported that the Emperor intended to return to Paris in the middle of July. The vintage is expected to be superior in quality, but not abundant. The corps (famiee of Pellissier, to observe the frontiers of the Rhine, was to be completed and established in cantonments by the 13th of July. It consists of 100,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry, and 400 cannon. Russia. —Four Russian corps d'armces are al ready on a war footing. All officers on limited leave of absence have been ordered to join their regiments. A levy of recruits is shortly ex pected. New York, July 21.—The steamship Africa has arrived with Liverpool dates to July 9th. The Emperor Na]>oleon had telegraphed to Paris that an armistice had been agreed upon on the Bth July, and signed at Yillafranca by Gen. Hess and Marshal Vaillant. The armistice ends on the 15th of August. It stipulates that all commercial vessels, without distinction of flag, shall be hllowed to navigate the Adriatic. In tho Federal Diet on the 7th July, Austria proposes to mobilise the whole of the Federal contingent army, and requested the Prince Re gent of Prussia to assume the chief command. It was reported in England, that the mail steam ers had been notified to prepare to carry arma ments, according to contracts. The navy estimates had been introduced into Parliament, and an appropriation of ten thou and pounds sterling more liatl been aikod. Tiie Cunard Steamer Canada in Collision with an Iceberg.— Narrow Escape. —lt was mentioned yesterday, that the steamer Canada, at Boston, from Liverpool, came in collision with an iceberg on the 9th instant, while at sea. The collision was so violent that it carried away her jib-boom, bow-spirit head, and part of the cut water in the line with her pluuksheer, but fortuna tely did not damage her hull.. The Boston Traveler says: Though there were good look-outs from the paddle-boxes and the bow, so dense was the fog that the steamer was in contact with the iceberg almost as soon as seen. If she had been with out head orbow.sprit, like the New York steam ers, it is probable that she would have had her bow stove, and have gone down in a few min utes, but her jib-locm, bow-sprit and long, pro jecting head, became fenders, which saved the hull. The damage she has sustained can be easily repaired in a few days. Mr. Groom, a passenger, furnishes the following statement: On Saturday the 9th, the weather had been clear until within about an hour of the collision, when all view was cut off by a dense fog. The steamer was going at the rate of about ten knots an hour, with two look-ouis at the bow, who suddenly raised theory of danger ahead, and in a moment the steamer struck a very large iceberg, which appeared to be half as high again as the masts of the vessel. The force of the blow was considerable, but did not prostrate any of the few passengers on deck at the time. In the cabins it was more severely felt. In one case a man was thrown from his chair, and an infant in a berth was cast from one end of it to the other. Os course, the alarm among the passengers was at first very great, and it is doubtless true that had it not been lor the great strength of the vessel she would, in all probability, have foundered on the spot. The commander and all concerned exhibited great presence of mind in this terrible emergency. The steamer was instantly backed from its unpleasant neighbor hood. and examination made of the injury re ceived, which was found not to be of a charac ter to endanger her safety. As soon as the vessel was backed, the ice berg disappeared from sight, and the only me mento was some pieces cast upon the deck at the moment of collision. Before proceeding, several hours were occupied in repairing dam ages. It is also stated that two of the. crew were preparing at the moment of collision to turn in the forecastle, who, if they had occu pied their berths at the moment, of collision, would probably have been crushed to death. Mr. Groom states that he has crossed the At lantic fifteen times, and never before saw so many icebergs as during the present voyage. 69