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PERSONAL.
Ex-President Tyler is at Old Point Comfort.
Virginia, passing the summer.
Gen. Tom Thumb is now in the twenty-second
year of his age.
J. J. Sprenger. of Pennsylvania, has been
appointed Consul of the United States at Dres
den.
President Buchanan has returned to Wash
ington, from Bedford Springs, Pa., in excellent
health.
Mr. Alfred Tennyson, the poet, had, at last
accounts, left Loudon, to pass a week with Mr.
James T. Fields, at the Isle of Wight.
David Bronson, an eminent artist, died in
Arkansas a few days ago. He was a native of
Oneida county, New York, and about fifty-two
years of age.
It is reported, according to a Massaelnu
setts paper, that Gen. Shields, of Minnesota,
is about to form a life partnership with a Wor
cester girl.
Joseph C. G. Kennedy has been appointed,
by the Secretary of the Interior, to superintend
the arrangements for the eighth census of the
United States.
John R. Thompson, Esq., Editor of the South
ern Literary Messenger, has determined upon
delivering a course of Lectures at the North
during the coming Lecture season.
Rev. Francis L. Hawks, D. D., has been ten
dered the Professorship of History in the North
Carolina University. Dr. Hawks is now resi
ding in New York city.
The New York Tribune says that “Mr. Nath
aniel Hawthorne, who was to have left Eng
land for home on the 13tli of August, will re
main there until October.” Remain where ?
Silt John Bowrino, who was among the pas
sengers unfortunately wrecked on board the
Alma in the Red Sea, lost by that disaster “a
large portion of valuable MSS., with public docu
ments.”
Mr. John Mitchell, the editor of the South
ern Citizen , published at Washington, will leave
this country for Europe in a few days. His pa
per will be discontinued after the issue of next
week.
Mrs. Mair, a granddaughter of Mrs. Siddons,
is giving readings from Sliakspeare’s play in
London. At the invitation of Lady Noel Byron,
a small party of private friends recently attend
ed the reading of Macbeth.
We have been shown two designs for the
monument proposed to be erected in Natchez,
to the memory of Gen. John A. Quitman. One
of them will cost when completed, $50,000, and
the other $26.000. — Vicksburg Whig.
Richard H. Dana, Jr., sailed from N. York
on Wednesday of last week, in the North Star,
for Aspinwall. He intends to bo absent about
a year, proceeding from San Francisco to the
Sandwich Islands, thence to China, India, Egypt,
and Palestine.
The Rev. J. C. Ganoooly, the somewhat
famous Brahmin preacher, who was recently
quite a “lion” among the visitors at Saratoga,
was refused a place at the table of the Glen
Houso on account of his color, while on a visit
to the White Mountains the other day.
Mr. Dallas in the Parliament House.—
The London Evening Mail, in relation to the open
ing of Parliament, says of our Minister, Geo. M.
Dallas: “Conspicuous among them all, in his
plain evening dress and snow white hair, is the
American Minister, Mr. Dallas, a striking type,
if wo may so call him, of the simple institutions
of the great republic which he represents so
well.”
The Boston Courier announces editorially,
without contradiction, the fact of the circulation
ofa report that Prof. Felton, of Harvard College,
distinguished for Greek scholarship and his con
troversial ability as a writer against Spiritual
ism, has become a believer of that doctrine, if
not a medium—“having found, in the course of
his researches, that the evidence was irresisti
ble."
The Newport correspondent of the Provi
dence Evening Press, in a letter dated August 1,
says:
On Saturday last there was ah extraordinary
fluttering among the fashionables upon learning
that the beautiful and gifted Cora de Wilhorst
had been compelled to apply for the interven
tion of the police to terminate certain maltreat
ment to which she had been subjected by her
husband, the so-called Count.
The London papers record the death of Lieu
tenat General Proctor, who played such an
important part in the last war between the
United States and Great Britain, having com
manded the 82d regiment at the battle of Fort
Erie, and subsequently shared in the Campaign
along the Niagara frontier. He was colonel of
the 97th regiment. He died a few days since,
at his seat in Wales, suddenly, from disease of
the heart. He had been sixty years in the
army.
Two or three years ago during a season of
illness, Mr. Choate was visited by one of his
friends, who urged upon him the importance of
paying more attention t® his health. “Sir,” said
the visitor, “you must go away; if you continue
your professional labors thus, you will certainly
undermine your constitution.” Mr. Choate looked
up, and with that irony and peculiar twinkle of
the eye which were so marked and indescriba
ble when he jested, said: “Sir, the constitution
was destroyed long ago; lam now living under
the by-laws."
Henry Grattan, the younger, is dead. He
was once a member of Parliament for Meath,
and only surviving son of the great Henry Grat
tan. The event took place rather suddenly on
the 16th ultimo, at his residence in the county
of Wicklow. Mr. Grattan was among the faith
ful few who adhered to Mr. O’Connell through
out his stormy career of Irish agitation. Mr.
Grattan leaves no male issue, his children con
sisting of two daughters, both recently married,
and who, it is to be presumed, will inherit his
large estate in Ireland. Disease of the heart is
said to have been the cause of his death.
The August number of the Eclectic Magazine,
in speaking of Hon. Edward Everett, gives an
account of his labors in connection with the
Mount Vernon fund. His Washington Oration
was first delivered February 22, 1856, and has
been given since then one hundred and twenty
nine times, yielding $55,783 62. For the
“Mount Vernon Papers," in the New York Ledg
er, he received SIO,OOO, and in other ways
smaller sums, making a contribution to the Mount
Vernon fund of $68,163 56. In addition to his
other labors for this object, he has delivered
lectures for other benevolent associations, making
a total of more than ninety thousand dollars in a
little more than three years.
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DEATH OF RICHARD RUSH.
The Constitution of Saturday evening has the
following short announcement of the demise of
one of the most distinguished m?n and most
successful politicians which this country has
ever produced: “We are informed of the death
of the Hon. Richard Eusii, at his residence, in
Philadelphia this morning.”
Mr. Rush was the son of Dr. Benjamin Rush,
who was one of the singers of the Declaration of
Independence, and eminent as a physician,
patriot, and philanthropist; and grandson, on
the maternal side, of Richard Stockton, of New
Jersey, who was also a singer of the Declaration.
He was born in the city of Philadelphia, in
August, 1780. During his long and eventful
life, he filled many high public trusts, and won
for himself a reputation for ability, sagacity, and
integrity equal to that of almost any one of his
many distinguished contemporaries. In 1811,
when thirty years old, he was appointed Attor
ney General of Pennsylvania, and soon after
wards comptroller of the Treasury of the United
States. On the accession of Mr. Monroe to the
Presidency, he was called upon to discharge,
for a time, flie duties of Secretary of State.
In 1817 he was appointed Minister to Eug
! land by President Monroe, and he afterwards
| published a volume of his “Recollections at the
I Court of St. Sames.” In 1825 he was appointed
! Secretary of the Treasury, by John Quincy
I Adams, and made an elaborate report in favor
lof a protective tariff'. He was afterwards nomi
nated as a candidate for the Vice-Presidency on
j the same ticket with Mr. Adams, who was de-
I seated for the Presidency by General Jackson,
! and was afterwards identified with Democratic
politics.
In 1836 he was sent by General Jackson to
secure Mr. Smithton’s legacy to the United
States, with which the Smithsonian Institution
was afterwards founded. And in 1847 he was
appointed, by Mr. Polk, Minister to France.
This is a brief record of his public employments.
He held nb public office after his return from
France, but wisely withdrew from all connec
tion with public affairs, as he felt the infirmities
of age creeping upon him, and has had the rare
good fortune to die after a long interval of relief
from the cares of public life, full of years and of
honors.
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The Death of the Hon. Horace Mann.—
We mentioned yesterday the death of the Hon.
Horace Mann, at the Yellow Springs in Ohio.
He was a native of Massachusetts, sixty-three
years of age, a graduate of Brown University,
and originally practiced law at Dedham, Mass.,
from which town he was elected to the Legisla
ture. Os his subsequent career, the Philadelphia
American says :
Having removed to Boston in the year 1836,
he was there successively elected to’ the State
Senate, Governor of the State, President of the
Board of Education and member of Congress. As
President of the Bsard of Education, his fine tal
ents were peculiarly efficient,and he was consider
ed the best officer ever placed in that post. In the
lower house of Congress he served from 1848 to
1853. Mr. Mann was a free soil Whig, but a person
of statesmanlike views and philosophic temper,
and was very much liked in Washington. But the
ferment of the political cauldron not suiting him,
he removed to Ohio, and was appointed Presi
dent of Antioch College, and of the Northwest
ern Christian University, at Indianapolis. Such
is a brief outline of his career. He will, doubt
less be well remembered by many persons in
Philadelphia who saw him preside at the first
National Common School Convention, which he
did with great dignity and impartiality. His
speech on that occasion was much admired.
Baltimore Sun.
DOMESTIC SUMMARY.
South Carolina Crockery.— The Columbia
Guardian, of Ist inst., says:
Our neighbor, Capt. W. B. Stanley, has re
ceived from the Southern Porcelain Manufactu
ring Company, of this State, some samples of
their crockery which compare favorably with the
imported ware.
This establishment is now in active operation,
and, as we learn from an Augusta paper, the
machinery is well adapted to the purposes for
which it was constructed. The felspar used in
the manufacture of the ware is brought from
Connecticut, though it is thought that if the gran
ite regions of South Carolina and Georgia were
properly examined, the mineral required in the
manufacture would be found.
We understand that the Superintendent of
these works has no doubt of the complete and
ultimate success of the enterprise. The samples
which Mr. Stanley has, embrace water ewers
and basins, water pitchers, spittoons, Ac., and are
very well finished. Our readers ought to call
and see what can be done in South Carolina in
the crockery line.
Washington, Aug. 4.—The administration has
under consideration a reply to Minister McLane’s
despatches. President Juarez will concede the
right of way for railway and canal transits, with
leaveAo protect the persons and property of our
citizens, in case he is unable to afford such pro
tection himself, and will also grant us a recipro
cal commercial treaty. Miramon’s agents are
negotiating for a quantity of Sharpe's rifles.
The Treasury returns show the imports of dry
goods in 1858 and 1859 to be twenty per cent
less than those of 1856 and 1857, while the
change of tariff’ makes the revenue from the
same source $37,000,000 less than in 1856 and
1857.
Acting land Commissioner Wilson, transmitted
on the 3d inst., to the Governor of Arkansas,
No. 4. of Swamp lands in the Batesville district,
under the act of 1850, for 205,660 acres. That
State receives in all some ten million acres.—
These lands when well drained, will be the best
lands in the State, and a prolific source of reve
nue.
Norfolk, Aug. 4th.—Nine guns of the rifle
ordnance, on trial at Fort Monroe, have been
found to be far superior to the smooth bore.
They stood a very severe test.
Denver City (Kansas,) July 29.—There was
great excitement created here by the discovery
of rich gold diggings near the head waters of
the Colorado.
At Leavenworth City a Vigilance Committee
has been organized to break up the gangs of
robbers and horse thieves in the territory.—
Two victims were hung, and sufficient informa
tion extorted from others to disclose all the ram
ifications of the lawless gang, and cause them
to disband.
Between two and three hundred thousands
pounds of wool have been received from New
Mexico this season. It is taken to Lexington,
Ky., to be manufactured into blankets and the
coarser woolen fabrics.
First New Cotton from the River. —The
N. O. Bulletin of the Ist, says: The steamer
Duke, from Vicksburg, arrived last night with
one bale of colton of the new crop. It is from
the plantation of Mr. Bowman, of Tensas Parish
Louisiana, and consigned to Messrs. Buckner’
Stanton ft Newman.
Sea Island Cotton Crop of Texas. —The
Galveston News of the 30th ult., says: The Sea
Island cotton crop of Texas the present season
will be two or three times as large as that of
hist year. The crop now promises remarkably
well.
Convention of Colored Men in Boston, Ac.
The New York Journal of Commerce contains
the following dispatch, dated Boston, August
Ist:
A quite numerously attended convention of col
! ored people met to-day in a room of the Tre-
I mont Temple, to take into consideration the
course to be pursed by them in the coming Pres
idential canvass, and the best means for advanc-
I ing the moral, social and political condition of the
■ race. Delegates were present from all the New
England and several other States. The conven
tion organized as follows: President, George U.
Downing, of R. I.; Vice-Presidents, Ezra R.
Johnson, and John T. Hilton, of Mass.; Amos
G. Be man, of Me.; Isaac Rice, of R. I.; Wm.
Anderson, of Ct; Rev. A. N. Freeman, ofN. Y.;
Wm. Still, of Pa.; and Jared Gray, of 111.;
Wm. Wells Brown, Chas. I. Remond and other
leading philanthropists and agitators are pres
ent. It is proposed to continue the convention
three days.
A colored military demonstration also took
place to-day, in commemoration of West India
emancipation, which wound up with a ball in
the evening at the armory of the Liberty Guards.
The elite of the colored residents and strangers
attending the convention, attended a levee in
Faneuil Hall tins evening.
Atlanta ft West Point Rail Road, Ga.—
From the reports of the President and Superin
tendent of the above named Road, it appears that
the gross earnings of the Road the past year have
been $362,000 97, and operating expenses, and
expenditures for extra purposes, as stated by
Superintendent, $164,701 31. Nett profits from
Road operations, $197,259 66. Add balance of
interest, $3,592 21. Nett income from all sources
$200,951 87. From this, tw'O dividends have
been paid of $4 per share each, $75,648 00.—
Carried to Reserve Fund, $125,303 87.
Increase of Georgia Wealth.— The Atlanta
Intelligencer learns from the Comptroller Gene
ral, that the Digests of 112 counties, returned
to his office, show an increase of the taxable
property of the State, for the past year, of Fifty
Millions of Dollars, in the counties for which re~»
turns have been received.
Tiie Plymouth Celebration. —On Tuesday
the celebration of the landing of .he Pilgrims at
Plymouth Rock, Mass., was celebrated in an
impressive manner, and the corner-stones of
two monuments, in commemoration of the Pil
grim fathers, laid. An immense concourse of
people thronged the town. Speeches were
made by Gov. Banks, of Massachusetts' and
others. The whole concluded with a grand
banquet, served up in a mammoth tent on the
grounds of the Somerset House. The Canopy
over the Pilgrim’s Rock, as one of the monu
ments is styled, will soon be completed. The
chief monument, however, will not be finished
till much more money is subscribed, the esti
mate cost of the whole being aliout half a mil
lion dollars, and about fifty thousand dollars
having been already collected. The whole
monument; when completed, will be about 150
feet high and 80 feet at the base.
A Cargo of Africans. —A gentleman of this
city received a letter from Jacksonville on Mon
day last, post-marked 16th inst., on the back of
which was endorsed “a cargo of Africans has
been landed on the Florida coast near Smyrna.”
- Tallahassee Floridian,
The above intelligence, we are assured by
Col. E. E. Blackburn, United States Marshal, is
true, as he has received letters conveying the
said intelligence and stating the facts. But how
can it be expected that the party violating the
law will ce arrested when the United States
Marshal is denied the power and means of do
ing so ? If this official was vested with suffi
cient power, and provided with necessary means
(as he applied for to the proper authorities) he
would perhaps have been able to prevent such
violation of the law; butas it is, with his limi
ted power and want of means, it is almost im
possible.
We further understand that the vessel which
brought these Africans to our coast, as soon as
the landing was effected, was set on fire and
abandoned to the elements.
Pensacola Observer , July 30.
The Shoemakers of New York held a meet
ing last Wednesday evening, to form a combi
nation against the employment of prison labor
in the manufacture of boots and shoes. It is
stated that over 100,000 pairs of boots and
shoes are annually mado by convicts in that
State alone, and that the competition is serious
ly injurious to the honest mechanics of the
trade.
The Sub Marine Lantern Test. —Agreeably
to orders issued from the Navy Department, ex
perimental test.? tv ere made on Thursday at
Portsmouth Navy Yard, with Gould and Lamb’s
Patent Sub-Marine Lantern, in the presence of
a board of Examiners, convened for that purpose,
consisting of Captain Roote, Lieut. Pegram, As
sistant Civil Engineer Singleton, and Superin
tendent Herbert. The lantern was lowered to a
depth of 16 feet in a reservoir of water inside
the yard, where it continued to burn for half an
hour. The day being oppressively warm, and
the Board of Examiners and inventors exposed
to the rays of the burning sun, farther experi
ments were postponed till 9 o’clock at night, when
a second trial was made from a barge, at the
foot of the Commodore’s wharf. The lantern
was first lowered down to the bottom of the
river, then separate tests made as to the exact
distance rays of light could be seen from the sur
face. Also the distance light could be thrown
so as to distinguish accurately distinct objects.
An oar, lowered to a depth of six feet from the
Lantern, the Lantern being sunk four feet, was
so clearly seen that the grain of the wood was
distinctly visible upon the surface of the river
when the Lantern was sunk to the depth of 12
feet. These experiments were made in thick,
muddy water, and except that the Board were
satisfied as to the principles involved, the Lantern
could have been kept burning under water for
three hours. The same principles which govern
•at a depth of 16 feet will prove equally success
ful at a depth of 90 or 130 feet.
This Lantern, in connection with a sub-marine
armor, is destined to open up a new field of en
terprise in sub-marine explorations for lost trea
sure.—Norfolk Day Bcol\
Ten thousand revolving rifles ere now man
ufacturing at Col. Colt’s armory, in
for the British government. These are sufficient
to arm six regiments, and no six regiments can
be so effectually armed, as with these revolving
rifles with the sword bayonet.
Cars for Egypt. — A firm of car builders,
at Springfield, Massachusetts, have just receiv
ed an order from the Pacha of Egypt for $50,000
worth of passenger cars, two of which are to be
furnished in Oriental style for the Pacha himself.
The Fire Marshal of New York city reports
a decrease of incendiary fires in that city in the
last six months. The total loss by fire in six
months has been but $200,500, which is $978,-
840 less tlian in the previous six months. There
were seven women burnt to death from the
careless use of fluid and eamphene, and four
men, six women and one child severely injured
from the same cause.
American Dental Convention—Niagara
Falls, Aug. 3.—The fifth annual Convention of
the American Dental Association met here yes
terday. About sixty members are present. The
session to-day was occupied in organizing offi
cers for the ensuing year, as follows:
President, L. W. Rogers, of Utica; Vice-
President, G. Watt, of Xenia, Ohio; Recording
Secretary, Frank Fuller, of Portsmouth, New
Hampshire: Corresponding Secretary, P. P.
Lewis, of Tallahassa. Florida; Treasurer, S.
Chase, of Augusta, Ga. The Convention will
remain in session till Thursday.
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FOREIGN SUMMARY.
The steamship Persia has arrived with Liver
pool dates to July 23d.
The discontent about the terms of peace, con
tinues unabated, and Louis Napoleon's explana
tions are not re-assuring.
The Conference. —No date has been fixed
for the meeting of the Conferences at Zurich, but
the Paris correspondent of the London Post says
that the sittings would probably open in ten
days or a fortnight at the latest. The same cor
respondent says that the period for the deliber
ations of the European Congress of Conference,
which is to succeed the Zurich meeting, had not
been determined upon.
The Sardinian plenipotentiary had not been
named, and it was rumored that none would be
appointed.
The Emperor Napoleon is reported to be de
sirous of a Congress on Italian affairs, as giving
great eclat to the cancelling of the treaties of
1815.
The Independence Beige declares that the neu
tral powers of Europe cannot submit to play so
humble a part as to send representatives to a
Congress tiod up to the stipulations of Villa
Franca.
The London Times of the 23d has the follow
ing:
“Vienna, Friday Evening.—ln the course of
next week the representatives of Austria and
Franco will meet at Zurich. Austria and France
will then conclude a treaty of peace, and Sardi
nia, if she pleases, may accede to it by an addi
tional article.”
The State of Italy. —The Tuscan Moniteur
publishes a decree by the Provisional govern
ment, enacting that representatives of the peo
ple are to be elected for the purpose of deciding
by a majority of votes what the future govern
ment of the country shall be.
The Lombards were apprehensive of being
saddled with some proportion of the liabilities
of Piedmont.
A Paris letter says that news had reached
there that eighty-five municipalities had already
met and proclaimed their design to offer armed
resistance to the re-intrusion of the late dynasty.
Sienn, Pisa, Lucca, Pistoja and Arezo had pro
nounced in this direction. As for Leghorn, the
commotion had become so formidable that the
Gonfaliero Biscosse had to declare in a procla
mation to the townspeople that he held himself
personally responsible to them for the non-return
Os the Austrian Archduke.
The Paris correspondent of the Times says that
in reply to the Provisional Government of Tus
cany the Emperor Napoleon stated that he did
not desire to force the Grand Duke upon them.
The Pays says, “the question of the Duchies
remains to be regulated. No one says that
Piedmont is not to get a good share of them.—
The population will be assuredly consulted.—
The rulers of these small states have not gov
erned them so as to make themselves indispen
sable.”
A letter from Genoa says that the Milanese,
notwithstanding the annexation, desire to have
a flag distinct from the Piedmontese.
Farther Point, (off Quebec,) August 7th.—
Steamship Nona Scotian, with Liverpool dates
to July 27th, has touched at this point.
The French naval and land forces have begun
to leave Italy.
Count Persigny had arrived at Paris, bring
ing assurances that England would give in her
adherence to a Congress on the condition of a
general and immediate disarmament.
It is stated that Count Walewski had submit
ted a plan for the confederation of Italy, which
consists of seven states—the Presidency of
which is given, nominally, to the Pope, but
really to the Kings of Sardinia and Naples, al
ternately. The strong places to be garrisoned
by the Federal troops are, Goita, Mantua and
Piacenza. The votes in the Federal Diet will be
distributed as follows: Parma, one; Modena,
one, the Pope, two; Tuscany, two; Sardinia,
three; and Naples, three.
Parliament was directing its attention to the
state of the national defences. It was also
stated that France was arming a fleet with the
rifle cannon.
Napeleon was announced to make his grand
entry into Paris oa the 4th of August.
Garibaldi had a confidential interview with
Gen. Della Marmora on the 15th of July. The
former stated that he had an army of twelve
thousand men, and that it was increasing; also,
that he was going to the Appenines to gather an
army of fifty thousand, for the purpose of fight
ing for the independence of Central Italy, under
the auspices of the State of Modena.
The Pope complains that Victor Emmanuel has
asked foreign assistance to vindicate his (the
Pope’s) rights.
The latest Moniteur contains an article taking
exceptions to the military naval expenditures of
England, which caused a decline of id. in the
funds.
The accounts from the French vineyards were
unfavorable. The grapes has been injured by
the heat
Tho English and French press are endeavor
ing tb restore the entente cordial between the
countries.
England has offered to send a representative
to the Zurich conference if France would dis
arm.
France has agreed to a general disarmament
on land and sea.
Additional by the Arabu.—The Moniteur s
announcement of the disarmament of the troops
caused the Bourse to advance one centum ; but
subsequently this was partially closed, and it
closed at 68.45.
The Sardinian plenipotentiary for Zurich had
reached Paris.
Russell and Palmerston admitted that Parlia
ment of England had acted as a medium in con
veying the terms of France to Austria, but with
endorsing them.
Great Britain.—On the 21st in the House
of Commons, Mr. Disraeli called attention to the
financial affairs of the country, and defended the
policy of the late government from the attacks
which had been made upon it He gave his as
sent to the proposition to make good the de
ficiency by an increased income tax, but said he
should move an amendment against the pay
ment of the whole of the tax during the first
half year. He then referred to the duty of Eng
land in the present European crisis, and con
tended that were it only for mere political vani
ty, England ought not to have a finger in the
settlement of the continental question. As she
liadnot interferred in the war she ought not to
thrust herself into the proposed Congress.
Mr. Gladstone replied to Mr. Disraeli on the
finance question, and deprecated his threatened
amendment, stating that if it was adopted it was
calculated to necessitate a loan. He indicated
at the close of his address, that, as soon as the
state of Europe would admit of it, it would be
the duty of England to test the pacific intentions
of foreign governments by calling for a diminu
tion of armaments.
The foreign policy of England was further
discussed at some length, and Lords Russell and
Palmerston expressed themselves in favor of the
intervention of England in the peace settlement,
provided she could take part with dignity and
honor, and thereby assist in strengthening the
peace and rendering it enduring.
Lord John Russell stated in reply to inquires
that on the 28th or 29th, he should be prepared
to make a statement with respect to the foreign
relations of the country; and that he was given
to understand by the French government that
there was no provision in the treaty of Villa
Franca for restoring the late dynasties of Tus
cany, Parma and Modena to their possessions
by force of arms.
The debates in Parliament indicate a determi
nation on the part of the Government to prose
cute the work in the national defences.
The fortifications of Dover were about to be
enlarged, at an estimated cost of £150,000.
Ten Broeck’s horse won the Goodwood stakes.
The Goodwood cup was won by Promised Land
—Prioress standing third on the list.
France.—On the 21st of July' the Emperor
was waited upon by the diplomatic corps. The
Minister from Rome spoke in behalf of the corps
and tendered their congratulations on the Em
peror’s happy return to his capital and on his
having resolved to conclude a peace. The Em
peror, in reply, said:
“ Europe was in general so unjust to me in the
beginning of the war that I was happy at being
enabled to conclude peace as soon as the honor
and interests of France were satisfied, and to
prove that it had never been my intention to
overturn Europe and to provoke a general war.
I hope to-day that all reasons for disunion will
disappear, and that peace will be of long du- ,
ration. I thank the diplomatic corps for thoir
congratulations.”
A report was current that the. English Mink
try had inquired how long the French troops
were to remain in Italy.
It is stated that the number of spies employed
in Paris has been doubled since the peace, and
that there has not been such wholesale seizures
of English journals m Paris since the coup d'etat.
An article in the Journal ties Debats directed
against England attracted attention. It refers
in a disquieting manner to the additions which
England is making to her navy.
Germany.— The Federal Council on the 21st
ult., unanimously agreed to the proposals of
Austria and Prussia, respecting the restoration
of the Federal contingents and fortresses to a
peace footing.
Count Rechberg, immediately after his re
turn from Verona, said to the Prussian ambas
sador at Vienna, as follows: Austria has ac
cepted the preliminaries of peace, principally be
cause the conditions of mediation proposed by
the neutral great powers were less favorable for
Austria than those upon which the Emperor of
the French desired to treat. The Emperor of
Austria, in his manifesto of the 15th inst., ex
pressed himself to the same effect. To the cir
cular of Count Rechberg, recently confided to
me, a project of mediation, said to be communi
cated to France by England, was added to the
conditions to which Prussia should have con
sented. r
The Mainzen Journal also publishes the fol
lowing:
You are authorized to express most positively,
first, that on the side of Pnissia no conditions of
mediation whatever had been advanced, nor
have any such coming from any power been ac
cepted by her; second, that the project added
to the Austrian circular, and since published in
the newspapers, was entirely unknown to us.
Von Scleinitz.
Berlin, July 21, 1859.
Tiie Principalities.—A conspiracy against
Prince Milosch and his son Michael had been
discovered at Belgrade. They were to be as
sassinated on the 11 tli of July. The conspira
tors are ex-Ministers and Senators, and the
Prince had declared his intention to put them to
death, notwithstanding a formal protest from
the Porte against his doing so.
Late from Mexico. —New Orleans, Au
gust 6.—Dates have been received from Vera
Cruz to the 28th July, and from the city of Mex
ico to the 19th of July.
Gen. Zualoga was marching on San Louis Po
tosi, with five thousand men. Other troops
were concentrating to march against Marqueza.
Miramon's troops were concentrating at Regene
sator. It was reported that a grand movement
of some kind was on foot.
Miramon had issued a manifesto, in which he
promises to protect the clergy ; declares in fa
vor of a dictatorial government; asserts that it
is the traditional policy of Mexico to guard
against the United States.
Minister McLane was at Truxillo. Only the
skeleton of the treaty had been sent to Wash
ington—it was not signed. Juarez declines
signing the treaty without the approval of the
Mexican Congress.
The authorities of Tehauntepec continue to
annoy the Tehauntepec company. The mails by
this route will probably be discontinued soon.
A conspiracy had been discovered at the Cap
itol, on the 11th of July. The plan of the con
spirators was to assassinate the Governor, and
take jKjssession of the Government
Ocean Mail Subsidies.—At a meeting of a
select committee, appointed by the British Par
liament, Mr. Wilson, M. P., stated, in reply to
questions, that the sum paid to Mr. Cunard for
his contract for carrying the mails between the
United States and England is £191,030; a sum
of £78,000 is also paid for a new contract, and
£13,500 for the Galway and Newfoundland don
tract, making a total of £212,000 for subsidizing
the service across the Atlantic, or including the
£35,000 paid by Canada to the Quebec lie, a
sum of nearly £320,000. This sum is equal to
$1,600,000.
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