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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. tmm, soum&jyi i?i]gXtjQ iusrjo sm&ssxss. 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. >»i - 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. M -HI 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. 93