The Press.
London, England, 1854-06-10 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

sident of the Council, and MM. General Kalergi,
Palamides, Argyropoulo, Calligas, and Isika. The
new Ministers would, it was said, recal the chiefs
of the insurgents, change the personal of the Court
of King Otho, dismiss the functionaries who have
compromised themselves, and demand from the
French Government to renounce the idea of placing
a garrison at Athens and Syra.
Of the French force that arrived at the Pirteus
3,000 were landed, and the remainder proceeded to
Patras.

In token of restored amity the English and
French flags were saluted with 21 guns from the
Greek batteries. Austrian vesael9 rill join in cap-
turing pirates.
According to a despatch received from Athens of
the 29th of May, but of doubtful authenticity, the
Greeks had gamed a victory over the Turks in
Thessaly. Three generals and 700 Turks remained
on the field, and the victors took five guns, seven
standards, 600 prisoners, and a sum of money.

MOROCCO.
The Governments of France and England have in-
formed the Court of Morocco of the state of war ex •
isting between them and Russia, and the obligations
resulting therefrom for neutral States. The Emperor
Muley-Abder Rhaman has declared that no Russian
vessel, or vessel beating a flag friendly to Russia,
shall be received in the ports of his empire during
the war.

UNITED STATES.

The last New York dates, received by the Atlantic,
are of the 27th tilt

The Spanish difficulty remained unsettled, and
continued to occasion much excitement. It was ex-
pected that two special envoys would be despatched
from Washington to Madrid, to endeavour to settle
the disputes. The New York Herald announces that,
probably in view of the unsettled state of the relation*
between the United States and Spain, the Secretary of
the Navy has issued an order directing that all ves-
sels of war on the point of departure shall be de-
layed.
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After debates of almost unprecedented duration
the Nebraska Bill had passed both the House of Re-
presentatives and the Senate. The measure awaited
only the signature of the President to become law.
From the Ist to the 21st of May 424 vessels ar-
rived at New York from foreign ports, bringing over
48,000 passengers.
Lord Elgin, Governor General of Canada, had
arrived in Washington on a brief visit.
The usual budget of disasters is reported by this
mail. A fearful calamity had occurred on the Mis-
sissippi, near St. Louis. The steam-packet Pike,
with 180 passengers on board, struck a snag, and
sunk immediately. About fifty persons were drowned.
On the 22nd ult. twenty men were killed by the ex-
plosion of firedamp in a coalpit near Richmond,
Virginia. During the fury of a storm at Wheeling,
on the 25th, the superb wire suspension bridge across
the Ohio was blown down. It was 1,000 feet in a
single span, and cost 200,000 dollars. Marine dis-
asters have been very numerous. With scarcely an
exception, each vessel arriving at New York a week
before the steamer left had reported the loss of spars,
sails, boats, and in many instances every moveable
article on deck. Terrific hurricanes, innumerable
icebergs, and dense fogs, bad been encountered
by navigators this season to a degree unprecedented.
Immense excitement prevailed at Boston on the
213th on account of the arrest of a fugitive slave.
The military were called out, and one man killed.
Californian accounts state that the miners were in
the most flourishing condition, and the accounts of
the yield of gold more flattering than ever. The
markets were dull, prices being generally depressed.
The ship Golden Fleece and the barque Walter Clax-
ton had been totally wrecked in the harbour of San
Francisco. By the explosion of the steamer Gazelle,
on the Columbia river, Oregon, twenty-five persons
were killed, and thirty others dangerously wounded.
The accounts of Walker's expedition are to the
22nd of April. He had crossed the Colorado near
its month, and at this point most of his men de-
serted him. About fifty of them were reported on
their way to the settlements. Finding himself de-
serted by most of his followers, Walker turned back,
with the intention, as is supposed, of joining Smith,
who was left in command at San Vincente, Lower
California.
MEXICO.

On the Sunday after Easter a fearfully destructive
earthquake occurred at San Salvador. Upwards of
four million dollars' worth of property was destroyed,
and 200 lives. The first shock was felt on the
Thnrsday night of the Easter week, the earth being
disturbed by a movement similar to the rolling of heavy
billows, but no serious attention seems to have been
given to the matter. The great shock occurred on
Sunday, at noon. Hundreds of houses were thrown
down, filling the air with dust. Private letters report
an amount of destruction of life and property still
more awful, stating that nearly live thousand persons
had been killed by the catastrophe.

On the sth nit. Santa Anna summoned the garri-
son of Acapulco to surrender. Alvarez, the com-
mander, refused, and, sallying out, attacked Santa
Anna's forces, taking three hundred prisoners. The
victory of Alvarez, if accounts be true, was a very de.
cisive one, the loss of the defeated party having been
immense. Santa Anna, with but a remnant of his
forces, fled before the victors.
INDIA AND CHINA.
An overland mail, with Calcutta news of the lat of
May; Iltbdras, 5 ; Bombay, 10; and Canton, April 20;
reached Tneste on Wednesday. The news as commu-
nicated by telegraph contains only the information
that "affairs in Normal were satisfactory, and the
Imperialists have been driven from Shanghai by
Europeans, assisted by the rebel army."
A telegraphic despatch received by a mercantile firm
in the City adds some further details of this affair.
It says :—" An attack made by the Imperialists on
the foreign settlement of Shanghai led to the storm-
ing and destruction of their camp on the 4th of
April by the English and American forces. Two
seamen were killed and twelve wounded. All was
quiet on the 12th."
AUSTRALIA.

According to advicws just received, gold has at
length been discovered in the only one of the Aus-
tralian colonies in which it remained to be found.
Letters from Freemantle, Western Australia, of the
25th of March, state that surface specimens have been
obained within fifteen miles of that place, yielding a
good per centage of pure metal. A number of persons,
with provisions and proper tools, had started for the
locality, and in a short time the real character and
value of the deposits would be tully tested.