Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-01
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
PER BALTIC.
By Telegraph from London to Liverpool.

LONDON, sept. II.
Important dispatches have been received from Spain
amounting 1t is said to a treaty with England for the
preservation of the colony of Cuba from American in
vaders.
The Minister OF Foreign Affairs and the Spanish
and English Ambassadors had meeting on Monday
evening.
France and England are decided on preventing
rupture between Spain and the United States, and in
preserving for the former her valuable colony but with
the introduction of some indispensable reforms in the
general government ofCuba.
A French steamer was to leave Havre on Tuesday
for Washington, with dispatches from the French
government and the American Minister.
ENGLAND.
The following failures are announced: Messrs.
Campbell, Arnot & Co., Of Liverpool, connected with
the South American trade; Messrs. w. NJ Neil & Co.
of Liverpool grain dealers; Mess Spencer, Ashn &
Co., OF London, also grain dealers.
The failures says the London Globe, coupled with
the uncertain state of French and Cuban affairs caused
quite an alarm in the Stock Exchange On Monday,
but confidence partially restored on the following
day. The Standard thinks that financial crisis is
pidly approaching.
Neither the London or Liverpool papers make any
mention of the release of Kossuth and his compan-
ions.
Hon. Abbot Lawrence, the American Minister, is
a tour in Ireland
The Times says adyices from the Mediterranean
mention the failure OF Messrs Peter Clarke & Co.,
firm having establishments at Corfu Zante Cepha 10
nia and Patras. Their liabilities stated at G35,-
900, and the OF their stoppage said to be their
connection with Messrs. Castelli q Co.. upon whom
they are creditors for f24o The precise estimate of
their assets is not known but only moderate dividend
is expected.
The President on Monday, laid the foundation stone
of the new central markets Of Paris. The speech de-
lvered by the President, the occasion, was loudly
cheered 10 the course of it he said
"In laying the first stone OF an editlce, the destna
nation OF which is eminently popular, indulge in the
confident hope that, with the cooperation OF good
citizens, and with the protection OF Heaven, shall
be permitted to lay in France foundations which to
erect social edidce sufficiently strong to
protection against the violence and muability of hui
man passions
decree of the President placing the department of
Ardeche in state of selge.
The judicial inquiry respecting the persons concern
ed in the late Paris conspiracy is still proceeding
Eighty seven of the number have been acquitted
Prince de Joinville is expected soon to declare for
mally for the Presidency
THE MONEY MARKET.
The exchange between England and America is no.
mnally 81 per cent. in favor of England, leaving
small profit the importation OF gold from the Unit
ed States. The influx of gold at the Paris mint
has greatly diminished, and the period for redeliv-
ery is now reduced to thirty days. The whole
of the dollars which arrived by the last West India
of one quarter from the previous sales In bar silver
nothing has been done, but the price quoted is Coz
The transaction are 604.
The ENGLISH HARvEsT.-Fhe London Shipping
Gazette in its review of the grain trade for the week
ending on the afternoon of September 18th, states
that the produce of food grown in England, Scot
land and Ireland in 1851, will be larger than that for
several years past " heat is yey fine, and of heavy
weight, from So to 81 lbs per bushel. The inquiry
for old wheat had ceased