Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-19
; New York markets unchanged.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE,

BY Steamer Atlantic.
The New York papers of Monday morning fur
nish details of the advices from Liverpool to the
5th inst
Adylces from the Cape of Good Hope to the 18th
of March have been received. Col. Marlborough
and Ensign HILBERT of the 91st, and Capt. Bram-
ley Of the Cape Corps, have been wounded, and
26 soldiers of the 9lst and 74th regiments killed
and wounded, in attack upon some Kaffir
kraals in the Waterkloof. Sir Fl. Smith lett
King Williams Town on the 4th of March, with
the intention of attacking the enemy's Businesses.
The accounts of the state of trade in England
are satisfactory. At Manchester there has been
a steady business at firm prices. Birmingham
continues to afford every practical sign of increas
ing prosperity. AT Nottingham the temporary
change in the weather produced the activity that
expected; and the orders received from
America have been very good In the wooden
districts the course of trade-athough still COM
parativey guiet-was much more favorable than
could be expected from the complaints in which
the manufacturers have INDUCED for some months
past The Irish linen market was without altera-
ton, but there have been fair amount of trans
actions, with slight tendency to an advance in
quotations.
The price to be given for the Crystal Palace by
the London spectators is 100000. Since the
contract entered into the purchasers, have, it
is said, been tempted by still higher offers than
that for their bargain, but have refused though by
the sum proffered they wouldr realize u very hand
some profit. 1t Is intended to re -erect the Pal
ace in the neig hborhood of London and sites have
been surveyed ut Wimbledon, at Battersea, and
at Sydenham None had, however, been decided
on.
SPAIN.-Accounts from Madrid, of the 25th
ult state that Brigadier OLawler had been ap-
pointed Governor Of Matanzas, in the room of Brig
adler Pavia, who was recalled to Spain. The lat
ter had been superseded in that command by Gen.
Concha, for not preventing the landing of a cargo
ofnegoes intended for different planters of the is
land of Cuba.
FRANCE-The great fete of the 10th of May
is now the chief event of the day. The prepa-
rations on the Champ de Mars are proceeding
with great activity. Tribunes are in course Of
erection, which will contain $4,000 spectators,
besides the authorities and those whose official
duties require their presence. The first detach-
ment of the Arab chiefs has arrived at Marse lilies
and two other detachments daily expected.
The whole expense of their journey and residence
in Paris is to be paid by the State. The colone
of each reg iment will mount the steps of the
great tribune set aside for the President of the
Republic, and receive the eagle from the hands
of the Minister of War. Previous to the deiv-
cry and Immediately after the ceremony of high
mass, the eagles WILDE blessed by the Archbish-
op of Paris. The Presidents uncle, the ex-king
jerome, will be seated mmediately on the right
of Louis Napoleon.
FAMINE IN GERMANY Accounts are
published Of very terrible kind regarding the
sufferings of the peasantry in South and Central
Germany, from famine. The Grand Duchy of
Hesse and the kingdom of Wurtemberg are the
countries in which the visitation is most severe,
but spreads over still larger district, and is ag
gravated by simultaneous disease among the
sheep and cattle. In the best times the popula-
ton consider themselves happy when a laborer
can earn four-pence day, and the scenes in such
land, when the staple crops have been destroyed,
ed with what took place for few weeks during
the very worst stages of the Irish famine in 1847.
In the present case, as in that, ii fatal reliance
upon the potato has been the chief cause of the
mischief. According to statement, Just made
by party who is we'll acquainted with what is
going on, loathsome animals of all kinds are now
used as food, and an instance is mentioned which
occurred In w urtemburg, where a dog, barred
for some days, had been dug up and consumed by
family as last resource. Ofcouse, under such
circumstances as these, there would be a rush of
emigration which would almost depopuate the
state, were it not that the ignorance of the I'M
happy people and the Government restrictions,
which render them helpless, interpose an effectua
barrier.
EGYPT.-By intelligence just received from
Egypt, it appears that the difficulty between the
Sultan of Turkey and the Viceroy has been COM
promised, by the demand of the latter, to be al
lowed to exercise the power of life and death hav-
ing been granted for period of seven years. At
the end of that time the question is again to be
dealt with
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