The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-21

New York.
The Humboldt brings the usual mails, 80
passengers, and 600 tons Of goods valued al
81 100000 to $2OO0000. Among her passen-
gers are Judge Cartoon, Of New Orleans, and
lady, T.. Bryan. esq bearer of dispatches from
the u. 8. legation at Paris, Prince Lubomirski,
and Mrs. 4 ulawszky, the sister of Kossuth and
her husband
The general election is the engrossing topic
Of discussion in the English newspapers, most (
which are occupied by reports of nominations in
the different boroughs. The London Times, in
a leading article on the probable results of the
canvass to the Wings, says that "though the city
of London will not reject Lord John Russell,
there are other boroughs and other candidates
Of less cenfiding and distinguished character"
The Daily NeUs gives list of seventeen lib
erals and seven Derbyites who have been re-
turned without opposition, to serve in the new
Parliament. Among the former are Lord Dud-
ley Stuart, Sir +. Barring, and Sir F. Peel. The
Examiner says;
"The election struggle will be short, and there
Is little appearance Of its being sharp. In a
fourth part OF the constituencies there is no con-
test, and in few Of the rest do any earnest prep
arations appear to be made"
The Herald is very snnguine of favorable re-
suit for the present government. II thinks that
the returns from Scotland will not differ mate
rally from the last Parliament, and makes the
following estimate for the rest of the kingdom !:
Ministerialists. Opposition.
England and Wales 328 l66
Ireland . 81 "a
Total 379 $40
k,, H.. 4
erpool by the discovery and seizure by the police
of about 400 pixies, said to have been ordered
by an alderman to be used at the election.
Among the acts of Parliament which received
the royal assent, on the day previous to its pro.
bishops to perform certain episcopal functions
under commission from bishops of England and
Ireland A colonial bishop il not to have juris
d'ction in the united kingdom.
FRANCE.
A decree in the Moniteur of the 9th inst. an
nounces the close of Il, Q senate Of 1852.
The President was about to make journey
to the south of France, and addresses had been
forwarded to him from the municipal councils
of several towns on the route, in iting him to
visit them. lie has promised to attend the in
auguration of the Paris and Strasburg railway
on the l7.h inst.
The government has again exercised its au-
'hority over the press by decreeing the suspen-
sion of the Corsaire for two months.
The President is said to be preparing decree
on the Importation of foreign corn, by which the
present system Of the sliding scale will be mod-
fed, and The duties lowered
The Minister of Justice is preparing decree
of amnesty, which will probably be promulga
ted on the occasion of the fete of the 18th Of
August.
A Geographic despatch from Frankfort, of
the a, in the PruSSian Gazette of Berlin, says
that NJ Theirs has refused to submit to The in
Tenement, and will, in preference, leave Switzer
land
1t is said that 46 bishops out of the 81 in
France, have signited their appreciation of the
letter written by the bishop of Orleans, in favor
of employing the Greek and Latin ella sizes as
hand-books in education.
A letter from Rochefort, of the ID, says:
"At ! o'clock yesterday, the steamer Labo
reux left this port with 222 convicts from the
bagne. 208 of these men are to be sent to
Cayenne, and the other IA to the bagne of Brest
Only three convicts now remain at Rochefort,
and they are in the hospital too ill to be re-,
moved"
ITALY.
nicated information that Murray was s,l in pri
son, and that the Pope had not yet determined
as to his fate
The Papal government had ordered new
emission of copper.
Brigands had robbed travellers in the forest
of Antium, twenty miles from Rome.
The citadel Mt Turin has been disarmed, and
it is said the King is even anxious to demolish
the ramparts and convert the building into a
barrack, in order to afford the population the
best proof of his confidence in their loyalty.
The Tuscan Monitore has published grand
ducal decree, authorizing for Tuscany the con-
stitution of the company which has been formed
for the construction Of the railroad of Central
Italy, and which is to connect PiacenZa, Parma,
Reggie, Mo1ena, and Bologna with Prato and
Pistoia, with branch from Reggie to Mantua.
On the 25th ult, the court martial of Udine
condemned four persons to various periods of
Imprisonment in irons, for having arms or anu
milton in their possession, or utteripg seditous
cries.
Numerous arrests have again been made at
Milan. One victim thrown into the castle dun
geon hung himself from the bars of his prison.
The government of Lombardy has issued new
and more stingent restrictions upon the circu
latin of books.
SWITZERLAND.
Accounts from the canton of Meuchatel state
that the royast party, who desire the return Of
the canton to Prussia, intend to make grand
demonstration of their adherents at an annua
meeting of the burgesses which is to be held or
the 9th of July at Valengin, with the view of in
fiuencing the Federal Assembly, which is abon
to commence its session at Berne. The repub
leans, on their part, have resolved to make
counter demonstration at the same place on the
same day. At the elections for the grand coun
ell in March last the royalist party only obtained
l 4 returns whilst the republicans had IA but il
the elections for the council of state, which tool
place few days ago. they obtained l l nomina
tons out of %; and besides they are greatly
encouraged by the recent signing of the pro
tocol at London by the great powers. The
Swiss journals state thst not only the mos
enlightened and wealthy portions of the popula
ton of the canton, but the great mass of the
conservative party in Switzerland, are on the
side of the republic ans on this special question
Advces had reached England from the from
tier of Cape Colony to the 25th of May The