Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-02-24
From tho Ns,iOsssi tsisiiissaset.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

seals of the Foreign Office on Monday.
Sir Charles Wood has intimated at public
dinner that the Government would extend the
right of suffrage.
A company has been formed to construct
canal through the Isthmus of Daren, with u
capital of tf15,000,000.
A public meeting has been held at London to
petition Government to put an end to the occupa-
ton of Italy by the French and Austrians.
The advance in cotton, noticed by the late ar
rival has been lost. Tho last quotations are ~
Orleans fair 64 Middling 6; Upland fair 81
Middling So. Flour has advanced 3d.; Western
Canal 25s. Cd; Ohio 26s. Cd. Corn was in fair
demand at full rates. Wheat advanced Id
There Is nothing new from France. The
Royal marriage absorbed the general attention.
The Empress continued to be- we'll received
The accounts of fighting in Montenegro are
very indefinite. Austrian and Russian troops
were concentrated on the frontier.
The above has been transmitted through the
Telegraph. The subjoinedletter brought by the
same steamer, from occasional correspondent,
reached us last night by the hands of passen-
ger. one day in advance of the letters sent by
mail.
LONDON, Feb. 8. 1853
As the POST says, comments rather than
events have characterized the past week. Tho
color Of the Napo con policy and the shade of the
Empress hair; the harsh refusal to release Mar
vcez from order to proceed upon mission,
which his health forbds him to undertake.; the
conflicting accounts from Montenegro; the move
ments of Russian and Austrian troops to the from.
tier; the indefinite opening of the opera. and the
positive uprising ofthe curtain at St. Stephens
on Thursday next; together with the density of
the recent fogs, have afforded what is called .abun-
dant food for speculation
A Frenchman mad any member of the
paaoa Inns oy,hobaJ =,
which he begs Napoleon ito crush England"
and encourages him to go ahead by saying, land
when your flag fonts triumphant over the tower
OF London, you may dictate terms to the world"
The French Emperor has extended his am
nesty to upwards of four thousand persons, the
names fill forty columns of the Moniteur of the
4th. Never before had so many copies of that
journal been sold in single day. for thousands,
with anxious fear and trembling, sought it to as
certain if friends and relatives were among the
par1oned, who. it appears, mostly persons
prescribed in consequence OF the events of De-
cember. There are few names of any note on
the list
Many arrests have been made of persons
having in possession photographic carica-
ture, representing Eugene putting cigar
with the gusto ola sLorette.'
The number of satres and Iampoons in manu-
script upon the Emperor. Empress, and certain
other members of the Imperial family, and of the
Ministry increase every day, in spite of the
ubiquitous police, and circulate to such an extent
among the lower classes to occasion the Cow
eminent serious anxiety.
The round of Ministerial fetes in honor Of the
marriage is nearly exhausted; that of the Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs on the 4th being perhaps
the last. The company begun to arrive at 8 o.
clock, and by III the saloons were so densey
packed as to arrest all movement; few persons
sequenty could be seen, and the fresh and
elegant toilettes of the ladies' not appreciared.-
Not the last to arrive the first to quit Dupn
the Ex-President Of the late National Assembly.
The Duke of Brunswick we also distinguished
by the blnze of his diamonds, but in mercy per-
haps to visopal organs, he was not arrayed in the
full splendor of his 'casette,'
The elections in the Departments are going on
without spirit, and favorably OF course to the
Government, there being almost no opposition.
Tho Council of the State is closely aud seri-
ously engaged with the budget. The expendi-
ture already exceeds that of last year by $1,000
600 fran"s, which has created no small degree of
embarrassment and apprehension.
The Archbishop of Beasancon has published
on the occasion of Lenta 'mandcment," in which
he dwells on the non observance of tho Lords
day. He maintalns that temporal visitations,
such as the failure of crops, the bankruptcy of
traders, &c, nre the Consequences and the chas-
tisement thereof" AS an example he cites hotel
keepers; they, he says, for having supplied their
guests with meat on the fast days ordered by the
Church, have seen the Pestllence q railways fall
on them, and their houses are no longer frequent
ed by crowds, as they were when people travel
led on foot, on horseback, even in stages.
The decorations of Notre Dame continue as
arranged for the nuptials, and still attract great
multitudes. More than 100000 persons have
visited the cathedral in the last three days.
1t is now said the coronation will take place in
April. The Bishop of Versailles has gone to
Rome, it is supposed to pray his Holiness the
Pope to offciate. Plus is in quandary!
1t was announced in Paris yesterday (the 7th)
that some persons connected with the public
press had been arrested. In instance, ut
lenst, the order for the arrest came from the Min
lister of the Interior. The person was taken out
of his bed at seven in the morning, and although
the Commissary of Police after examining his
papers, admitted he Ind found noth hing to COM
promise him, he was hurried away in cab.
aud his friends know not yet what has become of
him.
Pgus.IA.--In Cabinet Council it has been de-
cided to recommend to the journals to abstain
from saying aught offensive to the French Gov
ernment, and they are threatened with prosecu
tion should it be shown that their statements are
false calumnious.
SPAIN.-The latest news is of the 30th Janu
airy, and it is related an extraordinary fact
that on that day not one of the Madrid papers had
been seized by the police. Narvaez is ordered to
proceed Immediately to Vienna, on pain of being
considered rebel.
PORTUGAL attracts little attention. except from
the holders of her repudated bonds.
BELGluM.-An uppropr iation is asked for the
support of Legation to Russia. in anticipa
ton of the new and intimate relations with that
Power.
MoNrENEGRo.-'Tho operations now carrying
on in this remote quarter are still enveloped
in mystery, the only source of Information being
the Austrian press, under Government control