Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-25
Arrival of the Arctic.

rived at New York at 6 o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon, bringing four days later
news from Europe. The Arctic made the
passage in 10 days and hours.
The news is full of interest. Count
Ncsseirodc had issued a new circular,
more impudent than the last: yet the
Bourses manifested no particular alarm.
Matters appear 10 be becoming more and
more complicated, yet the public of Eu-
rope will not open their eyes to the pos
sibility of war. Austria. has seized the
opportunity of again demanding from
Turkey the concessions refused to the late
mission of Count de Leiningen. This, if
authentic, forbids the idea of Austria's
neutrality in any coming struggle.
We have detailed accounts of the recent
riot in Smyrna, in which the Captain of
the United States sloop-of-war st. Louis
appears to have acted as an American
ought to act in such cases.
Cotton was quiet and steady.
Breadstuffs were in less demand, with
prices slightly declined.
Consols closed in London, on the 10Th
instant, languid-money and account 97s
9S.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
The developments in regard to the
Turkish question give more threatening
aspect to affairs. Count Nesselrode has
issued new circular, more impudent
than the last, claiming that Russia
occupies the PrincipalitieS because the
French and English fleets are in Turkish
waters, and hints out clearly that Russia
will refuse all Cancellation until the fleets
are withdrawn. Awillingness to cvacuate
the Principalities is, however, expressed
when the demands of Russia are complied
with.
1t is said that the Porte will publish a
reply to the Emperor Of Russia, setting
forth all the injustice with which Turkey
has been treated by Russia.
This note has partially opened the eyes
of the European public, who see the neces-
sity of bringing the matter to close, Rus
STA S object being merely to gain time to
render her position imprcgnable. Al
though the possibility of war is scarcely
admitted, public opinion begins to demand
something decisive. The public arc tired of
being continually amused with dispatches
announcing a pacific tendency of affairs.
The latest report is that France and Eng
land had last week forwarded note to
st Petersburg, proposing mutual conces-
sions in order to end the dispute, to which
an answer was expected about July 18th.
AUSTRIA.
A startling piece OF information was
published i'll Paris Oh the 9th, in the three
government journals Pans, Constitu-
tionGl, and PGtiic-all Of which announce
that Nj. dc Bruck, who was supposed to
have been sent to ConstantinopIc with
conciliatory instructions, opened his mis-
sion by making fresh demands upon the
Porte. This pretended mediator now
demands immediate payment of five mill
lions of piastrcs due to Austria, and
possession of the ports of kleck and
Souterina on the Adriatic: in fact, renew
ing, in more positive terms, the demands
formerl y refused to the mission of Count
Leinehgen.
Some letter writers say that the har-
vests in parts of Austria will be fail
ure this year, but their data do not seem
to warrant so important an assertion.
FRANCE.
The plot against Napoleon's life at the
Opera is more serious than at first sup
posed. A conspiracy has been unraveled,
and the prisoners committed for trial
The French Minister of War has ad-
dressed the President of the Chamber of
Commerce, at Nantes, in the following
strain I'VE are not bent on war, but if
the Emperor, to whom the honor of the
government is deaer than all, should
think that the national honor demands
war, he certainly will not recoil.
GERMANY.
The Grand Duke Of Weimer died at
Wcimar on the morning of July Sth.
The German press, with the exception
of the Neue Preussischc Zeituae and the
Frankfort Post Zei'ung, is decidedly op-
posed to the rretensions of Russia.
DENMARK.
Eighty-four cases of cholera were re-
ported at Copenhagen, July L, but the
disease does not spread rapidly. A letter
from Copenhagen says there is little doubt
that the harvest in Sweden will be bad,
and the price of grain is already rising in
that country,
Father Beeks, Belgian, is elected
General of the Jesuits, in room Of the late
Father RoOthan.