The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-07
LATER FROM EUROPE.

The royal mail steam ship buroP'' NAi'''
Neil Shannon, has arrived at New YORK. WIN
four days later adyices from LVerpoo''
whence she sailed on Saturday. the l'lh INST
We subioin summary of her
General Iuiellige,lce.-From the East We
have so,,e odyiees of interest, although notn-
;,c rst which can be considered decisive.
siI;s,ria still holds out, although more reso-
Iutely and vigorously, pressed by the Rus
.;.ps, and anxiously awaiting the expected
succor which moves slowly. The Russians
made second attempt on the 10th to carry
il BY storm and assault without success. In
this affair Prince Paskiewtch received n Sc
we're wound on the right leg, and on beng
compelled to leave his post, delegated the
command to Prince Gortschasoff.
The Emperor Nicholas was daily expected
at Kien.
The Turks had made IN attack on the Is
land of Mokar but were repulsed.
Prince Manteuffcl was en- route for ST. Pc
tersburg, with a message from Russia, insist
ing on the Cars acceptance of the Austrian
note or summons, of the I'd, which had al
ready been refused according to some reports.
There is nothing late of interest from Asia,
Greece or the forces on and around the Black
Sea. The work of transporting the allies to
Varna was going on. There had been no
change in the Turkish ministry up to the
latest adyices.
On the 3Oth May, three British steamers
destroyed ships, dockyards and military stores
at Brahestadt, amounting in all to 100000
roubles.
On the next day similar damages were in.
fcted at Sweaborg to the value of 100000
roubles
The British ship Europa, engaged as
cavalry transport, was burnt on her passage
from Portsmouth to Gibraltar. OF her cop-
plement twenty lives were lost, the rest es-
Gaping in boats.
The Baltic feet had reached point twenty
miles distant from lIelsngfors.
Recent heavy lains are reported to have
caused an advance in the price of breadstufis
in France.
Lord John Russell, us was anticipated, has
been returned to Parliament.
The subject of granting political freedom
to the Canadas and other British North
American Colonies had been one of the chief
themes of debate in Parliament
The affair growing out of the difficulty be-
tween Mons Dillon, the French Consul, and
the judicial authorities at San Francisco, had
been amcally arranged.
The report that Marsa Pasha, the Turkish
commander at Silistria, had been killed. turns
out to be incorrect.
The Russians were collecting a strong
force on the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia,
in Finland, and were otherwise making and
threatening demonstrations against Sweden
and Norway.
Much excitement existed in Berlin respect
ing the change of The Russian headquarters
TO Jassy. This move is considered ominous
of the intentions of the Car towards Austria
and Priissiiiai., g '''
The recent conference between the En-
peror of Austria and the King of Prussia re-
suited satisfactorily to the allied powers.
A declaration of war by Sweden against
Russia was daily expected.
The Pays says that the question between
France and the United States, arising ont of
the arrest of Mr.. Dillon, is settled, nothing re-
naming for arrangement but the form of
compensation to be given.
A telegraphic dispatch dated Cortland,
June IL, states that both the French and Eng
lish fleets were at Borsiund, twenty miles
from Sweabourg, and it was expected they |
would attack the latter place on or soon after
the 18th. There were sixteen Russian Ships
of-war in Sweabourg, and they had blockaded
the harbor by sinking ship loaded with
rocks.
ATHENS, June There is now complete
concord among the ministers. The three dis
missed Generals have made their submission.
Hadys Petro still holds out in Thessay.
PUBLIC LANps.-lf it should be proposed
in Congress to give quarter section Of land
to every soldier engaged in the Eastern war
on both sides, there would be considerable
danger of its passing. Every bill to give
AWAY the lands for military services real or
constructive; services that have been paid or
over-paid; services often that were eagerly
rendered and reluctantly accepted passes with
rush. Sometimes even good objects find
favor in the distribution of the land plumber,
il they are limited to local purposes. Rail-
roads are endowed primarily for the benefit
of spectators. Education sometimes re-
ceives n lift if it is confined to n Western
State, and internal Improvement if of very
local character.
But if you wish to arouse the constitutions
al scruples of the strict constructionists pro-
pose n bill for the benefit of the whole coun-
try and for some deserving object out of
which speculation has nothing to gain and
which has no lobby influence to urge it on.
There would be little difficulty even in en-
dowing an Insane Hospital in one of the '
Western States; but to extend the same
justice to all the States is unconstitutional,