Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-28
TELEGRAPHIC.
BIZ HOUSES PRINTING TELEGRAPH.
EXPRESSLY FOR THE EVENING STAR.
ARRIVAL Of The AFRICA.
FOUR DAYS LAT.R FROM EUROPE.


Africa arrived this morning, bringing Liv-
erpool dates to tho 18th instant-Gour
days later. -.
Cotton dull-had declined from Lie to
l.. During the weeks IL 900 bales were
sofa. Flour dull-declined cd. to Is:
oanai SIS. to 3Ss.-6d. Wheat had de-
clined sd. Corn firm-yellow at ass;
white at 4os. per Or. Provisions dull
Coffee firm. Sugars and Molasses un.
changed. Rice dull. Tobacco dull
Money easier: consuls quoted at eliza
9l,. American stocks firm.
EASTERN AFFAIRS.
The reported defeat eff the Turks at
kalafat is untrue. o...-1t
But few Of the Russians were before
kalafat +; and it was stated the Russians
were marching towards Schazel.
The turks had not advanced beyond
the Notifications of Kalrfat.
The preparations for war in France
continue on the grandest scale.
England has fleets in readiness at mo-
ments warning, and the people manifest
great eagernesS to settle the question at
the point of the bayonet.
Austria is forming an immense Army.
The Emperor of Russia with Instantly
had left St. Petersburg for Warsaw,
where the Gar hopes to exercise his in
huence effectually against Prussia and
Austria. ~s----r s.a-- ...
Prince Paskowitch has been appointed
to the command of the Russian Army.
The rumor that another peace PROPOSE
ton had been made by the Car has been
confirmed.
Hostilities had been suspended through
out Asia.
The Greek instruction had again bro.
ken out with much fearceness, and the
Turks had been defeated in several small
engagements by the Greek insurrec-
tlonlStS. The instruction had also been
discovered in Western Turkey; and a
convention had been formed which had
taken measures to secure the future posi-
ton of the Christians Of that country.
ENGLAND.
The English Parliament was still in
session; the proceedings however contain
but little of general interest.
FRANCE.
Important changes were about to be
made in French representatives at foreign
courts.
SPAIN.
Spain was still in distracted condi-
ton.
SECOND DESPATCH.
Prince PaSkcwitch has assumed the
command of the Russian army on the
Danube.
Neither Austria, nor Prussia will join
the Western Powers in sending Iaessen-
gers by way OF France and England to
demand of the Gar the evacuation of the
Principalities. -
Seven steamers had gone to Egypt to
bring ten thousand troops for Albania.
The conductors of the London Herald
had been severely censured for publishing
the false report of the capture of Kalafat
by the Russians, since it had caused great
injury to the commercial interests of the
country.
A great excitement was occaSioned i'm
the commercial circles of England by a
notification of the Earl of Clarendon TO
the British merchants of Riga, informing
them that in the event of war, all Rus
sian produce would be liable to be cap
tured and contiscated, even though it be
the bona tide property of British subjects,
domiciled in Russia, and though it be
shipned On board of neutral vessels.
In France, a committee of the legiSla-
tive body, accompanied by the President
and whole Chamber, went to the Tui!le-
ries and presented the Emperor with
bill authorizing the loan of two hundred
and fifty million francs, which he'd been
unanimously voted for defraying the ex-
penses of the war. The President ad-
dressed the Emperor, who replied, thank
ing the Legislature for their concurrence
in the bill. The loan was confirmed BY
the Senate.
Lord John Russell was ill but not so
seriously as to excite apprehensions for
his safety.
The ship Parthenon, of Boston, has
been wrecked near Holvhead, and part
Of the crew lost. A portion were saved.
Election & Riot-Late from Mexico.
New ORLEANS, March 28.-The result
Of the municipal election to-day is un-
known.
A serious riot had taken place in the
Seventh Ward, in which two men were
killed.
The bark Bertha has arrived, but had
been in collision with the schooner Tai
bot, off the Bahama Islands, and the lat
ter had sunk.
The Picaynne has received private adj
vices from Mexico, containing report