Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-06
COTTON AND GRAIN ADVANCED.
Suppression of the Stare Trade IN cub

New York, May 6.-The royal mail steam
ship Africa, from Liverpool April 22d, arrived
this morning, at IL o'clock, with ll3 pas
singers
Richardson Brothers, agents of the City of
Glasgow, say that she is not lost; that the
ship was perfectly efficient, had water for for
ty days, and also distilhng apparatus, with
provisions for sixty-iye days. She took out
S73 passenger.
A treaty of closer alliance is ratified between
France and England.
A treaty of alliance, offensive and defen-
sive, has been signed between Austria and
Prussia.
There was no news of any importance in
France or England.
HE GREEK RESURRECTION. - The Greek
instruction had assumed shape of Guer-
rilla warfare, but was not formidable.
Lord Stratford de Radcliffe had published
strong manifesto against the Greek Govern
ment, for favoring the instruction.
A massacre of the Greeks at Volo, was re-
ported, but doubtful.
VERY --LATEST BY ARTS, Fri
day.-A despatch from Omar Pasha confirms
the previous accounts that the Turks were, on
three different occasions, successful, against
superior forces, at the passage of the Danube,
but, in obedience to orders, they retreated on
the line of harasan.
The st. Petersburg papers contain mani
festo in relation to the English and French
declarations of war. 1t throws the response
bility of the war wholly on France and Eng
land.
Nothing later is had from the Baltic 1t is
asserted from Copenhagen that Sweden has
positively entered into secret treaty with
Rt1ssio hxyx which oboola fe ,a,f 70,
bidding more than four ships at one time to
enter harbor, has been restored, and the same
extended to Norway.
The following is from the London Times
" Private letters from Madrid mention the
appearance Of very remarkable decree in the
Gazette, owing, it is but just to add, to the
interchangeable energy and unrernitting zeal of
Lord Howden, the British Ambassador, and
which announces the intention of the Spanish
Government to put an end to the slave trade
in Cuba, and to give satisfaction to Great
Britain. According to the terms of the decree,
the slaves are to be Immediately registered,
after which time any slave found in the Island
without copy of his register, containing
date, domicile, and description, will be looked
upon as fraudulently imported, and be declared
tpSe .faeto free. And, secondly, the introduce
ton of white laboTers is to be provided for and
organized"
The correspondent of the London Times,
writing from Paris, 18th, says that private
letters state that the affair of the Black War
rior, so far from being settled, has been urged
on with extreme violence by Mr.. Soule, and
at the present moment wears a very threaten
ing aspect.
SPAIN.-At the instance of Great Britain,
Spanish decree had been published, ordering
that all slaves i'll Cuba should be registered.
Sardinia and Holland repudiate privateer-
ing.
The ice in the Gulf of Finland was much
broken.
LONDON MARKETS, April 21.-Breadstuffs
firm, and prices steadily maintained. United
States Four worth Sc 40s, but lower quail
ties very difficult of sale.
LIVERPOOL CoTroN MARKET.--Dennistou
s Co. report no quotable change in the market
during the week.
On the 18th the Cossacks crossed the Dan
ube at New Orsova, Turkish fortress on one
of the Danubian islands, and occupied Wards
derova. The Turks were bombarding the
place.
By advices from Trieste of the 18th, it was
said that Prince Daniel, Of Montenegro, on
receiving the intelligence of the Greeks hav-
ing been expelled from Constantnople, pub
lished proclamation, calling on the Mon
tenegrines to take up arms against Turkey.
An Austrian paper of the 18th contains the
following despatch
The important frontier town of Forkshand,
in Wallachia which had just been fortified,
was destroyed by an accidental fire. The Rus
sian stores and provisions, and also the mill
tary hospital, fell prep to the flames.
VIENNA, 1sth.-It was telegraphed that the
Russians occupied Kostendge 1t was also
said that in evacuating the place, the Turkish
irregulars set it fire; also, that they ipassa-
cred all the Christians in the city