The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-11
FOREIGN ITEMS

Lord Raglan, 1t 10 now understood, has made
known his intention not to quit his present com.
niand. unless formally recalled, maintaining that
ne has done all that man can do, and therefore Is
could be construed as an acknowledgment of ne
glect or error.
The Morning Advertiser states that Lord Dun
donald's plan for destroying Cronstadt has been
accepted by the government. Ii win be put to the
test towards the end of June or early In July fine
weather being essential.
Wednesday, the 2lst of March, was observed
throughout the United Kingdom as a national fast
Cd account of the war.
An autograph letter of George Washington. was
sold at auction In London, for 25 The sale of the
Bernal collection of curiosities continued at enor.
nous prices.
Louis Kossuth announces by an advertisement
that he has formed a permanent engagement with
the London Atlas and solicts subscriptions for that
(weekly) paper.
Parliament had been busted, without result, with
the question of the abolition of the newspaper
stamp.
deputation of the American Chamber of Com
merce at Liverpool, had an interview with the
Government upon the subject of the present unsat-
1sfactory style OF the law relating to bills of lading
Lord Erskine, eldest son of the celebrated Chan
cellor Erskine, died at Brighton on the 10Th He
was Minister Plenipotentiary to Washington In
1905
John O'Connor, late of Parsontown, Kings CO..
ireland, addressed to the London Times the fol.
lowing letter. under date of N. York, March S:
In the name of God and humanity, l entreat
you to use your powerful and influential paper to
stop the emigration of my miserable countrymen
from dear old Ireland. They are suffering all
kinds of privation here. Thousands supported on
public charity, lodging In the station houses and
| the Thermometer ten degrees below zero; no work
and no chance of any In the midst of this distress
pected."
A Paris letter to this country mentions that on
the 10th March conspiracy to assassinate the EN-.
peror was discovered at critical moment and the
parties who were to carry 1t out are now In the
State Prison. During the review of the Imperial
Guard at the Tuilleries he was to have been assas
sinated, but by what means has not become public
All that the public know Is that arrests were made
at the moment when the review was about to COM
mence; that the persons arrested were conveyed
to Mazas, placed In separate cells and nterrogated
Some OF the highest families In Paris among the
legitimiss, are said to be implicated In the conspi
| racy.
IMPORTANT FROM THK PLAINs-INDIAN DEP
REDATIoNs.-The steamer Arabia arrived at st.
Louis, on Monday. the lst inst, bringing passen.
gers from Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Utshs and Apsches, after continued depre
dations on the whites, had at last united for
extensive operations The Apaches had nearly
all left the South and gone North to the Utahs-
Five companies of volunteers and two of regulars,
had been preparing to 60 in pursuit of the two
tribes. They hearing of this had sent word to the
II
on the 26th of February-the day succeeding the
departure of Mr.. Hatchers train.
The troops were under the command of Colonel
Fontleroy The Indians, at the last accounts were
awaiting the troops at point called Balos Saado
(Salt Valley on the head waters of the Arkansas
They number, Mr.. Hatcher thinks, from 600 to 800
warriors.
They make no concealmert of the fact that II
government does not either send them ammuni.
ton, or permit them to procure 1t of the traders,
they intend to commence su offensive war, and to
plunder every train
The ChCRcH PROPERTY QUKsTIoN.-We have
already stated that the bill reported by Mr.. Put.
nam had passed both branches of the New York
legislature and given briefly the substance of the
letter Of Bishop Hughes, in relation thereto. w.
B. LIE Conteulx, one of the trustees of st. Louis
Church at Buffalo, which for some time has refused
to recognise the authority of the clergy In con-
trolling church property, has replied to the letter
Of the Bishop. We quote from MIR. lie Cs reulv.
| the following paragraph:
SIT b my arm belief, sir, although very few viii
dare TO express H. that the great majority of the
Cafholics In this country win rejoice if the
Hon. Senator Putnam's bill becomes q lavI-
And would not be at oil surpi sed were some Of
the pastors also to rejoice, bur In peto. g the
greatest part OF their earnings 10 towards helping
the payment for the property bouvht BY thear
bishops, OF the building Of their Cathedrsls and
other establishments and some of them are d 8
most precarious situation, almost bordering on
starvation"
WooD AND Coal on RAnaoAps.--Wood and
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