Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-07-08
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.
Four Days Later from Europe.

Four Days Later from Europe
New York, July 6.-The American mail
steamship Baltic arrived at her wharf at IL
o'clock this morning, bringing dates from Liv.
erpool to the 25th ult.
The Cunard steamer Africa arrived at Liv
erpool on the 22d ut.
American Affairs.
A London paper thus condenses the news of
the week as regards American relations;
Judging from the country newspapers, we
should say that the whole country is delighted
with the turn the American question has taken,
and it is surprising how much the public has
become enlightened on the subject by the cheap
newspaper press, every paper of that class hav-
ing devoted itself to the national exposition of
our American difficulties. The country also
appears pleased with the nomination of Mr.
Buchanan.
Our Liverpool correspondent adds that the
feeling on American affairs has now subsidized
so much as to have no longer any unsettled
effect on the markets, although several leading
presses yet keep up their grumbling.
I The London Times advises that Great Britain
hurry up the settlement of the Central Amer-
can difficulty before Mr.. Buchanan is elected
| President.
| Nothing important has occurred in Parlia-
ment The Parliamentary Committee on the
| Danish Sound Dues has met.
A gentleman named Gainsborough, who uses
only the initial I'D" but who has enclosed his
card to the editor Of the London Star, writes
1 that he is near relative to Mr.. CHAMPION and
thus terminates his letter:
| ~ have most strongly felt and most firmly
| believe that the public interests have been
overlooked for private considerations Sir
Philip Champion, Baronet, of whom the late
American minister is the only son, and the
Earl of Clarendon, during the Earl's viceroy-
atty in Ireland, as well as in former times, when
his lordship (then Mr.. Villiers) occupied
situation in the customs in Dublin, we're on
terms of the most cordial and intimate friend.
ship.
| Through his lordship's interest Mr. Cramp-
| ton first entered the diplomatic service-through
his lordship's interest Mr.. Champion was pro-
NOTED to that exalted position he has recently
| filled, and in which, through his lordship's ex
ertions he has been retained until the Presi-
| dent of the United States has been compelled
to dismiss him, though the voice of the country
and the honorable feelings of the majority Of
our countrymen felt that Clarendon ought at
once to have recalled him. / repeat, sir, and ]
fully believe that the public good has been
sacrificed to Lord Carendons private friend
ship, and therefore, although personally / shall
feel inclined to spare Mr.. Champion on the
ground of our relationship, put you in pos
session of these facts" IS.
General Intelligence.
France continues interested on the subject of
the Empress regency.
The loss of the ship Ocean Queen from Lon
don to New York. is recorded at Lloyd's. The
ship Moro Castle, of Windsor, has been found
abandoned, and was towed into Brookhaven.
Her masts were gone. She was timber laden.
The Emperor of Russia has constructed
new Cabinet, including Gortschakoff, Lasnkoi,
Ostensacken, and Orloff.
Advces from Parma state that the Grand
Duchess, while attempting to leave her domi-
mons, was arrested by the Austrian military
authorities, and obliged to return to her CAPT
tai. On demonstrating, she was told, that as
the Governments of Parma had called on the Aus
trian troops it was necessary that the sover-
eign should remain to countenance their acts.
A letter from Malta, dated June l8, states
that the Anglo-Italian legion had disbanded,
and that part of them will go to Genoa, where
they are engaged by the revolutionary party,
where agents have long been actively at work
work among them, supplying them with money.
These agents openly declare that preparations
for disturbances are going on in Piedmont
most satisfactorily, and that the Germans are
| secretly countenancing them. Mazzinis agents
at Malta say that everything is ripe in Naples
for great movement.
Sir John Darlington has written to the Lon
don Daily Ne,cs, stating that the policy Of
erecting the Bay Islands into British colony
was adopted by the Administration of Lord
John Russell. The preparation Of commits
sion for Bay Islands was directed by his (Sir
J. Parkington's) predecessor, Earl Grey, in
1852, and all that remained to be done when
he (Parkington) took the Office was to sign the
warrant, and despatch it to the governor of
Jamaica, both of which documents we're al
ready made out. Sir John Darlington is only
responsible, therefore, to the extent of not
having rescinded the arrangements completed
by his predecessor in Office.
Further Foreign News.
NEW YORK, July 6-P. M.-Liverpool letters
of Wednesday report cotton firm, with sales Of
ten thousand bales. Breadstuffs were steady.
Provisions unchanged.
Money at London was easy. Four and
half million pounds in gold had been received
the rate of interest was contemplated in the
ensuing week -
The evacuation of the Crimea was completed
on the 9Th of June. Sixty thousand French
and ten thousand British troops remain at
Constantinople.
Political Affairs.
There had been no further discussion of
American affairs in Parliament.
Spain had accepted Of the mediation of
France to arrange her difficulties with Mexico.
The losses by the inundations in France
exceed two hundred millions of francs.
The La Presse says that the mediation of
Russia contributed to an arrangement whereby
the United States agrees to pay to Denmark
the sound dues for another year.
The wheat crop in Russia is enormous.
England and France had resolved that
Moldavia and Wallachia must continue to have
separate governments.
Under the change in the Russian Cabinet,
Gortschakof retains the Office Of foreign affairs.
Ship News.
The ship Capitol, from Baltimore, arrived at
Liverpool.
The ship Unicorn, from Liverpool to Boston,