The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-25

| taxing In stores for the French Government
queen OF Clippers, Great Republic. Monarch oi
toris.
M de Olaguibel Minister from Mexico, had beer
presented to the Emperor
The Gazette fAnSonmois says that among the
numerous candidates for the see of Rochelle now
vacant, Prince Lucien Bonapartc son of the Prince
OF Canino, appears to have the greatest chance o.
| success.
RUSSIA.
The members of the Grand Council of War As
sembled at st. Petersburg, are principally engag
ed on the questions relating 70 the rtifcation oi
the strategic points of the Empire. The fortifica
| tions of kiew will be finished before the end OF
| Winter.
| The Russian forces are at present thus distribut
ed: Generalissimo Prince Paskiewitch; Army Of
| Findland, Gen. Won Berg ST. Petersburg, Gems.
Rudiger and Arbusoff; Esthland, Gen. Gsabbe
Baltic Army, Gen. Sievers; Central Army lKieh,)
Gen. Panintin Western Army tPolando Ger.
| Soumarakoff; Southern Army, Gen. Luders; Cri
| mea Army, Gen. Gorchakoff; Danubian Terrific
| ~, Gen. Setebrakoff; Caucasus Gen. Bebulof;
Transcausus, Gen. Muravieff.
M. Labienski, of the Russian foreign office and
writer Of the Nesselrode dispatches, is dead
The railway from Moscow to St. Petersburg is TO
be protected by redoubts placed at intervals along
the line: each redoubt Is to be occupied by bat
talon of militia, who to be responsible for the
line within their limits to the extent of guarding it
against any surprise by the enemy.
The Price of saltpeter has risen greatly in Rus
sia All restriction have been removed from its
production and although the import duties not
formally repealed it is tactly understood tha. it
VIII be allowed to be imported free of all charges.
IRELAND.
The Cork Examiner states that the quantity of
potatoes atpresent to be found in the possession of
the farmers throughout the country generally,
exceeds the estimate formed at the close the har
vest.
The freedom of the city of Glasgow was present
ed to the Earl of Elgin on Friday. In the course
nj lnnu md iy1fo hiu
ferred to the depressed state of Canadian affairs at
the time he was appointed Governor-Genefal. and
TO the present prosperous condition of that colony,
its progress equaing, if not SURPRISING, the most
favored parts of the American Union. He had al
ways endeayored to maintain cordial feeling be-
tween the colony and the United States 1t was
fair to say that Cuba was very i'll governed, "and
so long as that state of things exists, you cannot
prevent some of the American people from sympa-
thizing with the disaffected. Had he governed
Canada as Cuba has been governed, we would have
found her thorn, rather than being, as she was,
rose. lie should consider 1t the greatest of all ca
lanities, that anything should arise between the
two great Angl0-Saxon nations on the two sides of
tho Atlantic"
DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS.
On Saturday, accounts were posted at Lloyds,
from Constantinople of another dreadful hurricane
having visited the Black Sea- the 18th of last
month and it is reported (although we hope that
the numbers of fatal losses will not be confirmed
that fifty sixty ships foundered during the height
OF the storm off the mouth of the Sulna. Lloyds
agent at Galatz states that in twenty three in.
stances the vessels went down with all hands, as
also fifty lighters which were off the coast at
the time. Not soul belonging to them is sup
posed to have escaped. Most of the vessels were
laden with corn.
Three ships Zone from England, called the Gale.
donia) were driven ashore near the harbor of Se-
bastopol and the crew of the Caledonia perished
in the vessel The Talavera English transport
ship No. 90 belonging to Mr.. Duncan Dunbar, at
Limehouse) il, among other vessels, reported to
be lost on the east coast of Marmora and that her
Majestys ship Oberon had been despatched from
Constantinople to the spot to render assistance. A
distressing shipwreck was also reported by the
agent at Calcutta. An English ship. with 300 emf
grants, (Coolies3 from Singapore. had struck ON
the south end of the Alguada Reef, on the oath of
last October, and, with the exception of eleven,
all had met with watery grave.
ITALY.
Some excitement has been caused to the Pontif-
cal Government, by the report that the President
of Mexico had suppressed the Mexican legation in
Rome, and has withdrawn the Minister. The AZ
chiyes of the Office already packed up for re-
moval. Worse Lit is reported that the Jesuits
being expelled from Mexico and that full free.
dom of religious worship is to be established
COMMERCIAL.
A. +. l. r. MAXWELL's CIRCULAR.
Per dfrical LIVERPOOL, Jan. g. 1856.
The arrivals from Ireland and Coasrwise during the
past week have been moderate. From Foreign Ports
we have only received 2.766 quarters Wheat Z, l96
quarters Indian Corn 857 sacks and 63 bbls Flour;
and from Canada 794 quarters Oats and 90 loads Oat-
meal.
The exports in the same time comprises 626 qrs.
Wheat JAP qrs Barley, 295 qrs Malt TIC qrs OATS
1892 qrs Indian Corn, SIT sacks and $50 bbls. Flour
There has been more business doing, and altogether
better feeling in the trade during the past week
Wheat and Flour have been taken pretty freely on
speculation, and importers have generally raised their
pretensons for these articles Indian Corn, after de
cining to Ais 3D. has recovered to AS quarter
ship, for prime mixed American. The weather has
been mild and open.
At this days market there fair attendance OF
the town and country trade, and good consumptve
at advance of Id per 70 lbs last Fndays rates.
Sd per 70 lbs. the price of last Friday week
American Flour may also be quoted in improved re.
out improvement in value.