Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-13
ADDITIONAL. FoREIGN NEws

ADDITIONAL FOREIGN NEWS.
We published, some days since. by telegraph.
synopsis of the news brought BY the Steam
ship Atlantic. We present below some aldi-
tional items. received through our Eastern ex-
changes
The Gazette Uniyerselie Allemonfie has a let
Ter from Vienna, dated the 18th ultimo, stating
that II had been announced that the Congress
of Paris would not meet a second time, aud that
the Commissioners fthe five great powers would
assemble at Constantinople 10 settle the ques-
lions now pending q TO the Principalities. the
Bolgrad difficulty and tie Isle Of Serpents This
Is quite wrong Nothing has been settled on the
subject, and the negotiations still going on-z
The extraordinary activity which prevails In
\ the Russian ship building establishments ON the
Black Sea has awakened the dis;rust of England
and that power has lately applied 10 France for
the purpose of making a joint representation 10
| 1t being notorious that the czaf has, at this
I moment, twelve nen-of.war on the Black Sea- 1t
! Is believed that the Cabinet ofthe Tuilleries has
not deemed such inter pellatica cppcrtHne At the
4 present time.
Il The Joursal des Debats announces that the
Marquis AntoRlni the Neapolitan Envoy, recciv-
ed his passports on Friday. s.
The Assemblies Rationale, in an article six
columns long and headed; rLet US be friends,
but not tools Of England, replies 70 the attacks
1 OF the London lines.
\, Nothing positive Is known of the Fate OF He
rat It appears, however, that the hopes enter
tanned of getting possession Of the city hs friend
! " means had not been realized. The data as TO
/ the real position of the beseiged IS exceedingly
/ vague. Ii is said they suffer severely from "a
I mine, but thai the Persian troops are but little
Il better e
i Bokhara merchants who have come from He
rat within the last month"; state that ut The time
lof their passage through the city the siege ope-
rations were scarcely pereeptible, and that there
/ MAS only thin blockade at tae principal gates.
4 Provisions and caravans entered freely By al
1.-The other outlets
! Adyices have been received from Constants
fnople of Nov. 18th. 4 frightnl confagration
/ had occurred AT Peru, in which about six hum
| dred houses were consumed. a very extensive
Il fire had also occurred at Atrianople which de-
Istroyed much property
il s catastrophe of terrible character had oc-
icurred at Rhodes The lightning had struck an
immense deposit of glnpowder, which had been
stored in the yalAts of the ancient Knights of
Rhodes An explosion and fire of a rightf1l
/ character ensued. The whole Turkish quarter
lwaSdcstroyed, together with its population, on
II three children escaping
4 Although accounts from Naples do not notice
4 any apparent change on the surface of things,
81 yet manifesto of very strong character, has
1 been posted sbont, in which the people are told
that the most civilized powers of Europe had in
terposed TO save the Neapolitan people from the
horrible system under which they suffered
THE people, says the manifesto, ,'are purpose
Fly kept III ignorance that they may be the more
easily brutifed by superstition, aud ruled by a
4 corrupt system of espionage and police They
are told that "they ought to take advantage of
; the sympathies of the great Powers while they
f are and active, and rise in yindication of
their suppressed constitution" Other accounts
continue TO speak of conciiatory intentions on
Il the part of the King.
81 Spain is still in an unsettled condition. Later
accounts from Madrid describe the late move
tment at Malaga as of no ordinary character.
Insurgents, crying give Ia Republi9ue,p fired
lon the troops; and there were, says the Posts
correspondent, both killed aud wounded on both
sides The Government had sent orders by
telegraph TO execute fifteen insurgents, besides
nine that had already been put to death
Spanish Constitutionalists are horrified at an
attempt which, like all abortire Efforts of pal
try faction. only serves to supply pretexts for
more stringent measures of coercion.
So far from Marshall Narvaez being suspect
ed OF satisfaction at an attempt at insurrec-
ton, as calculated to strengthen his authority,
he has reason to fear that it will be used by
that reaetionary course which he IS attempting
j to stem. ~ sssss-l ( = i
i Arrests had been made at Madrid, and if re-
+ port be true, the army could not be safely re-
lied on TO support the Government in a collis-
ion with the people. eass
The Paris Presse contiins significant an
nouncemcnt in abiding to the Persian expedi-
ton. In the course ola description of the in
4 tentions attributed to the English Government
IN the Persian Gull. which comprise the occupa-
ton of the Isle of Karrak, it claims that island
as belonging TO France saying kaTral, ii has
been forgotten, belongs to France in virtue of a
i treaty concluded in 1863, between NJ Pyrauit.
our consul at Bassors, and Kerim Khan proba,
bly, the wisest of the soyereigns who have reign
ed over Persia in modern times. This treaty is
doubtless bat little known, but that considera-
ton does not diminish its importance since no
Interior convention hasaboished or modified it.r
Letters from Vienna, state that the affair be-
4 tween the Porte. and Montenegro is settled for
the time. 80 49, = - ~ e tsss, 2 s'sSal
s The Porte reserves its rights of srzerainty,
but viii assert then,i IN the event of any renew.
ed, aggression by Montenegro On this under
Standing tne Porte has now suspended its milf
il tary preparations. Esk
The Neufchatel affair began to wear very
3 dangerous appearance. Switzerland will have
4 to give way very suddenly, or the consequences
may be serious: Adyices from Berlin, by tele
j graph, on Monday evening, say that unless the
matter IS settled before the opening of the Cham
bers, the King OF Prussia will have to refer the
subject IN language from which there will be no
lretreating hereafter. The Swiss journals of the
2lst, state that the Federal Government is neg
Letting no measure which prudence can COM
ma md for the defence of the territory. 8
I ias1ffzsii =
GHANsE s Countries Speaker Banks has 1
made the following changes in Congressional 4
committees: q z
Mr. Oliver, of Mo-, on Elections, instead of
| Mr. Savage; Mr.. Howard. on Ways and Means, 9
instead of Billinghurst; Fuller, of Maine, on 3
Commerce. instead Of Mr. Mcqueen; Messrs. q
Garnet and Mcqueen on Revolutionary Claims.
INSTEAD of Messrs Smith of Virginia ana Fuller. y
of Maine; Mr.. Allen. instead of Mr. Bel, on Ag- s
riculttire Messrs Sherman and Cadv aladar ~,