The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-14
DAILY DISPATCH.
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ADDITIONAL ny THE CANADA.
INC following adviees by the Canada are received
by telegraph from Halifax:
sr.. t- -r THE ATLANTIC TEL yGpApu


sF 3 E. -T THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH
1t was intended that the vessels comprising the
expedition for laying the Atlantic telegraph cable
rh"uiu leave the port Of Cork for Naleptia on
me 5ist July or the LIST of August, and that
the weather permitting, the shore robe shouId
be landed aud the vessels commence sinkinr
the cables on tho Sd or 4th If August II
IS intended strictly to avoid giving priority
OF Information and TO afford no facilities for
topping or speculation during the laying of the
caoie a house was being constructed at the ter
minus, into which would be introduced the end of
hs caOle and during the progress of the laying Of
!. no one VIII have permission there, excepting
Ihe secretary OF the Company and his assistants,
ana they viii avoid all communication with per-
sons outside. Progress will he reported daily to all
Lafts OF Europe. The paying-out experiments
from the Agamemnon. between Dover and Queens
town, were perfectly successful
The following was the latest telearaphic fiisnateI
regarding the cable:
QUEENSTOWN. july 81, 1857
hioHARp STUART, Esq. Agent of the Associated
Press, Liverpool:
Tue submarine cable on board the NIAGARA and
agahemnon, over twenty FIVE hundred miles lopg
was Joined together last yeninp, and 90,
,nrough lts entire length in less than a second -
hFsfSthIng works beautifully and we are all
ih hlgh spirits Tho Lord Lieutenant of ireland
,Sra - !" "''hess the commencement of the
III, 0uls'' CYRUS ". FIELD
The royal assent had been given 10 the hill in.
cooperating the Atlantic Telegraph Companv
THE NUTISY II INDIA
Inc details of the Indian news, already teIe-
sfTlhed, reached London on Friday night.
hhmors were very prevalent that Delhi had been
taken; but according to the Last authen,;n ac
counts, dated June Il. it was still in the
W ,he Insurgents. IL was very generally believed
~ !n LDIuuh on tfiday evening, on the strength OF
the communication from the East India IIonse
That Delhi had fallen after the close of official honrs
ana accordingly an advance took place in consoIs
The tall OF Delhi will do more oquench rebellion
than anything else. There is some anxiety about
the NIZams country as the LIST regiment Of Cavalry
had mutiDied- and there were great atrocities com
mitted at ilanzie and Hcs-ar, but many Europeans
escaped. No Europeans were killed at Arung bad
The Bhutpoor levies had mutined, and tho officers
were obliged to fly, but none of them were injured
At Albal!ad twcnty-siX Europeans and their fami-
lies were Killed, Including, eleven officers.
The cx-king of dude and his Minister have been
found To he at the bottom Of the conspiracy in
junction with the pensioned Hing Deie, and it is
asserted that discoveries of other MahOmetan priD
Ces being concerned in il has led to the dsarrning
OF all the native troops at Calcutta and in the
neighborhood with the exception of body guard.
which IL composed of picked and we'll tried men,
Many otthe disarmcd men have since deserted. The
deftnc" of Calcutta has become subject of great
anxiety to tho European government, which had
yielded to the pressure. and consented to the eat
rolm"nt"f Il corps Of volunteer guard who patrol
the streets ut night
In Calcutta and the neighborhood great excite
meut existed, owing 10 the discovery of IL cunspi
racy for general uprising the part of the Mus
stinian population, aud seizure of the city by
them. The inhahitHnts keep themselves armed
aud the public buildings. hotels and other priucnai
places. are garrisoned by sailors belonging to
ships in the river. The French Consul at Calcutta
called together all the French inhabitants ani cap
taln- OF French vessels end desired them to furnish
and equip a force of armed men to watch over tn.
safety of tn" european community. French fami-
Hcs were being taken Oh board vessels.
letter from Biuney Co.. "a highly respectable
irm dated Madras, June q, states positively that
official intelligence had reached Madras on the
previous day Of the fall of Delhi.
THE WAR IN CHINA.
Further details of the naval operations in the
Canton river state that the 21th of May thirteen
junks were destroyed. and that on tine 18th twenty
seven heavy armed junks were captured.
On the sth OF June two thousand Of the British
naval troops were engaged, and captured a for,
ami took or destroyed hundred and twenty
seven junks, mounting over nine hundred guns
with nine thousand men. Tie British Lost thre,
officers and eight men, and fifty-six wounded
some mOrtally.
tAt Hong Kong the export of tea from the Ist o
July last year to the 10th of June was cS. o.,
| pounds. and of rilk S2.5ti9 bales.
| AT Singapore good business was doing in i'm
! ports. Produce WAS in good demand and the sup
plies were scanty. Sterling exchange is. lUd;t5
! The new crop of Napkin silk was reported to b,
| fine and abundant but prices were very high.
| At Foo Choo the supplies Of tea were small ant
| quotations were advancing.
General Burnham and staff arrived at Honi
! Kong on the lCth of June.
| Lord Elgin WAS at Singapore.
The United States frigate san Jacinto remained
at Hong Kong.
GREAT BRITAIN.
In the House of Commons on Wednesday nigh
! the government was in n minority of sixty upo,
| n division for the second reading Of the Superan
| nuatinn bill 4 motion for second reading hayiul
been carried, on the following evening Lord Pal
| ha
! to the bill.
! The new Divorce bill was then debated and siren
opposition was shown to it, but it was ordered
| t. second reading.
| tackled and Lord Granville defended the present Go
vernon General of India, the latter stating that Lore
Canning was proving himself quite equal to tn,
| emergency.
! On Friday. in the House of Commons. Lord Pal
merston said that communications had been mad
| 10 the Venezuelan Commissioners upon the suhieC
| IF the British schooner Maria at Caracas and thai
the British Charge Ahaires there had bren in
| structed to take such steps i'll the matter as h,
might deem convenient
Prince Napoleon had visited Victoria at the Isl,
of Wight and the Emperor and Empress Of Fran,
were expected there about the 9TH of August.
Rumors We're current that the government in
| tended to send ten thousand additional troops t,
| India.
| A large and influential deputation from the Cot
| ton supply Association of Manchester had an
| interview with Lord palmerston for the pupose o
| submitting to him certain proposals. hy means o
which largely increased supply may be obtain,
| from India. The result of the interview was no
| stated ....'
! Mr. Mnnty. the well known refOrmer. and mem
| Der of Parliament for Birmingham for seyentcpI
years died on the Both. There some talk O
putting Mr.. John Bright in nomination to fill th'
vacancy.
There had been great political demonstration
at Rochdae, composed principally of non-elector'
Resolutions were passed declaring that it is th'
right of every man who has arrived Mt the age q
twenty-one wears to have vote in the election q
members of Parliament and to have the protectifI
of the ballot in the exercise OF that right, and tha
there ought to be distribution Of the cOnstituen
ces throughout the United Kingdom cqualizcd il
proportion to the population.
! The Journals from the south and middleward dis
tricts of ireland state that the greatest anxiety n
gan prevail with regard to the safety OF the pota
to crop although the disease, 1t was generally nj
mitted had only partially manifested itself.
LIVERPOOL. Satnrday---The clipper ship Light
ming arrived today from Australia, with 33,ST
ounces of gold
FRANCE.
The Emperor returned to Paris from Plcmbicre
on Wednesday.
The JsuraaI,fe T,rre intimates that it has beer
Officially decided that the New York line of trans
atlantic steamers is to be granted To liayre with
snbvention Of three million francs: the Antille
line to Nantes with six million subvention: ant
the Brazil line to Bordeaux and Marseillcs with fy
million subyentiun.
Letters from France say that the harvest surpas
scs expectations.
II IL reported from Paris that the result of tn
elections has proved so unsatisfactory that modi
fcation Of universal suffrage is contemplated.
The three per cents closed on Friday at 66f 95c
The majority of the directors of the Bank o
France ON Thursday rejected the proposition 70
lowering the rate Of discount to five per cent.
SPAIN.
Talavefe had been declared in state Of siege OF
account of destructive fire which the government
attributed TO the revoluti0nsts.
The Spanish correspondent of the Times say
Tint the Sparish-Mexica question will be fnrthe
Olsen ased In Paris. Lord lowien had arrived thnr
from Madrid. rs also had Iafrsgua, the Mexican
nnvoy.
.. PnRTtetr
Tho BraEili7r government. through their Minis
I;,b, fopit IN hoen rprdn