The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-08-07


ing order.
That the enterprise viii be perseyered in until successful
ly accomplished there be question for the exclu
sve privileges and guarantees themselves which the com
panes have obtained are In the opinion of those most
competent to Judge of value than the whole capital
required TO manufacture the cable
The Agamemnon left Greenwich the Gath for Sheer
ness to have her compases adjusted, after which she
would proceed direct To Cork.
An important alteration in the arrangements for lay
ing the cable has been determined upon, and the plan
now instead Of commencing in midocea, is to submerge
the whole cable in continuous line from Valencia bay
in Ireland to Newfoundland The Niagara will lay the
first half from Ireland to the middle of the Atlantic the
end will then be Joined to the other half on board the
Agamemnon which takes it 10 the coast OF Rewound
land During the whole process the four vessels will
main together and give whatever assistance is required
Constant communication is to be kept up with the coast
of Ireland during the progress of the work. and the wires
are to be at carried from Killarney to Valencia bay
as to connect with the British and Irish lines.
FRANCE,
PARIS July 22-The Monfelr contains the following
For more than month the police has had proof that
plot had been formed in London to make attempt
the life of the Emperor Three Italians charged with the
execution Of this horrible project were at Paris and ar
rested The arms also which were to have been used
for the preparation of the crime have been seized they
consist of ponards, revolvers, &C. Brought to justice,
the prisoners had already confessed their crime and
vealcd the of their accomplices.
The government notwithstanding, suspended the pro-
cess might not be regarded of influencing the
result of the elections which about to take place
The proceedings are now resumed and an ordinance of
the Juge Instruction sends before the Chamber of Accu
saton all the prisoners arrested with their accomplices
Their names Iibaldi Bartollotti, Grill otherwise
Saro) Mazzni Ledru Roln Mazarenti and Campanella.
The loaeur says the that French troops to
be sent to China is entirely without foundation.
One of the arrested Italians is said to have made full
confession Of the details of the recent conspiracy.
1t is intmated, the one hand, that the French au
thoes had good grounds for the military display and
hasty arrangements which they made at Berangers flu
neral account of the movements of the secret soce
ties but the other, it is affirmed that the alarm of
the government was groundless as no demonstration
was intended
The PAS saws that the British government has already
communicated to Mazzni that, although England would
continue to afford asylum to all political refugees he
could not any longer be allowed to prepare expeditions
against foreign States English soil 1t is also stated,
from other sources that the British cabinet had promised
to subject Mazzini to a strict surveillance.
report had been current of another attempt to the
Emperors life at Plombierres but it appears to have been
unfounded.
The London Globe dscredits the report that Queen Vic
tora will visit France this year.
The Paris correspondent of the Independence Beige says
that the sending out of French and English vessels
of-war to Tuns is spoken of.
The Mo, alludes to the discovery of the Italian plot
to assassnnte the Emperor Napoleon says that it
concocted in London and places Mazzni and Ledru Rol
lin among the accomplices to it,
An extraordinary decline from the recent high prices of
wheat in Spain is reported.
The capaingenera and the civil governor of the prov
nce of Seville to be brought before council of
account of the late troubles
The execution of insurgents had been stopped by the
government
The London Times publishes a despatch from Paris.
dated the 24h stating that the Spanish government af
ter hesitation has accepted the offer of mediation
in the Mexican question made by Lord Howden and the
Marquis de Turgot in the of the English and
French governments.
MADRID, July Is.--A deputation from the corporation
of Seville accompanied by the deputies for that province
and bearing petition signed by nearly 5000 persons
waited yesterday upon the Duke of Valencia to enreat
him to use his influence with the Queen to stop the
cutions in Andalusia Another petition, signed by the
Of Seville had been sent to the Queen In reply
to the deputation General Narvaez read royal order,
dated the previous day. which enoned the authorities of
Seville to put else to death without previous
muncaton with the government. That enough has
tainly been already done to strike terror and deter from
similar instruction will be admitted by all who read the
following paragraph from the Constitutional, of Cadiz
The prisoners conducted in carts to the Prado
of St Sebastian There they drawn up in line and
company fired upon them 1t happened that the voey
killed two persons who eludng the vigilance of the
nes placed to keep the ground had got in the Of
the criminals The deaths that have tax place in con-
sequence of the instruction amount to 9825 in the affair
of Bcnaojan, shot in the first instance in Seville "a
Saturday Is the 18th, Is at Utrcra Is at Arba
and the two killed by accident"
1t is high time, indeed, that the government should
show a little mercy.
THE ITALIAN RESURRECTION.
The Debd contains the following details respecting the
late nsurrectionary movement in Italy The plot was
conceived large scale, and slilfully organized
the most experienced consprators not only of Italy, but
of France and Germany, privy to the arrangements
The leaders Of the movement had considerable sums of
money at their disposal the orgn of which remains
mystery The supreme direction of the conspiracy was
intusted according to all accounts to Mazini He Wis
tied Genoa it is sad at the of the month
of April having through Germany France Switzer
land and the italian provinces of Austria defyng
with presence of mind the vigilance of the Austrian
police which is nevertheless clever in discovering those
who are obnoxious to it,
We acquainted by the declaration of M. Rataz-
ri that the merit of the discovery of the plot at Genoa
due to the French administrations which at placed
itself in communication with the courts of Rome Naples
Turin, and Florence Two circumstances then the
Italian courts enabled to take precautionary meas
ures and the conspiratos themselves detected and
threatened 1t is said that confusion and hesitation en-
tered their ranks that the majority desired adjourn
men of the enterprise but that the minority insisted on
an immediate appeal to The explosion of the plot
the work of this obstinate minority This criminal
and absurd enterprise has occsioned great evils and
caused many victims. Tho conspirators have ost many
of their but generally happens the leaders have
taken care of themselves
The Daily News correspondent, writing from Naples on
the 10th, says that attempt about to be made it
is pretty well ascertaned known the authorities
days before 1t took place There communica-
ton the subject made by the King to the Intendene
of Salerno ST. Ajossa Still it thought wise to let il
take its course and crush it after IL had been made The
resistance made by the population to the insurgents on