Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-03-14
THREE DAYS
Il @ter from Europe.
ArrIvnI o. lhe AmerIea.
HALIFAX. March u.


The royal mail steamship America, from
Liverpool Saturday, 2Sth ult., at noon, arrived
at this port this afternoon.
GREAT BRITAIN.-rhe trade and navigation
returns for the month of January are issued
and slow progressive increase.
Mr.. Dallas and Philip Dallas attended the
Queens levee. Feb &c.
In Parlia nent proceedings have been in
teresting. The debate on Lord Derby's mo-
ton OF censure on the Chinese war was re-
sumed, and resulted on division for Derby's
motion llOi against it l46 majority for gov
eminent in full house, only &c.
In the Commons, Richard Golden brought
forward a motion similar to Lord Derbys,
namely:
That this house has heard with concern of
conflicts which have occurred between the
British and Chinese authorities in Canton
river, and, without expressing an opinion as
10 what extent China may have afforded this
country cause of complaint respecting nom
tulhlment of treaty OF 1912; this House con-
siders that the papers which have been laid
upon the table fail to establish satisfactory
grounds for the violent measures resorted to
at Canton in the late affair of the Arrow.
That select committee be appointed to in
qulre into the state of our commercial rela-
tions witll China.
NSDohS ldStSu LWO ulSHJs, ana Is luTLner
adjourned.
Mr.. Ledyard wished to ask Lord Palmers.
ton three questions, namely =" Whether an
ofier OF $1,000 was not made last week to Sir
}. Mcneil and Col. Tulloch, and Indignantly
rejected; whether the noble lord had vet re-
celved any information as to the existence of
the treaty between Russia and Persia, refer.
red to by him (Ledyard) a few days since;
and, lastlY if the negotiations with the Per.
sian Envoy at Paris were completed"
Lord Palmerston said an offer of $1,000 had
been made to Sir J. Mcneil and Col Tulloch,
which was declined, but courteously; sec
ondly, he was authorized by the Russian
Minister of Foreign Affairs to say that there
was no such treaty in existence as that refer
red to: and thirdly, that negotiations at
Paris were not yet finished.
FRANCE.-Paris letters state that the Coun-
Gil of State has rejected credit OF five mil
lions which was demanded for the Depart
ment of War.
SPAIN.-lt is stated in a ministerial organ
that the number of vessels about to be sent
by the government against Mexico, including
transports for ten thousand men, is to be be-
tween twenty and thirty.
AUsTRIA.-The Vienna Gazette publishes
an imperial decree abolishing all passport
regulations within the Austrian Empire In
future it is only at the frontier that passports
are to be shown. The effect produced BY this
decree is very favorable.
ILALY.-A Vienna letter says that deliber-
tons have taken place in the Ministerial
Council at Milan, under the presidency of
the Emperor, having for their object the
withdrawal Of Au tran troops from the Papal
legations Austria will enter into negotia-
tons with France for the simultaneous with
drawal of all the French troops from Rome
and the Austrian from Bologne. The aena-
ton which has recently taken place between
austria and France may have contributed in
fastening such resolution on the part of the
Austrian government.
INDIA AND CHINA.-India and China dates
are received from Hong Kong to January Is.
Affairs in China are reported unchanged.
Private letters from Hong Kong state that a
numerous Chinese fleet had attacked the En-
glsh squadron, and subsequently retired in
good order under the forts of Canton
Admiral Seymour had disembarked troops
and burnt the greater part of the suburbs of
Canton. The fleet belonging to the Chinese
rebels had formed junction with that OF the
Imperialists at Whampoa
A Paris despatch in the MorninQ Post saws.
letters from Macao of Jan 10, state that the
Emperor of China had just placed in a state
OF siege the five ports of the empire open to
Europeans
The Europeans on board the steamer This
tie, in all eleven persons, had been treacher.
ousy Murdered by the native passengers,
The steamer was carried off and abandoned
after being dismantled.
The government of Hong Kong had IN.
creased the police force, and were taking pre-
eautionary measures against incendiarism
The PERSIAN WAR.-Dates from Bombay
are to the I'd inst. Intelligence from Bushire
received at Bombay is to the 18th of january.
The British were still unmolested by the enc
my. An attack had been made by detach.
ment of cavalry and horse artillery on depot
of Persian stores and ammunition. twenty.
two miles from the camp. The object was at
tanned without loss The despatch of rein
forcements had commenced.
Latest By Telegraph to liverpool. Times
City article.] English funds opened with
steadness this morning, but there was sub
sequently further augmentation in demand
for money, which caused general heaviness.
In discount market and stock exchange the
pressure was excessive, AT the Bank of Eng.
land applications were unusually heavy.
The arrangement of the difficulty between
Persia and Britain, progresses satisfactorily,
but the treaty is not yet signed. The pro-
| posed convention specifies that Britain shall
ENJOY equal commercial privileges with the
most favored nations. British consuls NAV
| reside at several stations in the interior Of
| Persia, and at the ports of the Persian Gulf;
but Persia refuses the British request to per.
init eonsuls on the Caspian Sea- inasmuch as
treaties with Russia forbid it. Britain shall
have the right to form establishments ON the
Island of KAYAK, and another at Ormuz.
The Persians shall evacuate Herat, and the
British are to give up Bushire.
The question of the Sound Dues is at length
settled. Denmark is to receive forty five mil.
lions thalers in forty payments bearing inter-
est.