Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-08-28


steam ship .Anglo-Saxon arrived at this
port this Sunday morning. She left
Liverpool at about2 O'clock, pm, on
Wednesday, the 18th inst.
I The route Of the 8ngio-Saxof was too
| far forth of the line selected for the At
lantic cable to lead to any expectation Of
her fallingin with the telegraph cable feet.
The Anglo-Saxon reports much thick wea-
Their and constant headwinds through the
whole passage.
4 Owing to an accident on shore in CT n
nection with The landing of the cable, the
telegraph expedition did not fully sail from
lValcntia, Ireland, until the evening Of
Friday, the 9Th. The latest report from
Valentia is dated Aug, 10, A o'clock, P. NJ.
and is as follows: 4
"The work of laying down the Atlantic
cable is going on as satisfactorily as the
best friends of the great enterprise could
desire" ' l-ec4 e-l So s-u
Up to the present time about three hun-
bred miles of cable have been laid. The
depth of water into which it is now being
submerged is nearly two miles. The lay
ing of the cable from shallow to deep wa
ter was effected without any difficulty The
signals from on board the steamer Nigga
ra are everything that an electrician could
desire. The steamers are heading west
with moderate fair breeze, and the cable is
being run out from on board the Niagara
lat the rate of about five miles per hour,
and messages are being constantly received
on shore. The following is the latest fash
from on board the Niagara:
"All well ON board; moderate westerly
wind; all more and more trustful of COM
plete success" a go n-.av
The steamer Vanderbilt, from New York,
arrived off Southampton on Tuesday, the
18th. Her passage is called 0 days and
13 hours mean time.
The Atlantic, which sailed from New
York at the same time as the Vanderbilt,
arrived at Liverpool at IL on the night Of
the 18th. 4a. ,a
The Cunard steamship America arrived
at Liverpool on the 10th.
Lord John Russell had reported from
! the Parliamentary Select Committee that
the Jews could not be admitted as mem
bers of Parliament under the existing act
IOT TIC mOulucuJlOn OF OaIIS.
Lord Palmerston submitted to the House
of Commons the difficulties with France in
regard to the Moldavian elections, and
stated that it had been dcdided in confer
ence at Osborn to recommend the Sultan
to annul the late election.
5 Lord Palmerston also stated that there
t had been differences between the English
and French Governments relative to the
I Principalities, not as to their union but
simply as to the regularity of the elections
t There was good reason to believe that Aus
S tria would concur with the decision arriv-
S ed at between the French and English
S Governments, and that the Sultan, seeing
that there was nothing in the measures rec
commended that would compromise his dig.
nifty or independence, would adopt theil
views and declare the election void
Lord Palmerston said that there was nc
. ground to apprehend any arrangement be.
.. tween France and England on account Of
the Moldavian difficulties.
A spirited debate had taken place in
Parliament in regard to the affairs of In.
dia. Lord Palmerston stated that 10000
troops had been sent out, and that active
J recruiting was going on.
Mr.. D'Israeli expressed the opinion thai
the campaign for this rear was lost.
!, The Emperor and Empress had return
ed to Paris.
Late Indian news was momentarily eX
pected when the Anglo-Saxon sailed.
The French news is of little interest,"
r The journals unanimously support the at
titude assumed by the French Ambassador
4 at Constantinople. A dispatch from vi
emma states that the representative Of
e France, Russia, Prussia and Sardinia have
@ announced, in notes couched in precisely
: similar terms, the cessation of diplomatic
n relation with the Porte, and their ap
! preaching departure from Constantinople
The Russian Ambassador struck his flag
on the 9th inst. r....-
i The Paris correspondent of the Lon
: don Times says that the pending Difficult.
ties in regard to Moldavia, will be submit
ted for solution to conference of rep
g resentatives of the various powers inter
= ested -t..t
The rumor suspension of negotiation
between Spain and Mexico stilllacked con
frmation.
IS Ihe schouHeI SupitcT unuer American
! colors was seized in sight of Denim, Africa
q on the 18th of June and condemned: Sh,
had seventy slaves on board and man,
n more awaiting shipmenton the beach. TIL
e captain threw the Jupiter's papers over
n board
e Brcadstuffs market closed dull, previou
o quotations being barely maintained. Fo
flour there is little inquiry and the marke
If closed weak. Quotations are; Western
= canal 30@3Os Cd; Philadelphia and Balti
g. more 30@31s; Ohio 31@32s. Wheat ha
experienced decline on inferior qualitie
Il of 1d@2d; red is quoted at Ss@ 9s I'D, ant
d white at 9s 3de9s Sd, closing with ten
le dency downward Corn closed dull an,