Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-23
ArrIvaI of lhc VamderDIIt.

Arrival Of tho Vanderbilt.
New YoRK, June 5.-The steamship
Vanderbilt, with dates from Liverpool to
the Sd inst, has arrived here.
The Europa's advices reached Liverpool
on the 30th ult.
The Vanderbilt reached her dock at IL
o'clock this morning, and brings one hun
dred passengers, including Mr.. J. p. La
bagh, bearer of important dispatches from
France.
GENERAL 1NTELLIGENcE.-The Grand
Duke, Constantine visited Queen Victoria
on Saturday, and returned to France on
Sunday.
The English treaty has been ratified.
| Thirteen hundred houses had been
burned at Constantinople.
Serious political outbreaks had occurred
at Brussels, Antwerp and other Belgian
towns. Several converts and monaste-
ries had been attacked, with cries of "Down
with the Catholics and Priests."o
The troops interfered, arrests were made
and quiet was generally restored.
The steamships Leopold and Hermann
arrived at Southampton on the 30th ult.
The Grand Duke Constantine upon his
visit to the Queen, was saluted by the
English ships war, and also by the Uni
ted States frigate Susquehanna lying in
the roadstead. The latter left Immediately
after and proceeded to Gravesend.
The brevity of the Dukes visit compared
with his stay in France, is much commen-
ted on by the English journals.
The British troops had evacuated the
Persian town of Mahmora, which they
captured in March.
That part Of the Atlantic Telegraph ly-
| ing at the factory of Messrs. Glass d Co.,
at Greenwich, had barely escaped destruc-
ton by fire, some of the sheds of the ad-
joining buildings containing the cable hav-
ing been burned down. ia
The u. S. frigate Niagara will be fitted
up to lay portion of the cable without
damage to her. I ~
The Indian mail steamer Parana had ar
rived at Southampton with over E3,OO0,-
600 in specie. .a,.a c
| The recent storms in France had done
great damage to the vines and crops.
Vague rumors were current at Paris OF
another attempt upon the life of the En-
peror while on a visit to the Military Muse
um, but the rumors have not been con-
frmed. a..I.
Mr.. Stevens, the English Consul at Te-
heran, arrived at Vienna on the 3Oth ult.,
with the ratified Anglo-Persian treaty, and
left for London on the same evening.
The Arch Duchess Sophia of Austria
died at Buda on the evening of the 29th.
Dispatches from Constantinople state
that the subscription list to banking
scheme, started by the native firms, had
reached f1, 100000.
The Federal Assembly at Berne has been
convened for the 9th of June to ratify the
treaty with Prussia.
! The Spanish census was nearly compile
ted, and the result will, it is said, show a
population of 1900, 900 souls.
The Constitutional publishes private
letter from the Persian Gulf, received
through Bagdad, which announces that on
the 21st of April the British troops evac-
uated the Persian town of Mahmorah,
which they had taken possession of at the
latter end of March.
Brussels has been the scene of popu-
lar turmoil, which at one time assumed the
features of political demonstration. 1t
took its rise from warm and exciting de-
bate in the Chamber of Representatives,
upon charitable institutions. A sentence
uttered by one of the members was loudly
cheered by the spectators in the gallery,
when the President gave orders to the huz-
zars to clear the galleries. Soon after
wards number of men with their hats
on their heads, forced their way in, and the
Chamber was again cleared by the troops,
and orders given to strengthen the posts
outside. The crowd increased to thous-
ands, and cries of all kinds were heard,
shouts of 'ViVe le Roy,' mingling with
ga 6as le Convents, down with the priests,
down with the Catholics, let us drown the
President" &c. 't.'
The ferment spread to Antwerp and sew
eral other Belgian towns. The males
broke the windows of several of the mon
asteries and the Jesuit colleges. ast,
The King was very popular. Numer-
Gus arrests have been made. At the latest
dates order was restored in most places.
The Moniteur announces the dissolution
of the Legislative Body. The new cleo
tions are to commence on the 21stof June,
and the number Of deputies has been fixed
at two hundred and sixty-ive.
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Arrival Of the Europa.
HALIFAX June 3-The steamship Eu-