The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-07-02

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| ADDITIONAL BY THE NIAGARA.
1ne fo'iowing additional items OF foreign nav,
are by the Niagara:
ha.s o.auoe Hamilton asked what stems had
oeen TAKEN oy the government 10 Obtain oor,.,..
I'on Tor the British subjects residing A. Grsn,'
| ."n' whose property was destroved vbsn th.
| sown was bombarded in 1854 "AeH 'oA'
the nroo.s nersIon could not help characterizips
Tue proceeding as violent and ernsI rofl loc,i N
credit upon the government who ora..ns :. nc
uvne, OF upon the officer who execrtea ,ha 80. -
rue question, however had to be ccnsiderad =.
ene Oh international law, and the law oficers :,
go b.s uec,uea tnat the Inhabitants of Grew
| 'oWn naa no calm to compensation. 10y
| LORD Lorne remarked that the British r,,,.r,,,
nouss .. dteytown was act on fire while The a !.
was n7ing from It. He then Condemned the A. ,z ss
| of the United States e power
Mr. Roebuck ridiculed the explanation oiver hr
the noble lord, that 1t WIS the duty of the conntr
not to protect Greytown from CONQUEST. and !,
allow bombsrdment without interfsrence. The
conuue' OF ,ne american government was dis
honest; and If the offending power had be an Chin,
| instead of America, they would have heard imma.
diatey of the insult to the British flag and
| tion would have been enforced.
Mr. BeDtyck observed that there had been fo,
some time want of deterrlina alton to resent ont.
| RACES committed by the American government and
he considered that policy as more likely to pro.
| mote hostties than to avert them.
The Attorney General denied that In any case
the right to demand satisfaction for outrages by
America had been given up by England, and ex.
pressed regret at the course which the government
had been compelled to take.
Mr.. Disraeli considered the explanation of tn
government as most unsatisfactory, contending
that it violation of international law to bonn.
bard an unfortfed town. The French government
had t10hf rodro tah
meut had failed to do so but he believed that
public opinion being brought to bear upon the
matter would lead to a different course beiug
adopted.
Lord John Russell approved of the course tax en-
by the government 10 regard to the claim for com
pensati0n but thought that explana tions should be
demanded to the insult to the British flag. The
case of China had been referred TO, but our con-
duct there had been most agitious, and totally
opposed to justice that 1t precedent he hoped
would never again be followed
The subject was then dropped.
The Ca hoIic members OF Parliament generally
are still in opposition to The pending Oath bill.
At an adjourned meeting of infuential Catholics
resolution was carried affirming that the bill was
practically a re enaci ment of one which was al
lowed even by Protestants to be insulting and of
fensive, and earnestly reqnestibg all the Catholic
members of both houses of the Leg stature to op-
pose the bill at every stage,
The Bank of England on Tuesday reduced its
aud loans, but the movement created only a very
slight rise in the funds The discount houses also
lowered their rates a half per cent
The London Times publishes an article on Gen
Walkers career in Nicaragua, in which it ca Is
upon the United States government not to tolerate
such briga adage but to wait patiently until time
adds the Central American States to the Union
The alterations in the frisate Niagara were ex-
pected to be completed bt Saturday, the 20sh, on
which day she would leave Portsmouth for Liv-
SrDOOl forthwith shinniDp ha an h.
marine cable. The officers of the Niagara were
being Hospitality entertained by the naval author.
tiles at Portsmouth.
Amongst the presentations to the Q ueen ct a
levee on the l8sh were M-ssrs Cornelius GRIM uell
and Psuyn, of New York, by the American
Minister.
The weather 10 E0gland continued very Inc
and the crops we're in a most proni ling condition
The Question of the abolition of the Iri,h vices
royalty bad created considerable stir IN Dublin
and at \ special meeting of the corporation of
Dublin q strong protest was entered against it.
The election canvass in France continued very
animated, but presented no new feature The
democratic party was still divided aud likely to
continue so. 1t was supposed that none Of their
candidates, If elected, would tske the oath to the
government, although their organs refuse to give
any satisfaction in the matter.
The Steele had received a third warning for an
article in favor of the democratic candidates.
The MoEiteur says that account Of the elec.
ton. the usual result In this case, suspension of
publication will not be enforced.
There is doubtful rumor afoat that Napoleon
will shortly pay another visit TO Queen Victoria
Letters from st Petersburg state that the chole-
rs which is never totally extinct in that capital,
IS now raging violently. The deaths exceed sev-
enty day.
Some disturbances have taken place on the Gal
lacian frontier of Russia. The peasants, believing
the world was coming to an end committed some
excesses, and the troops had to be called OUT.