The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-08-20
FOREIGN SUMMARY.
ENGLAND.

0ooAo On tne 81 or Atm instant The paying. out
experiments which were made between Dover
and and Queenstown we're perfectly successful.
Ihe' following dispatch was received from
Queenstown:
@Qneensto,on, July 3l.-The submarine cable
os board the Niagara and Agamemnon, over
twenty-five hundred miles long, was Joined to.
gssther last evening, and messages sent through
ata entfse length in less than second. Every
thing works beautifully, and we are all in high
SPIRITS. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is ex.
pected to witness the commencement of the
proceedings. Signed Cyrus W. FIELD.
II addition to what has been said in regard
70 tie great horse race, we have the following:
The French horse Monsrque won the race.
The English horse Riseler came off second !;
Fisherman, third Prior, fifth and Prioress,
sixth.
A large and influential deputation from the
Clifton Supply Association of Manchester had
an interview with Lord Palmerston, for the pur-
pose of submitting to him certain proposals,
by means of which largely-increased supply
nay be obtained from India. The result of
the interview was not stated.
Mr.. Muntz, the well-known reformer and
member of Parliament from Birmingham for
seventeen years, died on the 30th. There was
some talk of putting Mr.. John Bright in nomi.
nation to fill the vacancy.
There had been a great political demonstra-
ton at Rochdale, composed principally of non
electors. Resolutions were passed, declaring
that it is the right of every man who has ar
rifed at the age of twenty-one years to have
vSte in the election Of members of Parliament,
AID to have the protection of the ballot in the
exercise of that right and that there ought to
b. distribution of the constituencies through.
OFT the United Kindom, equalized in proportion
| to the population.
| The journals from the South and Middle
wrds districts of Ireland state that the greatest
Anxiety began to prevail with regard to the
IS fety of the potato crop, although the disease,
| it was generally admitted, had only partially
m anifested itself
| The trial of the conspirators charged with
| designing the assassination of the Emperor, is
to take place on the 9Th or 9Th of August.
| sLablache, the famous singer, is dead.
| 1t is reported that the elections have resulted
sc unsatisfactory to the Emperor, that a mod
il cation of universal suffrage is contemplated.
| The Journal de Havre intimates that it has
been officially decided that the New York line
of transatlantic steamers is to be granted to
Bsvre, with subvention of three million francs
| tba Antilles line, to Nantes with six million
| subvention; and the Brazil line, to Bordeaux
apd Marseilles, with five million subvention.
| Letters from France say that the harvest
| 81 spasses expectation.
| The three per cents closed on Friday at
| 6e,05c. The majority of the directors of the
| b nix of France on Thursday rejected the prop
os ton for lowering the rate of discount to FIVE
| pee cent.
| A Loudon paper says: at is now antici-
pated, net merely that France will refuse to
recognise the validity of the Moldavian elections,
bat also that she will peremptorily insist at
| CsnstanEnople on the recall of the Kaimakan
| V:Srgorides. Should Turkey refuse, as is very
prabable it is believed that France will pro-
| p6ae to call the Paris Conference together to
dc eide the question. The affair altogether looks
| ebony"
| aeschid Pacha, the Grand Vizier, had ten.
deed his resignation, but it was not accepted.
| II PORTUGAL.
| The Brazilian Government, through their
| Mioisfer at Lisbon, are understood to have
made urgent representations to the Portuguese
Government, regarding the large amounts of
fofged Brazilian paper currency, which are
manufactured in Portugal, and sent out for
circulation to Rio and elsewhere.
HOLLAND.
| Bills for the nominal abolition of slavery in
| the West Indies have been presented in the
| Second Chamber by the Minister of the Colonies.
According to these projects, Government will
! diSburse sum exceeding twelve millions OF
| fl Gins TO purchase slaves, who are afterwards
toE-be allowed to continue to work for their
mssters as previously, or to labor under the
| objection of the public functionaries but they
art not to regain their liberty until they shall
hsye reimbursed the expenses of their pretend
ed emancipation, and shall also have gained
tbs consent of the authorities.
| SPAIN.
ealavera has been declared in state of siege,
on account of destructive fire there, which is
at ,ibuted to the revolutionists.
She Spanish Mexican question is to be fur
tn discussed at Paris.
letter, dated Leghorn, says that twenty
pc sons, arrested for the affair of June 30, have
be- IN let at liberty, but fresh arrests are daily
msdei
'shn grain crops were magnificent. At Genoa,
wbaat, which sold month ago at 33f, had
fal. en- to 23f.
9she cholera is prevailing extensively at St.
Pc erhburgh.
fEhere is much anxiety to hear from Nizam's
col ntry, as the first regiment of cavalry sta
tio,ied there mutinied, and committed great
atf icisies at Hauzie and Hessar, but many of
the Europeans managed to escape. No Euro
pes ns we're killed at Arungzabad, and the mu-
timers were dispersed.
The Bhurtpoor lines also mutinied, and the
officers were obliged to fly, but none were in.
jursd. At Allahad, twenty, six Europeans and
their families were killed.
Che rumored conspiracy at Calcutta was on
the pSrt of the Mussuimen. The King of Dude
and others were at the bottom of this affair.
Nearly all the native troops stationed there
have been disarmed.
The defence of Calcutta is subject of much
anxiety, and Government has consented to the
enrolment of volunteers, who patrol the streets
at night. The inhabitants are armed, and the
public bridges, hotels, and other principal places,
are gsr7iscaed by the sailors belonging to the
ships in the river.
The French consul at Calcutta called togeth-
er all the French inhabitants and captains of
French vessels, and desired them to furnish
anc equip flrca Of srmed men to watch over
the safety of the European community. French
fad lies were being taken on board vessels.
Il letter from a highly -respectable source at
i Ms,lras, dated June 9th, says that official in
telEgence had been received Of the fall of Delhi.
Il CHINA.
The advices from Canton state on the 9th
May thirteen junks were destroyed and twenty.
seven captured. On the It'll of June, British
naval force of two thousand men took fort,
and captured or destroyed 81 junks, mounting
95O,guns, and manned by 5000 men.
At Hong Kong, the export of tea from the
LIST Of sly, last year, to toe 10th OF June, was
6S,46V000 pounds, and of silk 42,569 bales.
At Singapore, good business was doing in
imports. Produce was in good demand, but
the supplies we're scanty. Sterling exchange
/, A. 1EE.A 6e The pauu cron If Nankin silk