Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-02-24
TELEGRAPH NEWS.
FROM TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
THREE nays hrrp ppor pupn,y

Arrival Of the Steamship Indian.
PORTLAND, Feb. 24-The Can dian Com
Pa.y screw steamer Indian, from Liverpool
IT, ttth INST has arrived at this port
tan nard steamship America, from Boz
a, egrsphed at Liverpool on the Ilth
oban,aS' erPool, cotton was steady and IN
including %. 900 on speculat;o, anS sa vAs'
port anu TOT ex-
p;oLi were generally quiet. Messrs.
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tive, aud quotations barely nainta;,.S pI
inactive, and poninally 6daIs lower eo,n
qulet leu WIest Gays, white do % 3dass Cd:
Weste IN canal hour 30s 6da3ls Sd, Baltino,.
and Philadelphia do 3lsa32s, Ohio do %. az
3ts; mixed corn SSs 9ds34s, yellow do "a. Ga
white 35sa35s Sd. W.
Provisions were unchanged
Consols for money closed at 93a93t, and for
account 93Ss9Si. AVA
The Parliamentary return Of the income
and expenditures for the year ending Septem-
Der S0th shows total income of upwards of
FL 200 600, and expenditures of upwards of
ass, 900 900.
The Chancellor Of the Exchequer had an.
nounced that the financial statement would be
rendered on Friday.
In the House of Lords, referring to an artic.
le In the Moniteur intimating the probable
union Of the Danubisn principalities, Lord
Lyndnurst wishes to know if the Divan about
TO assemble would take into consideration the
question Of this union, and whether IL would
be decided by the representatives of the
great powers.
Lord Clarendon replied that he sd read the
article OF the Moniteur with surprise, but at
present should abstoin from expressing apv
opinion On the subject.
Mr.. Layard, in the House of Commons- in
ouired whether the Persian Ambassado, AZ
Paris was negotiating with Lord Cowley under
the same full powers which he possessed at
Coustantinople?
Mr.. V. Smith lin the absence of Lord Pal
merston) said he believed the powers were
precisely the same, and that he had eyerv
reason to hope that the negotiations would re-
suit satisfactorily
Mr.. D'Isrseli again repeated, in the most
positive terms, that treaty had been made
by France, guaranteeing Austria her italian
possessions.
Lord Palmerston denied that any treaty ex.
listed, but admitted that France, during the
Russian war, agreed to assist Austria in case
OF instructions in Italy
There was an increased activity in the mo
ney market. ewing to a temporary demand for
money to pay for god xpo rted 10 France
Co. siderable god had arrived from Austria
liza.
Business throughout Feauce was dull. and
there was a general state of uneasiness among
10.
Of trade
The Paris Presse says that unexpected diff
hcriues have arisen between Prussia and
S|Itzerland, respecting the NeufchateI affair.
Ihe Emperor Of Austria has decided ON
granting an amnesty TO all political offenders.
1t was rumored that the Emperor of Russia
would do the same to the exiled Poles
Inc relations between Austria and Russia
and Austria and France are unpromisirg.
Turkey is about to take formal possessiop of
the Delta Of the Danube.
Austria has officially notified the Porte that
the execution of the Principalities will ne
completed by the oath March.
The Indian mail had arrived at Suez There
Is nothing important from the Persian Gulf.
A China letter Of the 10Th December, pub
lished in the Paris Moniteur, states that the
damage sustained by the foreign merchants
was not so great as at first stated OF the thir-
teen Europeans at Chy San Hang FIVE were
destroyed; and of the eighty foreign factories
at canton, twenty-one were burnt
As soon as the English ships commenced
firing, the floating population Of yagsbonds on
Caution rushed into Chy San Hong niIIso.S
and then fred the European stores. The in.
cendIarles were soon dispersed by shells from
the English ships, when the French seamen
extinguished the fires.
The Chinese town suffered terribly, as we'll
by IRE from the English ships as By native
ROBBERS Of the twelve great factories be-
longing to the Hong merchants nine were de.
stroyed at the first attack. great number
Of merchants had fed to Shanghai
Inc Earl of Clarendon has fully approved
ring.
LATEST.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday morning. The
standing orders were complied with on the
Sth, before Parliament, in the case of the At.
lantic Telegraph Company.
dispatch from Marseilles, 10th, states that
Buhler has been sent by the Persian govern.
ment to the seat of War in the Persian Gulf.
The news of a revolt at Marsghah is con.
hrmec The revolters pilleged the town.
fhteen English vessels were anchored CT
Bunder Abbas.