The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-22

and discount houses generally had made no alteration in
their rates in their allowance.
said that the city Of Paris WAS about
loan for sum equal 10 $40 900 900.
Sub criptons were invited fi lS4 900 six per cent
debenures of the Grand Trunk Railway Of Canada, and
the whole amount was taken up during the day at o.
The traffic returns Of railways in the United Kingdom
@bished for the week ending January so amounted to
1872 4lo and for the corresponding week Of 1857 to
1877 ,29o showing decrease OF fi,sso The gross re-
epts of the eight railways having their termni in Lon
amounted 70 fl62, 2le, and for the corresponding
.seek of las, year to fl64 ola, showing decrease Oh
eases.
The latest addresses from the French army were marked
by q less hostile spirit.
The Paris Moniter publishes decree which invests
Prince Jerome Napoleon (unce of the Empero) with the
right OF attending the meetings OF the Council of State and
presiding over in the absence Of the Emperor
Lord Cowley British Ambassador TO France,
Wit 10 London and rumor busy TO the object in
view One report that he would not return to Office
at the Imperial Court
La Presse Of Paris made its appearance the 4th
ipst after its two months suspension.
Feluk Khan, the Persian Ambassador, has ordered
from Paris manufacturer the apparatus necessary for
the establishment of electric telegraph in Persia The
object Of Feruk Khan's visit TO Rome ia conclude
treaty Of commerce with the Pope, and to arrange
better the position of the Catholic Bishops Persia
Spanish royal decree declares that the amnesies to
rocs, and other offenders the occasion of the birth Of
the Prince of the Astuans is to be extended TO the
Spanish colonies.
despatch from Madrid, dated on February says
.The address reply the Queens speech has been
voted"
Letters from Copenhagen state that the legislative dis
which lasted during two days terminated by the
rejection of Hostein proposals. by vote OF Al against
The President declared that the acceptance OF these
proposals would equivalent to the humiliation OF the
great charter that Denmark ought the less readily to
consent to such measure, as her position was not an
isolated one.
In Belgium the Chamber of Representatives had adopt
ed without discussion bnl prolonging for three years
the law of 1885 regulating the policy concerning TO-
regners
The ST. Petersburg correspondent Of lie Nod says that
the Emperor Alexander adding example to precept has
resolved emancpse the whole Of the serfs on his pr
yste domains the time securing to them all the
advantages the peasants Of private individuals
he also gives up to them grauitousy all the buildings
with their dependencies in which the peasants reside
After succession of which lasted from the 18th
TO the l4th OF December Schamy obliged to defer to
the desire Of the whole population of the Great Tchetchna
and give in his submission 10 Russia.
The Porte has caused project to be prepared relative
10 the reform of the don of the peasantry in the
psnuban PriDcipalities The project in question pro-
Claims the abolition of serfdom and the emancipation Of
the peasants
The viceroy of Egypt has, appears, positively dis
carded in very decided and tangible way, Ie prciet
sna1nfque Of NJ Lesseps that the ingenious projectors
of the Ship Canal must henceforward trust to its
own sources make the desert bloom like garden "
Said Pasha at length fully awakened TO the conviction
his line Of railway, connecting this fine natural
port OF Alexandria with Suez and the port of Ataka n
the Gulf of Suez) is far more magnificent project
Hs said tha, the dispatches received in Paris from
French having announced that the sanitary con-
c,ion Of the colony much improved, the French go
vernment has resolved TO retain penal settlement
but al the time to transport 10 New Caledonia all
persons found guilty Of political offences.
The steamship Msgdalena at South ampton, with the
West India mails, had freight $i,7ol III, l9 on mer
chants account S522472 in gold dust and bars $500 in
minerals 81 900 in pearls and jewellery, Ia serons of
cochnea $3.50 of indigo 63l Of 80 bales Of aap,
box OF vanilla is bales Of tobacco, packages Of tor
tose she'll turtles "A bales OF sarsaparlla and gen
ers cargo consisting of IS packages Of samples This
cargo calculated to be the most valuable ever sent
home by the company's ships.
The serpent had been by the oicers and
OF ship Castlian of St Helena on the 18th OF Decem
Der Enthusiastically detailed by them in communi
cation TO the British Board Of Trade
The weather very cold both in France and Prussia