Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-24
FOUR DAYS
LATER FROM EUROPE
Arrival of the AngIO-SaxOn nj Quebec.
ANY IIl1,W IN ID IL, . u n 10 nrIE q 4 RI z
FROM INDIA AND CHINA.

lUEBBC, august ~. steam propeller An
glo Saxon, from Liverpool IL A. NJ, of 18th
INST, arrived at this port this morning.
There has been great anxiety in regard to
the success of the Atlantic cable. The first
regular message from Newfoundland was re-
celyed at Nalentia on the night of the 9th.
The speed over the cable is said to be greater.
than aoas attained at the trial at Plymouth,
and the current apparently as strong. Shares
continue to be quoted at about 600. No
messages, except from the two governments,
can be sent during the electrical experiments,
which are expected to occupy several weeks.
Victoria and Albert embarked at Gravesend
on the 10th, to visit their daughter, the Prin.
cess Frederick William,
At a meeting of the Great Eastern Steam
ship Company, it was resolved to receive Of
fers for the purchase or charter of the ship,
and to advertise her for sale at auction, and
in the 10 eantime to endeavor 20 raise money
by mortgage.
The London Tunes reviews edtorialy the
lamentable condition of Mexico, and con
cludes as follows lit seems there is moth
ing left for the United States but to consum-
mate the work they have begun, and annex
the land of Mortezuma and Cortez, which,
even under the lash of the slave driver, viii
not regret the illusory liberty of the Mexican
republic"
Telegraphic communication between the
English shore and the Channel Islands has
been successfully completed by submarine
cable.
AS the steamship Arabia was leaving Liv-
erpool for New York on the 7th, an absoond-
er from New York, named James FIFTEEN, who
was doubling on his pursuers by returning to
America, was arrested by the police, and
lodged in Jail. Nearly $4,000 in Ameri-
can securities were found on his person.
a prospectus has been issued for Malta
and Alexandria telegraph, to complete the
Mediterranean portion of the line to India.
The project is to submerge a cable from Malta
to Gambia, from whence the lines will diverge
to Constan tinople and Alexandria.
The principal papers published Aug IL, a
long narrative of the voyage of the Agamem-
non. The Times asks whether it would not
be worthy of the nation to confer a reward on
her officers and crew.
India.
The news is of but little importance.
The rebels had returned in force to the
jungles of Jugdispore. Gen. Layard had re-
signed on account of ill health. The g wal
Tor rebels were believed TO be making for
Bhurtpore. Maun Singh was besieged at
Shagurh by the Begum's army. Gen. Whit.
lock force had captured Fierouan, in Banda.
China.
Hong Kong dates are of June %. The
Pei Ho gun boats had advanced to lien Sin
without meeting any opposition, and now
command boJh the river and the grand canal.
The English and French ambassadors were
located ashore neer Ten Sin. The American
and Russian ambassadors had followed the
allies up the river.
A mandarin of high rank the second
officer in the empire, had arrived from Pekin
as special commissioner, to negotiate.
Canton was much disturbed, and it was re-
ported that several Europeans and Sepoys had
been murdered.
France.
The papers TEEN with accounts of the Cher
bourg fetes, which had concluded
Victoria left on the 9th, under triple
salute.
The consumption. Of guDpowder at the
fees was enormous.
1t is rumored Napoleon will return Vic.
toria's visit in private, friendly way, at Os-
borne during the autumn.
The Emperor had ordered pyramid of
Granite to be erected at the head Of the new
dock, to perpetuate the Queens visit
The fetes terminated on the Sth, with the
Inauguration of statue Of Napoleon L. The
Emperor delivered pacific speech on the oc-
casion, saying it appeared to be part of his
destiny to accomplish by peace, the great de-
signs conceived during war. He said the
government would not wage war, except in
defence of the national honor and the great
interests of the people.
The Emperor has definitely decided on the
construction of a commercial port at Brest
also on the improvement OF the port of
POEient.
Italy,
The wheat crop of Naples had proved in
general to be good, but oats and barley had
completely failed. The maize crop was very
large.
The Salermo prisoners had been conveyed
to their places of punishment publicly and in
irons, and the proceeding caused considerable
indignation among the people.
Africa.
Late advices from the West Coart report
that the British ship Trident had brought III
to port as a prize, the American ship Eliza
Gibbs, filed with slave-decks and stores.