The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-02-22
THE DISPATCH.
s,nssn = iseoRNffsa....-..... FEBRUARY q. 1865
90. rycN NEWS ny THE BALTIC.

rhs details BY tho steamer Baltic present put
ma. Of interest, beyond that heretofore received
BY telegraph. We append some additional Items
' LAUNCH or rHr LgyfArHaS.
The steamship LesiAfhan was successfully float
a in the Thames, on Sunday, the Sat OF January.
Arrangements he'd bean perfected 70 comp,e.e ths
launch Oh the day previous, but ahe presaienee %
heavy gale rendered p9s.pone.a s.n,e,ons !,
was determined to proceed with tue epstas
tsocs rather than encounter the RISK whicn
further Heightened delay would have entaiied.-.
The dual floating Of the great snip Wa sss 81
with uerfeet ease and accident OF any KIND oc-
Cured, although the river was literally covered
vtth hoata fall of people, and the timbers forming
ths cradle, which had been kept down by the
wssght OF the vessel, assembled with great force
son tveasy or thirty feet above tho surface Of tho
eater The scene was Q brilliant one, end the
authusissm of the mnItitades who witnessed the
huach was manifested In loud and continued
cheering. ss
boats to her nooriugs opposite Dsptford, where
she will remain until her internal arrangements
ere completed.
GENIAL NEWS.
General Ashburnham, who was appointed TO
command the British forces In China, but was
transferred to India, had suddenly returned to
Eugiand without leave, because-as 10 said-only
q command in the Pnnjab was suggested 20 him,
which did not answer his expectations.
"A
on the 81, aud resolutions were adopted declaring
th.a No messu,es Of reform would be complets
vithout household suffruge and the ballot. Char.
tat ameadmsnts for universal suffrage were de-
fsatrd by Iarse maiorities.
A frishtfui coiiisry explosion had occurred at A
pit near Ashton uder.Lyne. About one hundred
men we're In the pic az the time. and IL feared
that many OF them were killed At latest dates
shout FORTY had been taken ont alive some more Oh
is.s .n,ured-aud two de.d.
The Paris carre.popdeut of the London Tnss re
rorts that the IMPROVEMENT which was beginning
Il he observsd Ga the urneral trade of the conptry
haa bean check ed by The rumors In regard 10 the
rsstrjet,ye measures proposed by the government
and the yioIent language empIoyed In the military
Addresses 20 The Eplpsror. Wheat and -four had
declined IN price In almost all the markets Of
France. Brandies we're dull aud Quotations iAliins
seios. ap"s 1''p"'~ W "'' Vi "0 -"
There is no doubt that tho Emperor will modify
.,ms ri tha rnost strtn0ent csuses of the renres
s;cn hiII The naners discovered nv the English
,nIio. o. pierri's bcnsa al Birmtnohan, are r,nw
m the hands OF the authorities in Paris but II Il
not known whether thew have led to spy further
di.riosnrrs Orstui and pierrI confess all that Is
imnnt eli IN them. Their mnrderous designs. i,
annesrs. we're no. confined 10 the Emperor: other
sover4iy,s were to be tncIuded in the asssssipa.
ston and especjaiIv the Pope the King of Ma
ptes and the King of Sardinia
runor was current that the assassination OF
the King of Piedmont formed a part of the pro-
srsnrne which included the death of the Emperor
Es,oIeon
Ths Rank of Holland had reduced fits rate Of dis.
eouot from 10 AZ per cent
The National hank of Turin had reduced its rate
Of disoount from 7 to g Der cent
Letters from Paris mention the failure of VI
James Oder one of the oldest and most respecta-