Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-03
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Arrival of the Vanderbilt.

Steamship Vanderbilt from Liverpool, July
Dist, arrived at New York on Sunday NOM
ing, with 800 passengers. Her news is three
days later, but not important,
The Atlantic cable fleet were off cape Clear
on the 10th. The weather was favorable for
laying the cable.
Great Britain.
There has been a sudden changein the pro-
gramme of the queens visit to Berlin, Prus-
STA. There are TO be no fetes, no salutes, no
demonstrations usual on, such occasions. The
cause of this change is not fully known, but
it is undoubtedly on account of the delicate
health of the princess Frederick William.
The queens visit will be of strictly family
character.
There had been interesting debates in par
lament on the Jeddah massacre. Radcliffe,
late ambassador to the porte, advocated en-
ergedc measures for securing full reparation.
There was no intention of occupying Mecca.
The French government will join England in
demanding reparation. The Turkish govern
ment had sent a general officer to Jeddah,
entrusted with powers of life and death.
The interview between the sovereigns of
England and France at Cherbourg will take
place August 9Th. A new line of battle ship
will be launched. aud grand ball and dinner
will be given. The plenipotentaries of the
Paris conference will be invited.
The funeral car of Napoleon the Great,
about to be presented to the French, is at
length finally ordered to be completed at
Woolwich, England. In addition to the man
who acted as coachman to Sir Hudson Lowe,
at St. Helena, and who has given information
descriptive of the decoration and other portions
of the carriage, as arranged for the funeral
bier, and which are at present wanting, a
second veteran who also served as guard over
the imperial captive, and who assisted in pre-
pairing the carriage for the purpose of the
funeral, has been met with and has described
every particular required, so that no difficulty
now remains in transforming it to its original
condition.
Paris correspondence states that the Duke
de Montebello, French minister, was lately
ordered to represent the court of st Peters.
burg that it might perhaps be better, to avoid
any misconception that the Russian squadron
about to proceed to the Mediterranean should
so arrange as not to be visible at Cherbourg
when Queen Victoria is there.
A monument to Madame Sontag has been
erected at Marenthal, near Dresden, by the
Duke of Mecklenburg Strelits. Madame
Champagneux, the only daughter of the cee-
brated Madame Roland, has just died in Paris.
The challenge of Morphy, the great Amer.
lean chess player, had been accepted by Mr..
Stanton. The stakes are a thousand guineas
on each side, and the contest will take place
in September.
The House of Commons has discussed at
length motion by Roebuck, that the privil-
ages of the Hudson Bay company, about to
expire, ought not to be renewed, and that
such territory held by them as needed for the
purpose of colonization ought to be assumed
without delay TO the government. The mo-
ton was finally Withdrawn.
The attempt to raise funds for the compile
ton Ofthe steamship Great Eastern had failed
and it was proposed to form new company
to purchase her.-The cotton supply associa-
ton of England is very actively engaged in
collecting subscriptions. They are about to
open an exhibition on an extensive scale.
The Liverpool cotton breadstuffs and provi-
sions markets were steady, but dull. The
London money market was very easy. Con-
soils for money and account closed at 90 IL
Is SIS. The weather was very favorable,
and the wheat crop promising. Flour was
dull and nominally unchanged ; buyers were
demanding a reduction.