Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-26
THREE DAYS
LATER FROM EUROPE
Arrival of the Canada.

VI AHN CAuAuHS
HALIFAX, Aug. 24.-The Cunard steam
ship Canada, Capt. Lang, from Liverpool,
noon of the 14th inst, arrived at this port, at
$50 this evening
Among the passengers, is Major General
Sir w. Fenwck Williams, K C. B., on a
visit to his native province, Nova Scotia. He
was received with demonstrations of intense
delight. the wharves and streets being crowd
ed with people, cheering enthusiastically and
eager to obtain sight of the world-renowned
hero of Kars.
Great Britain.
Politics are dull. The Times, in leader
on the peteat of the Canadian Ministry, says
great crisis should have come on a question
involving an obvious violation of the faith of
the colony as pledged to Her Majesty, and we
only trust some means may be found which
will save the colony from the imputation of
bad faith, and prevent the disruption of the
union effected by the act of 1850. May not
that means be found ia a federation of all
the British Colonies in the northeast of Amer
lea.
A memorial to the Colonial office on the
necessity Of an Australian mail by the Pana-
ma route, is in course of signature among the
leading houses interested in the Australian
trade.
The half yearly railway meetings are pro
crossing in England Reduced dividends and
general mismanagement called forth severe
structures of the press.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin had determined
to give banquet Oh the lst of September to
the principal officials connected with the At
lantic Telegraph. The Lord Lieutenant had
promised to attend.
A Dublin telegram says serious riots have
broken out in Kilkenny, and infurated mobs
are traversing the country, smashing reaping
and other agricultural machines and assailing
the owners. The magistrates had held a
meeting and resolved to petition the govern.
ment for additional police and military force
Soldiers were subsequently, sent to Kilkenny,
and at the latest dates tranquility prevailed.
Favorable reports to the cable continue
to be received from Valentia but it is pre-
sumed American people are equally well
posted. The Queens message to President
Buchanan was expected to be forwarded the
day bafore the Canada sailed.
France.
The Emperor was continuing his tour in
Brittany, meeting, it is said, with consldera-
BILE enthusiasm.
The Paris Conferences are SAID to have ia
ken up the question of the navigation of the
Danube
The monthly return of the Bank of France
shows an increase in specie in Paris of 32,-
900 ,00Of, and in the branch banks an increase
of 1,4O0, OO0f.
The Monite1r announces that the chiefs of
Dunar, one Of the most important districts of
Senegal, had prayed to be placed under the
protection of the French authorities.
letter states that during the voyage from
Cherbourg to Brest, Admiral Desfozses sig.
nailed from the Bretagne that he had at the
req of the Empress, granted general
amnesty for all offenses in the fleet.
Diplomatic negotiations between the Re-
presentatives of Spain and Mexico, for the
settlement of the long pending dispute, were
expected to commence very shortly. General
Almonte, Mexican Minister to England and
France, had notified Spain that he was named
Plenipotentiary a3 hoe. Almonte had resigned
the London Mission OIL account of i'll. health,
but would continue to represent Mexico at
Paris.
Austria.
An improved understanding had been ar
rived at between Austria and Russia.
Italy.
1t is said that the Revolutionary Commit.
tee in London has circulated, by means of
post, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, circulars
NASAbAhS " ihsullSCtlOus
Prussia.
Queen Victoria had reached Potsdam, on q
visit to her daughter.
Very unsatisfactory accounts have been re-
ceived at Berlin, from Tegernze, of the health
of the King of Prussia.
RUSSIA,
The American Company which undertook
to raise the ships at Sebastopol, has failed.
They raised the Turkish steamer, which was
rotten. The Russian ships being CT green
wood are probably in the same state. Their
masts are gradually Disappearing
A letter from Warsaw says a religious re.
form has taken place in Russia. The govern
ernment has limited the powers of the ortho.
dox Greek clergy in certain matters, and has
suppressed some ridiculous ceremonies which
had been introduced into public worship.
Turkey.
The late collisions in Bosnia, in Turkish
Croatia and Montenegro, have causad sort
of panic in the Capital Mussumen and
Christians were living in mutual fear of one
another, The sultan to show his own con-
fdence, had gone in the feet on the excursion
to Smyrna and the Archipelago. plot
having for its object the massacre of the
Christians was discovered at Smyrna, and the
Governor had made seizure of arms and
sent the guilty persons to Constantinople.
1t was reported that on the 2Sth of July. n
band Of MonteDegIins, one thousand strong
assailed Koiaschin and killed nearly one thou
sand inhabitants, who, confding in the arm
istice, were unarned. The montenegrins
burnt many houses, and carried away women
and children into captivity.
India and China.
Details of the Calcutta mails of July 4 add
nothing important to the telegraphic Dispatch
es. The negotiations with the new Chinese
Commissioners were proceeding at Tientzin,
and an interview was to take place on the 7th
Of June, which would decide whether the
Chinese government would yield to the de-
mand of England and France, or force them
to continue the war.
The London Posts Paris correspondent
writes that official dispatches had reached
Paris, from which it is concluded that tho
Chinese government desires peace. When
the dispatches left it was expected that terms
OF peace would be offered. accompanied with
permission to establish embassies at Pekin,
representing England and France.
GRANT BY THE FRENCH CONVENIENT TO
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Men,
York, Aug. 24.-We understand that the
French government have granted to the At.
lantic Telegraph Company the exclusive ripht
for fifty years, to land telegraphic cables ON
the Islands Of Miquelon, which lie between
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, in diree.
tion about thirty miles southwest from tho
latter, and about two hundred miles from
Sydney, N. s.
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