The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-09-02
FOREIGN NEWS.
Arrival of the Steamers Indian and City
OF Washington.

VI VdonAu8COus
FARTHER POINT, Aug. %.
The steamer Indian, from Liverpool on
Wednesday the 18th inst, passed this point
on her way to Quebec.
The steamers Borussia and North Briton
had arrived at Liverpool.
At Zurich, on the 18th inst, a conference
between the Austrian and French represent
atives took place, lasting two hours. A
cabinet courier arrived from Paris on that
day.
A second Austrian plenipotentiary, NJ.
Meisenberg, had not left Zurich for Vienna,
as reported.
The plenipotentiaries held no formal sit
ting on the 18th and 10th, but were engaged
in festivities.
FRANCE.-The military fete at Paris, on
the entrance of Napoleon proved to be a
very grand affair. The troops were headed
by the Emperor, and the display was most
imposing.
The Emperor has granted full amnesty to
all political offenders.
A Tie Deum took place in Paris on the
18th in honor of the fete Napoleon. All
the pIenipotentiaries and members of the
federal council were present.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily
Ne,US asserts that the Zurich conference is
at lock. The Emperor Napoleon exhib-
tied symptoms of annoyance at the conduct
of the court of Vienna, and recent articles
in the Paris journals in praise of Kossuth
and Garibaldi, are attributed to this feeling.
The grand military spectacle which had
been prohibited in the Paris theatres out
of consideration for Austria, has been per-
mitted to reappear.
The ministerial journal of Vienna insists
very strongly on the stipulations at Villa
franca being carried out at Paris.
IrALY.-The rumored red republican
movement in Parma is contradicted.
QUEBEC, Aug. 90.
The steamship Indian, from Liverpool
18th inst, arrived at this point this morn
ing. Her papers furnish the following
details in addition to the brief summary
telegraphed yesterday from Farther Point
GREAT BR1rA1N.-Lord John Russell said
in the House of Commons, prior to deliver.
ing the Queens speech, that Mr.. Bruce had
been sent to Pekin with view to the
ratification of the treaty with China, and
that it was the intention of the government
to require the Chinese to fully carry out the
conditions of the treaty.
Lord Palmerston, in reply to question,
said it was the express desire of the govern
ment to encourage the formation of rifle
and artillery companies.
The nomination of Charles Lennox White
as envoy extraordinary to Central America,
and the rumored cession of the territory in
Honduras to Great Britain, had given rise
to the impression that the English govern
ment was seeking to strengthen its position
in that quarter of the world.
Sir William Gore Ousely is about to be
recalled
The arrangements for the great cricket
match in America, between the cricket
players of Goth countries, have been finally
completed. The English players will leave
England for America on the 9th of Sep
TENDER.
Capt. Pember, of the ship John Fife, has
been arrested for the murder of a seaman
named James Macarthur.
A proposal has been made on behalf of
Mr.. Sevor to charter the steamship Great
Eastern for voyage out and home from
Great Britain to America. $4,000 has
been offered.
ST. JOHNS, N. B., Aug. 28.-The City
of Washington has only 400 passengers.
She passed the steamer Circassian on
Wednesday.
The departure of the steamer Great East
ern has been postponed to the 18th of Sep
TENDER.
The Duke of Tuscany has arrived at
Paris, and received friendly reception
from the Emperor.
All the warnings to the French newspa-
pers had been withdrawn.
A great fire had occurred at Liverpool
destroying large quantity of cotton and
grain.
Breadstuffs at Liverpool, on the 9Th, are
dull and slow of sale, but the prices are un
changed. Provisions are dull and sales un-
important. :
FRANcE.-The triumphant entry into
Paris of the army of Italy on the 4th, pass.
ed off with great eclat. The streets were
crowded to excess. All the public buildings
and private residences was decorated, and
the illumination in the evening were on the
grandest scale. The soldiers bearing the
standards taken from the enemy received
ovations.
The Emperor is said to have been coldly
received in the more democratic quarters of
Paris.
On Sunday evening grand banquet was
piven bv the EmperOr to the nrincrnal
chiefs of the army. At the close of the ban
quet the Emperor made speech and deliv-
cred medals to all who were engaged in the
Italian campaign.
On the day of the fete the Emperor par
doned upwards of eleven hundred persons
who had been sentenced to Imprisonment
for the commission of various crimes.
The Moniteur states that the Emperor
has decided on retaining for the present an
r