Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-05-16
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LATER FROM EUROPE.
News by the Steamers Weser
and BOFussia.
HostiIities Commenced!

| NEW YORK, May l5.--SUNDAY.--The steam
ers Weser and Borussia have arrived from
| Southampton with Liverpool dates of the 3rd.
Cotton-sales of two days 5000 bales, of
which spectators and exporters took 1000
bales; all qualities declined, Clare says fully
| &; some say nearly /; market quiet and If
| regular. Breadstutfs buoyant with a large
| speculative inquiry; all qualities slightly ad-
vanced; market unsettled and excited. 1t is
impossible to give quotations. Provisions
have an advancing tendency; quotations NOM
| inal; the speculative feeling continues. Con-
soils S939904.
| The Austrians took the bridge of Buffalo
"a after aIsharp conflict and COZ derable loss.
| 1t is reported that Montaras has been taken
and that the Sardinians retreated. The Aus
trians are concentrating at Piacenza. The
Austrians have seized the Sandman vessels
| on Lake Maggiore. Four hundred lives were
| lost by the loss of the ship Pomora.
The steamers New York and Canada ar
rived out.
| The ship Pomona, which was wrecked off
/ Wexford, had 395 passengers and crew of
| ffty-two. Only IL Of the former and of the
| latter were saved.
The Telegraph lines to Switzerland have
been cut by the Austrians.
! VIENNA, May lst.-The Austrians have
| occupied Intra Palanze and Azona The
| Sardinians are retreating at their approach.
| TUNIs, April 2S.-The steamer arriving
! from Genoa on the 9th, brought proclama-
| ton to the Tuscan army inviting them 10
await the signal of war and advanced in a
compact body of 10000 to reinforce Pied
mont A similar proclamation has been
| addressed to the troops in the Romagaa.
| TURIN, April o. Generals CanrObert and
Neill have arrived and gone to join, the
| King Fifteen thousand French Imperial
| qua, Dis have landed at Genoa, making 10000
now there. The force at LULA is increasing
fast.
! TURIN, April 30.-An official Bulletin
| confirms the passage of the TicinO by the
| Austrians Yesterday the King, accompan-
| led by Gems. Canrobert and Neil, visited the
| line of the river Dora. The corps D'Armee
| which entered Piedmont, via Gravellona
consists of twenty battalions, and eight bat
| teries OF cannon.
TURIN, May 1.-The King has gone TO as
sumo the command of the army.
The Austrians are in force at Nevaro and
Pavia.
The French Infantry and Artillery continue
| to arrive.
No decisive movement has yet been made.
BERNE. April 30.-The Austrians after seiz-
| ing the Sandman vessels on Lake Maggiore,
! commenced hostilites last evening.
VIENNA. April 3O.--Buol has forwarded cir
| culars to Foreign Governments giving the pc
| litical end diplomatic reasons for a declara-
| tiou of war.
The Weiner Zsi,11g publishes DEGREES order
| ing an income tax of the third class retained
| from the interest ON public bonds and order
| ing loan of twenty million pounds.
The National Bank is to advance two-thirds
Of the nominal of the loan in the new notes,
The Bank is released from paying specie
! duties and excise dues payable in silver or
| coupons.
A royal proclamation offers bounty Of
ten pounds tor seamen, with the intention Of
| recruiting 10 900 additional. The greatest
activity prevailed in the dock yards, prepar-
ing for war. Napoleon is expected to join
the French army on the Sd.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS have been re-
| ceived from the British admiralty 10 max
| all possible haste to complete the new Class
steam frigates on the stocks. Telegraph
was received at Sherness on the 29h, to send
| The Royal George to Davenport and the Co
| lossus 10 Portsmouth, and To get the Edgar,
| Queen and Trafalgar, ready for sea immedi-
ately.
The Osborne steam yacht has been ordered
| to be ready for Immediate service and Il
placed at the disposal of the Prince of Wales.
Her destination is supposed TO be the Medi
| terranean.
Prussia has resolved to put her army in
readiness for march.
LONDON.--Sugar quiet. A large number OF
failures are reported on the stock exchange.
There are also reported failures from all
| quarters. Wolf Il Co., of Berlin, have sus-
pended considerable failure in Viena is
| reported. The impoverishment and ruin on
| the Paris Bourse this week will eclipse all
| precedent.
No failures occurred on Monday.