Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-10-09
LATE NEWS.

"A l. r. IN T. WO.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
The Conference at Zurich.
TREATY ABOUT TO BEJCONCLUDED.
Dir John Franklin's Expedition Discovered.
= THB SAN JUAN AFFAIR IN ENGLAND
Mutiny on Board the Great Eastern.
British Dom onssrations Against China.
AFFAIRS IN I7ALY-TARIOUS RUAORS.
Tho Cession OF Savoy to France denied
by sardinia.
SAokvILLr, N. B., Oct. Tho Royal
Mail steamship Canada, Captain Lang, left
Liverpool at 3 p NJ on the oath ult, and
arrived at Halifax at IL A. NJ. on Tuesday
the 9th inst.
The steamer City of Washington. from N
Y, arrived at Liverpool at IL r. M. of the
2lst ult.
The steamer Ariel, from New York, arri-
we'd at Southampton on the night of the 23d
ult.
The ship Josiah Quincy, from Leghorn
for Boston, was abandoned at sea on the
lsh Of 1lUpmber, leaking badly. The crew
had feaehbd Liverpool per ship Eddystone
% had alsO porto, Of the cargo.
The London Morning Hsvald gives pro-
minence to the following paragraph:
We have reason to believ that a def.
mite treaty will soon be concluded at Zurich
1t will, however, bear only the signatures
oftwo Powers, France and Austria. The
preliminaries of Villa Franca will be strict
ly maintained. As to the relations of Aus
tria and Sardinia, we learn from Vienna
that the prelminaries Of Villa Franca will
serve a. a guide to the conduct of Aus
tria.'
A Berne telegram says courier from vi
emma had reached Zurich with Instructions
to draw up q treaty of peace and a docu
ment for the cession OF Lombardy to Sar-
dina No allusion is made to the Duchies
1t is hoped that treaty will be signed in
few days.
Thirty Of the crew of the Great Eastern
had been arrested and tried at Weymouth
Tor mutinous conduct in refusing to wash
the decks when ordered. The two ringlead
ers we're septenceu for three weeks and a
month respectively at hard labor, and the
remainder for a fortnight each. The evil
dence shows that the ships crew was far
from complete.
The English journals strongly denounce
the incomplete and hurried manner in which
the ship was sent TO ses.
A vague rumor has been current that her
first voyage wi / be postponed till next
year, and that in the interim she would be
exhibited at the principle ports in the king
dom. This, however, is authortatively
contradicted, and she ie still advertised to
leave Holyhead for Portlan on the 29,h of
October.
1t is announced that the Queen, on her
way back from Scotland, will visit the
Great Eastern at Holyhead, on the 18th,
and stay at Penrhyn Castle as the guest Of
Col Pennant.
At the agricultural show at Lever. .
steam chaf cutter exploded, killing four
persona.
Upwards Of q thousand marines, strong
detachments of the rifle brigade, with light
infantry regiments, DC, were to leave Eng
land for China. by the overland route. The
first of the equadron for service against
Chisa had already sailed. The government
intend despatching fifty gun.boats, besides
frigates and other vessels
Sir Cusack Rooney writes to the Dublin
Journal positivey asserting that the gov
ernment intends setting aside the Galway
ma contract ct the next session Of Parlia.
ment Some Of the Irish papers ridicule the
idea.
An order for 1000, 900 cartridges. packed
io 400 boxes had been executed at Wool
wich in three days. including the storisg on
shipboard. These 60 to China overland,
and second order TO much greater extent
vas progressing for the sea voyage.
The London Aduertisev gives report that
Robert Stephenson, the great engineer, is
dangerously i'll.
It was asserted that the result Of the King
of the Belgiau's visit to Biarritz was sue
cessful. Various rumors were afioat.
The Paris correspondent Of the Times
says the great report Of the day was that
the question of the Duchies had bean ar
ranged that Tuscany is to be reigned over
by the King Of Belgium's second son, and
Parma and Modena by Maximillian. An.
other report says that Count Flanders is to
have The thrss Italian Duchies. and the
Grand Duke Maximillian. Venetia, with
separate constitutions. These reports must
be taken for what they are worth.
Another Paris rumor Was to the effect
that there vas to be no Chinese expedition
that the head Of the Pei-ho mandarin has
been proffered in atonement, coupled with
promises Of all the satisfaction required,
and that shs Anhasaedofs will Be immedi-
ately received.
Ii was expectsd that the King Of the Bel
gians, Prince n. Hstternich and Count
Walewski would remain st Bisrritz till the
departure Of the Emperor ct the end Of
September. Prince Poniato wsski had quit.
ted Italy for Biarrit8 Lord Cowley had
had net gone 70 Biai ritz % was expected,
and is va thought he vopld not GO
The Parb ,essrsapoadsnt Of the London
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