The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-07-20
Riftmonb qispattb.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY %, 1859
FURTHER BY THE INDIAN,
Important News from Germany The Pence
Propositions of Prussia..Hcr Armies To
march to the Rhine and Frontiers of ST.
tCsi1.

OWING to the heavy storm prevailing. This
morning we give fuller details of her adyiccs
/ "hlch, bearing on the probable spreading OF
| he struggle In Europe, are Important
| GREAT BRITAIN
In the House of Lords on the ith a motion
I Tor n select committee to inquire into the on.
/ Grafton OF the Church rates system was agreed
to. In the House of Commons the same even
ing, Mr.. Grii!iths inquired whether the British
( Consul at Rio de Janeiro had exercised any.
/ thing 10 prevent certain contract for the sale
OF siaNeS IN BrnZt! by British mining com.
pany from being carried into effect. Lord
John Russell said that the COMPANY had heen
informed that they would be liable TO penalty
! ~ siahes We're soid MI. Gladstone announced
tiiat me hnanciai statement would be submit.
/ teG as soon Us the estimates were prepared =
Lord. l.. Paget said il was intended during the
/ present session 10 bring in a bill to carry out
I the recommendations of the commissioners
+ 1or manning the navy.
Lord Palmerston repeated his statement
ihlt no reform measure could be introduced
/ at present
On the 5th, in the Lords, Lord Stratford de
Radcliffe gave notice of Il resolution approving
/ the neutral attitude assumed by the govern
menf, relying on the continuance of that poIi-
cN, Dut it the same time adopting measures
Tor the completion of the national defences
Lord Iyndhurst strongly advoca ted yjporous
measures OF defence both on sea and land He
thought that a regular military force of one
hundred thousand men ought to be maintain
:
/ militia. He regarded the assertion. that
France hat no wish to invade England. as nm
deserving of consideration. England ought
to live IN perfect independence of French for
Deafaucc, relying alone upon the yigor of the
people.
Lord Granville deprecated the Introduction
OF subject of delicate a nature He
! thought Lord Lyndhursts remarks We're cal
cuia;ed TO annoy and irritate the French He
spoke hoWeYer,aS did other members in favor
OF strengthening military and naval defeuces
In the Commons, the Chancellor of the FIX
chequPf. in answer 10 Mr. Baxter said the At
lennon OF the government had been called 10
} the contract TO carry the mails between Gal
way and the United States but had not vet
considered whether it would be to the interest t
OF The public that the said contract should
under certain conditions be cancelled He i'm,
tended. however 10 move for Il select commit
tee TO inquire into the whole system of con-
tracts
The Fourth of July was celebrated in LON
don by Il banquet ut st. James Hall-Gen R.
B. Campbell, United States Cons ul at London
presided. Among the guests were Messrs
Dallas, John Bright, NJ F., Cyrus W. Field,
and others. The usual toasts were given and
responded 10 with much enthusiasm. Mr.
Dallas, in speech, compared the present DO
sItion OF Italy 10 that of the United States
in l776, in its wish for independence and
without entering into the merits of the war
expressed warm sympathy with the spirit of
national independence, let ii exist where it
may. aud concluded by proposing a sentiment
y
toast of non-intervention, the true policy of
free government, coupled with it. in euIogisfc
terms, the name of Mr.. Bright That gentle
man responded in characteristic speech, in
which he gave his strong assent 10 the toast.
and reiterated his admiration for American
principles.
Sundry other speeches We're made and pass
ed off well.
Charles Nilliers has been appointed Presi-
dent OF the Poor Law Board, with a seat in
the Cabinet, vice Miner Gibson who accept
ed the post declined by Mr. Golden.
The London Advertiser gave currency to q
rumor that Mr. Golden is likely to be offered
the Governor Generaiship of Canada.
1t is stated that Mr.. Disraeli was offered
baronetcy on his retirement from office; he de-
clned ii.
Mr. Hure, British Consul at New Orleans.
sued for and obtained divorce from his wife
in London.
A deputation from the Atlantic steamship
Company Galway line) had waited on the
Chancellor of the EXchequer to urge sundry
improvements at Galway haIbor.
1t was announced that the Atlantic Tele-
graph Company obtain the cooperation of
Robert Stephenson. Professors Wheatstone
and Thompson, who, with Mr.. Variey con-
sulting electrician of the company and other
scientific individuals, will form a committee
10 investigate and advise as to the construc-
tiOn of the next cable.
Mr.. Seward. Secretary of the Atlantic Tele-
graph Company, publishes letters contradicto-
ry of the absurd rumor that the cable had never
been i'll practical operation. He shows that
there Were actually transmitted a total of three
hundred and siXty-three messages, or thirty
nine hundred and forty words.
THE POSITION OF GERMANY.
On the ith inst. there was an extraordinary
sitting of the Federal Diet at Frankfort, when
Prussia presented new and further proposals
respecting the establishment, extension and
command of the corps of observation on the
Rhine. Immediately after the sitting NJ de
Usedon left for Berlin.
Prussia, it is said, has given tranquilizing
assurances to the French government.
A Berlin correspondent of the London
Times says that the PrusSian proposals were
in the hands of Russia and England. The
writer says that by the end OF the week the
Pfussian army viii be in full march. Two
corps FdTnlse will BE- stationed on the SiIesian
frontier in case of an unexpected attack on
the part of Russia. On the lower and middle
Rhine 10000 Prnssians viii be stationed; when
these preparations are completed, Prussia will
probably make her proposals 10 France, and
these VIII unques stionably be refused. The
same correspondent gives an outline of the
propositions which include the erection OF
Venice into a separate kingdom. with the
Archduke MaXimillian as King.
THE WAR FEELING IN GERMANY.
The Berlin correspondence of the London
Times of July l, says:
The political atmosphere throughout Ger
many is charged with clouds. and a storm is
impending. 1t viii probably burst ere long
different proportions. and the Rhine may wit
ness battles fierce and bloody as that lately
Waged on the banks of the M1nclo. Prussia
is one vast camp. The clash and din OF arms
resound on every side, and from the frontiers
of S;ilcsia 10 the boundary of the Rhine there
is one dreadful note of preparation" pro-
pose To consider the circumstances which
have produced this result, AT time when no
German interest is Immediately threatened,
and when no excitement prevails, or ever did
prevail, throughout the greatest part OF North
ern Germany.
The Prussian people have no sympathy with
the cause of Austria in Italy. They feel that
her triumph there would lead to reaction al
home, whereby their hopes of progress to-
wards constitutional government would be
delayed, If not defeated. At the same time,
they detest France and French policy; not a
German who has not heard from earliest in
| fancy OF the exactions at Hamburg and the
sack AT Lubbock, of the atrocities of Davoust,
and 1he lnnumerabie miseries entailed by the
deieat OF Jena They have too long suffered
from the influence exercised by Russia over
their royal firnily, and it is to England they
look for help and guidance, for counsel and
support. As | write these words and ms
though my thoughts had found an echo a hat
terry of artillery is passing under my window.
IFS superb band playing "Rule Britannia '')-
When, therefore, England pronounced for an
absolute neutrality so long as the war was
confined to Italy the liberal party throughout
Prussia re-echoed the cry with singular una
nimity They felt that by assuming this at
titude the moral, and probably the material,
supDort of England-nay, even OF Russ1a-
would ha secured if German interests Were
threatened. They knew that We're the Rhenisi,
frontier TO be endangered, Germany would
rise as one man, and they were content 10 bide
their time, trusting, in case OF attack 10 IheiI
nroyed courage ana the goodness of their
cause. =,
Sueh was the attitude of Prussia at the
commencement of the war. A loan OF up
wards of fiG0U,oW was voted by the Cham-
xl,I,a fna,, m "
after it's announcement every farthing was
taken in the country. The government was