The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-03-13
THE NORTH BRIgoEs MAILS.
We give the following additional items Of news re-
oeived by the North Biton

ENGLAND.
In the House Of Lords on the 2Ist, Lord Derby appeal
ed to Lord Grey 10 postpone his pending motion in regard
10 the Ionian islands. He said Mr. Gladstone was en- route
for England, and he would undertake, If the motion was
postponed for a fortnight, that no act which the Ionian
Parliament might pass, should be ratified until the house
had an opportunity of discussing any motion that might
be presented.
Lord Gray assented, and the subject was postponed.
In the House of Commons, MIR. Maguire gave notice
that he should shortly call attention to the recent arrests
in Ireland.
Mr.. Walpole, Secretary of the Home Department, In
troduced a bill adjusting the vexed question Of church
rates, by making payment voluntary instead of oompul-
sorry. The bill was fayorably received and read a first
time.
The correspondence in the Charles aud Georges affair is
Mr.. Felix Belly left southampton nth February Ia
the steamer Parana for Nicaragua, in order 20 take pos
session of the concession of the canal in the presence of
the two Presidents, Martinez and Mora, who are TO meet
for the purpose on the 9th of March at Rivas. Mr..
Belly is accompanied by a staff of thirty-three persons,
including his secretary, General M. Lavasseur, formerly
French minister TO Mexico, sundry other officials, and a
strong corps of engineers.
The London Times, in noticing the departure, says 1t
will probably cause some surprise In New York, and rs
not likely to be looked upon with Indifference at Wash
ington. 1t thinks the English capitalists will be chary OF
investing in the enterprise.
Berlin journals speak of a projected marriage between
the Prince OF Wales and the Princess Alexandrina, daugh-
ter Of Prince Albert of Prussia.
From the Manchester Guardian, Feb. 23J
There Is but little intelligence from Paris to-day, but
the accounts agree in showing that the gloom caused by
the apprehensions of war is deepening, and the French
funds again declined yesterday. Among the causes of
increased apprehension is the language believed to have
been used by Prince Napoleon to a dcputation OF Italian
residents in Paris, who congratulated him upon his mar
riage with the Princess Clotilde. He is reported to have
said. In replying TO their congratulations: Gentlemen,
you cannot doubt of the Emperors sympathy and my
own for Italy The greater weight it attached to Prince
Napoleon's words, as 1T is commonly believed that the
Emperor is much swayed by his counsels, and that those
counsels are most unfavorable to peace. Another alarm
ing rumor, which is noted in the Independence Beige, affirms
that Lord Cowley's visit to London was made for the pur-
pose of convincing the British government that q conflict
between France and Austria is inevitable, and OF urging
il to endeavor to loealize that conflict instead of vainly
seeking to avert it. To such rumors as these is added
The knowledge that there is no cessation of warlike prep
aratiens and the result is that politicians, spectators,
and traders are more and more disposed to regard hostil-
tiles as inevitable and imminent.
1t is asserted that M. Couza,. the newly-chosen Hos
podar of Wallachia and Moldavia, not satisfied with de-
creeing the union of the two municipalities under one ma
tional assembly, has expressed his readiness to retire, in
order to make way for a foreign Prince, if by that means
the Roman provinces can be united into one State. Ii
we may credit the Independence Beige, the French and Rus
sion governments have agreed not to maintain in the Paris
conferences the legality Of NJ. Couza's election, but to in
sst on the necessity Of accepting it as a fat accomph, and
to declare that they will permit an isolated intervention
for the purpose of annulling it. HNn 0@H
From the Paris Correspondence OF the London Times, Feb. 2ol
When mentioning on Friday the audience granted by
the Emperor to the deputies of a great commercial city
of France, who were charged with expressing the senti-
ments of their constituents on the war, / noticed the
difficulty Of explaining satisfactorily the meaning of some
of the words attributed to his Majesty. "Ra$surz Uous,
Mesaeoys, - is Ineligible enough, but ala pair SC fta' is
hard to be understood while peace is not yet disturbed,
The phrase would be suited to the last stage of war, such
as that after the taking Of Sebastopol l have again in
quired into the matter, and my informant says that the
NvoyIu a. RYss,rsy To1s NesIeJJrs In sanlr M serN sDs
hosJks." If this be the correct form, as l am told it is,
there can be no mistake, Admitting its correctness, /
should be unwilling to throw any doubt on the sincerity
Of the august interlocutor, in spite of the notes of war
like preparation which / hear are not yet discontinued,
and the military appearances still kept up.
Commercial affairs in France are now confined to oper-
ations from day to day, nor is it probable that any reac-
ton will take place until the question of peace or war
shall be decided. Among the towns which have suffered
severely by this want of confidence, Orleans is described
as being still under the effects of further financial catas-
trophies which had occurred there during the last eight
days, aud which amount, it is said, to IL, 000, 000f. Not
only have a great number of private families suffered by
bankruptcies, but several extensive commercial establish.
ments, not being prepared to meet the unexpected de
mands made on them in consequence of the panic caused
by the previous failures, have been compelled to file their
schedules in the bankruptcy court, with the hope, how
ever, of being enabled, at no distant period, to COM to
an arrangement with their creditors.
From tho Paris Correspondence of the London News, Feb. 2oJ
The idea that the conference, summoned for the pur-
pose oil sfttlDB tHe HHalT 4 INC NOtOO w llatlla tlcC-
ton, will attempt to meddle with the thorny Italian
anostion is now definitely abandoned but the rumor of
the day is that France, England, Russia, and Prussia are
agreed to ask Austria to consent to q special conference
with a view of considering what reforms it may be prac-
ticable to introduce into the Roman States, in order to
prepare the way for their evacuation by foreign troops.
Scarcely any reasonable hopes are entertained of good
from such a meeting. The only possible basis of a Sc
rious negotiation would imply the entire remuneration on
the part of France and Piedmont of the main part of
their project, namely, the expulsion of Austria from
Lombardy and Venice. That question, which is the vial
one at Turin, and the sine qua non of the official French
pamphlet, win not, IL is abundantly certain, be submitted
under present circumstances to any Congress to which
England, Prussia, and Austria are parties.
1t seems pretty clear from the general tenor of the
German news that the articles in the official journals of
Berlin and Vienna do not speak the real sentiments of the
Austrian and Prussan governments, but are the result of
orders given to speak France fair for the present, to &C
cept as sincere every conciiatory expression emanating
from Paris, and to put upon the Emperor's speech q more
favorable construction than it really bears, in order that
if matters should come to extremities the German powers
may stand we'll with the world, and be able TO point to
their conduct as exhibiting a disposition to treat upon
any reasonable basis. | have before me a fuller analysis
than the telegraph gave of M. Buol's recent circular note
to the German courts. 1t is said to be in complete op-
position to the pacific articles of the official journals, and
represents the situation as most alarming. The cabinet
of Vienna regard war as almost inevitable, and as an inn
minent event