Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-02-16
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LATER FROM EUROPE.
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! Arrival Of tn. Steamship America.
| HALIFAX, Feb. l5-The steamship Amer
lea arrived last night bringing Liverpool
dates to January 2gth.
| The steamships City Of Manchester and
| Alps both from New York had reached
Liverpool.
| GREAT BRITAIN.
The approaching meeting Of Parliament
Is looked forwarI to with unusual interest,
in hopes that such explanations will be made
as will modify the existing suspense.
1t is alleged that the English government
has completed a contract with three large
iron companies for a supply of 6s Founders
a. fast as they can be cast An important
contract for gun powder had also been
| concluded.
A large portion of the Red Sea Telegraph
Cable has been shipped from Liverpool in
the steamers Imperial and lmperatrise.
A number Of forged bills Of exchange to
large amount have been successfully put
In circulation in London. They purport to
be drawn by the Barbados branch of the
Colonial Bank on the parent establishment
in London and are supposed to have been
manufactured in New York where, after
were RENTED to London
The fluctuations iD the stock exchange has
been very slight. Very little business had
done and the general tenor Of the market
was heady on the 2Sth. Funds were steady
notwithstanding adverse reports from Paris
and the market closed firm.
The Paris correspondent Of the London
Daily Ne~s states that warlike preparations
are going on 80 actively that the breakiug
out OF hostilitles would not seem question
OF weeks but days. The demand for cavalry
is SO urgent that orders have been given to
buy horses nine Years old.
Letters from Toulon says that sixty two
war train ports are to be ready by March
lst.
The supplemental surgeons in the military
hospitals ut Paris and MarsaiIes are ordered
to hold themselves in readir ess for actual
service in the artillery
There are companies in which five sixths
of the men are excused from duty because
they are making cartridges
Three men OF war left Toulon on the 26th
for Genoa, supposed for the purpose of ac-
companying Prince Napoleon and his bride
to France.
Three ships Of the line were under orders
at Cherbourg to join the experimental
squadron in the Mediterranean as quick as
possible
The independence Beige asserts that the
English Cabinet is making efforts at Paris
as we'll as Viena. to affect the Pacific ar
rangement Of existing difficulties 1t has
been suggessed to adopt the plan proposed
by Austria herself, to Lord Palmerstein in
ls4s, by which Lombardy would have OBJ
tained separate and selfgoverning admin
istration on constitutional principles
The French Government has given fa-
vorable attention to the proposition.
The Vienna Cabin etwithout committing
itself to any definite course is said to have
been converted to the idea of European
Congress. though at first it was decidedly
hostile to such plan.
The Paris correspondent Of the Herald,
writing on the night or the 9th says, the
opinion now is almost universal in Paris
that o crisis has arrived in the affairs of
Europe more momentous that any which
has arrived since the wars of tie first EN-
peror.
Among the lower classes the war feeling
is stimulated by Lopresse and Lasiecle, and
is daily growing more intense.
The latest correspondence Of the Times
says that contradictory rumors are still the
order Of the day.
SATURDAY. 3 P. M.-Msrket quiet and un.
changed.
Bigland 4 Co., r. s. 4 Co., Jae. McHenry
and others quote Beef steady.
Pork closed firm.
Bacon steady.
Lard dull.
A letter in the Opinique Of Turin says
that the Grand Duke of Tuscany has refus-
ed 10 acceed to Austria's demand, regard
ing the exchange OF Tuscan for Austrian
troops.
The Times correspondent confirms the
report Of note having been addressed to
the British Government, to the cabinet of
SARDINIA, concluded in very earnest terms,
strongly1deprecating the war policy.