Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-10-27

New YORK, Oct 26.-The Persia has ar
rived with Liverpool dates to Oct. 18th. The
following are the principal items of news =
The Zurich Conferences.
telegram dated Zurich, 18th, says the con-
ferences do not draw to a close Austria re.
fuses to diminish the amount of debt of Lom-
hardy to be borne by Sardinia The demands
of Austria are not only resisted by Sardinia,
but do not receive the support of France, which
has proposed that the disputed point be sub
mtted to the arbitration of another power. No
answer has yet been received to this PROPOSE
ton.
a variety of rumors to the effect that Aus
tria positively declines to sign the treaty of
peace if it is not in accordance with the pre-
liminaries of Villafranca that Austria desires
to protract negotiations till the spring, when
she will recommence the war; that Austria
has undertaken to guaranty to the Pope the
conservation of his temporal power in the le-
cations; and others of like nature, were cur
rent, and must be taken for what they are
worth.
On the other hand, there are statements that
the signing of the treaty of Zurich was hourly
expected and that the representatives of the
powers would afterwards meet in Congress.
a Paris dispatch of the 13th to the London
Post says the congress which is to follow the
conference at Zurich has been convened. All
IHc great pONeTS, lHCluulUS GllbldNu, Will DC
represented.
The Constitutional of the 14th publishes an
article, signed by Secretary Boniface, stating
that the only question to be settled at Zurich is
the Lombard debt the other contracting pow
ers being agreed upon all points; the early sig
nature OF the treaty is expected, and the ques-
tons not settled will be submitted to a congress,
the assembling of which all the European pow
ers are agreed upon.
The London Times Paris correspondent
corroborates the statement from Zurich that
the French government has demanded an in
demnity from Piedmont for the expenses of
the late war; also, the payment of the arrears
OF pensions IN connection with the first en-
pire, due from the Lombardo- Venetian Monte
fund. The correspondent looks upon it as
highly probable that demands have been made
knowing the limited finances of Sardinia, with
the object of obtaining the cession of the
provinces of Savoy and Nice to France.
Various Items.
1t is stated, by way of Brussels, that on the
occasion Of the visit of the Emperor to Bor-
deauX, most of the Italian residents in the
town were arrested during his stay and were
released after his departure These arrests
were made on account of a dispatch having
been received from the Project of Algiers,
stating that four passports had been stolen
from the Sandman Consulate in that place,
and with which four Italians had started for
France and passed through Montpelier, where
further track Of them was lost.
a French gunboat was trying to make its
way by the Languedoc Canal and Garonne to
the Atlantic, the object being to ascertain
whether war vessels Of small draft can proceed
from one sea to the other without passing I'M
der the guns of Gibraltar.
The news from Italy is interesting, and in
dicative of approaching trouble. Letters from
Rome state that the Pope will have an inter
view at Castle Gardolto with the King of
Naples, and will prolong his stay there, owing
to the agitation at Rome.
Latest
A dispatch from Florence states that the ex-
equatur of the American Consul at Leghorn
had been withdrawn. An explanatory dis
patch had been sent to President Buchanan
by the Florentne Cabinet
The Duke of Tuscany had written to his
partisans to abstain from every attempt in IA
vor of the re-establiShment OF his dynasty.
The report that France requires Piedmont to
pay an indemnity for the expenses of the late
war was everywhere discredited in Italy.
1t is stated that the whole Neapotan from
tier was lined with troops, and Mont Cassini
fortified with cannon.