The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-12-21

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She brought an unusualiy vaIushaes ..-.. !.
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ss WuuaQ Pc done hefore the t5th af the
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posentiary direct from London "a the N.Y. ~
.un. Loru Cowley. being Ia pnria oros.iS -
emo the sittings being instructetl 10 mae his
aa a "a Italian affairs little promi-
Inc & Paris Independence, OF the OH. says:
| ,,i ~ ~ aunssions OF most Of the Powers that
par,. pma consatats the Congrcss have arrived in
| i.or1 OoWaey as the f1fst plenipotentiary of
En2tands tends to deciease the prirniffye I'm
porIance OF the projected meeting. Ii ID moi.
the merit and the aptitude OF thai Enrlish al.
plomatist but II 10 70 be feared that ii q reat
isrituin does not send either her Miuister Of
Foreign Affairs or the Prime Minister, or even
Lord Clarendon-who waA her representative
at the Congress of ls56-the other great Pow
Frs, save, perhaps, France and Austria, will
also hesitate, on their part, TO be Represented
| by their Ministers of Foreign Affairs as first
t=alenipotentiaries. This being the case, the
members of the Congress possessing less au-
| thority will b. less free In their actions, and
they will feel eftener the necessity of referring
| 10 their respective governments before taking
| definite resolutions"
| The number of French volunteers for China
exceeded that required very much.
| The same journal, speaking of the expedi-
ton to China, remarks:
| A complete twelve-pound battery Of Sir w.
I Armstrong; guns, carriages limbers, hospi-
| tai and ammunition wagons, forges, &c, is or-
dered to be packed on Thursday next, to be
| transmitted overland to China. The Power
L ful IN deh hinpi fxry<, haax haf
| teries of 6S-pounder guns, with an equipment
| 10 form thorough seize train, and requisites
to subdue the resistance offered to the passage
Of the Peiho
Forty-five thousand FIVE hundred riflemen
had been enrolled in England on the 10th OF
l November.
The following letter to flour Liverpool mer-
chants" has been published in London
| PALACE OF THE TUILIRIEs.
To Messrs. SHAW. MELLorzia. .& Co., Black
| wall:
Gentlemen-You have written to the Empe-
ror to know what his intentions are as regards
England. Great fears or great confidence
| should alone explain this step. On the one
| side, you are possessed with imaginary
trouble, which appears to have seized upon
your country with the rapidity of an epidem-
ic. and on the other hand you reckon upon the
loyalty of him from whom you desire re-
ply. 1t was easy for yourselves, however, to
give it. II you had calmly examined the true
| state of your apprehensions, that cause you
had duly found in all the rumors created by
your fellow-countrymen, by the obs tina te pro-
| pagatiOn OF the most chimerical alarms be-
cause until now there was not word or an
act of the Emperor's which permits a doubt
| of his sentiments, and consequently of his in
tentions towards your country. His conduct,
| invariably the same, has not changed a mo-
| ment 10 show his faithful and irreproachabie
ally that what he has been he will, declare it
| TO you in his name continue to be. Witness
again the approaching community of perils TO
be shared at distance by your soldiers and
r0ft tana Ghnn osnfx. 1,A
not fear each other
Receive, gentlemen, the expression of my
distinguished sentiments. [Signed.l
| The SECRETARY OF THE EMPEROR,
| Chief du Cabinet.
With regard to this letter, a Liverpool cor
respondent of the Manchester Guardian
| writes thus, on the 4th inst:
"Nothing definite transpired on Saturday
| relating to the correspondence between four
gentlemen in Liverpool and the Emperor o1
| the French. 1t is stated, however, that the
| letter in question was written by the four
gentlemen while enjoying the pleasures of a
full board,' one evening about fortnight
| since. Nothing serious was dreamed OF; the
letter was posted, but reply was never an
| ticipated. a copy was not even kept and the
| whole matter was looked upon as q good Joke.
| The conduct of the writers of the letter to the
| Emperor was met by hearty denunciation
by nearly all the local papers,
The London Post of the 9th inst remarks
on the letter writers.
"Tell him to be sd-d' in civil Frenchn was
| fhe Duke OF Wellington's direction TO his
Secretary when an impertinent foreigner ask
| ed him an absurd question. Napoleons Ell
dorsement OH the letter of the "fuur Liver
pool merchants" was probably the same,
though it reads very prettiiy i'll nj. Mocquard's S
| neat and antithetical wording"
M. Buoncornpagni will take the title of Gov
| ernor General of the League of the Provinces
of Central Italy.
l tHuS "a hn info mt Mor rfor
been brought to Piedmont, as the movement
| in the Papal States might have prompted a
| coup de main for his rescue.
| A Venice letter OF the I'd instant, in the Nor,i
of Brussels, gives lamentabie account OF the
| situation of that province. Trade and indus
| try are described as being at an end, and the
expense of lodging the troops had completed
| the ruin of the Inhabitants. Formerly the
| troops were concentrated in the towns and
| fortresses, but since the war they have been
| spread over the country also. Country man.
| sions and farIDhouses have been converted into
| barracks, and the communes have to pay the
cost.
The Nord of Dec. 3, says
We have no exaggerated the Importance o1
dent confirms the fact that $4,000 troops are
| about to reinforce the garrison in the King
| dom, and that Count Deganfeld is seriously
thought of as Commander in Chief of the i'm
/ perial troops in Hungary, with discretionary
| power to pronounce the country in a state OF
siege.
The Prussian Moniteur, of the 5th instant
contains the appointment of Lientenant-Gen.
eraI Won Room as Minister of War.
| The Prince and Princess Frederick William
| of Prussia have arrived at Dover en- route for
Brussels, on their return to Berlin from Lon
A Madrid dispatch OF the 4th of December
i The loss of the Moors in the attack ON the
30th November was 500 killed and 1,50t
| wounded, but no prisoners. Since commenc.
| ing operations against the Moors the Spani.
ards have had Ss killed, 6i4 wounded and 20
confused. General Zabala has made q recon-
noissance against the Moorish camp at Tetuan
The Gibraltar Chronicle Of the both ulrimo
says:
Private letters from the Spanish camp in
Africa represent the action of the 25th as more
serious, and the loss of the Spanish army as
much more considerable than the published
account admits. The loss fell chiefly, it is
said, on the three battalions ordered by Gen.
erai EehaRue to sally from the intrenched po-
| were fearfully cut up in the hand to hand fight
with the Moors. 1t is also stated on good au-
| thority that the Spanish army has lost up
wards OF 6oO in killed and wounded since the
commencement of operations.
The Nord, of Brussels, publishes the follow
we have serious announcement to make
| on the subject of Spain. A letter from Paris
| informs US that England, persisting 10 the end
| in her opposition to the Spanish expedition to
Morocco, has found pretext for annoying the
Cabinet of Madrid. She now claims from
| Spain, with q bitterness unworthy Of great
nation, the payment for the warlike stores fur
nished at the period of the civil war in the
1 Peninsula The Spanish government, calling
| 10 mind the affair OF Greece, appears to have
the intention or yielding, in order to take from
| England all pretence for acts of violence or
| for an intervention wl.ich the latter appears
i to seek Bad reasons have never been want
4 ing to England for getting up quarrel, and,
notwithstanding the desire Of Spain to yield,
there is reason 10 fear serious com mplications.