The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-12-23
Further Foreign News.


some additional intelligence:
1t was considered BILE that Count Arese,
4 personal friend of the Emperor Napoleon,
would be appointed to represent Sardinia in
the Congress at Paris.
Lord PaImerston had endorsed the yolun-
teer movement in England SO far as TO join the
Irish corps which was being enrolled III Lon
don.
In divorce case brought by James M. Bell,
a wealthy London merchant t. against his wife
on the ground of her adultery with the Mar
quis of Anglesey, verdict was given dissolv-
ing the marriage and saddiing the Marquis
with Ell, 900 damages.
The Paris correspondents of the London
journals generally agree that let Napoleon's
intentions re what they may towards England
his late letter could not be otherwise than
what it is, and thatit proves nothing at all, and
will convince no one.
1t is stated that the French expedition tc
China will be the mos comp plete and carefully
calculated that ever left France. Its cost Is
estimated al $50, ,UuO, ,0J0. The allied force will
amount to 10000 men.
1t is asserted that since the resignation o!
Garibaldi, the Pontif1cal government has be-
come much less tractable and less disposed te
reforms.
lie Nerd says that 10000 additional Austrian
troops are to be sent TO maintain order in Hun
gary.
The London Post had heard that cabinet
council at Vienna had been held, to take into
consideration the necessity Of placing the
y u
A Cabinet Council was held on the after.
noon of the Sth inst, in London. The Globe
after stating that Gen. Scott was the bearer oi
Instructions from the government of the
United States with reference to San Juan
says it has reason to believe the tenor O
those instructions as communicated to Gov
Douglass was, that the island should remain
in q neutral position with no exclusive occu
deliberate settlement Of the question by the
governments OF the United States and Grea
Britain.
The Paris correspondent of the London
News denies, on the 7th, that either the army
or any other constituted body in France has
either the desire or power, in the slightes
degree, to force the hand of the executive, and
wage war with England, against the real wish
Of the Emperor.
At grand dinner given to the Municipal
Council of Paris, by the Prefect of one of the
depar tments, the speech of that functionary
was eulogstic of the now pacific era on
which, he said, France had entered; and in
proposing the health of the PRINCE Imperial,
he remarked that if dypasties be founded by
the army, it is the work of peace that gives
rrable grandeur to the establishment.
The trial concerning the publication of the
Apochryphai letter. in the Ami de la Religfone,
was terminated. Its responsible editor, the
Able Lesson, has been sentenced to ih-es
months imprisonment and fine of 10
the printer to one months imprisonment
a fine of 500f.
FROM VENRZUELA.-The New York Heraid's
correspondent at Caracus, Venezuela, writing
on the 21th of ofNoyember, states that the coun-
try was in a most wretched condition, social
and commercial, owing to the mercenary in
trigues of party spoiismen. Ex-President
Castro was still in confinement and closely
guarded. The laborers of the country were
being forced into the army, and the coffee crop
was going to ruin from neglect. The revolu-
tionists had been defeated at good many
points by the regular troops. Files of the
Concrete, of Lagnayra, to the 23d ult., state
that the government was doing all it could to
restore complete peace and harmony to the
country. Several families had fed from Ca
rayaca in consequence Of the excesses of the
Vandalic rebels, who were threatening that
town. The government had already taken
prompt measures to check the excesses of the
outlaws, aud a Reinforcement of 100 cavalry had
left for the town. The rebel chief Falcon was
still entrenched at Tocuyo, awaiting additions
TO his force. Most of the surviving reyolu-
tionary leaders had taken to fight and were
seeking to take refuge in other lands. Miguel
Sotello, with body of rebels numbering 1,0CO
cavalry and infantry, entered the town Of Ira
Goa and Tabasca on the 2ist ult., where they
committed every kind of robbery and excess
Great excitement prevailed in consequence,
and troops from Barcelona and Cumana were
on the track OF the assassins.