The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-06-23

Austrlans had four generals and five staff Off
GERS wounded. One major was killed.
Great Britdn.-The Queen delivered her
opening speech to Parliament on the 7th.
She iaments the outbreak of the war says she
did all she could to prevent it, and proclaims
her strict and impartial neutrality. She SAYS
the navy has been increased beyond the author
ity granted by Parliament, and asks for its sane
ton. She recommended the reopening of diplo
matte intercourse with Naples. She expresses
the hope that the Reform question will be set.
tied at this or the next session.
A motion OF want of confidence in the Minis
try was pending in the House of Commons.
La the House of Commons the Liberals had
moved an amendment to the address to the
Throne, in reply to the royal speech declaring
that her Majestys Ministers do not possess the
confidence OF Parliament, and debate there
upon was pending.
indtd.-The Bombay mail of the 10Th of
May had arrived, but the news was not of much
im portance. A great monetary panic prevailed
The LOm6drds Threatened acih FIRE and
Stcord.-ieneral Gyulai had issued a procla
nation to the citizens of Lombardy. which reads
as follows
"The enemy seems anxious to raise reyo-
luton in the rear of the army placed under nv
command, and thus force me to leave posi-
ton which, it seems, he dares not attack in
front in the open field. But this scheme will
not succeed. New forces in imposing numbers
will soon arrive from the other hereditary
provinces OF our august monarch they will be
sufficient theoretically to suppress all attempts
at revolution. The localities which will side
with the revolution, impede the reinforcements
sent to my army, or destroy the bridges or other
ways of communication, will give my word
for it-be destroyed by sword and fire. TO that
effect, l send the most formal orders to the
chiefs who command under me.
Il hope that will not be forced to have re-
course to those extreme measures and that
they will not add to the fatal consequences of
war, the horrors of civil strife in this country"
letter from Berne of the 3lst ut SAYS"
All the accounts from the frontiers of Lom-
hardy continue to confirm the news of the ex-
tension of the insurrection in the country near
the three lakes, the Lago Maggiore, Como, and
Lugano, and in the greater part of the Valtel
line"
Trouble IN 1aWkey-A late Vienna letter
says =" There is scarcely any doubt but that
the Montenegrins and the Servians will soon
be at open war with the Porte The insurrec
ton In the Herzegovina is every day making
fresh progress, and the Turks have not troops
enough to repress it,
French Designs upon Ricer To,cns.-A cor
respondent says: 81 have heard from private
source that the French have conveyed by land
to the river Pc a large number of gun.boats.
intended for the attack on Piacenza, Cremona
and Mantua. Each boat carries an enormous
gun, of larger calibre than any to be found on
the Notifications of those places The mate
rial for the necessary pontoon bridges for the
army crossed the Alps, and were carried from
the depot at Strasburg to Turin in four days 1"
liverpool Cotton Market.-The sales of the
three days in the Liverpool cotton market were
1900 bales, including 1000 on speculation
and for export The market closed with but
little inquiry, and prices weak, while some au-
thorltles say that IN many eases reduction Of
I'd. had been submitted to.
State Of Trade.-The advices from Man
chester are unfavorable the market was dull
the East Indian demand having subsidized.
liverpool B,eadstufs Ma,het-In the Liver
pool breadstutfs market, all descriptions were
slightly lower Wheat declined 2d. (o) 3d. !;
Western, IS. GO l0s.; ditto white, los GO Is /;
white Southern, los. cd. ca l3s. Corn had a
downward tendency, and holders were pressing
on the market at a reduction for European
American sorts were quoted mixed, Us. sd. Gao
U.s. 3d.; yellow, 6s. Sd. GO is. l0d white, S..
(t9 IS. Cd
THE "SLAvE" TRADE AGAIN. A special
Geographic dispatch from Washington to the
New York Times says that correspondence
has been going OIL for some time between our
own Government and that of Great Britain,
with reference to the better carrying out OIL the
part OF the United States, Of the provisions of
the treaty between the two Governments for the
suppression of the slave y trade on the coast
OF Africa. The dispatch represents the British
Government as seriously complaining of the
inefhciency of our squadron on that coast, and
says that Lord Lyons has recently laid before
the State Department communication re-
ceived by his Government from Admiral Gray
commanding the British African squadron, in
which that officer complains that Commodore
Conover, commanding the United States squad
ron, is unable to carry out the treaty stipula-
tons. Admiral Gray affirms, in this commu-
nication, that the African "slave " trade is now
carried on almost wholly under the United
States flag, and enumerates twenty-five cases
as coming within his own knowledge This, of
course, neutralizes Great Britains efforts to
suppress the traffic, and, according to the dis
patch in question, she intmates desire that
either the United States Government will per-
form its part OF the agreement imposed upon
both Governments by the treaty, or that meas
ures may be taken for the abrOgation of the
contract. 1t is further said, that, when the new
gun-boats now building are completed, the
President will send them, or some of them, to
the coast of Africa, to render the squadron
there effective.
A special dispatch to the Herald says that
the Mystic and Sumter, two of the new vessels,
are going to the African coast
SEARCHES AND THE SLAVE TRADE - The
New York Post contends that England, in the
late visitatiOns to vessels carrying the United
States flag off Cuba, acted with the consent of
the American Government; and that paper
quotes the treaty of Washington, made in
1912, the preamble of which contains the fol-
lowing pregnant passages
Whereas by the treaty concluded at Client,
on the oath day of December, 1914, between
the United States aud his Britannia Majesty,
an article was agreed to, and inserted, of the
following tenor, viz:
Art. 10. Whereas the traffic in slaves is ir
reconcilable with the principles of humanity
and Justice and whereas both his NASTY and
the United States are DESTROYS OF continuing
their efforts to promote its entire abolition, it
is hereby agreed that both the contracting par
ties shall use their best endeavors to accom-.
plish so desirable an object.
"And whereas, notwithstanding the laws
which have at various times been passed by
the two Governments, and the efforts made to
suppress it, that criminal traffic is still prose
cuted and carried on; and whereas the United
Safes of America and her Majesty the Queen
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland are determined that, So far as Nay be
IN their polper, Il shall be efsctually abolished,
dc, 'have agreed to aud signed the following
articles &c.
The Past then proceeds thus:
Now we ask, has the United States done
all in its power, to abolish the slave trade