New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-20
Particulars of Foreign News.
PER STEAMSHIP CRY OF WASHINGTON


Advices by the steamship City Of Washington
are to the 2sth ult. from Liverpool. We extract
the following intelligence:
England.
a reputation from the masons waited on the
=. a s builders yesterday The interview is said
70 nave lasted seven hours and at it, close was adj
Journed until this day. The result win have an inn.
poTsant bearing on the strike
Inc freedom Of the city OF Aberdeen was nre. |
sehlea 70 Lord John Russell last evening. in the
hnsic , nan. In the course Of his address he de.
;se n ina. England would never under his aus
PRES o.ef INTO congress unless the rights of the
people 70 govern themselves without the inter |
ference Of foreign coercion were recoenized Ua |
also touched on Parliamentary Reform. and con.
clnded an eloquent speech by declaring ths. Eun.
land held beacon on high which might VET ssrra
the rest of the world.
Last evening meeting was held at the Hall Of
Science to adopt measures for the total and mrne
diate abolition of fogging in the army and navy |
The chair was occupied by ]. G.. Murrou9h ex- |
member from Bridgeport
Aldermen Carter has this day been elected Lord
Mayor of London for the ensuing year.
italian Affairs.
Prince Napoleon has arrived at Zurich.
Separate conferences between the French and
Sandman, and afterwards between the French and
Austrian plenipotentaries, have taken place.
The Dictator of Modena has given orders for the
purchase of 5000 MIME rifles, and also of the
horses Of the Pedmontese cavalry. which have
been reformed.
A telegram from Naples announces that the
King has left for the Roman frontiers for the pur-
pose, it was said, of having interview with the
Pope.
The Herald correspondent says that Austria and
Piedmont are about making warlike preparations,
and that the French army Of occupation in Italy is
about to receive reinforcements The renewal Of
hosttes Is apprehended by many.
The representative Of the Grand Duke of Tusca
ny, at Rome, has refused to deliver up the En-
bassy House, although threatened with the confis-
cation OF his own property in Tuscany. It is said
he Is supported in his refusal by the Ambassadors
Of France and Austria.
Spain.
me Spanish Government is said, by the Journal
DIES Debdts, to have declined the mediation Of Eng
land IN the dispute with Morocco.
The semi-offcial journal of Madrid denies that a
convention exists between France and Spain reIa-
| tive to Mexico.
| THE AMERICAN MINISTER IN CBrsA.-The fol,
lowing is the dispatch from St. Petersburg, which
| gave the startling announcement of Mr., Ward
having been imprisoned at Pekin:
" The Northern Bee publishes correspondence
from kiachta, which states that the loss Of the
Chinese IN the affair at the Taku Forts was 1000
n, killed. The number of wounded is not stated.
The American Minister has arrived at Pekin, but
is kept confined (tenu enfente.)'
The Hong-kong correspondent of the London
Times, August 10, says: Nothing has been heard
Minister, since the departure Of the last mail but
| it is rumored that he has gone to Pekin.''
Per contra, We find in the Overland Friend Of
China the positive assertion that q the American
powhattan, in the gulf of Pechili, and isas un.
likely apparently to obtain ratification of the
treaty made by his predecessor, Mr.. Reed, as
either Mr. Bruce or Mr.. Bourbollon those con
Guided by the Earl Of Elgin and Baron Gros.''
: The same journal acknowledges the recent Of
the news that twelve British seamen were prison
ers in Tein-tsin, well treated-derived from the
American Commodore.
1t must he admitted that the renort of o1r Min
lister having been imprisoned at Pekin rests on
very dubious foundation.
The following interesting paragraphs are from
the Overland Friend !:
OF the Russians not word is heard !; but it il
still supposed that they in the background ant
that it was by their aid our repuse was effected
sui there is no proof of this that we know of
while a French traveller from st. Petersburg tt
Shanghai via Pekin, asserts that the members o.
the Russian mission treated very cavaIierIy BY
the Pekinites, and hardly dare to show themselves
in the streets.
Admiral Hope has been suffering severely from
his wounds and it is said will have to invalid His
medical attendant, when probing the partially
closed wound in his hip the other day, discovered
smoke stack stay which had been driven in by the
must have undergone from such an infection car
only be conceived. His Excellency's gallantry and
endurance are spoken of by all in the highest
terms and the sineerest pity is expressed for the
result Of his expedition far it affects himself
Some fresh details have been given in a Pari:
journal respecting the projected expedition tc
China. The force is to consist of i2OOO men
chosen from the best men of every corps. It is
certain that all the men Of regiment not fitted
to endure the climate. A depot to repair defici
encies is to be established near Hong, Kong OF
Shanghai The departure of the force cannot take
place before the first fortnight of November.
From the Overland China Maill
SERIOUS RIoTs AT Acknowledgements intelli
gence has been received from the North. The Chi
ardn Shnnfr hpt SvN. nnr%sn
always been regarded as models Of quietness ant
meekness as compared with those Of the South
Even they, however, have now broken out into
rioting of a serious character, and killed or danger
ousy wounded several Europeans, among whom
we have to mention, with deep regret, Mr. Lay, the
head of the newly organized Chinese Customs Ser
vice, who has been wounded severely in the
abdomen and elsewhere that he is scarcely expected
to live. This riot is said to have arisen from the
kidnapping of coolies for the French vessel Ger
trude; but the master of that vessel asserts thai
the Chinese on board attempted to rob him, and he
was compelled to fire in self-defense. Both stories
are about equally improbable, and their truth o,
alsehood is of no consequence to the conclusion tc
be drawn from this affair.
RUSSIAN PROGRESS IN AsIA.-A letter from st
Petersburg, in the London Times, says:
"The railways now allow English merchandis,
to penetrate beyond the frontiers of Afghanistal
without considerable augmentation of its COST an,
to offer a dangerous competitor to Russian produce
in the markets of Bokhara and Khiva, neighbors 0
Russia. The Russian Government proposes to pll
an end to this state of things 1t is difficult enter
prise to struggle with English interests, but ther
is no doubt that it may be accomplished Russi
has already begun to make the railroad from Mos
COW to Saratof, and she is working actively 70
steam navigation on the Caspian Sea. The conclu
sion of the war in the Caucasus will now allow he
to transfer the whole of her activity to Contra
Asia, the more the inhabitants of the kirghes,
steppes and the Turcomans dwelling toward til,
south of the Caspian Sea have long sought her pro
lection against khivan oppression. She will fine
capital to construct the railroad from the Caspian
to the Aral, will improve the navigation of thu
rivers Amoor and Syr-Daria which water those
vast countries and by the construction of ortresses
on the two hundred and sixty flour versts whicI
separate the Caspian from the Aral will acquire
sovereign influence the little States of Contra
Asia Then the English trade with the Indies will
be infallibly undermined. Europe, and England
herself, will find a great advantage in traftckin.
with Central Asia by the route of Moscow and Sara
tof, rather than the long sea route round the Cap
of Good Hope. The execution of this gigantic pro
ject had been already commenced, but the success
full issue of the Caucasian will powerfully con
tribute to its prompt realization. The political
territorial and commercial extension of Russia tC
ward the English Indies is henceforward irresistible
The CAPTURE OF ScHAMYI.-We take the follow
ing from the Nord:
ST. PETERsBURGH, Sept. 17.-Lieutenant-C olont
Grabbe, who arrived yesterday from the Caucasus
has brought details of the capture of Schamyl
Having been sent off by Prince Bariatinski froI
Gounib, few minutes after the surrender of til
Imam, he has brought no written details, but ha
rYivn a fnfa NJ. tn tI,n HMM rpI