The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-08-07
Rirbmunn Qispattb.
TUES pAY AUG. 7. 1860.
FURTHER FOREIGN NEWS,
The Mails by the eAustralasian-Affairs in
ltaly-General Continental News, &c.

ltaIy-General Continental News, &c.
The mails by the Australasian bring dates
from London to the 25th inst. The following
is summary of their contents:
GREAT BRITAIN
In the House of Commons on the 23d ult..
Lord Palmerston stated the intentions of the
government relative to the defences of the
country. He proposed that The recommends
tions of the recent Commiss ouers-whose re-
port has been published-should be substan-
TALLY carried out. The defence of the various
dock-yards is the principal proposition, and
the estimated outlay is f9000,UC0 sterling,
which is intended to be raised by means of
terminable annuities, expiring in thirty years.
The requirement for the present year is f.
1000, which 1T is proposed to raise at once
with view to the immediate prosecution OF
the works, and to raise from year to year such
additional sums as may be required.
Lord Palmerston expatiated on the danger
to which the country was exposed from inya-
sion, and after pointing to the large army
maintained in France, which is always ready
for aggressive purposes, he declared that Eng
land ought not TO be de pendent upon the for
bearance of another Power for its freedom
frGm attack.
The consideration of the subject was post
poned till the Both of July.
The proposition was generally received with
favor, particularly by the tory party. The
peace party regard Palmerston's speech as
manifesto of distrust towards France.
The London Times says Lord Palmerston
means nothing more than that with 100000
men, under arms on furIough, witnin signt
OF our shores, aided by feet almost equal
to our own, both wholly unnecessary for de-
fence, welded by the changeable govern
ment OF an excitable people, we have to look
to ourselves.
The London Daily News describes the re-
ception given to the measure. 1t was greatly
cheered on the tory side, and this fact is noted
by the Daily News as the indication of de-
liberate purpose amongst that party TO foment
discard hpt France and EuplnnU.
A minute from the Horse Guards, in appro-
baton of the report of the National Defence
Commission, declares that an increase in the
army ought also TO take place.
A conference of Mormons was held in Lon
don on Sunday, the 22d of July. Speeches
were made by several elders, including Elder
Landon, who stated that active efforts Were
about 10 be made to spread the doctrine of the
Saints. Brigham Young was elec; ed president,
revelator and seer of the church throughout t
the world. Other dignitaries of the church
| were also elected.
David Wemyss Jobson, who recently OBJ
| tanned considerable notoriety in New y York for
| an affair in which Lola Montez played pro-
minent part, has been committed for trial in
| London, for gross libels on Sir James Fergu-
| son, NJ. Z.
George Bull, young man who is member
| of the medical profession, was tried at LeWes
| for manslaughter. He accidentally gave his
| mo ther, to whom he was deyotedly attached
| an overdose OF prussic acid, drug which she
| was in the habit Of taking AS a remedy for a
| complaint. The jury brought verdict Of not
guilty.
| Tie Commission now sitting at Paris TO set
tie the details of the duties in connection will
the Anlgo-french commercial treaty, will on
Friday next commence the cons sideration of
| the question affecting cotton fabrics.
| NAPLES.
| The London POSTS correspondent at Rome
| writing on July II, says that of the one hum
| dred and forty -four men sent back to Ireland
| at the expense OF the Papal Government six
| ty-four were declared unfit for service by the
| medical officers, and forty were discharged en-
| mnSss, having belonged to the Irish constabu-
| larry but whether from this fact or from their
| own disinclination to serve terms so far
| inferior to what they had been accustomed,
| the writer is unable to state A statement
| drawn up by one of the cOnstabulary, late of
| Dublin declares the Irish are treated in a
| most disrespectful, cruel, and treacherous
| manner by the Roman authorities. They are
| trampled on by the Government, hated and
| detesled by the people of Italy. The POSTS
| correspondent says that letters are being regu-
| iarly received at the British Consulate from
| men belonging to the Irish Brigade, begging
| for assis lance in obtaining their release.
| A dispatch from Naples announces that Me-
| IaZzo had been attacked by aribaldi and
| that, IN order to avoid civil war, the King of
Naples had ordered The total eraruatioa Of Sicily
| By the roya! troops. The Garibaldians occupied
| MelaZzo.
| GaribaIdi quilted Palermo on the S,h, to Join
Col. Medici, at his camp near MelaZZo aud it
| pres uTnSu he ne2ueu the Attack on tnat place.
According to an unauthenticated report, how
ever, Garibaldi had disembarked on the Nea-
| politan coast
| "A war tax of two per cent. had been imposed
| on the property of the converts and the clergy
| in Italy.
| Letters from Naples from 2lst ult. announce
| that Garibaldi had left Palermo with 5000 or
| 1900 volunteers. 1t is expected that Carl
| baldi Wonid soon effect a landing on the con-
| tnent.
| The chiefs of the revolutionary movemen
| at Naples had caused an illumination of the
| whole city. Crowds OF people shouted 'Cfari-
| baldI forever in defiance of the royalists.-
| About ten of the late police agents have been
| killed. The mail steamer from Syria is ex-
| pected to-day.
Up to the present time the number of volun-
| teers who have gone 10 Sicily from Northern
| and Central Itaiy amounts in all 10 li,OOO.
BELGIUM.
| The Belgium Chamber of Depu ties had pre-
| sented an address to the King, congratulatIhg g
| him on the completion of the twenty min th
year of his reign. The address attracted at
| tention, from the fact that it condemns in
| strong terms the aggressive policy of France,
| and indirectly appeals TO Europe for protec-
| tou against French designs. The address was
/ adopted unanimously and enthusias tically.
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
| The evening edition of the official Weiner
| /ettHug publishes the folioWlHg, ted Pes IN,
| July 81: Last evening large crowd gathered
| before Zainig coffee house. After The conclu-
| sion OF the performance IN the Hungarian the
atres man addressed the public III the Hat
yanes Gasse. Several seultious cries Were
| heard. The guard who interfered met with
| strong resistance. Order was restored at N id-
| night. Ten persons OF the working class " ere
| arrested
PRUSSIA.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick
| William has been safely delivered of daugh-
| ter, Her Royal HIghness aud royal infant tare
| both doing well.
| NOVEL FEAT IN ENGINEERINe.-On the rail
| road between Houston and Eagle Lake, III
Texas, a feat is performed which, L presume,
| is entirely unprecedented in engineering. Al
! the crossing of the Brazos river, the road is
| completed on each side to the tank and a ten :
| porary track laid down eacn bank and across
| a tenn mporary bridge, which is some thirty or
| forty feet below the level of the permanent
road The design was 10 cross this bridge,
until the permanent one was completed, by
| letting the locomotive aud cars slowly down
| the bank with ropes, and then hauling them
| up the other side. But at one time the loco
| motive in descending, broke loose and sweep
| ing through the hollow by its own momen tum
| assembled the opposite bank in safety. Since
that time the passenger trains are run through
the hollow in this manner, sweeping grace
| fully downward and rising on the opposite
side like the swoop of hawk on its prey.
| have been something of traveller, but this is
| the first time that ever followed a lccomo.
/ tive down the steep bank of river! II is said
that the civil engineers object to this mode OF
proceeding, on account of the tremendous
| strain on the road-bed In that part which
| changes the line of motion from the descend
| ing to the horizontal direction.-Correspond pondence
| Scientific american.
| OHIcAGo.-N. Z. Willis. in one of his letters
| from out West, says: "a startling effect at
| Chicago, for the travellers eye, is the sudden
crossing of the principal streets by large ves-
sells and apparently with no more interrup-
| ton to the moving tide of vehicles than would
be made by the transverse passing Of q rail
ha huS iasf rtar of fha ptf Sp n,
| around the windings OF deep creek-and, by
means OF a most ingenious set of pivot bridges