Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-06
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TO THE WORCESTER DAILY SPY
LATER FROM EUROPE.
BY THE BOHEMIAN.


PORTLAND, Jau. 5-Attenoon.-The Bohe-
milan, from Liverpool on the morning of the
10th, and from Queenstown the 2lst, arrived
at Portland at 10 P. M today.
The European Congress.
The Paris Pays publishes the following as
the definitely official list Of plenipotentiaries
who will represent the great powers at the
Congress Austria, Count Rlchburg, Prince
de Metternich; Britain, Lord Cowley, Lord
Woodhouse Prussia, Baron Schlientz Count
Pourtates; Russia, Prince GOrtschakof, Count
Kisselof; France, Count Walewski Prince
Latour de Amsyne; Spain, Martinez, De La
Rose; Portugal, Count Lavradio, Viscount de
Paiva. The Pays adds that the names of the
representatives for the Holy See, Two Sici-
lies, Sardinia, and Sweden, are not yet official
ly known, but Turin dispatch says Cavour
had been definitely appointed first plenipoten-
tiary for Sardinia and Chevalier Desam'
brois, the second penipotentiary and that
The French government had been formally
notified of the fact 1t also positively asserted
that Cardinal Antonelli will represent the Pope.
The Pays announces that the opening of Con
gress will definitely take place January 2Oth.
The federal council of Switzerland intends to
ask Congress that the neutrality of Savoy
may be guaranteed by the Italian contedera-
ton, as it already is by Piedmont in virtue of
the treaties of 1916.
Great Britain.
The weather throughout England has been
very severe. In some places the thermometer
IS reported to have fallen within three or four
--zEees of zero. Canal navigation was effect
iaify suspended by ice, and railroad travel
more or less affected by snow. Al the depart
ure OF the steamer, a thaw had set in.
The London Times has a leader on the eX-
ecution of John Brown and the circumstances
which it gave rise to. 1t says it appears
somewhat ludicrous to find that the north did
nothing till Brown was executed, and then
began to make speeches. This does not con-
vey an exalted notion of zeal or determination
of purpose. 1t sums up as follows; "The
result will be to strengthen the south by the
adhesion of that floating mass of opinion which
in every country lies between the extremes.
Whatever may be the future of the negro race,
no one in his senses can believe its regenera-
ton can be effected by melting it to murder
planters and ravish white women, and if any
man chooses to head an outbreak of this kind,
he must expect to meet a fate which right
thir king men will not glorify with the crown
of martyrdom.
The American ship Sea Belle, with a cargo
of Goals from Cardiffe, took fire while lying at
Bristol for repairs, and had become psrtect
wreck. Origin unknown.
The small tin canister picked up at the
mouth of the Mersey, with the announcement
inside that the screw steamship Great Britain
had toundered off the Western Islands, is sup
posed to be viainous hoax as the Great
Britain only LETT Liverpool on the 18th for
Melbourne, and the canister was picked up
five days after.
Hon. IL. Fitzroy first commissioner of pub
lie works, is dead.-Lord Holland died at Ma
pies on the 18th.
France.
The London Daily News correspondent in
Paris, says it was currently reported that the
expected reduction in the tariff will apply
principally to cotton that iron will not be af-
fected by it.
The weather was extremely severe. The
thermometer had not been so low for nineteen
years. The Seine, at Paris, was full OF ice.
The railroad travel was impeded by snow.
1t wsls officially announced that on the first
OF Janulry the Emperor would receive the
corps diplomatique and legislative bodies.
sMarquess de Villamarna and NJ. de Sam
erois, the retiring and the new minister from
Sardinia, had been formally received by4 the
Emperor.
Prince jerome Napoleon continued to i'm
prove in health The Moniteur of December
2lst states that no further bulletins would be
issued.
A session of the Corps Legislative was ex-
pected to commence at Paris Jan. IT,
Count Persgny, French minister from Eng
land had arrived at Paris. The Bourse had
slightly declined but on the 10Th rents were
active and steady, closing at 1916.
Spain and Morocco.
The whole Spanish army was concentrated
at Genta. The Moors continued very enthu-
siastic about the war, and large reintorcements
were arriving from the interior. The latest
accounts from Morocco are to the 10th. The
Moors were still the assailants, and their at
lacks were continued with the same mpetuous
bravery. Private letters from Cadz state that
the plan of the Spaniards is to attack Tetuan
on two sides simultaneously, or by land from
Genta, and Bysed by the river. Tetuan is
defended by earthworks and redans.
A Madrid letter OF the 18th says the Spanish
army amounted to 10000, but that D Donnell
was continually asking for fresh reinforce
ments. His posi- ion was considered difficult.
The Gibraltar Chronicle says the attention of
the government of Morocco had been officially
called to the 14th article of the treaty existing
between the United States and Spain, which
prohibits the citizens of one country from ac-
cepting foreign letters of marque cruise
against the commerce Of the other
Marshal O'Donnell declared Genta free
port. A Madrid telegram says that, on "Dec.
10th, $4,000 Moors attacked the left redoubt
withthe right wing and drove them back at the
point of the bayonet. Our artillery inflicted
variably do displayed great vaor, Generals
Gessit and Garcia, particularly. The enemy
lost Is 900 men. We had 80 killed. and 126
wounded. Heavy rains had inundated the
Spanish camp"
At Naples, during the night ofthe 18th and
18th of November, numerous arrests, incud-
ing several eminent persons, were made. The
persons arrested are accused Of clandes timely
printing journals, and of having supported
subscriptions on behalf of Garbaldi, several
documents concerning which have been seiz-
ed. The Sandman consul had been momen-
tarily arrested, but was speedily at liberty.
1t was reported at Rome that Cardinal An
tonell would embark on the 18th OF Deem
Der for Paris. Monsignore will be clothed ad
uiterim with the ministerial functions of the
Cardinal.
Vienna kilograms of the 18th say the report
of the intended abdication of the Emperor is
totally unfounded. The statement that Arch
Duke Macmillan would be absent from Aus
itria two years is likewise false. His journey
to Brazil will only occupy six months.
In the last cabinet council, presided over by
the Emperor, it was resolved that in the next
budget reduction of thirty-eight million
forms should be made in the expenses of the
war department. 1t was stated that Austria
was about to complete the disarmament.
Advices from Hungary represent that the
danger of conflict between the Imperial au-
thorities and the Hungarian Protestants is
daily increasing The Austrian army in
Hungary will soon be fifty thousand strong.
Russia.
A telegram from St. Petersburg of the 18th,
says that Mahomet Armit, one of the Chiefs