The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1860-01-19
LATER FROM EUROPE-THE POPE
AND THE EMPEROR.

IOTttunQ, Jan. l4.-lne steamship dunga-
rian arrived here this morning. She left Liver
pool on Wednesday, the 18th ult., but coming
via Queenstown, she brings Liverpool dates by
telegraph to the evening of the 29th ult.
The steamship Edinburgh, from New York,
had arrived out
The ship Herald Of the Morning has been
burned at Melbourne.
The ship Potomac, from Baltimore for Afri-
ca foundered on the 18th of November, after
coming in collision with steamer. The crew
were saved.
England-The affairs of the steamship Great
Eastern Company remain in statu quo pending
the arbitration between the company and Scott
Russell.
The ship Bleroye Castle, from Liverpool, for
Australia, has been wrecked in the English
Channel. All On hoard (six hundred and TWEEN
ty-two passengers and thirty.four crew. are
supposed to have persisted.
The ship Lady Franklin, from Liverpool for
Maranham, had collision at sea with an un-
known ship. The latter was sunk immediate
ly, only one man being saved.
The Government has determined to issue to
the rifle volunteers an additional number of
long Enfield rifles.
The Duke of Malakoff has arrived in London.
Measures have been taken to place Chatham
dock yard in a thorough state of defence,
London, Dec. 22.-Lord Hastings is dead.
great riot occurred on Sunday night among
the military in camp at Aldershott Three
miltiamen wereehot dead. Six soldiers were
arrested, with rifles loaded with ball cartridges.
The London Times correspondent in British
Columbia complains of the American authori.
ties at San Juan, both civil and military. He
says they have been guilty of many pettY acts
calculated to annoy the Rritiah authorities.
France-The Paris Constitutional says :
The London Times is correct in considering
the pamphlet entitled "The Pope and the
Congress" as political expression of good
understanding and Cancellation between Eng.
land and France, and may congratulate itself
on the result. 1t says, further, that France is
far from intending the destruction of the tenn
trary, consolidate it.
The Bishop of Orleans has written a violent
answer to the recent pamphlet or the Romish
question.
1t IS reported at Paris that M. Guizot is en-
gagged on pamphlet treating of the temporal
power of the Pope.
The Danubian Principalities are about con.
tracing loan of sixty millions of francs, with
France, Russia, and Prussia, pledging the
landed property of the converts.
The Minister of France at Rome has been
obliged to sell two million francs of the consol.
dated funds.
The Government has abandoned the prose.
cution of Montalembert for the recent pamphlet
on the Pope.
The Paris -four market is heavy, and par
tally lower, but wheat is firm.
Tho accounts from the Paris Bourse are un
favorable, but discounts were very active.
Spain.-No new battles had occurred in Mo-
he
three leagues in extent, with three redoubts
and entertainments.
HaIy.-Advces from Turin say that the
French pamphlet on the Pope and the Congress
caused an immense sensation throughout Italy.
Colonel Cadogan, attache of the British le-
cation in Piedmont, has been ordered to pro-
coed to the headquarters of Gen. Fanti, at Bo.
logna. This is considered a new proof of the
interest taken by the British Government in
Central Italy.
China and Japan.-The advices by overland
mail from Calcutta are to Nov. 22d, and Hong
Kong TO Nov. 18th. Nothing was doing at
Calcutta. The prices of the leading articles are
too high to admit of speculation.
The Chinese Government is preparing for de-
fence against the expeditions of France and
England.
The advices from Japan confirm the previous
reports that the Embassy for the United States
would leave in February, with large retinue
of subordinates. Confidence was increasing be-
tween the Japanese and foreigners.
The advices from China indicate that the
trade would not be interrupted by the antici-
pated war.
Russid.--Advices from St. Petersburgh state
that the Russian Government is negotiating for
the purchase of the southern half of the Island
of Saghahan, the other half of which it already
holds.
Twky.-Advices from Constantinople state
that the Porte had called on Europe to settle
the Suez question in its political bearing, as
guarantying the integrity of the Turkish EN-
pire. The French Minister and four other am
bassadors had agreed to the arrangement.
Vienna, Dec. pa telegram from Prince
Metternich to Count Reichberg, says that Count
Walewski declares to the diplomatic corps at
Paris, that while he remains q. the head Of the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the pamphlet en-.
titled The Pope and the Congress" should
not be considered the programme of the French
Ministry.
London, Thursday night, Dec. o. The
English funds have had a slight relapse, and
the Paris bourse had been similarly affected
The Paris Pays contains an article signed N.
de Cassquie, which says that the pamphlet en-
titled " The Pope and the Congress has been
wrongly interpreted by the newspapers, He
says that the pamphlet does not propose to de-
prive the Pope Of the Legations, but only 3D.