Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-03
EUROPEAN NEWS.
Additional by the steamer Ed,nburS


NEw YORK. March THE steamer Ed
inburg Is still 81 anchor in the lower bay,
owing To the fog.
We have succeeded an obtaining the fol-
lowing summary OF her news:
The lie NOrl says that the reply of
Austriu 10 the English proposition for the
settlement OF the Italian question, has
reached Paris.
Count Richberg states that Austria can
not retreat from the engagements of Villa
Franco and Zurich He observed that if
the treaty of Zurich was respected IN We
nitia, why should it not be in the Italian
Duchies? And if the propositions of
England are carried ont, that is q great
experiment that is about to he made in
Central Italy. Austria will not oppose the
experiment by force of arms, convinced
that e, cnts will not fail to give support to
the case of right and justify Austria.
y Berlin telegram ON the same subject,
says that Austria had declared her rcsOlu-
ton not to abandon the basis of agree
ment at Villa Franco, and that she would
not promise an absolute nOn-interventiOn
in Central Italy, and that shonid not Con-
gress take place, she will only negotiate
with France.
According to ST. Petersburg despatch,
Prince Gortschakotf had informed the
French government that Russia did not
consider the English proposals to be alto
gether a solution of the Italian difficulty
and that u real understanding could enly
result from a conference of the five great
powers.
GREAT BRITAIN.-In the House of Lords
the Duke of New Castle stated that until
the resources. of British Columbia were
more fully developed, it was thought bet
ter not to put in force the act of last year,
in reference to the jurisdiction of the Hud-
son Bay Company.
In the House of Commons, Lord JohI
Russell stated that the French and Eng
lish commissioners appointed TO enquire
into the Newfoundland fisheries, had re-
ported to their respective governments.
Mr.. Is. CoChrauc called attention to the
state OF relations with China, and Httribu-
ting the present difficulty 10 Lord Elgin's
demand for resident minister at Pekin,
which was offensive to the Chinese. lie
severely denounced the proceedings of
Mr.. Bruce and Admiral Hope.
The subject, after Il lengthy discussion,
was dropped, at the request of Lord Pal
merstOn.
In the House of Lords on the 18th, the
of Savoy to France, WAS pretty
generally denounced.
Russell said that the government was not
aware that any preparation WAS being
made for placing French forces in Italy.
Sir VIM. Napier. the historian of the
Peninsular war, is dead. His age was a.
years.
IrALY.-The Opinion Of Turin says the
question of the new vote to he given 10y
Central Italy, is not resolved on.
Furloughs have been granted to the
French soldiers who had been suspended.
New battalions. composed partly of for
eigners and partly of NeOpolitans, have
been formed.
Fifteen thousand municipal guards had
been mobolized in the Stagga.
1t was reported that the King of Naples
had ordered Gen. Pencil, in case of need,
to act with the Popc's General.
Letters from Sicily announce that pOlit-
ical arrests and excuses of the police,
were increasing. Some women had been
rayished and beaten by thEm. Political
prisoners had died under torture. Several
had iii vain protested against
these barbarous treatments.
\ proclamation was in circulation eX-
hOrting the Sicilians 10 rise and to rein
vest Southern Italy with her former rights
in Europe.
Private accounts from Naples state that
a conspiracy had been discovered among
Il portion of the Ncopolitan army, and that
it had been traced to the Piedmontese
agency.
Naples it was said would address note
to the Powers, complaining of these at
tempts.
1t was believed that the King of Naples
had ordered the liberation of political
prisoners arrested upon suspicion.