The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-08-21
Nithmunn Qispatrt.
TUESDAY MORNING. AUG 81, 1860.
EIGN NEw s.

FOREIGN NEWS.
The steamship Glasgow, with dates from
Liverpool to the 9th inst, passed Cape Race,
Friday night. Her dates are two days later
| than any yet received.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The House of Commons had passed bill
| for amalgamatiag the European and native
armies in India.
| Queen Victoria reviewed twenty-five thou
| sand Scottish rifle volunteers at Edinburgh
| on the eth. Great enthusiasm was manifest
| ed.
| In the House of Commons on the 9th, in re-
| ply TO a query from Mr.. Berkeley, the Chan
| ceilor of the Exchequer stated that the con-
| tract between the government and the ATTAIN
| tic Telegraph Company had become void, and
| hereafter the government would exercise great
| caution IN entering into further contracts of
| similar undertakings.
| The Morning Chronicle says it has reliable
| information that the Ordnance Select Com
mittee of the Commons have sent a condem-
| natory report of the W hitworth gum in which
| it is stated that they are not eligible for her
Majesty's service.
The Londoners ENJOY the luxury of music
in their parks on the Sabbath. The band
! played in The Victoria Park for the eighth and
| in the Regents Park for the fifth time this
! season. on the 22d, the receipts meeting the
ex oenditure Her Majesty's present COM
missioner having taken off the prohibition
| against preaching in the parks the band
committee in the Victoria Park experience no
inconvenience from the fact of the band and
the preachers having separate districts as
signed them at considerable distances apart
whilst in the Regents Park the preachers
have been permitted to inteImingle with the
band audience.
In 1857, the linear extent of English rail-
ways exceeded the ten chief rivers of Europe
united, and more than enough of single rails
were laid TO make q belt of iron round the
earth. The tunnels. joined together, would
stretch more than seventy miles; the yiaducts
| in the vicinity of the metropolis alone would
reach eleven miles, and the earthworks meas
| ured $50, ,oCo, GOO OF cubic yards-a mass of ma.
teTial which, if piled in pyramid, would
rise two miles and half high, with a base
| larger than st. James Park. Eighty millions
of train miles were run annually.
The following was the quantity of tobacco
remaining in the Liverpool bonded ware
house up TO the Both Of June, 1860: Stemmed,
from the United States, 6. .932, ,3li lbs unstem-
| med, from the United States, 4,632,l15 lbs;
leaf from South America and cigars, 232 999
lbs; from other ports, 742, ,957 lbs; manufac-
tured and cigars, pig lbs. Entered in the
quarter, but not weighed up, Ali hhds.
There was slight fall of snow at Leeds,
England, on the oath ult
The last week in ] ulv, the births of 500 bows
and o27 girls in all 1886 children, were regis
| tered in London. In the ten orrespondlng
| weeks of the years lo50-'59, the average num-
| ber was $50.
Napoleon was at the Chalons camp. 1t was
denied that he is 10 have meeting with the
King of Sardinia.
The Paris Bourse was firmer. Rentes 6Sf 25c
A subscription list has been opened in Paris
and the departments, for the benefit of the
Christians of Syria who have survived the
massacres. 1t is expected that about 100000
francs may be forwarded to Syria in the course
of the present week.
The French Academy, at its last sitting, fixed
as the subject of the prize of poetry, for the
year 1861, the "Isthmus of SueZ."
far
| duced - sum of f479, ,474, being a decrease of
| f268 600 as compared with the same month last
year.
The steam vessels for the Syrian expedition
| can effect the passage from France in about a
| week. Beyrout and Saida where the troops
| are TO land, are tolerably well provided, espe-
| cially Beyrout, with everything TO make them
| centres of military operations.
| According TO popular rumor, it is the in ten
tion of the Emperor Napoleon. TO make Baron
| Rothschild King of Jerusalem, under the pro-
| lection of France, and-as may be expected
| for "a consideration"
| Count de Cham bo ul and his sister, the Ouch
| ess of Parma, have contributed 5000 francs in
| aid of the Christians in Syria.
| ITALY.
| PALERMO. August 4th. 1660.-Large numbers
| of volunteers continued to arrive.
| NAPLES, August Sd, lS60.-All efforts to con-
| clude an armistice with Garibaldi having
failed, preparations are being made to repulse
any attempt at invasion.
|
/ in the royal army and navy.
Commander CapecclaZo has been appointed
| Director of Marine.
| The Office of private secretary to the King
| had been suppressed
The King has visited the headquarters Of
| the National Guard
| A Turin letter of August Sd afirms that the
| Prussian Ambassador at the Sandman Court
assured Count Cavour that the Cabinet OF
Berlin would observe the strctest neutrality
| with regard TO Italy.
The MoremtntO, of Genoa, published an ex.
| traordinary editorial on Saturday evening
| announcing that the first and thirteenth Nea.
| politan regiments had mus tered liz Calabria Io
| the cry of "Eive Garibaldi.'
| 1t is reported that the King of Naples has
| sent 200 soldiers to Reggie, opposite Mes sina
| AID these troops, it was confidently asse rted
| intended TO join Garibaldi the moment he
| lands. At Naples and Rome he is waited fol
| with impalence.
| MARsEILLEs, Aug. G, 1S60.-The troops have
| left for Syria.
| The Finisterre left Toulon yesterday, and
the Baraghth them, with half 4 battalion of chas.
| seures, left for Marseilles to-day.
The Fifth regiment of the line has arrived
| here.
According to advices from Naples, 300 SOL
| diers who were on the point of joining Carl
baldi had been arrested.
| The Minister of War had drawn off the
| troops from the AbraZzi, in order TO concen
trate the principal part of the army sroun6
| Naples.
/
| law enacting that an exhibition of agric ulture
man ufac ctures and fine arts of all Italy shall
be held in Florence in September, 1851, FOL
| which d sum of 10000 francs is provided from
the public treasury.
Two Italian Journals. the Cettadino d'Ast
| and the Corriere Mercantile affirm that tn,
! Emperor Napoleon and King Victor Ema n
| uel will have an interview some time III th'
| first fortnight of August.
| The Arch bishop of Palermo has addressed {
circular to the clergy directing them to confint
| their discourses i'll The pulpit to the preaching
| OF the Gospel.
The Emperor of Austria and King of Bava
| ria are TO have meeting.
| At RZesZow the police have lately com
| menced lmprisoning every lsraelite who hap
| pens TO be in the street when priest is pass.
| ing through it with pix containing the sacred
| waters. Petty acts of persecution are con-
| stantly being committed upon the Jews in
other parts of the Austrian dominions.
| RUSSIA.
Accounts from St. Petersburg say that Q
fearful sconrge. the plague of Siberia, hai
broken out In that city.
| COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
| London Money Mdrket.-The London none,
| market was unchanged, with good demand,
ConSols closed on Tuesday at S33s for money anl
| account.
Ltrerpool Cotton Markst.-The sales of Mon
day and Tuesday wee % 100 bales of which s 90,
| were to spectators and exporters. The marke
| day. The advices from Manchester are unfavor
| able. Yarns were slightly lower, with fair de
liverpool BrsadstnFs Markst.-Ths weather
| had been untavorable for the crops. Messrs
| Wakefield, Nash & Co. report flour firm ant
| Wheat firm, and fine red slg htly higher; red los
Cd oils I'D white lis. 1l2s I'd. Corn quiet at the
late advance; mixed and y elbow Sis 0sls Cd, white
Richardson, Spence Il Co. report corn slight!
higher; mixed and yellow 32s p..s ,.