New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-03

PORTLAND, March 2.-The steamship Anglo
Saxon, of the Canadian line, has arrived at this
port. She left Liverpool on Wednesday, the 18th,
and touched at Queenstown on Thursday, the 10th
instant.
Her commercial adgices, however, have been
fully anticipated by the Edinburgh, off Cape Race,
which left Queenstown on the same day.
The reply Of the Austrian Government to the
proposition Of England for the settlement Of the
Italian question has reached Paris, and its general
purpprt has become known.
Count Rechberg, the Austrian Minister of Foreign
Affairs, says in his dispatch to the English Govern
ment, that Austria cannot retract from the solemn
engagements entered into with the French Govern
ment at Viilatranca and Zurich, and that Austria
will oppose the experiment about being made in
Central Italy by force Of arms.
Prince Gortschakof, the Russian Minister OF
Foreign Affairs, has addressed a dispatch to the
French Government in relation to the English pro-
posals for the settlement Of the Italian question:
In which he declares that the Russian Government
does not consider the four points submitted by the
English Cabinet as altogether forming sound
basis for the solution Of the complicated questions
at issue.
Prince Gortschakof in presenting his objections
to this proposition, expresses the views of the
Russian Cabinet, that real and satisfactory under
standing in relation to basis for the settlement of
the Italian question, can only be arrived at by the
assembling of Congress of the five Great
European Powers.
The French Ambassador at st. Petersburg had
expressed to the Cabinet Of Russia the readiness
of his Government to adhere to these proposals of
Russia.
In this connection report had been circulated
in Paris that Congress OF the four Great Powers,
excluding Austria, would soon assemble, but the
report has not been traced to any reliable source,
and consequently is generally dseredited.
In regard to the position assumed by Prussia
upon the English proposition, Berlin dispatch
says that is the general opinion in political circles
that the Cabinet Of Prussia will refuse to give her
adhesion To the English proposals
| In the House Of Lords the Duke Of Newcastle
announced that the Government thought it best
not TO put i'll force the actof Parliament passed ut
its last session, in reference to extending the full
Hudson Bay Company, until the colony Of British
| Columbia was more thickly settled and its re-
sources more fully developed.
| In the House of Commons the proposed aunexa-
tion of Savoy and Nice to France was pretty gen
| orally denounced.
| In reply TO an inquiry upon the subject, Lord
John Russell stated that the Government was not
aware that any preparations were being made in
France for placing an additional force OF French
| troops in Italy as had been reported.
\ The Vienna official Gazette publishes a circular
addressed to the Protestant consistores in Hun
4 gary, in which they are requested to assemble
their Conferences and state TO the Government Of
| Austria what means they would propose for the
redress of the grievances of which they SO bitterly
1 complain.
The circular further intimates that the reforms
| promised in the Ministerial programme are about
| 10 be granted.
| Adyces from Sicily, via Turin state the eXcesses
of the Neapoiitan authorities in Sicily exceed any
| thing that has occurred in its history.
Large numbers Of the people ara being arrested
| on the merest suspicious. The number of arrests
and the cruelty Of the police towards their pris
| oners was increasing.
Some Of the prisoners had died under the tortures
inflicted upon them by these 1nhuman wretches.
The tyranny Of the Government had been car
red to the utmost limit of forbearance and a pro
clamation had been issued calling upon the Sie
| ians to break the cruel yoke of bondage and de
graduation, and to make united effort to reinvest
Southern Italy with her former rights in Europe.