The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-11
The Foreign Mails.
Our foreign files to the 2ith ult.. by the Ara
bia, contain the following additional news:
BEGINNING OF THE CONFLICT lNurN0ARY

| BESiNNINS oF JHE CONFLICT In HI N0ARY.
| The following letter shows that the discon.
| tent in Hungary is assuming serious aspect
| PEsTH, Dec. i6.-Events in this country
| have for some time past been marching to-
| wards fearful crisis, and the Viennese gov
| ernment, apparently. is doing all IL can TO ag.
| grayate them and hasten explosion. Ihaye
to record to-day scandaIous outrage com
mltted by that government in this very city OF
Pesth-an outrage which has excited intense
Indignation in all classes Of the population
An immense crowd assembled in the Catho.
lie cathedral TO attend a mass celebrated tor
the repose Of The soul Of the dramatist kisfa-
lndy, whose remains were recently claBdes
| timely removed by the Austrian author ities
IRON The old to the new cemetery. 1t so hap
pened that at the time this mass was celebra-
ted the Protestants of the Lutheran commu-
| mon were attending meeting on the subject
| Of the everlasting imperial patent in the
| school-room attached to their church in the coal
| market. When the mass was over, the greater
| part OF the persons who attended it, and near
iy ali OIL whom were. of course, Catholic, re-
solved to go to the Protestant meeting in or
DER to display once more the sympathy with
| which Catholics regard the struggle the Pro-
,sstan,s are making to prevent the oppression
| OF their religion by the Viennese cabinet.
| NOT TO ihterrupt the Protestants, the CathO-
| hes remained outside the school room and the
church, and We're perfectly quiet. All at once
the tramp of soldiers and the clatter of horses
noofs were heard approaching, and presently
large boales OF cavalry and infantry charged
The people. Not summons to disperse was
| lssued-not word was said, but the brutal
soldiers, with bayoneIS fixed and swords fash
| Ing. rusned right in 10 the midst OF the crowd,
and drove them right aud left. Women and
| children shriehed in terror, and ran as fast as
| they could; but many of them were overtaken
ana were Knocked down by blows from mus
kets, and others were tramped under foot by
| the horses.
The men, after retiring some little distance.
rallied and groups OF them here and there
showed disposition to resist; but, in COM
DtlAncp WfGA the earnest OF some l..
1luent tiai personages, they refrained from hos
fiilty, and AT last all went home shouting the
national railying cry, "EljenG noza'" ''Long
i've the country! )-acry which CRATES harshly
on Austrian ears. But though the people
peaceably dispersed, a great number of persons
were subseq uentiy arrested, and are still III
jail. learn besides, with regret, that several
o1 'hose who were knocked down or tramp pied
under foot are in a deplorable plight
inis Wanton outrage is regarded as OF the
very greatest importance in a political point
ofSview; it is, in truth, the beginning OF a con-
hict between the Hungarians and their op
pressors, OF which no one can predict the end.
The beliefs that the Austrian authorities will
follow 1t up by declaring Pesth in state OF
siege, and by putting DOWN the wearing OF
the national cos tune, " hich, in their eyes, is
symbol Of revolution.
ENGLAND
| A public meeting has been held at Edin-
burgh, "for the purpose OF expressing symfra-
| thy with the Rev. DIR. Cheever, Of New York,
| In the painful position which he has been late
| iy called upon to occupy with regard to slave
ry.' There was large attendance, and among
| the gen ntlemen on the Ilatform were Lord Pro-
vost Douglas, Sir John Melville, Drs. Chand
! lish, Guthrie and Alexander an@ several min
listers. DIR. Chandlish said that he believed
the execution of John Brown was the first
blow OF the axe laid at the root of the tree OF
slavery.
| On Thursday the Right Hon. Lord Elgin
was formally installed Lord Rec tor of the
University of Glasgow
| MT. SDUrgpOu cDntTaGICfS a statement that
| he had renounced his Calvanistic views.
| The death OF the Earl OF Camperdown ell
evates Lord Duncan to the peerage.
FRANCE.
| 1t is underst TODD that the great European
Powers have sugges ted TO the French govern
ment the propriety of withdrawing the French
| army of occupation from Italy. 1t has been
objected that such measure would be inop-
perfume, and would leave Italy defenceless, At
| the mercy of her enemies; but some sort of
guarantee seems TO have been given by the
French government that the French troops
| shall be Withdrawn from Italy when the
Congress shall give its sanction.
The French army is subscribing money and
rations 10 relieve the misery in Rome.
| The temperature in Paris has undergone
within the space OF fOur-and- twenty hours a
most extraordinary change, the frost having
| completely disappeared, and a thaw of almost
| unexampled rapidity having made an immense
| progress.
A letter from Madrid says that the general
disapprovaI OF the war is being more and
more Enthusiastically manifested in that city.
| The Spanish army in Morocco is sending
| 20n men q day into hospital; the majority OF
| the cases are cholera cases. The loss in the
| skirmish-s and conflicts which had taken
| place up 10 the 9th insiant are, put down at
loo men killed and wounded.
a letter describing the battle of the 25th of
November. says:
The Moors fought brayely, chiefly from be-
| hind the trees, 10 which they clung like ser
| nd hAln = tc
least possible mark of the enemy. Their es-
| pingardas, very long -barreled guns requires
| prop for their aim to be at all sure. When
| thus supported, am assured that they will
| kill at 400 PAGES. On the 25th a battalion of
| the regiment of Merida got into the rear OF a
| large body OF Moors, who We're defending Il
| wood, and charged them with the bayOnet,
killing good many OF them. When thus at
| tackled, they take their guns by the barrel aud
| use them clubs. This mode of defence is
found very Intellectual against the bayonet,
| with which the httle Spanish soldiers run in
| upon them. The Moors fire described to me,
| by persons who have been in close contact
with them, and seen many of their dead bo-
| dies, as extremely fine men, most OF them all,
| not a few nearly six feet high, bearded, ard OF
various complexions, varying from black, OF
| nearly SO, to a tint almost as white that OF
| most Europeans. They are extremely dirty,
| and wretchedly clad, Il white h;tlk "a sort OF
tun,c with hood being their only garment
| Their statue, their wild and forocious appear
ance, and horrible yels, might have been ex-
expect ted, perhaps, to have AN in i'm ida ting ef
| feet upon troops Of which. the majority are
mere recruits, but such does not appear TO
| have been the case.
| A letter from Algesras contains this pas
| sage: IAN officer told me that in one of the
previous actions three MoOrS We're surround
| ed, and had no chance of getting away; they
stood firm, waited the approach of their enc
mics, deliberat teiy aimed, fired their espingas-
das, and then bent their heads 10 receive their
death. blow
ITALY.
The resignation of Garibaldi has by no
means checked the subscriptions of arms. Not
day passes III which the General does not
receive numbers of letters, from Italy US we'll
as from abroad, announcing new Subscrlp-
tions. The subscription is becoming more
and more a demo nS ira ZION as well rs a practl-
| cal means of arrning Italy. Even the Vene-
tians have contrived to take part in it, i'll spite
| OF the Austrian police and Austrian system
Of espionage.
A Vienna letter says thai military prepara-
tions continue 10 be taken against the agitation
apprehended III Hungary. Several regiments
of heavy cavalry which had been kept on 4
war footing, have been marched towards the
old frontiers separating Austria from Hun
gary.
The minister OF justc has given orders for
tant Assembly held at kPsmark, and all the
persons who took an active part in the pro-
ceedirgs there.
On the 18th inst, the railway between Co.
logne ana MaNence was opened 10 tralt1c-
The health of the King still continues TO he
precarious. German literature has sustained
loss by the death of William Grimm, the
younger of the celebrated brothers He was in