The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-04-18
Foreign News.

HALIFAX, April 16.-The Arabia from
Liverpoo! 4th via Queenstown 5th, arrived
this evening.
>. --latest via Queenstown 10
Liverpool, 5th.-The steamer Australian
from New York arrived last night.
Cracow, 4th.-The instruction in the
government is increasing. Ponsioniz has
been taken by the insurgents. They have
also captured Rodon which was evacuated
by Gen. Alzank. They seized the public
treasury of that town. I.
The Liverpool Albion publishes letter
rom the Foreign Office to the owners of the
Magieinne which was seized by Federal
cruiser, and liberated by the Prize Court,
stating that the English Minister at Wash
lngton will be instructed to apply to the
government of the United States for full
compensation to the parties interested.
"A heavy collapse in the Confederate loan
occurred in London on the I'd, owing to the
suspension of j. b. Spence, of Liverpool, in
the grain trade. Spence was supposed to
be the confederate financial agent; but he
proved not to be the same person, not be-
ing connected with him except by family
ties. Nevertheless, the loan closed on the
"a at 113@ lac discount. at IS
Commercial. This week the Cotton mar
ket was received by the City of New York.
Liverpool Breadstuffs.-Flour steady;
Wheat firmer, Red IS 9d09s; Corn firm at
Us I'd for mixed. Beef and Pork dull; Ba- !.
con heavy; Lard dull at decline of 6d@1s.
Sugar dull; Coffee active.
London Imports Wheat has a down.
ward tendency, with a decline of 1s@2s per
quarter. -, .,, -.
American Stocks-dull, but steady, III. G..
435g442 discount; Erie 434@44l. ,.s
The Times and Daily News both expitiate
necessarily against England on account OF
the fitting out of Confederate vessels, and
the possible adoption of retaliatory mea-
sures. The Times sees something to hope
for in America from the inauguration of
Union Leagues in the North and an in
creased demand among the Republicans
for q restoration of the Union at any price.
The Times says European sympathy has
been withheld simply because it was per-
ceived the whole Southern people were in
earnest about their independence, while it,
was not apparent that any considerable
part of the Northern people were in earnest
about emancipation. Ils suCl1ss big
The British man-of-war Orpheus has
been wrecked on New Zealand $50 Off
GERS and men were drowned. 20 were saved.
POLAND.-Affairs were again threaten
ing. The insurrection was increasing. The
peasantry, nobility and middle classes
have joined en- masse. The Russian
troops are at Mundel and Riga. Langie-
witt has been conveyed from Cracow into
Morayia.
The daily Ne,cs publishes manifesto of
the Polish insurgents, which occupies Z
columns. Lupenzkill, late chief among
the Circassians, had landed in Coverland
| with a well differed force. Russia was
buying transports at Dantzic for the Vistu4
la. The Swedish government had laid an
embargo on an English steamer at WallO,
which was carrying Polish detachment
from England for Poland. ,5s,..f. sr,T
London Money Market-Funds on the
I'd, were without variation. - aI,ar.f.+T
Liverpool, Saturday Evening, April A.
In consequence of to-day being a Holiday;
there is nothing new to report in the Cot
ton and other markets. srE 4..-..gflr
London, acknowledgements closed at 92I
| 092a for money!