The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-14
FOREIGN NEWS.

NEW YORK, March, 1.-THE steamer City of
Baltimore arrived to night from Liverpool Feb.
25th, Queenstown 26th.
Washpgton's birth day was celebrated by a
banquet at St. James Hall. Mr. Adams replied
to the toast. "The Union" principally by extol..
ing Washington. He claimed that henceforth
the memory of Washington must be kept in rev,
erence exclusively by loyal Americans. Messrs.
Cunningham and White spoke, denouncing slave.
~ as the cause of the war. Intense sympathy
with the North.
The Times announces that the Confederate
three million sterling loan was taken bv Earring.
er l. Co., of Paris and Frankfort
The relief ship Achilles, from Philadelphia,
reached Liverpool
On the 22d monster meeting at Manchester
adopted an address to the officers of the George
Griswold, with immense enthusiasm.
In the House of Lords, at the request of Lord
Russell, the motion for the correspondence with
the Confederate Commissioners relative to re-
cognition, was postponed till March Sd.
Pamerston strongly denounced the shipment
OF negroes, by France, from Egypt to Mexico,
and called on France to repair the wrong
Lord Palnerston in reply to the inquiry, said
the only official documents of the British Gov
eminent relative to French mediation schemes,
was Earl Russell's letter of the 18th of Novem-
Der, already published. He could give no in
formation as TO the reply of America to Napo-
Icons last proposition. 1t was matter entirely
between those two Governments
The Polish question attracts great attention
The insurrectionary movements continue.
France takes very decided grounds against
the Intervention of Prussia and is in favor of
the Poles.
The Constitutional, which is regarded as Ma.
pnlo r
not menacing article, towards the King of
Prussia.
There we're rumors in Paris of an alliance
between England, France and Austria to obtain
a solution of the Polish question
Liverpool, Feb. 25-A. M.-Cotton languid,
but not lower.
Authorities report -four dull, but unchanged.
Wheat dull and 2@sd lower, particularly winter
red, which ranged 9s 2d99s Sd. Corn difficult
of sale; mixed 29s@29s Sd per 4sO pounds. /,
Beet and pork unchanged; bacon and lard
steady; sugar dull coffee steady
Additional by City of Baltimore
Accounts from the frontier of Poland to the
goth ult state that the Russian troops appear
inclined to fall back before the insurgents rather
than attack them. War like rumors still pre-
vail 1t is reported that portion of LYONS
garrison has been ordered to the Eastern from
tier.
Liverpool, 2o.-Cotton quiet and unchanged
Breadstuffs fiat but steady. Provisions dull
London, 26.-Consols 92s@4; Illinois Gen.
trail Al.
PORTLAND, March l2.-The Anglo Saxon from
Liverpool 26th p. m, Londonderry 81 arrived
this evening with the very latest news via Lon
donderry. London, Friday-The Spanish Min
istry has resigned.
The Polish question is unchanged
The Mayor OF Liverpool has given grand
banquet to the captains OF the several Ameri-
can relief ships.
The London Globe thinks that if a contradic-
ton exists between Seward and Mercier one of
the two governments involved will have to de-
mand substantial apology.