The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-02-06
Foreign News.

| NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-The steamer Amer
| lea from Bremen, via Southampton, tn,
| Goth of January, arrived here to-day.
| Three hundred thousand pounds sterling
| in specie had been sent by the Bank OF Eng
land to France.
| Consols are quoted at 90! "a ZOE for mon
ev, and the Rebel loan at 3i(e3ii.
The French Admiral Iamlier is dead
A French paper had been seized for pub
fishing Garibaldis address.
Thirty-two thousand Prussian troops
were dispatched 10 Hoistein, via Hanover
who would cross the Elbe without iialting
Austrian troops for Schleswiy were for
warded on the 10Th by special trains con
tanning | 900 men each.
Liverpool cotton market depressed, anG
l2Gll Id lower. Wheat lower; flour dull.
LONDON MARKET.-Wheat IM2d lower
Bank OF England rates have been raised &c
) = cent.
Later reports say that Saxony and Han
over will allow free passage 70 Austrian
and Prussian troops, those marching
without delay into Schieswig.
The London Times OF the 2ith has q re-
port that Denmark has offered to suspend
the obnoxious constitution and address,
II the offer has been made il will for a time
avoid the impending danger of war.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 22.-Cotton very dull
and slightly lower. Breadstuffs steady
and unchanged. Provisions quiet and
steady. Sugar very dull. Petroleum firm
refined Is lid. Conso.s closed for money
at 9Oi Gh90s.
PORTLAND, Feb. THE steamship Ju-
ra, from Liverpool. Jan. 2lst, via London
Jan. ed, arrived this morning,
The Danish question remains unchanged
with more hopes of a peaceful solution
although Austrian troops had commenced
marching for Schlcswiy.
The pirate Alabama was reported at
Singapore, on the I'D of December.
Hon. Wilmer Gibson had been address
ing his constituents ut Ashton. He pre-
dicted speedy revival Of the cotton trade
and plentiful supplies. He contended that
the American war was beneficial to Eng
land and would end slavery. The priva-
teering course was lesson to England that
her commerce might be similarly attacked
at a future time, and the government must
be respected in its efforts to stop the sup
ply of such vessels. He asserted that Eng
land had acted towards the Americans as
she would like that Americans would act
towards her. He uttered no proposition
rs to the issue of the war, but contended
that slavery was the whole motive, and
that the South were the aggressors in order
to found a slave empire.
The Great Eastern lottery scheme has
been abandoned. Another suit has been
commenced against her. Capt. Palmer had
the vessel arrested on claim Of C., 900.
The Danish refusal of the Austrian and
Prussian demands had reached their Gov
ernmonts, and il is announced the Austro
Prussian troops would march without de-
lay into Schleswig.
Frankfort letters say: The opinion pre-
walls here that Austria and Prussia must
have come to 4 definite understanding
with England.
The London Globe expresses confidence
that peace will he maintained, now tina;
the two hostile governments haze substi-
tuted themselves for the shaGowy German
Diet.
FRANCE.-The debate on the Address
still continues in the Chamber Of Deputies
All the opposition amendments have been
rejected, but N one case they obtained 6.
votes.
According 20 the latest extracts the APP
LEGATIONS for the loan were expected to
reach fifteen or twenty times the amount
to be allotted.
Rourse was lower. Rentes 65f Zoe.