Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-11-14
Associated Press Report.
FOREIGN NEWS.

NEW YORK, Nov. lS.
The steamship Peruvi3n rem Liverpool
November lst., via. Queenstown End, ar
rived here to-day.
Her advices contain the following ad-
ditional to the Nova Scotisn's report.
English journals unanimously concur In
the verdict against Muller The execution
was fixed for November 4th.
John Leech, the celebrated Punch carri-
cature, is dead.
A treaty of peace was finally signed at
Vienna, October 30th Rati6cations to be
exchanged three weeks afterwards and
evacuation of Jutland three weeks after
ratification.
A terrific hurricane occurred at Calcutta
October, the 5th. OF 200 ships in the
Hoogey nineteen were totally lost and of
the remainder only twenty are reported
sea-worthy. One hundred and fifty were
driven from their moorings, stranded and
damaged.
Cork papers of the I'd contain the fol-
lowing details Of the destruction caused by
the late hurricane at Calcutta. One
thousand and ten ships were lost and
twelve hundred persons drowned.
The total loss is estimated at 100000
600 francs
A great portion of the city was inunda-
ted and the villages bounding on the river
were under water.
The steamship Kangaroo from New
York, arrived at Queenstown, at Il o'clock,
midnight, on the End inst sa-
The steamship Ssxonis, from New York,
had not arrived up to the noon Of the Sd
inst
The steamship Jura, from Quebec, ran
of the river. At 10 o'clock on the morn
ing of the Sd inst, at high wster as the
tide receded, she was left high and dry and
parted in the middle. Her mails, psssen-
gers and crew, were landed in safety.
The weather was calm but hazy at the
time of the disaster, and the pilot had mis-
taken the lights.
Efforts are being made to float her in
two pieces to her docks only six miles dis
tant.
She was insured.
The Index, the Confederate organ in
London, gives the following relative to
the capture of the Confederate steamer
Florida.
The Confederate authorities in London
have received telegraphic dispatch, dated
Lisbon, from Captsin Morris, comnnander
of the Florida, stating that she was cap
tured on the 7th of October by the Federal
steamer Wachusett, in the hsrbor of
Bahia, Brazil. At the time Of the cap
ture the Florida was lying under the guns
Of the Brazilian forts and the Brazilian
feet, and Captain Morris was on shore
He is now on board the steamer Magda-
ns, bound for Southampton.
The London Morning Herald editorislly
denounces the capture of the Florida in
the most indignant terms
The Times says that the capture of the
Florida in the hArbor Of friendly nation
was an act Of piracy. Within a neutral
water she should have been perfectly safe
from molestation.
The London Herald says if the Wash
ington Government does not release the
Florida, all the maritime powers will have
the right to interfere in the matter
The German Legal Protection Society in
London, are preparing q memorial to the
Crown, in behalf Of Muller, on the ground
of not being satisfied with the evidence.
LONDON MONEY MARKEr-Fundo opened
firm on the End inst, but closed weaker.
Discount market, very qniet.
The unfavorsble course of the Continent
81 exchanges and the active demsnd for
dollars for China and Japan, leads to the
impression that the reduction on the rate
of discount by the Bank of England may
be still further postponed. The demand
for discount at the Bank, however, was ex-
tremely light. .,.-
The Rothschilds have contracted to
supply the Bank of France with two mil.
lions sterling in gold. Ell. - MI. -.-
Telegraph dispatches from Rio Janerio
report no new features there. .-.-
Southwsite's circular reports that there
is no material trsnaetion in American
securities.