The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-06-21
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| Tho House Of Oommons has resumed
business. No business Of importance
wDs tTsnssctsd on the 9th inst.
| The accident reported on the Great
Western Railway By last steamer has been
followed ~ AnoflEereq1ally safious 10 An
express train on the South. Eastern road,
tcosveying passengers from Faaass 70 Lon
don. Ehs tzais was thrown of tie track
nsar Staple Hurst. Ten persons were
killed and 20 wounded. Charles Dickens
was on the train, but escaped injury.
6ir Jcssph Paxton died on the 9Th A.
ter protractcd illness.
W. H. Russell goes out in The Great
Eastern 10 writs n aesost Of the laying of
tho Atlantic telegraph cable. The work
will b parshased BY Mr.. Robert DhdIsy
asd Published BY Day & Son Of London.
Cyrus ". Field hsd retained 70 London
after visiting Valenia to arrange fdr the
laying Of the shore end Of the cable
| Mr.. 6bada i passenger on board the
Asia en route for Hearts Continent, New
Fonndland. 70 get alLready at that point
for the landing Of tho cable. i'll I'd
An official diplomatic ecgfssponaesce
between England and AmSrics is pub.
iished relative to the duties snd privileges
of British Consnls 10 American provinces
It ends by Mr.. Seward cheerfully accord
ing to the British Consuls al the privi-
leges enjoyed BY the United States Con-
sails 10 the British dominions.
A Paris correspondent Of the Id ndon
Times, under date of the 9Th, writes q
follow:
1T is certain that the Mexican agent
who arrived in Paris wss sent By 4axi-
million for the express purpose Of exRlsin-
log the critical state Of affairs in Mexico,
the menaoing attitude of the Americans,
and the fear Of His Majesty that war
would - declared BY the Usited States,
now that the war with the South is pver
The French Government has therefore
given the Washington Cabinet to uhder-
stand very plainly that Mexico is under
the protection Of France that f iance
will no, aliow any power to attack it that
6libusters and adventurers entering Mex
ican territory with hostile desiges will,
it taken in arms, be hanged or shot With
out loss Of time or mercy, and that tie
United states Government, whose perfect
good faith France, of course, does not
doubt. must do all in its power TO keep
her subjects from doing injury % her
protege. The Washington Cabinet prob
sbiy has no desire at this time to be %
bad terms with this couotry, and will no
doubt act prudentIy in this affair. The
language and tone OF France is what may
be called energetic.
On the 9Th inst. in the corps de legis-
latif M. Jules Favre made q speech
strongly condemning the Mexican txpe-
dtion. He maintained that the position
Of MAMMALIAN was precarious and appre-
hended conflict with America. M. D.
Esange demonstrated in reply that the
position Of Maximillian was in no way
preoarious snd pointsd out the progress
which had heen msde in Mexico. The
effective force Of the expeditionary corps,
he said, did not exceed a6 900 men. Re-
lative to the apprehension Of . conflict
with Ameries, the speaker quoted the
expressions of President Lincoln just be-
iore his melancholy death, to show they
need not be en,ertained He said these
expressions had been political testamec
that will be carried ont in good faith BY
those whom President Lincoln no longer
governs, but whom his memory inspires.
The United States, continues the speaker,
now only think Of consoling the widows
and ovphaus Of thsir civil war, and do not
consemplats the shedding Of more blood.
The debate on the American question
was further continued by the legislature
on the 9th inst, but nothing new Was de-
veIopsd. H'Rouher defended the policy
OF the Government.
The Empress Eugeuie had received a
letter written BY the President of tho U
=. 10 the Emperor in reply to the imp trial
letter recalling Count Msricier from W ash
ington.
The last despatch, dated May 22d. sd-
dressed 70 Ar. Bigelow, American Min
istes, BY The State department at Wash
ingten, is published. It refers to the old
friendship existing between the two ma
tions, friendship. Gays the Minister,
which is cordially reciprocated on our
sids. re
The Pail. Mall Gazette learns that sevs-
raj members of the French opposition are
about to send an address to President
Johnson. reminding him that the first act
Of the French Republic ia lSis was TO
abolish slavery except in punishmsnt for
offence. and suggesting to the Govern
ment of the United States ths application
of this principle.
The resignation by Prince Napoleoa Of
the Vice Presidency Of the Connoil and
the Presidency Of the exhibition conven-
ton is accepted
s London. June 10.
The Times to-day has An editorial in
which it deprecates harsh measures on the
part Of the American government sgainst
The fallen and conquered rebels. II con
tends both justice and expediency should
dictate : generous policy. Il says We
ksvs al~ays REGARDED the Amsrissas =
generous and peaceable people, impatient
indeed st opposition and ready to enter