The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-04-27
FOREIGN NEWS.
Steamship Africa Arrived
American Affairs in Europe.
The Daily News On the Fall Of Rich
mond-F0reign Political Affairs
Press Dispatch y . f-l

rica. Capt. Andrew, from Liverpool II
o'clock a NJ on the 18th, via Queens
town 18th, arrived here at o'clock this
evening. Her dates are three days later.
The steamship ST. David. from Port
land, arrived at Liverpool at o'clock A.
N. on the l4th.
The steamship Australasian, from New
York, arrived off Crook Horn at III A
NJ Oh the l4th
The news of the fall of Richmond ere
ated intense excitement in England. but
it arrived too late to admit of the papers
commenting upon it. and as most of the
markets had closed from the 18th to the
18th, the effect of the news cannot be
fully developed until they are open. q ! {
The London Daily News says the Ar
nv of Virginia, so long deemed invinci-
BILE, the pride. the hope, the centre, the
citadel of the Confederacy, has been not
only beaten but shattered. The Davis
Government is now vagrant and fugitive.
Richmond, which received it and gave it
for time dignity which it could never
have acquired while it remained among
the cotton plantations. where it had its
rise, was set on fire by its departing
guests. That the Confederate army
fought with all its old tenacity we can
not doubt, but it has been broken up by
men who, as We have often been told,
was the sweepings of Northern cities
Davis began the war by declaring he
could carry it where feed for the torch
awaited Southern armies in populated
csties, but the attempt to burn Now York
ended in nothing, while Davis put his
capitol in flames aud decamped
Other papers are silent as yet upon the
news
The Times has an article strongly con-
demning the conduct of Judge Smith, of
Montreal, for his i'll considered and dan
gerous charge upon the ST. Albans raid
ers.
A London correspondent of the Proyin-
cial Press says there are WhlspeIlngs rs
to the desire of the King of the Belgians,
who is still in England, to exercise an in-
fuence over the course to be taken by
the British Government in Mexican at
fairs
Earl Russell regrets the precipitapcy
with which he yielded to the royal wish
to recognize the pretended Mexican en-
pire. Fall it must if not saved by Euro
pean intervention, and that right early,
aud for this neither the premier nor the
foreign secretary is prepared.
The Paris bourse on the l4th was qui-
ct and lower. Rentes closed at 67f SO
oentimes
SPAlN.-The Paris correspondent of
the London Times saysthat disturbances
at Madrid were more serious than here
tofore stated. On the evening of the
18th an assemblage on the streets was
suddenly dispersed by volley of mus
kerry. The troops fired right and left
Several were killed and Is wounded. NO
provocation was given on the part OF
the people. No proclamation had been
issued to warn the people or to forbid
their moving about the streets.
LIVERPOOL, April l5.-Our markets
have been closed since the 18th for the
Good Friday holiday. No corn in mar
ket since the City of Washington sailed.
Breadstuffs quiet and steady. Provisions
quiet and steady, tending downward .
Sugar tends upward, with prices 3a6d
higher. Rice6d higher Petroleum firm
at % Id for refined. Other articles un-
changed.
LONDON MISUNDERSTANDING circular
reports coffee frmer and Cd higher. Bnl-
lion in the Bank of England decreased
f3l8,OOO sterling. Consols closed on
Thursday at 91aSla.
LIVERPOOL, April Is, Evening.-The
fall of Richmond is the universal topic
to-day. The friends of the Norih are
greatly elat6d at Grants success, and
are strengthened in the conviction that
the final triumph of the North is near.
The rebel loan declined 6 per cent, clos
ing at 23a25, while the Federal Ssecuri-
ties exhibit a decided improvement
Illinois Central shares, 63a64; Erie shares,
364a37; U. S. 5-2Os, 64ta55t. ....
The cotton and produce markets are
closed. There are indications of a further
decline in cotton. t...
Consols dull and easier, closing at 9Ot
81 for money. T. .l
LATEST VIA. QUEENSTOWN LIVER.
POOL, April l6.-The Globe says the fall
of Richmond leaves the Confederates
threatened on every side. This is tire.
mendous price TO pay for the luxury of
pushing an army to Nashville and refus-
ing until the eleventh hour to free and
arm the negroes.
BOMBAY, April 7 Markets ipanimate;
freight on cotton 4S