Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-07
From Detroit.
Foreign News.
CommerciaI Per Africa.


LIVERPOOL, May 26.-Breadstuffs-W Wheat
winter red los 3d@lOs Cd: corn, mixed,
3Os@3Os Sd.
Provisions tend downward.
Beef dull and still declining.
Pork quiet and steady.
Bacon neminal, at decline Of 2@4s on
the week.
Lard firm at 13s.
Butter dull and unchanged.
Sugar easier.
Coffee very dull.
Petroleum inactive at Is 1Id@2s for re-
fined.
LONDON, May 26.-Consols closed at sT@
III Tor money; 5-20s 654@6j2 Erie 4l3@
423; Illinois Central 76@764-
LATEsT-LIvERPooL, May 26-There was
a general improvement to-day on stock ex-
change and all securities were rather higher.
The large arrivals of specie from America
was one cause Of the better feeling.
The Paris Moniteur confirms the dispatch
by the three neutral powers of a vote for
the assembly of Congress to meet in
Paris at the earliest possible date.
The steamer Africa with three days latter
news has arrived.
1t is stated that the Prussian and Italian
treaty named May 2sth, for the commence
ment of hostilities. Esrthworks for their
entertainments near Vienna have already
been commenced.
Arch Duke Albrecht had addressed the
order of the day to the Austrian troops un-
der his command.
A proclsmation was looked for in Venice,
ordering the delivery up of all arms, and it
was expected ~hat a proclamation Of a state
of seige would follow.
The rigorous execution of the death pen
atty was threatened against all Venstians
who emigrated to take service in the Ital-
ian army.
1t is stated that the crown Prince ofPrus-
sia had been offered q regency during the
war but he declined, saying that his place
was with the army in the case of war.
Prussia intends to convoke the German
Parliament to meet at Berlin.
Reports were current, but not confirmed,
that the Italian patrol had appeared on the
oath on the frontier Of the Caffaro and took
away half the bridge on the Italian side of
the river.
The Italian volunteers were proceeding
day by day in thousands 10 their depots.
Garibsldi was not expected to enter the
service until the last moment, but it was re-
ported that he left Caprera on the 23d for
the coast of the Adriatic.
In letter pated Caprera, May 1lth, Gar
ibaldi says:
1t is in every way advantageous for the
country that all are ready and united. It is
a question of life or death for the nation,
any it is for Italy to solve the problem. l
shall accept of you all who are willing to
oppose foreign oppression. For instructions
apply to our friends on the commission, and
especially to Benedetto Cairole. A truce to
dissensions and opinions. We must act.
A reactionsry conspiracy had been dis
covered at Naples, the members Of which
had been inciting soldiers TO desert. Ar
rests on q large scale were being made.
The Clerical nd Bourbon party were in a
state of terror.
In the Federal Diet at Frankfort the pro-
posal of the middle States that the Diet
should request Austria, Prussia, and all the
German States which have lately increased
their military establishment to reduce them
TO peace footing, was unanimously adop-
ted. The representatives of Austria and
Prussia said that at the next meeting Of the
Diet they would communicate the condi-
tions on which they were willing to disarm,
and the latter referred to the proceedings OF
Prussia in evidence of her pacific desires
and earnestly reiterated the demand for the
conyoking Of the German Parliament as the
only means Of avoiding war.
The House of Commons reasssmbled on
the 25th. Mr.. Disraeli made inquiries as to
the negotiations for a European Congress.
hr, Gladstone said he could add little 10
Lord Clarendon's recent statement in the
House Of Lords. The British government
feel It their duty TO entertain the proposals