The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-06-07
lSY TELEGRAPH.
TO THE DAILY PRESS.
Thursday Morning, June 7, 1866.
TWO DAYS
LATER FROM EUROPE.

TWO DAYS
LATER FROM EUROPE.
Arrival ofthe Steamship Africa at Haii-
- fax, MS.
HALIFAX, N. S., June 6. 2.
The royal mail steamship Africa, Capt. An
| derson, from Liverpool at four o'clock. p. NJ,
| of the Goth, and Queenstown 9th nIt... for
Boston via Halifax, arrived here at o'clock
this morning, with folty-three Halifax and
seventy-seven Boston passengers. r.-f
THE EUROPEAN CRISIS. efe
The position of affairs is unchanged.
The assent of the three disputing powers to
Congress is generally regarded as settled,
| and it is said that Austria will consent to a
discussion of the Venetian question on the
basis OF territorial compensation. According
TO one statement Congress can't be held be-
| fore June 10th.
The London News says plenipotentaties are
expected to meet in three weeks, but in less
than three weeks all the combatants will be
ready for the fray. 3, sa~sse
1t is stated that the Prlssian-I Italian treaty
names May 2Sth for the commencement Of
hostilities. e. AE8 Tac4
A proclamation was looked for in Venice,
ordering the delivering up of all arms, and it
was expected a proclamation of state of
| siege would follow. M
| t. In case of war, Prussia intends to convoke
| a German Pail ament to meet at Berlin.
italian volunteers were proceeding, day by
day. in thousands to their depots.
GaIibaldi is not expected to enter ON the
| same until the last moment, but it is reported
| he left Caprera on the 20 ior the Adrdtic
In letter dated Caprera May 11th he says:
"It is in every way advantageous for the
county that all are ready and united. 1t is
question of life or death for the nation, and
it is for all Italy to solve the problem 1 shall
accept of all who are willing to oppose foreign
oppression. AS for instructions apply to our
| friends, on the commission especially to Ben
| deth Cairok A truce to dissensions, i'm opin-
ions we must act. A reactionary conspiracy
had been divorced, at Naples. The members
| of which had been melting the soldiers to
desert. Arrests on large scales were being
made, and the Clerical and Bourbon party
were in a state ofterror.
| In the Federal Diet at Frankfort proposal
of the Middle States that the Diet should re-
quest Austria, Prussia and all the German
States who have recently increased their arm
| aments to reduce them to peace footing, was
unanimously adopted. The Representatives
| of Austria and Prussia said that in the next
sitting of the Diet they would communicate
| the conditions on which they were willing to
disarm, and the latter referred to the proceed
ings of Prussia, as an evidence of her pacific
desires, and earnestly reiterated the demand
for a convocation of the German Parliament
as the only means of aveiting war.
1 sT bae Is GREAT BRITAIN.
The Honse of Commons reassembled on the
25th. Mr.. D'Israeli made inquiries as to the
| negotiations for a European Congress.
l. Mr.. Gladstone said he could add but little
to Lord Clarendon's recent statement in the
House of Lords. TIE British Government
felt It their duty to entertain proposals for a
Congress, with an earnest desire for peace, but
without any sanguine hopes. The precise
terms for the basis of negotiation have not vet
been,adjusted, but no difficulty is apprehend-
ed in the adjustmentof those terms.
| The bills to carry out the measures proposed
in Mr.. GladstOnes budget, were debated and
passed to a secoud reading.
An influential meeting was held at the
Mansion House in London the 24th, at which
the Lord Mayor presided, to inaugurate a
movement to raise a monument to George
Peabody.
Upwards of 900 miles of the new Atlantic
! cable have been stored on the Great Eastern,
and about sixty miles OF cable were being
slowed away every twenty-four hours. The
| work is proceeding day and night. 1t is found
! that the Great Eastern will not be able to
take all the necessary cable, 2700 miles on
board. The screw steamer Medway has con-
sequently been chartered to take about 500
miles OF the old cable from the Great Eastern.
Another steamer, the Albany, has also been
engaged to assist in the enterprise, and the
British Government has again granted the
services of the war steamer Terrible to accom-
| pany the expedition. Each OF the three
steamers are to be furnished with graphing
apparatus, so that the old cable may be grap
pied at points mile apart, to break the strain
and give greater security. The Great Eastern
will only partially coal at Sheerness, owing to
her great draft of water. 1t is expected that
she will quit the harbor June 2Sth, and start
day or two alter for Beerhaven, Ireland,
where she will complete her coaling, and pro-
ceed to lay the cable. s&AT1 5EF
The prize fight for the championship between
Morse and Goss was perfect farce. The men
did little hut run about and spar for quarter
| of an hour, when they shook hands. and the
affair ended in draw, much to the indigna-
tion of the spectators and patrons OF the prize
ring in general ergrs z-
Financial and commercial affairs in Eng
land continue to show great depression.
The bank returns show continued drain
of gold, and the pressure for money indicates
that the crisis is not yet over.
The Times city articles say: although the
| suspension of the bank charter act did good
| for moment by arresting disastrous run on
the bank, it can now hardly be questioned
that 1t has in some respects aggravated the
commercial pressure and intensified the in
convenience to which all the mercantile and
| financial classes have been exposed. The
crisis must either be allowed to wear itself out
no matter over what period it may extend, or
what destruction it may cause, or if relief is
to be sought, it must be through other means
than the suspension of the bank act.
SPAIN.
Senior de Castro, Minister of Foreign At
fairs referred in the Cortes to the remarks in
the English Parliament upon the lombard
ment of Valparaiso. Hhe said he had inform
ed the foreign Government that Spain would
avenge the blood already shed. IF the Amer
lean Republics continued the war with Spain,
she would continue to act with energy against
them. y bn
FRANCE.
The Bourse on the 25th was firm at 64f zoe.
THE PRINCIPALITIEs. IS 3 ~
The telegraphic statement that the Turkish
and Russian troops had entered the Principal
tiles, is not confirmed.
RnSsia and France are said to have declared
themselves opposed to intervention in the
principalties, India and China.
A large number of imperial troops have
been sent to the province Of Shanghae where
the rebels are said to be very numerous. The
Coolies on board the Italian ship Napoleon
conivers revolted and fired the vessel. Sixty
two of the Coolies were burned to death.
Latest via Queenstown.
Continental politics were unchanged.