The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-09
EU r o P e.
Diplomatic Explanations from Austria
to Rome.
Lord Stanley ON England's Re-
latiOns to Mexico.

9he German mail steamship Union, Captain Wenke
from Southampton July 2s, arrived at this port al
noon YESTERDAY bringing mail report In detail Of
our cable dispatches dated to the day Of sailing.
The Union landed Gao, 900 In specie and 729 passen
gers
letter from Berlin, published in Paris, refers to
the rumors OF reconciliation between the Cabinets
OF Prussia and Austria. According to the communi.
cation the idea does not meet with very encour
aging reception In the capital Of the former country
Besides, such negotiations, 1t is said would not have
taken place in the absence Of Count de Bismarck
from Berlin.
letter from Trieste OF July Is in the Moniteur DC
Ia Flote says
Vice Admiral Tegethofr has left Pola for LISA,
where he Will find collected the experimental squad
ron OF Austria, which has received orders to join
him there. He will in person witness some decisive
trials OF the boadsde OF Armstrong guns with which
the iron,cad frlgate Max is armed, and also the
mes. The results hitherto are individually In favor OF
the former, and the general belief is that the latter
VIII be abandoned for ships and employed exclusive.
~ FOR coast batteries.
Three large fleets were anchored in Italian waters
Admiral Boutakof, with the Russian vessels under
his command at Brindisi; the English squadron at
Ancona, and the Italian fleet at Cagliari in Sardinia
The Golos Of ST. Petersburg says
The die seems to be cast the harvest for 1868 is an.
nounced as being bad In several provinces OF the
Russian empire. The news from those on the Bait c
Is not better than from the Southern ones In Ii
vonia and Courland for some time past an unfavo
Bile result has been expected; but q tOerably good
year was hoped for In Esthonia, where at present
nothing but lamentations are heard. The communal
reserves are almost exhausted, and serious doubts
are entertained as to whether the new yield will
refll them The following is the report we received
from the South:-An the farmers In the government
Of Pultowa are in despair. The reapng ought to
commence In fortnight, and there Is nothing to
gather neither rye nor oats, nor hay; everything
burnt up; not one drop OF rain has fallen since the
beginning OF May. At this moment rye nour
costs one rube twenty copecks (5f the poud
l83 lbsl, an unheard Of price in this district.
In Kef, PodOlia and Vohynia matters are
no better and prices rise daily These unfavOrabe
circumstances will inevitably reduce the revenues OF
the treasury not only because many farmers will not
be IN position to pay their direct taxes but further
because the general misery will considerably restrict
the proportion of consumption OF objects subject to
indirect taxation. The State must therefore indis
pensably reduce Its expenditure.
The Empress OF Russia is accompanied at Kssin.
gen by her two youngest and her brother Prince
Alexander Of Hesse
The Queen Of Prussia left Potsdam for the banks of
the Rhine.
The Countess dc Molina, widow Of Don Carlos, of
Spain, left Trieste for Gratz where she intends to
pass some time with her daughteri law the Arch.
duchess Maria Beatrice, ana her grand children
Don Carlos and his consort the Princess Marguerite
now near her confinement.