The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-27

French Gunbouts for the Rhine-Ap
he1sded Commercial Failures in England
The Alabama Claims, de-, &C., dc.
GREAT BRITAIN-THE DISCOVERED TREATY
PASSING OF FRENCH WAR VESSELS.
LONDON, July 26.-The harvest prospects
throughout England are improving daily.
The excitement occasioned by the dis
eoyerv of the secret treaty offered by France
tn Prussia is increasing, as the evidence be.
comes clearer that the document is genuine.
| The Journals all comment on it in similar
tome demanding an explanation from
France of this offensive treaty. The Times
particularly seeks to make this treaty the
nretext for the intervention OF England IN
behalf of Prussia. It asserts that the irlsh
svmDatby for France is altogether due to
| the influence of Roman Catholicism ana ha'
tired of German Professionalism.
] Dover, ENG, July 26.-Nlne French III,
gates steamed past here going eaStwaI q
Yesterday. The cliffs were crowded WIFI
neople to witness the exciting scene., ;,
WICK, SCOTLAND, July 26.-SeYeral frencn
cruisers are i'm the North sea of here thls
: HAsTINos, Eng, July 26.-Eleyen French
frioates passed here Yesterday bound east
ward. 1t is expected the French fleet VIII
attack Kiel, in Sleswick, on the North sea.
,a Second Dispatch.
LONDON, July &c. Tomorrow is the Gay
for stock settlements, and in the present
convulsed condition of affairs, many failures
are expected. -
The Mcintosh Oil Works were burned to.
day at Leith. Three persons were killed
during the conflagration.
The British troops ship lamar, from Hall
fax, has arrived. 80
In the House of Commons tonight MIR.
Gladstone, in reply to q question OF Mr..
Torrens, said the negotiations for the SET
|tlement of the Alabama claims stood where,
they did q year and q halfago. The United
States having declined the offer made by
England, the next advance was due from
the American Government. !
Earl Granville, in the House of Lords,
again referred to the draft of the secret
treaty alleged to have been proposed by
France to Prussia. He said he had an
interview this afternoon with the French
Ambassador, who told him that the treaty
originated with Bismarck; that it never had
r serious basis 3; and that it had been re-
jected by both parties. The Ambassador
protested that France was actually DESTROYS
of peace with Belgium, England, and HOl-
land. =
Mr.. Gladstone informed the House of
Commons tonight that advices from Berlin,
settling the authenticity of the Times in
formation regarding the alleged treaty, were
hourly expected. The British Minister ut
Berlin had telegraphed that the dispatch
containing the original propositions Of Ma
poleon, embodied in a treaty, existed in
Count Benedetti's own handwriting.
Mr.. DIVA, the Under Foreign Secretary,
declined, when asked, to make any commll-
nicatinn or express an opinion on the pro-
posal made by Napoleon to annex Holland.
SPAIN.
MADRID, July 2G-General Prim had
long interview with the British Minister
yesterday.
An Instruction of the Carlsts is hourly
expected. The Government is prepared.
f Second Dispatch.
|: MADRID, July 2G.--The danger of Car
list Instruction is not yet over, and the
Government is redoubling its precautions.
AFRICA.
/ LONDON, July 2G.-Advices from Cape
town announce the discovery of new dia-
mond fields.
FASTING AND PRAYER IN PRUSSIA.
LONDON, July 26.-Wednesday next is
appointed as Il day of fasting and prayer in
Prussia.
MITIGATING THE HORRORS OF WAR.
PARIS, July 26.-Napoleon stipulates to
adhere to the plan of the Geneva confer
ence to mitigate the horrors of war.
Prussia has not yet responded to the stipu-
lation.
FRENCH GUNBoATs ON THE RHINE.
PARIS, July 2G.-The French gunboats to
operate OH The Rhine and other rivers in
Prussia are being transported in sections
overland from Marseilles.
FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT OF sKIRMIsH.
PARIS, july 26.-The Journu! ORciel re.
ports the repulse of Prussian recon-
+noissance at Blauck, twcnty-six miles north
west of Strasbourg. a Bavarian officer was
killed and two captured.
FFgdro'S account insists that the killed
officer was an Englishman.
THE PRUssIAN NEws-PRUssIAN HEAD
QUARTERS.
LONDON, July 2G.-The news received by
way of Berlin is very meagre. This is due
to the prudence OF the Prussian Govern
ment, who watch the telegraph closely. ~
mated as Prussian headquarters. Reports
from Mayence say the army is shifting its
position so as to face south. .lge t...-,. Il
-.... MASSACRE IN AVA.
LONDON, July 26.-Dispatches report an
Instruction in the principality Of Ava and
the massacre OF l 400 persons.
TIE PRUssIAN VIEW OF ENGLISH NEUTRALITY
SHARP DISPATCH.
WASHINGTON, July 26.-Baron Gerolt, the
iPrussian Minister here, has received the
following by cable from his Governments
"Public opinion in England favorable to
North Germany. Government is unfavor-
able, and acts with the neutrality law as she
did against America with the Alabama"
ACTIVITY AT THE ENGLISH DocK-YARDs.
+. LONDON, July 2G.-The dock-yards are
unusually active.
Copo1is rains fell yesterday throughout
England, greatly benetitting the crops.
PROCLAMATION OF DENMARK's NEUTRALITY.
COPENHAGEN, July 26.-The Government
Of Denmark has issued a proclamation OF
neutrality, and warns its sailors, pilots,
and other subjects, against rendering assist
ance to either belligerent.
GERMAN SAILORS GOING HOME.
LONDON, July 26.-German sailors con-
tinue to leave Liverpool for home.
Spanish Accounts from Cuba
s HAVANA, July 26.-The Captain-General
u <I,t No 10 ssinn foynra llT.