The New York herald., 1870-08-02
ITEMS FROM EUROPE.


BY the steamships Minnesota and Hammonia at
this port at an early hour yesterday morning we
received our European mail files and correspond
ence, dated to the Goth of July.
The workingmen's Congress which opened at
Barcelona on the 10th of June and had closed its
session, seems to have passed OF in satisfactory
manner. The Congress counted eighty-fve dele
gates from al parts Of Spain, the principal cities
represented being Valiadolid, TarraRona, Xeres,
Seville, Madrid Cadiz, Tortosa. At the inaugura-
ton there was an immense concourse OF working
men and women. In order to express the mega.
ton of oil national sentiment, the delegates chose
foreigner as president, French refugee. named
Bislica. The subjects under discussion were,
first, the federation Of societies and funds for the
purpose Of resistance (caisses de ressstanoe).
Second, the present and future cooperation.
Third, the social organization Of workmen.
Fourth. the attitude Of the international Associa-
tion Of Workiogmen with regard to politics. Fifth
propositions of mixed character.
The trial of Edward Henry Park the "masque-
rader," at the Mddiesex Sessions, was fixed for
Monday, July 25
The death is announced Of the Countess Dow
ager Of Ne thorough, in the eighty-eighth year Of
her age. 1t took place at Brighton.
In announcing the death of the Hon. Charles
Spring Rice, the London Post says:--
The Foreign Office has susta ned another se-
we're loss by the death OF its Assistant Under
Secretary. His extraordinary aptitude for work,
his power Of organization, his rapidity of execu-
ton, and his indomitable industry, would have
secured for him brilliant career in any open pro.
fessiOn.
1t is stated that an order was received in Bir-
mingham England, for $4,000 rifles, and that their
destination was presumed to be France.
An order had been received at the English
postal telegraph Offices that no messages are to
be received in cipher for transmission to France.
In consequence of the war $50 dock laborers
were discharged at Grimsby, England.
The London Ne,cs of July 10 reports as follows:--
There was another severe panic in the city yes
terday and most important fall took place in
quotations Many descriptions of stocks were
salabe at any price, and In all classes of securi-
ties there sensible depreciation. Consols
closed at S9H to so for money, and at 89I to 90H
for the account. la the discount market the rate
for good bills was three per cent.
The trial of Davitt and Wilson, the Fenians, foY
treason-feony, was brought to close in London
July 10, when the former sentenced to fifteen
and the latter to seven years. penal servitude.
An inquest upon the body of Fanny Messer the
little girl who lately died from the effects of nju-
ries inflicted by her mother, terminated in London
In verdict of wfu murder against the latter.
The London Ne,os speaks of the new Minister OF
the United States to England thus:--
We are asked to correct the statement that Mr..
Theodore Frelnghuysen, who has been nominated
to succeed Mr.. Motley as United States Minister
at the Court of st. James, was orig nally mem
ber of the democratic party, but adhered to that
section of it which heartily Joined in the prosecu-
ton of the Union war. Mr.. Freiinghuysen has
been from the commencement of his political
career a consistent member of the party which,
under the name, first, Of whig, and afterwards OF
republican, opposed the democratic policy Of
Southern ascendancy and the extension Of slavery.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen, whose name recalls the time
when New York was Nieu Amsterdam, is as faith
fu to his hereditary principles in religion as in
politics, being leading member Of the Dutch Re-
formed Church.
The Pail Mall Gazette Of the 10th of July Says
Several of our contemporaries have called at
tention to the supposed fact that Mile. Nilsson re-
ceives fl50 night, and thereupon argue that II
operatic speculations do not answer that is TO be
explained by the high salaries paid to prima
donnas. Whether Mile. Nilsson does does not
receive ESQ night we cannot say; nor have we
any information as to whether of late
operate speculstions in England have or have not
proved successful. But of this we are quite cer-
tan that Mile. Missions nights at Drury Lane, like
Nine. PATHS at Covent Garden, have been profit
able ones; and that if money has been lost it has
been on the of nights, when at Covent Garden
Mdme. Patti at Drury Lane Mile. Nilsson, has
not sung. II prima donna receives let us say
f200 night (Which an indignant public will be
glad to hear is still somewhat above the average),
what does that matter to the director If on tho
nights when she sings he lets twenty-five pound
boxes and o hundred guinea stalls which would
otherwise have remained unOccupiedg He would
gain five pounds night by the transaction; but
Of course prima donnas do not receive 9200 night
or anything like it.
A telegram received in London, dated in Pekin,
China, June rs, coming via Kiatcbka, reads
Foucaner and thirteen other Frenchmen have
been massacred at Tientsin. Brother and family
well. No danger here. Tientsin is now tranquil.
The cathedral, convent and consulate have been
burma