Further by the Bohemian.
The mails by the
Bohemian from
Liverpool on the 6th, via
Londonderry, contains some further items of foreign news:
The
London Chronicle says that Parliament will meet on the 5th of February.
A deputation, which includes two members of Parliament, has been appointed to convey an invitation to
Garibaldi to visit
England.
The Empress Eugenia paid a brief visit to Queen Victoria, at
Windsor Castle, on the 4th.
The visit only lasted two hours.
The London Times publishes full details of the expedition of the Bulldog and Fox for ascertaining the feasibility of the projected
North Atlantic Telegraph.
The results are pronounced highly satisfactory and encouraging.
The London Times has another editorial on the political split in the
United States, and expresses the hope that the quarrel may give way to a calm, in which the real difficulties of the slavery question may be met and quietly answered.
A banquet was given on the 3d inst., in the Theatre at
Limerick, to about eighty members of the Irish Brigade which figured in the recent campaign in the
Papal States.
The demonstration was attended with much enthusiasm.
A fearful explosion had occurred in the Rise a coal mine, near
Newport, Wales, entailing the loss of about 170 lives.
Opening the safety valves to obtain lights for pipes is believed to have been the cause of the explosion.
Sir Henry Marsh, the eminent
Dublin physician, died suddenly on the 2d, from apoplexy.
Financial affairs.
The funds on the 5th continued buoyant; consols advanced ¼c., but the advance was partially lost before the close.
Financial advices from New York were anxiously watched for. Those by the Prince Albert were contradictory, and produced but slight effect.
The discount market was moderately active, and the supply was adequate to the demand.
The best bills were negotiated at 4 ¼ per cent.
Business at the Bank was moderate.
No gold was withdrawn on the 5th.
A ship, with two days later news from
Melbourne, and, it was supposed, £125,000 in gold, had reached the
English channel, but her advices were not landed.
William Moxan, an extensive contractor, of
London, had suspended.
Thomas Piper & Son, an old and extensive building firm, were also in difficulties.
Marshal Vaillant has been created Minister of the
Emperor's household.
It is stated that no one was aware of the
Emperor's purpose respecting the decree relative to the
Constitution till he revealed the document to his astounded Ministers in council, where it met with some opposition.
Apprehensions of a monetary crisis in
Paris had subsided.
The Bank of France was largely gaining specie.
The Bourse was firm and higher.
The rentes closed at 70f. 70
M. Barocke,
President of the Council of State, had been created Minister, without a portfolio.
Count Persigny had presented letters of recall to the English Court, and returned to
Paris.
The Emperor had granted permission to the Baltimore Battalion to visit
Paris, fully accoutred, next Spring.
The siege of
Gaeta continued; but it was reported that the fire of the besiegers had slackened.
Provisions were getting scarce in the fortress.
The garrison replied to the fire from the batteries of Cialdini.
Four batteries had commenced operations on the place.
Victor Emmanuel continued at
Palermo.
The
Count of
Syracuse died suddenly at Siza, on the 4th, of apoplexy.
The Consulta Generale had opened at
Naples.
The government explanation to the Consulta produced a good impression.
Poerio was elected
Vice President of the Consulta, after having refused the post of Minister, without a portfolio.
General Benedek had inspected the Austrian fortresses of the Venetian quadrilateral.
He had also assembled the officers at
Venice, and told them to prepare for the eventualities of an energetic defence.
There were rumors of increasing insurrectionary movements in
Abruzzi.
Unimportant demonstrations in
Naples and elsewhere were put down.
On the 3d inst., the
King issued a proclamation to the Sicilians, in which his Majesty recalls that one of his ancestors has reigned over
Sicily.
He likewise mentions the election of the
Duke of
Geneva as
King of
Sicily in 1848, and the vote of
Sicily in favor of annexation recently given.
The
King promises to establish institutions for promoting public morality, and to respect the privileges of the
Sicilian Church.
He concludes by requesting unity and concord among the people.
The English fleet at
Naples saluted
King Victor Emanuel on his departure for
Sicily. --This act created a sensation.
The fleet left
Naples in order, it was believed, to follow the
King to
Palermo.
The stay of the
King in
Sicily was expected to be of short duration.
A Gaeta dispatch, of the 1st inst., denies the rumor that Francis II.
had ruptured a blood vessel.
£65,000 sterling of "Peter's pence" had arrived at
Rome from
America.
M. Dapples, from
Lausanne, had been elected
President, and
M. Latour, from Chur,
Vice President of the National Council.
The election was a triumph for the
National party.
The official
Weiner Zeitung publishes the convention between
France,
Austria, and
Sardinia, for carrying out the partition of the debts and assets of the
Monte Lombards.--The liabilities amount to 99,000,000 of lives, of which two-fifths are to be charged to
Austria.
The Principalities.
Fears were entertained of a general rising in Little Wallachia.
Twenty of the principal merchants at Crajona had been killed by the militia during a disturbance.
The
Archbishop and
President of the Council had been arrested at Jassy.