e been the party desiring to secede from the South, since they have so long urged their desire to be "disconnected from the guilt of slavery," and the doctrine of self-government and secession would have allowed them to obey these dictates of conscience without bloodshed.
But Mr. Lincoln also aims to protect, as he terms them, "the majority of Union men" in the South--a solicitude which reminds us strongly of that displayed by the Emperor of Austria towards the non-Magyar population in Hungary, except that in the latter case there is such a population; but in the former there is not to be found in the South anything that could ever be termed a small minority of Union men.
In fact, this abandonment of the fundamental idea, on the part of the North, upon which the whole Government was founded, has thrown the ruling powers into inextricable confusion, and given rise to all those anomalies which so much surprise Europe.
They term those who correspond precisely with their heroic
rth.
The King of Sweden has arrived in England on a visit to the Queen.
Catherine Hayes is dead.
The special agents of the Cotton Supply Association had reached Egypt, and were to have an interview with the Viceroy on the subject of cotton cultivation.
Switzerland.
Another controversy has sprung up between France and Switzerland relative to the arrest of a French subject on disputed territory.
Italy.
Prince Chege has been appointed Papal Nuncio to Paris.
The Neapolitan reactionary movements are diminishing.
The position of Austria towards Hungary is becoming daily more alarming.
The Upper House of the Hungarian Diet have adopted by acclamation Deak's address.
Commercial intelligence.
Liverpool, August 16--The sales of cotton for the week amount to 46,000 bales, at a decline of ½ to ¼d. Flour has declined 6d; wheat 1 a 2d; coin is flat.
Provisions generally closed dull.
Beef quiet.
Pork steady.
Consols closed at 90 a 90 .
Female heroism.
--Instances of heroism in women have occasionally occurred in modern times resembling somewhat that of the ancient Amazons.
But there are eras and countries in which their warlike spirit appeared with particular lustre; such were the displays it made in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Hungary, and in the Islands of the Archipelago and Mediterranean, when they were invaded by the Turks.
Among the stirring instances of Amazonian conduct in modern ladies may be mentioned that of Jane of Belleville, widow of M. de Clisson, who was beheaded on a suspicion of carrying on a correspondence with England and the Count de Montford.
The lady, filled with grief for the death of her husband, and exasperated at the ill treatment which she considered him to have received, sent off her son secretly to London, and when her apprehensions were removed with respect to him, she sold her jewels, and fitted out three ships, and put to sea, to revenge the death of her husband
been ordered from India to Canada.
The force will proceed overland upwards of 1,000 miles. Two hundred horses for the Royal artillery are on passage for Canada.
[per steamer Sententia.]
The prospect of a coming struggle between France and Austria is foreshadowed in the following extract from an article in the Paris Sickle, of the 13th of August. It says:
Austria is trying, but in vain, to concentrate around her the heterogenous races which are escaping from her domination.
Hungary dared to resist her openly.
Venetian, bent beneath a yoke of iron, and regarding with gloomy anger the cannon pointed on St.
Mark's square — Venetian will rise to-morrow, and will in her turn resist.
In Croatia, in the Tyrol — everywhere, in fact — the same symptoms are manifested.
And Austria is afraid.
Austria cedes, Austria grants constitutions.
She mutters, though with a bitter grimace, the words of justice and liberty.
What has happened?
What signifies this sudden conversion?
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ian Embassy at Constantinople, and depu of a commissioner to proceed to open negotiations.
The Russians had sustained another defeat from the Circassians.
In Russian Poland serious disturbances had broken out at Kallidah, for arresting a man. The patrol were insulted, and a number of men surrounded the officer and demanded the release of the prisoner, which was granted, when the garrison assembled and threatened to fire on the people.
Numbers were arrested subsequently.
From Hungary advices are that the dissolution of the Hungarian Diet was considered certain within a few days.
An imperial rescript was expected shortly.
Commercial intelligence.
The Liverpool cotton marset closed quiet but firm, with sales on Monday and Tuesday of 30,000 bales to speculators and exporters, at an advance of 1-16 to ½d. The market had still an upward tendency at the close.
The advance is chiefly in middling and lower qualities.
Flour is inactive and 64 lower.--American flour 27
Later from Europe.arrival of the North American. Montreal, September 3
--The steamship North American arrived yesterday afternoon.
The bales of cotton at Liverpool in three days was 6,000 bales of Ȃd.
Fort Orleans cotton quoted at 9½d. The ales on Friday were 24,000 bales.
Consols closed at London at 90½ 90¼
The rapture between Austria and Hungary is regarded as complet
Edward's Island, goes to South Australia.
France.
The Emperor continued to remain at the Chalons camp.
Grand manœuvres had been prevented by the intense heat of the weather.
The Paris Bourse was firm and animated at the opening, but closed lower.
The Rentes were quoted at 68f. 45
The Moniteur publishes the text of a convention between France and England, regulating the immigration of Indian laborers into French colonies.
Austria.
The rupture between Austria and Hungary is regarded as complete.
No new movement had taken place, and no imperial decree had been issued, but the dissolution of the Hungarian Diet was fully anticipated, to be followed by a manifesto against Hungarian pretensions.
Italy.
It was reported that the Marquis de Villamarina had been appointed Governor of Naples, in place of the Marquis Defitto.
Gen. Claldini, in a speech to the municipal council of Naples, reiterated the policy of the King's government, including the deli
a and citizens in New York; that a British subject of color can be put in jail at New Orleans, without any offence but his skin, and that to all our remonstrances to the Government at Washington the answer is, such is the law of Louisiana, and the United States cannot interfere, is conclusive of the sovereignty of each State, and of its right to go out of the Union by the same power it had to go in. The principle involved in this quarrel is that which is put in issue in Naples, in Italy, in Hungary, in Poland.
Calum non antmam mutant qui trans mare currunt. What is right in Europe cannot be wrong in America.
We protect against the troonery which, out of fear of the petulant gasconade of the North, induces our contemporaries, even our Legislature, to "sing small," and profess that our press and our people's sympathize are all with the Northerners.
We believe the case to be exactly the reverse, and the best friends of the Unionists are those who, at hazard of provoking the insol
The condition of Hungary.
--The London Times describes the position of Hungarian affairs.
The rupture between Austria and Hungary is complete.
No overt insurrection is anticipated, but coercion on one side and passive resistance on the other will be carried as far as they can go. The Hungarians will not recognize the acts of the imperial Government, nor will they pay any taxes into the imperial exchequer.
They do not threaten any immediate rebellion, but they instate in plain languagesition of Hungarian affairs.
The rupture between Austria and Hungary is complete.
No overt insurrection is anticipated, but coercion on one side and passive resistance on the other will be carried as far as they can go. The Hungarians will not recognize the acts of the imperial Government, nor will they pay any taxes into the imperial exchequer.
They do not threaten any immediate rebellion, but they instate in plain languages that on the first favorable opportunity they will appeal to arms.
ed from Rome, and asserting that the government will not pause in its efforts for the unity of Italy.
Cardinal Antonelli is preparing a reply to this circular.
A pamphlet on "Rome," issued in Paris, asserts that if the Papal Government persists in refusing the guarantees offered for the independence of the Holy See, the people of Rome must be appealed to, and that if they elect Victor Emanned King, the French troops on the following day will be relieved by the Italian troops.
Hungary.
The Hungarian question, continued to be debated in the Lower House of Riechsrath.
The Upper House had agreed upon an address to the Emperor, who expressed his sincere satisfaction at the patriotic sentiments thereof.
Russia.
A deputation from Finland, en route for Stockholm, to demand separation from Russia, had been arrested by the Russian authorities.
Poland.
A new rescript by the Emperor of Russia to the Governor of Poland is very conciliatory in tone.
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