Dates from
Europe are to the 23d ult.
Garibaldi's position was without change.
The Ministerial Address to
Victor Emmanuel, recommending a state of siege in
Sicily, denounces
Garibaldi as a rebel.
It is reported that Claudina is to be appointed
Military Chief in
Sicily.
It was stated that the recent movement of the
United States gunboat
Tuscarora had been merely for the purpose of dodging the British steamer
Ajax, in order to obtain coal.
The
Dublin correspondent of the London
Times writes, on the 21st of August, as follows:
‘
"The Federal gunboat
Tuscarora, it appears, has been dodging the Ajax, for the purpose of getting coals on board, in defiance of the orders issued by the
Admiralty.
The
Tuscarora has coaled within three months at a British port, and did not proceed, as she was bound to do, on a voyage to the
United States.
She remained hovering about the coast, on the lookout for Confederate vessels.
She put into
Kingstown with the view of getting coals.
"Unable to accomplish this there, partly in consequence of the return of the Ajax, she weighed anchor and steamed with all speed to
Belfast Lough, where, according to a previous arrangement, she received a supply of coal, amounting to a hundred tons.
Having anchored outside of the jurisdiction of the harbor Commissioners, the
Collector of Customs at once took the matter up, and served a notice on the
Federal captain to depart within twenty-four hours, and a revenue cutter was placed along side of the
Tuscarora to prevent further violation of the neutrality laws, and at the same time the matter was reported to the
Admiralty.
The
Belfast people ask what would have been done if the
Federal captain had refused to leave?
The
Times editorially argues, that although the latest advices from
America show an apparent buoyancy in financial matters, by the diminished premium on gold, etc., the day must come when the people of the
United States will really understand the position of their own finances, and, when that time arrives, it doubts not that the principles which have so often been verified in the bankruptcy of great
European monarchies will assert themselves with equal vigor to punish the financial obloquies of the
American Republic.
’
In another article the
Times depicts the latest American advices in the most gloomy character.
It says:
‘
"On all sides the political horizon grows blacker and blacker, nor can any chance of peace be discovered except in the exhaustion or impotence of a belligerent.
If the
Federal were not blind with fury they would now see what all
Europe has seen from the beginning.
But the truth, it seems, has yet to dawn, if not on the people, at any rate on the
Government of the
Federal States."
’
The
London Morning Herald speculates on the effect of drafting, and thinks it will try the temper of the
Northern people more than it has ever been tried yet, and shake to its very foundation the tottering edifice of the
Union.
It says:
‘
"New Yorkers have less reason than other
Americans to struggle against the conscription.
It is their last hope, in the absenes now of any nobler or worthier object.
It is for the supremacy of their city, and to avert its commercial ruin, that a war is being prosecuted which will convert
America into a desert."
’
Queen Victoria and the junior branches of the royal family were to embark at
Gravesend for the continent on the 26th of August.
There was nothing new in English politics.
Lord Palmerston had been figuring in public meetings at
Dover, and Earl Derby at
Manchester, but neither of them said anything of political import.
Harvest operation were progressing more favorably under the improved state of the weather.
The French Minister of War had freighted some English steamers for the
Mexican expedition.
The Italian crisis excited much interest in
Paris, and the indications of
Napoleon's policy were eagerly awaited.
