The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1869, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. EUROPE. Malaga During the Bombard- ment, The International Question on the East- ern Question. Internal Improvements of Russia. The Inman steamship City of London. Captain Lettch, from Liverpool 13th via Queenstown 14th, arrived at vbis port yesterday with matis and detatls ef cable telegrams up to date of sailing. Hunger typhus has appeared in several districts of Lithuania, The inhabitants of Nice are preparing a petition Yor the suppression of the gaming institutions at Monaco. A Mr, Joel, an Israelite, has been appointed judge at Stralsund, being the first instance of a Jew being ealled to the bench in Prussia. The Minister of War in Belgium has decreed that fn future all military regulations shall be issued in the French and Flemish languages, General Ignatieif has asked the Porte to recall Ho- bart Pacha from Syra, but his demand has been rejected, on the ground that Hobart Pacha is only blockading the Enosis, and not the port of Syra. The Committee of the International and Perma- nent Peace League, says @ Paris paper, have opened 8 subscription to award a prize of 5,000 francs to the author of the best work on the “Crime of War.”” ‘The last tidings from Belgrade state that a slave dealer having offered four Musselman women for sale the Servian government granted them their freedom at once. The trader in human flesh intends to bring an action against the liberators, who refuse to give him any compensation whatever, Horseflesh 1s rising in estimation in Berlin as an article of fo@@. In 1868 the number of horses killed for this purpose was no less than 4,044. The blood is purchased by @ manufacturer, who uses it asa dye. A Berlin restaurant intends shortly to open an establishment in which only various preparations of horse flesh wil be served to the guests. ‘The great ‘adjourned meeting of clergy and laity,’’ to consider the course to be pcrsued in regard to the recent judgment of the Privy Council in the case of Martin vs. Mackonochie, was held on the 12th inst., ‘at the London Tavern, under the presidency of Arch- deacon Denison. Lord Halifax has declared in favor of a universal system of education based on local taxation and aided by the national treasury. This education he would make compulsory with respect to the children of criminals and vagrants. The Board of Trade of London have ordered a binocular glass to be prepared for presentation to | Mr. William Talbot, master of the Star of Hope, of Aberdeen, in acknowledgment of his humane ser- vices in rescuing fifty-two persons (crew and pas- sengers) belonging to the screw steamer Hibernia, which vessel foundered at sea on the 25th of Novem- ber last. The Gazette of Madrid publishes an official report Tespecting the rising in Malaga, according to which forty soldiers were killed, 174 were wounded, and thirty-seven received slight contusions. The Pueblo of the 8th says that horrible stories are circulating in Malaga of the cruelties committed by the troops in the houses they stormed occupied by the insur- gents, aud it thinks that an inquiry ought to be insti- tuted. ‘The mnnicipality.of Missolonghi are taking mea- sures to raise a monument to Lord Byron, who con- tributed so much to Hellenic indépendence before he died in their town, in April, 1824. A statue is to be erected to the poet on the spot where he breathea his ast. One-half of the expenses will be defrayed by the corporate body and the rest left to the charge of a public subscription. The Manchester £raminer says that the proposed ten per cent reduction of wages in the cotton trade is causing some commotion among the operatives in the neighborhood of Blackburn, and efforts are be- ing made on their behalf to obtain, as an alterna- tive, the adoption of short time, At @ delegate meeting dh Sunday it was determined, supposing the short-time movement should not be adopted, to Propose the settlement of the matter by arbitration . Public meetings of the operatives are to be held throughout the district daring the next few days. in Malaga— Scenes in the City—The at— Escape of American Residente—Firing on the United States Flag=—The American Squadron. MapzIn, Jan. 10, 1809. The troth in relation to the Malaga affair is coming out daily, and it is still more unfavorabie for the government. The slaughter of the inhabitants was terrible. The troops gave no quarter in many places. Barricades would be taken, and when the volunteers threw down their arms and surrendered they were at once bayoneted to aman. Unarmed persons ir houses were broken in upon and bayoneted and thrown out of the windows, The barbarities and atrocities committed by @ regiment of Cazadores recalled the Spanish deeds in the Netherlands. This regiment had been with Novaliches and were the object of all the abuse and revil- ings of the populace wherever they had been Btationed. Naturally enough they were greatly embitiered against the people, and they wrought a fearful vengeance when they got the chance, It 1s the only excuse that is offered for their savage butcheries. It may go for what it,is worth. The losses of the populace were very heavy, many being kitled and a large number wounded. The exact Bumber will probably never be known. The bombardment of the town by the ships of war and the castle of Gibralforo was commenced and carried on without due notice, General De Rodas sent notice to the Swedish Consul at three o’clock of the afternoon before the bombardment was to begin. He waa requested to notify the other Consuls, but he declined, returning the notices with the remark that he was not a post office or a porter. * The English and Belgian Consuls did not receive their notices before nine o’clock atnight, and the firing was to begin at ight in the morning. It ‘was too late to remové their famiiles or to notify their countrymen of the dangers that awatted them, ‘as the streets were too dangerous to be entered after The American Vice Consul, Mr. Geary, nothing of the notice until the action had come. ‘The Americans in town were thna left to look "ag for themselves and to escape as best they a * There were two American families tn the city— Mr. and Mrs, Codman and child, of Boston, and Rev. . Hall, wife and child, The latter were in the Hotel Victoria and the former in their residence, in the Calle de Alamos. No notice had. been given iF Blake, of the Swatara, of the pro} bom. bardment, and he was gready surprised when the firing was He determined, however, to send @ boat ashore to rescue the two families and to ort off the Consul if possible. Master Newell was sent ion, with a pag ene prcmered safel, and his famii and shelling the cowarty troops out of their stronghold for their insolence tn firing on the Ameri- protecting n and ildron. The party safety. In Fepoived 8 apologizing a lu v the of yj : Ad 2 +4 i i 4 i ! & ee Bedee i ra fit eat HH Be se5EE9 a3" Shera geexsgats ee state Tae HES His, eit egeche i ie 7 i : : 3 g 5 3 E Be Conference now being held in Paris for the settlement of dimouities between Greece and Turkey assembled, as was announced, on the 9h inst., at four o’clock under the presidency of Marquis de la Valette, Min- ister of the Interior. The distinguished. statesmen meet in the Salle du Congrés, called in memory of the Congress held there in They are Prince de Metternich-Winneburg, for the Empire of Austria |. and Kingaom of Hungary; Lord Lyons, Ambassador of Great Britain, Count de Stackelberg, Ambassador of Russia; Déjmil Pacha, Ambassador of Turkey; Chevalier Nigra, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the King of Tralys Conte de Soims- Sonnenwalde, holding the same dignities for the Ger- man hong yhoo and Mr. Rezoa Rangabé, for the lom of Greece. ‘The oMcial uniform is plain morning dress. These diplomats enter the Ministére by the Qual d’Orsay and proceed straight to the Salie du Congres, which pa A ys and hang with crimson, fringed with gold. In the centre of the hall is a large table, covered with a green cloth, round which arm chairs are placed. In a doable el above are hung the full-sized life its of the Emperor and Empress, in magnti frames, surmounted by the ficently carved imperial eagle. The former is by Dubuffe; the lat- ter by Winterhalter, Facing these is the painting, equally by Dubui representing the Congress of 1856, and between the two large windows a bust, in white marble, of Napoieon J. At the opening of the meeting each member laid down his authority to speak, and the president, M. de la Valette, was elected, who proposed as secre- tary M. Desprey.. Then the object and end of the Conference was exposed, and it was settled that each pate cg should speak in turn at their formal jeman Nothing more is known of the proceedings at thig honr in Paris; but it isthought that the five pointa of the uitimatam will alone be discussed, and that Bs desire of a pacific termination is sincere on all les, ‘The Annual Financial Statement. {From the London Morning Post, Jan. 13. The loan which the Imperial government ened last year was, M. Magne, Says, contracted In order to clear offa portion of the floating debt, which, in fact, Tepresents the balance which successive deficits have le ust the country. This float debt amounted in 1886 to 727,000,000f.; and 1867 brought with tt so much political disquietude, and. consequently so Many unexpected charges, that it left the floating debt 175,000, 000f. vier than it found it. It was felt that the Frenc' ments, great aa they were, Were not such ag the inthe event, which then seemed not at all impr. of a Euro- pean conflict; and, in addition to this, “commerce in rapid! that in t more filled, with the eioaey eo obtained in to clear off, the 10s been enabled not omy to balance the vudget of 1867, but Dee with advantage through 1868, and now to enter with confidence upon 1869. In the first of these The most inte: of @ financial state- ment is necessarily which deals with the futui and lagne's account of the budgets of 1860 and 1870 will be the attractive point for ail those who are int in French finances, For 1869 we are re inded that the a are, ns the e: side of the account for that. ear, includ. ing an increase on the telegraphic Postal ser- : He 3 RE 8! the immediate future ‘and it seems almost an excess of m Magne to speak of it as ne does. “the sitgation. at ae tages. But if it haa not arrived at U Son gd cl Perity which we could desire, and which we Hat jin eksegee yy “alternations of confidence and apprehension, activity and stagnation,” but that public on has, on the whole, shown itecif firmer and more healthy than has hitherto been it wont, Finally, he says that ‘this improvement” in financial matters, due to confidence, shows how necessary fo the country and how fruitful France with it’—a manifest conclusion from M. Magne's statement which we hope may be laid to heart not only m France, but throughout Kurope. RUSSIA. The Eastern Question Revived—Looking To- wards Turkey and the Policy in Greece= Rafiroad Communication with the Black Sea—Condition of the Armies—Anticipations of War—Feeling Towards Austria—Cubinet Squabbles—Rallroad Development. St. Peransnvnre, Dec. 19 (31), 1868. You probably expect to find in this letter some im- Portant and more or less positive intelligence con- corning the newly-revived and complicated Hast ern question; bat the fact is the Russian government has not-as yet taken any in the least do- cisive step in the Greco-Turkish contention, and is Not expected to do so for the next few months, unless forced to it by circumstances, as of course it could not remain an idle looker on should the conflict become @ question of being or not being for Greece. The reason of this temporary inaction is also of @ negative nature, but very obvious and sen- sible. ‘The railway communications with the Black Sea are not completed, and till they are it 1s highly dest- Table to avoid the necessity of transporting consider- able quantities of troops to those shores which must be the chief seat of war. The reorganization ‘and armament of our armies, according to the new ‘Approved systems, has not yet taken piace. baggage trains ate insuMfictent, and, till all this has been provided for, it were more than unreasona- ble to hasten the opening of s conflict whose issue must have so great and decisive an influence on Our future greatness and power, not to mention the Mnal severing of the Gordian knot in the Bast, which, let diplomacy do its best, or its worst, will have to be cut asunder by the sword, That preparations, however, are going on on a large scale i obvious even to the most superficial and uninterested .ob- server; movements of troops are continually taking Place in and about the capital; the instruction of trains of artillery and cavalry stretching along and across the princtpal thoroughfares, and so general 1s the feeling, s0 deep the conviction—instinctive, of course, in the mass—that something ts brewing i i : 7 ; i h i i fl aH [ Hit leading articles, But the one dil-absorbing topic is easily discernible. among oth in the increasing seriousness and anxiety with which the chief organs strive to support every measure of the government for hastening th: mn of ig the comp! the Black Sea Rall- the armaments, and their efforts to foment the public interest in ju wi they try nstigations and pro- mises the Sublime Porte, with all its vicious inst Greece and Russia, would scarcely have had ‘That the ae once can be owing but to judiciously administered by his kind physician, whom Austria, it appears, has taken the I for the moment. ‘Now or never’ must have been the burden of the magic ae which had the power to conjure a blance of into the dying frame of the Ottoman empire. And they are right, The very reasons which force Russia to procrastination must needs bid them hasten. Russia may safely vide her time—not so they. The very hour that saball sound victory to her will bring defeat to them, I must not close this part of my letter without mentioning the grateful feelings with which Ameri- ca’s generous sympathy with our Eastern friends is univ ly regarded here. In my last letter I promised you @ detailed account of the struggle between the Ministry of the Intertor and the Ministry of War, as embodied tn the conflict, . Miitatine's organ, the Invalid, became = a sare of Aonrey You will remem- r Wi told you about the ennity subsisting aristocratical Or ae: party, Tistoe is Mr. Timasheff, Minister of the Polish and Ger+ man tendencies are the cause of so much atriotic uneasiness, and the Barons). per (some- es called Olid Russian party, principally by its enemies), at the head of which openly stands Mr, Miljutine, our cine ene and popular Minister of War, Mr. Mujutine 2 aman re has strony maid on public opinion, and enjoy re e Em- in ‘anigh degree, owing nof only to his pré- ind military knowlege and ability, but as much tothe honesty and independence of his character. Besides, he has the immense advantage of not caring g bit for his place personaily, which makes him per- fectly reckless of noregers even offend- ing his political antagonists, who, it been other- wise, and had he been actuated by & love of power, would many times have been too strong for him, As itis he would willingly resign his office ata mo- ment’s notice were he requested to do so by the Em- peror, or were a measure Carried in which he could not concur, but will never ee it to anything short of that, and bravely holds his own against all open or hidden attacks, sometimes retaliating ina way which makes his opponents very far from comfortable. At last the court iy, being decidedly in the aacend- ant for some time past, determined to deal at the obnoxious Minister a decisive blow, which they the Invalid, hich head ery! the hostility of 4 tts obstinacy in speaking, of the dreadful famine last year, when Mr. Valuiefy, the predecessor of Mr, Tima: sheff, chose to deny the existence of anything like a famine, Imay as well mention in this place that the heir presumptive 's at daggers drawn with the Minister of the Interior, Count Schouvalo/f, and General Potapof, and has an inveterate hatred against the Germans, which he takes not the least care to con- ceal, and which, it may be supposed, has not been mitigated by his marriage with the Princess Dagmar of Denmark. The long and short of it is the Invalid was doomed to die under the-very piau- sible tegen ot Sr ie offictal government organ, after the manner of the Paris Moniteur, having be- come imperiousiy necessary. But this was. not enough; the /nvaiid must be proved to be not only preg but jiclous, Accordingly a tre- mendous list was drawn uP under the direction of Mr. Timasheff, of all the and mtstemeanors of which the unfortunate paper had been guilty from its foundation in 1812, and more especially in the latter years of its existence, in the hands of Mr. Miliutine, in the shape of leading articles contain- ing ant mental and all but mutinous ten- wi that at this place the heir-presumptive and Mr. Miliatine exchanged significant and contemptuous noon, For consecutive Tuesd: ov acene oe Spa and “angry and were r rs the “following as 68 sain} pS 8 red es Thave it ane source of very a , ensued during @ suspension of one of the ant aig between Mr. Miliutume and Count Schouvaloff. chief of the dreaded secret police, hose power and influence are 80 at Loge that he is nicknamed “His he = a tine is never the attacking party—‘‘The Invalid was always intended for a 8; military organ, and you had no business to fill it with general ion and i Serie eet eee same foot- ordinary priva! icals.' Ene subscribers to the /nvalid,” answered Milin- 7 the places, where no other printed ever its appearance, I thought P"Bnt fair to give them some generai information, la order ‘tw enable them t6 keep ap some sort of mental inter- course with the outward world.” bette at “dl that x i — a Tsay at once you endea' govern the public mind in the provinces.” “t dia ° tly replied the Minister; “nor could I have that thought, knowing very well that the pablic mind ip the provinces is governed by the This home thrust still more incensed the Minis- ter's and hand it over to private enterprise, but it md not come quite to that, Alt the new atelngencer), s to appear from New Year's Day, tie Inteliigencer), Frovatsd atilt Babsists under Mr, Miliutine’s direction, in the character an oficial exclust miliary organ. The government will coo all the of: and juestions of internal and external politics. ¥ 1 oe ane Me, Millotine Bees oY wa 3 tai defeat he may, on the oth nd, congratul himseif on a victory of the greatest commerctal .ana oriance. ree preset ee eee Ratl- Notwithstanding the alan Tmachiantions ef ths court party, who did their to re. Present it in the light of a jon of not demani diate attention. We may consider our erce as in great Shon mels. esi des, the railway junction bet ¢ Baltic and Hor corn ad’ | bor prenty is faqilitated, Two other momentons te nave also just been ado and will shortly be in construction, to unite Kazan. with A one side and with on other. pins esa Regaintions tm Poland. Silecie of Varis that com: Mitted a fresh act of \perepeaiion Poland. centaries back Poland adopted center: but @ ukase from St, Pe ee it the Julian one. All the habits of nation crogpecpaly $ a of the Ozer, ve im had : fo mprov fections of the Roman method of cal ted by Jolin Muller, Clavins, and cones monenioars GERMANY. show the inereasing activity. of trade, funds, the conversion of which into new stock has now begun, are bought largely for investment, Americans have recovered from the recent fall, and are quoted at 794, somewhat aboye New York prices; the floating stock ia now almost totally ab- sorbed by investors, and prices will reach a higher point, Seventeen Buropean bourses were some- what assisted bys fall of the gold premium, Our corn markets are extremely dull, as speculators Keep aloof, the mild temperature leading to the apprehen- sion of an early harvest, while late frosts would doin- finite harm. This uncertainty preages on the markets. Money remains abundant, in spite of the almost daily emission of new loans and shares; still itis very unlikely that (tne markets should not be crammed at a not very distant day. People who put any stress on the language of the Austrian and Prussian official preas must believe that we are on the brink of another war; there is no perfidy of which they 49 not cach other, Still ah these big wo are harm! enough. Ausina has too much on her shoulders and is too baa off for money. to be desirous for war, while Prussia is anxious to keep her ill-gotten conquest the new provinces risk them by @ Frenel the confidence in peace not shaken by the offensive articles of the press, and only the partisans of the dispossessed ces are believing in war. “These are stirring enough and have their agente erere enone but ail this is to no purpose and only throwing money to the winds; they cand. nottung by taemselves, for people are not foolish spo am tna ce bi — = Prusajan bayonets for gratification of 8 couple of princes who would act contrary to their expectations if they were restored to the throne. is a pity that Prussia does not loosen the strin: of her military rule so far as to conciliate the people ‘in her own provinces, which would be easy enough. A sreat chaoge has taken } akon i’ Wirvemburg. The pie there, of course, do not wish to join the Northera Confederation; but the Spposinon. has totally succumbed in their attempt to break through the alliance treaty with naalhe Mloister Varn- bibler declared they Would stick fast to the Prussian SiltagoS, &nd this had been sanctioned by the rity of the democratic Chamber. The paris was split on the question of foreign assistan AS & proof of the Prussian predilection of te oa ment the Prussian uniform bas been adopted by the Wurtemburg army. 2 Tn Bavaria the agitation for universal suffrage and vote by ballot is increasing; numerous petitions to that effect have been presented to the Chamber. As is gene the case whenever there is a lull in politics, the Catholic clergy are making themselves prominent; they are now joularly active to re- cover their lost influence in the public schools, with the public to no elfect, but unfortunate! tected and supported by the government oi Prassia. Even here in our town our municipal authorities have to keep up a hard fight for the mde- pera of our schools, into which hypocrites ‘om old Prussia want to Aha Public opinion is decidedly against conf schools, the Public institutions would become deserted if an oy it were made to force clergymen into them ag 8c vers. Bismarck on Conscription. The following letter from M. de Bismarck to the of she Northern Confederation throws some ie Grand Ducal government of Baden desires to with the North German Confedera- tion, by which subjects of one Power residing on the territory of another shall be submitted to the col jption and the military duties of the country they inhabit. Such a convention being de- sirable, in the interests both of the several countries and in those of the Confederation, I, the undersigned Caal of the latter, have the honor to ask your authorization for concluding the treaty. BISMARCK, THE EASTERN QUESTION. ae The Voice of the Press Regarding the Situ- | ation of Affairs in the Enst. The London Morning Post of the 13th says:—It pe just becatise Greece has no voice in its decision and has no alternative but to obey, that we may look for the, speedy re-establishment of diplomatic, if not of cordial relations between her and Turkey. And it is needless to say that if it were otherwise, and if Greece not only took the same position as the other Powers at the Conference, but d the means of vindicating her claim be regarded as an inde- endent State, the work in which the Plenipoten- iaries are Dow engage’ might be regarded as h less. Greece has all the desire but wants strength to expel the Tarks from Europe. She is ready even now to make Common cause with Russia for the accomplishment of this object. But alone Greece cao do nothing. She can _ hardly hope to rehabilitate herself, much less to couquer an adjoiniag Stare. And if Greece is made to experience @ sense of humiliation the fault is entirely her own. It 18 she who has provoked ‘the present quarrel, thrown Sire Turkey the onus of drawing the sword, and finhily rend confer- nee, in which she 18 not allowed to ha voice, ne only door of escape from a possibly most digas- which she has trous war. Acttated by that feelin 80 constantiy prided herself on manifesting, it is for- tunate for Europe that Greece 1s powerless, and she will have noue but herself to blame if the other Eu- ropean Powers. warued by what has now taken place, are careful to prevent her frou changing her Present position, The London Globde of the 12th ovserves:;— ‘The practical question at the present moment is whether Greece will readily submit to the jarisdic- tion ofthe Conference. As a matter of fact, it is wholly im ble thas her resistance can very se- riously ®: any P wer except herself. Greece cannot maintain @ great war singie handed. She has neither tue streagth nor the resources necessary for each an enterprise, but she may cause infinite trou- bie, and her conduct may give rise to unpieasant complications. It is therefore to be desired that she may at once submit to the dictates of cpamen sees, and domes, om. S8_ ception at once oiferisive and ineffectual. Meanwhile there 1 @ grave necessity that the public opinion of Eu- States should be brought to bear upon her St: She must be taught that her insub- ination 1s lowering her in the -y of Burope, and that no good can result, bat much harm, from her Tebellious and tmpracticable scheming. Happily, it ts inconceivabie Greece can be so foolish as to paar] the combined counsels of the great Powers. ald the Helionic government re‘nse to allow their reprenseniative to appear before the Conference, the deliberations will proceea in his absence, and the resuit must be forced upon Greece with the authority of Burope. Every couriesy has been shown to Greece. She has been treated with great consideration; but courtesy and consideration must not be mistaken for connivance at her proceedings, or toleration for her groundiess presumption. The issue will be the same ‘Whether o1 not Greece is wise enough to be moderate, but the Hellenic government m: volve itself, and perchance the er Powers Rw in neediess embarrassment if she resolves to persist in demands offensive though futile. A letter from Bucharest in the Débats says:— ‘The eagerness of aoe Seenean Geremmons to manuiacture war material allows the sup; tion that it is preparing for speedy action, At this mo- ment at least 50,000 cartridges are being made per day, and lately an additional number of workmen have been employed. The purchase of arms is also be- ing continued, and on a very large scale. Besides the veedie gun ffom the Prussian factories and the Belgian percussion muskets a large numoer of Pea- body ries have been ordered in America. Two ar- rivais of them are expected, the rst of 10,000 and the second of 12,000, Moreover, the old muskets have been transferred into breceh-loaders; the r ernment, therefore, can dispose of @ very cousiier- able number of wi Unaer M. Bratiano’s ministry 90,000 rifles and 124 cannons were intro- duced; if these armaments are continued at the same rate oumanis wii soon become the arsenal for the whoie Kast. The London Standard of the 13th thus speaks:— No doubt tt was always, and is still, possible for the Conference to with its deliberations Greece c! to them or no! one eee t the, : obstinacy a8 On fife sooner (hen brought us face face, li thong wit . Whos ave the micntigns of Hamat te the tenets Heighbor, and, flerceness of its resentment inst the Ottoman? Or is it really deceived by loud professions uttered ‘at Moscow and Bt Not intended to be fol- lowed up by immediate acts? What Russia intends 18 pi am + but there can be little doubt ‘what it is that Goorxe veheve that, let the Gime to the worst, the soovite will pay ote oe oy the Mosiem. iso probably calcala' mpathetic movement in eve Vince of Bi Samah ed BT ease Rie tan of a dui whion, wilt Powers, to be drawa into is unanimous in Prpitcting tee the ference. In an afticle published ‘the Goloss says that notuing snort of e3 é s a 8: = es 3 5 2 ett) cept ee Be #ee a ee soee geeeued as trey z g é geieics Hibernia was a s| aha faithfully built shiy the structure and machinery of the engine Ment were sufficient, and that the dia ion to tbe size of the that captain an rare ad- mitted to have been onder the imp. n that when the lent occu! e Screw become loose on two ee by Layee ‘They deemed it advisable to draw the shaft ms and so drop the screw. If the shaft Ti might have been done, but unfortunately as the shaft proved to have been broken it was drawn out of the stern pipe, body of water rushed into the stern been intact and the tron man-hole door at the top of the tank properly screwed up. The water could on! lave ged this taak, and thus have been confine ma Space, The evidence shows that the shifting box on the water-tight bulkhead had been interfered with, or the water could not have found its way ito the tunnel, and the upper part of the tunnel not being caulked, and there being a doubt whether the foremost man-hole door in the platform or bo! of the tunnel was properly secured, the evidence goes to show that the iron man-ho! door on the top of the stern tank, or water-tight compartment aft over the stern pipe, had not been perly secured. The conrt has great reason to bt that there was any damage sustained to the itern plates of tlre vessel, and the only luference that can be drawn from ‘the evidence to account for the increase of water after the bilge injection had been applied, and for a time successfully anplied, is that the bilge injection had become choked by grain which was stowed in bulk. While a hope remains of the Seer has the engineors, or any of them, the court feels bound to ‘defer, pronouncing sadament upon any alleged errors of commission or o! lon on their'part, resi to itself the right, shoald circumstances admit of it, hereafter to receive ad- ditional evidence: and with this view they are of opinion that the ends of public justice regain that the inquiry should be deemed to be open. court will, Pe re, make au ad interim report. to the *Severe Weather on the Atlantic Ocean. (From the London Star, Jan. 13.] There is scarcely a shtp which reaches the Mersey but what has suffered more or less damage from the recent heavy in the Atiantic. The ship Francis B. Cutting, which has just arrived from Baltimore, though she made one of the fastest passages on re- cord—viz: eighteen days sixteen hours—to Liverpool, encountered very severe weather on the voyage. On the 24th December, in latitude 33 46 N., longitude 61 W., passed the wreck of a vessel painted black, with an immense numbet of light Boating eenaad! forabout ten ilees apparent), as the eo ly ards were all he a} ge] tobe & bark of. 400 to 500 , and Jaden lumber or petroleum. Het bows were. merged, but her stem ‘Was out of the water; the sea ing over her with tremendous force at the time. Captain Tyson cou!d not ascertain any furtner particulars, heaving run as close a8 to her, but could not sce any person on. She was right in the track of v: from the southern ports, and Captain Tyson coi ered there was great danger as vessels might strike it the wreck in the nigit time. The Idolique, from Lon- don to Philadeiphia, ex; heavy weather dur- ing the Coe ee She was twenty days west of St. John’s Shi and lost fore and maintopsails, and a gyri : oa Tigeing. large number of vessel Bermuda, fee, Philadelphia and other in distress. Frow the Irish coast we learn of several ig strewed with wreck, and hy! oy wn borhood of the Arklow Bank the ‘as to be easily identified as ntly @ timber laden que ea amees , with pied up on the previous day, a dere! Arkiow by the fishermen. The very inch battered about the upper deck and bul- warka, and the name “sophie” was painted on her ees Nothing could be ascertained as to fate of the crew. TURKEY. Greek Residents in the Otteman Empire. A letter from Varna of the 25th December states that in consequence of erde:s sent from Constanti- nople by the King of the Hellenes to the Consul of Greece the latter lowered his fag and warned his countrymen that they ought to country, The Greek ote tance of its members, by their fortune and by the rank they oconpy, one of the first in the empire. ‘They immediately calied a meeting to draw up a pe- tition to the Sultan, in which Cay permission to remain in Turkey, offering to submit to all the obli- gations which» be uy them Py the been well > administration. is ing ceived at Constantin: and uni question VE an_untimited finally settied they have deiay. Also from Choumia, Dardanelles and Gaitipoli news arrives that we numbers Seems, on learning the events which had occurred Tomaxe a loyal declaration expresting thal" destre en to become subject of the Sultan. FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. ‘The paper to be started in Paris by the ex-Queen Isabela w to bear the title of the “Conservateur Liberal.” In the year 1868 the passenger traMc between Eng- land and France reached the total of 306,330, being via Calais, 142,221; Boulogne, 109,325; Dieppe, 36,577, and Havre, 19,207. A wealthy Muscovite living in Paris hired the Casino for evening of the 18th inst. and fine time of tt with Young people of both sexes whom he had invited. : ‘ rested by the police and locked up. On Jan ithe ition of the works of the Mont Cents wes following: Out of the total eerie nen a 9,106 have been executed— = a 6,803 metres from ‘hot nce veen allowed to prince j ' i i : ate i iS CENTRAL AMERICA. ‘The steamship Alaska, Captain Gray, arrived yes- terday from Aspinwall, with mails and passengers from San Francisce. . ‘The steamer Sacramento, frem San Francisco, a»- ‘ rived as Panama on the ‘with 177 passengers and the following treasure list:— For New York. ‘The following ia the New York treasure list by this steamer:— Lees & Waller... PANAMA, Jan. 20, 1869, ‘The commercial tax question is now an agitating point here. ‘The government seems to have found Injadicious, if not impossible, % enforce the encr- Mous impost placed on the commerce by the Legis- , lature, as the resistance to it was universal. Yeater- ; day President Correoso called & meeting of tae merchants and explained fully to them the impover- ished state in which the government is at present ' and the urgent necessity there is for getting moner— vs honestly, if posaibly, but if not, of getting it any | way. The merchants refused point blank to mees the demand. The President to strike of | twenty per cent, which tne merchants alao declined, | Dut proposed to. advance s‘certain sum for imme- diate contingencies, The matter was finally placed | in the hands of a convention, and an amicable ar | rangement will, in all probability, soon be come to. ‘The government seems to be getting sick of itself; it 1s fully proved to be.a non-self-sustaining instita- | fion, and:must come to grief. It is altogether toe free a country where everybody wants to be boas and nobody cares to hew the wood or draw the water. ‘The disposition to cut off from the national govern- ment is daily becoming stronger. Bogota is looked upon as 8 sort of cormorant that swallows up all the resources of the isthmus and gives no value received, The wealth of this State is its geozraphical position, and thagthe nation monopolizes, enforcing the same rignt of controlling the transit from ocean to ocean now that this is a sovereign, self-governing State, that it did when it was constituted of eight or nine pro- vinces all under the direct control of the centrat power. The prospect of the canal scheme also throw- ing money into the treasury at Bogota is not plea- sant so long as this State reaps no advantage there- i from, Were it to declare itself independent under a joint protectorate and form itself as I suggested some months ago, into.a species.of Hanseatic State, the entire railroad revenue would revert to, it, revo- ey Intions would be kept down by the foreign : forces in these waters, the necessity of tithe tacarion maduced, & security atven 0 the i fux of foreten capital an: enterprise. and Panana, American States, would. with its great advantases, become the model republic of the Continent, ‘One thing is clear: it must be diasevered from Bogota, either of Its own free will or by the intervention of foreign power. which latter is far less advisable than the former. We have now a body of national troops here to keep the State troops in check, ceomy. to be ted, the beginning of the month there wi! bly he of both forces not less than bev —, va A pow eae than tenho So ever. war time, an ice the revenue of the them. Such a state of ‘Tne Panama Raltroad Company’s steamer Sal- aire age Central "American ‘ports, arrived on the GUATEMALA. juent eat akes were felt at Amatitan dur. ing tho month of “j a cones ing considerable? consternation mm The exposition af the Sociedad Economica at the capital with great edat on 25th of December. The different ob- jects on exhibition presented a rich and varied display, among tl being manufactures of the country, agricultural acts, inti rap 4 progress of the country aad its future pros- verity. This exhibition was in the highest manner creditable to the country, particularly to those ——— ee tae sonar so deep an interest in progress 16 soci '. ae sent he SALVADOR, Tepal Progressing prosperongiy, though we regret to learn at a difficulty has arisen be- tween it and its neighbor Honduras, which, if not soon it to an la settiement, brought amicanie may lead to a war between the two Staves, We trust, how- legislation may prevent any such 35 f 1 it 7 : 83: 3 i : — Tor 1868 has been published, showing ce in favor of therstate of 85 988, $106,251 over the 5 how the coun- oe inde t of the " bi ‘NICARAGUA. A diabolicat attempt made by the political enemies of the government to poison it Guz men and te ts ci some days fears were en- tertained for the life of the President and his wife, but at last accounts it is said they were recovering } nee a RIC. &c., has and Don Juan Rafael Mate has Seale eta ie pee WITRO-GLYCERINE, New Yorx, Ja2s, 1800, To rae Eprror or Tar HeRatp:— 81r—I notice that Dr. Harris reports to the Metro- ! politan Board of Health that there had been some “Nitro-glycerine—Dangerous” in large letters, and in to make sure of careful handling, {t seems, the parchaser marked on another end of the boxes | packages referred to by Dr. Harris were marked “Gasoline” fi il. which 13 @ more ge hag ee ee danger: he coun’ and tons of it are dai) nT scconing ts law, and no sccldent oceurred, re TAL. P. SHAFFNER, Preatdent of Nitro-Glycerine Company. Sg ‘A WILLIAMSBURG MAN MURDERED IM OH10, [Conneant, Ohio po 4,6 dence of the alo } One ot boldest and most bloody murders proceed! preferring to await the spread of intelligence among | ransportation | 5 i 4 vention of American prilologians an. nounced tw be held in Poughkeepsie, N. Peat: Tuesday, and Vang aevared dave. E 3 , Tuly 27, cou