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Vesta arrived at Cowes on the 2 Gth inst . a few hours only after the Henrietta , the yacht which has won the great Atlantic race . Tbe Henrietta has come across without tbo least injury , or losing even a rope . The Fleelicing , on the contrary , has had the grave misfortune to lose six men , washed overboard at one time , and several of her sails . To these casualties her loss of the race is attributed . The yacht clubs at Cowes are
showing the American visitors every attention . There has been a horrible affair at Edmonton . A woman named Gudgeon , cut the throats of two of her children while they were in bed _ She ivould have murdered a third , but the child escaped ancl gave an alarm . When the neighbours came in the woman ivas found dead , having cut her own throat . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Again wo havo a semi-official
assurance that tho visit of tho Empress of the French to Rome is postponed . It is not difficult to imagine that tbo proposed visit is beset ivith dangers to tbo peaco of Homo , and is likely to cause much exasperation in Italy . How to obviate those , and yet yield to tho desiro of tho Empress to go to Rome , is no doubt a matter ol grave consideration with tho Emperor ; ancl his inability to settle tho question is tbo reason , in all probability , of tho
contradictory reports published from day to day . Ouo thing i certain , that tho Empress will not go to Rome , unless tho visit can bo mado without giving rise to disorder and ill-feeling . Meantime , it is said Signor Touello is not flourishing with his mission Tho Popo resolutely refuses to mako any concessions , and remains obstinate , in spito of tbo advico tendered to him from France . So says tho Opinione ; but that paper has never boon friendly to tho mission to Rome , and may , therefore , bo not very exact in its statements or not very well informed . Tho Italian
Budget for 1 SGG—7 is not a very promising document' for it shows a very dreary deficit . It is divided into two parts—one relating to Vonotia , tho other to tho rest of tho kingdom . For Vonotia tho total receipts are given at 70 , 502 , 338 lire , and tho expenditure at 54 , 302 , 338 lire , leaving a surplus of 22 , 200 , 000 lire . But for tho rest of tho kingdom tho figures show a widely different result . Tho total revenue
is given at 788 , 900 , 078 lire , and tho total expenditure at 997 , 560 , 612 lire , leaving a deficit of 20 S , GGG , 534 lire . Taking the two parts together , the deficit is 18 G , < lGG , 33-l-lire , a formidable amount . It must be borne in mind , however , that Italy is only just out of a war , and that her resources have yet to be fully developed . It is stated that two ships of war arc being fitted out to support tho demands of the Italian Government
on the Porte for satisfaction for the detention of an Italian mail steamer in Caudian waters . Of course , the Turk Government will mako tbe required apology . After all , Austria and Russia are fast friends . The Prussian and the Russian papers have been writing in another strain . They would have it that Paissia was sorely annoyed at the conduct of Austria in Galicia . But the Journal de St . Petersburg , the official Russian paper ,
declares all these things to be misconceptions . There is no reason to suppose that the present good understanding between the Russian and Austrian Cabinets has been iii any way disturbed . Very satisfactory . Meanwhile Austria is apparently trying in earnest to conciliate Hungary . Baron von Beust's visit to Pesth seems to have been chiefly for the purpose of convincing the Hungarian leaders that their demands would meet with every consideration . He told one deputation that the formation of a Hungarian Ministry is only a question of time .
The Emperor Napoleon has received General Dix , the new American Minister . His Majesty spoke of the United States in marked terms of courtesy and friendship . The Emperor not only attaches the highest value to the good relations which subsist between the two countries , but finds in the past "jyr / € >
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sure guarantee that the future will be undisturbed by any serious misundestanding . " Tbe Monileur confirms the announcement previously made on American authority , that Mr Seward ' s despatch of the 23 rd of November— " the cable dispatch , " as it has been called—was never presented by Mr . Bigelow . The fact was that before tbe arrival of this document , whicli said a good many tart things ofthe French
Government , Mr . Bigelow received such satisfactory assurances from the Emperor with regard to the evacuation of Mexico b y histroops , that be deemed its presentation inexpedient and unnecessary . Mr : Bigelow acted wisely in exercising this discretion , for Mr . Seward ' s angry missive would undoubtedly have led to misunderstanding and recrimination . According to a report at Hong Kong , tlie French expedition to the Corea has been
dafeated . The squadron has returned to Shanghai . It will be remembered that this expedition was organised to avenge the late massacre of French Roman Catholic missionaries . Our Paris correspondent writes that tho visit ofthe Empress to Rome is definitively abandoned . Oddly enough , the objection is said to come from tho Pope . His Holiness was quite willing to receive a visit from her Majesty as a pilgrim , but lie declined entirely to receive her as a political emissary , in which capacity it was tho desire of Napoleon and Baron Ricasoli she should go to Rome . A letter written by Baron Ricasoli in
answer to an appeal made to him as to tne bishops m Rome has been published . In it the Italian Premier gives very clear expression to his opinions in reference to the relations between Church and State . He instances America as a place where , according to the Catholic bishops themselves , they have the most perfect freedom to practise their religion , and he asks why should not the same state of things exist in Italy . The question
is one not easy to be answered . Wo have a telegram from Trieste which states that intelligence has been received from Athens corroborating the ' story previously to hand , of the repulse of Mustapha Pasha , at Caros , by the Cretan insurgents . The defeat is represented as being of much importance in a strategicpoint of view . AMERICA . —The City of Paris has arrived , bringing news
from New York " to the loth December . Tlie only item of much importance has been forestalled by the Atlantic Telegraph . It is that Congress has in both Houses passed , by a two-thirds majority , the bill granting the suffrage to negroes in the district of Columbia . Both Houses of the North Carolina Legislature have rejected the constitutional amendment by a nearly unanimous vote . General Milieu , president of the Fenian Military Council in Ireland—now prudently content to
await the course of events in New York—has issued an address to " the sincere members " of the Fenian Brotherhood , in whicli he plainly enough charges Stephens with being a charlatan and a cheat . According to the general , Stephens is arrogant and boastful ; profuse in spending other peoples' money ; chimerical i , i his military and financial schemes : fond of good living , costly wines , and luxurious furniture ; and just now particularly in love with the south of France . Stephens , it appears , thought
an Irish army could be maintained in the field for £ 1 , 200 a-year ; and recommended the establishment of a Fenian cannon foundry in the heart of Dublin , where he affected to think a park of artillery could be manufactured with perfect impunity . Tbere may be a mixture of truth and falsehood in the New York Fenian's bill of indictment against his chief ; but it illustrates the old truth that Irish conspiracies only require to be let alone to prove their own destruction .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
* * All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand , London , W . C . S . I . —We are glad to find our communication was to the point . We shall always be pleased to hear from you . W . M . —Yes ; the course taken by you is perfectly consistent ^ Twilli the Book of Constitutions . ^\
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Vesta arrived at Cowes on the 2 Gth inst . a few hours only after the Henrietta , the yacht which has won the great Atlantic race . Tbe Henrietta has come across without tbo least injury , or losing even a rope . The Fleelicing , on the contrary , has had the grave misfortune to lose six men , washed overboard at one time , and several of her sails . To these casualties her loss of the race is attributed . The yacht clubs at Cowes are
showing the American visitors every attention . There has been a horrible affair at Edmonton . A woman named Gudgeon , cut the throats of two of her children while they were in bed _ She ivould have murdered a third , but the child escaped ancl gave an alarm . When the neighbours came in the woman ivas found dead , having cut her own throat . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Again wo havo a semi-official
assurance that tho visit of tho Empress of the French to Rome is postponed . It is not difficult to imagine that tbo proposed visit is beset ivith dangers to tbo peaco of Homo , and is likely to cause much exasperation in Italy . How to obviate those , and yet yield to tho desiro of tho Empress to go to Rome , is no doubt a matter ol grave consideration with tho Emperor ; ancl his inability to settle tho question is tbo reason , in all probability , of tho
contradictory reports published from day to day . Ouo thing i certain , that tho Empress will not go to Rome , unless tho visit can bo mado without giving rise to disorder and ill-feeling . Meantime , it is said Signor Touello is not flourishing with his mission Tho Popo resolutely refuses to mako any concessions , and remains obstinate , in spito of tbo advico tendered to him from France . So says tho Opinione ; but that paper has never boon friendly to tho mission to Rome , and may , therefore , bo not very exact in its statements or not very well informed . Tho Italian
Budget for 1 SGG—7 is not a very promising document' for it shows a very dreary deficit . It is divided into two parts—one relating to Vonotia , tho other to tho rest of tho kingdom . For Vonotia tho total receipts are given at 70 , 502 , 338 lire , and tho expenditure at 54 , 302 , 338 lire , leaving a surplus of 22 , 200 , 000 lire . But for tho rest of tho kingdom tho figures show a widely different result . Tho total revenue
is given at 788 , 900 , 078 lire , and tho total expenditure at 997 , 560 , 612 lire , leaving a deficit of 20 S , GGG , 534 lire . Taking the two parts together , the deficit is 18 G , < lGG , 33-l-lire , a formidable amount . It must be borne in mind , however , that Italy is only just out of a war , and that her resources have yet to be fully developed . It is stated that two ships of war arc being fitted out to support tho demands of the Italian Government
on the Porte for satisfaction for the detention of an Italian mail steamer in Caudian waters . Of course , the Turk Government will mako tbe required apology . After all , Austria and Russia are fast friends . The Prussian and the Russian papers have been writing in another strain . They would have it that Paissia was sorely annoyed at the conduct of Austria in Galicia . But the Journal de St . Petersburg , the official Russian paper ,
declares all these things to be misconceptions . There is no reason to suppose that the present good understanding between the Russian and Austrian Cabinets has been iii any way disturbed . Very satisfactory . Meanwhile Austria is apparently trying in earnest to conciliate Hungary . Baron von Beust's visit to Pesth seems to have been chiefly for the purpose of convincing the Hungarian leaders that their demands would meet with every consideration . He told one deputation that the formation of a Hungarian Ministry is only a question of time .
The Emperor Napoleon has received General Dix , the new American Minister . His Majesty spoke of the United States in marked terms of courtesy and friendship . The Emperor not only attaches the highest value to the good relations which subsist between the two countries , but finds in the past "jyr / € >
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sure guarantee that the future will be undisturbed by any serious misundestanding . " Tbe Monileur confirms the announcement previously made on American authority , that Mr Seward ' s despatch of the 23 rd of November— " the cable dispatch , " as it has been called—was never presented by Mr . Bigelow . The fact was that before tbe arrival of this document , whicli said a good many tart things ofthe French
Government , Mr . Bigelow received such satisfactory assurances from the Emperor with regard to the evacuation of Mexico b y histroops , that be deemed its presentation inexpedient and unnecessary . Mr : Bigelow acted wisely in exercising this discretion , for Mr . Seward ' s angry missive would undoubtedly have led to misunderstanding and recrimination . According to a report at Hong Kong , tlie French expedition to the Corea has been
dafeated . The squadron has returned to Shanghai . It will be remembered that this expedition was organised to avenge the late massacre of French Roman Catholic missionaries . Our Paris correspondent writes that tho visit ofthe Empress to Rome is definitively abandoned . Oddly enough , the objection is said to come from tho Pope . His Holiness was quite willing to receive a visit from her Majesty as a pilgrim , but lie declined entirely to receive her as a political emissary , in which capacity it was tho desire of Napoleon and Baron Ricasoli she should go to Rome . A letter written by Baron Ricasoli in
answer to an appeal made to him as to tne bishops m Rome has been published . In it the Italian Premier gives very clear expression to his opinions in reference to the relations between Church and State . He instances America as a place where , according to the Catholic bishops themselves , they have the most perfect freedom to practise their religion , and he asks why should not the same state of things exist in Italy . The question
is one not easy to be answered . Wo have a telegram from Trieste which states that intelligence has been received from Athens corroborating the ' story previously to hand , of the repulse of Mustapha Pasha , at Caros , by the Cretan insurgents . The defeat is represented as being of much importance in a strategicpoint of view . AMERICA . —The City of Paris has arrived , bringing news
from New York " to the loth December . Tlie only item of much importance has been forestalled by the Atlantic Telegraph . It is that Congress has in both Houses passed , by a two-thirds majority , the bill granting the suffrage to negroes in the district of Columbia . Both Houses of the North Carolina Legislature have rejected the constitutional amendment by a nearly unanimous vote . General Milieu , president of the Fenian Military Council in Ireland—now prudently content to
await the course of events in New York—has issued an address to " the sincere members " of the Fenian Brotherhood , in whicli he plainly enough charges Stephens with being a charlatan and a cheat . According to the general , Stephens is arrogant and boastful ; profuse in spending other peoples' money ; chimerical i , i his military and financial schemes : fond of good living , costly wines , and luxurious furniture ; and just now particularly in love with the south of France . Stephens , it appears , thought
an Irish army could be maintained in the field for £ 1 , 200 a-year ; and recommended the establishment of a Fenian cannon foundry in the heart of Dublin , where he affected to think a park of artillery could be manufactured with perfect impunity . Tbere may be a mixture of truth and falsehood in the New York Fenian's bill of indictment against his chief ; but it illustrates the old truth that Irish conspiracies only require to be let alone to prove their own destruction .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
* * All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand , London , W . C . S . I . —We are glad to find our communication was to the point . We shall always be pleased to hear from you . W . M . —Yes ; the course taken by you is perfectly consistent ^ Twilli the Book of Constitutions . ^\