FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 16, 17 October 1861, Page 6 (Supplement)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The use of iron-cased vessels has not been adopted in France only—Russia, Italy, and Spain are also building on that system. The Pope has received fresh assurances that the French army of occupation will continue to protect the remaining papal territory. Mires has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Southern Italy continues£m a very unsettled state. A Central Boufbon Committee has been discovered in Naples. Prince Montenletto ahdTthe Cardinal Archbishop had been arrested ; other persons of rank are compromised. Baron Ricasoli stated in the Italian Chamber that the Government policy not merely contemplates the defence of their but its extension to the natural legitimate boundaries. AMERICA. • The force of the Confederates is stated to amount to 60,000. ’ The news during the week is full of interest. Colonel Taylor, who had arrived in Washington with despatches, from Mr. Jefferson Davis to President Lincoln, has been sent back without an answer. The tenor of the despatches was' not known, but they were said to be frivolous, and that Colonel Taylor’s real object was to mun information. ° Congress has resolved to confine itself to granting and rising supplies for the prosecution of the war, and to postpone the consideration of private bills until next session. Men and money were to be voted as freely as the President could wish; both Houses having passed a bill authorising the enrolment of 500,000 volunteers, and the appropriation of 500,00o’()00 dollars for the expenses of the war; the House of Representatives having further passed a bill authorising a loan of 250 millions dollars. Bills, repealing the Morbitt tariff, re-enacting the tariff of 1857, and abolishing ports of entry south of Baltimore, had been introduced into the House of Representatives. 1 Respecting military operations, we leam that some Federal troops had sustained a defeat on the sth instant at Carthage, in Missouri. A body of 1200 Federalists attacked 4000 Secessionists, but finally retired with a loss of fifty-three men killed and wounded, while the Secessionists’ los s was estimated at 250 men. At Rich Mountain, in Western Virginia, there has likewise been a sharp struggle. 2000 Confederates had been routed by General M’Leilan’s division, with a loss of all their guns, &c. The Charleston papers contain a telegram despatch, dated Richmond, the sth, stating°that the blockade of Chesapeak had been broken by permission of President Lincoln and General Butler, and that the facts were known .to Lord Lyons, and that trouble between the United States and England might soon be expected in consequence. A motion has been made for the abolition of slavery, the owners to be remunerated from the United States treasury. President Lincoln’s speech at the opening of Congress was very warlike, the Union to be upheld at all risk. London, August 3rd.—By the arrival of an American steamer at Southampton yesterday, we are in possession of advices from New' York a few hours later. The news from Virginia was somewhat exciting. The march of the grand Federal army had been obstructed by a determind stand of the Confederate troops at Bull’s Rum, about five miles from Manassas. A portion of M‘Dowall’s division, under command of Colonel Richardson, encountered strong masked battery at the point indicated, and was subjected to a raking fire, which forced him to make a partial retreat, to assume a more favourable position. The accounts are contradictory in regard to the loss which fell upon the Massachusetts last. New- York 12th, and New- York 69th regiments.