ARRIVAL OF THE JOHN DUNCAN,

Marlborough Press, Volume VI, Issue 56, 15 July 1865, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE JOHN DUNCAN,

WITH LATICIt ENGLISH AND EUROFEAN NEWS. The ship John Duncan arrived last night, and brings London papers up to the 29ih March, the day of her departure. We make the following extracts from the 1 Standard ’ of that date : A Mexican official lias furnished a detail statement of the atrocities committed by Felix Diaz, the brother of I’orfirio, and the party of cavalry under his command in the villages around Oajtica. These facts are published in the Muni tear. mid vouched for by Marshal Bazainc. Sufficiently horrible and savage they certainly are to justify summitry dealidg with tlieir remorseless perpetrators ; hut it must he remarked they in no wise implicate I’orlirio, whom Marshal Forey so severely denounced in the Senate. A column of the Couslitiitiinini lis devol'd to a fulsome eulogy on the Emperor’s historical literary performance. This is from the pen of M. Limayrac. which flows in mildest rills of milk and honey in praise of the Imperial volume. The alleged serious misunderslan ing between the french representative tit Constantinople and the l’orie is semi-offieially contradicted, as well as the reported departure of M. de Mouslicr from Constantinople. ihe Marquis tie Livalctte is tinned as Minister of Interior, in place of M. Bondet. An extraordinary sitting of the Federal Diet was held on Monday, at which it was resolved by i nine against six votes that the discussion of the proposal of Bavaria in favor of the claims of the Duke of Augiislenburg should take place on ti.e 6th of April next Our New York correspondent, in his communication published to-day, discusses the prospects and probabilities of :t war between England or I France and the Americans when they got tlieir own domestic affairs arranged. Unless they find themselves, when that indefinite period arrives too much weakened and impoverished, he thinks a foreign war will he inevitable. Taking into consideration the fact that a European war means a naval war, our correspondent proceeds to estimate tile capability and resources of America for sm h ;m emerprise. The computation of tlieir entire naval lorce shows the Americans to he placed in a position of decided inferiority at present, so that :i vast improvement in their navy | would he requisite to lit them to cope on any terms of c jaunty with either France or England. | There is at last, we are glad to say, some reasonable prospect of a termination to the dispute -in the iron t.a.le Tito leaders of the workmen | in the North Staffordshire district held a mcet- ! ing at Tiiustal on Monday night, when it was agreed to appoint delegates to meet, the masters, under the preside.icy of the Earl of Lichfield, mid to make the proposition that, if the masters | in South Staffordshire would withdraw the lockout, the men in North Staffordshire would conI sent to submit tlieir t use to arbitration. The masters have already signified their willingness jto agree to this arrangement. In the Durham district a still more important step has been taken. The workmen have resolved to sever the connect on with the Staffordshire unions,and the masters have promised to open their works tomorrow whatever decision may be come to by tlieir brethren in Staffordshire.