Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-05-17
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NEW YORK, APRIL Is

Last evening ne paeket sup Do
Qulxotte, Clark, arrived at this pur, tro
Havrs. By this arrival The Edllors OF
the Commercial Advertiser received
Giles OF Paris papers to the l4ih Of March,
and Havre Of the Ism, BON inclusive.
England The Catholic Association
bill hau been read third time in the
House of Lords, and passed.
Iron.-Notwlthsand the advance
which has taken place in the price Of
pig iron within The last Twelve months,
an addition OF los per ton was determine
Cd upon at q special meeting of the assoc
ciated iron-masters Of Yorkshire and
Derbyshire, held al Wakefield, on the
2ls' Feb.
The silk trade was making rapid pro-
gress. The Stockport Advertiser states
sha,a factory for The manufacturing OF
silk IS building at Sandbeach, which is
thee stories high, and 300 feet in
length.
The Hull Packet, in abiding to the
statr off the country, remarks, that there
is at present greater demand for cotton
goods Than all the English and Scottish
manufactures, together with all the al.
vantage OF machinery, experience and
capital, can supply.
The British Continental Gas Compa.
ny has contracted to light Copenhagen
with Gas.
Since the erhoss Of the Chancellor OF
the Exchequer, the wine merchants and
others have reduced their prices Por
sugal and Spanish wines have lowered
Is. and the French and Rhenish ls. Sd.
per bottle.
: A letter from Madrid, inserted in the
Hamburg papers, says, tina, the Duke OF
Wellington has made presen, to his
friend Gen. Alava, o! a domain worth
100000 dollars, to indemnify him in
som, degree for the sequestration of his
own estates.
lnundahons on the Continent -B
the late lnundai ion OF Holland II IS C3'.
putcd that 50 900 persons have been Left
without an asylum, without bread, or any
other resource than the public benefi
cence. H B Majss,y has given 2Oooi
towards the relief oil the sufferers IN
Hanover. The storm OF January SIS,
by the violence of The waves, opened
canal near Harbohre, which will Join the
North Sea 10 the Gulf of LymGord, and
will be extremely advantageous to III,
inhabitants OF Thue. This canal is 80
ellis wide and 7 deep.
Franee.-G Great preparations were
making IN Paris for the approaching CO.
rona,ion The Duke of Northumber
land, H B Majesty's Ambassador, had
hired splendid apartments for the &C.
casion.
On the goth Feb. the village of Me-
james, in the department Of the Arriepe,
was almos, entirely reduced to ashes
through the carslessness Of child who
set FIRE TO some straw. One hundred
and 6Gy. houses were consumed, and on
~ eight or ten remain.
Stain "A Madrid article Of the 24th
Of Fe bruary observes, that whatever may
be,,e case with respect to the act of ann
nes'y, It's certain that great political
revolution is at hand. The royals, vo-
lun,eers OF Madrid, shout, "Long live
The absolute King. and no Chambers"
insieado OF I" Lsng live the absolute King,"I
ss before.
Letters from Madrid Of the list of
March, state, that several Spanish armed
vesse Is had sailef from the Canary Is
Isnd, for South America.
On the Sd OF M IN i, was rumored at
Nj ,dr,d, thai the French trssps we're
about to iesvs Spain. !