Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-01-27
FOREIGN NEWS.

The packet ship Caledonia has arrived at New
to Dec. 5.
AFFAIRS OF EUROPE. The relations of
the different powers of Europe are at pres
ent surprisingly complicated. We behold
the singular spectacle, of nations at war,
manifesting no acts of hostility, as Turkey
and Greece-nations at peace engaged in
actual warfare, as France and England with
Turkey-and, if report be true, allied ma
tions forming alliances against each other.
Such is the posture of affairs, that it requires
the gift Of prophecy to foretell, with any de-
gree Of confidence, what will be the result.
.Ns,c- York Journal Of Commerce.
The Lissrpool Mercury of the 5th, pub
fishes note from a London correspondent,
dated the day previous at half past 3 o'clock.
as follows -" Some of the papers persist in
stating that a negotiation has been pending
for the return of Mr.. Huskisson to the cabi-
net. ! can state to you upon authority,
which is unquestionable, that indirect, if not
direct, overtures have been made to that
gentleman, at the suggestion of Mr.. Peel.
This is a fact. What else has been stated
of his having refused to go back unless Earl
Dudley and Messrs. Grant and Wynne are
reinstated may be true, land, indeed, person
al friends of M. Huskisson countenance the
rumour,) but of this | have heard nothing
positive"
THE COMET. OBSERVATORY, GosPoRT,
Nov. %. The comets right ascension this
evening 9th. IL min. 20 sec. north. 1t now
passes the meridian of Gosport about so
minutes past O'Clock in the afternoon, ap-
parent time and may be seen at 8 deg. UNI
der the four remarkable stars in the Dol
phn, in the evening of the 9th, 9TH and Sth
of December. In comparing its colour with
that of the long nebua about degree to
the west of the star marked D in the nothern
part of the girdle Of Adromeda, it appeared
much less luminous through the telescope,
except at short intervals indeed its light is
not steady, but glimmering and its form also
is variable, which may be occasioned by the
varying density and transparency of the
earth's atmosphere. Under all the circum-
stances of its being, and likely to be, tel
escope comet, we cannot but admire the &C
curacy of the calculations of its daily posi-
tons as given by Professor Encke, in the
table already published. Its true zenith
distance north, and its north declination in
the tables added together, have repeatedly
conceded with the latitude of this place.
STAR OF RaUNswIcK. The Liverpool
Mercury of the 9Th states that new journal
has been established at Dublin under. the
above title; the conductor of which shas
commenced his labours with manufacturing
a document of most tremendous character,
calculated to spread panick through the
land equal to that which the comet would
inspire, if it should be perceived rapidly ap-
proximating our devoted globe. The docu-
ment, which we have thus assumed to be a
fabrication of the plot-catchers, is no less
than proclamation from Charles Felir, by
the Grace Of God King of Great Britain
Ireland and Sardinia. This extraordinary
appeal of the King of Sardinia to the Irish
people, was, it appears, struggled into the
creek of Dingle Bay, in the county of Ker-
ry."
PARIS, Nov.3 1t is stated for certain,
that a meeting of the Stockholders of the
Bank Of France, which was held yesterday,
]. M. Lafitte, GOVERNOR of the Bank, pro-
posed to reduce the rate of discount to three
per cent, which actually reduces the inter-
est on capital advanced to merchants 25 per
cent, must produce greater results than
could have been possibly expected, consid-
ering whnt has been the practice of the
Bank of France, and the narrow circle with
in which it confined its relations with the
commercial interests. Constitutional
@The London Courier says, the report of