Virginia statesman. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1828-1829, 1829-05-23
FOREIGN NEWS.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.

Parliamen adjourned on the loth LOT ',le
Eastern HOLIDAYS. The Courier remarks
that there is a prospect that the state Of
the public business will allow OF mnch
earlier propagation than last year. line
Estimates have been voted, with the eXceP-
tion Of the Irish Miscellaneous Estimates;
and the budget may be expected TO Dc
brought on very soon after the holidays.
We know of little other business Says the
editor of great Importance to detaln both
Houses. Mr. PEEPS bill for the improve
ment of the Police of Westminster, and the
parts adjacent is bill of such obvious u
Itlity, that we cannot anticipate any oppo-
sition to it. There is 10 other measure
which can be expected to occupy much
time.
4 London correspondent of the Liver
pool Mercury, under date Of April ID,
says: The report gains ground that Eng
land intends to oppose some decisive meas
ure to the ambitious designs of Russia, IN
consequence ofrecent information, and the
Cabinet council summoned for this after
noon, in this city, was supposed to relate
to the subject"
The same correspondent thinks the gov
eminent will have to resort to coercive
measures to keep the unemployed weayers
quiet.
The London Sun of April ii says, the
I Russians and Turks may continue their
preparations for war, but they will not we
think have recourse to immediate HOSTILE
ties, when it is known that England and
France are dispoSed--nay resolyed-to
maintain peace in the east of Europe.
NEW POPE.-Cardinal Castiglon
was elected Pope by the Conclave, and de-
clared on the 3lst of March. He is IS
years of age, and will bear the title of Plus
/ 9Th.
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
BY the Amethyst, at Boston, intell-
gence from Europe four days later than re-
ceived by the Canada at New York, is
acknowledged-No event of political i'm
portance had transpired since the previous
accounts--Further particulars are given
ofthe melancholy catastrophe of the Earth
quake in Spain. The extent of the calam-
ity may be estimated from the statements,
that upwards ofthree thousand dead bodies
had been dug out of the ruins of the seve
raj towns destroyed. The number of
wounded exceeded six thousand, and the
houses demolished, seven thousand.
The friends of Catholic Emancipation
were about raising the means for the erec-
ton of a statue in or near Dublin, of the
Duke of Wellington, as a testimony of
gratitude to him for the part which he took
in the settlement of that distinguished g.
vent in the annals of the British Govern
ment. The moderate exultatlon which the
Catholics of Ireland eyinced on the recep-
ton of the intelligence of the success OF
the measure, is highly creditable to the
people Of that much afflicted land.
Chaka, a formidable and restless Afri-
can chief, has been killed by his brothers.
The return of the Duke of Clarence to
the head of the Admiralty, is anticipated.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Secretary Peel is
soon to De called to the peerage, and also
Sir Robert Peel
1t was expected that Parliament would
be prorogued at the end of May or the be-
ginning of June.
The King was expected in London on
the 18th to remain some days.
President Jackson's Inaugural is pub
lished in the London Courier of April 4th.
Itappears from the following article from
London paper of the 9Th April, that the
tyrant and usurper, Don Miguel, of Port
ugal, has added to his other acts Of barbar'
ity, that of assassination. This monster
is disgrace to humanity, and the sooner
he is displaced from his ill-gottOn power,
the better for civilization -
Murder By Don .NigueI.-It appears by
letters from Lisbon, that the hopeful Don
Miguel has added to the catalogue of his
crimes, by committing murder with his
own hand. The following are the terms
in which this arocious act is described:--
eve have been enabled to collect, on, VIC
fear, too good authority, the following de-
tails relating to this unparalleled European
homicide, perpetrated in the Palace of
Queluz, by the paternal hands ofour "Ho-
ly Saint Miguel" legitimate King ofPOrt-
ugal. The King had, for some weeks
previous to the massacre at the Palace,
entertained very strong suspicious as to the
continued fidelity to his Government ofhis
eldest sister Don Isabel Maria, who was
the late Princess Regent of Portugal. The
day on which the murder was committed,
Don Miguel was driven into one of his
mad fits of brutal revenge from receiving
lntelligenc, shrOuGh some of bis ninions-