The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-04-07
FOREIGN NEWS.


the 23d of February, have been received at
Boston.
On Friday evening, Feb. Is, the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer made general
statement in the House of Commons of the
reductions which Ministers intend to make
in the expenditure Of the country, and OF
the consequent amount of taxation which
may be expected to he RENTED. The to-
tai sum is about one million three hundred
thousand pounds, and this is made up by
savings in all the departments of the state.
No reduction is to be made in the extent oil
the military and naval establishments, but
a stricter system of economy is to be intro
duced into the management of them. BY
| these means the saving in the cost OF the
army will amount to E453, 146; of the ordi-
nance to f29, 900; and of the navy to E213,-
600; besides which there will be rsdnc-
ton of G276, 900 in the miscellaneous esti-
mates, and of ElS0,000 in the interest OF
exchequer bills. Amounting, in the whole,
to about six millions of dollars.
The Hamburg Correspondent announces
that general Congress of Ministers is to
take place al Berlin, where the Greek ques-
ton. and others interesting all Europe are
Cabinet is bent upon maintaining and up.
holding, purely and simply, NJ. de Capo d..
lstrias in the Presidency of the Greek Sen
ate and that the Sultan will adhere to such
a combination. II is said that note for
this purpose has been presented to Lord
Heytesbury, at St. Petersburg.
The London Times of the 22d contains
some particulars of the inundation in China
lnsf In uill 4.
tant from Canton, the water came on so
| rapidly, that some of the inhabitants had
only time to save their children by placing
them in large open jars and setting them
atioat. Some of them were picked up in
the river near Canton. In other villages
the floods were so high, and the currents
so rapid, that from 1000 to 5000 persons
are supposed to have persisted.
A recent letter from the Turkish capital
states that two Frenchmen, who have ar
rived there from Marseiles, have request
ed permission of the Sultan to establish a
literary periodical in the Turkish and
French languages: no answer had been
given to their request, which, however, was
very courteously received.
Gen Lavellette, who was condemned to
death in 1915 for having written letter to
Napoleon when at Elba, and who was re-
leased from prison by the heroic conduct of
his wife, aided by three English gentlemen,
died lately at Paris.
A woman has died at st. Martin-s,rr-
Ecoillon, in France, at the age of lO4.
whom, when she was upwards of 80, a
young man married in order to escape the
conscrlptlon, counting, it is said, upon
much earlier release from the bonds of mat
rimony.
Paris, FEB. I8. Advices from Frankfort
OF the 18th inst. state, after private letters
from Constantinople, that an agent, charg-
ed with secret mission to the Schah of
Persia, has quilted that capital for Teheran.
1t is believed that the Sultan, before the
rhalicks 10000 disciplined mon; Hussein
Pacha, who appears to be the Sultan's right
hand, will, it is said, have the command of
these forces. The British Ambassador
holds frequent conferences with the Minis
ter of the Porte. 1t is remarked, that the
Austrian InteInuncio does not take an ac-
tive part in the meetings which the other
foreign ministers hold several times a week
with the Refs Effendi.
Floating Dinner Party. On the 9th inst.
party went to dine on sheet of ice at
st. Clair, near Lyons. They were seated
at the table, and near them stood must
clan, who enlivened the repast by the exer-
else of his talents, whilst at another point
was seen cook preparing the dishes at
stove that had been transported to the win
try scene of fesfivty. On a sudden the
mass of ice on which the company had as
semhled, detached itself, and table, guests,
kitchen, cook, and musician, floated down
the river. The Pont Morand was passed
in safety, but the ice coming in contact with
one of the piers of the Pont Charles X, the
guests, with their attendants, eatables, wine,
and culinary utensils, were precipitated in
to the water. Fortunately, no lives were
lost, as the tempters of the deceitful ele-
ment had taken the precauiion ofiJeing ac-
companied hy boat, which picked them I'D.
!Stettin, Prussia Feb. 4. During the in
tense cold, that prevailed last month at Kos
lin, and which on the 18th ult. attained 26
deg. below zero, persons who were in tn.
open street, were frozen to death. The
Baltic is, as far as the eye can reach, vast
plain OF ice, and the earth is covered with
such quantity of snow, that the most fire.
quented streets are scarcely passable.
From the Ruthe.fordtOn IN. ca Spectator of
March 10.
SHOCKING TRANSACTION. Mr.. David
Symmes, who has for a long time kept the
bridge across the Tiger, in Union, had SEINE
altercation with his son David Symlnes, IT.,
on Christmas-tiay, vino eollared and threw
him down and stamped upon the breast of
the old genilemnn In a rlrrst hrnt.l rnnnnar