The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-02-03
FOREIGN NEWS.

| i PoPCAS W Tie Oh Jan. nave DeeN
received in New York. They contain but
little news. A few abstracts are annexed
The cold has been very severe in England
On the 23d of Dec. wagons loaded with ice,
were entering London from all directions.
| 1t has been intensely cold in France.
On Monday, the 26th of December, a senti-
mel who was supposed to have fallen asleep
on his post, was found frozen to death.
| The thermometer had been as low as %
degrees below zero, at Paris.
! The weather was extremely severe IN
Vienna, after the beginning of December.
In Hungary, it was still more cold.
| Don Miguel has sent a ship-load of his
disaffected subjects into exile in Africa
and has since imprisoned great number
more, at the moment when they were en-
barking for voluntary exile to the island of
| Terceira.
At late sitting of the Society for the
encouragement of National Industry at
Paris, prize of 1000 francs was award
ed to a Mr.. Coffin of New York, for a
machine to remove fur from skins employed
| in making hats. By this machine, four
workmen are able in four hours to do the
work of twenty-five according to the old
process.
GREECE. The London Globe of the
evening of Dec. 2, says that the report Of
| the intention to raise Prince Leopold of SAKE
! Cobourg to the throne of Greece obtains
credit The same paper remarks, that it
/ does not appear that the wishes of the poo-
| pie of Greece themselves have been al all
consulted on this occasion. A King is tc
be consigned to them without any more
warning than factor has of bale of goods
/ Under a Trieste date of Dec. Is. it is
said that Sandman vessel, which had
arrived in twelve days from Canea, brought
news that the insurrecton in Gambia, had
not been quelled, and that the Greeks contin-
ued to make incursions into the Turkish ter
ritory. The captain of French ship Of
war on one occasion undertook to inter-
! fere as mediator, without success. -Four
of his men were killed in the affrav. II
was thought the insurgents were prompted
by the Greeks of the continent in the hope
of finally obtaining the emancipation of the
island.
TURKEY. The accounts from Constant.
nople are to the 9th of November. A
grand ball had been given by the French
Ambassador, Mt which all the Turkish great
men and ministers were present. On
this occasion, however, they did not mix, as
at the ball given by the English Ambas.
sador, Unfortunately with the other guests
and they were not asked to drink wine
shetbet was offered to them, and every re-
spect was paid to their customs and pre-
ljudices, as it appears that the Turks who
visited the British Ambassador had beer
too free with the cheer provided fol
them, and had become as jolly as their en-.
tertainers. Indeed, we find that on the
present occasion the Turkish guests were
not much disposed to respect the orders Of
Mahomet, for we are told that, when offer.
ed sherbet, some of them preferred cham.
paigne. The Sultan, however, is, in hi;
turn, to give party at which he is to Judge
by the demeanor of his European guests
how far their customs and habits may bt
adopted without endangering the morality
of his subjects.
Adrianople was evacuated on the Goth o.
November by the Russians.
The Augsburg Gazette of December Is
announces the passage through Vienna o
an English CouNer to Constantinople, bear
ing dispatches to Mr.. Gordon, giving thu
defnitive act of the conferences in London
on the affairs of Greece. They declare
definitively, the unconditional independents,
| | OF Grcece.
The Russian General Kisselef, recent,
, appointed Governor of Moldavia and Wal
achia, arrived at Bucharest on the At
of Dec. He Immediately convoked tn,
Divan, and made an address, extolling tn
5 kind intentions ofthe Emperor Nicholas.
FIRE. Monday morning, at about on
: o'clock, the handsome and commodious ston
! church, situated in Hanover street, belong
ing to the society over which the Rev. Dr.
) Beecher is settled. was found to be on fire
and before the members of the fine depart
ment were assembled, the flames were s
, far advanced that, with its contents, it wa
destroyed. The contents of the missionar
, rooms, in the basement story, and of tn
| cellar, which was occupied by Mr.. Ebene
, ger Breed for storing wines, were also con
, sumed. The church, we learn, was insure