Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-02-08
"a DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND.

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"a DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND.
The unusual occu rrence Of an arriva,'at
the Break-water in the Delaware, of ves-
sci from Liverpool, twenty four days later
than the last that arrived here, has furnished
us with the following recent intelligence from
England, derived from the columns OF the
Philadelphia United States Gazette, and In
quirer and Courier.
We do not derive sufficient Information
from the extracts of our contemporaries to
enable US TO form decided opinion OF the
state of the London market. Indeed, there
is a material contradiction in the accounts
published by them. On the whole. perhaps,
we may conclude that its situation if not
worse than at the date of our former ac-
counts, and certain, it is, the prices and de-
mand for our great staple, cotton have i'm
proved as well as that the apprehensions en-
tertained Of scarcity OF grain in England,
have not been realized.
The French army appears TO have met
with serious disaster on the coast Of Bar
barry. An expedition of 1900 men under
Marshal Clause, sent against the Bey Of
Constantine, who had troubled them in their
possession of Algiers, would seem to have
been completely routed.
The encounter Of the Carlist General
Gomez, with the Queens troops in the south
of Spain, Of which we have already receiv-
ed one version direct from Spain, does not
as we anticipated, appear to have terminal
ed SO disastrousy to the former as the ac-
count represented. He has evidently pass
cd through the Sierra of mountains and is
continuing his predatory march, -Cour.
and Eng.
"a Days later from England-The pac
kct ship SUsQUEHANNA, Captain CRoPPER,
which left Liverpool OH the Goth of Decem-
Der, arrived at the Brcakwater on Saturday.
Considering that the winds at this season
are generally adverse, it may be quoted as
one Of the shortest passages that has been
made of late years under similar circum-
stances, being only tDenty- four days!
We learn that on the 2Yth of November
the southern coast of England and northern
shores Of France were visited by one of the
most terrific hurricanes in the memory of
the Oldest inhabitants. The lists of ship.
wrecks is frightful. The barque Isabella,
Capt. Kurtz, from this city to Amsterdam,
had been wrecked on the English coast.
The hurricane swept through the midland
and southern counties, producing dreadful
havoc. Coaches were upset, trees and
houses blown down, and the stocks Of farm
yards scattered to the winds. Many lives
were lost in different parts of the kingdom
and much property destroyed by the sud.
den foundations which succeeded the tor
rents Of rain. London did not escape the
fury of he storm, butsullered great carnage.
Don Miguel, tired of inaction, is about 10
commence q rebellion in Portugal, on the
plan of Carlos, Ii. Spain.
There was a meeting in the Royal Guard
at Madrid OH the eth of November. Two
hundred and sixty soldiers revolted--but
they were suhdued, and condemned to be
quintornanted-(every fifth man to be shot.
As soon as three had suffered, however
Her Majesty, the Queen Regent, sent and
pardoned the remainder. 1t is clear that
much disatlcction prevails against the Chris.
| tho cause.
Great expectations were formed in Spain
from the projected landing of Don Migue
| in Portugal.
The defeat of Gomez is said by the Chris.
| tino party to be fatal to the Carlist party
but the Carlists say it was not hall SO disas.
trous as reported.
An attempt was made to rob the Paris
Bank by some villains, who knocked down
Mr.. Bourou, junior cashier. They were
apprehended by the police.
Captain Lewis, commander Of the Cos.
mo, q New-York and Bristol England,
trader, was drowned in the late gale witt
two sailors in King Road, by the upscttine
of boat.
London, Dec. 16.
The French Expedition against Constan
tine has entirely failed. We annex a few
paragraphs from the London Times of the
10Th of December.
The Paris papers Of Wednesday, are ex.
clusively taken up with the telegraphic in.
telligence from Africa and Spain, which we
were by an extraordinary express enabled &c
lay before our readers yesterday, but they
contain no new facts bearing upon either
subject.
| 1t Is almost unnecessary to state, that the
failure and discontinue of the expedition
against Constantine occupied the first place
in public attention in Paris on "Wednesday.
We forbear to notice the reports which
were spread throughout Paris of incidents
of the expedition, (such as the loss of the
entire artillery of the army. on its retreat
from Constantine to Bona, &c. because VIC
are assured that no private accounts of the
affair had reached the French capital. The
Bon Sens, a former supporter Of Marshal
Clausel, bames him for a fault similar to
that Of Napoleon at st. Jean d'Acrc-
namely, his having proceeded to the attack
of a strong town without siege artillery.
Up to the close of our correspondents des.
patch on Wednesday evening, no further
communication from the Government on
this painful subject, had been published.
The Moniteur of Wednesday morning
does not complete the Geographic despatch
respecting the calamitous affair of Constan-
tine. The National alone ventures to add
something to the official news: "This
evening (it says) deplorablc accounts were
spread of the result of the expedition to
Constantine. lfthese accounts are correct,
only some weak remnants of the army had
returned to Bona. The Government has
received complete report of this disaster,
and to alay tho alarms of seven thousand