The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-09-19
Vol. II. NO. Y.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
IMPORTANT FROM SPAIN.
TERMINATION OF THE CIVIL, WA


By a late arrival in Boston, 16 days from Havana,
letter has been received, stating that the govern
ment Norfeo, which had Just arrived there from Ca
1A, proughi intelligence of the capitulaton ofDon
Sarios ana the consequent termination of the war in
SPAN, ne had been forced to surrender by Gener-
al Baron dc Mer.
Our last accounts informed US, that frequent deser-
tons from the Cnrlist ranks were taking mace At
Lerida thousand Navarrese went over in body
to the Queens troops; at Cervera 1900 Quilted the
Cnriist ranks, and joined the Consttutonalist; at
Manresa 100 deserted to the Christinos at MoIins
del Rey 300 joined the Queens standard; and at ey-
cry other town where the opposing forces were
brought In contact, similar assertions from the Car
list army took place Previous to passing tho Ebro,
the Carsts suffered greatly from want of provisions
the men being for several days reduced 10 the neces
sty of feeding on boiled vine leaves, which thew
swallowed.with the juice.
THE CHOLERA.
The accounts from Sicily and Naples are fright
iul--Trado and commerce are paralysed thronoh-
out Italy, and the Papal domnions are formally
barricaded to prevent the ientrance of the disease
which is still believed contagious =
The deaths at Palermo on thes12th of july were
$780, ny "o'e
AT Malta, the number of cases from TtheE9th of
June TO the Sd of July, 1854, of which 663
died, and 223 remained under treatment The
number of cases, declared the Sd of July was
ITO. Many families hadswithdrawn from the CAPT
tai and shut themselves up in their country houses
Among the deaths announced at Palermo ia that
Of Mr. Gardner, United States consul general The
Sicilian physicians, instead of facing the disease
betook themselves to fight. There has been no
rising of the popuace, reported, but the houses
of the rich, who had left the city, were In many
pillaged. The mortality was by no means
confined TO the lower classes, many of the nobility
and rich merchants having persisted.
The disease also prevailing extensively in
various parts theEast in the ports ofthe Red Sea-
in Syria, and other places. In Damascus the deaths
were forty or fifty per day.
Among the victims of the plague at Smyrna are
the wife and son of Rev. Mr.. Dwight, American
Missionary.
A letter of the 18th ult from Naples, published
in the Augsburg Gazette, gives intelligence of the
10th from Palermo, to the effect that the cholera
was on the decline in that city, where the number
Of deaths amounted to not more than 500 per day
The number of fatal cases had previously been
1900 and 1900 daily, and from the middle of June
to tho middle of July, 10000 individuals altogether
had died of the dsease Among the last Victims
to the ch oera at Naples M. de Vignet the Sar-
dnian Ambassador to the Neapolitan Court
ELECTION In ENGLAND
According to the Morning Herald of the 18th, the
members returned to the new Parliament. as far as
tanned are 234 Minsterialiss and 214 Conser-
vatves. This statement as compared with the last
parliament gives gain of AZ and loss of42, leay-
ing majority of in favor of the Conservatives.
most hoirid and devastating calamity has over
taken the residents ofSierra Leone. The mortality
by yellow fever among the Europeans was Dire adj
full 1t calculated that 10000 persons had
been attacked with it, and its ravages were more
frghtnl than any former occasion.