The native American., 1838-03-31
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

The British Government have determined to
send out steam force for service on the %.
Lawrence, to be placed under Capt Austin, late
of the Medea. lie was two winters with Capt.
Parry and Capt. Foster in the South Seas
/ INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS IN FRANcE.-A great
project is before the Chamber for railroads ana
canals. 1t is proposedto connect the seven great
rivers and basins of France by canals or deepen
ed streams. Making navigation OF z, ,29S leagues,
to cost 400 millions of francs! Nine canals only
are proposed at present. One by the Mafne ana
Rhine will open via Holland water route to the
4 Black Sea- Another from Bordeaux to Bayonne.
II Nine railroads also are proposed, extending IN
every direction from Paris.
The Duke of Ragnaa (MarmonD is recognized
as Marshall of France. How will Napoleon's
Generals relish this!
! Victoria has expressed her dissatisfaction, it
| is said, to the Sultan, because he now refuses to
employ British officers in his army.
England and France have now agreed to pay
the third series of the Greek Loan, as M. Bud
hart uhe Russian Spy, in fact) has been dismis-
sed from the Greek Ministry.
Prince George of Cumberland, Crown Prince
of Hanover, remains blind-no operations having
yet been ventured upon.
There is report that Lord Stanley is very i'll.
Sir James Graham is likely to be returned to
Parliament for the pocket borough of Pembroke,
Colonel Owen retiring therefrom to make room
for him.
To rebuild the Royal Exchange is estimated
at gI so 900, and as much more to isolate it and
make handsome approaches to it. 1t was thought
the government would grant half the necessary
sum, but they decline doing SO.
/ Lytton Bulwer announces new novel, alice,
or the Mysteries sequel to Ernest Maltravers.
The fecundty of this mans genius is only equal
led by its continued vigor and perpetual freshness.
i Lady Blessington has brought out handsome
novelette, in one volume, called Confessions Of
! an elderly Lady. 1t has eight handsome illus
trations by Paris. This is better told story
than the Elderly Genteman's confessions. The
: heroine is a lady of beauty, fortune and rank.
She falls in love twice before she is duped into
a marriages. widow at 25-goes abroad fol
20 years-comes back at 45-meets her second
flame, whom she finds gouty grandsire, and
forthwith becomes elderly and an authoress
from sheer ennui.
i The Diary of the Times and Court Of George
". continues to have immense sale, and is
attributed (spite of feeble denial in the John
Bully to Lady Charlotte Bury, who, as Lady &.
Campbell, was attached lady in waiting to
Queen Caroline, while Princess Of Wales. Lady
Charlotte has been rather gay, and wound up
4 by marrying young clergyman, her sons tutor.
Celeste is at Liverpool, filling the theatre to the
ceiling. She closed second engagement last
night. The attraction is the new piece .St. Ma
T ry's Eve,' in which, as French girl, Celeste
speaks the prettest, most musical broken English
ever heard, some pure French. Her acting is
superb-t is exquisite tragedy. We never had
any thing 10 equal this-and, until this drama,
Celeste never had her powers done ample JUS
tice to. She has full scope, and gloriously she
uses it.
Charles Kean's Richard continues attractive
but Macready's Lear and Macbeth draw quite as
well. Keans Hamlet is superb--his Richard
quite melo-dramac. He will hit in Sir Giles
Overreach.
1t has just been announced, on authority, that
the Bank Of England-jealous of the monetary
operations of the United States Bank, per Mr..
Jaudon-is to support and encourage company
to be formed in London, to negotiate bills drawn
on distant countries, and establish with them
regular course of exchange, like that now ex-
isting between the principal European capitals
and London. They to assist and accom-
modate the commission agents and merchants and
not to interfere with them. They will place
monetary transactions between England and Ame-
RIGA a new and liberal basis. They will act
as agents for foreign establishments, receive and
Ipay dividends on foreign securities, grant letters
of credit; neither buy nor sell goods, but make
advances upon them. Capital ten millions dol
lars, paid up.
THE DYING FATHER TO HIS DAUGHTER
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