Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-11-01
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FOREIGN ITEMS.

The Duke of Sussex has formally re-
signed the post he has so long held, oil
president of the Bible Society. In his letter
to the Council he says that circumstances
over which he has no control, but which he
had hoped to see remedied, force him to
absent himself awhile from London; and
that in consequence of these circumstances
he cannot fill tho post with credit to him
SELF or with advantage to the institution
being unable, he says, to do the honors OF
the situation in a manner suited to his rank
and the station he occupies in the country.
The Duke no doubt aludes to his straitened
income, a proposition for the income, OF
which was opposed by the ministry, during
the late session of Parliament, and thereby
defeated. This resignation is doubtless
intended to excite the sympathy Of the re-
ligious world inshis behalf, as means to-
wards getting an additional grant next
winter. A cunning maneuvre.
Letters have been received in London,
from Messrs Grey and Washington, who
sailed from the Cape of Good Hope year
ago, with the design of exploring the into
rior of New Holland from the North West
coast, Announcing the failure oftheir eXpe-
dition, through the hostly Of the natives.
The party succeeded only in travelling
about 70 miles inward, and were then
forced to return, having been attacked by
superior force.
1t seems to be admitted now that the
blindness of the Grown Prince of Hano-
yer; son of the Duke of Cumberland, and
after his father, presumptiye heir to the
British throne, is past all hope OF cure
The celebrated DR. Van Graefie, who has
been attending him for some years, has at
length given up the case.
Messrs Weber and Young, two Of the
seconds in the fatal duel at Wimbledon,
between Captain Elliott ard Mr. Mirfn,
have been tried and found guilty Of murder.
The Judge, in passing sentence of death,
told the prisoners that their lives would be
spared, but they would have to undergo a
long term of imprisonment. The verdict
produced no little CONSERVATION among the
Young fashionables of London
Correspondence of the Courier 6, Enquirer.
LONDON, Sept. 24th 1888.
The principal subject of discussion in
this country is now the probable abolition Of
the Corn Laws--against which the most
by the whole community Of our great man
ufacturing towns. The whole of the lead
ing merchants, manufacturers, and bankers
of Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Shelf
field, and Glasgow, are understood to be
about to petition Parliament in the strong
est terms for the repeal or extensive mod-
fcation of the duty upon foreign corn, and
the opinion is beginning very generally to
prevail, that all the power of the aristorac-
racy will not be sufficient TO keep this mon
opoly of the food of the kingdom in exis-
tence for even single year from the pres
en-. time. This change would very obvi~
ously be one oftranscendent Importance to
the interests of the United States, as the
greater part of the flour required in this
extensive market would in all probability
be supplied from the Western States, where
SO fertile is the soil that wheat can be prof
itably grown at about les. the quarter or
one-thrd part of the price which must be
paid for corn Of similar quality from Po-
land, Prussia, Russia or any other of the
more highly taxed and less advanced in
the arts of cultivation, European States.
The rapid exercise in manufacturing en-
terprise would also cause the production OF
cotton to be extensively increased---and in
almost innumerable other modes would the
abolition of the Corn Laws by removing an
incubus from the energies Of this mighty
nation, contribute in an equally important
ratio to the prosperity and wealth of the
United States.
Tie French blockade of the various
South American ports continues 10 be
subject of very deep controversy in the