The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-11-14

} just had an interview with them, tina
they will pay their respects to Hi
! Excellency to-day.
j The Galveston Civilian says tina
the bonds given by the collectors 0
! the customs is twenty-five thousand
! dollars, and that this sum is much toe
small at present, although it nigh
have been sufficient at the time of the
passage OF the act. It is certainly tc
] be desired that no temptations should
exist to induce the agents Of the gov.
eminent to appropriate any of the
i public funds to neutrality-suspicious..
We have seen too many instances of
4 enormous public defalcations in the
United States not to fear that some
OF the examples might reach us, un.
less guarded by ample security and
severe penalties-rigid accountability
should be exacted from every officer
in the employment of the government
although to the credit of our new
republic, no instance of defalcation
has yet occurred. Houston Teas H.
teltlgencer of Sep. 70.
THINGS IN ENGLAND.-The United
States Gazette says: A friend who
has been travelling much in England
within a few weeks past. and who was
"a passenger in the Liverpool, assures
US that the state of the corn fields in
the districts through which he travel
led was truly melancholy. In many
places men Were standing in the wa
ter cutting the grain throwing into
carts, that it might be carried to some
other place for drying. Meantime,
scarcel y a day passes without rain.
With reference to the Chartists,
he says that although that partyis not
so noisy as they were, they are not
less active; and the wretched state
of public and private affairs tended
to increase their numbers very rapid
~. Some idea Of the apprehension
of government may be obtained from
the fact, that when a single Chartist
was arrested, a large file of armed
soldiery attended the man to the ma
gistrate, as if apprehensions were en-
tertained that he would be rescued
by his friends.
The Chartists do not assemble with
arms, and our informant says, instead
of the noisy clustering congregations
which were once seen, they appear
to exhibit a logged silent endurance
of existing evils, in the confidence
that the time has not quite arrived
when they must strike the blow.
The suffering poor in England have
before them the prospect Of pestilence
as well as famine. BY reason of the
bad weather which occurred at the
time of harvest, much damaged corn
will be thrown into market; the con-
sequence will be that the working clas-
ses will have to live upon the I'm
wholesome food made from it which
will be so abundant in the country
until the harvest of 1910. We may
expect large migration into this coun-
try during the ensuing year. Amer
lea, as she is brought nearer to Eu-
rope by steam navigation, will contin-
ue more and more to become a safety
valve to the troubles and distresscs
of the old world.
IMPORTANT FROM CANToN.---By the
ship Panama we have advices to June
LIST inclusive. The disastrous intelli-
gence previously received is fully
confirmed. The British superintend-
ent, Mr. Elliott, published a notice 22d
May, that confidence in the Justice
Of the imperial government was at an
end, and that he therefore enioined
all the subjects Of the Queen to make
out their claims and take their depart
ure Immediately. Furthermore to
desist from any attempt to carry yes
sells into Canton until he should pub
licly notify them Of the safety Of so
doing, after the receipt of dispatches
from home. He had chartered for
this purpose the barque Ariel, which
sails May 29th for the Red Sea, there
to wait for orders from England,
which would require eight months be-
fore her return. On the Oath Mr..
Elliott and the British subjects took
their departure for Macao, where, as
we have already stated a few days
since, the foreigners had all congre-
gated. The ships which arrived pre-
vious to the breaking up Of the trade,
were loading with tea at great cost.
Goods were also at high prices. The
opium (2O,283 chests) was not to be
burned, but to go, it was thought, in
junks to Pekin, to be dissolved in a
Liquid and then let to run into the sea.
Commissioner Lin is raised to the dig
nifty of Governor of two Of the most
important provinces of the empire,
viz: Che-Keang yellow rlveD and
/ Ynng-tsze- Keung (son of the sea-