The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-05-19

duced an instantaneous revolt III iavoi u Tue
British government. Rumors we've, indeed,
out at Girgenti. II is also stated that portions
Of the British feet had captured fifty Neapoll'an
vessels.
ALGIERS.
The Paris papers contain letters from Aiglers
of the 18th. The arrival Of the Duke OF Orleans
had caused great Joy among the troops, and the
campaign was Immediately to be commenced
Operations are to be begun on an extended
scale, as the commander-in-chief is determined
to risk every thing TO put down Ard-el-hader.
| Indeed the future safety Of the African colony
depends on vital blow being struck against the
| power of the Emir, and the hostile tribes VINO
| have now obeyed his summons TO holy war.
Ard X ader, was at Medeah with his regular
forces He had fortified some Of the mountain
passes, and was busy in exciting the insurrec-
ton even among the most distant. He has Of
fered temptations Of money and land to such
French soldiers as may desert. His irregular
troops carry their audacity 10 great length. and
notwithstanding the presence OF 10000 French
troops in the immediate vicinity Of Algiers, ex-
tensive robberies of cattle are perpetrated.
| The whole force Of Marshal Vallee now
amounts TO $4,000
CIRCASSIA.
| The accounts of the utter failure OF the Rus
sian expedition upon Chiva are confirmed The
| troops were so diminished by cold, sickness and
famine that il was found impossible to proceed.
This is not the only disgrace which the Russian
arms have experienced. The brave Circasslans
have captured one of their forts, defended by
twenty pieces Of artillery, and taken many pr
soners. Very large renforcements would be
| sent from Sebastopool to the Russian command
| er in Circassia.
H.. Il :. .,xa Eka-
" to be acquainted with the fact, that her Ma
jesty is in way likely TO prevent the succession
to the throne from passing into any other than
| the direct line. The report derives strength
| from her Maiesty's recent abstinence from her
favorite exercise on horseback, and also from
dancing, in which she is known to take much
| pleasure.-GiObe.
SPAIN
| The reports Of mutinies among the Carist
insurgents in Spain are revived; and 1t is said
that Espartero has pledged himself to put an
end to the civil war in Arragon and Catalonia
by the month of September. Meanwhile, the
budget of the Minister Of Finance shows an es-
timated excess of expenditure over income of
nearly seven millions sterling.
| The Princess Mary of Hesse Darmstadt is
betrothed to the heir to the Russian throne.
| We hear that the money advanced by the
Bank of France to the Bank of England has all
been paid by the latter establishment.
The removal of the remains OF Napoleon from
ST. Helena to Paris is said to be the subject OF
a negotiation between Nj. Theirs and Lord Pal
| merston.
! TROUBLE IN EGyPT-Affairs look very threat
ening in Egypt, and there is every prospect OF
great row soon between England and the Pacha
of Egypt
| Letters from Constantnople say that the at
| tempts of the British Government to procure the
return or escape of such officers of the Turkish
feet at Alexandra as were dissatisfied with their
| detention there, had irritated Mehemit Ali, inso
much that he prohibited on pain of death, the
return Of any officer to Turkey, and nominated
| Ahmed Pasha 1.-THE late Captain Pasha) to the
command of the united Turkish and Egyptian
feet. The letters before us state that this pro-
ceeding of the Viceroy has caused vast sensa-
ton in the Turkish capital, and SO much incens-
| ed the Government, that prompt and strong mea-
sures were looked for.
| 1t appears that this was not the only point
which Mehemt Ali and the British had had a
difference. The interruption given by the Bri-
| fish ships of war to the passage of several hum
dred volunteers from Albania to Alexandria, in
vessels under the lonian flag, to recruit the army
of Mehemit Ali, had so much irrltated the latter,
that in his communication with Colonel Hodges,
he threatened to procure revolt in Albania and
j Asia Minor Colonel Hodges is said to have
used a strong, and in diplomacy, somewhat I'M
usual figure, in his reply to this threat. "If,"
said he, ''you persist in the use of language of
this nature, England will pulverize you ere three
months expire" The Consuls of the other TO
reign Powers succeeded, however, in patching
up the quarrel. The Gorgon steamer was re-
ported to have carried to Alexandra formal de-
mand for the immediate restitution of the Turk
ish feet and that in case of refusal, the English
Consul and other British subjects there, were
forthwith to depart.
The RUPTURE WITH CHINA NEW AND EXTRA
ORDINARY VERSION OF THE sToRY.-The ship Di-
ana, from Canton, has arrived at London. She
brought home FIVE British seamen in irons, who
were charged with creating the first row at
Chinese village in Hong Kong Bay, and killing
a Chinaman. They were all liberated a short
time after their arrival. They tell the following
story:
| On the fourth of July last the anniversary of
American Independence, several American sea-
men went ashore to small village, where they
| got drunk, and quarrelled with the Chinese. AT
ter committing many acts of disorder they left
the place, and in doing SO fell in with some Bri-
fish seamen, to whom, however, they behaved
in very friendly manner, with the exception of
one man, known as Baltimore Tom, who boasts
of his pugilistic powers, and challenged to fight
any seaman on board British ship, accompany
ing his challenge with some insulting remarks
The British seamen did not offer to modest Bal
timore Tom on that occasion, but week after
wards, learning that he had gone ashore, several
English and Scotch sailors went after him. with
determination, for the honor of their common
country, to fight him, if he would accept of one
of them as an adversary. When they got upon
the beach at village abreast Of Lin Tin the
British seamen met the Americans coming to-
wards their boats without the boastng Baltimore
Tom. The Americans had their hats decorated
with gold leaves, which they said they had taken
from the Chinese, whom they had fought and
beaten. They also stated that they had broken