The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-01-14
TEN DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND.

Liverpool on the 9Th ult. and bring London Sun
day papers of the Morning Of the 9th.
ENGLAND. ....
The political news is hut of little interest.
Parliament, it was presumed, would assemble
about The middle of January. The Queens in
tended marriage continued TO he matter ofpub.
lie interest," and there appears to he no opposition
to it by the public
There is much reason 70 put credit in the re-
port, that the British Government intends
blockade Of Chinese Ports. Lord Palnerston
when applied TO will give no explicit information,
but The best informed Journals put faith in the
rumor.
The Great Western went out in thirteen and
nall days, and the news she carried out was
considered better, and had decidedly favora-
BILE effect upon American interests, unless the
decline in cotton he considered an exception,
which was caused Ivy report OF the state of the
crops here.
The Queen Of England las officially sign6ed
her royal intention 10 be married to Prince AL.
bert. The following is her declaration to the
prvy Council;
u nave caused you to be summoned at the
present time in order that may acquaint you
with my resolution in n matter which deeply
concerns the welfare of my people and the hap,
piness ofmy future life.
1T is my intention to ally myself in marriage
WITH the Prince Albert OF Sake Coburg and Goa
tina.
Deeply Impressed with the soemnity of the
engagement which am about TO contract, have
not come 10 the decision without mature consid-
Grafton nor without feengsa strong assurance,
that with the blessing of Almighty God il will
at once secure my domestic felicity, and serve
The interests of my country.
| have thought fit TO make this resolution
known to you at the earliest period, in order that
you may be fully appraised of matter so highly
important TO me and my kingdom, and which
persuade myself will be most acceptable to all
my loving SUBJECTS.
Whereupon all the Privy Councillors pres.
ent nnde their humble request to her Majesty
that her Majesty's most gracious declaration To
them might be made public; which her Majesty
was pleased 10 order accordingly.
FRANCE
The Paris papers state facts which show tina,
the war recommended against the French in At
RIGA, was viewed by the French government as
very serious.
reintorcernenis in men, horses and materials
would be forthwith despatched to Algiers, and
that in consequence, %, 900 men of the con.
scription Of 1885, would be Immediately called
under arms, to replace the troops so ordered &c
! Africa of course.
| Private letters from lgiers of the 24th ONO,
describe the plain adjoining Algiers in posses
SION of corps, of about, 1000 mounted Arabs
On the 2lsta convoy which left TINT city for one
of the camps, fell in with them, and the 80 men
of which its escort consisted, including 3 officers
were all put to the sword and decapitated The
Arabs attacked n village lately, established in the
I PLAIN, killed ~ Of the Colouists, whose head.
they also cut off, and set their houses OIL fire
The doubtful tribes had all Joined Abdel Ka9er
Those who remained faithful to the French had
their property plundered and DESTROYED Those
OF them who were fortunate enough to escape
the carnage, were then encamped round the
Malson Carree.
The Toulonnais Of The Goth November, thus
sums up the siuation of affairs in Agers:
'The blood of our counnymen has ever,
where flowed under the yalaghan, fire has de-
voured the property of the friendly tribes and
of the colonists, and our soldiers being
inferior in numbers 10 the enemy, ave obliged
to maintain an unequal contest Hostililies are
general, they have broken out Mt Bda, Koleah
Maelna Fou douck, Arba, and all The neghbor
ing camps.-Several villages have been reduce d
10 ashes, and amongst others that of Noirlous
whose inhabitants have been carried off by the
Arabs; convoy, escorted by 4S men, was new.
or heard of, g. detachment of I4S men entire
ly put to the sword.
0JSAn old revolutionary hero died in Ross
county, not long since, named Adam Betz, aged
IS years, who served during the whole war OF
the revolution. One of his last requests was
TINT his death might he noticed by the Wing pa
pers. in the language ofthe Steubenville Her.
aid, Let the dying request Of of this patriotic
Wing OF the Revolution go the rounds Mr. Betz
goried in being Wing, all the days of his well
spent life. a..
RIOT and Outrage at Wt,o York.-A riot was
raised at New York, on New Years day by a
body of young men called Butt Enders, belong.
ing to the noisy and turbulent portion of the Fire