The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-06-09

serious attack on that fortress was anticipated
in few days.
Lord William Russell, was murdered in his
own house in Norfolk street, Park lane, London,
May s il was supposed by his valet His throat
was cut, while we was lying in his bed, and he
was found in the morning weltering in his blood,
and dead, his chamber having been rhed. The
valet remained in the house, and was soon sus-
pected of the crime, and was under examina-
| ton.
| disastrous fire broke out in London on the
morning of May II, in Mary bone street, which
was attended with the loss of one or two lives,
and great hazard of the lives of several other
persons, who were saved with difficulty. lad
was saved by forcing hole by crow bars through
a solid wall. On the day after the fire, the fire
men succeeded in discovering the mutiated re
mains Of one of the sufferers, whose body Is sup
posed 10 be that Of Mr. Mari the Chief Clerk al
the United Kingdom Life Insurance Office, but
il is so much burnt that il is impossible at pre-
sent 10 speak positively as TO its Identity. II was
conveyed to the workhousc in Vine street. Pic
cadilly. Another body was supposed TO be cover
ed by the ruins. 81
A Paris paper gives the following as the basis
OF the new commercial treaty with England:
. France is TO increase her import duties on
linen and linen yarn, and to remove the prohlbl-
lronmongery, stone pottery, few articles OF
woohen manufacture, and various small Objects
81 ordinary consumption, substituting Tor that
prohibition an elevated scale Of duties"
In return for these concessions, which VIII be
duly appreciated, England is TO reduce from 80
TO ID per cent the import duties on all the artl-
Giles of Pari4a production, on clocks. watches,
and on stained and dyed paper. She will reduce
the import duties on French wines, from 5s. cd.
per gallon 10 Is. per gallon e Thus" says La
Presse. sour wines will pay only an import duty
of eight or nine sous in England, while the Gus
toms duty on its entrance into Paris Is six sous
and we may hope TO furnish for British consump-
ton good rim oTdiRairea AT If. 25c. Os.) bottle.
A Paris paper has the following speculations,
for which there can be no foundation.
AT the time when our two chambers were dis
cussing the question Of the twenty five millions
Of francs claimed by the United States OF North
America the Cabinet al Washington offered To
give up its claim in exchange for portion OF ter
ritory in the province of Oan.
This offer was rejected; but 1t appears that
the wish lately expressed by the committee on
the vote Of credit for the service in Africa to
abandon our conquest, has revived the hopes Of
the transatlantic spectators, and given occasion
TO those of our neighbors.
We are assured that there are at this moment
at Paris, Commissioners of two Companies, an
English and an American one, who are empow-
negotiations with our Government for the ces-
sion Qor a sum of money! of divers points on
the coast Of the Regency.
The Liverpool Company Is SAID TO have views
upon Cherche We do not know whether APP
plications have yet been made to the Ministry,
but in the present age of intrigue, we are mol
without fears for the result Of these applications
supported by the tempting offer Of ready money.
- Unirerse.
/ DIR. Turnbull has made a remarkable discove-
nv Of a method Of curing deafness. Two cases
related, apparently well authenticated, OF the
cure of two patients, one ninety years old, who
had lost her hearing from fever when an in
! FAINT, another, girl l3 years old, who was born
( deaf The cure effected in half an hour,
so that the patient could hear the ticking OF
watch
r News from New York TO April 90, was
! ceived in Liverpool by the Sheffield, May TO-
, The Westminster packet, from New Y ork April
7 20 arrived at Portsmouth, May /.
The following extract from return OF the
number of stamps issued to the several news
papers in Great Britain and Ireland, from the
Isl of January 10 the 3lst Of March, 1870:
4 sun, aouooo
Standard, 275,0OO
Globe, 231 600
Courier $4,000
THE, BupGET-The Chancellor of Exchequer
has Just forwarded his Budget and has stated
extras, will be fd9 4S2, 900, while the whole
revenue, making certain expected attachments,
on favorable estimate, would not exceed f46,-
100000 showing a deficiency of f2, 700, 000.-
To meet this. the Right Honorable Gentleman
repudiates all loans and temporary expedents,
and all new taxes, and purposes to increase the
present Customs and Excise duties, five per
cent and the assessed taxes ten per cent. There
is to be no increase in the Stamp duties The
duties on Spiris-in order to avoid any change
| in the difcrental protection,--are TO be raised
uniformly, ld. in the gallon. The duties on
Corn, as they not raised for revenue, are not
to be increased, and the duties on stage coaches
and licenses, are not TO be increased The
Chancellor proposes TO reduce the taxes on four
wheel carriages TO uniform rate Of f3 per car
riage. All the alterations 10 take effect from this
day, May 15th.-.Sm.
in the Paris Journals of Wednesday, May
l3, the only important news find, except
what relates TO the popular enthusiasm at the
prospect of the removal of the remains of Napo-
leon to France, is contained in the following
telegraphic DESPATCH
The Maritime Project 10 The Minister of Ma
riRe.
TouLoN May ll-six o'clock, p. NJ
The Commander Of the Marine, at Algiers,
writes to me under date of the 18th:
"The army is still al the farm of Mouzaia.-
There are no sick, or least very few.
1.-THE Princes are in good health"
The following paragraph contains some addi-
tonal information, which we copy from the
Constitutional:
The Echo de PEST (Bar-le-Duc) of the 18th
says So 1t is reported that the Marshal Duke
of Reggie has arrived at Jean d'IIeurs, in bad
health"
ar The Central Tippecanoe Club will meet this
evening at o'clock, at the Perseverance Fire Com
,