The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-05
FOURTEEN DAYS LA1EII FROM ENC
LAND.

We are indebtedto the New York Herald and
Courier and Enquirer, for slips, containing lat
news from Europe, by the Great Western, arrived
IN Sunday morning, in Is days from Bristol.
ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN.
Var declared by England against the King Of
the Ttro .Sicaies-- Sudden faH If StockS-.Suc-
cess If the English Ministry Deer the CTpoSt'
ton, on the CHING Qytestion-Fanny EssIe7'o
success in London, called out oy the Queen
Victoria and Prince Hilbert.
The Great Western arrived this morning at II
o'clock, in Is days from Bristol, bri ng very in
Jortant and interesting accounts from England.
France, the Continent, and from China. By her
we have received vast quantity of letters and Pa
,ers from all parts oithe world.
The moaey market con Iues e, sy. The ex
chang IS do .ot improve, and small eXpor. vi COL
oluIues. Cotton is down to ID. The duty en-
wheat has been reduced as. per quarter.
Fresh d .fi,uu,eS in CaI,ton.-An English YES
'ei, contrary to Capt. Eiliosr's orders, PISSED
5ogue, signed the y pi I'M Bond, AID went up
Canton. The owner, hayilgp PIT tea-naster
BOARD, was chased, taken prisoner, and sent Il
Canton.
Parliament adjourned April 18th to the 30th.
Col. James b. Murray has an agent OF wort
American Trust and Banking Co., ne 5otiateda
Paris, further amount of s5Z5, 900 OF Indiana
| State Stock, at very satisfactory rate az II
| ;luding exchange9 several ofthe first bankersi
Paris, are directing their attention to Ameri IAN
securities, and confident opinion is entertain
| I'd that their sale upon the Partisan Bourse Wi
| hereafter be constant
The French administration des Fonds Etran-
| .ers' as they call themselves, are progressing
very SATISFACTORY in placing New YORK State anu
| City, and Ohio stocks.
Order in Co,tlctk-[Last night presented tc
| 10Th Houses of Parliament, by command of her
Majesty, April, 1901 >,
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the Sd
lay of April, lS4O; present, the Queens Most
| excellent Majesty Ill Council.
The order states that, il consequence OF late /
| urious proceedings of certain officers Of the En-
,eror of China, t)war is her Majesty's officers al
subjects, her Ma esty had given orders that sati
action and repdrdtion for the same sho nd be dc
/ handed from the Chinese Government, andi or
| Ter to obtain such satisfaction, Chinese vesse,
| md their cargoes should be detained and heidi
istody, and sold, unless reparatio was madt
The commanders of British ships Of War, ar
therefore, commanded to SEIZE and bring intt
,ort a. vessels I'd goods they may be able to OBJ
| ain, belonging to the Emperor Of China or any o
lis subjects. The High Court, and the several
conrts of Admiralty, are directed 10 take cogli
lrce Of ali such seiz Tres, and condemn the same
,ecordilg to the course of admiralty and the law
| .fNations
| Three ,ceeks later from China.--We have re
eived Canton papers, by the British overland
iail to England, with Canton dates to the All o:
anuary. ~
The Commissioner has been pursuing his meas
res still further, for the totai exclusion OF EN-
ish trade; and the ant IN Press has an edict pre-
lifting the u4nshipm Mt f British goods in.oa J
'ther foreign vesse fJr me purpose ofim 1ortalo
ito Canton, and ordainiag chat a Bold be requir.
ID ftom every such vessel entering the port, Ger
| flying that they do not contain any gooIs ira
| hipped from British vesse., and consentiag
he col6scation Of ship and cargo sho lid any thin
ofthe kind be discovered on board!-and IL wi
1sseen the High Commissioner anti ,ipates no dit
EQUITY in dete ting any attempts at fraud or CO.
.ealment, and in putting this law immediate
md effect Tally i force.
| Captain Elliott has made another feeble attemp
o ind ice the Commissioner TO authorize the co
I'm rance Of our legal trade; assuring his Exceller
ency that peace Is the desire Of his heart, that
feels anxiety and sorrow for ethe state Of ;ompst
| confusion and disorder matters have come T.
az,Arsziading hin that fsr 1--WE kan2rsa ysars