, 1840-05-23
.F0reipu.
Fourteen days Later from
EUROPE.

At a cabinet council on the 9Th OF April,
the English government authorized reprisals
on Chinese commerce.
England. it is said, has commenced hostile
operations on the Sicilies. The French
have monopolized the Sulphur trade, to the
injury of English commerce. There NAV
be burning Of sulphur and salt-petre between
France and England in consequence of il.
The British government are evidently in
tent on pushing hostilities against China, and
though but in a small majority when their
policy was discussed in the House of Com
mons, the subject was evidently treated as
a party question and not a political one.
The smallness of the ministerial majority
in the House of Commons, on the policy Of
the threatened war against China, is still the
subject of much comment. Hadthe maiori-
ty been against the Government, their resig-
nation of office would certainly have taken
place ere this; but as they have held their
places; after divisions even less favorable, no
surprise is evinced that they still hold the
reins Of government.
FRESH DIFFICULTIES IN CANToN.-An Eng
fish vessel, contrary to Capt. ElIiolt's orders.
passed the Bogue. signed the Opium Bond,
and went up TO Canton. The owner. hav-
ing put a tea master on board, was chased,
taken prisoner, and sent to Canton.
We think it may now be fairly presumed
that there will not be a large import of for
efgn grain or bread stuffS required in England
before the next harvest, and that it is there
fore fair to conclude, that the depressed
state of commerce in that country will grad
ually pass away.
The arrival of the British Queen is, how
ever, expected with the greatest anxiety by
many Liverpool capitalist; and should the
intelligence be decisive as to the defeat of
the democratic movements in the Legisla-
ture of Pennsylvania, there is reason to sup.
pose that very important advances will be
made in several of the best American stocks.
The Corn law debate went of without a
division, owing to 4 mistake in form, and it
is not supposed that the subject will be re-
opened in the course of the present year.
The motion of Sir. James Graham. con-
demnatory Of the Government in the affairs
of China, was lost by a majority of 10, in Il
very crowded House of Commons, and after
a debate of three nights. the information de-
veloped in the course of which has greatly
degraded the Wing administration in the
public mind. The prospect is that neither
the session nor the administration viii stand
very long. the nation being greatly Incensed
with the Wings.
The celebrated Miss Fanny Essler, and
sister, and Mons. Redonei, came passengers
in the Great Western. They are engaged
at the Park.
Fanny Essler's arrival is heralded by a
grand flourish of trumpcts from Bennet's
band.
Countess Merlin, the leader Of haut ton
in Paris; M'Cunard, the mail steam-line pro-
iector; and Mr.. Methuen, who bears the title
of Hon., and is distinguished because he is
the eldest son of Lord Meihuen, are passen-
gers in the G. w.
GA correspondent of the New York
Herald says
Her majesty and her royal spouse, Prince
Albert, seems to jog along like most other
married persons. The prince is said to be a
very amiable, good sort of man. and not dis
posed to NEEDLE in public affairs; in fact his
reginal controller is of too high mc:tie to al
low him to interfere in any matter but those
Of a domestic nature. 1t has somehow leak
ed out of the palace, that 4 little time since.
when the Queen and her party were going
to take a drive, that the prince kept her wait
inS 4 SnOGt tnDe. suc PounCeu JAIN hito pio
room to ascertain the cause when she was
informed that some part of the dress of one
of the ladies' in waiting, had hitched in the
princes epaulette, upon which the great soul
OF her little majesty swelled to such an ex-
tent that it was with difficulty she could be
made to believe that all was right.
The corn law question is settled for the
present-we may look forward to agitation,
socialism, and chartism for some months yet
to come, until the voice of a depressed AMI
degraded people obtain hearing in st. Ste
phen's.'
The cause Of temperance is progressing
rapidly by the aid of the Catholics in Ireland,
which has vexed egregiously the Tories,
who have adopted the ingenious device Of ex.
hibiting water by a solar microscope, where
in divers amalculae are seen, which are GER
tainIy most effective agents in disturbing
ones love of water.
A voice to the tee-totaller. A man lately
examined at Aberdeen, stated he was 20
years of age; that he had drank four glasses