The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-13
Fronlsthe W. York Heratd,
rNorTrl nAVS LATTER FROM ENGLAN


BY the arrival of the transient ship st. Law
renee, Capt. Banker, we have accounts from
Liverpool to the 11lh ult., being four days later
than our last arrivals. The news is not par
ticuarly important, but such as it's we give
unto thee Read and digest in proper order.
LONDON, Monday morning, March 9.-Her
Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Queen
Dowager, attended divine service yesterday
morning in The Royal Chap Il, ST. James. The
sermon was preached by the Bishop OF Peter
borough, from St. Matthew, chap. q, verse |.
Lady G. Somerset has succeeded the Mar
chioness of Westmeath as lady of the Bed
chamber to the Queen Dowager, the March
ioness having fixed her residence in Italy.
The Portuguese Government have at length
dissolved the Cortes. 1t is to be hoped that
they will derive so much strength from the
ensuing elections as to be able to set at def
ance the factious opposition of the ultra party,
by whom their good intentions were SO ehec-
tuay thwarted in the Cortes.-.1forn. Chron
1t is with regret we find that we cannot IN
sert, at their full length, the gratifying proceed
ings which took place at the late dinner oil the
Russian Company. The speech of Baron Bru-
now, the Russian Envoy, was not more dIStin-
guished for the purity and facility of its Eng
lish delivery, than for the manly tone OF cordial
amity and friendship which now exists between
Great Britain and Russia; and of which feeling
Baron Brunow was himself evidently warm
and sincere organ.-O Observer
The President, steam ship, was hauled into
the Trafalgar Dock, which adjoins the Cla-
renee Dock, on Friday last. She occupies the
north side of the dock, and is well worth visit
from the curious. On Sunday the United
States entered the same dock. So that two
of the first steamers in the world may be seen
at one visit.
PAPAL DoMINIoNs.- rank which the
Pope holds as temporal prince is beneath
what is due to the amount OF population he
rules. Indeed his Government is so feeble that
it would not last day lift were not upheld by
Austria. According to the Weimar Statisti-
cal Almanac, for 1888, his territories contain a
population of 9, 592 900, upon surface rather
exceeding half the area of Scotland, or 1000
English square miles. The clergy and religi-
Gus persons of both sexes amount to 53, 9S4.-
1t follows that one adult out of twenty-five, OF
both sexes, is priest monk, or nun! The land
under corn, according to the estimate Of the
MARQUIS Banni, amounts to 242 900 rubios I;
planted with vines, ii 900; pasture-and, 162,-
900; forests, 10000. As the rubio is equal
to four and half English acres, find by an
easy calculation that this return embraces on
Iy one-fourth of the papal territories. The
numbers, however, serve to show how the sur
face is Appropriated to different species of cul-
tvation. The agricultural population OF Italy,
who form four-ffihs of the whole, according
to Chateauviex, include very few day-lahor-
erers; the lands are generally left to small far
mers (nsetayers,l to whom the proprietor fur
nishes cattle and seed, and who pays him in
kind. The manufactures are trfng in amount
and antiquated in their processes. The re-
venue Of his Holiness is estimated at s ,42l 900
scudi, or $4,000. The debt was only 1850
900, at the restoration of the Papal Govern
ment in 1914, but is stated to amount now to
IS,325,000 The army consists Of IL 900 men.
AppREHENsIoNs AND PREPARATIONS OF THE
CHINEsE.-At the end of long article in this
months Black,oood, con the war with China,
and the opium question" we find the follow
ing passage: s.Let no one fall into the mistake
that war is referable only to opium or sycee
silver. The Chinese have long viewed the pro-
gress of British arms and British conquests in
Central India, in Burmah, in Nepaul, and in
the Eastern Archipelago, with secret alarm
and wakeful apprehensions which all the affec-
tation Of contempt at Pekin or the ght-haired
barbarians could i'll disguise. Long have the
celestial Emperors been preparing silently for
defence, and for the catastrophe which, accor-
ding to an ancient prophecy of one Of the face,