Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-08-14
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,pRIyAL. OF THE GREAT WESTERN.

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ARRIVAL. or THE GREAT WESTERN.
Tcenfy-oRe Days Later.
Tho Grcat Western steam packet reach"a y " fork
At 4 o clock A. NJ. Sunday, in Ia days and a halt from
Bristol which she left on the 18th ult.
The Great Western had 100 passengers, among
whom was Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte.
There is but little news of importance to the Amert-
can reader. The weather has been very unsettled IN
Grea, Britain, and some anxiety exists as TO the crops
American Flour at Liverpool is -. Cd. 10 Us. tree, anG
2Ss. g.. to 2gs. in bond. The arrival was large. The
Cotton market liverpool, July 90 states the demand
moderate. Sales 1900 bales American ID. 10 ga.
Prices were lower on that day than on the previous ID.
From the United States 30 vessels arrived within The
week.
The state of the weather in England is calculated
SLIGHTLY TO advance the price OF Flour here. Money
seems plenty there. The Manufacturing districts are
vet IN distress.
Colonel Thornton, who went to Il England for the pur-
nose of negotiating n loan for the State OF ILLINOIS, OF
one million of dollars, met with no difficulty III 'nme-
dia,ely succeeding in the object OF has mission, ana has
returned in the Great Western.
There is nothing new from China. The second di-
vision of the English squadron was to SAL on the ION
OF MAY from the Cape of Good Hope.
The Sulphur difficulty with Sicily has been settled.
The Duke of Wellington had, on the 10Th OF July,
another Of his attacks Of illness. he had, however,
so far recovered as 10 resume his place in the House OF
Lords.
The Manchester Commercial Bank has been reopen
ed. Money was easy, and business dull. The uncer-
tai. prospects of the crops made trade heavy, and de
pressed stocks. The wheat average was ahoul U.S.
duty l7s cd.
William Foster Coach, the son-in-law Of Jno. Frost,
the char,ist, who, ii will be remembered, conducted his
defence upon his trial for high treason, has been com
m:t,ed at Newport, upon 4 charge OF having commit
ted extensive ~forgeries on the banking.h house OF Nlessrs.
Williams Il CO., to the amount of ti,1'o los. "a.
RrcrxcY Bnt.-The Heir expected, has now become
the subject of legislation; a fact which officially an.
nounces to the liege subjects oil queen 'ictotia, "ha'
their newspapers have been long promising. On the
18Th of july, Lord Melbourne delivered the following
LOYAL spcech-the first since her accession, that the
Queen has not delivered in person:
"V. R-Thc uncertainty Of human life, and 4 deep
sense Of my duty TO my people, render IT Incumbent up
IN me TO recommend to Won 10 take into consideration
the contingency which may hereafter occur, and to
make such provisions as the circumstances may seeEi 10
YOU TO require, for the exercise Of the royal authority.
/ shall be prepared to concur with you IN such measures
as may appear best calculated SO maintain unIinpaircG
the power and dignity of the crown, and thereby to
strengthen the securities and protect the rights aud IL
berries of my people.
On Tuesday, the l4th July, Lord Melbourne moved
an address.
II was ordered that the address should he delivered
on Wednesday, which was done. The contingency al
luded 10 in the Message Of her Majesty IS her death in
childbed. The Lord Chancellor on Thursday, the luth
July, brought in a bill making Prince Albert Regent,
IB h }js e " thr Which aat6n The asir em IIlui RFoylffES5 s i Ef7 was sY ysad
y second time on Tuesday, .Irly 81. On the question
of its second reading some debate arose upon provisions
for every possible contingency, which some of the
Peers wished 10 the Regents
second marriage without notice, &c. These were over
ruled, however, as unnecessary, and the bill passed to
a second reading, which was consulted, wrat through
a committee and was reported, without any opposition
or any alteration from the original draft. 1t imposes
only the customary restrictions upon tho Regent.
Some parties would have been glad to have associated
cole, unpS with Prince Alh.rt. md ~ &c r,,ru,r.I tint
the Duke of Sussex asplrcd to this honor. Queen VIC
toria, who always has her own opinions and wishes,
would not permit this. The principal restrictions in the
bill are to provide for the inviolabiiity Of the English aud
the Scottish Churches. The making Albert sole Regent
has procured the peaceable passage Of the bill, probably
through both houses.
Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill has been post
poned till the next session OF Parliment.
Mr.. kelleys Punishment Of Death Bill, which has
called forth considerable discussion, after having been
slightly amended, was to come up for u third read ne
on the 9th ult.
The Canada Government Bill has met with strong
opposition from the Duke Of Wellington, who gave
eighteen reasons why he could not support it.
Thomas DIbdin, who is now in his seventeen year,
IS SAID to be lingering in the most gripping pcnury III
London.
Oxford has been tried and found guilty, but the jury
coupled with their verdict that he was insane at the
time he shot at the Queen. He is sentenced to pass the
REMAINDER OF his days in Bethlehem Hospital.
The Ecclesiastical Duties Bill, eGuulizing the cmolu-
mcnts of the Clergy has passed the Lords.
An experimental trip TO Cork highly satisfactory, had
been made with the Steamer President. On Saturday,
the llth, i've gentlemen who had been on u visit to her,
IN the Cove OF Cork were drowned by the npsciting OF
ti,cII bnai. Their names were, viz: Mr.. Hugh Roche,
of Aghndl: lieutenant Robert Lawless, OF Wood.
view, near Cloync; and three sons of the Rev. VIM
Wclland, of Cloync.
The President was to sail on the 1st inst. for New
York.
Professor Espy has been delivering his lectures on
the theory OF storms in Liverpool, but il we may Judge
from the papers, lie met with poor reception.
CoSTINENTAL.-The King Of the French had been
SICK, but was recovering.
About 10000 men were ont of employment in Paris
by strikes and otherwise.
Italian letters representa- the Pope as still nnwell, and
mention that several arrests had taken place in the Ro-
man States of persons connected with the Society Of
! Dung Italy. The Prince de Canine, Lucicn Bona
parte, died OF the same complaint as his brother the
Emperor Napoleon, cancer in the stomach.
Prince Augustus Of Sake Coburg is 10 marry the
third daughter of Louis PHILIPPE.
Cabrera is in Paris. There had been some enemies
in Spain among the Carlist refugees, appeased. how
ever, without shedding blood. 1000 more of them had
entered France. 10 more guerilla chiefs held out in
Spain.
All the leading malcontcnts arc now out of Spain,
md the great bulk ofsoldiers. The struggle after last.
ng about . years, IS at an end.
The EAsr.-Ten Of the Damascus Rabbis had been
LIBERATED.
The chance of an accommodation between Mphemrt
and the Sultan Of Turkey was lessening. The en-
oy Of Egypt was detained at Quarantine al CONSTANT
lople, May 10th, in spite ofpromise to the contrary.
Hafz Pacha, the Turkish Admiral, whose fleet was
long detained by Mehemet Ali, has been sentenced
0 degradation and Punishment. The fleet Of course,
as been given up.
A revolution had broken out in Syria against Mehe.
1et Ali; and another in lspahan against the Scha.
t Persia-both formidable.