The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-20

til eleven o'clock, about twenty of the police
were engaged in sitting the earth before the
wall against which the ball is supposed to have
rebounded, but at the above hour no bullet
found On the return of the royal party to the
palace, they were accompanied by numerous
train of carriages of the nobility, the flush on
Prince Albert's face having given way to a dead
" paleness. During the whole of the night
peated messengers came from the House OF Com
mons to ascertain if the assassin had made any
statement. He, however, remained silent, with
the exception of inquiring whether he had shot
the Queen. This question he put several times
during the course of the night
MIR Robinson, the proprietor of the Hog in the
Pound, states that during the period he. lived
with him, his conduct was that of steady, hon
est and good servant, but that he had unfor-
tunate propensity for laughing, which, to many
OF the customers, was unpleasant, and on that
account only he parted with him, as his conduct
was invariably quiet, and, in fact, rather
ed. Mr.. Robinson also states, that neither him
self nor any of the other inmates OF the house,
noticed at any time anything unusual in his
manners or appearance, tending at all to indicate
or lead to supposition of his insanity. He was
recommended to Mr.. Robinson by Mr. Tarr, for
merly the landlord Of the Fountain Tavern, in
the City Road, who is now residing at Padding
ton, with whom it is believed Oxford formerly
lived.
We have received by>express, letters from our
correspondents in Turkey, Egypt, Greece, AID
Malta.
Our ConstantinoPle letters, which are of the
8th June, state that no progress had been made
towards the adjustment of the Eastern question
Khosrew Pasha had been positively superseded
in the post of Grand Vizier, and replaced BY RAJ
guf Pasha, who is described a very insigniti-
cant parsonage.
The Powerful, the Hastings, the Edinbnurg,
and the steamship Cyclaps, under Admiral Lob
is, left Smyrna the 4th inst, to cruise in the
Gulf
The news from Alexandria, received by this
conveyance is also Of the Sth inst, but is unini-
p1r ant. The Niccroy was still at Cairo, inquir-
ing into the of the fires which lately occur
red in that C, pital, and which attributed to
malevolence. An instruction had been easily
repressed by the Egyptian army.
The French Consul in Malta had been instruc-
cd by his Government not TO deliver passports
tor the Levant to French citizens passing throus
Malta, and proceeding to that destination. No
reason was assigned for this measure, but it was
believed that it was ascribabe to the existence OF
the plague in Egypt and Syria. Admiral Stop
ford returned to Malta on the 18th, and ordered
the captured -SeaPoltan vessels to be Immediate
ly released
Our Athens correspondent, under date of 9Th
of June, states that the King had at length dis
missed Biographies, and had named in his room
! NJ. Paigos, but it would appear TO have been q
measure wrcsted from His Majesty by public
opinion.
The King and Queen were still in the PeloPon
nesus. Throughout the Journey His Majesty hal
received addresses calling for the redress of grev
ances, the dismissal of the Bavarians, Sc II,
had been persuaded BY the Coloctronis that he
| would experience enthusiastic reception from
the Moreotes; but, on the contrary, so discoura-
! ging had been the manner of it, that he had re-
| linquished all Intention of visiting Mama.
he off rad hna0 IN
pointed Ambassador to the Porte.
s'Lisbo7, June %, p. .M.-The project for en-
abling the government to collect the taxes thro'
out the kingdom until the Minister of Finance
shall have presented his budget, was brought I'M
der discussion this morning, and IS not yet dis
posed of. This document has received very ia
! yorablc report from the members of the commit
tee appointedto examine it, and 1t would appear
| from the fact of its being extended to the first
quarter, ending oath September next, with the
understanding that the pablic employees be paid
monthly, that the budget will not be forthcoming
this session, even if the house should continue to
sit up to the time prescribed by the constitutional
! code.
IA sufficient number of senator's has assembled
during the latter part of the past week TO consti-
tute that Chamber, of which the Duke de Pal
melia has been chosen President, and the patri-
arch elect, Count de Arganil, Vice President.
| The debates in either house have not, however,
been of any interest to the foreign reader.
Advices from India, by way of Gibraltar and
Cadiz, to April goth, contain the melancholy in
telligence of the death, on the 18th of the same
month, of the Governor General of Portuguese
India, Major General Baron de Cau.ll. His
death caused much regret
Their Majesties, accompanied by Prince Ern-
est of Sax Cohourg Gotha and suite, leave to-
morrow evening for Sobralinho, the country seat
of the Duke of Tercera, for the purpose of being
present at the annual bull fight at Alhaudra, on
Thursday and Friday next
The British Queen left London Jun3 Goth, as
appears by the following frem the Times of June
50:
The British QuecR-This splendid vessel
sailed Yesterday from Blackwell for New Y DIRK,
at l25 o'clock, with fair complement of pas sen-
gers and goods on board The beauty of the day
induced thousands OF persons to wait onthe banks
of the river to witness her departure.
The United Kingdom, large ship built last
year in our American Colonies, arrived at Liv-
erpool few DAYS ago, from Charleston, with the
following enormous cargo: 32SS bales. of cotton
693 bbls tar, $40 do of turpentine, and other mi
nor articles materials, which, if piled in shape
might be made to resemble no ineonsiderablc vii
lage.
The number of passengers who left London on
Sunday last by the Antwerp company's steam
ship, exceeded 100, and included the following
distinguished personages, with other fasliona-
bles:-the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter,
Mr.. Ralph and lady Augusta Milbanke, lord
William Harry, General Butler, Mr.. Nightin-
gale and family, Colonel Ireland, Baron dIbell,
sc.
Where the wonders of steam are to stop, no
one can determine. The same day which saw
the Archimedes pass the quays of GreenociS, also
the first trial of the Achilles previous
to her taking her place on the station for which
she has been built, between the Clyde aud Liv-
erpool. This splendid ship, built by Messrs
Steele and Co., of this port, IS about 1000 tons
burthen, and has engines, by Messrs. Card and
Great Western Although the day was unfavor-
able, blowing gale, the speed of the ship was
between IA and Is miles an hour through the
water.
BIRTH OF THE SULTAN's DAUGHTER; CoNSTAN-
June S.-,For whole week past every
body here has been mad with JOY We have