The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-22
From the .Nelc York Commercial .adUeTtiSef.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM SHIP
BRITANNIA.
FIR ON LIVER POOL

At nine o'clock this morning we received, by
Harden's Boston express, our letters and papers,
brought by the new steam ship Britannia, Capt
Ewing.
Our London papers arc to the evening of the
Sd of July, and Liverpool to the 4th, both inclu-
sive, with commercial lists to the latest dates.
The Britannia left Liverpool on the afternoon
of the 4th of July, and was only ttoelUe days in
reaching Halifax. She was tefegraphed at Bos-
ton on Saturday evening, at half past O'Clock,
and was at her berth at East Boston, at half past
nine o'clock, being the fourteenth day from her
leaving Liverpool. She had eighty-five passen-
gers, sixty of whom were for the United States.
Among them is the Hon. Samuel Cunard, the
enterprising proprietor of this new line.
We learn that the next steam ship of this line
will leave Liverpool on the 4th of August.
We learn that although it was after dark when
the Britannia reached her berth, a great many
crossed over to East Boston to see her, and pre-
parations making to give MIR. Cunard and
his ship hearty reception this morning
The principal intelligence by this arrival is
from the East, of which give ample details
below.
done. On the LIST July, the House of Lords did
not sit, and in the Commons there was no quo
rum. On the I'd, IN the House of Lords, the
Earl of Hardwicke gave notice, that on the 7th,
upon the motion for going into committee on the
Canada government bill, he should move as an
amendment, that the bill be committed that day
six months. On this motion, the fate of the bill
will probably be decided.
petition from Edinburgh, was presented by
Lord Brougham, signed by 900 inhabitants,
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between Church and State.
In the Commons, Lord John Russell again
postponed the Canada clergy reserve bill.
The election for sherifs of the city of London,
terminated on the LIST of July, in the choice of
the Conservative candidates, Alderman Gibbs
and Mr.. Fancomb.
Ieiegraphic dispatches were received in Paris,
dated Bayonne, June %, announcing the entrance
OF the Carlist leader Balmaseda into France, on
the preceding day, with 300 2o00 more
were expected to cross the frontier the same day
or the next. Cabrera was the only Carlist chief
remaining IN Spain, at the head of any force,
and no doubt was entertained that he must soon
follow the example of Bamaseda The attempt
to excite the Basque provinces once more in ia
vor OF Don Carlos, had thus utterly failed
General Segarra, who succeeded the Count
dEspagne in the chief command of the Carlist
forces, after making his submission to the Queen
published a proclamation, calling upon his for
mer companions to lay down their arms and
complete the pacifcation of Spain
The Queen left Saragossa on the 23d of June
Tor Catalonia The Carlists, on the same day
abandoned Berga, advising the inhabitants to re
move their valuables, as the town would be fire
on the approach of the Christmas.
A great dispute was raging in the London pa
pers, on the question whether there or wen
not balls in the pistols which Oxford fred at thu
Queen. No bullets had been found. Oxford
greatgrand- father a black, and served in tht
royal navy. His grand father was mulatto
and his father OF course quadroon.
The Princess Augusta aunt of the Queen. wa
dangerously i'll, and but little hope was enter
timed of her recovery. Her royal highness i,
aged
Don Carlos has published an ssappeal to Eu-
rope," ia the Augsburgh Gazette, against San
atrocious calumnyo which he saws the French
government has circulated respecting hin, that he
had entertained project of poisoning the young
queen and her mother, and generally against his
treatment in France.
HAvRE AND New YORK STEAnIERs-The Ha-
vre Journal mentions that Messrs Gullion and
Bertrand, OF that place, who had been in Lon
don to induce some English capitalists to Join in
the company for establishing line of steamers
between Havre and New York, have returned il,
company with Sir John Campbell, Sir John Rem
ME, and Messrs. Routh and Barnes, who are the
bearers of propositions from body of English
capitalists. A grand banquet is to be given at
Havre to those gentlemen, and subscription has
been opened for that purpose
The LEIPZIG Gazette, under date Of CoDstan-
tinople, June 10, asserts that Redshid Pacha had
for time had a secret understanding with
the French government, and in accordance with
that of Austria, had gained a complete victory
over those of England and Russia. The result
expected from this intrigue would be the ar
rangeInent OF the quarrel of the Sultan and Me-
homet Ali without foreign Intervention
The Paris journals positively announce the re-
call of Marshal Vallee from Algiers, and the APP
IF RTav ei.aI oil ~
The success Of the French in the capture of Me
deab, Miana and Cherchell, appears to have
been more than counterbalanced in the absolute
impnnity with which the Arabs overTun and
rayage the plains, and destroy the crops of the
eolonists
Tn the night of February 2Sth, the Chinese
attempted to burn the English ships at Tong
MOO, pY sending among them two junks filed
with compastibies, and burning; but the wind
drove them clear of the shipping, and verv little
damage was done. They tried IT again the next
night, but with no more success.
Some of the London papers report. that early
IN March, the whole foreign trade was stopped
but we cannot find any certain account of il. The
smuggling IN opium was still carried on very ac.
lively, by armed English vessels
Part Of the expedition against China sailed
from Calcutta early in April The Ships steam
ers, Sc, were to rendezvous at Singapore on the
z0th Of May.
Lin has been made governor of Canton.
We have received, this morning. long ant
Interesting letter from our Paris Correspondent
which should have come to hand on Saturday
1t xivzz faII details Of the late events In AIgiers
and In every part Of Europe but its length com
pels Is q defer Ehe publication until tomorrow.
L cams b Tie British Queen.