The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-29
From The .Nsw York Star, Monday Eoenatg.
FIVE DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND.

diANeu yesterday iFom Liverpool, bringing dates TO
the LIST inst.
There has been reduction ON the wheat duty of
two shilings per quarter. Ministers are indirectly
revising the Corn Laws. In tea nothing was doing
and the cotton market was dull.
The ministry had sustained another defeat on the
Irish Reform Act
The Queen is likely to perpetuate the Brunswick
hne and until that interesting event takes place,
court favors of any consequence may occur, these
favors are to be reserved fer the grand occasion.
The most important intelligence from France is the
success of Theirs the secret service money ques
ton, which was to be considered test of his adj
ministration. HIS majority Sc, which created
great surprise and every way strengthens the gov
| eminent.
The steam ships President and United States are
in dock ready 60 receive their engines, and may be
expected out in July next.
There is every reason to believe that there will be
| a Congress of European menarchs the ensuing
mer to decide upon the affairs of the East This will
be an important proceeding, and may derange the
plans of Egypt and France, and also Russia and Per
STA.
The Schah of Persia has quilted Tcheran with
large army TO tranquilze outbreaks in some of the
provinces The Russians have met with reVerses in
the mountains of Chiva; and the Emperor will fual
v tread in the footsteps of Napoleon and encounter
the same disasters in sending his troops far from
their homes. 1t will be necessary to have another
Congress of Vienna before the affairs OF the East are
settled and we doubt whether their DEGREES can be
as easily enforced in Asia as they have been IN Eu-
rope. -
Turkey has negotiated loan with the Rothsehild's
secured on the customs and the copper-mines.
The following paragraph appears in Hamburger
paper on which not the least reliance is tobe placed
The Rabbis never tronble themselves with suchsab-
iects, and never move IN reforms;
Tee ,IelcS-A Hamburger paper, the DoTpze'f,Ens,
saws: sThe Jews of Constantinope have, with their
Rabbi, declared that they will not wait any longer
than another year for their Messiah If within that
time he does not appear they viii conclude that he
has already COME and then they will try to discover
by what religion he is already recognized The Rab
hi is entirely of this opinion and has even proposed
to his congregation to embrace Christianity forth
WITH
The penny postage works well and IS greatly on
the increase in England.
Ii is reported, but with what truth we are IN
able to discover that France will take part with
Turkey against Egypt, 1t was also rumored that
the Bey of Tunis would join Adder Kadir, with
a heavy force, against the French and that a
French fleet would lombard Tangiers in Mo-
rocco.
Affairs in Spain and their finances continue
very unsettled.
Fanny Essler, it is said, sreally coming to this
country; can we pay her as much as she earns in
Europe2
The King of Holland will not marry his mis-
tress, in consequence of the fall in the Dutch
funds.
I'D to the close of business on the Stock Ex-
change no confirmation was received of the re-
ported failure of the Russian expedition to Khiva,
and it was found difficult to trace the rumor to
to its source.
We were without any arrivals from abroad
throughout the day, except letters brought by
party said TO have arrived overland from Bonn
bay, dated Is days later from Canton, and an
nouncing the probability of an amicabe adjust
ment of the dispute bsween the Chinese and
British, in consequence of the arrival of the new
Commissioner.
The news from Syria was that the army which
is composed of 80 regiments, was well stocked
with provisions and ammunition. 1t had, how
ever suffered much from the severity of the win
ter. and one third is said to have persisted. 1t is
calculated that each regiment is composed of
1000 men. A Spanish Capuchn, named Tom
maso, who had introduced vaccination at Damas,
and who was the only person who praetised it,
disappeared suddenly as we'll as his servant. He
had been at the house of a Jew, and the Rabbins
were imprisoned by the government on Suspi-
picion, though an assassin had not been discover
ed. 1t is Surmised that he may have fallen a
victim 10 the fanatcisn Of the Greek orthodox,
who are most violent against the Latins. So it
will turn out The Jews of Damascus are re-
spectacle body of men, who have been cruelty
tortured without any evidence OF guilt A poor
barber was freadfnlly tortured.
The accusations which have been made by the
barber, under the most excruclatlng extremltleS
of corporal suffering, which may be judged from
this single specmen-tha on COMPRISING in
strument being applied to his head and temples,
his ye-balls started from their sockets, and his
beard turned white from the agony he endured.
All, however, that he could say was, that he had
seen Father Thomaso walking in one of the
streets of the Jews quarter with 10 Of the prin-
cipa1 inhabitants
Some curious details are given respecting Sir
Moses Montefore's visit to the Holy Land some
time back On his pilgrimage he gave talaris
to every one of the lsrates. He made careful
INQUIRIES respecting the several biblical antiqui
of the place, and ascertaned the amount of duty
which the sacred places and villages paid to the
Egyptian government, which was GA 900 purses.
on coming to Alexandria he offered the Vceroy
to paw this sum out OF his own pocket provided
the Viceroy would allow him to colonise the
places particuarised with IsfaeliteS, to which
proposal the Viceroy assented provided the colo
nv should be considered as national, and not I'M
der European protection.-1 Times.
| The sulphur monopoly was at an end in Naples.
| The Carliss have seized Spanish vessel at
the mouth of the Douro, having on board $50
| bales Of cotton.
| The Russians find the thermometer at khiva
| II l-2 degrees below zero.
| Charles Kemble has been performing at Covent
Garden with success.
| The Moniteur Partisan publishes the follow
| ing contradiction of the alleged declaration
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