Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1841-03-25
II Or ZIG n.
Arrival Of the Caledonia.
TWELVE DAYS LATER FROM EURO


The steam ship Caledonia arrived at Boston at
o'clock Wednesday morning, bringing London pa
Pers 10 the evening OF the 80 inst and Liverpool of
the 9TH
The is Of but little interest ii we except the
melancholy fact that the steamer President, had
rived, been heard from. We greatly fest that she
has gone TO the bottom. She left New York on the
lth March.
The President cost fsOO0o, and was insured on
leaving Liverpool for 100000.
The steamer British Queen, from New York, arriv-
ed at Liverpool on the morning Of April 2s, in pas
sage Of l6 l-2 daysp~th ~ passengers. She carried
out New Nork papers to the 18th, with news OF the
death OF President Harrison and also the report of the
L. ;. Bank Investigation Committee. The Acadia
which arrived IN Liverpool on the I'd, carried papers
six days later, with intelligence Of the accession Of
President Tyler.
Major General Sir John Harvey has been appointed
Governor Of Newfoundland
In acknowledgment, of the public services rendered
by Major General Sir George Arthur during his ad-
minstration Of the government of Upper Canada, he
is about TO be raised TO the dignity of Baronet.
fire broke out at Bristol on the 2sth at the tefmi
nation OF the Great Western Railway which destroyed
large quantity of timber, valued at IS 100000.
The St. George Hotel in London was destroyed by
fire the Goth ut. The loss is estimated at 100000
great mortality was raging among the convicts at
Woowich. Within the las, IL days nquests had been
held upon eleven bodies.
A Mr. Jenner, cotton broker at Lverpool,fo for many
years respectable merchant at Charleston, New Or
ult to murder his wife and children, alleging as his
his preference TO them dead suffering in
poverty One Of the children escaped and gave the
alarm, and on the arrival OF the police, of his
found dead in chamber, and his wife apparently
eless in the kchenwith several wounds in her head
She was not expected to survive. Jenner was com
mi,ted for trial for wilful murder.
Rev. DR.. Reid has been appointed to the chair Of
Ecclesiastical History, in the University of Glasgow
vacant by the death of the Rev. DR.. M'ruk.
The report Of the United States Bank Committee APP
pears TO have created an intense interest in London,
and the impression produced the affairs Of the
Bank was OF the most unfavorable kind.
There is no later news from China. The arrange
ment of Capt. Elliot for the adjustment OF the differ
ences with the celestial empire were very unpopular
with the merchants interested in the East India and
China trade, and they had demonstrated strongly
sgains, its ratification. deputation had inter
| view with Lord Palmeiston, on the 2sih April upon
| the subject
The dispute Of France with Morocco has been set
tied by mutual concessions. The Governor of Mo-
rocco has been dismissed, and the French Consul M
| de Laporte, has been reca lied.
| The King Of France pardoned $50 convc,s and 500
soldiers under various sentences OF court martial, or
occasion of the christening of the Count ofParls
The war is still raging between the French and the
| Arabs in Algers. The French troops recently made
an expedition TO Medeah, the Col de Ternia and
were harrassed by the Arabs on their route and or
their return-and suffered considerable loss. The
following incident will serve an illustration oil ht
horrors which attended this war
"During the expedition TO Medeah, and in the mds
ofone Of the engagements, poor little Arab girl, only
eight years old was the field and going to be
shot by the French soldiers, when Lient. Col. Reg
naut rushed forward, caught the child in his arms, anc
carried her behind the ranks You shall be my father
| said the little thing and since his return to Algers
this officer has taken for her proper support
She is an orphan, her parents having been killed b,
mistake during of the Iazas, having been suppos
ed be enemies, while in reality they were allies Of
the French
repor, prevailed a, Paris hiatt the Duke D'Aumale
a son Of the king, who commanded regiment in Al
gers, had been killed or desperately wounded IN al