Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1841-02-04
GREAT FOREIGN news.

rived this morning from Liverpool, having sailed ON
the afternoon Of the 7h-thus making her passage in
the remarkably short time Of tsrenfy-twO days.
The Important intelligence OF the settlement Of the
difficulties between China and England, had caueed
great sensation in London and the tea dealers had
The intelligence from India is also highly impor-
tant, and we give such extracts have room for
OF English news, there is hut little.
The Earl Of SOmeTs died nj his residence BriGh.
ton on the 9Th Of January. The death Of Rear Admi-
raj Sir Philip B. VerebrOke, the officer who command
ed the Shannon in her engagement with the Chesa-
peak during the last war; on which occasion he
severely wounded and for which he made
BarOnet, is also announced in the London papers.
A great fire had occurred at Dundee. The vcnera-
BILE Cathedral which had weatheTed the storms for
100 years, and two Of the other churches entire
ly consumed-the damage being estimated at he
tween 80 and 10000.
The packet ship Presiden; had arrived at ST. Cath
crimes Dock, and was found to have received very
little, If any, injury
From the London Mercantile Gazette, Jan. 26.
We are to-day enabled to place before readers
impOrta mt intelligence from the East, which cannot
fail to be productive Of much qualification every
dividnal who tar divesI himself Of party feel.
ings to rejoice the sgnH successes Of Great
Britain abroad under any Administration.
t.; The news from China and India we have received
by the overland mail the intelligence from the for
mer having been conveyed to Calcutta by H. M. $.
Cruiser.
Our advices from Alexandra are ID the 24h ult
Malta, to the 18th.
IUteHlBeUCe
important, and is especially satisfactory because
hears with it this great zest-s was pecnd so
little Importance had been attached to the progress
made by the GHinese exped,on. il appears, ho how.
ever, that the Chinese question thoroughly settled
that the occupation of Chusan aud the proceedings of
Admiral Elliot have brought the Emperor OF China to
his Senses and that he has offered to send penipoen.
tiaries to Canton Ningpo for the arrangement of
all matters in difference with Great Britain:
Shortly after the capture Of Chusan, Admiral Elliot.
nFTnrN n PnN lVpF hy
DARN Of the third raRk Of the Chinese Empire though
some accounts say BY the Emperor himself while 9th
ers nttirm THAI AdnEal Elliot had arrived at Pekin,
The Emperor has agreed to pay f3Ooo,0oO for the
expenses incurred By the British in making war 9th.
for the opam s sae and az the
OF the war. The Emperor, either himself through
his officers has expressed pacific intentions the
Admiral, and he dlsavowe the actions Of his commits
grace, and the Emperor offers to surrendeE him into
the hands Of the British to be dealt with as they may
think proper.
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1t is stated tand certainly there is nothing mracu.
40 influenced, tina, the Emperor is greatly ANNOYED
at our occupation Of Chusan, and his minister limited
that the Admirals vsi. had prevented the march Of
fierce soldiers TO retake the island !!''
We sorry to add that dyseniary prevailed
among our troops at Chusan, and that the climate
was very unhealthy.
news also utn10SI 1nlpOfs
lance. The Cabeol and Affshanistan war has been
Terminated. BY our advces thence, we learn that
Dost Mohammed, after sustaining smother defeat, had
the British, and, accompanied by oaly single follow.
er, had placed himself under the protection Of Sir w.
M'Naghten. From Scinde also we learn that the
hsppiest results had followed the steps taken there
The Belochees had sustained further defeats. with
considerable less ON their part, and comparatively
trng sacrifice on ours, and had been reduced to sub
misssn. They had recently plundered the country
lage had fallen into our hands. Kheat on the
18th OF November occupied without resistance by the
troops under the command OF General Mott.
All fears Of hostility from the Seks are also at an
end for we are informed that Knruck Singh, King
Of Lahore. died on the 5h Of November. and that du
Singh. was killed BY accident Slere singh has as.
cended the th.one With the two former. who were
cSnsdsred d. 70 he sspssiPy sdvee 10 G5sa, B''n
Our intelligence iTOm Alexandra states, that the
trip Of the Great Liverpool from Falmouth to that
place, with the mails had been shade in fourteen
days and hour, for only twelve days and one hour
Of which time she was at sen.
The plague had appeared in Alexandra a month
earlier ;san usual and three deaths Isl, had been oic,
Damascus, TO which he had returned in very ILL.,
health and bese! by The mo"saiSeeIs hoping g! was a.
e. ava: OF ~ me Napier 10
Mehemet Ali had again written to Admiral Stop
ford on the 9lst nt, and proposed to send another
message 10 expedite the return OF lbrahin and nus
army. Sir Charles Smith had arrived in tho Hydra
at Alexandra, and having had an interview with the
Pasha placed the Hydra at his service, to convey his
despatch to Mamerica on the 22d ult. BIZ Charles
left Alexandra in the Great Liverpool. Serious sick
ness had prevailed at Acre. The storm that visited
the coast Of Syria had produced on alarming scarcity
at Beyrout and in the mountains, where the new
Turkish governor had recklessly stopped the supplies
Of grain arriving, and the mOuntaineers were again
nearly driven into collision with the authorities BY
desperation =,
The Chinese question is seylsd-ths Caboos is
terminated-Gnd MEHENMET ALI 10 thoroughly and
eGecfualiy snbdued.
satisfactory The power Of British arms no. been re-
cognized, or vindcated-the expense Of long pro.
racted and distant wars has been saved and an end
has heen put to that instability of affairsthe most
dangerous to her commerce generally, however pro-
ftable in particular cases-which must have given TO
mere speculation a most unhealthy impetus.
The effects Of he Chinese intelligence have been
already felt. The price OF tea at the time write
three o'clock had fallen seven pence per h., whilst
that Of East India has risen. The ofthe
former change 10 obvious; the cause 81 the latter 10,
that large qua ntes Of cotton which, had the
tnued would have been shipped for this country, will
when the usual trade shall have been again opened
at Canton, be sent to that port and we ere aware
had in his possession, waiting the turn Of events, up
wards of 100 900 hales Of this orticle Matters have
thus already begun to settle down to the level OF
wholesome standard.
From the London CAyOniclr
OVERLAND MAIL FROM INDIA.
SUBMISSION OF THE EMPEROR or cHINA-SCRRENDER OF
DoSr MOHAMMED.
The intelligence by the Overland Mail from India
is most satisfactory, as our readers will perceive
from the subioined details.
The OCCUPATION of Chusan, and the proceedings OF
Admiral Elliott had brought the Emperor OF Chna 10
his senses and he had offered 10 apologize to Captain
Elliott, to punish Commissioner Lin, and to send