Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-03-04
From the Boston Times.
FOREIGN ITEMS,

By THE STEAMSHIP BRITANNIA.
The Britannia sailed from Liverpool on the eve
ming Of the 4th ult., and arrived in Boston harbo
on the morning Of the 22d. at 2 o'clock--bringins
% days later news from England.
The news brought by the Britannia is of interest
and importance. The Turco Egyptian question
which was supposed to have been finally settled
long since appears only till very recently to have
been definitely adjusted The French politicians
have been very quiet since our last sdvces, busying
themselves . usual about the Paris Notifications.
The journals from all parts of England, Scotland
and ireland notice the unusual severity OF the win
ter and its lamen,able effects upon the poor who
are In state of extrenit suffering. MANY persons
have died from cold and famine in London, and
verdiels have been rendered, !" Died from the wan,
OF the common necessaries of life.n
The differences which had arisen between Austria
and Sardinia, Of the Intention OF the lat.
ter TO remain neutral. in the event Of war between
France and the former power, in a train Of ad.
justment.
The Cambridge Advertiser .a;s that runor.
were prevalent in that neighborhood that upwards
CT hundred lives had been lost by breaking in Of
the ice
Master HuMPHnKY's CLocx.-we understand
that the tale of " The Old Curiosity Shop" in
Master Humphreys Clock" will be completed
in about four numbers of that work. and that a new
tale, to be called Burnsby Ridge" will be com.
menced Immediately afterwards.
DEATH OF THE AaEKicAs CossrL IN Fr.scE
Died on Sunday evening, Jan. 3 |, in Paris in the
6athyesr Of his age. Typhoid exhaustion fergou,
Daniel Brent Esq, Consul of the United States Of
America tor Paris, and agent of Anne rican claims
The christening Of the Royal Princess was to
take place, with great ceremony. on ths 10Th inst
In the Chapel Royal, ST. James. The baptismal
names OF the infant Princess to be Victoria Ad
elaide Louisa the frst, after her Majesty and the
Duchess OF Kent; the second, Of the Queen Down
ger; and the latter, Of the Queen Of the Belgian.
The King Of the Belgians, the Duke Of Sussex. the
Queen Dowager, aad the Duchess Of Kent, were to
be sponsors.
There have been several graat foods in England,
occasoned by unusual quantity of snow, which
bad fallen and suddenly thawed, carrying away
many houses, mills, and destroying much properly,
attended With loss Of life.
Accounts from London OF Feb. 3D. state that the
effect OF the receipt of the news from China on The
Tea trade was most disastrous. But the accounts
are not credited by the London papers generally,
and as no official dispatches had been received in
England conf ming them, the sudden gloom thrown
over the market ought not to have taken place.
J. ). buckingham is delivering a course of lee.
lures on America and the Americans, In London.
Scott, the American diver, has met with an aw-
ful death. He had, for lsng time, been in the ha.
bi, If diving from the mas, heads of ships into the
Thames, and from the different London bridges
On the 18th ult., he announced an exhibition, and
had staging erected Waterloo bridge
To the top pole he fastened rope, at one end of
which he made moose in which he placed his
head, as was his usual custom to go through mock
execution. He performed the trick three times
but the third time the slipped and the
wretched man hanged in earnest UPWARDS
OF 10 1000 persons were present at this exhibition.