Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-06-10
FOREEGT .y.EW.N.
ARRIVAL OF THE AcADIA-FIFTEEN
DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
No eertais ners Of The President Steam SAir-
Reperts that the teyeck had been seen-Greai
agitation on fkc Corn Lax question IN England
-Esparfero chosen RegsAf Of .SPais- TIE
Ckinese difficulties sfl8 unsettled.
Bosros. June 3D. o'clock r. NJ.
The British Royal Mail Steamship AGA.
dia arrived at the Cunard wharf this mora
ing, at one o'clock, and took US somewhat
by surprise.
She has proved herself worthy Of her
fame, having made the passage in thir-
teen days half. She left Liverpool on
the 10th and has had good weather most
of the time having seen only one ice
berg.
The Great Western arrived at Kings
Road on the 18th, thus completing her
home voyage in ID days, and fairly beat
ing the Columbia.
The steamship Columbia arrived al
Liverpool on the 18th, having made the
passage in fifteen days. She had good
weather most Of the way.
The Steamship PRESIDENT had not ar
rived and no certain tldings had been OBJ.
tanned from her. Every breeze from the
Atlantic, to the anxious, Watchers, gave
signs OF woe that all was lost. Every
hope was abandoned to despair.
THE STEAMER PRESIDENT.
No rag Of hope remaining = Probable infeth-
geace A.at the Fresiient has struck an iceberg,
and foundered- Tracks ofthe Wreck.
The schooner Corsair, Capt. Morisey,
has arrived at Halifax, from Fortune
Bay, N. F. in seven days. The Corsair
reports that six days before sailing,
boat belonging to Fortune Bay arrived
there from St. Pierre, the Skipper Of which
reported that vessel from France arrived
at that Island, which had pick, d up the
Captain and sixteen seamen of an Ameri.
can Steamer, and had reported that fifty
six other persons who had been in The
Steamer, were lost; the said vessel had
foundered in consequence OF running foul
of an iceberg; the Skipper stated that he
had seen the captain Of the Steamer al
St. Pierre.
LONDON, May Is.
THE PRESIDENT STEAMsHIr.-Up to
yesterday Sunday afternoon no tdings
OF the steamship President, Lieutenant
Roberts r. N. commander, had been re-
ceived by the British and American Steam
Navigation Company, a, their Office in BIZ
liter square, Bitter street.
The following reports have been receiy-
ed:
Cove OF Cork, May IL.
The Columbia packet, Captain Gar
rett, from Monte Video, which place she
lett on the 9th of January, for Antwerp,
has come in here, and Captain Garret re.
ports that 10 days since ed instantly IN
long. Is, he saw at some distance large
steamer. bound for the eastward, and
which appeared to him 10 be disabled, as
she was going very slowly and could
hardly keep way with his vessel. As
night came on he lost sight of her, and
two days afterwards experienced heavy
gale to the eastward. The apparently
disabled ship was so far from him that he
cannot describe her appearance further
than she was large steamer.
Captain Carrot had not heard that the
President was missing until asked by the
gentleman George Wright, Esq. survey
er to Lloyd's, WHO was good enough to ia.
vor us with these particulars.
An advance of from lid to Cd per
ID. has taken place in Teas 10 the London
market.
The Austrian Observer, on the author.
ty of Constantnople letters, states that
the Porte had issued orders for blockadIng
the whole coast OF Canada. with the ex-
cep,ion of Canea, Juda, Kalterno, and
Gambia. the blockade to commence the
18th Of May.
The Paris papers are filled with the
news contained in our eastern correspond
ence, the essence OF which correspondence
is, that the Porte has modified the firman
in favor of Mehemet Ali, and ordered ar
expedition to sail for Canada to put down
the insurrec,ion. One of our Constants.
nople letters says, that Syria has consde-
rably improved since it has been given up
by the licentious troops Of lbrahim Pacha,
but another Correspondence gives differ
ent picture of the state Of that province
and asserts that the people have much
suffered by the change.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The business ofthe manufacturing towns
still continues dull, and great many
workmen were out Of employ.
The principal subject of excitement was
the proposed repeal Of The corr laws ; but
no definite action was had on the subject
IN Parliament.
Lord John Russell has announced his
scale of corn duties to be substituted fer
the present protecting law. 1t is as fol-
lows:
On wheat IS. per quarter. Onrye IS.
On barley IS. Oh. On oats IS. 4d.
Great as is the enthusiasm against the
Corn laws in England, it is much surpass.
ed by the feeling which exists in Scotland
There is scarcely town or district ofthe
least importance that has not petitioned,
prepared to petition, or taken some other
measures to accomplish the overthrow of
The landlords monopoly,
In addition to the immense number of
petitions already presented to the Legisla-
ture from Scotland, many, very many,
have heen forwarded within the mast week