The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-06-15
ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA |


teen days and half, and having experien-
ced pleasant weather all the time. Our
news collector boarded the ship at o'clock
A. NJ, and we received our papers i'll the
city half an hour in advance of all Others
The news brought by the Acadia is not of
much importance. Below we give
full accounts of the shipwrecks that have
lately occurred at sea, as extracted from
the English papers.
The Great Western arrived at Bristol
on the 18th ult., after passage of fourteen
days. The Columbia arrived at Liverpool
on the 18th. There had been received up
TO the departure of the Acadia, on the 10Th,
no intelligence of the President. Indeed
there was no longer any expectation of in
formation respecting her fate.
In the British Parliament a succession of
important debates had taken place on the
Corn laws and other financial projects,
which at this time engross the atteption of
the country. No very defnative action
seems TO have taken place. Among the
less important subjects brought before the
House of Commons, we notice that Mr.. o.
Connell moved a committee TO investigate
the election riots in Canada.
In another column will be found partic-
ular account of the melancholy loss at sea
of the Philadelphia packet, William Brown,
with large number of passengers.
A letter written by Captain Hoskins of
the Great Western, in Bristol Channel,
states that on his passage out, on Sunday
April 18th, he encountered great quantities
of ice in the Atlantic. that at one time he
was nealy surrounded with it, and that il
was with some difficulty he was enabled
TO extricate himself from his situation. The
quantity of ice in the Atlantic is said to
have been this year unprecedentedly great.
CHINA.
No important news from China had been
received since the departure of the Britain
ma. The overland mail which reached
London 2 days after, brought dates from
China to 18th Feb, Calcutta to the god
March and Bombay TO the 1st. April. The
Chinese Chief Commissioner Keshen in an
interview with Captain Elliott, evinced an
intention 10 procrastinate, which added TO
a report that warlike orders had been re-
ceived from Pekin, produces an impression
that hostilities must be renewed. Trade
continued suspended, and the blockade
was not raised.
THE EAST.
The Egyptian question is, at last, it ap-
pears, really settled. The latest intelligence
from Constantinople is to the 10Th of April
The differences, which had arisen as to
certain points in the haiti scheriff cf Feb.
18th, investing Mehemet Ali with the gov
eminent of Egypt, have been totally reno
we'd in consequence of the proceedings of
the representatives of the Powers who have
signed the 18th of July treaty, and his af-
| fair has been terminated TO the satisfaction
of all parties. The Sultan had consented
to make an alteration in the frman investing
Mehemet Ali with the Pashalic of Egypt,
and to grant him the government of that
province with hereditv descent in the direct
line He had likewise agreed to modify
the article relative to the tribute to be paid
by Mehemet Ali, which was rated at one
fourth of the revenue of the province, III
stead of which more equitable proportion
has been fixed. The Pasha is likewise to
be permitted to appoint all the officers Of
The land and sea forces up TO the rank Of
colonel.
The Egyptian question had no sooner
been satisfactorily adjusted than insurrec-
tons broke out in Gambia, Bulgaria, Servia,
and other parts of the Turkish Empire,
whice promise 10 be no less difficult 10 put
down than was the refractory Pasha. The
armed insurgents OH the island of Gambia
amounted, at the latest dates, to about H.
900, and they were receiving new acces-
sions daily.
The Chamber assembled on the 18th
of May,fo~ the election ola Regency. They
first decided that there should be only one
Regent The second ballot gave the fol-
lowing results In favor of Espartero, I79;
in favor of Augustin Arguelles, 1903; votes
lost, 3, Espartero was accordingly proclaim
ed sole Regent Of the kingdom.
The PUBLIC LANDs.-The following is the
conclusion of the speech of Henry Clay, de-
| livered in the Senate last January, upon the
subject of distribution of the public lands.
The measure which have the honor topro-
pose settles the great and agitating question
| forever. 1t is founded upon no partial and un-
equal OASIS, dSSIdHuiZinS le" vi TIT Sid'cS "
the prejudice of the rest. 1t stands on Just,
broad and liberal foundation. 1t is measure
applicable not only to the States now in being
but to the territories, as states shall hereafter
be formed out of them, and to all new states as
they shall rise tier behind tier to the Pacific
Ocean. 1t is system operating upon space
almost boundless, and adapted to all future
time. 1t was noble spirit of harmony and
union that prompted the Revolutionary states
originally to cede to the United States. How