Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-07-17

sales small r~ectified zoe. common 10 liz:
Havana coffee, IL d IL 1Ie: rice 50. Is
per 100 lbs; salt is quoted at $1.62 LIZ a
$l.75 for Liverpool coarse, fine 51.72 a
So. Turks Island dull at DOC. per bushel !:
candles, New-Bedford A., Nantucket 10
a 41c. ; exchange, sterling nominal at
II 3I4 a ID per cent prem, Exchange on
France ST. 2 lI2c. a ST. Bills ON New
York at 60 days are selling at 4 a A lI2
per cent. do at short sight, nominal at 5 II2
per cent. prem. Philadelphia Bills 3 per
cent
FROM EuRopE.-The Britannia arrived
at Boston on the morning of the 3D. inst.
She brought dates from London to the 18th
and Liverpool to the 10Th June.
The fate of the steamer President IS still
enveloped in mystery.
The cotton market continued active and
prices fair; but it was thought the agita-
ton consequent upon the elections, which
were about to commence, would paralyze
for a time the spirit of commerce by call
ing off vast numbers from their ordinary
occupations. Flour, particularly Ameri-
can, was bringing good prices.
Sir Robert Peel's resolution, that the
Queens ministers had not the confidence
of the nation, passed by a majority of one.
Lord John Russell had consequently an.
nounced that Parliament would be dissolv-
ed OH or about the 2ed June The cleo
torial contest would Immediately begin !;
members would fly from the seat of 60
vernment to their electoral districts to
martial their constituents and harangue
the people. We hence infer that England
is at present in the full enjoyment of all
those surprisingly brutal scenes which dis
tinguish her elections.
A bill to remove the political disabilities
of the Jews had been negatived in the
House o ILords.u (English liberty ,
Astley's ampitheatre was burned on the
Sth ult. A oma and some horses perish
ed in the flames, which destroyed some 80
buildings surrounding.
The Queen is again in a STATE of do
mestic solicitude," as the northern editors
say j; her accouchment is expected in Sep
TENDER. She promised Albert a boy the
neat time, $50 the story next went J let us
sec if Queens can do their own pleasure
on all occasions.
Grant & Co. a celebrated commercial
firm in Glasgow have blown up. Creditors
will lose about 100000.
Sir David WiIke, the celebrated painter,
died on the 1st of June, on his passage
from Egypt in the steam ship Oriental.
The immediate cause of his death, it is un-
derstood, was the Syrian fever. He was
in his seth year.
The Austrian government has concluded
a loan with the houses of Hope and Roths-
child for 150,O00,O00 forms.
The plague still RACES at Alexandria; the
cases generally average from twelve to
fifteen daily.
Serious riots occurred in Nottingham on
the 10th and 18th June. They were ex-
cited by opposing parties, wings and tories.
They stoned and belabored each other, de-
stroyed property and life, until the militia
ry was called out to check them.
From France there is no news, except
that the Prince of Joinville, the Kings Sd
son, is to be married soon to Sophia, daugh-
ter of the King of Holland; the cabinet is
yet unblest with harmony, which, perhaps,
is a blessing to France.
American Copper.-Dr. Houghton,
State Geologist in Michigan, has published
an account of the mineral resources of
the Northern peninsula of that the State
bordering on Lake Superior. He states
that the ore found in the greatest abundance
iscopper. In opening a vein with a single
blast, DR.. Ell. threw out nearly two tons of
copper ore, in which were numerous mas
ses of native copper, varying in size from
the minute speck to forty pounds in weight.
These copper veins bear a strong resem-
blance to those of Cornwall in England,
although the per centage yielded is much
greater. OF the specimens of ore exam
ined by DR.. H., not including the native
copper, the per cent. of pure metal averag-
ed about 2I.10, while that of Cornwall,
since It'll, has never exceeded II per
cent. Of pure metal, and from 1918 to
1922 it was only 50 per cent.
The mineral district of Michigan is esti-
mated at a fraction over 1875 miles in length
with a breadth varying from l to 6 miles.
Sugar.-A return of the quality OF beet
root sugar manufactured in France from
the first of May, 1910, to the first of the
present month, shows that during that pc
Rod $50 manufactures produced $685.
l65 kilogrammes (2s,937 tons( of sugar,
of which 90, 1861 %kilogrammes were
disposed of for consumption. The duty
paid amounted TO 2,756,230 francs,
(sIlO,000.)
BANK Mon.-The people of Detroit be-
came so incensed at the frauds of the
Bank of Michigan, that they collected in
hundreds around the Banking House,
threatening violence TO the officers, and
destruction to the building.-They we're
prevented from mischief only by the IN
terposition Of the u. S. troopsl Such are
the fruits of this blessed " Credit Sysfenaf'
A eounterfeiter was arrested the other dav