Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-06-15
or TIE GREAT WESTERN.

ARRIVAL. OF TIE GREAT WESTERN.
a great Political .3eation Enyand-Interesng and
important Parliamentary .veus-Deea Of the Minis.
tru-im,aediatc Dissolution Of Pariiament-UnparGi-
leled Staenation IN all kinds Of Irade-Stsnins Of
the London Protoeois-.yon arriral Of The President
General Se,rs, &c.
pronptness arrived at New York, on Friday evening,
in fourteen days from Bristol. She up the hay
little after sunset in fine style, keeping up continual
cannonade she passed the battery and wharvcs on
the way TO her berth in the East River.
Her day of sailing the 9th ult., up to which day
she brings Bristol papers and London Of the 2Gb being
seven DAYS later than the last previous advices.
The intelligence is Of scarcely any interest or i'm
pertance with the pnn Of the Parliamentary news
We regret 10 say that by this arrival We have nothing
positive with regard 10 the safety Of the steamer Pres
dent Large steamers have been spoken al sea by
sci. bound 10 England and France; bu. little hopes
tertaned, however, among commercial men, that any
of those steamers could be the President
Her Mojesty's Birth Day.-Friday, May 2lst, being
the day fixed Tor the celebration Of her Maesys birth
day, the parks and West end of the town presented
lively and animated appearance, almost indeed if il
had been general holiday.
cabinet council held at the foreign Office on the
22d ult., attended by all the ministers nrs,ns
Defeat of The .Mnistry-ruesday evening, May 18th,
the debate the Sugar duties was resumed, and
division, the members were for the motion:
COMMITTEE on Ways and Means,) 25l
Againstit 3l7
Majority against Ministers, Sc
Nav Goth the Chancellor of The Exchequer gave no.
tice that on the oath he would move that the House
should resolve itself into Committee on Ways and
Means for the purpose of moving the annual sugar du
ties.
NAV 24th.-Sir Robert Peel in the House of Com
mons rose to give notice of his intention to move,
the 9th ut the following notion
"That her Majesty's ministers do not sufficiently
possess the confidence of the House of Commons to
enable them carry through the house measures which
they deem of essential importance to the public welfare
and that their continuance in Office, under such cir
cumsances is at variance with the spirit Of the cons
tuition"
(This was received with long and loud shouts from
the Opposton)
The House then went into Committee of Way. and
Means, and the Chancellor, without single observa
ton, proposed the annual sugar duties.
Lord John Russell has sIgnifed his intention to
bring forward the law question for debate the
4h Of june and, it is confidently asserted, that,
the 18TH at latest there will be division against the
Ministry and Immediately Parliament will be dissolved.
MAY 25tl.-There was nothing done Of any import
ance in either the Lords or Commons. The House of
Lords ad nurned to the 9th ut
A good deal Of noise is made, and prejudice is
sought to be excited by the alleged fact of two Bril-
fish briggs Of having the 9th ult. cut from
der the batteries of Carthagena smuggler called the
Dolphin alias La Flor de Ia Mar, seized by Spanish
Garda Costas, but yet We have only the Spanish
version of the affair, which charges the British Consul
with the contrvance of this breach of the law Of
TONS TO render England unpopular for the benefit of
the Catalan manufacturers, and representing her as
violating the independence of Spain already.
FRANCE.
The French papers barren of any ne vs. Of mpor-
lance The works on the Notifications progress with
increased activity
The Chamber of Deputies have adopted the treaty
concluded between France and Holland, under the ad-
mnstration of M. Theirs.
The budget Of expenditures was voted by the Cham
Der of Deputies by majority of 1913 against 10.
Ito be eortinusdl