The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-06-05
NEWS FROM ENGLAND. !

ARRIVAL OF THE AcADIA--15 DAYS LATER.
The steam ship Acadia arrived at Boston on We'd.
nesday, Is l-2 days from Liverpool, and bring
ing 65 passengers. The Great Western had ar
rived out in - days, beating the Columbia. The
China difficulty is still unsettled There will proba>
bly, be further hostities. Espartero is chosen Regent
of Spain. Gen. Cass, the American Minister had
delivered an eulogum before the American citizens
Paris on the late General Harrison. The Arabs
were committing murders near Algiers. There had
been an instruction in Gambia, Bulgaria and Servia
The number of insurgents in Gambia had amounted
| TO 1900. The coast to be blockaded by the
Porte The subject of the corn laws continues to be
agitated in England It is said that Power the Come
dian, had with him on board the President, $4,000.
The ship William Brown had been lost at sea, and
only few of the crew saved themselves by throw
ing portion of the passengers overheard after they
had taken refuge in ofthe boats The details are
horrid. .e 5fs ... .. ... ss,3s5ttsst ,E.ar,
The British Queen had not sailed from Liverpool.
She open to public inspection for two days, at
sxpence head, to raise fund for the relief of the
families of the ofthe President whose pay had
been stopped.
The Commercial Intelligence by the Acadia does
not give any favorable change in business generally
The low qualities of Cotton had still further declined
l-8 to Ii per h.. Flour and Grain were very dull.
American Seeurities-Americans stocks continue
neglected in London. On the 18th May, United
States Bank stock is quoted at f3 lbs. which is de-
cline Of l5s on last previous accounts; Alabama
Sterling bonds, SIS, 1859, 70; Indiana Sterling SIS,
1863 65; Louisiana Sterling SIS, 1852 80; Maryland
Sterling s.. "a; New York State IS is45s 60, 81;
to 1850, 81 Ia Pennsylvania SIS 1854 to 1865, 49,
Virginia Dollar bonds, 5's, 1857, SO. These quota
tons are almost entirely nominal
Nothing had been heard of the steamer President
when the Acadia left Liverpool. The following re-
port dated Cove of Cork, May H. has been received
at the Office of the British and American Steam Nav
CATION Company.
The Columbia Packet, Captain Garrett, from Mon
tevdeo, which place she left on the 9th of January
for Antwerp, has in come here and Captain Garrett re-
ports that 10 days since ed instant in lon Is, he
saw at some distance large steamer, bound for the
eastward, and which appeared to him to be disabled
as she was going very slowly, and could hardly keep
way with his vessel. As night he lost sight
Of her, and two days afterwards experienced heavy
gale to the eastward. The apparently disabled ship
SO far from him that he describe her appear
once further than she was large steamer.
Captain Garrett had not heard that the President
was missing until told by the gentleman surveyor to
Lloyd's. ".. .sa
The schooner Corsair, which arrived at Halifax
from Fortune Bay, N. F. in 7dsys, reports that six
days before sailing boat belonging ~ Fortune Bay,
arrived there from ST. Pierre the skipper of which
ported that vessel from France arrived at that Island
which had picked up the captain and sixteen seaInen
Of an American steamer and had reported that fifty
six other persons who had been in the steamer
lost the said vessel had oundered consequence Of
running foul an iceberg: the skipper stated that he
had seen the captain Of the steamer at ST. Pierre
As late as the 18th of May no dings of the Presi-
dent had been received by the British and American
Steam Navigation Company at their Office in London.
Capt Hosken, of the Great Western, stated in a
letter written in tile British Channel, that his pas
sage hence, on Sunday, the 18th Of April he encoun-
tered great quantities Of ice in the Atlantc that at
one time he nearly surrounded with it, and that il
was with some difficulty he enabled TO extricate
himself from his situation The quantity Office in the
Atlantic is said to have been this year
ly great