Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1841-06-08
ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA.


me Srea western arrived al Kings Road on
the l4'h Tins completing her homo voyage in - .
DAYS and fairly beating the Columbia
| The Steamship President had not arrived and no !
certain udings had been obtained from her. Every
breeze from tbs brnod Atlantic, to Z he anxious
watchers, gave signs Of woe that all was lost Ey.
/ cry hope VAS abandoned to despair
THE STEAMER PRESIDENT.
/ No ray oihopc remaining Probable intelligence, |
that the President has struck leo berg. and /
! foundered-Tracks OF the Wreck
/ The schooner COrsaIr Capt Morisey. has arrived /
az Halifax. from Fortune Bay, +. inseven days
The CorslIr reports that SIX days before sailing. u
boat belonging 10 Fortune CAY arrived there from /
81 Pierre. the Skipper Of which reported n vessel
from France arrived at that Island, which had pick.
ed up the Captain and sixteen solmen OF an Amer
lean Steamer. and had reported that fly SIX other
persons who had been ia the Steamer were lost the |
SAID vessel had founded in consequence of running |
oul OF an iceberg; the skipper stated that he had
seen the captain OF the Sieame al ST Pierre.
! LONDON. May Is.
! THE PRESIDENT SrEAMSAIP.-Tp TO yes
u terdav Sunday afternoon dngs Of the steam
shp President, Lieutenant Roberts r ~ comman.
der had been received by the British and American
Steam Navigation Company, at their UiIice in Bill
tsrsquare. Billtter street.
| The following reports have been recoi we'd:
COVE OF CORK, MAY ~.
! me Columbia packet, Captain Garrett, from
NJ 'nte Ndeo. which place she left on tho 37th Of
January TOR Antwerp, has csme in here. and Cap
tam Garrett reports that 10 days since t2I instant
IN long, Is, be saw slme distance a large steam
err bound for The eastward md which appeared TO
nm 10 DC disabled as she going very slowly
| and could hardly keep way with ms vessel As
night come on he lost sight of her. and two DAYS
afterwards experienced heavy gale to the east
ward. The apparently disabled ship was 80 far
from him that he cannot describe her appearance
luther than she was large Of ,am,r.
CapIain Garrei had not heard that the President
was missing until asked by the gentleman George
Wright, ESQ y surveyor TO Lloyd's. who was good
enough TO favor US with thass particulars.
An advance Of from l.2l 10 81 per 10. ha, Ia.
ken place IN teas in London market
The Austrian Observer, on the authority Of Con.
stnnunople letters states That the Ports had issued
orders for b.ockading the whole coast OF Canada
with the exception of Cinen, Juda Kalterno and
CnnGia I"e blockade 10 eOmmsusc The 18Th Of
May
The Paris papers are filed with n, news contain.
ed m our eastern correspondence. tue essence of
which ssPCudence Is that The Ports has TSodi.
led The hrman IN favor ofMehemet ALI aud order.
ei an expedition 10 sail for Canada to put down the
'hsNFreeion One OF our COasaniInople letters says
. that ljrahm Facha but another correspondeuce
gives different picture Of the slate Of that province
ana asserts that the people have much suffered by
Ihe change.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The business OF the manufacturing towns stlI
coniinue du.l, and Eteat many workmen were out
Of employ.
The principal subjeci of excitement was the prop
osed repeal Of Ihe corn laws bot no definite action
was had on the subject in Parliament
Lord John RUsseI has announced his rcale Of
corn duIes 10 be sIbiItuted or the present proloc-
/ Ting law. II Is as follows:
On wheat s. per quarter.
On ryo SIS
On barley g.. Oh
IN
Great as is the eaihusiasm against ths Corn laws
IN England. II Is much surpassed by the feeling
oh exists IN ScOIlani. There IL scarcely a
town or district OF the least importance that has NOT
peiiis'nel, prepared TO pe m or taken some other
nc tsrr's 10 accomplish tho oyerihro Of the land.
lords monopoly.
In addition 10 tho immense number Of peiito,s nj
ready presented 10 the Legislature from Scotland
many very many have been forwarded within the
pa! week. From ElInburg. petitions follow each
other 10y dozens ald half dozens Al time. Public
meetings have been held at GreenDcs, Selkrrk Sur.
ling. kels1, Ear!sruun. and mlny other places.
News from Madrid. 10 ILe 3 h has been received
The Chlmber assembled on that day for the cleo.
non Of 4 Regent ani EsPlrrsro was chosen on the
/ first ballot
The Togl4anis, Of the 9th bring. intelligence Of
fresh massacres committed by the Arabs in the en-
/ virons OF Algiers.
CHINA,
/ An express IN anticipation Of the overland mail
/ nrrIvedI London Oh the 9Th ult from which we
] Learn that the China difficulty "a sill unseItled-
Iapain E.iot Is severely ccnsured by the English
opposition Papers for his dIlaiOry conduct The fol
! lowing epiiUme Of the contents Of tho mail we
cut from the London Post Of the 9Th ult
! Ihe Trade had not been re opened on the %
eOrHary a. agreed upon and every thing was still
~ uncertainty. Keshen aud Captain Elliot were
IhnmOngging one another. but II j. said the Canton
authorities were not pleased with the arrangement
I,na u M uT k
. superseded
/ Some think That final settlement will be obtain.
oil without further hrsiilIiies IL has been IN ILL
lated, Oh directed expedition attended with a rnasf
unnecessary waste Of British life and nothing i. vet
really settled. 10 admit Of the English yentu
/ ring mp 10 Canton.
| Hong Kong had been prpclrimod a British sci.
Element The smuggling Of tens was active and
easy The article bad and dear Two ships for Lon.
don we're nearly laden with tlIe,n. On tho other
h1nd gentlemen from China say that there s plenty
| oi 'ca IN Canton, and they confident in their
opinion that tea will DO exported this ysar as usual
The probability being that Captain Elliot will mike
any sacrifice 10 obtain that object The troops in
Chusln were still sicllly
a letter from China states ~ confirmation Of the
above That nothing was settled up 10 the IIth Of
February list
loss OF THE WILLIAM BROWN
DREADFUL SBIPWRECK- NAV 10
TIE Louis Philippe, New York Packet ship has
ihis moment arrived. Information having reached
me town That some shipwrecked seamen were on
board The report became general that they belong
Cd 10 ihe President, and the excitement was be-
y1"a ail description. On the arrival 10 dock how.
ever, strong body Of the gendarmeno were IN
"anmg and Immediately took into custody the I
male aud eight Of tho crew Of the ship William
brown, bound from Liverpool 10 Philadelphia.
winch was sInk by on iceberg in the latter part oil
ilsi month. IL appears. when the vessel struck 4
'"iTiJ-ihroc Fassonscn the mate, aud eight Of the
ere" TOOK 90 The long bJui; the captain. three Of
INC crew and eleven passengers, foIk 10 tho Jolly
o'''i OIL The rest sunk with che ssol The bolts
parted 10 the night
some days afior The mate and crew determined
N'' hey 'ayJ IN order 10 tighten tho boat 70 throw
seventeen Of the passengers overheard. which they
np''f1sd, and some Of the most hoard re-.
''..'ng Ffeucs toJk place. Some chung 60 The sides
OF me boat praying ior mercy but their hands were
CUT Oh. nuJ ftry wore pushed into the deem VIZ