Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-08-05
foreioil Nous.
From the Journal of Commerce.
Arrival OF the Great Western

Arrival OF the Great Western.
ELEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
! By the steamer Great Western, Capt. Hosken,
we have London papers to July l4th, inclusive.
The papers are chiefly occupied with details
of the elections, which have gone strongly in IA
yor of the Tories.
! There is nothing later from China.
Sir Henry Pottinger and Admiral Sir William
Parker arrived at Alexandria on the 18th of
June and proceeded at once to Suez 1t had
been mentioned by Sir Henry that he proceeded
to China with full powers as sole penipotentia-
ry that he intended to go right to Pekin to set
tie matters with the Emperor in person and
would also insist on similar facilities for direct
communication being given to the ambassadors
| of all other European Powers.
The grain crops throughout the United King
dom gave fair promise ofan average yield.
The Liverpool Cotton market has lost its ac-
tivity and with that slight advance, which had
been realized on the 9TH of July.
Teas had advanced considerably Flour was
up Is cd. Dbl. American IL bond, sold at "a
and 23s. Bread stutfs generally dearer.
American Stocks in London. u. S. Bank
shares ga New York SIS 81 Ohio SIS 81 ;
Tennessee is II; Maryland SIS IS.
The Queen of Hanover died on the Goth of
June she expired from decay Of strength.
The latest accounts from the Caucasus an
nounce fresh advantages obtained by the Rus
slams.
The .augsburg Gazette mentions a report cur
rent at Alexandria That the Epglish troops had Ia
possession of the Abyssinian island Of Dsche-
un.
! LONDON, July l0.-That Sir Robert Peel will
! have in the new Parliament Il majority exceeding
sixty, and probably not less than seventy, appears
to us to be by this time matter of absolute GER
tainty. But we have doubt whatever that
even if the majority were less, even if were
| tart bau thirty hn wat
leader would still be able to govern the country,
and to carry through Parliament those measures
WHICH he might esteem necessary Tor the public
welfare so long as he cond ucted his Government
upon really Conservative principles. Upon any
other principles we have wish 10 see him gov
ern, and it would be idle for him 10 make the at
tempt, even if he disposed to do So Times.
LONDON, July 5.-There six regiments
dered home from Canada this summer.
AFFAIes OF THE EAST.
LONDON, jolly l4.-Yesterday afternoon was
signed at the Foreign office by the Plenipotenta-
RES OF Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia,
Russia, and Turkey, the Convention about the
Straights OF the Ddrdanclles and Bosphorus,
which has 50 long been agreed Oh and initiated,
but the signature of which had been delayed till
it should be known that Mehemet Ali had
cepted the tirman OF the Sultan, The signature
of this Convention puts end TO that schIsm be-
tween France and The Four Powers which had
arisen out of the different views which France
and those Four Powers had taken, as TO the prac-
teal measures best adapted TO carry into effect
the general principles which France and the Four
Powers equally maintained in theory; and thus
an additional security has been obtained for the
continuance OF that state of peace which every
European power is SO deeply interested in pre-
serving
The ratifcatons of the Convention will be
changed they can be received from
the respective conrts.
The objects ofthe Conve nton are to render
general to all the Five Powers the engagement
which subsists between Great Britain and Tur-
key BY the eleventh article of the treaty of 1909,
and by which the Sultan declares his intention
of closing the two Struights against ships of war
of all nations long as Turkey is at peace.
| The .4ugs6urg Ga sste Of the 9Th inst. states,
| that the last firman addressed TO Mehemet Ali
was accompanied by confidential letter. an
! nouncing that the executions of the conditions
| imposed upon the Pasha would depend upon al
terror circumstances. The Ottoman Porte de-
clared moreover to Mehemet Ali that in future
all differences which might arise between him
and the Sultan would be submitted directly TO
! the Diyan in order not TO initiate the European
| Powers with questions relative to the internal
government of the empire. in the mean time
the Pasha is continuing the notifications and
preparations for the defence Of Alexandria.
| The ORlDeTS puDliSne5 letleT from d private
correspondent, dated Gambia, the 18th ult,
which asserts that The reported advantages gain
ed by the Turks over the insurgents were mere
| inventions Of a French physician named Caporal,
attached to the Turkish Governors household
The truth" adds the writer, lis, that the
Turks have been hitherto defeated, and have lost
some prisoners, whilst the Greeks have never
left any of their troops the field, which the
Turks account for by saying that their adverse
ries carried of their dead
The .Augsburg Gazette of the 9Th inst affirms,
that Russia is concentrating considerable forces
in Bessaraba. Military men are opinion that
the Turkish empire is about TO fall to pieces, and
the Boyards of Moldavia and Wallacha look up
on Russia as the natural heir to their country
They, however, expect that anindependept king
dom will be formed, of which the Duke ofLench-
tenberg will be appointed the chief" II their
lconjectures be wefounded," says the Augs6mg
GaSe,e, "the east, notwithstanding all the prot
ocos, VIII become the theatre of important revo-
/ lutons'
| Indulgence received in Egypt from Gambia
confirms the Unsatisfactory result Of the aeS0t'a-