The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-06-15

result as IL may, Lne policy VI lue So'erHulSut
may become settled, for some years at least.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND. Y
The British Royal Mail Steamship Columbia,
arrived in Boston on the morning of the I'd inst,
at 6.e'clock.
The money market remained just about the
same as at the last previous dates.
We have no Improvement to notice in trade.
On the contrary the dullness which had for
some time prevailed, has, if possible, increas-
ed People seem to have made up their minds
to enterupon no business transactions whatever,
until the new tariff shall have passed into law.
On Tuesday afternoon, the pressure for mo-
ney on the Stock Exchange became SO severe
for short time, that some of the jobbers had
to pay as high as at the rate of 10 per cent per
annum, for accommodation for few days, but
| the market soon recovered.
| Money is abundant. Good bills can be dis
icounted at 3 per cent; and many of the first
merchants, instead of employing their capital in
the ordinary way of business, are seekingfor
its investment on loan-fortunate if theyscan
obtain II per cent
-=--Sovof%-nore= ships, with Sixtoon hundred
troops had sailed for India, which shows de-
termination on the part of the government TO
push the war against Aftghanstan.
the commercial business of London, and also in
the manufacturing towns. One of the heaviest
houses in Manchester stopped payment on the
18th.
There was terrible explosion of distillery,
in Church street, Lambeth, on the 18th, but a
short distance from the place of the Archbishop
Of Canterbury. Several persons were injured
A column Of ignited spirits was thrown upwards
of fifty feet into the air.
Destruction Of one. .Gfh ofthe City Of Hamburg
by Fre.-The city OF Hamburg, the great com,
mercial emporium of Germany one of the
most fourishng on the continent of Europe, il
a heap of ruins. Her merchants were rejoicing
at the prospect held out to them by the promisel
improvements in our commercial tariff: nov
they are mourning over their richly stored ware.
houses in ashes, their houses devoured by the
flames, and their prospects of increasing pros.
perity scattered to the four winds of heaven.
FRANCE.
Terrible Railroad Accident--One hundred
and hcenty persons killed, and many manned ana
pounded-A deplorable catastrophe took place
on Sunday evening week, on the Versailles and
Mendon Railway, by which one hundred and
twenty persons were killed, or have since died
Of their wounds, and many MANNED and wound
ed.
In honor of the Kings fete, the waterworks
in the gardens of Versailles were playing on
Sunday, which attracted immense crowds from
Paris. The train to which the dreadful accident
occurred left Versailles for Paris at half past
o'clock in the afternoon, and was crowded with
passengers. "Tbere were," says one account,
seventeen or eighteen wagons, with two en-
gines before and one behind.
The velocity was excessive. When between
Bellevue and Mendon, the axletree of the first
machine broke, and, stopping, the second ran
over it, killing the stoker, and breaking the first
machine in pieces, split its fire on the ground
Instantly six or seven wagons were broken in
pieces, and the rest running over the live fire
of the broken engines, burst into flames. 1t is
the custom on the Left Bank Railroad for the
doors OF the wagons to be closed without any
possibility of opening them except by keys in
the hands of the conductors. No conductors
were forthcoming, and thus the inmates of three
of the wagons were burned
From this account it is clear, thatabut for the
custom of locking the passengers ilisthe car
riages, SO awful a loss of life Wolldsnot have
taken place. -.
INDIA.
There are no later dates from India than were
brought by the last previous arrival; but the
English papers contain mass of selections from
Calcutta journals which are highly interesting
The financial condition of India appears to be
disastrous in the extreme This seems to be
owing to two prominent causes. In the first
tplace the rash attempt to occupy Affghanstan
has cost the government already nearly 2O,OO0,-
00OL great share of which enormous sum has
been drawn from the legitimate channels of
trade. Inthe next place there is now no reso-
lutte money power like the old Company monopo-
ly, capable from its ready means and undoubted
credit ofscontrolling half the finances of the
world.
RUSSIA5AND ENGLAND.
BlackWoods Marazne has an elaborate article