The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-10
From the Boston Daily Mail Extra, of Thursday ]
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP
CALEDONIA

THE COTTON Observation-Disclosures Il A
RY PROCEEDING S-REVOLUTlONI IN PER-
SIA-TROUBI.ES IN RELAND-REPORT-
ED BATTLE IN INDIA--TROUBLES IN sly
RIA, sc. SC.
The Caledonia arrived at Boston this morning after
pleasant passage Of l5s days.
We welcomed the Caledonia again this morning
with hearty good will She made pleasant pas
sage of Isl days-having arrived at about O'Clock.
The news is not of very great interest, but there
are abundance of small items wherewith to make up
an extra
The Columbia had not arrived at Liverpool, but
was spoken by the Caledonia the day she started,
abreast Of the Skerries at about 10 in the evening
The overland mail from India hourly expect
ed as the arrangements to reduce the time between
Suez and Bombay from eighteen to twelve days,
were reported at the last arrival to be nearly com
pleted
TROOPS FOR INDIA.
On Friday the 29th Regiment embarked for India,
and in few days the 10th Regiment, greatly aug
mented, will also embark for the same place
Troops for India, in considerable numbers are as
sembling at Canterbury, Gravesend, and Tilbury
Fort, and the embarkation Of the men IS going on
with activity. Three additional regiments have been
ordered to that country-the Seventy -eghth High
landers, the Tenth Foot and the Ninth Lancers.
Madrid papers of the 9th, mention that M. Ter
man, who was regarded as an agent Of Metternich,
had received notice to quit the Spanish capital.
Orders had been issued at the British Royal Foun-
dry for the casting of 1900 of various cali
bre, intended chiefly for the larger vessels of war.
The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered twenty
powerful fire engines to be constructed fol use IN
the national dockyards. Nine of those engines
have been completed and sent to WOolwich to be
proved.
A fire broke out in London on the 25th, which de-
sroyed the extensive leather manufacturing establish
of Messrs Bailey & Co, the largest in London,
and at one time threatened very extensive confia-
grrtion.
The Iron STEAMBOAT Company has made prepare
tons for prosecuting their business most extern
sve scale at the chain pier Chelsea. Contracts were
already out for upwards of fifty new boats.
The BRi1TsH PARLIAMENT.-The debate the
resolutions proposed by Lord John Russell, an
amendment on the resolution imposing an income tax
occupied the House of Commons several nights The
amendment was, of course, rejected by large ma
ority, and the original resolution affirmed Soon this
odous and unjust will be established by law, and
men, though they will have the satisfaction of grum
bling must pay the utermost farthing. The tariff
by which Sir Robert Peel promises to reimburse, by
the cheapness of living, every man who pays the IN
come tax will under discussion. The best
parts Of will, matter of course, be fierceiy as
sailed by the country gentlemen who cannot be made
to believe, the Premier wishes them, that prov-
| sions be made cheaper, ty the introduction of
foreign articles, without the home producer suffer
ing
! The second reading of the corn-law bill was fixed
for the night of the 18TH the House of Lords. Lord
| Melbourne has given notice of his intention to move
an amendment, in the shape of resolution, on the
motion for the second reading. The farmers pour
| ing in their petitions against the bill The presenta-
ton of one, Thursday evening, gave rise to Gu
| rous scene. The Duke of Wellington lost his tenn
per- and gave the lie to certain statements with more
energy than politeness
The distresses in the manufacturing districts of
Great Britain still continued although the demand for
labor was OH the WHOLE somewhat better than it had
been for time past The Spitalfeld weavers
had been partially relieved by farther contributions
r II Ia. ovd
the dis essed operatives Paisley in the receipt
Of donations sufficient to save them from actual stall
Walton. Still the amount of suffering was very great
and much greater, probably, than even the British
public supposed it could be- under the circumstances
! IRELAND.-The troubles in Ireland, arising princi
pally from the scarcity of provisions, the want Of
| employment and disafecton with the government,
| were every day assuming more alarming aspect
Murders robberies and other outrages upon the laws,
were of frequent occurrence-all showing laxity OF
moral restraint and desperate determination not to
obey the behests of tory rule. The complaint was,
that the government amidst all its proposed meas
ures did not contemplate doing anything for Ireland,
or to tighten the burdens which weighed down its
energies.
A large number of houses in the neighborhood of
Doonbeg, county Clare, Ireland, were recently car
red away by food and several men lost their lives
in attempting to save some cattle.
The assertion recently made by Sir Robert Peel
in Parliament, that the temperance reformation had
not diminished the quantity of ardent spirits imported
into Ireland is stouty contradicted by the Irish wing
papers, and is considered by them intended to keep
up the old prejudices against the Irish people.
FRANcE.-M. Theirs has treated his country and
Europe to another warlke speech, to another tune,
played on the chord of national sfeelng M. Theirs
in his Speech strongly insists on the immediate out
lay of large sums in order to establish great naval
port at Agiers capable of containing and protecting
fleet of 25 sail of the line.
PERsIA-The Brussels papers contain this state
ment: Letters from Odessa announce that revou-
ton had broken out in Persia that the Shah was de-
throned and that thirty thousand insurgents on
their march to Teheran. This seems to need con,
frmatoA.''
On the authority of Berlin correspondent upon
whose information derived through letters from Mos
cow, great reliance is placed, the Times states that
the Shah Of Persia has marched against Herat, at the
head of 1000 men; and that Russia has furnished a
subsidy Of 1000 900 rubles in order to enable the
Shah to make the movement.
THE LEvANT.-The Levant Mail, with papers from
Malta to the 5th instant, has arrived Sir Stratford
Canning had presented very strong notes to the
Porte, the alleged misconduct of the Syrian au-
thortes
The Mussulman population were quite elated al
the reverses of the British in Afghanistan
Syria was in a state of insurrecon and the confu-
sion COMPOUNDED by the employment of Albanian
troops repress it, they being in fact little better
than bandilti themselves Niche net Ali was at Du.
manhour Admiral Walker had returned the sword
presented him by the Sultan, on the ground that it
inferior in value to those presented to other Off
GERS.
INpA.--The Calcutta Englishman, of the 10th Fe
bruary, by the Falmouth mail, states that intelligence
had reached Lahore the 9th of January to the eff
feet that Akbar Khan had come down upon Jellaa-
bad in great force and having been met by our troops
on the plain, battle had been fought, in which he
and great number of Afghans killed. The
Engs Imam is usually well-informed paper and al
though the silence which apparently more recent let
tiers maintain on the subject may affect the credibity
of the statement, il is far from being improbable
This date is later than any copy of the Engshman,
which reached us by the overland mail The authen :