Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-06-14
FOREIGN NEWS.
Frem the Boston Daily Mail.
TERRIBLE FIRE AT HAMBURG-AWFUL
RAIL ROAD ACCIDENT IN FRANCE.


Is 1-2 days from Liverpool. London and Liver
pool dates have been received up to the 10Th.
Seven more ships, with sixteen hundred troops,
had sailed for India, which shows determination
on the part of the government to push the war
against Affghanlstan.
The disturbance in some portions of Ireland still
continued and were generally traceabe to the ex-
element on the subject of repeal The country in
and about Tipperary wasin very excited condition.
Destruction of one fifth Of the city Of Hamburg by
Fre-The city of Hamburg, the great commercial
emporium of Germany, of the most llourshlng
the continent of Europe, is heap OF ruins =
Her merchants rejoicing at the prospect held
out to them by the promised improvements In our
commercial tariff: now they mourning over
their richly stored warehouses In asEes, their hou-
ses devoured by the flames, and their prospects OF
increasing prosperity scattered to the four winds OF
heaven.
The fire, which broke out on Wednesday night,
.ie 14th inst, and which, there is every reason to
believe, the work of an incendlary, extended
to fifty two streets, most of which were reduced to
ashes On rough calculation, the loss OF proper
ty was from three to four millions sterling, but 1t is
believed that the total loss will be double that
amount. No person tellhow many lives were
lost, but great number of persons must have per-
shed. The canals through the city were dry, so
that no water could be found. The fire aged from
Wednesday night till Saturday morning.
On the latter day, at nine o'clock, the Danish,
Hanoveran, and Prussan troops entered the town,
and, being well supplied with gunpowder, COM
mcnced blowing up the houses to arrest the pro-
gross of the flames. This completely effected
by Sunday morning The Senate ordered every
person to leave town, and nothing could exceed the
heart-rending spectacle of thousands otx&& people
frantic with their losses and without the msaH of
procuring food or shelter. ~
The destruction of Hamburg is one of tho&s car
amities which will be eltin every part of the COM.
mercla world. Great may be the credit OF the
Senate and people of Hamburg with foreign states,
century will eapse before the city be replaced
in all the prosperity destroyed by this confagration.
In the midst of the confusion an incident occurred
characteristic OF the government and the people,
A public notice every where put up, stating
that the vault under the bank, containing the gold
and silver bars, fire proof, and that the bank
books were all removed in perfect safety.
The Hamburger Noue Zeltung, of the 10th inst.
thus sums up the results of the sad catastrophe:
" Sixty Streets containing from 1900 to 2OOO
houses, lie smoulderng on the ground, and form
fearful but picturesque ruin. Two splendid chur-
ches, with steeples exceeding 400 feet in height,
another church with its tower, the Rath Haus,
where the Senate hold their sIttings, the old Elk
change, the repository of the archives, the building
of the Patriotic Society, all destroyed. Near
y all the great booksellers, the offices of
papers, (the Borsenhalse and the Correspondent
nearly all the great hotels and inns, (the Old Lon
don, the Belvedere, Hotel de Ruisse, St. Peters
burg Streets Hotel the Crown Prince, the Wild
Man, the Bramer Amhaus, the Black Elephant,
the principal mag gains des modes and repositories
of fashion, and nearly all the chief apothecaries,
are destroyed. The following are safe:-The Gel
lar where the bullion is deposited the Bank, the
Catharinen-strase, der Wandralune, du Reichen-
strase, &C."
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT-ONE
HUNDRED AND TWENTY PERSONS
KILLED, AND MANY WOUNDED.
A deplorabe catastrophe took place Sunday
evening week, on the Versailles and Moudon Rail-
way, by which hundred and twenty persons
killed, or have since died of their wounds, and
many wounded.
In honor of the Kings fete, the water-works 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 five o'cock in the
afternoon, and was crowded with passengers
"There were" says account, "seventeen or
eighteen wagons, with two engines before and one
behind.
The velocity was excessive. When between
Bellevue and Mcndon, the axletree of the first ma
chine broke, and stopping, the second ran over it,
killing the stoker, and breaking the first machine
in pieces, split It's fire the ground Instantly six
or seven wagons were broken in pieces and the
rest running over the live fire of the broken ma
chimes, burst into flames. 1t is the custom the
Lett 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, that but for the Gus.
tom OF locking the passengers in the carriages, so
awful loss of life would not have taken place.
THE BRITISH PARLIAMENr-Sir Robert Peel was
still carrying out his measures with a strong hand,
and his manageable majority'' came fully up to
the scratch and obeyed his behess as fully and fer
Is he coulu
show OF opposition by the liberal wings, out of res
pect to The past administrations but still coupled
with deposition to give the Premier plenty of
rope, and hold him responsible for the use of it.
An examination INTO certain election frauds had
disclosed system of prohigacy without parallel
In the history of representation. Mr.. Rocbuck had
made himself conspicuous in erretng out these
frauds. Several members of the Common had left
their seats and gone home rather than suffer an ex
animation as to how they got there. Among them
were members from Lewes, Harwick and Penryn.
INDIA.
Theirs are no later dates from India than
were brought by the last previous arrival;
but the English papers contain a mass Of
selections from Calcutta journals which are
highly interesting.
The financial conditions Of India appears
to be disastrous in the extreme. This
secWS I'D De owing 10 TWO prominent causes
In the first attempt TO occupy AtigAa1istan
has cost the government already ncarly
t2O,OOO,OoO, great share of which enor-
nous sum has been drawn from the egiti-
mates channels trade. In the next place
there is now no absolute money power like
the Old Company monopoly, ca9a ole. from
its ready means and unbonudeu credit, of
controlling half the finances Of the world
EARTHQUAKE IN GREEcE--L letters from
Athens, Of The 2Sth ult state. that sever
al violent shocks Of an earthquake we're
ielt IN various parts Of the PeIoponesus :;
on the 18th, at Spa rita, the shocks lasted