Litchfield enquirer., 1842-09-29
FrOu tle Journal cf Com. Ertrd, of Saturday Eve ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN. { TiOelUe Days Later from Europe. By the arrival of this favorite steamer, we have our files of London and Liverpool pa- pers 10 Inc Sd Sept. The Great Western has made passage of fifteen days
 London Money Mdrket 2d insi.-The funds were shade firmer than they closed yester- day, the news by the telegraphic despatch of the gloomy picture of affairs beyond the In- dus not receiving general credit. Dealings were not, however, extensive.
 ATrriUal of Her Majesty a Edinburgh.-Her Majesty arrived at Edinburgh on the lst inst. Immense numbers of people were congrega- ted to welcome the arrival of Her Majesty. The state of the war in Affghanistan con- tinned to be the subject of warm discussion in India, and the most conflicting reports were in circulation as to the decision of the Governor General.
 ! In China the troops under Sir Henry Cough amounting in all to about 1000 bay onets, at- tackled and utterly routed and dispersed a Chinese army of 10000 men, great part of of the Imperial Body guard, with loss to them of 1000 killed, large quantities of stores. baggage, &c., and large proportion ! of cannon.
 DEATH OF LLOYD, THE DEFAULTER.-The brig Hope, Capt.-, arrived at this port on Saturday, from Goree on the Coast of Af rica, bringing the first intelligence received since his flight of 7'homas Loyd, the default ing Collector of City Revenues of this city. The brig Hope is the vessel in which Lloyd was supposed to have left the city, and in which he did leave it last May, coming on board after she had got under weigh. He appears 10 have gone out as Supercargo, and . ia HT bny ih1l~ ,,f hof vessel and cargo. He went in her to the Cape de Verds, thence to Goree on the coast of Africa, there disposed of her cargo, ship. ped another, and sailed for this port. When nbout ten days out, he was attacked by yell low fever, of which he died, and was com- mited to the deep. The vessel pursued her course, and reached this port OH Saturday, the captain severely sick of the fever. She of course, is detained in quarantine for thirty days.-N Y. Tribune.
 MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT KEEsEv1LLE- By the way of Albany we have accounts of an accident at Keescville, in Essex county, of this state, attended with melancholy de- struction of human life.
 A company of militia had just passed over the chain and foot bridge over the An Sable River, when the chains gave way and preci- pitated all upon the bridge into the river.- The number of persons drowned was not as- certained. A correspondent of the Evening Journal writes that nine are known to have perished. and it is feared six or seven more. The only names given are the sons of Martin Pope and Richard Peabody, a Mir. Miller, who was in the employ ota Mir. IIurl- bert, and who was drowned in attempting te l save the lives of others, two persons from 1 ClintOnville, and others whose names are not 1 remembered. Tie body of young Pope was the only one found, the rest having been carried over the dam. The water was high CT than for two years past.-tN. Y. Amer.
 Factory Girls.-The editor of the Newbury- port Herald says he saw handsome buil- ding in Rowley, Mass, the other day, and knowing the mnson, happened to ask who it was for. He was informed that it was for factory girls, sisters who w0rke in factories at that place, and were building this house out of their earnings. Thus, while the idle, the careless md dissipated have been wasting their substance, and the cry of hard times and poverty has been resembling in half the habitations of the land, these girls have it. lustratcd the truth that " the hand of the dil- gent maketh rich.''
 Right erd up.-A gentleman few days since called upon an old lady, not a mile from Jnmes street, in this village, when upon walk ing into ihc parlor, his notice was arrested by ono of the portraits which ornamented the wall, that was suspended bottom end up. On nearer inspection, he saw it was the like ness of President Tyler, hanging between those of Harrison and Van Buren, with his head downward. Way, what does this mean ? he asked she replied, it means us | 1t is. John Tyler is on his head. He under took to throw d somerset from the Wings to ! the Loco Focos, but the Locos wouldn't have him, and stopped him half way, and the Wings won't take him back, and inc misera- ble fellow stands on his head between thcm.' The old lady is right; she defined the Pres- dents position exactly. The Presidential mounebank is on his head. between the par ties, with too little drxterty 10 throw himself into either.-Miner'S Journal
 Pass Him Round-Mr. Charles IT, Slower, 1 aged 23, of Oswego, N. Y., came 10 Boston on or about the 2lst of July, and palmed him. seIf off as n Lieutenant in the U. $. Army In this character he engaged the affections ofa very worthy and beautiful } oung lady in the vicinity of the city he promised matri- mOny, and she believed what ho prolnsed.- Bu, on the l2th of August he left the city without paying his board; and in New York he was suspected of having plundered the trunk of travelling companion, and de- camped.
 l By letters received here from Oswego, it appears that Slower, under the assumed