New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-01-18
FROM EUROPE.
Items Of News by the Mediator.

ESoLASD.-The Queen and her children are
well.
The rains have been ncessant through the fall,
ard most of the low country is flooded with water.
Whole districts of wheat and pasture land sub
merged, and appear like lakes.
There Is nothing new in Politics or Markets.
The Queen Dowager of Eng land Adelaide, wild
ow Of William w. is given over by her physicians.
Her death is daily anticipated.
The Government has refused to indemnify the
owners of Opium destroyed By the Chinese at Can
ton, as stipulated by Commits Toner Elliot.
FRASeE.-There is nothing of interest from the
Continent. The French Chamber of Deputies is
divided into four parties different but not we'll de-
fined parties, headed respectively by Count Mole,
NJ. Guizo,, NJ. Theirs and NJ Passy and Dufourc,
The Government can hardly be carried without
coalition conspiracy to blow up the residence
of the Royal Family has been discovered and sup
pressed The King Is evidently reccdng from his
Interference in the affairs of Spain, in favor of
Queen Christina.
TIE EAsr-The warfare Of The Donses upon
the Christians in Syria has been ar her prosecuted
with Oriental feroci,y. Whole villages have been
destroyed The Turkish troops have intertercd
successfully to stop these horrors. Beyroot is full
of refugees from the scene of devastation.
ArRlcA.-The British Expedition up the Niger
had been heard from up to the lst OF October
when it had cached the confluence of Tehadda,
40 miles up, making less than three miles an hour
when in motion. The sickness and mortality
among the crew were terrible. They were re-
IL, ~,
and Eboe and the latter had sold them tract for
farm near Mount Stirling. The Amelia schoo-
ner remains there to put it under cultivation The
Albert steamer was To proceed up the Niger and
the Wilbcrforcc up the Tchudda while Tie London
returned to the ocean, bringing tn. sick, who
despatched to Ascension The Horatio transport,
returned via ST. Helena, and arrived at Portsmouth,
(Eng on the 9Th ult.
lSDlA.--An overland mail had arrived, but her
=dacs from China not late those already
received here. India is generally tranquil but
deficiency nitlo Rice crop i. apprehcnded. Lieut..
en.SkeIton and Col. Denly arc dead. There is
much sickness among the European troops. Brit.
ishlroops exploring aud taking more perfect
possession OF Aaghanstnn meeting very little OPP
position.
CRlSA-The cncroachmcnts OF the Scikhs upon
the Celestial Empire sill, continue. and have in
deed reached nm extent likely to attract the
ton Of the centre OF the universe, II it be not al
together absorbed by the proceedings of tie outer
sarbarians at Canton. For the present it may BE-,
but ZoIawar Singh and his victorious Scikhs will
hardly fail ere long TO bring themselves distinctly
enough Ia the notice OF the Court o.! Pekn They
are not 10 he turned from their course by the co-
zngs otComniissioncrL Lin. the treacheryo OF heshcn,
or the powers OF knang, Lieutenant General OF the
Chinese ferces, and cousin to til. God of War.
Defeat alone Will tell upon them. consideration
from which Captain Elliott and our Canton Chiefs
might draw a very valuable Inference. BY the
latest accounts, Zerawar Singh continued to adj
vance into Thbet, driving the armed ans nnarmed
inhabitants before him like sheep He IS now on
the eastern side Of the Muuzorawar Lake, and
having driven out the Deb and his forces has got
possession of Tukakotc without resistance. Tins
is u large commercial town in fine valley, said to
be nearly as extensive that of Neeau he
whole OF the country marked in our maps IS tnhet
governed by OChinesc viceroy n Lassa..lhis
unciionarv seeMs TO take no steps for the protec-
lion OF the people niruSted to his or 10 pre-
Vent the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the Celestial! Empire,
The mountainous regions which he controls are
said 10 be 1900 miles in length and Of proper
tiona,c breadth, and OF all OF which the Seikhs are
now virtually masters. With such an example
before US Of the unwsrlike and detence!ess habits
Of the Chinese people. who would doub, the issue
Of march upon Pekin, or the sSpediency OF
such 9 measure, TO bring TO speedy close our In-
tory and expensive Chinese expedition
Agra Ukhbsr
PRoGRxss or CwlL,zA7loS AMONG THE TURKS.
By the most recent sdviccs from this country
learn tina, hi. Hishncss the Bashaw OF Tnpoli had
captured some fifty Arabs, wkom he called rebels.
These poor men he stripped naked, had them
smeared with honey and then put in irons and
placed upon $ wall, under a burning sun. In u
moment they were covered with thousands of
singing insects, and in this deplorabls pishtthey
were suffered to die of pain and hunger! Their
scerchea and manglcd bodies finally dropped -
pieces, and The roadway strewn with their
scattered limbs, and the air around infected with
the noisome exhalation Malta lines
Z. Large beds Of gypssm, Of superior quail
", are said to have been found near the rapids of
Grand River