Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-08-03

ARRIVAL OF TIE ACADIA.
SIXTEEN DAYS LATER FIR ON ENGLAND


9Th ult., arrived at Boston on Thursday morning
the Goth
The distress in the British manufacturing dis
,ricts and indeed among the iaborng classes thro'
out the Kingdom, is every day increasing. AT the
last dates Parliament was engaged In discussing
plans of relief. Mr.. Zimmerman had notice of a
motion on the books of the House of Commons for
empowering the crown to open the ports of Britain
to free importation of foreign corn, in of ne
cessity, before the re-asscmbling OF Parliament.
The tariff bill has passed its third reading in the
House Of Commons, and as it will not probably be
delayed in its passage through the House of Lords,
it will soon take its place among the statue laws of
the land along with the Income Tax Act.
The convict Francis, who fired at the Queen, has
been repreved. There does exist doubt that the
pistol was loaded with a destructive substance
He still asserts that he had not intended to injure
her Majesty, but did it with view to get provided
with home for life similar to that OF Oxford. He
will be transported for life a penal settlement.
Meetings of the shopkeepers of Manchester, VOL
northampton, Leicester, and other large towns, have
been held 10 consider the prevailing distress. The
Chartists continue active in the manufacturing DIS
trlc,s. The Anti Corn Law Association has not
relaxed its agitation.
In the Commons, the 2lst of Jnne, Mr..
Wards motion in favor of the vote by ballot was
rcjccted-290 to 157.
s%On Wednesday, the 22d, the Commons went in
to committee Lord Ashey's bill, respecting the
mines and coercs. His lordship has made
alteration IN the bill; he proposes to limit the labor
OF children IN mines from between nine 10 thirteen
years of age to three days in week, instead of ex
Guiding it altogether until the age OF thirteen
In the Lords, on Friday the oath, the Slave trade
Abolition Bill was read a second time. The Copy
right Bill was read third time and passed.
1t was expected that the business of Parliament
would be brought to a close about the Goth of this
month.
The notifications of the long-pending treaties be-
D.
o'clock on Tuesday the 28th of June, by the Earl
OF Aberdeen, penipoentiary of Great Britain and
the Hon. Ashbel Smith, plenipotentiary of the
public Of Texas Those treaties are three in num-
ber-a treaty of Amlty, navigation and commerce;
treaty undertaking mediation by Great Britain be-
tween the republics of Mexico and Texas; and
treaty granting reciprocal right of search for the
suppression OF the African slave trade.
a formal communication has been made to Col.
hurnct from the Pasha Of Egypt, that the trade of
the next cotton crops would be free, and all would
at that time be at liberty to purchase them through
out Egypt.
gentleman employed by government has it is
sald IN ascending the river Juba, in Africa, fallen
In with a considerable tract of country. inhabited by
curious race OF pigmies, not exceeding four feet
IN height, with very curious views of religion and
government, and exactly resembling the type of
IIerodotus.
TIE WEATHER AND THE CRoPs.-From all parts
OF England, ireland and Scotland we hear of copi-
Gus falls OF rain. accompanied with thunder and
lightning, after long continuance of warm wealth
er. The crops said to be forward and proml-
sing and through them, in some places, rapidly
improving, and giving fair to expect, if not
an abundant harvest, ut least average one of
corn, potatoes and hay.
FRANCE.
The Paris papers are devoted almost exclusively
TO the elections.
Ielcgraphlc dispatches continue TO communicate
successes IN the provinces adjoining Algicrs. The
last is dated June 25.
royal ordinance has been published, imposing
m ad valorcm duty of 20 per all linen yarn
imported into the kingdom. This measure has pro-
duced great stir with the English manufactures
but II is expected the French government will sub
mt to an amcl'ora'inH
letter III the Rdonc, gives particulars of a
whlrlwind at Chauflailes and its neighborhood on
the Goth ult. Thirty houses were actually carried
away. Six persons of the same family were killed
others were mutated, children were smothered in
their cradles, carriages carried entire the
roofs OF houses, plantations were torn up, and the
largest trees were transported to immense dis
lance. Not less than twenty persons were killed.
Great preparations making at St. Omers'
Tor tournament at the end of the month"; in honor
OF the Duke of Orleans, who will be present.
SPAIN
Advlccs from Madrid are to the 9th Of June.
(Catalonia,) and Barcelona, had been suppressed
Others were apprchended at St. Sebastian and To-
losa.
The tribunal of Bilboa has passed Judgment on
several individuals concerned in the instruction of
last October; twenty are sentenced 70 DEATH and
twelve TO the galleys.
new ministry has been formed.
The editor of the Correo Naciona had been sem
fenced tor libel to imprisonment during four years
IN fortress and to the prvation of his office and
decorations.
The army of the north has been dissolved.
PORTUGAL.
We have advices from Lisbon to the 9th of Juue
Neither the slave trade nor the commercial treaty
were signed. The result of the elections was an
immense majority for the government. In all the
provincial districts they were successful and defeat
ed only in Lisbon.
GERMANY.
The Journal dcs Debats states from the German
papers that Herr Schmd, burgomaster of Bremen,
had arrived at Berlin for the purpose of ne gotating
the accession of the three Ianse Towns the Ger
man Customs Union. Ii this accession ia kcs place,
the governments, that are members of the Union,
have declared that they will guarantee the loan of
thirty millions OF crowns which the city of Ham
burg ia about to contract 20 repair its recent losses
by fire.
A Berlin letter states that the Police ordinance,
intcrdictng smoking in the or public prone
nades in that capitol, produced on the Sh ulumo
scene of great disorder.
The Hamburg subscriptions, up to the 18th ult.
amounted TO about 4,S00, 900.
On the 10Th ultimo fire broke out at Beilings-
hansen, Wursburg, in Germany, and 40 hou-
ses were consumed.
HUNGARY.
The Augsburg Gazette states that on the 9th of
June disturbances of serious nature broke out in
the city of Pesth in Hungary, occasioacd by the
discomfort OF the journeymen tailors respecting
some differences with the masters of the corpora
lion in the matter of a savngsbank. Sixteen hun
drcd of these refused TO work. and marched in
body out of town. Some cavalry were sent out
against them, and forty were brought in as prison.