Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-11-05

II. GCitoI =. -
The packet ship independence. frem Liver
pool, a,rived at New York, the 18Th Oct
bringing dafes from Liverpool 10 the 2fth,
London to the 23d. ard Paris to the 22d Sep
TENDER.
On the same day the Cunard mail steamer
Britannia REACHED Boston in fourteen days
from Liverpool, which place she left On the 4th
of October. The news by these arrivals, il
not very importiant--the most imports mt is Of
the great fire in Liverpool, by which many
lives were Ioat, OVER FORTY THOUSAND BALES
or coTTos BURNED, and property, to an i'm
mense amount destroyed The particulars
Of this dreadful catastrophe will he foudd be-
low.
Money is exceedingly plenty in London at
2 10 u percent,
The cotton and produce markets are dull
and without alterations.
The Manufacturing districts had become
comparatively quiet, and most of the hands
had resumed their work. Some disturbances
had been created in the coal districts, but
they were not very serious.
The French and English journals arc out,
in decided terms, against the American Tariff.
II. NJ. ship Warspi:e, ON board of which
Lord Ash6urton sailed from this country, ar
rived at Deal on the 23l of septemsfr.
WrFcKEp-Within the last few days re-
ports have been received by the authorities al
Lloye's, containing the disastrous intelligence
of no fewer than eight wrecks, attended with
melancholy loss of human life.
An extensive forgery Of the name of Cor
re & Co. of Liverpool on the Branch Bank Of
England, at Liverpool bias been committed.
Loss OF A RUSSIAN MAN-or-wAR-A Rus
sian ship OF the line, a new "a, going frem
Archangel to The Battle. for her stares, was
lest on the coast of Norway, with about 400
iner.
Onthe 5th Sept. the w of Pisa was
thrown into general consternati.n by the fol-
lowing dreadful accident w bile upwards
of 200 persons were assembled at an amphi-
theatre, near one Of the gates of the town, en-
gagged in, and spectators Of, the game of ball,
"a wall suddenly sank under them, brought
down other parts Of the building, and buried
them in the ruins. Immediate exsrtions were
made. and the dead body ola child was frs,
taken ont. 80 persons were found severely
injured, the lives OF several being desPaired
oil.
In the Paris journals Of the 2ls. ut we find
it stated that Atd-el- kader has again reap
neared in the field. 1t. seems that with a
thousand horse and a proportionate number Of
| infantry. be surprised General Lamericiere,
near Lascara. and fought an action, in which
the French were, of course. victorious.
FRAHeE-The Paris Commerce of the % 4
ult. asserts on the authority of a Washington
correspondent, that Immediately after the rom
~clusion of the late treaty with Great Britain,
the American cabinet had addressed TO The
| French minister a roe. declaring that, al
though the Union was willing to cooperate
with all the pow rs to enforce upoa AmeTi-
can citizens the strict observance o: lis avs
against the slave-trade, /" at no period and on
no account would it ever permit a foreign ma
ton to exercise a right of sovereignty on board
American vessels"
The Courier de Ia Gironde publishes a LET
ter from a Bordeaux merchant, complaining
that by the new American tar & she duties or