Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-04-16

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LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
The colutsbfa lett Liverpool on the after
noon Of the ath Of March. She arrived ut
Halifax alter a passage Of twenty days and
fifteen hours.
The London dates brought out by the Coz
l,mbia are to the evening Of the 3D. Of March,
and liverpool 10 the 4th, both inclusive.
LIVERPOOL corToN MAKKET-fhc cores
pondent Of the News York Commercial Ad,
~vcrtiser, writing from Liverpool under date
o! the 81 OF March, says:-
The value Of American cotton fnctuated
during The last month but, low as prices were
at lis commencement, they we're even more
depressed at its close, especially Tor the COM
mon qualities, Of which there SO large a pro-
portion in the new crop.
The sales from the 25th ultiino amounted to
10000 bales, including 1860 to spectators
and 1850 to importers. There was some spif-
il ON the Goth aud ssth, which has since sub
sided ;-Prices, however, are apoat Hie same
as they we've on <ne 18th.
The sales since Friday amounted to $4,000
bags, Of which $500 bags are sold to-day.
The market continues III a depressed state,
prices gradually getting lower. Arrived this
week, twelve vessels from the United States
and one from Egypt
H,vnr.-on the last of February, The sales
in the Hayre market amounted TO 500 bales.
! Ordinary and inferior Y. =. descriptions ex-
perienccd again a decline Of | ccntlme, owing
TO the disposition shown BY importers TO real
ize promptly.
ia. It~L nE. Indiana ctartIpo
Gyes, 81; Illinois SKIES, IS New York hves,
1855, IT Ohio SKIES, 72; Pennsylvania fiVes,
AZ; u. S. Bank shares, |.
In France, Louis Philippe, the Citizen hihg,
continues to act in a very un-citizenltke man
ncr. He still carries on with rlgor his perse-
cutions against the press, and ezteGds his pre-
cautions to guard his person.
A rumor was current at Paris that the 60
vernment had discovered a new and tormida-
hle plot against the lives of the king and his
family, and that, III consequence, the most eK-
traordinary precautions are taken 10 guard
the Tuelries and various entrances thereto.
The army will, 1t IS SAID, be immediately
strengthened by the enlistment Of 5000 men.
In Portugal there has been a revolutionary
movement; the revolutionists have succeeded
in having established the Don Pedro charter.
In Spain the union of the son Of Don Carlos
with the Queen Isabella was publicly talked
of and considered as settled.
| From China the intelligence is merely con-
, frmatory of the reports that had been Ia CIR
j. cuiation regarding the operations to the north
ward. Sir Henry Pottinguer would winter at
Amov, where symptoms of hostility beganto
manifest themselves. At Canton, also, hos
tile preparations were in progress; the heights
of Canton were terrifying, and forts rebuilding
and being built. "A force consisting of TO-
900 men had been taken from the Madras Pre-
sidency, Bengal Infantry, with Lascars, Sap
pers and miners, for sevice in China, and or
, dered to march on pekin as soon as:the south
west monsoon set in.
In British India the natives were still in
arms against the Queens and the East India
IGompany's forces.
GENERAL suMaARY.-The right Of search
has been signed by all the parties with the e1-
ception Of France she refuses to sign 1t at
present.
Numerous large meetings have been held in
all the principal towns in Great BrItaln,o the
) subject of the corn laws, at which the new
:, corn law measures were severely condemned
Sir Robert Peel has been burned IN etagv In
several of the towns; Notwithstanding this.
when the question is debated in the House OF
Commons, he mas large maJorttIes On every
division.
i'll Is utuE ISLuob- III " LII t1St 4NttH- ~
that the Bank of England has received a very
: important addition 10 its stock OF bullion
some estimates make it as much as 100000
. The Bank Of England had lowered It's rate
Isof discounts from five per cent to four.
1t is stated that a reinforcement OF lo,o9t
d troops was going forward from India to China
with a number ofheavy guns. 1t was report
led that the first grand movement contemplated
n by Sir Henry Pottingaer would be agalns
Pekin.
= II was stated that an augmentation of thu
British standing army to the number. OF 30,oW
u men had been resolved upon.
d Some alright tin canlsters, containing
e boiled French beans, were lately brought or
shore from the wreck of the Royal George
: la dish of these vegetables, On being dressed
= was found excellent, though at least fifty-se
: ven years old.
!, The marriage between the Princess 1mperi
l. al of Russia and the Duke de Bordeaux, ha
q been finally determined on by the ex-reya
family of France and the Emperor Nicholas
This alliance is said 70 be the main cause 9
! the bad understanding which at present sub
: sists between the Courts of the Tuillerles an
Of St. Petersburg.
d The WRONG PAssESeER-Whi!eW Wash
a ington Irving was in Philadelphia, on hi
way south, In the suite Of ex.FfesideBt Va
;. Buren. he was arrested by a ccrics for
d debt OF SIS. Mr.. Irving protested that h
had never contracted such a debt IN hi
life, and did not even know the anne OF nj
J. alleged creditor. Rather than be trouble
it with econtestirlg the claim, he paid the dc
II mand, and bade the officer so about HI
/ business.
= MONEY CATER IN fHILADELPHrA 0
q THE % rNsr.-sevcral heavy failures ha
y taken place. Stocks were falling, an