The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-15
FOREIGN NEW S.

From the extras forwarded to US by the New
York Sun, Philadelphia Ledger, and Baltimore
Sun, we extract summary of the most import
ant items of news brought from England by the
Acadia. The Caledonia, concerning whose
safety So much anxiety has been felt, left Liver
pool on the 4th of February, but having been
materially injured in violent storm which pre-
vailed for several days-beginning on the fourth
day after her departure, it was deemed prudentto
return. She arrived in Liverpool on the night
of the 18th, and the Acadia was Immediately
sengers-and arrived at Halifax on the 9Th inst.
The principal items of news furnished are
the opening of Parliament, the Queens speech,
the resignation of the Duke of Buckingham Sir
Robert PEEPS proposed change in the corn laws,
the movement in Parliament concerning the
case of the Creole, and the refusal of France to
ratify the great treaty for the suppression of the
slave trade.
Sir Robert Peel's project in relation to the
corn laws received the sanction Of the House of
Commons by majority of 1873.
No allusion whatever is made in the Queens
speech TO The subjects in dispute between Great
Britain and the United States. But we find
the following notice of the Creole case in
London paper
THE CASE OF THE CREOLE.
| On the 18th of February the Earl of Aberdeen an
nounced in Parliament the determination of the Gu
vernment berate the mutineers and murderers ta-
ken from the Creole Trouble will grow out of this
we greatly fear.
Lord Brougham pursuant to notice, brought under
consideration of their ordships the of the Creole
by moving for copies of any correspondence upon the
subject. He had he said considered the subject since
he had first named the matter in that house. and the
result of the consideration confirmation of the
! opinion he had formerly given. He was of opinion
that for the mere purpose of good neighborhood
there ought to be a law amongst nations giving the
power 10 each of surrcnderng criminals seeking
fuge after condemnation in other countries. There
was however such law in existence, and no power
the part of this country to comply with any such
demand
| The Earl of Aberdeen said that some communica-
tons had taken place upon this subject with the Go
| vernment of America, but he hoped the noble lord
would press fol them if he informed him of the
course which the Government intended to pursue-
After receiving all the legal assistance they deemed
| requisite, the Government satisfied that by the
law of this country, there was authority to bring
persons who had escaped in the Creole to trial for
tiny or MURDER still less deliver them up or
detain them in custody Instructions had accordingly
been for their liberation, unless it should APP
pear that there any colonial law under which they
could be brought to trial. He was not, however,
| aware of the existence Of any such law.
These views were generally concurred in. No one
| opposed them.
The Weekly Chronicle remarks upon this subject
| as follows:
Equity and moral feeling confirm, think, the
legal decision in the of the Creole yet no
| reason to believe that the Americans will sit down
conenled with the issue. They have too many posi-
tive interests involved in it, and those interests are
mixed up with too many angry passions.
"We fear therefore, that this can hardly be
brought to a peaceable settlement. There is some
thing that outrages every feeling of justice and huma
nity the idea of abandoning who have trusted
to our protection and who have committed no CRIME
that we should not ourselves have though jus,ifabe
had we been placed under similar circumstances We
cannot anu shall not abandon them But J ord A-h
burton will have no easy task convince the United
States or the reasonab eness of this decision"
Lord Ashburton sailed from Liverpool on the
10th of February, in the steam frigate Respite,
which was obliged, by gales, to put back and
remain till the 18th, when she again started.
~ B. No work being done in our Office on the
Sabbath, our Mondays paper goes to press al
ways on Saturday night. The news brought
by the Sunday mails, consequently, could not,
in this instance, appear till our Tuesc ay s paper
was issued.