, 1842-06-18
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Steamship, Columbia arrived
at Boston OH the 4th inst. bringing
the following news. She left Liver.
pool on the 18Th uIt.
"On the subject of the difiulties
existing between Great Britain and
America, the London Morning Her.
aid, of the 18th, says:
Each succeeding arrival from N.
York indicates more and more the
probability of a successful termina-
ton of Lord A%shburton's mission to
Washington. Such probability does
not, however, lesson public interest
in the dispute TO settle which that
mission is directed. o. those dis
putes the Creole case seems to in
volve the greatest difficulties; not in.
deed, perhaps in itself, but in the
principle o. international law which
must govern it.
Seven more ships with sixteen hun.
dred troopshad sailed forIndia, which
shows a determination on the part Of
the Government TO push the war
against A~fghanistan.
FRANcE.-The Gazette des Tribu-
naux states that a number of persons
were arrested on Thursday and FRI
duv week in Paris. The police, who
for some time past had been on the
search for a mandatory OF projec-
tiles. discovered a vast number Of in
cendiarv bombshells at The residence
of tailor. in the Plssage-violet. A
quantity of gunpowder and cart0uch-
IS. just made, we're discovered in In
other quarter.
Private letters state that the pro-
i~ectiles ;cized we're of glass, and in
Tie nature OF hani grenades. intended
for the destruction of the King by
oeing thrown into and exploding in
his carriage.
The inv siigation, which commenc.
ed Immediately, is still pursued, says
the Gazette des TiIhunaux, with &C.
~tlvitv. The number of arrests I'D
10 Thursday amounts to about ten.
The Prcsse, of Monday, states that
it was the intention ot certain nem-
bers of the Cabinet of Deputies to
address an inquiry 10 NJ. Guizot as
to whether he had signed, or intend
cd to sign, the right of search treaty;
ana that his reply would be in the
Incentive. He adds, that no minister,
IN the present state of public feeling
on the subject, would dare 10 afix
his signature To that document; and
even goes 20 far rs TO affirm that the
treaties Of the year 1881 and 1888
will be revoked.
Mdia.--Tl e financial condition Of
Iadia appears to be disastrous in the
extreme. The rash attempt t, &C.
cupy Aflghanisian has cos, the Gov.
eminent already nearly 100000 600.
Eight new islands in the Pacific
are stated by the Cape papers TO
have been discovered By an English
whaler; they are fertile, inhabited,
and Of considerable extent.
A curious discovery of a Roman
villa. with curious antiquities. has
been made at Comherton. in Cam
bridgeshire. 1t is described as near.
~ n, perfect as some of the houses
at Pompeii.
Germanv.-The city Of Hamburg.
the great commercial emporium Of
Germany, one of the most flourish
ing on the continent of Europe, is
heap of ruins.
":SIxty streets containing from
1900 10 1000 houses, lie shoulder
ing on the ground, and forma fearful
but picturesque ruin. Two splendid
churches, with steeples exceeding
400 feet in height, another church
with lis tower. the Rl,h- Haus. where
the Senate hold their sitlings, the cid
Exchange. the repository of the ar
chives, the building of the patriotic
society, are all destroyed"
The Austrian town of Steiger, not
far from Lin'z, has been nearly des-
troyed by fire. 400 houses were
burnt.
One hundred and twenty persons
were killed by an accident on the
railroad between Versailles and Men
don.
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