The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-20
ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN
From he phiiadsipAia Ledger Ertra.


and letters from London and Liverpool to the day Of
sailing.
In the manufacturing district the ques ion of wages
seems 10 be the only one ngiated. AT Aberdeen the
Charists have met and agreed not TO turn out for
the Charter any thing else. An attempt to get up
Charlisl meeting al Glasgow the Doth ut turned
out 10 be complete failure.
Still in Lancashire the do not return To their
work SO generally was anticipated The accounts
from Manchester Of the 2Sih distinctly state that the
greater part OF the factory operatives sulI remain
Houi," and declare that they will not resume their
employ until their masters advance their wages.
The Queen and Prince Albeit tour to
Scotland They embarked to Leh on board the
Royal George yacht, and accompanied hy five steam
ships of war, and other national vessels set sail for
Edinburgh The squadron had no, arrived in sight
of that port on the Let instant, at which date all
Ednboo ugh the look tur the royal
eOrtege.
The Archbishop of Cante bury was lying danger
ousv ill., bat The bulletins issued by his physicians
the 81 inst, reported an Improvement.
Dr. Ireland Dean of Westminster, died in the
cIoisers of Westminster Abbey the morning of
the Sd inst.
The Great Western, it will be recoected took out
the Treaty and she brings the hrs' intelligence
in return The Liverpool Chronicle remarks, that
upon the whole, Lord Ashburton has ably and eff
GENTLY discharged his duty, and more than realised
the expectations which his embassy held out All the
bad blood which the constant discussion and agita-
ton of the points in dispute between the TWO coun-
tries produced has been renewed between Great Br-
tan and her "mag niticent daughter OF the west,
which will endure it is TO be hoped, fol- ages. As far
as we notice, the Treaty received IN like spirit by
the London press.
In the Criminal Court the 25,h ult., John Will
liam Bean aged IL tried for his singular assault
no fam pulll nd nceu In
months Improvement.
Among the passengers by the Western are Widolp
Celeste Elliott and her father.
Marseles reached London on the ID inst, bringing
advic,s from Calcutta 10 July 3, China May u, and
Canton July l.
From the correspondent of the London Morning
Post under date of Bombay July 10, it appears that
affairs in Afs hanslan remain very nearly in the
state at the departure of the last mail. Ger.
PoIiocks force still Jealabad unable advance
or recede and General Motifs position at Candahar
is much more satisfactory. Akbar Khan, of
Dost Nah med, has Obtained poss of one of the
bastions OF the Balia Hssar Cabool while Fut-
teh Jung OF Shah Shoojah, still holds the citadel;
but was not expected 10 be able 10 do so long.
Nothing certain is known respecting the intention
OF Lord Elenborough on the question of afghan poll
itcs-there being still room TO doubt whether they in
cline to the absolute abandono ent of the country
war-whethcr advance retirement is to be the
order Of the day The balance OF probability how
ever appears to be the side that The troops will be
withdrawn. This is generally hell, we'd even by those
most reluctant 10 admit it. The Calcutta English
man, Of the most violent of what is called the
"retribu,ion" journals, says: 1.-The English readers
whose feelings have been reused by the atrocities
committed upon troops since the unhappy block
AIDE OF Cabool in November last and whose patriotism
has been warmed by the language ( Ministers in
public and the despatch of Ieinforcements TO India,
will be shocked learn that 1t has pleased the Gov
ernor General, Lord Peterborough, to order the with
dawal Of the troops from Afg nistan before they
strike another blow"
1t is said that Jellaabad and the country on to
Jumrood is when the English retire TO be made over
to Shere Singh, who has so necessarily exerted him.
self to gain good opinion and it is believed that
100000 Sekhs about to be moved up to occupy the
country imme diatey.
Another earthquake had occurred, but nothing
further from Cabool. Everything was going on
quietly at Pesh-boak; all the tribes friend
ly and the Politicals treating with the tribes
for the restitution of the stores plundered last year.
The Express brought official accounts of some
successes of Gen. MOTIFS army in Candahar. The
GhZies, 5000 strong, attempted to storm the fort of
khelatiGeilzie, the morning of the 2lst May but
were gallanty repulsed, after an hours hard fighting
by the small garrison of 900 men, leaving upw ards
Of 100 dead the field, besides carrying off many
severely wounded, without the loss of a man on our
side. On the 29lh of May, 1000 Afghans, under
Suffer Jung, came towards Candahar, with the in
tention of attacking it, and when they were about
four miles off, party went out and drove them
away, killing about 200.
CmNA.-[From the Bombay correspondence of the
London Morning Post. The intelligence from Chi
ma, which comes down to the 9th of May is wholly
unimportant Several Of tn transports, with rein
torcements, had arrived at Hong Kong, the remainder
expected to reach in few DAYS afterwards
ed tn he rth
ward, and as 1t is supposed, advance at to Pc
KIN. 1t WIS currently reported that the Emperor,
alarmed at the preparations which the English
making to attack him. had given his subjects pater-
nal exhortaon to resist the barbarians the utmost
and retired into Tartary Ills departure from Pekin
before we reach it, though highly probable, will he
unfortunate If he should have removed himself and
his family beyond the great wall with whom are we
to conclude treaty The settlement at Hong
Kong was progressing rapidly. The intelligence of
the Emp ror's flight is derived from the French mis-
sionaries at Pekn, who supposed to have access
to s~me good sources of information
FLIGHT THE EMpERoR.-We learn on good au-
thority that the Emperor, experimenting visit from
the English to Pekin, has retired into Tartary and
has, before his Departure magnanimousy issued pro-
CARNATIONS to his people, enjoining them to defend
themselves to the very utmost. We wonder what the
people will say TO be forsaken by him whose duty it
IS to protect them Such pusllanimty deser, es
that the people should throw off their allegiance to
prince who seems so little deserving of it. Canton
Press, May 81
Exports IeS--The market has been so long open
that no teas remain of any quality approaching to
good or mddling; even good common is hardly to
be met with. About Is chops of Congou remain,
mostly very common; the best of them Gamble got at
taes 81 to % for cash the cannot yet be pur-
chased under taels 20 OF Twankay 500 chests and
10000 hall chests remain for very common taels 81
IS the minimum. OF Hyson 5000 taels % is the
minimum
SrAM--The Madrid advices are to the 25t ult
at when date there were vague of a dissolu-
ton of the Cortes and of a war between Spa;n and
PORTUGAL because the troops of the former country
were approaching the Portuguese frontiers. 1t IS