Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-11-23
EXTRACTS FROM LATE FOREIGN
NEWS,

| EXTRACTS FROM LA T. TORElO4S
NEWS.
AMERICAN PRODUCE IN L1vERPooL.-Th
quantity of American tobacco on hand in
Liverpool was so large that it was found
necessary to procure additional storehouses
for the storage. There were upwards of
IL 900 hhds. and packages already slowed
in the old establishment.
Byaccounts recently published, it appears
there is an immense falling off this year in
! the shipping employed in the timber trade
| between Liverpool and the North Ameri-
can colonies. The amount so employed in
the year ending on the first of February,
| 1912. was la, 94S tons, whilst the amount
which has arrived since that time, is only
49,O95 TONS
THE FIRE AT LIvERPooL-The follow
ing is an account of the damage done by
the late cOnfagration; 40, 797 bales cotton,
b. 97 bbls. turpentine, $50 bbls. rosin, 80
casks tallow, 60 tons oil, 145 tons hemp,
IA ID tons flax, 200 casks beet, 1924
b5ls -four, 800 sacks -four, tons coffee, 3
tierces coffee, 81 casks tincal, IA cases tin
cal, 108 cases quercitron bark, so casks
horn tips, 81 tons logwood, ga double bales
madden, 4l6 bbls Indian corn, 6 packages
! Indian rubber, 3 crates teasels, and several
packages and parcels Of drugs.-L'rerpool
Jour.
ENGLIsH Observation-Disclosures from the
official returns, that there is a decrease in
I the revenue for the quarter ending at the
same date last year, of f67, Alb. But for
| the Property Tax, the decrease in Taxes
would have reached f3Sl,277.
FRENcH REvENUE.-The favorite state
OF the French Revenue supplies the lead
ing topic for discussion in the Paris papers
The increase during the first months of the
year 1872 as compared with the receipts
for the same period in the year 1871,
amounts to %, 10000 francs, or about
one million sterling
WRECK OF A STEAM-SHip.-TbeE Eng
land, first class iron steamer, on her way
from Liverpol to London, struck on the
Scilly Island, in thick weather. The
vessel was built in four compartments, two
Of whichwere stove in and filled. But be-
fore she sunk, the crew had time to escape
in the boats and landed in safety.
A Liverpool correspondent, says the
Dublin Evening Post informs US that con-
tract has been entered into there. for the
supply of 5000 barrels Of American flour
to be delivered in November, at l8s per
barrel of 1876 Id. This is little more than
one penny per ID.
Mr.. Featherstonhaugh, one Of the COM
missioners who explored the Northeastern
Boundary on the part Of Great Britain in
1910 undertook in an after dinner speech al
Plymouth, on last week, to defend the traa-
ty lately concluded between England and
the United States. lie expressed it as his
opinion that the settlement that had been
made, was the best for both parties that
could be made. He strongly condemned
the attacks made upon the terms Of treaty
by the English press
The American ship Fairfield had arrived
at Gibraltar, with the news that the difficult
ty between the United States and the En-
peror of Morocco had been settled to tle
satisfaction Of both countries.
The attempts to navigate the Euphrates
and Tigris, by steam, have been abandon
ed, the impediments to the navigation being
found too numerous to overcome.
! The BorsemhaH of Hamburg, of the 9Th
inst. states that. although five months have
elapsed since Il e great fire in that city,
flames are seen from time to time on clear
ing away the ruins Of some Of the build
ngs.
The Sultan Of Turkey has accepted the
mediation of England and Russia in his
difference with Persia.
The Ottoman Porte had rejected pro
| lect presented the great powers for the paci-
fcation Of Lebanon.
| letter from Vienna, states that the
town Of Gross kanischa, in Hungary, was
much damaged by four shocks of an earth
quake recently. Two houses which stood
alone fell down, and buried in their ruins
10 persons. OF these. were taken out
alive, though much bruised.
| Mr.. Wheaton, American minister to the
| German Commercial and Customs Union,
| who has been attending the congress of the
| Union, at Stuttgardt, has returned TO his
post at Berlin, where the negotiations COM
menced by him will be continued during
the ensuing winter.
The Emperor Of China has issued an
imperial edict, in which he boasts that
great officer called Chintal, in rencontre
with the English forces put TO death all the
white barbarians, and seized alive many Of
| the black rebels
celebrated writer on sight, SAYS that
the wearing ofveils permanently weakens
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