Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-05-09
SUNDAY EVENINGS MAIL
ne TEEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE
ARRIVAL OF THE
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the 18th Of April. She brought ~ passengers foe
Halifax, 20 for Boston, aud IRON Halifax to BIS
ton
Troops for Trdia- On Friday, the 2slh Resim. nj
| embarked for India. and in n few days the 10Th
Regiment, greatly augmented, will also embark for
| the same place.
Troops FOR India, in considerable numbers, are
assembling ut Canterbury, Gravescnd and Tilbury
Fort. and the embafkation OF men is gong on with
| activity Three additional regiments have been
oered 10 INA. country-the Seventy Eighth High
| landets, the 10Th Foot, and the 9th LANCER
| We regret to have to state the discovery of Sc.
rIous embt zzement Of the funds Of the Steam Tug
Company and the subsequent, suicide, Ivy poison OF
oi ono OF Two individuals concerned in the embtz.
| element.
At a State Ball given by the Queen at Bueking.
ham Palace on the 18th II April. the American Mi
MISTER, Mrs and Miss Everett, and the gentleman
attsched to the Legation. were present.
| Mr. oConnel, Ne Lord Mayor OF Dublin with
the A'dermen nnd Town Councillors proceeded TO
buckingham Palace on Saturday week, with a con.
gratulatory address to her Majesty and Prince
Albert, on the birth Of the Prince Of Wales The
address was read Ivy Mr. O'Connell in A very i'm.
presslve style, and the Queens answer was deli
4 vered with her usual grace OF manner
Madrid papers Of the 9Th mention that NJ Ter.
man, who wss regarded an agent OF the Prince
Meiternlch had received notice to quit the Spanish
capital.
The LeipSic journals mention the arrival in that
city, from Russia, Of german who has attained
| the great age OF ll9 years
One Of Lord Eilenborough's frs, acts, as Govern
General Of India has been TO order the restoration
OF Baua to the Madras sepoys.
younger brother OF the present Chief of the
| Druses of Mount Lebanon, has arrived in England
Tor the purpose OF icing educated at one Of the
| Universities.
Twenty-slx houses in the village Of Trow!ey
Bottom, in Herefordshire, we're recently DESTROYED
bv IRE. They were inhibited mostly by straw
pln,ters for the Dunstabe trade.
Orders had been issued at the British Royal
Foundry for the casting OF 20G0 cannons Of yiri.
Gus cabre, intended chiefly for the larger vessels Of
war.
The Lords Of the Admiralty have ordered 20
powerful frc engines 10 be constructed for use in
the national dockyard. Nine of those engines
have been completed and sent 10 Woolw ich TO be
proved.
The Gazette de Guernsey announces the arrival
Of Major General Napier, who has succeeded Sir
James Douglas as Lieutenan; Governor OF the
Island.
Two girls, aged Is and 20, are in custody a,
Leicester, charged with the wilful murder OF an
elderly woman named wnrng, who lodged wi'h the
parents OF one Of them, Ivy putting arsenic into the
teakettle.
A fire broke on, in London on the 25,h, which
destroyed the extensive leather manufacturing es-
adjustment of Messrs. Bailey * Co.. the largest in
London, and at one time threatened a very exten
sivc connagraliou.
The Iron Steamboat Company had made prcpa
rauons for prosecuting their business on a mos,
extensive scale at the chain pier, Chelsea. Con
: tracts were already out for upward. of fifty new
boats
Another emtozzlement has heen detected of the
|. funds of the Manchester and Bolton Railway Co.,
by confidential clerk. This is the second time
that company has suffered in similar way.
The prelim'nares had been concluded for a ma
trimonal alliance between the Duke Of Bordeaux
and the second daughter of the Emperor Nicholas
( OF Russia.
THG BRIrrH PARLIANrHT,-The debate on the
reso uuons proposed by Lord John Russell as an
amendment on the resolutions imposing an Income
tax, occupied the House OF Commons several nights
The amendment was, OF course rejected by a large
majority, and the original esoIution affirmed. =
Soon this odous and unjust will be established
by law, and men, thoish they will have the s,tis.
. iheuon OF grumhling, must pay 10 the uitermosi
iarthing The Tariff. by which Sir Robert Pee
promises g. reimburse, by the cheapness of living
every man who pays the income tx, will now come
under discussion. The best parts OF 1t will, as q
matter Of course, be ercey assaled by the country
u gentlemen. who cannot be made TO believe as III,
Premier wishes them, that provisions be mad,
y cheaper, 10y the introduction Of foreign articles
e WITHOUT the home producer suffering.
The corn law bill rs 1t has been already dcscrib
| ed, had It's final passage in the House Of Common
Apu ], and was sent to the House o. Lords. Til,
discussion the motion for the third reading va.
ayes 229, noes 9O-malonty l39 A previous mo
ton Tor Postponement had been lost by majority
of so
The corn law bill was debated in the House OF
Lords on the question Of the second reading Apri
-. Earl Stanhopes motion to postpone the bill tC
that time six months, was rejected by a vote Of Is
TO IL, majority 1902; that the bill lie now read a
second time and Lord BroUgham's motion that nc
duty oush, 10 be imposed the importation of for
sisn corn of any kind, was lost by a vote of ; tC
lOn. The oil was then read a second time.
In the House Of Commons. on the evening of the
| 18Th, Sir Robert Peel called up the lncomc TaS
bill aud moved that it be read Tor the first time
| Lord John Russell arose in oppostion and moved
al that 1t be read that day six months. Upon this a
debate arose, and the motion was nega,lvod by q
vote Of 2s5 10 ISIS. The bill was then read.
The accounts OF the British revenue for the quar-.
ter cGdlng April ., exhibit increase in the whole
receipts Of the qunrte=, compared with those OF the
corresponding quarter OF lSil, amounting 1882
The increase on the year over the receipts Of Ill,
preceding yenr, IS E6S7.9il. The aggregate re
ceipts Of the yenLRm9unt to CAS-, 1868 S27.
The dIstres;es IN the manufacturing districts o
Great Britain still continued, although the demanC
for labor was. on the whole, somew hat better thar
It had teen for some time past The Spitafelt
weavers had been partially relieved by further
contributions from the metropolis and the Commercial
towns ard the distressed operatives Of Paisley
were in the receipt Of donations sufficient to saw,
them from actual starvation. Sill the amount Of
suffering very great and much greater proba
bly, thon even the BRUSH public supposed It could
be, under the circumstances.
g. IRELAND.
The troubles in Ireland, arising principally from
| the Scarcity ~ PROVISIONS, Inc want OF employment
md disaileciion with the government, were every
day assuming more alarming aspect Murders
robbsrics, and other outrage' upon the laws. wet,
Of frequent occurrence-all showing laxity Of mo
raj restraint and desperate determination NO, 6;
obey the behesis Of Tory rule. The complaint
o was, that the government, amidst all is proposed
measures, did not contemplate doing any Ihikg for
Ireland, or to .ishIcn the burdens which weighed
down its energies.
large number If houses in the neghborhood oil
Doonbcg, county Clare, Ireland, were recently car
rei away by food, and several men lost their
lives IN attempting TO save some cattle.
Tie assertion recently made by Sir Robert Peel
IN Parliament, that the Temperance Reformation
had not diminished the qua0tity Of nrdsnt spirits
imported into Ireland, ss,outy contrndctcd by the
Irish Wing papers, and is considered 10y them as
INTENDED TO keep up the old prejudiees against the
Irish people.
FRANCE
| NJ Thicrs has treated his country and Europe 70
another warlike speech, 10 another tune played on
the chord Of national "leeng." NJ Theirs, IN this
speech, strongly insists on tho immediate outlay OF
large sums IN order 10 establish great naval port
al Agiors capable OF containing and projecting a
3 fleet Of p sail OF the line.
PERSIA