Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-01-31
FOREIGN.
ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA.


| New YORK, January 26.-The steamer Caledonia
arrived oil Boston at o'clock yesterday morning.
She left Liverpool the 4th Instant and has been de
layed by head winds and heavy seas. After she had
been TO sea sixteen days, she had only mads about
half the voyage. She encountered very severe wea.
Their at sea- and in the channel, the gale SO
furious that Captain Lott unable to land his pilot
and he consequently brought him TO Boston The Ca
ledona brought S5l6,227 in specie.
| But little news is brought by this arrival The last
dates by packet were to the 18th December and in
the intervening time, but little of interest has occur
red
| Parliament is summoned 10 meet on the second day
Of February. Sir Robert Peel it ia expected, will in.
srctions by which trade IS fetered With character
isc caution, he has carefully absained from divuging
hint of his purpose bis plans The opening OF the
session is anxously awaited.
| Although business has greatly improved, yet, ge-
morally, there is great Of confidence, arising
from the continued failures connected with the corn
trade.
Some say that the Minister will touch the law;
that he will not The probability u.s. that he will
be guided By circumstances The country gentlemen
will try 10 overrue him on one side, and The anti corn
law league preparing to increase "the pressure from
without, as the session approaches.
Her Majesty will have little to do with the "Roynl
speech" this session, owing TO her 'nterestlng aiua-
ton" Her Ministers, in addition to manufacturing it
usual will have TO hear it read from the "wool sack
1
creasng. few days ago. it was stated that the mum.
Der Of unemployed hands amounted to II 900. Govern
ment has refused 10 give further aid TO the destitute
population.
There can be doubt, from the general tone of the
British press that the Of The British arms IN
China and Afghanisan, has tended greatly to strength
en- the present conservative administration.
There has been another destructive FIRE at Liverpool
The loss is estimated at seventy thousand, 10 one hun
dred thousand pounds.
! c,I 81, tbo1.r
Chapel the 25th ut. An immense concourse of PEG
pie had assembled at early mass, when some persons
gave the alarm that the gallery was giving away
which, il appears not So but the rush was so great
that numerous persons trampled upon and
ly bruised, and, it is stated that twenty eight were
killed.
There was an eruption Of Mount Etna on the 2Stb o.
November, and letters from Caania ofthe 3Oh describe
the volcano TO be in fol! eruption, emitting enormous
masses of lava, and showing every prospect OF flow
of liquid lava 30 the destruction Of oil around.
Turin in Savoy, has been almost reduced 10 ashes-
Sixty houses have been bnrnt down. leaving hundred
families without shelter bread The Church is alst
much damaged
The message of President Tyler, at tie opening o
Congress read with great interest," and had been h
subject Of much comment in the newspapers. They ap
pear TO End great fault with him for not urging upo,
Congress the necessity OF paying the State debts. TIL
following 10 from the Tines
"We have seldom had occasion to peruse dccumen
in which the feebleness of the individual BY whom
promulgated, ard the fobles ofthe people TO whom it
addressed, conspcuousy displayed than the
are in the last message Of the President of the u
To assert that the American S,ntes "under their FREE
and wise institutions rapidly advancing towards thu
contamination of the high destiny which over run,
Providence seems to have marked out for them tina
sthe Americans have government, the strongest ii
the world, because emanatng from the popular will
and firmly rooted in the affections Of great and FREE
people, and whose fidelity toits engagements has neve
been quesoned"-and "that the name of Gen Jackson
was placed, BY the defence of New Orleans, amongs
those of the greatest Captains Of the age-so provok
smile throughout the civilized earth, and 10 speak in
tone which is the udicrous because it is contrast
ed with the humlatng facts which This pompou
discourse cannot altogether conceal or contradic-