Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1843-02-08
Foreign Extracts,

which port she left on The Alb uit., Inc NJ
Y, Commercial Advertiser received their
usuai fIes of London and Liverpool pa
pors. from which paper we Gull the follow
Jog items
The s,oppage Of the Yorkshire Agricul'
turel and Commercial Bank, at York, va
announced in the los, week Of December
and caused q great commorion in that c'iy'
nt Leads and elsewhere II was general
" believed tho, there wss very little chance
Of q resumption o~ipaymen,, and the most
serioaa consequences were apprenenaea'
a. The bank bad branches at mos, OF the
iowps in the North and East rulings. a
meeting of the shareholders had been held.
q, which il was found that the whole CAPT.
sal Of tho bank, S2ll,000, was lost. end
GiaSyOO0 besides. The liabilities auaonn-
ted no about $4,000. A call of f3 per
share was agreed TO the number oil shares
being $4,000 o make up the deficiency;
The affairs of the bank were 10 be wound
vp. m,,Ls
urapara,ory to the commencement OF cut
upe ,hroueh The ls,hmus OF Panama are
enhancing rapidly. The entire length OF
this canal viii be i6 miles; lie breadth al
the surface l35 feet; aud its depth y lee'.
nj. Morei, the engineer, estimates It's chs:
ESQ, coo sterling.
Mr.. Everett, the American minister IN
Loninn, bad beeu passing a few day win
Sir Robert Peel, ut his country house,
Dray,op Manor, 10 company with a num-
Der Of distinguished officers aud OLDER PR
Eruption of Mount .E,na.-After many
years repose, says a London paper f,fna
has, duriog the las, three weehs' poured
G,,th ;n,n,sase masses Of FIRE. IL seems
rhatcousidsrable i"rreuts of lava are How
;ug 10 the direction of Brouie. The dam
nee already tore is said To be immense.
Several smart shocks Of au earthquake
had been fell in the southern parts oil Wales
aud Cornwall.
Thomas Tornely. Esq, ono of The mem.
hers fnr wolverhanptot in the House oi
Commous, connected for many years with
the United Suites 90 merehsn. al Liver
pool, has. recently returned from visiting
i,Se principal cilies IN the Union. Tie adj
dressed a large meeting ofh's constituents
n, me 23rd nil. relative to the state oi par
,;eri in the United States. He pointed out
f,reib,e the advantages which both coun-
,ries would derive from o free trade IN
corr.
The English papers remark npon the
u,usaal m;idness Of the season.
Gyra. Fire in Lircrpoo.-The Liver
wal Courier of Dee. 25ih says-on Thurs
day morning last we had auo.her desirnc-
live eonfa,ra,ion. A 'urpentinc dis,il'ery,
,,so iarpe warehouses, full Of goods, aud
snrne smaller buildings, were entirely con-
suFned. The FIRE commenced in Messrs.
!. prou g. Some turpentinc dis'lliery, III
Pa,,;smen, street. The distiilery was
sanked BY TWO extensive warehouses, one
se,vh;ru WOO Eiiah with cotton. the other
with hemp and graio. the communication
Win the dis,illery on each side being kept
I'D through The ground belonging t The
latter, with range Of 5s.:,ls, filled with
rosin and ~turpeniine, whieh were p'leH
several Yards high. ltspread Ill! the pr'a
cipal buildings included within ,ha, area,
no less ;hur 3.3o0 square yards in extent.
were destroyed. The amount of HISS is
nes slased-ihe property was Insured 10
Tho amoun, Of E50,OO0.
Loss Of Lyt.-A fire occurred m the
la,h Dec. in q lodging hou"e. Goodman's
Fields. Loudon, kcpi by n sap boiler
named Coos There were Twenty-Five
dodgers, and on, Of :has uumber, eISh! was
harmed tn death.
Tar Chinese T'reaty.--The grea, seal o!
Enelaud was on Saturday affixed 30 the
tresty recently ratified between This coun-
,ry and China, al the rcsideneo o. the
l.Sord Chancellor, in Great George street,
Hanover Square, after which i, was trans
,n;,.ed 10 the War Office, for the purpose
ofbeinc forwarded to the Celestial Emu
n;re. under The caro- Of Major Malcolm.
number OF failures Of cnrn merchants
has occurred. Among Them was Nj. Dunn
of Wakaieid, whose debts amount to si'-
100000.
PpSiie Recommendation from Church.
"A sren-. happily, says "a eorre,rondcrl'
ofrare occurrence ia the presen. day, took
rlare 10 ,he parish church OF Messio, in
This county, on Sunday the 25th u't. Da-
rinr divine service The .ec,ur called from
the congregation a ynnug man aud woman.
and in The ~presenceu Of oil! ,hnse assembled.
and expelled them %utopposi'c doors from
the sacred ediEce.
Franee.-Fhs Paris Monitesr Of De-
eeuber IL, officially announces the oecn-
patton Of the Mnrqnesas Islands by Adm'.
"a, Dcpe,;, Thouurs, hsvtpg hoisred the
standard of France on The two gronpes--
Marouesas and W asbing,on. The rePor,
of the Admiral states that he landed, aud
the French lag was raised on the ''laud
IS Tabuala on the Is, OF May. This
v,as done with the consent and at the re-
o,es, of the chief Ye,e. who was IN apPre-
hens;on Of an attack from an America"
vbalcr. a boats crsw Of which had been
fred upou by the natives, aud had q man
killed. The landing on The island OF Na-
kahiva tooa place on the % OF june. where
a fort was begur called Fort Collct' aud
agarriscr placed in it.
One of the Paris papers states that great