Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-08-26
FOR EIGN ITEMS.
From the New York Sun, august 3.
later from EurOpe

VI eFifOm Europe.
il ENeLAND.-Ihe Sondwich ,Lslands.-Despatch
e. Faaei Eft ba sa9ec f. IL ri
South Pacific: acknowledging the free lndepen
dence of King Tamahamaha Ill. and the Sand
wich Islands f'om this any other country.
4 The Irish legal world has lost one of its mos
illustriousl members, in the Right Hon. Charlo
= Kendall yushe, late Chief Justice of the Court O
Queen sBench. He died on Friday at The hons,
of his sn, Mr.. Thomas Bushe, Furrey, Rahney
Thee has been extraordinary demand for co
;, ,, pies DR.. Pusey's Sermon. Upwards of .OOi
), copis have been sent to Ireland. Two editions Of
6,OU each. have been printed; and third edition
its expected, is just about to issue.
/fuseyism is still making rapid progress nmono
Ihe clergy. IT is said that out of IL 900 clergy
sAnen full 5000 or three -fourths of their whole
number, are more or less tainted by this popisb
heresy under a Protestant rame.
MIR. Gypson, the eronaut made an ascent from
Dublin yesterday sen'night, and the ba loon after
wards falling into the sea, near Bray Head, had n
very narrow escape from drowning. He was
picked up by some fishermen, after he had hesn
70 minutes in tho water.
At the meeting of the Irish Genel al Assembly.
IN Belfast, last week, subscription list on be-
half of the Scotch Free Church was opened. and
The amount realized on the spot was G2UOO.
FRANcE.-Accordingt to communication made
by M. Arago to the Academy of Sciences at Pa.
ris, on the 5th, a contract has been en,ored into
by Messrs. Barring & Co., of London, with the Re-
public Of New Grenada, in virtue of which. the
Republic is to cede to them the line required for
the projected canal across the lsthmus of Panama,
with $4,000 acres of land on the two banks,
and 400 600 acres in the interior of sbe country
Messrs. Barring & Co. had, it is said, in the first
instance, fixed the amount Of toll for the nayipa
tion Of the canal at the price of Is francs per tom
but they have reduced it to francs The work.
upon which from 400 10 500 men are to be en-.
gagged Is to be completed in FIVE years
SPAiN.-fhe intelligence from Spain leaves no
doubt that tho fate Of the Regent is scaled. Mad.
rid Is in state of siege. He proposes to keen
opsn his communication, it is stated, with Sara.
goss and Cadz--if he can. The advance guard
Of Zurbano had entered Saragossa, when that
General was expected the following day with ten
battalions. Madrid was peaceabe, but as for the
Regent, he IS what the French papeis call him
a lost man.
Poor Espartero, enfeebled by disease and bun.
ted on every side like wild boar, seems likely
to sink. brave man struggling with the storms
OF fnte is certain tocommand the sympathy of the
disinterested. but there is unhappy but little dis
interested patriotism in SPAIN
CHNA.-SIr Henry Pottinger. it is SAID, has ap.1
piled to she home Government for his speedy re-.
call. Ihe Government, however, we now hear
IS unwiiling . dispense with his services, and his
Excellency wm therefore, remain some time lon. |
ger in China. vs. likewise hear it is said that the
supreme control ov>v the whole of the British nn
val and military forcA in China has been placed
in Sir Henrys hands.
Late from Spain. .--CaP.in Lane, of the shin
Alabaman, at New York froa Gibrnl,ar-wb;cbb
place he left on the 9Th Of Julss-repor,s that. on
his way to Gibraltar from Genoa, he touched n,
Malaga sent boat ashore, and wasinformed bv