Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-09-16
From The Tropic
FOUR DAYSLATER FROM EUROPE.

From The T1opic
FOURDAYSLATERF FROM EUROPE.
A'riDal Of the Steamship Margaret.-
The steamer Margaret, Capt. Shannon,
from Liverpool on the 9th ultimo, arrived at
Halifax on The 9th. after the unusually
long passage of IL days, bringing INTEL.
gence only 4 days later than was brought
by the Great Western. AS the Margaret
is not a regular packet, she did not bring
full files Of English papers; consequently
the news is rather meagre, We clip from
the New York Herald of the I'd the follow.
ing details:
There was no important change in the
state of the markets.
There is no news Of special Importance.
Lord Wellington had declared in his place
in Parliament, in answer tor speech from
Lord Roden, that the British government
were fully preparedsto maintain peace in
Ireland, forcibly if they mist, peaceabIy if
they could.
The weather, from the time of the de-
parture of tho Great Western 10 that of
The Margaret, appears to have been
fine, and the prospects Of the crops better.
Flour at Liverpool was difficult of sale,
and duty paid. foreign was quoted on the
9Th at Sd TO Is. lower.
The South Of Wales continues in a dis.
turbed state; toll.houses and foil. gates are
constantly coming under The new regime
of "Rebecca and her Daughters, and the
government seems 10 possess no energy in
maintaining The laws.
SO great is the luminosity Of the Welch
people against the metropolitan police sent
among them, that it is proposed to with
draw them entirely. and substitute Welch
%conscri pts in their place.
Among the political rnmors, is that Lord
Brougham is bnsily intriguing, and very
painfully anxious to resume his seat upon
the wool-ack.
The Messrs. Quincy, Of Norwich. and
other leading bankers in the East of Eng.
land, have come TO resolution, in conse.
quence OF the want OF employ ment for mo.
.ney,which has existed now for twelve
months past, to lever the rates of interest
on deposits to liz per cent.
A great meeting Of pitmcn engaged in
the collierles, wasfield on the 9th at Black
Fell, about four miles from Newcastle, for
the purpose of forming n union to protect
the rates Of wages. More than 10000
were present.
Father Mathew appears to be pursuing
his temperance career almost ms triumph.
antly in England as he did in Ireland.
Thousands, heretofore ~votaries Of Bacchus,
signed the pledge.
At a meeting ofproprietors Of the ST.
George steam Packet Company, held at
Liverpool, a dissolution Of the company
was resolved on, it appearing that in eight
years the losses had been G5OO,0 900.
A huge bell, said to be the largest ever
in England, was shipped for Montreal
ut London on the 7th ulf. II weighs So.
ven tons eleven hundred and twelve pounds
and is for the new Cathedral al Montreal.
lis diameter at the mouth is seven feet
three inches. The cIapper weighs more
than three hundred weight.
Her b. M. steam vessel the Lizard, was
IN down by the French steam frigate
off C~arthagena, on the night of
July %. The Lizard went down almost
immediately, but only one life was lost,
Post and the crew being rescued
and taken TO Gibraltar by the Veloce.
Z%ephaniali Williams, one of t he Char.
.,st convicts, has been hanged in New
South Wales, for numbering an old man
Hardness. He was convicted on
lis own confession, that being tired of life,
ne had resolved to kill the first man he
net.
A girl OF thirteen was sentenced to death
II the Warwick Assizes, August 4th. for
fire to a dwelling house in which
The lived as servant. The Judge intima-
ed, however, that her sentence would be
committed.
One of the Scottish blacksmiths, of the
Green order, was Sentenced to
transportation, seven years, for marrying a
couple within the English border,
somewhat intoxicated at the time.
There have been serious commotions at
.ubeck, originating in the discomfort of .
ONE soldiers with the clothes supplied to :,
1em DY TIC HlfdClof5.-l ne senate :,
,as abliged to resort to severe means Of :
epression, and peace was restored.
American Sympathy.-We rejoice to
ave the privilege Of announcing that the
lev. Mr.. Macmillan, of k~irkcudbrighl.
as received from New York a remittance v
f flI0o, ito be applied toward erecting :
the town of Kirkcudbrlght, a church in "
,nnection with the Free Presbyterian c
hurch of Scotland. Stand ii
ID. u
The captain of the new American liner, ,
ship Victoria. had given a splendid en- +,
rtainment to the Foreign Ambassadors, 4
I'd other distinguished fnnctionaries. b
mong those present were Mr., Everett, Ia
e American Minister, Abbott Lawrence r
ID family, DC. &c. "
The British ship of war Alert, with troops pe
ID seamen TO the number ef280 on board, G
u lost OF Goose Island, about so miles ar