Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-02-08
SIXTEEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE
GCro,cdcd out Of he last paper;

l|fo'coco out or The last paper;
| by the arrival of the steamer Brtapnia at Dos.
ton on Sunday afternoon at o'cIocn. Liverpool
papers to the 18th January inclusive, have been re-
ceived.
The Acadia arrived at Liverpool on the 3O,h
uit., the Caledonia on the 18th.
The ex-king of Holland, William Frederick,
Coun. OF Nassau, is dead.
Cotton was up. Great excitement in the mar
ket.
The French Chambers opened on Cd January.
January overland Mail from India and China
had arrived.
The state of trade in Manchester, and the man.
uiacturing districts generally, is improving; and
The London Times of the 4th in an article advo.
eating more open and extended system of inter-
national trade represents the general result of the
trade circulars as highly favorable.
Madame Catalan is dead. She was SO wears
of age, and has left fortune of I332 900.
The London Money Market remained without
alteration. The las, sales of American securi-
ties were-Pennsyvana fives GS; Alabama II !;
Indiana and Illinois 4 Ohio 6's 80; Tennessee
20; U. ). Bank shares New York SIS 90.
The packet ship independence from n. York.
carried out the Presidents Message to England.
Winners liverpool Times OF the 4th January,
says, in regard 10 it:
The Presidents Message, which came to hand
Wednesday week, by the independence, Capt.
Nyo. has been very unsParingly analysed. 1t has
IT.
vi the various pens TO which it has offered en-
pioyment, all, without exception, find fault either
Win the tone OF lis morality or its oyerreachnr
anlmus. The absence of all censure of the repu.
Giatlng states, in so elaborate document is hold
10 be one Of its primary defects the freebootincr
style In which Il recommends the erection of A :
merican military posts on the Oregon, while the
territory Itself is In dispute, has given great Of
fence, and the manner in which the President
hints his wishes for the annexation Of Texas, and
the hard words he bestows upon Mexico (from
which it is evident that he desires to proceed to
blows with that lettering Republic) has been held
to Indicate very low standard of moral feeling
All these points have been sharply criticised.
IRELAND.
Ireland is quiet. MIR. O'Connell remains at
Derrynane; and in reporting the proceedings of
The Repeal Association of Dublin on the Sd in
slant, tho papers remark:
"Ihat even during these holyday times the gen
ueinen oil the Corn Exchange find it difficult, in
the absence Of MIR. O'Conneli TO get together any
considerable number Of persons to listen to their
lucubrations. To-day there was begoarly ac-
count OF empty benches; the building, which is
calculated to contain several thousands present
Ing an array of about two hundred idlers, many of
whom were women.''
INDIA AND CHINA.
ny an extra mail direct from Calcutta to Suez,
accounts have been received from Calcutta to The
18th of November, Madras 10th November, and
Singapore l1th October.
CHiNA.-ihe commercial accounts received by
the extra Overland Mail which arrived i'm Lon
don on Wednesday last, are very favorable, both
as relates TO India and China, and strengthen the
hopes already entertained Of a great extension of
trade with those countries, and consequently of
IonS continuance OF our present manufacturing and
commercial prosperity, which in great measure
arises out OF the improved state of The trade with
, east These papers, among other matters,
bring an official reply of TIE Imperial Commits
sIoner keyiing, at Canton, to complaint made
by the British consul at the request of Mr.. Cool
ridge, an American merchant, of misconduct on
the part of one of the Hong merchants, which
seems TO have pleased Sir Henry Pottenger great
admits that me monopoly Of the Ilongs is at an
end as well as on account OF the friendly spirit
which 1t maniteSts. In courtesy and good sense
the answer OF keyling would bear comparison
with the best European documents of a similar
KIND, a circumstance which shows most strongly
how salutary effect the severe lesson given to
Inc Chinese In the late war has produced, and
how entirely they have abandoned their old habits
of insolence and bullying.
iNDIA-fhe only political news from India is
mat one OF the reported victims Of the late mas
sacre at Lahore, lleera Singh, is still alive, and
mat great sickness continues to exist amongst the
British forces in Scinde. There was ii report
That Dost Mahomed, the recently restored sovc-
reign of Ahghanistan, had been assassnated by
an emlssary of tile Khan of Bockhara. The J.
dian Indigo crop of The present year is exp. 'ed
TO be the largest ever known, and to auo'-' 10 d.
bout 10000 mauds.