The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-10-22
ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA.
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TWELVE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.


TWELVE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
From The New York Sun, Extra
COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN THE UNI
TED STATES AND CHlNA-CONDTrION OF
EUROPE, &c. agff..y
The steamer Acadia, Capt. HARRISON arrived
at Boston on Sunday.
BY this arrival we have London papers of the
Sd, Liverpool of the 18th, and Paris, Dublin, and
Havre dates of the lst inst.
The Hibernia arrived at 10 o'clock on the night
of the 2Slh. The Great Western arrived on Sun
day night, the Doth The Sddons, Capt. Cobb,
arrived on the 2Sh and the Columbus, Capt.
Cole, and Ashburton, Capt Huttleston, on the
lst inst, and the Yorkshire, Capt. Bailey, on the
Sd instant. A's@s
The treaty entered into between England and
France, for giving up offenders that take refuge
in either country, has been carried out in the
person of Jacques Besset, charged with fraudu-
lent bankruptcy, who has been taken into cuslo-
dy in London and sent TO Paris
1t is said The British Ministry intend to attack
the Irish Repeal movement again.
Rumors exist that treaty has been entered
into between Brazil and England This inteli-
gence may or may not be correct. 81 tl H4
Mr.. Everett, the American Minister, is said TO
have solicited his recall. ~
The Queen of England, returning from Scot
land, was expected to arrive in England on the
81 instant
Van Amburgh's elephant. last week, at Can
terbury, being annoyed by a trnmpeter in the or
chestra, suddenly caught him with his trunk and
lifted him up in the air, and then let him fall in
the sawdust. The musician was not hurt
The committee of Spanish American bondhold-
ers met on Friday last, to consider the proposals
received by the late packet FROM the Government
OF New Grenada for the adjustment of the foreign
debt. The further discussion Of the proposals
was adjourned for week. 'aas
The Queen of Spain was dying.
The King Of FtAnce would leave Treport for
England on the 9th inst.
The Great Britain steamship is on the eve of
being relieved from her confinement in the Bris-
lol dock
The Bank of England, at their half yearly
meeting on the 10Th ult., declared dividend Of
three and a half per cent. 1t was stated at the
meeting that the branch banks yielded small
profit. }4.g..rH
A shoal of whales, amounting to upwards of
500, proved prize, few days back, to the poor
inhabitants Of Zetand, who captured them ALL
and sold the carcasses at f2 IS. each
REPUTATION DENOUNCED AT THE BRITISH
CoURT.-lt is very commonly rumored in the CITY,
that 1t IS the intention of Government to exclude
from the Court, and from the Ministerial parties
all the foreign Ministers or Charges dAfaa,as
whose governments have not faithfully fiji SD
their engagements with their creditors in This
country. Such proceeding would place the
United States representative in very embar-
RAISING and unenviable position ~
DREADFUL Loss OF LIFE NEAR SUNDERLAND-
Accounts from Sunderland give an account of an
explosion in a coalpit at Haswell coery, about
ten miles from Sunderland, which has caused the
destruction OF ninety-six human beings 1t is
said that at the time of the accident there were
a hundred persons in the pit, and that only three
or four have been saved. eg
RUMoRED TREATY WITH BRAzIL.-Rumors
have been current for some days that a new trea-
ty has been recently entered into between Brazil
and the British Government. Nothing positive
is known as to the terms, and in the absence of
definite information, speculation has been very
rte. general advance of five per cent on the
importation Of British goods is mentioned as one
of the clauses of the treaty.
Iartans are becoming fashionable, in conse-
quence of the Queens visit to Scotland, and the
pattern being patronized by her Majesty.
The report is confirmed that Bohemia will ioin
the German Customs Union, by way of experi-
ment, for FIVE years.
O'Connel whose movements are recorded with
a degree OF interest not inferior to those of roy
atty, has left the Irish metropolis for his mountain
home.
IRELAND.
The repeal rent on the 23I September was de-
clared to be worth .E60O l2s IS.
The Repeal Association met on the 3Oih Sep.
lember. The meeting was addressed by Messrs
M. O'Connell and others, and the rent was an
bounced to be f349 Is.
special meeting of the Dublin Town Council
was held on the 25th Of September, to consider
proposition of DR.. Maunsel to address Her Ma
esty, praying her to hold her court and summon
ler Parliament once in three years in Dublin.
FRANCE.
The papers announce the arrival at Paris of
he Duke de G ucksburg with treaty between
France and Morocco. The Emperor slipuIates
hat he will communicate to the French Govern
nent the names of the Moorish chiefs who in.
,aded the Algerian territory; that Aud eI-Kader
De outawed throughout The African POSSESSIONS
If the Emperor and France that he may be pur-
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