New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-01-24
FARTHER Foreign Extracts

matters connected with the administration ana
statistics of that vast empire. The books are IN
Their Chinese cases or han-vlz. small boxes, and
these cases are vanished, and resemble mahogany.
U3A desperate atfray had occurred at Wowich,
between the Artillery and Marines, in which
several were severely wounded.
DESPERATE AFFRAy WITH RIBBoNMEN-On
Monday night last an armed party of about forty
rufians, attacked the dwellings of an industrious
set the name of Gibbons, at Paramount, for the
purpose of swearing them to reduce the rent OF
some conacre which they had set few days pre-
viouSly. Having heard some shots, and suspect
ing that a visit would be paid them, the gallant
little band consisting OF seven mem armed them
selves with pitchforks, and met the marauders,
who, it appears, had firearms. A desperate con-
aict ensued, and the Gibbonses were obliged shell.
ter themselves in one of the houees, which they
barricaded and defended till every one of them
were desperately wounded.
They then betooks themselves to the loft, where
they fought CALAMITY. The Ribbonmen demo-
liShed every article in the house after they OBJ
tanned an entrance. Three or four of the leaders
of the Rlbbonmen were dangerously wounded
with pitchforks whilst forcing the door. Up
wards of fourteen of them have been arrested and
fully identified. The brave little party were taken
INTO this town, where the best surgical attendance
Is given to them. This portion of Paramount IS
the locality where the celebrated " Billy Smith
domced himself for some time previous to his
arrest. TRoscommon Journal.
LARGE EsrABLIsHMENT-There is an export
house IN Manchester, which, from the magnitude
OF It's business, VIZ exporters of cotton twist and
piece goods. The firm referred to is known to
pack no fewer than $4,000 to 10000 bales per
annum each pack weighing half a ton; this lat
ter quantity gives 81 bales day equal to Al tons,
or 2S7 tons weekly-or nearly Is, 600 tons year.
The carriage paid by the house is astounding
The present charge to Hull is Cd per TOM which
amounts to $500 per week. The annual pay
ment on this head will, therefore, be within
fraction of f3O, coo.
The great Sugar Refinery belonging to Sir
Thomas and James Brancker, Esq. at Liverpool,
one Of the most extensive in the Kingdom, and
employing many hands, was destroyed by fire on
the morning of Thursday. The damage is est
mated at f70,000-a little more than half of
which is insured. How the fire originated is a
mystery.
Lord Morpeth presided at the half yearly dis
tributlon of prizes in Huddersfcd College, on
the Goth ut. and at the dinner which followed
he made some pleasant speeches, abiding to the
College, his Yorkshire "reminiscences, and his
American travels. In America, he said, go
where he would, he met vii Yorkshlremcn; tbs
first guide of whom he asked the way was
Yorkshircman and in the Prairles, at Jackson
vile, he found community of YorkshiremeH
and Henry Clay had a faithful and !ong-,ried
scrvant-a iorkshirewoman. Lord Mo,peth
avoided politics. but an alluson to his return to
power, made by another speaker, was well re-
ceiycd.
By the decease Of his mother, Sir E. l.. Bull
wer succeeds to the ancient mansion and estates
OF hncbWorth, in llerts, to which she was heiress.
The Queen has had a billiard table constructed
ont of wood saved from The wreck Of The Royal
George, sunk in 1882.
The prosecution of the Earl of Cardigan, by
Lord YIN Paget, has been abandoned
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kean have Just concu
ded successful engagement at Dublin. II is
sad they have Melted $500 by their visit 10 the
Irish metropolis.
Messrs. Surge, IN their Corn circular for the
last month, repeat their opinion that the last har
vest was a deficient one, and that there must be
higher prices and large importatlons before the
next
The French Mission to China left Brest on the
l2Eli uItimo.
VI. Janin. Director Of the Italian Opera at
Paris and his WIFE, committed suicide a few
days ago. by placing a pan Of burning charcoal
in their bedroom. The discovery of fraud on
the part of the Proprletors was the cause of the
catastrophe.
4 letter from Rome states that the struggle be-
tween the French Government and the Clergy
will be arranged by the interference of the Court
Of Rome, on condition that the Cabinet of the
Tuilleries Will on It's side nake!concesslons, and
in particular remove such Professors as by their
doctrines have excited the anger of the French
Bishops. The general opinion at Rome is that
the French Government will evince every desire
to act according to the wishes of the Pope
The celebrated Madame Catalan who for %
years held with so much ecLat the sceptre of
song, has just died, after short illness, at her
villa, near Snigaglia, Roman States,) at the age
of So Angelica Catalan was born in 1854 at
Sinigaglla She made her debut on the stage at
Venice when only Is, and retired in 1881. She
had married FrencAman NJ. de Valabngue, a
native of Burgundy, who died in 1923, and by
whom she had three children. Madame Catala-
nj has left fortune which is rated at about
f332, 000. a Paris paper, however, contradlcts
the alleged death Of Madame Catalan, the an
nounccment of which was first made IN the Jour
nal deS Debats
We learn from Copenhagen, on the | ltl and
18th ult., violent tempest ragged In the districts
of Veile, in North Jutland. A great many car
riages travelling along the roads, were blown
over. The tide rose in the port Of Velle 80 high
that the waters not only flooded the houses and
stores, doing damage to the amount OF IVO,oooi.'
but foated off the stocks brig that was beng
built Besides these disasters, two mills were set
on fire by the lightning. Upwards OF 2oo per-
sons are said to have persisted
The Augsburg Ga=ette states that the late erup-
ton or Mount Etna has been most fatal-l3O