Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-05-01

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And good in every thing"
they are the beguilers of tme-the poetry of
relirement-anl the incentive to benevolence
and virtue.
Foreign Ne,cs The Steamer acadia, arriv-
ed at Boston, on Sunday the 21st ult., bringing
London and Liverpool dates TO the 4th ult We
select the following items from the Charleston
papers:
Commerciai.-A reference to our cotton
market report will show that since Monday
when The Virginian arrived, the price of the
staple has receded. result of the news
brought by the packet respecting the failure
in large amounts, ofOne or TWO spectators
in the article al New York, combined with
the state of The market in that city aud in
New Orleans. The new cnsloms bill
which has been introduced into the Cham.
bers ofDeputies, raises The duty on Eng
lish machinery and on hogs lard from The
United States. As other countries are
loosening their restrictive laws relative TO
The admission Of foreign produce, France,
Que of the most civilized countries in The
world, seems disposed to tighten hers-al-
ready sufficiently string enl and foolish
Witmer s. Smith's Times, April d.,
Mr.. O'ConnelL-Every arrangement
has been made for the appeal 10 the House
ofLords, and Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr.. Kel-
ley aud Mr.. Sergeant Murphy are retained
for The rraversers. There was some little
delay about allowing The usual license for
these Queens Counsel toappear for Mr..
O'Connell, bul all this is now concluded.
Mr.. O'Connelrs Ora,ion.-A grand
banquet in honor OF the liberator and his
CO. couspirators is 10 take place al Cork, on
Easter Monday, April Slh, ON which occa-
sion w. S. O'Brien, Esq. will preside. i,
is expected 10 be grand demonstration.
A public entertainment 10 Mr., O'Connell,
upon splendid scale, is likely to take
place at Dublin on Wednesday, April 10.
British House of Lords.-Lord Den
ham adverted to the eass1af the individual
condemned 10 death ipd osisiana, for aid
ing slave TO make his sSescape. He had
hoped That The expression of the feeling
which prevailed in England and over Eu-
rope would reach The United States in
time to prevent the inHiclion of a punish
ment SO utterly disproporioned to The al
legged offence.
House Of Commons. Rice
On the lst Of April, Mr.. Hume, having
understood that it would be inconveuient
that he should bring forward the motion
Of which he had given notice, for copy
Of or extracts from, the correspondence
between the American Ambassador and
The British Government. respecting The
admission of paddy and rice, The produce
of lhe United Slales, into Great Britain al
the same rates of duly as paddy aud rice
were admitted into Great Britain from the
ives, coast of Africa, would postpone his
motion until after Easter.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said
that there was correspondence al present
going on, on the subject. aud that the pro.
duction of The papers alluded TO would
tend to eubaTrass The negotiation.
Death Of The King Of S,eeden.-His
Majesty Charles John has ceased TO live.
lie died on the 9th ult. at four o'clock in
the morning. His son and heir assumed
forthwith The royal authority, under the
style of Oscar the Second aud announced
his intention Of continuing The government
of Sweden aud Norway in the footsteps
of bis late father. The deceased once
Marshal Bernadotte, the only one of the
sovereigns created by Napoleon who sur
vived The crash of the imperial dynasty,
was the son of French inn keeper. He
was in bis eightyhrst year. The presen,
King of Sweden is aged fourty y-four years
and six months.
By The death of the King of Sweden,
Marshal Soult has become the sole survi-
vor of all the eighteen marshaIs of the
empire created BY Napoleon, in 1904, al
the camp of Boulogne.
The British Ant-Slavery Society have
issued circular to the ministers of church
es in London aud the neighborhood, call
ing upon them TO sign memorial to the
American churches against slavery. The
memorial was forwarded by the Arcadia.
The American dwarf, General Tom
Thumb, accompanied by his guardian.
Mr.. p. T. Barnum, Of New York, had the
booor of attending at Buckingham palace
on Saturday evening. when the General
exhibited his clever limitations of Napo-
leon, Sc, which eliciled the appreciation
of her Majesty.
Tom Thumb at the Stock Exchange
General Tom Thumb has made bis ap.
pearance a, the Stock Exchange, and was
universally allowed to be The smallest
American stock ever known there, Penn
sylvania dividends, of course excepted.