Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-01-23
FOREIGN.
EIGHT DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE

EIGHT DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
NEW Y"RK, January l6.-We are indebted to Cap
Edwards of the ship Sea, which arrived las, nigh
from Liverpool. for English papers Monday, Decem
Der 18th, inclusive.
The packetship Roscius, from New York, arrived Fl
Liverpool the l2th, bringing five days later intel,
gence. The steamer Caledonia arrived on the 18Th
OF the Ei00OO0 which 1t was proposed 10 raise i''
the furherance of free trade principles, having feie
ence more especially to free trade in gram, t35 600 had
already been subscribed. There doubt but III
whole amount would be raised.
Sir Henry Po,tnger has requested To be recalled
from China, and the British Government, has aceeded
TO his request.
Incendiary fires had become freqneu, and alarming
in England. By of these fires, near Cambridge,
property 10 the value Of $4,000 destroyed
The British Parliament is to meet for the despatch
of business on the Isl OF February.
British surveying party at Cloudy Bay, New |ea'
land which accompa by military detachment,
was attacked by the natives in June last, and about "
persons were killed, including two captains
There had been little or change in cotton brtai-
stutis declining.
An order in council had fixed the duty foreign
meat Of all kinds, suited dried imported into ne
Cape Of Good Hope, at 81 per cwt. British, Il ~
Foreign tram and bubber oil IL per ,un; sperm /,
los
The opinions Of three eminent counsel, who haze
been consulted upon the legality of the degrees confer
red upon Mr.. Everett, the American Minister, by tn.
University Of Oxford, having been submitted 10 the
Vice Chancellor, they have all concured IN pronouGt.
ing the whole proceeding null and void
TuE IRoS TRADE The trade is s,Ill retrogradu..
and bars are sold Il -. Cd net at Newport and Ga
diff, with dull sale even at that
The Paris papers contain appalling Ists Of mnraen
and suicides, and OF attempts 10 commit those GRIMES
The most recent murder announced IN Paris, rs that "
the widow Of the former manager OF he Amhigu Co.
mique who was stranged in her residence IN the Rse
du Temple the most popuious Of Paris, on Ihn;s1ly
last, in open day. FIVE Gays previously, at ST Deos
Paris monster of hercuean strength seized upon
an unofending young man, and throwing him down on
the road, held HIM firmly until the wheels OF all 81
proacbing wagon had passed over his head
LoxpoS, Dec l5-Some Of the Paris pnpers Of We
nesday give long accounts Of the prosecution oi ce'
tain members of a sect calling themselves "CoLmu
ni.ts," before the Court Of Correctional Police, ol
charges Of unlawful association possession ot ll,s
pistols, powder and balls. The parties were arrested
in the Rue PastoreIle, in September, and all belong
the lower clnsses
TURKEY Axp the EAsT-.3nothcr Massacre IF aif
private advIces from Consmn,nops
of the 22d November, announce the receipt Of n''h
gence from Massou of another slaughter by The Turk
of the HISTORIAN Christians Upwards of twn huntr't
of the latter believed to have fallen under the
toman Cmetnr. Redshid Pacha, the newly appo'n'tf
of the Porte in France, TO leave Cor
tantlnople for Paris the Eth inst. Count de FL
bault expected from Vienna, and would. it wl'
said, replace Baron de Bouquency minister OF Ease
1t the Porte.