New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-01-17
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tI6tcs from f.E Sianc'
b. the packet snip Quebec, Capt. HebGri, from
London, we have London papers of the 18th OF De-
cember.
The STEAMSHIP GREAT BRiTAIS.-'rhe first at
tempt TO float this gigantic vessel through the locks
at Bristol was unsuccessful. bur, additional por-
ton of the masonry having been removed, she was
got through the next day, and being taken in tow
by three steam tugs, Proceeded to King Road where
she arrived in two hours and eight minutes, without
| accident of any kind. Her steam was then got
up for trial of speed down the Channel.
The Great Britain is 322 feet in length and 10 feet
inches in extreme breadth, registering $500 tons.
She has four decks, the lowest OF iron, for the
ceptoa Of cargo. The upper decks flush from stem
10 stern and 30S feet long She has three boilers,
containing 200 of water and heated by "a fires,
the four engines are $50 horse power each
Fifteen hun lr-d tons OF iron have been used in
the construction of the ship and her engines. Her
propeller lof the Archimsdean screw paIerp is If
teen feet and n half in diametsr, worked by plate
Wan chain in four tiers. passing round iron drum
of l9 feet diameter. Fiity-four revolutions per min
From the London Times of Dec 49,
This morning, at Inc Treasury, t6O,C00, the por-
ton undisposed Of the pending Canada contract
WINS taken by alessrs Hammond, Scott 81 Co. liz,
that being the minimum price Of the Chancellor Of
| The Exchequer.
To this fnn therefore, the whole sum of E200,-
coo has been assigned. and is understood that with
the exception OF very small portion of the rrn-
cipa!s ia The transaction are the mutual Indemnity
| Insurance Company.
The French opposition Journals are still laving
against the "ruckng o; tho Government to Eng
aad, but were troubled to find a substantial griey
ance. The latest vas the capture Of French yes-
sci on the coast of Africa, presumed TO be SLAYER.
The Constitutional states tha; ViscouniJ Abran-
ties, the Envoy Extraordinary OF Brazil to Prussia,
had proposed 10 Eng land aud France, in the name
of bis Government, 10 join in an armed Intervention
10 put period 10 the war between the Eastern and
Argentine republics, and enforce the slipus,ions
guaranteed BY The Brazs and France.
| That journal anticipates no favorable result from
| the mission Of NJ d A5ranies. " He has seem" ii
SAYS, Lord Aberdeen, and found thar Minister oni-
mated with n. same dispositions which he had mar
esei 10 II. Varrla. Lord Aberdeen is SAID 10 have
thrown upon France, which is more interested in
| the question. the entire responsibility OF the unac-
connGable and often odious conduct held by the
nations during two years the banks OF The Plata.
| His Lordshp. moreover, expressed his readiness to
| interfere il France would join England. n. Gui-
Zo;, the Constitutional saws will content him
self with repeating 10 The negotiayor his declaration
10 the Chambers, that the quarrel Of Montevideo
and Buenos A;res is a civil war between two re-
| pubiics, or rather between Presidents Of the
slms republic, Odbe and Rivera, and that it
b=hoves France 10 keep al0of from the war, and
| await the event"
ROM = QONfNGO.-'t Z learn or the Drlg W OIL
cot, just arrived, that things still in very un-
settled STATE, owing TO the JEALOUSY between the
blacks and mulaltos. report prevailed just as The
Wolcot sailed. that large number OF blacks head
ed BY General Goha, had declared war Of exler-
ninstion against the mulatIoR.
Tie Spanish population had driven off the negro
cutters Of Mahogany, and consequently Mahogany
~cs high. SO was Coffee.
American produce was abundant Leil nc Ame-
Ican vessels. Sailed in company with brig Allen,
for Boston.
Gov. KlSG OF Observation-Disclosures the in
yenIoas with which political malice has assailed
the distinguished gentleman who stood at the helm
ci SAFE during The temlssuoBs season Of 1872 ii
has been said tina, lie defaulter to the State
that the large SUMS OF public money which passed
through his hands durng the instruction, had not
heen properly accounted for. The accounts Of Gov
hiog have been subjected, according to his osn
wishes, 10 Il rigid examination, by a committee corr
posed in part Of his political opponents, and The re-
suit baiaace in his favor of some four hundred
dollars, being The amour; OF various SUMS discharged
by bin which, in the pressure Of ms numerous dunes
he omitted TO charge 10 the account c: The State.
| Providence Journal.