The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-08-13
FOREIGN NEWS.
ARRIVAL OF TIE STEAMSHIP
CAMBRIA.
Fifteen Days later from Europe.

b,ia arrived at Boston, uesuay, July oo-o
o'clock P. NJ.
This is the shortest trip. by full twenty
four hours, ever made from Liverpool to Bos-
ton.
The news by this arrival is Of very lit'le
importance.
The uncertainty which has hitherto pre-
vailed respecting the weather has caused
nurh activity in the Corn trade
The Caladuuia, although detained by fog
IT Halifax until the 4th inst, reached Liver
pool at tie a o. clock on the morning of The 4th,
being passage Of niue days and 2O hours
from Halifax.
The demand for cotton is large, but the
requirements are for the legitimate purposes
Of trade.
The American Provision market is IN a
stagnant state, owing TO the reduction Of the
stocks and the absence Of imports.
Money in the British metropolis is plentiful
and the rate of discount is low. The Share
market and the public securities are in con-
6dlins and healthy state.
The price of American stock is looking up.
The determination off drab-colored Penn
sylyau;aus" TO shame Their ;raducers has pro
,iuced rsis improved feeling which exists III
the Bourse of Paris as well as London.
Parliament is dragging on towards close
The murder Of the innocenis,' as Itis pGras-
ed-in other words the withdrawal of meas
ures which cannot be carried, owing either 10
the want Of time or fiercencss oil opposition
was performed with great solemnity by Dir
Robert Peel.
Terrific thunder storms in France, on the
Oh and 9Th. were unusually destructive oil
human life. A farmer. from the neighbor-
hood of Konleur, was caught in the storm,
while travelling on horseback. and both man
and beast were struck dead by the Tightening
Throughout the two preceding weeks vari-
Gus parts of the United Kingdom and the Com
,inent had been visited by storms OF thunder
lightning and rain.
A large deficiency in the British Revenue
has been the result of The late reductions
The raIIine off in the Customs is f369,9SI;
in the Excise, fl49,9C3.
The subject of University test has been the
cause of fierce debate, ard OF very Darrow
division in the House of ComnOns-So mar.
row, that only eight votes stood between the
Government and defeat.
The quarterly meeting of the Iron-masters
his recently been held in Straffordshire.
During the last(ew weeks every description
of manufactured iron has been reduced up
wards of20 per cent.
Intelligence from Syria represents that the
Turkish authorities were using their utmost
exenions 10 quelI the disturbances there, hut
with no very brilliant prospect of success.
The other day an accident happened 10
Marshal Soult, which, might have been sen-
Gus. He was thrown out Of bis carriage
whilst proceeding TO wait upon the king at
the Tulieries, and was severely bruised.
IRELAND.
ireland is toierablc tranquil, except that
murders and riots continue to he committed
in some districts.
The disturbances at Armagh, however, seem
to have excited the English mind very much.
The crown has given up the prosecution a
ganst Samuel Gray the notorious Orange
man, who has been twice tried for murder,
AMI once convicted Of manslaushter.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AT ALGIERS.
The intelligence which has just come to
hand from Algeria, gives an account OF the
massacre OF ihausand Arabs by the French.
The cavern Of Dahra, ~here the Arabs had
taken refuge, was the scene Of this horrible
affair. Here they we're hemmed in, Tag
go,s were lighted, and the unfortunate
wretches were burnt and suffocated III their
places OF refuge. When the cave was enter
ed, scene TOO revolving for description pro-
scented itself; about seventy persons who
were still living, expired as soon as they were
brought into open air. Eight hundred bodies
have been taken out, and many remained be-
hind.
The name OF the officer by whose orders
this unSoldier-like massacre was consumma-
ted is PelissNr. The affair has engendered
much surprise, and no small amount Of in
dignation.
SYRIA.
The French papers publish Iamcatab!e de-
tails respecting the civil war between the Mar
onites and the Druses and the criminal neg
lisence of the Turkish authorities. THE
Maronites," says the Constitutional, "have
suffered the most severely. They have lost
more than 1000 Of their people. among whom
women, children, and aged men form ma
jority. The losses of the Druses amount to
about 1000 persons, and those, for the most
par! able bodied men. All the Christian vii
lagos in the mixed districts have been burnt.
the harvest ravaged, and their mulberry trees
destroyed. In Il word their ruin is complete"