The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1845-07-28
From the Boston Atlas.
ARRIVAL. OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMER
Britannia. >
Is DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.


performed her passage in few hours short OF iieen
days. including the detention at HALIFAX j..
By this arrival we have received our usual files oil
London papers to the evening oil the ID INST, ana
Liverpool papers OF the Atm nst anu also 'ee'S o"
our foreign correspondents
We find the intelligence by these papers qulte I'M
important in political point OF view, indeed, we
have seldom received European news 80 devoid OF IN
terest. .r.
The commercial accounts are more important
Trade continues to be lively in the manufacturing
districts, the cotton market is animated, while the
prices for iron have fallen. -
The steamer Great Western which left New YORK
on the 18th of June, did not arrive till O'Clock, on
Friday morning June 27th-having been IA days and
IL hours, making the homeward trip. Inc hoya'
Mail Steamer Cambria, which did mol leave Boston
ill the 9th of june four days alter the departure VI
the Great Western, arrived at Liverpool al CLOCK
on Friday afternoon, June 9th, thus accomplishing
the whole voyage, including the detention at HALIFAX
in the remarkably short time of ten days ana StTteeH
hours The Cambria made, therefore, the most ra-
pid passage ever accomplished.
The Great Western to leave Iiverpool ior
NJ York on the 9th inst, and the Great Britain on
the Goth inst. 49,,
THE QUEEN AND THE CoURT. On the 18Th
alt, the Queen and Prince Albert with the little
Princes and Processes, left London Tor Osporhe
House. Isle of Wight Their stay there was signal
lied by some naval excursions and exhibitions. On
the 2ls ult, the royal party embarked IN the roya
yacht from the Island and proceeded to splthead'
and visited several ships itheline On the 2Sd nit,
there splendid naval display at portsmouth,
whittier the Queen went in the royal yacht. 1t is
described as the grandest display since the allied SOW
ereigns visited England
An appeal from Quebec, which went out by the
Cambria, asking aid from England, for the relief oil
persons who lost their property by the recent hre'
has been promptly and literally responded to in Lon
don, where very large amount was immediately
subscribed.
The London Times sent a commissioner" to
Scotland to inquire into the state of the tenantry and
his letters, giving true picture of :heir deporable
condition. have been the Of Inducing the Duke
of Switzerland to make personal inquiries into the
condition ofthe poor on his very extensive estate.
The total number of deaths in London during the
week ending the 2sth uIt., was sos; showing small
Ter amount OF mortality than during any other period
of the present year. The number of births during
the week was ,l73.
| EAST INDIAN RAILWAYS. The Court Of D-
rectors have appointed an experienced person
veyor of Railways in India, at a salary of $4,000 a
year for five years, and $500 for his passage, Sc,
out, and the same sum home This looks if the
important subject had engaged the serious thoughts of
the Indian authorities who mast be fully sensible
of the beneficial effect Of rendering remote distances
easily ACCESSIBLE London Times
Parliament had further discussed the Irish Catholic
appropriation Bill, but had not passed it.
| Sw1Tz ERLAND. LUCERNE. The municipal g.
lections at Lucerne have commenced, and have, &C
cordng TO the .Nei0 Zerinh h~ S~"'"ofi III
the liberals as to have given great alarm
to the Government, which has augmented its patrols
and taken other measures to prevent rise Of The
liberal party.
German Journal states that the instructions Civ
hu fhn IN tha oT mo
preaching diet, are much more explicit on the ques-
ton of the Jesuts than those for the last diet 1t is
already known, says this Journal that ten states and
two half states will vote for the expulsion by any
means necessary 10 attain that end
Dr. Steiger one of the invaders Of Lucerne, whose
sentence of death caused such dismay in switzer-
land, has escaped from prison, with the concurrence
of three gendarmes, who guarded him. lie passed
through Zurich for Frauenfeld in Trgona
SYRIA. MOUNT LEBANON. Some further dis
turbances between the Druses and Maroniles have
taken place, but it is believed that the instructions
given by the Governor Of SYRIA to the Envoy of the
Porte, 10 order AID tranquility, will have the
desired effect The tribes being subject to the
Porte they are to Re treated with perfect equality
and one is not to be protected the expense of the
other
from Syria which very unsatisfactory. An arm
istice which had been agreed to at Beyrout, on tho
I'd of june by the chiefs of the coniending parties,
assembled for that purpose, broken by the Drus-
es on the 9th ult. land several churches had been
pillaged and the priests murdered. Cyil>war was
again raging in all parts Of the country, and food was
scarce that thousands ofpeope literally starv-
ing in the neighborhood of Beyropt. .a.
Loco FocoIsM GONG. The Louisville Journal
in speaking of the two rival candidates for Governor
in Alabama, both Loco Focos, who are now Canvass
ing before the people, says Locofocosm's head
has got the tail in its mouth, and the animal will no
doubt swallow itself in very short order''' '
ga glorious thing, this reduction of postage,' said
fellow the other day; 81 get half dozen dunnng
letters now, where did one formerly.''
We understand that the first division of the Ver-
mont and Massachusetts Railroad let to contrac-
tors on Wednesday morning. on favorable terms for
the Company, and the work will be soon commenced.
The portion Of the work which has been let is