The New York herald., 1845-01-12
SEVEN DAYS LATER
FROM EUROPE.
State of the Cotton Market.
WRECK OF THE DORCHESTER.
AFFAIRS IN SPAIN.



Two fine packets arrived yesterday-the Roches-
ter, Capt. Brtton, from Liverpool, and Iowa. Capt.
Lines, from Havre.
Our advlces from England are to the 9Th ult., and
from Havre TO the 9th.
The news brought by these packets is not OF
much consequence.
1t appears by the Liverpool papers that cotton
had declined. We learn verbally, however, that
on the 9th ult. the staple had slightly advanced
But all verbal accounts should be received with
much caution.
There has been decline in the Havre cotton
market
The overland mail from India had arrived Its
accounts from China are only day or two later
than those brought by Mr. Gushing.
The frost set in at st. Petersburgh the 18th of
November, when the cold was 81 degrees Fahren-
heit with snow. The freezing of the Neva had
commenced.
Madrid journal states that the Academy of
History of that city has effaced Mr.. Turnbul from
the list of its corresponding members, on account
of his conduct at the Havana.
Parliament is announced to open on the 9th of
February. Punch asks of Sir Robert as a favor,
to put 1t of to the 10Th.
The marriageiof the Duke d'Aumale with his
cousin, the Princess Marie Caroline of Salerno,
daughter of the Prince of Salerno, uncle of the
King of Naples, and brother of the Queen of the
French took place at Naples on the 25th Of No
vember.
A project was on foot to establish line of Rail-
way between Calais and Marsees The Com
pany was composed of the leadiag bankers of
PARIS.
M. M Rothschild have just acquired further pro-
perty in Silesia, Of which the revenue amounts to
nearly three millions OF francs.
The French court had gone into six days mourn
ing for the death of the Princess Sophia Mathilda,
of England.
Navarro, the famous bandt-called the Abd-el-
Kader of Andalusia, had been arrested with some
of his band at Lacena, after hot skirmish.
M Gustave de Beaumont, has ceased to be con.
nected with the "Siecle."
The treaty of commerce between France and
Sardinia, of 2lst August, was suspended, and the
tariff of duty and navigation, which had been mo-
difed byit, t,were re-cnferced with the utmost vigor
There is nothing new from ireland. All is quiet
there.
Spain seems to be in the last agonles of nationa
existence. Unheard of barbarities are committed
by order of the government.
An order in English Council has been issued fol
the admission of sugar from Venezuela, upon the
application of that Government, at the duty namec
in the act, fl las. the cwt and per cent. on the
rate of duty
The packet snip Dorchester, of Boston, has been
totally lost at sea. The D of Boston, Capt Cald
well, left Liverpool on the 2Sth November for Bos
ton, with full rcargo of goods and % passengers
mostly women and children, all British subjects
aud ships company consisting of Is men. Or
m - N
while lying to in gale OF wind from the North
West, shipped tremendous sea, which broke al
high as the tops carrying away all three masts b,
the board, broke the ship down Is to IS inche.
out of shear amidships, stove both boats, galley
hatch-house, companon-way, &c, and WASHED
overheard Jacob F. Hooper, second officer
and John Douglass, seamen, who were lost. AL
hands were kept at the pumps until Sunday eve
nlng, December 10, without freeing her, when the
Rochester, Captain Brtton, frem Liverpool
fell in with her, and took of the survivors
Al ia all, who left the ship in sinking condition
with the sea frequently breaking over her; the,
saved nothing but the clothes they had on.
CARD
Csptain Caldw late Of the ship Dorchester, of Bos
ton ~ WIN m sb I'M g
promplitude in coming to the relief Of himself his pas
sensers and crew and for the energy he displayed il
sinking condition, and in bad weather. in the night wit
a bad sea running and for his kind and gentlsmanl
treatment while on board OF his ship.
NEw YORK January ii, lsa5.
Oakley and Leavtt have arrived from the Unet
States, as representatives OF parties in America in
terested in the completion OF the Illinois Canal
The American bondholders have subscribed thel
quota of the funds requisite to complete this mpor
tant work, and have deputed the gentlemen abov
named to this country, for the purpose OF enterln
into negotiations to induce the British holders o
the Illinois Canal bonds enter into similar sub
scrIptions. Ii is only by completion of the lin
of the canal that the bondholders have a prospe C
of Obtaining remuneration for the capital alread
embarked in this concern. The Governor of III
State OF Illinois entertalns sound views on the sub
ject of State Indebtedness, and the necessity O
raising the means TO pay the interest by increase
taxatlon.-London Chronieie.
COMMERCIAL. AcTIvIrY.-The accounts from tn
manufacturing districts indicate degree of acti
witty, enterprize, and profit, beyond any forme
example these accounts are indeed so favorable
as to be even alarming to all who look TO the fu
ture. In some places millowners calculate upol
realzlng gain OF 90 per cent. upon their capita
within the year IN others, fortunes of ESQ 600
while mills rising in all directions facts t,
which the Propery-tax Commissioners must b,
duly Observation-Disclosures Standard.
France
The Paris journals of the I'd and Sd OF Decem
ber have come to hand, but their contents, espe
clally regards domestic affairs, present very Int
tie interest. The executions of Zurbanos sol
and brother-in-law are adverted to by most o
them in terms OF the utmost indignation From
the French governments leading organ itself
ehcits expressions of horror and disgust
letter from Cadz, in the Debafs, states tina
the contraband trade in Spain is carried to such al
extent, owing to the facilities afforded to SNUG
slers at Gibraltar, and the connivance of the Gus
tom-house officers the Spanish coast, that th,
hope OF being able TO check 1t s almost at an end
The cold was very severe in Paris on the 4ti
ult AT SIX IN the morning, M. Chevalier's ther
mometer marked deg. 210ths of Centlgrade be
low zero, and at noon 3 degrees.
A letter from Trieste, OF the 25h utmo. in tn,
Cologne Gazete, says -" Baron de Geringer wa,
sent some short time back to Constantnople to pro
cure the revision of certain treaties of commerc,
concluded between the two countries The cues
uon having arisen, whether the Austrian subiec
had right TO establish bonding warehouses on The
Ottomsn territory, along the Danube, The Port,
decided the matter Ia the negative, although the