The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-05-20
Adams q Co.'s Express over Long Island.
HALF A MONTH LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
BRITANNIA, AT BOSTON.
ADVANCE IN COTTON,
The MaynOOth Question.
TN SWITZERLAND.
ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL,
&c. &c. sc.

&c. &c. sc.
/ The steamer Britannia, Captain Hcweu, arrived
at Boston at s o'clock yesterday morning.
She left Liverpool on the 4th INST, with eighty
three passengers Among the number, il is said, Is
the Hon. Edward Everett. This we learn from
passengers by the Long Island Railroad arrived last
evening.
| The intelligence is not of much importance
The London Times, and other English papers, are
still harping upon Oregon and Texas.
The Maynooth question had not yet reached the
House of Lords. 1t had not passed the House OF
Commons; it only went through committee, and
| that on the evening of the I'd inst.
There has been slight improvement in cotton.
O'Connell was making the most Of the concessions
of Peel to Ireland
Affairs in Switzerland were without change
| The monster steamer Great Britain is coming
over in July.
Parliament was engaged in railway investiga-
tons.
The Repeal Association met again on the 18th ult.,
and OConncll again praised PEEPS concessions--he
looked upon the measure of the Premier in regard
to Banking in Ireland, as excellent. The rent for
the week was E4l7.
1t is rumored that the Government has given or
ders for the purchase of 1000 tons of Goals for Ber
muda, and 1000 for Halifax and that probably these
purchases will be extended to 10000 tons.
The arrival Of the Great Western was looked for
with some anxiety. She left New York on 1.-THE 2ith
after the receipt of Sir Robert Peels Oregon speech
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr..
John Arthur, as Consul at Turks Island for the
United States of America.
| large number of persons from the Highlands of
Scotland purpose emgrating to Canda.
TWAS reported on the Paris Bourse, on Saturday
week, that England had applied to France to join
her In protest against the annexation OF Texas to
| the American Union.
The Arabs who had assembled, to the number of
1000 to attack Alden, quarrelled, usual amongst
themselves, had fight, and the whole force may be
| said to have been broken up.
1t appears from an article in the Debats, that the
| French government has abandoned the projected
petition against the kabyes for the present year.
Pucker Muskau has sold his estate, and with it
| his title of nobesse to Count Edmund Hasfeldt
Weisweller, for l,7OS, $50 dollars.
The Anti-Corn Law League Bazaar will certainly
surpass in magn fcence and vastness any similar
display that took place in the country it will
open on the 9Th instant.
| The Lords Of the Treasury have decided that YES
sells carrying passengers to North America be re-
licved from the obligation of carrying surgeon,
An elephant, giraffe, lion, and two young cubs,
have been shipped on board the George Washington
ed part of Van Amburgh's menogerie.
Although the new Houses Of Parliament are in
the ninth year Of their building, they have only adj
vanccd about one-third towards completion, and the
Morning Chronicle estimates that they will be at
| least twenty years more In hand.
game at whist is about to come off, to be played
in quite novel way by means OF the electric tele-
Ma f.,nr plav 10, hn mod
Southampton, and his partner in London; their adj
versaries at Gosport and Basingstoke. The time it
will take playing will be little more than the period
| occupied at the usual game.
The GaSette announces that the Queen has con-
stituted the province of New Brunswick and the
island of Ceylon episcopal Sees to be called respect
lively the Bishoprics Of Fredericton and Colon.
bo.. The Rev. John Medley, d. D., is appointed
Bishop Of Colombo. DIR: Medley, with his family,
will leave Liverpool by the steamship Cambria, on
| the 18th instant.
IRON HOUSE FOR Nova ScoTrA.-Mr. Laycock. of
Liverpool, after having built iron palace for an
African king, and residence of the came material
! for West India family, has just finished an iron
house for family in Nova Scotia. 1t is quite COM
plete, and has lately been exhibited to his friends
RE-ArpKARAScE OF Mr.. WARD AT OxroRp-In
the convocation held on the morning of the 18th
ult, at Oxford, at 10 o'clock, sensation was
ted by the sudden apparltion Of the Rev Mr.: Ward,
in full costume as Master of Arts. On the Rev. the
i
to letter from his Grace the Chancellor, relating to
| dspensations, Mr. Ward gave nonplacet, and, on
the Rev. Vice Chancellor taking notice Of the in
terruption, followed up nom-pldccf by calling for
division of the house. This was, as matter of
course, equally disregarded and the Rev. ex-gradu-
ate then quilted the convocaton. II was understood
that the proceeding was taken by the advice Of
| counsel, and that the Tractarian party, who have
entered into subscriptions to try the question Of the
legality OF the Rev. gentleman's degradation, will
found proceedings against the University for the
| fusal of Mr.. Wards claim to be considered as still
graduate Of the body
| derstood that the Royal Mail Steam-packet Compa-
| ny have completed arrangements for the resumption
by steam of the route from Jamaica to Santa Mar
| tina, Carthagena, Chagres and Juan de Nicaragua
the mails leaving England on the 18th of May, and
| and thenceforward will therefore be conveyed by
steam packets throughout to those places.
| EMIGRATION TO AMERIcA.-Our advices from the
various ports from which emigrants depart, state
| that emigration to Canada and the United States Is
going on to larger extent than ever before known
From Germany, also, it is equally large; 200 passen-
gers had Just arrived at Havre from Rotterdam, on
their way to the Western World: Il is to be regret
| - that the authorities OF New York, Boston, &c,
d0not establish protective societies. moth name but
| in spirit, and secure the poor emlgrant from the
robbery and plumber which he is subjected by the
sharks which allowed to board the ships on their
arrival at their destined port.
/ NEw LINE OF PACKETS TO BosToN.-A new line
OF packets has been started between Liverpool and
Boston, the first OF which, called the Joshua Bates
in honor of the head Of the firm of Messrs. Baring
Brothers, is now in the Trafalgar Dock, and will
sail the first fair wind, with full complement of
steerage passengers, who find this the shortest
way to the western States. On Thursday, LIST inst,
Capt. Murdoch, her commander, gave deje,mer to
his numerous friends, which was provided in his
usual sumptuous style by Mr.. Linn, OF the Waterloo
Hotel The hcahs OF the Queen, President Polk,
Mr.. Bates Mr.. Gair, the representative Of the firm
Of the Messrs. Barngs in this town, were drunk,
and suitably responded to.
| BANK NorEs (ScorLANp) From a return issued
yesterday, by order of the House of Lords appears
that the amount of the bank-notes in circulation in
| Scotland, in 1912, was, an average, 2,S2O,72G
The average of 1888 was 273l ,77N and Of 1874, q
9JO,70A Some months the amount exceeds $780,
OOO but the average Of the years were as above
stated.
/ TRADE OF RUssIA.-Lcters from st. Petersburg
| Mace the commercial movement of Russia al 80.