The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-03-28
Arrival of the Royal Mail Steam
er Fl Id ernia.
% DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.


{ Liverpool TO the morning ofthe 4th are re
ceived.
The important subject which claims atten
ton, is the monster debate in Parliament OF
, the Corn-laws. This debate began on the Oh
OF February, and closed with the month, end
ing on Saturday. II is unnecessary to anal
we il, for the speakers against the proposed
Government measures appeared to be talking
to kill time, or TO abuse the Premier and hi
supporters. On the 9th, Mr. Miles moved
as an amendment, ethnt the House resolve il
selfinto committee on that day six months'
il took nearly three weeks TO convince Mr.
Miles and his friends that they were in I'll,
minority, and that the amendment would IA
vail them nought..
On Saturday morning, and Immediately
after Mr. Golden had delivered one of biz
most brilliant speeches, the House divided
There appeared three hundred and thirty
seven votes against the amendment, and two
hundred and forty in favor officiating the
large and unexpected majority in favor of Sin
Robert Peefs proposed measure, of ninety
SeUeR,
However the question may be settled in
the end, very little interest will be taken in
il until il reaches the House of Lords. The
! first great excitement about it is over, and
when the bill goes into the Upper House,
another and n deeper excitement win take
place. At present no one can tell what the
fate ofthe bill will be.
The official correspondence of Mr. Paken-
ham, Mr. Buchanan and Mr. McLane on the
Oregon question, communicating the fact that
the American Government refuses 10 arbitrate
on that question, produced an extraordinary
panic upon its receipt
Time has not yet permitted full express
sion of public feeling on this news.
The Morning Herald has, from the first,ad-
vocated peace, and has done much to calm
the public mind, AT different times, when the
Oregon difficulties have assumed threaten
ing aspect; but to day this journal says: lit if
with regret that we give publicity TO the intel
ligeuce this arrival communicates, inasmuch
that il is ola character which completely re-
verses our former hopes ofn peaccable settle
me mt of the Oregon differences. Mr. Presi-
dent Polk and his advisers have now rushed
into eXtremes,and appear determined TO place
the whole matter in the most offensive posi-
ton TO England.
The Standard, demi-ofiicial government
organ, says,-"The accounts received this
morning from the United States have taken
all rejecting persons by surprise. II is now
considered IA settled question, that the main
teuance ofpeacetul relations between the two
countries does not depend upon the sense of
justice, or the wisdom and discretion of the
native of war is, il viii he with the utmost
difficulty that any British ministry can now
escape from it with honor. Such il the uni
versai expression of feeling this mornng,uu-
der the idea that every honorable mode Of
compromise has been exhaust
ed"
HER MAJEsTY's EXPECTED ANNOUNCEMENT.
Among those who are most likely to he
well informed, il is confidently stated that
her Majesty's confinement is not expected
before the end of May.--COlUi journal.
The potato rot continues TO make great
havoc in Ireland, and the poorer classes Of
that country are i'll most deplorahle situa-
ton. The Government ofEnglaud has pur-
chased Indian corn for the poor, and propos-
es to employ many upon rail roads. Sick
ness TOO prevails extensively in Ireland.
FRENCH AFRICA.
Tar WAR IN ALGERIA. Abd-el-Kador has |
contrived TO rouse the whole country into i'll !
almost to the gates ofAlgiers, while |
Marshal Bugeaud continues his old system of |
rG<ziGs. Abd-del-Kader has also followed !
his example. In his march from Boghar to
Foum Ouad-el-Deienan lie had pitilessly |
made raZzias upon all the tribes which had |
not previously sent pledges ofsubnnssion 10
his authority.
4 great mortality reigns at present among |
the French troops in the three provinces AL
giers, Oran, and Constantine. The hospitals
are crowded and more than 600 soldiers sank
under the effects of fever and dysentery in
the province of Algiers alone during the
month OF December last"
GREAT BATTLE IN INDIA.
1900 British and Native troops killed aud
wounded, and reported loss of30, 900 Sikhs,
at Moodkee and Ferozeshah.
Our advices from Bombay, since the sail
ing oft Steamship Cambria, came down
to January IL, and furnish accounts ofone of
the greatest battles ever fought by the British
On our Indian Empire,in which we have sus-
aimed the known loss of3,300 of our brave
soldiers, including the gallant Sale, Sir ]. M.
Casxill and Major Broadfoot. When these
accounts left the scene ofaction, for Bombay,
or transmission to England, there We're sew
eral regiments from which returns had not
been received so that farther loss may be
upon.
An Extraordinary Gazette gives the offic-
al account of all the military operations in
his great struggle. The result we are proud
o say, is as glorious and decisive victory as
,ver crowned the British arms, and equaled
,uly by the field of Waterloo. Previous to
aging before our readers copies of the more
Important dispatches, we prefix the following
,ref outline: On the ~, 18th and 18th of .
December, the Sikh army crossed the Sutle,
With, at the lowest estimate, $4,000 men (of
whom 5000 or 10000 were cavalry,) and u {
,out $50 pieces of cannon, of the largest cal
bre movable in the field, and eXquisitely l
inished-an artillery UNNECESSARILY more
powerful than ever was brought into the field I
~ Wellington or Napoleon. 1t is only in &
morals that the Sikhs are to be ranked as bar I
,arous. They are race as vigorous in bo- t