The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-08-07
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leighboring country without molestation, re-
the SAM day, as at Shanghai, and any
persons molesting them shall be severely pun
shed.
3. The aggressors on the two seamen in oc-
tober last, and on Col. Chesney and others at
Fuhshan, on the 18th Of March last, shall be
made examples Of.
The French, it appears, had somewhat SINH
lar piece of play with the Cochin Chinese
which the European!Times thus details;
The French missionaries in Cochin China
having foamany years past excited perPetually
recurring disputes with the nation, the govern
ment at length interfered, threw the mission
aries into prison, and, upon releasing them,
sent them to Singapore. The French ships OF
war La Gloire and La Victoireuse sailed into
the Bay Of Touran to obtain redress and laid an
embargo on five corvettes. The French al
lege that conspiracy was formed on shore to
assassinate the French at a conference which
was sought to be arranged between the parties
An explanation was demanded by the French,
when the following day war junks were seen
working into the Bay; and the result was, the
French ships opened their fire, which was re-
turned by the forts, the five corvettes and the
war iunks. The artillery of the natives effect
ed little damage, but in seventy minutes one
Of the corvettes was burned, another blown up,
and a third sunk. The remaining two were
afterwards captured and set on fire. The ma
tives, perceiving the destruction OF the cor
v~ettes, desisted from firing from the forts and
hunks, and the French withdrew from the Bay
1t is stated that the Cochin Chinese have los
, upwards of 1000 men, while the French hat
only one killed and another wounded. Th'
actual origin Of the dispute appears involved
e in some obscurity.
France. - The opinion is daily galnln
: strength that NJ. GuizOt and his colleagues Wi
e not be able to stem the tide of popular oplnio
now set in so strongly against his adminlstra
6 ton. The impeachment Of the honor OF on
of his colleagues, M. Duchatel, and OF the II
n ~tegrity of M. Teste, formerly Minister OF Put
d lie Works, let the issue be what it may, mus
d be SO damaging to the Ministry, that we car
not conceive that M. Guizot will be able t
|. maintain his ground. Indeed, it was CURRENT
II reported that he had resigned, but the RUM
20 was premature. All the accounts from Franz
concur IN representing the prospects OF Il
harvest as highly promising. -
ID Spain.-The differences between Queen Is
7, bella and her husband still exist; and all Il
of efforts of the English ambassador, the Pope
~ nuncio, and others TO effect a reconciliatlc
,e between the royal pair, have completely ialle
oh The King obstinately refuses to return to IL
,ts Palace, and the Queen is said to have resolV'
he to apply to the Pope for q declaration 'na' !
marriage is invalid.
ITO Portugal. - By the Iberia, arrived at Sou
oh ampton, advices have been received from l.
zen bon and oporto, to the 10th inst. The ms
ar rents who had escaped from st. Ubes when
nv Count Sa da Bandeira surrendered, had be
all overtaken by the Queens troops at Alcacel
inc Sal. and three hundred Of them made prison'
Wis The iunta Of Oporto had declared that it wo
or not disband its troops until the fourth artl
the of the amnesty guaranteed by the allied pr
ces ers had been executed, and a new minis
on had been named in conformity with its pr
,i,b sions. AS soon as that article had been e
the cuted, it would surrender its troops to
Queens authority, but it would not lay dc
,o.s its arms to the Duke de Saldanhoro, to
mo. Spanish troops. Nearly l4,OOC men were
= in sembled at oporto, which was said to be
$50. pared for a long siege.
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