Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-09-11
FROM EU ROPE.
MORE OF THE CALEDONIA's NEWS.

By Saturdays mail we received our foreign
papers brought by the Caledonia
1 The pecuniary distress, of which we had ac-
counts by the Guadalquiver, continued up to the
time of the sailing of the Caledonia, with but slight
if any improvement The Liverpool Times says
| that considerable amount of bills have been re-
turned to the United States the drawees having re-
| fused acceptance on various grounds.
| In relation TO the subject the London cor
respondent of the Boston Atlas, under date Of Au-
gust Is, writes as follows:
| "The merchants of Boston and New York will read pr
vate letters by this mail with fear and trembling, for i'm
number Of bills drawn upon the best and wealth
lest houses of London Liverpool, and Ireland, have been
protested and will go back by the Caledonia. Within
week several old firms, largely engaged in the trade
have stopped payment Their total liabilities stated to
exceed e. OOO 600, and large portion of this
known be due American houses The is not yet
Failures in England, Ireland and on the continent
daily announced, while hundreds of small firms go
the dam and their mentioned The monetary
crisis and troubles of april last es compared with the
present alarming state of affairs"
The Mark-Lane Express says that the improve
ment which has taken place in England with re-
gard TO the prospect of the future supply of food is
greater than the most sanguine could have reckon
ed upon. All alarm on the important subject whe-
her Great Britain will produce sufficient quantity
Of food to avoid scarcity has been entirely removed
NJ. KLEIN, who was sent to Bogota to treat with
the Government Of New Grenada for the establish
ment of Rait,cay across the Istlmus Of Panama.
has returned to France. 1t is stated that he has
tcompletely succeeded in his mission, having obtain
ed most advantageous conditions for the company
he represented, and that the work will shortly be
commenced
great fire occurred at Archangel (Russia) on
the 2sth July, which destroyed upwards of four
hundred houses.
The Government of Wurtemburg has revoked
the decree of last year, enacting that German Ca
tholics should not be allowed to take part in the
election of municipal officers, or fulfil such functions.
The solemn installation Of the Archduke STE
PHEN as Palatine of Hungary appointed to take
place at the beginning of this month, and finish
about the end Of October. 1t will consist in
"progress =" through all the districts of Hungary,
and grand concluding ceremony at Dude.
Advices for New Zealand to the goth of March
state that the land question between the natives and
the governor had been adjusted, at an interview
held between his excellency and several of the
chiefs. The natives are to be compensated by the
payment to them of $4,000 in money. The settle
men of this long-pendng dispute had of course diff
| fused great satisfaction throughout the colony.
FROM THE LONDON SPECTATOR OF AUGUST IA.
Queen Victoria with her husband and part of her family,
off to Scotland voyaging round the Western coast hitherto
unysed by the Royal squadron. One parting Pnvy Coun
Gil held at Osborne House, to prorogue the troublesome
Parliament; but the last days spent at Osborne in plea
rather than business-pares the poor town-ed Min
isters farewell courteses the Russian Prince Constantine,
birthday sports for little Prince Allied, and the like At
length all hndances got rid of the Queen embarked,
and the squadron sailed TIE foggy weather has rendered
its progress slow. England in fermen at its southern
and western edge with good folks to catch sight Of
the passing sovereign Pauper Ireland will loom in the dis
tance-passed with sigh. But all Scotland gathering
the banks Of the Firth of Clyde impatient for the fleet which
bears its Queen.
FRANCE.
Our dates from Paris are TO the 18th ultimo
The King and Queen were not to remain at Eu be-
yond the 10Th instant.
The Duke p'AuMALE is to be the successor Of
Marshal BUGEAUD as Governor General of Algeria.
The Rerue des Deur ondes says that there will appear
at the time with the royal ordinance making this APP
pontmen another ordinance organizing the administration
Of Agea according the recommendations of the two
mees the Chamber of Deputies of which NJ de Tocque
vile and NJ Charles Dupin the reporters The three
central directories are to be suppressed and general dec-
ton is to be established from which all the orders connected
with civil affairs will emanae and the head Of which will be
the principal parsonage in the colony after the GovenorGen-
ea In each province directors Of civil affairs TO be pac
ed, whose powers and duties will be similar to those oprc
fects in Fa6ce. Each province will also have council to
aid the director Municipalities to be established, but the
municipal councils to be elective Their appointment
is to be direct from the Government Another ordinance
prescribe new forms TO be gone through respect the
concession Of lands and mines, for the purpose possible of
preventing future Frauds by Ministers pocketng money by
such operations With regard the home Government, the
colony Algeria continue, before, in the department
Of the Minister Of War.