The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-02-02
ITEMS OF FOREIGN NEWS.

The Rochester brought complete files
of Liverpool papers to the 7lh, and not to
the 18th, as heretofore stated.
Sir HENRY PorrIxGER sailed on the
5th for the Cape of Good Hope. Ii is
said be has orders TO wage a wal of de-
siruction on the Caflres, who have devas-
tated the greater portion of the colony,
and afterwards to reduce affairs 10 good
order.
The agitation on the subjecto of a repeal
of duties on tea is rapidly increasing
Meetings have been held for this pur-
pose at Leeds, where resolutions similar
to those passed at Liverpool were adop-
ted.
The Britannia states that Parliament is
not likely 10 be opened sooner than the
4th of February.
The Ecuador expedition IS completely
at an end. At the very moment that the
naval force Of Flores was seized in the
Thames, his army was dispersed in Bis
cay. The Clamer Publico publishes the
following extractfrom a letter dated Vito
ria, November 30:
"The expedition of General Flores is
at an end, in consequence Of the revolt of
his troops at the depots of Durango, and
that Of Ordano, who, IN being mman
ded TO march to Santander for embarka-
ton, dispersed through the country"
The Commissary Of the British Gov
eminent at Malta has commenced the pur-
chase Of maize and other grain, which
will be ground in public mills at La Valet
ia, and thence shipped TO Ireland.
The London Chronicle publishes, with
alarm, a statement of the iapid increase
Of laborers on the public works in Ire
land. The expenses for December, 1916,
would be, it is said, more than 100000
pounds sterling. The general disposition
seemed to be to desert all other labor for
this.
A correspondent of the Times says that
the house in which Shakespeare was born,
at S.ralford-on-Avon, has been purchased
for the purpose of being conveyed 10
America. He thinks the fact should ex-
cite great indignation in the breast Of
every Englishman.
1t is believed that the British Govern
ment is maturing a general plan of educa-
ton, very extensive In It's machinery and
its scope.
The Carlists were again moving In va
rious parts of Spain. near Manzera. In
Catalonia they were embodied, and had
proclaimed Carlos VI.
1t would appear, from an article in the
| Courier Francois, that the Ministerial
crisis is over, and that NJ. Guizot remains
in office. According to the Courier, the
choice was only between NJ. Guizot and
Count Mole, between whom there is
scarcely any ~perceptible difference.
The Pope, it is said, has some trouble
altogether, however, from beyond his
dominions, both Austria und France hav-
ing demonstrated with him on his change
of policy. He Is, however, still pursu-
ING the even tenor Of his way. The
change for the better IS every where more
| evident in all his dominions.
There is little of interest from Germa-
ny, except hat the sympathy awakened
for Cracovia continues.
The report is again current in Germany
of the approaching accession of Hanover,
and the other States Of the north of Ger
many, to the Cus-oms Union. Hanover,
above all, is said to be determined on the
point. Negotiations are stated to be ac-
lively in progress with Prussia to that
end.