The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-02-15
FOREIGN NEWS.
ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL MAIL
STEAMER ACADIA.
IA DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

The news is not very great importance, al
though the liberal movement in Austrian Italy
contains a germ which may lead to important
events We cannot discover that our CONNER
cial affairs have materially changed in Eng
land, since the departure of the previous stea
mer. Cotton remains dull, and breadstufi:
can hardly be said to have improved. There
are'symtoms, though slight ones, of improvement
in some of the manufacturing districts. Fail
ures still continue to occur, and among the res
are some houses Of very extensive reputation
The troubles in Ireland do not appear to be
greatly diminished. The new Coercial bill
which has been proclaimed in some of the
counties. has as yet had very little beneficial
effect. The agrarian outrages which so fire.
quently occur in that unhappy country, arc
evils ofgigantic magnitude, and will require
the utmost vigilance and caution on the part Of
the Government and the friends of 'law and
order not only to put them down, but TO pre-
vent the infection from spreading. Hitherto
they have been chiefly confined to Tipperary
and other rounties south of Dublin, but indi-
cations of similar outbreaks are now to be seen
as far north as the county of Tyrone.
The Acadia arrived at Boston on Tuesday
IL.
Indian corn, corn meal, and breadstuffs gen.
orally as well as cotton, had slightly declined
but there was an improving feeling in cotton
DIR. HAMPDEN. Dr. Hampden was con-
irmed in the Bow street church, London, on
the 18th, in the presence of vast assembly
The new Bishop was loudly cheered by the
people as he entered his carriage.
lRELAND.-The authorities are enforcing
the new coercion bill with great vigor. Spec
ial commissions have been established in sew
eral of the most dlsorderly counties. Threat
ening letters are the order Of the day. The
famine in the South and West is every day be-
coming worse.
ITALY: The Pope progresses with his con-
stltutional reforms, 10 the great satisfaction Of
his subjects. A Ministry, on most compre-
hensive plan, has been formed
SURRENDER OF ABD-EL-KADER. ALGE-
RIA. Saturdays Paris papers show that ADD
el-kader had not only surrendered to the Duke
dAumale, but had already arrived, prisoner,
at Toulon. The arrangement under which
Abd.el-kader was accepted by the Duke d Au-
male is the subject of animated attacks in all
the opposition organs. The despatch of the
Duke announcing his surrender, declares that,
after being defeated by the army of Morocco,
he endeavored TO gain the south, bat found
himself so surrounded by the troopp of Gen.
Lamoriciere that escape being impossible he
was compelled to surrender. But, it is imme-
date " added, that on arriving in France he
Is to be sent by the government either TO St.
Jean dAcre or Alexandria. If this be con-
dition granted as the terms of the surrender
of the emir, why, asks the opposition, was it
granted, seeing that the chief had no means of
escape? Why was any condition granted I'M
der such circumstances? or, if condition
were given from generous impulse, why a
condition so infinitely Objectionable and dan
gerous, it is said, too, that the government will
disregard the condition agreed to by the Gov
ernor General of Algeria. and that Abd-el-
kader will be brought to Paris. In the mean
time he is detained in Fort Lamalque, Toulon.
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