Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-07-06
LATE FROM EUROPE.

at Boston at 8 o'clock, on Friday morning,
having made the passage in IL l-2 days.
We make tie following interesting sum-
mary of The news brought by this steamer ::
The steamer Caledonia from Boston, ar
rived at Liverpool on the 14lh instant, after
a passage of Is 1-2 days.
In England the Cotton and Corn trades
are still in dull and languid state. Prices
continue to recede without the prospect of
an improvement. The reports from the
manufacturing districts of England and Scot
land do not improve; trade therein conl!n-
ues gloomy and discouraging.
The weather in Great Britain had been
excellent for the crops.
Notwithstanding The unfavorable svmp-
toms, however, unemployed capital is most
abundant. First class bills are discounted at
3 per cent, and the Governors of the Bank
of England, at their weekly meeting of
Thursday last, reduced the rate of interest
from a to 1-2 per cent.
On the 18th of June in London, United
States and Canadian Wheat were quoted at
40s to ass per quarter, and the value of A.
merican flour nominal al 25s to 27s per bar
rel. On the following day (Tuesday,) at
Liverpool, Canadian Wheat realized Is to
Is Sd per 20 ID. Indian Corn has dull de-
mand, but prices on the whole were sustain
ed, American white selling at 3ls to 32s Cd,
and yellow 33s to 34s per 4S0 lbs.
The threatened demonstration of the
Chartistsi in London on the 18th June proved
even much more signal failure than the
previous affair of The 10Th of April at Ken
sington Common.
Died on the 18th inst. at Peele's Coffee
House, London, the renowned Tom Steel,
Head Pacificator for Ireland, under Mr..
O'Connell's Repeal Association.
In France the manifestation of popular
sympathy in behalf of Louis Napoleon had
created the greatest sensation among all true
republicans.
Louis Napoleon, says the European
Times, was, at the last accounts, expected
hourly in Paris to take his seat. He will
affect humility, and buy golden opinions
from all men. With the most ordinary
prudence and caution the high road to i'm
perial power is straight open before him,
and in that case the splendid pageant of a
French Republic will dissolve,
And like the baseess fabric of vision,
Leave not wreck behind.
The Vraie Repubique says that the re-
volution is only beginning. This is the
paper of Barbes, Pierre Leroux, George Sand,
Louis Blanc, sc.
The theatres Of Paris are brought to a
situation which has no precedent in the his
tory of this capital; their benches are mig hly
empty. They have tried reduction ofprices;
even the grand opera has reduced its prices
80 or 40 per cent, but all without effect.
Mr.. William Tell Poussin had been ap-
pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipoten,iary from France to the republic
of the U. States.
Marshal Bugeaud has written an article
in the Revue DIES Deux Mondes, in which
he shows that the plans of Fourier, Louis
Blanc, and other social philosophers, have
been tried by experimentalists IN Algeria, and
they all failed before the strong instincts of
human nature.
Prudhon, the Communist who has just
been elected member of the National As
sembly for Paris, calls all property rob-
berry.
True bills have been found bv the grand
Jury at the June session of the Central Cri-
minal Court, London, against Messrs. Ernest
Jones, RUSSELL, Vernon, Looney, Sharpe
and Williams, the Chartist leaders, for Sc
dilon.
Accounts from Vienna confirm the state
ment of the Emperor of Auslra's wish to re-
sign his imperial authority in favor of his
brother, Archduke Francis Charles. But ii
is asserted that in that case, the Archduke
Charles is prepared to resign his rights in
favor of his son Francis Josef, during whose
minority the Archduchess Sophia, "a sister
of the Queen of Prussia) would be regent.
Vienna is perfectly quiet, and even the Sc
cession of Bohemia has failed in producing
"a lasting impression.
Letters from Polsdam state that the King
of Prussia intends to abdica,e his sovereign
ty in favor of his brother, the Prince OF
Prussia; and that it was this determination
of his Majesty which caused his ministers
TO hasten the return of the Prince to Berlin.
COLONIZATION MEETING.-An interest
ing colonization meeting was held in New
York on Wednesday evening which was
addressed by several colored men, among
,be,, Gov Poherls and a colored farmer