Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-04-27
LATE FROM EUROPE.

Liverpool, made the passage in Is days,
having sailed from Liverpool on the Sd
instant.
The news is as important in political
point ofview as any we have received from
the old world 1t will be seen that revolu-
ton is still compulsively progressing, and
that the spirit Of democracy is unchecked.
Other parts Of Europe have declared for re-
pubIicanism, and the syp!oms are that pro-
'digious wer'over all Europe is not improba-
bic. Already 'hostiil,ies have been COM
'menced between Holstein and Denmark,
and noesne can predict where in will end
and threats of war between the Poles and
Russians are ripe.
The accounts of the abdication of the
King Of Prussia, and the declaration of
q republic in that country, are not con-
airmed by the news received by this ar
rivsl.
A military force, calling themselves the
Republi can Legion. had entered Belgium, 20
"'disseminate the principles Of the French
Republic" but had been met and defeated,
with loss of 400 men!
Discomfort was visbly fomen,ing in
France against the Provisional Govern
ment.
The Presse has come out and openly ad-
vocates hts overthrow. An attempt TO mob
ahe office was made.
Paris is represented to be in state Dor
dering on anarchy itself. Men of property
were fast leaving the city.
Lsmarine has addressed proclamation to
she people Of Paris end the Departments,
'enjoining the preservation of order.
Armed bodies Of men paraded the streets,
day and night, and some disturbances had
taken place.
The elections have been postponed till
ahe % of April, and she day for the sitting
of the National Convention has been fixed
for the 24th of May.
The Provisional Government was making
large military preparations. Formidable bo-
dies of troops were daily marchsng to Dion,
which was made the central military station
The Presse says that three camps forming
dsposable force of 100000 men are to be
established.
Letters from Havre mention, in proof of
the utter sIagnation of commerce, and of the
proslra.ion of credit, that there were thirty
vessels in that port laden with cotton,
which neither the consignees nor any
one else would accept and pay the freight
upon.
Lord Normandy, the British minister,
had left Paris-a circumstance which had
created good deal of sensation in Eng
hand.
Open warhas atleng,h broken out between
Austria and the Italian States,
Mantua had been surrendered into the
hands of the Italians and the Austrian Gen.
eral taken prisoner.
Riots had broken out at Stockholm. Po-
hand is about to declare for republic.
Large bodies of troops were being raised
in every part of Russia, and were concentra-
ting on the frontier.
Denmark was also arming on every side.
Venice had declared for Republic.
Republ;canisn was proclaimed in every
part OF Germany, bat in some quarters it has
not met with much success
Horatio Sprague, Consul of the United
States of America at Gibraltar, died there
on the 30sh ult, in the 65lh year of his
age.
The Merchants Traders Ship Insurance
Co. of London have failed The liabilities
are estimated at f120,000, all being losses
in sea risks.
Large bodies Of Austrians, Poles, Germans
and Italians had left Paris, in great number,
for their respective countries, avowedly with
the determination to disseminate French Re-
pubicanism.
The intelligence of the ratification of the
Mexican treaty was received at London on
the 3lsAsPf March, by the packet ship New
Wcrld.
The Geographic communication between
Liverpool and London was cut off on the
day the steamer sailed. Perhaps occasioned
by the movements of 100000 char,iss
upon London on that day as much as by
a thunder storm which is the reported
cause.
The news of the arrival Of the masses of
Russian troops on the frontiers Of Poland is
already confirmed. The Cossacks have
already commenced their excursions.
The struggle of the Poles, which there is
every reason to believe has actually COM
menced, although the accounts of the Lom-
bardmen, and demolition of Warsaw NAV be
premature, will be ,hesignal forrevo, am ong
The Savonians, Tar,ars, and Germans Of
Russia, who will certainly be followed by
The Servians. Already the report ANNOUNCE
ed in the Morning Advertiser of w ednesdav,
Of an emeu,e in St. Petersburg, in which the
Emperor was ''shot through the hal'' with
pistol, as he was passing through the
streets, has been confirmed by Geographic
communication TO Paris. This partial move
mont nav indeed be supnressed hut !, 10