The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-03-26
ARRIvAL OF THE CANADA.

10th instant and had stormy passage. VI
Halifax, she had to lay-to in one Of the mos
terrific gales ever known in that Latitude.
There was an uneasy feeling in the bust
ness operations Of Great Britain, owing tc
the warlke aspect of things in South Eu'
rope and Russia, and the check given to the
progress OF English arms in India. Amer
lean stocks had not fallen since the last &C
counts.
Cotton at Liverpool on the 10th instant
was 4 5-s for fair uplands, 8 "a for Mobile
and 5 7-s for New Orleans Baltimore
-four was 24s. Cd to 25s. Sd. The trade
in American cured provisions was fair and
the arrivals Of American cured beef We're
very large.
The demand for bullion on the continent
was increasing, but money in London was
easily procured. Shares Of the Bank Of
France had gone up from 1900 TO $500
francs. The payment by Pennsylvania Of
half her public debt interest in relief notes,
has justly excited the Indignation Of foreign
stockholders,
Mr. Cobden's Financial Reform bill for
cutting down the public expenditure fifty
millions Of dollars year, has miserably fall
ed in house oil only 353 members, 27 .
against and only rs for. The Chancellor
Of the Exchequer opposed the bill and de-
monsirated (?) that the government could not
get on, if the reduction We're made. Re-
trenchment in the public expenditure Of
Great Britain will never take place, until
the form Of government shall be changed to
that Of republic in.which the voice of the
tax-paying masses shall be heard and needed.
Mr.. D'lsrael has submitted resolution
declaratory Of the necessity for further pro-
lection Of the products Of agriculture. This
will bring up, necessarily, the question Of
the re-enactment of the corn-laws.
Parliament has sustained the government
Of Great Britain, in its course upon the con-
tinental questions and especially in relation
to its conduct in the Sicilian dispute.
The government had submitted to Parlia-
ment the responses Of various foreign gov
ernments in relation to the proposed policy
Of throwing open the coastng trade Of Great
Britain TO the ships Of other nations which
shall reciprocate. Allthe little governments
whose shipping interests are the main prop
Of their prosperity, eagerly agree TO the pro-
position. Other governments whose coast
ing trade exceeds that Of Great Britain pro-
per, in extent Of coast and number Of ports,
talk very shily indeed and put in great
many IFS and ands and butts 1t seems, that
Mr. Champion submitted the subject to the
consideration of the United States Govern
ment on the 10th Of January last, and Mr..
Bancroft had assured the British government
Of an early and a satisfactory answer Mr..
Bancroft appears to have entirely forgotten,
that the people olthe United States had de-
creed change in the administration Of the
Federal governmnt Probably he will get
his eyes open to this fact, in the course Of
time.
Weread Of the wreck Of an emigrant ship
from Antwerp for New York, of Harwick,
on the 2sth of last month All on board,
l26 in number, persisted.
The French Republic was being steadily
consolidated upon the basis Of the Consti-
tuition and the laws. No outbreak had oc-
Cured in any quarter, and the President
was daily winning the public confidence for
The moderation Of his administration. The
trial Of the insurgents Barbes, Blanqui, and
others, were going on at Bourges. 1t was
thought they would be found guilty, and
transported to the Marquesas The attitude
of France towards the Tuscan and Roman
Republics, was not clearly defined at the
last dates Cavaignac is to be married to
Madame Baudin, who is worth half mil
lion Of dollars.
A terrible battle has been fought between
the British army, under Lord Cough, and
the Sikhs on the banks Of the river lhelum,
on the same spot where Alexander and Po-
rus met two thousand years ago The Brit
ISL lost 90 officers, $500 men, A guns and
) regimental colors. 1t was clearly drawn
battle both sides claiming the victory
Lord Cough has been superseded by Sir
Charles Napier.
The Gar Of Russia is moving. The I'm
perial Guard, $4,000 strong, which has not
left St. Petersburg since 1891 nave reached
the frontier beyond wilma. Ten thousand
Russians have entered Austrian Transylva-
MIA. The Gar has signifed his intention to
maintain the treaty Of 1915, and any nfrac-
ton Of that treaty he will consider casus
beM. He will not consent to any change
in the territorial districts Of Austria, without
the entire consent Of the latter.
The Schleswig-Holstein troubles are about
to be renewed, the armistce being at an