The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-02-14
FROM EUROPE.

The steamer Europa arrived at Halifax on Fri
day evening. She sailed from Liverpool on the
26th January, and brings accounts fortnight Ia
ter than before received. The Telegraph report
does not show that she brings any political news
Of interest.
The price of cotton is still advancing, and the
sales Of the week ending the 25th were $4,000
bales, of which the trade took 40 00O -
Best Western Canal -four 23s. 3D. 24s. Phil
adelphia and Baltimore 25s. a 25s Cd !; new Ohio
24s. 25s Cd Indian Corn, white, BIS Bis. 3D.
yellow, 29s 29s. 3d. mixed, 2ss. 3D. 29s.
A melancholy part of the news is the loss of
the fine packet ship Hottinguer, together with
Captain Bursley and twelve Of the crew She
sailed from Liverpool for New York on the 10th
Of January, with nearly three hundred cabin
and steerage passengers, together with the cap
tain and crew, of thirty men and boys and had a
very full freight of various descriptions Of goods
She had only passed as far as Blackwa.er Bank,
which is on the coast Of Wexford, when she
struck on one Of those dangerous lodges of rock
which lie concealed in that quarter.
IL was with extreme difficulty and peril that
the passengers and seamen were passed into the
boats, the sea breaking with dreadful violence on
the bank
The boats happily succeeded in reaching the
shore, although with extreme difficulty from the
roughness of the sea and the great distance seven
miles or more) from the bank to the land.
FRANcE-Business progresses slowly in the
Legislative Assembly. The Budget is still in
committee. The committee had been for some
time occupied with M. Falloux's education bill
The latest Partisan advces represent Victor HUI
go as having made speech against it, which was
applauded with phrensy,by the Mountain. The
debate adjourned amid great excitement
The war against the Press continues The Re.
t0rme has been suspended, and La PresSe seized
The weather throughout France, especially in
the south, has been more rigorous than for MANY
years.
The Buenos Ayres expedition is said to be
abandoned
PRussIA-The threatened dissolution Of the
Cabinet appears TO have been avoided by some
compromise. The King is now disposed to take
the oath Of the Constitution N.-----,---,
The Erfurt Parliament is declared to be an i'm
perious political necessity for Prussia Ia Wur
temberg there seems to be change Of opinion IA.
vorable to Russian influence.
The Hanoveran Chamber refuses to recognise
the Central Commission of Austria and Prussia
Constitution is recommended for Germany
Austria is occupied with the numberless con.
stitutions for her Provinces The Provincial Di
cts are to be convoked in October and that of the
Empire will assemble in 1851.
RoME-lt is said that want of money preyen,,
The Pope from returning to his Capital, and tina,
France has offered funds TO his Holiness The
Archbishop Of Bourges is said to be the bearer
OF this offer, made in the name of the French
aristocracy
sARplNA-The Sandman Chamber of Depu.
nes nave approved the treaty of peace concluded
NJ Mlian between the Piedmontese and the Aus.
r.ans :, ~ rs expected the Senate win also APP
o"s ~ n na ner,n NEGOTIATIONS for the treaty Of
The Russians having resnuad l;.I..,
tons with the Porte, it is expected that the Ans.
TRANS will not be slow to follow. ''''