Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-01-03
foreign Aews.
From The Daily Bee.
ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA.
Seven Days Later From Europe

HALIFAX, Dec. 25th,9 o'clock, A, M.
The Steamer Gambia, Capt. Shannon,
arrived here this morning, at 6 O'clock
She has 50 through passengers, and brings
advices from Paris to the 18th, and Liver
pool to the 18th, inclusrc.
Cotton advanced l-Sd Market inactive.
Weekly sales $4,000, and 33,0On bales
last week; speculatorsNek 1870.
The prices and demad for br"adstuffs
arc better.
Corn has advanced I'D per 490 lbs
Flour in good deman1al % and 24S. for
superior Western,
Provisions are in better demand, but
prices have Undergone nomaterial improve
ment.
Freights firm; passengers scarce.
The money market is extremely buoyant.
The bullion IN The banks amounts to six
teen and half millions, aud is increasing.
ConsoIs from 96 IA to 96 3-S.
American stocks have improved.
There is very little general news, and
of no striking Importance
GENERAL NEWS.
Her Majesty Queen Adelaide died on
the morning of Sunday, the I'd instant, in
the 5Sth year of her age. Her remains
were inferred on the 18TH in St. Georges
chapel, Windsor.
In political circles there is but little
news Numerous cabina councils have
been held, and it is though parliament will
meet about the middle olJannary for the
assumed new aspect. TIE reduction of
the amount of discount yhe bank from
3 to 2 l-2 per cent has, it's said, the pre-
cursor of TIL rise in consIs to par when
the chancellor Of the exSequer will lay
before the holders of stock a proposal to
accept reduced rate of interest, by which
there will be saving to the country of
several millions year.
Another expedition is about being fitted
out to 90 to Bhering's Straits aud further
to the eastward in search o' Sir John
Franklin Captain Sir Edward Belcher, it
is thought, will have the com mand.
The death of Ebenezer Elliott, the corn
law rhymer, is announced
INDIA AND CHINA.
The express, in ADVANCED Of the overland
mail, arrived a, Liverpool y sbe 9TH inst,
with advices from Bombay q the I'd Nov.
and Calcutta upto the %lh Oct. The
whole Of India, with the Cfeptini of the
small province Of GpomsNr, was quite
+ peaceabe. All the Sikhs @efs who were
implicated in the late c@piracy with
Sheresing, have been captaed. The gov
eminent of Bengal have of&cd the price
of 100 frs for the inventobf a good and
economical machine for sesrating cotton
wool of India from its seed for this sum
thousand native machines blight BE pur-
chased.
This arrival furnishes usa fifth no adtional
news from China WorLhg models oil
railways, locomotive engimS and electric
telegraphs have been ordereH from England
: for the use of Mahratta s0hreign, whose
f curiosity had been aroused W what he has
heard of those wonders.
! Letters from India on the whole report
favorably of the markets fodmanufactures
= Considerable sales of dry COLDS and heav.
Ter cloths had been effectedIn Bombay al
improved prices; several 4ales had also
D been made on cargoes to arrive, With re.
: gard to cotton, the staple asFaa7"of Egypt
f it was expected that the recaPts from the
r northern districts would be ke-fourth les.
than the average yield. Uder the inhu.
ence of the pdvices from HNgand of the
+ Gath September, prices had rather giver
), way. The sales during tie Pmnight were
moderate and prices continE ID high, cir.
cnmstance which created sfong DISPOSE
$ tion to ship and consequently Ireirhts wer,
: difficult to be obtained. ACalcu,ta the
i Transactions in piece goods Hre extensive
i but prices were lower.
l. FRANCE
:. On the night of the Sd ofDecemLer M
= PENIS proposition for the attion of ex
# posing the names of political offender,
: condemned by default on 4h pillorv wa,
!, rejected by majority of tIe assembly -
J. On the evening of the same, aay the Prcsi
k dent attended the Theater Ides Varieties
J. ! when he was loudly applatkd and som,
- verses sung in his favor. I anniversar,
e of the battle of Austerlitz rs celebrated
y by high mass at the chapf Of the inva
; lides. 400 of he insurgeDl \ June arriv
of ed in Paris from Havre and kere liberated
=, by the Attorney General.
y The elections have been ph'poned to tn
i. 25th of January 1851 ! now appear
Of that no difference whatever pad arisen be
is tween the president and ministry M. DO"
IS, ret's amendment for reducing the contlr
"a gent force has been rejected by the Assem-
Re bly,.
~ Ledru Rollins pamphlet IN defence
bo his own conduct on the l3Ih OF June, hi
to been seized, and proceedings instituted
By gainst the printers and publishers for Incl
to ing hatred and conismE Of the COVER
n ment.
~ The accounts received from Algelrs a
W !" nounce the fall of Zatabu. A social
of named Seguin has been sentenced to 70
mt months Imprisonment for saying, during t