Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-12-24
Arrival of the Pacific.


The Steamship Pacific from Liverpool. with
dates to the Goth, arrived at 9o'clock this NOR
ming with Al passengers and advices four days
later than Il e America. Among the passen
gers are the Honorable VIM. G. Rivers and la
dy, American minister to France, and Mr..
Winthrop, bearer Of dispatches from Lon
don.
The new telegraph invented by Vim. S. Hea
ly, is about to be adopted by the Liverpool,
Manchester, Lancaster and Yorkshire stock
company on the whole of their new line Of tel
egraph, IN which the Voltair battery is super |
seeded by beautiful application of magnets
and electricity.
The news from the continent is interest
ing.
Mr.. Wagstaff having completed his arrange.
ments for the transatlantic communication::b e
tween New York and Galway, returned on the
Pacific.
Lord John Russell has contributed f500 to-
wards Lieutenant Pins expedition to the Po-
lar Seas in search of Sir John Franklin. Lord
Pa'merston,is reported to have borne the whole
expense of the party far as st. Petersburgh,
to which point Lieut.. PIN is accompanied by
government messenger, and it is reported that
dispatches had been received, promising the
Imperial assistance to Lieutenant PIN. The
search is intended to be prosecuted north and
east of Behring Straits.
serious collision had taken place on tile
north western railroad; a number of persons
were badly injured.
The large Cotton factory of Messrs Duglad;
MacShails d Co., at Greenoch, was destroyed
by fire on Tuesday; it is an immense structure
employing 300 persons; the loss is estimated
at 100000.
The Sunderland Bank has suspended bust.
ness.
HANovER.-A new ministry, under the pres
idency of n Schyle, has been formed which
will pursue an entirely new course of policy
The new king Hanover, has issued procla-
nation pledging himself to the most sacred OBJ
servance of the constitution.
FRAScE.-Mede TEorigny, Minister, has de-
clined an invitation to stand as a candidate for
Representative from Paris, having fears that it
might divide the party of order Dufour has
been named Minister of commerce, and Casa
blanca as Minister of France. The illness Of
veteran Marshal Souit, has somewhat abated
under the skillful medical treatment, which
had caused some hopes to be entertained of
his recovery, Mrs bill had been delbera-
ted upon by the Council of State, and was
shortly to be introduced into the assembly, on
the subject of the responsibility of the Presi-
dent and his Ministers, wherein it is provided
that he may be impeached by any ten men,
bers of the assembly and his functions to cease
thereafter; this will have the effect of e-open-
ing the question contained in the proposition
of the questioners, by going down still deeper
towards the root of discussion. The assembly
on the Odd November, determined by vote OF
44l to 90 to proceed to the third reading OF
the municipal bill.
An article in the Paris Constitutionel:c harg.
ing the head of the party of order with con.
spiracy against the person of the President
has caused great sensation; the Minister of the
Interior has denied the existence of any such
conspiracy.
) Il is Stated THAT The President viii AGAR
present the ELECTORAL bill recently defeated il
the Assembly.
A bill has been recently proposed for regula
ting the responsibility of the President and hi:
ministers.
GERMANY.-The proclamation of the presen
King of Hanover gives great satisfaction, he il
called George the V. The state of Hanover
in political sense, is most unsatisfactory, ant
the government organ admits it.
The system of expulsion is still carried OIL
in Vienna grand scale.
PRussIA.-The renewal of commercial trea
ty between Prussia and Belgium has failed
The Prince of Prussia was to leave Berlin oil
the 23d to take command Of the army on tn
Rhine.
, SPAIN.-The news possesses no marked fea
ture. The negotiations pending with rela
alive to the Cuban invasion give rise to niue
discussion in the public journals Two vessel
of war had arrived at Cadiz with another POI
ton of the PRISONERS of Lopez's expedition o
board.
IrALY.-The Neapolitan government intend
increasing the export duties on sulphur an
oil.
TURKEY Accounts from Constantinople ar
nounce that the ministerial crisis was at a
end, and that the Pacha has been induced t
< resume the duties of the foreign minister.
e The Paris Bourse was unsettled, and close
: at decline, owing to the probability Of furtht
y difficulties between the President and the Al
9 sembly.