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

NEW York, Dec 8.
The Steamship Pacific from Liverpool, with
dates to the Goth, arrived at o'clock this NOR
ming, with Al passengers and advices four days
later than u 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 communcation.be
tween New York and Galway, returned OH the
Pacific
Lord John Russell has contributed f5OO 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 as far as ST. Petersburyh,
to which point Lieut.. PIN is accompanied by a
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
A serious collision had taken place on the
north western railroad; a number of persons
were badly injured.
The large Cotton factory of Messrs Duelad
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 Soult, has somewhat abated
under the skillful medical treatment, which
had caused some hopes to be entertained of
his recovery, Mis- bill had been delibera-
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 re.opep-
ing the question contained in the proposition
of the questioners, by going down still deeper
towards the root of discussion. The assembly
OH the 23d November, determined by a vote of
44l to 20 to proceed to the third reading of
the municipal bill
An article in the Paris Constitutionel.cbarp
ing the head of the party of order with a 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 SEATED that the President win again
present the ELECTORAL bill recently defeated in
the Assembly.
bill has been recently proposed for regula-
ting the responsibility of the President and his
ministers.
GERMANY-The proclamation of the present
King OF Hanover gives great satisfaction, he is
called George the V. The state of Hanover,
in political sense, is most unsatisfactory, and
the government organ admits it.
The system of expulsion is still carried on
in Vienna on grand scale.
PRussIA.-The renewal of a commercial trea.
ty between Prussia and Belgium has failed
The Prince of Prussia was to leave Berlin on
the 23d to take command Of the army on the
Rhine.
SPATN.-The news possesses no marked fea-
ture. The negotiations pending with It's rela-
alive to the Cuban invasion give rise to much
discussion in thepublic journals. Two vessels
of war had arrived at Cadiz with another por-
tion Of the prisoners of Lopez's expedition on
board.
ITALY.-The Neapolitan government intends
increasing the export duties on sulphur and
oil.
TURKEY.-Accounts from Constantinople an
nounce that the ministerial crisis was at an
end, and that the Pacha has been induced to
resume the duties of the foreign minister
The Paris Bourse was unsettled, and closed
at decline, owing to the probability of further
difficulties between the President and the AS
sembly