New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-04
NEWS FROM INDIA.
COTTON DECLINED.
By Magnetic Telegraph from Halifax to Portland
THENCE
BY Bain's Line TO New-York.
HALIFAX TxLEcRArH OFFICE, Feb. 5, 1851


HALIFAX TELEGRAPH OFFICE, Feb. 8, 1851.
The Royal Mail steamship Canada arrived at IL
o'clock this noon, bringing one weeks later intel
usence from all parts of Europe. She brings no
,idings Of the Atlantic The Africa arrived at
Liverpool on Sunday noon, the 18th ult-
The Revenue schr. Hsridus, Barring, master, re-
.nrned from a cruise about Sable Island, on satur-
dsv but saw no traces of the Atlantic.
We do not learn, as yet, that the Canada, has
brought any decisive news from Mr.. Howes rela
tive to his mission for raising funds to aidin build
ipebbe Portland and Halifax Railroad.
The brig Halifax arrived from Boston, this
morning.
The Baltimore ship Franconia was wrecked of
Holyhe ad on the 18th ult. Her cargo OF tobacco
Captain, chief mate, and II hands, were lost.
The English general news IL Of trihing in.
terest. and the papers are chiefly filed with ex
nectetions relative to the exciting topics likely to
engage the early attention Of Parliament. 1t is
confidently asserted that the Chancellor will have
surplus of no less than four millions sterling for
the year
Public expectation is strongly in favor of a
large reduction in taxation and among the most
prominent articles named for reduction of tax
are the window and paper duties.
Louis Napoleon appears to have gained Tor the
time being, a complete mastery over Gen Chan
GARNER and the National Assembly. The Com
mittee of Public Safety have reported resolution
in regard to the late measures ofthe Government
and an exciting debate relative thereto was 60
ing on in the Assembly at the latest dates, the
National Assembly acknowledging the right oil the
Executive power to dispose of military COM
mands blames the use it made Of that right, aud
declares that the General is Chief of the Army OF
Paris, and preserves the title to the confidence
which the National Assembly testified to him In
the sitting of the Sd inst and passed to the order
of the day. An unquiet feeling pervaded all
classes in Paris on Thursday, and the Assembly
was crowded to excess. An amendment has
been proposed and would probably pass, stating
that the Assembly had no confidence in the Min
istry. At the conclusion of the latest telegraphic
dispatches, Lamartne was making an able ad-
dress in defense of the President
The news from the Duchies is, that the Hol.
steiners have made an unconditional surrender to
the King of Denmark, through the fundamentally
of the Austrian and Prussian Commissioners. The
army has been disbanded and the chief members
of the Staadtholderate have retired to Hamburg.
Although nothing definite is yet known of the
proceedings of the Dresden Conference, yet little
doubt appears to be entertained but that the re-.
suit will be a reconciliation of the old Diet.
In Germany it is confidently affirmed that a
Central Power with a large army at its com
mand, has been resolved upon. The report of an
early Congress at Dresden has been officially con-
tradicted at Berlin, but without putting an end to
renewed reports.
Another weekly resignation of the Spanish
Cabinet has taken place and this time, it is said,
that Narvaez has actually left Madrid.
Accounts from Rome and the Papal States re
present growing apprehension and uneasness
among all classes.