Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-08-21
FOREIGN NEWS.
Later from Europe.
Arrival of the Baltic.

QUICKEST PASSAGE EYER MADE!
u. IS. mail steamship Baltic, Capt. Com
stock, arrived at New York on Saturday morn
in days and Is hours from Liverpool. This
is the shortest passage ever made. The Pa
cifc, of the same line, was, in April last, 8
days 20 hours.
Cotton at Liverpool had advanced I-sd
There is no political news of moment The
statement is repeated that the sultan of Turkey
has promised England and France to release
Kossuth on the LIST of September, and that
Austria threatens war.
Mr.. Hobbs, the American locksmith, it is
said, will likely succeed in picking the famous
lock of Bramah & Co. He has, already, in
the course Of a few days work, removed sew
eral of the main bolts
Notwithstanding the passage of the ecclesi-
astical title bill, the Catholic bishops in Ire
land persist In assuming the prohibited titles.
A report was current that the duchesses of
Sutherland and Kent had decided to abandon
the English church for that of Rome
The acceptance of the challenge of the New
York yacht America devolves on Joseph Weld,
Esq, IN right u his championship of the royal
yacht squadron. His champion yacht, the
Alarm, 1873 tons, old measurement. 1t is ex-
pected that the grand match of the season will
be contest for $4,000 or f1000 sterling be-
tween these vessels.
From ireland we learn that Lord John Rus
sell was burnt in effigy at Limerick. The
crops are backward, and the harvest scarcely
begun. The grain crop is likely 10 be light.
The potato harvest promises TO be abundant
FRANCE.-The ministerial candidate fol the
Lot has been elected, and it is said that all of
the recently returned representatives may be
regarded as Bonapartists.
There was report that M. Carnot, repre-
sentative of Paris, would probably be the re-
publican candidate for president The Or
leansts still think of running the Prince de
Joinville.
ITALY. Several persons of rank have lust
been arrested at Verona and Venice, on polti-
cal grounds. The emperor of Austria has
named Monsignor Mutt, bishop Of Verona, to
the patrlarchal see of Venice. A youth of II.
named Tori Achilli, a student of medicine at
Milan, has been condemned to years impris-
onment IN irons, for having committed violence
upon person for the purpose of preventing
| him from smoking.
The Pestilenoe in the Grand Canary. Not
withstanding the official notice of the abate-
ment of the disease, letter, dated Teneriffe,
July LIST, says that the pestilence continues
to rage, with undimnished violence. By last
accounts the deaths in Galdar, place with
$500 souls range from 40 to so per day. In
I numerous instances death ensues within three
hours from the first attack; if the patient sur
wives the third day there is hope of his recov-
cry. The doctors, Of whom three have died
out of the four that were in the city, have been
quite unable to classify the epidemic, which
evidently is not the known cholera, the patients
previous to death becoming spotted with pur-
pie, and much swollen, as we'll as the corpses.
and the eyes bursting out of their Sockets
Some consider it a typhoidal cholera, and 9th
ers, with great reason, believe it to be dis
ease brought into Canary in January last,
through the illicit importation Of quantity of
wool from the coast Of Africa by fishing yes