Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-04-10
FOREIGN NEWS.
Arrival Of the Baltic.
SEWN DAYS LATER FBov

SEWN DAYS LATER FROM FUBopE
The steamer Baltic, Captain Coms,ock
reached her wharf at New York, at a quar-.
Ter before 9 O'Clock on Thursday evening.
She left Liverpool at noon on the 22d ii,
making the passage in a little less rh.n %
days.
ENGLAND. The British parliament is en>
gagged upon the ecclesiastical titles bill, to The
exclusion Of all other business, SO thai the
chancellor OF the exchequer has not yet come
forward with. the promised new budget
II seems generally admitted that Lord Pal
mers'on will soon vacale the secretaryship
o' Foreign affairs. His lorJship gave
s,a"n entertainment to the American minis
s;s snu 'ady. Her majesty, il is said, will
aistrioute The prizes Of the crystal palace
exposition. The committee al i.Ioyd,s hav.
proposed to admit free into the merrhan,s
room during the exhibition, foreigners miro.
duced by us agents, or by British minister,
consuls OF bankers. '-cl-
IRELAND. Potatoes are likely 10 be grown
to a far greater extent in Ireiand this
Than in any year since the disastrous blight
in 1886.
A fearful explosion took place at the coal
pit Of Mr.. Cerats. of Nitshili, near Puistey.
Scotland, from which 81 lives were Ioss.
From Spain and Portugal the news 10 I'M
important.
FRANCE. The bill for continuing the ma.
tionaI qua rds in their actual STATE until the
adoption Of the organized law, was on Sal.
urday night adopted by large majority.
pamphlet entitled lie Banquet des Eaaux
giving an account OF the recent dinner Of tho
refugees in London, has been seized by the
police. The printer and publisher are to be-
prosecuted. The Moniteur announces the
death of Madam DegesDigny, motler Of The
minister OF finance. The statistics of The
national guard Of Paris show thai this body
has been reduced from 100000 to Sc 900,
without reckoning the suppression in the L.
gion of artillery.
In the department Of Nievne there have
been some very serious Disturbances. These
are sscribcd to the socialists at Stsnand.--
The rioters held possession of the town for
tweniy-four hours, and kept the mayor and
sub project in the greatest danger, and il
was only after the ARRIVAL of the project with
the chasseurs cheval and four brigades Of
gen d armes that the disturbance could be-
queiled and the ringleaders apprehended,
Paris, Thursday. The news from the
provinces of great progress Of socialism,
causes uneasiness TO the government. The
most remote rural districts are affected, and
the peasaniry are going over in large num-
bers 10 the reds. Nothing positive is known
respecting The formation Of a permanent
cabinet. ~ ... ra .r4rr
ITALY. Peter and Dominic Machiavelle
| have been condemned 10 DEATH aud others
to the galleys, all for political motives. The
first sentence was executed on the 22d Feb
nary. at the Castle of S.. Peter, with regard
to Dominic Machavelle. Peter died in
prison.
A furious skirmish took place in Rome a
few days since between the native troops and
a body OF French soldiers occas,oned by the
latter having quizzed the former about their
habiIiamenls.
AUSTRIA. Vienna, March. IL. Obsta-
cles have again been thrown in the way Of a
council of the empire. The designated
members are opposed TO the policy OF The
cabinet.
PRUsss.. Our Prussion correspondence
IS of the 18th ult. The anniversary Of the
Prussian revolution passed off in perfec,
tranquility. The ministerial organs express
their presumption that in n note which was
lately sent from ST. Petersburgh 10 Vienna
the Russian cabinet protests against the an
nexaIIon of the non German provinces Of
Austria. It. is stated thai the HoIstein for
rress of Rendsburg will be claimed by the
Germanlc Confederation, and converted into
an arsenal of the non German provinces Of
Austria. ,.e rt.
TURKEY. The insurrection in Bosnia is
still lar from being extinct. According 10
latest advices from lara, Of l4th ult the in
surgents OF the kiana have combined with
those Of the Herr government. They have
attacked The Seraskier, who being reinforced
hy The Turkish troops winch Arad Pasha had
brought up from Trarae succeeded in de.
feating them. IL seems that though orders
had been sent TO kiutaga to SET Gen. Denl-
binsky at liberty. the general had no; vel ar
rived in Cons,antinople. Emir Bechir, the
old prince Of Mount Lebanus, has Just died
at Constanrinople. aged ga. The porte has
declared the island Of Samos in state of
siege, because the Samans refused abso.
lutely TO accept as their governor. NJ Cone
menos, whom they considered as devoted to
the former prince OF Samos, The proregee of
Sir Siratford Canning, who is universally
deIested. i.,f 4.Y .
EGYPT. The Cologne Gazette SAYS TIA,
The mental alteration OF Abas Pacha, vice.
roy OF Egypt, ncreases-that the country is
IN most wretched sIate-thai il is impossi-
BILE TO get IN the taxes and that fayorires are
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accumulated by Mehemet Ali.
FROM THE CAPE OF Coon HOPE. News from
the Cape of Good Hope to the I'd of February,
has been received in England Two engage
ments, both of which terminated in the disas-
trous defeat of the Kafirs. have taken place
since the date of the previous advices. The
most serious conflict took place on the 2lst of
January. A force of Kaffrs. estimated at from 8
to 5000, attacked the position of Fort Hare and
the town of Alice. The defence was conducted
by about 800 Fingoes and 100 of the mounted
guard. After contest which lasted FIVE hours
and half. the savages were routed with a
loss of from 100 to l50 men, and driven back
to their mountain Businesses. The governor,
Sir H. Smith, had gathered together about
5000 troops of all sorts, and when his levies
were completed he intended to commence ope-
rations on great scale against the enemy
The Cape colonists were confident that the gov
eminent would quell the outbreak , in six
months at farthest; but private letters state
that the contest win probably last twelve or
eighteen months. The determination Of the
Kafiirs" is now the general cry in the colony.
Boston Journal.
NULLIFIcA TON. The bill recently intro