Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-06-14
FROM EUROPE.

The United States mail steamer Pacific, from
Liverpool the 2sth ultimo, arrived at New York on
Saturday last, after passage of ten days and two
hours. Her advices are four days later than pre-
vious accounts.
The discussions in the British Parliament on
the Ecclesiastical Titles bill had led to acit un
Outstanding between the two leading parties that if
possible the question should not be made ground
of political strife, but that both the Ministers
and the opposition will endeavor to make the bill
effective.
The price of admission to the Great Exhibition
was reduced to one shilling on the 26th, when a
great crowd of visiers anticipated, but it turned
out that the interior of the Crystal Palace was not
SO $. much crowded as usual. Up to five o'clock in
the evening only 81 ,358 persons entered the build
ing, and the receipts were only 1890.
The Paris journals announce that COL Sherburne,
depuled to convey the remains of Commander Paul
Jones to America, has been unable to discover the
grave, and abandoned the search
II is stated that the Government in France is
using all Its influence to procure petitions to the
Assembly for a revision of the Constitution. The
correspondent of the London Globe, writing from
Paris, the 9th, says:
81 have looked through more than sixty provincial ourn-
ais which arrived this morning ascertain to what extent
the petition movement has proceeded in the deparments
The progress is greater than had anticipated In some of
the departments the journals give lists OF from fifty to one
hundred and fifty communes, 10 which petitions being nu
merousy signed and in most by the mayors and
than three ourhs Of the members of the MunicpaI Councils
At Mrssilss the Municipal Council have by majority Of
IS to 8, adopted resolution in favor Of total revision and
than thirty Municipal Councils in different parts Of the
without indicating its character; which proves that the Leg
msts stronger in the city than in the
One hundred and fifty Hungarian refugees have
embarked from Havre for New York.
letter from Madrid, dated the goth ultimo
states that painful feeling has been excited in that
community in consequence of a sanguinary attack
made by the armed police upon the students Of the
university, by which seven youths Of 10 or 10
years of age have been severely wounded.
In consequence Of decree augmenting the marcuaon
fee to sum beyond the pecuniay means Of the Students
who for the most part youths Of very slender resources
great deal of discomfort had been manifested among Them
pecay those belonging the medical and veterinary schools
One Of the professors Of philosophy in haangue made
his class, exhored them not TO follow the example Of the
cdtapdSn0ras. The students of medicine, learning the
epi'het unpoley applied to Them assembled to the
number Of four five hundred proceeded his class and
Kissed and booted during the lecture. In the time
Chico, the chief Of the police with strong body Of
civil guards horse and foot and number of police agents.
made his appearance the students leaving the Unver
y, and having met with resistance in endeavong
arrest some Of the most noisy charged the excited youths
with great barbarity woundng many and taking great
Piiooueis preCduuous were imWeulaey
taken, the poverty and distress Of the abong and
the discomfort make the Government look upon every
symptom of umult with uneasiness large body Of the
students have proceeded to the office Of the Cmor Pubco
to request that their maybe pleaded in that paper
The accounts from Portugal announce that Gen.
SALDANHA arrived at Lisbon, accompanied by $500
troops, on the 18th he was most enthusiastically
received. The General, down to the 10Th, had
not been able to form an administration, owing to
the ultra members Of the Septembrista party. The
country is said TO be in sad state and the finances
in most deplorable condition.
There had been slight improvement in the
price of American cotton at Liverpool.