The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-18


In Nine Days. Thirteen Hours, "a Minutes.
THE SHORTEST PASSAGE EVER MADE
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC:
The United States steamer Baltic, Capt. Com
stock, arrived on Saturday morning at New York
from Liverpool.
The Baltic received the mails off "George's
Landing Stage" Liverpool, at o'clock on Wed
nesday, D. nl., August 9th, and took her departure
at fifteen minu es before o'clock She arrived
at her wharf ia New York At haif-past o'clock
on Saturday morning, with lab passengers and
a valuable cargo. The Canada arrived at Liver
pool at o'clock on Saturday
ENGLAND.
Parliamentary business 10 wholly unimportant.
Lord Palmerston stated in the Commons, on the
4th, that the Turkish government had positively
promised the English minister to liberate Kos
suth and his fellow-prisoners on the 18th OF Sep
TENDER.
The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has
adopted petition to government for reduction
Of postage to America.
Lord Arundel has been elected to Parliament
from Limerick.
The Queen in reply to the address asking a
continuance Of the Chry stal Palace, states that
the question is too complicated to be suddenly
answered.
Alfred BUM has again leased Drury Lane
Theatre.
The chief subject of remark is the visit of the
Lord Mayor of London and the Commissioners
Of the Exhibition to Paris, accompanied by sew
eral hundred Englshmen and foreigners of note.
The opening banquet on the I'd instant was ex-
ceedingIy gorgeous. M !,
Five hundred persons sat down, and in the
evening several hundred were assembled.
On the 9Th superb review and sham fight
was to take place.
The Cortes was prorogued on July 30
MARKETS.
Cotton ia unchanged, but less firm. Holders
keep the market well supplied, and last weeks
rates are barely obtained The sales on Sa ur-
day, Monday and Tuesday were $4,000 bales.
of which exporters and spectators took 5000
bales. The sales of Wednesday were 5000
bales
Consols closed on Tuesday at 962 96s on
Wednesday, afternoon, at 96s.
Breadstufs-The fine weather and large i'm
ports have produced dull flour market, and
prices have declined cd. Ohio, Philadelphia,
and Baltimore, are quoted at 20s. 20s. 3D.
The board of health of Gibraltar has imposed
a quarantne of Is days upon all vessels arriving
from Oran, in consequence OF the cholera having
broken out in that place.
A company has been formed in Holstein to
run steamers from Gluckstadt to Hull, for the
transport of cattle and agricultural produce, and
to facilitate the transmission of goods from Eng
land to the northeastern parts OF Denmark.
Two Jews were christened on the 22d ult IN
the church of the cross in Warsaw-one u, and
the other SO years Of age. Field Marshal Prince
Paskiewitsch was sponsor in both cases.
The Jesuit missions are making extraordinary
progress in Baden. Forty-two persons in one
day announced their conversion to the Roman
Catholic faith in Ettlingen.
The Ceres 900 tons, the largest vessel liith
erto built in France, has just been launched al
Bordeaux
Three distinguished Hungarian exiles have
lately arrived in Paris M. Messaros, formerly
miaister at war; the artillery Colonel Makk, who
fought against the Ban Jellacbich at Pakosed
and Colonel Katona, aide-de-camp to Genera
Dembinsky.