North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-05-24
ARRIVAL OF THE FRANKLIN

ARMY AL Vt FRANKLIN.
New YoRK, May 1910, a. m. The steamship
franklin arrived at an early hour this morning from
Southampton, which port she left the 7th instant
She brings four days later intelligence, has about one
hundred passengers, and fair freight.
Cotton was in good demand at an advance OF ).
The Franklin sailed from Havre on the 9Th at p.
M, and from Cowes, England. at p M, on the 7th
Her voyage from the latter place has therefore been
made in eleven days.
| She brings London mails of the morning of the
18th, which were taken from Southampton by spe-
cial steamer.
The steamer Africa reached Liverpool on the 4th.
in ten DAYS, three hours, and forty-fve minutes.
! The news generally is of some interest.
| ENGLAND. In the House of Commons on the 5th
instant, Lord John Russell informed the House of
the the government proposed to pursue in con-
SEQUENCE of their defeat by majority of fourteen on
the motion of Mr.. Hume against the renewal of the
income tax for three years. His lordship said the
cabinet prepared to bow to the decision of the
House, and to submit to the appointment of select
committee of inquiry to consider the details of the
obnoxious tax The duration of this import is there
fore doomed. The course of the ministry on this
question received with universal ioy. At meet
ing of the council of the chairmen of the metropo-
tan commission, presided over by their noble pres-
dent, it was unanimously resolved invite the for
| eign commissioners to entertainment. The inv-
tation will be extended the foreign ambassadors
and ministers, and the principal of the royal commits
sion and executive. The banquet will be upon a
scale of great splendor, and fully maintain the ma
| tional character for hospitality.
! thousands of admirng and wondering visiters On
Monday, the 9Th inst, the price of admission fell from
81 to SIS. a head. About g., 900 persons were ad-
mitted at that Paice ond 1000 pounds sterling
taken at the doors. The demand for season tickets
also continued and the receipts altogether were esti-
mated at R2 900 per day.
The United States steamer Washington had left
| Cowes for Bremen.
London money market unchanged.
In the House of Commons, on the evening of the
6th was mentioned by the government that the lieu
tenant governor of Van Dieman's Land had thought
it his duty Withdraw the tickets of leave granted
to threelrish prisoners, McManus, Dou gherty, and
| O'Doncghue, in consequence of their misconduct,
and TO subject them to certain of imprisonment.
Among the deaths is that of the Earl of Bantry,
| in his S4th year.
The following Americans were presented to the
Queen at her drawing-room levee, by the American
minister, the Hon. Abbott Lawrence OH the 9th inst:
Hon. Chas B. Haddock, charge d'afaIrs of the nj
| ted States for Portugal, Capt. Joshua r. Sands,
Lieut.. l.. B. Avery, Lieut. John K Duer, and Lieut..
George H. Preble, of the United States frigae St.
Lawrence.
France. Galignani's Messenger of May says
that while the socialists in many of the departments
| are creating alarm by their menaces and attempts to
disturb public tranquility, nearly all the partial cleo
tons that taking place in the councils general
and the municipal councils give large majority to
the party of order.
From Paris learn that the 4th of May, the ami
Tetsary of the declaration of the republic, had passed
off without the slightest attempt of disturbance.
ne weather was very LOT the spectacle,
but the crowd of spectators were very great. The
fireworks were failure in consequence of the heavy
rains. The intended Bonapartst banquet in the sub
urbs prohibited by the authorities The festival
also passed off in Lyons and the other chief cities of
France with profound tranquility. The confusion of
parties still very great in the French capital and
the greatest uncertainty prevailed as to the probable
solution of the pending politica questions.
CONTINENTAL AFFAIRs-EMIGRANTs FROM BRE-
MEN. From LIST of January to 2Sth of April, 81
sells left Bremen for the United States, with 1850
passengers. OF these, 80 vessels and 1922 passen-
gers were for New ork 8 vessels and 1878 pass
engers for New Orleans vessels and ,2O3 passen-
gers for Baltimore vessels and 2S2 passengers for
Galveston and vessels and 229 passengers for
Philadelphia.
From Vienna it is stated that note had been for
warded to Constantinople demanding the detention
for yeas longer of fourteen of the Hungarian fu
gitves. Austria offers 10 bear the expense.
Reaction was in all its glory in Tuscany, and the
most stringent ordinances had been promulgated by
the Grand Duke.
The later advices from Vienna and Berlin give
clue to the probable termination of the Dresden
ference The prime ministers of Austria and Prus-
STA were however to be present. The King of Prus-
STA had left Berlin for Schwerin. The press
law of Prussia, as amended by the debates going
in the second chamber, promised to be equal to the
severest press laws in Europe.a
From Spain the only news of interest is that Car
list conspiracy had been discovered in Catalonia, and
that persons had been arrested and shot by The
soldiers the plea of their attempting to escape.
From Portugal have important intelligence,
with accounts from Libson to the 29th and Oporto
to the Both ultimo. The Geographic dispatches re-
ceved by way of Paris and Madrid, announcing the
nsurrection Of the Oporto garrison the 25h April,
are fully confirmed. No contest, however, took
place, and but three lives were lost.
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