The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-11-06
THE MINNES0TIAN.
From a Foreign Correspondent.
LIVERPOOL, October 6,

LIVERPOOL, october d, 1882.
The talk excited by the death of the Duke
of Wellington has pretty much subsided; and
many, who acknowledge his high military quail
tiles, have few regrets for his removal to anoth-
er stage of action. He was the greatest barrier
in England to the progress of liberal principles.
He held 60 proxies in the House of Lords and
of course could always oppose every measure of
reform by 81 unanswerable arguments. His
death clears the path, and Lord John Russell,
the Wing leader, shows disposition to tread in
extended suffrage
The successful construction of great steam
propellers at CherbOurg has aroused the appre-
tensions of the English. The Austerlitz is 243
feet long, carries 60 guns, and makes ten miles
an hour; the Jean Bart carries 100 guns the
Napoleon 81, and both of them make fifteen
miles an hour. The English Admiralty long
treated the scheme of building fast steam propel-
lers for war purposes, as vision, while the
French naval officers have solved the problem
in way which frightens John Bull not little.
The avowed object of the French says the cor
respondent of the Times. lis, in case of war, to
make flying bridge of their steamers, to trans
port an army over the channel, and try cam
paign on English SOIL The stupendous works
at Cherbourg and the activity displayed to
complete feet on the new principle, bespeak
the intentions of the French Government. This
is grave subject to mediate on may the eyes
of the nation be open in time to avert the dam
gers which await her.
On most reliable French authority, l can as
sure you that the President has had an cxami-
that at Brest and L'Orient the same activity
prevails as at Cherbourg; and that the French
naval officers speak openly about an expedition
against England. The plan is to concentrate
by railway on given day large force of
troops on the coast, to put an embargo on all
the ships, and to transport forty or fifty thous-
and men on screw propellers and tugs to point
between Dover and Southampton, to march
without delay on London, and, under the pre-
text of taking back. the war contributions of
1915, to plunder the Bank of England. This is
the language of the French officers and eXtrav
agant as such piratical expedition seems, it is
not impossible.
Emigration from Ireland to America. from
Britain to Australia, is in continued, if not in
creasing flow; and while there is an increasing
influx into Ireland of farmers from Britain there
is no diminutlOn of the Irish seeking and getting
employment in England and Scotland.
The Exodus, from England, gives rise to a
curious article in the Times. After mentioning
that Ia, 900 new operatives were at work in Lam
cashire, chow many mills were shut up in the
United States to accommodate them?) and
speaking Of the want of laborers, it says the
want can be supplied from the Continent-Ger-
mans, French, can take their places. This is
consolatory; British born citizens are driven
away by their inferior comforts, and millions of
strangers may take their places. Is this what
England is coming to?
The French President, when last heard from,
was in Marseiles and the vicinity. He pub
lished decree giving two millions five hundred
thousand francs, two hundred and fifty thous-
and year, during ten years, to build a cathe-
dral in that city. A fine thing totaX all France
for a Cathedral to placate the clergy, when the
masses live in novels. He laid the corner stone
Of an Exchange in addition to the cathedral
So used to do the Emperor.
The aspect of Paris is lively, owing to great
number of strangers and immense activity in
various public buildings. We have just got
through some elections herc-much increase of
majority against the Government candidates.
Paris is Democratic.
Arrivals of gold from Australia are recorded
daily. The ship Midway has just reached Lon
don with 81 800 ounces, valued at G210,00
kossuth is residing in privacy at kensington-
terrace. Brompton, London. NJ. A. Lemny, his
late Secretary, has just been expelled from NAL
ia by order of Gov. Read, who assigns no reason
for this high act of Police.
One Sunday afternoon lately, a number of
persons, belonging to the sect known as the
Lattcr-day Saints, were baptized in the River
Mersev, at Egremont Several bathing ma
chimes, engaged for the occasion, were put in
requisitOn to convey the saints into the water.
The candidates for baptism consisted of men,
women and children, of nearly all ages, some of
the adults being far advanced in life: they
amounted in number to between fifty and sixty.
The ceremony was performed by two of the
Mormon priests or elders. The novelty of the
scene excited considerable curiosity among
those resident at Egremont and the neighbor-
hood. and great number of spectators were
drawn together to witness the ceremony.
"UNCLE TOMS CABIN."-Anythin in such
universal demand has never before been known
in the history of literature. Many booksellers
aver that they are selling nothing else the trade
for the time, having seemingly centered in this
one book, which, unlike almost all Others pre-
sents equal attractions to both old and young.
VI the work probably not less than twenty diff
ferent editions ranging in price from cd. to Is.
Cd, are floating over the country, and others
are advertised as in preparation. The total
sale OF these different issues must be something
enormous and unparalleled, even in times when
we are accustomed to hear of some periodicals
circulating to the extent of 0,OOO copies. One
edition is stated to be at its l12th thousand. OF
the total extent of the circulation in this cOun-
Try we can form no idea--it may amount to half
| million or whole million of copies; but a
single fact will suffice to show that it must be
something altogether unknown even to our
most popular novelsts. One bookseller in
Glasgow assures us that his sales of the book in
different forms will in a few days amount to 20,
600 copies; and we learn from two of the larg-
est agents in Edinburgh that their joint sales
have already reached more than 10000. Here
is cheering fact for the philanthropist.
The details of the President of Frances jour-
ney present no grand novelty. Everything
tends toward the Empire as heretofore. The
enthusiasm which began with being indescriba-
bic and unbOunded, is, we may say, indescriba-
bier and unboundeder. The telegraph has late