Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-01-04
LATER FROM EUR0P E
Arrival of the Pacific.

NEW YORK, Jan. Z.
Tho steamship Pacific arrived atnoon yesterday
bringing 20 passengers, and 6VV IONS ~ Gov.
A+,1ong her messengers was J. Z. 8. DaVlS' lOI-
mer Secretary OF Legation 10 inc
James. 80, +ho budcet nro-
ronnded nv the Chancellor of the EXchequer' mas
occupied the attention Of the House OF Ooiiiilohe
since Tuesday The proposition 10 uouole IN IN
house tax, and to bring 1t down 10 houses u
rental. and the scheme to tax all pfopeIoy incomes
Of f50 and salaries in business OF tI0O, mas ere
o+oJ much excitement and called iorth cohsldeI-
abe onnosition. particularly in the large to"hS'
where meetings are being held, and protests pass
ed against the PROJECT ,1..l GOO
I+ Is nroed that the decrease in the malt and tea
duties, viii be no compensation or relel 10 'iie
consumers, for the imposition Oh ne" t"AeS Al
Other ways. r., 4,,,+ 4bo
alteration of the malt duty will not reduce the
price of beer more than two-pence per galloh'a anu
that fl0 householder must consume ninety gar
Ions a wear before it becomes equal to his house
tax of Is Cd in the pound
The debate in the House OF Commons haa ueen
adjourned till Thursday night
The new Cunard steamship Arabia, arrived AT
Liverpool on the l4th, averaging during her run
from Greenock, fourteen miles per hour. ehe
has engines for 900 horse power. She IS to be
commanded by Capt. Judkin, and would leave Tor
New York on the LIST of January.
England generally is still suffering rom noods
caused by the continued rains. Even the Lake
districts have been deluged, ana great damage
done to the timber.
FRANcE.-pbe recognition of the Empire by
the British government created general satisfaction
! in Paris Funds became frmcr and IN public secn-
rites generally more animated ieehng was OBJ
served.
A large number of political prisoners, estimated
! by the Monteur at seven eight hundred have
been liberated since the restoration OF the Empire.
! Louis Napoleon is to have an income OF twenty
| FIVE millions Of francs or one million pounds, and he
will realise an additional hundred thousand pounds
from the revenues Of the Crown The Seuators are
to have life salaries OF thirty thousand, and the MEM
beers OF the Legislative AsstmbIy,sX thousand francs
a year.
Algeria is to have constitution, commission
having been framed for thai purpose
A vast company is 10 be lormed somewhat after
the form OF the East India Company, 10 govern and
| direct colonization.
Abdel Kader is still in France. When he re-
turns TO Broussa, it is lumoed SUN of hun
bred thousand francs, annually, will be allowed
| him.
SPAIN.-The new Constitution proclaimed By
the Queen Of Spain, making the Senate hereditary
aud restricting The franchise very small body o
electors, determined by high properly qualifications
has caused general excitement.
The latest adyices state that the petitions of tn
population requesting to he allowed to meet Tor cleo
toral purposes, have been refused.
The editors OF the papers charged with seditou
lbels have been acquitted by the jury.
TuRKEY-The Porte have offered to pay cap
tai and interest on the loan, and France and Elg
land have accepted the arrangement
The Porte has prohibited the circulation Of fo
eign money. That coined and issued in the name
the Sultan, and The Ottoman money comed in III
preceding reign, are alone 10 he allowed in CONNIE
cal tran saclions.
CAPE Of COOP HOPE Calcutta dates are
Sept. 18th, and Cape Of Good Hope to Nov: 9th,
The Kafir war continues without a prospect
abatement.