Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-09
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ARRIVAL OF tin STEAMER BALTIC.
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| night, having left LiFefpoOl 1T noon on the 230.
Her advices three days later than those
brought by the Cambria.
The retirement OF President Fillmore and the
inauguration of Gsa. Pierce was duly celebrated
on board the Baltic on the 18th inst. sumptu-
Gus repast having been disposed of, the cloth was
removed and the company was called to order by
Captain Comstock; whereupon Captain r. B.
Forbes. of Boston, rose, and, after few happy
| remarks proposed the health of the new Presi-
dent aud the prosperity of country. which
was received with enthusiasm. The nffair con-
cluded with toasts to Captain Comstock, good
wishes for the Baltic, &c.
The weather Of late. throughout the greater part
| of Europe had been exceedingly stormy. Eng
land, France and Prussia had been visited with
heavy falls of snow. The latest accounts from
| Berlin announce that snow had fallen almost I'M
| interruptedly for week, so that railway conf
| muuicaton had been greatly hindered and in
some instances entirely stopped, by ACCOMMODATIONS
that no available amour. of labor could clear away
4 In proper time.
| Colonel Fremonts solicitors communicated to
| the Times of the 2lst utimo, the recognition
of his claims to the estate of Mariposa, Califor-
| mia.
| Under the immediate sanction of the Dutchess
| Of Sutherland Miss Forbes is ecturing on Amer
ic ian negro slavery.
AFFAIRS IN ENGLAND.
The Earl of Clarendon has assumed the Seals
of the Foreign Office, in place Of Lord John
| Russell.
| In tho House of Commons on the 2lst Febru-
airy, the Election Committee reported that Mr..
Armstrong, M. P. for Lancaster; Samuel Car
tor, for Tavistock; MIR. Gipps and Mr.. Butler
Jonstone, for Canterbury, were unseated for
bribery. Some talk followed, on the subject of
the Established Church in Ireland, the Peace
Society, Militia, and other objects. after which
tho House went inc Committee of Supply, aud
voted various large sums for the Admiralty ser
| vice.
Captain Penny, the eminent Arctic navigator,
has at length succeeded (says the Literary Ga.
whale fishery, and founding permanent settle
ment in the Arctic regions. He designs to en-
ploy propellers in whale fishing in the bays and
I in'ets of Davis Straits. The colony is to be
founded in the inlet known as Northumberland
Inlet, or Hogarth Sound, in ab out the same lati-
,ude as Archangel. In this locality there are not
only excellent fishing grounds, but great store of
mineral wealth. especially of plumbago. Tho
company will send out two screw steamers of
FIVE hundred tons each, in the spring months, to
| the seas between Greenland and Nova Zemba,
and later in the year steamers would start for Ho-
garth Sound, SO as to arrive there before August.
| They would remain there until the ice forms in
November, when they would return to England
with the produce, leaving the settlers to prosecute
tHe lHSlOfo isueIy, anu store up inc proceeds
until the return OF the steamers in the spring
Owing to the prevalence of eastery winds, the
admiralty has ordered the steamers Vultule and
| Magicienne, to proceed to the chops of the chan
| mel, with supplies of provisions and water, for
relief of homeward bound ships that may be de-
tanned by contrary winds.
The Earl of Belfast died at Naples, a few DAYS
since, aged 25. The Bishop of Lincoln, (Rev Dr.
Kaye) died on the 10th inst. and Lady Charlotte
l Penrhvn sistar RI the Earl IF Dorhy ~,
the 18th lust.
FRANCE.
Ru nors Were in circulation in Paris for some
days prior to the sailing of the Baltic of the pro-
liability of an alliance by treaty between France,
England, and two or three minor states, with
view to counterbalance the power of the north
of Europe That many people are DESTROYS of
friendly understanding between the two govern
rnents there is no difficulty in believiug but be-
tween regular treaty and friendly relations,
based on reel rocal interest, there is great
difference.
A number of domestic servants have been dis
missed from the Tuilleries for being indiscreet
enough to gossip about the household arrange
ments. The Emperor intends to choose all the
servants himself in future. So they say.
Thirty-six military prisoners effected their es-
| cape a short time since from Fort Lamalgue,
near Toulon
The Municipal Council of Paris has published
its budget of receipts and expenditures for 1853.
The total receipts estimated at 47,1l4,346 |
francs, and expenditures precisely the same
amount.
The London Sun has heard slrmise that the
French government intend to take off the duty
on guano brought in foreign ships.
notice of the Moniteur had summoned all
the superior naval officers in Paris to assemble ut
the Ministry of Marine, to "receive commune
cation.' The subject was understood to be to
test at the new cannon invented by the EN-.
peror.
THE LATEST FROM ITALY.
From Milan, under date 18th ult., we learn |
that Marshal Radetzky had published second
proclamation, in which he orders the judicial |
authorities to sequestrate the property of those
persons who shall render themselves, directly or
indirectly, accomplices in reasonable practices.
BY another proclamation, the University of Pava
has been closed until further orders.
Slight disorders had broken out at Forli and at |
Arezzo, in the Roman States.
The Gazette de Basic of the 10th announces
that all communication between Lombardy and |
Tic;no is interrupted-the passage of travellers.
and even merchandise and corn, being prohibited
upon that frontier. There were 1000 Austrians
the line of Como, and 1900 on that of Varese
Accordingtoa letter in the Genoa Journal, MAJ
zini had been and recognized the Tici-
MAN frontier, whence he Ind sent large sums of
money to the disaffected in Monza, Como aud
Bergamo.
Saffi hadappeared openly at Ticino. but sue
ceede1 in making his escape when the police
came to arrest him.
Letters from Milan to the 18th say that there
still great difficulty in obtaining access to, or
egress from the city. Baron Martini, the mill
tary commandant, had threatened to punish Sc
verely any person raising cries, singing whis-
thing in the streets Two persons had boen
banoed-Oue for having takan I'M arms apninat
the troops at the Jaso Gate, the other for having
had two nuskets in his store, and having been
seen with the insurgents in the street Bostonato.
lha distrihutars of seditans nphlicatiopx ne