The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1857-03-21
THE FOREIGN NEWS.

E<GLANp-Ths Board Of Trade returns
for January show an increase in the exports
Of more than million over the January re-
turn. of last year. In cotton, silk and wooden
goods the Improvement Is most Marker. a
decrease is perce?tlble in tea and coffee.
Mr.. Charles Alison Oriental Secretary to
the British Embassy at Constantinoplc, has
been appointed Secretary Of Embassy to the
same mission in the place of Lord Napier
Mr.. Alison has been nearly twenty years in
the diplomatic service.
FRANCE.-Thr anniversary of the Revo.
luton oflSiS (Feb. 2D. was completely for
gotten in M,rGras. The Republican section
hal some idea of making political demon
s:rat,on at the Place dc /, Ba.tile. but found
it impossible to struggle with the holiday
feeling, and abandoned the attempt. A few
obscure meetings outside the barrier. formed
the only commemoration of this once great
anniversary.
ROMA unusual ecclesiastical cere
mony took place on Sunday morning Feb
18th, at the Sixtime Chapel-bein. the con-
secration,by the Pope himself, Of Dr. Clifford
nominated to the Roman Catholic see of Cliff
ton. DR.. ErrinGton. Archbishop of Trebiz,
onde and coadutOr of Cardinal Wiseman
and Monsignor Battles, Bishop of Lucon, as.
sisted His Holiness in the ceremony a!
which were present, also, the new bishops
father (Lord Cliford), his brother. and a
great number of spectators. especially English
whom the official journal. in its desert ption of
the ceremony, states to have been "gratefu
ard touched to see the common father of the
faithful direct his thoughts with snch solici
tnle to the spiritual welfare of England."-
Dr. Clifford, having gone through the nu.
merous tormalitics of the conservation, was
at last aflsctionatey embraced by the Pope,
and. being armed with the pastoral staff, pro.
ceeded. mitre on head and ring on finger, to
exercise his new attributes, by imparting hi,
blessing to the assembly before him.
CnIxA-A despatch from Trieste states
that numerous Chinese fleet had attacke ed
the English naval forces, and had afterwards
retired in good order, under protection OF the
forts at Canton. Admiral Seymour had land.
cd some troops. and set fire to the greater
part Of the Fauhourg of Canton. and of the
fleet ofthe Chinese rebels, which had j,incJ
the Imperialists at Whampoa.
1t was thought that the object of the June
ton of tn. two Chinese fleets was to enable
the united fleets to make an attack upon the
English.
The Pays saws :-"Private letters from
Macao, of January 10th, state that the En-
the empire which are open to Europeans in a
state of siege. Should this news be confirmed
the consequences to European commerce
would be very serious"
-Cosn.sf;cs for March-the ladies must
s'emember-are not kept at the drug store
alone. Natare'. laboratory is full. March
snow kills Octobes's freckles-and they who
Use SNOWMAN Tor the face at o'clock each
morning al this iHoath are warranted a
complexion in which the rose and the lily
shall mu:uaily blend, Tor long month. to fol-
low
-Rev. Samuel Il. Ward. pretty wei!
known rs an eloquent negro speaker, has
been laIi>hed for forgery to the British penal
colony or Van Dieman's land Ward was
concerned iii the Save rescue at Syracuse
\. Y. and afterwards went to England and
became lior AMONG tue British abolition
lists.
Tie kATs.-Anoties person, lady. has
died from the effect. O! the poisoned water at
the N.ional Hotel, in Washington, the wife
of Mr.. Jay l.. Adams, Of New York. A ,,oxt
:nor:em examination revealed 'that the
stomach Ila! been partially; eaten away; the
bowels manifested symptoms CT violent in
hammation the luuss were congcs;ed, and the
kidneys severely Affected" These appear
ances indicate the presence and action Of
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