The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-08-10
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
LATER FROM EUROPE.

Interesting debates in Parliament on various
subjects, among which were the Jeddat massacre,
and Jew bills, the Hudson's Bay Company affairs,
New Caledonia, and bill in relation the Jeddat
affair Stratford Radcliffe, late minister to Con-
stantinople, advocates energetic measures and a
demand for full reparation for the recent massa-
ere.
The Jewish Disability and the India Bill have
passed both Houses.
DIsraeli, in a speech before Parliament, stated
that the Government preparing a plan for
submission to the American Government, on the
African Slave Trade, by which suspicious vessels
may be examined without giving offence, and that
he believed the plan would prove satisfactory, and
accomplish the end had in view.
Promising reports of the wheat crops in Eng
The Dutch Trading Company are raising loan
of five millions forms to increase the company s
transactions in cotton. The Cotton Supply Asso-
citation of England are making efforts to obtain as
sistance in producing that staple in the colonies.
The screw steamship New York was lately
wrecked off the Scottish coast, foundered in deep
water Total loss.
The Great Eastern Steamship Company is in
volved in difficulties. The big ship will probably
be sold to another company.
FROM CHINA.--The Navy Department has re-
ceived dispatches from squadron in the China
seas 1t is stated that intelligence had reached
Hong Kong that the Emperor of China had &C
ceded to the wishes of the allied commissioners so
far as to appoint official of proper rank to
confer with them at Pie-Ho, and this step was re-
garded as very favorable one for speedy solu-
ton of the pending difficulties.
Gwalior was retaken by the British. A Chinese
fort and one hundred and thirty eight guns were
captured. An Intellectual attempt made to
route the Chinese near Canton. The English mer-
chants have gone aboard the war vessels
The attorney General Of England Marrying
his Dairy Maid.-Sir Fitzroy Kelly has justly
scandalized the fashionable world by avowing his
marriage with his dairy maid. The fact had been
sible, the lady having presented him with son
and heir, to the intense disgust of his only child
by his first marriage-a daughter-who is herself
married and has family. The Attorney General
is in his sixty-sccond year.
SOMETHING TO FEEL GLAD ABoUT.-Sitting in
our sanctum, says the editor of the Leavenworth
Times, now some years past, on a cold and
clustering autumn day, we were attracted by the
entrance ola bright-eyed thoughtful little boy but
thny clad, who told the story Of 'no father-family
sck-out of employment" &c. We were at first
disposed to express mock sympathy, and say VIC
could do nothing; but the boys large eyes so
swimming with tears and he so trembled from
head to foot, while his conduct and dcmeanor bore
such an impress OF truthtuness and sincerity, that
we could not find it in our heart to speak harshly
and finally dismissed him with quite handsome
littlesum, contributed in the main by printers
who, by the way, proverba, the world over, for
their generosity
The next evening we were somewhat surprised
to find the little fellow hanging efficiently about
our office door. This time, however, his eyes were
bright with happiness, and sweet smile played
or and lit up his handsome features We asked
him to come in, but he merely stepped forward
timidly, to catch ear and earnestly though
stuteringly whispered, "Mamma prayed for you
last night and then disappeared noiselcssly as
he had come.
Thank God, thought we, for that mothers
prayer! And though years have passed since then
though we have hustled through noisy incidents,
and mingled in life's struggles, as all forced
to do-a remembrance of Mamma prayed for you"
still sounds grateful and sweet when
it first fell from the lips of that innocent boy.