Arrival of the Steam Ship
GREAT WESTERN
ELEVEN DAYS LATER FROM V.URi,PE.
The steam ship Great Western Arrived at New
York on the morning of the 15th inst. We t a ke
the subjoined summary of her news from thy. U. S.
Gazette:
The Cotton Market was Siren, holders
Allowing but little luelinat , ou to sell at
lower rates. The ts,..ews broug,ht Over by
the Cambria, wPA euniidered as favouting
holders of
'l•he Corn Law Bill hail passed sscoNn
reading by a majority of forty,seven. ('he
war of this country with Mexico would, it
was supposed, operate adversely to the
final passage of the bill.
'I he neon of the Mexican war had been
received by the Cambria, and had awaken.
ml strong interests—the sympathy, gener
ally, being in favour of the NI
The Queen has had an addition to her
family. The royal family now counts an
other daughter.
Toy OREGON NOTICE. —MC question
whether or not the Pre,ident of the Uni
ted States had given the notice respecting
the occupation of the Oregon Territory by
the 13, iiish Government having formed tile'
subject of conteover:l in the Emllish and
A nwrican press, we have the s;itisfaction
nF slating, upon the highest authority, that
such notice has been given. The Great
NVeston conies nut on her present trip
the answer of the British Government,
which is of a consiliatory character.
The King and Queen of France arc ex
pected to visit England eat ly in July.
The London Sun says nothing whatever
can prevent the triumphant settlement of
the Corn Bill, the tale of the Irish Coer
cion bill is
Lord George Bentick has declared that
the great body of the agricultural members
are opposed to its Girdle' progreso.
The Cambria arrived on the.'Uth, taking
out the news of the battle on the Rio
Grande. The English papers publish all
the facts without comment.
MONEY MARKET—London, 29th, I
o'clock.—The English securities have been
effected in a considerable degree by the
news from America. Declaration of war
by that country against Mexico may, it is
feared, involve us in fresh difficulties with
the United States, and the (begun dispute
will now become a question of secondary
interest compared with others that will, in
all probability, arise from the hostilities
of our transatlantic neigh'mrs.
ESCAPE OF LOUIS 111LONAPARTE
FROM HAM.
On Monday last the Prince succedcd in
effecting his escape from the Fortress of
Ham, after a close imprisonment for some
years, having assumed the disguise of a
workman.—He contrived to elude the vi
gilance of the sentries to regain his free
dom, without any molestation from the
battalion of infantry that formed the gay
,s,e wale, and to arlive safety to
London, where we believe he is at present.
The Morning Herald says, as the Prince
escaped at seven o'clock of the morning of
the 25th, and as the event was not discov
ered for ten hours afterwards, he could
easily have reached the Belgian frontiers,
only 0 leagues distant, long before the
telegraph itself could have been set to
work. The papers say lie embarked at
St. Valery.
PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY.
In the Commons Mr. O'Connell moved
that the order of the 27th April, for the
committal of Mr. W. S. O'Brien, be dis
charged on the ground that the Committee
of Selection, which had directed his at.
tendance on a private bill committee was
not itself properly constituted. In the
Lords on Monday, the Duke of Welling
ton moved an adaress to her Majesty, con•
gratulatmg her upon the addition to her
domestic happines, in the birth of anoth•
er Princess—unanimously agreed to. The
discussion on the Corn Bill then commen
ced.
M ARKETS —Liverpool Corn Exchange,
Friday.—At the commeneetnent of our
market to-day, a few sales of free wheat
were effected to necessitinus business at a
decline of 111. to 5.1 d. per 70 lbs. from the
reduced rates of last mat ket, but the Lon
don morning papers arriving by express
about noun, stating a majority of 47 in fa
vour of the Corn Bill in the House Of
Loids, appeared wholly to engross the at
tention of the trade; autl subsequently
very little business was done, although
rather lower prices would have been gen•
erally conceded. It is difficult , however.
to form any precisely accurate (potations
for the moment ; we therefore wait the re
sult of our next market, when the effect
produced by this impoi (ant measure will
probably be more clearly ascertained.
Notwithstanding the large stock of wheat
and flour lying here in b‘md, will shortly
be r eleased at the near duty, we hear of no
sales to-day in anticipation of the event,
though We,.tern States flour is still offered
at 28s per barrel.
Baussr.Ls, 26.—The Minister of the in
terior has brought torn ant a Law, author
ising the importation of Corn and Provi
sions until December, free of duty. All
is quiet in Spain.
INDIA AND CHINA.
By au extraordinary express which
reached London on the 20th inst. in anti
cipation of the mail, we have received ad.
vices from India and China ; the dates are
Calcutta. April 7th' Madras 13th, Boni-
bay l'Oth, China, March 2qth. The Bom
bay Times of April I sth has the following
brief summary of the news : the last lOrt
night haS proved perfectly barren of intel
ligence. Ihe Commander in Chief like
the liovernor Ciencral, has quitted the
Putijaub—the British garrison remains in•
active at ',idiom, where the people are
comlucting them elves with propriety, but
there seems a considerable amount of -tur
bulence up and down throughout the coon.
try. The new cantonments were being
arranged in the Julio oder•doub and their
garrisons assigned to .hem. The Bombay
troops begun to arrive at Rom about the
first week of April, and were to be distri
buted in the manner formerly described.
People in the %% eaten, India were begin
ning to suffer from scarcity, mainly bru'ght
about by the deficiencies of lust season's
rains•
Cholera was spreading amongst the na
tives.
India generally is quiet—some failures
of European houses connected with Bom
bay have occurred.
The weather is unusually cool for the
middle ut April.
Sir George Arthur, Gov. of Bombay, is
greatly improved In health, and able to
transact buisness and take his customary
evening drive.
COMMERCIAL I NTFLLIOENCE,—PEOVi -
slims. There is nothing to report in the
market for American Produce of such a
kind as to require un extended notice.
there is no important change in the val.
ue of any article except U. S. Flour which
has been sold on lower terms, say 225. to
245. for New Orleans. Western Canai
Provisions without charge.
Caledonia Arrived.
FIVE D VirS LATER FROM EUROPE.
BOSTON, June 18
The Steam ship Caledonia, Capt. E. O.
Lott, was telegraphed this forenoon, at IC
o'clock, and arrived at her v hail at half
past 12._ . .
.
The Cotton Market has been reduced
ag tin to a state or comparative quiet.
Prince Louis Napoleon has arrived in
England incognito, and is about to leave
for Florence, there to join his invalid fath
er.
It would appear from what O'Connell
stated on Monday, that Sir Robert Peel is
determined to press forward the liish Co
ercion Bill, when Parliament reassembles
alter the Witsuniide holidays.
The Oregon question has now ceased to
give any uneasiness.
. .
England has offered her mediation bo•
tween the United Slates :mil Mexico.—
Mr. Packenham has received instructions
to that effect from the Eritish Got erlin.et,t,
by the Caledonia.
Notwithstanding the unusual scarcity of
tonnage, the Paris paper, La Presse, of
Monday,reached our office last night,which
announces that orders have been sent by
the Minister of Marine to Brest, and the
other military harbors, to dispatch a num
ber of ships of war to the Gull of Mexico,
to reinforce the squadron stationed there,
in comequence of the war belt% een the U.
ititatt.lend Mexico.
On the subject, the same paper stales
that much uneasiness exists now in Pat is.
The opposition prints are all on the side
of America, and predict an early conquest
of Mexico by the United Ft.ites.
The apprehension caus,tl by the war of
the United States with Mexico, weighed
on the Paris Money Market on Monday.
The closing scene in the French Cham
ber of Deputies show that M. Thiers has
lost none of his pugnaciousin at. Ile had
had a smart tilt with his great rival, M.
Ouizot, in which the calm philosophy of
the first Minister was more than a match
for the fiery little historian t.l the Consul.
ate.
The Overland Mail of May the Ist,
reached London yesterday. It posse%ses
no political and little inteist. The seeds of
another Sikh controversy were sown at the
termination of the late war.
Portugal has been the scene al another
attempt at revolution, consequent upon a
change of the Mioktry. It appears, for
the Portuguese, to have been a more than
an ordinarily energetic affair.
ST. PETERSBURG, MBy 22.
I regret to say that the cholera is ma
king rapid strides towards this city, from
a hence, no doubt, it will in time make its
way to Western Europe.
DANCING.—The Presbytery of Harris.
burg, (New Schnol,) at their recent meet•
lag. unanimously adopted the fullowirg re.
solution on the subject of dancing :
_ .
Resolved, That it is [lie delibeJate con •
viction of this Presbytery that dancing by
professod Christians is in its tendency sin
ful ; that L'hurch sessions should regard it
as a fit subject for admonition, and if per
sisted in, of disc;:ilit;e; ar,d that we com
mend every appropri,:te effort which is put
lorth to suppress thin evil.
INJURY Ennui STORMS. , --We regret to
laarn that the long continued rains and fre
quent heavy thunder storms of the las! twit
weeks, have in some instanc , a caused great
danger. The barn of Mr. Fredrick seul t.
near Spring Forge,was struck with lightieg
and consumed on the evening of the 27411
ult. Mr. Sent( lust not only the building
but all the contents, %%jilt a large number
of farming utensils, six head of cattle, sev
en sheep, and a quantity of grain in bags
A friend also inlorms us that there was a
very heavy hailstoi in in Fait view town•
ship near Lisbon, on the 2541 ult. The
bail stones which were vi ry numerous,
were round and smooth as large as a hick
try nut, and exceeded :n size and number
any that have fallen in that vicinity fur 25
Years. The rye and fruit suffered serious
injury.
Fences were carried away by the
heavy rain which accompanied the hail,
some of which still remained the next
morning.— lush' L'fpublictur.
THE JOURNAL.
There is a class of newspapers which denounce
as traitors and tories all whodo not glorify President
Polk for getting up the war with Mexico ; and the
same papers are worm in their commendations of
the President's policy in relation to the Tariff—a
policy so extremely favorable to British interests,
that Secretary Walker's report, illustrating it, was
printed in immense numbers, by order of the Brit
ish Parliament, for circulation among the aristocracy
of England. A just rebuke is administered to that
kind of patriotism, by the Germantown Telegraph,
a neutral paper, in the following paragraph:
We see papers and individuals denounced as
lacking Ratriolism who disapprove a the war
with Mexico, and others as traitors who would not
go and fight for their country. This may be right
enough; but we would ask what epithet is to be
applied to those who are opposed to the industry
of their country, by which the masses obtain their
support, and in favor of the industry of other coun
tries coming in competition with ours, and in a
measure destroying it? What epithet should be
applied to them I Do not they lack patriotism,
and are they not traitors? it would seem to he a
work of supererrogation, almost, to fight in defence
of your country, when your country. after you have,
at
the hazard of your lifeprotected it, turns round
and refuses to protect you i n the enjoyment of the
fruits of your labour, against the very people whom
you had just before been called upon to fight and
kill, for reasons a thousand times less important to
" The Falsehoods of the Fair." you personally.—Germatilown Telegraph.
The above is the caption of an article in the p
sax eases of the Government.
Washington Union, Mr. Polk's official organ, re-
Week before lust, Mr. Webster, in debate, stated
forcing to the late exhibition of specimens of Amer- to the Senate that the expenses of the government
icon Industry in Worthington city, which astonished
were about $500,000 per day and on Monday of
and delighted the heart of every true American and
last week he referred to the subject again, and said
friend of his country, who had an opportunity of
he did not wish to be understood as speaking from
examining them. It is a subject of regret and nor-
any knowledge of his own, but from calculations
row that Mr Polk should select as his Organ,
made by persons familiar with tire subject, the pres-
Printer and Dictator, such a deadly enemy to Amet
ent expenses of the government, including the ex
icon Manufactures and American Mechanics and
pauses of the army, transportation of troops, &c.,
Laborers, as Felber Ritchie. This venal editor, in
could not amount to much less than half a million
the four years of Mr. Polka administration, will
of dollars per day, though it was not probable they
realize not less than ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY
would long continue at that amount. We should
THOUSAND DOLLARS by tbe public printing hope
not
alone, besides the trimmings and dealings. And
what consideration will he give to the country for
such a reward I He will sacrifice our Domestic
Manufactures and Domestic Industry, to foreign
cupidity and avarice, so far as he has the power to
do so. Rend the following from the columns of the
Union, and say whether the man Who can thus
sneer at the ingenuity and skill of his coutrymen
is not a Tory and friend of Great Britain at heart:
From The Washington Union.
The eyes of honest men cannot be so dazzled
by the exhibition of splendid articles of manufac
ture, although of American workmanship, as to
lead their judgments astray ; and when the atten
tion of the fanner is called to magnificent bed
steads, wardrobes, pier glasses and roaches, costing
each their thousands, what will they say 1 They
will say, who con afford to luxuriate in the enjoy
ment of such extravagant ;widen, fit only for ener
vated royalty, or princely dissipation; none save
the Lords of the Loom and /he Spindle, who have
'leeched our pockets to enable themselves to sleep
on beds of down and revel in luxury, to enable
them to pour out their gold for such purposes as the
making of all this show, in the hope that en Amer
ican Congress is weak enough to be led may from
the true interests of three-fourths of the people of
thin country, to leave them in poverty 41.1. utipti
them down with indirect taxation, while they lavish
on the other fourth the means of living in the mag
nificence of lordly luxury ? This is what the far
mer will say, or think, if he does not say it. And
Ihe will add : Put they reckon without their host,
for no such weakness exists; the eyes of many a
member must be opened to the extravagance 6f the
age by this very exhibition. and many a lukewarm
anti-tariff mail will now come forward and with
warmth and energy demand that protection he
taken away from these lords of the loots and spin
dle!!"
HUNTINGDON
Wednesday, June 24, 18t6,
Whig Candidate for Canal Commissioner,
JAMES M. POWER,
OF MERCER COUNTY,
0:j. Hon. John Blanchard, Hon. A. Stewart and
Hon. J. M. Clayton, have our thanks for pub. does.
APPOINTMENTS IIY Tun ATTORNEY GENERAL.
—JOHN SCOTT, Jo., Esq., to be Prosecuting
Attorney for Huntingdon county,
JOHN CH ESS WELL, Esq., to be Prosecuting
Attorney for Blair county.
Ye Tariff Democrats, who voted for James K.
Polk instead of Henry Clay, what say you to this
phraseology ? " Lords of the Loom and the
Spindle !" Is the man who converts his capital to
set looms and spindles in motion, and thereby gives
employment to hundreds of poor Laborers, and en
ables them to procure an honest livelihood. better
Weir condition and gain an independence, to be
called lords and stigmatized as aristocrats / Father
Ritchie well knows that the object of making these
magnificent bedsteads was to show to what perfec
tion mechanical skill had arrived at in this country
under our protective system ; yet he gives it this
demagogical turn, for the purpose of bringing into
scorn and derision the mechanical skill and manu
facturing industry of our countrymen. No hritish
agent--no tool of Sir Robert Peel, has published
anything so malignant and base against our me
chanic., as this publication in the Union. And
yet this old man is still permitted to conduct the
government press. Whatever he dictates, the
President and A majority of Congress submit to
and dare not resist. He says, "Now is the time to
repeal the Tariff of 1842," although our expenses
for the war with Mexico are four times as much as
the Tariff of 1842 will yield in duties. If the du
ties were doubled, they would nut meet the expenses
of this Mexican war.
At the end of Polk's administration, we know of
no man that will he as able to luxuriate on a bed of
down upon one of those splendid bedsteads of
American manufacture, as Father Ritchie himself.
He can retire with a princely fortune, as Blair did
before him ; and his successor in office may then
describe his country seat and elegant furniture, as
he did Blair's, to the astonishment and delight of
the hard-fisted Democracy. Yet thisold man claims
to be the friend of the poor and laboring classes of
the country !!
Of all the States in the Union, Pennsylvania
will suffer most front this weak and corrupt admin
istration, to the support of which she was brought
by falsehood and deception.
The Pa. Telegraph and Union Star, of the
same date, suggest. Gen. Taylor for Vice Piesident
with Scott for the Presidency. A strong team.
(yrj At a meeting of the citizens of Trenton, N.
J., on lest week, " Old Rough and Reedy" was
nominated for President. A meeting was called for
the same purpose in New York, but upon assem
bling. they abandoned their original intentions and
merely adopted a series of resolutions compliment
ing Goa. Taylor, and those under his commend, for
their gallant achievements upon the banks of the
Rio Grande.
What is Patriotism?
Now JUDO The debt discharged.—President
Polk has nominated John K. Kane, Esq. of Phil
adelphia, as Judge of the Eastern District of Penn
sylvania, in the place of Judge Randall, deceased,
It is understood that this appointment is in consider
ation of the important correspondence between Mr.
Kano Jr. l ible Polk, in the campaign of 1844
the one ether" having secured Mr. Polk's elec
tion.
Does our neighbor of the Globe claim to
be the organ of the entiro Locofoco party of Hunt
ingdon county, the , Gwin faction' included? If
so, his interrogatory to us of last week is answered.
Plan of the Campaign against Wes-
The New Orleans Picayune of the sth inst.,con
tains a plan of the Mexican campaign under Gen. '
Taylor, in which hie course of operations will be,
first, the capture of the town of Camargo, situated
on the Rio Grande, 250 miles by water above Mat
amoros, so soon as transports can be procured for
the troops, for which purpose Gen. Taylor has des
patched Cvt. Saunders of the army to New Or
kiln, Beare reaching Camargo, the army will
have to take the town of Reynosa, which is between
Matamoras and Camargo. This latter town will
be the basis of operations upon Monterey as the
depot of supplies From Camargo to Monterey is
about 120 miles. and the country more fertile than
that between Matamoros and Monterey. Gen. Tay
lor designs to be at Monterey in all July, where it is
supposed the Maxims will make a stubborn stand,
if at all, during the war.
It is added, that if the troops under Gen. Tay
lor occupy Monterey, the whole of Mexico this
side the Sierra Madte will be in the possession of
the United States, including the milling districts of
New Leon, Now Mexico, Santa Fe, Chihuahua,
&c., &c. This calculation is based somewhat upon
the idea that the United States will order an expe
dition from the Missouri river upon the northern
provinces. If this be dune the whole of north Mex
ico will he in our possession. Such a disposition of
the forces of the United States Would end the war
at once. But if it did not, our army would hold
the key to the whole of South Mexico, and the
gates of the capital would, speaking in a military
sense, be in the possession of Gen. Taylor.
President's Message.
On Tuesday the President transmitted a message
to the Senate in reply to the resolutions oll'ered by
Mr. Lewis, a few days since, calling for estimates
of the present and probable expenses of the Gov
ernment, together with a statement on the subject
from the Secretary of the Treasury.
The President and the Secretary BOTH RE
COMMEND A MODIFICATION OF THE
TARIFF to furnish means to carry on the govern
ment. Mr. WALKER suggests an alteration in his
miff bill so as to produce four millions and thirty
four thousand dollars more revenue than he esti
mated would be raised by his original project of the
tariff:
From his estimate of expenditures, there would
be, ho says, a deficiency of fourteen millions of
dollars! A warehousing system, ho thinks, would
bring this deficit down to thirteen millions, and to
meet this expense he asks power to issue Treasury
notes in preference to loans or direct to. s
Mr. Walker estimates the expenses of the ensu
ing quarter, of next fiscal year, at twenty-six mil
lion of dollars, (more than a quarter of a million a
day !)
The message and the report were then ordered to
he printed and referred to the Committee on Fi
nance.
ej. Does our neighbor of the Globe approve of
the effort now making by his party in Congress to
repeal the Tariff act of 1842 , This is a question
in which the people have a deep littered, and we
therefore confidently expect an unequivocal answer
to it.
a} The Philadelphia Sun shrewdly remarks in
substance, that, should Scott become popular among
all lovers of good soup," his chances for the Pre
sidency would be no littlo enhanced. Look out
Means. Locofocos. You may run against a snag.
'l•bat • hasty plate of soup' may he the death of you!
From the Pennsylvania Inquirer.
Important
TROal yr.,/ s in.7l TOA
WANIIINOTON, June 17th, 1846.
It has been agreed that the Tariff Bill shall be de
bated in the House until two weeks from Monday
next.
It is thought that the session will then terminate •
early in August.
Mr. Polk is confident that the war will terminate
in sixty days.
He looks to the mediation of England.
The Senate today, during the afternoon session,
elected Mr. MeDuffie chairman of Committee on
Frireign Relations, then went into executive session
on the treaty, and soon afterwards adjourned. The
votes until the fourth balloting, were chiefly divided
between Mr. Sevier and Mr. Webster.
Mr. Archer having withdrawn, Mr. Webster
withdrew after the 34 balloting, and Mr. Sevier
after the sth. Mr. MeDuffie had 31 of 53 votes
on the 7th balloting.
The Supplemental War Bill has finally passed
both Houses.
Mr. Secretary Walker, I am informed, has issued
orders to collectors to grant clearances to American
vessels for Matamoras, thus throwing open that
port and the Northern Provinces of Mexico for the
introduction of American products,and manufac
tures.
WASHINGTON, June 18—P. M.
The Oregon Treaty, without qualification, was
ratified this afternoon—yeas 41, nays 14.
The following is a brief abstract of it:
Article 1. Fixev the territorial boundary between
the United States and Great Britain, west of the
Becky mountains, on the tine of forty-nine degrees,
till it reaches Queen Charlotte's Sound, and then
through the Straits of Fuca to the ocean, which
gives to Greet Britain Van Couver's Island.
Art. 2. Declares the navigation of the Columbia
river, up to where it strikes the line of forty-nino
degrees, to be free to the Hudson's Bay Company,
during the continuance of its charter.
Art. 3. The rivers, parts and harbors north of
the forty-ninth degree, to be free to the commerce
of both nations.
Art. 4. Indemnity for the forts and trading sta
tions of the Hudson's Bay Company south of for
ty-nine degrees, and of the Americana north of the
same, if any there he.
Art. 5. Indemnity for private property of citizens
or subjects who may be south or north of forty
nine degrees, if they wish to retire within their own
territory.
Gen. Gaines, with his aid, Capt. Calhoun, arri
ved in Washington this evening. having received
his orders from the War Department on the 10th,
and started on the 11th.
G3.DBOUSTED !—After the vote in the Sen
ate for the settlement of the Oregon dispute, Mr.
ALLEN became disgusted! ! and asked to be ex
cused from serving any longer as Chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Relations. The Senate ex
cused him unanimously; and Mr, McDuffy has
since been elected.
The Wan
A letter from Major General Taylor to Governor
Johnson, written at Matamoros on the 27th ultimo,
is published in the New Orleans papers. He says
that "until more fully instructed as to the policy
and intentions of the General Government, he can
not speak with any certainty of the amount of force
that may he required. He says that "if the Gov
ernment is contented with a simple occupation of
the Rio Grande," his present force is quite suji
rient. "If, on the other hand," he continues, "an
invasion is contemplated, an additi , nal force will
be required, consisting in part at least, of mounted
troops. I have just learned that war had been for
mally declared by the United States against Mexico,
and take for granted that Congress will at once
adopt suitable measures for raising an additional
military force. In this view of the case, I would
respectfully recommend that no more volunteers be
despatched at present front Louisiana."
General Taylor concludes as follows
I "In case I shall require an additional force of
this description, which cannot be the case until pro
per depots of supplies and means of transportation
are provided, i will not hesitate to make a call, feel
ing assured that it will be as promptly answered as
before. In the mean time the organizations which
have been already made will prove useful as the
basis of future regiments or corps, should they be
I wanted."
Later From Mexico.
By the echr. Merchant, Capt. Kean, arrived at
Charleston on Sunday last, the Courier has received
files of Havana and Matanzas papers to the 10th
inst. From the Diario del Madonna, of the 9th
inst., the following letter is translated:
VER♦ Cnvz, June'l, 1846.
•
The consuls of the neutral nations have protected
against the blockade of this port, declared on the
20th of last month, by the commander of the U. S.
fleet, which allows only 15 days for foreign vessels
to leave the port.
The principal portion of rho American fleet is
now at Join Verd, and the American men of war
St. Mary's and Plymouth, and a small brig, are
cruising before Tampico.
Many families are leaving the city for the interior.
We are now here, as in 1898, with the only differ
ence that the Castle is in a better condition.
After much delay, the Congress of the nation has
the first meeting on the 27th, Senor Bustamente,
ex-(resident, being appointed President of the
same, and it is generally believed that Paredes will
be elected legal President of the Republic.
It is said that Paredes will march over to Mate
mores at the head of a strong army—the largest
portion composed of the body of troops called re
serve. The departure of the army is fixed already,
but nobody knows it. Gen. Bravo will occupy the
Presidency ad interior. The suspension of pay
ments continued, and Waimea remains In the worst
condition. Government had called a meeting for
the purpose of procuring resources, which I believe
can hardly be obtained, because the clergy ore
not able to pay the amount of $90,000 monthly,
asked by the Government; and on the other hand,
the actual condition of the several states is not such
as to expect from them any resources."
cO•• The Whigs of Schuylkill, at their late
County Meeting, passed a reeotution in favor of
Gen. Irvin for Governor.
Appalling Calamity in Quebec.
NEARLY ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
From the Quebec Mercury of June 13.
It has again pleased the Almighty to afflict our
already chastened city.
Lain night al 10 o'clock, a fire broke out in the
Theatre Royal, St. Lewis street, (formerly the Rid
ing school) at the close of Mr. Harrison's exhibition
of his Chemical Dioramas. From the informeiion
we hove been able to glean, a Camphrene Lamp
was overset, from some cause or other, and the stnge
at once became enveloped in flames.
The house had been closely crowded, but some
had fortunately left before the accident.
A ruah was at once made to the staircase leading
I from the boxes, by those who, in the excitement of
the moment, forgot the other passages of egress.
In on incredib'e short space of time the whole of
the interior of the building was.enveloped in one
sheet of flame—the newly erected platform covering.
the pit, and communicating at each end with the
stage and boxes, favored the progress of the flames.
The writer of this article was oneof the earliest
on the spot, and present at the closing moments of
the hapless beings who perished ft om their over ex
ertions to escape. The statrcase communicating
with the boxes was a steep one, and we ere of tho
opinion that it had fallen from the weight . of thoso
who crowded upon it. At least such was our opin
ion at the moment.
The flames at the tame were above and around
us :—but human aid was of no avail—in five min
utes from the time of which we make mention. the
mass of human beings who had but a short inter
val previous been in the enjoyment of a full and
active life, were exposed to our view a mails of
calcined bones.
Up to this hour 46 bodies have been recovered
from the ruins. Most of them have been recogni
zed; a greater loss of life than in the two dread con
flagrations of last summer. Sad wailing pervades
the city. Scarcely a street can be traversed in which
the closed shutter or the hanging crape do not he.
token a sudden bereavement. Fathers, sisters,
children of both sexes, indulge in the deepest lam
entation. Woe has fallen upon many, for those
who were thus suddenly and awfully summoned
into the presence of their Creator.
lIIOITLY IMPORTANT
From the Cape of Good Hope.
WAR WITH THE KAFIR TRIBES—THE
COLONY OF THE CAPE as GOOD HOPE
UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
The ship Natchez, Capt. Waterman, arrived at
New York on Sunday evening, from Conlin!,
whence she soiled orrthe 3d of March, and from the
Cape of Good Hope, or. the 29th of April.
We copy the followingirom the Graham Town
(Cape of Good Hope) Journal, of the 26th April.
It is important :
Up to the 22d instant, no action had taken place
between the troops and the Katirs subsequent to the
18th, but considerable bodies of the enemy had en=
tered the colony; particularly toward Lower Albany,
or in front of Graham a Town, in parties of from
one to two hundred, and had in some instances
been checked, but to others successful in carrying
off cattle. The frontier is evidently in most im
minent danger, and the Governor has proclaimed
martial law to be in force over the whole colony.
His Excellency, Sir Peregrine Maitland, has is
sued the following Proclamation
Whereas, For the purpose of protecting the Col
ony against the Kafire tribes, now in open hostility
against the Government and inhabitants thereof,
and for inflicting such deserved chastisement on
those tribes as may tend to deliver the Colony from
unprovoked aggressions and outrages, it is expedient
that the force at the disposal of the Government be
assisted and increased by the services and enrolment
of the inhabitants of the Colony capable of biaring
arms, for military operations both offensive and de
fensive.
I do hereby proclaim and direct that Gem and
after the promulgation of these presents, Martial
Law shall be in force throughout the whole Colony,
for till cases, and in all matters connected with the
assembling. embodying, conducting, and supplying
her Majesty's forces, and the inhabitants who shall
be enrolled and embodied for the parpoae above re
cited.
Given under my hand and seal, at Fort Beaufort,
this 22i1 April, in the year of our Lord, 1946.
(Signed,)
P. MAITLAND.
A battle had taken place, and the Kafirs are get-
ting short of gunpowder, and one main object of
their rush into the Colony, is said to be to obtain a
supply. A heavy attack, it is conjectured, will be
made upon the magazines at Graham's town.
The mail to Fort Beaufort was seized by the
Kaffirs, the bearer of it severely wounded, the mail
bags cut to pieces and their contents scattered to
the winds. A Capetown mounted Rifleman, as
Express, was also shot by the enemy.
The Legislative Council of Capetown has been
summoned to pass a law to make it punishable to
refuse to come out when summoned by a Civil Com
missioner. •
PEACE WITU THE Cxxxecuss.—The Nein , Or
leans Tropic, noticing the arrival in that Oily of
the American Commissioner and 41 Indian Chiefs
of the Camanche and other Indian tribes, eays:--
~T hia is a very important arrival, as peace with
thirteen Indian tribes bordering on Texas, ie now
guarantied. The treaties with all these have been
made by Col. Lewis, in connexion with Judge Hut.
ler, of 8. C., and the delegations are taken to Wash
ington, both with the purpose of having the treaties
ratified, and to acquaint these " men of the wilds,"
with the extent of our country, and the number of
its inhabitants; on which subjects they have very
obscure ideas. They represent at least 50,000 souls,
all of whom will be peaceful, at least during the
absence of their Chiefs, and we hope "for all
time."
The Rev. Dr. Jonsos, of the Birmah Mission,
was married on the 2d inst., to Miss Emu, Coca•
aucx the charming "Fanny Forrester" of the
literary world. They will sail for Birmah next
month. A correspondent of Morris's National
Press says their first acquaintance commenced soon .
after the Dr's. late arrival from Birmah, when he
engaged Mies Chubbuck to write the memoirs of
his deceased wife. The writer adds, "It is well
understood to be a love match, and it is certainly a
striking instance of tho power of the little winged
deity. She is Dr. Judson's third wife.'
SWINDLED.—tiII rhUrndity last, a coun
tryman Irom Bedford County, Pa., was
swindled out of $lOO in Philadelphia, by
two cunning rogues. On his arrival Irom
Baltimore, he was spoken to by one of
them, and alter some conversation was
shown a ball, which divided and contained
a small piece of paper. The conlederate 4
then offered to bet the countryman that
the paper was not there. The money was.
bet, and on openis, the paper was not.to
seen. The two swindlers then decamped.