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Foreign News: Fifteen Days Later From Europe

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
December
Year
1842
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Public Domain
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The lloyul Mail Steamsbip Columbia, arrived at Boston on the 6th, witli ncws from Eu-opo, fiftcen days luter. 'luiere is no favorable chnng c in commercial aftairs. In the monufacturing districts the yrcatest possible distrcss prcvails, and it is iinpossiblo lo form any opinión aa to tho pcriod whcn auy cbangc for the botter may bo anticipatcd.The new Anerican Tariíf hasoccupiod no in considerable'degree of public attcntioa of late, and the incrcased stagnation of tnide is owing in a great negree to :s operations. The Brilish. Journals sny that unlesa it be specdlly repealed, a good deal of British capital herctofore engagcd in American commerce will be in future investodin other channels. The freight of the Colunibia from New York dii{ not amount to more than one hundred nnd eighty pounds. The imnortations of foreign cattle nnd salted provisions ís incieasing, and there is every reason to expcci that this will beco.ViC a great trado. In the interior of' India, tranquility prevails, with die c.cepti()n of the mountain districts of Bundelkund, whithcr a etrong forcé was about to be sent, in order to put down the disturbancea eflbctually, by destroying the forts of the petty chiof9. Loss of (in Indiaman, icith Oii6 Hundred Lires. - A letter from Boulognc - Surmr, dated Piov. 12th givcB nn account of the loss of ihe East Indiaman Ileliance. of iOOO tons burthen. Only eight or ten persons out of one hun dr al nnd twenty-beo wero saved. The nnmber of persons on board was- 75 Engüshmen, 27 Chinese, and SODutohmen. Totall22. [ÁS3 of the Conrict Ship Wat.er1.oo nnd tico hundred and fiftif Lires.- The convict ship Waerloo was wrecked on the 17th of August, in a storm in Talle Bay. Wíicn the, vessel got among tbc brcakers the hntches werc opened and he convicts let upon deck, nbout fifty jumped overboard; about fifteew gnined the shore, and he reinaindor were drowned. Each f=ea, as it nade a brcach over inc nnfortnnate vessel, caried a dozen or sn into the water, who of coursc vere drowned. Thousands of people were on he beach, but could not render the lenst nssistnncc, while two or three hundred persons werc drowning. Eight only wore saved out of 330 ersons. In India some regimenis of troops had suflerol severely from the cholern. and frorn stornis and acoi!ents. Gen. Polluck had been succcêsul in routing some bodies of the oncmy. The ritish have abandoned Candahar. I China, the Briüüli have boen succcssful.- ' The flect sailed up the Yang-tre Kking, a most magnificent river, the banks of which were strongly forüfïed by ïho Chinese. The ships commenced an nttaek on the batterie, and after a heavy cannonac'e,t!ieefiamenand mariaers landed and drovc the Chinóse from Üieir works, with the loss of 3 killed and 25 vvoundeel. A part of the ilcet then proceeded up the river and attacked othcr battenes, which were also carried. In Jiis expedition no less than 3G4 picces of ordmnec were tnken, of which 7G were bross. - The troopa took possession of theciiy ofShung ïat, whcre they destroyud the public buildings, nnd disiributed tke con ten ts of the granarics imong the people.

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