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Foreign News: Arrival Of The Caledonia: Fifteen Days Later

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Day
17
Month
June
Year
1844
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The Caledonio arrived at Boston ai 8 o'clock on Saturday tnorning. i The most important news s ihe decline in cotton in consequence of the advices lakeo to Liverpool by the Acndia. We have io report respeeting the state of the grain mnrket or the crops. Texas.- In answer to a questiou put by Lord Brougharn reJaiive to-the Texas treaty, and ite importanee so far as the questfon of slavery was concerned, Lord Aberdeen said, the noble and leacned lord could not expect him togive a precis-e answer to ihe qnestion he asked, ït was a subject quite n'ew ond unexampled in the hietory of nation?, and his noble and learned friend migh-t depend upon it, that it would receive the toost 6erious atten; tion of her Mnjestj's government. It was trne, he believed that the treaty for the an nexation of Texas to the United States had beensipedjbut heagreed in the hopes expressad1 by noble and learned frieiid that the majority of Congress would not agree to the ratification of it. The discussion on the motion for a new trial in O'Connell's caee was put over until the next term which commenced on the 23d uit. The London money market continúes in a healthy state; more so indeed since the development of the terms on which the Bank of Ehglknd is to be re-ch'artered, which are in general Jooked on-favorably. There has been a discuesion irr Pkrliament rcspectiny the ouBtome duty. Thecy of the debate aims at American manufac tures. There bns been another ministerial revolu tion tn Spain. The French Government has determined t abolish slavery in her colonies. Trade ie dul and heavy. Considerable dissatisfaction continúes to prevail in the army. The newsfrom China in rot of moment.- Dates to 27th Feb.; at present every tbing tranquü. The Liverpool wheat market wears a flat aspect, whicb bul little dtsposition to purchnse. Prices have given way somewhat. Fiour was equal.y dull, btit there was no change in price. The diity continued at 9s. The trade in America, beef was dolí. Bnt ittle enquiry for pórk except in small lots Clieese had decüned Is; & ts. The small reeiptsof lnrd kept prices fitationary.The Bank of Eng land question has come p for debate. And there has been another dreadful massare in Turkey. Trale in Prance a in a deplorable state. From China - The ship Ackbar arrived at Vew York, Saturdny 25th. uit. from Cantón, eb. 16lh. Cusliing. our Minister was expected aily when the vessd left. Trade was going on qnietly at Cantón here hud been lurge transactions in cotton fnir prices. The opium market was in a depressed cobition. Piracies were stïll frequent ín the inner ivater.The Governor at Hong Kong had sentenced eeveral Chinamen to five years' imprisonmentat hard labor, and 100 lashes ín each year; also to, stand one hour in the pillory before each flogginnr, and at the end of f3 ve years to be banished from the ietand, under pain of imprisonment for life if they returned! Their offènce was, f obbing some fishing boats. - Cm. Herald. St. Domingo.- We learn frotn Capt Mesgott, of Elizabeth, arrived this morning that tranquility was gradunlly being testored throiighnutilie Islnnd, and it was supposed thnt under the administraron of General Guer rier, the whole of the French part of the Island wonld imite. At Port-an-Prince, there had been no fighting. and the accounts of the enggements in various parte of the Island brought by different vessels to the tTiiited States, have been greatly exaggerated. The late Presiden' Herard was stationed about lo leagues distant from the capital, and wonld no doubt lenve the country by the first

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