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4 Sixteen Days Later from Europe. ARRIVAL OF TIIE STEAMER CALEDONIA. The steamship Caledonia. Capt. Colt, arrived at the wharf of Boston, on ^Ionday, at 12, M., having made tho passage from-Livcrpool in 10 days. She hrongnl OA r\OCtl.?W i I'C? Ill T I m! 1 !?i V TA i r-m 1 I Aw V_/ 1,'UCOU *1 o' 10 iv ? juti I 'J IV i.JU^ t'JI.'j I and 13 from Hali.'ax to Boston. The most impc^aut items of information a?v !M ;! . jvbt. Perl's now tariff l?iil lius it.> soci is l re? ding i-.i the 1L ...> uiid !hr.t h- -r- ili? v v:... ->ry over the oii:; In-ii.., ihc firhish have subdued tluu jC'plc ?mlis\ly. The depression in the money market, and among' commercial circles is even more lamentable than at previous advices. I7is Excellency Mr. McLnne. the Annrcn Minister, was proven*', il by indisposition from attending the Queen's Drawing-room on the ii.iii nil. but ??hs. McLaiii", U:>\ lady of liis Excellency, was present. ;..ud u!so ihe Secretary o; Legation. Mr. Uansevoort IMf*!v?ll<?. This packet ships Montezuma. Capt. Lowber, and Marmion, Capt. Edwards, arrived cut on the vi(5th ult,. and ti:-.: Joshua Bates on llic 27th. Extensive and formidable fortific.it ions are in progress at Havre and Cherbourg, and other maritime places. A free trade league has been formed in France. A'isit of the Queex to tiu: F itr.xcti Court.?Private letters mention that the preparations lor the visit oi her Majesty Queen Victoria, to the King and Clueen of the French, were proceeding without intermission at the Tuilleries. Neuilly. St. Cloud, and Versailles, and . particularly at the Trianon. Warlike Preparations.?The greatest activity continues in all the dock yards in England, and the recruiting for the army is still going on with great spirit. 6000 soldiers were order to India, 3000 of which were to proceed l>y the overland mail route. It is now stated that that order will be recindud. There is a rumor current that an additional number will proceed to Canada. THE OREGON QUESTION. Nothing new respecting the Oregon qnestion had transpired since the sailing of the Unicorn. The editors of the Uuston Journal have been favored with a copy of the London News of the 4th instant, which winds up a long article in the following terms:? u We hear now of an offer Jo be made by Great Britian to accept M. Gallatin's proposal of the 49th degree to the sea, the line to be continued through the midst of Filea's Straits. If the United States refuse such an offer, which would leave them the best nom on Vmv.'o J ? ^ Straits. \vc can only say that tlioy are determined to provoke war and deserve its worst conscqucnces. Nor do we think that they woqh? .or could refuse, if the national inte^-Vy*,;^ desire were consulted on the the Columbia liver. Some have"prv ? ' sed to oflcr the free navigation of the fct. Lawrence to the Americans in return for that of the Columbia might be stipulated, as we before mentioned, for .1 period of years?say to the end of the century. Shoul-l the American Government refuse such an ofler, we might presume that it would refuse any offer, and was prepared to bully and to fight. But no party in the United''States would be 1 1 -1 tuny iuicj;iieu in uie maintenance and pursuit of such a feeling, the consequences of which are sufficiently formidable to deter any, except tho perverse and the mad. The sooner this idtimatvm is proffered, an > the result known, the l^'ter. The present state of .Mexican a.iuirs itn lers c r positition, wuh rcspcct to the Government o( Washington more critical. Paredes and Almonte arc both pLJged to resist the Anglo-American dictation. And it is all as well, that, if there is to be " struggle against the resolve of the Un:fcd States to bullv KntU j J-juh.'|JC(UI ana American government?, that struggle should boa simultaneous and cornbin"! one The real state of the case is, probably, that the American government is seeking to get the best terms, and acting the braggadocio with our not very adroit Or spirited government, in order to do so. Mr. j Polk has private, as well as patriotic ! motives to win the most from us. His ! re-election to a scond term of ProsiHon. i < y, indeed his whole character as a poli- i tician,willbe annihilated or made by ( : C.. > ', -4 his siicccs- .he present negotiation, -c No wonder that he strains his eflorts i and his impudence to the very verge of i war. But we doubt his readiness to c .step beyond. i TWO GliKAT VICTORIES OVER i THE SLIvLlS Ti.n mi nation op tiie War in India, i ?Since the despatch of our paper by i the " Uui >rn.:'our ad vices from Botn- ; i bay inform u?ol two more great buttles I bavin:? been ibu-et in India between ; the LJri'.ish and iIc11 armies, both tenni- I natin,; in decisive victory to the former, j < The first was tinder tlio command of i i Sir i j. Smith. and the latter Sir I Iiv.;h i (Jon^h, which was, perhaps, one of the iiiov-t liloody on record. In Sir 11. Smith's battle, tiio whole army of enemy has been driven headlong over the difficult ford of a broad river : his camp, | cannon. (50 pieces.) baggage, stores of ammun:*ion and of grain?his all, in fact, wrested from him by the repeated ~\. - r i ? / . 1 j <j.! mtcs 01 cmv:iiry ana nmntry : unit in ! that of Sir Hugh Gondii the Sikhs lost ! 12,000 men and 05 pieces of artillery. ! The Knglisli had 300 !ci 1 loci? 13 of l whom \v< re ('dicers, ami *2,500 wounded, j of whom 101 wore officers, Her IVlaj jesty's 53.1 iuiu C:id regiments suffered j. i enormousi}'. G> nerul Dicke and Briga! di'-r Taylor are among the dead. I The action commenced in the rnornj inr. and llie wovlc of destruction had j cl s-'d by 11 u'cLcIc in the forenoon, i Sir Hugh ( lough's account of his bailie ! proves ii to have been, while it lasted, j one of the most terrific on record. Un- j iiIce the able maneuvering of Sir II. Smith, this aflair seems to have owed its ?access to the daring intrepidily of our men. who stormed the enemy's entrcneh| menls. bayonet in hand, defended, as ! they were, by 30,000 Sikhs and 70 pieI ccs of artillery. The slaughter was iin( mouse, lur our troops braved the enemy's | fire by reserving their bhot until they : got within his entrenchments. i POLAND. 1 j The intelligence from Russian Po j l:?nil is still meagre, but it is official. ! ; Field .Marshal Paskevitch has been ap- j i pointed lo the chief command in the j kingdom of Poland and the governments ' i of Voihynia and Podolia. Martial law j ' has been proclaimed in those three j ! provinces. Orders have been issued to ! I eall out immediately for active servicc I in the Polish provinces all the soldiers j j residing on unlimited furlough, or fur-j lough for a year, in the governments of Vilna, Key no, Grodno, Voihynia, Podolia, Kiev, and the kingdom of Poland. The leaders of the insurrectionary | movement at Siedlcc, near Warsaw, I : have already recieved their punishment. ! ! i i 1 -< " j J. inu/.ivi 11U3 ui_"C"U ill OIUW1CC j | Kocishevski and Zarkski have been hanged at Warsaw; Dobrytsh and Rupprecht sentenced to be hanged, had their lives spared, but are degraded from their ranlc, and condemned to exile and hard labor in Siberia ; Mirezki and Deskur were made to pass under the gallows, and sent to Siberia to be kept at hard labor. Travellers arrived in Prussia represent the number of arrests in Warsaw as far more numerous than those which have taken place in Posen, i and the number of troops under arms i and in motion in the Russian at much | greater than in the Prussian territories, j The military, however, is still kept on i i the alert in Posen ; and the soldiery, \ though concentrated in great masses in i the province, much harrassed with ' marches and countLnnard.es In Gal lie iu the peasantry still give ocj casioti lor much anxiety. The roads ! throughout the province are said to be j rendered unsafe l-y their predatory bands. A considerable forco is represented as having drawn to a head under a village notary at Neumarlit, in the j Carpathians, near the Hungarian fronj tier. Lemberg is still held in n state ol j ! siegt?. The disturbances among the j ! peasantry are understood to be extend- j j ing across the Vistula into the Russian ! provinces. IRELAND. ! III fl fb'bntA in llwi .-.f J - ? ?41V JLiVUOV; U1 V-/UIII" ' tnons, on the 9th of March, Mr. O'Qon! noil stated thnt the accounts which he : had received from Ireland, as to the rapid progress and increase of the pototoe decay, and the distress of people, were ' really frightful. He wished to impress ! on the government the fact that this lail- < urc of the potatoe crop would have a fa- ; taf effect upon the people of Ireland; and also that the sums of money already voted by parliament would not suffice < to give relief to the people of Ireland. ] Fie begged to be understood that he was j not sueing in forma pauperis, for money irom inis country; and concludcd by asking the Right Hon. Baronet whether ' ; he was prepared to lay upon the table j of the House a statement of further measures to be taken, in order to obviate the impending famine in Ireland? * Sir Robert Peel, in the course of his y reply said that the government had pro- s cured a very large quantity of Indian c :orn, and every facility would be requied to avert the dangers likely to arise rom a scarcity of food. He added that ;very exertion had been made, and evey precaution taken many months ago, o avert the threatened famine in Ireland. In reply to a question from Dr. Bowring, Bit* Robert Peel said it had been ound lit::t there liad been a great f>iiluio in the potato crop in Italy, Spnin, Belgium. Denmark, some parts ol Prusii:', Prince Edward's Island, Nova ScoLin, and other countries No dependence l'uii lil be placed on an importation, as the rcot was very likely to become diseased upon the voyage. From the *Xcw Yuri; Herald, 9th inst. THE FOREIGN NEWS. Wo consider this news from England, the pacific tone of the public mind as developed at the public meeting in London, and the avowal of the Earl oi Aberdeen, in reply to the remarks of the Earl of Clarendon, of the highest importance at this particular juncture. The passage of Mr. Crittenden's Compromise resolutions in the Senate by a vote of 10 to I-], is conclusive that a ma joritv of that body is averse to t!ic war policy of the ultra fifty-four forty men, and in favor of settling the Oregon question by compromise. Although the giving oi the notice is authorized by those resolutions, they nevertheless impliedly compel the President to resort to compromise before giving the notice. Indeed, we look upon these resolutions, and the large vote by which they were carried, more in the light of a solemn recommendatiion to both Governments to re-open negotiations of this vexed question, and settle all the difficulties between the two countries, in relation to it. amicably and peaceably?we look upon the passage (if these resolutions more in this light, than we do as a measure t- abrogate the convention of tin 20th of October. 1818. Although the giving the notice is left to the discretion ol the President, we think the responsibili ty of taking that step directly i: purposely avoided, for fear it would In ronMi uca into a war measure; aiul, m lieu thereof, a peaceable recommenda tion to st-ttle the question amicably, b\ compromise, is substituted. Taking all these circumstances intc consideration, the tone of the foreigr news, and the passage of Senator Crit tendon's resolutions in the Senate, wc are of opinion that this unfortunate ques tion, which has created more injury tc commerce, and excited more hostile fee ling, than the whole of the territory ii dispute is worth to either country, is ii a fair way of being disposed of satL-fac torily to both parties ; and that,too,before the cxnirntioil flf civ nmntlie some contingencies occur to mar tlu prospect. One of those contingencies i; this: the House of Representatives maj not concur in the resolutions passed b\ the Senate, and the war parly may stii persist in asserting the American claitr to the whole of the Oregon territory. In the event of such being the case the whole matter will bo again throwr into the hands of Mr. Polk. If then .Mr. Polk should?despite of the passage or the resolutions in the Senate, and th< pacific tone of the Parliament and people of Great Britain?remain obstinate, anc throw away the opportunity which i; again afforded, of resorting to com pro mise, a war will follow. Althougl England is desirous of neace. and in en tering into a war with the United State: would peril her existence, still the ques lion has assumed such a shape, that ir the eyes of all Europe and the whoh civilized world, she would be compellet even at such a hazard, to engage in wai with us, it the ultra claims of the admi nistration should be insisted upon. I would appear, then, that there is ar awlul responsibility resting on the cliie magistrate of the United States. It maj be said that James K. Polk holds the peace of the world in the hollow of hi; hand. God grant he may be fount equal to the emergency. Antarctic Continent.?It is stated that, in Silliman's Journal) that the expedition sent out from England to explore the Antarctic l'ftfinnc ;ji_ ?0..j, ut.n?r.cii mi' meridian Oi Greenwich and 120 cleg, east, has (bund proof throughout of the existence of the Antarctic Continent, which they call Victoria's Land. J he magnetic observations com^ menced by the Erebus and Terror liave been completed, and the position of the magnetic pole exactly ascertained. The New York Courier, descri jinn" nnr> /-><' fV.^ ?1 ' ? u.?v. vi tuc luniimrc siiojjs 01 ;hat city, speaks of carved roscivood bedstead^. worth 8800 ; and :ofas, the carving bn ^which alone ;ost #300. i-rlii- n a 1 I nc PAimcm: " LIliEHTY ANT) MY NATIV K SOU.." ! i c: r iaii iTTTs 11. all ! : N, Eillor. i | ?-1 i Abbeville 11., S. i ! ' i t v ? ?n i... i 1 ?? lii L/X^ IjOJ J 1\ .1 i ai'lUii IO IV). I I IGr* We return our thanks to Mrs. I j Maksiiali., for her hunsome present of a j moss of strawberries.?the lirst we have ! seen this season. 1 EO" The Battalion Muster came ofl'j . at McCaw's ohl IkIJ, <:n Saturday hist, | i and was well attended hy ollieers and j | privates, The various evolutions were j j performed with much promptness and 1 j accuracy. i \\- ~ ..I ? r l * .. < ! I ?? v; ?tii: pjriiseu 10 mid ill aiiena- j I uricc the L.oundesville Military Hand ; ! I and although of recent organization, j ; their performance was highly creditable j to them. Bands of this kind should ho ! | organized m every Uattalion ol' our i | District. The funds arising from do-' I i : ! fau'tcrs could not bo applied in a more j j appropriate and satisfactory manner. ( i Let our Colonels and Majors then see ; j to this, if tin y would infuse a military ? j spirit into tho young men of our conn-! " | try, and render mustering, instead of an i [ ' irksome duty, a delight. __L_ ' i Mexico.?Wo liave received no news j " . from this country by the late papers of j k | any interest. At the latest dates, the j l army of occupation was at Malatnoras, - expecting constantly the commencement of hostilities. There is scarcely a doubt that we shall have "a brush" with the i Mexicans; affairs have arrived at that . ! point which renders it unavoidable. : The country is still in a very distracted " and unsettled condition, and but illy prepared to embark in a war. Over I lures have been made to the British for ] i assistance; but no aid will be obtained - 'rorn that source, and Mexico must rely j 1 upon her own resources. The next 5 news from this quarter will be looked 5 for with great interest. r Congressional.?The Oregon discus- J 1 sion hus at length been closed in the Se1 nate, after months of debating upon it, and the notice has passed by a vote of | 40 to 14. It is likely to meet with considerable delay yet before disposed of j finally. The Senate and House have 5 disagreed upon the passage of the notice, j i and up to the latest dates, the Senate , i still refused to recede from its disagree. ! ment to the House amendments, by a i j vote of 31 to 20. Committees of con" I ference have been appointed by both " ! branches, but no report had been made i up to 22d instant. ;i I ; Foreign News.?By the steamer CVsr Icdonia, which arrived at Boston on the | 20iii instant, \ve have news sixteen days 1 later from Liverpool. The news may | be regarded as pacific in its tone. The r public sentiment in England seems to ? be that the Oregon question should be > settled on the 49th parallel. ^ Tire most important intelligence by the Caledonia, is the success of the Bri, tish arms in India. The Sikhs have j been defeated, with a loss of about 12,t 000. The chiefs, it is said, in conse: quence of their defeat, sued for peace, and consented to pay a million and a half pounds sterling in the course of four years. The commander-in-chief and 1 the governor general, for their services, are to be elevated to the peerage. The insurrection in Poland has been . suppressed, and the the poor Poles doubtless doomed to a tenfold more \\ retched, condition. It is said they had many sympathisers in Europe, and that !J It . consiueraDie sums ot money were sent to them from different cities to procure arms, but alas, too late. We trust that their spirits are not yet broken, and that they may yet regain their liberties. i The cotton market had declined a Utile since the sailing of the Unicorn, but had recovered ; and the news from Indiu. tOQ'iithnr with thr* rnntiniifid an. counts of the short crop in this country, had produced a better feeling. Further extracts will be found in another part of this paper. ?? 3 (for the jjanner.) To I ha friends of Temperance, or more particularly, to the Members of the Soc'uli/ at the Village:? if, to expose your neglect of duty, were to benefit the cause, wc might state facts which are at variance with the profession which some of you, at the Village, made in past years. But, as the object of this communication is merely to excite the friends there, and elsewhere, to a more lively sense of their duly in behalf of Temperance, wc will rclram from any remark that may be calculated, in our opinion, to damp your ardor: and yet, a wound would be inflicted upon our own feelings, were wc to omit ill is occasion to say. that it strikes us out here in the country, as remarkabiy strange, that you, at the Village, who have hitherto carried the flag of Temperance and unfurled its banners in every nook and corner of the District, should have remained so inactively silent and indifferent on the subject, as not even In liavo liml ?i innnlinn' i\,r\ last eight mouths, whilst we, in the country, i/our converts to this cause, have been holding meetings, and endeavori ing, as well as we can, in our humble | way, to cany the war into the enemy's 'country! What means this? Where is Lksly? Where is Branch??(We mean Dr. Isaac, of course.) Where is | yourself, Mr. Editor? Where is McGowkx ? Where is Thomson ? Where 1 q TnVl.v 1 * l*. " .W f r UII'I iViiCIV, 10 UKU UU.>1 WllUUl himself, the Rev. McNkili. Turner? Gentlemen, this will not do. Having i put your hands to the plough, let us nc| rcr look bade. And hou* can we look j back in a cause that is " so great, and so good, and so wise"? It surely requires no argument at this day, to show that it is worthy of our best and uneeal sinof exertions, and that whilst we reIT.. | main as inactive as wo have been, it can never move forward. A year or two ago, just when it began to be re-, garded as it should be. by all classes, we began to be indi flu rent in our efforts*, and if we continue this indifference, much longer. we seriously fear that all our past la \>ors will prove to have been in vain. Lift us, then, to the conflict. Let us \)o in fact what Temperance men j should be?active and zealous, and inde: fatigablc, in the use of all proper means, j to expel from society an evil, which has ; already engulphed a large part of mani kind in misery, and slavery, and sin. j Let our exertions and prudence be only j in proportion to the goodness of the j cause which calls them forth, and all ; riVIf' 1tri-.lt | 1 lib VyUUiM'Ill. i California.?The tide of emigration, says the St. Louis Reveille, appears to be setting in stronger and stronger towards California?the valley of the Saerements. Oregon, for this season at least, seeins to have lost much of its at! traction. The enthusiasm seems to i pervade all classes, and to have reached ! remote sections of the country. A party from Pennsylvania, excellently well equipped, passed through our city yesj lerday for Independence. We hear of ' j small companies having started from | various parts of Illinois, Indiana, and ; Kentucky. j A party of English gentlemen are j now in our city preparing for a tramp in the mountains, and through the countries on the Pacific. The emigration promises to be a very large one, and the cry is "still they come." Since writing the above, a party of young gentlemen arrived from Ken lucKy, bound to California, We are rejoiced to see that men of sterling worth are thus casting llieir fortunes in a land destined to fill no insignificant portion of the world's history. " 'Tis False," as the girl s&id when her beau told her she had beautiful hiir. That's my impression, as the printer .said when he kissed his sweetheart.