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The barque Triad arrived at Hobart Town on the 7th instant, from Falmouth the 24th November. The Hobart Town Advertiser states that her mail only brought papers to the 7th November, but that a copy of the Times of the 19th had come by a private hand. The Port Phillip Herald of the 17th instant, however, states that news from England to the 29th November had been received, and gives the following summary :
The arrival of the Shamrock from Van
Diemen's Land has placed us in possession of English news to the 29th November, inclu- sive. We have barely room to make the following precis :
We lament to state that her Majesty's insanity had been the topic of discussion by the public prints. Although we were aware of the fact nearly two years ago, we had thought the press would not have promul- gated the distressing news until all thoughts of a final recovery were at an end. The matter is now notorious, as well as that her recent trips to the Continent and elsewhere were ordered by her medical attendants.
The London papers of the 12th notice the appointment of Sir Charles Fitzroy as Sir George Gipps's successor.
Lord Stanley had not retired from office, and nothing more was known with reference to a coalition between Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell than we have already published.
Lord Metcalfe was getting worse, but little or no hopes were entertained of his recovery.
' The latest news from Canada is to the 20th October. A correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser, writing on the 28th ultimo from Washington, says:-"I ara informed, on what seems to be good authority, that Mr. M'Lane has written to some of his friends in Maryland that unless the United States shall recede from their position on the Oregon ques'ion, war with England ia inevitable."
A revolt in Morocco was imminent. The French had made no new movements of im- portance.
A letter from Marseilles, dated the 13th November, reports the death of the celebrated Abd-el-Kader, by the falling off his horse when endeavouring to escape from the enemy, who had surprised him. The horse in de- scending a steep hill fell and crushed him.
The following extracts are from the Hobart Town Advertiser of the 13th instant, as derived from the Times of 19th November:
Canada.-The Canndian accounts are of a melaueholy cast. The Montreal Courier contains the following relative to the health of Lord Metcalfe:-" Monklands, October 20, 1845.-The afflicting malady under which his Excellency the Governor General has been labouring for a number of years, and which has slowly and almost imperceptibly been producing a morbid alteration in the' cheek, has within the last ten days assumed
a phagedsenic character, by which a portion of the soft parts of the cheek have been destroyed. The violence of the action in a great measure yielded for a day or two, but has not yet subsided. His Excellency's health has not materially suffered, although it has been necessary for him to observe a very rigid abstinence. A phagedsenic condi- tion is one resulting from local gangrene, attended by sloughing or disorganization of the integument.-James Crawford, M.D., R. L. Macdonnell, M.D."
Flour in New York.-The effect of the news by the Great Britain was to run flour up about three-quarters of a dollar, which the subsequent accounts by the Cambria knocked down again some 50 or 60 cents. It has since rallied somewhat, and may now be quoted at 5 dollars 50 cents for the best Genesee brand, which is 12 J cents higher than it was before the arrival of the Great Britain.
United States.-It is now generally be- lieved that there is a difference between the President and a portion of his cabinet, not only on the tariff, but on the Oregon ques- tion, and that those who differ from him are Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Marcy, and Mr. Ban* croft, the others siding with him. It is very evident, from the movements of a certain portion of the democratic party in Pennsyl- vania, in relation to the tariff, that Mr. Buchanan's friends, if they are guided by his opinions, are very hostile to the present position of the administration.-New York
Herald.
The Potatoe Disease.-In all those sec-
tions where the disease prevailed last year, little or none of it has been experienced the present year, or at least we hear no com- plaint. In Canada, Nova Scotia, and per- haps a part of Maine, where it did not go last year, it has this year been quite destruc- tive. The drought has made the crop a short one in most parts of the country, but not the potatoe disease.-New York Herald.
Algeria.-A letter from a correspondent in that ill-fated country observes-"You will read of ' razzias' as common occurrences, and as far as that phrase indicates frequency, you will be right ; but you should know the composition of the force by which these scourges are inflicted, and the manner, the nature, and the amount of atrocity included in the infliction of them, to form anything like an approach to an idea of the truth. In* those horrors the French regular soldiers are not the only actors ; the outcast or refugee Spaniards, Italians, Germans, and even the Poles, who form the Foreign Legion, the renegade Arabs, and the miscreants who con- stitute the French " compagnies de disci- pline," are the ruthless, ungovernable co operators with the regular army in those savage works of destruction. A single specimen of them would make you shudder."
Morocco.-Although private letters of the 2nd November, received from Tangier, make no mention of any revolt in Morocco, there is nevertheless every reason to believe that great agitation prevails in that part of the kingdom comprised between the town of Taga and the mountains of the Rif, and Ouchda and our frontier. A letter from Oran states thal the triumph of the Emir at Sidi-Brahim, the exhibition of the 300 heads of our soldiers, and moreover that of the 300 prisoners, had excited the most un-heard of transports among the barbarous people. The fanaticism and enthusiasm for the holy war had redoubled when the Algerine tribe» which had emigrated proclaimed that they could no longer endure to live under the infidel yoke, and besought their brethren of
the tribes of Morocco to march with them to re-conquer the land of Islam. Those events are said to have produced an exal- tation approaching to delirium. The lieu- tenants of Abd-el-Kader are engaged in establishing the tribes in Morrocco, orga- nizing a sort of army, and endeavouring to unite the tribes, which in all probability will finish by fighting against and plundering each other, but the present desire of which appears to be to brings things back again to the point at which they were at the period of the battle of Isly.-Journal des Débats.
Oregon.-It is now confidently stated, and generally believed, that Mr. Pakenham has re- cently proposed to Mr. Buchanan, Secretary of State, that the whole Oregon question should be submitted to some friendly Eu- ropean power to arbitrate and decide all points in dispute connected with the subject. It is further understood that Mr. Buchanan was disposed to meet, and view in a favour- able light, such a proposition ; but that the President objected to it, on the ground that the west would not consent to such an ar- rangement.
Private advices from Monte Video to the 9th of August have been received per packet. The allied powers still continued vigorous operations. The port of Colonia, in possession of the troops at Rosas, had been captured, after a few shots, on the 91st of August, and subsequently occupied by their forces ; and the remaining ports of the Banda Oriental possessed by Oribe-the Buceo, Maldonado, Sec-had teen placed under vigorous blockade. Those measures, effectually depriving Oribe of supplies, would very shortly compel him to abandon his position before Monte Video.
The " Great Britain."-It appears that this celebrated steamer has proved her quali- ties as a sailing vessel to be first-rate. Her steam apparatus having been disabled on her last trip from America, she was left to make her way under sail, and passed several vessels during the voyage.
The Oregon Territory.-It is rumoured
the British Minister at Washington, finding there is little hope of adjusting the Oregon question either by compromise or arbitration« has proposed to leave the whole territory in its present condition for 20 years, under the joint protection of England and the United States, and with the stipulation that at the end of the said period its then inhabiianta may attach themselves to either couutry, or erect themselves into an independent sove- reignty, as they may prefer.
Pennsylvania.-All accounts from Penn- sylvania conour in the opinion that the in- terest on the state debt, which falls due on the 1st February, will be promptly paid..
The Mormons.-It is thought by many that the Mormon war may be considered at an end. The Mormons have pledged them* selves, verbally and in writing, to leave the state of Illinois next spring. General Har- den, in his letter communicating the arrange- ment, says it is the intention of the Mormon» to locate themselves watt of-the Rocky
Mountains. ' » *