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L ATE FROM ENG LAM).
T!ie ship Plutarch has arrived at
Charleston und brought Ixmdou dates to
22d December.
We find little in them on the subject of
the markets. A Loudon commercial ■
Report ofthel7tli December states that;
the Cotton market Was steady—sales of
the week about 1100 bales prices the
same.
Busine sj at Birmingham. —The trades
of tliis town arc generally in a more a
l irminjrand depressed state than lias been
known for many years. In one of o}ir
most staple trades, the manufiieiure of
buttons, there is little doing; while our
numerous brass, founders complain loud
ly of tlic.generally, and indeed, ruinous
stagnation of business. Failures arc al
most daily occurring, and unless some
efficient measures of relief speedily take
pl ace, serious results may be anticipated
before Christmas
The general impression tn Birming
ham, as in London is that an alarming
crisis in the commercial world is
fast approaching.— Birmingham Jour
ndl.
The King’s Speech at the opening of
Parliament, on the 6th December, ap
pears to have given satisfaction to the
Inends iff reform whilst it spoke to the op
position in terms winch deprived them of
all cause of complaint.—lie said that; A
speedy and satisfactory setlement of this
question becomes daily of more pressing
importance to the security of the State,
and to the content incut and welfare ofiny
people.”
Savannah, Frh. 3.
20 DAYS LATEIt FItOM HAVKE.
By the arrival yesterday of the fast
sailing ship Thos. Dickson, Capt. An
thony, we have received a Havre paper
ol the 29th of December, and commer
cial advices to the 29th, inclusive
Capt. Anthony mentions that there had
been a decline in the Liverpool cotton
market.
Gen. Lafayette, we are sorry to learn,
bad been for some days confined to his
bed with a severe indisposition, and had
been hied several times.
English papers to the 26th es Decem
ber had heen received at Havre, hy which
we learn that up to that time the number
•of cases of Cholera had been 622; of
which 194 died and 9 only remained
sick. At the latest date funds had fallen.
A fire had happened at Liverpool. Eight
or ten houses in Frederick street were
destroyed. Loss estimated from 15 to
20,090/. sterling.
Letters from London of the 2Gih, recei
ved in “Paris, announce the mini-try to
have determined on the creation of thirty
six peers. Parliament had adjourned to
the 17tli Jan.
In consequence of the accounts from
Sunderland, the cholera appeared to he
uo longer feared in France.
ttlr. Walsh, proprietor of the Gazette of
NoriuandjH Jms heen condemned by a ju
ry at Rouen tonne month’s imprisonment
and 3000f. fine, for exciting hatred to gov
ernment.
Accounts from the frontiers of Russia
say, ‘‘the tumultuous scenes of Lyons
were heard of here by the higher nobles
with enthusiastic joy.”
Fkankfort, 19th Dec.—lt is said that
the Dutch declaration, sent to the Diet,
upon the subject of the renunciation of a
part of Luxemburg, is a chef d’ouvre of
diplomacy. The protection of the Ger
manic Confederation is there invoked,
and it is called upon to maintain legiti- ;
mate rights.
The report of the replacing of Caron !
de Munch Bellinghnttsen hy Caron de
W eissenbourg obtains but little credit.
Correspondent of Nuremburg.
BELGIUM.— Brussels, 25 th Dec. —
We have received from an authentic j
source very important details of the late J
events winch have happened in Lttxem- j
burg. It appears that since the 20th of
this month an armed band of from 150 to
200 men, came out from the city of Lux
emburg. This band is composed of the
dregs of the people, and its movements
are countenanced by some of the Dutch
police. This band lias taken position tit
Lesperange and Frisange and thence
overruns the country, exciting the Luxein
hourger’s to revolt against the King of
the Belgians, and to re-establish the co
lors of the House of Orange, prudently
bmliroidcred with the Luxembourg co
lors.—These conspiracies are directed, it
appears, hy two councils; one ostensibly
the provincial government; the other, se
cret, takes the name of “/Ac committee of
public tranquility." A proclamation,
signed Count du I*rcl and Auguste de
Tornaco, has heen widely spread. This
proclamation announces that what it
pompously names the Luxembourg army,
will be commanded by the Chevalier
Wautliier, a veteran officer. It is also
■said in the country that M. de Stagpert is
one of the heads of this hand of wretches,
who, wherever they go, depose the llel
gic authorities, and possess themselves
of all the arms they can find. As soot
as the Btlgic government learned the
facts mentioned above, a battalion of,
light infantry and another of tlu; civic |
guards of Anvers, set out from Liege and
Namur, so as to arrive at Azlon on the i
26th aud 29th, and stop the rohberv and j
invasion of these hordes in the pav of the j
Dutch government, which would, by dis- •
order, devastation and anarchy, render it
self master of the Grand Dutchv, com- i
incnci.ig with the German portion. There
is every reason to hope that the insurrec- '<
tion will prove abortive, and that it will;
sci promptly arrested.
Private Wbrr:spotulinec of the Jounql
of Havre.
J’aisis, Dec, 24.
As 1 have frequently predicted to on,
the Chamber of Peers has adopted the
non-hcrcditary principle; but to S[eak
the truth, the number of the majority on
j this vote astonished the Minister him elf.
He had allowed himself to fear sometling
; fiotn the influence of the babblers of the
Luxembourg over timid consciences.
The result has proved that neither the
radicalism of the men of the restoraton,
nor the strange pretensions of the ynwg
t r of our imperial notables, had affected
the opinion of one hundred anti-heredi
tary mernbqrs. While talkirg with re
gret of the suppression of tlie legislative
privilege, M. Perier had a lorg time since
made a sacrifice -of it in peito; he had
perceived the necessity of coiforaiing to
the exigency of the national. with, ex
pressed in theele toral colleges, and reit
erated in a representative majority.
Havre, Bee. 29.—We extract the fol
lowing passages from the Lon/on t’oitri
jerofthe 2?th received this Horning by
| the packet boat:
“Our readers will recollect that we
have heen contradicted hy the semi-offi
cial French journals, for having tdvanced
the opinion that the Emperor of Russia
was hut little disposed to ratify tie treaty
proposed by the conference at Loudon,
for the affairs of Belgium and Holland.
Nevertheless, our opinion is confirmed hy
tins fact, that not only bits the Autocrat
not ratified the treaty, although double the
time necessary for the ratification has i>
: lapsed, and the English envoys have re
mained in Russia 1 1 await the result; hut
is again well proved that he lias, curing
this interval, communicated with the oth
er cabinets to assure himself of their sup
port in case of his refusal. It is now
said that Prussia and Austria begin to
hesitate about the acceptance of a treat v
which creates doubts in the mind of the
Monarch of the North.”
The Courier adds:
“We will not now examinewhat course
of conduct Great Britain and France
ought to pursue, supposing that events
should come to pass as we predict- If
the Dutch invade Belgium, the latter
power will again demand the assistance of
France, and then will commence that
battle of categories foretold hy Lafayette.
Russia, Prussia, perhaps even Austria,
will take part with Holland, and jt Will
then be for Great Britain to decide wheth
er she will take part in the quarrel. It
will he a war of principles, or rather no
i principles against principles, and we shall
see on-one side of the line, Russia, Prus
sia, Holland and Spain, and on the other
England and France.”
SPAIN.
Madrid, Per. 20.—(8y Post.) —Yes-
terday a council of ministers was bold on
account of communications from the Aus
trian and Russian governments. We
have observed that l’or some days past,
the ambassadors of these two powers at
Madrid bad frequent conferences with
our minister for foreign affairs. It ap
pears that Portugal is the principal ob
ject of these conferences. Great distress
exists in Gullicia, on account of the heavy
contributions exacted by government, &,
the brutal manner iu which they are col
lected.
An English paper gives us a curious
fact. The daughter of a Parish Pensio
ner went to one of the overseers of the
poor, and bewailing the death of her mo
ther, demanded a coffin for her burial,
which was granted her. Suspecting how
ever, from some circumstance, that all
vvns not right, the overseer followed the
girl, after a moderate interval; and, not
only found the good old lady in esse, hut
herself and the daughter both employed in
cutting up for matches, the coffin inten
ded for her inhumation. This fact, is a
singular commentary upon the inefficien
cy ol all the usual modes for the relief of
the poor. The overseer was willing to
give a coffin for her when dead, but not
that it might yield her the means of life
while living; as an equivocal and distant
relation, is willing to give a moderate
bonus to one, when finally getting rid of
hint from whom previously, he had reso
lutely withheld, every favor of the kind.
Charity favors the dead, because they
cease any longer to he an incumbrance;
and not infrequently denies the means of
existence to those who might live, in
order the sooner to bring about this con
dition.
We find the following in the Petersburg
Intelligencer of the 27th at It.
POSTSCRIPT.
[From the Richmond I Vliig Jan. 26.
Debate on Abolition. —This Debate,
so vital to Virginia, closed yesterday, and
the propositions pending were disposed
of. We have no room or time (the House
having adjourned at 4 o’clock, I*. M.) for
the entire proceedings of the day. Re
sults must suffice.
Mr. Preston’s amendment, to reserve
the report of the committee declaring it
inexpedient now to legislate, or in other
words declaring it was expedient now to
legislate, was lost, 58 to 73. A motion of
Mr, Witcher to postponed indrfnitch;,
was rejected ayes sixty, nocs sevent)-
nno.
Which vote may be considered as testing
the cense ot the House, on tlie property of
commencing a system of Abolition, at the
proper tune, and in the proper mode.
Finally, the Report of the Committee de
claring it inexpedient now to act wan n
dopted, and with it Mr. Byrces Preamble
which looks to action nt another time.
The remit is deemedfavor a’dr to the cause
•of abolition.
EXECUTIVE JOURNAL.
In the Senate of the United Ststts.
Friday, Jan. 13, 1832.
T*he following motion, submitted,
by Mr. Hoi men was considered.
Resolved, That the noinii at ion of Mar
tin Van 14 11 re 11 lie recommitted to the
committee on Foreign Relations, and
that said committee he instructed to in
vestigate the causes w hich produced tlie
removal of the late Secretaries of the
Treasury and Navy Departments, and of
the Attorney General of the United States
and also the resignations of tlie Secreta
ries of State and War Departments, and
report to the Senate whether the only
causes of that novel and important politi
cal movement are given in tlie letters of
the President of the United States, addres
sed on that occasion to the several officers
above enumerated; and if not, what w ere
the causes to which these removals and
resignations ought to he ascribed: And al
so, whether the said Martin Van Buren,
then Secretary of State, participated in
any,practices disreputable to the national
character, w hich w ere designed to oper
ate on the mind of the President of the
United States, and calculated to smooth
tlie way to his appointment to the
high office to which he has heen nomina
ted.
Resolved, That, for the purpose of
carrying into effect tlie objects of the pre
ceding resolution, the said committee be
further authorised to send fur persons and
papers, and to compel the attendance
before them of such witness or w itnesses
as they may desire to examine on oath,
touching the matter submitted to their in
vestigation, and report the same to
the Senate, with their opinion thereon;
together with the nomination afore
said.
A debate ensued; and
On motion of Mr. Holmes,
Ordered, That it lie on the table:
The Senate proceeded to consider the
nomination of Martin Van Buren:
On motion, that it lie on the table:
It was determined iu the affirmative,
yeas 21, nays 21.
Tueday, Jan. 24.
On motion of Mr. Marcy, tlie Senate
resumed the cons deration of the nomina
tion of Martin Van Buren:
And after debate, on motion if Mr.
Chambers the House adjourned.
Wednesday, Jan. 25.
The Senate resumed tlie conidera
tion of the nomination of Martin Van
Buren:
On tlie question—Will tlie Senate ad
vise and consent to the appointment of
Martin Van Buren?
It was determined in the negative,yeas
23 nays 23.
On motion of Mr. Holmes, the yeas
and nays being desired by one-fifth of the
Sensators present.
Those who voted in the afmmative,
are—
Messrs. Benton, Brown,Buckner, Dal
las, Dickerson, Dudley, Ellis, Forsyth,
Grundy, Hendricks, Ilil, Kale, King,
Maugham,Matey, Robinson, Smith,Taz
ewell, Tipton, Troup, Tyler, White and
Wilking.
Those, who voted, in the negative,
are—
Messrs Bell, Chambers, Clav, Clayton,
Ewing, Foot, Frelmghuyserqliuviip, Hol
mes, Johnson, Knight, Miller , Moore,
Poindexter, Robbins, Ruggles, Beyruous
Siisbee, Sprague, Tomlinson,Waggaman,
Wolister.
The Senate being equally divided, the
Vice President determined the question
in the negative.
So it was Resolved, That the Senate do
not advise and consent to the appoint
ment of Martin Van Buren.
A motion was made hy .Mr. Chambers
to remove the injunction of secretary
from all the proceedings on the nomina
tion of Martin Van Buren and before the
question was taken.
On motion by Mr. Kane,
The Senate adjourned.
Thursday, Jan. 2G.
The Senate resumed the consideration
of the motion made yesterday, to remove
the injunction of secretary from the pro
ceedings of the Senate on the nom
ination of Martin Van Buren; and the mo
tion was modified and agreed to as fol
lows.
Ordered, That the injunction of secre
cy lie removed from all the proceedings
of the Senate, and the debates, in relation
to till nominations made during the pre
sent session of the Senate and finally
acted, on; and that the Secretary, lie
authorised to furnish extracts of the
proceedings of the Executive Jour
nal.
MINISTER TO LONDON.
The Senate, on the 25th, rejected, by
the casting vole of the Vice President, the
nomination of Mr. Van Buren as Minis
ter to London. The Intelligencer says
“ The injunction of secrecy being remo
ved, we are enabled to state that the vote
on the question of confirming the nomin
ation was as follows: Yeas 23, nays 23.
[Absent, Mr. Prentiss and Mr. Bibb—
ihe former confined hy indisposition.]
The Vice President then voted in the
negative, and thus decided the question.’
This is the first case in w hich the Senate
have refused to confirm the nomination
of a minister who had already entered on
his duties abroad.
We understand (says the Richmond
Enquirer) that n letter is in this City from
a member of Congress from Virginia, l
stating that from present appearances the
Tariff is likely to settle down to the stan
dard of 1610.
THE NAVY.—The’biil to re-organ-]
ize ti,e Navy, reported to the House ot
Representatives on Wednesday, vvr.s
twice read and committed on the same
dav. It provides for the appointment of
uo less than one Admiral, two Rear Ad
mirals, thirty Captains, thirty Masters
Commandant, two hundred aud thirty
Lieutenants, four hundred Midshipmen,
including those who have passed examin
ation, thirty-five Surgeons with fifty As
sistants, thirty-five Pursers, &e. It au
ihoris'es the President, if necessary, ac
cording to his judgment, to increase the
number of Captains to forty, of Comman
ders to fifty, of Lieutenants to one hun
dred and fifty, of Midshipmen to five
hundred, of Surgeons to forty with sixty
assistants, of Pursers to forty, &c. The
shore pay is fixed at four thousand dollars
for trie Admiral, Rear Admirals tlwee
thousand, Captains, twenty-five hundred,
Schoolmasters at a Navy Yard, seven
hundred and twenty, and elsewhere three
hundred and fifty. The pay of other offi
cers to remain as iicretofore.
Officers employed in actual service at
sea, to be paid tit tliese rates:
Each Admiral 5,000 dollars.
E teh Rear Admiral 4,500 dollars.
A Captain commanding a squadron of
150 guns and upwards, 4,000.
A Captain commanding a squadron
mounting less than 150 guns, 3,500 dol
lars per annum.
A Captain commanding n ship of tlie
line, 3,200 dollars.
A Captain commanding a frigate of
the first class, 3,000.
A Captain commanding a frigate of the
second class; 2,^00
A Master Commandant, 2,200.
A Lieutenant commanding u brig or
schooner, or acting as First Lieutenant of
a ship of the line, 1,000 dollars per an
num.
A First Lieutenant ot a frigate, 1,400
dollars per annum.
A First Lieutenant of a sloop of war,
4,300 per annum,
A First Lieutenant of a Brig or schoo
ner, 1,200 dollars per annum.
A Sailing Mas ter of a ship of the line,
-950 dollars per annum.
A Chaplain at sea, 1000 dollars per an
num.
A Boatswain, Gunner, Sailmakcr or
Carpenter, of a ship of the line, 700 dol
lars; of a frigate GOO; of a sloop. 500 dol
lars per annum.
A Schoolmaster, £SO dollars per an
num.
Additional pay, allowances, or emolu
ment, either at sea or on shore, is exclu
ded.
The United States Telegraph thus
speaks, of Gen. Jackson’s, health,
&c.
There never was a time when die peo
ple were so gulled; so betrayed; so decei
ved. They arc made to believe that they
are about to choose a President for the
next four years, in the person of Andrew
Jackson; when, in point of fact, every
snsible man here of every party, knows
that, instead of choosing the next Ptcsi
dent, in Gen. Jackson, for the next term
as the people suppose, they will choose
him in the person of the Vice-President
whoever he may he! So infirm is Gen.
Jackson now; solittie prospect is there of
his living through the next term; that the
profligate crew who are living upon his in
fluence, und are controlling the move
ments in the election ofthe President and
Vice-President, are trembling least lie
should expire before the period of thffe
lection arrives. We fee! it our duty to
speak boldly. Every one who visits him
is st.'.ok with the fact, that he is fast sink
ing; und that, if possible, his mental facul
ties are giving way faster than his physic
al strength, it has no parallel in this
country, but in the gross imposition at
tempted in the case of Mr. Crawford;
who was supported, and voted for, as
President, when it was known that both
body and mind were soparalized as utter
ly to unfit him for the office; and it is a
striking and remarkable fac* that the
same individuals who were prominent in
that case—now acknowledged to have
been so gross an imposition on the Amer
ican people—are equally prominent in the
present. It would he curious to look o
vci a list of those who stuck hy Mr. Craw
ford to the last knowing that he was in
competent to perform the duties of the
office, and see how many of the same arc
performing, now, a similar part. We
may ourselves, should we have leisure
present the list.
It is thus that Mr. Van Buren and his
partisans, while thej’ are nominally press
ing upon the American people tlierc-e
--lection of Gen.'Jackson as President, are,
in reality, conspiring to defraud them into
the election of Mr. Van Buren as Presi
dent, hy presenting them, nomially,
as a candidate for the Vice Presiden
cy.
The following specimen of the Western
superlative, is said to he from the mouth
of Kentucky steamboat captain. While
dilating in a strain of exuberant common
dation, on the excellence of his craft, be
says—“ She trots off like a horse—all
boiler—full pressure—it’s bard work to
hold her in, at the wharves and land
ings. I could run her up a cataract.
She draws eight inches water—goes nt
three knots a minute—and jumps all
snags and sand banks.”
Resolutions have Wen introduced in
the Legislative Council of Florida reques
ting the Senate of the United States to r*>-
jeet the nomination of W. P. Ditvul
Governor, now before it.
Prom the correspondent of ( c
WASHINGTON,JAN. 2G li £2.
The House of Representatives, bv re.
fusing the motion to lav on the tobie the
Insolation for a select Committee to cn
quift into ti c expediency of makii g an
appropriation for the removal of the peo
ple of color, have opened the way for „
troublesome discussion. It is not doub
ted by any «me that the mover ofthe its
elution is a sensible man, and sincery in
his esire to get rid of a curse which af
flicts so many States* of the Union. I{„j
the sensitiveness of the Southern gentle
men, has given rise to fears even atnonir
those who are desirous for tire application
of a remedy, lest the reception of the
subject hy Congress, should lie unproduc
tive of the good results which they de
sire.
Rumors have been circulated of an in
tention on the part of the President, to
appoint Mr. Livingston as Minister to
Great Britain. You may remember that
it was atone time the w ish of the Presi
dent to make this appointment, but it was
then apprehended that the unsettled state
of Mr. Livingston's account with.the
Treasury, would be a bar to the confirm
ation of the appointment by the Senate.
Mr. Livingston having been now con
firmed as Secretary of State, this bar is of
course removed. Having passed the or
deal once, there i6 not likely to he any
difficulty hereafter, and Mr. Livingsson’s
inclination has long and ardently pointed
to Great Britain. But any intention to
nominate him now for that station, must
be contingent. Should Mr. Van Ri kf.n
he confirmed, there will be no vacancy.
The rumor, therefore must he grounded
on the expectation that Mr. Van Bcren
will be rejected; and, even in that case, it
comes in conflict w ith another report,
which is perhaps quite as much entitled to
credit, that General Jackson has solemn
ly declared, that if the Senate shall be so
contumacious as to reject Mr. Van Bcren
he will never submit another nomination
for their executive action. 1 low- situations
of the first rank, are in that ease to he fil
led, is not imparted to the public ear: hut
as General Jackson lias a different rea
ding of the Constitution from any other
person, he probably bus discovered that a
reference of bis nominations to the Se
nate, is an act of mere courtesy
founded only on tlie authority of custom,
and not prescribed by tho Constitu
tion.
You will perhaps have learned by this
that the leading Clay paper in this city
the National Journal, has been suspended.
The reason assigned for this suspension,
is the neglect of the friends of Mr. Clay
and the Manufacturing System, to sustain
it by their patronage, wdien it has been
notoriously proscribed hy every branch
of the Government, for its advocacy of
Mr. Clay. This circumstance will he
injurious to this prospect of Mr. Clay,
as-it will give cause for the reasonable
inference that his friends have nb hope of
success, or else not energy, concert, and
spirit enough, to ensure success. The
administration party would never have
permitted one of their papers to become
extinct, pending a campaign so important
to their interest, as the present struggle is
to tlie advocates ofMr. Clay und ihe Tar
iff.
On the subjert ol General Jackson’s
health, nothing new has transpired, ex
cept that his appearance indicates daily
more and more the fact of his mortality.
Should he die before the expiration of his
term, the elevation of Mr. Calhoun,
would introduce an entirely new state of
things.
P. S.—Since writing the above, I hove
learned that Mr. Van Buren was last night
rejected by tlie Senate.
WASHINGTON JAN. 25.
In tlie Senate, -yesterday, Mr. Pointex
ter, who lias heen confirmed at home for
some days hy indisposition resumed his
seat. The resolutions submitted on Mon
day by Messrs. Benton and Moore, on the
subject ofthe Bank ofthe U. States were
considered and agreed to. Among the
memorials and petitions presented was
one from Maine, presented by Mr. Spra
gue, praying for tlie abolishment ofthe
postage on newspapers and the reduction
of postage on letters, and one from Phila
delphia, presented hy Mr. Dallas, pray
ing for the renewal of the charter of tlie
Bank ofthe U States.
In the House of Representatives, the
Committee on Military Affairs was on
motion of Mr. Drayton, discharged from
the consideration of the claims of Mary
land for expenses incurred for the pub
lie defence during the late war, and the
same w as referred to a select committee of
seven members. Mr. Watmough, from
the committee on Naval Affairs introdu
ced two hills, one relative ‘of Naval
Schools, anil the other authorising the
revision and extension of the rules and
regulations of the naval service. They
were severally read a first aud second
time, and committee of the Whole on the
state ofthe Union. The resolution sub
mitted some days a 2O hy Mr. Jenifer,
for the nppoinment of a Select committee
to inquire into tlie expedenev of making
appropriations for tlie removal from the
country of free persons of color, was tak
en up and discussed by Mr. Jenifer in fa
vor of, und hy Mr. Coke ogams' the pre
position, until the expiration of the hour
when the House proceeded to the order
ofthe day. A variety of private hill-*'
were introductcJ anti acted upon alter
which the House went into Committee
ofthe Whole on the state of the Union,
Mr. 11 oilman in tlie Chair and look
up the \ piMirtioninent of Representation
Bill. Mr. Wav tie addressed the 1 dm*
milter ri favor of (lit estsbhsbnicflt of•
