Foreign News by the North Briton.
The following is some further general news by the North Briton, from
Liverpool on the 9th, which arrived at
Portland Wednesday:
The weather continued to be very severe in
England, occasioning much distress, and fears of bread riots were entertained.
Quite a panic prevailed in
Liverpool on the 9th instant.
It was rumored that in a portion of the city a mob had entered the bakers'shops, plundering them of their contents, owing to the advance in prices and the severity of the weather, causing a suspension of many kinds of labor.
So great was the alarm that many of the shops closed their doors; but the fears of the proprietors proved groundless.
Many parts of the
Thames are closed by ice.
The crisis in
America continues to attract great interest in
England.
Lord Palmerston says he hopes that if the American Union be dissolved it will be by an amicable arrangement, and he hopes the world will be spared the horrible spectacle of brothers warring on brothers.
It is rumored that
Count Thouvenel retires from the
French Foreign Office.
The Paris Bourse on the 9th inst. closed inanimate.
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It is believed that the French fleet after leaving
Gaeta will go to the
Adriatic.
The Piedmontese troops were at last accounts constructing a battery only five hundred yards from
Gaeta.
The Turin Cabinet have resolved to tolerate no intervention other than that of
France.
It is untrue that a Russian fleet is to replace the French fleet at
Gaeta.
It is said that the
German Diet will refuse to recognize any representative from
Sardinia, under the new Italian annexations to the Kingdom.
The German army is said to be ready to meet any enemy.
The Austrian Ministers have been ordered to put the new ordinance into effect immediately
A provisional electoral law is to be adopted for
Hungary.
The Hungarian Diet assembles April 2d.
The disquiet is increasing in
Servia.
The regular
China mails had been telegraphed and would be due at
London in time for the steamer
Niagara.
The terms of the treaty of peace provide, among other things, that all the important
Chinese ports shall be opened, and inland foreign trade allowed.
Chinese Ambassadors are to reside in
England.
Exchange rates had declined at
Hong Kong 3-4 per cent.
The Russian Ambassador at
Pekin had ratified the convention confirming certain privileges on the
Amoor, and extending commercial advantages.
