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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1803, ‘Simullary’ of ‘News. ; Hon. Robert J.. Walker has: ‘Addopted ‘the aission ‘to Ch He ‘will 16d ¥ 8 1 ‘very. Boor; “Mid take the overland: ‘route. | __ ‘Commodéts” Stawitt: told Ironsides; will ‘probably take-charge'of the China gquadrona v at the request, of ‘Walker, who, i is. empowered ,to treat in reference, not only.t ‘to: Chinese af fairey but.to the general interesta of the Uni ted States in the, neighboring ; countries, where we have no: diplomatic agents who,mornig. g.express train of the 23d, for New “York, 'via New Haven,was thrown off the track, at’ East ‘Brookfield, ‘by , collision with the freight train‘on a side track. ' Two freight, three baggage, and four pas senger ars were smashed, throwing four passengers from their seats. . William John son, of Worcester, had his skull: broken— died. Mathew Birnes, of Springfield, buil t out—remains ingensible. Mr. Wise, of Wor cester, badly wounded.. Many others injured, but none fatally. The ars were filled with delegates fetuiriting from a temperance con vention at Springfield and the accident is at tributed to the press carelessness of the Switchman. The Maine liquor law had been defeated in the Connecticut House of Representatives.— An amendment striking, out-all after the en acting clause, and inverting a bill giving the authorities of towns and cities power to grant ‘lidensea, was adopted by the casting vote of the speaker—then passed, ‘108 to 98. The fishery question is assuming greater importance since a French cruiser had driven off a British vessel from a part of the coast, supposed to belong to England. The Fisheri coincy ¢ determination to re claim ancient and forgotten rights. This, it is supposed, will have an important effect upon the question of American and British rights. The steamer “Star State,’ from Houston, loaded with cotton, t took fire at the New York wharf, on the 23d; ‘and was scuttled. Loas considerable. ‘The foreign news which ‘we are able to glean from Eastern exchanges is vague.— The Egyptian fleet ‘and army, of twenty thousand, were hastening to the support of the Sultan; and the Turcoman chiefs were’ raising 100,000 men. The mediation of Austria and Prussia are spoken of. Count Nesselrode has arrived in London’ with despatches. A despatch to the London Times, states that the Emperor of Russia had despatched R courier'to Constantinople, with a demand that Menschikof’s last proposal should be accepted in sight days. There has been ‘a split in the English cab inet between Lord Russell and the Irish mem bers. It is still thought peace may be pre served, but further developments anxiously looked for. The imprisonment, of British colored sea men in South Carolina, was about to be brought before Parliament.
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Quincy Whig

Quincy, Illinois, US

Mon, Jul 04, 1853

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