From our Overseas Correspondent, late of the Levantine packet. Word has reached this office by way of the Constantinople mail that the Emir Bashir Shihab II, for near half a century the undisputed ma…
SCARLET PASS CROSSROADS, 7th October 1841 — Tidings have reached this remote waystation, carried by a mud‑spattered courier who rode through three nights of sleet, that William II has assumed the crow…
STOCKHOLM, SEPTEMBER 1841 — By the grace of God and the acclamation of the Riksdag, Oscar I, son of the late Bernadotte, is this day crowned King of Sweden and Norway. The ceremony, conducted within t…
From our Overseas Correspondent at Singapore, we receive intelligence of no small moment to the commerce of the Eastern seas. The Sultan of Brunei, whose ancient sway once extended over the whole of B…
From our Overseas Correspondent, at Scarlet Pass Crossroads, 21st September 1841. Word has reached this office by way of packet ship and overland courier of a most audacious enterprise in the far sou…
SCARLET PASS CROSSROADS, Sept. 18th, 1841. — Word has reached this remote outpost of a gathering storm in the great capitals of Europe. The Anti-Corn Law League, that formidable association of Manches…