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Day
12
Month
June
Year
1843
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Public Domain
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The Steamship Caledonian airived in Boston on Friday morning bringing Liverpool papers to the 4th. and London lo the 3d. ultimo. The Qneen ofEngland and the infant Pnncess were "doing remarkably well." The Duke of Wellington completed his 74, year on the lst inst. and gave a Levee on the occasion. Tne Havre Theatre was destroyed by fire on Friday n'ght, the 28:h uil.; when Mr. Fonier the manager, who resided in apartments attatched to the thealrc, lost his life. He jumped from an upper part of the building 60 feet, and, t is said, would have probably survived hud not bis servant jumped upon him and killed him outnght. The building cost more than L60,000. TJiere is no particular change in the state of trade. Dullness seems to provail throughout almost every department. It was stated that nearly 500,000 persons had passed through the Thamos Tunnul since its completion. Richard Arkwright Esq., the richest commoner in Europe, died recently at his seat, in Derbyshire. A Cliartist meeting at Huil, was recently dispersed by the au'horities. and the orator on the occasion seizpd and bound over for trial on a charge of sedition. A large number of tcnants on the Bleniicim estates in Oxfordshire had quitted their farms - and diesatisfaction among the tenantry of Eugland, on account of the high rent was growing daily more apparent. Tke Chat list Trials. - O'Conner and the other Chartists tried at the late Lancaster Assizes, together wilh Whith who was tried at Warwick, and Cooper who was tried at Staf ford, have received notice to nppear at the Q,ueen's Bench, on Tuesday, May 4, to receivp judgment. Greece. - It is stated in a letter from Athens t!i;t King Otho threatens to abdícale his throne, unless the most potent sovereigns of Europe, who placed him where he is, shall lend him moremoney. He thinks it outrageous that they should expect him to govern such a peop'e with an emply treasury, and with no means of replenishing it without oppressing the people.

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Signal of Liberty
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