Foreign News

The commercial news brouglit by the Cambria wofl considcred of great imporlance. Flour in England ha? suflered a considerable decline, and the existing rapession on the public mind can scarcely fail to be strengtheneJ by the prospect of a plenüful liarvest, afTorded by a fine spring weather we are now enjoying. The large imports of all descriptions of breadstufl- to overy part of the United Kingdom have had the effeci of putting down the prices of all kinds of grain and flour. (Cr The illumination in Detroit last Safjrday evening, in honor of tl.e victory of Buena Vist, and the caplure of Vera Cruz, is repreented by the papéis tohae been very splendid. W'hatdid the American papers generalij eau of the iiluminations in London in honor of the butchei-y of the Chinese ? We could have no more heart to rejoico in one case than in the other. The iijustice and outrag s perpetrated upon a defenceless nation in botil cases ere similar in characler, - and, proceoding, too, from r.aliunsc-illing themselves the most enlightened and Christianized on the globe. 05" From a notice of Gen. Taylor in the Ballimore Patriot, it appears that his ftither was n Virginian, Col. Richard Taylor, wlio served n the Revolutionary war, and íiferwards removed to Kentucky. Gen. Tayloi's relatives mostlv reside in Kentutky, and are connectod in various ways with the Army and Navy. Gen. Tnylur is one of the oldesi Virginia familie?, and is connected wilh the mott disiingnished and aristocratie families in thal State. There is saidtoLe a particular locality in that State where great men na'urally grow from the soi'. Henee it is that Virginia has furnished so man y Presidents, nnd lias materials leñ for :nore oí the same sort. (H0 As tho suhject of getting narried isat all times interesling to clergymen and a considerable portion of thecommunity, we have inserted on the first page the provisions of the Revied Statutes, showing who mny engage in that business, and huw those who get unforlunately noosed, can get their necks out. For '.his last operation, the terms are liberal. The comoany of Drngoons raised in this State, have .-tiríed for VpraCruz, under the command of Capt. Mc-Reynolds, the author of the Mexican war resolutions iutroduced into the late Legislature. 05a Col. Benton has requested the Editor ofihe Booneville (Missouri Bulletin to take his name from the paper as a candidato for the Presidency, as he shall not run.