The Royal Mail Steamship Hibernia, arrived at Boston on Sunday, having made her passage in less than twelve days. She brings intelligence ten days later than that by the Great Britain, but we find but little that is interesting.
The news of the annexation of Texas to the United States had created no surprise, though it produced some little depreciation in Mexican Bonds.
The over-land mail from India had arrived, but brought no news of political importance.
The news of the second fire at Quebec, had excited extensive sympathy. The Chancellor of the Exchequer promptly moved a vote of (Pounds)20,000 in aid of the sufferers.
The principal news from the continent is of the splendid preparations making for the reception of Queen Victoria.
A most disastrous collision had occurred on the Black Sea, on the night of the 11th ultimo. Two Turkish steamers, the one coming from, and the other going to Trebizond, came into sudden collision, and with such violence, that one of them went down immediately, with one hundred and thirty-five persons on board.
The Asiatic cholera prevails to a frightful extent in China; in the city of Lahore the people are falling by hundreds daily.