The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-09-27
BOSTON, SEPT. %.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.


The ship London Packet, Capt. Mack
ely, arrived at this port yesterday
from London. BY this arrival London
papers TO the 18th August have been
received. We give the following sum-
mary of their contents.
There is great distress in various
parts of ireland, on account of drought;
The potato and oat crops are very short.
And on these the lower class of people
chiefly depend. The prices are high in
proportion to the scarcity. The evils
of famine are already felt; and alarm
ing apprehensions of the future pre-
vail.
A contagious fever prevailed to con-
siderable extent in Dublin. The hos
pitfalls were overrun. The number Of
fever cases in July were about fourteen
hundred.
According TO an article in French
paper, the Janissaries in the Asatic
provinces are not disposed TO acquiesce
in the suppression of their body; and if
the Sultan persists in his attempts TO
suppress them, it is probable civil war
will be the consequence. The Turkish
empire, some conjecture, is on the
brink Of destruction. The poor Greeks,
we would hope, will profit by The divis-
ions and revolutions in their enemies
: territory. But the Greeks were always
jealous and a factious people. They
must unite and act in concert, or their
destruction and determination will be
the result of foreign attacks upon them.
The same paper tneations, that there
are discontents in Portugal; that sever
al regiments revolied when required to
take the oath Of the new constitution,
and had departed for Spain. The In
tanta, the regent, is now said to support
the new charter; and she is surrounded
by able ministers.
Acorvette of 81 guns, and Two steam
boats belonging TO Lord Cochrane, ar
rived at Napoli di Romania on the Sd
+ July; aud ii was supposoMhis first al-
tack would be on the Egyptian division
at Navarino.
The accounts from all the district;
, near Manchester, are as full as ever Of
, melancholy details respecting the una
, bated pressure of distress. There is nc
, increase of employment and wages tC
the small extent they can be carried, are
, at the lowest possible point of reduction
The condition otthe poor becomes worse
every day. Their clothing has beer
I sold or pawned 10 satisfy the cravings o
q hunger. The cost Of food distributed
: weekly is f4O0. 10 Scotland, the suf
t. ierIngs of the working classes are still
q more severe.
Advices from St. Petersburg are t.
5 the Cd. The Emperor had issued al
order TO the Russian armies on the sub
: ject of the execution Of several conspir
s alors. He remarks, the Russian arm,
Y is purged oil the contagion which menac
I, ed it and the whole of Russia.''
LONDON, AUG. IS.
The paris papers OF Tuesday, reach
ed us last night. 1t is stated in an arti.
Gle in the Pilote, under the date of Ma.
drid, Aug. Sd, that the Queen of Portu.
gal has been persuaded TO embark or
board British ship of war, for the pur.
, pose OF being conveyed 10 this country
1t would appear from the same arti.
Gle, that Spain has strong inclination
TO levy an army against Portugal, but i,
unable 10 find means for raising "A suffi
; Gent sum TO meet the extraordinary ex
; penses, which would be thereby incur.
red.
British East-India Company.-The
: Bulletin of.Sciehces, in review of an
English work, relating 10 the +. Indies,
gives concise history Of the British E
India Company, from which we have
taken the following particulars. 1t was
incorporated 10 1900. The charter ha:
been several times renewed. The last
was in 1918, for twenty-five years. By
the charter of l7l2, the Company had
the monopoly OF all the commerce oil
Britain with India and China, but when
the charter was renewed in 1918, all
British subjects were allowed 10 par
[ tcipate in the trade with India, the
Company retaining all exclusive right
, TO the China trade. The number OF
f shares is now sixty thousand, worth from
. 267 to 300 pounds each. For the last
5 fifty years, the annual dividends have
varied from eight 20 twelve pcs cenl.---
? Ia 1924, the revenue was one hundred
and forty millions Of dollars, and the
, expenditures exceeded 143 millions. -
This excess was occasioned By the. ca
, penses of the Burmese war. At this
time, this Company have more people
| under their dominion, than any sovereign
on earth, except the Emperor of China.
Their subjects are estimated at between
. seventy and eighty millions. and the il