Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-11-05
FOREIGN NEWS,
BY the Steam Ship B1ttania.

4th inst. We copy the following items of
news from the New York Journal of Com
merce and an extra from the New York
Sun:
The Brittania brought Ia passengers
from Liverpool and l2 from Halifax 10
Boston.
The price Of Iron had advanced 6 per
ton. For most descriptions of produce
prices have declined, very extensive parcels
having been forced upon the market both
at public and private sale.
There has been protracted drought in
Germany; the grass and clover are burnt
up; the peasantry eagerly sell their live
stock; and the greatest fears entertained of
short provisions for the winter.
The cotton factory of Messrs. Lock
wood & Thornton, Black-friars streets,
Stafford, has been destroyed by fire. The
mill, machinery and stock were insured for
the sum of ls,5OOl, a nd this will probably
cover the whole of the loss.
A letter from Cologne, 2lst ult., says
The town of Chelnbach, which forms part
of our district, was, two days ago, the the
atre of great calamity. A fire broke out
inthe morning, and owing to deficiency
of water, it soon ragged with such fury
that before the evening half the town was
in ashes. Fortunately heavy shower of
rain fell at about o'clock in the afternoon,
and arrested the progress of the flames
More than 100 families arc without an
asylum.
EDWARD EvERRrT.-Mr Everett, the A
merican Minister, was among the guests al
the dinner of the Walthan Agricultural
Soriety.
In proposing the health of Mr.. Everett,
the Duke of.Rutand reminded the COM
pany of one fact, to show the importance
of the commercial relations between the
United States and Great Britain; of the
fl5,OO0,000 of cotton exported by the
United States, f1O,OOOOOO are in times of
prosperous trade, taken by Great Britain,
for which America takes back E7,0000OO
worth Of our manufactures.
Although desiring to avoid political dis
cussion, he wished to refer TO the recent
modification of the corn law and its prob
able effect on the commercial intercourse
between Great Britain and the United
States, etc. etc.
DUTIES ON ToBACCo.-The American
Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool has
addressed memorial 10 the Government
respecting the heavy duties on Tobacco
The memorialists present that an immense
amount of the tobacco is sent into the
country, and that if the duty was lowered,
the revenue would not lose, as the consump-
ton would increase and the expense of
of protecting The revenue would be les
scned.
The great Fire at Liverpool.
The particulars of the Great Fire in
Liverpool, are as follows:
The e.. ,hotb ranorI tho calo mi.
~ in respec, to the rapidity with which il
spread, its extent, the destruction of prop.
er,y, or the loss of life, is equally certain to
excite painful feelings at the present mo,
ment, while it will form the subject of a
gloomy record in the annals Of the town
hereafter.
The three principal streets affected, viz.
Crompton street, Formoy street, and Nep-
tune, and nearly opposite the Borough
. Goal, run east and west between Great
Howard street Gin which the prison stands)
and Waterloo road, close to the docks
The three streets and their boundaries, cas-
and west, occupy an arena of from six tc
seven acres and nearly every building
within this space has been destroyed
Piles of warehouses and extensive sheds
crammed with costly merchandise, have
been suddenly reduced to heaps of hetreo
genous and almost valueless matter.
There have been destroyed 45,90S bale
of cotton, $50 casks of tallow, $500 bar
rels of turpentine, 500 sacks of flour, Q,
200 barrels of -four, 60 tons Of cod OF
rice and sugar, the cargo of the ship Bland
from Calcutta; besides unknown quantitie
Of flour. India rubber sperm oil, tallow
bark, Indian corn, fustic, and other foreig
produce.
But it is impossible TO form any thin
like an accurate. estimate of the total los
cntailed by the disastrous event. TIL
opinions hazarded on the subject have bee
various, the greatest amount being 7O0,O 900
and the least 100000. Perhaps divisio
between these two sums, which would Civ
55OOOOl, may be near the mark. A NEE
ting of the agents representing the diffel
emf fire insurance offices took place in III
underwriters commtte room, Mr.. n. l
Bold in the Chair After comparing note
on the engagements Of each Office havin
liabilities in connection with this destru,
tive event, the following was reported {
the total liability: G350,900
1t is now our painful duty TO speak
the casualties which occurred at the fl
which were, as usual in such cases, great
exaggerated by the tongueofrumor. Takir
them at the best, however, they have bee
fearfully great, and the loss of life has bee
dcplorablc.
Of those buried beneath the fallen ruiz