The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-01-04
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| There appears to be NJ impt rant change in
: The sta e Of trade. Business In the manulactur
ing districts continues to languish-cotion is dull
and the money market is improving money
was getting more abundant.
/ The destitution in Paisley is still on the in
rr-ase. the number of additional persons thrown
! upon the relief fund last week, amounted 10 no
| fewer than $50, The unemployed now amount
io-maes 1850, drpendan's 2754; total 1851.
! Including Johnston, kilbarchen and Barrheaf,
they are no: f wer than 1880.
| The distress which exists in Nottingham is
truly frishiful-hundreds are starving on straw
beds, without food fire or covering, and these are
people who would work if they Gould get it,
The failure of the potato crop in Ireland would
probably be the cause of much distress.
The weather has been unusually severe--and
/ in France the country has been inundated with
heavy iaIns.
There appears to he great commercial distress
existing in olher parts of Europe besides England.
| IT. Russia here has been many failures chiefly in
| ST. Petersburgh and Moscow.
| C pit. Ross, has bv letter, siaiel that he had
made a successfut approach TO within twelve
degrees of the Antarctic Pole, and had deiermin-
ell some very Approximate determinations Of the
! South Magnetic Pole.
| II locks squaly in Greece. King Ohio, it is
said, secretly insligaied by France, and By the
agents oil Russia, has manifested such deter
minasion 10 seize Thessaly, that the Porte has
considered it necessary to order large military
force TO the frontier, and TO direct fleet of five
sail OF the line 10 PASS the straits OF the Darian-
el.es.
There has been bloodshed in the mountains Of
Syria. iii fecing has long subs;stcd between the
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| have brrke2 out between them. Many villages
have been sacked and burnt and the loss of hu-
man life has been dreadful. MANY of the women
| AMI children have fled iiom the Druses to Bey-
rout and obtained shelter.
The asst shipment of emigrants to New Zea-
| land was on scale, both as 10 numbers and
arrangement, quite Unprecedented There vent
/ in the same feet bishop, two or three clergy
men, Judge, three medical men, printer with
his press and other mater als complete body of
carpenters of mas ons, of wheelwriyhts OF weav-
ers, two or three school MASTERS and school mis-
tresses, agr iculIurits of every degree, stock OF
bulls, cows, horses, mares, sheep. pigs. goats and
| dogs. The number of human beings embarked
amounted TO tlree thousand and from what we
have stated it will be seen that they carry with
them all the elements of well-ordered society.
Tie Bankers Circular announces that strong
conviction prevails that the present government
VIII recommend ID parliament a material alteIa-
ton in the existing corn-laws."
The line of packets for the West Indies is an
nounced as ready-iour being placed on the berth
10 leave Southampton the Is b instdBt one
for Barbados, one for Jamaica, and two for the
Havana, each OF the later taking a diferer,
route.
PosT OFFICE REPoRT.-We copy The follow
iag abstract of The Postmaster Generals Report
from the Traveller:
The new p. NJ. General, IN his first report.
gives evidence Of his determination to reform the
| abuses in the department, and 10 increase lis
revenue 10 meet the necessary expenses.
In 1910, The whole number Of post Offices was
13,4SS. and the number ofmiles of post road 1s5,-
739. The expenses for the year ending in july
| lasi, exceed the income by the SUN Of Sl77,-
920 81. For the current wear the expenditures
are estimated liz round numbers at 81 10000,
and the income al "a. 350, 900, eavInga dehc, of
$4,000.
To bring the expenses within the revenue. the
! commissions heretofore allowed to deputy Post
masters are rc-adlusted, by which the net annual
income Of the Department viii be Increased
100000.
In view Of the barrassed state of the fnan-
ces of lie department, Mr.. Wickliff. does not
recommend reduction of the rates of postage,
but he suggests modification OF them so as 10
make them coninI m TO The smaller coin of the
United States. He asks, and very Justly too.
Tor revision Of the rates of newspaper postage,
81 that the mammoth sheets, which are in truth
reprints oil book, reviews and novels, and which
load down the mails n many instances so as ma
terribly TO relard them and Increase the expense
Transportation may not be carried for the same
price rs the legitimate newspaper He also OBJ
Jects TO the establishment of private expresses for
The carrying of letters packages and newspapers,
upon the posi- roads, as one great cause tending
10 the reduction of the revenues Of The depart
E,ent.
The sum paid 10 the different Railroad corpa-
nies Is over 100000, and the Secretary proposes
that The credit of the United States, to an amount
not greater than The sum necessary 10 produce at
hve per cent. interest this amount paid to these
compan es, be advanced 10 these companies for
The light TO transport the mail upon these roads
upon all time tn come, free Of any charge upon the
Department.
1t The Government was required to pay postage
upon Official correspondence, and the frankiDg
privilege reduced &c proper limits. il is the opn-
ioh OF the Secretary that the revenue Of the De-
parlment would be increased sufficiently 10 paw
not only the Hteest, but in less than thirty years
TIE principal Of such debt.
The United States mail during the wear end
ing June so. was transported on railroads and
steamboats, 2,9l6,450 miles, at the cost of $685.
S43; on horse and in sulkies l2,0SS, S62 miles, at
cost OF S7Sl SOY; in stages and coaches iS;-
96l, 2l3 miles at a cost of Sl,791, 6S5; making
total aggregate Of annual transportation of "a, $780,
525 miles, al the rate Of cost of Sc. 159. 375.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
! The Navy, which has long been shamefully
neglected, is now in able hands. The primer
pal recommendations of the Secretary are:
The adoption of a new code for the regula-
ton of the Navy in all its grades.