Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-09-05
FIFTEEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE


The Royal Mail steam packet, which
left Liverpool on the 1th inst, arrived at
Boston last Thursday night The EIber-
MIA made wonderfully quick passage out
eleven days from Boston, and only nine
| from Halifax to Liverpool.
The British news is thus summed up in
Wilmer 81 Smiths paper:
Wales been giving additional uncasincss
TO the powers that be- Two or three
weeks back, it was believed that the
cmentes of which the southern counties Of
the Principally had been the scene, were
exhausted, or at least subdued for time.
Recent events have proved otherwise. -
The Welsh breakers of gates and midnight
providers have shown a degree Of tact and
daring in their illegal perambuations
which proves, not only that they are tho
roughly banded together for common OBJ
jcct, but that they have a perfect reliance
on each others fidelity. The disclosures
OF drunken PURITAN led to some apprc-
tensions, which were not made without
desperate cXcrtions and no little danger.
The parties have been committed. But
the nightly meetings continue: the poor
law, the want of adequate employment, the
heavy tolls on the roads, the high rents,
the low price of produce, and the poverty
of the people,-thcse and other irritating
causes, which fit mems minds for treason,
stratagems and spoiIs,' are still in full
4 force, and likely to rcmlln. That the hi
therto quiet and religiously inclined Welsh
can car only be kept down in subordina-
ton by The presence of military constantly
, securing their country, while If shows a
deep seated social disease, is more easily
to be lamented than remedied.
The return of the noted member Of the
Anti-Corn Law League, Mr.. Bright, as q
member from Durham, is an event OF the
first importance. 1t has been received with
shouts of acclamation by the free traders,
and It's influence will be felt in the walls OF
Parliament rs we'll as in the country
There is no Disgusting the fact, that the
, League has been g carrying all before IL u
of late in the agricultural. not less than IN
the manufacturing districts, and the last
and greatest influence of all-clectoral in
fuence-wiIl, from this time forward, make
itself felt in every single election; and
when dissolution Of Parliament takes
I
r uencies which have been innoculated re-
Gently with free trade.
A party fght-onc Of the most spirited
Of the session-:ook place in the House oil
Commons on Friday. The principal com
, batants were Lord John Russell, Sir Rob
+, crt Peel, Lord Palmcrston and Lord Stan
: ley. The attack was commenced by Lore
John, in bitter and sarcastic vein, who
reviewed the difficulties of Ministers anC
their position; sneered at measures they
had been obliged to abandon, in conse
quence of the hostility out of doors, anc
despite of the powerful majority at thell
; back; spoke Of their financial embarrass'
men,s, as contrasted with the superior tac
=, for which they gave themselves credit in
-, such matters when in opposition; dwell
: pointedly upon their difficulties in Ireland
and counseled them to better and wiser
proceedings. Sir Robert Peel's reply like
every thing that falls from him, was able,
but it wanted the freshness and vigor OF his
more successful efforts; he did not parry
the thrusts of his assailant with the pointed
dextcrity with which they were made, ano
he seemed oppressed with his position. In
all the requisites Of mere party speech,
the happcs; effort Of the evening was
Lord Palmerston's. He spoke contempt
uously of Ministers and their policy, in its
r domestic, foreign and commercial phases,
and predicted their early downfall. Lord
Stanley, in 4 vigorous reply, terminated
the interest Of the discussion. The debate,
confined as it was to the four ablcst men
in the house, as we'll as the most accom-
plished and powerful speaker, has necessa-
rily excited much interest, and the partl-
zans Of both parties are loud in praise OF
the efforts Of their respective iavorltcs.-
The debate presents the case oil the ms
and outs for two years. Its perusal will
remind many of the Scotch members dec
laration.-.s have heard many speech
cs," said he, (which changed my opinion,
but never one which changed my cote"
The news by The Overland Mail, which
arrived unusually early this month, pos
sesses no striking feature. In Scnde mat
tiers are approaching pacific settlement,
and Sir Charles Napier has shown that his
talent as general is only excelled by his
tact as nego,iator. With the chiefs he
is said to have made terms, which will SUI
percede the necessity of farther fighting
so that the speedy settlement OF the coun-
try NAV be looked for. Death has swept
away some of the British officers by fever,
and Sir Charles had experienced an attack,
from which, however, he speedily recov-
cred From other parts of India, as will
be seen, there is nothing OF interest to COM
municatc.
| Loss OF THE PEsAGus.
| A melancholy event occurred lew days
back in the English watcrs,-thc loss oil
the Pcsagus, steamer, which sailed be-
tween Leih and Huh. She struck on the
Goldstonc Rock, near Holy island, and
some two or three miles from the Great
| Fern Lights. Out Of the crew and passen-
gers, which numbered between fifty lc
sixty passengers, only six have been sa-
yed,-namely, two passengers, the mate,
the engineer, the carpenter and one OF the
| firemen.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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