Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-02-06
SEVENTEEN DAYS LATER FROM
Arrival of the Britannia.


inclusive.
She brought Is passengers to Halifax
ana % 10 SBoston-76 iG all -among,t
them e. W. A,water, bearer Of dispatches
from the American ministcr at London.
The intelligence, generally, brought by
this arrival is not Of the great Importance,
further than il indicates a favorable state
OF things or the present among the mer-
chants and manufacturers Of Great Bril-
tain.
Our extracts arc from Smith e. Will
mer's European Times, and the Boston
Post.
Business looks well. The money mar
ket remains easy. Cotton has risen to
I'D, and remains firm. The manulac.
iurers are doing we'll, and the stocks oil
goods on hand. both with the mc rchan's
and the manufactures, are lighter than they
have been al the close of the year for many
years past TIL" rcIis gencral-imprcssion
amongst men or business that there will be
beitor emf loymcnt for the manufacturing
operatives, and an eafler demand for the
spring. than has been experienced for
years, if wool keeps steady in yrcc.
he English papers are very severe in
their measures upon the Presidents Mes
sage; principally, because he did not say
something condcmnaiory Of reputation;
they talk about his "(ree booIng" allu>ion
to . egon; squrm at his reference to the
anneXon Of Texas; and think that he
wishes TO provoke q war with Mexico. The
European says; John Bull won't und r
siandih c.niccid. motions between sovereign
states and the federal govcrnm"nt; the
whole Union is included in the dishonest
category; the states which act honestly
suiler lamcnlab!c, and may hereafter pro-
dace consequences orer rhich Humanity may
ueep."
Wilmer & Smith say that they nre au-
thorlzed 10 contradict, most positively, the
rumors in the New York papers that the
steamers ofthe British and North Ameri-
can Mail Company are abou: to change
their port from Boston 10 New York. The
report is without any or the least rounda-
ton.
Tho papers Of the agricultural district
still record incendiary fires. Norfolk.
Suffolk, Essex, Bcd.ordshire, X nj, lamp
shire; Gloucoslcrshire, and Hereford, have
all Witnessed such visi,alions.
The great sugar refinery belonging to
Sir Thomas and James Baker, Esq, al
Liverpool, one Of the most extensive in the
Kingdom, was destroyed by fire on the
morning Of Thursday. The damage is
estimated at .E70,000-a little more than
half of which is insured. How the fIe
originated is u MYSTERY
Mr. Barnard Gregory. editor of the Lon
don Sstris', was brought up on Saturday
se'ennght, for judgement, under an in,
dlctment 70 which he pleaded guilty, for
lihcls on the Duke Of Brunswick. and the
Dukes solicitor, Mr.. Valance. SIR. Gre
CORY was sentenced for four mouths i'm
prisonment for the libel on the Duke Of
Brunswick, AID to twice that period for
the other libel, as being more heinous in
ats nature, and calculated TO ruin Me-.
Valance in his prof ssion.
We learn from Copenhagen That. ON the
l}th and 18th inst, a viulcni tempest ra ged
in tho district Of VeiIe. in North Ju,land.
great many carriages travelling along
the roads wee blown over The tides
rose IN tho port Of NeiIe so high that the
waters not only flooded the houses ard
stores, DONG damage TO amount Of 700.
OO0E, hut hoatcd off the stocks a brig thai
was being built. Best les these disasters,
two mills were set on fire by lightning
Upwards Of 200 persons are said 70 have
persisted.
An Athens letter states TINT the senior
member OF the national assembly at Greece
is in his l03d year.
By the deceaSc of his mother, Sir T.. l..
Bulwer succeeds TO the ancient mansion
and estates of kenilNorlh, 10 which she
was an heress.
Letters from Singapore states that three
persons, Chinese, HAD been carried of by
tigers in single week, and that the deaths
from this cause average number is six in n
month.
The NcSry Telegraph reports of the
linen trade in north of ireland, "lhat every
operative 10 be met, with his hands full oI
work; aud that wages had increas, to 80
per cent
The resistance 10 be collection Of the
poor rates in ireland, though unohscrved
for q. time, continues. In the Castle Union
the guardians are in de IT an the account
OF the arrears; but they deprecaio making
new rate. which the poor law commission
ers wish them 10 do. In Tie Westpoint
Union, the resistance il simulated bv the
oxhortatlon of the pri sis; and new Eat.
tempt al collection, under civil and militia
ry guard is contemplated.
SPAIN.
This fine country is prev to intestine
divisions; and scenes are enacted IN IN,
Cortes between sage, grave men, tha
wouId. disgrace the society of potwolloppers
Bravo, the prime mnis,er--apt name
for the commission of the acts in which
he is engaged-still holds p Nv +, but ii i
daily crumbling beneath This feet. Tn,
country, is on the eve of anuther outbreak
Affairs in Spain cannot long remain a,
they are. When they come TO The wors
they must mend-ihc darkest hour is tn,
precursor of the dawn.
Since the above was initypc, intelligence
has come to hand that the Gonzales Brav
cabinet has prorogued the Cortcs with
view 10 us dissolution, and that the Queen
mother had determined to leave Pari