Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27
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in a depressed state.
The Corn market continues to rise.
The American Provision trade presents no
very striking feature.
The Wool Of the United States continues to
find customers in England, and this branch of
trade is improving.
The West India markets appear to be in a
tolerably healthy state.
The Share market is inactive, and the funds
are fiat.
The Iron trade continues brisk, and masters
and men are we'll employed, Lut the railway
mania has received its quietus. Something like
a panic has overtaken the Spectators in iron
highways. Now that the reaction has come, it
brings in its train ruin and devastation, and
bankruptcy to thousands.
IRELAND.-The accounts of the potato
crop are Of a very serious and alarming charac-
ter. The failure is dreadful in the extreme.
and the prospects before the great majority of
the lower classes truly horrifying.
The Dublin Corporation held a meeting on
the Goth ult. for considering the best means of
avoiding the danger impending the extensive
failure of the potato crop. Mr.. O'Connel at
tended; on his motion, it was voted to petition
the Government to stop the distilleries and brew
eries-to prevent the expectation of provisions
to foreign countries-and to levy a large income.
tax.
The Dublin Custom-house authorities are to
admit corn, duty free, after LIST Nov.
The agitation for Repeal is still carried on,
and the meetings in Constitution Hall regularly
held.
The Repealers boast Of new adherent, in
the person Of the eldest son of the Earl Viscount
Gori, the Hon. Henry Prendergast Vercker.
Alarming Condition of the Kingdom-WiI-
mer q Smiths " European Times has the fol-
lowing paragraph upon this subject
"Ilitherto, the cycle of the season has be-
friended Sir Robert Peel. Four good harvests
in succession have filled his exchequer-fIled
the stomachs of the lieges-made the nation
prosperous-the people contented. Alas the
scene is changed-the evil dly has come upon
him, and has found him unpreplred to face it.
Famine-gaunt, horrible, destroying famine
seems impending. Fears have seized the public
mind. In Ireland matters look appalling-in
England gloomy. The %granaries of the CONT
nent are exhausted. The corn flds of the Wis
lula, the Danube, and the El5e, are barely suf
fcient for the local wants of the inhabitants
The nation is in comnotion, and the cry of CO.
pen the ports, and let in corn duty freeP' is
heard, on all sides, reverberating from every
part of the empire. The pressure from with
out has made itself heard in Downing street;
and faith in the sliding scale-PeePs sliding
scale-is gone forever. A third Of the potato
crop in Ireland is destroyed. The Government
has sent scientific professors to the scene of the
mischief, and the awful truth is out that this
large portion of the peoples food-the %esculent
that Goblet abhorred-is unfit for use. What
is to be done in this terrible, unlocked for E.
Emergency? "Open the ports!' is the exclamation;
and there stands the s%hivering Premier, like a
reed in the wind, p~aralysed between affection
for his sliding scale and the horrors Of public
famine. There he is, balancing the pros and
cons! But necessity is superior to consistency,
superior even to law.-The ports must be OPEN
ed.
The sliding scale-that cunning scheme to
make food artifcially dear-is in the crisis of
its fate,-Swept away now, as it will be, its
reimposition, with the views which the public
entertain, and which Conservative and even ag-
%riculturaI members have tardily adopted, will be
found impossible. 1t is gone forever. In flu
ture years a small fixed duty may be imposed
the sliding scale never"
SPAIN. Madrid, Oct. 25.-The Govern
ment goes on steadily with its measures against
the press. The Expectador, which ventured to
make some rather sharp remarks upon some of
the late acts of the Government, has been con-
demned to pay a fine of 10000 reals, which
amounts to 5000 sterling. The case was tried
without a jury.
A few DAYS ago, a band of eighteen robbers,
armed with guns and carbines, stationed them
selves near the Venta de San Anton, about three
leagues from Madrid, where they remained the
" hole day, robbing every one that came by;
above thirty persons being robbed and stripped
by them.
An insurrectionary movement in Portugal
has caused troops to be assembled on the ron
tier.
SWITZERLAND. Genera, Oct. 26.-The
country is tranquil, though the enmity between
the Radicals and the Conservatives is as bitter
as ever.
BELGIUM. Brussels, Oct. 27.-The States
General of Holland, have been opened by a long
speech from the King.
The draining of the Zuyderzec is to be at
tempted soon.
GERMANY. Berlin, Oct. 26.-The Zol-
%leverein is still in session and has decided that
the present tariff shall remain.
Ronge and his disciples are continuing their
career of PROSECUTING; and with pretty much the
same success as was mentioned " months
since-in some places they make thousands of
enthusiasts-in others they have to bolt to avoid