Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-07-30
FOREIGN NEWS.
From the Boston Courier Extra Juty l9.
FIFTEEN DAYS LATER FROM
Europe,
ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA.

tnlS \SdtutudyI ii"iuiue' bhi $3.50 ioo'
6-clock, and arrived at the wharf at six.
She had one hundred and three passen-
gers TO Halifax, where she left twenty one
and took on board sixteen.
Her commercial news is extremely "a.
vorable, Cotton had advanced slightly
in price acd was in brisk demand. The
sales were large. averaging six thousand
bales per day, and the demand throughout
,he manufacturing districts continued,
while the workmeu were all employed,
:and additional hands sought from the
seaboard and the agricultural towns.
Money was abundant, The share market
very buoyant, and the determination of
PENNSYLVANIA 10 pay the interest of her
debt had induced better feeling in all
American securities. Massachusetts bonds,
as usual, taking the lead in quotations.
Pennsylvania Fives were quoted at sixty.
seven.
The leading articles Of West India
produce were sill in favor and were OBJ.
tanning improved prices. Coffee, Sugar,
Molasses and Spirits had advanced, and
American provisions.
The weather had on the whole been ia.
vorable to the crops, though there had
been numerous changes ahd the character
of The crops could not be settled within
six weeks.
The Great Western, from New York,
arrived out on Inc morning of The 21th
ult., bringing American papers 10 The
Il O,k a. ,l,rio
arrived also in The afternoon of the same
day, bringing papers TO the l6Ih, four
days later. The voyage Of the Cambria
is the shortest on record-ten days. sixteen
hours including her passage into Halifax,
10 land her mails and passengers. The
news Of these arrivals reached Loudon on
the 26th.
General Armstrong. The new American
consul, arrived in Liverpool on the 9th
tult. by the Great Western. Unhappily.
The American 'consu!s of this .por, during
the las, dozen years have been SO numer
Gus, and their term Of office so brief. that
Just as they were becoming known aud
respected, their official career has been
car short by missve from home.
/, is said that the Wesleyan Me;hodists
of Great 'Brirsin are ahou. 10 iisown any
'connexion with those Of the United Slales
who are slavehoIders.
The British government have decided
shat Cuba aud Porto Rico Sugar cannot I've
admitted on The same terms as THAI from
the United States aud Venezuela.
Colonel .Todd.--We have lhe pleasure
Of stating that the American minister at
ST. Pe,eTsbureS SO deservedly popular in
the Russian capital, has been appointed Il
member Of the Imperial Agricultural So
cety; an honor never before conferred
upon foreigner.
IRELAND.
The roiloans painful description Of
the sosial state of ireland is in Wilmer
and Smiths summary:
The social condition of Ireland is al the
present moment distressing-painful-
most deporable. The physical de>'ilu-
tion of the people impeIs them to crime.
The disputes about land give rise 10 as.
sassina;ions. A few days back, magis
,rate named Booth, in the couaiy of Ca
van, while returning from church in gig
with his children, was shot by man.
who escaped with ;mpuui'y after com
,n,rine the murder. The wretch hardly
accelerated his movements whcn hrs tic-
tim was no more. aud yet all attempts 10
arrest or trace him have been Iruilless,
owing to the strange and brutal propen-
sity Of the Irish peasanlry 10 screen great
Il ho
crimes. TIE sympathy with Grimm 10
has always been characteristic Of the Irish
peasant. and while it may he vain TO ac
couu, for such a morbid feeling. il is unde-
niable that its existence is The fruitful
source of outrage aud murder. The
"wild Justice of revenge as il is terIned,
is carried in some of the rural districts of
the sister country 10 a d gree Of refine
men, that would shame the North Amer
lean Indian. 1t is singular anomaly in
tire Irish character. that whilst the peo
pie are generous to fault, and will
share with stranger or pauper their
last crust or potato, they are deadly intheir
hatred against all whose c"nducl has a
tendency 10 restrick them Of crn'nb or
deprive them of a bean stalk. Strange
inconsistency We are constantly hnrrl
fed by accounts of fatal feuds between
the nearest relatives, arising out OF The
possession or dspossession OF a few yards
of soil.
Mr.. O'Connelf asserts that there are
st the present monem four millions and
a half of paupers in his country; # tree,
all astounding, and, as regards The British
government, dissracelul c"ntessIon.-
With such combuslible materials it is use
less 10 expect permanent peace, or safety
for life or property. A military force has
been sent into the disturbed districts, but
the chronic complaint Of the country will
no, yield to mere blood lelting.
FRANCE.
PARIS. June 80.
Nothing has occurred Of interest with
respec, either to Texas or to Oregon, Mr.
Ashbel Smitf, envoy Of Texas, is or was
in Paris some little time ago, but The
precise nature o. result Of his conimuhi-
cations with the government has not trans.