Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-05-16
From tie Boston Atlas May
ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM
Err HIBERNIA.
Ia DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND. .


ander Ryrie, arrived at this port yesterday morning
at s o'clock from Liverpool, via Halifax. She lett
Liverpool OH the afternoon Of the 10Th ut, and has
made the passage in little short of IL days, in
Guiding the detention at Halifax.
BY this arrival we have received our full files of
London papers to the evening of the 18th ult, and
Liverpool papers to the morning of the 18th ult,
with letters from our foreign correspondents
The war panic respecting the Oregon question
had given place to a universal excitement growing
out Of the grant to the Roman Catholic College oil
Moynooh, which subject absorbed general atten-
ton in England, Ireland and Scotland.
The pacific character Of the American news ia
ken to England by the Steamer Cambria, and the
general silence of the American press on the Ore
gon question: caused sudden reaction in the Con.
sol market, and Consols, which had been very low
after the debate in Parliament on the Oregon ques-
ton, Immediately became frmer.
The prices of iron have again advanced.
The Cotton market at Liverpool became dull nf-
ter The arrival of the Cambria.
The Steamer Cambria made remarkably quick
homeward voyage, having arrived at Liverpool on
Sunday morning. the 18th ut, at o'clock, thus
accomplishing the distance from land to land in
days and l6 hours, and from Boston to Liverpool in
eleven and half days!
| Parliamentary Proceedings. The most impor
tant business in Parliament, since our previous ad-
vices has been an adjourned debate upon the May
nooM College BIZ, to which there has been strong
opposition, both in and out Of Parliament.
In order to give a correct synopsis OF all the pro-
ceedinrs we commence with the business be-
gan in tie House of Lord' April 9Th, when
Lord Brougham moved for a return Of the number
of railway bills passed through Parliament during
the last ten years. lie dwet at some length upon
the extent Of gambling which had taken place III
railway shares, which he contended 1t was desira-
i BILE should be in some way checked.
| Lord Ashburton said tina; all this railroad specu-
| lati,, hnpa inn a.
the serious consideration of Parliament. The iron
manufactures would receive an enormous stimulus,
aud the reaction would probably be such MS to
throw a large proportion of the operatives Of the
country into state of great distress.
The returns ordered
| Emierntion from Leiand-There has been a
great increase of emigration from all the Irish out
| ports this reason especially in Limerick, from
whence vast numbers of the agricultural popula-
ton are departing for the United States and Cana
da. Amongst them are many farmers, called "Pal-
atnes," the descendants Of German settlers in the
! county of Limerick and the Northern parts OF Tip
perary, who have been losing their capital, and
speculate on improving their condition in North
America.
The London Morning Chronicle of the 18th ult.
publishes the following singular rumor from its Dub
lin correspondents 6 1t is rumored that several ships,
bound for the United States, with passengers from
L
prevented from sailing, by orders Of the .4dmirdly"
Il SWITZERLAND.
Il The Battle of Lucerne and Defeat Of the Free
Corps. The London Atlas Of the 18th ult gives
the following account of the affairs of Switzerland
alt is not easy to follow the accounts received /;
but SO far as we can understand them, the occur
rences may be narrated thus The party Of vol.
unteers, about 1900 strong, which had been formed
at Zofngen, in the canton of Argau, invaded the
territory of Lucerne from the North, OH the 3lst
ult, and was allowed TO reach the village OF Etts-
wyl without opposition. A junction was there eff
fected with free corps from the canton of Berne,
which reckoned 3 COO men and these bodies agreed
to march upon Lucerne, one on each side OF the
River Emmen, in two separate columns, which were
to reunite before the city The right column there
fore, crossed that stream by the bridge at Worthen-
stein, but it failed in its movement, and was defeat
! ed near Sursee; the left column advanced to an
emnence, which had been slightly fortified, COM
handing the city Of Lucerne. They were met
with the most determined bravery by the contingent
of Lucerne, reinforced by some hundreds Of the
} mountaineers Of the little cantons. These sturdy
soldiers showed themselves worthy Of their ancient
renown, althous, was with their countrymen that
they fought but they were fighting for their reig-
ion and their independence, against All invasion
more heinous and unprovoked than the aggression
of foreign enemy. The free corps were sgnally
routed, and with immense loss. 1t will be observ-
ed that this attack made, not by the Radical
cantons or by any established military or civil au-
thority, but by mere bands Of outlaws, who had al
ready been prescribed by an all but unanimous vote
of the Diet. Unfortunately the Diet possessed no
adequate means of giving effect to its decision for
suppression of the tree corps. They refused to
dissolve themselves, and thanks to the valor of the
men of Lucerne they have now paid by most
sanguinary defeat, the penalty Of their reasonable
combination"
A Roman Catholic correspondent of the London
lnba fyix him ip NJ
ces in Switzerland :-sThe case is simply this
Il The Helvetc Confederacy Is composed, like the
I United States of America, Of number of indie
pendent cantons or States each abse utey sovereign
IN the interior government OF ITS own people; and
as one half nearly, of these Swiss canons are
Catholic E, and the rest Calvnist, both parties have
bound themselves, under the guarantee of all the
great Powers of Europe, to scruprlously abstain
from interfering with each others religious opinions
In some of the Protestant States were converts OF
manks and nuns, and it was stipulated that their
rights and properties were to be invioate. About
two three years age, however, the fanatics OF Ar
govia burst all bounds and they plundered and
confiscated these converts. Appeal to the Diet
was in vain-the Protestant majority approved OF
the act and Indifferent Metternich Protestant Gui-
zot, Protestant England and Prussia, and fanatic
Russia, forgot their guarantee, and icinktd at the
deed. What has been the consequence Of this
wrctched policy? The canton of Lucerne chose,
az II mad the mos peect rtgM 10 40, 10 engage Sew
en- learned schoomasters (caed Jesuits) to come
} from the neighboring Swiss canton Of Frlbourg-
where they have had magnificent college for the
) last fifteen years-to teach in the town ofLacerne.
; Immediately the Argovians flew again to arms, and
nnocuated their neighbors, the Protestan, Safe Of
the Vaudois, with their fury. The latter cried, "A
has les Jesutes' and threatened fire and sword to
the canton of Lucerne, and Of course to Frlbourg,
flor the same cause and consequently to every 9TH
er Catholic canton. And to show their love of or
der, these Vaudois instantly overturned their oir'
4 Government, and formed new (Chartist( Conslu
3 ton, in the market place. The canton of Lucerne
seeing the tender mereles these Protest,nls threat
ened them with, invited the assistance OF the Cath
ole confederates, not choosing to be dictated TO- in
the education of their children by these armed for
eigners. In the meantime free corps are formed in
> Vaud and Argovia-that is to say, thousands Of
vsgabonds, who have guns and are disposed to dye
their hands in the blood of the unofending people