The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-06-02
p e G LINE IN OTTON.
EXCITEMENT AND LARGE SALES.
ARRIVAL OF THE INDIA MAIL.
THE MAYNooTH GRANT.
THE RIGHT OF SEARCH QUESTION.
&c. &c. &c.

she brings SlXty-flve passengers.
The news is Of an highly interesting character.
The Great Western and Caledonia with dates
from the United States to the LIST ut had arrived
out.
Their news caused the war feeling wholly to sub
side.
The people and government of Great Britain were
taken by suprze to learn of the GOODNESS with which
the Oregon war speeches of Sir Robert Peel and
others, were received In America
The intelligence from this side, completely upset
the calculations Of nearly all the commercial men in
England.
There was tremendous excitement in the cotton
market.
The arrival of the Great Western at Liverpool
had an unfavorable effect on that market, and
caused decline in cotton. 1t will be seen, on re-
ference to the market report, that decline of
quarter of penny per pound had been submitted to-
Iron has experienced a great decline. Our new
railroads concerns will like this.
The English Board Of Customs had refused adj
mission to Louisiana Sugar at the low duty
There was nothing new from Ireland.
The money market in London was very easy.
The Funds, which have been unsettled in conse-
quence of the threatened rupture with America, i'm
proved on the arrival of the Great Western, and
the Caledonia.
In the manufacturing districts, trade, which was
somewhat langud short time since, has improved
In the Sugar markets and Produce markets of the
West Indies generally, there was an improvement.
The Hon. A. Smith, Charge d'Affaires of Texas
had arrived In London, on matters connected with
the annexation question.
Davenport and other harbors at present are assum-
ing very warike appearance, every vessel being
reiitted and made ready for sea.
The Russians are collecting vast armies for the
conquest OF the Caucasus, not less 1t IS said, thar
$50 900 men.
The merchants of Siberia are carving on a great
trade in the tusks of the Mastodontes, which sur
pass the ivory Of tine elephant in whiteness and hard
ness.
Another comet, ofconsiderable splendor, has made
its appearance in the southern hemisphere. Its de-
clinaton is - degrees south. 1t will not be visible
In Europe.
In 1920 there were 81, Ola acres of land employed
in hop cultivation; in 1880, 26 acres; and in 1870
but AZ, 600 acres.
The value of the contributions to the great Free
Trade and Ant-Corn-law Baznar, held in Covent
Garden Theatre, London, exceeds 100000
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles
Duncan Wake, now British Vice-Consul at Copen-
hagen, to be her Majesty's Consul at Charleston.
The 9th May, being the anniversary of the death
of Napoleon, for the repOsc OF his soul were
celebrated in twelve of the principal churches Of
Paris.
The spirit of speculation has displayed itself even
among the abodes of the dead. At Kensal Green
Cemetry several tombs have been built, which are
ready to be let to the highest bidder.
The Notifications of Paris are to be armed with
22lS morars, cannon or howitzers, of which so are
to be Paixhan guns, $3.50 muskets for the ramparts
100000 infantry muskets 1900 fusees, 100000 pro-
jectes, &c.
The Berlin correspondent of the Framkfufer
Journal states that the Court of Wirtemburg, and
Tho oft thai nf Hnho ,llaru in fr
respecting a matrimonial alliance between the
Crown Prince OF that kingdom and Russian prln-
cess.
:sThe morality of the Polka" says the Brussels
Gazette, 'has been officially acknowledged at An
twerp This favoritc air Of the celebrated dance has
been set to the carrons (chimes) of the cathedral
of Antwerp: This gallantry on The part of the mu-
nicpality of the city merits honorable mention.
In the course of 1884, there were lO2 persons killed
and injured by railway accidents In England, COM
paratlvely few of whom were passengers. During
the first three months OF this year, there were also
u persons killed and IL persons injured by railway
accidents.
The Greek charge d'a6anes at Constantinople has
given to the ambassadors of the protecting powers
the most formal assurances that his Government had
never thought OF making any hostile demonstration
were being exchanged at Lumia Between the Greeks
and Turks
AT late meeting of the Statistical Society, nm in
teresting paper was read BY Assistant Surgeon Bal,
which the following tabular results was given in re-
gard to the colonial establishments Annual NOR
tally per lOO0-Ncw South Wales 141; Cape OF
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raltar I'll; lonlan Islands 2s3; Maurius sos; Ber
muda 323; st. Helena IS; Tennascrm Provinces 80;
Madras Presidency 81; Bombay Presidency IS; Cey-
ward command as: Jamaica Ia: Bahamas OO:Sierra
Leone 4S3.
Tea duties paid in 1916 up to last wesk.-London,
2l,oS1lb. Lyerpoo ,s5s, 2o9b; Bristol, sl4-,
bib Mnl, liz a2llb, Total, IL ,026, s9Sb. Same
time in 1874, 1885, ll8lb
II is the intention of Government, in conjunction
with the Chester and Hoyhead railway company, to
have the electric telegraph established on that i'm
portant line, reaching from London to Holyhead,
bracng in its route the commercial capitals of Liver
pool, Manchester, and Birmingham The success of
the apparatus in the service Of the South Western
and the Admiralty between London and Portsmouth,
80 miles, Is said to be the superinducng cause of its
proposed establishment on the Chester and Holyhead
line. The adoption of this invention on scale OF
magnitude bids fair to effect radical change in the
entire correspondence Of the country, by bringing,
as il were, momentariy into close consolidation and
communion the exchanges of London, Liverpool,
Manchester, and Birmingham, conveying with light
ming like velocity every luctuation Of affairs, and
telegraphing from mart to mart, with marvellous cx-
actude, and over areas Of hundred Of miles, inteli-
gence that may be received and recprocated almost
simultaneously by every mercantile community in
the Kingdom.
The greatest alarm has been excited in military
circles by her Majesty having chosen the period
17405O tor her ball costume, as at that time neither
facial appendages will, therefore, have to be shof
The report that the Priest Ronge had been shot
by assassin, is said to have been first spread at
Frankfort-on-the-O dor it stated that he had been
shot at Leignitz. The whole story is mere fiction
Amongst the railway projects talked Of is one to
connect Bristol with South Wales, by means of a
tunnel under the Severn.