The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-21
FOREIGN NEW s.
From the Boston Courier Extra July 10
FIFTEEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE
ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA.


sThe steamship Britannia, Captain Hewitt, from
Iiyernool 4,h instant. was elegraphed this (Satur-
day) morning at halfpast four o'clock, ana arrived
al he wharf al SIX. She had hundred and three
passengers to Halifax, where she left twenty-one,
and took Oh board sixteen.
Her commercial news Is extremely taVoraoie.
Cotton had advanced Slightly price, and acas IN brisk
demand The sales were large, averaging six thou
sand bales per day, and the demand throughout the
manufacturing districts continued while the work
men were all employed, and additional hands sought
from the seaboard and the agricultural towns Money
was abundant, the share-market very buoyant, ana
the determination Of Pennsylvania 10 pay The Interest
her debt hadindieed better feeling IA all .4ns'tcan
Massachusetts bonds as usual, taking the
lead in quotations Pennsylvania ives are quoted at
sixty-seven.
The leading articles of West India produce were
still in favor, and were obtaining improved prices.
Coffee sugar molasses, and spirits, had advanced,
and American provisions. Wilmer q Smith says:
"The American provision-trade has been dull Of
late; the amount of business transacted being consd
erably under the average Beef has been in limited
request and the remark will apply to pork and
lard. Cheese, however, of good quality, has main
tanned previous rates. but the bulk of the stock Is Of
an inferior description.
"The iron trade is somewhat unsettled, but fair
rates demanded and maintained. A large failure
has taken place in this town during the week; and
Rumor, with her hundred tongues, is making free
with the names of others. In such business where
the speculation has been enormous, 1t is impos-
sibe to say what day may bring forth"
Parliament was still in session, but it was expect
ed that prorogation would soon take place. The
European Times, in summary OF its doings, says;
The New Zealand debate has terminated in ma
jory for the government but, rs great general Is
said once to have declared, "Anoher such victory,
and | am undone!" Sir Robert Peel threw his col
league lord Stanley virtually overheard. IL Is
ha 1efe,, de1 ais art mi
implication, his policy; and although the govern
ment triumphed by little more than hall hundred
votes, even that number could only be mustered by
promises of amendment for the future. The debate
was practical vindication of the New Zealand
company II showed how they had been injured,
and the prospects of once promising colony blight
ed through the obstinacy and word-catchlng of a
man who has all the pretensions, but few of the
characteristics, of statesman
There is every reason to believe that the Irish col
legate bill will prove failure in the working. The
Irish members, headed by O'Connel, who have
come over to Parliament in connection with the
measure have not succeeded in persuading the gov
eminent to acccde to the requirements of the Irish
Catholic bishops On Monday, when the House
went into committee on the bill, Mr. O'Connell read
u strong letter from the Archbishop of Tnam, (Dr.
McHale,) condemnatory Of the bill. The govern
ment has made some CONCESSIONS but not enough
satisfy the Irish ecclesiastics. The bone of con-
ention is the religious education of the pupils Mr..
O'Connel requires the presence Of the Eplscopaan,
Presbyterian, and Catholic clergymen in the new
colleges, that the religious equality Of all may be
unexceptionable. This seems fair enough; but the
government set ont with determination to have
nothing to do with the religious education Of the pn-
pills; and to this view they still adhere. They are
willing to allow the different religious communions
to establish professorshps of their own creeds; but
the Protestants the most wealthy, and the
Roman Catholics the poorest people, O'Connell con-
tends that the proposed arrangement will not put
the pupils of the latter, who will form the majori-
~ in the new colleges, on fair footing with the
former There may possibly he says, by private
endowment be six Protestant clergymen, and only
one Catholic. The measure is thus opposed in the
House of Commons by the ultra-Protestants, head
ed by Sir Robert lngs on the one hand, and by the
ultraC Catholics, led by Mr.. OConnel and his tail on
the other.
Lord John Russell, seeing that the measure will
not be regarded in Ireland SOLVE branch, /" ex
pressed his doubts whether it ought not TO be with
drawn on the third reading. But the bill, in all
probability, will pass--another painful record of the
futty fattemptng, by acts of Parliament, to har-
Xynonize people who distracted by the differ
Ances Of race and religion whose organization is, as
the phrase goes, ''wide as the poles asunder."
The House Of Commons, now that they have
brought the Irish members within the walls Of st.
Stephens, threaten to make them work on the rail.
wav committees, and perform their portion Of the
drudgery of legislation, like others. For this pur-
pose, notes requiring their attendance that week,
have been addressed 10 Mr. Smith O'Bren, Mr..
John O'Connell, and others. These gentlemen have
declared their determination not to sit on any COM
mee whose duties are connected with, or relate to,
England. The matter will probably engage the at
eniion Of the House when is sure to give rise to
scene"
The weather, on the whole, had been favorable to
the crops, though there had been changes,
and the character of the harvest could not be settled
within six weeks.
The Great Western, from New York, arrived out
on the morning Of the 9th ultimo, bringing Amer
ican papers to the 18TH and the Cambria, from Bos-
TOM arrived also in the afternoon of the same day,
bringing papers to the 10Th, four days later. The
voyage of the Cambria is the shortest on record
len dats and sixteen hours including her running into
Haiifar 10 land her mails and passengers. The news
Nv both these arrivals reached London on the 9th
The packet ship Cambridge carried out the news
Of the great fire at Quebec, which had produced
much sympathy and some contributions in Eng.
land
Sir William Webb Foett, Attorney General Of
the kingdom, and looked upon by all parties as the
future Lord Chancellor, died on the .28h ult. He
had been in declining state for some time, owing
10 the over.zealous attention to professional duties
General Armstrong (the new American consul) ar.
rived at Liverpool on the 9th ult., by the Great
Western. Unhappily, the American consus of this
port during the last dozen years. have been SO nu-
merous, and their term Of Office brief, that Just
they were becoming known and respected, their off.
clai career mas Deen cut snort by a mlsslVe from
home.
Thomas Jennings, master Mariner had been
Tried charge of dealing in slaves, and acquitted
The United Service Gazette states that, in conse-
quence of the massacre of the Of the Wasp, on
the coast of Africa, has been determined TO give
quarter to slaves offering the slightest resistance
The money raised in England and Scotland, las
year, by thirteen missionary tract, bible and schoo
societies, amounted to no less a sum than 1898 7l2
Il is said that the Wesleyan Methodists of Grea,
Britain are about to disown any connection with
those of the United States who are shareholders.
The Right Hon. Henry Lytton Buwer, her Ma.
esty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo.
tertiary to the Queen of SPAIN presented to the
Queen at an audience, by the Earl Of Aberdeen, on
his return from Madrid
The British government have decided that Cuba
and Porto Rico sugar cannot be admitted on che
tsame terms that from the United States and Ven.
tzuela.
AxrrcoRA LAW LEAeuE.-After an interval o,
several weeks, the anti-corn-aw league reassembled