The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-05
FOREIGN NEW
From the New York Courier and Enquirer, July 4.
LATER FROM EUROPE.

LATER FROM EuhOPE.
The steamer Acadia Captain Harrison, arrived
at Boston on Wednesday evening last at III o'clock,
having left Liverpool on the 10Th uliimo; and thus
made a passage OF little over thirteen days. We
received our Paris letters, with copies Of Wilmer
and Smiths European Times, and Charles Willmer's
American News Letter, at an early hour last evening"
by the Long Island railroad; but neither our Lon
don letter, nor any of our regular London, Liver
pool, or Paris files have come TO hand; and we are
informed at the post office that no foreign papers,
except those we have specified, have reached this
city As the Boston papers of yesterday also COM
plain that their regular files are missing, we con-
clude that the newspaper mails were left In Liver
pool.
So far as we can gather, from the meagre sources
at hand, there is little news ofany great Importance
Trade is good-the railway speculations are still in
full progress-cotton is firm, and heavy sales are
made, though without any advance in prices-agri-
cultural prospects are unusually nattering, and the
general aspect of affairs is highly prosperous. New
cotton-mills of immense size are sprlnging up IN
lancashire and more are likely to be built. Ia
BILE, which has Just been published in the London
papers, shows that since 1886 the consumption Of
cotton has increased in the south of Europe 200 per
cent, in the north of Europe SO per cent, in Eng
land 46 per cent, in the United States AZ per cent?
and in France only 80 per cent.
Sir Robert Peel is following up his singular and
original policy with great energy, and with APP
parently complete success. The Maynooth bill,
on the 18th, was read third time, and passed,
in tho House Of Peers, by vote of l8l to 30;
and though it had not resolved the royal assent at
the latest dates it has doubtless, ere this, become
a law. Sir Robert, it will be remembered de-
cared at first that this measure stood entirely
upon its own merits, unconnected with any system
for conciliating Ireland Either this statement
deceptive, or the of this proposition in eff
fecting the much-desired conciliaton, has melted
him to go on in the same path A new bill has been
IL IlsNlnl
award compensation for three kinds of improve
mens effected by Irish tenants viz building, drain
ing, and fencing. The Irish colleges bill will proba-
bly, also become law; and the opinion is very
freely expressed, both in and out of Parliament,
that Sir Robert is only awaiting proper opportu-
Ole clergy of Ireland. These measures have evil
IDENTIFY made an impression upon Ireland, though
O'Connell exerts himself to the utmost to defeat
their influence, and TO bolster up repeal. The
speeches at the repeal meetings denoupce the May
nooth grant, as the "most unutterably insignificant
mea sure" human ingenuity could devise; and yet
the clamor they raise against it clearly shows that
such is by no means their real opinion. In the
same way, the education bill is declared to be a
'grenade flung in among the ranks Of the repealers,
there to explode and produce confusion, dlssenslon
and consequent weakness and the cries of distress
it EFFORTS render it clear that such has been its effect
'The bill for compensation to Irish tenants" say
the same persons, sis paltry quack remedy for
evils of magnitude and terrible virulence." And
vet the effect of all these measures combined seems
to be the Cancellation of Ireland Repeal makes no
progress; and O'Connell's promises, though as mag
niicent and absurd ever, fall upon unheeding or
at least upon faithess, ears.
Sir Robert seems disposed, by similar policy, to
disarm the opposition of their peculiar weapons.
The corn laws have been again under discussion;
and although, so far as we can Judge from the very
imperfect sketches that have reached us, nothing of
Il hAnn fBa naTfI
tone Of the ministerial members in favor Of their ab-
clifton This, of course, takes the ground from un-
der the free trade MEMBERS and prognoscaes al least
the partial Abandonment Of protection to the agriculture
Of Great Britain.
Whether these various measures of compromise
will strengthen the ministry, and giveit permanent
ascendency, can only be conjectured. They GER
tainly SEEM thus far to be received with verygen-
eral favor, or at least acquiescence.
In the House of Commons on the 18th, Mr.. Fos-
ter called the attention of Sir Robert Peel to re-
mark made by him in March, admitting the possible
truth of the statement of Mr.. Tyler President Of the
United States, concerning the alleged participation
of certain British subjects in the slave trade He
wished to know whether the government had any
documents confrmatory of this charge, and called
upon them also for the names Of the British sub
iecs implicated Sir Robert in reply, referred him
to the documents which accompanied MIR. Tyler's
message on the subject, in which it would be found
that three vessels 1.-THE Agnes Montevideo, and the
United States were charged with being engaged IN
this traffic. and that the consgnees were said to have
employed an English broker. That was the only
information which the government possessed upon
the subject Mr.. Foster, in reply said that the
truth Of these documents, and the spirit in which
they were drawn up could be inferred from the fact
that in them British naval officers engaged in the
suppression of the slave trade the coast of Africa,
were accused of permitting the embarkation OF
slaves that they might capture them after shipment,
and ola he bonn ar
them. Mr.. Gibson said that, in reference to the
Agnes, he was authorized by the parties who had
been alluded to, to give formal and unqualified
contradiction to the assertion that they had sold the
goods for the slave-trade traffic.
1t has been discovered that, by the treaty Of
Utrecht, between England and Spain, in l7l3, re-
newed as recently as 1914, Spanish produce was TO
be admitted into England ON the same terms as the
produce of the most favored nation. The treaty
contains no reference to slave or free labor. Uhe
| Spanish ambassador now demands that, in accord
ance with this treaty, sugar, the produce of the
Spanish colonies, Cuba and Porto Rico, shall be ad-
mitted under this clause, in the same way as an Or
der in council has admitted the slave-grown sugar
| of Louisiana and Venezuela
| This demand, and the indisputabe ground on
which it is made, have excited no little astonshment
from the fact that Cuba is the very citadel of the
slave trade, against which the energies OF the Brit
| ish government have been directed. The matter
has been called up in Parliament, but very vaguely
Sir Robert Peel simply promising to put the trea-
ty the demand of the Spanish minister and the re-
ply of the government soon as it should be made
on the table Of the house without delay.
| A personal quarrel in the House of Commons, on
the 18th, excited no little interest. Mr.. Smith
| O'Brien, the Irish member, expressed in very en-
phatic terms, his ''unutterable contempt" (Which
he still contriyed to utter) for Mr.. Roebuck, who in
turn, said some very singing things of Mr. O'Brien
The Speaker interfered, out he himself; as well as
his interference, was set aside by the house gong
into committee--thus giving the combatants a
chance to fight it out; which they accordingly did
Mr.. Roebuck found it inconvenent to limit his as
sau to his particular opponent and extended his re-
marks to OConnell and the Irish members in general
At this it seems, Mr. Somers, the member for Sligo,
az repeater, took personal offence, and sent Mr.:
Roebuck challenge; which that gentleman, instead
of accepting laid before the house, and moved that
Mr.. Somers had been guilty of contempt Mr.. s.
pleaded guilty, expressed himsefrepentant and was
absolved by the House, which CHANGED to be ex-
tremely pacific and good natured.
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