Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-11-28
FoREIGN.

Arrival OF the steamship Britannia at Boston.
The Britannia arrived at Boston on Thurs
day the 2Oth,inst., at o'clock in tie evening,
bringing Liverpool dates up TO the 4th inst.
The intelligence which the Britannia brings
is more important than any which We have
received from England for a long time past.
We will, therefore, mot apologize for devoting
considerable portion of our columns TO
summary of its mos: important items. Our
summary is made up from our New York and
Boston exchanges.
Our accounts, says the New York Herald,
in commercial and financial point of view,
are more important than they have been for
the last twenty years. A terrible revulsion
has commenced in England, greater than that
of 1925, and similar to that Of 1887 in the
| United States. This reyulsion has been pro-
duced by the combined Influence of a bad !,ar-
vest all over England and Europe, bad mon
etary system, and the unthinking initiation in
railway speculations. All stocks and every
staple are going down-except the price Of
breadstuffs, which the impending famine en-.
hances and improves. This terrible move
ment is just in its commandments, The first
blow has been struck; and IN Ireland, the agi-
tator, O'CoHnell, is already nsingeit for 'the
purpose Of opposition to the Union. The En-
glish government seems to he in state Of
alarm, and Sir Robert Peel is calling cabinet
after cabinet, to deliberate on the opening Of
the ports, and the best means to meet inpen-
ding famine. Cotton is down=-corn is up
and the excitement caused by The reva!sien is
increasing everyday. VIVA, the result may
be. no one can ssI-7perhaPs il is the begin
ming Of the endNof the financial and political
superstruct"re Of England AM France. .
The failure of the crops in the British Isles
is likely to produce consequences Of no ordi-
nary nature. 1t is confidently predicted that
the odious corn law system must fall. That
Sir Robert Peel will be compelled to repeal
his sliding scale, and that henceforlh bread
st"tls will be imported into England free of
duty. The alarm and CONSERVATION which
pervades the public mind, is really terrific
Cabinet council after cabinet council has been
called, TO devise ways and means to meet the
pressing emergency. In Ireland, the potato
crop, which forms the great staple of support
for nine-tenths Of the people, is short by at
least one-ihird. Where the deficit is to come
from, heaven only knows.
STEPPED as the people Of that unfortunate
county are, in the very depths of poverty,
they are unable to make up the deficit by pur-
chasing the surplus which other more fortu-
nate lands possess. Gaunt, hungry famine,
stares poor Ireland in the face. O'Connell is
calling upon Sir Robert Peel to throw open
the ports and to grant million and.a half
sterling, to meet the dreadful crisis.
One thing seems TO be certAD, the corn law
monopoly must fall beneath the general pres
sure. Ills said that on this subject the Brit
ish cabinet difer-that Sir Robert Peel will
yield 10 the force Of circumstances, and that
it is more than likely that new ministry will
be formed, in which Peel and Lord John Rus
sci, now the leader of the opposition in the
House of Commons, will coalesce. Such is
the extraordinary revolution in public senti-
ment.
Warlike preparations in England, notwith-
standing the famine panic, which is stalking
over the land, ale still going on with exlraor-
binary vgor. There is evidently, says the
Liverpool Chronicle Of the 1st inst, a screw
loose between US and some or other of the
countries from which, according to royal
speeches, we are INCREASINGLY receiving assn
RANGES Of love and amity. Preparations for
sudden hostiIilies are going on in all direc-
tons. Signs Of the qui rirc are TO be traced
in every quarter. Old Notifications are being
repaired, added to, and strengthened. New
ones are being erected. There Is an unusual
hustle in the naval yards, as we'll as in the
arsenals. Ships are being made ready up TOD
that point from which they could at once be
pushed into immediate service. Those in SER
vice are gradually increasing their crews to
the war complement, while large fleet, deli
cately called IAN experimental sanadron,' as
an army of observation is sometimes designa
ted Gordon sanitdire, is in high order, and
fully manned, prepared for dash to any part
of the world, and against any enemy against
whom it may be required. BuewIat is ii all
.for-wha, is it all about These preparations
cannot be from any apprehension Of a quarrel
with the United States about Mexico, or the
Oregon territory. Some Of them ase being
made too near home for that. s'Ehe TeaEcause
is, we oPine, without mincing matters. that,
in spite Of the recent bathing machine alliance,
thingsare not quite comfortable between US
and our French neighbors, just now. The
causes Of difference, if not dispute, between