Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-11-27
FOREIGN NEWS.

on thursday evening last WIFI Lohuoh
dates to the Sd and Paris to the lst instant,
inclusive. The accounts in commercial
and financial point of view, are more impor-
tant than they have been for the last twen-
ty years. A terrible revulsion has COM
menced in England, which has been pro-
duced by the combined influence of bad
harvest all over England and Europe, a bad
monetary system, and the minimizing infa-
ton in railway speculations.
All stocks and every staple are going
down, except the price of breadstuffs, which
the impending famine enhances and i'm
proves. The terrible movement is just in
its commencement The first blow has been
strickland in Ireland the agitator O'Con-
nell is already using it for the purpose OF
opposition to the union. The English Go
vernment seems to be 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 lmpend-
inc famine. Cotton is down-corn is up
and the excitement caused by the revolu-
ton is increasing every day. What the re-
suit may be, no one can tell-perhaps it is
the "beginning of the end'' of the financial
and political superstructure Of England and
France.
The frequent Cabinet Councils, follow
ing each other so quickly, had created
good deal of anxiety throughout the king
dom, and it was thought that they would
result in the opening of the ports for grain
The Presidents Message. : American
news to the 10Th was repubished in Lon
don papers of the 2Sth, together with spec
ulations of the American press on the affairs
of Mexico, Texas, and the La Plata. The
London Times, in an article on American
politics remarks that the commencement of
the session will, in the course of a month,
call from Mr.. Polk full and authentic
statement Of the policy of the Government,
and adds-"the message of the President Of
the United States has seldom had more mo-
mentous topics to deal with, more impor-
tant doubts to remove, more hidden things
to reveal"
The chairman Of the American Chamber
of Commerce, Liverpool, has received a let
ter from Lord Sandon, expressing his lord
ships approval Of the memorial to the privy
council in favor of admitting Indian corn.
His lordship thinks that such a course on
the part of our Government would greatly
strengthen in America the hands of those
who advocate the relaxation of the tariff
Famine Expected in England Hitherto
the cycle of the seasons has befriended Sir
Robert Peel. Four good harvests in sue
cession have filled the exchequer-filled
the stomachs of the lieges-made the ma
ton prosperous-the people contented.
Alas the scene is changed-the evil day
has come upon him, and has found him un-
prepared to face it. FamIne-gaunt, hor-
rible, destroying famine--seems impending.
Fears have seized the public mand.
In Ireland matters look appalllng-in
England gloomy. The granares of the
continent are exhausted. The cornfeIds Of
the Vistula, the Danube, and the Elbe, are
barely sufficient for the local wants of the
inhabitants. the nation is in commotion,
and the cry Of "Open the ports and let in
corn duty free!'' is heard on all sides-re-
verberated from every part Of the empire.
The "pressure from without" has made
itself heard in Downing street; and faith in
the sliding scale--PeeI7si sliding scale-is
gone forever. A third of the potato crop in
Ireland is DESTROYED, The Government has
sent scientific professors to the scene of the
mischief, and the awful truth is out that
this large portion of the peoples food-the
esculent that Goblet abhorred-is unfit for
use. What is to be done in this terrible,
this unlocked for emergency "Open the
ports :" is the exclamation; and there stands
The shiverng Premier, like a reed in the
wind, paralyzed between affection for his
sliding scale and the horrors of public ia
mine. There he is balancing the pros and
cons. But necessity is superior to consis-
tency, superior even to law. The ports
must be opened.
O'Connell, who assumes to be the tri-
bune of the Irish people, goes beyond this.
He demands grant of public money, to
the extent of million and a half, to be
expended in the purchase of food-he calls
for tax of fifty per cent. on the absentees,
and tax of ten per cent. on the residents
he asks for the prohibition of corn and pro-
visions leaving the island, and the preven-
ton of distilleries consuming grain.
Large demands these-will they be con-
ceded? a day or two will solve the ques-
ton; and in the meantime speculation will
find wide margin for the exercise Of its
ingenuity. The sliding scale-that cunning
scheme to make food artifcially dear-is
in the crisis of its fate. Swept away now,
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