Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-11-27
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NOVEMBER II, 1915
Important Foreign News!

tain The People greatly ercited-
Preparations for War still going
on-Ihe Markets., &C..
The Steamship Britannia arrived at
Boston few days ago, by which We
are put in possession of news very inn
portant and interesting, not only as II
regards our foreign relations, political
ly, but with reference to the condition
of affairs In Great Britain, and indeed
in Europe generally. In speaking of
the nature of the news received by the
Britannia, the New York Herald {for
which we are indebted to an extra from
the "Union" office, says:
| ''Our accounts in commercial and financial
point of view are more important than they
( have been for the last twenty years. A terri
Bile revulsion has commenced in England, grea-
ter than that of 1925, and similar to that Of
| 1887 in the United States. This revulsion
has been produced by the combined influences
/ of bad harvest all over England and Europe,
bad monetary system, and the minimizing in
fiation in railway speculations. All stocks and
every staple are going down-except the
price Of breadstuffs, which the impending fam
inc enhances and improves. This terrible
movement is just in its commencement. The
| first blow has been struck; and in Ireland, the
| agitator O'Connell is already using it for the
purpose of opposition to the union. The Eng
| lsh government seems to be in a state of alarm,
and Sir Robert Peel is calling cabinet after cab
met, to deliberate on the opening Of the ports,
| and the best means to meet impending famine.
| Cotton is downtown is up--and the excite
ment caused by the revusion is increasing ev
cry day. What the result 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 "Warlike Preparations" to
which we had occasion to refer last
week, it would appear, are not viewed
in the same light by all the British
presses. The London Times, the rea-
dor will ronollect, pointed significant
ly to the Oregon difficulty, as affor-
ding solution ofthe problem; but the
Liverpool Chronicle, which may not,
perhaps, be SO well acquainted with the
powers at work "behind the throne,"
thus discourses upon the subject of
those preparations
''Wtmlike Preparations- is evident
lv screw loose between us and some one or other
of the countries from which according to royal
speeches, we are everlastingly receiving assu-
RANGES of love and amity. Preparations for
sudden hostilites are going on in all directions
Signs of the qua viUe 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 at that point
from which they could at once be pushed into
immediate service. Those in service are grad
ually increasing their crews to the war compile
ment, while large fleet, delicately called AN
experimental squadron as an army Of observa-
ton is sometimes designed a Gordon sanitaire,
is in high order, and fully manned, for dash
to any part Of the world, and against any enc
my against whom it may be required. But
what is it for-what is it all about? These
preparations cannot be from any apprehension
of quarrel with the United States about Mex
leo or the Oregon territory. Some OF them are
being made too near home for that. The real
cause is, we opine, without mincing matters,
that, in spite of the recent bathing machine al
lance, things are not quite comfortable between
US and our French neighbors just now. The
causes of difference, if not dispute, between us
are, indeed many. Not satisfied with kicking
us out of Spain, and turning US out of Greece,
they are now busy with their intrigues in Chi
ma, that they may carry off all the advantages
for which we fought and conquered in the late
war with that country. Their eagerness to re-
peat the fable of the wolf and the lamb towards
our ally of Morocco may, also, in the end, lead
to an unpleasant issue with us. But the
grand bone of contention just now is the marri
age Of one of Louis Philippe's sons with the
sister of the Queen of Spain, which is sure to
elevate him to the throne of that country, and
bring about a new and formidable compact be-
tween France and Spain. We say that such
a marriage would surely elevate the French
prince to hethrone Of Spain. We have not a
doubt of it. Louis Philippe has no such
thought; but the wretches by whom Queen Is
abella is surrounded and held in captivity, are
too deeply STEPPED in crime and blood and vii
lany, to hesitate about adding one more murder
to those which they have already committed,
to ssbserve their selfshand ambitious purpo-
SEES "--Lice'poot Chronicle, Nor. 49,
We are informed that, added to the
failure Of the crop Of grain, at least a
third ofthe potato crop in ireland is de-
stroyed. The people are greatly alarm
ed. O'Connell demands Of parliament
the grant of amillion and a halfpounds,