The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-26
A GLANCE AT THE EUROPEAN WORLD.


SKETCHES FROM THE FOREIGN PAPERS RECEIVED
AT THE UNION OFFICE BY THE BRITANNIA
The London League of the 18th ult., in sum-
ming up the parliamentary proceedings for the week
ending on that day, incidentally describes the smash
up" OF parties produced by Sir Robert Peel's May
nooth grant BILL as follows:
"In the House OF Commons chaos again There
Is as Lord John Manners termed H. general sh pwrec Of
parties No man knows his political antagonist his po-
hucai friend Like those rruptions land and
state Of volcanic excitement heasna With strange and
wd Phren me people out OF doors have broken away
who shall lead usr in the excitement OF the hour that
has sunk to avery minor considerations but where shall
we be led and whittier are we going rn &c, sc.
The following description (Which we find in the
same number Of the League) Of the excitement on
this question, in the House of Commons, not only
shows that the Legislators Of Britain have learned TO
speak to "Bnncombe, but that, on pinch they in
duge in "hurry-hcations," which at least rival il
they do not exceed, any of those in our House of
Representatives; and to which, by-the-by, the Eng
lish journals have devoted so many solid columns
Of indignant criticism
"The debate was commenced on Friday week. Nothing
noticeable occurred the first night except the peculiar
speech of Mr. Gladstone But by Monday night the result
OF the excitement Of doors was manifested within the
House Members attended in crowds, loaded with piles Of
petitions. Thus has il been in the early part Of each
the presentation petitions have members attended, each
knows he has constituency and therefore almost
every has anxious address his particular
stituency through the medium OF the House Of Commons
through the ivelong hours IL the anxious hope that they
might be lucky enough to catch the Speakers eye The
waited and watched lor and the gesture which marked s
ting down was the signal for twenty thirty hats to
shout out Mr. speaker The orators lost almost ali sen,
OF that poteness which characterizes gentlemen in their
too with which numbers tried to eclipse one another
was most amusing-the tall men overlapping their neigh
bors, the shorter projecting forward Men spoke
Va hOse oratO
as yet unknown to fame has been inspired by the May
pSs not seldom ais1 have been
rival claimants for the attention of the House.
omsy engaged In arranging his own thoughts may be
may therefore have other cew TO the conclusion of
speech than the cessation Of voice Yet there
middle and which the end. When a paused whether
to gather breath or to an argument or to look
done; and this natstc treatment deceived the wary
Eye o. the Speaker himself For once at pause in mem
like leaping fish on sunny day" Sc, SC.
The ministerial majority on the passage of the
Maynooth bill to its second reading, was 147.
INTERESTING ITEM CONCERNING THE FLOUR TRADE
TO THE WEST lNDIEs.-The London League pub
fishes letter from Cork, upon the subject of the re-
cep expectations of barrelled -four from Ireland to
the West Indies, which has most important bear
ing the present valuable trade between the United
States and West Indies in that staple, We extract
as follows:
"A few our mers have been working to some extent
at barreled -four for export to the West indies within
last few months and do despair seeing operations Of
this nature form very important feature in the mill
ing trade under the advantages held out by the grind
ngn,bond bill Al present flour be sold here, duty
will leave him fair margin for profit and enable him
undersel the Americans in most Of the islands can speak
y purchased 800 barrels from miller in this city AT first
Of course there is some little difficulty and prejudice to
overcome but in good arvests there little doubt of the
in free OF the imperial duty and reghs less from
The already sent out from here is considered in Baba
does much superior to the American manufacture"
Ofcourse, it will be understood that the flour SO
exported is made virtually from foreign wheat the
price of which is often low enough to enable the
Irish miller to compete with the produce of the
United States especially with the difference of
freight, arising from the fact that under ordinary cir
cumstances, many vessels leave England in ballast
for the West Indes whilst American vessels gener-
ally earn their freight principally by the outward
voyage.
The Countess of survilliers, widow of Joseph
Bonaparte, died suddenly at Florence on the It'll
utmo.
SLAvERs coNDEMNEp.-Three slave vessels were
condemned on the 18th ult. by the admiralty court
of London--the Lezeira, Neriade, and schooner,
name unknown.} They were prizes to the Brisk
brigantine-the two latter having been captured by
the boats of the British, after some resistance.
The 'sheads Of the houses" of the University of
Cambridge have refused to petition against the gran,
to Maynooth.
MISS CusHMAN's TRIUMPHANT CAREER ON THE
ENGLISH BoARps.--"The English Gentleman" pub
fishes long and enthusiastic panegyric on Miss
Cushman's acting, from which we extract the fol-
lowing paragraph
as Miss Cushman possesses should have remained long
unnotced for they not only Of the exalted and
refined description but so true to nature, strikngy
qusite and extraordinarily powerful be calculated
to reach the most uncuvaed minds and touch the
feelings The force Of truth lies in all her delneatons OF
character the feelings she expresses ressbly
ives her free from all that is Objectionable and
her acting altogether calculated to egue the spectator
into Impression Of having witnessed something
than personation OF the apt creation of authors
brain"
In this extract the readers of the Union have
pretty fair specimen of the praises showered Miss
c. in England.
An English paper states that
"Mr Meekes's plan Of lighting towns by electricity
about to be carried into effect in America An experiment
lately witnessed perfectly successful The apparatus
Is by costly and for lighting Cincinnati, u two
towers Is considered will be sufficient illuminate the
| whole city,
This is certainly ne,os west of the Atlantic
One can almost understand the difference in liter
airy taste, in national characteristics between
the English and French, by comparing the cata-
ogues of periodical publications issued in London
lonuon SuppoItS uut Three OF Iour pup
LEGATIONS devoted to the fashions. Paris, on the other
hand, boasts of FORTY; Of which is issued daily;
while the rest appear weekly, monthly, bi-month-
ly, tri-lnonthy, and six times month-puzzling
the inventions Of modstes, and stimulating the ge-
MUS of tailors For the two or three miserable theat
rical and musical publications Of London, Paris has
twenty-five. In publications devoted to military
affairs, commerce. law, medicine, education science,
and the arts, Paris greatly out-numbers London; yet
she is without single naval Journal while the poll
teal publications of the latter city are not only
much more numerous but much larger; the Times or
Herald, for instance, is four times large as the
largest Partisan political Journal London, too, of
course takes the lead in sporting papers, for Paris
has only the Journal de Chasseurs and ale Jockey
Club" which last title tells very plainly that
French taste for horse-racng is either borrowed or
fched from the other side Of the channel Borrow
ed, if they candidy admit that the French have no
national taste for the turf but ched, it, with their
brand Of English ownership upon it, they claim it
as a Gallo penchani. Among other periodicals,