Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-11-29
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMSHIP s; BRITANNIA.
Thirteen Days Later from Europe.

Thirteen Days Later from Europe.
The Steamship Britannia arrived at Boston on
Thursday evening with thirteen days later news.
We are indebted 10 Adams Il Co. for papers
The news we received in New York. by all ex
press exclusively for the Herald.
The Britannia sailed from Liverpool the
ith inst, and we have papers from that city to
that date, from London TO the Sd, and Paris 10
the lst, inclusive
Our accounts in a commercial and financial
point Of view are more important than they have
been for the last twenty years. terrible re.
vusion has commenced IN England. greater than
that of 1925, and similar 10 that Of 1887 in the
United States This revu'sion has been prodn-
ced Ivy the combined influence OF bad harvest
all over England and Europe. bal momentary !
system, anG the nnthinking imitation in railway
specuations.
All stocks and every staple is going down
except the price Of breadstntTs, which the i'm
pending famine enhances and improves The
terrible movement is inst in its commencement.
The first blow has been strickland in Ireland.
the agitator O'Connel is already using it for the
purpose OF opposition 10 the union.
| The English government seems to be in a state
of alarm, and Sir Robert Peel is calling cabinet
after cabinet TO deliberate on the opening Of the
ports, and best means to meet impending famine.
! Cotton is down--corn is up--and the excitement
caused by The revolution is increasing every day
What the result may be, no one can trll--per-
haps it is the "bcginning of the end, of the f.
nancai and political supcrstructnre Of England
aud Frarce
TERRlBGr RAILWAY REvrrsIoS.--The rail
way mania has received its 9uieius Something
like panic has ovcrtaken the Spectators in IRON
highways Now that the reaction has come It
brings in its train rain and devastation, and bank
ruptcy TO thousands
The wreck OF fortune and Of character which
this temporary insanity has produced, will be
felt long after the causes that produced il have
passed away. As proof of She extent to which
this huge system Of swiodling has been carried,
, it may be mentioned that even ladies were not
exempt from its influence The female friends
and relatives of those,who pulled the wires OF
certain imposing puppet schemes, were in the
daily habit of haunting the purheas and offices
of the share brokers in the Metropolis. 60 watch
the market in order TO turn their letters of allot
ments to the best account One OF the railway
pa pers mentions a certain batch OF female spec
L ulators who contrived TO realize, by this kind o
: chicanery, during the height of the mania, ;ht
astounding sum Of $500 900.
FAMINE ExrrcTrp IN EyGLANp.--Iiitherto
~ 81, b,. h,tr; J,J Do
bert Peel. -Four good harvests in successor hav'
filled his exchcquer--flled the stomachs OF tn
lieges-made his nation prosperons-'he peorl
contcnted Alas the scene is chang ng"d-th
! evil day has come upon him, and has found hin
unprepared 10 face il. Faminc-gaunt, horrible
. destroying famine - seems impending. Fear
have seized the public mind
;, In ireland matters look appalling-in Englan
gloomy. The granaries of the continent are es
=, hausted. The corn fields of the Vistula, the Oar
=, ube, and the Elbe. are barely sufficient for III
local wants of the inhabitants. The nation is
commotion and the cry OF "Open the ports an
n let in corn. duty free ;" is heard, all sides, II
r. verberated lroW every part of the empire.
re The pressure from without has made itse
heard in Downing street and faith in the slcn
sesle-Peel's sliding scae--is gone for
'e third OF the po,atoe crop in Ireland is desrcye
The government has sent scientific professors
III the sccne of the mischief, and the awful truth
IL out thaE this large portion of the peoples food
Sc the escslent that Cobbett abhorred--is unfit f
use.
What is 10 be done in this terrible, this u
" looked-for emergency "Open the ports -
IT. the exclamation, and there stands the shiveri,
N Premier, like a reed in the wind, paralyzed b
IS tween affection for his sliding scale and the he
y rors Of public famine There he is, balanci
iy. the pros and cons But necessity is superior
IN consistency, superior even TO law. The pcI
Is must he opened
,b- O'Counell who assumes 10 he the tribune
ae the Irish people, goes beyond this, He denlar
,e- grant of public money, 10 the extent Of a m
S.. lion aud ha', 10 be expended in the purchase
AM icod--he calls for tax of City per cent. on I
=, absentees, and tax OF ten per cent on the re
dents-he asks for the prohibition of corn a
provision OF dis,ileries consuming grain.
,A Large demands these-wll they be concede
-, a day or two will solve the question; and in
mean time speculation will find a wide mar.
for the exercise of its ingenuity,
The sliding scale-that cunning scheme
make food artifcially dcar--is in the crisis of
fate, Swept away now, as it will be, its rel
position, with the views which the public ent