The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-08-30
From the u. S. Journal
ARRIVAL OF THE HlBERNIA,
AT BOSTON,

we nave received from lilTee sources
Wilmer g. Smiths European Times,
and Charles Winners American News
Letter, both dated Liverpool, August
5th, which must have been brought to
Boston by the steamer Hibernia, and
sent to US in advance of the letter mail !;
the papers stating on their faces that
they had been printed as the latest
news to go by that steamer.
ENGLAND.
The annexation of Texas is regard
ed as contaminated, and fears are en-
tertained that Oregon and Mexico,
herself, may be speedily swallowed up
by the Anglo-American race. This is
not palatable to England; but having
exhausted all her diplomacy to pre-, ent
annexation, she has nothing TO do but
TO look on and fear.
There is furious dispute raging in
the Western and Oxford Circuits, be-
tween the press and the bar. The bar.
mess having excluded all barrlsters
who earn guinea a day by reporting.
The session of Parliament is near
its close. The Queen is anxious to
go abroad again and take little fresh
AIR. The sub iect Of Education, In
come Tax, and Rail Road accidents
occupied the attention Of Parliament.
The Slave Trade Treaty Bill, which
renders the offending subjects of Bra
iii amenable to English law Courts as
pirates has met with fruitless opposi.
ton.
NJ. Leu, of Ebersol, the leader Of
the Jesuit party in Lucerne, Switzer.
land, has been murdered, and great dis
order and bloodshed is the conse-
quence.
France continues to justify the bak-
ing and siewing of the Arabs in the
cave of Dahra. Colonel Pelisier will
probably be knighted. Hisarms should
be fried Arab, spitted on pitchfork
in a desert.
Spain is still in a ierment. There
has been mob at Taragona. Con-
scription was the cause OF the riot.
The Barcelona Chamber of Com
merce has prepared an address to all
similar bodies in the kingdom calling
on them to petition the Cortes about the
admission of Cuba sugars into the
English markets. Should England per-
sist in excluding them, the Barcelona
merchants recommended recourse to
reprisas, and propose to prohibit the
importation into Spain, Cuba, and 9th
er Spanish colonies of English manu-
iacture, such as lines, cloth, hardware,
muslin, machinery, &c.
Greece is over-run by robbers: as
sassinations are frequent. The Receiv-
er General has been robbed of $4,000
drachms of public money.
The Harvest IN England must be
late, and it is feared will be bad. The
stock Of grain is daily dwindling away.
Should England's fears prove true sin
q week all the sources of national pros
perity would be dried up. The value
Of money would incrcase-the Bank
would restrict its issues-speculaton
would receive its quletus-t the corn i'm
ported would be paid for in gold
manufactures would experience an
acute, an instant shock--the produce
markets would suffer-credit would be
impaired-capital would disappear
and a crisis, in which the strongest
would bend before the blast, would
sweep over the land, and bring misery,
TO 70 hnn nrth
AS to the political phase of the caIami-
ty, that is Of secondary importance.
But there can be little doubt that it
would arm the Ant-Corn-Law party
with ga voice potential as double as
the Dukes"
Grain is dearer by u to l4s. per
quarter than it was on the 5th of July.
At Liverpool Foreign Flour lmprov-
ed from Is. to IS. per bbl., and Wheat
upward Of Sd. per 10 lbs.
American Cotton had declined I'd.
per lb.-32,OOO lbs. were sold last
week. This week matters begin to
wear more healthy appearance Mon
day the sales were 5000 bales, 5000
American.
News has been received that the in
tercst on the Pennsylvania debt would
not be paid and thereupon American
stocks went down.
The Acadia arrived on the Goth ult.
in 10 days and 8 hours from Boston.
The New York Packet Ships Lib
erty and independence had arrived out.
Mr.. Charles Ware, an American
merchant in Liverpool, formerly
Saimaker at the Navy Yard at Charles
town, died on Friday, Aug. 1st.
The Cholera is raging in Bombay