The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-23
POLlTIC AL.
From the Baltimore American.
ONE DAY LATER FROM EUROPE.


The fine steamship. Great Western, Captain
Mathews, arrived at New York on Monday morn
ing from Liverpool with advices up TO the 9Th in
stant on which day she sailed. Owing TO the recep-
ton of accounts up to the 4th instant by the Britain
MIA, the news is without material interest
Public securities had an upward tendency; but the
improvement was so trihing hardly to require
tee In other respects, monetary matters remained
as the britannia" ftthem.
The following is an extract of letter from an old
and respectable house in London, dated July 3,
l845:
'sThe accounts which have reached us of the ef-
forts Of Pennsylvania to pay the interest on her
debt, have given stability to our market, and inn
parted confidence in American securities, which is
very gratifying to us. There is not much business
doing in anything just now. There is very little
American stock in our market for sale. Pennsyl-
vania is now quoted 67a68. We have just made
purchase of $50, 900 Alabama per cents, at sc div.
from LIST July"
The cotton market closed with frmness The
daily transactions large, and the sales of the
week amounted 10 60, 900 bales-a large demand, in
the absence of active speculation and most concu-
sive as respects the activity of which the manufac
turing districts are the scene. An advance of an
eighth on the middhng classes of American had Ia
ken place. Spinners were said to be taking large
stocks; but it is questionable whether they purchase
beyond their immediate requirements
The rival port TO Liverpool, on the opposite shore
of the Mersey- Birkenhead-will soon be in con-
don to receive American and other shipping.
The weather was again unfavorabe, and the price
of grain had advanced; but as that trade was in n
state of transitions, the price considered rather
indication of the feeling of the Dealers than as
an earnest Of the business transacted
Distressing intelligence received from Ireland
few hours before the departure of the Great West
ern. At fair held in the vicinity Of Cork
some dispute arose between the peasantry and the
police, when the latter evclIed their weapons, ard
deliberately shot eight of the people.
The Liverpool Times says:
"Mr. OConnell has returned to Dublin He left
London Immediately after his unsuccessful efforts to
fashion the collegiate bill to the taste OF the Catholic
prelates. His journey across the channel has not
evidently Increased his fondness for the "Saxon;"
and his parliamentary colleagues Mr.. Smith O,Brien
and his son, John 0'Connell, return, like himself,
with tempers sourcd by disappointment
The proceedings in the British Parliament possess
little interest,
The Dusseldorf Gazette states that the health of
the Empress of Russia has become alarming, and
that the Emperor is again suffering from disease of
the liver.
The ship Ten Brothers, Crawford, of Wadoboro',
United States, with large cargo of cotton found
from Galveston to Antwerp, was destroyed by fire
on the 26h june in lat. AZ, long l6. Her crew were
taken off by a French vessel and carried into
France.
Mr. Everett, our minister at the court of st.
James, attended recent meeting Of the British as
sociation for the advancement OF science at Cam
bridge, and made speech. He observed that,
though he felt himself to be an unworthy represen-
tative of the men Of science in the United States he
felt that he could, with confidence declare that thew
joined with him in recognising b5th the personal
and hereditary eleitiis to distinction Of Sir John
Herschel. His illusrious father has added oto the
Tyre of heaven another sringn and given to AN un-
conspicuous star place in system, though so
distant that it had scarce yet completed single rev.
olution since its discovery.
He doubted not that meteorology and magnetism
and science generally would be as much indebted to
the son, as astronomy had been to the father. The
people of the United States had shown that they
were not nsensible to the appeal which Sir J. Her.
sche had made 70 the governments of the civilized
world to attend TO the phenomena of terrestrial mag
netsm and meteorology. There already existed 1876
stations in America at which observations were
made and recorded He had that day presented the
made at New Cambridge, and he read
part of a letter from New York, stating the advan-
tage that would result from the British government
norhward The observations that had been
made in the States. He hoped that this emulation,
in aiding the progress Of science, and securing the
practical benefits of knowledge, would be the only
rivalry which would ever exist between the two
countries. He then feelingly alluded to himself as
an aumnus of Ne,c Cambridge; and observed that,
III,
had come from Emanuel College in Old Cambridge,
could have anticipated the progress Of either univer-
sity, the prospect would have been one of the no.
blest ever opened to the eyes of prophetic intelli-
gence. Having once more alluded to the commune
ty Of interests in literature and science which must
ever identify the intelligence of England with that of
America, he proposed that the thanks of the meet
ing should be given to Sir J. Herschel.
The motion was seconded by the Marquis OF
Northampton, and passed unanimously.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT-HoUsEo OF LORDS, Jusr ~.
AFFAIRS OF THE RIVER rLATE.
The Duke of Richmond presented petition sign
ed by the bankers, and by large number of the
most influential merchants and traders of Liverpool,
praying that the free navigation of the river Plate up
to Paraguay should be given to them
Lord Brougham presented similar petition from
the merchants, bankers and traders Of Manchester.
The Earl of Aberdeen should be happy to open
the river or any other river in the world, that would
extend our commerce; but the petitioners did not
correctly state the treaty with Buenos Ayres. This
country only had right to claim the same advan-
tages the most favored nations. There was every
prospect OF an Improvement in the trade with Bue-
nos Ayres, as the government was engaged with
France in endeavoring to restore peace-the result
of which would be great extension of our COM
merce. But they should lose more than they should
gain, IL they sacrificed the principles of justice in
dealing with this nation.
Lord Brougham admitted that the petitioners had
overstated their claims.
Mr.. Somes, said to be the greatest ship builder in
the world, died suddenly last week. Recently, he
became a member of Parliament. He has left it is
said, two millions sterling of property behind him.
The Rev. Mr.. Durham, the author of the we'll
known lngodsby Legends died last week at his res
idence, Amen Corner, ST. Paul's, London.
While Hackett was playing at the Haymarket re-
Gently in Monsieur Maet, cross of a chevalier of
the legion of honor fell from his breast when Prince
Albert, who was in the house at the time accompa-
nying the Queen, sent his private secretary, Mr..
Anson, with an elegant breastpin, which he had
been wearing at the time, present to the Ameri-
can actor.
MIR. Green, Of Sudbury, has suggested method
of purifying wells, &c, from foul air. The plan is
simply to throw into the well quantity ofunslack-
ed lime; which, as it comes in contact with the wa
ter, throws up column of vapor, driving before it
all the deleterious gases.
During terrific hurricane which recently occurred
in the department of Aisnc, M Wanet, of Guise,
went out to close his shutters, when he was caught
by the wind, and dashed against the wall with such
violence that his neck was broken and his skull frac-
tured. He died in few hours.