The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-17
FOREIGN NEWS.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser, Oct II
FURTHER NEWS BY THE GREAT BRITAIN.

From the New York Commercial Advertiser, Oct 10
FURTHER NEWS BY THE GREAT BRITAIN
EIGHT O'CLOCK.
The Great Britain has Just arrived at her wharf.
She arrived of Sandy Hook at ii o'clock last eve
ming.
Captain Hosken has sent US the following:
"Left Liverpool at 4 p. m. 9th September. The
first ten days experienced westerly winds, strong
gales and heavy sea- during which the ship behaved
admirably; for few hours Of the I'd October the
wind was northeast, and in heavy squat the fore
mast was carried away.
ION the I2th, at noon, found the ship had been
set thirty-six miles to the northward in the prece-
ding twenty hours, and that night found by
soundings the ship again set to the northward thir-
~ miles, from noon of the 18th to a m. Of the
18th, and among the shoals of Nantucket u thick,
dirty night with very heavy rain.
"At daylight made signal for pilot and ran into
Vineyard sound, where we remained ten hours and
a half. Lea at halfpast 10 yesterday morning,
and reached Sandy Hook at IL O'Clock last evening,
where she remained for want of water until this
morning.
scot lst.--At 6 As a. M, latitude $40 30, longi-
tude l6o So, spoke the Great Western steamship,
bound TO Liverpool
"Oct 7th--At2 Is D. m, latitude 48o 80, longitude
ago as, exchanged colors with royal mail steamer
running to the eastward, supposed TO be the Bri-
tannia."
The intelligence by this arrival is of an interesting
character, though no event of political importance
had occurred to break the monotony of times do
ings. There were tidings from the far East, which
seemed to portend renewal of war and bloodshed
in that great theatre of changes and Of strife The
ligious revolution in Germany was still in mighty
progress, forcing upon itself the attention of kings
and governments, and laying the foundation posi-
bly,, for struggle scarcely inferior in extent and i'm
portance, though not likely to be accompanied by
the shock Of mailed hosts, to that which ended in
the Protestant reformation. But the engrossing top
les for observation and remark are the yet enduring
prevalence of the speculative mania in England and
France, and the assured certainty of deficient
harvest
The first appears to have at length excited the
alarm of the press, and it is even intimaed that the
government has under consideration the necessity
Of interposng some check to the rage for getting up
new projects. OF the second we have given copi-
GUS notices, going to show that while the grain har
vest is barely within the possibility of an average
yield, there is every probability that the result will
fall considerably short Of an average.
The news is favorable for the export of bread
stufls from this country. The failure Of the potato
crop is even more general than was expected there
will be serious deficiency in wheat, and fears
entertained that there will be falling off in barley
oats, beans, and peas No supplies are expected
from the continental ports, for the state of af
fairs exists there. Among the measures Of relief
recommended by the English papers, the Manches-
ter Guardian suggests to the consideration of Par
Lament, when it reassembles, the entire remission
of all duty on the importation of Indian corn.
The cotton market at Liverpool has been rather
dull since the date Of our previous advices; and
though the quotations were unatered, prices were
turn lower At Havre, the Circular Of the 23d no.
tees decline Of la2f., which had been partially
recovered. This decline was mentioned in our cor
letter Of September H. received by the
Cambria.
The steamer Shamrock was lost on her passage
from Liverpool to St. Johns, NJ B. Her crew, 6f-
teen in number were taken from the sinking vessel
by the Jane, from Newfoundland, and carried into
Penarth Roads 1.-THE 18th of September. The OBJ
ject Of the owners of the Shamrock, it Is said in
sending her across the Atlantic, was to take let
ters-of.marque for privateering in the service of
Mexico!
The Bishop of Bath and Wells died on the 22d of
September, at very advanced age. He had been
for some time so in6rm, that his episcopal duties
were performed by another bishop
MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES
The Paris Journal des Debais thus discourses upon
the annexation Of Texas, and the political principles
involved therein:
"The United States deserve applause for the pros
perity they have gained and good wishes for its pro-
longation. They form great nation, which cult
Yates most admirably the soil on which it is planted
by Providence, and has opened vast fields to ciyi-
zation but the domain allotted to them is quite suf
6cient. to satisfy any ambitious and enterprising
people.
III is ten times the extent of our France--which,
nevertheless, is a very fine empire. All the acqu-
sitions required to consolidate them and make them
masters of their own possessions they have already
won by force or negotiation. They have the val
originally belonged rt 70 the Indians What more
have they need of Have not their twenty mill
lions Of people sufficient room in their vast ter
ritoriesi If the United States knew their own
interest, they would be contentod with what they
have.
ence their ACKNOWLEDGEMENT on the Mexican side;
for every inch of ground they gain in that direc
lon much given up to the Infamous institution
Of slavery. For the political balance of the world,
the conquest of Mexico by the United States may
create eventual dangers, which, though distant, It
will not be superfuous to guard against.
europe, therefore, watches with care great en-
pre which occupies in the east and in the north an
immense surface, covered with a population of six
ly-two millons-double that of France and that Of
Austria, and quadruple that of Prussia and cannot
help being filed with the contemplation of another
colossus, which may occupy the whole space ofthe
sthmus of Panama, from the mouth of the st. Law
renee the Columbia river in the Oregon, thus ac-
quirng the disposal of the most productive cultiva-
Bile lands and the richest mines Of the EARTH and ex
lrcmely redoubtabc at sea.
Between the autocracy Of Russia on the east and
the democracy of America, thus aggrandized, on
The west, Europe may find herself more compressed
Than she may one day think consistent with her In
dependence and dignity II is not for the interest Of
Europe that the entirety Of America should be in
one hand, nor do we think America herself wishes
Il. Well, then, the conquest of Mexico would be a
wide step toward the enslavement Of the world by
The United States, and levy of bucklers by the
Mexicans at this moment would lead the way to
this subsection. There is, therefore, good reason
why the public mind should be turned with atten-
lion toward what is now passing on the other side of
he Atlantic"
MISCELLANEOUS.
The building of an iron ship, to be propelled by
screw, and intended for New York packet, was
ately commenced at the works Of ]. Hodgson e.
Co., Toxteth dock, Liverpool.
The principal owners are Mr.. Thomas Sands, |
Captain Thompson, Of the packet. ship Stephen
Whitney, and Messrs. M'Tear and Hadfeld. Her
dimensions are-length of keeh 1873 feet; beam, 80
eet; depth to main deck, 90 feet ditto to spar deck
feet inches; tonnage, old measurement 1884 tons,