The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-23

tne American senate ny a MINORITY OF ohly TWO
votes. An American plenpotottlary had repaired
to London to follow up the negotiations, which
have at length ended in final arrangement
IRoN STEAMSHIPS. The construction of iron
steamships is now m king RAPID progress in Eng
land and particularly at Liverpool. In the extern
sive yard of Messrs James Hodgson e. Co., there is
now no less than five iron steamers building One
an iron steamship Of 400 tons burden, the first Of
line Of new steamers to run between New York
and Liverpool; her engines will be of l60-horse
power, with the screw propeller she will be fitted
up in the first style for passenger and freight
commodation. Also another iron steamship, of 600
tons, TO run between Liverpool and Rio dc Janeiro,
the first ola new line Of eight her engine power is
to be 100 horse, with the screw propeller. Also
third iron steamer, of smaller tonnage, intended for
Buenos Ayres, with the screw propeller. They
have also several other smaller iron ships now
building. Their yard accommodation is extensive,
possessing machine rooms, furnaces, smiths shops,
with 80 yards frontage to the river, which is a
mile wide at that point, and "a feet deep at high wa
ter at their yard-whIch with other convenences,
are ample enough for building seven iron ships Of
700 tons each, if fitted with the screw, at the same
time
WARLIKE PREPARATIoNs.-There is evidently a
screw loose between US and some or other of the
countries from which, according to royal speeches.
everastingy receiving assurances of love and
amity Preparations for sudden hostltes are going
on in all directions Signs of the gui pipe to be
repaired, added to, and strengthened. New ones are
being erected. There is an unusual hustle in the
naval yards, as well as in the arsenals Ships are
being made ready up to that point from which they
could at once be pushed into immediate service.
Those in service gradually increasing their
crews to the war complement, while a large fleet,
delicately called ''an experimental squadron"
army of observation is sometimes designated
don sanitare, is in high order, and fully manned,
prepared for dash to any part Of the world, and
ko
BuiIwhat is it all for-what is it all about' These
preparations cannot be from any apprehension of a
quarrel with the United States about Mexico the
Oregon territory. Some of them are being made too
near home for that. The real cause is, we opine,
without mincing matters, that in spite of the recent
bathing machine alliance, things are not quite
Portable between and our French neighbors just
now. ihe causes pf difference, if not dispute, be-
tween us are, indeed, many. Not satisfied with
kicking us out Of Spain, and turning us out of
Greece, they are now busy with their intrigIes in
China that they may carry off all tile advantages for
which we fought and conquered in the late war with
that country. Their eagerness to repeat the fable of
the wolf and the lamb towards our ally of Morocco
may, also, in the end, lead to unpleasant issue
with u.s. But the grand bone of contention Just now
is the marriage of one Of Louis Phippe's with
the sister of the Queen Of Spain, which is sure to
elevate him. to the throne of that country, and bring
about a new and formidable compact between
France and Spain. We say that such marriage
would surely elevate the French prince to the throne
Of Spain. We have not doubt of it. Louis
Philippe has no such thought but the wretches by
whom Queen Isabella is surrounded and held IN
captivity, too deeply stepped in crime and blood
and yilany, to hesitate about adding one more
murder to those which they have already commit
ted, TO subserve their selfish and ambitious purpo-
SEES Liverpool Chronicle, Nou. l.
EXTENSIVE FoRGERIEs ny A LIVERPOOL MERCHANT.
On Saturday, information was circulated through
out the divisions of the metropolitan and city police,
that Mr. Lyon, an extensive merchant in Liverpool,
in the Smyrna and American trade, had absconded
from that city, having committed forgeries to We
ry large amount. Mr.. Lyon is believed to have
quilted Liverpool about Monday or Tuesday last;
but he was not missed till Thursday 1t is suppos-
ed that he is in London, and that he intends to quit
the country. He is described about FIVE feet ten
inches high, salow complexion, black bushy hair
and whiskers, rather prominent nose, dark eyes,
thin face, prominent teeth, thin figure, and very
upright; dresses generally in black-frock coat,
fgured-sik waiscoat, light trowsers, and black hat,
yelling on boots, and black stock, and wears
large shirt pin, and several rings on his fingers; is
fond Of noking, and is well known in the sporting
word.-London Times, .Nop. 3.
TERRIBLE RAILWAY REvULsToN.
The railway mania has received its quiei,.s. Some
thing like panic has over,aken the spectators in
iron highways. Now that the reaction has come,
it brings in train ruin and devastation, and bank
ruptcy to thousands. But the end is not yet.
more gigantic system of swindling has rarely been
seen in these latter days, and the number of tres
pectablen persons who have lent their names to
support bubble companies, make US blush for
the cupidity of our common humanity. The Times
has been foremost in this work of "futtering the
Voscians.n 1t matters little what motives may
have prompted the potentates of Printlng-house
square to sound the toscin; whether jealousy OF
their contemporaries, vexation that they did not
participate equally in the spoil, or determination to
tha nct I'M
side the question. eve try the act, the motive
Heaven can JUDGE The only regret is, that it was
not done sooner But certain it is, that the Times,
true to its character of Selling the right moment for
acting upon fears, or controlling the public mind,
kicked the beam at the critical instant and to some
extent produced the revulsion which is now wit
messed. But without desiring to undervalue the
power and the influence of the journal In question,
itwould be weak to attribute the prostraton IN the
share market solely to its thunder. The Bank OF
England the critical state in which the food of the
country has been placed by the harvest, and the
state OF the potato crop-above all, and beyond all,
the ridiculous experiments which the projectors of
the numberless moonshine companies made upon
the common sense of mankind-these causes, lr-
respective of the durnal monitor, have forced the
dccension to its present point. The wreck OF for
tune and of character which this temporary insan-
y has produced will be felt long after the causes
that produced it have passed away. AS proof OF
the extent to which this huge system of swindling
has been carried, it may be mentioned that even
ladies' were not exempt from its influence. The fe-
male friends and relatives Of those who pulled the
wires of certain imposing puppet schemes, were in
the ia II habit of haunting the purieus and offices
of the shareholders in the metropolis, to watch the
market, in order to turn their letters OF allotments
to h, best account One Of the railway papers
me ols certain batch Of female Spectators who
90 IA we'd to realize by this kind Of chicanery, dur
ing he height of the mania, the astounding sum of
aj0D,0 900.
FAMINE EXPECTED IN ENGLAND Hitherto the
cycle of the seasons has befrended Sir Robert Peel