Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-12-05
GENERAL ITEMS.
ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA.
THIRTEEN BAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

20 A"A hN Y - SNcN ne
The steamship Britannia arrived at Bos-
ton on Thursday evenings November the Goth
with thirteen days later news.
Our accounts in a commercial and fnan-
cial point of view are moro important than
they have been for the last twenty years. A
terrible revulsion has commenced in England,
like that Of 1925, and similar TO that of 1897
in the United States. This revulsion has
been produced by the combined influence Of
a bad harvest all over England and Europe,
a bad monetary system and the %unthinking
imitation in railway speculations.
All stocks, and every staple is going down
except the price of breadstuffs, which the
impending famine enhances and improves
The terrible movement is just in its COM
m%encenent. The first blow has been struck
and in Ireland, the agitator O'Connell is
already using it for the purpose of opposition
to the union.
The English government seems to be in a
state OF alarm, and Sir Robert Peel, is call
ing cabinets to deliberate on the opening of
the ports, and the best means to meet the i'm
pending famine. Cotton is down-eorn is
up-and the excitement caused by the rcvo-
luton is increasing every day. What the
result may be, no one can tell; perhaps it is
the beginning of the end of the financial and
political superstructure of England and
France.
The railway mania has received its quie-
tus. Something like a panic has overtaken
the spectators in iron highways. Now that
reaction has come, it brings in its train ruin
and devastation to thousands.
The wreck of fortune and of character
which this temporary insanity has produced
will be felt long after the causes that produ-
ced it have passed away.
In Ireland matters look appalling-in Eng
land gloomy. The granaries of the CONT
nent are exhausted. The corn fields of the
Vistula, the Danube, and the Elbe, are bare
s. sufficient for the local wants of the inhab-
%itlnts. The nation is in commotion; and the
cry of "Open the ports and let in corn, duty
free" is heard on all sides, reverberated from
every part of the empire.
The "pressure from without" has made it.
self heard in Downing street; and faith in the
sliding scale is gone over. A third of the
potato crop in ireland is DESTROYED. The
Government has sent scientific professors to
the scene of the mischief, and the awful truth
is out that this large portion of the peoples
food is unfit for use.
What is to be done in this terrible emer.
gency? "Open the ports" is the exclama.
ton. The ports must be opened.
O'Cenncll, who assumes to be the tribune
of the Irish people, goes beyond this. He
demands a grant of public money, to the ex
tent of a million and a half to be expended ii
the purchase of food-he asks for the prohi
bition of corn and provisions leaving the is
land, and the prevention Of distilleries con.
Stunning grain.
An evening paper has published a state.
ment to the effect that Wheat and other de-
scriptions of corn are to be admitted immedi-
ately at a low fgure-Wheat at a s~ixpence
a bushel and the other kinds still lower; but
this statement, although put forth imposing
ly, is also considered premature.