The New York herald., 1846-10-01
ADVANCE IN THE GRAIN MARKETS.
DEATH OF LORD METcALFE.
Arrival of the Overland Mail.
THE RAVAGES OF THE CHOLERA In INDIA
THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND.
sc. &c. &c.

&c. &c. &c.
The iavorite steamship Great Western, Capt
Matthews, arrived yesterday morning from
Liverpool, whence she sailed on the 18th ult.
She met with severe gale on the 20th and 2lst
We are rejoiced to learn, however, ssthat al
though she encountered a storm by which she
is little disabled, which retarded her passage,
she is as staunch as ever, and will sail from New
York on the day advertised.
Business continue d to improve IN EngkAld.
Indian corn was increasing in value.
The Gotten Market continued steady There
was, indeed, an upward tendency.
The Grain Markets were on the rise.
Among the names Of the passengers by tho
Great Western, we notice the names of Sivori,
the anxiously expected violinist, General T. F.
Floumoy, Mr.VFerrier, late Mayor OF Montreal,
with his family, Rev. DR.. Scott, and Capt. Corbit
of the British Army There were l26 in all.
Lord Metcalfe, late G Governor of canada, is
dead
The accounts from India are painfully distress.
ing The cholera-that scourge of the human
race-is sweeping all before it in Scinde.
The correspondent Of a London paper, writing
from the East, intimates that the warlke Afghans
tish power by the Shah of Persia, and they have
put the projected movement upon this issue--if
he will furnish the cash, they will furnish the
troops.
O'Connell has gone to Darrynane, and there
will be a lul at Conciaton-hal In his last speech
at that popular gathering-p place, he dilated on
the failure of the potatoe crop, and promised the
people plenty of food and work if they kept quiet
If they did not violate the law. He estimates
the expense of feeding the people until the next
harvest at fifty millions of dollars, which sum, he
estimates, the government ID ready to advance, if
the necessity arise.
The Railsay Herald says that the United States
Bank have sent an agent over to England, suppos.
cd to be with the view Of making arrangements
with parties holding securities there, and 10
getting to work again.
The Marquis of Ailsa died on the 7th instant,
aged IS.
No fewer than $50 emigrants returned to Liver
pool from the United States few days ago.
Tho charge for the ships Of war employed in
the suppression OF the slave trade, IN the course
of last year, was E7O6, ,454. els.
In consequence of the increasing complaints of
the potato crop, rice has risen from 12s the cwt
to lis and lSs.
BY a recent order Of the Commissioners of
Customs, foreign sewing silk is now admissible
free of duty.
The trip of Mehemet Ali Pacha to Constanti-
nopc must, according to all accounts, have cost
him in money the round sum of half q million
sterling.
The commissioners have reported that the bay
of Galway presents great natural advantages for
a more rapid communication with North
America.
Among the late unexpected events connected
Of oh,
of two cargoes ofEnglish grown wheat for expor.
taton to France.
= The Free trade Society ofParis has ordered a
splendid gold medal to be struck in the French
Mint in honour of Mr.. Golden. strfa
Arrangements are stated to have been made by
the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, for con-
veying treasure from the Pacific to Europe,
across the Isthmus OF Panama. ~,
corn riot similar TO those which have sccur-
red in France, took place on the I'D ult., in the
market of Lusanne, in Switzerland, and tho arm
ed police was required to queilit. s
According to the National, commercial treaty
is about TO be concluded between France and
Denmark, and French consulship is to be estab-
lshed at kiel, on the Baltic.
1t is calculated that not fewer than 40, 900 Irish
reapers have entered Scotland, via Ardrossan
and the Clyde. Suppose each OF these to carry
back Jus oil hs earning. sum of not less than
E60,0O0 viii thus flow into the poorer districts of
Ireland.
A comparison Of the prices of the various kinds
Of fruit in the London markets, for the last week
in August OF the past and of the present year,
shows that in 1876 the price has nearly doubled in
every case.
The waters Of the Rhine have not been for
many years so high as they are at present Most
fthe cellars in the own of Brisach were under
water on the 25th ult. and twas feared that the
stock of potatoes they contained would be spoiled
The Spanish Infanta Maria Louisa Fernando
WHO'S about to be married to the Duke de Mont.
pensier youngest son Of Louis Philippe is said TO
possess afortune of l6, 6,0OO,OO0f (f640, ,000.)
Mr.. Mayhsw, who has been in some way con-
nectcd with Punch, on his examination at the
bankruptcy Court, on the LIST instant, stated the
profits of this periodical at f10,000 per annum.
Apesiton is in the course Of preparation in
Paris for i.le abolition IF slavery in the French
colonies. IL has already acquired numerous
signatures of member of the Institute, the bar of
scientific and literary men, ofjudges, magistrates,
In consequence Of the war in Kafirland, large
quantities OF oats are being shipped from the
ordnance stores, within the Tower of London. to
the cape oi Oood Hope, Tor the use of the Eng.
lsh troops, In anticipation of the probable scarcitv
in that colony.
Although It was alleged that the reneaI of tba
eorn-iaws would necessarily lead to reduction
in the wages oflabour, such, we are hannv ~ ..u
Is not The TACT From paragraph which appears
in "a scotch contemporary, we observe thai The
cotton weavers IN and around Perth have bsd
their wages lately advanced, and the whole con.
dition of the weaving population in that Iocaiitv
is better at present than it has been for nearly
fifteen years.
The German papers, which have lately come
10 hand, contain accounts of great fire which
broke out ON the evening OF the 29th Aug af
Leipsic. The losses sustained by this disaster
are very considerable; the Hotel de Pologne,
which has been completely destroyed, is estima-
ted at value of six millions of francs. The fire
appeared 10 have ragged sixteen hours, during
which time number of lives fell sacrifice to
the accident. The Gazette UniperseAe AHe,nands,
which is published at Leipsic officially announces
ths number killed at five, and wounded at nine