Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-05-07

BostOn AtlNs 4,
THE STEAMSHIP CAMBRIA ASHORE ON
THE BEACH AT TRURO, CAPE COD!
DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

THE BEACH AT TRURO, CAPE COD!
DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
The steamship Cambria, Capt Judkins, left Lv-
crpool on the 10Th ult., at p NJ. She brought
from 10 to 100 passengers to Halifax, and landed
about 20 there. On Saturday night, about 20 min
utes to H. the weather began to be foggy and
the boat running at half speed, just preparations
were made to stop her, for the purpose of sound
ing, she ran on shore, beach afterwards dis
covered to be in Truro, Cape Cod. AT the latest
accounts the ship lay perfectly tight.
Several cargoes Of Indian Corn had arrived at
Dublin.
Business affairs continued in the same dull situ-
alton per the Great Western, with but little do
ing. Money continued scarce for commercial pur-
poses.
The House of Commons met after the recess,
on the evening of the 18th ut, when the Irish Coz
ercion Bill again occupied the House. The de-
bate was adjourned over to Monday the Both ult.-
Sir Robert Peel, in the course Of the debate, took
occasion to say that the Government had ordered
supply of Indian Corn and American oatmeal for
Ireland, and the attention Of the Government, by
night and by day, had been given to the melan-
choly position in which the sister country was IN.
The intelligence from Ireland is painfully dis
tressng. In some parts Of Tipperary the peasan-
try, unable any longer to resist the cravings Of
hunger, have taken the cure in their own hands
I-plundered the provision shops, broken tito flour
mills, and helped themselves. The town of Com-
escort provisions as they pass through the streets,
and the unfortunates whose bones are described as
prorudng through their skins, are only kept down
by the fear of the bayonet.
! The following is an extract from an article on
the Oregon question: which appeared in the Lon
don Times of the 18th nit. Willmers paper says
the connection of that journal with the Foreign
Secretary, Lord Aberdeen, gives to the extract
Importance which will be best appreciated on Pc
rusal.
We intinlated an opinion some time ago, that the
10th parallel might conveniently serve the basis
of an arrangement, but it is clear that such pro-
posal must be accompanied with more extensive
conditions than those heretofore annexed to it by
the Americans. 1t must leave us the whole of
Vancouver's Island, the navigation and harbor of
the straits of Fuca, the free use OF the Columbia
and the northern branches, down to the sea- and an
indemnity of compensation to the Hudson Bay
Company, for the Posts they would be called upon
to surrender. We do not pretend to point out all
the stpulations which it would be the part of q
prudent and just policy to require, equivalent
! for concession so much below our original claims,
and, as we firmly believe, our Just rights. But the
cession OF the vacant soil might be polite and en-
durable, provided the private rights, already long
acquired and enjoyed by British subjects, were
duly respected and they must beyond all question,
be protected by the ulttmatum Of England
! Between these two proposals lie the question of
peace or war; narrowed, as these controversies
always are, to small issue, but nevertheless,
broad enough to swallow up the peace of the
world.
The moderate members of the Senate make the
49h parallel their fighting line" President Polk
is evidently more disposed to lean to the side of
resistance than concession, and, on our side, we
can really discover no motive or argument to JUS
tify us ia any farther departure from the position
assumed long ago by The British Government, and
confirmed by the emphatic declarations of the Min
listers of the Crown.