The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-18
BY THE GREAT wEsTERN-TWELVE
nft. @ DAYS LATER NEWS.

''t. '- DAYS LATER NEWS. -. .
We compile from the New York journals, and
from Wilmer q Smiths European Times, the fol-
lowing additional summary Of foreigo news by the
Great Western. .a" .
The price of provisions has not essentially varied
on the whole the demand for flour had become less
while that for Indian corn continued; small de-
cline had taken place in beef pork and cheese from
the United States.
There had been a small sdgsHe. IN the price
cetoa, ID Consequence Of the apprehension that the
crop will be deficient.
In Ireland the famine is on the increase and the
people begin to die Of starvation.
The instruction 10 Portugal is spreading and
strengthening itself The junia of oporto has de-
clarcd Don Pedro king of Portugal, and renounced
allegiance to the queen.
The Great Britain was still lying in Dundrum
Bay. pass. .
The Great Western made her passage out in six
teen days and twelve hours. She had a tempestuous
voyage.
Hon. George Bancroft, lady, and child arrived at
Liverpool on Sunday, the 25th, by the steamship
Great Western. The honorable gentleman left Liv-
erpool on the 30th for London, taking Chester and
Birmingham in his way During his stay in Liver
pool, he was waited upon by the American Chamber
OfCommerce, and visited by the principal merchants
of the town. On Wednesday, the 25th, he dined
with select party at the residence of VIM. Brown,
esq, M. p, at Richmond Hill; and, on the follow
ing day, with s. Gair, esq, of the firm of Barring
Brothers.
The cabinet has decided that Parliament is not to
until January l2lh, and that the ports are not
10 be opened TO the free admission Of grain. Ia
justifying the ministry against the popular com
plants which will probably be made, the Time
says that the summoning Of Parliament before It's
regular time OF meeting would withdraw the Irish
magistrates from their proper sphere of duty, and
Otherwise greatly embarrass the operations Of the
government; and with regard to the opening Of the
ports in view of an apprehended scarcity Of food,
the same article says
We are not unaware that an apprehension has
prevailed for some weeks past Of coming dearth
We ourselves shared the alarm. But the danger II
now no longer imminent. Not only private adyices,
the tenor OF which had become generally known
within the last few days, but the public accounts
Gently received from America, such to remove
very much Of the uneasness that has been felt as TO
the prospective supply of wheat and -four In the
granaries Of New York is stored an abundance Of
grain, awaiting only the impulse Of speculation to
be discharged upon our shores. Such an impulse
will be gwen by the noorety Of our duties having
reached their lowest point. That any delay in
transmitting the boarded treasures hther will be
caused by hope that our present duty will be abb
rogated is shown 10 be highly improbable by the
decler sion which abundant supply has already
caused in the prices Of the American market.
The eager avidity for selling dearly has already
given way to the more prudent desire Of selling at
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appetite for excessive gains the other side Of the
Atlantic at the very time that the detected afuence
OF own resources has deadened the edge of
speculation here. Instead Of advancing our home
prices have already begun to decline. We do not
indeed, anticipate such a retrograde movement as
shall raise the duty above its present point but
there appears every reason for concluding that the
rise IN the value Of wheat will not be rapid as
anticipated. Independently Of the influx
from America, spectators talk of corn at Hamburg,
and other ports, which, on proper occasion, can be
doed out to the necessities of the English buyer.
Whether this opportunity is likely soon TO occur or
not, we leave to be decided by those who will take
the trouble to compare the prices Of the last with
those of the present year.
The Times also urges that the wheat Of this year
is Of much bette quality than that Of last that
the potato blight OF lS45 was an unantcipated visit
alton, whereas that of 1916 generally foreseen,
ard that corn is the only grain which could be
made general substitute for potatoes, especially in
Ireland.
The Times looks to Holland for supply of wheat
in case of emergency.
The London Standard, writing on the same sub
ject, remarks.
lord j. Russell and Lord Cottenham, at the cab
met council, on Wednesday, urged earnestly the
constitutional necessity for early session, before
Chrstmas,) not only to obtain an act Of indemnity
for Lord Besborough's extension of the labor rate
act, but also to obtain parliamentary sanction for
the reduction Of the 49, duty on imported grain.
The council broke up without coming to any de6ni.
tive resolution. At a meeting Of the ministers, on
Thursday, the subject was resumed, and this
late- occasion the opponents Of an early session
had the advantage Of Mr.. Bancrofts arrival from the
United States, with intelligence that the supply of
grain collected in the American ports for exporta-
ton Is so ample as to render extremely improbable
the necessity for reduction Of the duty; thus
moving principal motive for early session, and
relieving the premier from the obligation 10 take an
other step in what he is said to call the admins
traticn ola despotsm.'"
The tone of the English press towards France has
undergone sudden and very marked change. The
Times devotes long and elaborate editorials, in
its abest and most emphatic style, to ridicue and
denunciaton of France and its king, and its exam
pie is very generally initiated by the London jour
nails. The French press returns the compliment
and the abuse, promptly, and with zest The Paris
Presse is predicting union of France, Russia, and
the United States against England. This extrac,
from the Paris Presse will show the tone of the
French papers. .....
"But, above all, may it please God that there may
arse from the new situation in which this incident
has placed our government new system of ALI
ance, which may at length unite all the nations OF
against their common enemy England. We were ask
ed, some days since, what nations we would desire to
see combined in this new cordial understanding and
why we inclined for an alliance between country
and Russia' We wish to sum up in few words
our entire opinion on that subject We are con-
WINGED that sooner later contest will take place
between the continent and that power which it
for her own purposes under favor Of its divisions.
This contest viii be particularly maritime confetti
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