Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-11-12
NEWS FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL NAIL STEAM.
Err BRITANNIA.

Hewitt, arrived at this port Saturday morning,
about Ia past O'clock, from Liverpool, Oct 20, |
via Halifax, having been II - days on her pas
sage. She had rough and tempestuous weather
during the passage.
BY this steamer we have received our usual files
of foreign papers. The dates are FROM London TO |
the evening Of the 18th ult., and from Liverpool to
the morning Of tie 20h As the 18th tell on Sun
day, the London mails for this steamer were not
dispatched ll the following day. We have recel-
we'd letters from our regular correspondents at Lon
don and Paris.
Tic nCws by the Britannia is important. Cot |
ton and bread stufls Immediately advanced in price |
nfrer the receipt of the Cambria's news. Prices
ruled at the latest dates, in the British and other
foreign markets very high, and large sales were
made
The distress in Ireland Is increasing in severity.
Food riots and Hgrarin outIages have occurred IN
various towns.
Meetings have been held in Manchester and 9th.
or towns, for pctiOnlng the Government TO open
the ports for the free admission of foreign gram.
Trade IN the manufacturing districts continues |
very dull. In several places short time is adopted.
The quarterly return Of the revenue shows an
increase ON the quarter of about half million ster
ling
Money is plenty in London at per cent.
The prices OF iron are fully maintained.
The two royal marriages were solemnsed at
Madrid on the OH ull-
! Another revolutionary movement has occurred
in Switzerland, which met with success
In France great complaints are made of the scar
city Of food and the distress Of the peasantry.
In Portugal there is political aud financial crisis
ScARciTY OF FooD The London Spectator
says:
| Bread in the Metropolis has again risen in price
during the week. In Glasgow, ii Is as high as 10
London; aud, III the provinces, prices ure using
1t is the same abroad. AT Odessa, new wheat OBJ
tuned from SIS to3l Sds AT Dinzic, prices
have risen to 55s to SIS. free on board. In the u
nlted States, there a considerable advance IN all
kinds Of grain. The Mark Lane Express estimates
the failure liz The potato crop Of Western Europe
at two-thlrds; IN the oat and rye crops at onehrd;
a deficiency that must be supplied by using the
better kind Of grain. There is even fear that,
next year. wheat crops my fail, from insufficient
reserve of seed. Meanwhile, there is a brsk cuu-
sumption IN England, us yet unchecked by raising
prices. The supply does not appear to be oblaua.
bic IN those countries to which we usually look tor
aid. The Baltic. which has hitherto furnished us
Nth three iourlhs Of our foreign supplies III years
Of deficiency, is this year yielding more. The
Black Sea, land its Italian entrcpols,) the United
States, aud Canada, will probably furnish abundant
contributions, but not rapidly enough to check pr
ccs for sumo time.
1t is quite clear that there is fear of an in
nndation" of grain. The home markets are but in
differently supplied, and prices considerably
higher Some Of the shipping ports oil the East
coosi il is said have been visited by the BUYERS
from France and Holland, which has no doubt as,
sisted tn give an impetus to prices and in Lin
conshire Cambrdgeshire, &c, similar qualities OF
wheat TO those sold two months ago, at AS. to AIS.
have this week realized 5Ss to Cos per quarter."-
The accounts from Ireland do not warrant n more
hopeful ione-all is scarcity. An account of the
crnns in Scotland is furnished by Messrs. Robert
Hutchinson & Co., of Kirkalday. According TO
this statement, the wheat is of fir quantity and in
good condition; but the produce about one sixth
under the average The quality OF the barley is
very good, but the yield per a full fifth un-
der the average. The oat crop has been well Sc
cured, and is reckoned to be no more than an eighth
or tenth below the average quantity. OF pota-
toes, the opinion given is, that about twentieth
part Of lolerahy sound potatoes may he selected
out of the crop. Prices are on the RISE
IT is heromng matter of current belief" says
the Standard, 6 that within the las few weeks the
dsastrons accounts from Ireland have induced the
farmers in England to supply the markets more
sparingly than Usual, by which means prices have
been arlifirally enhanced. The real state of the
case might be placed beyond all doubt if we had
anything approaching to accurate statistical returns
of the production of the various articles of snbsis-
ience but the utter disgrace of the Government
and Legislature, we are IN this respect behind al
most every country"
"The Commissioners of Customs have issued
directions 10 the different porls for returns Of all
the corn. grain, meal and -four, imported into the
United Kingdom during the present year and also
for the amount exported, and to what countries
and whether of home or foreign production"
THE Pace OF GRAIN.-We feel more renret
than surprise al finding that the price of wheat
continues to advance in all the principal markers
The weekly average for the kingdom, which was
made up Thursday last. is SITS. l0d. per qlarter
and find that the Wakefield average for this
wnpk-WhIch n
next Thursday, and is usually about the same in
amount as that for the whole kingdom is no less
than SOS 3 I'D per quarter. Since the sales were
made on which that return is founded, prices have
been further advanced about IS per quarter; so that
The average price Of the whole kingdom is now
about Cos per quarter.
IRELAND
DEsTIrUrIoN OF TUE PEorLE-FooD RIors-
AGRARIAN OUTRAGEs SUPPLIES OF FooD, &c
The news from ireland is important. The pen
pie are suffering dreadfuy, and the country is in a
most alarming state.
The Limerick Chronicle of the 10th ult. has the
following painful announcements, Illustrative of the
condition of this country -" Such is the panic IN
the families Of country gentlemen, and the fear OF
popular commotion ard violence, that several this
week sent into Limerick their pllle and rivae pa
pers for security from multitude excited by want
Several sail boats, with corn, from both sides of
the Shannon, were stopped on their passage TO this
market In the District of Doonass, eight acres of
iurnp were dug up and taken away by the coun.
try people, to satisfy, they said, their immediate
wants, in The absence of potatoes. Three hundred
sacks OF corn turned off by the country peo-
pic, near Bird lllIl, and the Obliged Ia
sell the grain at the neghboring mills. At New
port The mob you'd have pundercd eight carts la
den with -four, from Ruckvae mills on their way
to Limerick, but for the sublnspector Lewis, who
demonstrated with them, when they suffered the
carts to proc, G |. multitude of destitute people
assembled at Clare, aud mirched into Ennis threat
enlng to stop the transit Of to market, and pre-
vent the shipment Of grain flour, unless their ne
cessiIies were relieved.
In evidence OF the suffering state of the People,
and its consequences in the west of Ireland, the
Galway VindlculOr contains the following: Every
moment is adding to the lmense excitement OF the
furnishing labonng population of Tins town and its