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sRyEN DArs LkrER FROM sEURoPE.
France md Spain # d Var n Words
C0ffon Up q Edrfking Cbfn .4dpan-
eng Potato Crop nearis q Total
|. Failare.
By lheImail steamer Hibernis, Capt. Ryrie,
which arrived a Boston On Saturday, last, from
Liverpoei, making Ne passage 10 sbirieea days
aud eighteen hours, sdsces hare bSen received
from Livespools % he 18Th September, I4endon
lssh, Paris 18Th. Dablin l7,h, and Aayrs l7.h,
CONDEMNED summary Of which vs. foraatded
10 the Bait. Sun ~ telegraph. which We copy.
WelI-founded apprehension Of iail
ure 10 The American cotton crop have
caused ia increased demand Tor The ste
pie in Liverpool. and prices have accord
ingty advanced iarthiug.
Her Britannia MaJesiy's government
end The people Of Spain have manifested
So much1hosiility 70 the marriage Of the
Queen 81 SPANS sister to Louis Phil
Ilippe's youngest son. That the celebration
OF the nupiisls his been poi 'pened for
the present, ifrot forever.
The Immediate consequences j. ire
ndous war 81 words between England,
France and Spain. The remote conse-
lquence win probably be the destruction
la the entente cordials. which has so long
lsxisted between the courts of 81 James
and ST. Clond. II is hoped iAat the sud
]den ex,inguishmenl oil the fires on the al.
Ter Of two young hearfs. will nat prove the
means OF exciting a general c3n6agraiion
among lhe crowned heads and kingdoms
OF Europe.
The total failure Of the potato crop An
pears 10 BE sad reality. Every where
| il Ireland and 10 The greater part Of lhe
British Island, the potato fields are shroud-
ed with NE dark mantles OF the plague.
The vegetable has turned into putrid mat
tier, whichleven the hogs will noi devonr.
From the sentiment of Europe. including
Russia. We have dismal accounisof The
progress ofihe blight. The future use Of
The potato.as an article Of food, q now u
most abandoned. II
AT the latest dates 18Th September. A
mericsn flour was selling at tssanly nine
shillings toI,hiriy sbiliingsper bsErel, duty
paid, al Liverpool. The price inl bond,
was twenty seven shillings and six pence.
Indian corn was quoted three; sbillings
the quartes higher; and closed 81 forty
sbillings for yellow, and forty seYsn shil
liings for white.
The Gazette de Cologne says il has
been announced for some time thai mea-
sure viii shortly appear prohibiting The
expectation Of corn from the territory 81
France.
10 The STAIRS Of Spain. the escape d
Don Carlos from his inprisonme b is like
ly Just now to have impor' ant ID iluence.
Commercial .4fairs.-The adssces PEI
1.-The Caledonia arrived at Liverpool on ne
|eyening off the 18th Sept. and were de
[livered early on the following snbrning.
l. No sooner had the contenasi become
known than the cotton market nsderwenv
Ia great change, Spectators commenced
Iio operate 70 an anusual degre@I
Vii The trade, dreading the reaiization b
1.-The unfavorable conjectures respsGiing TIE
Forthcoming crcp. which the le:ters and
newspaper accounts from The United
Estates had 3ventured 10 send foilh, were
induced 10 add TO their stocks.
10 England the pfoserbial ficlaeness 81
1.-THE, climate has sustained its cid cs5aracier,
lin battling speculation. The .yield d
wheatis boiler this year 10 the Southern
and worse in the Northern paris OF ,he
Kingdom. Upon the whole, It'd yield Il
hardly better in 1916 than in :he previous
| year.