Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-10-09
FOREIGN NEWS.


for the following foreign intelligence, brought
over by the Great Western
The steamship Great Western arrived at
New York on the 3Oth ult, after bosterous
passage from Liverpool, which port she left
on the 10th, making the trip in 10 days. Ow-
ing to the failure of the mail on Friday last,
the news was not received in Wilmington till
Saturday morning, about O'Clock. We copy
the following intelligence from the Baltimore
Sun.
The Great Western brings dates from Liv-
erpool to the 18th of September, eight days
later than those brought by the Cambria. On
the goth and 2lst, she experienced tremendous
gales, but rode them out in safety, with the
exception of some damage on deck from the
force of the storm. She also lost one of her
wheel houses, and her quarter boats.
The markets for all descriptions of Ameri-
can produce were advancing.
The News from India is of rather uneXpec-
ted interest The victories which the British
army achieved on the banks of the Sutlege,
have not resulted in that amicable arrange
ment and profitable settlement which was no.
ped for and prematurely boosted of. Ghoolab
Singh finds himself beset by pecuniary diff
entities, and he either cannot, or is unwilling,
to pay his debts All such emergencies in
India must lead to the first development of re-
sistance of the British claims, consequently
the war will have to be renewed in the Fen
jaub, and the Province of Labor; and the ter
ritory conditionally assigned to Ghoolab Singh
re- possessed and attached to the British terri
tory.
The followingi is the commercial article from
Wilmer & Smiths European Times =
Commercially improvement in business
which we noticed at the sailing of the last
steamer, continues, and matters are nearly in
the same relative position as when we last ad-
dressed our readers. The failure of the pO-
tato crop influences the price of provisions of
every kind. Bacon and ham are raising "a
pidly, as a glance at our market returns will
show.
Indian corn is also increasing in value, as
in fact is almost every kind of grain. That
the failure of the Potato crop in every part of
the world must greatly multiply the wants Of
the labOring classes in Great Britain is unde-
nlable. The advance to which we have allu-
ded may be traced to the increased demand for
other descriptions of food, and there is every
reason to believe that the present prices may
be maintained, if indeed they do not advance
AS an article of human food, the use of the
potato seems likely to become extinct. The
injury may be temporarily pressing, and pro-
ductive, no doubt, of suffering, but ultimate
consequences can hardly fail to raise the con-
dition of the Irish peasant, and to improve his
social habits. He will be raised in the scale
OF civilization by having higher and more
nutricious kind of food. There are those who
contend that the potato has been a curse, not
a blessing to Ireland
} The cotton market continues steady and
, although we cannot fix higher quotation,
yet on some descriptions there has been an
upward inclination. Considerable anxiety
, prevails respecting the new crop. The next
: accounts are eagerly looked for, and prices
will probably take their complexion from the
advices by the incoming and the succeeding
packets.
The liberal way in which the government
is acting in Ireland disarms all fear of nation
2 al starvation The first duty of government
| is to feed the people, and what is now regard
ed as a calamity may prove in the end sub
stantial benefit, by the introduction of i'm
provements which would not otherwise have
: been made. The employment of the people
e on public works in Ireland will, it is clear, be
carried out on a large scale.
The present popular Lord Lieutenant has
> already issued nearly fifty commissions for the
: holding of colonial sessions in different parts
V of Ireland, and upon the investigation and de.
cision of the ma Iorities in session as to theil
respective districts, he will act
l With the confidence which exists at present
u in the money market, and the encouraging
r prospects that are before us, it is probable thai
present prices will be fully sustained
The grain markets with us, as with our con.
tinental neighbors, are on the rise. Whatever
e affects England, influences the whole CONNER
: cial world. 1t will be perceived that every
q where animation prevails, and that the new
theory of free trade will have plenty of scope
for the development of its alleged benefits, O.
as some contend, its in uries
/ The news from India is calculated to pro
= duce feeling of WEAKNESS in political al
well as in a commercial sense. Sir Henry
II Hardinge, it seems now to be universally ad
n mitted, notwithstanding his skill and bravery
e evinced in the war with the Sikhs, has made
: a bnngling BUSINESS of it, and in all probabli
tv the work will have to be done over again
|
/ rians is oftentimes positive cruelty.
is The ravages of the Cholera have dminishet
e in Scnde, and it appears they have been ex
aggerated.
; The failure of the potato crop is universal
n The reports from every part of the Unite
re Kingdom are appalling, whilst letter after let
l. ter from the continent details the ravage
70 which this strange and unaccountable diseas
has made in France, Belgium, Holland an
Is Prussia
I'd The grain crops in the United Kingdom ar
not more than an average, either in quantit
or quality. We must, therefore, look to othe
Is countries for supply sufficient for the larg
v and increasing consumption that is now goin
. forward
p Again the accounts from France, as to tn
harvest IN that country, are most distressing.
u A very large quantity of wheat will there
fore be required for immediate want, all owe
the north of Europe, for the staple article
n consumption has yielded miserably short
er LoNDoN.-There is very little Indian cor
$, in the London trade, and the immense exter
q of the orders for Ireland renders improbab]
- any importation to England sufficient to affe'
d. the market for oats for the present year.
re On the 10th, foreign wheat was held abol
? Is per quarter higher, and flour was in ia
49, request-tine American now bringing 80
~ 31s. per Dbl.
e. L1vERPooL.-Ou market here has been liB
to that of London, rather animate for all kinds
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