The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-05-28
Sixteen days later from Europe.

o'clock, having made the passage from
Liverpool to this port in sixteen days.
We are indebted TO Jordon & Wiley for
foreign papers, brought over by the Hi
hernia.
The House of Commons was favored
with q scene on the 24lh Of Aprll-and
the Premier gave The lie to Mr.. D'Israeli
A meeting at Chalk farm seemed %inevita.
Bile, but Sir Robert made an explanation
and declared he had not given Mr.. DIS
raeli, the lie, and 50 The fracas ended.
Mr.. Smith O'Brien was imprisoned on
the 30th April, for consempt-having re-
fused to serve on q committee to which a
group of railway bills had been referred.
On the LIST inst, the House OF Commons
came to a decision on the first reading OF
the Coercion bill; the members in its fa>
vor were 274; against 1t 1875.
Lord Aberdeen has recognised the an
nexation of Texas, by informing the Gus
tom House authorities that The produce of
that country must be regarded as the pro.
duce Of the American Union.
The Cholera. it is said, has reached
Russia from Persia.
The accounts from Ireland are gloomy,
every day adds 10 the misery of the peo'
pie in that unfortunate country.
The American bark Louisa, Of Port
land, dismasted and abandoned. was seen
2lst ult. in lat. 81, lon. 63. by the Roscoe
arrived in the Downs.
TuRKEY.-The accounts from Con-
stantinople announce the arrest OF Nah
moud Pash, the Paymaster General OF the
Army, on a charge Of having embezzled
the public money 10 the amount Of
100000.
Loss OF THE AMERICAN BRIG Fall
co.-Letters have been received announ-
cling the total loss of the brig Falco, on
the coast OF New Zealand, and an attack
made upon her crew, and the plundering
of the cargo by the natives The Falco
sailed from Boston, on a trading voyage 10
the islands of the Pacific having on board
the new American consul for New Zeal
and. She arrived at Port NicoIson in
June, and sailed thence, with the Govern
men. Mails on board, for Auckland, via
Table Cape. On the 9th of the the fol-
loving month the vessel reached the Cape,
and she was brought 10 anchor at a place
called Wangawai, where, in the course OF
a few hours, there came on a violent storm.
During the succeeding night she rode
with both anchors down until about 2 o.
clock when the windlass broke in two.-
Immediately she drifed through the break
ers over a reef a mile in extent, and struck
on a shelf Of rocks anc sands on a steep
shore. AS the tide receded the wreck was
left high and dry. Finding the vessel not
much injured. the crew were preparing 10
get her aaoat, when a large number OF
natives, in concert with some Europeans
living on the island, rushed on board and
committed the most disgraceful outrages.
They broke open the matches, and getting
into the hold commenced plundering ev>
cry thing that was valuable. They open.
ed themaiI bags and boxes, and scatter
ing their contents in the hold, obta ined all
the government. dispatches, which they
tore up and destroyed.
They afterwards began TO strip the yes
sci, tearing off the copper sheathing, and
destroying the hull with pole axes. The
American consul contriyed at the ontset OF
the attack to escape with q large amount
of specie and papers of great value, and
obtained shelter in a gentleman's house
some distance along the beach. Some
few days afterwards an attack was
threatened by the natives to possess them>
selves of the treasure, but their nefarious
plans were frustrated by q number of arm
ed gentlemen, who guarded the place,
night and day, until the arrival OF the YES
sci 10 take the consul and the officers and
crew of the Falco to their destination
The wreck wassubsequenlIy burut.-Bee.
FAMINE IN BRAZIL. Some weeks ago
we had an account, from a Salem paper, Of
terrible suffering in the northern provinces
of Brazil, from drought and consequent
famine, but the value Of the intelligence
was limited by the absence of any date.
The Baltimore American gives US q date,
in a letter written at Aracaly on the ooh
of Feb. The writer says:
"Should the drought continue until
MAY or June we shall have but few per-
sons left here. They have already began
to foek to Pernambuco, the capital /; and
if opportunity offers all that remain will
Immediately follow" The writer was at
leo on the 9th OF Feb. and he there saw
families, who a short time since enjoyed
abundance, begging from door TO door
"They appear" he remarks. "more
like skeletons than any thing else. Many
were dying ia the streets of want, daily {;
and the deaths were so numerous that the
amount Of mortality could not be esti-
mated"
Articles of first necessity had risen to
an exhorbitant price. A quarter Of -four
ihalf a bushel) could not be obtained for
les. than "a miIreas. or Sl2; and biscuit
weighing half an ounce sold for 80 ress
Or one cen, and a half each. Sail. which