Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-04-23
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMSHIP UNICORN.
Eight Days Later from Europe.

btSUC DuyS LdttI UNI L1iOpC'
The steamship Unicorn arrived at Boston
at O'Clock an Friday afternoon, and the
news by her was Immediately expressed
to Philadelphia, and from thence to Balti-
more by special express of the enterprising
editors of the Sun, to whom we are indebt-
ed for the receipt of it.
The English underwriters have already
introduced a clause into their policies, stat
ing that they do not insure against capture
or destruction by any enemy.
Biscuits Of maize or Indian corn Lave
been manufactured at Bristol, and they are
described as very agreeable and nutritious
The Spectator thus estimates the feeling
of the House of Lords relative to the min
isteral Com Law biIl-156 peers for
the measure, 154 against, 81 doubtful, 10
bishops for, 10 against, S or ten doubtful,
The Marquis de Beauharnais, brother-in-
law of the Empress Josephine, died last
week in Paris, aged ninety. The marquis
was quite blind.
There is now no difficulty in procuring
discounts for bona fde good bills in the
London market, at rates varying from 3 l-2
to per cent, if the dates do not exceed 3
months.
The Cork Southern Reporter states, that
when the United States pilot boat William
J. Romer left the Cove on Monday, she
fired salute when opposite the Admiral's
flag ship, and hove to for moment in ex-
pectation that the compliment would be ac-
knowledged, but no such recognition was
offered. If there were any discourtesy in
this, it was more dishonorable to England
than to America.
Letters from Persia announce that the
cholera is making fright(ul ravages in the
interior of Asia This scourge, which has
travelled through Cabool, has already pen
etrated nearly as far as Tehran.
The Cotton market has rallied but little
The latest reports from the manufacturing
districts are Of an unsatisfactory character
At Leeds, a small business is doing.
Within the last day or two, however, q
rather better feeling seems 10 have gained
ground, and the general opinion is that the
worst stage of the reigniug stagnatlon has
passed, and that livelier business time is
close at hand.
The Cambria has brought orders to &
considerable extent, Some Of which will re.
quire two or three months to complete. A
greater activity has, therefore, prevailed a
the Cloth hall.
The Wheat Crop.-The appearance O.
young wheat in this country is at presen
very good, though on rich lands it is grow
ing more rapidly than is quite safe at thl:
season Of the XeaEzs bPl Htt WHERE The whea
IS sown in drills, the greater part of the
plant has been destroyed by slugs and in
sects, which always abound in unusually
mild winters. During the last month we
have not had more than two or three Sc
we're nights until the 9TH instant. The wea-
Their then became sharp, and continues to
be so still, though scarsely severe enough
to free vegetation from it's insect destroyers
Famine ON the Continent We learn from
Placenza that, on the 9th ult., the town
was threatened with serious riot, from the
government having attempted to raise the
price of bread from ten to thirteen centimes
the pound. The populace having attempted
10 assail the government house, the Austri-
ans on duty fired, and killed four persons,
and wounded several others. On the fol-
lowing day several bakers shops were COM
PEELED TO post up bills, announcing that the
price was again reduced to its former rate,
and flour lowered ST. a sack. The people
appeared to be pacifed by this concession,
but Dragons were still stationed at the pro-
vision shops.
Wilmer and Smiths Times says, the
arrival of the Cambria at this port on Sat-
urday last was source Of deep and bitter
disappointment to many. She sailed on the
usual day from Boston, but did not wait the
arrival Of the New Y ork mail of 2Sth Of
February. Her mails were consequently
very light, and not onl y was there an alb
sence of ''the first of exchanged to sour the
heart and depress the hopes of the COM
mercial world; but what was regarded near
Iva bad, there was all but an absolute
blank in the transmission of news-an an
noyance which neither gods, nor statesmen,
nor quidnuncs can endure. Happily, the
"monster public' was not left quite in the
dark.
A sturdy passenger, more wary than his
fellows, started from New Y ork early on
the morning of the 2Sth, with New Y ork
paper of the same date, and taking the an
tagonist route to the mail, reached Boston
in time for the steamer; and this solitary
paper was the only one to enlighen the
British public respecting the proceedings in
Congress on thatvit estio2-the Oregon.
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