Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1846-07-09
Arrival Of the Britannia.
Is Days Later from Europe.

II The Steam Ship Britannia arrived AT Boston
on Saturday forenoon with dales 10 days later
than beloie received. From Wilmer * Smiths
European Times we extract The lollowing:-
| All iears for the safety OF the Corn Bill are
over The most critical Siagc-ihal of The Com
mitee--haS been passed tiumphanlly, and with
n numerical strength greater than was anic-
pated. There was n clear majority in the Housc
OF Lords, Of 33. Its safety may be considered
certain.
| The state of parties is anomalous, and beto
kenS an early disruption of political Ties
The speedy retirement Of Sir Robert Peel is
more than predetermined. and the advent of the
Wings has come round again in The cycle of
passing events. The Premier is preparing to
fall, and he is destined To be irippcd by the heels
on an Irish question. As he found Ireland his
chief difficulty" when he commenced his ca.
reer as The head of the government, some four
OF five years ago, 50 II has haunted him in the
interim, and he is doomed to make it his poli.
cal grave. Yet the European Times says he
was never 50 popular, aud now that power is
passing away from his hands, never stood 50
high IN his counrymens esteem.
| The weather had been excessively hot, so
much 80 as to he without "a parallel in England
during the last IL or 20 years. Lille rain, but
heavy dewS and the crops looked beautifully,
promising an abundant harvest.
The rupture between Mexico and the United
States has, of necessity, attracted much atlcn-
lion, and has interfercd, more or less, with bust.
ness The fear Of shipping in American bot
toms has, like the baSeleSs fabric Of vision,
disappeared, but LlOyd'S still cling ridicuOuSly
to their high premiums. The Paris paper, La
PrcSsc, asserts, as a fact that many American
orders have been counterm1nded IN France, in
consequence of the rupture between the two re
publics.
The war iiselfha exercised the pens and The
tongues Of all the professional politicians in the
old world. In the carly stage Of the struggle on
The banks of The Rio Grandc, when the Amer-
can forces sustained one or two trifllng guei lila
reycrScS, good deal Cf Symyaihy was >hewn
Tor The Mexicans- and If Jonathan had suffered
more, the sorrow, We gricvc to add, would moi
have been intense. But when the Britannia ar
! llvcd with an account of the battles of "Palo
Alto and the "Palm Ravine,' in which the
hexicanS on what they claim as their own soil
wllh force two or three times greater than
their antagonists, were "wollopped' by the
Americans, all sympathy disappeared, and eon.
tempt was The feeling universally felt aud une.
guivdcally expressed 4 brave people can ar.
ford no sympathy with pcltroons. The bird that
cannot light on ilS own dunghill is only ft TO
grace the spit The exclamation of The old
veteran, who declared that there were only two
lhingS IN nature thar he nbhorrod poor man
and a coward, ,-cxpresscd in It's anliiheSis, n
good deal Of the philosophy of life.
| By lhe wny, The brief bnt lucid dispatches ol
! Zen Taylor have attracted much admiration
tbs pen, like his sword. deals only IN the prac.
'r'h Mcflt > generally allIcd with modcsiy