Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-10-03
LATE NEWS FROM EUROPE.


ms HeWs from Europe per The IreaI w esleTn
has been transmitted through here by telegraph.
The steamer arrived in New York at one o'clock
this afternoon. The news is Of very important
commercial character and will cause -four and grain
TO advance in this city.
The markets for all descriptions Of American
produce were advancing in England.
The failure of the potato crop is universal The
reports from every part Of the United Kingdom
appalling, whilst letter after letter from the CONT
nen OF Europe details the ravages which this strange
and unaccountable disease has made in France, Bel
GUM, Holland, and Prussia.
The crops in the United Kingdom are not more
than an average, either in quantity quality. Other
countries must therefore be relied upon for sup
ply sufficient to meet the large and increasing con-
sumption.
Again, the accounts from France as to the har
vest in that country are most distressing, and
large quantity Of wheat will be required 10 supply
immediate wants all over the north of Europe
There is no political news of importance. The
accounts from India indicate that the victories which
the British army achieved on the banks of the Sut-
ledj have moi resulted in that amcable arrangement
and profitable settlement which was hoped for, and
it is feared hostilities will be renewed.
The Great Western had stormy passage. In
a storm on the Goth and 2lst, one of her paddle
boxes was washed away, and she lost two of her
boats, besides suffering considerable damage in her
deck cabin
Lord METcALFE. late Governor General of Ca
NADIA, has departed this life
The cotton market was firm at former prices but
without any actual advance. The following are
the quotations
LIyERrooL, SEPT. 1.-THE prices declared by the com
mtee of brokers this week. for fair cotton areBowed Sad
Mobile SID; and Orleans So Sales from the 5h to the ! lth
September A 4l0 bales of which 80 Sea Island at I'D
100 stained do 81 u $3.50 Bowed 81 s,l3o Or
leans 81 "a s,l4O Mobile So"
The grain markets were on the rise, both in
England and on the Continent. Indian corn is
quoted at Liverpool at Al As. per quarter, and
corn meal % 23s. DBL American flour 81 2ss
in bond and 80 3ls. duty paid
The following commercial news is extracted from
a Liverpool paper:
COMMERCIAL MATTERS.
The improvement in business which noticed at the sail
ing of the last continues and nearly in
the relative position when last addressed
readers.
The failure of the potato crop influences the price of prov
sons Of every kind Bacon and hams rising rapidly
glance at market will show.
Indian also increasing value in fact is almost
every kind Of grain That the failure of the potato crop in
part of the world must greatly multiply the wants of the
aborng classes in Great Britain undenabe The advance
to which have alluded may be traced the increased de-
purchasing food which the people enjoy.
The liberal way in which the Government is acting in Ire
land disavows all fear of national The first duty
OF Government is to feed the people, and what is
garded as calamity may prove, in the end, substantial ben
e by the introduction Of improvements which would not
otherwise have been made. ..
The employment of the people public works in Ireland
will it is clear be carried large scale. The present
popular Lord Lieutenant has already issued nearly fifty
missions for the holding Of Colonial Sessions in different parts
of Ireland and upon the investigation and decision of the
ori'es in session their respective DISTRICTS he will
with the confidence which he present.
In the grain market encouraging prospects before
There every believe that the present prices may
be maintained if indeed they do not advance The use OF
potatoes as article of human food likely become
extinct The injury may be temporarily pressing, and pro-
ducve, no doubt of suffering but Ultimate consequences
hardly fail to raise the condition of the Irish peasant and
improve his social habits He will be raised in the
civilization by living higher and nutrcious kinds OF
food There those who the potato has been
curse, not blessing to Ireland
The cotton market has been steady and, although
not fix higher quotation, yet in descriptions there
been upward ncin ton. Considerable anxiety prevails
respecting the crop The accounts are eagerly
looked for and prices will probably their complexion
from the incoming and succeeding packets.
The grain markets. with with our continental neigh
bors the rise Whatever affects England influences
the whole commercial world II will be seen that every where
animation prevails and that the theory of free trade will
have plenty Of scope for the development of its alleged bene
fits, or contend, its injury.
The news from India is calculated TO produce feeling OF
uneasnessin political well in commercial sense
LoSpoS.-There is very little in the London trade
The immense of the orders for Ireland renders impro
babe any imporaons England sufficient affect the
ket for oats for the present yeu On the 10TH foreign wheat
was held about shilling per quarter higher Flour
in fair request fine American bringing 80 to 81 shlnes
per barrel.
LyERPooL-Our market here has been like that Of Lon
don rather animated For all kinds Of grain the demand
extensively large On the 9Th large operations were
renewed. Wheat sold currently advance of fully Cd
purchases made of barrels -four both free bonded
from the 4th TO the sh instant For Indian there has
been extensive inquiry and the stock being much educ
ed prices have advanced from three four shng per quar-
ter Free flour may be quoted three four shngs per bar
rel Clear and bondage nearly much The total advance
Indian from the list the 9Th six shings
per quarter and of meal three shilngs per load.
At yesterdays market few thousand bushels of foreign
wheat taken for Irish account but having slender
tendance ofown and country mers the demand for consump
ton limited The of fresh -four although in slow
request maintained late prices, and prime marks of
held rather higher terms whilst Canada and States duty
pad moved less freely than before and merely sustained their
previous value Superior Western brands in bond however
continued good inquiry and several thousand bar
rels changed hands p to % shngs The trade closing
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