The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-10-17
FOREIGN NEWS.
ARRIVAL oFTHE GREAT WESTERN.
sir dnrs Inter rrnm Enrnne.

on Wednesday the 30th ult., we are indebted
to the Public Ledger.
There is no political news Of Importance
The markets for all descriptions Of American
produce was advancing.
The failure Of the potato crop is universal.
The reports ftom every part Of the United King
dom are appalling, whilst letter after letter from
the continent of Europe, details the ravages
which this strange and unaccountable disease
has made in France, Belgium, Holland and
Prussia.
The crops in the United Kingdom are not
more than an average in quantity or quality,
we must therefore look rather to other coun-
tries for a supply sufficient for the large and
increasing consumption that is now going for
ward.
Again, the accounts from France as to the
harvest in that country are more Distressing
A very large quantity Of wheat will therefore
be required for its immediate wants. All over
the north of Europe, rye, a staple article Of
consumption. has yielded miseraUly short
Sat. EU Post.
From Wilmer & Smiths Commercial Times,
EoMMERcIAL.-The Improvement which we
noticed at the sailing Of the last steamship
continues, and matters are nearly in the same
relative position, as when we last addressed our
readers.
The failure of the potato crop influences the
price Of provisions of every kind. Bacon and
hams are rising rapidly, 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
modify the habits of the laboring classes in
Great Britain is undeniable. The advance to
which we allude may be traced to the %increas-
ed demand for other descriptions of food which
the people enjoy.
The liberal way in which the Government is
acting in Ireland, disarms all fear Of national
starvation. The first duty OF the Government
is to feed the people, and what is now regard
ed as a calamity. may prove in the end a sub
%stantial benefit, by the introduction of i'm
y provemeats which would not otherwise have
been made, The employment of the people
d on public works in Ireland will, it is clear, be
t carried out on a large scale.
The present popular Lord Lieutenant has
!. already issued nearly fifty commissions for the
( holding of baronial sessions in different parts
c of Ireland, and upon the investigation and de.
e cision of the majorities in session, as to the
condition of their respective districts, he will
h act. With the confidence whichexists at pre-.
sent in the money market, and the encouraginG
% prospects that are before us, there is every rea
i son to believe that the present prices may b,
maintained, if, indeed, they do not advance
d AS an5article of human food, the use Of pota
ii toes seems likely to become extinct.
le The injury may be temporarily pressing an,
productive, no doubt, Of suffering, but ultimat
consequences can hardly fail to raise the con
dition of the Irish peasant, and'to improve hi
social habits. lie will be raised in the seal
Of civilization by living on a higher and NOR
nutritious kind of food. There are those VIII
is contend that the potato has been a curse an
a. not a blessing to Ireland. .
tn The cotton market continues steady, an
"a although we cannotfx a higherguotation, yer
I'd on some descriptions, there has been an uT
id ward inclination. Considerable anxiety pre-
IL walls respecting the new crop. The next &C
nv counts are eagerly looked for, and prices wi
~pFobably take their complexion from the adv
ces BY the incoming and the succeeding pack
cts.
The grain markets with us, as with our cor
I'd ~tinentaI neighbors, are on the rise. Whatevt
Ill effects England influences the whole ccmme
e. cial world. 1t will be seen that e~verywhel
us animation prevails, an that the newtheory
IL free trade will have plenty of scope for the d,
H. velopment Of its alleged benefits, or as som
is contend, its injuries
X The news from India is calculated TO pr,
IS duce a feeling of uneasiness in a political
well as in a commercial sense. Sir Hem
he Hardinge, it'seems now to be universally a,
lie mitted, notwithstanding the skill and braveI
evinced in the war with the Sikhs, has made
es- bungling business Of it, and in all probabilit
the work will have to be Done over again :
be Mistaken clemency in the case of semi-barbi
I'll rians is often times positive cruelty.
fhl INDIA-The news from India Is Of rather vi
Ter expected interest. The victories which ii
of British army achieved on the banks Of III
il sutlege have not terminated in that amicab
,es arrangement and profitable settlement who
he was hoped for, and prematurely boosted Of.
IRE Ghoolab Singh finds himself beset by peel
in mary difficulties. lie either cannot or is Vi
ell willing to pay his debts.
I'd. In all such emergencies in India, civil WI
nd is the first development, and resistance Of Il
he British people, and consequently the war wi
ed have to be renewed in the Punjaub and Il
up province of Lahore, and the territory eond
%tionally assigned to the Ghoolabsingh be r