The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-11-21
Arrival ofthe Royal Mail Steam
err ACADIA.
Is DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

The Royal Mail Steamship Acadn, Capt.
Harrison. arrived at Boston the 18th, from
Liverpool, the 4th inst. via Halifax, having
accomplished the passage in IL Sd days, in
GLIDING tie detention. at Halifax.
The Liverpool Cotton market has again
improved upon tile advices taken out by the
Hibernia aud Great Western.
The Corn markets were not quite so ami
mated, and slight decline in prices had ia
ken place,
II is stated by the London Journals, that
money continues abundant IN tho discount
markets, aud capitalists have difficulty in
employing it,
Parliament has been further proroghea to
the 12lh day of January.
The Paris papers contain copious details
Of the disastrous effects of pundatiOns
throughout the centre, the west, and tie south
west of France. The destruction of live and
dead stock, and property ofvarious descript-
ions, appears 10 be immense, and the saliva
ton ofwhole families, whose dwellings were
almost instantaneously surrounded by water,
little less than miraculous.
Another formidable revolutionary move
ment has commenced in Portugal, which
threatens to be very serious in its results
The Times of The I'd inst. states that the
relations between the French and British
governments were becoming hourly less
friendly, ON account of the Montpenser mar
riage question.
IRELAND.
DUBLIN. The accounts from Ireland ex-
hibit some gratifying features, although there
is still much distress in that country. The
public works are commenced in nearly all the
counties, aud vast numbers ofte destitute
poor are employed. The measures of Gov
ernment for meeting the present distress, e.
vince unremltting activity. The proclama-
tons issued by the Lord Lieutenant under
the Elaborate Act, amount in all TO two hun
bred and eighty five. Presentments 10 the
amount ofG700000 have already been gran
ted by the Board of Works; there will be
vast increase in ihe number of persons en-
ployed, There must be, of course, u great
many preliminary difficulties where such i'm
nense operations are in progress, and where
nearly the whole machinery has TO be Great
ed. Nevertheless, there were sixty thousand
persons employed up to the 10Th ult.
The Dublin correspondent Of the London
Times, under date Oct. 2Sth, says, "The in
teIligence from the country today is, with the
exception of one district, of n satisfactory
character There appears 10 he cessation
oithe excitement which prevailed at the ear
ier stages of the panic, and, upon the whole,
matters look as if they were settling down TO
their ordinary level The exception to the
Improvement, tits scarcely necessary to say,
is the condition ofTipperary, the North Ri
ding papers received TO day showing no
symptoms of the subsidente oftrime in that
i'll fitted locality"
PERSIA.
PRoGREss OF THE CuoLERA. The Trebi-
zond correspondent of the London times
states that upward of 10000 persons have
been carried off'in Persia by the cholera. I'm
der date ofSept. Goth he says, that the chole-
ra has passed the line of the Russian quaran-
tine on the borders of the Caspian sea, and is
raging throughout all the Tartar villages of
the districts. A large number of Cossacks,
forming the Gordon on two Persian frontiers
have likewise been attacked
The Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia North American says it is currently
runored in that city that orders have been for
warded TO Gen. Taylor to remain quiet at Mon
terey till after the meeting the Mexican Con-
gress and await the doings ofthat body in re,
gard to our Governments overtures for Deace