Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-10-08
From the Baltimore Sun. Oct. S.
ARRIVAL OF STEAMER
HlBERNIA.
7DAYS LATER FORM EUROPE.

7DAYS LATER FORM EUROPE.
France and Spain at War of Words
| Cotton up tarthing- Corn .Adrancing
Potato Crop nearly total Failure
BY the mail steamer Hibernia, Capt.
Ryrie which arrived at Boston on Sa,ur.
day last from Liverpool, making the pas.
sage in thirteen days and eighteen hours,
advices have been received from Liver.
pool to the 18th September, London 18th,
Paris 10th. Dublin 18th, and Havre l7ih
condensed summary Of which has been
forward us by telegraph.
Well-founded apprebensions of fail.
ure in the American cotton crop have
caused an increased demand for the staple
in Liverpool, and prices have accordingly
advanced farihing.
Her Britannia Maiesty's governmeu,
and the people Of Spain have manifested
so much hostility to the marriage of the
Queen Of Spain's sister TO Louis Phillip
pes youngest son. tina, the celebration Of
the nup,ials has been postponed for the pre-.
sent. il not forever.
The immediate consequence isa ire.
mendous war Of words between England,
France and Spain. The remote conse.
quences will probably be the destruction
of the entente cordiale, which has 60 long
existed between the courts of ST. James
and ST. Cloud. 1t is hoped that the sud.
den extinguishment of the fires on the al
tars Of two young hearts, will not prove
the means of exciting general con0agra.
ton among the crowned heads and king.
doms of Europe.
The total failure Of the potato crop ap.
pears TO be sad reality. Every where
10 ireland, and in the greater part Of the
British Island, the potato fields are shroud
ed with the dark mantle Of the plague
The vegetable has turned into putrid mat
ter, which even the hogs will not devooh
From the continent of Europe. including
Russia, we have dismal accounts Of III,
progress Of the blight, The future use d
the potato, as an article Of food, is now al
NEST abandoned.
AT the latest date, 18th September. A.
merican flour was selling at % to Cos pei
barrel, duty paid at Liverpool. The pric.
in bond, was 27s. Cd.
Indian coin was quoted IS the quarter i
higher, and closed at 40s for yellow, and
AIS for white.
The Bank of England has declared
semi-annual dividend Of 81 per cent.
The Gazette de Cologne says il has been
annouced for some time that measure
will shortly appear prohibiting the expor'
tation of corn from the territory Of France
A number of tried friends of commercial
freedom entertained A. Brown. Esqn'
few days ago at Warrington. England, 10
celebration OF his return as representative
of South Lancashire and the triumph oil
free trade principles.
On the 9th ult., the King of Sweden
signed an ordinance abolishing all games
of chance at the watering places al Rem
loes Scama the only places in Saed'n
gambling was allowed.
In the affairs Of Spain the escape Of Don
Carlos from his Imprisonment is likely JUL
now TO have important influence.
Accounts from Paris, dated 18th sep
tember, announce that despatch had been
received conveying the intelligence that
Don Carlos. the Spanish pretender, had
made bis escape and will probably pro
coed TO Spain.
Foreign stock, particularly Mex'caO
Spanish and Portuguese, owing 10 the un'
settled state Of those countries, has re-
ceeded.
Commercial .4foirs.-The advices paE
tho Caledonia arrived at Liverpool on 'mI
evening of the 18th Sept, and were DELI
vered early or the following morning.
No sooner had the contents become
known than the cotton market underweH
great change. Spectators commence
to operate TO an unusual degree. .,E
The trade dreading the realization oiin'
unfavorable conjeclures respecting 'nI
forthcoming crop. which the letters anu
newspaper accounts from the United s'a",
had ventured to send forth, were lndue''
10 add to their stocks. IN
In England the proverbial fcklenes"
the climate has sustained its old charaeeI
in battling speculation. The yield oil "psa'
is better this year in the Southern, sna
worse in the Northern parts OF the My
dom. Upon the whole the yield IS na'u!
better in IS46 than in the previous yea
The English markets for foreign a1
colonial produce have lattery assumeu
more animated and healthy appearance,
The Liverpool cotton market, from oH
10 day, since the 18th, has continued
tive and spirited, and sales Of the SIX dN
NAV be stated about As 900 bales, sdssno
Of I'd per ID. Prices Of American deseI'y
tons being fully maintained. the marsh
for other descriptions has experienced
rise. ,..I
Holders have been enabled to oonE
former rates. but lower descriptions, VINE
are plentiful, have receded in value ,.b
The ssles Of Cotton IN Liverpool 90 ="