Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-12-12
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Arrival ef the Steamship CalSlonla.
-, es FIFTEEN nAvs EArsa.
The steamship Caledonia. Capt. Lott arrived
at Boston on Saturday morning at o'clock, in
fifteen days and sixteen hours from Liverpool,
whence she sailed on the 10th November,
The grain markets both in England and on
the Contiaent. are down. b sasneS
According to the accounts cotton had declined
but cotton dealers on this side will think the
news favorable. #Y
The money market remained about the same
a. At last advices. a 4s
The Baak Of England rate Of interest is'3 per
cent Bullion is being exported from the king.
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Free trade was progressing throughout Eu
rope.
The Hon. Gao. Bancroft has taken up his resi-.
fdence in Eaton Square, Begrave Place, London.
3 iOn the 18th ult he dined with the Qneen, at
Windsor Castle and, on the following Saturday
wac, with his lady, at a select party at Lord
Palmerston's, the Minister for Foreign affairs.
The Misunderstanding between England and
France, relative TO the Montpensier marriage.
continued to afford vent for angry patriotism
on both sides the straits OF Dover.
Mr.. Breiiner. of Wick, civil engineer, at the
request Of the underwriters concerned in the
monster steamship Great Britain, has visited and
reported jointly with Mr.. Alexaaler Breilner,
of Liverpool upon the present state and position
of the vessel The report Of these gentlemen is
to the effect that the Great Britain has a. yet
seceived comparatively little injury that mesus
e may be used for beachng her by Keeping the
stern TO the until the next season, and it will
then be perfectly practicable TO take her OF the
strand.
faa MIxIsrsarAl Arr.IRs --Rumors 81 ministerial
dsssnsions prevail. but they originate in the co.
lunus Of papers avowedly hostile to the whig
government. The Morning News has been gi.
wing currency TO scandal arising out of the pre-.
sumed entnties OF Lords Grey and Pamerston /;
enmities il our contemporary is 10 be believed,
which set the different sections Of the Cabinet by
the ears. Such statements frd their way into
print relative to every government and will be
regarded as true, or snufed aside with contempt,
according TO the peli,cs Of those 10 whom they
are addressed
In the present instance, the probability is. that
fh,y are no, correct for the position which the
British governmen; has assumed towerds France
has been the &C, Of united Cabinet, for We
should have heard long ere this of the immediate
resignation Of Earl Grey and those who :hink
with him.
IRxLASD-The failsre Of the potato crop will
prevent, in great measure, the payment of tents
during the ensuing summer, and as the bulk Of
the Irish landlords live from hand 10 mouth, it
requires little sagacity to see that many estates
If the Irish gentry viii, have 10 be knocked down
by the atetionecr to the hghes, bidder. When
the deso'atin. effects OF the present temporary
affiiction have passed away, the state Of society
eannot fail to be improved by the visitation.
r. FRANCE. Subscriptions have been opened in
pari. and throughout the kingdom in behalf OF
the thousands of wretched beings utterly or par
TALLY ruined By the late disastrous floods in the
departments of the Loire. The king and royal
family have contributed 100 600 francs.
Vast importa,ions OF all descriptions Of grain
have been made and are still being made into
France. Very little, indeed, of what has been
received thus far has come from the United
States.
The P,esse states that the price Of bread in
Paris IL less than the market price Of the -four Of
which il is composed, and that consequently the
bakers are selling at a loss. The Presse adds
hat the flour is extremely scarce in the Paris
markets. in consequence Of the -four marker, on
he Seine. the Marae. and the Eure, not being
,ble to grind durins more than three days in the
week, their supply Of wheat being short
NJ de la Rosiere has been appointed minister
,fFrance in Mexico,