American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-10-01
FOREIGN NEWS.
8 DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF

ARRIVAL OF
THE STEAMER GREAT WESTERN.
! UNIVERSAL. FAILURE OF THE POTATOE
CROP-FAILURE OF THE WHEAT CROP IN
FRANCE-ADVANCE IN THE GRAIN MAR
KETs-THE COTTON MARKET LOOKING
UP-THREATENED WAR IN INDIA, sc.
The steamship Great Western, Capt. Hos
kins, which sailed from Liverpool on the 10th
ult., reached N. York yesterday, after stormy
passage.
On the Goth and 25th she encountered ire
mendous gales, but rode them out triumphantly;
not, however, without the loss of her wheel
house and quarter boats, and Suffering much
other damage.
The political intelligence by this arrival is
ofvery little interest, but the commercial news
is of the highest Importance.
The markets for all descriptions of Amer-
can produce were advancing.
The news from India is of rather unexpected
interest. The victories which the British ar
my achieved on the banks ofthe Sutledge, have
not resulted in that amicabe arrangement and
profitable settlement which was hoped for and
prematurely boosted of Ghoolab- Ghgh finds
himself beset by pecuuiary difficulties. He
either cannot or is unwilling to pay his debts.
SsThe mistaken cIemency in the case of semi
barbarous nations is often times positive cruel
ty. All such emergencies in India, civil, is the
first development and resistance of the British
claims. The next C jnsequence is the war will
have to be renewed in the Benjaub and the
Province of Lahore and the territory, condi-
tionally assigned to Bhoolob Lingh, represented
and attached to the British territory.
The ravages Of the Cholera have diminished
in Sckinde, and it appears they have been ex-
aggerated
The failure of the potatoe crop is universal.
The reports from every part of the United
Kingdom are appalling, whilst letter after let
ter from the continent of Europe, details the
ravages which this strange and unaccounJabIe
disease has made in France, Belgium, Holland
and Prussia.
The crops in the United Kingdom are not
more than an average, either in quantity or
quality. We must, therefore, look to other
countries for asupp!y 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 most distressing
A very large quantity of wheat will therefore
be required for its immediate wants all over the
north of Europe.
The Improvement in business which we no.
tced at the sailing of the last steamer contin-
ues, 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 ofProvisions of every kind. Bacon and
Hams are raising rapidly as lance 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 multiply the wants of the
laboring classes in Great Britain, is undenable,
The advance to which we have alluded may be
traced to the increased demand for other de-
scriptions offood, and the better means of pur-
chasing food which the people enjoy.
The liberal way in which the Government is
acting in Ireland disavows all fear of national
starvation. The first duty of "a government is
to feed the people, and what is now regarded
as calamity may prove, in the end, substan-
tial benefit, by the introduction of improve
ments which would not otherwise have been
made.
The employment of the people on public
works in Ireland, will, it is clear, be carried out
on large scale. The present popular Lord
Lieutenant has already issued nearly fifty com
missions for the holding of Colonial SESSIONS in
different parts of Ireland, and upon the investi-
CATION and decision Of the ma iorities in session
as to their respective districts He will act,
with the confidence which he exerts at pre-
! sent.
In the Grain market encouraging prospects
are before us.
There is evety reason to believe that tn repre-
sent prices may be maintained if indeed they
do not advance as an article of human food.
The use of potatoes seems likely to become
extinct. The injury may be temporarily pres
sing, and productive, no doubt, of suffering,
but ultimate consequences can hardly fail to
raise the condition of the Irish peasant, and to
improve his social habits. He will be raised in
the scale ofcivilization by living on higher and
more nutrcious kind of food. There are those
who contend that the potatoe has been a curse,
not blessing to Ireland,
The Cotton market has been steady, and al
though we cannot fix higher quotation, yet
in some descriptions there has been an upward
inclination. Considerable anxiety prevails res
pecting the new crop. The next accounts are
eagerly looked for, and prices will probably re-
ceve their complexion frem the incoming and
succeeding packets.
The grain markets with us, as with our con-
tnental neighbors, are on the rise. Whatever
effects England influences the whole cornmer-
cial world. 1t will be seen that every where
animation prevails, and that the new theory of
free trade will have plenty of scope for the de-
velopment of its alleged benefits, or as some
contend its iuiurv