Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-05-07
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The steamship Great Western Capt Mathews ar
rived at New-York on Tuesday at | O'Clock P. NJ. in
II days and 6 hours from Liverpool, bringing 1875
passengers, and news seven days later. Parliament
had adjourned for the holidays, and there had
quenty been no discussion on the Oregon question:
The Corn Law is to come up Immediately after the
meeting of Parliament.
The cotton market was rather irmcr. Iron was on
the decline.
The state of feeling on American affairs was the
same as before. Mr.. Haywood's speech had reached
England, and was read with much satisfaction.
American flour in bond is quoted at 25s to 20
Sir Henry Ilardnge and Sir Hugh Cough who dis
tlngnished themselves by military services in India,
have been elevated to the peerage.
There six government steamers fitting
up in the st. Katherlnes Dock, London.
Strawberries are selling in Covent-garden mar
ket, London, at IS Cd the ounce.
The American news is read with interest in Lon
don. 1t has had rather favorable influence on the
funds, though the contents of the papers give de-
cided information to the probable result of the Ore
gon dispute
On Tuesday, notices were issued from the INDIA
House for the dspltch of troops to India vz 1000 to
embark from Cork to Calcutta between 9th April and
25th of April.
The Magnetic girl in Paris turns out to be an i'm
postor
The Archbishop of Paris, in pastoral address, has
expressed his sympathy for the Poles.
Forty-fve persons were drowned near Merden, in
Westphalia, by the upsettng of packetboat.
Six journals have ceased to appear in Madrid; B.
900 persons supported by them have been thrown out
Of bread.
In Persia the cholera is raging with devastating eff
feet At Meshed one-thrd of the population has per-
ished. At Tcberan and Ispahan the mortality has
been very great
The talk on Change" in Liverpool, on the 9th inst
was that the from America was favorable; that
the debates and delays in the Senate argued an eX-
pected adjustment of the question: and the private in
formation was, that the member for South Carolina
the personal friend of the President had thrown out
a feeler and asserted fact when he declared that
all the State governments required was compromise
on the Oregon question: and that all they had done
was to facilitate an adjustment honorable to both par
ties.
The further talk is that the matter has been virtual
ly settled in London and that, although the arrange
ment may alter the relationship of parties in the States
the Wings aiding the malcontents among the de-
mocracy-the President will confirm the arrangement.
The price of potatoes in Dublin has now risen to
Cd stone for good Ones and "a for very indffer-
ent ones. This is an advance of at least hundred
per cent. on the prices of last year.
The GERMAN CATHoLIcs.-lt appears by an artl-
Gle in Frankfort JOURNAL that Notwithstanding the at
tempt made IN many parts of Germany to prevent the
extension of the reformed Catholic Church, the sect
No'iiohNe
number of members in Berlin exceeds two thousand
and It is said they are numerous even IN Vienna.
Lepsc and Dresden the attempt to put down the Ger
man Catholics has been total failure.
ITALY.-The Nuremburg Correspondent states that
General de Ratezky, the Austrian commander of the
forces in Italy, has been under the necessity of ap-
plying for reinforcements, in consequence of some
SYMPTOMS of an outbreak which have shown themselves
in the north of Italy.
PoLAND.-The Gazette de Voss of the LIST inst.
publishes the following letter. dated Cracow, 23d ult
During the last four days we have constantly
heard the sound of distant cannon from the side q
Galcia and on the evening of the Doth the horizon
red in several places, if from the effect of
extensive fire. On the same night an Austrian corp
of infantry, with eight pieces of cannon took the
to Galicia Other detachments of infantry marche
towards Bohemia and Wieliczka. All these move
ments prove that the disturbances amongst the peas
antry have not yet been suppressed"