The banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1844-1847, 1846-05-06
From the New York Express
Seven Days Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL. THE

GREAT WESTERN.
The steamer Great Western, Captain
Matthews, was telegraphed off the Hook
this morning, about half after 10 o'clock,
but the news did not reach us till half
past o'clock.
Commercial matters wear an impro-
we'd aspect. Affairs are still sufficiently
bad; but, comparatively speaking, not
so much as they were by the last arrival.
The Tariff is suspended in mid-ar,
but, pending its fate, more advantage is
taken Of the Treasury order for liberia
ting goods from bond on payment Of the
reduced duties.
Three months have nearly elapsed
since the Tariff was introduced, and the
measure still fingers in the House Of
Commons.
The American provision trade has
partaken Of the facilities which the trca-
sury order affords Considerable sup
plies of beef and provisions have been
released from bond under the low duties,
and are finding their way into general
consumption.
Discussions continue as to how the
tariff will fare in the Lords. The OPT
Mons of some 800 members of that
House are asccrtuincd, it is said. and
they are nearly balanced but the views
of some 50 more arc oscillating. Upon
these the fate Of the measure and of the
Government depends.
1t is asserted, with good deal Of con-
fidcnce, by the advocates Of the tariff,
that Il majority Of at least 25 will affirm
the bill, but that some amendments in
committee may endanger its existence.
In various parts Of the country large
numbers Of operatives have struck for
an advance Of wages. The masters
and the men are thus at loggerhcads.
Neither will give way, and the retail
trade in many branches has been seri-
ously injured by the capital thus with
drawn from the usual channels of circu-
lation.
While the walls of Parliament ring
with the distress Of Ireland, and the fears
of famine in that country are constant
ly present 10 the eyes Of British states
men, it is an undoubted fact that the re.
ceipt Of butter, beef, flour, and prov-
sions, the produce of the sister kingdom,
in the Thames and in the Mcrsey, are
greater than at any former period.
Sir Robert Peel states that his Irish
bill will be taken up again on the re-as-
sembling Of Parliament, and pressed to
first reading.
Prayers were to be offered up on the
18th inst, in all the Anglican Churches
throughout Great Britain for the sue
cuss of their arms against the Sikhs,
and form OF prayer has been composed
by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
thanking the Almighty for the recent
victories on the Su,lcj.
M. Guizot, it is said, has applied to
Lord Aberdeen proposing to have con-
sui for each nation at Cracow, in order
to watch the, proceedings of. the three
continental powers, in regard to any en-
croachment on the liberties Of that re-
public.
Now, that the war in India is decided,
the Oregon question begins to attract
more attention, but the speeches Of Mr.
Calhoun, Mr.. Haywood, and others,
had convinced the British Public that
o"I ihtoHI'ohS Wcie pedCedOlc.
The Polish instruction is entirely
crushed. The leaders were being i'm
prisoned in all quarters. Potocki. one
OF the leaders of the late revolt has been
condemned to death, and executed at
Siedlce.
In Persia the colera is raging with
devastating effect.
Sir Henry Hardinge and Sir Hugh
Cough have been raised to the peeragc,
as Viscount Hardinge and Baron
Cough.
1t having been charged that the pro-
tectionists had made an agreement with
Sir Robert Peel to support the Irish CO.
ercion bill, if he would yield on the corn
law question, the Premier in the House
denied positively that any such agree
ment had ever been thoug hit of.
The Prince de Joinville has been ap-
pointed commander in chief of the Medi-
terranean fleet. He has been making a
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