American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-04-30
from the Clipper, extra, of yesterday morning !
FOREIGN NEWS.
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE
THE STEAMER GREAT WESTERN.


The Steamship Great Western arrived at
New York on Tuesday after a rough passage
of l6 days and 10 hours from Liverpool, with
advices to the 18th inst. The intelligence is
of no great Importance, We make up the fol-
lowing summary from extras of the New York
Sun and Herald:
The Great Western brings large number
of passengers and full freight.
The Money Market was steadily improv-
ing. There has been an advance in consols
There was considerable business doing in
cotton at fair prices.
The Ministry wish to connect the corn bill
and the coercion bill, and carry them through
together, by a sort of log-rolling movement.
The probability is that the whole will fall
through, and the Ministry will, probably
lead to difficulties with this country.
Packet ship Independence arrived out on
the 9th.
Victoria hence at London, on the Sth
Parliament has adjourned for the Easter hol-
idays, and will not meet until Friday next
The ad journment is of the brleiest. The Pre-
mer iustifes it on the ground of the urgency
of public business.
Commercial matters wear an improved as
pect. Affairs are still sufficiently bad; but,
comparatively speaking, not so much so as they
were a week ago.
The cotton market has improved since the
sailing Of the Caledonia. On Wednesday, there
was good deal of business doing, the sales ex-
ceeding l0, 900 bales. On Thursday, the sales
amounted to upwards of 5000 bags; but yeslor-
day, being good Friday, there was of course no
business done.
The Tariff Bill has not yet passed the House
of Commons.
In various parts of the country large num-
bers Of operatives have struck for an advance
of wages. The masters and men are much at
loggerheads.
The unfortunate holders of railway scrip
are constantly Mortified by the fear of further
vIctimlsation.
The British corn trade continues dull, and
prices are SIS. lower than at the beginning of
the year.
There has been a somewhat serious failure
this week in Liverpool, rumors touching the
stability Of other firms abound. The firm in
question, Messrs. Carne & Teo, are extensive
merchants in the Russian trade. Their liabi-
lties are said to exceed half million of dollars.
The American provision trade has partaken
ofthe facilities which the treasury order affords
Considerable supplies Of beef and provisions
have been released from bond under low duties,
and are finding their way into general con-
sumption.
The Corn Bill, which stands committed to
Monday week, will be once more on the tapis,
pressed to a third reading, and sent to the
House of Lords for acceptance or rejection.
The latest accounts from Spain show that
General Narvaez's administration was at an
end. 1t was rent asunder by the discovery of
an intrigue, on tho part Of Christina and the
Patriarch of the Indies, to supercede Narvaez
in favor of the intriguing woman's latest favor
itas-the Baron dc Nicer and the Marquis de
Viluma.
Italy is still troubled Austrian bayonets
keep the people quiet, but it is impossible to
tell when the flame, winch has been SO long
smouldering may burst out.
In Persia the cholera is raging with devas-
tating effect.
The present average rate of wages in Pa
rs is Is. l Id. day, and Is. Cd. in the pro-
vinces.
A bill to egalse art unions has been read
first time in the House of Commons.
Prayers are to be offered up in all the An
glican Churches throughout Great Britain for
the success against the Sikhs, and a form of
prayer has been composed by the Archbishop
of Canterbury, thanking the Almighty for re-
cent victories on the Sutle.
The French Government are taking every
precantion TO keep their navy in the best or
der, and up to the mark as regards strength.
The naval preparations in England are cal
culated to keep alive the jealousy of other
powers; and France, above all countries,
from the temperament of the people, and
their proximity to our shores, always sleep
if may use the talsm-with one eye
open.
While the walls of Parliament ring with
the distress Of Ireland, and the fears of ia
mine in that country are constantly present to
the eyes of British statesmen, it is an undoubt-
cd fact that the receipt Of butter, beef, flour,
and provisions, the produce of the sister king
dom, in the Thames and the Mersey are
greater than at any former period.
1t is said that the line-of-battle ships in Eng
land, and all steamers on the home station
that are not specially employed, will be as
sembied together in about a month as an ex-
perimental squadron.
A illumination against the press appeared in
the Madrid Gazette of the 25th, IN circular
by the new Minister of Justice.
A German firm in Manchester, previously
of fair repute, decamped from their usual place
OF business last week. The debts owing are
some 100000.
Large quantities of seed potatoes continue
to arrive weekly from the Azores, from South
America, and from the West Indies.
Canadian butter is now selling in Sunder-
land for Sd per pound, and large consign-
ment has been made to merchants in that
town.
T. T, Barnum, Esq, of the American Mu-
scum, has arrived in the Western
In 1889, the number Of marriages in Eng
land and Wales was 1913, l66; in lS4O, l22,-
600; IN lS4l, l22, 469; and in 1912, Is 1926, of
which LILO OH mnrn acnurd1nlr O.. IL. IL. e