American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-08-12
Baltimore cltpper.
NEWS BY TIE GREAT WESTERN.

is of very little interest:
the manufacturing districts apathy existed,
increased by one or two continental failures.
In the woollen districts of Yorkshire, business
had been less sensitive, with the existence OF
greater confidence. In Leeds, goods at the
cloth-hals had moved off with tolelable fee
dom. In Halifax, prices were firm; in Hnd-l
dersfeld, stocks were low, and manufacturers
cautious.
The sales of foreign and colonial wool in
London exhibited, middling and interior
kinds, decline Of I'd. per ID. as compared with
the previous sales. Other descriptions rcceded
about Id.
Grain in the Liverpool market on the cath
ult was somewhat more firm, but the trade
purchased cautiously, and prices were but little
affected. The potatoe disease, which caused so
much commoton last year, has reappoared
this year in various parts of England and Ire.
land
The import rate upon foreign wheat was
raised by the six weeks average to 6s, per quar-
ter, and on flour to IS. lid. per barrel. Large
quantities of -four were daily arriving from the
q. States and Canada, but how for they remu-
nerate the exporters will depend in great mea-
sure upon the result of the coming harvest.
The American provision market continued
tolerably steady. Beef was in good demand
but pork is less so. The inferior kinds of both
have been in more request. Cheese and grease
butter were lower.
MIR. VIM. Brown, of Liverpool, the head of
the eminent house of Brown, SIMPLIFY & Co.,
has been returned, without opposition, as the
member for South Lancashire-acknowledg
to be the head ofthe great English Counties
The reported failure of the potatoe crop in
Ireland has again produced great demand for
Indian Corn, a cheap and nutritious grain
u i -
at a slight advance in price. 1t is still, howev-
er, the cheapest article of food that can be pur-
chased
Lord John Russell has brought his scheme
for the alteration Of the sugar duties before
the House of Commons, which was postponed
on account Of the death of his brother BY
this question the Ministry will stand or fall,
The next steamer will probably bring out the
news of its fate. The European Times gives
this account of it:
"The government is now fairly involved in
the meshes Of the sugar question Lord John
Russell propounded his measure on Monday
last and The discussion on its merits was TO
have commenced in the House of Commons
last night, but IN consequence of the death of
his brother, it has been postponed until Mon
day. The debate will extend over several
nights, and the result cannot be known until
the next packet. The features of the scheme
are briefly these The colonial duty of las. is
to continue as at present. the existing duty on
foreign free-labor sugar is 23s. 4d. 1t is 10 be
reduced at once to Bis, and is to apply equal
ly to all foreign sugar, free as well as slave
grown. A scale of duties is 10 extend over
five years, dropping in the frstyeaI a shilling,
in the second eighteen-pence, in the third the |
same, in the fourth the same, in the fifth the !
same, at the end of which time all distinction
between colonial and foreign sugar is to cease.
This, in brief, is an outline Of the plan"
An elaborate report has been presented to
Parliament relative 10 railways in connection
with the invasion and defence of the country.
An address of the merchants of Liverpool
TO Mr.. McLane, congratulates him on the set
Element of the Oregon question, to which he
replied. Both documents are highly interest.
ing, and creditable to the feelings of the re-
spective parties.
The last remnant of the Lcague-their Of
fees in Fleet street, London-were closed on
the Goth ult., with the announcement that
their offices, furniture, &C., would be subject
10 the auctioneer's hammer on the 2Sth.
Flogging in the British army has recently
attracted good deal Of attention. lnvestiga
ton has enlisted against hogging the indigna-
ton of the country, so that the extinction of
the evil cannot be remote.
The weather, at all times an object of in
terest, is especially so on the eve OF harvest
10 nj. Cf 10 u,b no
intense warmth which prevailed for some
weeks ceased, showers, more or less severe,
have prevailed.
The rates of discount have receded, and
the Money market is in state of comparative
depression.
The NmE.-Mr Nasmyth, the eminent en-
gineer, is constructing two of the powerful
machines invented by him for driving piles,
and which are to be employed in the great
works at present in progress, by order of Me-
hemet ALI for damming up the Nile, and rem
deriDg the irrigation of Lower Egypt in
great measure independent of the annual ris-
ing and OVERLOOKING of that river.
FAILURE IN HAMBURGER Accounts from
this city state that an extensive failure has
occurred thereat. The firm is that of Messrs
Hnck s. Co, whose liabilities are stated at
from f250,O00 to 100000 The house has
only been in ex stence fifteen years, and was
originally engaged in the South American
and Mexican trade. We understand that
there is little hope of much dividend being
paid, as the warehouses were cleared few
days before the failure, and, by the laws of
that city, transfer of property, even in the
contemplation of bankruptcy, is legal and
cannot be recovered for the benefit of the
creditors.
The HARVEST IN FRANCE Our private let