New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-11-17
PsoRoGATIoN OF PARLIAMENT.


made the passage in little more than sixteen days
We are indebted 10 the politeness Of Captain
Mathews for our supply Of English journals We
compile cur news, usual chiefly from F" Inner
and Smith European Times.
The price of American Cotton had advanced "a
There is also a farther rise in the Price Of pro-
visions
The famine Is very severe IN Ireland and multi
,odes are dying of starvation
The Great Britain was still lying IL DundruIn
Bay.
The Great " estern made her passage Ont n
Is days and y hours She had a tempestuous
| voyage.
Hon. George Bancroft lady and child arrived at
Liverpool on Sunday the 18th, By the steamship
Great Western. The hon. gentleman left Liver
pool on the 3Oth for London, taking Chester and
Birmingham in hi. way. During his stay IN Liver
pool he was waited upon by the American Cham
Der of Comm cree and visited b. the principal mer
chants OF the town. On Wednesday, the 2sth he
dned with select party at the residence Of VIM
Brown Esq NJ. P. st Richmond Hi and, On the
following day with g CAR Esq ofthe firm OF Bar
ing Brothers.
The Hibernia arrived at Liverpool on the 2sth
ult after passage OF 49, days
The packet ship Washington Irving arrived at
Liverpool from Boston on The Gath ult after pas.
sage of little over Il days. She brought news
from the United States five days later than convey
ed By the steamship Cambria The Wyoming
Captain Miercken arrived from Philadelphia On the
goth, and the Henry Clay, from New York, on the
9th inst
Domestic.
The serious rse in the price Of all kinds OF Prov
sions has Sc, the political economists the qi rrc-
Wheat has now reached TIE lowest dury tour shiings
per quarter and imminent IS the apprehension OF
famine that the cry for opening the ports not only con
tinues hut is daily becoming louder and more general
Calculations put forth, haphszard, respecting the
quantity OF grain which it will require TO see u. over The
mex, harvest The London Times, few days back,
startled the isle from its proprcty BY stating tina, We
shall require an importation OF four million quarters oil
Wheat and that the commercial marine OF the country
is in sufficient for bringing tins enormous quantity home
The London Times' has been reIninced That even
arger quantities have been imported in single year,
and tina, year comparatively recent one In ICY the
Foreign and Colonial Corn brough, 20 the British market
amounted to 6l5.2Ge quarters From that year 10 -.
the average import little short OF the quantity which
the leading journal has declared the merchant service
unable TO convey
There much selhness in IL The price OF provisions
has risen far bcyond the legitimate value whether est
uated by the stocks hand, or by the state OF othe
England that capitalists always morbidly alive 10
every project for increasing IT, The food market
better cld speculation this than tue share mar
tet proved last year and the consequence is te' r
pidiiy pecuates and prices rise: Nothing can escape
the ken of the sanguinc worshipper OF maMinon Like
the proboscs OF the elephant nothing is too light or too
heavy tor his capocious NAV needle or an anchor ne
raise with equal gusto-hls great revenge has
stomach for them all One OF the anomalies which the
present state Of has produced may be seen in
ireland The cry OF restitution booms fesrtuly across
~. uligh ESrbpnupr IL npnity
liberal hand iced the starving people. Yet one tide
tins its bosom no less than sixteen vessels
up the svery Thames all OF them laden with provisions
from that land OF famine and dcclamstory patriotism
There is moral in this il sympathetic philosophy could
hnd il
Much has been said, a great deal has been written
about this food crisis The gransrics OF Europe have
been cuaged according to the most approved rules OF
Cocker the quantities of grain which they can
spare after their wants have been satisfied The
spirit OF commerce is essentially democratic II has no
respect persons and the needle points not more I'M
erringly the pole than does the transit OF merchan.
disc to the beet paving The Black Sea and the
Mediterranean will provide US II Is asserted with mil
lion quarters half that quality Will come from the Bal
tic aud the other ports OF Europe ana the remaining
two millions and halt We may anticipate from the
United States There those however. who say that
America capable OF supplying irrespective OF all
other with double the quantity We shall require
Nay there stasts who assert that the Western Con
tinent could send million quarters OF Wheat
during the present and the coming year ii the crcan
tile marine OF the two countries choose to employ their
tonnage carrying out the speculation Niih such re-
sources the dread OF famine Is pfeposicrous The
paving part OF the question is another mscr and this
may be safely left the judgment OF those whose for
made unarred by acquaintance or other
wise with the vulgar rules of arithmetic. Under any
circumstances the price Of provisions in Great Britain
must until the next harvest, rule sufficiently high TO
satisfy all but cormorants in handsome per ceEtagc
The merchants about making q crusade against
the present high duty on tea The existing imrost las
long been found oppressive.
Golden has crossed the Pyrenees and in the capital
~ Spain has been !eted as lion, and regarded
national regCnerator is an extraordinary TACT ~ the
career OF this extraordinary that n his mission OF
peace he has every where had the ovstions OF
qu,sror The Spapards vie with the French in doing
honor 10 The 10 whom Louis Philippe paid such
marked attention when he visited his capital 'Ie has
dechned abandon his old constituents Stockport in
favor OF Manchester and the consequence IL that the
spirited manufacturers OF the latter place have deter
mined bring forward his colleague, Mr. Bright in his
place.
1t will crafty those who take personal in,eres, in
Mr. Golden to know that his health is comparatively
restored and that he is his 10 visit in the
East which associated with the gres, facts OF mans
redemption. in company with lsdy whose talent in liz
erature has made the world her audence-Miss Mar.
tineau
The subject the Spanish marriages is worn thread
bare. Ii the official organ OF the prussian Government
is 10 he credited that power does sypathizr the
protest which Lord Paiaestou has presented against
the ntanta her ascending the throne of Spain
The Prussian journal declares that the remuneration
which the English Minister seeks from the Due dc Mont
If acceded -. 10 alteration the neai succession 10
the Spanish throne The conclusion OF the article in
which these views set forth is striking in It's pro-
phetic spirit Sooner later this French dominion
will either have to be supported by French army or
those who il up Will be buried beneath its ruins
Here is alternative "
The country, Portugal Is teverish and unsettled
Affairs ;her appear to be progressing towards climax
ruInour prevailed lew days back that the Queen OF
Portugal lad been dethroncd ana tina, Spanish army
WAS about marching INFO Portugal
her Majesty held Prvy Couacil al Windsor Castle
the 30th nit when Pariamea; further prorogued
Tuesday, the 18th OF January next
Ireland.
STATE OF THE CoUSrRY-DEATHS FROM STARv-
ArioN-The accounts OF the OF the country
unee 10 DC most distressing. letter Dunssrvoa
OF the 18TH says The condition the people truly
heart rending. They starving One OF the ira.
Scons, very Intelligent man gave deplorsole &C
count OF the sights witnessed them they cs- along
to-day BY the houses OF taeiC prisoners They were
followed by trsnoc-ookns women and children half
naked whose cries were unlike anything hprran-aeins
husky, broken and quite feeble, from starvation
Our pablia correspondent wrinns the 9Th says
There again most hearirendins accounts OF drs
ntuaon from various psrrs OF the country and social dis
organization is prevailing Tar Sui wide Although thc
Board OF Works have, Up 70 this dsy. dated less
sum than 10000 for public WORKS there sal
plants IN counties either that works have yet