The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-11-19
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER GREAT

From the Baltimore sun.

tcuhies--.An early Session Of Parliament
ard a reduction or the Duty Of Foreign
Grain recommended. but not carried-.arri-
raj Of Mr.. Observation-Disclosures Fefcs in
France posiponed-A Storm Brewing-De
s%trmctiae Flood in France-murrection in
Poriugal-War in Circassia-The Markets,
Sc.
The steamer Great Western arrived at her
dock in New York, at ten o'clock last night,
from Liverpool, bringing dates to the 3lst ult.,
twelve days later than those brought by the Brit.
ANNA.
The Great Western brings one hundred pas
sengers.
She took out the news of the ca pture of Monte.
rey by the American forces under Gen. Taylor,
which created no litlle excitement.
Food Riots in Ireland. Ireland seems to be
in a deplorable situation. Tipperary is almost in
a state of insurrection. A few days since it was
our painful duty Ia notice the murder of a man
named Gleeson, in that riding. Another man
named Williams, has shared the same fate. The
town of TempIemore was the scene of three food
riots on Monday. by a mob varying in numbers
from one to five hundred men. The worst fea-
ture in this transaction is. that several Of the per-
sons engaged in il might have had employment,
though 10 a very limited extent, on public works,
but they were prevented from availing themselves
Of il by intimidation.
The rage for the possessiun of fire arms is in
creasing daily. An attack upon the Very Rever-
end DR.. Holmes, whilst fishing on Saturday last,
by an armed gang, eighteen in number, was in
some measure successful.
On the evening of the same day the house of a
farmer in the parish Oringlass, was burglariously
entered by three ruffians, supplied with pistols,
who carried of l0L. l5s. Nor have the depreda-
tors spared even their own clergy. The residence
of the Rev. Mr.. Moreland. P. p, of Castledown
ARA. was visited on Friday last by a lawless
party, which deliberately forced his keys from
his pockets, unlocked his desk, and seized on III ,
with which they decamped.
In the southern division, Lord Dunnemore's
agent has been robbed of 70Ol. in the open day on
the mail coach road. and within less than a mile
of the popnlnus town of Clommell. By far the
greatest portion of Munster presents, at this mo
ment the appearance of a slumbering volcano.
The difficulties ofMe .Ministry.-Lord John
Russell and Lord Cottenham, at the cabinet coun-
Gil on Wednesday, urged earnestly the %consiitu-
tional necessity for an early session of Parliament,
before Christmas, not only to obtain an act Of in
demnlty for Lord Blessborough's extension of the
labor rate act, hut also to obtain a parliamentary
sanction for the reduction of the as. duty on i'm
ported grain. The council broke up without
coming to any definite resolution.
AT the meeting of the Ministry on Thursday,
the subject was resumed, and on this latter occa-
sion the opponents of an early session had the adj
vantage of Mr.. Bancrofl's arrival from the United
States with intelligence that the supplies of grain
collected in the American ports for expectation is
so ample as to render it extremely improbable
that the supply was equal to any demand that
could be made, consequently this removed the ne
cessity for the reduction of the duty, thus reliev-
ing the Ministry from the most important mo
tive for calling an early session. Another step
IN what he is said TO call the administration of a
despotism.
Tho Ok.oot,.. "
most anxiously pressed by the Irish secretary, and
the other ministers connected with the govern.
ment OF Ireland, and with some show of reason
they aliege, with reasons that an early session
must embroll them with Mr.. O'Connell and his
adherents, and thus depriving the cabinet Of its
principal support. 1t is not only on the side of
Ireland that there are such difficulties threatening
the administration at the assembling of Parlia-
ment, whether early or late.
we have the testimony Of the Mill Owners
Journal to the fact that a feeling of The necessity
of reducing produce and wages between thirty
and iorty per cent, for such mus, be the effect of
working four days instead of six, is rapidly spread
ing, and becoming almost universal. This serious
reduction In the amount Of wages contemporaries
Gus with a steady advance in the price of the
principal necessaries of life is not calculated to
ln'use an agreeable temper into the proceedings of
the popular branch Of the Legislature.
- '"'u o"JoCliOn u an early session may come
from Lord Palmerston, who may not be DESTROYS
ct explaining the process by which he has man.
aged TO give the French government and people a
triumph.
fRANcE.-The feles in Paris in honor of The
matrimonial conquest of Louis Philippe and his
son nave been postponed sumo time, in conse-
qnence, as has been alleged, of the foundations in
certain parts of France. in consequence of The late
rams and storms. 1t is a good and convenient,
hut 1t is not The real excuse. There is a storm
brewing, which the prudent but avaricious con-
stitutlOnal King of the French foresees. II is
not his interest To quarrel with England, and yet
he has deliberately, and with malice prepense,
1t would not look well to have fetes in honor Of
his sons marriage, with a helpless and unprotect-
ed inianta of Spain, sold by a worthless mother,
al which fetes the British Ambassador, Lord Nor
mandy, tor good political reasons, could not have
been present. This would have effected The
'nnds' agiiated the money market, and deranged
the good Kings private interests as a fund holder.
a trader, and a manufacturer.
Destructive Floods in France.-We have
most disastrous and melancholy accounts IF The
consequences Of a flood which had occurred in the
Loire. the waters Of which had suddenly risen
TO a height exceeding any thing known for a
century back. The Loire and its tributaries have
been the principal theatres Of this phenomsnon,
and have produced foundations exceeding any
known by the oldest citizens Of the department Of
Amer, Leeir, and ElOchien In a single night
the waters of the Loire rose itself twenty French
feet.
'dnother insurrcction in PortugaL-The lat
est news from Portugal received at Madrid, an
nOnnced that a revolutionary movement had bruk-
en- oui at Oporto. The reported arrest Of the
Duke OF Terceir was confirmed. That states
man is in prison at Oporto. A regency it was
said, was proclaimed in the a Of Bedree III.
II was said at Madrid that Costa, Cabral and
Gonzales Bravo, were to have left on the 18th for
Lisbon.