Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-03-25
Goreioll News.
From the Boston Atlas, March %.
NEWS FROM England!
ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL MAIL
STEAMER HIBERNIA.
as D.fI'S LIT Ii FIg ON EUROPE.

rs DAYS LITER FROM EUROPE.
The dates are from London to The evening Of
the Sd inst, and from Liverpool to the morning
Of the 4th.
Parliament has been almost entirely occupied
IN discussing and passing the new measures for
the relief of the distressed people Of Ireland.
All the government measures for the relief of
Irish distress we're carried by large moiu tics
/ Our accounts from Ireland do not,fu; ION
those received from the Cambria. Ihee,,est 40.
palng restitution still prevails througs.snt IA.
unfortunate country. Starvation, fever and, If n
continue to sweep off whole families in - riy
every county
In Scotland, too, the distress is very severe,
and serious riots had taken place in consequence,
Trade in the manufacturing districts of Eng
land is exceedingly dull and owing to the con-
| tinued high prices of cotton the mills work short
time, and many are entirely closed
The grain markets in England had been ex-
ceedingly dull and prices Of all kinds of bread
suffs declined, but rallied again before the Hi
hernia left Liverpool Prices upon the whole
had advanced.
| The Steamship Hibernia brought out about
| S2,000000 in specie.
DEsTITUTIoN IN ScoTLAND.-The Desti.u-
ton Committee of the Free Church has Just is
sued second report, from which it appears that
the restitution is spreading. 1t is now cacula-
ted to embrace one third OF the area OF Scotland
and about 100000 people. r.
Upwards Of $4,000 persons arc, ,isow inmates
of the London warehouses; COCOA are receiving
outdoor relief; and from l,400 10 1000 nightly
sheltered in the refugees for the hoMeless.
IRELAND.
THE DIsTREss.-From Ireland the accounts,
of the ravages Of famine and fever in Kings
County, Tipperary, Cork, Kerry, Mayo, Sligo
Waterford, and other countess are most heart.s
rending. The unfortunate peasantry are dying
of starvation by hundreds.
In addition to the ordinary details of des,i.s.s-
ton In Cork, Kerry, Galway, and Mayo, publish
ed in the latest local papers, there are accounts
from the county of Wexford which represent tho
famine as making rapid progress in that locality.
Serious apprehensons are entertained with re-
spect to the consequences likely to ensue from
the stopDage of public works before other meth
DDS of relief can be brought into active opera
ton. Another account states that in the extent
Of mortality Sligo now appears to surpasS any
other county, and it is asserted that the police,
finding the deaths by starvation SO numerous, re-
fuse TO send for the coroners probably because it
would be physically impossible for those func-
| tonares to hold nqGests IN so many cases and
| 10 different localities. The reports from the
county of Cork describe the restitution as daily
becoming more desolating, extending to tue bet
ter class OF farmers, who, II is stated, after pay
ing their rents, are now consuming the grain they
had reserved for seed, whilst the peasahtry all
through HAT extensive country are dying by hun-
dreds.
Another account of the 9th ult froh Dublin,
says that sanguIne hopes are entertained that the
crisis has passed over, and that by the middle Of
March affairs will take more favorable turn.
The Dublin correspondent OF the London
Times, March lsi) says:
Although but the first month in spring, the
tide has set in, and without the Intervention eth
err of government or the proprleors of the soil,
there is every indication OF unusually busy sea-
son at the Irish seAporls. Vast crowds of emf
grants ofthe more comfortable class have already
arrived here from the Interior for the purpose Of
taking shipping to Liverpool; and the same may
be said of the ports ofCork, Galway, and Derry"
FRANCE
The papers and letters speak unanimously of
the increasing scarcity of food in France. The
latter say, that in Normandy in particular it was
severely felt.
The London Times on the Sd inst. SAYS: son
the subject of The scarcity we have in tie papers
before us that which we expected-proots that
the pressure is awfuy on the increase. The Re.
forme stdtes that the price of wheat had again
augmented in all the markets adjoining Paris, and
that The supplies were generally inadequate"
PRUSSIA.
BERLIN.-The long promised Constitution has
been promulgated by King Frederick William,
in decree and three ordinances bearing date
the Bird ult.
So much misery prevails in Silesla that the
governor of that province has proceeded to Ber-
lin 10 request q reinforcement of troops, for fear
the deartess OF provisions should occasion dis
turbances.
PEnA.-Letters from Constantinople describe
a terrible conAagraron that ravaged Pera on tho
night OF January the 26th Nearly hundred
houses, of the best in Pera, were destroyed,