Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-02-25
foreign Mus.
From the Boston Atlas, Feb. %.
NEWS FROM ENGLAND =!
Is DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE

The Royal Mail Steamship Cambria, Capt. C.
II. E. Judkins arrived at this port on Saturday
afternoon
The news received by the Cambria is exceed
ingIy interesting and important
Parliament has been occupied with the new
measures of relief for the people of Ireland and
Scotland. The Government plans appear to be
received with general appreciation by all parties,
both in and ont of Parliament
The accounts from Ireland continue to be of
the same appalling character. Scotland, too,
still suffers, and in some parts of England, the
people complain that they cannot procure food.
The most important commercial news brought
by the Cambria Is that relating 10 breadstuffs,
prices of which have declined materially since
our previous accounts.
The Bank OF England has again raised its
rate of discount from 3 l-2 to 4 per cent
Trade In the manufacturing districts remains
dull.
1t is announced that several steam vessels be.
longing to the British Navy, have been despatch
ed to Ireland with provisions.
ENGLAND.
The inhabitants Of Liverpool are undergoing
paroxysm Of disgust" and alarm at the crowds
OF IRISH paupers, chiefly women and children,
who have come over from Ireland in the steam
ers, and are to be seen daily IN front of the par
lsh offices. The Mayor has declined to call
public meeting on the subject of this distress,
the EVIL being Of too great magnitude to be Crap
pied with IN that way. But he his expressed
his willingness to promote subscriptions.
There is great deal of distress in Noting
ham aud vicinity; the work houses are over.
crowded, while the numbers of persons to whom
out door relief Is extended, are counted by thou.
SANDS ana yet there are many suffering priva-
tons who are not aided by the Poor-aw. To as
slst these, meetings have been held and sub
scnptlon commenced,
The agricultural and other laborers of Bicester
have had meeting to make known their distress
sed condition.. A number of men and women
spoke, detailing their suferlngs.
There have been TODD riots in Cornwall
THE DISTRESS IN SCoTLAND.-The peasant
ry OF Scotland are suffering the most dreadful
privaIiOns.
In Dingwall, some families are represented to
DC SO destitute of fuel as to be obliged to eat
their vegetables raw; while others, rather than
be reduced to such straits, convert household fur
niture into tire-wood
A food riot took place in Aberdeen on the ODD
ult The unemployed met IN the neghborhood
of the town, carrying with them black flag
and sent deputallon to the magistrates who,
with tile concurrence OF the principal corn mer-
chants, told them that shipments Of grain would
be suspended. Throughout the day there was
much excitement, and special constablGs were
sworn in. Towards evening, flour cart was at
tackled, windows were broken, and the Police
pelted with stones but the Police having made
a sally, about fifty men, Sand a great number
of momen," were secured. Eventually, the mob
was persuaded to suffer shipments to fulfil actual
engagements; it being declared by the mags
trates that no more should be sent away
On the same night, formidable disturbance
took place at Macduff, to prevent the shipment
of meal and grain and great excitement pre-
walls at all the smpping-towns in the neighbor
| hood, in consequence OF the quantity OF food thai
| was sent away.
There have been turbulent meetings at Pals
| ley, growing out of the scarcity of employment
! The Provost had, however, mitIgated the tumul
by providing webs for those on the relief fund
on condition of their forming themselves int
parties Of twenty and giving certain guarantees
for the due execution and return of the work.
The influx of Irish paupers into Glasgow con
tinues. During one day, the magistrates lnves
tlgated two hundred cases of vagrancy, nine
tenths of the Migrants beng natives of Ireland
Many were sent back on the Irish steamers. O.
One man brought up was so exhausted that h
was ordered to the Hospital; but he died beor
he could get there.
RELIEF TO lRELAND-The IS duty on cor
has been repealed, and the Government propose
to lend money to propretors OF land, at 3 J.
per cent, for the next % years, to be repaid b
Installnents also to allow them to sell even en-
tailed estates. 1t was also proposed to esabls
soup kitchens; to purchase waste lands for til
use of luborcrS; to aid emigrunts; to provide t
galnst The restitution of the aged sick and II
firm, and to enable landlords to sell portion
their estates, In order 10 pay off mortgages an
, make improvements.
IRELAND.
CoNDIrIoN OF THE PEOPLE.-There are
in Iistr ia a IRIS
Provinces OF the progress OF famine.
Even in the county OF Meath, adjacent to tt
metropolitan county, deaths from starvation al
e reported. Supplies of food, however, were con
ing IN although to nothing at all like the eXte
required for Immediate relief,
J. The Irish papers state that the miseres of Il
o famine have suffered no abatement. The n
d counts are the same from all quarters. Owe
- filled poor-houses, with crowds OF applicants S
" ing IN vain fer admission, mark the progress
II the now universal misery. AS the famine a
he vances, property OF every kind becomes ms
1t cure, and robberes, some on very large sea-
are frequent. Cases are almost every norm
brought before the Dublin Magistrates Of pl
IL SONS assaIng bakers men, and torclbly carryll
s. away the contents OF their baskets.
n, The non-tlage infltualion becomes more al
more evident. Accounts from all parts OF /
country describe the same state of unlntellige
he preference for the easy pttance on public wor
h. over the better wages offered by the farmers.
=, A writer IN the Northern Wing, who has ira
~ eIled through Ulster and Connuught, mento
w that from the time he entered the latter provint
,r. the least distressed in Ireland, until he left II,
did not see smile on the face of a single mi
woman or child, of the peasant class one &c
of era gloom peryaded all.
Desitutlon is increasing in the counties
III Longford, Galway, Leltrlu, and Kerry; VIII
to in Cork, Bantry Is rlyalnng Skibbereen in {
'e IRENE misery.
n Some consolation, however, may be derv
from the continued falling Of prices. 1t "
generally believed that speculation had reach
m It's highest limits, and that prices would rece
-, in a few weeks to their average standard
IL Dublin, Belfast, and Limerick, corn has decide
de ly declined; while in Athlone and Longft
he wheat has fallen 5s and oats 2s per barrel.