Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-04
foretQu Nrus.
Arrival of The Internationally nine
DAYS Later from ENGLAND

days Later from England.
The steam ship Hibernia, Capt. Ryre, from Livel-
pool 9Th INST, arrived at East Boston yesterday NOR
ming at quarter past seven o'clock. The passage has
been severe one, with strong head winds and exceed
lngy cold weather, and Capt Ryrie calls it his worst
voyage to America.
The news by the Hiberna is important. The mark
cts for cotton and breadstutfs had been strained uD to
high point. The advance of the one was founded
upon the report of short crop in America, that Of
the Other upon the failure Of the Irish crops and the
general scarcity in northern Europe. Wilmer &
Smiths Times states that the month that had elapsed
since the sailing Of the Cambria, one Of the most
remarkable ever known in the history of the cotton
trade The total sales of the month were 100000
bales and the advance was from I'D to Id per pound
The editor of the Times looks upon the advance the
effect ofhe workings of the wild imagination of spec
uIaors, and as not called for by the reports from A
merca, the state OF trade in the manufacturing dis
trcts
The prices of provisions were increasing, and the
progress OF misery, restitution and death consequent
on the want of employment and the dearth and dear.
ness of provisions in England Scotland and Ireland
was proportonably great. The situation of the last
country, especially, continues to be most appalling.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts are
rather depressing Letters from Manchester received
in this city state that the intelligence from the great
markets Of China, the East Indies and South America
showed that oosng business had been carried on
the mills working at short time, and at rate which
will diminish the consumption of cotton 1000 bales
week.
The Caledonia steamer which left Boston on the
10th, arrived at Liverpool on the night of the Both ut
The Presidents Message to Congress was received
at Liverpool the Doth ult. 1t was run up by ex-
press to London and issued at an early hour next NOR
ming. The comments of the British press upon the
document are severe and sarcastic, and It's array of
reasons for the with Mexico are treated with the
utmost contempt and as realizing the fable of the wolf
and the lamb.
The use of ether in surgical operations has been in
troduced into the Bristol General Hospital with com
/ pcte success.
A pension of E100 a year has been offered by the
government to Father Matthew.
The government mills at Plymouth are employed
night and day in grinding Indian corn for the relief Of
the destitute poor in Ireland and the highlands of Scot
land.
IRELAND.
The trouble between Mr. OConnell and Smith o.
Bien, and their respective followers, still exists, and il
is said that the popularity Of the Lberator is dcochn
/ lng.
OF the widespread distress which prevails through
out the country the following extracts viii give somC
intimaton:-
In no former period of her history has this part 0
the United Kingdom exhibited such miserable AM
alarming aspect as at the present time Starvation 0
the most dire description stalks through the entr
length and breadth of its Provinces diseases AM
death are hurrying their victims from off the stage
time, and millions of brave but misguided peopl
know not how and where to brave the awful mser
which haunts their day walks and midnight Wis
iors So great and unparalleled is the amount of DIES
tltutlon now prevailing that the efforts of goyernmer
to abrdge and mitigate the suerngs of the dstresse
prove unequal to the emergency, Private benevolenc
starts back at the horrilying picture Of misery whc
J. daily demands relief. In TACT in many instances tn
Irish cabins are little better than chanel houses, wher
the dead uncared for unburied lie ftstering by tn
e side Of the dying. Day after day are the details
, wrechedness aud suffering laid before the public th
the medium of the Irish journals. Liverpool has
practical proof Of these statements. Her charitab
d finances have been swallowed up of late in awardn
temporary relief to the innumerable number of Iris
n paupers who frequent the port The accounts whic
r have reached us since the sailing of the last pack
state that the aborers in the neighborhood Of Bantr
S are moved down by famine and those who are yet
bic to brave starvation look gloomiy forward to IL
day. not far distant as they believe, when they will
v found either fields on mountains without ii
cousolatons Of clergy or the comfort of friends"
magistrate of the County of Cork has addressed lie
II ter to The Duke of Wellington, which contains dreo
2, full catalogue Of the familiar horrors of the time
Destitttion in UiSter--A Fermanagh paper gives
e amenabe account of the rapid progress of distress
that country and that it is not exaggerated is fully
tested by the simple fact of there being at the prese
e. time over 1000 inmates in the poor house of Ennsk
len, saysth Erne packet who have hitherto strven,
recourse to every possible means of earning penn
to avoid taking shelter in the public institutions af Il
country, have at last by din of hunger alone been
bged to secumb and seek for that relief which o
l. poor-houses afford. .l
\, FRANCE.
PARIS, Jan. l. The royal ordinance for the conV
al cation of the Chambers has not yet appeared, but
doubt is entertained that the day that will be txC
r. will be the Goth of January. The re-nssembling
D. the legislature is looked forward to with great intere
k as the matters to be discussed Of vast mporanc
and even carry the question of war or peace i'll the
solution
As to the probable result of the contest with Mex
IS co. the Partisan journals generally speaking, are
I'd no means so confident of the eventual triumph OF Il
= Americans as they once were. They do not donl
lg indeed that in any stand up fight the Mexcans won
IL be beaten but they calculate that the Americans
e. be out by fatgued and Sickness and will encou
ee ter great difficulty from the scarcity of money.
hei The government has authorized American corn II
ported into England to be brought to France in Britt
IT. vessels. This has caused great dissatisfaction to
ng shipping interest
u Some considerable quantities of American flo
us have arrived in Paris from Havre. The flour W
o. brought up the Seine in barges and was packed
la casks considerable crowd assembled on the qua
to witness the unloading of this, for Paris, no.
nd cargo,
w. Attempts made to cultivate rice in France, ha