The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-10-28
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From the Boston Daily Wing, goth.
Arrival of the Cambria.

DLCdillSllD NdulDIld dlllNCu Ub Ills pOIi
yesterday morning at 1-2 o'clock. She
brought 1913 passengers from Liverpool to
Halifax, where she left and took s addition
al for Boston.
The news exhibits a continuation of the
unfortunate state of commercial affairs exist
ing during the previous month. The aggre-
gate Of failures not before recorded amount
to G3,000,000.
Cotton and breadstuffs have fallen, and bu-
siness generally is dull.
Honorable Alexander II. Everett, Com
missioner from the United States to China,
died at Canton on the 2Sth day of June last.
Mr. Saunders, United States representative
at Madrid, has arrived at Bayonne, on his
way to the capital.
Mr. Macaulay, the American Consul at
Tripoli, has arrived at Malta by the French
steamer Carbere.
The Caledonia arrived at Liverpool on the
2Sth ult. in q little more than twelve days
from Boston.
The packet ship Milton, from Boston 9th
ult., arrived in the NIersey on the 29th
American brig Islam, a relief VESSEL seized
on the ground Of smuggling tobacco, has been
released. The bells Of Galway were rung in
honor of the occasion.
The frigate Macedonian encountered
heavy gale the day atte:' leaving the Clyde.
14th ult. She lost many of her sails, and
was for time in great danger. She arrived
at the Cove of Cork on the 25th ult.
Parliament was prorogued on the 2lSt ult'
to the 18th inst.
A meeting of Roman Catholics was recent
ly held in London to express their sympathy
with the Pope in his recent reforms, and their
Indignation at the designs of Austria.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dub
lin, has recently received from Buenos Ayres,
S441 Is. 1Od. towards the reliefof the distress
in Ireland
The Emperor Nicholas has ordered the
Bank of Russia to advance to corn merchants
PAPER to half the value of their stock in
grain.
Such is the warlillc enthusiasm now exist
ing at Rome, that many ladies of the highest
rank employ their time in embroidering
scarfs, which are given as prizes to the best
marksmen of the National Guard.
Several French engineers have arrived in
; Egypt for the purpose of making surveys of
the 1sthmuS OF Suez, in order to ascertain
whether it will be practicable and advisable
to cut ship canal from the Mediterranean to
; the Red Sea.
Favorable winds brought into Plymouth, in
a couple of days, in the first week in Octo'
Der, at least so ships laden with grain, wait
ing for orders. A great number Of them
: were sent to the continent.
Within the last two years, $780, 400 oxen and
: sheep have been slaughtered in New South
: Wales, in order to boil their carcasSes for tai
d.; low.
On Monday the 26th ult, the magnificent
steamship Europa, another of the fine fleet o.
rev vessels now building on the Clyde, fol
the British and North American Royal Mai
Steamship Company, was launched at Por
Glasgow.
TESTIMONIAL TO GAIT FoRBEs-An
exquisite piece of workmanship, Of local man
ufacture, is now being exhibited in Cork. II
| consists of an imitation harp in gilt wood, and
, is intended to form part Of the tribute to the
Captain of the Jamestown. The frame is
richly wrought, and surmounted by the Cork
arms, and at either side, pairs OF American
coIors. The article will be despatched this
week with the piece of plate.
S The absorption of capital by the railroad
corporations has been so great, as to lead to
the appointment of a committee in Liverpool
to wait upon all the managers Of the great
s. projects in London, with a view of inducing
tnCln 10 HluDb SpulC w ~" ~
restrict the demand for capital, in the shape
of calls, as much as possible. They all pro-
= lessed I. desire to curtaiI their undertakings
r as much as possible, although it was but too
r apparent that their engagements in the shape
: Of existing debentures, their several eNten,
, sions of the main lines, more or less advanced
in progress, prccluded the possibility OF
} checking their works at any such extent as
would relieve the community. The railway
calls during the present month of October
amount to G3,365,G51 British, and &92,36o
> foreign, together G3,458,o oil, making grand
. total from the 1st January to 31st October Of
. es7S73,854, of which &31, 5sS,994 were
: British AS an instance of the depreciation
i. of railway property it was statedin meeting
+ at Manchester few days since, that IN
u company whose property at market value wa;
&5,5O0,ooo in January last and upon wIlcf
o 81 100000 had been paid, the gross value nov
e 90 hut GA 150 600