Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-02-19
FoRElGN.

Specch-Further Advance IN Bread seer, assa'
FAMINE and Disease IN ITeland-De.t:.
tion IN Scotland, &c. &c. "s'
The steamship Sarah Sands arrived ,tN
York on Wednesday evening the 10th ins,.s.
just in time to be too late for the news to ,s..s
this place in time for our last weeks nan.
The Sarah Sands brings dates from I;rs'
pool up to the 10th ult, inclusive. w.
indebted to our northern exchanges 70, q
following items of intelligence:
The commercial intelligence received l.,
this arrival is highly important Bread.trs,
throughout Europe are still on the rise
The Liverpool Times of the 18th ,ro..
Flour at 42a43s Sd. Wheat 4d. higher NJ IT,
dian Corn Is higher The activity IN m '
cotton market had fallen off, and the dem. as
was dull.
English funds were depressed and Cop,ol.
falling.
Great and unparalleled distress exists in T..
land the plague and famine were Carrying 0s
the poor in great numbers
The civil war in Portugal was turnps !,
favor of the Queen.
The Spanish Cortes opened on the 3lsD
cember. The Queen in her speech recon-
mends liberal provisions for the clergy ana
the church
The distress in Scotland seems scarcely lee.
than in Ireland, and earnest appeals are mad.
for assistance
The London Globe states, that on the 9Th
an Office was opened according to the decree,
of the Mexican government, for granting LET.
tiers of marque and reprisal against vessels he.
longing to the U. States. 1t is stated that IA.
tents will be granted only to vessels of which
the captain, officers and other individuals an.
pointed thereto, are Mexican citizens accor.
ding to the laws of the Republic. Minute al.
rections are given for their government.
We are informed that the number of emf.
grants-principally from the sister isle, who
are almost daily taking their departure from
this country for various parts of America, in
the numerous packets-ship leaving this port,
is scarcely credible, considering the advanced
state of the season. Few steamers from Ire
land arrive without their decks being crowded
by poor people, gladly leaving their wretch
ed country, to seek in land in plenty, that
subsistence denied them at home.-LiU. Jaur,
From the Mark lane Express.
THE CORN TRADE.
Tuesday, Jan. 90. The value of wheat
has risen day by day for many weeks conse
cutively, without a single pause, and prices
have now attained an altitude calculated 10
induce caution on the part of buyers. Prudent
tradesmen consider speculative investments al
present rates, hazardous, and parties who pur.
chase only in the regular way of business are
gradually restricting their operations, being
generally unwilling to take more than Just
sufficient to keep their customers supplied
When affairs arrive at this position, reac.
ton usually follows, but owing to peculiar
circumstances of the present season, we great.
| ly doubt, whether such will, in this instance,
prove the case. The fact, that large shipments
of grain continue to be made from England to
Ireland, from which country, in the ordinary
course of events, we are in the habit of draw.
ing a considerable proportion of our supplies
is alone sufficient to upset all previously con-
ceived notions.
But the singularity of our position does not
end here. The loss of the potato crop in Ire
land, and the consequent necessity OF feeding
several millions of people, not generally in the
habit of consuming grain, on SO expensive
substitute, is Certainly one very powerful rea.
son for concluding that prices cannot we'll re.
cede but when to this be added the present
state of France, and other continental coun-
tries, where the crops of corn have proved SO
short as to oblige the different governments 10
have recourse to such expedients as those
lately adopted by the French-frst altering
the navigation laws to encourage importation,
by admitting flour under flags of all nations.
and subsequently taking off the duties Of
grain altogether-there are certainly grounds
to apprehend that it will be necessary to pay
very high prices abroad to induce our CONT
mental neighbors to part with a commodity
they stand in such urgent need of themselves.
We are, therefore, inclined to think, that,
unless the spring should prove extraordinarily
propitious, and the arrivals from the other
side of the Atlantic more extensive than we
have reason to calculate on, the value of all
kinds of food will remain high up to the time
of next harvest The trade in wheat has not
been quite so excited this as the preceding
week, the very high terms demanded having
had the effect, as stated above, OF causing all
parties to exercise more than usual prudence
in their operations.
Parliament was opened on the 10Th Janua-
ry, by the Queen in person, with the usual
ceremonies. The speech of the Queen being
very short, we are induced to lay it before our
readers Here it is:
&c My Lords and Gentlemen
at is with the deepest regret that upon your again
assembling have to call your attention to the
dearth of provisions which prevails in Ireland
and in pats of Scotland.
In Ireland especially the loss of the usual food
of the people has been the cause of severe suffer-
ngs. of disease, and of greatly increased mortality
amongst the poorer classes. Outrages have be-
come more frequent chiefly directed against pro-
perty and the transmit of provisions has been rem
dered unsafe, in some parts of the country.
with view to mitigate these evils very large
numbers of men have been employed, and reeelV'
ed wages, in pursuance of an act passed in eDs
last session of Parliament. Some deviations from
this act, which has been authorized BY the Loru
Lieutanant in order to promote more useful en-
ployment, will, I trust, receive your sanction.
Means have been taken to lessen the pressure Of
want in districts which are most remote from tho
ordinary sources Of supply. Outrages have been
repressed, far as it was possible, By she military
, and the police.
Z" 1t is satisfactory to me 70 observe, that In ma,
ny of the most distressed districts the patience ana
resignation of the people have been most e1enl-
plary. The deficiency of the harvest in France q
Germany, and other parts of Europe. has added 70
the difficulty of obtaining adequate supplies OF pro,
visions. 1t will be your duty to consider "ha'
further measures are required to alleviate the eN
isting distress. l recommend to you to take ln'0
your serious consideration whether, by increasing
for limited period the facilities for importing cO'n
from foreign countries and by the admission u
theI dlstIIeTlesi