The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-03-09
The tea market is rather dull.

iC dCCOulto NUN liS L1dltuldCtuI lily
districts are still unsatisfactory. In Cot
ton fabrics only a very small business is
being transacted, and prices are very ir-
regular.
HAvRE, Jan. 3l.-A sudden and total
change occurred in the situation of things,
owing to the intelligence from New
York, up TO the 9th inst, received in LII
verpool, which gave rise to animated and
speculative demand; and impaired cor
responding feeling to our market.
The sales in a few hours amounted to
1900 bales; and prices have receded.
STATE OF TRADE 1 n MANCHESTER
No material reaction in the present condi-
ton of this market from that detailed in
our last circular, save in decline of nearly
every description OF cloth and yarns.
Matters could not be more unsatisfac-
tory. Transactions have been restricted
to pressing wants.
NEW YORK SHps.-The Zenobia
reached Liverpool on the 9th, the Pat
rick Henry on the 2Sth, Anglo Saxon,
from Boston, on the 23d.
An enormous business has been done
in sugars, during the fortnight. Specula-
tors have been extensively purchasing
Prices have advanced considerably be-
You'd our quotations on the lst inst, and
ever over those last reported. Less bu-
siness is now being done. The market
has taken a turn; and the prices are de-
Ginning.
The doings of the British Parliament
are interesting. The three principal mea-
sures being
/. The ENTIRE REMISSION OF THE
Corn DUTIES.
2. The SUSPENSION OF H NAvIGA-
TIoN Laws; and
3. The PROPOSED REMISSION OF SUGAR
DUTIES.
The state Of IL Commercial and Mo
notary affairs, since sailing of last Stea-
mer, has been one Of extreme peculiarly
and interest.
A large drain upon the Bank of Eng
land. to meet the demands caused by the
extensive importations of Grain, produce
and all other sorts Of provisions into the
Kingdom, induced the Government of the
Bank to raise their rates of interest
This has caused business generally TO be
dull.
THE FAMINE.
There appears to be no mitigation in
the accounts of the sufierings by the IA
mine in Ireland. The amounts being
raised by subscriptions and otherwise,
for the relief of the suffering are, how
ever, very liberal, and will, when applied,
do much TO alleviate the distressed.
From France we have accounts Of
more disturbances OF account of threaten
ed famine. The French government,
however, is taking active means to arrest
the impending calamity.
Accounts from Prussia are almost as
distressing as those from Ireland. In the
manufacturing districts particularly, the
| destitution is very alarming, and robberies
are Of frequent occurrence.
OF the PROGRESS OF THE FAMINE, the
European Times says
The eyes of the nation are fixed on
Ireland, where death is doing it's work
through the fundamentally of starvation.
The details are horrible, sickening. The
poor try to escape, and thousands find
their way daily to England and Scotland.
Liverpool and Glasgow are overrun with
these poor creatures.
In the former town as many as 100, 00O
have received outdoor relief in a week
The pressure of local taxation on the
rate-payers is likely to ruin many small
housekee2ers, and leave them without
covering or shelter. The pressure has
become so overwhelming that Parliament
has been appealed to, but has hitherto Civ
en- no relief.
A determined effort is being made by
the wealthy classes in England 10 assist
the Irish by means of private subscrip-
tons, and by abstaining as much as posi-
bic from any superluous consumption Of
food.