The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-09
ADVANCE IN The COIN MARKETS.
Hostilities Broken ont in switzerland.
MORE RIOTS I'M IRELAND.
THE FRENCH STEAMERS.
MORE MERCANTILE FAIL URsS.
STATE OF THE COTTON MARKET.
&C., &C., Ne.

We received the following despatch at fifteen
minutes past two o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Bosror. Dec Ga APP M.
The steamship Britannia just telsgrsphsd She 10
She win be up at O'Clock this evening.
The steamer reached Boston about six o'clock,
and the following intelligence was Immediately
transmitted to this city over the wires.
THE NEWS.
The advices from Liverpool are to the 10Th
ult., inclusive.
| The British Parliament was convened on the
18th No business was transacted beyond the
mere ceremony of opening, which WIS done by
royal commission.
The corn market, in Liverpool, on the 10th,
to o'clock, was steady at the quotations. The
attendance was very fair.
| The French loan oftwo hundred and fifty mil
lion of francs, has been adjudged to M. de Roths-
child, at 754, which was the minimum reserved;
the adjudication had little or no effect upon the
English market.
An announcement reached London on Mon
day, that formidable conspiracy had been
discovered in Paris, which had the effect
Of seriously depressing the English funds for
short time. The committee of the stock ex-
change h I'D commenced an investigation into the
circumstances connected with the report, but it
could only be traced to Folkstone, from which
it was received by the electric telegraph.
Hostilites haveat length commenced in Swift
zerland, at the fortified city of Friberg. Some
skirmishing had taken place, in which the troops
of the Sonderbund were worsted.
| Count Bresson, French Ambassador at the
Court of the Two Siciies, committed suicide on
the End ult. and short time previous, Count
Mortier French Ambassador to the Court of
Turin, attempted to murder both his children,
and to cut his own throat, while laboring under
fit Of insanity.
DR.. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the eminent
composer of 'Eiijah,'' died suddenly at Leipsis,
on the 4th ult., IN the seth year OF his age.
A convention has been entered into between
| the Pope, the Grand Duke of Tuscany and Lucca
and the King of Sardinia, for the formation of
tariff, based upon the principle of the German
Commercial League. The measure has been
hailed throughout Europe with the greatest pos
sible satisfaction.
The state of ireland is truly frightful. A
system of agrarian resistance is every where
manifested; landlords daily falling before the
vengeance of the people.
The French mail steamer Union was to leave
Havre on the Oath ult., her departure having
| been delayed in consequence of the injuries
which her machinery suffered upon the last
voyage from New York.
The Sarah Sands will resume her place upon
the line on the 22d January.
The British and North American steamers
will continue to run fortnishtly during the win
ter, until the new vessels shall be ready, when
the spring will commence with a weekly mail !;
the new arrangement will take effect on the LIST
of January, on which day the Cambria will sail
from Liverpool for New York.
The packet ship Stephen Whitney, was totally
lost at 10 o'clock, P. M, of the 10th ult, on her
voyage from New York to Liverpool, under cir
cumstances the most perfectly appalling, that
the imagination can possibly conceive. Mis-
taking the light upon Rock Island, near Cape
Clear, on the south coast of Ireland, for the
Old Head of Kinsale, she continued her course,
intending to make Cork Harbor, but in less than
a quarter of an hour, with suddenness which
defied all human effort to avert her fate,
she came broadside on rock called the West
Calf, four miles inside the Cape, and in less than
ten minutes after striking. she dashed to atoms,
overwhelming no less than ninety-two of her
helpless crew and passengers. Eighteen only,
|
bering up the face of the rock which forms
wretched island, containing three fshermen's
| huts.
The following is list OF the officers and crew
that pershed:
Charles W. Popham, master, Irishman Robert Gin
I'd mate, Epglishman; Thomas Bills, George Raymond
| and VIM. Browne, N. Haven; Chas Browne, James
Crawford and Robt. Hope N "; VIM. wrisgs Bath,
| u. 8; Cleary, Baltimore VIM. Hicks Mass Benjamin
Evans, also native Of America; John Williams Carnsr
von Wales; Andrew Dsan. Denmark; and Rose Mo-
Csmsck, and Eliza Miller, stewardesses.
All the first and second cabin passengers persisted
comprising DR.. Groyney, Cork; Oliver Roberts, J. d
Fordyce, Scotland; Mr.. Robinson Liverpool; Thomas
McCssgus Ohio; Mrs. Thorn, Petersburg James Mosas.
kew, Mary Common, Isabella Quinn, David McGrsttsn
| Martha Duusine, and others.
The eighteen who were saved, Thos. Allen mate;
James B. Msokay, I'D mate Jos. Miller, steward
VIM. Johnston, (boy) John Halfway, David Ferguson
VIM Smith, Henry Hume, DsnI Gresvss, Thos. jackson
John Pearson, George Prince, Aaophus jackson, and
Joseph or James Saunders (sesmsn); Edwd Ekin, Pat
rick Patterson, Jr and Joseph Butler, passengers.
So complete was the destruction Of the doomed ship
that the only vestiges Of her to be found, are small
pieces Of timber, not more than four feet long.
[The Stephen Whitney belonged to Robert
Kermt's line OF New York and Liverpool pack
cts. She was about eight years old, measured
$50 tons burthen, aud was valued, together with
her cargo, at 100000, on which amount, we I'M
derstand, an insurance had been effected in Wall
street. She sailed from this port on the 18th
of October, under the command Of Capt. Pop
| ham. l-NEw YORK HERALD.
The royal mail steamer Cambria arrived at
Liverpool on the 18th ult The steamer Missouri
reached Havre, on the 18th. The ship Sea, at
Liverpool on the 10th; the Cambridge on the
llth; the Kalamazoo on the 18th the Constitu-
ton on the 18Th the Wyoming, from Philade-
phia. on the 18th. Sailed, on the eth, Queen of
the West, for New York; also tho Peter Hat.