Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1847-01-28
Arrival of the Hibcrnia.
Four Days Later from Europe

The Steamship llibernia, Capt. Ryrie, arriv-
ed ut Boston on Monday morning at o'clock
from Liverpool the 9th inst. via Halifax, hav-
ing accomplished her passage, notwithstanding
heavy western gales, in ID l.2 days, without
meeting with any disaster.-She brought lO7
passengers, including the Earl Of EIgin, the
new Governor General Of Canada, to Halifax,
and los to Boston, leaving 0 at Halifax. She
also brings So 600, 900 in specie, consigned to
merchants in Boston and New York.
The steamer Acadia arrived at Liverpool on
the 10Th ult and the Caledonia on the Both.
The packet ships Ashburion aud John X.
Skiddy, from New York, and ;he Mary Ann
from Boston, had also arrived out.
The news is important both in general and
commercial view.
The Liverpool Cotton Market has under
gone unusual hucluaton.
The Grain trade has been unusually active,
and prices have improved.
Wilmer a. Smiths European Times says
that American wheat, -four, aud Indian corn,
have been gradually rising.
The money market has been quiet, and with
little huctuatioh since our last advices.
Parliament was o meet on the 10Th Of Janu-
ary. Lord Stanley had addressed a circular to
the Protection members OF the House oi Peers,
suggesting that matters Of importance would III
all probability be Immediately brought under
their consideration.
The Morning Chronicle alu,es to a series
Of measures for the improvement OF Ireland,
as being in readiness for presentation, among
W hich tho poor-law which gives wOrkh0use
relief to some 20, 600 or 80 900 aged and IN.
firm persons will receive "a mod ihcation. In.
door relief to able bodied paupers is held to
be plainly impossible; the present work.hou'
ses which have cost about El5O,0OO, 600 to
l.. -. .hI IA. dor.
able proportion Of them, unless multiplied ten
fold. Provisions for facilitating emigration, il
IL thought will form a necessary part Of the
government scheme.
Throughout Ireland the greatest distress
prevails, and deaths by starvation are OF daily
occureDse. 1t is stated that thousands OF poor
peis sons are preparing to emigrate 10 the I'm.
ted States, even in the midst Of winter. The
European Times says: So groat and unpar-
aleo is the amoont Of destitutioD that the ef-
forts Of Government to abridge and mitigate
the sufierings Of the distressed prove unequal
to the emergency. Private benevolence starts
back at the horrifying picture Of misery which
daily demands relief In iact, in many instan
css the Irish cabins are little better than char
mel houses, where the dead, uncared for, un.
buried, lie fostering by the side Of the dying I!
The distress is so overwhelming that the Irish
landlords have become alarmed for the safety
OF their estates, and are combining 10 devise
measures to arrest the ruin which seems to
be impending over their heads
In Scotland, the poor are suffering incredi
Bile privations. In the Highlands the severity
Of distress is beyond all precedent.
The Steamer Great Britain remains on the
sands in Dundrum Bay, and no further attempt
has been made to get her of.
BY THE OvERLAsD MAIL accounts have
been received in London, from Calcutta To
Nov. 20, Bombay Nov. 90, and Hong Kong to
Oct. 80.
Mr.. Everett the American Minister to Chi.
ma, arrived at Macao on the 9th Oct. and on
the Goth he embarked for Canton IN the u. b
corvette Vincennes, Capt. PauldiDg, accompa.
MED by Mr.. Peter Parker, Secretary Of the Le.
CATION.
THE PREspEsT's Message to Congress
reached England on the 27ih Of December,
and appears to have been eagerly looked for
d 10 commented upon by the English press
with much severity, aud that portion Of o.
which relates to the war with Mexico, seems
to have elected no, only astonishmeni, bu, in.
dignation.