The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1847-02-22
NEWS FROM EUROPE.
rival of the Cambria-I4 days later.

NS@NStA'
noon, in is days from Liverpool. She brings
Liverpool dates to the 4th inst.
We are particularly obliged to Mr.. Leonard
for copy of Wilmer & Smiths European Times.
The most important item OF news is the decline
in the price of flour and grain = flour being
one dollar per barrel, and Indian corn one dollar
per quarter of bushels lower than when the
Sarah Sands lett This has been produced by
the arrival of great quantities from the U. States
and elsewhere, by the conviction that dea ers had
heavy stocks on hand, and by the suspension by
the government, of the Corn Laws and the Navi-
cation Laws.
Cotton without much change, but the mar.
kets were dull, and the day before the Cambria
left, prices declined IA of cent per pound
BY the overland mail, it appears that quietness
reigns in the British possessions in India. hurricane
OF unusual violence the 18th of November had caused
great destruction to the shipping Madras.
The French government reduced the duty on bread
sufs to merely nominal, and large importati.ns
we're expected, IN consequence, from Russia Turkey
and the United States One hundred thousand barrels Of
flour had been ordered nom the latter of which 81 600
had already arrived at Havre
The French papers say that all Europe depores and
Condemns our war against Mexico not from sympathy
for Mexico but because it shows that the United States
have abandoned their respect for law and right 1t is
feared hat tHiS has given shock to the Federal
Constitution from hch il never can recover The same
papers publish accounts of the difficulty between our
minister (Wse) and the government of Brazil and rep.
resent our minister as entirely and wantonIy in the
wrong.
The French government has forbidden its subjects
from taken Mexican letters of Marque for the purpose of
prvateering against Commerce. under pain OF losing
their rights as FIenchmen.
The distress occasioned by the scarcity of provisions
had caused riots III sevei departments of France but
the disturbances calming down. The misery of the
lower classes is dreadful
The great amount of specie required to be exported
for provisions from England France, aud Belgium, mas
caused pressure on the money ma ket, and conse-
quent advance in the Tates OF interest.
The expedition of Gen. Flores for the conquest Of Ecu
adoT appears to be abandoned
The misery occasloned by the want of food in Fan-
ders is dreadful, and is said to be bad as in IIeand
An engineer in Dunbar has taken out patent for
new Steam Engine, which, il is said, will require only
an eighth part oil the fuel required for those in use
The snow at Stockholm, in Sweden, last month was
from FIVE TO six feet deep. The Swedish government
has determined TO abolish Slavery in the Island Of 81.
bartholomew IN The w Indies
The emigration from Germany 10 the United States
will be very great The present year In some places
whole villages preparing emgrate Great dis
ress exists throughout Germany. Grain is verv dear.
The government does what il can, but cannot prevent
much suffering.
The Circassans said to have been repused in an
attack upon a Russian fortress.
Several thousand persons are in danger of diving from
starvation, in Hungary, before Spring
The Pope still enjoys unbounded popularity
On New Years day the people OF Rome went in process
TO pay Their respects him He appeared on the
balcony and was received with an immense shout The
vast multitude then knel ana the Pope gave them his
blessing. On the 18th of Jan. he preached an eloquent
and affecting IN of the churches His nten.
ton so had been kept secret, prevent the col
lection OF immense crowd Ii is The first time that
Pope has preached, for three hundred years
The British Government perfecting measures not
only for the temporary but the permanent relief of Ire
land by furnishing means for draining and bringing
waste lands into cultivation, for taking lands from The
landlords al valuation and selling them To small
andholdeTs, &c.
Thousands of the destitute poor of Ireland daily find
their way 10 England aud Scotland Livernool and
Glasgow overrun with Them In Liverpool bsa-
dted thousand have received outdoor relief in a week
La se collections for the relief of Ireland have been
made IN the Churches of all denominations in England
The hghlanders are suffering nearly as much al the
Irsh and the condition of the operatives in some of Tie
large towns in England, has been aggravat,d by the
lauguld state OF the cotton manufacture.
ARRIVAL OF TOM THUMB.
Gen Tom Thumb with his protector p L. Barnum
Esq. have come passengers IN the Cambria. He has
been absent near four years and has visited most of the
of Europe aud seen their monarohs from of
whom he has received valuable presents He is said to
have greatly improved He has been exhibited before
three millions q people and the gross receipts OF bis ex
blons have been over Sepen hundred ihos,ud donrs
which would make2678 pounds of solid gold or l78
times his weight IN that valuable metal In silver
il would weigh 46 875 lbs. and make 1925 silver statues
OF the General, of 10 lbs EACH which his own weight
He has thus secured splendid fortunes for HIMSELF his
protector, and his parents.
STEAM NAVIGATION. 1t is announced that cur in
genous fellow citizen, Stephen X. Parkhurs has nyen-
Ted steam engine, simple, so powerful, and so
direct that engineers say il will supersede ali others
both on land and water. II is admirably adapted to his
new steamship propellers, and the cheapness with which
they may be applied and used, is thought will cause
them to be generally used in the packets between this
country and Europe, so that the ilng and arrival of
steamships across the Atlantic will be thing of every
day occurrence.
MARRIED.