Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-03-25
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER HIBE-


This vessel arrived at Boston on Saturday even.
last. She brings 81 passengers and very beary NJ;
The amount Of specie brough, BY the Hibe,o.
f400,00o, or nearly 100000.
The price Of brendstuiT. in the English make, Ia,
huctuated considerably within The last month b,i .
its close prices had become film, with an upws,d ~,
dency. Flour commands 80 TO 42s per barrel ,,1
Indian corn 10 TO 79s. per quarter. Pork and 49,
have risen largely, no stocks having come in from n.
Iand Other kinds Of food are cheaper
Business being dull in the manufacturing di,ltrt,
cotton has fallen IN price Id TO Lad. per p1uad
The British Government has negotiated loan Il
Es, DOC, 900, TO meet the wants Of lfelanc-p po,t
Of which is TO be repaid by that country, and The M
10 be gift. Parliament is still engaged in dsru.sisg
Lord John Russell's measures for rendering the l,s
ell property Of that unhappy island more productive,
and forcing the landlords 10 be more lsnient
The stirring extract which follows is from Wlm,,
& Smiths European Times;
'Ireiand and iis Ciaims.--The Irish ulcer i o..
hausng the resources Of the empire. Il was 10 h
expected that il should come TO this The peope Al
England have most eulpably and ioolishy conhiysd A.
nationi inquitv. Not TO go lariher back than n.
Union, for now at least half century England Ia,
had collateral voice in Irish aiaifs Ii has been no.
torious all this time that ireland was the victim Of a.
exempted social crimes. Besides lesser evils. there
existed no public provision for The poor. Progeny
ruled with savage and fyTonnical sway IL exercised
It's rights with hand Of iron, and renowned lis dul,,
with front Of brass, Age, infrmi,y disease and -.
ery form of weakness and bereavement were rasi M,
10 perish. The " fat Of the LAM, The flower Of 4.
wheat" its milk and its honey,p flowed from 4,
shores, in tribute to the ruthless absentee or bis less
guilty cousin the usuroUs lender. II was all drain
and No ye,nrp nm Is,,eng,h al ;.lr.,,,, 49, A.,
III in land where capta was in perpetusl aux snJ
decay, how much more poverty and weaknes,i IA
an integral mari of the British einpre on soil rod5sp
BY British sovereign, the landowner was allowed 10
sweep away the produce Of the earth without leaving
even a cleaning for them that arc ready 10 perishn
And they did perish year by year continually. The
whole Irish people were debased By the spectacle and
contact Of licensed mendcancy and recognized savi
lion. England stupidity wnked at this tyranny. Ready
enough 10 vindicaie political rights il did not avenee
the poor II is now paying for that connivsnce. The
dreadful consequences Of the crime have recoed boh
on The immediate agents and on the eonsenling By
ISLANDERS. We are now beginning TO wipe oh the scoe
OF long neglect"
DUBLIN, Feb. 81. There are fewer deaths by a-
iua starvation 10 the large towns, but the sgeHhs'
in the interior more intense than ever. Scarcely
county in ireland but contains large numbers who
Vanishing. 10 several southern localities, The des-
iiiuiion is most frightiul. Al Ahabologue, miles
from Cork, there were no less than ten dealhs lon
starvation on Monday and on average Of three each
day during the week previous. In one parish, contain
ing 500 souls, 100 are said TO be starving
Hundreds are dying every day o. fever and dyssn'
.eiy, tne natural consequences oil insaiheen1 noat
hnen'i ana al lhe accounts from tue districts IeuOf
liom inc great markets, concur IN anticipating e'ea
worse STATE Of ulngs, Inc supplies oil corn amoas
me farmers are rapidly disappeaIng-not, as some
used BY Their families Tor food, or sold to the distant
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