Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-12-17
News from England.

News from England.
The steamer Britannia arrived at Boston on
"Wednesday evening. 9Th inst. bringing fAsen
days later foreign news. She encountered west.
eriy gales during her whole passage, and wa,
considerably longer than usual in making it.
The commercial accounts are no better and
no worse. Confidence Is not vet restored, and
more failures have occurred. None of them,
however, are American Houses. Cotton, no
change Iron has fallen again. Brcadstufs are
little reduced in price but millers and bakers
are not buyers, except to meet their immediate
wants The failures are principally in the India
trade.
In all the manufacturing districts, the oper-
aiiyes are suffering severely by the closing Of
mills and the system Of working short time
The number Of cotton mills in Lancashire is
920, employing 10000 hands. 200 mills are
now entirely closed, while the number of hands
in full work is only about rs 900; on short time,
$4,000 and the number unemployed is $4,000.
In Manchester alone, the number unemployed
is now 10000. Their distress is represented as
very severe. One report says; "The operatives
are absolutely starving the middle classes, shop
keepers, and wholesale dealers, are without In
come beggars are more numerous than custo-
mers; and taxes for the relief of the destitute
are doubled"
To these immense numbers OF unemployed
men must be added other thousands lingering
about unfinished and suspended railway works
Their condition altogether is most distressing,
and is attracting general attention That some
thing must he Immediately done for the relief Of
| these unemployed and starving thousands il
! generally admitted.
| Parliament was opened on the 18th ult., but
the business was confined to proceedings Of q
formal nature. The Royal Speech will not be
delivered till the 2Sd, and then the regular bust
ness Of the session will commence. Mr. Shaw
Lefeyre was again chosen Speaker of the House
and both houses adjourned at three O'Clock.
! The Times of the 9TH ult, in leading art
Gle, spoke Of the declining revenue and increas-
cd demands on the Imperial Exchequer, and
stated that the nation was now living on its cap
itsl. This journal then suggested the necessity
| OF augmenting taxation, BY adding two or three
| per cent to the Property and Income Tax
This article appearing just before the opening Of
Parliament and in paper having, as is suppos-
ed, the confidence of the Ministerial party, caus-
ed no little sensation. The Post Of the 18th
ult. says that never did British Parliament
meet to consider a more melancholy state of ma
tional affairs than will present itself to the con
temptation of the Parliament which will sit for
the first time this day.
The sad condition of the peasantry of ireland
will compel Parliament to call for another Irish
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Modenese troops. and cxpel them ffom the inva
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been shed.
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