Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-05-22

Rhenlsh Provinces have continued in our markets
during the past week. and prices have advanced
during the last fortnight more than los. quarter
The scarcity in Prussia and Saxony is becomn,
more severely felt, and many facts may be quoted
to show the great pressure which is experienced il
various parts OF Germany. The scarcity has beer
aggravated by the backwardness of the season
which will of necessity cause late harvest. Ii
1889 and 1910, Mayence, on the Rhine furnished
London with consignments of 100000 quarters o.
wheat: this year purchases have been made ir
England to be forwarded to that city, where the
stocks are reduced to the lowest ebb. The GUS
tom-house returns exhibit very large arrivals Of
grain and produce both in England and Ireland, but
notwithstanding, the markets in both countries are
! advancing
| The accounts are uniavorable from the manufac.
turing districts. American and East India orders
have been received to large amount, but have MOI
materially improved the state of business. The
pressure in the money market is felt severely in
this department. and the high price of the raw MATERIAL the
which pecegoods or yarns can only
be disposed of and the uncertainty of the effect Of the
hours BILL which is yet pending in Parliament all tend to
render the manufacturers to contract fresh liabilities
the present time. great number Of mills being closed
and the operatives rapidly sinking into OF dleness
and want They will suffer much fear, during the next
Although the ten hours bill has only Legislative and direct
operation upon the labor Of young persons and children YET
the effect will be to close the mill the end of the ten hours
for when these work, the machinery can no longer
be pofaby continued either the owner or the adult
rative These gloomy prospects, you will say sin
cerey wish that saw brighter ones, and feel much pain
communicating them. There is, however, recuperatve
power about the asanchored ISLE which has enabled her
to rally again. against much adverse circumstances
than her present ones, and have fear for the result
though that result may be reached through much pain and
suffering.
What with the deporabe effects Of famine and pesilence
and the less miserable but may happen very mischevous
results Of emgraon the population of Ireland be very
materially diminishing. In the of the present year
ninety thousand persons have landed from Ireland Liver
pool alone, Of whom fifty thousand arrived in March, and
twentyiour thousand hundred and nine in the first
fourteen days of April OF these ninety thousand
have already emgraed the British North American Pro-
vnces and the United States and the remaining sixty thou
sand have spread the of Liverpool and the neigh
borhood London beginning TO receive its share OF
this miserable Importation vessels landed there on the
18th twelve hundred Irish paupers, having brought
number the preceding Sunday The greater part of these
people in the wetched of Distress and forth
with distributed themselves the part of the
ropos Glasgow is also inundated with arrivals of the same
unwecome description.
Liverpool is however, prosperous beyond precedent far
as commercial returns indicative Of prosperity and h.
tonnage nwards and outwards of that port attained
greater amount than that of the Thames ITSELF The
Of Liverpool continues steadily to increase-h,
amount for the three months which ended the 5h inst having
exceeded that Of the espondng three months of 1916
GAG, 63s.
The Dssenters certainly playing very unwise part
their violent opposition to the vote Of 600 by the House
OF Commons for the purpose of education If they really
the union Of Church and and the exstenc,
of State Religion such, they taking
mode OF showing il for they pursuing the most certain
method of strengthening il by their present iberal and
polite agitation Especially dangerous it for any party
however strong, to offend the Of the country
but the Dssentes, and powerful they are,
shocked and iated the of the by thu
violence with which they have met the proposition of the
Ministers by the uncharabeness with which they have
vassed its bearings and by the fantastic nventveness witt
which they have discovered evils which exist only in the
bugbears of their imagination. Lord John RUSSELL
purity OF life and character and the characteristic
of purpose which has always distinguished his public career
should have shielded him from accusations and innuendo i'm
putting to him the most crooked designs Ii not to b.
expected that any could be propounded by Govern
ment that would not for the uness of its operation require
all sects Sacrlhce
The Churchmen have the difficulty with Christian ber
atty and good feeling the Dissentes have materially dam
aged the great of dissent by their intolerance. From
this CHARGE however, secs and those the most diff
ferng rom each other must in great be excepted
the Wesleyan Mehodsts and the Unitarans gratifying
however, to find that the leading Of all parties in the
House OF Commons have voted in favor of the measure
division upon amendment which would have virtually
destroyed it, Only AZ voted in the affirmative in support Of
such amendment and 372 against and for Lord John Rus
sells proposition.
This is pretty long chapter of things in general relating
10 the Home Department; and is well that it So for
sign affairs have lately exhibited phases furnished
my matter worth communicating with the exception OF the
King Of Prussas speech the opening OF the Prussan Diet
Gratifying this speech must have proved every friend Of
liberty in the civilized world has
unqualified praise from the people whom addressed
There is party in the Diet who in favor of const
utional liberty and Of parliamentary inAu-
give to them say appeared for Of the leading Lon
Ion journals assert that the point merely ,oords
md not in fact This opposition party has however ti
lmphcd, and have carried, by overwhelming majority
amendment to the address in reply to the Kings Speech
he effect that the patent" Of February was not in any
way consistent with former laws and that petition should
presented to his Majesty praying him make concessions
more in accordance with the representative system. These
IRE not the word but they appear to to be the spirit
he amendment What reply the King may make this pc
tion remains to be If he has been misunderstood