Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-10-28
Arrival of the Cambria.

SIXTEEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
The Steamer Cambria arrived at Boston on the Goth
inst, bringing dates from Liverpool to the 9Th instant.
We receive by it the intelligence of the death of tine
Hon. Alexander II. Everett, who died in Canton, on
the Goth of June last. Painful accounts Of immense
failures are recorded by the London and other papers,
and the commercial interests are represented as in a
depressed and gloomy state through the country. Some
failures are reported from London, Manchester, and
Liverpool firms Of such extensive business that hun
dreds Of others in the smaller towns are materially in
jured in consequence of them.
lRELAND.-Father Matthew, it Is now definitely an
nounced, will visit America IN the spring of l64S.
The Morning Chronicles Dublin correspondent says
that from all parts Of Ireland " The accounts are most
gloomy as to the prospects of the approaching winter.
In the aggregate, there Is abundance of food, but mill
ions Of the population who had existed in former years
} upon potatoes, are. or very soon will be, to5alIy desti-
tute, unless sustenance can be provided for them by
the poor-rate or employment"
1t is stated that there are now 1900 fever patients
in various temporary hospitals throughout Ireland.
Already three-tourths of the poor-law unions in Ire
land have declared their inability to pay the new rates,
and the probability is that before Christmas the remain
ing fourth will have pronounced to the same effect.
FRANcE.-Although the warlike aspect of Italian af-
fairs has become greatly modified, and some slight re-
actions have occurred in the public securities, the re-
cent dismal news from England has spread great con-
sternation among the moneyed interests of Paris. The
negotiation of the loan of $50, 0,000 francs is con-
sidered impracticable, and securities of every descrip-
ton have been severely depressed. A Jewish firm,
who have been at the head of the Bear party on the
course several months, have, it is said, gained upwards
of a million and a half sterling by the operations.
SPAIN.-Nothing of interest from this country.
Madrid Journals of the Doth and 9th ut. contain
two royal DEGREES Of some Importance as regards the
finances. BY one, the order suspending the sale of
property belonging to the monasteries and converts
has been revoked, and all these possessions are to be
allenated for the benefit oil the state. BY the other, a
sale Is ordered OF the property called Propios, hitherto
administered by municipalities. The produce of this
property Is also to go to the public treasury.
Catalonia continues to be disturbed by Carlist bands,
: and several petty actions have been fought with vari-
o ! GUS success between them and the royalist troops
The Captain General of the province has declared the
: entire line of the Pryenees to be in a state of block
AIDE, with the single exception Of La J%ohnquere. The
latest newspaper JUNIORS state that under the advice of
Lord PaImerston, the marriage Of the Queen with Don
Francisco is to be annulled, and Her Majesty is to be
married to the Count de Montemolin.
S lTALY.-The insurrectlon in Sicily is supposed to be
y quelled, whilst that in Calabria still RACES but no def
= mite intelligence is allowed to reach the rest of Eu-
rope on the subject. 1t is reported in Paris that a trea-
ty had been entered into between the Pope and the
d Emperor, IN winch Austria renounces to nix in the af-
: fairs and policy of the town OF Ferrara.
), In Sicily and Calabria the accounts are Of the most
threatening description. At Messind, where disturb
. anceS had taken place, the Nepolitan troops quelled the
{ movement, and, in%stituting court martials on the spot,
n shot twenty-five young men belonging to all classes OF
e society. These sangulnary executions had excited
great horror at Naples. Reggie had been b~ombarded
by a division of steam irigates, and a great many hous-
i es had been destroyed, with considerable loss of life.
e SwGrzERLAND.-The military preparations for &C
s tive hostilnies between the b~eligcrent cantons Of Swift
t zerland were proceeding rapidly on the 22d ut, The
e cantons of Zurich and Berne are alone able to bring
into the field 10000 troops perfectly drilled, armed,
and equipped. The Austrian envoy resides at Zurich,
where he is strenuously, but truitlessly, Iaboring to pre-
o vent the adoption of coercive measures against the
Sonderbund."
y RUSSIA AND NORwAY.-In Russia the Asiatic chol-
era Is making rapid progress westward, in consequences
: of which the Emperor has deferred his visit to Poland =
Q The Governor General of that kingdom had appointed
10 a committee OF physicians to suggest measures for It's
preservation from the Eruption, but later accounts an
nounce its appearance at Warsaw. Dr. Prus informed
the Academy of Sciences of Paris, on Monday, the
9th ult, that the Asiatic Cholera had manifested il
-, self at Riga, where 1t first appeared in the north OF
Europe IN 1882, hut hitherto it had been less fatal.
A letter from Christiana Norway relates, that, on
the llth, between four and five in the afternoon, the
= immense rock which hung over the vast domain Of
Helsingeguard, and which several days before had
d split in many places, came suddenly down and cover
v ed an immense space, crushing beneath its weight "a
dwelling-houses and their inhabitants, estimated at $50
c in number, Attempts were immediately made for their
}. release, but after laboring for a week, when the letter
q was written, only two bodies had been reached,
one of a woman, and the other of a child seven years
old, both l~ifaless. Only 10 of the inhabitants of the
a place have escaped this tremendous disaster, which
e has occasioned a loss of property estimated at 500
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