Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-03-31

Foreign Items,

ENGLAND.-Ihcrc was a rumor ut Liverpool
on the sailing of the Cambria, that Lord John
Russell had resigned the Premiership. The
Budget had caused much dissatisfaction. The
deficiency of the Revenue was 81 O0,O 900.
Lord John Russell had proposed TO increase
the Income Tax to 8 per cent. for two years.
The majority in the House Of Commons in IA
vor of the second reading of the Jewish disabil-
tiles bill, was 70.
Winners Times says, the Ministry is doomed,
having been defeated in several measures.
An express locomotive ran from London to
Glasgow, with the news of the French Revolu-
ton, in 10 hours. Distance 472 miles.
Confidence was returning in England, and
money was more abundant. No more failures
Of Importance were anticipated. There was
considerable more activity in the manufacturing
districts.
At Liverpool, Feb. 26, Cotton was inactive at
Id a Id decline. Breadstuhs had been depress-
ed, but closed at rather frmer prices the de-
mand is moderate. Flour, 27s Cd per Dbl. (;
Corn, &c a sos: American Wheat, co n 6ss;
Meal, lbs n lbs Gil.
The accounts which reach us from IRELAND,
are, as usual, replete with outrage, crime, and
starvation. The dead are buried without shrouds
or collins. The jails and prisons are filled with
persons charged with stealing cabbages, pota-
toes, turnips, &C., for food. A female was re-
cently committed 10 prison for having in her
possession a head of cabbage, which was si1ppos-
ed to have been stolen. Five hundred people
embarked from the port of Sligo, in one week,
for America. Murders of the most atrocious
character, are also quite frequent. A man in
Ulster County was recently seized in his own
house, and laid on the fire, where he was delib-
erately roasted
BAvARIA.-We learn that Lola Montez had
been driven from the country by the students
and people, in spite of the attempts of the King
10 sustain her. Her expulsion was attended
with considerable violence. The people sacked
and destroyed her palace, and the King of Ba-
yaria, who attempted to interfere, was stoned
Lola Montez appeared in male attire, armed
with pistols, and escorted by a body guard Of
students. 1t was thought that she would have
been slain by the mob, IL it had not been for the
Intervention of the soldiery.
ITALY.-The work of ameliol alton is going
forward in Italy. The Sicilian Parliament wa.
. to assemble at Palermo. A Regency has been
appointed during the minority of the Prince
Royal, who is to be Viceroy Of Naples. The
troops had returned to Naples, and an amnesty
had been proclaimed.
The Austrian troops had come in contact with
the students of the University at Padua, and a
fight ensued, in which one hundred persons arc
reported TO have been killed and wounded.
Affairs at Rome are represented to be in n fe
yerish and unsettled state. Rumors are preva
lent that the Pope was disposed to hold back 4 IL
respect to reformatory measures, and that he hat
been deposed.
Prince Metternich had declared to England
that Austria would not interfere in the affairs o
Italy. This declaration had quoted the appre
tensions before prevalent, of a general Europe
an war.
IN~DIA.-Poliiical affairs in India were quiet
The commercial news is bad. Several failure
had occurred, amonp them the Union Bank n