The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-01-01
FORRIGN NEWS.

She left Liverpool on the 18th November y
The Bullion il tie Bank has increased, the ii
amount in both departments being E8,729,6Oi' n
The corn markets have advanced, and gen.
orally speaking there was q better feeling in P
the Produce market. .
AS an Offset, however, to this more e%ncoura- ?
lging state of affairs, we are constrained to say :
that the general condition OF the country is lar
from healthy. Trade appears to be ParalyEed' '
and the slight ameliOration which ! s at times :
perceptible, seems to be OF a spasmodic chaTac-
ter-so heeting indeed that the improvement
lean scarcely be noticed before a relapse has
again taken place. Confidence was gradually
r~eyivine, but several fresh failures which oc-
cNtred q few days prOr to the departure OF the
steamer, cast a fresh gloom over the CoHimunl-
tIty."6
The London News says, Banks are charging
v~ariOusly from 2 to 8 per cent, for first class pa
: per. Approved bills at 4 months have been
: charged 9 per cent, and in some instances ~
: Der cent. without commission. a@7
The Post Of the same date says, that never
. did a British Parliament meet to consider q
more melancholy state Of national affairs than
will present itself to the contemplation OF the
Parliament, which will sit for the first time this
b day. e
IRRLAND-The sad condition Of the Peasantry
of Ireland, will COMPEL Parliament to call Tor
dnother Insh loan, and this with the large de-
6eitin the revenue, it lie expected will embar-
er rass the Ministerial party.
re The reports from the manufacturing districts
en- are still Of a sad character. The working OF
as short time, and the entire stOpPage OF many
tn mills, continue with but little alteration. The
work people are therefore suffering great Prva'
I'm tons.
att The number Of cotton mills in Lancashire il
an 900, employing, 100000 hands. Two hundred
ng mills are now entirely closed, while the mum
Get Der Of hands in full work e only about 40,
Irk 600 on short time $1,000; and the humble
cry now unemployed is $4,000. Their diStres
to Is represented as very severe. The rePor
u.s. saws "The operatives are absolutely starving
the middle classes, shop-keepers, and whole
md sale dealers, are without income; beggars az
rer- more numerous than customcrs! and taxes 10
ere The relief Of the destitute are doubled"
ack Parliament was opened on the 18th ult, b'
the business was confined to proceedings OF
ling formal nature. The Royal Speech was not
! Of be delivered till the 23d, and the regular bus
,inO ness of the session would M
are Shaw Lefevre was again Speaker OF the Hous
1l On the Cd November, the well known dlPl
matist. Count Bress m, Ambassador to Maple
,aiIs committed suicide by cutting his throat with
mail razor. ~ e..
Int Count Mortier, French Ambassador to TUT
attempted 10 murder his two children andco
init suicide, but was prevented BY the arrival
. the his friends.
des- Baron Rothschild has taken the French loan
75f 22c. He was the only bidder, and the !
" Of price caused considerable dissatisfaction
Oh 70 Letters from ConstantinOple state that
3 At a government barracks at scurati, the largest
h but finest in Europe, and capable OF accommOdat
which $4,000 men, have been entirely destroyed
fire.
da,sd From Switzerland, newsais hourly exPeC
f the &c a great engagement between the two {
that tending parties. Fribnrg will be the scent
the action.
The Lord Lieutenant has issued a procla
il NOT, ton. addressed tOithe lieutenants OF cOun
il har- announcing the determination OF the ExeCu
,e an m resort to every means within the PoweI
have the Queens vicegerent to suppress the "
"A snirit which now disturbs the public pc
. fax, and retards the social improvement and
things prosperity Ofthe country.
PnSsiA. The Cholera has already disaPE
all al from Moscow, but il appears to be Sprea
ue has bevond that city in the direction of ST. re
burg.
Nom According to the latest intelligence
len he Moscow, tn number Of patients in that
5msrg- a the morning Of the 10th October, amou
mystic 10 lO5. On the same day, 81 others wei
being lacked, Of whom % have died. On the
ell the inc Of the nth October, the number OF pat
in the was 1856, which is considered an insight
rropottion for 100000 inhabitants.
There have been few cases at Waldal
70 been Al Novogorod, a city not more than AZ lei
Colum from ST. Petersburg.
FRANcR.-On the l2ths o councll OF MN
reSo'. was held at the palace Of S. Cloud q :
o. the King presided in person. The ana
~ MN Switzerland are understood to have osea
he Peo- under consideration. Immediately ai1e
vaiua- council %cOuriers were sent with desPa'oI
Of the M. Bots LeCOmpte, a. Berne, and to the y
'Ountisa Ambassador at Vienna. i was report
10 sum Paris that an arrangement had been CO.
70 bSen he,ween the French and AustrianG Govern
lot the for a joint and ar'ned Intervention 70 ~
alOue'- land BY these two powers. It was addeO
81 orders had already been sent to the COM
! Ev.r. ers Of the troops on the Swiss frontiers :
. ,,;on themselves in res dlness 70 march a'am0'
4 Presi- notice. that the