Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-12-22
Foreign Arrivals.

The Canada arrived ut New York on Thurs
day morning Of last week, ist days from Div
erpool, and the Niagara at Boston on Friday
night, iSk days from Liverpool. The latter
brought English dates to the I'd inst
ENGLAND.-The general Improvement in
commercial affairs continues. Money is easy in
London
The imports of breadstuifs had exceeded ex-
pectations, and the supply was large Prices
had declined, and further reduction was ex-
pectcd
The total number Of cases Of cholera reported
In London and vicinity up TO Nov. 25th, was
S97, of which 302 had died, and IS had recov-
cred.
Viscount Melbourne, for many years Prime
Minister OF England, died on the oath ult.
lRELAHD.-The accounts from Ireland begin
10 assume the melancholy interest which they
Possessed in lS46. Cold-biooded murders, law
hess attacks on dwelling houses, and atrocous let
hers, threatening death, &c, are becoming the
order Of the day again, in some directions; while
want, misery and starvation are beginning to
abound in other quarters, particularly the South
and West "The potatoes says the European
Times, shave nearly disappeared from these
doomed regions; the poor-houses are crowded to
overfiOwing, and, notwithstanding the extent to
3 which out door relief is administered, the poor
In the mountainous and boggy districts are suf-
ierng all the horrors OF famine. Starvation
RACES in the counties Of Mayo, Cork Sligo, Ker-
81 ry, Glare. and GALWAY, to fearful extent, and
more or less in several other counties nearer TO
the metropolis"
FRANcE.-The Boston Courier says.-"Tho
f probability Of Louis Napoleons elevation to the
Presidency Of the French republic rests upon
estimates of mos. singular character. 1t may
be regarded as extraordinary that the ultra dem
ocrats and the ultra royalists should combine TO
support this individual; nevertheless, such is
the fact The one party hope that his election
will cause the overthrow Of the existing gov
iernment, and the establishment of red repub.
lie, or political saturnalia, in which every body's
property will be nobody's, and all the universe
Is to be tumbed together, pell-meli, for gen.
oral scramble. This is mad notion if ever
there was one, but it is not too mad for French
mob. The other party see in Louis Napoleon
the resorer of monarchy; and the restoration Of
monarchy in any shape must lead, as they think
to the re-establishment of the Bourbons on the
French throne. Napoleon remarked that the
Bourbons, during their exile, had forgotten moth
ing and learned nothing. 1t is evident that they
still dream of Henry V. and absolute rule"
The National Assembly has reduced all inland
postage throughout the republic to four sous OF
cents. The act goes into operation in January
RoME.-There has been an instruction IL
the Holy City, in which the mob proceeded t.
inc llur1rol palace, demanding new ministry
and declaration of war, &c. The Swiss Guard
resisted them, but shortly afterwards the cenc'
Guards, a large force, appeared, invested tn,
palace and compelled submission. The Popei
Secretary was shot in the breast, and the Pop,
submitted to the appointment of a ministry die
tated to him, composed of those who got up the
conspiracy. His authority appears to be entire
~ Frustrated The Popular Club is the Su.
preme Government, and decides all measures
Peace was afterwards restored to the capital.
AUsTRIA.-There was a prospect of tran
guilty in Vienna. Arrests continued to be
made there. The war in Hungary continues.
Couriers are constantly passing between OIL.
mutt and St. Petersburg, and it is said that the
Soyereigns of Russia, Austria, and Prussia have
formed "Holy Alliance"