Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-08
GoreiQu News.


The Niagara reached the city early on
Thursday morning, having left Liverpool
April 10, and made the passage in less than
IL days.
The day before she sailed was good Fri.
day, and was kept as a strict holiday in
Liverpool and London. and no business was
done.
Concerning the London money market
we have the following, under the date of the
18th -
ain the foreign market there has been
more movement than Tor many weeks past.
Prices have undergone great and repeated
changes in one or woinslances, whilst bust
ness has In some stocks been very active.
The great event of the week, however, has
been the fall in Portuguese stock, occasion.
ed ny the revelation in that country, which
has sent the price down IA per cent.
The next feature of interest is rise of at
least l-2 per cent in Mexican. Next
follows decline to the like extent in
Buenos Ayres. Spanish FIVE per cents. have
improved about IA per cent"
On the nth the directors of the bank of
England finally decided against making
any further advance in the minimum rate of
interest.
British transport ship Buckinghamshire,
5000 tons, took fire Just as she had left the
mouth of the Hoogbly, March l, and was
run ashore, and most of the 2lO passengers
saved by steamer, though many were bad
ly burnt, and FIVE were drowned. Loss
8l2O,UOO.
Mr.. King, an American Protestant minis.
ter, in the habit of preaching in Greek at
Athens, was interrupted by some young men
while abiding to the crime of Cain, and
such row ensued that he left the pulpit,
and hoisIed the U. S. flag on his house for
safety.
A private letter from Bombay says the
cholera was making fearful ravages there.
The people were dying by hundreds, and
several captains of vessels lying in the har-
Dor had persisted,
Lord Langdale, late minister of the rolls,
died on the 18th.
ain Ireland, " says the Liverpool Journal,
patriotic efforts fail to get up commend
able agitation. The people are emigrating
SO numerously that they have time only to
think of their own affairs An anticipated
result has already shown itself; there is, for
the first time on record, want of Iaborers
in the country. Wages will of course rise,
and an improved condition of the poor will
stay the flood of emigration. The land is
changing hands rapidly, and at a rate of
purchase which it is marvellous does not
import English capital"
Mr. Whitehead has been chosen to
parliament for EnniskilIen BY &c majority
An aggregate meeting of Roman Cath
olics is to be held in Dublin ito express
their determination to resist the ATTEMPTED
invasion of Catholic liberty"
The German affair hangs fire, and the
only news from Italy is, that Lombardv
swarms with Austrian troops.
Prince Wittgenstein, the minister of the
royal house of Prussia, died on the evening
of the 18th April.
The French socialists have decided unon
bringing forward mechanic for tho presi.
dency Of the republic next year, and have
selected for that office man of the name
Anthony, director of an association Of cab.
netmakers, in the Faubourg St. Antoine
The new French ministry do not as vet
feel quite hrm IN theirseats, They obvious.
y dare not venture on revising the consti-
luton IN any unconstitutional way. The
republic grows daily more into favor: and
the reports of bad trade are fallacious
vi the lnsurrectlon in Portugal, the most
considerable event brought by this arrival
we have the following account, in news from