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Foreign News

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
January
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Foreign News By the Acadia, later advices have been received from Europe. The news is favorable to peace and the settlement of the Oregon question, but bad and gloomy on the state of the markets and money affairs. The intelligence received in England relative to the discussions in this Country of the Oregon question, and the statement put forth by the Washington Union, had created quite a war panic there for a week. It had subsided at the last accounts - and there was a general expression in the press, that if Mr. Polk had offered the forty-ninth parallel, it ought to have been accepted. It is also said that the refusal of such an offer must have been caused by the Hudson Bay Company, at the expense of the other and greater commercial interests of England with the United States. The English press is far more moderate on the question than was expected, and the French press still more so - nay, even favorable to the United States. Yet there is still a talk and a show in England of army and naval preparations. There was a decline in the price of flour in the Liverpool market of about a shilling sterling per barrel from the quotations by the last steamship; but the accounts from the agricultural districts of England do not make us aware that more of the harvest has been saved than was anticipated, or that the gloomy forebodings of scarcity have given place to more cheering hopes. Nor has the news from the continent any brighter complexion. In Germany and Switzerland food is scarce and high, and the grain marts of the Danube are in a very excited state, as are also those of the Baltic. - In some parts of France, great alarm is felt lest the supply of bread stuffs will not be sufficient for the wants of the people, and disturbances have taken place in the north to prevent the removal of corn to the south, where the crop has partially failed.