LATER FOREIGN NEWS.
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By the arrival of the Brittania we have later
news than that received by the Massachusetts
The news is of great importance--we leave out
the unlnteresting details, having matter of more
useful description with which to fill our columns,
giving the leading facts which are the over
whelming revulson of the Railroad swindling
speculations- the expectation ofa famine through
out the United -Kingdom-the great anxiety and
alarm Of the British Cabinet at the state of pop
uar feeling in relation to the Corn Laws--the
proposed opening of the British ports---the re-
newed agitation of the repeal question advance
of the price fgrain and depression in the price
of cotton. aE8HT1H1


The railway mania has resulted in an explo-
sion-as we predicted several weeks ago. We
saw that it was inevitable will the explosion Of
the bubble in England teach our own mad coun
trymen a lesson Of wisdom--or shall we continue
to rush forward to irretrcyable ruin 2 Shall we
pause-turn back, while escape is practicable
or end in maduess what has been commenced in
folly2 One of the English journals speaks of
these speculatons which have brought ruin and
and devastation, bankruptcy and wretchedness to
thousands, as follows. f4 raI3


U. s.. Journal. X


A more gigantic system of swinding has rare
ly been seen in these latter days, and the num-
ber of respectable" persons who have lent
their names tosupport bubble companies, make us
blush for the cupldity of our common humanity.


The wreck Of fortune and of character which
this insanity has caused, will be felt long after
the causes that produced it have passed away.
As proof OF the extent to which this huge sys-
TEN OF swlndling has been carried, It may be
mentioned that even ladies were not exempt
from its influence. The female friends and rela-
tives Of those who pulled the ewires Of. certain inn
posing pnppet schemes, were in the daily habit
of haunting the purlieus and offices Of the share
brokers in the Metropolis, to watch the market,
in order to turn the letters Of allotments to the
best account Oneof the railway papers men
tons certain batch of female speculators who
contrived to realize, by this kind of chicanery,
duriug yhe height Of the mania, the astounding
sum Of E500, 600 Jpon
the whole, whether we view the crash which 8
now dealing pecuniary destruction over, the land
or whether welregard the drain i pom the national
resources, which the carrying out Of 80 many
new projects will entail upon the future -wheth-
or we gance at the fearful derangement Of the
monetary system that must follow in the train Of
tnese adventures, as surely as the fash Precedes