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THE ADVOCATE. BRUNSWICK, (Ga.) JAN. 4, 1838. The Legislature adjourned sine die on Mon day night. The Internal Improvement bill has been lost! The Senate refused to take it up by a vote of 94 to 30. On that Branch, must devolve the praise or censure arising from the defeat of this measure—one, which had enlisted in its behalf, men of all parties, and in support of which, the presses of the State had with a singular unanimity joined. It the | newspaper press is ail index of public opinion, this bill was a favorite of the country. Still,, we hold to the independence of the Represen- tative —he has the right to think as lie pleases, j and vote accordingly. But the People will pass on bis acts ; and the Senators who have I rejected this Bill, must prepare themselves to give a strict account to the people. While for one year longer, the State must lag behind, we believe there is a spirit -abroad in the land, which w ill ere long place the- State in that commanding jiositiou, for which nature intend ed her. Brunswick can succeed without the aid of the State; but she would have jwo gressed more rapidly with the assistance of the public credit While we are not disposed to detract from the merit due to other friends of this great measure, we cannot but avow the high gratifica tion we have .felt at the course pursued by our Senator. The Report made by him as Chair man of the Committee on Internal Improve ments, has received the highest encomiums from the presses politically opposed to him.— Such has been the untiring zeal manifested by him in urging the adoption of a policy by the State, worthy of her natural advantages, that he has become identified as one of the warm est and strongest friends of Internal Improve ments. Southern Congressional Convention. At the commencement of the present session, j. a Adams of Mass., and Slade of Vermont, renewed the agitation of the Abolition ques tion. Slade is a inan known only by his fanat icism in this unholy cause. 11c is like the fool who burnt the Temple of Diana, that lie might thus establish a name. In fact he is a mere puppet in the hands of Adams. A weak fanat ic and a disappointed leader, have been able to irritate and madden the whole South. But an end, we hope, has been at length put to their course, by the determined stand assumed by Southern members. Finding that no other course was left, they withdrew from the House, held a meeting at which they determined to report to the House the conditions with which they would be satisfied. They are, that peti tions on Slavery shall be laid on the table without reading, printing, or discussion. The House adopted the Resolution, and for this session at least, this spirit is quieted. We think this conduct of the Southern mem bers will tend much to convince the people of the North, that an end must he put either to this question or to the Union. The entire re sponsibility of the measure will rest oil them, and they should ponder w ell before they at tempt to trifle with a subject involving such tremendous consequences. The Canal. This work has progressed uuder the management of Lieut. Locke, with as much rapidity as circumstances permitted.— Since the first of June, ground has been broken fiir nearly five miles, and had the labor been directed to completing the Canal, at least three miles would have been navigable. This, to say the least, lias been respectable, ior about three hundred laborers. The amount of osten sible work would have been much greater, had it not been for an unfortunate mistake made in the location of the Canal ut this end of the route. The labor of nearly two bund red hands tor tw o months was spent in building the Can al through u piece of soft mu Ah , less than half a mile in length. Time after time, the em bankments would fall in, again be renewed, and again be sunk. This error in judgment, however, is not attributable to Lieut. Loeke, as this part of the route was located before lie came. The same error ou a much more ex tensive scale was corrected by his assuming the responsibility of changing the route designated by Col. Baldwin. This gentleman had located the Canal through a marsh two miles in length, so soft, tliat a sounding i>olc would sink by its own w eight thirty feet in the mud ; and to add to the difficulties, a deep and w ide creek, crossing and reetossing, with many ‘winding nooks,’ this delectable land, would necessarily tend to increase the expense. Hud Lieut Locke been satisfied with ‘following the copy,’ and contented him«*H' with perfcr..;:r.™ merely the lettei of his duties, no blame could have attached to him—and his laborers w ould nawr be, where they were in September. He bad the independence, how ever, to depart from the route proposed by his distinguished pre decessor, and the Company have been saved an incalculable loss. \Ve undertake to say that the location of the Canid through this *slough of despond’ was impracticable. The Company have been fortunate in secur ing the services of one so peculiarly adapted for the management of men, and the perform- j ance of the many duties w Inch devolve on an Engineer. The work is now in a fair way, and the Canal will be ready for the next Cotton crop. " e *kall publish a list of the Acts passed k} the last Legislature, in our next w eek’s pa per. THE PROSPECT. We arc happy to observe by our intelligence from New York, that the two last packets have j ; sailed for Europe, carrying exchange purchas- ‘ ed at 111 -2 per cent for U. S. Bank and other first rate bills and at 10 and 10 1-2 per cent for J g-oud bills. We hail this as in some degree | the harbinger of a return to specie payments— a measure most gratifying to men of all par-' ties. By those most familiar with our financial re lations with Europe it is considered that the foreign debt of our merchants is now reduced to about six millions .of dollars. Should the present rate of exchange be continued, it could hardly be worth the while of any merchant to pay his foreign debt in specie. The par of j exchange being very nearly 9 3-4 ]>er cent, a j remittance in specie w ith the freight and in- j | surance, which are necessarily incurred in such remittance, would of necessity equal in ! cost the purchase of very good bills. This drain upon the sjiecie of our country and iqion our i Banks should they resume specie payments, 1 seems therefore in a fair way to be avoided.— It is not however to bo pretended that the high j i price of exchange was the only, or even the great obstacle to the resumption of specie pay ments. Had it been so, the late Bank Con vention of New' York could not have hesitated Ito recommend the resumption, even at the then high price of exchange, as the loss to the ] country of six millions of specie is nothing in ] comparison with the recovery of u healthy cir-: dilation, and the extinction of this detestable, I i oetty currency, issued in defianceoflaw,by cor |M»rations and associations and individuals, that | no one knows of, and without responsibility.— The great and formidable obstacle to the re turn to specie payments, is the. stale of our domestic exchanges. These must be amended to enable our Banks to resume. In the pres ent state of domestic exchanges, all the specie in our country, and, if we had it, tw ice as much i more, would be every moment in transitu, —in a stale of transportation. We should find it in iron bound casks and boxes, oil board each j steamboat for Florida & on the western waters, j Every ship from New York to New Orleans j would curry it out, and very likely others re- I turning would bring it back. That which did 5 not happen to be cngulplied by the sea, in the wrecks of ships upon our dangerous coast —that which was not sunk in the explosions, snagging and burning of steamboats, would arrive safely —and if after a long experience, the risk ot transportation was found to be very slight, it is very probable that Insurance Comjwnies would remit a part of the premium they now demand for assuming it. In this state of our domestic exchanges, how is it possible for our banks to resume specie payments ? The very able wri ter of the papers published last Spring, in the National Gazette, (supposed to be Hon. Condy Raguet of l’liihulclphia) estimated and gave good reasons for the estimate, the capital re quired for circulation in the ordinary business of the country, at not less than one thousand millions of dollars. Os course the greater part of this is furnished, not from banks, but from individual resources. Now Ictus consider for a moment, how much more convenient uml j conducive to the wealth and prosperity of the | people, would he the currency avowedly re ! quired by our government to be adopted by the I people—than that currency , if it may be so cull ! ed, of iron, w hich is said to have been used of | yore at Sparta. The Spartans were a brave | and wealthy community. Isolated, in the j midst of Greece, they hud no foreign relations, | except those of War. From their superiority in battle to their neighbors, they were laden w ith spoils, and provided with slaves, by whom all mechanic and servile offices were perform ed. What occasion, then had they for a eur j rency of any sort ? A currency of lead, or timber, or dirt, or no currency at all, would have answered their purpose quite as well.— ! Their constitution, w hich w as that of an army, j and their circumstances did not require a cur [ rency. How is it w ith us. We cultivate the j arts of peace. Upon these depend our pros perity—almost our subsistence. Our com merce, our crops, our manufactures and indeed every occupation in which our industrious j country is embarked, sutler instantly and in tensely iijKiii the suspension of peace. In i short, the comparison, which, though interest ing, we do not extend for want of room—con ! vinces ns conclusively that the dcvelopement i of Spartan, prosperity with its circulation of an iron currency, was much better secured than is ours, should we be so fortunate as to be forced 1 farther into the fatal experiment of a hard money ! currency. j But to return to our subject. Again we ! say the domestic exchanges of our country *iust i)c .sci in uiikr. TLccc who are ac quainted with the history of exchange and finance in the interval between the expiration <>t the old U. S. Bank charter, and the organi . zation of the second Bank in lSlti, —those who knew the course and rate of exchanges during the operation ot that charter, when exchange j in any direction from Maine to Louisiana, from Georgia to Missouri, could be bought for the - half of one per cent, or less—those acquainted i with these matters,need not be told the remedy j for the w ant of •which we suffer. Perhaps it I is not the only remedy—perhaps it is not the i best remedy. But it undoubtedly would be, as it lias proved before, an immediate and a certain remedy—and more than all, it is the only remedy which is not an experiment or an expedient. \\ e are happy to admit the late improvement ; *n domestic exchanges, and that this improve ment. together, with that first mentioned, in BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. foreign exchanges, lead ira to consider the re sumption of specie payments, late in the next Spring, or early in the Summer as very proba ble. The morning dawns too in other regions.— Accounts reach us from Pittsburg, Cincinnati, i Louisville. St Ixiuis, and New Orleans, of great activity in business. It is true, that ow ing to ] I tlicj over production of some ot our staples,' prices are low. Still, the crops are sold and go forward, and the producer is furnished with ! payment for his labors of the past year, and ! with capital for that which is just begun.— j In short the affairs of our country now wear an j aspect which encourages and cheers Us. We 1 cannot indeed see that inflamed prosperity and violent spirit of speculation, which so excited j tlje hopes of the ardent, and the fears of the 1 considerate two years since. But the strong-! est symptoms of restorqjl health are obvious, j Heaven grant tliat we may long remain in that moderate and temperate enjoyment of it, j ' w bieli promises best for its continuance, and ' which will best confirm and strengthen our i robust Constitution. Advertising Wives. The following no- | tice we cut from one of the Augusta papers,! all the Editors in that city agreeing to it- ! We think the plan an excellent one, and hopej it will be generally adopted by the publishers J of papers throughout the country. The price j charged for such advertisements now in this ! State, we believe, is five dollars: “Hereafter we will publish no advertisement for any mail, advertising his wife, unless it is accompanied with ffty dollars in cash. The object is to exclude such advertisemenrs alto-1 gether, for they are often the mere ebulitions | of intoxication or unfounded suspicion against innocent, unoffending, and helpless females.! In two thirds of such instances, the husband] receives his wife back again, and he presents the spectacle of living with a woman as his j wife, whom he has attempted to disgrace in] the (>yes of the world, in the most public man- ] tier- The above rule lias been agreed to by ! all the Editors of this city. 1 I The following gentlemen were nominated by the State Rights Party, at the Convention held ut Milledgeville, on the 18th ult as can didates for Representatives to Congress, viz:— j Thomas Butler King, William C. Dawson, Ju lius C. Alford, Walter T. Colquitt, Richard W. Habersham, Edward J. Black, Mark A. Coop er, Eugcnius A. Nesbit and Lot Warren. “Ether Churchill” is the title of anew nov el by “Li. E. L.” The extract on our first page is taken from the New York Mirror. It at tenips to assign the cause of Pope’s bitter ha tred to Lady Mary Wortley Montague; the more remarkable, as at one period of his life lie was passionately attached to her. The Mirror, says it is an interesting work, though rather overcharged with love stories. Miss Landon has not, by her previous efforts, as a novelist, sustained the reputation she w on as a poetess. Whether she has succeeded in this, ] we do not learn. The following gentlemen were elected ! County officers utthc election on Monday last, viz: For Clerk of the Courts, John Burnett —Sher- iff John Franklin, Sen.—Surveyor, John M.! Tison —Receiver of Tux Returns, Michael Ponsell—Collector of Taxes, Charles F. Miller —Coroner, 1'- bert Pavne—-Justice Inferior Court, Hugh F. Grant The Post Office at Sterling, Glynn county, has recently been discontinued. We under stand the packages of papers which are sent from this office for Bethel and Waynesville have not been received since the Sterling of fice was broken up. If such is the fact, the fault must be with the post office at Darien. By the last Columbus Enquirer, we learn that nearly all the saw mills in that vicinity were seriously injured by the recent heavy rains. And also that the bridge in Girrard, and another on Bull Creek, St. Mary’s road, and all the bridges except Hobby’s, on the i Mulberry, were carried away. The correspondent of the Augusta Consti tutionalist, in a letter dated Milledgeville, Dec. 22d, says, “the rain w as incessant from Friday to this morning. The water courses have ris en. 1 have been informed that by the break ing of a bridge, on the creek between this place and Eatonton, a wagon w ith four horses and two wagoners, were precipitated in the creek—the men and horses drowned. From the New York Commercial Adv. Dec. 22. Later vrom England. The packet ship Sheffield, Capt. Allen, arrived at New York early this morning from Liverpool, whence she sailed on the Bth of November. The editors ] of the Commercial Advertiser, have received - London papers to the ?'.!.* ::r.J Liver; — J pa pers to the Bth both inclusive. Outrage upon the Queen. The most exciting incident of which we find any mention is the follow ing—“Gross outrage upon her ma jesty, by anew claimant to the throne.” On Saturday afternoon, the 4th of Nov., a- j bout 3 o’clock, us her majesty was passing in j her open carriage through the Birdcage-walk, j St. James’, on her way to Buckingham Palace,] whither she was proceeding from Brighton, a j person in the garb of a gentleman suddenly I sprang to the side of her carriage, and holding j up his fist in a threatening manner, made use] of obscene language, and with an oath desig-j nated her majesty by the most opprobrious epi- j tlict that can be applied to a female, adding, ‘•and I’ll have you off your throne, and your! mother too.” He immediately ran off and es- 1 fee ted his escape.—Her majesty did not appear to feel an)' alarm, and the carnage proceeded ! rapidly to Buckingham Palace. Information of: the outrage was iin mediately forwarded to the ] commissioners of police, who instructed two police constables: who had been on duty in! the Birdcage-walk to trace the offender. It appears that they had Sterne clue to him, j for they soon discovered his name and .address. Under the w arrant of the secretary of state, they proceeded to his lodging, at the corner of j the Regent Circus ; and lingered about the w hole night in the expectation tliat he would return home. It appeared, however, that lie, had arrived before them, and on Sunday morn ing one of the constables knocked at the door. On its being opened, they proceeded up stairs and arrested the delinquent His name is John Good, late a Captain in the 10th Hussars. He is described as a man of gen tlemanly apitearance, and about forty years of age. He w ore a star upon his breast, and dar ed the officers to lay hold of him, exclaiming that he was their liege lord and king of England, and tliat he would tear the queen to pieces. He made a vigorous resistance to the officers, and was with difficulty forced into a hackney-coacli, and was driven to the secretary of state’s office at Whitehall. On the way broke the windows of the coach, and conducted himself in the most out rageous manner. This was at one o’clock on Sunday. Sir Frederick Roe was in waiting at the Secretary of State’s office, before whom the prisoner underwent an examination. The witnesses examined were two footmen of her majesty, the two police constables already mentioned, and a German gentleman, w hose name we have not been able to ascertain, who heard the prisoner apply the insulting and opprobrious epithets to her majesty. Dur ing the examination the prisoner continually interrupted the witnesses, saying “he did not care a d—n what they said about him; he was King of England, King John the Second, and that the present was the eighth year of his reign.” Mr. Philips, the under-secretary ot state, was present during the examination, which lasted for about an hour and a half, and one or two of the ministers were in an adjoin ing apartment waiting to hear the result The evidence given was merely a recapitulation of the facts above stated, and at the close Sir j Frederick Roe determined to remand the pris ; oner for further examination on Sat urday next He was then removed in custody to the new ' prison, Westminster. There appears to be no doubt of the mail’s insanity. [ Captain Good imagines himself to be the son of George IV. and Ins Queen Caroline, lie had played off some of his cantrips before this affair, and had been brought up two or three times at various police offices —always asserting his royal birth and pretensions to the throne. From a Liverpool paper of Nov. 8. The Cotton Trade. Manchester, Fri day evening.—Though things are not general ly lower than last week, they cannot possibly be duller. It is probable that the advance on cotton has tended in a great measure to ena ble the manufacturers to keep up the rates of this day sc’nnight, thus, though prices are not lower, the advance on the raw material farther reduces the profit if any there be. We think that in any branch of the trade, these observa tions will strictly apply. Twist is firmer, ow ing to the advance of cotton, that is, for low numbers. Fine yarns cannot be duller, and there are some re]K>rts afloat of one or two mills going to stop altogether for the present. The Macon Messenger, of Thursday last, says— On Sunday afternoon and night last, a severe rain fell in this vicinity ; since which our water courses have been very high. Our river was at a greater height on Monday, than it has been for the last ten years. Tharaiti appears to have been general, as the mails both from the north and south, have failed to come in. The rise on our river was very sudden—and one or two boats and some cotton boxes were set adrift, two of which were partly loaded, and went down the river till stop ped by some obstruction. One boat struck the centre pier of the bridge, par tially displacing some ofthe massive rocks of which it is constructed, without doing it any permanent injury. Several roads in this vicinity are now nearly impassable, but we have heard of no extensive dama ges that have been suffered. The river is in the finest boating order,and will prob ably continue so for the rest of the season —the benefits of which will shortly be felt by the planters and merchants. No mails arrived up to last night from the north further than Milledgeville—at that time one was received from Augusta, but nothing from beyond. No western mail till last night, and then itcamc in a very wet and bad condition. IVe under stand that four stage horses were drowned near Columbus. 'Flic Southern Post of Saturday says — “The failures in the mails, in conse quence of the quantity of rain that has fallen within the past week, have been greater than at any previous time recollec ted, during the present year. For two days no mail north of Milledgeville, and for three successive days no mail north of Augusta. The western mails have been equally behindhand.” From tin* N. Y. Courier and Enquirer. 21st Dee. \v c annex trom the Montreal Herald Extra of tiie I4tii, aim Gazette Extra, of the 15th inst.. the latest intelligence of the movements of the regular troops and the insurgents in Lower Canada. Important fkom St. Ei sT.fum:. Hav ing just received authentic information, which may be relied on, with respect to the operations of the troops which have been sent against the rebels concentrated in the country of Lake of two Moun tains, at St. Eustaclie and Grand Brule, we hasten to lay it before our readers. The troops took up their quarters at St. Martin, during the night of Wcdncs day, the day on which they left this city, from whence they departed at about 7 o’- clock yesterday morning towards St. Eu stache, but not in a direct line, for it was understood that the ice on the river in that way, was not sufficiently strong to bear the weight of so heavy a body as the artillery and cavalry. A detour was in consequence, taken towards St. Rose, where the ice was crossed from Isle Je sus to the main land. The lino of inarch then proceeded upwards on the right bank of the river, until the troops ap proached the village of St. Eustaclie, making a inarch from St. .Martin of 12 | miles, whereas in a direct line it would 1 only consist of Gor 7. The troops were first fired upon by the i rebels from the church of St. Uustache, j a considerable time before any position had been taken. Upon coining within the proper range, two field pieces were planted on the northeast side of the church, and began to play upon it in ex cellent style, while another field piece was j sent round in the rear of the village, and, stationed where it commanded a street' leading directly to the front door of the same edifice. The three regiments and < cavalry, in the meantime, made a circuit! round the village in rear ; and took up positions to intercept the rebels, when ] they should be compelled to abandon their | position. The church having at length j been set on fire, the rebels were seen fly- I ing in every direction, but not without' many having been killed and taken pris oners. The nunnery and presbytery, sit uated on either side of the church, i which were occupied by the rebels, were j also destroyed, as well as several other ] houses in the village, particularly those] of Scott and Chenier. The loss sustained on either side lias ; not been accurately ascertained ; but it is reported that SO had been killed, and ] more than one hundred taken prisoners. Dr. J. O. Chenier was killed in the yard of the church. The commander in chief i Girod, and Feroel Peltier are said to j have taken to flight towards St. Benoit, immediately after the first fire. On the part of the troops, we have no accounts of any having been killed except one man. Mr. Gugy, while storming the Sac ristie, was severely, but not dangerously wounded in the left shoulder, the ball coming out at the right arm. The blaze arising from the burning houses of St. Eustaclie, was distinctly seen last night from the rising ground in the rear of this city, toward the old Race Course. Having taken possession of St. Eusta clie the troops proceeded early this mor ning to St. Benoit or Grand Brule, where, it was said, the rebels were strongly forti fied. A report has gained general currency in town, tliat a deputation from the rebels at St. Benoit had been sent in demanding terms; to which the commander of the forces is said to have given for answer that they must surrender at discretion, lay down their arms, and give up their leaders. Whether these terms have been complied with, we have not yet learned. ] From New Brunswick. The New | York Daily Express of the 22d inst. says, “Sir John Harvey has summoned the legislative assembly of the Province to meet at Frederickton, Dec. 28th, for ‘di vers weighty considerations,’which means, the troubles in Lower Canada. The St. John’s Gazette, loyal as it is, lias discov ered what is unknown to many people in this country. ‘lt is true,’ says the Ga zette, ‘that the Canadians had cause'to remonstrate against some objectionable measures in the administration of their government. This has been admitted in the mother country.” Shin Plasters. A case of impor tance was decided in the last Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware County, l’a. by Judges Darlington and Myers, re lative to shin plasters. A man was ar raigned for stealing a pocket book con taining two .70 cent shin plasters. He was convicted for stealing the book, and a verdict of not guilty was rendered as to the notes, it being decided that as they were issued in violation of law, it was not an offence against the law to take and carry them away. An Awkward Frolic. Four smart ly dressed young men entered a wine shop in Paris a short time since, where a soli tary waiter was officiating at the counter. They called for four glasses of cognac, and while swallowing it one of the young men said to the others, “Well, has the evening been a good one ?” “So, so,” answered another, pulling four handker chiefs from his pocket, “this is all I have been able to do.” “I have had better luck,” exclaimed the second, displaying’ to his comrades two well-lined purses. “I can’t exactly complain,” said the third, “and these three snuff boxes may answer for my fortune and address.” “Come,” cried he who had first put the question, “I see I’m again the luckiest of you all,” and so saying he displayed to the astonish ed eyes of his companions four gold wa’ches and an equal number of gold chains. The >i.titer who hc-uiu iKe whole of this conversation, trembled from head to foot. He took care to draw the key away from the till, and began to think how he should arrest the four scamps, who began, as lie fancied, to cast very sinister looks upon him. Suddenly he heard a noise in the street. It was the patrol. He stopped as if he would pick up something from the ground, and rushed out of the house,bel lowing out as it his life had been threa tened. His loud vociferations soon brought the patrol to the door. The four fine gentlemen vainly attempted an explana tion : no one would listen to them, and they were conducted to the commissary of police. On their arrival they were exam ined, and readily admitted the truth of the waiter’s deposition : but they declar ed the whole to have been merely a frol ic, having wished to amuse themselves soy a few moments at the waiter's expense. One of the witty youths had taken hand kerchiefs of his three friends, to another had been consigned their several watches, and the other two had charged themselves with as many purses and snuff-boxes as they were able to raise. Thus prepared, they had played off their piece de brig ands so very naturally, that they not only imposed upon the simplicity of the wai ter, but would certainly have been reman ded till the following day, if, fortunately for them, the conmiissionary of police hud not been personally acquainted with one of the party, and therefore disposed to believe in the truth of his explanation. Literary Profits of Scott. Sir Walter concluded before he went to town in November another negotiation of im portance with this house (Constables.) They agreed to give for the remaining copy-right of the four novels published between December 1819 and January 1821, to wit: Ivanhoe, the Monastery, the Abbot, and Kenilworth—the sum of five thousand guineas. The stipulation about not revealing the author’s name,un der a penalty of .£2OOO, was repeated. By these four novels, the fruits ofscarccly more than twelve month’s labor, he had already cleared at least £IO,OOO before this bargain was completed. They, like their predecessors, were now issued in a collective shape, under the title of“llis torical Romances, by the author of Wa verly.” I cannot pretend to guess what the actual state of Scott’s pecuniary af ! fairs was at the time when John~ Ballan tyne’s death relieved them from one great ; source of complication and difficulty. But 1 have said enough to satisfy every reader, tliat when he began the second, and far the larger division of his building at Abbostford, he must have contemplated the utmost sum it could cost him as a mere trifle in relation to the sources at his command. He must have reckoned on clearing .£‘30,000 at least in the course of a couple of years by the novels written within such a period. The publisher of his Tales, who best knew how they were produced, and what they brought of gross profit, and who . must have had the strongest interest in keeping the author’s name untarnished by any risk or reputation of failure, would willingly, as we have seen, have given him A‘o,ooo more within a space of two years for works of a less serious sort, likely to be despatched at leisure hours, without at ; all interfering with the main manufacture. But alas ! even this was not all. Messrs, Constable had such faith in the prospec tive fertility of his imagination, that they | were by this time quite ready to sign ! bargains and grant hills for novels and ro ] inances to be produced hereafter, but of j which the subjects and the names were u ] like unknown to them and to the mau from whose pen they were to proceed. [Lockhart’s Life, vol 3. Ball Room Legislation. A cause ]is pending before one of the provincial ! tribunals of France, in which the plain ] tiff sues the defendant for damages, bc ] cause the defendant’s wife refused to ] dance with the plaintiff at a public ball, i The gentleman, it seems,who lias arrived iat the mature age of .58, solicited the honor of the lady’s hand for a quadrille, but the lady excused herself on the plea :of indisposition. A few minutes after wards a similar invitation from a some what less venerable beau was most gra ciously accepted. The offended prnu chevalier does not appear to have challen ged his more successful rival, but to have contented himself with defying the lady and her husband to the lists of the Court of a Judge de Paix, where he claims an indemnification of sixty francs for the in jury inflicted on him, and calls upon the tribunal to command the fair offender to abstain from a repetition of the offence, i. e., to submit to dance with him on ev j cry festive occasion when it may be his august pleasure to favor hor with his coin ! mauds. Sagacity of Dogs. Many curious but well authenticated anecdotes, illustra ting the wonderful sagacity of the canine race, arc related—among which the fol lowing, which we find in an old English paper, is not the least remarkable. A large Newfoundland dog belonged to the captain of a ship engaged in the trade between Nova Scotia and Greenock. On one occasion, the Captain brought from Halifax a beautiful cat, which formed a particular acquaintance with Rover ; and these two animals of such different na tures were almost inseparable during the passage. On arriving at Greenock, the ] cat was presented by the Captain to a lady of his acquaintance, who resided nearly half a mile from the quay, in whose fami ly she remained for several weeks, and was occasionally visiteq tj/Tier Inend uerl/ icnow-passenger, Rover, who seemed not a little displeased at the seperation which had taken place between them. On the day, however, when the ship ' was to leave the port for another voyage, the unusual bustle on board, gave Rover a hint of what was going on—and he deci ded on his course of conduct without de lay. He jumped on shore, made his last visit to puss, seized her in his teeth,much I to her astonishment, and carried her through the streets to the quay, just as the ship was hauling off: He made a spring, cleared the gunwale, and fairly shipped his feline friend in good order and well conditioned, in and upon the good ship called the Nancy of Greenock; and then ran to his master, wagging Ins tail, as if entreating that she might he al lowed to remain on board.—[Boston Jour.