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To the Planters of Georgia.
,(■ subscribers have established a shop in Mor
acuuiitv, ten miles from Madison, and fifteen
Fonticello. where they are prepared to do an
business in the manufacture of
COTTON GINS,
rv ii.ierior quality. Having a firsl rate set of
(driven by Water Power, and having the
. : workmen, and using none but the best and
,Ve materials, they feel confident in saying
ill be siipeiibr to any others made in
Nome Lndj-llii-dx and Ikcir flnuuiM IVo. 1.
Some few weeks since, 1 attempted to'
convey to my readers some idea of one of]
England’s popular lady-writers; and the!
pleasant reception which Hannah Moore j
was favored with, on my introducing her,
to an American public, induces me to 1
string together a few i ecollections of some
other lair writers, whose names and works
! are honored and appreciated wherever the
(English language is known,
j 1 know not whether any one may feel
| disposed to cavil at the nomenclature I have
: adopted at the head of this article. It may
I HOt he ornuhologically coriect, but those
| who write about poetical people have a li-
I cense, as well as have the harmonious
songsters and songstresses themselves; and
what image can more fitly represent a
sweet-voiced daughter of poesy, than that
of a bright bird, which
“Siuging ever soars, and soaring ever singeth.”
So much, and too much, perhaps, by way
of a preface ! And now let me write
with a pen of gold, (fitting material,) some
reminiscences of a few whose works de
serve that a golden ink should be invented
with which to inscribe their names.
I had no intention of devoting this num
ber of my series of Sketches, to Lady-
j writers ; but, as [ was this morning looking
J over some engravings, at the house of a
literary friend, a portrait of Mrs. Hemans
1 attracted my attention, and vividly recalled
! the “blight original” to my memory. The
i preture was very beautiful, and bore a
strong resemblance to the Poetess; but
compared with the living face, it was only
as the richly sculptured vase, unilluminated
from within. Aud it would have been dif-
i ficult, if uot utterly impossible, for mortal
pencil to have caught and transferred to
convass the mild beauty of the Poetess.
In the summer of eighteen hundred and
made, had afterwards the ineffable mean
ness to repeat it; and in such a manner,
too, that befoie long, some “good-natured
friend” told Dr. Raffles of it.
One morning, shortly afterwards, a gen
tleman called on Mr. Hall, whom he found
in his study, walking to and fro in a very
highly excited state.
“Look here, sii—here, sir—see what
a pretty situation 1 am in—heie, Dr. Raf
fles has written to me to know if I made
use of certain expiessions. Now, sir, I
must talk, sir—1 must talk—can’t live with
out it, sir—it’s my privilege to talk, sir—
hut I don’t remember having said what Dr.
Raffles says he has heard 1 said—I say a
great many things I don’t remember, sir—
and I’d put my right hand on the Evangel
ists, sir, and declare I don’t remember
having said this—what am I to do, sir ?
Soon aftet wards, Mr. Hall sat down and
wrote to Dr. Raffles—a beautiful and char
acteristic epistle it was—but thus it wound
up :
“I do not remember having made the re
mark you allude to—‘that you were the
scorn of wise men and the admiration of
fools’—but 1 am sure that I thought so.”
And now foi Mrs Hemans.
At this time Mrs. Hemans was separated
from her husband, and resided at Waver-
tree, to which place she confined herself, in
order that her sons might receive the bene
fits of tuition in the neighboring city. A
more unsuitable locality for one of her
temperament, could hardly be conceived, I
for there was nothing of beauty in the j
neigborhood to recommend it; and to one
brought up amongst the wild scenery of
Wales, it must have been, at times, dreary
indeed. The separation, too, from the fa
ther of her children, must have preyed
deeply on her spirit ; but she seldom al
luded to this subject, although great curi
osity was excited to know the cause. Cap
tain Hemans lived at Rome, and still cor
responded with his wife, respecting the ed
ucation of their children. His habits and
tastes were entirely different from those of
his wife, and a separation, although not a
Of
reflex of the beauties, personal and men-1 The writer of the above, as all the lite-
tal, of their writers, they were indeed so rary world knows, married, a few years
in the case of Mrs. Hemans. since, Mr. Fletcher, a missionary, and died
We talked, of course, a great deal about i soon after she set foot on the shores of
poetry and poets, and she asked me if I had ! India. Some very interesting letters ot
seen Wordsworth I i hers, written on the voyage out, appeared
On my replying that I had not, she said : : in the London Athenaeum. She had given
“You will be almost as much delighted promise of high and varied powers—but
with the man as with his works. He is de- j like poor L. E. L., she died esyriy, and far
lightful—I once saw him at St. Asaphs, i away from the land of her birth,
and he spent half a day with me, reciting i It has been stated, with how much of
his own poetry.” ! truth I know not, that Mrs. Hemans was,
We talked of L. E. L. Mrs. Hemans : atone period of her life, invited to take up
■ir Gi
. . . legal one, was mutuallv agreed upon.
I and thiity, 1 was staying flor a shoit time . • course> a hundred rumors were in circula-
in Liverpool the city of the Roscoes, as it Hon, and those officious personages who
i equal to any in the United States, and I has been called by way of honor—and as 1
•reat inducements to purchasers as any other
in ni-nt in Georgia. The Gins will be delivered
nartha-er in all cases, fiee of charge for trans-
on ami warranted to perform well in every re-
All letters addressed to us at Madison, Mor-
jntv Georgia, will be promptly attended to.
Repairing done in the best manner, and at
"° UCe ' WISSHIP. KING & JOHNSON.
r*nCn.,Gn.. May 27. 1845 20 12m*
j had determined, if possible, to see Mrs.
i Hemans, who then lived in the neighbor
hood, l made inquiries in different quarters
in order to find out the best way of procur
ing an interview, without being intrusive.
I learned that Mrs. Hemans visited the city
but seldom ; but a friend, who knew Dr.
; Lingard, the historian, insinuated that!
mm and House Carpentering.
1ERT D. HALL, {successor of IV. Lord,) j troductiou. 1 was told, that as Mrs. He
. ivnsiantlv on hand, makes to order, and re
al kinds of Furniture. •
.kinds of House Carpentering done in the
nanner, and loic.
•uiids oi’ Paints can be had ready for use,
,tnt to anv size and Glazing done.
,0.Glass for Picture frames, &c., of various si-
Hardware Trimmings for furniture, &c., and
wmv and Black Walnut Draw Nobs, &c.
? Lnlirs will please call at Mr. Newell’s Store,
eihev will be conducted iuto the Shop and can
m fundi ure.
Wg-viile, Jane 10, 1845. 22 if
THEODOSIUS B. DAVIES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Milledgeville, Ga.
US45_ -5 6m
DELAMOTTA SHEFTALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Il'ILL practice in the several Courts of the
Middle and Southern Circuits of Georgia.—
■essentrusted to his earn will he promptly^at-
u. Office at Iteidsvilie, Tatti
184 a
ill county. Ga
21 12m
ASHUKST At iHOIl VTAltl,
.Ittornies at Late,
Eatonton, Ga.
practice in all the. Counties of the Ocmulgee
Circuit.
15.1845 14 if
WILLIAM F. BKOOKS.
.ITTOK.'YE I* .JIT i.JII*,
TALBOTTON, GA.
FT. prnrtice in the counties of theOhattahoo- J aT) author-
1 -ru'e Circuit. All business confided to him
aeetwith the most promptattention.
®*v30.1344 _ 3 tf
CHARLES S. H AWLEY,
.SHornry at L«tr,
HAWK.IXSVTLI.E, Pulaski County, Ga.
references.
Herschell V. Johnson, Milledgeville, Ga.
"• Cakleton B. Cole, Judse of the Superior
' tlierr. Circuit, Midway, Ga.
• ID, 184-1 45 12m
J. S. MITCHELL,
A T T O R N E Y A T LAW,
ST ARKEV1LLE, Lee County, Ga.
118. 1845 10
tf
GEO. W. FISH,
•J5T5FOBJVMCY JT L.llf,
Milledgeville, Ga.
LL practice in the courts of the counties of
Baldwin, Wilkinson, Twiggs, Pulaski, Lau-
ted Washington.
professional business entrusted to him shall be
i to with oeoraptness and fidelity.
"Azeville, March 25. 1 345. . H 26t_
J. LAW,
ITTOEAEP •i'JT -fc.2 If,
BaIXBRIBGE, Decatur County. Ga.
a-wt-stern, arid
'Circuit,
i. 1815
THOMAS C. NISBET,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Savannah, Ga
said she had received several letters from
her, containing pressing invitations to visit
London. “A place I never was in, and ne
ver wish to be,” she observed. “My heart
beats too loudly, even in this quiet place,
and there I think i nvouid burst.—The
great Babel was not made for such as
me.”
She was very much pleased with an an
ecdote which 1 told her, with which one of
her poems had something to do. It was
this :
Near the cily of Bath is a secluded little
church yard, in which, amongst other mon
uments, is one of pure white marble, on
which was engraven the name of a noble
man’s daughter, and her age—seventeen.—
In addition to this was the following stan
za from Mrs. Heman’s poem, “ Bring
Flowers.”
Bring flowers, pale flowers, o’er the bier to shed.
A crown for the brow of the earlv dead!
For this from its hud hath the white rose hurst,
For this in the woods was the violet nursed ;
They each have a voice for what once was ours,
And are line’s last gift,—Bring ye flowers—pale
flowers ”
The space around that grave was filled
with white flowers of all desci iptions, plant
ed for the most part by stranger bands.
No one ever removed a blossom from the
grave, and there they flourish as if in obe-
dience to the mandate of the poetess. It was
one of the most graceful tributes ever paid
to genius.
“ Come—I will show yon my poetic
mint,” she said—and led the way to a room
preferred attending to other person’s affairs
gossipped to their heart’s content. I shjjll
not follow their example, and retail any of
the many stories prevalent on this subject,
holdingthe opinion that if a man and his
wife choose to live apart, it is their business
and their’s alone—and such subjects should
be strictly classed amongst those with
which a stranger should intermeddle not.
It was about four in the afternoon, when
the Wavertree stage set me down at about
troduction. 1 was told, that as Mrs. He- a l lunc | r ed yards from the place of my des-
{ Inans occasionally attended the chapel t’ lna tion. The house in which the poetess
- where Di. Raffles pleached, I might chance I i- es iJed was one of a row, or terrace, as it
■ to see her there—but how was 1 to pick was called, situated on the high road, from
j out the Poetess from hundreds ot ladies; yvliich it was separated only bv the foot-
i penned in pews ? 1 determined on accept-j vV ay and a little flower garden, surrounded
ing the offer ot my friends endeavor to en-1 j_,y a white-thorn hedge. I noticed that of
! list Dr. Lingard in my tavor. i a ll the houses on either side of it, hei’s was
| l was introduced to the Doctor afew^jjg only one adorned with floweis—the
days afterwards, at the Athenteum reading reti ^ ] ia( j either grass lawns or a plain grav-
1 rooms. I do not know whether his “His-j e ] surface—some of them even grew cabba-
tory of England” is much known in this i ges an( j French beans 1
i country, but it ranks as a standard work ]\jy knock at the door was answered by
; across the Atlantic. The chief objection ; a servant girl—one of the pretty Lancan-
i urged against it is, that its author is a Ro-j shire witches, by whom I was shown into a
i man Catholic. The Doctor is a man of | small parlor, where 1 remained, whilst my
■ somewhat remarkable appearance, and by j ] etter an d card were taken to the lady o*f
no means prepossessing in manners.— the house.
However, he immediately complied with | It was a very small apartment, but every i
my friend’s wishes, and I obtained the thing about it indicated that it was the I
| much desired note to Mrs. Hemans, with a! home of genius and of taste. Over the j
hint to me not to deliver it on any morn- ( mantel shelf hung a fine engraving of Wil-'
; ing, as 1 should have a better chance of a ]j am Roscoe, author of the Lives of the De 1
prolonged interview, if I presented myself Medici, with a presentation line or two in -
in the after part of the day ; the forenoon | his own hand writing. The walls were
being generally devoted by the lady to the decorated with prints and pictures, and on
| instruction of her children aud to literary Hie mantel shelf were some models, in ter- !
j composition. j ra c0 [/ aj of Italian groups. On the tables
j Having incidentally mentioned the name | l a y casts , medallions, and a portfolio of
: of Dr. Raffles, I may as welt give my choice prints and water-coloi engravings;
| readers some idea of a minister who is ex- j hut 1 was loo much excited to pay much
tremely popular iu England as a pulpit or- attention to sucli matters, and so 1 satdown,
ator—and who is also somewhat known as anxiously awaiting the entrance of the po-
the memoir of his predecessor,, e tess.
j Spencer, being from his pen; and lie i And never, before or since, have I felt in
| “owns” also to a few volumes of travels , suc h a flutter of excitement. For years
; and some poems—chiefly devotional. The , ail d years 1 had read her poetry, and lmag-
late well known Sir Stamford Raffles was i net ] a |] soils of things about'lhe authoress,
j his brother. j \ h a( J Been told that she was beautiful, and
lie was in the pulpit when I entered the readily believed it—but I anticipated some
■chapel, in which he officiates ac Liverpool, disappointment in this respect—in fact, I
; The building was vast, and densely crowded car , scarcely tell how 1 felt, when I heard the
j w’ith a very fashionable audience. He was rustling of silks, and saw' a lady enter the
about the middle height, and somewhat room.
corpulent. He had a very florid face, with | Well—1 am disappointed, was the rapid
full, expressive eyes, the upper lids of j thought that passed through my brain.—
which were large, and so gave rather an The lady was interesting looking enough—
indulent expression to the whole counte-1 (j U t bore no resemblance whatever to the
nance. The mouth was indicative of good : en g raV ed portraits of Mrs. Hemans—she
humoi, and beneath it wasa dimpled double wa s much younger too, than i imagined
chin. A voluminous and handsome gown, Mrs. H. to have been. And—to put the
rather showily disposed, enveloped his per- leader out of suspense, it was not the Po-
son, and he had altogether a sort of Friar etess of the affections—but her close and
Tuck appearance, liis age might have j attached friend, Miss Jewsbury, who had
been fifty-five,or, as they say,“thereabouts.” j been deputed by Mm. Hemans, to make
He read that chapter, in which is the ; excuses for a few moments delay in receiv-
magnificent speech of Paul before Agrip-1 ing me. j
pa ; and certainly 1 never heard so impies-, Miss Jewsbury was one of the most frank j
sive a reader, liis voice and action were i and open hearted creatures possible. She
alike fine, and worthy of the theme.— : gracefully apologized for acting as Mrs. He-
Some might have been disposed to call his j man’s locum icuens, aud made me feel quite
style theatrical—indeed, 1 have it heard ob-! at my ease. 1 did not know then who the
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I ‘ti o,?ntL P o U f n La U |-lv. y B^fr U a P nrDec a 0 .u r r? ^ jjected to on this very account; but 1 could; lady was-but being aware that Mrs. He-
,f the co jnty of Thomas of the I not help wishing, that the Doctor’s exam- mans had a sister who frequently set her
j pie, in this respect, were followed by ma- i songs to music, 1 imagined that my fair
17 lf ny, who too frequently darken the light of companion must be hei. 1 was not unde-
Revelation by their cold reading of the' ceived until after Mrs. Hemans hud made
| Scriptures ; for I have not unfrequently her appearance.
- heard a Song of Triumph and a I eriitential was not long before the poetess en- :
| Psalm delivered in the same monotonous tei - e( j the room . °^he held out her hand, i
tone, by those who ought to, aud, I doubt i a „j welcomed me in the kindest manner, j
j not, do know better. j and then sat down opposite to me—but, |
Dr. Raffles’sermon was very short, very before doing so, introduced Miss Jews-
| ornate and very sound—but it impressed j bury. i
j me as being rather a showy than a great' 1 cannot well conceive of a more exquis-,
\ performance. There was a vast deal of! itely beautiful creature than Mis. Ilemaus!
glilter; but it was as the glare produced by was—none of the portraits or busts I have
references
s !, SElT ’ E-q-
■ 1 ot: & Nisbet,
1 Macon.
1MSBET, )
L 1845 23 12m
I nations on the Tfcum
A. H. HOUGHTON,
[ IIuson's Hotel, Milledgeville.
'-"’’ 1 tONS in Surcical and Mechanical Den-
" ' performed with skill, and in the most ser
, -"Drier.
-S rinj from the effects of Denial Tartar,
- led, and restored to their former beamy ;
ri idling extraction taken out with the
4 / 0rCl ‘ p s.
."’.'ed, will lie filled, if desired, with Gold
" r with Diamond Cement, and all nlu»»
. ' !'-riect. 1 °
feeth improperly inserted, or otheiwise
1 • tepuoed or remoddied, so as to answer
"‘tended, and to be worn w ith perfect ease.
e ‘ : ' n5 er!ed on pivot, or I lie whole set on
ij ' il " artificial gums if necessary.
i ig devoted Severn] years exclusively to
‘ ,1! -. profession, with an extensive practice
”■‘iH-iie.-, flatters himself, that to those who
■ 5e' r p 1S j ,Ve8 *'' s ,erv ices. entire satisfac-
F e . red ’ Ei ending to make this place
r J ]’"- , idence, Ins prices will conform to the
r H i' , f >erat i° n s perlormed by him will be
' rtfet -
’"'il f:| T ; ' M ' red ' be Wi, bcd upon at their resi-
r ’ r >. ’ lLS l ho country visited without ex
7*te p ,y p
■ 17 j 8 ,.’ "• Bancroft.
23 tf
gold leaf—a few grains of metal was made
to ao a great way, and cover a considera
ble extent of surface.
It is in connection witli this gentleman,
that the following anecdote is told of Ro
bert Hall.
ever seen of her, do her justice, nor is it
possible for words to convey to the reader
any idea of the matchless yet serene beau
ty of her expression. Her glossy, waving
hair was parted on her forehead, and ter
minated on the sides in rich and luxuriant
Robert Hall was one day closeted with a auburn curls—there was a dove-like look in
young minister, who put numberless ques- her eyes, and yet theie was a chastenedsad-
lions to him, in order to elicit liis opinions ness in their expression. Her complexion
respecting various ministers of the time.—, was remarkably clear, and her high lore-
After replying to numbers of hi3 queries, head looked as pure and spotless as Parian
Hall sat puffing away at his pipe, not in marble. A calm repose, not unmingled
the best of humors ; for no man on eatlh with melancholy was the characteristic ex-
more disliked being bored—but his incon-j pression of the face—but when she smiled
siderafe young companion would not take | all traces of sorrow were lost, and she
the hint to be silent, and broke in on Hall’s ■ seemed to be but a little lower than the an-
everie by saying—“And pray, sir, what do , gels—fitting shrine for so pure a mind !—
Let me not be deemed a flatterer or an en
thusiast, in thus describing her—for I am
only one of many, who have been almost as
much captivated by her personal beauty, a9
charmed by the sweetness and holiness of
The peison to whom the remark was | h er productions. If ever poesies weie the
you think, of Dr. Raffles?”
Hall, without removing his pipe, mut
tered—“Think of Raffles, sir? Why, sir,
he’s the scorn of wise men and the admira
tion of fools, sir.”
her residence in the city of Boston, for the
purpose of conducting a periodical work.
Perhaps it was well that she did not accept
the offer; for this uncertain and variable
climate would, in all probability, have put
a still earlier stop to her career, and de
prived the world of many of her sweetest
pioductions. As is the case with most, if
not all of those who write, day afteT day,
for the bread that perisheth, she endured
rather than enjoyed life. A heart disease,
with all its distressing accompaniments,
harassed her mind, and woie away her
frame, which, we are told, became towaids
the last, almost etherealized. At the com
paratively early age of furty-one, on the
eve of the Sabbath, her spirit passed away,
to enter on the Sabbath of eternal rest,
earth having scarcely “profaned what was
born for the skies.”
When I was in Dublin, owing to some
unaccountable forgetfulness, I omitted to
pay a passing tribute to the genius of the
poetess, by visiting her tomb, which is in
St. Ann’s Church, Dublin, and over which
is inscribed one of her own beautiful verses
—heT most appropriate epitaph:
“Calm on the Bosom of thy God,
Fair Spirit ? rest tbee now !
E’en while with us thy footsteps trot).
His seal was on thy brow.
Dustto the narrow home beneath?
Soul to its place o» high ?
They thut have seen thy look i» death,
No more may fear to die.”
While I was last in Liverpool, waiting
for the sailing of the.shin in which I came
over the one in which we were sitting.—. to this country, T was sitting one morning j
It was a very small place, but neat almost j idly at the window of the Adelpht, consid-1
to a fault. Iheie were no authoi-liiter- ering bow I should get through the day.—
Every thing was in order. An open < j sat and pondered, a stage with the j
name Wavertree passed by, and recalled
to my mind the pleasant visit 1 had once j
paid to that village. 1 will go once again,
letter lay on the table. She pointed to it,
and said laughingly:
“An application for my autograph, and
the postage unpaid. You cannot imagine thought I, if only to see what change has
how I am annoyed with albums and such! W iought there. I soon put my resolution 1
matters. A person who ought to have J practice,—and ere long 1 once more !
known better, sent me an album, lately,j stood before the well remembered house.)
and begged a piece from me, it it was on- j The little flower garden was no more—but |
ly long enough to fill up a page of sky-; rank grass and weedsjsprung up luxuriant- j
blue tinted paper, which he had selected ■ ]y—the windows were many of them bro- j
for me to write upon.” j ker>—the entrance gate was off its hinges,
In incidentally referring toliercompo-j—the vine, in front of the house, tiailed 1
sitions, she said: “ffhey often remain chim- j along the ground; and a board, with “This
ingin my mind for days befoie I commit j house to let,” upon it, was nailed over the
them to paper. And sometimes I quite j door. I entered the “deserted garden,”
forget many, which 1 compose as 1 lie; aRt j looked into the little parlor—once so
awake in bed. Composition is less a labor ; f u )) 0 f taste and elegance—it was gloomy
with me than the act of writing down what j aa j cheerless. The paper was spotted
has impressed me, excepting in the case ofj w ith damp, and spiders built their webs in
blank verse, which always involves some-! t he coiners. Involuntarily I turned away;
thing like labor. My thoughts have been
so used to go in the harness of rhyme, that
when they are suffered to run without it,
they are often diffused, or 1 lose sight, in
the ardor of composition, of the leading
idea altogether.”
Mrs. Hemans’ voice was peculiarly mu
sical, and I would have given anything to
have heard her recite some of her own poe
try; but I did not dare to hazard such a re
quest, and feeling that I had intruded quite
long enough on her time, I intimated my
intention of taking my depaiture, when she
begged me to partake of some refreshment,
and with such an evident wish that 1
should do so, that 1 did not hesitate to
drink a glass of wine and water before I
lefr.
I must not omit to mention, for the es
pecial benefit of my fair readers, that Mrs.
.Hemans’ dress was simple enough. She
wore a white gown, (I really am not learn
ed enough in such niatteis to say whether
it was of cotton or muslin,) over which was
thrown a black lace shawl—on her head
was a cap of very open net-work, without
flowers or ornament of any kind.
Miss Jewsbury was well known by her
“Lays of Leisure Hours.” She was very
amiable and accomplished, and felt such an
enthusiasm for the writings of Mrs. He-
mans, that in 1823 she took a cottage near
Rbyllon, where the Poetess then resided,
for the purpose of associating with her.—
When i saw her at Wavertiee, she was on
a visit to Mrs. Lawrence, of Wavertree
Hall, another warm friend and admirer of
Mrs. Hemans.
1 cannot here forbear quoting a passage
from Miss Jewsbury’s “Three Histories,”
in which she avowedly describes Mrs. He-
rnaus:
“Egeria was totally different from any
other woman I had ever seen, either in
Italy or in England. She did not dazzle,
she subdued me; other women might be
more commanding, more versatile, more
acute, but 1 never saw any one so exquisite
ly feminine. * * * *
* * Her birth, her education, but
above all, the genius with which she was
gifted, combined to inspire a passion for
the etherial, the tender, the imaginative,
the heroic,—in one word, the beautiful. It
■was in her a faculty divine, and yet of dai
ly life—it touched all things, but. like a
sunbeam, touched them with a golden fin- j
ger. Any thing abstract or scientific was j
unintelligible or distasteful to her. Her j
anti during my homeward walk mused
upon the probable home and enjoyments of
the l wo gifted creatures whom 1 had for
merly seen at Wavertree. Both were
now beyond the stars. Like one of them,
I was about to quit my own, perhaps to die
in a foreign land, and while a thousand
things depressed my spirts, in almost bit
terness of heart, I exclaimed, with Burke,
“Alas! what shadows we are, and what
shadows we pursue.”
Note.—ll was my intention to have included some
recollections of L. E. L. in this week’s sketch—but
timlino that i should far exceed ilie length of rny tether
if I did so, 1 have thoucht it best to defer ray notice
of the “linprovisatrice,” and of some other ladies,
until a future opportunity.
In reply to a letter signed “Many readers of the
Pen and Ink Sketches,” I 'nave pleasure in stating
that both the authors named will be shortly noticed.
From tire N. Y. Journal of Commerce, July 4.
Arrival of the Acadiu.
FIFTEEN DATS LATER FROM EUROPE.
The steam packet Acadia, Captain Har
rison, arrived at Boston Thursday evening,
at 11 o’clock, in a few hours over 13 days
from Liverpool. The Acadia took the
place of the Hibernia, which was detained
for repairs. She brings papers to the 19lh
ult.
The Britannia, which left Boston June
1, arrived at Liverpool on the 13th, in a
passage of 12£ days.
There was a grand meeting of the League
at Covent Garden Theatre, on the evening
of the 18th. The accounts of receipts of
funds by the League was read, from which
it appeared that the receipts to the League
fund to December 31, 1844, amounted to
=£86,000 ; subscriptions this year =£5,632 ;
receipts through the Bazaar <£25,046, mak
ing a total of <£116,6S7. The reading of
the receipts was received with immense
cheering.
On the evening of the IStli the Duke of
Wellington gave his annual banquet at
Aps)ey House, in celebration of the 30th
anniversary of the battle of Waterloo.—
The number of guests was 76, among whom
were Prince Albert, and all the most dis
tinguished officers of the at my.
Sir Heury Pottinger’s pension is to be
=£1500.
The Duke and Duchess de Nemours ar
rived on the 5th ult. at Buckingham Palace,
on a visit to the Queen of Great Britain
and Prince Albert.
It is said that Thomas Moore is to write
the life of the late Rev. Sidney Smitl
- . . - , English securities had slightly declined :
knowledge was extensive and various; but, | * enl Conso ] 3 f or lhe opening, June
frr.n t Ur* nrinPUl P fit h Al* fintlirf* if ‘ ^ ^ t l o
true to the first principle of her nature, it
was poetry that she sought in history, scene
ry, character, and religious belief—poetry,
that guided all her studies, governed all
her thoughts, colored all her imaginative
conversation. Her nature was at once
simple and profound ; there was no room
in her mind for philosophy, nor in her heat t
for ambition; the one was filled by imagi
nation, the other engrossed by tenderness.
She had a passive temper, but decided
tastes; any one might influence, but very
few impressed her. Her strength and her
weakness lay alike in her afl’ections; these
17, 99J to J, 3 per cent reduced, 99^ to
On the IStli they remained without change.
In Paris, the carpenters, to the number
of 3 to 4,000, had struck for higher wages,
demanding 5 francs instead of 4.
An accident of a somewhat serious char
acter occurred on the Great Western Rail
way on the I7th. The Exeter express
train, which has recently begun to run a
distance of 200 miles in the short period ol
4& hours, left the London Station at the
usual hour, and was proceeding towards
Slough with great velocity, (it was asserted
” , l make her ween at others more than a mile a minute,) when lhe osci
would sometimes make tier weep, at otneis . , . .
imbue her with courage; so that she was lation of the carnages became so great that
alternately ‘a falcon-hearted dove,’ and ‘a I the passengers con d hardly retain heir
reed b.oken with the wind.’ Her. voice seats. Soon alter, the engine and tender
was a sweet sad melody, and her spirits re- j became separated from the carnages, and
minded me of an old poet’s description of
tlie Orange tree, with its >
‘Golden lamps, bid in a night of green,’
or of those Spanish gardens where the
pomegranate blossoms beside the cypress
Her gladness was like a burst of sunlight;
and if in her sadness she resembled night,
it was night wearing her stars. I might
describe and describe forever, but I should
never succeed in portraying Egeria; she
two of these, one of the fiist and another
of the second class, were thrown from a
bank 12 feel high. The passengers were in
great danger, and several were seriously
injured, but Done dangerously. A lady
was so much alarmed that her iife was des
paired of, and Sir R. Vivyan, Member of
Parliament, leceived a severe cut in the
head. There were 150 passengers, aN un
able to escape, being locked in the cars;
was a muse, a grace, a variable child, a de- and it is remarkable that no greater injury
pendent woman, the Italy of humau be-! was sustained.
j ncrs »• j American Cotton in India.-
from a report of the Bombay Chamber of
Commerce, that the experiments in grow
ing American Cotton in India, have not
been entirely unsuccessful, particularly in
the neighborhood of Hyderabad, under tbe
superintendence of Captain Meadows Tay- of 132.
J. Russell argued, that tbe fall of' the pre
sent corn law was indicated by the feeble
ness of the defence made for it; and after
a reply from Sir R. Peel, the House divid
ed, and negatived the motion by a majority
lor. Tbe following is an extract from tlie
Repoit of the Committee of the Bombay
Chamber :
“ Your Committee place in the appendix
to the present repoi t the letters of Captain
Taylor, relative to the samples, which give
a very favorable account of the progress
making in the culture of New Orleans, Sea
Island and Bourbon Cottons. It is gratify
ing to perceive that the native growers are
engaged actively in the cultivation of these
varieties, and that instead of being with dif
ficulty persuaded to make the smallest ex
periment—as has too often been the case
befoie in other localities—they evince the
greatest eagerness to obtain seed for sow
ing. The crops of Bourbon and Sea Is
land, on the bank of the Krishna, are des
cribed as most luxuriant—and the success j
of the New Orleans appears to be beyond
a doubt. Capt. Taylor states, that he has
given directions for the whole of the cotton
grown fiom the seed furnished, to be col
lected and sent to Sholapore, and he adds,
that he proposes afterwards forwarding it
to Bombay, in order to ascertain its value
in our market. Your Committee trust
that the lime is drawing nigb, when we
shall be able to calculate on a regular sup
ply of such cotton. There can be no doubt,
that it would fetch a good price here for
shipment to the home markets, and that it
would amply renauneiate both grower and
dealer.
American Seeds and Hops.—We un
derstand that Messrs.Keeling & Hunt have
just received 34 casks seeds from New
York, consisting of 30 kinds, American
pine, ash, beach, and flower seeds, which
are admitted free of duty. They have al
so had another arrival of American hops,
consisting of one hundred bales, with every
prospect of further importatious of lhe
same articles.
Liverpool, June 19.
Trade is still flourishing in all its depart
ments. Tbe demand for colonial and for
eign products, whether sugar, woo], cotton,
or coffee, continues on an extensive scale ;
and prices generally have an upward ten
dency, notwithstanding the attention of cap
italists is rather directed to railway shares
and other schemes. New cotton mills of
immense size are springing up in all parts
of Lancashire, and more are likely to be
built.
Notwithstanding the fact, that consumers
already hold a considerable stock of cotton,
Projected Railways.—A curious re
turn has just been laid before Parliament,
in relation to the projected railways now
before both Houses. It thence appears,
that the railways, of which plans and sec
tions have been deposited with the Railway
Department of the Board of Trade, amount
in length, for Great Britain and Ireland, to
no lessthaneightthousaudandeighty miles;
being thus nearly twenty-four times the
length of England itself! The following
are the proportions of the lines pioposed to
be made in the different countries of the
United Kingdom : England has, as her
share of the projected railways, 6086 miles
and a fraction ; Scotland has about one-
tenth the quantity ; the proposed lines in
that country only extending 595 miles ; Ire
land, however, is far ahead of Caledonia in
this respect, and the sister Isle has no few
er than 1,401 miles of railway projected to
be laid down therein. These statements
have regard only to the projected lines
which are this session before Parliament
for consideration. They do not include
any portion of the numerous lines that
have since been, and are weekly, or
rather daily, being brought forward, but_
merely give the lenglli of the railways,
plans for which were deposited with the
Boaid of Trade towards the close of last
year, in accordance with the directions is
sued by tbe Railway Department of that
Board.
Ireland.
Tbe repeal agitation is as active as ever,
and the leaders equally sanguine of suc
cess and determined to obtain it. The fol
lowing declaration is extracted from one of
the speer lies of the Liberator at the Cork
banquet:
“Mind my words—scatter them, but
without violence, and you will be able to
carry the greatest revolution ever yet car
ried—the restoration of the country from
provincial degradation to national dignity,
national security, national prosperity.—
(Tremendous cheering.) 1 am told, I will
not carry the repeal. Did I not carry
Emancipation against the most cunning
minister England ever had—Sir Robert
Peel—and against the greatest General
she ever had—the Duke of Wellington !—
(Loud cheers.) In spite of them, I carried
it; in spite of them, I’ll carry the repeal.—
(Renewed and enthusiastic cheering.)—
Having tried force and fraud, they then us
ed the legal dexterity of the judge, whom
the continued low ness of price tempts them , somebody compared to a can, with a handle
to keep buying ; consequently the daily
sales are heavy, without any advance in
prices. It is generally acknot^j
that the market has seen its L
of depression, and although nt
rise need be feared, yet the m
of the present imports barely cle^
outlay, induces many to put them aside for
a time ; and the good demand is not so well
and freely met as many would suppose,
from the fact of so large an import in a
at one side—the can of justice ! (Great
laughter.) Having tried eveiy thing else,
they now try cunning. It is well they aie
come to that. (A laugh.) Up gets Sir
Robert Peel, and sav*—“These repealers
are terrific fellows. America is threaten
ing a little, and I must send a message of
peace to these repealers, aud I’ll be secure.”
If he is at peace with Ireland, he may be
at war with the rest of the world. The
Duke of Wellington says—“As to the te-
fortnight, amountingto about200,000 bales. ) p ea ] e i-g, thev are a pitiful set of sneaking
The agricultural reports are more satis
factory than at any former period in the
present century, and there is every appeal-
ance of an overwhelming produce of every
kind, which may, in some measure, pre
vent prices advancing too rapidly. There
has been tolerably good employment for
money, and the bankers are enabled to get
fuller rates of interest.
Hitch in the Sugar Duties.—A strange j
bitch has been discovered in the Sugar |
Duties. By the treaty of Utrecht between '
England and Spain, in 1713, renewed as ! the governors
recently as 1814, Spanish produce was to ! iel O’Connell
be admitted into England on the same
terms as the pnxluce of the most favored
nation. The treaty contains no reference
to slave or free labor. The Spanish am
bassador now demands that sugar, the pro
duce of the Spanish colonies, Cuba and
Porto Rico, shall be admitted under this
clause, m the same way as we have admit
ted the slave-grown sugar of Louisiana
and Venezuela ! Considering that Cuba is
the centre of the slave trade, against which
all our energies have been directedT the
announcement of this demand has filled
every one with surprise—has lit:erallv
taken the nation by storm 1
The subject has been mooted in Parlia
ment, but so vaguely that it is impossible to
comprehend the ministerial policy in this
dilemma.
Liverpool, June 19.
The Great Britain left London on Fri
day afternoon for Cowes, in the Isle of
Wight, and thence to Plymouth. After
staying there two or three days for public
inspection, she will go on to Dublin, and 'Catholic party.”
thence to Liverpool, from which port she '
will start on the 26th of July, on her first
trip across the Atlantic.
Liverpool June 19.
The Maynooth Grant Bill has passed in
to law. The Irish Colleges Bill will most
probably be read a third time and pass
ed in the Commons to-day; its progress
having been delayed, in imler that »he
opinions of the Ii ish Roman Catholic Bi
shops might have the opportunity of being
submitted to the House, through the Irish
members, who have all at once magnani
mously swallowed the leek, in imitation of
Shakespeare’s Ancient Pistol, and trans
ferred their persons and most sweet voices
from Dublin Conciliation Hall to St. Ste
phen’s in Westminster. As regards thp
corn laws and all other obstructions to Free
creatures; there is no danger in them, no
pluck , and while I have my iion heel on
their necks, I’ll keep them down.” How
much down, to be sure ! But they gave us
the Maynooth grant—three farthings a
niece it comes to. (Great laughter.) See
what a minister that is ! Peel boasts of his
strength in tlie House of Commons, and
the Duke of Wellington in the House of
Lords, ami they throw a charity at you, as
you would throw a bone to a poor mangy
tins’. But I’ll tell you who is governing
we ourselves and one Dan-
(Cheers.) A few months
will but pass, when you will hear more of
this government. (Hear.) 1 am ready to
he conciliated. There never was a man in
a better humor or temper, than I am. I’ll
he as thankful to them, as if 1 were a pot of
thanks. (A laugh.) But they must do the
good first. I’ll not take words ; anil when
they have done all they can. I’ll take their
favors as instalments, anil when I'm paid
5s in the pound, I’ll look back for the other
15s. in the repeal of the Union. (Loud
cheers.”)
London, June 18.
Our Paris letter announces, that the en
tire Belgian Ministry has resigned, and
that the King (Leopo d.) had sent for M.
D’Huart to charge him with the formation
of a new Cabinet. “M. (Baron) D’Huart
| has already been twice a member of a Lib-
eial Administration in Belgium,” says out
correspondent, “and is at present Govern
or of Namur. The retirement of the min
istry is the result of the elections, and in
dicates a triumph of the “Liberal” over the
Paris, June 16.
M. Billbault, one of lhe most eminent
members of the Opposition, charged the
Government with having joined England iu
opposing the annexation of Texas to the
United States, in return for the concession
England has made so France of the right
of search treaty. M. Guizot (who is quite
restored to health, and who re-appeared in
the Chamber on Tuesday,) denied that any
stipulation relative to Texas had been
made with regard to the abandonment of
that treaty. He then observed, that if Tex
as was desirous of annexing itself to the
L niled States, the French Government had
nothing to say against it; but he admitted
that it would be more agreeable to that
Government, and more consistent with its in
terests, if the annexation did not lake p'ace.
Trade, it is our opinion, that the question is j His words, as quoted fiomthe Moniteur, 3re,
ime; and then, when Sir “This is all that I can sav now about Tex-
-lt appears
one merely of time
Robert Peel sees the expediency of the
act, he will have no hesitation in calling up
on his obedient majority to seal their doom.
Neither do we expect that he will, for a»y
long period of time, refrain from propns
ing an endowment—to arise fiom a rent-
chatge on land—for the Roman Catho
lic clergy of the sister Island. And be
seems to be satisfied, that he is the only
man capable of performing it.
The Corn Laws.—In the Commons,
June 10th, Mr. Villiers moved for a commit
tee of the whole house, on his resolutions
for the abolition of all restrictions on the
as. lf that country wishes to give up its in
dependence and incorporate itself with the
United Stales, if this is really the object,
the intent of the people of Texas, we have
nothing lo say, nothing to do, in opposition
to it. Bui if, on the contrary, the people of
Texas wish to preserve their independence,
not only we have no reason to oppose, but
1 do not hesitate to say, that France must
approve her conduct, and acknowledge she
is in the right.”
He added that the mercantile treaties
into which France has entered with Texas
promised to tie most advantageous to her,
importation of foreign corn. Sir J. Gra-! and that it is greatly to her political irite-
ham declared that the prosperity ot agri
culture must depend on tlie prosperity of
other branches of native industry; and that
the substitution of protecting for prohibi
tory duties, is the key stone to Sir R.
Peel’s policy. He confessed that he had
no confidence in Lord J. Russell’s fixed
duty of 4s., and said, that if we got rid of
the present corn law, we had better assent
to a total repeal. At the same time, he
condemned all sudden changes, and gave
his decided negative to the motion. Lord
rest that the three great powers of the
American Continent (those of the United
Stares, England, and of Spanish origin)
should maintain their present balance of
power—that neither should gain the pre
ponderance. Such is the view taken < f
this momentous question by the French
Government; but, though that view is cer
tainly of considerable importance, and will,
no doubt,excite much attention in the Uni
ted St&tes, every one seems to be of the
opinion that the annexation will take place,