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«V OL. XXVI.] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1 845. [NO. 27. SIEVE & OBJIK UIMTORS and proprietors. terms )RDFR is pablislied weekly, in tint Ma- ■ DOLLARS, per annum, payable in V k Dollars, if uot paid before the end , iaper, in any case, sent out of the Stale, first paid for IN advaSCB; or any new ' , ; ,- or a i e53 period than one year, unless 'I rate of Four Dollars per annum in rM . NTS conspicuously inserted at the usual ^ t without r. specification of the number ifSe l ’ mblished until ordered out, and _MISCELLANE OPS. [From the Boston Atlas] Pea and Ink Sketches OF POPtXiB PERSOXS AND PEACES. BY A COSMOPOLITAN’.—NO 12. •11 be pm ' glj an( ardians. are req day in the me * and three m aired by law to be held on nil, between the hours of ten the afternoon, at the Court ntv in which the property is situate. I:ij“ e c ° so f es must be given in a public gazette ons to the day of sale, sale of personal property must be given ikTY day- previous to the day of sale. • ■ a, ’! De J' e ^„ r s and creditors of an estate must also n'ashed forty days. tion [BAT 5 P reV ■ es for the will be made to the Conrt earet ■ FOUR months. ■ t . Letters or Administration, must be pub :T aTI'ANSto u a sm ission from administration, . U rtv any—; . ... . ,ix month*' ismission from Guardianship, ia9S : . , re fl fMort2age must be published • .IX-f-r establishing lost papers, for :.j! or f m J™ for compelling titles from ipacc«/ 1 r r :. tr a!or9. where a bond has been ft- ‘ l "’ rS l edeceased* the full space of three months. i ‘“ J tBe a i w ays be continued according tr jlinations \ » ,‘ n .. unless otherwise ordered. the legs' requirement. . ,u i ns of Printing, will meet with buiUlMa in ,^e Recorder Office. mot attention at tne „ winess must be post paid. lTTEKs on bosinc n /, e rs iu requesting the direction oi l from one Post Office to another, are C .^/instance, in making such requests, to e lj name of the PostOffice from which ’t chanced, as that to which they may tlieie- TOur s rpspO' iU R cnt. | ie ncw Post Office Law, which goes into the 1st of July, Newspapers can be sent les free of postage. 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 ■ '•j y . .. . - • p f!*' A IldV C4 11 Utdl U GU* . Cl L Hi Y tuoc, -*■ u ,V4 * 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,