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ONE-AND-TWENTV.
James thus beautifully speaks of the age
of one-and-twenty, inliis “ Morley Ernstein:”
“It is a beautiful age, full of the spring,
with all the vigor of manhood, without one
touch of its decay: witli all the fire of youth,
without one touch of its feebleness! Oh,
one-and-twenty! brightone-and-tvventy! wilt
thou never come back to me again] No,
never! The cord of the bow has been so
often drawn that it has lost its elasticity;
there have been a thousand flowers cast
away that have withered in the dust of Time’s
sandy path; there have been a thousand
fruits tasted that have left but the rind in my
hand? there have been a thousand travel
stains acquired that nevercan be washed off
till the journey is done. That which has
been lost, and which has been gained, have
both been gathered into the two baskets of
the past; and whatever tfle future may have
instore, one-and-twenty, with its many hopes,
its few fears, its buoyancy of spirit, its elas
ticity of limbs, its eagerness of expectation,
its activity of pursuit, its aspirations, its de
sires, its faith, its confidence, its frankness,
its garden of visionary flowers, and its at
mosphere of misty light, can never, never
cotne back to us were we to whistle till we
break our hearts. No, no: in the sad arith
metic of years, by what numbers you will,
you can never get at one-and-twenty more
than once.”
Mothers, after all. —Colonel Ethan Allen
was a bold officer in the American Revolu
tion. He could face the enemies of his
country with the most undaunted bravery,
and in the field of battle he never shrunk
from danger. But he was an opposer of
Christianity, and gloried in the character of
an infidel. His wife, however, was a pious
woman, and led her children in the ways of
piety, while he told them it was a delusion.
But there was an hour coming, when Col.
A.’s confidence in his own sentiments would
be tested. A beloved daughter was taken
sick ; he received a message that she was
dying, and he hastened to her bedside, anx
ious to hear her dying words.
“ Father,” said she, “ I am about to die :
shall I believe the principles you have
taught me, or shall l believe what my moth
er has taught me 1”
This was an affecting scene. The intrep
id Colonel became extremely agitated, his
chin quivered, his whole frame shook ; and
aftei waiting a few moments, he replied,
“ Believe what your mother has taught you.”
Occasional Drinker. —Do not associate
with the occasional drinker. He may be a
young man of prepossessing manners—of
mild temper. His mind may have been pol
ished by education, and his appearance in
every respect may be commanding. But re
member he has one vice—one habit which
blights all his virtues. He loves the social
glass. He has never yet been intoxicated—
no one has yet seen him disguised by liquor.
He dreams not of the danger of parleying
with temptation —he shuns the drunkard,
and is bold in denouncing him. He little
thinks that the vilest sot was once like him,
an occasional drinker, and that he soon may
become the despised, loathsome and degra
ded inebriate. The habit will grow upon
him. Shun him then,, young female, shun
the occasional drinker. Do not invite him
to your dwcling, unless he will forsake his
cups. Receive no attentions—no favors from
such a character —it may be the cause of
your ruin.— Portland Tribune.
From the Richmond Enquirer, July 29th.
Audubon. —We have just seen this cele
brated Naturalist, (the second time,) in this
city. It is really refreshing to meet with
such a man—to witness his elastic step, al
though more than 70 years of age—to catch
the glimpse of his bright eye—to contem
plate his benevolent and sagacious counten
ance—to listen to the mellow tone of his
low French voice—to hear him converse
upon the works of Nature, seen by him in
her most secret recesses, and studied under
entirely new lights—to hear him moralize
upon the human woild itself, “and all that
it inhabits.” He reminds us more of the
idea we have formed of B. Franklin. The
same simplicity of manners, the same bene
volence of nature, and the same wisdom
and common sense, run through all his re
marks. If he lives as long, he is likely to
be at 80, as Mr. Jefferson said of Franklin,
“an ornament of human nature.” He is
an extraoidinary man, whether we consider
the constant activity of his mind, or the iron
constitution of his body. Ever active—
whether in collecting or in scattering infor
mation, or amusing one with descriptions of
the animals he has studied, or with anec
dotes of the persons he has seen, he is al
ways instructive, always entertaining.
He has commenced anew work, upon
which the is laboring with almost as much
enthusiasm and industry, as he has exhibited
on birds. It is his contemplated work on
the quadrupeds of North America—which
he draws from nature, with tho same cor
rectness of observation and taste of execu
tion, as distinguish his description of the
American birds. He was kind enough to
show us the only four of the last drawings
which he has completed, and, among them,
were the rats and squirrels of Florida, and
the rabbits of the Rocky Mountains. They
are exquisitely executed—and it is sufficient
praise to say, that they are worthy of the
pencil of Audubon.
Strong Faith. —A Millerite recently call
ed on a tent maker to produce some kind
of a slielter to be pitched at the approach
ing universal Miller Convention. The tent
maker took occasion to remark slily, that if
he would have it made so and so, and of
•uch and such materials, it might last three
or four years. “ Three or four years 1” ex
claimed the Millerite, clasping bis hands
and rolling up his eyes—“ three or four
years ! we shall not want one to last so long
—no! after next year we shall have a tent
pitched without hands, eternal in the heav
ens!” — Boston Post.
Peter Snubnose says that his daddy told
him many ,a time that in old times there
was a comet that had a tail so long that it
reached half way across the sky, and on the
end was written in Greek, to be continued.
The last Sensations of being blown up in
a Steamboat. —Captain Sutton, who had
command of the steamboat Medora, at the
time her boiler exploded, and she was blown
up, we are pleased to learn, lias so far recov
ered from his wounds as to be able to walk
out and enjoy the renovating influence of
exercise. He is yet, however, quite weak,
but free from any visible traces of the ter
rible disaster except a scar on the right side
of the face. In describing his last sensa
tions, at the very moment of the dreadful
calamity, the captain states that he remem
bers having heard immediately beneath his
feet (as he stood nearly over the boiler) a
strange rumbling noise, ominous that some
thing was wrong. Succeeding this, almost
as quick as thought, before he had time even
to move a foot, a deafening, dreadful peal,
like that of thunder, fell upon his ear. This
was accompanied with the last almost indes
cribable sensation. It was as though his
body had been instantaneously, though mys
teriously and unaccountably compressed in
to a compass much smaller than that it pre
viously occupied, or in his own more signi
ficant language, “ rolled up into a solid
heap.” This was the peculiar sensation
that impressed itself upon the mind at the
time so critical and portentous, when, in the
twinkling of an eye, memory was over
whelmed in the midnight of forgetfulness,
and a veil drawn over the past, present and
future. It was over a fortnight before re
collection told of what had happened, ar.J
made him conscious of how much the body
had gone through and suffered. On recov
ering an equilibrium of mind ‘it was like
waking up from a troubled sleep, or the re
membrance of a terrific dream.— Balt. Pat.
An Apparition. —The Conco: and Statesman
publishes a singular story, related by two
persons under oath, of a confession recently
made by a person named Samuel Mann, of
Benton, N. H., while on his death bed, of
having aided 40 years ago, in the commis
sion of murder. The two persons who re
late the story were watching with the de
ceased on the night of his death, and the
most remarkable part of their story is, that
before the confession, a strange looking man
suddenly appeared in the chamber, standing
between them and the bed, the room being
at once lighted up with “ an unearthly crim
son colored light,” and looking at the sick
man. The sick man was dreadfully fright
ened and agitated, made confession above
mentioned, describing the place, but not the
names of parties, and immediately died.
The stranger disappeared, and the witness
es were tremendously frightened. In con
sequence of this story, an old rumor has
been revived of the murder of a carpenter
named Hodgdon, by a man named Noyes,
who is since deceased, to which murder it is
conjectured that Mann was an accessary.
One day last week a man was employed
ricking hay in his master’s field, near Ivy
bridge, Devon, when a circumstance took
place of a most awful nature. The atmos
phere which had been sunny, became cloud
ed, and a heavy shower of rain fell. The
man continued his work, throwing his hay
from the ground to the top of the rick ; but
in a moment of passion he raised his fork
high in the air, and swore that God Almighty
might come and rick the hay, for he would
not. At that instant a flash of lightning,
attracted by the iron prongs of the fork,
struck him to the earth, and on being raised
the unhappy man was dead.— Plymouth pa
per.
Joe Smith and Bcnnet, —The two quarrel
ling Mormons—speak somewhat severely of
each other. The following paragraph is
from one of Bennets late letters to Joe:
“Pratt, and Ridgton and Robinson, and
the Higbees, and the Marks, and hundreds
of others know you to be a liar, Joe, and
Pratt and others have told you so in the face
of open day. Yon lied in the name of the
Lord 111 Remember that, you base blas
phemer,—remember that and weep! Look
at your black catalogue of crimes—yourse
ductions and attempted seductions in the
name of your Maker—your thelts—your
robberies—and your murders 1 Why, satan
blushes to behold so corrupt and loathesome
a mortal, —one whose daring deeds of crime
so far surpass hell’s darkest counsels, as to
hide the sable Prince in impenetrable dark
ness forever!”
Statistics of Muscular Power. —Man has
the power of imitating every motion but
that of flight. To effect these he has, in
maturity and health, sixty bones in his head,
sixty in his thigh and legs, sixty-two in his
arms and hands, sixty-seven in his trunk.
He has also 434 muscles. His heart makes
sixty-four pulsations in a minute, therefore
3,840 in an hour, 92,160 in a day. There
also three complete circulations of his blood
in the short space of an hour. In respect to
the comparative speed of animated beings
and impelled bodies, it may be remarked,
that size and construction seem tohavelitlle
influence; nor has comparative strength, al
though one body giving any quantity of mo
tion to another is said to lose so much of its
own. The Sloth is by no means a small an
imal, and yet it can travel only fifty paces
in a day. A worm crawls only five inches
in fifty seconds; but a ladybird can fly twenty
million times its own length in less than an
hour. An elk can run a mile and a half in
seven minutes; an antelope a mile in a min
ute; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed
even greater than that; an eagle can fly
eighteen leagues in an hour; and a Canary
falcon cau even reach 250 leagues in tlie
short space of sixteen hours.
Extraordinary Bitters. —A person who
had lost his appetite, called on one of our
most respectable physicians for some kind
of bitters that would restore him to his knack
at eating. The physician gave him a few
drops of something in a speon which he
swallowed. No sooner was the dose down,
than such a sudden and voracious appetite
seized the patient, that, before the doctor
could get out of the way he grasped the
worthy Esculapius, thrust him into his throat
and swallowed him whole. The doctor’s
wife, coming into the room, had just time
to see her husband’s boots projecting from
the mouth of the swallower, and in a moment
they were lost to her sight forever.
§5 (D uro? mib IBS* ma (B is ii st o
Dinner at Washington. —A correspondent
of the New York Union has furnished an
account of a dinner given by Mr. Webster
on Saturday last to celebrate the settlement
of the North Eastern boundary question.
“ The President, the whole Cabinet, Lord
Ashburton and suite, the Commissioners
from Maine and Massachusetts, a few Sen
ators, and those of the gentlemen engaged
in the North Eastern Boundary survey* then
in the city, Major Graham and Major Ta
cott, made up the company. The most har
monious and peaceful spirit prevailed. Mr.
Webster gave a toast—“ Queen Victoria!
Long may she continue to reign over a pros
perous and happy people.”
Lord Ashburton gave—“ The President!
Perpetuity to the institutions of the United
States.”
The President gave—“ The Commission
ers! Blessed are the peace-makers.”
Mr. Lawrence gave—“ Lord Ashburton,
who has always manifested themostfriendly
sentiments towards the United States.”
Lord Ashburton, said in reply—“ That at
this time of life nothing, certainly, but a
strong regard for his kinsmen on this side of
the Atlantic, a desire to see removed all
causes of dispute between them and his
countrymen at home, so that nothing might
remain to, interrupt the friendly regard, and
a confidence that a settlement might be made
of -jil those controversies which every hon-
I est man in either country would approve,
could have induced him to undertake such
a task.”
The Secretary of War was then toasted,
with some pleasant allusion to his business
being spoiled l>y the Commissioners, &c.
The party sat down at i, and rose at 9.”
Talking backwards. —Uncle Jo’s ideas
flow much fastei thau he can find words to
express them, which oftentimes occasion a
most ambiguous style of expression in his
manner of relating a story. Going one day
into his field, he found his neighbor’s pigs
enjoying a fine revel among the pumpkins
—apart of a Yankee’s property which he
will by no means permit to be wasted.
Driving them from the field, each of them
bolted through the fence with a share of the
plunder from the pumpk’n bed. After ef
fecting an ejectment of the trespassers from
his premises, he hastened to the house to
tell his helpmate of the disaster, and ex
pressed himself in the manner and form fol
lowing :
“Wife, wife,” said’he, “John Downs’
field got into my pigs, and when I drove
them, the pumpkins went through the devil
with a pig in their mouths, as though the
fence was after them, and a post tumbled
over me and I’m e’en just dead !”— Lowell
Weekly Compcnd.
Flag of the United States. —The flag of
the United States was first designated by
Congress, in a resolution, passed June 14,
1777. According to that resolution, it was
to consist of thirteen horizontal stripes, al
ternate red and white; and the Union was
to be thirteen stars, white in a blue field,
repiesenting anew constellation.
By an act of January 14,1794, the stripes
and stars, were both to be fifteen in number,
to take effect from the fiist of May, 1795.
This addition of two stars and two stripes
to the flag was owing to the admission of
Vermont and Kentucky into th Union, the
former on the 4th of March, 1791—the lat
ter on the first of June, 1792.
By another act of Congress in 1821, (we
believe) it was provided that from and after
the following fourth of July, the flag of the
United States should consist of thirteen hor
izontal stripes and the Union be composed
of twenty stars. The same act also pro
vided, that on the admission of every new
State into the Union, one star should be
added to the flag—which addition shall take
effect on the fourth of July then next suc
ceeding such admission. Os course the
present flag of the United States consists of
thirteen stripes and twenty six stirs. By this
regulation the stripes represent the number
of States, by whose valor and resources
American Independence was achieved—
while the additional stars mark the increase
of the States since the adoption of the pre
sent Constitution.— Boston Courier.
Dress. —Simplicity of dress is like modes
ty of manners, the husband of graces. Gor
geous ornaments distract the imagination
of the observer, and the wearer, like the
silk wormisliid amidstherovvn magnificence.
But a decent garb, adjusted to the elegant
contour of the female form, concealing those
beauties that would obstrusively force them
selves upon our observations, and harmoni
zing with a virtuous mind ; this is the dress
that we should recommend to the fair sex;
and which, combined with a modest demean
or, is more attractive than the cestus of
Venus, can render even beauty more amia
ble, impress the idea with the anfrelic per
fection and innocence on the mind of the
beholder, and compels us to honor virtue,
thus personified in woman.— Rural Reposi
tory.
A certain method for removing Ink Stain*
from Paper. —Dip the feather of a pen in
muriatic acid, and gently pass it over the
part of the paper which is inked—this will
turn it to a red color; afterwards dip the
feather in boiling water, end pass it over
the same part several rimes, and all traces
of the ink will be gone.
It is not generally known that the cherry
will bear when grafted on the laurel. A
correspondent of the Gardiners’ Chronicle
speaks to the fact, and says he last summer
ate some excellent cherries, the fruit of a
“Mayduke,” budded on the common laurel.
Both grew very luxuriantly, and the former
bore very freely each year.
One of the good things in Theodore
Hook’s last, is where, speaking of railroads
and steamboats, both of which he frequent
ly signifies his abhorrence, he says they an
nihilate both space and time, as the news
papers say, not to me-tion a multitude of
passengers besides.
In a recent catalogue, compiled by a French
writer of “ Works on Natural History,” he
has inserted the well known “ Essav on
Irish Bulls” by the Edgeworths.
IF® K !E 0 © M
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
ARRIVAL OF THE BRITISH QUEEN.
Five Days Later.
The steamer British Queen arrived in
New York on the evening the 29th ultimo,
from Antwerp and Southampton, bringing
London papers to the 9th inclusive.
There is but little news. The tariff bill,
which had previously passed the Commons,
was read a third time in the House of Lords
on the Bth instant.
The weather continued favorable for the
growing crops.
The stoppage of Sandhagan & Cos., of
Amsterdam, is announced. Also of Hay,
Ogilvie & Cos., of Lerwick.
The, Tariff Bill Passed. —Both houses of
Pniliament meet at noon this day for lords
commissioners to give the royal assent to
the Customs, or New Tariff Bill, which was
read the third time and passed last night in
the House of Lords.
There was a row in Amsterdam in con
sequence of the interest on American stocks
not being paid.
Cotton has declined £. The money mar
ket is firm.
The Queen’s health has improved.
It was reported in Londou, on the Bth,
that an attempt had been made on the life of
Sir Robert Peel. It was not true, but had
the effect, nevertheless, of depressing the
funds.
Sir Robert Peel had recovered, and was
in the House on the 7th inst. engaged in the
debate on the corn tariff.
The present depression in the Iron trade
in England is evidenced by the fact, that
while many of the established railways had
to pay from ten to eleven pounds per ton
for rails, tho Bristol and Gloucester railway
nowin progress, had just completed a con
tract at the price of 6 pounds per ton.
The revenue of the quarter ending the
sth instant, exhibits, according to the official
statement, a total increase or. the previous
year of <£665,175. The decrease on the
customs amounts to <£426,395. This, in a
great measure, may be accounted for by the
delay in passing the proposed Tariff; per
sons being naturally anxious to avail them
selves of the new duties, have paid upon
such goods only their immediate wants de
manded.
London, July 8, (evening.J —The funds
have declined j per cent to-day, with very
heavy appearances; there have been no
large sales of stock, but there is a continued
influx ol* small parcels, which increases the
difficulty of supporting prices. The pay
ment of the dividends has had no effect on
the market at present, and there appears for
the while to be a demand over and above
the supply. Consols for money, and the ac
count closed as low as 91J.
Distress of the Country. —London, July
9. The adjourned debate in the House of
Commons on the resolutions moved by Mr.
Wallace, respecting the distress of the coun
try, was yesterday resumed by Mr. O’Con
nell. He gave a highly colored picture of
the distress in Ireland ; admitting, however,
that the potato crop was likely to be plenti
ful. The three Ministers who had addressed
the House, had held out, he said, no hope
of relief. To each of the arguments advan
ced by them successively, he would answer,
The people were starving.” He had a
presentiment that something fatal was about
to befal the nation, when he saw that the
Parliament was composed only of the weal
thy classes, that they had been returned by
the grossest bribery, and that the Anti-Corn-
Law League was daily sitting in the me
tropolis. The experiment now proposed
was a simple and practical one—only to ad
mit corn for want of which the people were
starving, and which was looked up only to
profit the landlords.
Manchester, July 6.—There was very lit
tle change in the market yesterday. With
the exception of the Yarns of well known
spinners, suitable for the Russian market,
which were rather more inquired for, there
was no improvement either in the demand
or prices. At the same time there did not
appear to be so much depression of feeling
amongst the manufacturers as was manifest
last week.
Rochdale, July 4.—There has been but a
very indifferent Flannel market to-day; not
many buyers have attended, and the demand
has been much more limited: wages are ex
tremely low, and profits anything but remu
nerating.
Turkey. —lt appeal’s from advices from
Constantinople of the 17th ultimo, that the
three powers, Austria, England and France,
proposed using coercive measures to make
the Porte keep the stipulations made to the
people of Lebanon; but that Russia, and
finally Prussia, though consenting to remon
strate, and agreeing to the necessity of hav
ing a Christian governor, still objected to co
ercion. Notwithstanding the objections of
the two powers, it is said that the English
and French squadrons will repair to Bey
rout; and, as the captive Sliieks have es
caped, another insurrection may take place
in the Lebanon, unless the Porte yields.—
Chronicle.
France. —The Courier de Lyon complains
of the injury done to the crops iu the neigh
borhood of that city by the excessive heat of
the weather. The springs had become dry,
and the farmers were obliged to drive their
cattle to water at a considerable distance.
London, July 5. —An express from Paris,
dated yesterday, which has reached town
this morning, states that a commercial treaty
is almost ready for signature between the
French and Belgian Governments. The
Belgians reduce the duties on French wines,
silk, and salt. The French admit Belgian
thread and linen. The Belgians still held
out for some concessions on iron; but the
treaty, it is said, will probably bo signed
this week.
Algiers, June 30.—The column from Me
deah has a second time destroyed the fortifi
cations, partly rebuilt, of the fort of Boghar.
All the tribes on the route, and even at a
distance, have submitted. This division has
brought back one piece of cannon and a
number of deserters from the regular troops
of Bakaui, which were completely destroy
ed. Our troops return because they have
no more enemies to combat. All the chiefs
of the tribe of Beni Moussa made tbeir sub- |
mission yesterday at Algiers. The entire
East appears disposed to follow the same
course. Commercial relations are being es
tablished rapidly.
Spain. —Private letters from Madril of
the 30th ultimo, state that the session of the
Cortes would be closed on or about the 15th
instant, but that the Chambers would (if not
dissolved in the interim) be reassembled to
wards the latter end of September to vote
the supplies.
The Moniteur announces on the authority
of a dispatch from Figueras, that the Span
ish rebel Felip had been taken prisoner by
the Queen’s troops.
The Gazette announces that 30,000,000
reals only of the loan of 160,000,000 having
been adjudicated at 12 per cent discount on
the 27th, other offers should be received at
the Treasury for the 10,000,000 remaining
on the 30th.
A Cadiz Journal announces tliatthe plague
or what is more properly called the bubo
distemper, had manifested itself in Portu
gal. The Senatory Junta of Seville had
consequently adopted measures to prevent
the contagion from extending to that city.
Portugal. —Libson, June 27. The scru
tiny of the elections for Estremadura has
this moment concluded and the result is,
that the Government has been defeated by a
large majority, there being 16 of the Coali
tion and only six of the Government candi
dates returned. This is by far the most im
portant election in Portugal, the candidates
on both sides being among the most notable
politicians in the kingdom. Asa set off to
this triumph of the Coalition, the Govern
ment will certainly be victorious in the con
tested election of Avora, in the Alemtejo.
SIX DAYS LATER.
Arrival of the Great Western.
The Steamship Great Western, Capt.
Hoskins, was telegraphed on the morning
of the Ist instant, and came up about 9 o’-
clock. She left Bristol on the 16th, bring
ing Bristol and Liverpool papers to that
date, and London to the day previous.
The Great Western sailed from King
road at 12 o’clock, on the 16th, bringing
66 passengers. Hon. Edward Everett, our
accomplished minister to England, came
passenger in the Western.
The following summary contains a notice
of everything of interest, which had occur
red since the sailing of the British Queen.
Liverpool, July 16, 1812.
The last ten or twelve days have been
unusually barren of news, whether political
or commercial, local or general. The for
eign arrivals have been few, and the intelli
gence brought by them meagre and unin
teresting. The new tariff’ bill received the
royal assent by commission on Saturday last,
and is now in full and active operation. The
measure passed rapidly through the House
of Lords; several peers who disapproved
of its principle and details absenting them
selves rather than embarrass the govern
ment. An iucrease of confidence on the
part of both buyers and sellers, is already
observable, and we may predict a general
revival of trade, though it will, in all proba
bility, be somewhat slow, and on account
of the very reduced condition of the ope
rative classes in the manufacturing districts.
Gen. Bustamente, ex-President of Mexi
co, is in Glasgow.
The London Courier has been discontin
ued.
The accounts from Amsterdam state the
house of Sandhagen to have suspended pay
ment. The assets are likely to produce a
good dividend.
A commercial treaty, as it is stated, is al
most ready for signature between the French
and Belgian governments. The Belgians
reduce the duties on French wines, silks,
and salt. The French admit Belgian thiead
and linen. The Belgians held out for some
concessions on iron.
France.—Death of the Dulce of Orleans.
reached London on the 12th instant.
Paris, Wednesday, 9 P. M.- —The offi
cial account published by the Government is
as follows:
A dreadful disaster has fallen upon the
king, the royal family, and upon France.
The prince royal is dead! This morning,
at half past ten, the Duke of Orleans went
to Neuilly, to take leave of the royal fami
ly, intending to set off the next morning for
the camp of St. Omer. A short distance
from Neuilly the horse ran away. The prince
leaped out of the carriage. He was taken
up senseless. One moment, there was hopes
of saving him, but the evil was beyond all
earthly remedies. At half past four, after
having received the succours of religion,
the prince breathed his last, surrounded by
the king, queen, and royal family, whose
grief no words can express.”
The death of the Duke was subsequently
discovered to have been produced by a frac
ture of the spine.
The late Duke of Orleans was born at
Palermo on the 2d of September, 1810,
showing him to have just reached the age of
32 at his death.
The result of the elections in France, so
far as they were known, appear to be favor
able to the government party, which, if it
has not added new members to its suppor
ted, will be enabled to muster at least nearly
the same majority as in the last Chamber.
There is nothing new from Spain or Por
tugal.
Algiers. —The French government has
received the following telegraphic despatch
from Algiers, June 30:
“ The column of Medeah has a second
time destroyed the fortifications of fort Bog
hoz. All the surrounding tribes have sub
mitted. It returns with one cannon and
some deserters from the regulars of Berkani.
Our troops return because there are no more
enemies in the field. All the heads of the
tribe Beni Moussa made their submission
yesterday in Algiers. The east seems dis
posed to do likewise. Trade is getting up
again.”
From Syria and the East. —From Syria
and the East there is no later news of im
portance.
A large portion of the suburbs of Galata
and Pera, (Constantinople,) inhabited by
poor Hebrews, was reduced to ashes on the
19th. Five hundred families have been
ruined by the catastrophe, and one hundred
and twenty houses are destroyed.
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For the “Southern Miscellany.”
“THE GLORY AND SHAME OF
ENGLAND.”
Mr. Editor —You have read, perhaps,
with some attention, as well as most of your
subscribers, the above named work, by C.
Edwards Lester, Esq., of the State of New
York, and published by the Harpers ; which,
however praiseworthy and meritorious, has,
like many other facts and valuable compila
tions which have gone before it, not escap
ed censure —and not only censure, but shame
ful abuse, and a want of common respect
from its own native Americans !
Now, sir, we are fully aware of the ground
we here take, and shall progress carefully,
but fearlessly, and, if possible, correctly.
We have seldom, perhaps never, been
more mortified for the moment, than on op
ening the July number of the “Magnolia,
or Southern Apalachian,” (new series, and
Monthly Review by-the-by,) now published
in Charleston, South-Carolina. I say mor
tified to find any Southern man so far behind
the common interest of the American peo
ple—the vital interest of his own common
country—ras a writer in that periodical un
der the bead of “ The Glory and Fame of
England.”
The Reviewer, it seems on reading the
article, has thought bitter, and desired to
shoot strong at “ Libcrtas,” the author of
the “ Glory and Fame but somehow, or
“ somehow else,” he seems not to have quite
“ strength enough in the bow”— and all his
arrows falls short of their object, and turn
aside and fastens themselves in the uncons
cious head of our Mr. Lester, who bears all
the blame, while Mr. “ Libeitas,” in many
places, is commended. We think the attack
on Mr. Lester’s private views, and th eabuse
thus heaped upon bis two little volumes, is
not wanted, unnecessary, and unkind.
The Re viewer says, “it was a wordy, shal
low book, full of conceit and cant.” He
adds, “it was exceedingly empty, such as
we hear from third-rale members of Con
gress, or retail editors.”
We have read with great care these two
little volumes of facts, and have just re-pe
rused them with attention—and cannot, for
the life of us, say that they are “ empty,” or
“ shallow,” and, least of all, “ conceited.”
After viewing patiently the object of their
author, and the facts he has brought so fully
to the common sense of the reader, I say, I
find it impossible, with correctness, to de
clare it a “failure”—a “rash” production
—and, certainly not “ fanciful conjectures,”
or “ seas of speculation from small rivulets
of fact.” We think Mr. Lester’s work is
not deserving of the charge of a “conceit
ed” production. He has set forth the plain
farts occurring daily in England with a most
artless intention ; he has told us many star
tling and interesting truths in his plain, but
happy and interesting style, in a series of
letters addressed to his distinguished fellow
citizens in this country.
It is certainly a grevious fact, that many
of our popular writers of the present day
suffer, unfortunately, our peculiar prejudices
to get a mastery over us, and bias our own
preferences—thereby, in some degree,dark
en the brightness (“ of glory’s plume”) of
the wreath with which fame has so decora
ted the brow. We are too jealous of our
rights, at times—too contracted incur views
of things in general.
If we mistake not, Mr. Lester was not a
member of that awful “ Convention.” We
have not before heard it declared so. This
“Convention,” Mr. Lester’s privateopinions,
his disappointments, code of “ Morals,”
“ Marry at ts,” “Trollopes,” or “ Hamil
tons,” has but little, or nothing to do with
the Book, or the facts contained therein.
The work directs the eye of the whole
country to the doings of England ; he does
not look to the North, the East, the West,
or the South* for commendation; he ad
dresses his whole American brethren—-does
not, for a moment, presume to particularize
against the common interest of our Southern
institutions —does not confine his letters to
any section of the country, (although a
Northerner,) but has, as I said before, as his
opportunities allowed him, set forth plain
every-day. occurrences in England. He
has given our Southern country a full detail
of the efforts England is daily making
against us, and does not, for once, open his
lips as regards his own private opinions about
the interest of the South. No; this was
not his object. We cannot view “ The
Glory and Shame of England,” by C. Ed
wards Lester, as a treaties on the Sciences
—or an improved edition of logic —of the
“ Fine Arts" —requiring much literary taste
to comprehend—nor do we believe he in
tended it as a treaties on mathematics —or to
compete at all with Hume, or Smollet in
their History of that Country; nothing but
a compilation of a few of the glaring de
formities which came within the reach of his
own observation, while in that country ;
And, while his Book is written, as I have
said, in a plain but happy style, he has not
suffered it to sink to meanness, or humble
ness, but defies contradiction, and challenges
scrutiny.
Let any man dispassionately read his
Prface, and then reply.
’Tis a misfortune, if I may so speak, much
to be deplored at the present duy, that our
Reviewers are becoming almost as numerous
as our “ retail editors .” Our fanciful and
juvenile publications do not escape the ea
gle eye of these vultures in human shape.
But to return from this unexpected de
gression : Our Reviewer goes into detail
about this “ Convention,” and ere he ar
rives at his victim, Mr. “ Libertas” seems
rather to have lost his appetite in disposing,
by retail, of the characters of the two sexes
composing this “ Convention”—speaks of
“ lady members ” —“ more strength than
sweetness" —“ whether breeched or petticoat
ed !” &c. See., all of which has to be pocket
ed, or shouldered by poorC. Edwards Les
ter. We rejoice that he is, by President
Tyler, placed beyond tho reach of these
hawk bills. His Book is worthy of a place
in the library of any Southern man; and we
take pleasure in recommending these two
volumes, not only as a book for the South,
and for Southern libraries, but ns a fearless
and independent attempt to expose the de
formities, every-day inconsistences, sad the