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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. @ G 8 0 © 0 N A ‘L'. 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