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Latest from Luioik" The Steamer Acadia arrived at Boston on Wednesday afternoon, having left Liverpool on the IDtii nit., thus bring ing news 15 days later than had been before received. The State trials proceed very slowly ; and the only steps which seem to have been taken appear to have been in favor of the defendants. In the Court of Queen’s Bench on the 13th tilt., which was the last day allowed for pleading to the indictment against Mr. O’Connell, that gentleman appeared, not to plead, but to show cause why the indictment should be quashed, because the witness es were sworn before the Grand Jury on ly, whereas, by an Act of Parliament, 56 George 111, they should have been sworn in open Court. The greater part of the day was taken tip with the argument whether a plea of abatement lodged the day before was in time or not; the coun sel for the Crown contending that it should have been lodged when the par ties were first charged, and not after the rule to plead had run. It was finally de cided by the Court that it was in time, and thus an important advantage was gained over the Attorney General; the counsel for the Crown then demurred, and contended to plead to the argument at once ; but the traversers refused to do so without notice, and the court agree ing, a four day rule was granted, which delayed further proceedings until the next Monday, when the validity of the objection was to be argued. The ques tion is entirely one of law, and the mat ter lies between the technical wording of two separate acts of parliament. Os course, if Mr. O’Connell’s objection is good, the proceedings on this indictment would be at an end. A correspondent of the Times says that if tried, the defendants have 30,000 witnesses to examine, but this is evident ly a figurative expression, meaning sim ply a large number. At a meet ng of the Repeal Association on the 7lh, a resolution was passed de claring it the paramount duty of the As sociation at this crisis, to apply all its means and influence to the successful furtherance of the national collection for the O’Connell Compensation-fund, fixed for Sunday, the 19th inst. Mr. Daniel O'Connell, Jr., read the draught of an address to the Queen, to be presented by each parish in Ireland. The Orageimm of Ireland are reorgan izing, but omit the secret signals and other parts of their former tests which have been declared illegal. Gen. DutF Green is writing in the Times against Rev. Sidney Smith and in opposition to the opinions of the Ameri can correspondent of the Times, “A Gen evese Traveller,” concerning a Commer cial Treaty. The General evidently proves to his own satisfaction that the Republicans are to return to power in 1844, and that Protection as a part of na tional policy is virtually at an end in the United States. American Cheese continues to arrive by hundreds of boxes at a time, and A merican Beef is also coming in freely. The Anti-Corn Law League are again going ahe&d. In manchester, the enor mous sum of £12,006 was collected in one day towards the League’s new fund of £IOO,OOO. Most of tile contributors to the fund have doubled their subscrip tions on those of last year. This is the first commencement of the new move ment. Meetings will shortly be held in the other leading towns of England and Scotland. Mr. Sands, an American mcrcliflht of great eminence, has been elected Mayor of Liverpool for the ensuing’ year. A strange question was mooted—and for a few days marred his appointment. The Custom House clerk of the firm had been in the habit of paying the town dues on bales as “trusses,” and cases as “boxes.” The circumstances are singular, and have excited much interest. A Liverpool says that all parties in America, connected with the trade of that port, will learn not with less sur prise than did the good people of the port themselves, that a project has been set on foot for the erection of docks on the Cheshire side of the Mersey. Sir Hugh Evelyn, who is described as very aged and feeble, was recently dis charged by the Commissioner of the In solvent Debtors Court, in London, after having been imprisoned in the Queen’s Prison 18 years. Louis Phillippe has invited the Queen of England to visit St. Cloud next sum mer. If she does nol he will probably visit Windsor. According to a letter of the Bth, from Berlin, in the Journal de Frankfort, an indisposition with which Prince Albert, of Prussia, was attacked while on a-visit to the Duke of Brunswick, had increased into a gastric fever, attended with jaun dice. The Prince was in an alarming state, and the last bulletin says that the disease has assumed the dangerous char acter of hepatitis. A letter in the Augsburg Gazette from the frontiers of Poland, says that the Em peror Nicholas has formally expressed his displeasure at the Greek revolution : and that he has deprived M. Katakazi (the Russian Minister) of his situation. It is added that troops concentrated at Kiew are directed to march to the Pruth. The Monitcur Parisien adds, that a com missioner extraordinary has been sent to Athens with a protest against the revolu tion and that the King of Prussia has re called his representative. It is denied that there has been any movement of Austrian troops on the Bolognese frontier, Italy; a body of soldiers only went to share in some mili tary parade mauouvres. The Guerilla warfare against the government of Rome and Piedmont continues, and the efforts to put it down are trifling and inefficient. The intelligence from Spain is singu larly uninteresting. At Madrid, the Committees of the two chambers had re ported in favor of declaring the Queen’s majority. Some advantages have been gained by the government over the in surgents ; Saragossa opened its gates to < 'ooelia on the 28th < tetoher ; while in Barcelona the revolutionists were weak ened by dissension. On the other band, Geroua still held out on the 2d inst., and Prim was waiting reinforcements; disor ders gained ground in Gallicia ; at Vigo the government troops laid yielded to the insurgents, who were masters of the place on the 4th ; and there are reports of a fresh conspiracy at Seville. Letters from Alexandria, of the 17th Octolier state that Ahmed, Pacha of Sou dan, had declared himself independent of Mehemot Ali; who bad given orders to place 40,000 men under arms, to reduce bis contumacious subordinate to obedi ence. Ahmed is forty-five years of age, cool, and “as brave as a lion.” “In his youth,” says the Times, “he was pur chased, with other Circassian slaves, by •Mehemet Ali. He was brought up a soldier, and was enrolled in the first reg ular regiment ever raised in Egypt. He first served in Arabia and the Hedjaz; was promoted to the rank of Colonel, and subsequently sent to Candia, and finally to St. Jean d’Acre, where he particularly distinguished himself lor his brilliant courage.” The overland India mail brings intel ligence from Bombay to the 2d October. All the interest is now concentrated in a new quarter; for while there is no later news from China, and India is in'general comparatively tranquil, there is a revolu tion in the Puujaub. At Lahore, on the 15th September, the Maharrajah Shere Singh was slain, with his son, Plutab Sing, and all the members of bis imme diate family, at the instigation of Dliyan Singh, his minister; and a child had been placed upon the throne. It may he remembered that our old ally, Rnujeet Singh, died in June, 1839, and was suc ceeded by his son, Kurruck. On the death of Kurruck, his son, Nail Nebal Singh, succeeded, but lie was kill ed at his father’s funeral. The throne was usurped by Shere Singh, who claim ed to be a son of Runjcet; he was gene rally considered illegitimate, as his moth er gave birth to him during so protract ed an absence of Runjeet, that his pater nity was more than doubtful. Shere Singh was addicted to intemperance, mid recently, after a quarrel with his minis ter, Dhyau Singh, he somewhat hummed himself in seeking a reconciliation, and endured the further humiliation of a lec ture on his habitual vice, which he pro mised to reform. Latterly Dliyan had been observed to be very downcast; and is supposed that he was jealous of the favor shown to General Venturn, an Eu ropean officer in the Maharrajah’s service. The steamer Hibernia made her run out from Boston to Liverpool in twelve days and a half. The cotton market in Liverpool had advanced half a cent on a pound on the arrival of the news by the Switzerland on the 19th, and 10,000 bales changed hands at the advance ; but on the arri val of the Hibernia on the 14th, prices fell back quarter of a cent, and the mar ket ciosed quietly. The Switzerland carried out the first news of a frost at the South ; the accounts by the steamer were not so favorable for a rise, hence the reaction. The Great Britain, the mammoth steamer, built and launched at Bristol this snminor, isexpected at Liverpool be fore Christmas, and will astonish the cit izens of New York some fine day in the ensuing spring. The England, Bartlett, entered Liver pool early on the 6th, having performed the voyage in seventeen days. The Garrick, Skiddy, and the Oxford, Rath bone, had arrived off the port. Several gentlemen, who have carried on manufactories in Leeds, are about to proceed to Constantinople, having made an arrangement with Sultan for superin tending different departments of a large manufacturing establishment in that city. The whole number of deaths in the metropolis as made up by the registrar general, for the week ending Saturday, was 1,060, being 157 above the weekly average of the last five years, which was 903. A note states that, under the head “privation,” is the case of a female, aged 50, who died of exhaustion from want; and, under “atrophy,” the case of a child who had died from want of breast milk, resulting from the poverty and des titution of the parents. Accounts have been received of the death ot Dr. A. Petit, who was sent oil a scientific mission to Abyssinia, by the Museum of Natural History of Paris. In crossing one of the branches of the Blue Nile, he was seized by a crocodile and devoured. Irelaml. Repeal Association, Nov. 7.— The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal As sociation was held on Monday. Mr. Patrick Lalor, of Trinakill, Queen’s county, in the chair. The first business was the passing of a resolution moved (Mr. O’Connell being duly absent) by Mr. Clements. “ That the Royal National Repeal As sociation bolds it as a paramount duty at this moment, to apply all its means and influence to the successful furtherance of the national collection for the O’Connel Compensation fund, fixed for Sunday, the 19th instant. On that occasion, the members and associates of this National l>ody are especially expected to co-ope rate personally and energetically with the respected and patriotic clergy of their several parishes, in securing results for this imperative measure worthy of the crisis and the cause.” That business disposed of, Mr. O'Con nell disappeared, lie moved that the words of Edmund Burke, which the Banner of Ulster selected for its motto, be adopted by this Association—namely, “Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and comfort.” Mr. Daniel O'Connell, Jr., read the draught of nil address to the Queen, to Ixi presented by each parish in Ireland : it protested against the military array by which the Glontarf proclamation was supported to insure obedience; it infer ftxl that the disposition of the Irish peo ple had been misrepresented to the Queen ; pointed to the peaceable con duct ot large meetings; atlected to ab stain from complaining that the right to meet had been violated, but remarked that troops had I>een prepared to attack persons congregated “ in utter ignorance of the almost nocturnal proclamation;” Riding, “ yet such was the respect for the law, that very many thousands of people dispensed on the mere rumor that the meeting had been made illegal by an act of almost midnight legislation !” Naval Armament in Irrland.— Limerick, Wednesday.—The naval ar mament in the Lower Shannon has been reinforced. Her Majesty* steamers Comet mid Pluto have arrived at Tarbert roadstead, head quarters of the force to be stationed in the Lower Shannon, whereat present there are four armed vessels lying—Her Majesty’s ship Lynx and Snipe, and the Comet and Pluto steamers. The Lynx is to take up a po sition at Scaltery for the protection of that redoubt, and that of Carrick; the Snipe goes to Carrigabolt, to protect Doo tia and Kilkredane. Trance. A few days ago, while the great bell ol the Cathredal of Notre Dame was be ing rung, the clapper gave way, and the enormous mass fell down through two lloors of the tower, and lodged in the third. Three persons were injured. An interesting communication was read in the Academy of Sciences on Monday. It was relative to a substitute for white lead for domestic purposes.— The author, M. de Ruolz, states the flow ers of antimony give a finer white, mix more l»eely with other colors,-are more durable, and cost only one-third of the price of white lead ; and neither in the process of manufacture, nor of use, affect the health. The King and Queen have both ex pressed high delight at the accounts of the reception of the Duke and Dutchess of Nemours by Queen Victoria, and their Royal Highnesses are charged to make a formal and pressing invitation to the Queen to visit St. Cloud tiext year. People about Court state that there is lit tle doubt as to the invitation being ac cepted ; but that should it be from neces sity declined, the King will visit Wind sor in the next summer, if his health, which is now very good, should permit. ■ Circnmstautial Evidence The following statement of an actual oc currence, (says the N. Y. American,) translated for that paper, from the Deut j sches Schnellpost, well exemplifies how unjustly a combination of circumstances may sometimes accuse a man. “At a table d’hote at Ludwigsburgh, one of the company was showing a very rare gold coin, which was passed round the table on a plate, and gave rise to many suppositions as to its age, country, value, etc. The conversation then gra dually branched off to other subjects till the coin was forgotten, and on the owner asking for it back, to the surprise of all it was not to be founds A gentleman sitting at the foot ol the table was obser ved to lie in much agitation, and, as his embarrassment seemed to increase with the continuance of the search, the com pany were about io propose a very dis agreeable measure, when Suddenly a waiter entered the room, saying : ‘ Here is the coin ; the cook has just found it in i one of the finger glasses.’ The relief to all was manifest; and now the suspected stranger spoke lor the first time as fol lows : ‘ Gentlemen, none of you can re joice more than myself at the recovery of the coin : for picture to yourselves my painlul situation ; by a singular coinci dence I have a duplicate of the very same coin in my purse ! (here showing it to the company.) The idea that, on the personal search which would probably be proposed, I would be taken for a pur loiner of the coin, added to the fact I am a stranger here, with no one to vouch for my integrity, had almost driven me dis tracted. The honesty of the cook and lucky accident has saved my honor.’— 'file friendly congratulations of the com pany soon effaced the remembrance of their unjust suspicions.” A couple Facts. “When England will reduce her du ties we will reduce ours ; when Eng land will receive our productions, we will take hers.” — Whig talk. Now look at a couple of facts. The average of the English duty is only 11 per cent, while ours is nearly 40 per cent, lu IS42,'England received of us, produce to the amount of more than FIFTY MILLIONS of dollars; while we received of her less than FORTY MILLIONS. Away with your hypocri cy ! You want a PROTECTIVE Tariff, and you mean to have it at all events. Trinity I hurch. From our editorial window we have a fine viewof this magnificent gothic struc ture, its fine stone tower, is gradually rising in majestic grandeur above the houses and busy world below. Opera tions, we believe, have ceased for the winter. The highest point of its struc ture is now one hundred feet above the pavement, aud has yet to mount one hundred and twenty feet higher. With its splendid windows of stained glass, and superb organ, it will lie one nfthe finest churches in America. In its ancient church yard which our window also overlooks, lies buried the remains of Alexander Hamilton, and the celebrated Charlotte Temple, and near the Gazette otfice is Temple street, named in memory of that unhappy and til fated girl. A H Sia»9 .-V SJ I) & WEDNESDAY, "DECEMBER 20, 1813. FOR PRESIDENT OF TIIE UNITED STATES. JOHN C. CALHOUN, FOR VICE-PRESIDENT: LLVI WfiOUßißl. FOR CONGRESS,^ JOHN IV. A. *AAFORD, OP BALDWIN. We are indebted to the Hon. Howell Cobb for a copy of the President’s Mes sage. We are indebted to the attention of Cox.. Powers, our Senator at Mil ledgeville, for copies of valuable public documents. We have received the report of Gen. Nelson, the principal keeper of the Peni tentiary, containing a minute account of the condition of that institution for the past year. We return our thanks to our New York correspondent for his welcome fa vor in our last; and most candidly as sure him that his communications are not a whit more welcome from their re- augels’ visits, i. e., being so few and far between. Jesting apart, we hope he will redeem his promise and fa vor us with long, and epistles a bout the wise and other men of Gotham. Suicide. Mr. Charles Julien, committed suicide last Friday evening, by placing a pistol in his mouth and shooting himself through the head causing instant death. He was we believe, a native of France, but for several years past a resident of this town. The Southern Reformer Is the title of anew democratic paper established at Jackson, Mississippi. It is a large and beautifully printed sheet, and will no doubt be conducted with great ability by the talented editor Mr. Wm. M. Smyth. It will advocate the nomina tionof Mr. Calhoun : but like every oth er good democrat will support any other of the distinguished democrats named in connection with that high office, should they be preferred by a majority of the party. New York Gazette. We direct the attention of our renders to a capital article which we have trans ferred to our columns from the money article of a late number of the daily Ga zette. It relates to the mode in which ihe financial business of the Bank of France is conducted, and some portions of its history in which can be traced the impress of the master hand of that won derful and comprehensive genius Napo leon Bonaparte. We again take occa sion to recommend this paper to the pat ronage of the commercial community. The New Orleans Tropic. This able and spirited opponent of democratic principles comes to us on a much en larged aud beautifully printed sheet.— We are indebted to the Boston Shipping List for an extra containing the latest mercantile intelligence in that great com mercial emporium of the East. Maratime Inteiests of the South. We have published on the first page of this days paper, the first half of an ad mirable article, by Lieut. Maury, U. S. N., upon the Maratime Interests of the South. Lieut. M. is a native of Virginia we believe, and feels as a Southerner should in reference to the gross and pal pable neglect, and contempt with which the vita] interests of this section of the j Union has been treated by the General Government. No matter what party has been in the ascendant, our interests in I this matter have been treated with equal j indifference. While countless millions have been lavished in protecting the comparatively barren shores of the North-! ern and Eastern States, and a gun plant- I ed on every three hundred and eighty [ yards of their rocky coasts, ready to | belch forth their far hissing messengers J of death upon the slightest hint of of- : fence. The sunny South, and the mighty I West, the land of unbounded fertility— the land whose annual harvests freight the commercial navies of the variPlis nations of the earth, and furnishes the means of exchange between the old and the new world—the land whose pro ducts have built up Lowell and the other manufacturing towns of New England —that section of the Union which derives less advantage from the Union than any other, and pays two-thirds of the annual taxation, is treated with a miserable nig gardliness, contumely, and neglect as short-sighted as it is unpatriotic. Lieut. Maury commences the subject by taking a complete and masterly re view of the great agricultural, mineral, and other products of the South, and their paramount importance in a Nation al point of view, and shows conclusively that the commerce of New Orleans and the Mississippi valley, is of vastly greater importance than that of N. York, and that a blockade of New York would be of far less injury to the country than one of New Orleans. He then proceeds to show by extracts from English papers of that date, the great alarm and injury that was inflicted on the commerce of Great Britain by three American Slfips of War, appearing on the English coast in 1777, and the vast preparations made by the Government to protect their citi zens. He now by parity of reason, shows how easy it would be to destroy the commerce of the South and West, by a few British cruisers in the Gulf, and how easy and how absolutely necessary it is to institute a proper system of de fence, by fortifying a few stations in the Gulf, and setting on foot a steam fleet for which we have the most unlimited ma terials, in men, from the steamboats of the Mississippi, and other Southern wa ters; minerals, coal, &c., and timber of the very best kind. One important point that is insisted on, is that these defences should be in Southern hands, men who feel that this is their own, their native land. We are glad to notice that this subject has come under the consideration of the present able chief of the War Depart ment who seems to view the subject in much the same light as Lieut. M. Johnson’s Agricultural Dictionary—Liebigs Chemistry—Danas Muck Manual, and Johnson’s Lectures. We do not know how to confer a greater favor on our Agricultural friends, than most earnestly to recommend to each and every one of them to procure a copy of each of the above mentioned books, and to make them matters of dili gent and daily study. It is a crying sin that Agriculture, the most important of all pursuits to the prosperity of our coun try, indeed the very basis and origin of all true prosperity, should be in so rude and primitive a condition as it avowedly is in the Southern States. In some countries ten or twenty years of cultiva tion seems only to fertilise and invigor ate the soil, so much does scientific Ag riculture improve the gifts of benevolent Nature. Look at a field in Georgia af ter ten years cultivation of cotton, it seems as if stricken by tires from Heaven, and as incapable of producing a crop of cotton as the burning fields around Ve suvius or -Etna. This should not be so. We bold the land in trust for posterity, and should at least leave it as good as we found it; if like the unfaithful ser vant, we have not improved it. The coarse which has been so prevalent for several years back, of pursuing the cleuti culture until the land is emphatically worn out, and then moving South, and thus successively travelling from the Larolinas to Texas, is as unwise as it is in direct opposition to the glorious senti ments of patriotism inculcated by the far mer and poet, Sir Walter Scott when he exclaimed with poetic fervor— "Lives there a man, with soul so uead That never to himself hath said This, is my own, my native land.” But to return to our subject. We be : lieve that the money laid out in purchas i ing the above mentioned books, would be returned a thousand fold to any who would study them carefully. In con nexion witfi this subject we would re commend to our friends to patronise the Southern Agriculturalist, published at Columbia, in South Carolina, and the Southern Cultivator, published at Au gusta, by the Messrs. Jones. The Western & Atlantic Kail Road. We are told in the sacred writings that Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. We are sorry that our State ; has, through the legislature, determined to obtain a similar glorious immortality, 1 by selling our magnificent public im ! provement into the hands of the stranger. Verily, we shall indeed become a rnock- I word. We shall see. Monroe Rail Road Appropriation. ] "What the devil should move me to undertake the I recovery of this drum. Being not ignorant of the impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose, t must give myself some hurts and say I got the m in the exploit.”— Monsieur Parolles. We regret to state that the hill before the Legislature, making an appropriation of 5200,000 for the payment of the States subscription to the Monroe Rail Road Company, was on Friday last lost in the House of Representatives by a vote of 48 to 141. And the motion for reconsider ation subsequently offered, was lost by a large majority. We confess our aston ishment at the fate of this bill, and our disappointment and mortification at its defeat—and the vacillating policy which has distinguished many of those who stood prominently forward as its cham pions and advocates in its progress thro’ the House, but upon its being taken up for passage, voted against it. In the front rank of these consistent politician stands eminently distinguished a gentle man from Putnam, now a representative of that county in the Legislature, better known as one of the faithful and im maculate SIX. This gentleman it i s understood advocated in a speech of con siderable force and ingenuity, the appro priation before the House, and gave his views at length upon the heresy of repu diation, but upon the passage of the bill a change came over the spirit of his dream and he cast his vote against it Alledgiiig as a reason for his singular and extraordinary defection, “that it would not pass, and he did not wish to kill himself at home by voting for it” Verily, this is an instance of political consistency and gallantry which has scarcely a counterpart since the days 0 f Monsieur Parolles himself. “Is this your long Spanish sword ? Call you this backing your friends?” The Committee of the Legislature ap pointed to investigate the appropriation question, vve are pleased to state uttered the true and unanswerable doctrine, they embody in strong and clear language, vvliat will, we believe, be the opinion of tin; liberal and just of both parties, and of the dispassionate in every section of the State, to whom the facts shall be come fully and correctly known. In the face of all this, the whigs with a ma jority of forty iii the Legislature, not withstanding the oft reiterated promises made by them in the late canvass, that as soon as they were in power the sacred iEgis of Whig protection should be thrown around the much abused honor of the State—that its plighted faith should be held inviolate at every hazard. But with some of them these maxims seem to have become obsolute idea-, at least on the appropriation question, and they might successfully challenge the palm for consistency with a Walpole, or the most enthusiastic admirer of Machia velli himself. Our animadversion on the course, a majority in the Legislature have thought proper to adopt in relation to the appropriation, are not suggested by our local position, nor l>y any differ ences in political opinion with the ma jority of that body. In the discussion of what we deem sound and enlightened public policy, such considerations shall not weigh a feather with us—this ques tion, is not confined by the narrow limits of party#—it is one in which every Geor gian, cherishing a becoming pride of state, be be whig or democrat, native or adopted, is deeply interested. We con tend that it is not a question of expedi ency, whether a contract made by the Slate with its citizens, under all the forms and solemnities required by the law for the inculpation of the State for a loan or debt, shall be complied tvith—or violated witii impunity. As to the validity of the claim of the individual stockholders upon the State for its subscription, we pre sume there can be but little doubt, as the subject lias been deliberately examined by committees composed of gentlemen of probity and intelligence, from both the Senate and House of Representatives, who have reported favorably, and re commended the appropriation; notwith standing all this, the Legislature refuses to make good the engagement on the part of the State upon the miserable pre texts of expediency —and “tilling our selves at home." The question of expe diency or inexpediency, we humbly think has nothing to do with the ques jion at all, any such plea is an unmanly evasion. Tlie Calhoun and Van Guren Campaign. We again return to this not over at tractive subject, for the purpose of ma king a few remarks in mitigation of the censure direct and incidental, thrown upon that portion of the democratic press, (our own humble labors included) for the decided stand taken in favor of John C. Calhoun ; and point public attention to the objections interposing to Mr. Van Buren’s nomination, in the existing cir cumstances of the country. This, as far as we are concerned, was done with candour and courtesy —for while we stated our belief in Van Huron's qualifications and honest disposition so administer the government on constitu tional principles, with an impartial view to the general welfare of all its sections and interests, we, after a conscientious retrospect of his career and character as a public man, were forced to the conclu sion that he was not fitted to the present crisis, nor to meet the coming events whose shadows are now before us, too distinctly <o be mistaken, and too formi dable to be disregarded. Regardless of these men, and thinking only for our country; loathing the de generacy of the present, and almost de sponding for the dark future; ready to exclaim alas ! for man, is he, indeed , in capable of self-government ? Our thoughts turned with renovated hope to that mighty intellect, equally practical, profound and perspicuous, which lnipU 5