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CONTINUATION OF FOREIGN NEWS.
FRANCE.
The arrival of Guncrol Cla'Jscl in Paris has
been often noticed as indicative of an approach-
tfjr war in Italy. Within forty-eight hours we
(shall know whether war will or, will not take
place. Without giving an opinion on it my
self I mav be allowed to slate, that those most
interested incline to the belief that it is no lon
ger possible for France to avoid war.
The firsk step taken by the army of France
bevond the bridge of Kehl would he the signa.
for insurrection through the entire oft he aid de-
vant Rhenish provinces. Should she pass her
Italian frontier, the whole of Savoy and 1 te( -
mont would rise and join her. Sbon d •
take place, it is in the latter quarter that the
first blow will be struck. 1 know that not on-
lv is such no event deemed probable by the
Savoyards and Piedmontese, but that they are
with difficulty restrained from anticipating i •
ThHt the Sardinian Government is impresscn
with apprehensions, the following paragraph,
which 1 extract from La Temps al ibis .luj, sal
liciently proves:
“Chamberry, March 23—Orders were .s-
d tins day to send off immediately the great-
part of the eqnippage, baggage, &c. to Suza,
vnnd Mont Ccois. The Colonel of the re-
&u
er
beyond Mont Ccnis.
ffirniMit of Pignerol announced this morning to
his troans that they must hold themselve* m
readiness to march. This appears to be occa-
sioned by the report that the Austrians had en
tered Bologna, and had hanged the principal
officers of the National Guard, ll is feared
that, in case this news bo confirmed, France
will '«M-t it We still doubt, however, the ac
curacy of the fact.’*
The London Sun of (he 30th thus concludes:
From all we hear and read of the State ot
parti s in Paris, arid, indeed, generally through
out France, we do not conceive it possible for
that country to remain much longer at peace
The feelings of Louis Philippe on the subject
are evidently at variance with those oi the ma
jority of his people, and sooner or later, and
rather soon than late, he must swim with the
stream; il he attempt to make head against it,
he will surelv founder.
BELGIUM.
Th*s unhappy country is again agitated with
in and threatened without
Antwerp, March 25:—The Dutch troops
are in motion, and are approaching in great
numbers to our frontiers, by way of Cladel And
Eerzcl, between Eindhoven and Turnhout.
The position of the squadron on the whole
line to Flushing, is precisely the same; seme
por-ons who pretend to bo well intormed al-
ti: m however, that there will he a change in a
few days; that the fine ship, the Zeeuw, wil‘
go me before the city with some corvcils. and
that the gunboats will go away At all events,
ii is certain that the Zeeuw, of 90 guns, is rea
dj to leave Flushing, an 1 that it is filled out
for Bctive service.
POLAND.
The advices from Poland are encouraging.
Diebitsch remains inactive, and the victorious
Dwernicki has pursued Kreutz and his barba
rians over the Bug into Podolia, where the peo
ple are rising.
The German papers received to the 23J inst.
are of some interest, as testifying the lurther
■success of the Polish cause. i he entry ol tbe
Polish army, under Dwernicki, intothe province
ot Podolia, is likely to produce a considerable
increase of perplexity to the Russians.. 1 he
nobility and their dependents have arisen en
masse, and assembled 15,000 cnvalry, which
iorce advanced to Kamtnicz, the capital, ano
disarmed a Russian reg inent of infantry. The
news of this event has already, it it supposed,
led to a retreat of tbo force under Genera
Kreutz.
Ti e private accountsfrom Berlin give n most
heart cheering account of the State of the Po
lish caU'ft If these accounts may be relied
np m, the Russian army is in a most deplora
blc condition—a condition only equalled by
that of the troops of Napoleon, in their retreat
from Moscow. All we can say is, may such
evei be the fate of tyrants and their miserable,
but not less guilty, adherents. Bv the way, it
is s.nd that France, Prussia, and England, have
remonstrated ,V! ‘h Russia on the behalf ol the
Pjins. We are afraid remonstrance, unbacked
bv »rns, will produce little or no good to the
cho-o of 1 lint brave but nniortunute people
Warsaw, March 12.—General
be-
in high terms of confidence and hope ©r the
ultimate success of the Polish cause. ®
Russians have as yet been unable to cross me
“'Vistula at any point near Warsaw, and the river
had risen so much from the breaking up o i
ice, that there was little chance of a passage
for some time. Meanwhile Gen. Diebitsch s
army is suffering severely from a scarcity oi
provisions, the severity of the season, and the
badness ol the roads. It is even imagined that
he will soon be obliged to retreat to the Rus
sian frontiers. Should this happen, his situn
tion would be extremely dangerous, and the
war may be protracted for several campaign^
Some of the Polish commanders of corps have
been extremely active and successful against
the enemy. General Dwernicki has dispersed
the division of General Kreutz. He left War
saw with onlv four pieces of artillery, and he
has now a park of twenty guns captured from
the enemy. Should Lithuania rise in the rear
of the Russians, the whole force of the empne
would not be sufficent to subdue the Polish na
tion. It is reported that insurrectionary move
ments against the Russians have alreaoy beg.ua
m Yolhynia and Podolia ”
March 15th.— Field Marshal Diebitsch hav
ing with his own bands, pulled the different
orders of merit gained on the field of battle
off the breast of Major Kiwerski, who had
been severely wounded and made prisoner, the
Major, in consequence of such au insult, be
mg hurt to tbo extreme, answered with dignitr,
to tbo Marshal. “You may take upon yourself
to have us shot, but not dishonor us; for when
a nation declares war upon another, there are
no rebels.” The Field Marshal, enraged at
such an answer, ordered lus Cossacks to take
(lie prisoners into the interior. The General
Garztenwcig having met them, added bis in
sult to the former one; and his soldiers threw
mud and stones at thorn, and torced them into
rooms covered with blood, and where -j
number of dead and dying Russians lay; there
they were obliged to pass the night, without
any assistance, and after having given them
some few dry biscuits without any distinc
tion to rank, they were driven along, ou foot,
to Minsk
March 17.—The advanced guards of th^
Russian division arrived at Navgrod on the 171 ii
The account from Warsaw arc to the 2ls;
inclusive. Ou the 17th, the Governor Krtiko
wieaks, accompanied by his st;:ff. viewed ih;
fortifications of the city, the barricades in the
streets, the means of deieuce in the private
houses, and the butteries on the other ode ol
the river. Among other particulars, it ap
pears that mines are made in several places
that many doors and windows are barricaded
and walls arc built across the streets, by which
the city is divided mto separate fortified quar
ters.
London, March 31.
Italy —Letters from Rome state that the m-
nubitants daily expected the arrival of the rev
olutionary troops from Bologna. The tri-color
was seen from the towers of ‘he city, floating
over the advancing force, and would soon, it
it was supposed, be planted on the seven hills,
unless the Papal army showed more courage
md zeal than it had hitherto displayed. The
two sons of Louis Bonaparte, who served in
the ranks of the insurgents, had left them and
proceeded to Ancona to embark for Tristie.—
This latter fact does not fecoi to lend much
credibility to the reports of the great success
or brilliant prospects of the party whom they
tiad joined Cardinal Bametti, in order to
overawe the disaffected at Rome, had announ
ced the entrance of the Austrian troops into
the northern duchies. The French papers of
Sunday state that the Austrians have eutcred
Bologna.
The majority of one —The House of llano-
vet was brought up by n majority ol one ; the
Union of Ireland was afl'-cted by a majority
of one; and the Reform Bill has been carried
r>v a majority of one. Thus three of the most
influential events iu the history of England
were regulated by n majority of one.
Rejorm.—On looking over the division on
,he second reading of the Reform Bill, we find
that of those who voted against it, sixteen are
ier nine places, containing one huudred and
twenty-seven voters, being an averaged eight
io each; and twenty-two for fourteen places
with twenty to twenty-five voters, giving »n
average of thirty-four to each; thus thirty-eight
members representing twenty three places, and
those twenty-three places containing only eight
hundred and fifty eight voters Yet this is the
system which the auti reformu* describe as
the envy and admiration of foreign nations!
LIVERPOOL, March 30
Cotton.—The sales ot the week are 25 000
hags, inclusive of 3,000 bales ot American cot
ton sold this day by auction. Pncos are ad
v a need jd per bale. Tne arrivals are nine
-vessels Irooi the United States.
ins recourse lo ofr,goor. while «earc
firmly <1,.posed to extend to lho»e pieces, a-
well is to the Other portions of our dominions,
measures of beneficence and prosperity.
Dwernicki
&>,t ihe >ppt Ihi.ton of cannon provider
ci.osp every m< merit he is bringing in some
Iresh piece that he has taken from the enemy.
We have* this moment learnt that tns troops
h vm passed the Bug at Ciadmourand llorodlo.
O i arriving at Wndzemieozi, the seal ot Gov-
rrijiji. ii' oi Volhynia, they divided, taking th-
roads of K-w«t! and Loutsk It is impossible
to escribe the joy enthusiasm of tbo Volhy-
on vrline-using the arrival of ihwir brethren
(,.. Poles. They only waited lor this to avenge
<.... outrages that have been committed upon
ir most dis’inguished citizens Princess
• gricko and Lubemski, Kounts Isidore and
♦ Caiider Sabanski, Count Joseph Moszczeo
w.th manv others, have been violently torn
in n. thnr families, and conveyed to the very
extremity of Muscovy. J he whole of Lith
uania is burning to avenge those acts of bnr
banty. The fate of Nicholas is scaled. We
are waiting with the utmost impatience for offi
cial reports of the heroic march of our intrepid
warrioys.’* ,
March 14.—Alter the departure or the corps
O'-der the command of General Dwernicki, the
Russians made a second entry into the town ol
Pulawy on the 9th inst. Hum mity is struck
With the atrocious horrors committed a second
time by these Russians upon the unfortunate
inhabitants. After having pilaged and com
nletfdv destroyed Pulawy, they forced away
with them seven ot the inhabitants, on which
unfortunate beings they committed the ni09i
v.olont acts of barbarism ever heard of in the
civilized world Among those unfortunate
persons were Kninwkowicx, and another, the
name unknown to the eye witness. After their
suffering the most d r e»dful punishment, their in wanderiog from the living waters,
eyes were p%slied out, until death put them Tdfming to themselves sistorns that can hold n»
Rome.—The Pope has issued the usual
proclamation on bis ascending the chair of Si
Peter, but has been obliged to occupy himself
with more pressing matters than those usually
embraced in such a manifesto
Whilst,” say9 bis holiness, “we were occu
pied with sweet thoughts of consoling our chib
dren, whilst we were forming measures to
celebrate this happy result, there reached us
the most melancholy tidings of fatal revolution
in some of our provinces. Certain that the
ignorance in which thay remained that a new
lather had been given, and that the loss of him
whom they mourned had been repaired, ren
dered their errors less monstrous, we still ad
dress to them the assurance of mercy and par
don, as it becomes the vicar of God-made man,
who gloried in the character of being meek
and humble in spirit. Let those unfortunate
men reflect what a wound they inflict on the
bosom of their affectionate father, what peace
they have lost, what perils they have to en
counter, and, in makiug the cruel comparison
between their former condition and the state of
disorder into which they have thrown them
selves, let them deplore, in the sincerity ol
their hearts, the wrongs which they have done
and in
out of reach of further torments, which other
wise they uould have had to have undergone
from the hands of ‘hose barbarians.
The Times bas the following encouraging
paragraph : “ We have seen private letters
jfryw Warsaw dated the 14th inst. which speak
water. Having nothing but desires of peace
and conciliation, aud seeking nothing but the
good of those whom we shall always regard as
our children, we still feel towards them bow
SELECTIONS FROM ENGLISH PAPERS.
Mr. Southey and Authors.—1 his gentleman
complains in a recent publication, ot aui or.,
and especially p^ts, sending their works tor
his perusal, and opinion, and advice thereon,
and gives notice “to all whom it may concern,
that 1, Robert Southey, poet laureate, being
somewhat advanced in years, aud having busi
ness of my own fully to occupy as much time
as can be devoted 4o it, consistently with due
regard to health, do- hereby decline perusing
or inspecting any manuscript from any person,
whatsover, and desire that no application on
that score may be made to me from this time
forth; this resolution, which, for most just cause
is taken and here notified, being, like the laws
of the Medes and Persians, not to be changed.
Also, 1 give notice, that 1 have entered into a
society for the discouragement of autograph
collectors; which society will not be dissolved
till the legislature in its wisdom, shall take
measures for suppressing that troublesome and
increasing sect. Lastly, I shall he obliged to
il,ose journals, which will have the kindness
to make these notices more widely known, and
.f my country member, Sir James Graham,
would be pleased to mention them in the House
of Commons,—which be tnay do with as much
propriety as when he spoke ol the same per
son there on a former occasion,—ihey wou;*l
then have the advantage of b ing taken down
by the reporters, inserted in all the daily news
papers, copied into the weekly and provincial
ones, and finally recorded in the parliamentary
debates
Making Biscuit by $tesm—By the machinery
at Portsmouth, under Mr Grants superintend-
uce. 150,000 pounds of biscuit can be manu
fktuied in twenty four hours, constituting i
days rations for the crews of twenty sail of the
lino ; aud with eij^ht or ten such pieces
machinery, huso 1 rations may be daily manu-
fac.ured for 160 000 men, being the greatest
..liii ber ot Seamen and marines employed dur
,» g »he botest period of the war.
Tbo official Almanac of Portugal for 1831
contains no account whatever ot what occur
red in Paris during our days ol July. Ihe
Government of Don MigUe, always designates
Charles the Tenth, as Kmg ot France, ami
Louis Philip as Duke ol Orleans.
It has been observed that tho Great Dan
himself is not free from the bull making pro
pensit.es ascribed to bis countrymen. One o!
i.is late proclamations cails on tlie people ol
England and Ireland to “unite for the disoluii-
on of the union.”
Mr Mahon, Jr. brother of O’Gorman Mahon,
has been called on by the freeholders ot Clare
to become their representative, and has ac
cepted the invitation so tar as to d clare his
mteution of going te the poll. Mr. Steele
moved the following resolution at a meeting at
Ennis the county town of Clare, which passed
unanimously:—“That Maurice O’Connell, Esq.
the eldest sou of O’Connell, the Liberator,
should be invited by the peoplo of Clare to
represent the independent spirit of the county,
ami support his father in the Imperial Parlia
ment.”
In Poland the teachers of the primary schools
are instructed to two institutions, established
at Loveiz and Pulawy. In tho capital the
governesses and hoarding school mistresses
receive the instruction necessary for their oc
cupation under the direction of a committee
appointed for that purpose The number ot
students at the University of Warsaw in
1828, amounted to 589. The higher schooi*
of the Palatinates taught 8682 pupils; 1624
sons of artisans went to the Sunday schools, as
well iu the capital as in the provinces. There
were sixty eight individuals at the Institution
for the Deaf and Dumb. The elementary
schools in the capital wdre attended by 348
male and 383 female children, and the private
schools at Warsaw gave education to 688 males
aud 539 females. Twenty t ight boarding
schools at Warsaw contained 717 girls, and for
ty two institutions in the Palatinates furnished
nstruction to 1624 scholars
At Bow street this morning, a wrotchod look
ng man was brought bo tore S;r R. Birin;
charged with an uct of vagrancy, in being
found sleeping m the open air the preceding e
vening. Sir Richard said he did not know
what lo du with the Prisoner. All the prisons
were filled: in the House of Correction thert
were 1100 prisoners, and in the New Prison
there wore 900, and not a single bed was emp
ty. After ctuifidering a minute or two, Sir
Richard ordered him to be committed for a
fortnight.
Dr. Ruppell, an enterprising inhabitant of
Frankfort, has set out to explore Northern At
i.CH, determining to devote his whole private
lortune to the object, upon the sole condition
of receiving, should he return, an annuity ol
100/ ftoro bis native town.
On Tuesday a meeting of the friends and
subscribers ofthe Association for the Encour
agement of Literal ure, was held at the British
Coffee-house. Cock*pnr .-treet, for the purpose
f electing a committee of management, and
transacting other business connected with the
society. Io the absence of his Grace, the
Duke of Somerset, who was expected to pre
side, the chair w’as taken by W. A. Mackinnon,
Esq F. R S. It appears that the objects
contemplated by the Association were to raise
a capital of 10.000/ by subscriptions of50 each,
from 200 gentlemen, in order to be enabled to
punish works of merit, the authors of which
might not be able to sustain the expense ot
publishing their productions; that in case of pe
culiar emergency, a sum not exceeding 100/.
should be advanced to the same class of per
sons; and that authors should receive a per
centagc, varying from fifty to ninety per cent
on the profits ot the sale of their publications,
which should be sent forth to the world under
the auspices ofthe Association. The Chair
man also stated, that the finances of the Asso
ciation were already in a very prosperous con
dition, the sum of 3,000/. having already been
subscribed by noblemen and gentlemen who
approved of the undertaking. Amongst the
former were tbe Duke of Somerset, the Mar
quis of Londonderry, and the Earl of Dudley.
A permanent committee, amongst whom were
Sir Gore Ouseley, was th» n appointed; and a
committee of general management and two
Secretaries, (Mr. Campbell and Sir T. Gates)
haviog also been named, the meeting adjourned.
Lord CocHRANE.-The Loudon Court Jour
nal says:-
•«We learn from a source to which we give
credit, that the royal prerogative is about to
be exercised, in the restoration of that distm
guished naval officer, Lord Cochrane. Thi9
act will be bailed by the public as a fresh indi
cation ofthe kindly feelings that so conspicu
ously distinguished our present Monarch."
Lord Cochrane is probably the first naval
commander of the age, and should England be
drawn into a w T ar, no man could be more useful
in sustaining her reputation on the seas. We
doubt, however, that his restoration would be
a popular act. A dark cloud still hangs over
his character, which his transactions since hi9
dismissal have by no means tended to remove;
and his recal, instead of being “hailed as an in
dication t>f the kiudly feelings of the King,”
might probably bring back to the minds of ma
ny, certain uopleasaut recollections ofthe Duke
of Clarence.—N. Y. Standard
DOMESTIC*
From the Charleston Courier, May 3.
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of
the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road com<
puny, was held yesterday at their office in
Broad-street, when a report, detailing the ope
rations of the Board of Directors for the past
year, was laid before the Stockholders for their
information and approval; which, with the ac
companying Documents, were directed to be
printed for public information.
The Report states that tho whole extent of
the Road from Charleston to tbe Savannah Ri*
ver, at a point near the Augusta Bridge, is but
135 miles That 88 miles ofthe same is under
contract, and offers for a part of the remainder
are now under consideration, with others daily
arriving. That part of tbe Road, between
Charleston and Summerville, which has been
given up hv Contractors who have failed in
their engagements, is now in progress of con
tract; and there is no doubt but the ensuing fall
will shew an increased rapidity in the fiuish-
ing ot this pari ofthe route. The whole now
under contract, above the Cypress to the
White Ponds, 35 miles beyond theEdislo, will
be in a continued state of progress during tbe
summer; (all tbe Contractors being residents)
and tbe trees fur the construction of that sec
tion of tbe road mostly felled, ora sufficiency
girdled for use.
The following Gentlemen were elected Pre
sident and Directors of the company, for the
ensuing year:—
President— ELIAS 1IORRY.
Directors
H F. Faber,
John llaslett,
B. J Howland,
Dr. Joseph Johnson,
Dr. S. llenry Dickson, Henry Ravenel,
John Dixon, T. Tupper.
*Not in tbe last Di r cction.
James Adger,
* William Aiken,
Wiliiam B 11,
J J. Bulow,
els of compassion, and would be afflicted at tbe
very idee of being under the necessity of hav-1 the Duke of Somerset* the Lari ol Dudley, am
THE LATE CABINET.
“The well known attachments of the Se
cretary of the Treasury and Navy to Mi
Calhoun, and the recent manifestly hostile
views of that gentleman towards Gen. Jackson,
produced division and discontent.”
‘ A’r. Van Buren it is true has retired from
office, but he returns to n state where his po
litical knowledge and consistency are invalua
ble—a Slate that can ar.d will support him for
ihe highest office when the proper times ar-
n\e«—Mr. Calhoun has strengthened Mr
Van Buren by his violent opposition—be has
returned from tbe Cabinet and is tbrovrn back
on the people with a higher reputation for dis
interested zeal and upright principle. In this
movement however, Mr. Calhoun has sacrific
ed Mr. Ingham and Mr Branch, his two friends
aad the members of the new Cab'net are not
assailable on any point. How stands tbe case
thenl General Jackson bas lost two friends in
his Cabinet and gained four. Mr Van Buren
becomes a private citizen and mingles again
wi;h bis political friends m an energetic sup
port of the President. On all sides Genera!
J -ckson is strengthened & his enemies discom
fited, well indeed may Mr. Vau Buren be called
the “great magician,” for he raises his wand
and the whole Cabinet vanishes.”
“ All motive for assailing Mr. Van Buren is
at an end; trouble and difficulty have been
produced but on whom does it fall—who suf
fers, who almost staggers under the blow!—
Mr. Calhoun and his imprudent advisers.”
The enemy has been completely panic
struck by this movement.”
Who in the new Cabinet dare they assail ?
Not one—and thus cruintdes the opposition to
pieces while the administration derives addi
tional strength from some who are out and all
who are in power.”
The above extracts are from an editorial ar
ticle in the New-York Inquirer in course of an
examination intothe causes ofthe tale blow up
It should be borne m mind that the Inquirer is
the leading oracle of Mr. Van Buren, in N&w-
York. Of course Major Noah, its editor, may
be supposed to speak the sentiments of that
distinguished fourth part of a i.ate unit.
As stiff}'-tent time has not yet elapsed to see
what effect Ihe resignations will have on the
public sentiment, its effect must have been hy
pothecated upon precalculation. Here then we
have the beneficial effects of the operations of
the political magician, set forth by one of his
confidential partizans. From all this it may he
inferred, that the movement, was designed, not
for tbe benefit ofthe country as was intimated
in Mr. Van Huron’s letter to the President, but
for the especial advantage of the little magician.
This we have never doubted, was the sole oh
ject of the late Secretary, but we did not think
that one of his leading papers would be fore
most to marshal these personal beneficial re
sults. Had an opposition paper have made
such statements as the obvious inducements to
such operations, it might happily have been;set
down by the Inquirer as among the misrepre
sentations of the 'coalition prints ” Here we
have them from ao official source. To suppose
that Mr. Van Buren could not have fureseen
them as well as Major Neah. would be to de
tract more than a “unit” from his “invaluable
political knowledge.” If he possesses as much
political penetration a? the editor of the Inqui
rer, bis resignation may be attributed to a de-
sire to “sacrifice two of Mr Calhoun’s promi
nent friends"—to cause “trouble and difficul
ty” to fall on “Mr. Calhoun and his friends/’
—to “strike a panic into the enemy/’—and to
“crumble the opposition to pieces.” Such ac
cording to the leading Van Buren print in New
York, are the “causes” of the dissolution ofthe
cabinet, and as Mr. Noah phrases it, “in the
midst of Mr. Van Boren's usefulness.”—Surely
the Republic will not have much cause to com
plain of the loss of such “usefulness.”
The Rail Road.—We are sometimes accost
ed with—“Why don’t you give us something
about the Rail road—about our Rail road-—
about Frederick and the Rail-road?”—The
(ruth is, the realization of all former anticipa
tions, is now so near the eve of being surpass
ed, that past anxiety arising from doubts and
fears, has settled down into perfect satisfaction.
Certainty has superseded conjecture and spec
ulation; so that the interest felt is much less
intense than when the effect of the Rail-road
on the prosperity of Frederick was involved in
doubt.—Then it was necessary to dispot dis
mal fearsand gloomy forebodings by pictures of
prosperity, dratvn by tbe finger of hope, and
set off with the tints of fancy, But now, tbat
the work is progressing upon us with a rapidi
ty exceeding our expectations, and demonstra
ting by practical facts, the immense advantages
our town is about to experience, positive good
has turned the scale, and rendered argument
on our side unnecessary by completely silence*
ing it on the other.
The rapid increase of our town in population,
the numerous stores that have been opened,
the brisk nnd lively appearance of our streets,
and the evident improvement of business of
every kind, atle-1 the truth of these remarks.
Since the opening of the Spring there huvo
been upwards of twenty new stores erected in
different parts of the toivn, all of which have a
prospect of doing well. Persons residing at a
distance, will perhaps find it to their advan
tage to visit Frederick for the purpose of sup
plying themselves with dry-goods, groceries,
&.c. The supplies are very full—fuller proba
bly than at any previous time.
The demand for houses has been greater
this year, than in any previous year since our
residence in Frederick, indeed, we know of
none that is vacant, but one or two large man
sions remote from the seat of business.
The completion ofthe rail road to this place.,
will form a new era in its history. The desira
ble event we have the prospect of being able to
record by (he expiration of tbe present year.
The work is now advancing at such a rate, as
to promise its completion lo this place, early
enough to enable tbe farmeis of this vicinity
nnd west of us, to have their fall crops convey
ed to Balliaiore at an expense much below the
present cost, and with much more celerity.
Then only will the extraordinary benefits of
the Rail road begin to he fully ap reciated. It
will place Frederick, in point oftuno, nine hours
nearer Baltimore to the traveller, than it is nt
present; and to those who have burdens to car
ry by waggons, there will be a saving of more
than hall the time now consumed. Freight will
be much cheaper and more rapid, which will
be a saving both of time and of money.
To point out all tbe advantages which are
to spring from tho Rail road, would be a
lengthened task. Byt one of its cfiiefconse-
quonces will be to enlighten and expand the
minds of all whose proximity thereto, will en
able them to adopt the means of improvement
it will afford. Thousauds who would otherwise
never visit our Atlantic cities, will be induced
•o travel thither, am) by personal observation
acquire information which could otherwise be
obtained only from books, and then perhaps
imperfectly. New ideas will be imbibed, new
reflections will ensue, and the mind that might
have been confined in its views to the narrow
compass of a few miles, will be expanded to
embrace a vast realm.—These are some ofthe
benefits which the Rail road is calculated U>
dispense. Thus while the great woik is to fill
our pockets, save our labour and our time,
it will expand our minds and enlighten our un
derstandings.—Frederick Cil.
Eloquence ia of various aorta ns well as diff.rent de*
grets. Tito eloquence of ooe orator may rival that of
unother without at all resembling it. There are Mr.
Clay and Mr. Webster—nho will deny to either of
them, or to Mr. Sergeant or Mr. Wirt, the meed of
eloquence? And yet how little comparison can be drawn
betueeu them! One of the roost eloquent men we ever
heard is, *t limes, Mr. Borges, of Itbode Island. In
the cate of this gentleman, his figure an^ appearance,
and his known amiable character and strongly marktd
moral qualities, go to inerts* tbegefiect of what he deliv
ers with so much energy. There are circumstances of
his life which, where known, give a thrilling effect to
6orr* passages ot his speeches. Lie Las had the misfor
tune lo follow lo the grave several gruwn children, of dis-
itflgufciiMi talent ai.ii merit, having lost all Lis children
but one, wLo is now the hope and solace ef his advancing
years. With thisfset impressed en the mind, the reader
will find in tbe close of the following extract from a
speech lately delivered by Mr. Bvrges at a dinner given
to him by his constituents, a touching instance of the.
power of eloquence and feeling united :—[-Vat. Jnt.
“Our candidate for Governor is accused of having
been born in Vermont. Of alt the events of a man’s life
this is, especially, the one for which he cannot be made
accountable. It cannot be denied, that the place of our
birth is ever dear to memory. The groon hill top, from,
which tbe young eye first locked at the rising sun ; the
brook, the forest, the field, where, in early life, tve have
spurted or labored, 1 knuw cannot be forgotten. Indeed,
this truth to the land of our birtb, is tue highest pledge
which we can give that we shall k*ep faith and allegiance
with the land of our adoption. The same principle car
ries us from the bosom of our parents, lo that of a more
endeared relation. Leaving no matter what other laud,
we arc united to this State, by a relation as holy as wed
lock; and those nho have been j iued by the sacraments
of God, let not the sacrilegious hand of man attempt to
put asunder. We can, 1 know, though not without a
sigh, depart from the graves of our fathers; but, Ob! who
cun ever tear himself from tbe tomb of his children?”
From the London Courier.
Literary Notices.—Jl year in Spain T by an Ameri
can, 2 vols. 8co.—This is, without exception, the best
hook of its class that has appeared for many years. The
author, who is, we understand, a Lieutenant Slidell, of
the American Navy, travelled in Spain during the year
1326, and appears to have been a most impartial observer.
For the correctness of a great part of his boob we can
vouch, having a year afterwards travelled over the same
ground, but without meeting with any of those moving in
cidents of rubbery and murder which are related by Lieut.
Slidell io so graphic a manner as to create a painful inte
rest in the reader. The book before us combines the
qualities of iuformalion and amusement in a rare degree,
aud the style would do honor to the most celebrated au
thors of the present day.
The United States’ ship Peacock, Captain McCall, last,
from Havana, 7 th inst. arrived at Boston on Sunday last'.
The Peacock has on board two of the pirates who ran
way with tbs brig Orbit, of New Yoi k.