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in which all ho roan conduct i* examined, observed and criticised —to put an end to exclusiveness, which in its peculiar sphere i$ equally deleterious as that aristocrati cal exclusiveness of' manners which has produced so much evil; and, as far as 1 can form an opinion, these views have met with sympathy from evey part oft he coun try. (Cheers.) 1 look upon it and to night, 1 hope lam not mistaken, we are met toconsnmate and to celebrate the c mancipalion of this city, at least as far as the Alheiueuin extends, from the influence of these feelings. (Cheers. 1 hope that our minds and our hearts are alike open to the true character of this institution, to the necessities which have created i‘ to the benefits to which it leads; and happy I am sure, who are assisting me this even ing, if we prove that our efforts, however hu nhle, may h ive assisted in so delight ful and so desirable a consumalion. (Ch eers.) Now, that frankly 1 have ex pressed it, that is one of the reasons, and one of the princij nl reasons, why J belie ved a blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes. I think at the same time that their is another cause that has cxer (ised an injurious effect upon the fortunes until recently of this institution I think that a limited view of its real character has been taken even I)}’ those who were inclined to view it in a spirit of extreme friendliness. It has been looked upon in the light of a luxury, and not of a necessi ty—as a means of enjoyment in the hour of prosperity, from which we ought to be debarred when the adverse moment lias arrived, so that when trade was prosper ing, when all was sunshiny, a man might condescend to occupy his spare hours in swine thingelse than in a melancholy broo ding over the state of the country —that when returns were rapid and profits ready one might desire to cultivate one’s faeu!-| ties, and become acquainted with what the mind of Europe was conceiving or ex ecuting, but these were delights to be re served only for those chosen hours. Now that, i am bound frankly to say, is not the vi*w which I take of this question; not the idea which I have formed of the real char acter of the Manchester Athenium. I looked upon it as part of that great educa tional movement which is the noble and ennobling characteristicol the age in which we live. (Cheers.) Viewing in that light I cannot consent myself that it should be supported by fits and starts. The im pulse which has given us that movement is one that may be traced to an age that may now he considered remote, though the swell oft he waters has hut approached reached our own shore. Heretofore so ciety was established necessarily on a ve rydifferent principle to that which is now its basis. As civilization lias gradually progressed it has equally the physii al quill ties of man. Instead of the strong arm, it is the strong head that is now the mo ving principle of society. (Cheers.) \oti have disenthroned force, and placed on her high seat intelligence—(loud cheers) and the necessary consequence of this great revolution is, that it has become, the duly and the delight equally of every citi zen to cultivate his faculties. The prince of all philosophy has told you, in an im mortal apophthegm, so familliar to you all that is written now in your halls ami cham bers, ‘‘Knowledge is power.” If that me morable passage had been pursued by the student who lirst announced this discove ry of that great man to society- he would have found an oracle uot less striking, and in my mind certainly not less true, lor Lord Bacon has not only said that ‘know ledge is power,’ but, living one century after the discovery of the Printing press, he has also announced to the world that ‘knowledge is pleasure.’ (Cheers.) —M by when the great body of mankind lias be come familiar with this great discovery— when they learned that anew source was opened to them of influence and enjoy ment, is it wonderful that from that hour the heart of nations has palpitated with the desire of becoming acquainted with all that has happeued and with speculating on what may occui? (Cheers.) It has, in deed; produced upon the popular intellect an influence almost as great —I might say analogous to the great change which was produced upon the old commercial world by the discovery of the Americans. A new standard of value was introduced, and after this to be distinguished man must be intellectual. (Cheers. Nor, indeed, am I surprised that this fi t ]ino has so powerfully influenced our race tor the idea of human ha pi ness in depen ding on the cultivation of the inind and on the discovery ol truth, which next to the eonvixion oi our iminoitality, is an idea the most full ofconsolation to man (Cheers) for the i ultivation of the mind has no limits and truth is the only thing that is eternal. (Cheers.) Indeed when you consider what a man is who knowsonly what is pas sed under his own eyes, and what the con dition of tin* same man must be who be longs to an institution likethe one which has assembled us together to-night, is it— onght it to be a matter of surprise that from that moment to the present you hav£ hail a general feeling throughout the civil ized wojld for the diffusion of knowledge? A man win* knows nothing but the history ofthe passing hour, who knows nothing oft the history of the past, but that a certain person whose brain was as vat ant as his own occupied the same house as hirnself, who in a moment of despondency or of gloom has no hope in the morrow, because be has read uothing that has taught him that the morrow has any changes—that man compared with him wholias read the ! most ordinary abridgment of history or the most common philosophical specula tion is as distinct and diff:rent an animal as if he had fallen from some other planet' was influenced by a different organization working for a different end, and hoping for a different result. (Cheers.) It is know ledge that equalizes the social conduct of man; that gives to all our political pssition passions which are in common arid enjoy ments which are universal. It is like the ladder in the pan imxh’s mystic dream. lis base-rests on the primeval earth—its crest is lost in the shadowy splendor of empy rean, whilst the great authors that for tra ditionary ages have held the chain of sci ence and philosophy, of poesy and erudi tion, are like the angels ascendingand de ccndingonthc sacred scale, and maintain ing, asit were the communication between man and heaven. (Loud cheers.) This feeling is so universal that there is no com bination of society in any age in which it has not developed itself. It may, indeed be partly restrained under despotic govern ments, under peculiar systems of retarded civilization; but it is a consequence as in cidental to to the spirit and the genius of the Christian civilization of Europe, as that the day should follow right, and the stars should shine according to their laws and order. (Cheers.) I can recall the name of the very institution that brings us together reminds me of the circumstance —I can recall, anil I think I see more than one gentleman around me who equally can recall the hours in which lie wandered amid— “Fields that cool Ilyssus laves.” At least there is my honourable friend, the member for Stockport, who, I am sure has a lively recollection of that classic stream, for I remember one of the most admirable speeches lever listened to. (Cheers.) But, notwithstanding his allu sion. I would still appeal to the poetry of his constitution, and I know it abounds in that quality- (A laugh.) lain sure tli it he could not have looked without e motion on that immortal scene. I still can remember that olive crowned plain, that sunset crag, that citadel sane of ineffable beatify. That was a brilliant civilization developed by a gifted race more than two thousand years ago, at a time when the an cestors of the manufacturers of Manches ter who now clothe the world, were them selves covered with skins, and tattoed like red men of the wilderness. But in fluences more powerful even than the aw ful lapse of time separate and distinguish you from that race. They were the chil dren of the sun; you live in a distant, a rugged, and nothern clime. They bowed before different altars—they followed dif ferent castoms —they were modified by different manners. Votaries of the beau tiful, they sought in art the means of em bodying their passionate conceptions, you have devoted your energies to utility, and by the means of a power almost unknown to antiquity, by its miraculous agencies you have applied its creative force to ev ery combination of human circumstances that could produce your objects. Yet, a mid the toil and the triumphs of your sci entific industry, upon you there comes the (indefinable; the irresistible yearning for intellectual refinement—you build an edi fice consecrated to those beautiful emo tions, and to those civilizing studies in which they excelled, and you impress up on its front a name taken from— “Where on Aegean shores a eitv rose, Built nobly, clear the air, and light t fie soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence!” (Loud cheers.) What a beautiful tri umph, I must say, to immortal genius, : what a sublime incentive to eternal fame! Then, when the feeling is universal, when it is one which modern civilization is nur turing and developing, who does not feel that it is not only the most benevolent, but the most politic thing you can do, to avail yourselves of its influence, and to direct in every way the formation of that charac ter upon which intellect must necessarily now exercise an irresistible influence? We cannot shutoureyes any longer to the immense revolution. Knowledge is no longer a lonely eremite affording chance and captivating hospitality to some lone ly pilgrim ; knowledge is now found in the market place, a citizen and a leader of citizens. The spirit has touched the multitude ; it has impregnated the mass— “ Totamque infusa ;>cr arms, [ “ Mens agiiat molein, et magno se corpcre tniscel,” (Cheers.) I would say one word, then, to those for whom this institution is not en tirely, hut principally formed. I would address myself to that youth on whom the hopes of all societies repose and de pend. (Cheers.) I doubt not that they ierl conscious of the position which they occupy —a position which, under all cir cumstances, at all periods, in every clime and country, is ot.e replete with duty.— The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity ; but the youth I address have duties peculiar to the position which they occupy. They are the rising genera- tion of a society, unprecedented in the history of the world, that is at ouce pow erful andJ new. In other parts of the kingdom the remains of an ancient civ ilization are prepared ever to guide, to cultivate, to influence the rising mind; but they are bom in a miraculons crea tion of novel powers, and it is rather a providential instinct'that has developed the necessary means of maintaining the order of your new civilization, than the matured foresight of man. This is their inheritance. They will be called on to pet form duties —great duties. I, for one, wish for their sakes and for the sake of my country, that they may be performed greatly, i give to them that counsel which I have ever given to youth, and which I believe to be the wisest and the best—l tell them to aspire. (Cheers.) 1 believe that the man who does not look up will look down (cheers); and that the spirit that does not dare to soar is destin ed perhaps to grovel. (Cheers.) Every individual is entitled to aspire to that po sition which he believes his faculties qual ify him to occupy. (Loud cheers-) I know there are some who look with what I believe is short-sighted timidity and false prudence upon such views. They are apt to tell us, “ Beware of filling the youthful mind wilh au impetuous tumult of tur- ; bulent fancies; teach him, rather, to be content with his position; dont induce him to fancy that he, i3 that which he can not achieve.” In my mind these are su perficial delusions.. (Cheers.) He who enters the world finds his level. It is the solitary being, the isolated individual, a-, lone in his solitude, who may be apt to miscalculate bis powers, and misunder stand bis character. But action teaches him the truth, even if it be a stern one.— Association affords him the best criticism in the world, and 1 will venture to say that if lie belongsto the yithenneum, though when he enters it he may think himself a genius, if nature has not given him a cre ative and passionate soul, before a week has elapsed he will become a very sober minded individual. (Tremendousclicer and a laugh.) 1 wish to damp no youth ful ardor. 1 can conceive what such an institution would have afforded to the sug gestive mind of a youthful Arkwright.— (Cheers.) I can conceive what a nursing mother such an institution must have been to the brooding genius of your illustrious and venerated Dalton. It is the asylum of the self-formed ; it is the counsellor of those who want counsel, but it is not a guide that will mislead, and it is the last place that will fill the mind of man with false ideas and false conceptions. He reads a newspaper and his conceit oozes after reading a leading article. He refers to the library, and the calm wisdom of j centuries anil ages moderates the rash i impulse of jiiveiieseence. (Cheers.) He finds new truths in the lecture room, and he goes home with a conviction that he is not so learned as he imagined. (Cheers.) In the discussion of a great question with his equals in station, perhaps he finds he I has his superiors in intellect. (Cheers.) i j These are the means by which the mind of man is brought to a healthy state, by which that self-knowledge that always has been lauded bv sages may be most se curely attained. It is a rule of universal virtue, and from the senate to the count ing-house will be found of universal ap plication. Then, to the youth of Man chester, representing now the civic youth of this great county and this great district, I now appeal. Let it never be said again that the fortunes of this institution were in danger. Let them take advantage of I this hour of prosperity calmly to examine and deeply to comprehend the chajacter [of that institution in which their best in j terests are involved, and which for them may afford a relaxation which brings on ! pang and yields information which ma y bear them to fortune. (Loud cheers.) It is to them I appeal with confidence, be cause in them I repose my hopes. When nations fall it is because a degenerate race intervenes between the class that isdoom ed. (Cheers.) Let them then remem ber what has been done for them. The i lenders of their community have not been remiss in regard to their interests. Let them remember that when the inheritance devolves upon them they are, not only to enjoy but to improve. (Cheers.) They will some day succeed to the high places of this great communitj - ; let them recol lect’those who lighted the way for them, and when they have wealth, when they have authority, when they have power, let it not be said that they were deficient in public virtue and public spirit. (Cheers.) I When the tore.li is delivered to them, let them also lead the path ofhuman progress to educate man. Mr. D’lsraeli sat down amidst the loudest and most enthusiastic cheering, which lasted several minutes. VISIONS OF FASHIONABLE LIFE. The London season is at its height. For a few hours the whirl of carriages has [ceased, and the gay, the happy, the anx ious, and the disappointed votaries of fashion have returned to their homes, en deavoring to sleep off" the fatigue of sev eral crowded fetes. [ Some fair and happy girl may be drea ming of the devoted eyes which bad rest ed on her, of the gentle pressure (so gen tle, that it was rather instinct than reality made it felt) with which her hand had been retained on parting, and the care with which her shawl had been folded round her fair form, with an admonition to be careful of cold —and these common place words pronounced by one secretly loved, may seem soft and dulcet sounds, and be dwelt on and repealed till they become her lullaby. But how many restless vigils are being kept by the disappointed —how many a girl whose features have through the past evening been masked in smiles, while the poisoned barb of jealousy was lacerating her heart! Pride and delicacy forcing the suppression of feelings which are now being wept in utter hopelessness and sor row on the pillow from whence they have banished sleep. Another mother’s pillow is saturated with her tears. She is Iter child’s friend as well as parent. On her bosom that child has wept the confession of her love for one who has proved unworthy. That night she has seen the faithless one with the newer idol of his fickle mind hanging on his arm; and she has watched her daughter’s pale check become paler, and her once rounded form seem to shrink as her eye caught sight ol them. A mother’s love would have prompted her to with draw her child from the heart-rending sight; but the outraged pride of a betray ed heart had given that child courage to remain till no tongue could ascribe her de parture from the brilliantly lighted rooms to wounded feelings. But once within the shelter of a mother’s arms, she had wept herself to sleep; but for that mother there could be neither sleep nor peace.— Her eyes weep tears of agony—her heart is torn by pity and indignation. A young heir is dreaming that-the few days which intervened between him and the possession of a large and unincum bered property, are at length terminated; title-deeds and rent-rolls swim before his eyes, but he turns from them to examine the old family plate, which has been lift ed from its iron chests, and the diamonds, which had been hidden from his view since as a child he had beheld them bright and sparkling on his mother’s brows.-- That mother, long since consigned to the grave, again becomes, present to his im agination; he again sees her fond smile— her arms outspread to catch and fold him to her heart—his pillow becomes wet with a tear of filial love, and with a hea vy sjgh, he awakes to feel that no moth er’s eye has been upon him. Not far distant behold a man in a rest less agitnted state, without the clearness of wakefulncs, but also without the peace of sleep; his brows knit, his mouth con tracted, till the lips are no longer visible —his arm raised, his fist clenched —awhile it remains uplifted, then falls heavily on a table by his side; startled by the noise, he awakes crying— seven's the main. A voung wife who has been watching the eyes of her husband, as they followed from room to room some new meteor in the galaxy of that night’s assembled crowd —the expression of admiration, the sedu lous attention, the animated tone which ; had formerly been bestowed on liersell, | now given to another. Impatient, she had entreated to lie taken home; and on (leaving the scene of mirth, lias found her j husband, who so lately seemed the master [spirit of wit and fascination, transformed by some evil spell into a silent and moo dy mortal. She has retired to her couch to hide a grief she has sufficient prudence not to reveal, but her dreams are only the I prolongation and .aggravationof heragony. How many mother’s are pursuing in their dreams the hopes and fears to which this night has given birth. One has fol lowed with pride and love her daughter’s steps, timed to the music of Jullien’s [ band. She has noted her partners, not a glance, not a gesture lias been lost, and | now dreams that she sees a ducal coronet | suspended, and wanting but her judicious [ management to make it descend and set tle on her daughter’s brow; dazzled by j its witching form, she forgets that the fair j girl round whose temples she would see [its brilliant leaves arrayed, has already made her heart’s election, and that the [ pure and fresh feelings of that heart are (given to another. Still, still she dreams on of jewels and carriages, and the bri idal morn of her daughter, the Duchess. DIRECTIONS TO LADIES FOR SHOPPING. Shopping is the amusement of spending Money at Shops. It is to a lady, what spor ting is to a gentleman ; somewhat produc tive. and very chargctible. Sport, howe ver, involves the payment of ones own shot shopping may he managed bv getting it paid for. Ride all the way till you come to the shopping-ground in a coach, if you can; in an Omnibus, if you must; lest vou should lie tired when you get there. If you are a lady of fashion, do not get out of you r carriage and when you stop be fore jour milliner’s particularly if it is a cold, wet day, make one of the young wo men come out to you, and without a lion net, in her thin shoes, stand on the kirb stone in the damp and mud. The best places lor shopping are fashionable streets, bazaars, and the like. Street-shopping principally relates to hosiery, drapery, & jewellery of the richest sort. Bazaar and Arcade-shopping, to fancy articles, nick nacks, and perfumery. In street-shopping walk leisurely along, keeping a sharp look-out on the windows. In bazaar-shop ping, beat each stall separately. Many patterns, colours, novelties,conveniences and other articles will thus strike youreye f which you would otherwise have neve, wanted or dreamt of. When you have tnar. ked down some dress, or ribon, for in. stance, that you would like, go and in_ quire ttie price ofit; haggle, demur, exam ine, and lastly, buy. You will then he ask* ed “whether there is any other article to day?” Whether there is or not, let the shopman show you what wares he pleases you will very likely desire one or more of them. Whatever you think very cheap, that buy, without reference to your need ofit; it is a bargain. You will find, too, as you go on, that one thing suggests ano ther; as bonnets —ribons for trimming, or [(lowers; and handkerchiefs—perfumery, jln considering what more you want try land recollect what j T our acquaintances have got that you have not; or what you have seen worn by strangers in going along See if there is anything before vou supe rior in any respect to a similar thing which you havealreatty; if so get it instantly, not reflecting whether your own will do well enough. You had betterfinish your streets before you lake your bazaarsand arcades; for there fhc shopping, which one might otherwise call cover shopping, though ex cellent sport, refers mostly to articles of no manner of use ; and it may be as well to reserve toys and superfluities to the last. Married ladies, when they have laid in all they want for themselves, are recommen ded to show their thoughtfulness by pur chasing some little I rifle for their husbands who of course will have to pay for it in the end. A laughable scene lately took place at Liverpool, at the Theatre Royal. Mr. John Parry was singing ‘ The Polka Ex plained,’ in which lie introduces, among the sights and doings in London, the re nowned General Tom Thumb, playing at the same time, ‘ See the conquering hero comes,’ upon the upper notes of the piano forte; just at this point a tiny voice was heard in one of the private boxes, crying, ‘Bravo! Bravo!’ All eyes were lurned towards the spot, when the redoubtable General, in propria persona, was seen clapping his little hands with all his might. What it Law like ?—Law is like a coun try dance—people are led up and down till they are fairly tired out. Law is like a book of surgery—there are a great ma ny uncommon cases in it. It is like phy sic, too —they who take the least of it are best off. Law is like anew fashion— people are liewitched to get into it; anti, like bad weather—most people are glad to get out of it. Lord Allen in conversation with S. Ro gers, said, ‘I never put my razor in hot water, as I find it injures the temper of the blade.’ ‘No doubt of it,’ said the wit; ‘ show me the blade that would not be out of temper if plunged into hot wa- | ter.’ t From the New Orleans Ri |m\iliran. ENGLISH REPUDIATION. An English mail, received last week, ; brought rumors ol an intention on the part of the British Government to ostracise all j ambassadors from other countries which have in any way failed to meet their obli gations, and this measure is aimed partic ularly at the United Slates, on account ot the indebtedness of some of the Slates. Leaving out of question the fact that the general government of the United States | has nothing to do with the debts of thoj several states, and that therefore this hru tum fat men would fall harmless as to us. i we think it would be well for the British j to look at their own repudiation and con sider in what position their ambassador would be placed, if a system of retalia tion wore adopted by nations at which she is represented. One of the most effective replies to the constant assaults of British statesmen and the British press upon the character of lour country is to be found in a litter ad dressed by General William Bayard an American citizen to Lord Brougham.--- We make the following extracts from this able document, lor which we are indebt ed to the New World of September I4th. “With all due respect fir your lord ship’s high station and better judgment, allow me to differ with you as to the good [taste and propriety of bestowing so op probrious an epithet upon a kindred peo ple. But since the epithet has been ap plied, through your lordship, by England, [ to America, I cannot suppress my amaze-j ment at the presumption, or my pity at the imprudence which has led her to cast the first stone. In 1702, did not England, my lord, when she saw her specie taking to itself wings and flying from her shores, suspend specie payments? Did not a national debt at that time exist of three or four hundred million pounds sterling, part of which was due to foreigners r Had not that debt been incurred at a time when gold, and only gold, was the legal | tender in England ? Did not your gov ernment then receive, for the stock it is sued, gold or its equivalent ? And did not your Parliament aet in bail faith, and in violation of previous contract, when they compelled their foreign stockholders to take their interest in depreciated pa per, made a legal tender, though worth 27 to 35 per cent less than gold ? Wus it no discredit to England, or no injury 1° her foreign creditors, that they were, by (this process, deprived of one year’s in | tcresl in every three, and that such a state of things, my lord, lasted lor three and I twenty years? And to England with all these facts inscribed upon the page of his tory for the perusal of the world, prepar ed to stigmatise a temporary suspension [of payment, on the part of a small por tion of our Confederacy, as an art of swindling! Will she, a defaulter herself for nearly a quarter of a century, anil that within the memory of man, dare to call (the people of the United States “a nation of swindlers,” because, having heedless ly fallen into the trap which the Bank of England had set for them, they became, j to a limited extent, embarrassed and tein | porarily, and in a few instances, sivspend !ed payment? I had always supposed, my lord, that the trite adage, “Those who ; live in glass houses should not throw stones,” was of English origin. The [course of action which you have seen fit: to pursue in this matter, as the represen- 1 lative of England, almost leads me to doubt the paternity of the maxim ; but come from whence it may, it is a good one, and one which I would especially commend to your lordship’s attention. Let me repeat, my lord, that Pennsyl vania hvs not repudiated —she has never (denied her debt, but on the contrary, has affirmed it by issuing new stock bearing interest, to pay her interest due. The preliminary steps for a settlement of all arrears have been taken—her public pro perty has already been ordered to be sold —a new anil more extensive system of, taxation authorised by her Legislature-—; and I \enturethc prediction, that a twelve month will not have passed away before [ she will have paid her past, and provided for her future interest. Again, 1 will crave vour attention while I cite an instance of England's conduct j towards the private citizens of a friendly nation, who might actually lie considered as in her service for the time, and ask your lordship to designate the conduct by such an appellation as it shall seem to you to deserve. During the Peninsular war, when the j flag of England was waving in triumph -over the fields of Portugal and Spain, and her armies under the command of your illustrious warrior and statesman, were holding the legi ms of Napoleon in check, a great and at times very alarming, want of provisions was experienced. As one means to provide against this evil, Lord iSydmouth, then at the head of t lie British Government, issued licenses to American I vessels, though our coast was then under blockade, to carry flour and provisions in to the ports of Lisbon and Cadiz. In pursuance of this license, and under pro tection ofthe British Government, vessels were fitted out, freighted and despatched j from American ports to carry provisions to Portugal and Spain, and in the very waters ofthe United States, in time of peace, those vessels, though sailing under your own protection, were boarded by British cruisers, and sent into Bermuda and Halifax for trial. There, after a long delay and enormous expense, they were liberated by the Admiralty courts. From a decision of these courts an appeal was taken to England; new suits were institu ted with further delay, and heavier expen ses h:ul to Ire submitted to, until at length i Sir William Scott, then at the head ofthe Admiralty bench, intimated out of Court j that the parties had better compromise, j for no decision would be made, inasmuch j ns the license question involved many oth-1 er cases of much importance to England. Finding that no redress was to he obtain ed from the courts, anti eaten up by law expenses, our countrymen were obliged to yield to the exactions of their captors, who demanded from 2-7 to 20 per cent upon the amount of their cargoes, and finally were permitted to depart with the loss of halt of their property; the balance being paid to them in the depreciated paper curren cy of England, which they had to take at par. Yet those men held assurances of protection under the seal of the state of England. They had undertaken an en terprise beneficial to England, in full reli ance upon her faith and honor. Their rights could not l>e denied or set aside, and yet an English court, sworn to do justice, would not affirm their rights, and would i not do them justice, becaus it was not ex jpedient and politic, nor would the British Government subsequently—ibowgh often (petitioned by the sufferers—afford them [relief. I shall offer no comment upona transaction of this nature, but will merely request your lordship, while filled with irr idignation against all who are guilty of real or imaginary breaches of national faith, to look at home and pronounce sentence upon I your own. My lord, an instance of such a violation of public faith, of the denial of just ice bv a Court of Judicature from motives of po licy, or of refusal to make remuneration for a gross wrong done by the American Government, cannot be found upon ouran nnls, since the Declaration of -indepen paaee. THE VERDICT OF THE FORMER. ON THE TARIFF AS IT IS. One of the great issues on which the Whigs placed the contest between the two parties, was the tnaintainnnce of the pre sent partial ami prohibitory tariff The Boston Courier of Wednesday, which lies before ns, says: “Our hopes rest on New York. We are unwilling yet to believe that the intel ligent people of that great Slate have lie come so gospelcd in the doctrines of free trade, as to give their votes for Mr. Folk.” The Boston jonrnal is mistaken. The people of New York are, as it will have seen before this, so well learned in the doctrines of free trade as to give Mr. I’olk a very fair majority. Looking over the majorities in the sev eral counties, it is apparent enough that th<‘ farmers are not pleased with the Whig tariff of 1842. In the purely agricultural counties the Democratic ticket won its ' greatest majorities, or sliork most effec tually the Whig strength. Take as exam files, the prodigious majority in St. Law rence countv, the almost unlocked for change in Jefferson county, the immense falling off'in the Whig vote throughout the whole of the grain-growing and grazing counties. On the other hand, in those counties where the lords of the loom have lavished their money and issued their mandates to their workmen —in Dutchess, Ulster, lb n nselaer, Saratoga and Oneida—the whig* have obtained the few successes of which they have to boast. The manufacturers, with their money and tlieir influence as employers, ate on one side; the farmers, instructed by expe rience and their own sbrevvil reflection, are on the other. We think we may fair ly draw the inference that the tariff is as unpopular among the latter clsss, as it is a favorite with the firmer. There is snore reality than romance ir» the subjoined extract from a raptral little story in a late rmimlier ol the Knickerboc ker : “Ii is surprising how a woman will stick to her betrothed ‘against the field.’ If I knew that her lover had scraped his mo ther to death with an oysters hell, l should only make her a foe for life by really friendly net of giving the inliiru.alion. A woman in sin h a ease, will doubt the testi mony of a whole regiment under oath, and the evidence of her own senses into the bargain. Besides if you could by some mirriele, convince her, you would accom plish nothing, for she forgives even more obstinately than she disbelieves,'awl nt *" less you can actually produce before her eves a previous living wife and five chil dren, (all the bona fide property of her sui tor,) you had muc h heller let her alone. Mmcrizbx' a Horse —Something Rich. The other day, the crew of the Wapello, in St. Louis/were completely nonpluss ied by a fractious horse which they wen j endeavoring to get on board. Mr. El liott, a magnetizer, was requested to <>p- I crate, and we are happy m learn, did so with immediate effect. Simply looking | the animal in the face, making a few pas ses down his nose, and with peihaps, ft gentle “ Ho-oold horse!” the sensitive creature became perfectly docile, and walked aboard without even once saying neigh! At least so says a St. Louis paper. Rattle Snake.— The largest Rattle Snake that has ever been seen in thiscoun .try, was this day killed near Evansville, Macon, county, Georgia; it was seven feet eleven and a half inches in circumference, and has tusks one inch and a halt long. The skin is stuffed, which holds nearly three peeks of wheat bran, and can seen by calling at It. R. Evan’s Stoic, in said place. Evansville, Oct. 17, 1844. Mexican Indemnity Instalments. Tlio Department of State announces, un e date of the 4th inst., that the Instalments due on the 30th of April and 30th ol . last, under the Convention between United States and the Mexican Rep. u ' ofthe 30th January, 1843, were paid that Government on the 27th of- u o last. For a few days past the rain has poured down in torrents. Our streets are ly converted into canals; and but * f,r 1 porous nature of our soil, we shou i afloat in short order.