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''iiifip ai&jL &mP iiifl^j^lfsgj&afe “A poet’s hand and prophet’s fire, Struck the wild warblings of his lyre.” [ Prom the .V. F. Mirror.] A POET’S DAUGHTER. Written for Miss* —', at the request of her father, by Mr. Ilalleclc. “A Lady asks the minstrel’s rhyme.” A lady asks? —There was a tune, When, musical as play-hells chime To weaTicd hoy, That sound would summon dreams sublime. Of pride and joy. But now the spell hath lost its sway, Life’s first born fancies fast decay, Gone are the plumes and pennon’s gay. Of young romance; There linger but her ruins gray And broken lance. “This is no world,” so Hotspur said, For “tilting lips” and “mammets” made— ' No longer in love’s myrtle shade My thoughts recline — I’m busy in the cotton trade, And sugar line. “ Tis youth ’tis beauty asks—the green “And growing leaves of seventeen “Are round lmr; and, half hid, half seen, “A violet flower: “Nursed by the virtues she hath been “From childhood’s hour.” Blind passion’s picture—yet for this We woo the life-long bridal kiss, And blend our every hope of bliss With her’s vve love; Her’s —who admired a serpent’s hiss In Eden’s grove! Beauty—the fading rainbow’s pride, "Youth —’tvvas the charm oflier who died At dawn, and, by her coltin'u side, A grandsirc stands; Age strengthened, like the oak, storm-tried, Of mountain lands. Youth's coffin—hush the taleit. tells! Be silent, memory’s funeral hells ! . Lone inpy heart, her home, it dwells, Untold till death, And where the grave-raouud ■gi'cenly swells O’er buried faith. “Bat she who asks hath rank and power, “And treasured gold, and banner’d tower, “A kingdom lbr her marriage dower, 1 “Broad seas and lands; “Armies her train, a throne lict hov cr, “A queen commands!” A queen ? Earth’s legal suns have set, Where perish’d Marie Antoinette ! Where’s Bordeaux’s mother? where the jet Black Haytian dame ? ■And Lusitania's coronet ? , And Angoukme? i ■Empires to-day are upside down, The castle kneels before the town, The monarch tears a printer’s Iron n, A brick-bat's rage— Give me, in preference to a crown. Five shillings change. “Another asks—though first among “The good, the beautiful, the young, “The birthright of a spell more strong “Than these hath brought her; “She is your kinswoman in song, “A poet’s daughter 1” A poet's daughter ? t'ould I claim The consanguinity of fame, Veins of my intellectual frame, Y our blood would glow Proudly,- to sing that gentlest name Of aught below 1 A poet’s daughter? "Dearer word lyip bath not spoke, nor listener heard ; I’it theme fur song of bee and bird From mom till even, And wind-harp, by the breathing stirred Of star-lit heaven. My spirit’s wings are weak—the fire Poetic comes but to expire; Jler name needs not my humble lyre To bid it live; Slie hath already from her sire AH bard can give. The JUi&ceUanist. MATIU MONY. ~ ~ “Oh Matrimony;—thou art like To Jeremiah's figs. The good, are very good indeed, The bad, too sour to give the pigs.” J)r. I (tbleett, “Is she engaged T—-“Is he paying atten -1 ion to any one?”—“When will they be married ?” .Sich are tiie questions, w hip!) are invariably heard wherever tin re is a gathering together of “ grown up children” ■oftie’ present day. Matrimony, love and ■courtship, form the standing subjects ofcon versation. The very unfrocked urchins catch tite-tant wurdk of their elders, and talk of ■bonus” Hid “wives,'’ and act oyer their -mimic courtships and marriages. Mothers ■ all; ttvihvir daughters of their-Chances of luniriioony, and fathers reckon up in tin? pro nco of their-children, the amount of Rank f.wk, or the aeresoflaudod pioperfv, which ■ure respectively held by their different visi tors, neighbours or acquaintances ; and hav ing ascertained to a mathematical certainty, 4jie wealthiest -of the jntjnbcr, invariably re. commend him or Iter as a prize worthy seek ing after. Tiie first—we hud almost said— the only, definite idea which a young woman just < nli ring upon her teens can boast of, is' that she mcst lie married—sometime or oth er—(o somebody or other—married well, if She icon—poorly if she must—but at all events married she must be. The Imre idea of an old maid jars upon her sensitive nerve*, and acts as a spell to call up associations ol disgust and horror. To her—the barren and fdastyd tree—hlossonjless—-and rocking to v err breeze that sweeps coldly around it, is n emblem of *_bo .tale of singlc-bJcsscdness. She knows not—dreams not, that woman in the exercise of the holy charities and sympa thies of her nature, may live on in lonely and j unappropriated loveliness —like some beau tiful wild flower smiling apart from its elus-! tered sisterhood, — “Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.” And, wherefore all this tali; of matrimo ny? Why should the young and beautiful! so soon learn to fix her thoughts with an all engrossing interest upon this subject—lo speculate and devise plans for what is usual ly termed “marrying well, —which, being in terpreted, signifies marrying a large estate — a handsome house—without much regard to the person or the intellect necessarily append ed to these desirable commodities ? And what is marriage after all ?—*A leap in the dark—a launching out upon an untried ocean.; It may indeed be happy—hearts may unite in | all the felicity of kindred feeling and sympa- j thy, mplting like two clouds of a summer] sunset into one another. Rut this cannot ul-) ways be. The mysterious chords of human sympathy, are each, in a measure, distinct and peculiar—they have no general character 1 —no definite and irreversible affinify “l ew are the hearts whence one same touch j Bids the same fountain flow.” Marriage too often takes place before the j parties have been able fully to understand i each other—before the guarded reserve—the j dissimulation of courtship have passed away j and given place to the frank impulses of na-1 ture and feeling, and disappointment lulls j keenly and heavily upon the votaries of wed-j lock, when once the irrevocable vow is spo*! kern In the caustic language of M. de Ar-j j gens in his “Philosopher turned Hermit”—j “A inau who would please,carefully conceals j his faults, —and this is woman’s peculiar tab j ent. For six long months two persons study 1 to cheat one another; at lust they are joined in wedlock, and their dissimulation proves a ' mutual punishment during life.” ! We cannot say with Edward Fitzgerald, 1 | that, “we never saw a bridal but our eve- I lids have been wet”—but we have seen some —one at least, when we could have wept had i not the fever of the world long before dried! up the fountain of our childish tears. It was a marriage for money—you might read that in the miserly and deerepid form which drew up its bonded proportions before the aitu; at the side of ajrouug, beautiful and simple hearted girl, hiie was pale—and her delicate little hand trembled as it adjusted the folds of { her rich garments, and there was a quiver j about her fine mouth which told of repressed 1 agony :—and, when the ceremony began, she j turned one hasty glance upon her ill-suited] bridegroom, and 1 could sue In r shrink from! him, with a slight but evident feeling of drs- j gust and abhorrence. 1 Hooked upon the bridegroom. He was regarding her with i as much fondness as his cold and selfish heart was capable of-—a miserly chuckle, as if he j had just counted over his gold—the smile ot an Our -ig Outang. And was this the man to whom that beautiful creature was to be oound—a living and lovely beuag upon a life less corpse—beauty and greenness upon bar renness and decay ? And her friends, and her relatives—they stood clustering around her with their eyes fixed, not upon the ago- I nized countenance of their victim, but upon I the jewelry and gauds which adorned her.— i Fool—fools—knew they not that the victim of a pagan immolation is as gaudily decked when sin; is placed upon lier pile of consum ing ; and that tier sacrifice is far less terrible 1 than that of a young and lovely creature made j in the perfect similitude of angels, and giow j mg with rich aud ardent affections, upon the ! polluted shrine of Miumnou. Alas—what j could ever atone for this chaining of the hu man affections —this binding of loveliness and innocence to age, disease and avarice!— Sick at heart we turned away from the melan choly spectacle, while these words of the ) immortal William Penn, rushed strongly tjp jon our memory. “Oh—how sordid Ims man | grown ! —-man; noblest creature of the uni* ! verse, as a God upon Earth and the image of Him who made it,-thus to mistake Earth for Heaven and worship gold for God ?” If not for money marrv for love. Aye— and starve for it too —starve like the bride of Jafiicr. J/Ove is a very good tiling in its pro per place. It will di> very well—to talk of, especially in the dalliance Itoui of a moon light evening, when the perfect stars are ■ looking down from above, and the flowers ol ■Spring time are glowing like rival stars be neath. 1 uve sounds well in theory—it is beautiful in practice—it reads well in ro mance—it is die' soul of poetry. Eove is a I blessed thing in the halls of affluence—or j even of competence—hut it is the mortal em> I my vf poverty. Its home is in the romance of i <>ur young years, and when that Imiiic is vio | luted us it too frequently is, by the gnawing j wtints of existence, think ye the beautiful idol will survive the utter desolation of its temple? j Believe it not. There are, connected with | tke marriage .state ail the loving aud the poor, ! a thousand difficulties—a thousand evils, un ! known anil unheeded in the delirium of young ! affection. For a time the unfortunate lover | may bear up,against evils which increase w ith ; the downing of every morrow, —he may sac i rifice ease and personal convenience—he ] may toil on in unceasing but hopeless energy ; and still hide from the beautiful young erea- I ture who has given herself up to a dream of] | love, the doubts and fears w hich darken and distract his own bosom. A few months—or i years more, and tins dream is broken in upon 1 ! —the painful truth is made manifest. Then j comes the bitterness of poverty—the incrcas | ing wants —the decreasing means. Children j are around them—young, innocent children ! —and these must also sutler. Sorrow must : greet them prematurely—they must learn ; troni the Imllow ebook and the mournful eve j of their parents the awful lesson of their own destiny. Then come the coldness—the es trangement, which want and care arc so well calculated to produce. There is something terrible in swell a change. It is like “ a cy press breath—a funeral odour axhalcd from i | the expanding rose bud.” f all money if you please the “root of all ! evil.” In the present state of society, it is the [ 'erv mainspring of existence—the philoso-1 j pher s lever whereby this great matter of fact 1 world is moved. without it, is but a, beautiful delusion. It can neither boil tie pot, nor pay for its savory contents. If can not look unconcerned in the face of a dun, or escape the visitation of the Sheriff It nan not shorten the long piiiz of the- doctor* by the prompt payment of his longer biU. R can not move the sympathy of the landlord, or re-; concilo the lawyer to tlj - loss of his fee. It is an old, hut wc.fear a true saying, ‘’When Poverty comes in at the door Ixives goes out at the window.” —A". E. Weekly'Review. MISS LANDON. Mi 3s Linden, better known as L. E. L. the initial poetess, is a young lady whose age. at a glance, you might estimate at some j twenty-four or twenty-five ; short of stature'; ! a figure light and elegant, with “ the twink ling feel so sylph-like.” It’ you do not eon sider her pretty, why, you have no taste ;! though, if you analyse the features it w ould 1 be difficult to say where the beauty is situa ted ; but it is the mind that flings its charms over all, and the intelligence that beams up on her face is the true secret of it.• attraction. She dresses somewhat the hair is tied hack so as completely to display the forehead, which, however, is not a high one, though remarkably broad, intimating a great degree of animation combined with interior reasoning powers. A bright pair of grey eyes occasionally betray the spirit of song that j dwells within, notwithstanding the laborious efforts to conceal it. A remarkably small nose, prrtly mouth, rather cherry cheeks, and dimpled chin compete the inventory ol her features. If a stranger were to converse ■ with her, ignorant of her poetical powers, heJ would scarcely believe that the “ Improvisa triee” and “Golden Violet” were the produc-' tions of the gay being with whom he had been qiiadrilhng. Her poetry breathes of disap -1 pointed love and broken hearts; nature is its j frequent theme, yet the writer never felt the ; one nor liked the other, llcr volumes are : the very excess of the sentimental; she is the j very reverse of it. The dance and the crowd- J od assembly arc the elements in which she lives, and beyond which she has not a wish or a hope. She prefers the atmosphere of a j square or orescent to the sweet and fresh | breezes of spring, and the odours of eau dc j Cologne to the delicate fragrance of the May flowers. Pity it is that a mind of so high an order as Miss Landon’s should be chilled into very heartlessness by over much contact w ith the world, in which feeling is ..account i ed folly, the heart voted a bore, and the head j only valued as the medium of uttering soft ; nonsense, and ridiculing all that is good and i great in human nature. English Journal . PRIDE. Tbe proud heart is the first to s'r.k beneath contempt—it feels the wound more keenly j than others can. Oh, there is nothing in t language can express the deep humiliation! of being received with coldness when kind ness is expected—of seeing the look, but i , half concealed, of strong disapprobation from j such as we have caure to think beneath us, j not alone in vigour of mind and spirit, bid ! | even in virtue and truth. The weak, the! base, the-hypocrite, are the first to turn with! indignation from their fellow mortals iu dis-! grace; and whilst the really chaste and pure! suspect with caution, and censure with mild ness, these traffickers in petty sins, who j j plume themselves upon their immaculate j I conduct, sound the.alarm bell at the approach ; : of guilt., and clamour their anathemas upon ! j their unwary and cowering prey. Experience gradually teaches us, that the j : greater part ot what we look upon as niisfor , tunes, arises from our endeavouring to hts i ten, to change, or to constrain the natural i : course ot events. It would almost seem as! j if there were a secret chain of connexions, ' jot cause and effect, which would conduct us ' naturally' qnd necessarily to the obje ct of our I i desires, if the restless character of our minds' did not time iu time lead us astray. FOREIGN. During this week, European Advices have been received in such quick succession, that in to-day’s paper we insert the announce-1 incut of a war, the commencement as well as j flic termination of hostilities—each event! communicated by a different arrival—llol hind and Ilclgium have had a brush —violent Imtsoon over, like a West India hurricane.! 1 ranee promptly interposed, and for the mo- • | incut put a stop to the struggle. The ques tion is now again asked, with fresh in- ! i tcrest, will jieare or irnr result from this new ! posture <>l affairs * Only time can ileti rtnine j —hut considering the various signs and cal- ! i dilating probabilities, we cannot Imt think; the “/liiWowi is- passed." —France, after de | livering Belgium from tiie Dutch, must f el* irresistibly impelled to render the like a'ssis-j ! lance to Poland—fiir it cannot be pretended i tiiat king William has not as good a royal l right to tlieone country, as the Emperor Ni f'liolas has to the other. Bv several arrivals at New York, London and Paris papers, to the lffth August, have been received. It will be seen that 1 lie French King! hat interfered effectually between Hof-1 land and Belgium ; the Belgans having! proved utterly incompetent to protect themselves. The proceedings of the 1 French government seem to have been fully approved of by that of England j At the latest dates, it appears, ( asimir Perier and his colleagues were yet iu of-1 lice; no new cabinet having bceu form ed. There is little that is interesting from 1 any other quarter, ’['he Russian forc es j were| collecting about Warsaw ; and the British Parlaiment was still occupied bv the reform bill. *j the London Sun of August fi. •March of the French Jinny. —Events i of importance thicken on us—the die of war is cast—and a French army of 50, i 000 men is liow on its inarch to assist the King of the Belgians in rcpcll'iig thoj invasion of the Dutch. This is indeed important news, and must lead to results j of great importance. it appears that on Thursday night, in tclligence had been received at Paris ol j 1 the Dutch having broken the armistice, and commenced immediate hostilities, hy j the capture of some of the Belgian towns. Nearly at the same time an express ar rived front King Leopold, demanding j I of a French army to preserve the neutrality of Belgium, and to repel the, Dutch. The French King immediately j convoked a Council, at which ,M. Periei j and all the late Ministry attended. The result of their deliberations was the pub lication of an Extraordinary Edition qf the Moniteur. This decisioPlf the French is at once prompt—hold—honorable—and in ac cordance with the often expressed feel ings of the nation. But the question a ristfl, what will be the consequence of| this step !—We answer—War with Prus sia—War with Hussia—and very proha-! Ely war with Austria ! At present this! seems unavoidable from the appearance! of things, for if is impossible to, conceive that the perfidious King of Holland, | w ith all his obstinacy, w mid hav e been mad enough to precipitate a war with out the secret encouragement of Prussia j and .Russia. But he will yet pay dearly j for his temerity. Express from Paris. —The King of France received intelligence late on Wednesday night that on Thursday, eve ning. the 4th of August, at half past 9 o’clock, the King of Holland intended to recommence hostilities against Belgium, Early on Thursday morning a special courier reached the French government with an autograph letter from King] Leopold, announcing, it is said, the dec laration of war on the part of Holland, and claiming from France the assistance of an army, to maintain the independence and neutrality which was promised to Belgium by the Great Powers. At nine o’clock on the same morning the King held a Council at the Palais Royal, when ail the Ministers of M. Cas imir Perier’s administration attended, including the President himself, and de termined te remain in office under the present emergency, until the debate upon thoad dross in the Chamber of Deputies. It was also resolved that Gen. Girard, at the head of 50,000 French troop 1 , should immediately march to the aid of the King of Belgium. ‘•The King of Holland lias denounced the armistice, and announced the resump tion of hostilities against the Belgians, this evening, at half past nine o’clock. “This morning at five o’clock, the King lias received a letter from the King ] of the Belgians, who demands of limitin' aid of a French Army. “The King having recognized the in dependence of the Kingdom of Belgium, and her neutrality, in concert with Eng land. Austria, Prussia and Russia, and j the circumstances being urgent, rom j plies with the demand of tin: king of the Belgians; and will cause the engage ments to he respected, which have been taken in common ac ord w ith the Great Powers. “Marshal Girard commands the army of the North, w hich is inarchi ng to the aid of Belgium, whose neutrality and in dependence are to he luantained. “The peace of Europe ditsurbed by the King of Holland, shall be consolidated. “I nder such circumstances, the Min istry remain ; they w ill aw ait the an swer of the Chamber to the speech ofthe Crown. “By order of his Excellency the Min ister ol Finance, the Commissary of the Exchange. (Signed) “BAUDESON DE KITCIIER BOt’HG. Aug. 4, Thursday mornings nine o’clock.” London Courier Offer, half past, .‘i o'clock. We have just received by an extraor dinary express from the Hague, the fol lowing important intelligence, the au thenticity of which we guarantee:— Inconsequence of the communication made by the conference of the King of Holland, the nature of which we were the first to announce last week, his Dutch maje ty has given an assurance to the English and French governments, of w bit h the following is the substance. 11 is majesty has declared to them, that in comment ing hostilities against Bel gium, he had not the slightest wish to embroil himself with the great powers— He regarded! vhc quarrel between him and the Belgian government as strictly ! confined to the two belligerents, anti as not at all connected with the interests or intentions of the great powewt : hut as he is now assured that the continuance o! hostilities by him is viewed with dissat isfaction by the conference, lie, in accor dance v ith his anxious desire tube on friendly footing with Hie great powers, will discontinue hostilities, and withdraw his troops within the Dutch frontiers, as soon as he shall receive intelligence that the French troops have actually 'titered Belgium, as he will regard such entry of the 1” rcncli troops as an intimation of the adoption of the quarrel on the part of the Belgians by the conference. His majesty has also int imated that he has sent orders to the commanders of In , troops to retire iqion the advance of i}„! b rem it army, al'ul on tioaccoun', to com mit any act of hostility after such id vuncc. According to iiii'orinaliqn received i •rough another source, we learn that' the hrs division of the French troops " as to he at Mens o;i the p<j t ir,..!. From liio Chronicle of the l-Jth August. Rout of the army of the Meuse. Unis; els, Tuesday night-, 11 o’clock.— The news lias reached this city of the to tal rout of the Belgian army of the -\i; i ise. 'l'iiis corps, under the command of General Daine, was attacked by sur prise, near llnssrlt, yesterday morning about eleven o’clock, by the Dutch army, and, after a short resistance, the Belgi an cavalry lied, breaking through the in fantry. and scattering the crowds of Civ ic Guards, The routed army tied to ward Lieg'u where they a.rrived in tl; 1 utmost disorder, and in •the streets they uivomicked last night, crying out “Trea son !” and uttering execrations. Gen. Daine a! o escaped to Liege, accompani ed hy a few officers, leaving his ammu nition and baggage in the hands of the Dutch. The Dutch have turned their attention towards Louvain, whither Leopold lias removed his head quarters. The greatest praise is due to king Leopold for his coolness and presence of mind. By his remaining and concen trating his little army of 18.000 men at Louvain, he has saved the honor of Bel gium. He has not run away. An or der of the day is, however, posted up at the corner of the streets in Louvain, in which tiie minister of the interior. Charles de Brouckere, accuses a part of the Civic Guard with having left their posts at times of danger. The number of Civic Guards and volunteers exceeds 40,000, so that the king has been obliged to issue orders so, that no more shall come lo head quarters. Numbers have therefore been sent back to their villa ges. The. French army lias entered Belgi um in three columns, so as to reach Ghent, Namur. Louvain, at nearly the same moment. This evening it is ex pected that 2500 French cavalry will have reached tiie latter place. None are to enter this city. Defeat of the .irmu of the Scheldt —//is Majesty at Malines. Brussels, Friday August 12.—This city was in a most dreadful state of agi tation this morning. The Dutch having advanced within eight miles of ■ Brussels, the drums at an early hour beat to arms, and the inhabitants were Hying in every •direction. It appears that thjs morning, about 2 o'clock, the Dutch formed them selves in line for battle, and at four o’clock attacked the Bi lgic .army near Louvain. The Dutch opened upon them iii three columns, and commenced firing in every direction; the Belgians instantly took to Higlit, and the greatest disorder reigned amongst them; they threw away their arms and caps, and tried to outdo each other in running, by six o’clock the field of battle was clear, <V the Dutch masters of the whole of Bel gium ; the greater part of the Belgic ar my threw themselves into Louvain.- I do not believe there has been many ei ther killed or wounded. Their conduct is disgraceful, yet one is almost inclined to pity (hem ; they have but few officers, aud those they have are the first, to llv. Had they not been in tUc habit of brag ging most intolerably,' and setting the whole of Europe at defiance, they would doubtless have received assistance : but j they spurned the Dutch, and browbeat every other nation. I think the peace of I Epvope more likely to be preserved now ] than it would have been had the Belgi ans been victorious. His Majesty left Louvainbytheßrus j sels gate (all the others being guarded :by tiie Dutch, about 11 o’clock, with a small detachment of Lancers, and cross led the county to Malines. M i*liin five minutes of his Majesty ’s leaving Hie high road near this city a regiment of Dutch Cuirassiers took possession of the Chau sec : the King could handy have been out of sight. The Dutch then advanced to Cortenlierg, about eight miles from Brussels, and took' possession of the whole of the heights, extending to within a league of Terrucron. The French troops who have been lv-l ing at lluilcaud Waterloo "titered Brus- j sols, witii t!ie two Princes, about two o'clock. The enthusiasm with which; they were received nearly equalled the reception of Leopold. Marshal Gerard , arrived in the morning, and was greeted with every exclamation of joy. The 1 Belgians have to thank the French for the safety of Brussels—the Dutch could have entered it when they pleased. The number of French in this city is about s,oooinfantry, cavalry, and artillery. \ erv early this inorningGeneral Bcl liai’d proceeded to the head'quarters of the Duke of Saxe Weimar, and remained with him a considerable time. The Duke ccastnl operations alter the inter view with the General. In the course < the day the General made known y, Prince of Orange that should ’ (t; f ir * ' V iV.iV.' .'.’ 1 *“ r ’ U "‘ ' mK )'W<minrly In’ tin 1 :iil-de-carnit of .t;;’"','."', i™*-.. ►wi. ‘ _ 5 -.i tins evening lor the head nl !iis royal Highness. Five o clod; —V, e are again in a state of alarm. It is the Dutch are loov ***S towards Brussels. The Civic guard are man lung to the gales, and Irish cannon have been sent for their protection.* I have just he on ( .n the heights. cannot perceive any differ-i ern-e in the position of the Dutch.* All the 1 most respectable families have left us. I td- I hove is not a hod to he got marvel’ the villages or towns between if ■ the frontiers of France. IK “■■ HorsF. o Commons, Aug. g Marquis ofChandos wished to*sU-i V or government Had received inten- ' of the march of the French Belgium, and whether that step fi* 1 ' eeived the sanction of government 1 Lord Palmerston s iid his Makers' ministers have this morning rcceiviT' despatch Train Lord Granville, our V Imssador at Paris, in winch he comm meates the fact, that -the French tT had been ordered to march, upon 1,,!,,- 11 ' tint the King of the Netherlands led I '!' derod his army to attack BeKum the purpose of preserving the neutrat and in depend mice of that- state. The Marquis of Chandos wished tl.er to inquire whether King L,.,J had. made a similar application to™ government for assistance, as hel,] nrvh* to the King of France Lord Palmerston replied, when tin King of the Belgians understood that* King of the Netherlands was about hit; olate the armistice, the King of the 1!, gians communicated that fact to an tl five powers, and, of course, also to tl country. Lord Stormont wished to know ij- n the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affair whether the marching of the Freud troops were sanctioned by the Ihifisl government? Lord Palmerston said that the onl reply that he could make to (he imhicloi was to repeat his former statement thy his Majesty’s government were not; w are of the fact until this very day, win it w as communicated bv the English or Imssador at Paris. Lord Stormont—What l wish t know is, was this step sanctioned by and English government previous to itsheii adopted? Lord Palmerston said that it was ii possible for a previous agreement to entered into upon an event that no o could by possibility foresee. The tii great powers had agreed to guarani the neutrality and integrity ot llclgtu: and in consequence of that, and on I King of the Netherlands breaking t Ihc armistice, the French troops, the a sistance of the Belgians. August B.——Lord G. Bentinrk sa ho understood that an assurance had bn given by the Government to the Mini tors of England, Austria, Russia, ai Prussia, that the march of the Firm troops into Belgium was wholly fur tl purpose of repelling the Dutch* troop and that when that service was pcrjfor/i ed theywould return to France. Wool the noble lord . confirm that stateam Lord Palmerston replied, that this sit nient was substantially correct. OnW nesday the French Government imtti to a conference the Ministers of EnghW Austria, Russia, and Prussia, and-cm inunicated to them tßat the French two were ordered to Belgium solely tore] the invasion of the Dutch, after xliii they would return to France, only pis ing tlirough such of the fortresses as in their way. hut not occupying a.if them. He added that lie bad receivo? despatch this morning, containing am from tis 1 French Minister to Lord Gal villc, confirming the statement. 1 Pah is, 15 th August—We begin ■ think that the affair of Poland way wl a better issue than was expected. il Polish Envoys who are here, foil wl confidence. They hope much from 'I voteofthe Chambers on the address relating to Poland, andalol all. I'rom the amendment which vil I offered, the purport of which "ill 4 that the independence of Poland shall! acknowledged. : TOHMBSHKB'J From the Stamford Conn. Sent”" 1 ' I NFANTICIJ )E—-i it )RJ IBLE EFFEC OF A RELIGIOUS PIIKENZb The following melancholy occurrence ft' fanaticism, which has recently taken l’-* in nri adjoining town, lias been relatedt° by a person who learnt die particulars !l the wife of tiic unfortunate mon,arid lrrm persons residing in the vicinity ot tlie scetic. A .Mr. Stephen J. Miller, of Now Cun for many years past a very respectable m her of the Congregational Church) Stamford , under the pastoral charge of Rev* J\lr. Fuller, on Thursday night last, led two of his children, and nearly killed wife while in a state of aberration of 'flie circumstances which led to the net as follows :—Not long since the cliutcl North Stamford, held “a four days in ef -’ ll Mr. M. wascoustant in Ids attcrulauce, was apparently much exercised in his llll with I lie r< ligioev services cf flic m< etiut New Gam*- ~ conducted by the Moth peon*- . 0(1 |fi S return liuine ho k>< ' v ’.i he should no more work, nnil that. tended to leave all his temporal concit , Providence, m j ( , rc p rrc jiimst li fer dea ! i ,nai moment he commencrJ •* ! declaring he shoulil in future live ujioff ! —lie then occupied most of his timC) * the hours of la! or, in rending the herijt 1 jor prayer. On Tyq.wlay uioruing !‘ ist * j his wife . ho must not cook any victual^ that she and the children must also I l ' l ' ! this request Mrs. M. complied) his mind was not altogcilior ration 3 '; ■ ticglihors during this time had not th' ,J (and any thing in the conduct ofMi.g; 11 cite stifpicipn of In's sandy. Gn night In’ retired to bed at his usualh-s 1 his family, consisting of his wifo a i s “ children, one three and the filter y’*-. of age. About nii-'.iight a th:i;*<“* • cr arose and the noise of the f awoke them from sleep—Mrs. •' served to her husband that the f l ' l " very heavy, to which he replied, v "