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Sir Archibald Alison on the United States.
Some ten years ago, says the Baltimore Amer
ican, Mr. Archibald Alison, a lawyer of Edin
burgh, wrote a history of Europe which was re
printed in this country, and was sold in immense
quantities. Mr. Alison was a writer in Black
wood, and of course, a sturdy Tory. In time
he became quite famous at home, and was
knighted by her Majesty. Since the addition
of the title to his name Sir Archibald has taken
up the theme of history at the period where he
dropped it, and has published a volume or two
by way of continuation.
The preliminary chapter in his last volume is
devoted to the United States.
It was a wise critic who said that “the begin
ning of knowledge is the end of rhetoric.” Sir
Archibald should recollect this. There is a tur
gid piling of epithetical agony in this chapter
which is worthy of a dinner-table speech from
“Micawber” in Australia. Nor should Sir
Archibald forget that, although Walpole long
ago said “history is a lie,” there are now-a-davs
so many more opportunities for detecting and
exposing falsehood than in Walpole’s time, that
a man who deliberately or ignorantly vilifies a
great nation stands a chance of becoming a
very contemptible person even during his life.
We offer the following sentences from this
preliminary chapter to show our readers a spec
imen of the history, which they will doubtless
soon be called upon by some enterprising pub
lisher to purchase. Our readers will observe
that there is hardly a consecutive sentence that
does not contain a falsehood. Each one may
contain a grain of truth, but that grain of truth
is immensely alloyed with falsehood, and ham
mered out by exaggeration into showy tinsel.
it is quite fair to judge of the reliable value
of the whole work by this specimen. If the au
thor is so uninformed or so malicious in regard
to the events that passed under our own eyes, it
is very proper to conclude that he is equally
ignorant or base in relation to the concerns of
other nations with which we are not so familiar.
Let the reader determine :
“The principal States of the Union,” says
Sir Archibald, “have, by common consent, re
pudiated their State debts as soon as the storm of
adversity blew ; and they have in some instances
resumed the payment of their interest only when
the sale of lands they had wrested from the
Indians afforded them the means of doing so,
without recurring to the dreaded horrors of di
rect taxation. The measures of Congress have
been so generously directed by self-interest, that
they have, in more than one instance, brought
the confederacy to the verge of dissolution ; and
the threatened separation of South Carolina was
only prevented from breaking it up by the quiet
concessions of the central legislature. Subse
quently the selfish career of unbridled democra
cy has been still more clearly evinced.”
“Without the vestige of a title they have seiz
ed on Texas, and annexed it to their vast do
minions ; by concealing their title, which nega
tived their claims, they have obtained from Great
Britain the half ot Maine ; they have done their
utmost to revolutionize Canada ; they have only
been prevented by a melancholy tragedy from
revolutionizing Cuba; and when the Mexicans
took up arms to avenge the spoliation of their
territory, they invaded their dominions and
wrested from them the half of all that remained
to them, including the golden laden mountains
of California. During the last ten years they
have, though attacked by no one, made them
selves master, by fraud or violence, of 1,300,000
additional square miles of territory, being nine
times the area of France; already the multis utile
helium has become so popular among them, that
the very children , in all parts of the Union , play
at soldiers; democratic passions have found
their usual and natural vent in foreign aggrres
sions; and America has added another to the
many proofs which history affords that republi
so far from being the most pacific, are the most
warlike and dangerous of all States.”
“If the present annual migration of above two
hundred thousand from Ireland should continue
a few years longer—and there is any truth in the
assertions now generally made, that there are
two million of native born Irish in the United
States, and four millions of Irish descent—the
Celtic race may acquire such a preponderance
there as may ultimately render the maintenance
of representative institutions impossible in some
parts of the Union”
Chased by a Locomotive.
\A Hoosier writes to the New York Dutchman
an iSGeount of his first sight of a locomotive, and
his adventures therewith, which were in the fol
lowing strain:
I cariye across the country and struck on our
and was plying it about four knots an
hour. NTow, I’ve learned about your locomo
tives, but never dreamed about seeing one alive
and kicking. But about two miles from here I
heard something coming—coughing, sneezing,
and thundering; so 1 looked around. Sure
enough, there she came after me—pawiug the
- earth up, and splitting the air wide open—and
more smoke and fire flying than orter come out
of a hundred burning mountains. There was a
dozen wagons following arter, and to save her
tarnal, black, smoky, noisy neck, she could not
get clear of them. I don’t know whether thev
scared her up or no ; but here she came, foam
ing at the mouth, with her teeth full of burning
coals, and pitched right at me like a thousand
of brick. I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I
wheeled around and took down the road, and
began to make the gravel fly in every direction.
No sooner had I done that, than she put right
straight arter me, squalling like a thousand wild
cats.
She began to gain on me coming up a little
hill, but l came round a pint to a straight dead
level on the road. Now thinks I, I’ll give you
a singer. I’m great on a dead level; so I pul
led to it and got under full speed; and then
she began to yell and stamp, and came full chis
el, and made the whole earth shake. But I
kept on before, bounding at the rate of twenty
feet to each jump, till 1 got to the turn in the
road; and as I was under such a headway that
I could not turn, so I turned heels over head
down a bank by a house, landed cosmac into a
swill-barrel, and my feet stuck up behind and up
in the air.
Just at the time the locomotive found I had
got away from it, it commenced spitting hot
water into me, and literally spattered me all
over. I thought surely that Mount Vesuvius
had busted some place in the neighborhood. But
do you suppose that I staid there long ? No,
sir. I walked right through that barrel, and
came out so quick that I really looked ashamed
of myself. Now, here I am, a real double re
volving snolly-gloster, ready to attack anything
but a combination of thunder and lightning,
smoke, railroad iron and hot water.
COLUMBUS, GA.
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luctance ? The cash system is the only remedy for
this evil. What one of you have not seen papers, in
the success of which you felt the deepest interest, go
down, while Northern Abolition sheets realize fortunes
for their vile conductors. The credit system has been
the ruin of the one; the cash system the salvation of
the other. The Southern people must learn to pay
cash for their own papers, or be content to bear the dis
grace of having incompetent or dishonorable men at
the head of the Press —men who waste the little cash
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paper makers, and hotel keepers, for composition, pa
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We desire every subscriber to read this article, and
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entered upon the threshold of the subject. We ask
the Editors of Georgia and Alabama to adopt our
terms. The two first are taken from the Charleston
Mercury. The third is an expedient of our own, to pay
the expense of collecting those accounts which may not
be paid by the end of the year.
The Eighth January.
The return of this anniversary was celebrated by the
Columbus Guards, Capt. Forsyth, and the City Light
Guards, Capt. Cooper, with appropriate military cere
monies. At a shooting match between the companies,
l a silver cup was won by private Willet, City Light
Guards. In numbers and splendor of equipment, the
“Guards” far excelled the “Light Guards,” but we are
proud to find that in those capital soldierly accomplish
ments, a steady hand and an accurate aim, the Light
Guards have the advantage. The ceremonies of cele
bration were continued on Monday night by a grand
Military Ball, given in honor of Capt. ForsYTH, who has
resigned his office in consequence of his contemplated
removal to Mobile.
Murder.
We noticed in our last issue the affray between Col.
SnvEY, and Forty Stains and Calvin. Our informa
tion was that the two last were dangerously, if not mor
tally wounded. We now learn that they have both
escaped across the river, and that Col. Spivey’s little
son, who came to his father’s rescue, died on Monday
night last from wounds inflicted upon him by the men
who assaulted his father.
There must be great want of efficiency in our police,
or deficiency in its organization, or it would be impossi
ble for murderers to come into our community, commit
crime, and escape punishment.
Muscogee Rail Road.
At a meeting of the new Board of Directors of this
Road, held in this city last week, Mr. Daniel Griffin
was elected President, and David Adams, Treasurer.
More competent officers cold not have been chosen.
Cuba-Mr. Everett’s Letter.
We have read with unmingled satisfaction the very
able letter of our accomplished Secretary of State, upon
the tripartite treaty into which France and England
slyly endeavored to inveigle the United States. Among
other powerful reasons for declining to pledge the Uni
ted States never in future to annex Cuba to our do
minions, Mr. Everett plants himself upon the Dem
ocratic principle that the Government of the present day
has no right to limit the actions of the Government of a
future day. He says : “The Convention would be of
no value unless it were lasting. Accordingly it terms
express a perpetuity of purpose and obligation. Now
it may well be doubted whether the Constitution of the
United States would allow the Government, for all com
ing time, and prevent it, under any future change of
circumstances, from doing what has so often been done
in times past.” The Secretary then gives a brilliant
sketch of the growth of these States from 1752, when
they were but a million of feeble colonists, scattered
along the seaboard, to the present day, when they
stretch from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf, and from
the Bay of the Chesepeake io the Golden Gate of Cal
ifornia, by which “the great circuit of intelligence round
the globe is completed.”
After giving the amplest assurances to Spain of our
“respectful sympathy with the for.’ anes of an ancient
ally and gallant people,” he professes a perfect willing
ness, and indeed a sacred duty on our part, “to leave
her in the undisturbed possession of the little remnant
of her mighty trans-atlant'c Empire.” But he then
asks this pertinent question, “Can Spain resist this
mighty current in the fortunes of the world ?” and an
swers it in the following powerful language, which falls
upon our ear like the voice of prophecy:
“In the j udgment of the President it would be as ea
sy to throw a dam from Cape Florida to Cuba in the
hope of stopping the flow of the Gulf stream as to at
tempt by a compact like this to fix the fortunes of Cuba
now and for hereafter—or, as expressed in the French
text of the convention, for the present as the future—
pour le present. Comme pour Vaveniir , —that is for
all coming time. The history of the past —of the re
cent past —affords no assurance that twenty years
hence France or England will even wish Spain to re
tain Cuba. And a century hence—judging of what
will be from what has been—the pages which record this
proposition, will, like the record of the family compact
between France and Spain, have no interest but for the
antiquary. Even now the President cannot doubt that
both France and England would prefer any change in
the condition of Cuba to that which is most to be ap
prehended, viz.: an internal convulsion which should
renew the horrors and the fate of St. Domingo,’’
Dismissal of the Nicaraguan Minister.
Senor Don Jose de Marcoleta, the Minister of
Nicaragua near our Government, has been peremptori
ly dismissed by our Secretary of State, Hon. Edward
Everett. The difficulty arose pending the negotiation
of the treaty of mediation and settlement between Eng
land, the United States and Costa Rica. He used un
diplomatic language with respect to Mr. Webster and
the Administration, and made public some facts in ref
erence to the negotiation, in the newspapers of the
country. Our Government demanded his Donship’s
recall, but his Government refused to acced eto the de
mand. Don Jose, therefore, had the honor of receiv
ing a note from our Secretary, announcing that “no
communication can be received from you as Nicaraguan
Envoy.”
But in addition to these alledged indiscretions, there
is no doubt that the influence of the Canal and Transit
Company, aided by certain diplomatic agents hostile to
Mr. M., has been actively employed against him for
some time past, not only here, but as far as possible, in
Central America. To this source is probably to be at
tributed the announcement of his recall in a recent num
ber of the Gaccta , or official organ of the Govern
ment of Costa Rica. Os course, during the present
Administration, Mr. Marcoleta cannot again repre
sent Nicaragua, but it is possible that his post may be
left unfilled till Gen. Pierce comes in, when he may
be reappointed, as it is likely that a different policy will
then prevail as respects the Central American States.
“Uncle Tom” in England.
We have seen nothing lately which has given us
more satisfaction than the following extract from the
British Army Dispatch. The indignant rebuke con
tained in it is hurled at the heads of the “noble la
dies,” who forgetting—aye, even shutting Their eyes to
the squallid poverty which is daily exhibited upon the
very marble of their doorsteps, in rags and wretched
ness—lately assembled in England for the purpose of
addressing the Ladies of America upon the wrongs of
slavery. The Dispatch asks :
“What have we to do with the Internal affairs of the
American Republic ? Why are we to back this great ex
aggerated lie! Let the Americans Lend out here and
write a book which shall tell the tiuth—ay, one-half the
t ith —of London city ; let them make out Britons to be
task-masters, without one redeeming point, over the emas
culated millions of British work-peonle, who.-e sinews they
i stretch and whose bones they grind uown in the name of
commerce. Let them send to Jnd<a or Borneo. Let them
dramati; e Wai.en Hastings and Rajah Brooks. Let them
throw b ~'ht on the Outram business, with its oppression and
poisonings, together with the faLehoods of suppression and
assertion on the part of the East India Company Let
them pamt lamine in Ireland. For each American Legree
they shall easily find an English one. We forced slavery
on the Americans. We are now sowing there the seeds of
I dissension broadcast. We do not admit that the state of
i the negro slave is anything like what it is pictured in Un
: cle l om’s Cabin, in any case. There may be solitary
cases approaching it in abomination. But the Americans,
abolitionists or not, shall and will get rid of slavery as they
: please themselves, and everything done in England,
i either smtimentally or not, adds force to opposition.
| Mrs. Stowe has libelled her countrymen’; let them look to
that. England need not black her with Holy well-street
ignorance and Exeter-hall cant. Ifshedo,she will sow the
wind and reap the whirlwind. Eveiy American in Lon
don is disgusted with the Uncle Tom mania here. If he
go to a theatre, he is insulted and shocked. The English
people, on the other hand, are deluded into the falsest no
tions of America. When the slave in the drama escapes
into British Canada, there is a cheer. That cheer may cost
us some day our best alliance. At this moment, the inter
ests of England and America should be one. Why do not
English ladies interfere on behalf of the enslaved French
people l We believe, on the other hand, that Louis Napo
leon is popular with them. If England inteifere with
American slavery, she will not effect her object, but the re
sult may be, ere long, that she may be enslaved herself.
We have no patience to pursue this subject further. The
book is false in fact, as the fine ladies are false in senti
ment.”
A New British Colony—The Clayton-Bulwer
Treaty.
As much discussion will probably grow out of Mr.
Cass’ resolution calling lor information in reference to
the establishment of anew British Colony in Central
America, whereby the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, of
4th July, 1850, is supposed to be violated, it may be in
teresting to our readers to know what that treaty is.
The terms of this international compact are, in part, as
follows:
The {governments of the United States and of Great
Britain agree “that neither will ever obtain or maintain for
itself any exclusive control over the ship channel which it
is designed to construct; and, furthermore, that “neither
will ever erect or “maintain any fortification command
ing the same, or in the vicinity thereof ; or occupy
or fortify, nr colonize,or assume to exercise any domin
ion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mr quito Coe a t, or
any part of Central America &c. &,c.
The new British Colony of which Mr. Cass speaks,
is the Island of Ruatan, and other little Islands off Hon
duras, which the British people resident there, have,
within two years past , constituted into a sort of colo
ny for self-government , which has been recognized by
the Home Government , Great Britain. These Islands
were British Islands prior to the ireaty of Washington,
anu in “exercising dominion and authority” over them,
Great Britain exercises no new authority nor dominion,
but only what she had before. For some years they
were under the British Colonial Government at the
Balize, but this Government, at a distance, was incon
venient, and the people, therefore, resolved themselves
into a colony, which has been recognized.
The Seminole Indians—Another Florida War. *
We find in the Savannah Courier a letter from Gen.
Blake, and another from J. Darling, in which the
startling intelligence is conveyed, that since the return
of Billy Bowlegs to the Everglades, a grand council
has been held, in which the Seminoles determined not
to emigrate to the West. It is believed that the Indians
have established a fortified camp on the Eastern edge
of the Big Cypress, which lies to the Southward of
Fort Myers. It is stated that there are islands in the
adjacent Everglades that are capable of tillage, and af
fording good places of refuge for the Indians in case of
defeat. Gen. Blake recommends that the country oc
cupied by the Indians be laid oft’ into townships, and
that 300 Creek warriors be sent into the Everglades
under their own officers, and in their own way be al
lowed to bring in to the nearest posts aft the Seminoles
they can capture.
The American Flora.
We have had occasion, heretofore, to call the atten
tion of the public to this beautiful work, which is now
being published by Messrs. Green, of New York. The
illustrations are all elegantly colored, and so perfect that
there is no difficulty in recognizing the flowers. To
the student of Botany it will be an invaluable compan
ion 5 and is as elegant a work for parlor ornament as
we have seen in many a day. There is an agent now
in the city soliciting orders for the work, and we hope
he will be liberally patronized by the lovers of
Nature and of Art.
Congress.
The Senate has passed the bill for the relief of the
widows of deceased soldiers 5 also a bill f or the relief
of Col. Fremont. Mr. Ficklin’s bill to suppress the
circulation of small notes in the District of Columbia,
came np on the 11th inst.
Congress.
A bill has passed both Houses ©f Congress, granting
the widow of the lamented General Worth, a pension
of fifty dollars a month during her natural life.
Mississippi Repudiation.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has decided a case
lately in which the legality of the Planters’ Bank Bonds
are recognized as legal. We hope now that this gal
lant State will wipe out the foul blot of repudiation
from her escutcheon.
“The Seer,” a Mormon Journal.
This is the title of anew paper just started at Wash
ington City, by Orson Pratt', one of the Apostles of the
church of Latter Day Saints, who has been appointed
by Elders Young, Kemball and Richards, to preside
over the affairs of the church throughout the United
States and British Provinces. The paper boldly advo
cates a plurality of wives, as justified by Scripture, and
the power of Congress, or even of a State or Territory,
to prohibit it, is denied.
County Subscription.
The County Court of Knoxville, Tenn., has subscribed
SIOO, OCO to the Lexington and Knoxville Rail Road, and
a like sum to the Road from Knoxville to Rabun Gap—
subject to the decision of the legal voters of the county.
Manufactories in Knoxville, Tenn.
There is in this city, a Gla Factory, an Iron Foundry
and Machine Shop, a Wooden Ware Factory, and an
Oil Factory, all of which are saidto be doing a lucrative
business.
Mr. Calhoun’s Works.— The Washington Union
learns that Richard K. Cralle, Esq., the literary executor
of the lamented Mr. Calhoun, is in New York making ar
rangements for the publication of an additional volume of
“Calhoun’s Works.” The foithcoming volume will em
brace a portion of Mr. Calhoun’s speeches. The whole
j work will constitute a complete edition of the speeches and
j writings of John C. Calhoun, carefully correct and and ar
! ranged by the editor, Mr. Cralle.
!
O” A subscription has been started in Boston for the
benefit of Daniel Kaufman, of Cumberland county, Pa.,
who was fined $2,000, in 1848, for harboring runaway
j slaves from Maryland.
j O* Rev. Mr. Stoughton, of Greene count}', New
j York, has sent to Bishop Wainwright bis resignation
I of the office of priest of the Protestant Episcopal church,
| he having joined the Catholic church.
0° A majority of the newly elected Legislature of
| New York is said to be opposed to the Maine law.
j ‘
O” The Missouri Legislature has passed a bill char- i
I tering the North Missouri Rail Road Company, and ‘
i giving it State aid to the amount of two millions of !
j dollars.
O’ The Cabinet makers having used up their inate
| rial, are now at work on the Foreign Missions; Mr.
j Buchanan is put down for St. James ; for Paris, a
Southern man, and a Northwestern man for Russia.
j O’* A Rev. Mr. Cummins, of Concord, N. 11., has
issued a parcel of inflaming handbills, announcing the
end of all sublunary things in 1854. lie finds a num
ber of deluded followers.
Judge of the Supreme Court,— The President of the
United States, on Tuesday week, sent to the Senate the
nomination ot Hon. George L. Badger, North Carolina,
for the vacant Judgeship in the Supreme Bench.
Ericsson Steamer. —The trial trip of Ericsson’s Caloric
ship, came off to-day, Jan. 4, in this harbor. She passed
down the East river and bay, at the rate of twelve miles
per hour, the wind and tide being in her favor.
It is understood here (says a Washington dispatch
to the New York Tiibune of the 2d inst.) that Dickinson
stands no chance for the Cabinet. Dix’s prospects are
blight. It is thought he will be the man for New York.
The Hunkers concede this, and groan.
The Liquor Law in New Hampshire.—The New
Hampshire House of Representatives, on Thursday, in
definitely postponed the liquor bill, by a vote ot 115 to 128.
Green Peas in January. —The editor oi the Charles
ton News, of the sth instant, says: “We received, this
morning, a parcel of green peas from a friend, raised on his
farm, Charleston Neck.”
The Lady Free Mason.
Hon. Elizabeth St. Leger, was the only fe
male who was ever initiated into the ancient
and honorable mystery of Free Masonary. How
she obtained this honor, we shall lay before
our readers, premising that our information is
derived from the best sources. Lord Doneraile,
Miss St. Leger’s father, a very zealous Mason,
held a warrant and occasionally opened lodge
at Doneraile House, his sons and some intimate
friends assisting; and it is said, that never woie
masonic duties more rigidly perlormed than by
the brethren of No. 150, the number of their
warrant. It appears that previously to the ini
tiation of a gentleman to the first steps ot ma
sonry, Miss St. Leger, who was a young giil,
happened to be in an apartment adjoining the
room generally used as a lodge room; but
whether the young lady was there by design or
accident, we cannot confidently state. The
room at the time was undergoing some altera
tion ; among other things, the wall was consid
erably reduced in one part, for the purpose ot
making a saloon. The young lady heard the
voices of the free masons and being prompted
by the curiosity natural to all, to see this mys
tery so long and so secretly locked up from
public view, had the courage to pick a brick
from the wall with her scissors, and thus wit
nessed the first steps of the ceremony.
Curiosity gratified, fear at once took posses-
I sion of her mind, and those who understand this
passage well know what the feelings of any must
he who could unlawfully behold that ceremony;
let them then judge what were the feelings ot a
young girl under such extraordinary circum
stances. There was no mode of escape, except
through the room where the concluding part ol
the second step was still being solemnized, at the
far end, and the room a very large one. Miss
St. Leger had resolution sufficient to attempt
her escape that way, and with light but trembling
steps glided along unobserved, laid her hand on
the handle of the door, and opening it, before
her stood, to her dismay, a grim and surly
Tiler, with his long sword unsheathed.
A shriek that pierced through the apartment
alarmed the members of the Lodge, who all rush
in<r to the door, and finding that Miss St. Leger
had been in the room during the ceremony, re
solved it is said, in the paroxysm of their rage,
to putdhe fair spectatress to death ; hut at the
moving and earnest supplication of her young
est brother her life was spared on condition of
her going through the two remaining steps of
the solemn ceremony she had unlawfully wit
nessed. This she had consented to, and they
conducted the beautiful and terrified young la
dy through those trials which are sometimes
more than enough for masculine resolution, lit
tle thinking they were taking into the bosom of
the craft a member that would afterward reflect
a lustre on the annals of Masonry.
Miss St. Ledger was directly descended from
Sir Richard de St. Leger, who accompanied
William the Conqueror to England, and was of
that high repute that he with his own hand sup
ported the prince when he first went out of his
i ship to land in Sussex. Miss St, Leger was
cousin to General Anthony St. Leger. Governor
of St. Louis, who instituted the interesting race
and the celebrated Doncaster St. Leger stakes.
Eventually she married Richard Aldworlh, Esq.,
of Newmarket, a member of a highly honor
able and ancient family. Whenever a benefit
was given at any of the theatres in Dublin or
Cork for the Masonic Female Orphan Asylum,
; Mrs. Ald worth walked at the head of the Free
masons, and sat in the front row of the stage
box. The house was always crowded on these
occasions. The portrait of this estimable wo
man is in the lodge room of almost every lodge
in Ireland.
English Misrepresentation.
The London Morning Herald lias the follow
ing insinuation, that the pilots and merchants of
| the city of New York have an arrangement to
I keep the Canard steamers from making as speedy
voyages as the Collins line. I his is done, it
savs, by the pilots allowing the vessel to remain
in the offing during the whole night, while an
American steamer will be piloted in at any time
1 of her arrival, and adds :
“These Yankee gentry have evidently a sense,
or some sort of impression implanted upon them
j from interested mercantile quarters, of national
! rivalry, or conflicting interests. If the United
! States Government cannot, or will not, interfere
j in the case, it is for this Government to check
i this vulgar dealing, or if official interference is
j declined, then it remains for the pilotage of our
j outports to return the complimentary insolence,
! which, with any patriotic feeling, they will do
I with the facts now before them. The balance
j will easily be struck and rectified if the pilots of
| the outports here—London, Liverpool, Plymouth
I and Southampton—will leave the American
| steamers in the offiing for twelve hours, whilst
i taking British steamers into port. We have
| reason to believe that Lord Malmesbury’s at
tention has been already directed to the sub
J jeet, and it cannot be in better hands. There
i is not an American merchant in London ofain
j standing who would not repudiate with scorn
j any such discreditable mode of procedure of his
countrymen.”
The New \ ork papers give the assertions an
indignant denial. All the steamers —both Auieri
; can and English—are detained outside at night
except in clear weather. The Collins line has *
out of sixty trips, been detained eleven outside*
from arriving at night.
Lesal Sketches.
The bar must occasionally allow that they
know how-to make the best of the bargain as
well as the sharpest. A fat suit is apt to move
rather sluggishly through a court. Many a
solicitor is apt to keep a Chancery case on it
legs through two or three generations ot litigan
tas, when in fact the original parties to the suit
have died and become rotten. The following
illustration is not bad:
An attorney on the marriage of his son gave
him £SOO, and handed him over a common
Chancery suit with some law actions. About
two years after, the son asked his father for
more business.