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THE TIMES & SENTINEL, TEHNBNT LOMAX & ROSWELL. ELLIS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETOR*. THE TRI-WEEKLY TIMES A SENTINEL Is published E VERY WEDGES DA Y and FRIDA Y MORN ING and SATURDAY EVENING. THE WEEKLY TIMES & SENTINEL is published every TUESDA Y MORNING. Office on Randolph Street, opposite the Post Office. TERMS: TRI-WEEKLY - , Five Dollars per annum, in advance. WEBKLY, Two Dollars per annum, in advance. W3T Advertisements conspicuously inserted at One Dollar per square, for the first insertion, and fifty cents for every sub sequent insertion. Liberal deduction will be made for yearly advertisements. 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. To our Country Subscribers. M e are satisfied that the credit system will break down says paper, and have resolved to adopt and adhere to the following terms, which will in no case be devia ted from: Ist. No new name will be added to our subscription list, out of Columbus, ur’ess the subscription money is paid in advance. 2d. At the expiration of his year, each subscriber will be furnished with bis account, and on failure on his part to remit the money, his name will be stricken from our books, and his paper discontinued. 3d. Where subscription bills are not paid before the end of the year, we will charge $3 for our Weekly, and $6 for our Tri-Weekly. ECT All money remitted by mail is at our risk. A word or two about Ourselves—The Cash System. We are determined to publish a first rate paper, or none. We cannot succeed in our purpose unless we abandon the credit system. This is our deliberate judg ment, and we are sustained in it by the concurrent voice of the entire press at the South. The credit sys tem destroyed the Southern Press, it has eonumed the vitals out of the Southern Quarterly , and hcs inflicted a fatal wound upon neatly all the newspapers of the South, under wnich they drag out a m : erable and sick ly lifo. We covet a nobler end, and if we must die, we prefer to fall a martyr to the assertion of a principle, which is of the last importance to the Southern public, and to our profession. With the beginning of anew year, we have opened new books. Tri-weekly subscribers, who have not paid in advanoe, owe us Jive dollars, which they will please pay at their earliest convenience. Our Weekly subscribers, who have not paid in advance, owe us two dollars, which they will also please remit by mail, at our risk, on the first opportunity. By so doing you will enable us soon to enlarge our paper, vary our con tents, supply the latest telegraphic intelligence, and take our rank with the best papers in the South, or the Union. We refer you to our terms in this paper, and beg you to. read them. The positions there assumed may seem harsh to some of you; but they are really kind and considerate, not only to ourselves, but also to you. What Southern man of any position is there, who is not bored with pa pers he does not want and cannot stop ? The cash sys tem will relieve you from this annoyance. What one of you has not been surprised with the presentation of bills for large amounts for subscriptions, which you have been compelled to dispute or have paid with re 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 they can get upon their lus f s, and sponge on printers, paper makers, and hotel keepers, for composition, pa per and board, and will sell their opinions to the man or party which pays highest. We desire every subscriber to read this article, and therefore bring it to a close, without having so much rs 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.