The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1845, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. Vol. XI., No. 265—Whole No. 4146, NEW YORK, THURSDAY BY GAY’S EXPRESS, FROM BOSTON, | AND | OUR OWN SPECIAL EXPRESS OVER LONG ISLAND. SAF ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM SHIP GREAT BRITAIN. EIGHT DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. DEPLORABLE STATE OF THE HARVESTS : Its effect on the Markets. SLIGHT DECLINE IN COTTON. AFFAIRS IN INDIA AND CHINA. ACTIVITY IN THE IRON TRADE. The Religious Progress in Germany. Important Commercial Negotiations and Ar- rangements. ORDERS SENT TO AMERICA FOR A SUPPLY OF FOOD! Organization of a Line of British Steamers to Oregon. Spread of Republicanism on the Con- tinent of Europe. ‘Two expresses arrived at our office at six o’clock | yssterday morning with the pleasing intelligence that the Great Britain was safe. She appeared off Nantucket early on Monday morning, obtained a pilot,and run inte Holmes’ Hole, where she stopped ten hours and a half. She then started for New York, and reached Sandy Hook at I o’clock on Tuesday night, where she remained till yesterday morning. One of the expresses came from Holmes’ Hole via Boston, and the other from Sandy Hook, over Long Island. She left Liverpool at 4 0’clock on the afternoon of the 27th ult. In the first ten days she experieneed westerly winds, strong gales and heavy sea at times, during which the ship behaved admirably. For a few hours of the 2d October the wind was N.E., and ina heavy squall the foremast wascarried away. She run short of coal, but fortunately the schooner David Coffin, of New Bedford, happened to be at Holmes’ Hole, from Philadelphia, with a cargo of coal, and at dark on Monday evening was alongside the Great Britain, supplying her. It may be thought strange that the Great Britatn, inthe hands of Captain Hosken, should get among the shoals off Nantucket. It will not appear at all singular, however, when it is known that there was one Bishop and ten clergymen on board, as pas- sengers. She passed the Great Western, hence for Liver- pool, on the Ist. instant, at 6 45 A. M.., in latitude 51 30, longitude 16 50. The Great Britain brought over one hundred and five passengers, including M. Leopold de Meyer, the celebrated pianist, Mad’slle Augusta, the well known danseuse, Madame Otto, vocalist, Henry Ot- to, John Povey of the Park, Augustus James, Gustavus Reithhamer, Bishop Reynolds, and ten other clergymen. Also, A. Davy, bearer, of de- spatches. ‘The Cotton market had been dull throughout the week, with the slightest perceptible decline in prices. The quotations can scarely be said to have changed, but there had been more inclination to meet buyers, and the common and middling descrip- tions were freely offered. The Hon. Louis M’Lane is progressing most fa- vorably in his new position at the Court of St. James’. The produce markets continued, active. For Rice, owing to the causes already assigned, there was much inquiry, at greatly improved prices. The stock was getting low, in consequence of the large demand for export. The B. P. Sugar mazket was rather dull, and the recent high prices had given way a little. The iron trade continued brisk, owing to the re- quirements of the new undertakings, and railway bars were consequently much sought after. From the same cause, boiler plates, used in the construc- tion of 1ron shipping, were improving in value. Pig jron was also selling at good prices, and the make of the metal was greater at present than it was ever known. The accounts from Berlin state that a treaty of commerce is on the eve of completion, between the Zollverein and Austria. An English journal allu- ding to this subject, says: “ The Zollverein con- cludes treaties with all countries, in all parts of the world, but, just when the treaties are on the point of ratification, something is sure tooceur to pre- vent their completion. This was the case more or less, with Holland, with Belgium, and more par- ticularly with the United States. ‘The continental news of the week is without much interest. The King of Saxony has opened the Diet in a speech which reflects his anxiety respect- ing the recent occurrences connected with the reli- gious movement. The Prussian government views the Abbe Rouge with the same suspicion as before, and he was prevented from sleeping in Mannheim when he passed through it. The electric telegraph is now being laid down on the Grand Junction Railway, from Birmingham to Liverpool, Manchester, and Chester; and under cer- tain restrictions, the telegraph will be made availa- ble for commercial purposes. In the months of June and July, the heat was so excessive in the south of Russia that the troops could not march except by night. The drought has caused great damage, and bad crops are expected this year in that part of Russia. Both Upper and Lower Hungary have been com- pletely laid waste by dreadful inundations, at the beginning of the month of August. Upwards of a millon of the inhabitants are threatened with all the horrors of famine in consequence of this dread- ful misfortune. During the last two days nearly 200 ships have ar- rived in Sunderland harbor, which is at present quite thronged, and business, which, from the ab- sence of ships, was in a great degree suspended, hus now resumed a very lively appearance. Accounts from the central province of Russia state that the potato crop there was free from dis- ease, but that the corn was still quite green, and that it was suffering from the ravages of a small in- sect resembling the common flea. Letters from Batavia, received in Hollan?, state that a treaty of commerce has been concluded be- tween England and Siam, by which this country has secured great and exclusive privileges. The population of Siam amounts to at least three millions, No less than from twenty to thirty thousand tons of salt have been exported from Liverpool to the | East Indies within the last three months. The en | terprise is expected to return a very handsome profit. | The death of Mr. Davies, the principal editor of | the Dublin Nation, in the prime of life—for he had | only attained his thirtieth year—has produced in Ireland a general expression of sorrow. He was | followed to the grave by all the leaders of the party in Dublin. | ‘The Paris Moniteur announces that the govern- ment will soon publish precise accounts of the cha- | racter and progress of the disease in potatoes, with the means of preventing its development, and | of using this year’scrop without danger to the health | of men and animals TheQueen and the Queen-mother have arrived at Madrid ; and, although the capital was quiet, fears of an outbreak existed. The continental news is without much interest. The King of Saxony had opened the diet, ina speech which reflects his anxiety respecting the recent oc- currences connected with the religious movement. Switzerland is like a smothered volcano; an ex- plosion may be looked for. Sir John’ Rennie is to have £1000 per week for the survey of a new line in the north of England. The Eco del Commercio pies that the Jesuits ex- pelled from France are to find a refuge in Spain. The electric telegraph is now already established, or in course of formation, to an extent exceeding 500 miles. The experiment in etayating electricity is a total failure in dom. Accounts from Kurdistan mention that all the dis- | tricts bordering upon the Persian frontier were in open revolt. | _ On his late visit to Pampeluna, the Duke of Ne- | mours | Vaez, Spain. The unfortunate steamer, the British Queen, has been sold at Antwerp, to Louis Reinwit, for 238,000 | frances, without the furniture. An explosion took place at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on Wednesday week, by which five men and two boys lost their lives. The Anti Slavery Reporter states, that the Cap- tain General of Cuba has determined to check the slavet rade by decisive and effectual measures. _ Mr. Wheaton, the United States minister at Ber- lin, has again opened negotiations with the Zollve- rein for a treaty of commerce. During the last two or three weeks, the Turkish authorities have been busy in the trade of human flesh, and of embarking slaves. The Mining Journal states that a patent has been obtained in Mexico for separating silver from the ore without the aid of quicksilver. ‘vxe number of aes laden ships which passed the S.und for England from the 3d to the 9th inst. LON; were 35 wheat, 4 oats, 5 linseed, and 1 arley. Accounts from Stenay, on the Meuse, state that the disease with which the potato crops have been attacked in French Flanders and Bet: has ex- tended to that country. The Madrid papers say that the negotiations of M. Castello y Ayenza, at Rome, have completely failed, and that he will probably return forthwith to Madrid. The English Government has concluded a con- tract with the Pacific Steam Navigation Company for the conveyance of the mails along the west coast of South America, from Valparaiso to Panama, and from that place across the Isthmus to Chagres,where they are to be transferred to the West India Royal Mail Company. This arrangement will turn the whole correspondence along the west coast of South America through England. The Portafoglio Maltese of the 15th inst. brings news from Tripoli of the 9th. On the 7th, the Amer- ican frigate Cumberland, bearing a Commodore’s flag, arrived in that harbor. The most contradicto- ty reports were in circulation. The Pasha, it was said, intended to attempt a coup de main en the is land of Gerbi. A body of 3000 well armed and equipped. Arnauts was encamped outside the walls of the city, and other troops were expected from Constantinople. Whilst the Great Britain was in England she was | repaired, and her screw enlarged. The Empress of Russia, who is proceeding to Sicily for the winter, in the hope of regaining her health, will take up her residence in the beautiful environs of Palermo, and a sma'l squadron of Rus- sian steam vessels will be at her disposal, to enable her to take whatever trips she may choose on the Mediterranean. Vessels proceeding to Russian ports with cotton in bales, must either be provided with a certificate of the origin of the cotton, or with a certificate of quar- antine. A Danish ship, the Henry and Mary, which arrived at Cronstadt from Kiel, on the Ist August, with 74 bales cotton, had to perform quarantine, owing to her not possessing either of those docu- ments. The production of the beet root sugar in the French Department du Nord, which has fluctuated greatly during the last seven years, has risen during the last year to 18,000,000 of kilogrammes, (of 2k Ib each,) which isas high asitever was before. Itis expected to rise to 28,000,000 kilogrammes next year. The Ionian government has published an ordi- nance granting to Neapolitan subjects and ships the same advantages secured to English ships and sab. jects trading with places within the dominions of is Sicilian Majesty, by the treaty concluded on the 29th of August last. In consequence of the extensive orders sent to Canada for flour, freights in Canada are expected to rise, Great despatch will be needed to get the ship- ments off before the setting in of the Canadian winter. The Times estimates the capital of seventy-four railways completed, or in course of completion, at 166,220—of Leavin branches of these at 000,000, and of 707 new companies, either es- tablished or projected up to date, at £-464,698,656, making total of $2602,964,876! The steamer Shamrock, which left Liverpool on the 6th inst. for St. Johns, New Brunswick, after en- countering very heavy weather, was abandoned at sea on the 15th inst., in about 50 43.N. lat, 14 7 W. lon., the master and crew escaping in the boats to the brig Jane, of Sunderland, which was providen- tially in sight. _ Mountjoy, the pedestrian, has undertaken to walk fifty miles im thirteen hours, twenty miles back- wards, for six successive days. A letter from Leghorn, of the 8th inst., informs us that a successful operation had been performed upon | Ibrahim Pacha by Dr. Torri, and that strong hopes are entertained of his perfect recovery. | Mr. Hudson, the railway king, last week comple- | ted the purchase of another estate from the Duke of | Devonshire, at £400,000. He has also bought 10,000 tons of iron rails, half at £8 17s, 6d , the rest at £9 per ton, ‘The recent commercial accounts from the East In- dies are considered favorable. Itis stated on good) authority, that the Lords of the Admiralty are desirous of carrying out the line of steamers from the western coast of America, crops by means of | parts of the king- e ruffian destroyer of the constitution of a line fromsSydney to Singapore, the Indian mails will complete the circuit of the globe. The steam machine for draining the Lake of Haarlem, (which was caused by a terrible inunda- tion many years ago) was set to work the other day with complete success. Her sy atl and Prince Albert, who continue at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, have taken their usual carriage and walking exercise daily, during the past week. On Sanday the Queen and her royal consort attended divine service in Whipping- ham ehurch. The average number of wrecks of British mer- chant ships a year is 600! The average sum lost, about two millions and a,half sterling. The ave- rage of lives lost, the lamentable number of 1;560. The present season has been very unfavorable for | bees; great numbers of the young swarms have died | of hunger, owing to their having been kept within | their hives by the incessant rains. | Marshal Soult, the ‘French Minister at War, is | about to retire into private life. He is seven years junior to the Duke ef Wellington. | The Neapolitan tariff is considered somewhat of a boon. to commerce. ‘The trade of the United | States, it is said, will suffer by the new regulations, | as the supply of colonial produce was almost entire. ly thrown into their hands, on account of the boun- ties given by the government to their own flag on all importations from transatlantic ports, and the abolition of these bounties will di i | Suter chastighe, | divert the traffic into and, as an arrangement has already been made for | | bers, having thus, in six years, increased b MORN Captain Billette, of the French navy, has recently invented new shells and grenades, which are sald to have greater destructive powers than any hitherto known. These oiratiles; when fired at a ship, do not pass through her side, making a simple hole, but explode in the act of striking, and cause a lat rent, and spread a compustible matter in every di- rection which it is impossible to extinguish, and the ship struck cannot escape from being burnt. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Cayley, Esq., to be Inspector General of Public Ac- counts for the jibes of Canada. ‘The Jesuits have establishments at Rome, Sicily, Naples, Turin, Spain, Paris, Lyons, Belgium, Eng- land, Ireland} Austria, Germany, Maryland, and Missouri. On the Ist of January, i888, they had in these provinces 173 establishments, and 3,067 mem- bers; on the Ist of January, 1841, they had 211 establishments and 3,565. members ; and on the first January, 1844, 233 establishments and 4,133 mem- sixty establishments and 1,066 members. In 1844 the | number of members was increased to 4,527. present a splendid sword to General Nar- | | d | ted that, | millions sterling. The Pope is gradually dying of a cancer in the nose Inruux or Smiprinc 1yto Enauanp.—A great number of vessels have arrived in the Thames and different London docks, within these two or three days, from China, the East and West Indies, the ditterent colonies, and indeed every part of the na- vigable globe. Upwards of 150 vessels reported at the Custom House on Monday alone, and the long room of that establishinent was literally beseiged by the captains of the diilerent vessels tendering the TenOra or authentic accounts of the cargoes, according to law, which requires the master of every vessel to report his vessel and an account of her cargowithin twenty-four hoursafter arrival. The present influx is remarkable, as, although the weather has been very boisterous of late, the winds have not been adverse to the arrival ot ships in the channel. This timely spur to business will be much felt and estimated at the difierent dock establish- ments, as, from the extreme slackness and cons’ quent want of employment for the numerous poor and hard working laboring men at those places, a great deal of poverty and want existed. The recent pressure appears algo to extend to Liver- pool, as in two days nearly sixty reported, and the day before very nearly an equal number of vessels arrived from all parts of the world at that great mer- cantile and commercial port. Packer Suir Enaianp.—A bottle was picked up Sept. 16, near Douglas Head, containing a paper with writing upon it in pencil, supposed to give some information of the fate of the lost New York packet ship England. The following is the writ- ing:—“Packet ship Ehgland, from Liverpool, Dec. 11,1844. Lon. 98 7, lat. 45 10.” On the other side, ‘Lost quarter beats, 10 feet water in the hold. No vessel in sight.” It is difficult to conceive any one so stupid, as tocommit such a message to se1, for the purpose of communicating information of the supposed danger in which the ship was, of being lost. If uot. a hoax, it communicates very little in- formation. Without date, and with a manifest error in the longitude, it affords, if authentic, but a slight indication of the time or place in whic! i met with her disaster, or of the nature of that disas- ter. Itis natural to presume that if the paper had been written for the honest purpose of communicat- ing information, it would have been made to state | something of a more intelligible and specific nature. Prosrecr or tHe Crors,—The reports received from the northern parts of the kingdom speak in a very desponding tone of the probable effects of the extremely wet and boisterous weather experienced during the week on that portion of the crops stil outsanding. ‘That injury to an extent difficult to be remedied at this advanced period of the year has been done, is greatly to be eared; and, unless we have an immediate return of dry weather, the con- sequence may be serious. Even if the northern har- vest had been gotin well, etn of Wheat could searcely have been expected to prove an average; and, under existing circumstances,the deficiency in quality, if not in quantity, islikery to be much great- er than wes previously calculated on. Notwithstanding the tineweather experienced three eonsecutive weeks, there is still a great quantity of grain abroad south of the river Hagar: whilst fur- ther north much is yet uncut. Of the total, produce of the United Kingdom probably two-thirds may have been saved; but it is needless to remark, that the manner in which the other third may be secured must greatly influence the whole. i timates of the probable result of the harvest, have therefore, we fear, been too favorable; and we now apprehend that, besides the already admitted defi- ciency in Wheat and Potatoes, the crops of Barley and Cats, as well as those of Beans and Peas, may prove interior to what we were induced to hope. As thrashing is proceeded with, the complaints of the yield of wheat certainly increase ; nor do the accounts of the quality improve. ‘The loss in weight alone is a serious consideration ; suppose the same to be 3 lbs. per bushel on the entire quan- tity grown—which is a moderate computation—and taking the whole produce of wheat ot the United Kingdom, in an average year, at 20,000,000 qrs., this item alone would make a difference of a million of quarters. 4 ‘These considerations have had some influence with holders of wheat; and the disposition tu sell at present prices has much diminished. Those parties who have still stocks of old, naturally conclude that the superiority of last year’s growth over that of the new will cause it to commanda ready sale at any pe- riod; and though fair supplies of new have been brought forward by the growers, they refuse to sell except at enhanced rates. The increasing un- favorable reports relative to the potato crop have al- so had their weight; and the trade has assumed a decidedly firm tone. Whether any immediate advance of importance wiill occur in the value of Wheat will probably de- pend, ina great measure, on the weather; but, how- ever auspicious the latter may become, we fe®l tol- erably sure that the price of bread-stufls must, later in the year, rise materially. Not only is the crop short in this country, but the harvest has been defective over the greater part of continental Europe. In Holland at Belgium the fact is so well ascertained that the government of the former country has deemed it prudent to reduce the duties on Grain, to the minimum point ; whilst all restrictions on the import of Cornjinto Belgium have been removed for a given period. y Already numerous ordare'l have been received from Rotterdam, Antwerp, &c ; and the moderate stocks of bonded Corn are likely to be shortly re- duced into a very narrow compass, if not exhausted, by shipments to countries from whence, in ordinary years, we are in the habit of drawing some portion of our foreiga supplies. In the Baltie ports, Great Britain must expect to be outbid by the Butch and Belgians ; and in the Black Sea, Wheat has lately been Pacpit up to supply Italy, where the crops are stated to have yielded indifferently. It seems, therefore, that, unless prices advance materially, in this country, we are not likely todraw any quantity of Wheat from abroad. OrpgRs For Foor.—Now that circumstances render it painfully apparent, that supplies of food must be had from some quarter, all eyes are turned across the Atlantic, and fears prevail that the late orders which have been sent to Canada will miss the season, und arrive after the navigation of the St. Lawrence has been closed by the ice. Much will, of course, depend upon the time when the frost sets in; and if the weather is favorable, there is little doubt that handsome fortunes will be made by those who have speculated largely in bread stufls. “What- ever rants may come from the United States, willalso find a ready sale either in this country or on the Continent, the recent accounts from the Union represent the season as having been favora- ble for the grain crops. An opportunity now exists, which rarely occurs, of sending produce of that de- ton to Europe, with the ecrtainty of finding a and rising market. It is deeply to be regret- » instead of an uncertain and unstable traffic the nature of our corn laws prevents the demand from being regular ond uniform, But such a desi- deratum is on the eve of accomplishment. ‘Tae Rauway Mania.—The number of projects scattered all over the country, which have come before the public during the last ten or twelve days, is greater than ever, and—for British lines alone— would involve an expenditure of upwards of sixty It continental and colonial lines were added—and they all look to England for large proportions of their capital—the amount would pro- a not tall very far short of hundred millions sterling. Many of these projects—and some of the greatest magnitude—will, no doubt, be carried into efleet, with every prozrect of proving profitable ; but more than halt ef them may be set down as ephemeral schemes, got up, in many instances, for | 4d his family is of high rank, and was, at one time, mere speculation, and with no idea of any practical | nossessed of tetas and affluence. His, father was result. State counsellor and knight at the Austrian court.— Nattonat Srowrs.—On the very same day that seven bulls were slaughtered before the Queen of a fifteen men were butchered in the streets of Madrid: another proot that Spaniards are treated in their country like beasts, only not half so well. The rate of exchange of human life in Spain seems to be 1 bullJ=2men. When are these national sports to cease! Her Spanish Majesty forgets that what may be very good sport to her 1s ‘ew. to others. She should be careful, for she 18 teaching her people one of those games, at which, it is said, two can play.— the ship Our previous es- each other to talk of drawing the sword under al- M. Leorony De Meyer Leopold de Meyer was born at Vienna on the 20th of December, 1816. He is of noble descent, of court physician at Constantinople, to Abdul Med- schid, late Sultan of Turkey, and is now court phy- sician to the reigning prince of Wallachia, and also one of the most celebrate At an early age seventeenth year, fession, and left the and ease, he was ill-prepared to meet " GLAND.—The jealous an- xiety exhibited by the English press and people re- greeting anything which can be tortured into a pro- | slavery tendency, is fast becoming a disease of the national mind. “The ingenuity which is exhibited in this way, shows the morbidity of the feeling. It is philanthropy run mad. For instance, a rumor price some two months ago, that manacles, simi- lar to those used by slavers for securing the safe transit of the victims whom they kidnap, had been found amongst the debris of the American frigate Missouri, that sunk some time ago off Gibraltar. ‘The notice of this circumstance has been revived, during the last three or four days, by our London namesake, who founds on it a most seriousand un- charitable charge against the American govern- ment, to the eflect that the sunken steamer, al- though ostensibly a vessel of war belonging to the United States, was covertly engaged in the slave trade! Now, the least acquaintance with the re- | quirements of the British—which, in this instance, are the same as those of the American—navy, would have prevented the possibility of an assump- tion, on the partof the “leading journal,” as un- called tor as itis unpardonable. For the Reon t ritish, _Puianruropuy or E suppression of mutiny, every vesset of war— French, American, and all others alike—carries some hundreds of these tron peace-makers ; and the “manacles,”, which the jaundiced philanthropy of our contemporary designs for the wrists and jambes of its black protégés, were only intended, if the necessity arose, to preserve order and discipline amongst the republican sons of Neptane on board the Missouri.— Wilmer’s Times, Sept. 27. More or THE Pro.anruroray or ExGiuanp.—The Hobart Town Advertiser of the 1th of March, has just come to hand. It contains the names of 291 convicts who have received at the hands of the Lieutenant Governor tickets of leave, and condi- tional pardon, available within the limits of the Aus- tralian Colonies. The editor of the journal above quoted, makes some admirable remarks upon the condition of convicts and the poor of England, and argues that the latter are driven to crime by the se- vere operation of the poor law ; and he might have added, by the combined influence of the Corn and Game Laws. With regard to the pauper and the con- Niet, we showed about a fortnight ago that the latter is much better fed than the former, even in tis country ; but in Australia the convict actually fares sumptuously, while his work 1s by no means labo- rious. The Hobtirt Town Advertiser thus places the matter in juxta-position:— A PAUPER, Aman guilty of poverty, the most unpardonable of: fence to the British Senate, is incarcerated in a modern ubject to the great- hips, and recei for seven days the follow- ing food, viz 7 pints otmeal porridge. 3 do pea soup. 3 do broth. 4lb 14 oz bread. 4 oz bacon and 6 oz boil- a conyicr. A man convicted of bur- glary, highway robbery, or any other crime, a trans- portable offence, is sent to yan Dieman’s Land, fed and kept in idleness fora period of probation, and then found a master who treats him kindly, pays him wages at the rate of 3s, 6d. per week, and gives him in ad- dition for food for that pe- riod, the following articles, ed beef. viz: — 3 1 potatoes. 7 Ibs meat. 11b suet pudding. 105 Ibs bread. This ration is reduced when —_7 oz sugar. not at hard work. 7 ‘oasted wheat. 5: soap. 3} oz salt. “Look at this picture and on this."—The amount of dietary is in addition, be it remembered, to 3s 6d a week, with occasional scraps of food, and an al- lowance of beer from his master or mistress, and frequently from a good natured servant. 'The very announcement of the fact is sutlicient to induce a hardjworkingjagricultural laborer,with half a bellyful of food, to commence sheep stealer, or turn poacher, with the view of getting sent abroad. We are told of the “horrors of transportation” in the penal set- tlements, but even there, the convict is by far better fed than the peasant, who scarcely knows the taste of animal food, and the pauper in the workhouse is in the same plight. For our own parts we have long since ceased to wonder at the increase of crime in this country ; for when we reflect upon the fact that so richja man as the}Duke of Isuckingham thinks 9s a week a suflicient allowance for a man with a wife and family to subsist upon; and that many interior landlords pay eyen less wages than 93 a week, the cause of incendiarism, poaching, rob- bery, and infanticide, is at once traced to its only true source. Then, again, the treatment of the poor, in other respects, is sutlicient to induce the utmost contempt for our legislators, and those who administer the laws. Take the tollowing as a sam- ple:—At the Buckingham Petty Sessions on Satur- NG, OCTOBER 16, 1845. wrench that awaited him. His father died suddenly from an attack of cholera, and, left to the bent of | his own inclination, he determined to prosecute mu- sic, which was the delight and desire of his youth. Fortunately for the youthful Leopold de Meyer, his | musical genius did not conceal itself among, held and foreign occupatiens. While quite a c an extraordinary fondness for the pianoforte, was continually playing everything he heard by ear, | after his own fashion ; and before he had reache his sixteenth year he had become so wondertul as | an amateur performer, that his company was eager- ly sought in the most recherchés salons of Vienna.— re length his name reached the ears of the Empe- ror. His majesty having heard that a young noble- man, whose ater was attached to the crown, had obtained, as an amateur pianoforte player, an extra- ordinary success in the drawing-rooms of the aris- tocraey of Vienna, expressed a desire to hear him, and scoardingiy the young pianist went to the palace and performed before their imperial majesties, the emperor and empress of Austria, and the court.— From this circumstance and from this day we may date the commencement of the brilliant career of the future great artist. For nearly two years he ap- plied himself to study and practice with the most in- defatigable zeal and industry under Francois Schu- bert, protessor of the Conservatoire of Vienna, and ; C ith hi and, above all, with hue host, | wit Bas reed’ retired for the ‘lane, with | religious arena, Czerny ; and before he was nineteen years of” age he determined to travel, and create for himself a name that would blazon farther than the proudest an- cestral banner, and fructify a talent that would prove to him a dearer source of wealth than the mines of Golconda. * * . © * Of his introduction at the imperial palace we find the following anecdote in the journals o; the da‘ Some days after the count Witte’s arrival a Petersburg, having the honor to dine with their im- perial majesties, he related that he had journeyed frail Odessa with a young pianst of extraordinary merit, whereupon the empress, enchanted with the account, instantly despatched one of her coaches for M. de Meyer,determined on hearing him that same evening at court. He accordingly came to the pa- lace and played his fantasies from themes on Son- nambula and Anna Bolena, which produced an as- tonishing effect on every one present. The empress, after hearing the first morceau, rose from her seat. and approaching the piano remained standing behind the chair during the whole performance, uttering aloud frequent demonstrations of surprise and de- light. * * * Bie OL Ue After this concert Leopold de Meyer received from the hands of the emperor and empress testi- monials the most flattering ,to an artist; for, at the same time that he was presented with a magnificent diamond ring both from the emperor and empress, he obtained fe nomination by diploma of pianiste extraordinaire to the Russian court, and was _enrol- led honorary member of the Philharmonic Society of St. Petersburg. i Fag gla. th. Sec, We may also quote, as referring to this period, the following quaint anecdote from the Sunday ‘Times and ‘Musical World : ; “Upon the present young Sultan coming to the throne, not only wine was forbidden throughout his dominions, but even music? But the taste for the magic god has, within the lasttew years, spread so rapidly throughout aukey, that the Sultan’s com- mand has gone forth unheeded. The Turks will assuredly never abolish music, however they may discountenance wine.” , We can answer for the above. Since the Sultan made the acquaintance of the jovial pianist, Leopold de Meyer, he has been music-mad—and many a bot- tle have they quaffed together, under the rose. The fact is the Sultan is, at heart, abon vivant anda boon companion. He loves a good dinner and a flask ot Rhenish as mnch as the humblest of his subjects.— He loves also, a pretty girl—but his taste that way is sufficiently notorious. In Leopold de Meyer he met one after his own heart—and the first night of their acquaintance they got “jolly” together. De Meyer layed the Sultan into ecstacies—and bottle after bottle so raised the spirits of him of ‘all the Tur- keys,” that he fairly threw his arms round De Mey- er’s neck and hugged him. Since then music has been at a premium in Constantinople—wine is in statu quo—women more than ever adored—and in honor of Leopold de Meyer, a statue will be forth- with erected. ©. Jet bake on meno) ee At every concert a perfect Italian furore was crea- ted, the natural phleghmatism of the Germans fa- ding away before the miraculous powers of the pi- anist. Hitherw he had seldom or never pert with- out oue encore, but the people of Franctort encored him twice at every performance. * ‘ Leopold de Meyer gave four public concerts in Pa- ris—two at Ererd’s grand saloons, and two at the Theatre Italien. He pertormed at the monster con- day, before two parsons, the Revs. A. Baynes and - Andrews, Thomas Stokes, a laborer, of Barton Hartshorn, did not appear to his summons to an- swer to the information of Thomas Dewett, of Fin- mere, a game keeper to the Duke of Buckingham, charging him with having, on the 7th instant, been with a gun in pursuit of game, in the parish of Bar- ton Hartshorn. Joseph Neale and John Savin, two lookers out for the Duke of Buckingham, were call- ed to prove the offence, and the charge was gone into in Stoke’s absence. From the statements of the witnesses, it appeared that at about the middle of the day in question they were on the lock out, and saw Stokes, in company with another man— against whom proceculiigs have been commenced —cross a stubble field and a meadow, with a gun between them. They had not a dog or stick, or any thing else besides the gun, which one carried across one field and the other across the other field. ‘They did not fire, nor did they start any game ; but one of the persons said to the other, “Ifany had flew up we should have had acut at them.” ‘The witness said, after the above two persons had left some time, they heard a gun fired four tumesat a distance, which gun they supposed was fired by Stokes and his compa- nion: “but they did not see them fire, nor did they know that it was they.” The Magistrates consider- ed the offence pone They inquired if Stokes had been previously convicted, and was informed that he had not. In consequence of this, the Magis- trates said the fine would be mitigated. They order ed Stokes to pay a fine and costs of £2 2s 6d in four- teen days, and in default one month’s imprisonment in Aylesbury Jail. It may be urged that the fact of Stokes’s non-attendance was a proof of his guilt !— (He was seen carrying agun.) But surely it would have been more decent and becoming if the two Reverend Magistrates had waited a little, and issued a second summons. Without imputing falsehood tothe informers, we maintain thut they ought, it possible, to have been confronted with Stokes, with the view of eliciting whether his accusers acted from malice. Altogether, our agricultural population are most crueily treated; and when driven to despe- ration by bad laws, they become reckless and des- perate, and seek an asylum in a foreign land, though it be at the expense of transporation. The excellent treatment of convicts sent to Van Dieman’s Land, actually offers a premium to our bone-gnawing and offal-eating peasantry to cemmit crime, and must disabuse all pre-conceived notions of the ‘thorrors of transportation,” if we except our Mews penal settle- ments at Port Arthur and Macquarrie Harbor, where none but the vilest of the vile, the feculents, and the ea of society, are sent.—London Despatch, Sept. Cotton Opinion of a War with America, (From the Liverpool Chronicle. ] But after all it would be the very wantonness of folly and pugnacity for two such countries as Eng- land and the United States to waste their mrengeh and energies and means in fighting about a distant, bleak, and barren country, which an amicable ar- omen could so divide between them as to find ample room and to spare for all the settlers whom they can send into it tor generations to come. But we will not anticipate that the troubled spirits of the Polkites will be able to drive their more sober mind- ed countrymen into any such extreme madness. A war between England and the United States would be the greatest calamity which could afilict the civi- lized world. Although under ditfrent forms of go- vernment, they are the two guardians of freedoms yetin store for all mankind, and it would be a feast to the despots of the earth to see them weakening and tearing each other to pieces in mad and sense- less hostilities. It must not be. We are only not American, because we are English, but next to the prosperity and welfare of eur own country, our as- paeae and wishes are for the happiness of our rethren in the United States. They are ot the same race, the same blood, and the same language. It savors of fratricide for two countries so related to most any provocation. Foreign Theatricals. His brother Johan de Meyer, formerly held the rank d_ geologists of his day.— A he was sent to the University of Vienna, where he prosecuted his studies until his eing educated for the legal pro- University at the close of that ear, having completed his studies. Bred up with high expectations, and educated in the lap of lasry, je sudden cert of that wonderful aad versatile genius, Hector Berlioz, held atthe Cirque Olimpique, in the Champs Elysées, before eight hundred musicians; and in a place where, from its immensity of size, no other pianist had ever dreamed of playing before. An uecident occurred to him on his way to this concert, which had nearly put him hors de combat, being flung from a fiacre, and receiving a severe contusion in one of his fingers, which quite incapacitated him from using it with any effect. But, as one of the French journalists remarked, alluding to the acci- cent,and his performance immediately subsequent— “*M. de Meyer seemed to us to have been able to spare more fingers than one, for we never heard such showers of notes, even from four hands, elici- ted on the piano, as he produced in his performan- ces at Hector Berlioz’ concert.” Leopold de Meyer was encored twice atthe monster concert, and the favorite piece, the Marche Marocaine, which he played there, was arranged by Hector Berlioz for his whole grand orchestra, and performed at the next concert with tremendous ettfect. It was the first time M. Berlioz found any modern pianoforte mu- sic worthy to be transferred into orchestral score. * * * * ‘Wherever he goes Leopold de Meyer per- forms on no other instrument than one of Erard’s patent. seven octave grand pianofortes. He is ful- ly justified in this selection, tor it is now universal- ly acknowledged on every side that there are no in- struments in Barone hike them. For beauty of ap- pearance combined with strength ; for delicacy and facility of touch; for power and purity of tone, they far surpass any pianos we have heard. The two huge establishments belonging to this house in Paris and London, we are confidently informed, can hardly meet the increasing demands for their new instruments. Leopold de Meyer has sent one of these, manutactured purposely for himself, before him to New York. A foreign fidler to whom the Queen presented a diamond ring, is stated to have sold it to a Jew for o3. The Keans are said to have made it a stipulation with the southern managers in the United States, with whom they have concluded engagements, that their line of characters shall not be played by any other “ stars” prior to their appearance. Three of the greatest ornaments of the British stage in its palmy days have been staying at_Brigh- tontor some time past, namely, Charles Kemble, Charles Young, and Liston. The two former are in good health, but the latter, we regret to say, is la- boring under a depression of spirits which cuts him oft from the usual enjoyments of society, and makes life at best but a burthen. Miss Elen Lane, late of the Liverpool Theatre Royal, makes her debut at Drury Lane Theatre this evening. J A ai named Elizabeth Millington,aged eighteen, attempted suicide in the pit of the Adelphi Theatre, on Thursday evening, by taking oil of almonds. Unrequited love is said to have begn the cause. Ireland. O’Connell was shooting grouse on Kerry Moun- The Irish Collegiate Bill is again being revived in all the intensity and virulence of discussion, by a protest, on the part of the Irish Catholic Bishops and Archbishops, against the measure. It appears that seventeen of these ecclesiastics are aguinst, and nine in favor of the bill. The former have pub- lished their views to the world, and have thus shown the divided councils to which the new mea- sure has given birth. Amongst the minority is the Primate, Dr. Crolly, and the Archbishop of ‘Dublin, Dr Murray. The Government, in the meantime, nothing daunted, ara taking prompt measures for the erection of the new seminaries, and in the course of twelve months from this time, they will probably be in existence, if not in operation. “The unanimity which has long marked the proceedings of the Ca- tholic body in the sister kingdom is thus broken,and heart-burnings to which the new act, and the est Act, have given Jise, are pregnant with im- portant consequences as regards the future. Mr. O’Connen, at Darrynans ~An English gentleman, with whom we have conversed, has gi- ven us @ very animated account of a day at Darry- nave, the great episode of which was a huat with those celebrated ** little beagles,” which have so of- ten formed the theme, and we believe with justice, of the agitator’s praise. Nothing could be more complete than the transformation of the “embodied thunderbolt of Conciliation Hall’—such was the figure made use of by our English friend—and the merry hunter of our Kerry mountains * inhaling the ocean breeze that comes treighted with health and vigor from the coast of Labrador.” In the evening way e party of Englishmen, Inshmen, Frenchmen and frallans—Tories, Radicals, Conservatives and Repealers, sat downto a board which, said our friend, “bore all the characteristics of that of an ” he added,“ a Irish Prince.” Tt was,” " iation Hall,from which all these va inary man sets the w: Eve: this extraord: were carefull bland and affectionate expression which into bis fae athis own fireside, those have battled with him foot to foot on the could not restrain the w lot had been cast in those quiet scenes of domesne | life which he seems, above all men living, most oe dto adorn” Sixty strangers were slept at Darrynane Abbey on Wednesday mght ~ Tralee Cl icle. Spain. The troops were all under arms at Sarage sea om the seventh and subsequent days, and large detach- mente were stationed in the principal and fine Lat ps of arnilery, with bat Sy > a some cavalry, oceupie ppb mo disturbance took on the oe ot the seventh, and stones were thrown at the but itdid not appear that any thing more serious ceurred. “Madrid pers of the 16th instant state that the capital had resumed its ordinary state of ty, and that there is no longer any a ge eeithine blishes an extract trom a Las ie Castel pul 8 ex! bon paper, which states that the 5 General Iriarte had landed at a small place in the 7 hood of Oporto on the Ist of August, where he put himself in communication with the Spanish ema, grants in that quarter, among whom he distribuved money and arms. He endeavored to procure « pase rt for the Spanish frontiers, but failed. Has arrive perk come tothe knowledge of authorities, steps were taken to arrest him, but he succeeded in getting away, and is yg to have embarked on board a anak bound for England. Some people supposed, however, that he was still esnsowled Ty the neighborhood of Oporto The Heraldo says a conspiracy has been diseover- ed at Alicant, and that a leutenant-colonel im re- tirement, cousin of Zurbano, was to have been at the head of the movement which was but which has been prevented by the vigilance of the authorities. Several persons have been arrested. Germany. The “religious” excitement in Germany con- tinuesat its height. The progress of M. Ronge, not- withstanding the attempts of the government to put down all demonstrations of enthusiasm, is a species oftriumph. On the 19th, he lett Stutgardt for Ulm, and he was accompanied out of the city by @ vast crowd of inhabitants. Some of the most enthusiastic of his admirers accompanied him all the way to Ulm. In the Saxon Chambers the opposition to the poremnment, on eat oe the recent yi ipsic, are so strong. that the government cannot depend agod the support of above one-third of the members, and it was thonght that the Cabinet would be obliged to dissolve the Chambers. Letters Vienna state that the irc ies excitement has ex- tended to that capital. A German catholic congrega- tion has been formed, and at its first meeting up- wards of 3000 persons attended. The meeting ha- ving been called without the leave of the authorities, it was dispersed by a battalion of infantry. Saxony. The Lower Chamber of Saxony passed, at its first sitting, on the 13th, a motion for the appointment of an extraordinary commission to prepare an address in reply to the King’s speech, but to withhold the presentation oe i Chamber mond ane cucu the propriety of such a step, as well as to give opportunity to the Upper Chamber of joining the Lower in its project of address. This act of oppo- sition tothe will of the government, which had con- veyed an intimation to the Upper Chambers net to address the Crown, was cerried by 57 to 14. Switzerland. The Courier Suisse of the 16th ult. published in the Pays de Yaud, gives the {cllowing account of a club, said to have been organised by ‘* Young Germany,” for the overthrow of religion and rove ity, by means of atheism and regicide. It is probably much exag- gerated:—‘‘Some arrests recently made in a smi town of the canton of Neufchatel, and the avowals obtained of the individuals thus captured, have led to the detection of a vast plot organized in Switzer- land by the members of the * Young Germany’ as- sgciation. The present centre ot the assuciation is Lausanne, but Barne, Zerich, Bale, Geneva, and twenty-four other minor towns, have lodges of the same Conspirators. It is also affirmed that there are German clubs connected with the society in several towns of France, including Stratsburgh and Mar- seilles. The object of the association, as is clearly proven by the writings and correspondence of the leaders, and the disclosures just obtained, is to ef- fect the subversion of the religious, political, and so- cial organization of Germany, and, successively, that of the other states of venei by the preaching of atheism, the gradual demoralization of the > and, if need be, the assassination of public function- aries. ‘The principal leaders are Hermann Dolleke, of Erfurt, a public teacher in the canton of Vaud, and formerly a teacher ot languages in Neufchatel ; Max Hoffman, a Bavarian pharmacian ; Wilhelm Marr, late editor of a German anarchic paper, the Journal of the Clubs, and who is not only sur- named by the men of his party ‘Robespierre,’ but also adds thatname to his signature ; Julius Standaw of Gotha, professor of German at the college of Chaux-de-Fonds, in Neufchatel. This adventurer has been arrested there, and expelled, with four of his associates, from the territory of the Swiss con- federacy, where he had lived as an emigrant for five years past. The axthorities have been justly alarmed at the active and crafty perseverance with which these prop ists have enlisted under their ban- ner a considerable number of the twenty to twenty- live thousand German workmen established in several cantons of Switzerland. Marr’s hideous journal had lately procured as many as five hundred subscribers among them.” Poland. There has been great sufleri tl latinates of Sandomir, Plock, Lublin, Augustow, as well as im part of the palatinate of Cracovit Famine and all the evils in its train had been felt.— In those unfortunate provinces, entire masses of people, deprived of every necessary, wander about the country, divided into bands, in search of the most loathsome food, which is oftener more adapted to soother their hunger than to afford nourishment. Numberless diseases, the unavoidable consequence of destitution, rapidly diminish the number of these unfortunate men, and despair sometimes drives them to acts of violence which the authorities are not always able to repress. ‘ An interesting letter from the banks of the Vistu- la,give an account of the visit of theEmperor Nicho- las to Warsaw? The letter says that all the Empe- ror’s time at Warsaw was engrossed by milit! pomp and parade. He repeatedly visited the citadel, as if to convince himself with his own eyes that it isin a good posture of defence. The rest of his time the Emperor spent in reviews, military exer- cises and ceremonial levees. He also paid a visit to the Students of Warsaw, on the following occasion. One day, the Emperor, pernambulating the streets of Warsaw in car- riage, fell in with two, students, who neglected to uncover their heads in his presence. He immediate- ly ordered his coachman to overtake them, and he, himself, asked them if they did not know who he was? One of them having answered, ‘No, my in the ancient pa- General.” He abruptly retorted, “W1 then, not know your Sovereign?” This apost e struck the two young men with terror, white his Majesty added, “Look at me well, that another time you may not forget the person of your Emperor, but I shall take care besides, to make myself known to all the students.” Next morning all the schools re- ceived an order to appear before his Majesty, with due solemnity, their governors and professors at their head. Nhe Emperor walked slowly through their ranks enquiring of Marshal Paskewios whether he was satisfied with the students of Warsaw, The Marshal, always on his guard, and knowing well his master, cautiously re plied, * that he was not altogether quite satisfied.” he Emperor then cast a, frowning look over the oor students, and fixed his eye upon one of them, unfortanately 6 plain-looking youth, whom he point- ed out with his fingers to his suite, saying, “ Mark, what mouth, what snout—{ will wager that he is a wretch, capable of any crimes.” The unha| tu- dent thus described happened precisely to be re- markable for his good conduct and proficiency; and as the professor ventured to whisper the fact to the Counsellor of State, Muchanow, who is at the head of ublic instruction. in Poland, Muckanow thought it is duty to repeat it to the Emporor, but his Mi rebuked him in no gentle terms, and told him to hol his tongue, while he himeelt gave vent to his angry teelings, ina lecture to the students, in a tone and spirit very similar to his celebrated speech bestowed on the municipality of Warsaw, Qn this occasion he closed his paternal admonition to the students with the exhorttion that they were henceforward to behave in such a manner as to. deserve the opinion of the marshal, as otherwiee he would close their school and distribute the students without Si tinction among his different regiments, where ey would be obliged to. serve as common soldiers an: recruits. It isnotdiffieult to imagine the cent: aation which this imperial has spread in every Polish ly: