The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1848, Page 2

: id yt at NEW YORK H : Slerth-West Corner of Fulton and Nassau ete, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. DAILY BBRALD—Boery day, too vents er copy—@l 2 per mnt hJ.Y HERALD—Beery cents rer copy Fu 1m subecs 12}y per anmum—ae the Uiued States. 1 eee 4 ‘on every European ri ning, and to be pub- pa pool peg lapping oe Fy ‘annet j the propristor wt Seapensibuc for errors im manuserds. IRIN aes aol Koes crecuies beasstifully and with de. Fos coke Ya tas "Pubhication Cfice, corner of sit, for subscriptions, ar nth adver adth LE Zeke vy mull Lor cotage Well be deducted from 7 2UR RESP ONDENCE, conté mportint DULUp 14k Y CORRESP ONDENOR, come cad ob rally . No NCLICE ‘taken of anonymous is intended for ineeriion must be authenticated by the Sire naka Pats acters al tation Tei aso swncvnty of ns good faith, We cannet return | wert payuanrs te be made in advances, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Tux Juwsas—Lavy oF ax Laxx—Two oF te B'Hove, CHATHAM THEATRE, Chatham street—Dow Cmasan px Bazar—New Yoru As Ir 1s—Uncrse Sa: NIBLO'S, ASTOR PLAOB- Wrvow's Victiw—Gnranv Con- « ay Max Miom Lavo» ox, BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Pave Par—Tnar Rascar Jack. CASTLE GARDEN, Batiery.—-Jacomrx—Ronmnt Ma- Ce ated MECHANICS’ HALL, Broadway, near Broome.—Cunisry's RL2—ETHIOBIAR Sinaine, Ko, PANORAMA BALL, Broadway, near Houston.—Baxvann’s Pawokana oF 24x Miseseirrs, MINERVA ROOMS, Broad ‘Bavion’s Memoar Camrs PANORAMA OF OunBRAL jew York, Monday, July 17, 1848, Actual Circulation of the Herald, July 9, Sunday... . «++ 18,4680 copies 10, Mor day 2075 he oT Tyee a 21,300 If! Weanerd a * 38 Tureday eo “My Fridsy 20120 “Yo, Satur 260 « «Weakly 10 i 103576 « Joly 16, Sanday... ... 16) mientel yout Secocu, and fulshed at 18 alate pan Pocock, ‘Whe Freneh Insurrection—its Effects on Great Britain end Ireland. When the mind 1s relieved from the excitement which is occasioned by reading the accounts of the recent sanguinary occurrences in Pans, it na- tarally is directed across the Channel, and seeks to enquire what influence those scenes, and the suc- eessful suppression of that insurrection, will have en the political condition of Great Britain and Ire- and. The state of affairs which has existed in these countries so long, cannot, in the nature of things, continue much longer. Gag laws, sedition Jaws, and crown security statutes, of great strin- geney, may be passed by overwhelming majorities, by the two houses.of Parliament; but such mea- sures are of no avail when the majority of the | people are disaffected to the government, and de- miand achange of their political system. A few brave leaders may be convicted and sent out of the country as parliamentary felons; but others step in and fill the places which are thus vacated, and preach the same doctrines for which their pre- @eceesors have been punished. This, toa great extent, 1s the condition of England at the present time, and it is universally so in Ireland. More felons will be made, perhaps, to order, according to parliamentary statute; but governmental prose- e@ation and punishment are attended with no moral effect." So far from quelling the spirit of revolt which prevails in Ireland, the operation of the stringent and despotic laws that have recently been passed, has added fuel to the flame, and in- ereased and concentrated, more than ever, the op- position of the masses to their rulers. Such was the condition of Great Britain aad Ireland when the recent insurrection in Paris broke out; and as to the effect which the scenes | which marked that capital during the four days of the civil war, will have on countrics situated as | these are, we think it will be adverse to the go- vernment, and favorable to the people—especially so in Ireland. In that fight, forty thousand men— the computed number of the insurgents—without proper arms or ammunition, successfully defended their rude and imperfect barricades and other de- fences, against a well disciplined and fully equip- ped army of eighty thousand of as brave sen as ever pulled a trigger; and it was not unfil they were decoyed from those defences to the level greund, that they were defeated. But for this, the vesult might have been different, and Paris might at this hour be in the possession of the mob. It shows conclusively, that in a street fight, the citi- zens of a city are almost invincible. When we take into consideration the fact that there are but thirty thousand troops in the whole of Ireland—a large portion of whom cannot be depended upon as loyal to the government—it must be perceived | that the people of that country, as well as the chartists of England, have a strong proof of what they can do, when occasion requires it, at the breaking out of hostilities. They have learned a lesson, too, which they seem to appreciate, and that ie, to keep to the streets, and avoid level ground, where the superior discipline, skill and gunnery of the regular troops would give them no | ehances of success. If the “pluck” of the Irish, or of the chartists, is only equal to that of the workmen of France, as exhibited in the recent in- surrection, they could, in a very short time, over- turn the government. With these views, the:cfore, we are of opinion that the events which have recently occurred in France, will hasten the crisis in English and Irish affairs, and give the discontented portion of the people—those, we mean, who evince a determina- tion to upset the existing order of things—greater advantages, and more hopes of success, than they porcessed before collision at an early day; and from what we can glean from our Irish exchanges, and the general tone of the press of that country, we think such | collision will take pluce within three months, both im England and Ireland, notwithstanding the gra- @ious condescension of the Queen in visiting the ene country, and announcing her determination to give upa portion of her income, in order to lessen the agitation o1 the chartists of the other. Teuperarnic = Srock.—The Southern graph Company have declared a dividend of * mx per cent, for the last twelve months, upon their capital stock. Hurrah! This is the graphic companies in the Union, except, w bebeve, the Buflalo Line. Hurrah! hayyy to be able to find that there is any com- pany managed with sufficient discretion and ho- mestvs0 as to pay any kind of dividend at all.— ‘The amount of business between New York and Wesbington, including Baltimore and Philadel- phia, has been great during the past year, but cer- tamly it has not been greater, in proportion, than the amount done on the line between Boston and New York. Notwithstanding, howevet, the Bos- ton company 1s sound asleep, and, as it would ap- pear, has been thrown into a magnetic slumber by their own wires. Nobody can tell what it is doing, or how it prospers, or when a dividend will be de- elared, or whether ever there will be any. As one of the stockholders, interested in this interesting business, we hereby offer a reward of ten dollars to any Christian personage who will give us any in- formation ofany kind upon this subject. Ten dul- tere reward ! Sret cash dividend declared by any of the “wa , Posta. Trovuirs.—The Postmaster of on the borders of Canada, advertises | ip papers sbout two hundred letters, which remain in that office in consequence of the not being prepaid. postage on each WF state payment of which the letters be forwari communications, | We may look, we think, for a | Tele- | We are | Tae Wasuinctor Umon ann Generar Tay- Lor.—In a late article in the Washington Union, the editor, in discussing the importance of “ union of democrats for the sake of the Union,” and in connection with the Wilmot proviso, eays that the election of General Taylor to the Presidency, will produce a tremendous sectional agitation, in and out of Congress, on the question of slavery, | and that the Northern and Southern whigs will each hope much from that “confusion of ideas | and manifest infirmity of purpose,” which have | characterized the General's letters, touching his | acceptance of the nomination by the whig na- | tonal convention. | We cannot, for the life of us, see that the elec- | tion of General Taylor, more than the elevation of General Cass, to the Presidency, would produce uch a trersendous sectional agitation in Congress, as is epoken of by the Union; neither can we per- ceive from General Taylor’s letters, nor from his past history, that he, above all men, can be ac- cused of a confusion of ideas or an infirmity of | Purpose. It cannot, with any regard to truth or | honesty, be aserted that that great hero exhibited any signs of either of these mental disqualifications | in the Mexican war. Surely he showed no con- | fusion of ideas or infirmity of purpose in the battles of Pelo Alto or Resaca dela Palma. Nei- \ ther did he exhibit any in the capture of Mon- terey ; and more than all, there was no confusion of ideas or infirmity of purpose,in his masterly conduct in the field of Buena Vista. Where, then, has he shown those weaknesses? In his letters im regard to his nomination to the Presidency? His ideas have been as clear and his determi- nation as strong as they could be on this subject, froy the time when he was first nominated for that high office, by the New York Herald, until he was Unicn are gratuitous, and made of the same stuff | as dreams are composed of. | IWfasectional agitation should succeed General Taylor’s election to the Presidency, between the ultras of the North and those of the South, on the question of slavery, General Taylor would be em- | phatically the man for the crit | General Cass. The latter is a firm and determined man, too, and would doubtless make an excellent President; but from present appearances, his elec- tion is very doubtful, to say the least. But if those ultras carried their mutual hostility so far as to dis- regard the federal compact, and endanger, by their madness and folly, the peace and harmony of this glorious confederacy, General Taylor’s firmness of view, would be just the weapons to promptly sup- press such an insane state of things. He could be as much depended upon in such an emergency as General Jackson ; and his efforts to quell an out- break of that kind would be attended with as much success as were General Jackson’s in the matter of South Carolina nullification. What, then, becomes of the charges of the Union about General Taylor’s confusion of ideas or in- firmity of purpose? If the editor of the Union wants any further proof of the error whizh he has | committed in this respect, we would refer him to | General Taylor’s correspondence with Secretary Marcy. He would find that there is very litle confusion of ideas or infirmity of purpose in the letters which he indited to that functionary. Exoquexce.—Eloquence is the offspring of strong. emotions, and of truth. Such is its power that | when called forth on great oceasions, it has acted like magic on the masses, and made revolutions. History does not present many more striking ex- amples of the power of eloquence in a great emer- | gency, than the brief, energetic speech of General | Cavaignac, lately pronounced in the Chamber of | Deputies. This great burst of eloquence had the efiect of stopping the torrent of a revolution which was rapidly hurrying on, and threatening to sweep away all before it. And to stop the wild impetus of a revolution, is itself « revolution, Let us relate the circumstances, and give, as far as can be | done in our language, the spirit of this little speech, | which did such wonders. | Paris was in an uproar; a general discontent | prevailed against the government. With some it | was too ultra; with others not ultra enough—with | all, it was evident that it possessed neither energy nor power. | one naine, and with that name one spirit, arose, \ and filled the public mind. That name was “ Na- | | poleon.” All seemed to turn their eyes toward | the name, and the proscribed heir of that great man, | as the only chance of giving stability, firmness and | respectability to the government. Drowning men | will catch at a straw, and Louis Napoleon is said to be morally but a straw. In this situation of things, when a revolution in his favor seemed im- minent, accounts arrived on all sides, from the departments, that the troops of the line had pro- nounced for him, and raised, in several cities, with the National Guards, the loud and enthusiastic cry of “Vive Lours Napoleon.” The account of | these events was conveyed o the National Asseim- bly, which was then sitting; consternation filled the mind of every one—a dead and ominous quiet per- vaded the Assembly—the shouts of the people out- side were heard crying, “Vive Napoleon!” Itwas acrisis. Then, at this moment, General Cavaig- ' nac rushed to the tribune, and pronounced with animation and energy, the following speech. We | give the spirit of it— “Fellow citizens—This is a terrible accusation of an | attempt against the republic, Be it far from me to creditit. No. I must believe—I wish to believe—yes, I | do believe, that he whose name has thus been used, is | himself innocent of the criminal purpose. At the same time, | ain sure that [ am only giving expression to the unanimous feeling of this Atsembly when I devote to everlasting execration the man, whosoever he may be, who shall attempt to put bis sacrilegious hand tipon the liberties of our republic. History has far more glory and honor in store for him who conrecrates ali his powers and faculties to the service of his country, than she will have for that man who, taking advan‘ of glorious name, would seek to pervert it to the pur; of his own personal ambition.” At these decisive and patriotic words, pronoune- ed with all the energy of deep emotion and tr ful feeling, the whole Assembly was electnficd. | They all rose spontaneously ina body, and filled the air with repeated, and then reiterated, Joud | acclamations of “Vive la République! The republic for ever.” This was the decisive moment—an impulse was thus given to public opinion—the enthusiasm with- in the Assembly was heard outside—it spread like wildfire among the people—the wild enthusiasm | for a mere name was suddenly quenched, and the factious and discontented, who had hoped to make their advantage out of it, and to overthrow the re- public, found themselves no longer supported by the | people, whom, momentarily, they had led astray. | Such is the power of eloquence in revolutionary | umes Sporting Intelligence. Trorrinc.—Lady Suffolk and Lady Sutton contend this afternoon, at the Centreville track, for a purse of $250, mile heats, best in five. The excitement and betting on the issue exceed anything of the kind that has occurred since the race between Black Hawk and Americus, 60 sanguine are the numerous friends of each on the result. Lady Suffolk was the favorite up to alate hour last ck at 100'to 80 But whether this will hold good to the time of starting, remains to be seen. The facilities for vitnessing this race, are made convenient by the Long Island Railroad Company. Naval Intelligence. The U.S. schooner Tampico, Lieut. Com. R. IE. Johnson, arnved here fone day, thirteen days from Pensacola. The following 1s a list of her officers :— | BR. E. Johnson, Lieutenant Commanding; F. D Denney. Acting Mester ; C. E. Lucas, Captain'rjClerk | Spokeeh the Tortugas. 8d inst., U. 8. sehooner Maho. neve, from Pensacola, bound to Norfolk. The M. had on board the body of Commander Pinckney, U. 8 | Novy, and was putting into Havana for a mapply of waicr. ‘The U. 8. sloop of war Germantown sailed rome day for Yucatan. The U, 8. frigate Cumberl was to pullin afew day for New York.—Norfolk Bea- | cory July M4. Just the reverse. In all his letters on that subject, | | General Taylor has been consistent throughout. | nominated by the whig national convention in | |gPhiladelphia. These remarks and charges of the | , a8 much £0 as | purpose, and clearness and cemprehensiveness of | In this state of bad feeling, suddenly | Cave Jonnson anv THE Mars, Once Mors: —WVe received the followang letter from Detroit, Mich gan, a day or two since, and publish it to the world as another instance of the incapacity of Cave Johneon to attend to the Post Office Department of the federal government:— Dernorr, July 11, 1848. J. G. Bewvert, Esa. — .—About ten days ago I wrote you on the subject of the irregularity in the receipt of my daily Hereld here. For tbe last ten days I have kept memorandum of the Heralds received, and receivimy thei i id it shows such a stare y administration who would ho are so dishonest that searce- take. ron your any one, even if gifted nee of Job, put up with, or submit to such outrages as these? I am a democrat, and have becn & supporter of the present administration ; but if no honest man can be found among the hg ag ap- pointed to offices of trust, (particularly the Post Office), the sooner the administration goes to hell ‘he better. 1 ask you in all candor, whether the statement I give you below is nota disgrace and a shame to the adni- nistration, and the Post Office Department in particu- bode It ought to makethe head of that department jush. But, in point of fact, there has been no regularity or syrtem in the Post Officearrangementsin this Western country ever since Cave Johnson took possession of that department ; and! hope. thanks be to God, that hie sdministration and that of his deputy in Buffalo, will soon be ended. Cave Johnson seems to have the rame indifference tothis Western country, that James K. Polk bas to Western lakes and rivers. aa following is the statement which I have refer- red to:— 1848. July 1. Received Daily Hera'd cf 27th June. « "2. An Eastern mail received here; butno He- rald' “3. Received Daily Herald of 20th June. The Herald of 28th June not received at all! ly one third of a daly pape: Ht this place. Ci «4 QWive Boats from Buffalo—-three Eastern 86 Mails, and yet no Herald! Beautiful oom- «om tary on the P O. Department! “BL” Received Herald of 4th July. ‘The Heralds of the 80th June and Ist. 24, and dd July never heard of Good Lord deliver us from thieving Postmasters ! “ 9, ‘Two Boats from Bufialo—an Eastern Mail ; but the unfortunate Herald has been vie- timised. “ 10, Reovived Herald of 6th July.—The Herald of the Sth purloined, as usual. “ 41, An Eastern Mail, but no Herald ! Sir, have I not reason to complain of these matters? Our correspondent, who is a highly respectable | gentleman, asks us whether he has not reason to | complain, and we promptly answered that he has; but not with us. Cave Johnson isthe man to be censured—a man who has not the ability to perform the services which he undertook, nor the sagacity or spirit to acknowledge his weakness, and retire from his department. We can assure our subseribers—North, South, East and West—that their papers are’ regularly mailed to them from this office. The fault of tneir not reaching their destinations rests not with us. expect relief until he is replaced by another and a more competent person. That official would sink Cave Johnson is incorrigible; and we need not i ‘Theatrteas and Mast a. Bowsry Tuzatae —This house has been doing a firet-rate business during the past week, Every evening the audiences were both numerous and of the highest respectability. Indeed. in point of beauty and clegance we thik the Indies in the dross circle of the Bowery ean compare most favorably with those Gf any other place of amurement, in the city. Miss and sueh ted and orderly house, the Bowery, in Teat attractions, Tho reason bas hii eovssful, and asa continued reries of novelties avd int vita oly Be jwcea will be pro- duced in rapid succession, the house will doubtless *till continue to be as well pal ined as ever, To- night the fine spectacle of the “Jewess” will be pro- duecd, with all the maguificence the theatre is capable of. Mr. Mrrsball, Mr. Tilton, Mrs Phillips, aud the other members of the company, will take prominent ‘Lhe drama of ‘The Lady of the Lake,” with ylor as Blanche of Devon, aud the faree of ‘he Two B*hoys,” will conclude the performan: 1810's TnzatTRe.—The production of light, amus- ing and interesting vaudevilles, sustained by an excel- lent corps dramatique, as, also, the pleasing pautomimes of the Lehinan Family, interspersed with various dances, in which the pretty Adelaide moves with such grace and elegance, has attracted highly fashionable and delighted audiences to this beautiful theatre of This evening the performances will com- the laughable sketch called the * Widow's Victim ;” the principal characters of which will be ined by the sterling and inimitable artists, R. Telbin and M: Dawson and Seften. This will be followed by a “ cert Dramatique,” in which Mons. and Madame Laborde, so highly spoken of as distingvighed vocalists, will make their first appear- ance. Several beautiful pieces—solos and duetts—will be executed, namely, from second act of * William ,”? air and scena, hilde, by Mme. Labord» ; as, also, the duet from same act. by Mme. and Mons. La- borde, Grand air and scena from “Le Rossignol,” another from the beautiful opera of “ La Juive ;” as, also,a scena from “Le Serment.’? The lovers of vari- ety of entertainment. have thus presented to them a splendid evening’s divertisoment. Niblo is untiring iu bis endeavors to please his patrons ; he has enuag- ed Mies Brienti and Mr. Manvers, who will appear to- morrow evening in the musical drama of “ Le Domino Noir ;? and the Lebman Family will also give their pantomimic represontations. CnatHam Tuxatre.—The great patronage which this house has received during the last week, has in- duced the manager to extend the season for one week more, in order to accommodute as many as possible of his visiters. He has, also, effected an engagement with Mr. Lester, the favorite comedian, who will make his first appearance this evening, in the character of Don Cwear de Bazan, in which part he stands unrivalled. Besides thir, Miss Mestayer is re-engaged for a fow nights, so that, what with Mr. Lester, Miss Mestayer, the worthy young manager himeelf, and his talented wad exerllent company, this, the closing week of the sea- sop, will be a most brilhant one. To-night, after “Don Caefar de Bazan,” ‘New York Aa It Is”? will be played— the farce of “lpele Sam” concluding the perform- ances, Thecerrespondence between all the members of the company and Mr. Chanfrau, in which they ten- der bim a benefit, in testimony of thelr esteem and respect for him, has been published already. This ix a | most convincing proofof the harmony un good feel- ing existing. and the tact and excellent management of Mr. C. ‘The henvfit will come off on the evening of | Monday, the 24th inst., and will, no doubt, be a bril- | lint affair. ’ any administration with which he might be con- nected. He isasa millstone round the neck of | the precent dominant party, and has done as much | to bring it into disrepute as has Mr. Polk himself. City Intelligence, Tue Weatnen —The weather yesterday was de ful; the airbalmy and spring-ike, bred wes te was pure and heaithiul, and gave more solid promise of good weather than any day for several weeks past. | the moon gave to it a beauty which is unsurpassed. A Staaxcyn Taken 1N.—An Englishman, named Thomas Cur ton to this city, with a man calling himself Robinson, who also professed to be an Englishman, and came from near the same place as Curtis, They became | quite sociable on the passage, and seemed much pleas- | ed with the company of each other. When they arriv- |ed in the city, Curtis and his wife started for the Pearl street House, and Robinson went another diree- tion, ‘They had been but a short time at the hotel, when Robinson called to see them, and offered his ser- vices, in ea-e they should be needed. Mr. Curtis was | Dot in, but the wife invited him to stay, saying that her hu+band had only gone out to get some money | changed, and would Foon return. Pretty soon Mr, Cur- | tis returned, with 1.406 in American gold, all he was worth in the world. This occurred on Friday merning, | and ashe intended toleave for Albany by theafternoon | boat, packed his money in his trunk, assisted by Robin- | son, who made himeelf very officious in aiding his now | friend; after which he left, saying he would return and | sce him off all safe. At the proper time they started for the Rip Van Winki# ; and when they reached the boat, Robinson said that he (Curtis) would have | to get aticket for his trunk. which he would leave in the care of the barber. This he did. supposing all | was right. Robinson had two accomplices on hand, | who, assoon as they aw the trunk delivered to the | barber’s care, Inid their plans to get it, which they | | succeeded in moxt admirably—Robinson all the while staying with and talking to Curtis until the boat was | ready to start. He then badehim good bye, and wished hime pleasant journey. When the boat,bad got about Jour miles up the river. Mrs. Curtis became un- easy about the money, and begged ber husband to make some inquiry concerningit, which he did; bat was told not to be alarmed, that all was perfectly’ safe. | ‘That, however. did not ratisfy him, and he determined on aseareh; but could find nothing of the trunk. 'T! created considerable stir on the boat; and when Cui tis dscribed the trunk, some one said they saw two men, in dark clothing. take iton shore. At this he became very uneasy, and besought the captain to put kim on shore, which being done. he bastencd to the city and commenced a search for his money, but with no success; and Robinson and the money were among the missing. The excitement »pon the mind of Mrs. Curtis produced premature confinement; she at the time being in a delicate state of health. and she now | lies dangerously ill in this city. Robinson iz about five feet, eight and a half inches high, rather thin countenance, with large shabby whiskers, and appa- rently about 35 or 40 years of age. Most Vitiaxous Ovtnace.—A most foul and vil- lanous attempt was made a few days since to violate the person of an interesting girl, about sixteen years of age, in the vicinity of Harlem, by a fellow, the same who committed a base assault upon one of the female fervanty on Randall's Island, at the recent Cherry Festival. It appears that the girl left a father in. New Haven, at the point of death. and came to this city in search of a brother, that he might return with her to his paternal home. Having ascertained that her bro- ther resided at Harlem, she proceeded thither, and meeting this person, enquired of him if he knew her brother, and where he could be found. Hereplied that he did; and if she would go with him, he would show her the place where her brother resided. The unsus- pecting female followed him, and when he had got suf- ficiently far enough from the village, as he supposed, to accomplish his hellish design, he caught her by the throut and choked Ler severely, also striking her seve- Tul severe blows in the face, causing a gore of blood to flow from her mouth and noe. Knowing that the ty ofher honor depended entirely upon hers became desperate, and struggled with the villain, bold- ly resisting his diabolical purpose, and finally escaped frem his elutebes, She ran with all possible speed for Dunham's Hotel. the nearest point, and having rela- ted tohim the conduct of the rascal, he immediatel; rent for ber brother, who went to the hotel where his sister was, and caused the arrest of the man, who, we | are told is Helms, who was safely lodged in prison — ‘The girl is from New Haven, and of respectable, though poor, parentage, Iiarlem ix said to be the bead-quar- | ters of a gang of dagperate fellows, who do little else | than insult respectable females. Itis to be hoped they | all may be caught and made tosuffer the severe t pen | alty of the law for #uch outrageous and villainous con- uet. | AxotHen Snootixa Case.—An altercation took place on Saturday night, between two Germans, named. Peter Harmns, and J. H. Weisengle, the former oce pying the house No, 00 Sheriff street, and the latter @ house in the rear, They quarrelled for some time, when Harmus went into his own house, raised the wine dow and deliberately shot Weirengle while he wa” go. ing up the stoop of his. The charge was of ordinary duck shot, the whole of which lodged in the thigh of W , wounding him most severely. A pkysiciane was called, who extracted fifteen of the shot but many more had entered the fleth so deeply that it is thought necessary to perorm, a surgical operation toget at them, ‘it is not known how the fracas originated. Statisrics or Ineianp.—We are indebted to Messray Wilmer & Rogers. corner of Nasran and Liberty at for a very valuable pamphlet, entitled © Statistion Ireland for the yoar 184#,”’ which is exceedingly impor- tantas a book of referonce. We have also received from the same gentlemen a plan of the city of P, likewire of great utility asa reference. Almost all tl Journals, a8 well ax the New York Herald, and | periodicals generally, can always be obtained at the | Ley of these gentlemen, at the above mentioned place. | Run Over.—A man named John Cerroll, was ran over about 9 o’clock, on Saturday night, in Broadway, by one of Ormrby’s spruce beer wagons, by which he Was most severely injured. His left log was broken jast above the knee, and the right one dreadfully Incerated. He was taken to the city hospital, where he liesin « dangerous condition, Dnownxn,—A Ind about eight she Zeate old, named John | Irwin, was drowned on Saturday, ina pondon the | Bloomingdale road, between 32d and 334 streets | A “Dean Hxean” in an Unvsvat, Piace !~As the | Ps train on the Rochester and Auburn Rail- | road east stopped at the several way stations, the | mewing of a puss was heard, and on reaching | Fisher's, an investigation was gone into, resulting | in the discovery that a cat was within one of the plate wheels, ‘which were hollow, and having | three openings about the size of a man’s fist! Poor puss had made her way into one of these holes be- ‘ore the tng 3 of the train, and being unable to make escape, had been carried fifteen miles ;— making in that distanee, fourteen thousand ax hnn- died and eixty-#ix revolutions! On being relieved pirpabs Lege vind pont se ~ manifested no ieular uneasin y tool powyi Rochester Advertisiry oy) 1. mt cen ‘The evening was also beautiful. and the gentle rays of i with his wifo, lately arrived in this | country. formed an acquaintance, in coming from Bos- | | looking remar! | same nature ha Castix Ganpex,—This delightfal place of resort is | now under full headway ; the summer is on us in right | good earnest—the hot weather has fairly set in, and the universal desire is to keep cool, or rather find some place where one can achieve that desirable object. | Such @ place is Castle Garden; its fine promenades, | lofty ball and theelegant dramatic amusement. cosino- | ramas,&c. admirably fit it for the summer resort of our | citizens and visiters. The price of admission is now | | fixed at 25 cents, a mere nominal sum, thus making it quite a trifling expense to family parties. To-night the performances will consist of the dramatic comedy of The Jacobite,” and the first act of the favorite | melo-drama of “Robert Macaire.”” Mr. Holland will ap- pear in both of these pieces, and by his fine comic acting will no doubt add much to the effectiveness of the representation. In the intervat between the pieces the time can be well emp.oyed disoussing the first rate refreshments for which the Garden is so famous, During the present week. Messrs. Bottesini and Arditi will take their benefit. and one of the most attractive | bills. of the season will be put forth on the oceasion, On Thursday evening. Miss Phillips will take her bene- | fit. On that occasion. also, a most attractive bill will be offered, and = number of most eminent performers have volunteered their services. Bunron’s Turatar.—This place of amusement, altered and re-modelled so as to make it one of the most comfortable theatres in the city, bas been well supported during the engagement of the Viennoise chil- dren, The performances. this evening. are very attrac- tive. The comedy of*Paul Pry" will be enacted. The part of Col. Hardy will be tustained by Mr. Thayer (his tirst appetrance for several years.) and that of Paul Pry by Mr. Burton, who is acknowledged by all to be one of the best comedians in the country ; and those who have teen Miss Rose Telbin, will admit that she is one of the most pleasing and accomplished actresses,in her line, in this city. Mr, Crixp, of Park notoriety, will sustain the part of Harry Stanley; and the other characters will be sustained by an excellent stock company. The entertainments will be concladed with the laughable farce of + That Rascal Jack,” in which the celebrated John Dunn will appear, and, no doubt, as usual. excite the risible faculties of the audience Burton, if he consults the taste of the play. will produce light novel pieces, interspersed with bal- Jet and other amusing performances, as, during the summer reaton, heavy representations will not be re- lished; but Burton's celebrity as a manager is suffi- cient to ensure a selection of every thing suited to the taste and refinement of society. . Cunisty’s Mixst had made up their minds to leave New York this week; in fact, their concert on Saturcay ¢vening. was advertised as their last.— the requests of many of their admirers, to «tay ano- ther week, however, bave been too urgent, and they have consented to remain a little while longer. ‘They will perform this evening, and throughout the week, Banvann’s PanoraMa.—The universal admiration whieh is expressed by visiters to this magnificent ex- hibition, is proof poritive of its great worth. Proba- bly, no such accuracy and aftistic elegance has ever betore been exhibited on so large areale. This woek is positively the last one that it can be shown in New York; therefore, all who have not yet seen it, had bet- ter goat once. Tur Panorama or Gen Tayion’s Camraions, now exhibiting at Minerva Rooms, is declared to be a most rurprisingly accurate and comprehensive delineation of ihe marches, battles. &e.. of Old Rough and Ready and his gallant army. In these exciting times, when all the world seems to be going to war, our citizens can tee without any trouble the wars und dangers the Americon army, cores, Taylor.went through in Mexico, They will then touppreciate the great gallantry of their fellow countrymen. ning. Edwin Forrest was still at Buffalo on the 14th inst. Marine Affairs. Surrs ron Livenroor.—We notice at the wharves, among ® number of vessels loading, and about ready to sail for Liverpool, the fast sailing ship Joshua Bates. Her trim, orderly, and neat appearance, as she now liesat the foot cf Old Slip, denotes care, taste and feamanship; and it may not be out of place to state, although many ato aware of the fact, that she was at one time the Boston and Liverpool packet, so famous for her short runs across the Atlantic. She was some | time since purchased by a respectable house in this | city, and placed under command of Capt, Stoddard, who on his first passage in her, accomplished the run from Boston to Liverpool in less than fifteen days, In her new occupation as an Indiaman, she has earned still more credit; and now, we believe, ranks in speed with any of our clippor ships in that trade, Her last | voyoge was performed in elght months, inelading sixty dys she remained at Whampoa. Another ship of great beauty of model, intended originally for an -Indiaman—the Memnon—is also loading for Liv- erpool. Thi ship was built about a year since, by the builders of the Sea Witch and Rainbow, and partakes much of the form of the latter. She is long, low, and very rakish, with great breadth of beam, clean and easy run, Her sailing qualities have never beon fully tested under Capt. Eldridge, her present commander. ances will, no doubt, prove worthy of her r ite model. The European trade is evidently not her legitimate business. ‘The favorite packet ship Fidelia, under the command of Captain Yeaton, is also one of the number which sail within a day or two for the Old World. The F. eaves this morning for Liverpool, and, as usual, carries | out a full freight, and, for this season, a fair proportion | of passengers. Tur Steamenir Wasnixcron.—This fine steamer has been at her dock in the North river for some days past, andis now in perfect order, and will leave for Southampton and Bremen, on the 20thinst. She is Great Faut or Anowites.—A fall of mrolites occurred in the neighborhood of Seckterstown, Pa., on the 9th inst. In one instance, a large stone, some six feet in diameter, and resembling a mass of sulphur, in its descent, went through a large tree, crushing it to atoms, and entered to the | depth of about twelve feet, from whence it was afterwards recovered by those who witnessed its fall. The traces of several small bodies of the , been discovered in that vicinity, within a short ume, and are creating considera- ble, alarm. I am informed that the Hon. Judge Reid, of our place, has obtained permiasion from Joseph Dnite, Esq., the proprietor of the farm where the stones fell, to remove the large one to his residence in York, where it will be exhibited for a while, after which he contemplates taking it to Baltimore for the purpose of placing it in the Museum. It is really @ curiosity.—Cor. Balti- more Clipper. It is exhibited overy eve- | ‘The Watering Places. Ocxamic House, Covey Isuanp, July 8, 1848. } It is notriffing matter, beleve me, to become the historiographer of a fesic nab'e watering place the first season of its existence. In fact, young water- ing pluces (whot an idea!) are like younz miidens: they must be frowned upgn and caressed, humored and crossed, scolded and petted, all in the same breath. Wherefore I, Fitzherbert Montaban Shandy, in view of all the difficulties by which Tam sur- rounded, in view of rebellious subjects and scorn- ful peers, in view of the jealousies, oddities, ca- | prices and whims of old men and young men, old women and—no, that is plebeian—there is no such thing as an old woman in fashionable life—but in spite of the women generally, and of little boys and little girls, and nurses and valets, and of eve- ty other creature—always excepting our glorious French cook, whose rule in his own department is supreme—but in view of and in-spite of everythiag and everybody else, I am about to shadow forth’ as an honest correspondent should, a picture of what passeth here.” Be not deceived. I shall not tell you that the lovely Mirs X., with a pouting lip, or the enchanting Miss Z., with a piuk eye, or the delectable Miss Ampersand, with a Grecian con- tour, arefthe admired of all admirers, and lead the fashionable Hock wherever they choose. For the life of me, I cannot conceive how any one writing for the Herald can fall into such blunders. It is classes, not individuals, that you, aseditor, wish to see truly delineated. It is life, not petty circum- stance, that you wish pictured in your columns. And herein consists the great secret of the suc- cess of the Herald, whose end “ both at first and now, wasand is, to hold,as ’twere, the mirror up to nature, to show the very Aga abd body ot the ume, its form and pressure. ” Other journals take but a one-sided view of life and the world; and as two wrongs make not a right, so two journals which labor perversely to uphold different opinions, repre- sent not the public opinion, the great voice of the people. And that 1s the reason why so many edi- tors, to use one of your own comparisons, often rua their journals ten feet into the mud before they get fairly under way, . ell then, you have my plan for the campaign, and as it 18 based upon the plan by which your journal is conducted, I feel confident, in advance, that I shall prove the most fortunate of all your correspondents. ‘ r Ishall furnish you with a daguerreotype of life at the Oceanic. ,Folly—wisdom and mctenapatnnar sophy, French cookery and salt water baths—a storm on old Ocean, and a tempest in a teapot,— you shall have them all! Le voila! Suanpy. N. B.—I perceive that your printer’s devil spells my name “Handy.” Faugh! the Handys are a plebeian eet; John Handy’s grandmother blacked the boots of Fitzherest Montaiban Shandy’s great grandfather. Enough. Manorac Laxe, July 6, 1848, If you wish to get rid of the heat, dust, smoke, and noise of the city, where one has good oppor- tunity to become familiar with weariness, tever, and fret—where men sit and hear each other groan— Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies ; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow, ‘And leaden-eyed despairs ; Where beauty not ke 4 her lustrous eyes, Or new love pine at them beyond to-morrow ; —just take the cars on the Harlem road for Croton Falls, and then direct your course for Lake Maho- pac. In three or four hours you have left the world all behind you, and are in a mountain para- dise, in the midst of enchanting lakes, among reen islands, fanned by pure cool breezes. Heavens, how exhilirated you are! The air is so freth and bracing that onmgannot help opening his mouth, as though he staring at the “ele- phant,” in order to drink 1n as much as possible of itatonce. As Burns says— “ What, tho’ like commoners of air, ‘We wander out, we know not where, But either house or hall ; Yet nature's charms, the hills and woods, ‘The sweeping vales, and foaming floods, Are free alike to all.”” There is no place in the State where the atmos- phere 1s purer and cooler in summer—no place where the scenery is wilder and more romantic. The litle lake, over which ever blows cool breezes, checkered at all times with sail and row boats, | beautified with two fairy like islands, “sunny spots of greenery,” is nor surpassed in beauty. This season, more than before, the place wears the appearance of a fashionable resort. We have met here some of the wealthiest and best families from the city, who are so much charmed with the scenery and healthy air that they have resolved to stay thragh the whole season. The quiet and absence of all rowdyism, show that a better class of persons has been attracted by its superior ad- vantages as a watering place. UNCUBNPRIEND. Police Intelligence, Charge of Stabbing with a Sword Cane —Offcer Cunningham, of the th ward, arrested on Saturday evening, a man by the name of James Robinson, on & charge of stabbing Alexander H. Stoutenburg. reniding in Mercer street, near Broume, with a sword cane, in- | flicting rather # dangerous wound in the r ght side, while in an affray in the front of the Mercer House, corner of Mercer street and Broome street. The facts which led to the occurreuce are, ws we learn, as fol- lows :—It appeaza that a very Interesting young widow, of pleating mannera, by the name of Mrs. Franklin, keeps « boarding house in Mercer street, next door to the public house called the Mercer House, kept by Captain Underhill and the accused. Mr. Robinson, some five weeks ago, was in the habit of taking dinner with Mra. Franklin, and, to oblige Mrs. ¥., Mr. Robinson acted as carver at the head of the | table. ‘This went on for ashort time, until Mr. R. found he lost too much time in going to dinner in Mercer street, as his business was down town, and concluded to leave ; but, in#o doing, be did not forsake the house al- together, but called in occasionally. The last visit made was on the 4th of July; and in the course of con- versation with a lady who resides with Mra, Frok- lin, a few words dropped vouching some ‘ouse- hold arrangeme' in some way connecting Mrs. Fianklin. Thi: seed on without any farther notice, until Mr. Robinson was leaving the house, when he | saw Mra Franklin alone, and feeling himself to be a friend, took the liberty of advising Mrs. Franklin, and raid he bad a“hint” he wished to communicate.’ Mrs, Franklin felt vexed at the liberty taken by Robinson, and told bim she was not in want of any of his advice, nor did she ask for any of his “hints ;°? she was per- fectly able to take care of herself, and ifshe wasn't, | it was not to himshe would look for any protection.— Robinson then left the house, declaring he would never make another call that house. But feeling deter- mined that Mrs. Frankiin should receive the “hint? intended, a few days afterwards he addressed a letter to her, wherein he recapitulated the “hint,” aad tike- wise set forth his friendship towards her. ‘I'his let- | ter, it seems, Mrs, Franklin exhibited to Captain Un- derbill, who is one of Mrs, Franklin’s boarders; and being a protector likewise of the fair sex. he sent aletter to Mr Robinson at his place of business, requesting his attendance at the Mercer House. Robinson attend- ed. according tothe invitation, when the captain took him into the billiard room and gave him a severe repi- manding for the ineult given to Mrs, Franklin giving him tounderstand that such “hints” were ungentlemant, and perfectly uncalled for. Thus the matter remained, which occurred some six or seven days ago, until last Saturday evening, when Robinson called in at the Mercer House to take a glass of soda water; when who should he meet in the house but Mr. Stoutenburgh, who addressed Mr. Robinson respecting that old “hint,” and what was the reason that he brought his (Stoutenbourgh’s) name in question in the matter, Mr. Robineon replied that he did not know his name, although he was aware he was one of the boarders in the house.— No,” enid Mr. Stoutenburgh, “ you might not have known my name, bat you alluded to me by saying that man in spectacles.””—By this time their convereation began to get of rather a personal nature as Robinson began to back out and was outside the door on the side-walk, when Mr. Stoutonburgh commenced to thrash’ Robiuson, with a rattan or flight cane which he had in his hand. On Robin. son recelving the biows rather freely, he threw up, to defend himself, aheavy sword cane, which he had in his hand at the time, the lower part of whieh fell off, it being very loose, leaving the sword part in his hand, which he thrust at Mr. Stoutenburgh, inflicting a se- vere stabin the right side, S. was taken home, and nurgeon sent for to dress the wound, who pro- nounced it not mortal, although such stabs are very dangerous if inflamation should fet in,—therefore he wes ordered to be kept perfectly quiet in bed. Mr. Robinson was taken, together with the sword cane, ho- fore Justice McGrath, who committed him to prison for examination, to await the fate of the injured man. Case of Ketcham § Leavenworth.—We have received & communication from Messrs, Ketcham & Henshaw, who do business at No. 121 Fulton street, who state that they are no ways between Ketcham & Let ting machine, Their place of business was at 19 we have to say is that in the affidavit at the police | office it was set forth at No. 121 Fulton street, Movements of Distinguished Individuals, Abbott Lawrence ands. R. Belknap were both in Quebec on the 11th inst. They are handsome- ly noticed by the Quebec Mercury, which devotes a long article to an eulogy upon their enterprise and general worth. Axotuen Tevararn.—The pine poles which ave been along Third street for the past two or three dvys, are for Morse and Kendall’s new tele- raph line, from Baltimore to New Orleans,| via Sioa D Wheeling, Maysville, Lexington, and thence through Tennessee and Alabama. It is the intention to have a line of posts up between this city and Manvita, in the course of a week. Mr. Eliph»let Case has charge of this section. effect is this competition going to have on tele- graphic rates 1—Cincinnati Enquirer. —————— itcamships, Steamboats, *at'roads and Tele- in Progress. Attention havivg been orava yeuerally to various important routes, for the transit of merchandise and passengers. we shall notice some of the works in pro~ gresson the leading routes. The works now im pro® gress, must, when completed, produce » great change im commercial transactions. A little attention be- stowed by our readers, upon the extension of the ares of commerce, may prove much to their advantage. A gentleman recently reiurned frou Kurépe, is takipg active measures for calling ‘he attention of the community tothe importance of establishing # ne of steamers to Mareeilles. The steamship United States is the first of a line to Havre. She has just completed a trip across the At- | lantie in 12 days and 16 hours. | A iine’ of steamanipx taily © tablished betwee | Philadelphia and Charleston, and an ie | organising to establi-h aline to New Orleans. the Howard linefrom this city to New Orleans, will soon have additional vessels to run in conneetion with: the Cresent. City. | ‘e stated in @ former article, that Congress had. | given to Mr. Sioe $240,000 per anus for tea years, to convey the mails between New \ ork and New Orleans, The House of Representatives have that gentleman $25 000 per month, in ad- | vance, in lieu of the fermer appropriation. | steamers that were building by “r. Law, it is will be completed forthwith. ‘to fuldl that cont which requires thé vessels to be ready on the first October next if the contract is coufirmed by the fare ture action of Congress, If not. here appears to be some uneertainty asto the courre that will be pursued. Congress should resolve Upon svise specie mode of action in regard to the carriage of the mails by ocean steawers. ‘The ge from Bermuda is 1s per ounce, and news, re 2d. each, to be paid at Bermudas, After completing lines of to New Orleans and Havana, communication is touked for by the same means to commercial ponts furcuer Svath ‘Phe pas- suge of mailing vessels La Pi ge which now a cupies 20 to 3u days, wor made steamships in fons than 15 days, opening fcilities to the fruitful West India islands— Curacoa, 0 Rico, Martink ne, Hast, and Trinidad—for the shipment ef their juctions, ‘The largest river steamer in the world, now bi by Iraue Newton, Esq., who appears to hold the balance of power in all water crait, wil be launched. at the Dry Dock before the lat of August. That weasel 1g 375 feet in length—25 fe-t longer than any vessel outing. Her destiny will be determined next week. The Hudson River Railroad, to terminate at the foot of Canal street, will be completed in the year 1850. The number of passevgers now passing, annuaily, om the river between this city and Albauy, is about one million, Jt is estimated that during the first year after the completion of the road, the increase will be half million more. The Harlem asd New Haven Railroad will be com- | pleted during the autumn to Dover Plains, 82 miles trom the City Hall, and 22 miles Last of the Hudsom River. A line is now completed from La Prairie, on the 8t.. Lawrence River, to St.Joho. A continuation is im progress through Vermont, crossing the Hudson River between Glen’s Falls and Saratoga; from thenee om the West side of the river to Albany. Another route is from St. John to Burlington ; thence crossing Ver- mont, through Montpelier, into New Hampshire, and through Plymouth, connecting with the Concord road (which is a coutinustion of the Boston and Lowell road) ut Franklin. Another route is to V anes, im Vermont, crossing Vermont through Rutland and Charleston, into New Hampshire, connecting with the Fitchburg road into Boston, The Pennsylvania Railroad, from Philadel; to Pittsburgh, will probably be completed al 1852, when a perfect line of railroad muy be looked for from Buffalo to Pittsburgh, a distance vf about 900 miles.— From the present prospects of that road, it is anticips. ted that their care will run from Harrixburgh to Lewis- | ton before the clore of the winter of 1848-49; and with Puriage at flelideysburghy wich, with the sompletos Portage at Hollidays! 5 wi ry of the western fifteen mallee, will give » coatinuous rail- road communication between Philadelphia and Pitts- burgh, with the exception of fifty-five miles to be tra- | velled by stages The citizens of Ohio have been ma- | king exertions to form a continuous way from the At- lantic. through the fertile valleys of that State, to the distant Wert. One item of trade. wh.ch 1s considered tractable to this route, is the passage of 50 000 cattle, a number that PreK 6 through Pennsylvania. from Ohio. On this the West sidv of the moun- tain will be yacsed at Sugar Ran Gap by o tunnel 760: yards long, and 160 feet below its apex. ‘Two great chaius of railroad are contemplated through Obio, towards which decided measures have been taken. The first and most forward in its pros- is that leading from Cincinnati, through Co- and thence eastward till it touches the Ohio- river, at some point where it can connect with a rail- roal to the seaboard. This road connects with the Cin- cinnati and Sandusky road, which is already iu opera- tion as fur as Xonia, or Springileld, and passes through, | Coiumtus and Newark to the mouth of Licking river. | From this point, two routes present themselves, one to- ‘Wheeling, through Zanesville, and the other in » northeastern direction till it strixes the river about Wellsville. The road, for part of the distance, is in the hands of organized companies. who will carry on | the work by loca means, until they come to the point of divergence. A railroad is contemplated from Memphis, Tennes- see, and spoken of at Washingtoa. in connection with. the steamers of Howland and Aspinwall, that are to ply between Panama and Oregon, touching st the ports of California A telegraph is already in operation to Memphis, and | Mr. O'Reilly has posts erected for the extension of this Western line to the distance of 400 miles, When anticipating the realization of such an im- mense increase of commercial facilities, by the eon- nection of great routes throughout the entire exteat of the continent, the mind is le J to many reflections. Wm, Penn settled amidst savages. relying upon friendly influences; and by entering into the haunts, and oftentimes, no doubt, into the emotious, of the warlike tribes of Indians, holdingjeominereial traffic * with them, precerved amicable relations, and establish- | ed an orderly government, whil | lence and disorder all around ; yet, for, more than 70> | years, aud up to the time the government passed into | other bands. they enjoyed uninterrupted peace. So by | our holding frequent or constant intercourse with people, however uncultivated, er different in political or religious reiations, they will become humsenise strictly preserving Tr, a8 well as their contracts ant treaties. without a quarrel or a war. as Indians did in the days of Pe: ‘The tendency of every action of | government, should be to bring those who are now es- | tranged from us, by all the influences arising out of arbitrary power, into the same brotherhood of freedem, ey the consummation of social. political, and commer- cial similarities. By the extension of internal im- provements by railroads, on land; and steamships, und river steamers, on water, it is only to be aveom- plithe | Steamships may, with as much propriety, be eon- | strue| private enterprise to ply between thie port, and any South American port, as between this city'and Albany. If commercial transactions would: teem to jurtify the investment of capital yielding a svitable return, there is no doubt of there being built, and we can see no reason why the government should” not issue proposals for the carriage of mails and enter into contracte, for such rervice, ac in ordinary oases; for whieh service we are advocates of the most liberal | pay. Looking forward to the consummation of seme plan for reaching the Pacific ocean by « shorter route than around Cape Horn—thus securing the trade of the East, and perfecting a continuous route through. important commeresal poiuts throughout the globe, is a sulject that should receive the most liberal oonsi- deration on the part ofthe government Whether the plan of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, at an. | estimated cost of $20,000.000, or that of Mr. Whituey —# very feasible one—at a cost of about four times: that amount, is practicable, aad ought to beeompleted, are questions that require » prompt decision, Experience’ will affirm that the human fam/ly are much the same, from whatever,portion of the world. they may have sprung. after becoming inflaenced under similar circumstances. A remove of one gene- ration from ignorance and sulfering will, in the off- spring of the next, be strikingly manifest. With fa- cilities for intellectual attainment, and under the ap- pliances, comforts and general influences of a better condition, the features become more symmetrically developed, exhibiting an intellectuality where before the grossness of the animal creation was alone indica~ ted. A case of an apposite charact a short time since ot wreck, and found on one of the Malay Islands, who be- came & desperate Cannibal, exhibiting all the ferosious- ners of the tiger, in habit and appearance, and thirst- ing for human blood. People going to the South from. the Northern States, to reside, bycome strong apolo« ts for the existence and continuance of slavery, and are said to be the har task-masters. Who has not marked the effect of habit and olimate upon the foreigner, who, after a few years residence here, be- comes so Americanized. that his nationatity is al- most lost in “thinness?” Tho Chinese, so different in habit, soon appear at ease, when abroad, and ex press themselves in terms of satisfaction with those towards whom, heretofore, they had never entertain- ed any but feelings of prejudice and estrangement. In somo of our large hotels, we find a representation of people from every portion of the globe, who, living for years together, under similar Tnhons dom are soon. alike in manners and habits. They harmonize and bo- come affiliated to each other. The inveterate praju- dices that were supposed to exist from national jeal~ ousies, or some formal difference in their social rela~ tions, have been found to be only ideal. We discover the heart to be susc influences, or tending to tho coarser at ture, go where we may. In verification still farth the assumption that naturally the human femily are much the rame, it is only necessary to revert to the similarity of character exhibited in all mankind when making pecuniary demands upon each other. The fame unrelenting disposition is ever manifest. ‘These results only confirm the doctrine of oircum- stances as affecting association and tending to affect the destiny of mankind, whether for weal or woe,— ‘Then how 1m ‘at it is that every facility for the interchange of social olvilities, and all things pertain- ing to the relations of life, should be contributed to, by individuals aud governments, whose interests are one and inseparable, If commerce is calculated to meliorate the condition of man, and extend facilities for human happiness—if the peo ivilization is the coesequent refine ment of sentiment id mauners—and ooallicts He- tween distinct, distant, and independent counmuni- ties of men, are inse blo from the condition of our spocies—-there | able purpoxe to be accompliatod of promoting the o1 nd ; and, ip regord to the latter, ofassimilating their conditioa,with our own, by draw- ing them nearer—thus destroying the effeet of ceo~ graphical divisions and sectional partios’’ that are «ver the cause of strife and confusion, | ble of refining ater of | A British soldier lately fell from the cliff of Cape Diamonc, at Quebee, into St. Lawranoe street, a distance ot three hundred feet. He was, of course, dashed to pieces. It 1s not known how he came to fall, but it_ is supposed that he got dizzy in look~ ing over