The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1848, Page 1

NO. 5220. ~~ Our London Correspondence. Lonpon, August 25-26, 1818. The Probable Expenditure of Six Millions sterling for American Produce—Spread of Discontent--The New York Herald before the Lord Mayor of London— State of Ireland—Americans liberated—Folly of Smith O'Brien—Curious Escapes of English Reform ~The Duke of Buekingham—The Queen, and Extravagance Arrests of Chartists. A priority of attention is claimed to the important truth that gloomy forebodings still remain. The con- tinuance of wet weather impedes the progress of the harvest, andinjures it seriourly, whilst fuller account confirm the almost total destruction of the potato crops "The consequences of those disasters are already com- mented on by various parties capable of their proper estimation, who concur in the opinion that an impor- tation of corn of from five to six millions sterling wil ‘be required to meet them. Where the money is to ome from for the payment of such a sum seems a aaystery, as the impoverished state of the Exchequer ‘at this moment is such that the collectors of the in. ome tax are pressing for its payment in a manner hitherto unprecedented, and do not scruple to say that it is on this account their urgency is s0 great An additional tax to raise such 4 sum will never be tolerated by the middle «lasses, out of whose pocket it would principally come,r nd it therefore remains, whom the necessity becomes imperative, to adopt the old resource of raising the money by loan, and pasting it tothe debt. It is thus the evil accumulates, Itis not straw by straw that is added to the back of the poor ational horse to test its power of endurance to an ever increasing load, but the weight is thrown on wholesale by reckless and prodigal hands. The exami nation of the physical force chartists before the magis, trates, has led to their remand for a fortnight ; and it ds worth observation to remark that their apprehension | ‘was accomplished by one of their numbers proving a government spy; who stated his motive for betraying them to be that some danger would arise to the state, It is only necessary for the information of the distant geader to ttate that, the great mass of. chartis throughout the kingdom repudiate the proceedings of these men, who are more werthy of restraint within the walls of a mad house than those of @ prison. The moral force chartists compriee in their ranks the great Dody of the respectable portion of the working classes, ‘Though these men sre peaceably disposed, the fact ig ‘becoming more apparent every day that they, as well as the lesser shopkeepers and tradesmen, are becoming nd the ficult e that diminished employment and profits and a scarcity and inereased j rice of food, will greatly tend to widen it. A vile journal that has ever been anxious to stigmatize chartism, seeks to reduce its points tothree—namely. murder, robbery, and arson, ‘which it declares to be the means it intends to adopt to accomplish its objects. During the last week # city ehartist orator was arrested, and his examination at the Mansion House caused’ some amusement by the @exterous manner in which he evaded the higher class of charges the law seeks to attach to political agi- tation. ‘Though exercising the humble calling of a retailer ffich in the street, his speech, as reported in the pa- pers, was marked by a clearness of purpose and ex- pression, that would have done honor to a higher so- ial position. The gitt of his address was an expo- eure of the conduct of government. in which he forti- fied his ments by reading several extracts from Jeading articles of the New York Herald, which had ously been transferred to the columns of the Times, a journal ever sensitively alive to trans-Atlantic ani- mmadversione, and which, whilst it pretends to laugh atthem, feela the full force of the whipping across its mercenary ehoulders. Some unlucky remarks upon ‘the prominent topic of the evening’s discussion as to whether “Jreland was up,” brought him within the range ofa charge of misdemeanor, on which he was committed for trial. With regard to Ireland it may be truly eaid, that she is at the present moment where she has been for years—at the point of the bayonet. ‘An overwhelming military force stil! keeps the people under restraint, and when this is relaxed, it is feared that a large crop of revenge will spring up, and wreak itafury on those who are epposed to them. Ireland, ‘with the exception of Ulster, is one mass of disaffec- tion, that no English legislation will ever reconcile or eradicate; and it appears to be only a prolongation of a useless struggle, to hold it against its will. English money, and the force of arms, may postpone the sepa- ration for some years. but, with the delay, will increase all those repulsive features in its present history which ‘alike shock and sicken the impartial observer. As Llustrative of one among the many evils that have arisen from this sad contention, it may be mentioned, that independent of the urual outlay throughout the country for such purposes, the large sum of thirty nine ‘thousand pounds voted by Parliament as secret service | money, is all being spent in the payment ofa detec- ‘tive police, numbering in its ranks all conditions of persons, from the half-pay officer of the army and navy, to the necessitous workman Land of liberty the United States may be, they are there mingling in the mectings of the sympathizers, and marking their leaders. How fra ® solution are these facts to their immediate recognition and arrest when they set foot -on English soil, little imagining, as they cross the wide rumed at the stability of the steamer’s gangway are described as having been acted to the life, and only overcome by the polite and gallant aseiztance of a sti- pendiary magistrate. who attended to prevent his escape. The public, like the individual mind, has often been occupied with some passing event that has led to its diversion from a more remote and more important one, and so at the present time is it with regard to the events in England and Ireland, diverting it from Par- liamentary reform. Governments bave been known frequently to create events when such were wanting | to effect a similar purpose ; but these kind of tricks | upon the wayfarers of tho present age are becoming less practicable. because political penetration has be- come more powerful and clear, and in none more so than that powerful phalanx’ of energetic men, tue | members of the late anti-corn law league. To these men the world owe much, and if belief is to be at- tached to the authoritative statement of a leading | Sunday journal, of the past week, this association | is te re-appear, with increased numbers, to fight the battle of political reform and regeneration. The tame authority declares ample funds being ready, the course of action traced.and the organisation complete, that will commence vigorous and determined operations in November first. This information may be depende} on, from the source from which it comes. No rational person can deny but the time is come when something must be done to stay the present chaos towards which public affairs in Eng- | land are fast verging; and it may be assumed that had | the present government evinced any disposition te fol- | low # courte of rational reform and progress, they would not have resuscitated their old organization. It must be admitted, as a matter of saving policy, that men like there cannot look coolly on whilst ministers arerupinely temporising with the great interests and safety of the nation. A system of repression, whilst it runs a thousand risks of calamity to a nation, may answer the purpose of a government who has all to lore by its change; and it is in this view the League comes forward a second time to invest the strong-holds of corruption. The body of men who will thus raise to advocate the popular cause, are not such as Lord John will dare to show bis open and advised-speaking bill to; they are composed of thore who will fearl I gally march in the pursuit of their cbject, eupp the most powerful organization the country ever saw. The fear and hatred of the Lyybanged to this asrocia- tion has been, and will be, the great circumsgection of its members in cautiously avoiding any infringement of the existing laws, It issuch men as Cobden, Bright and Fox, the leaders of this new movement, who are in the ascendant, and it is to them that Englishmen must look to for reform, and one to be beneficial, that will produce organic changes in the constitution, The proverb enjoins the praize of the bridge that affords a | gafe passage acrors the stream, and it is for those poli- See res, who bave profited by the constitution ag it is, to laud its virtues and pray for its continuance But the British public have felt its partial operations, and demand a change—a consummation that is noi- ther difficult nor distant. In vain will the sophisiries and earcarms of D’israeli, in the Commons, or the blusterings of Richmond, in the Lords, avail the old worn-out institutions of a feudal age; they must give way to newer and more vigorous ones, adapted to the increasing intelligence and requirements of the age. When surrounding nations are advancing, shall Eng- land stand still? Nay, shall she, through the wealth extracted from her industrious citizens, and a powerful naval armament, stay the whole social and political pro- gress of the world to aggrandize her nobles ? A Coed fuss is still being made about the Duke of Buckingham’s fall, and one journal utters a deal of maudlin and dishonest sentiment about the sacred right of entail being violated to pay rapacious credi- tors, whilst another declares that when her Majesty and the royal consort were at Stowe, rome few years 0, they were boarded and lodged by his Grace's tradesmen at a cost of £50,000. Among the items enu- merated in this outlay is a lace quilt for the royal bed, yalued at one thousand guineas. If honestly paid for. it did not concern the public, though the policy of the outlay might be questionable, and suggest the re- flection that a similar amount of expenditure, directed in a useful channel, at such atime, might have pro- duced great good. d conferred greater honor on the Duke and bis guests. It issaid ofthat old clever epineter, Queen Elizabeth, that when any of her nobles wanted curbing, she vi- sited them and ruined them at the same time, that they might gain wisdom from the experience of ad- versity. Reverting a last time to the Duke, the only thing left to ray ot him is that it was owing to his ex- ertions, when Marquis of Chandos, that the little that was good in the reform bill was counteracted by his introduction into it of the £50 tenant-at-will claim, which still maintains the preponderating interests of the aristocracy in the Commons, He is down; ether Dukes are not far from the end of the journey that will bring them to his position; more rots prevail at the present time than the potatoe one. Whi ar- tizans equabble the truth comes out. To turm to a subject of greater importance, the government in- epection of the crops in Ireland by the staff of the Poor Law Commiesion, has ro far progressed as to furnish them in the mean time with the information, “tbat there is barely food inthe country to supp-rt the population till the first week in January.’’ Such are the words of the report, as extracted from an official gource, Some proof of the approaching dilemma in which the ministry are about being placed by this de- ficienoy of food, as well as existing disaffection, may forded by Lord John Ruseell’s intended visit to Ireland, to confer with Lord Clarendon as to the means to be adopted to meet the crisis. He may visit Ireland; he will see its capital guarded by twenty thousand troops; he willsee the face of the country covered with military camps to uphold the corrupt | interests of a faction against a nation of squalid poverty. His presence as one of the authors and per- tape re of their miseries, will be regarded with feel- ings which may outwardly exhibit a cold indifference, but inwardly @ burning hatred. In the county of | Corkastrong spirit of resentment is beginning to ma- nifest iteelf against the Catholic priests who have Atlantic in the liner, or impatient of delay, inthe more | shown a disposition to aid the civil and military expensive Cunard rteamer they encounter the wily | authorities to suppress the spirit of rebellion. The Dlandishments of the accomplished and well-dressed | usual payments to the priests have been refased in a spy, to probe their opinions, and the objects of their Siikssion. This is conduct unworthy @ great country, ‘but it is always thus that governments. who rule un- wisely,and have Jarge means at their disposal, defeat the purposes of their opponents; and it may be worth the rerious consideration of those who would earnestly desire to serve Ireland, whether this could not be more effectually accomplizhed by the firm and rational ex- ression of opinion and sympathy in its behalf. Puab- ie epinion, in the present age, operates powerfully, ‘and the Enghsh government are already painfully alive to its mavifestations in America, though they may appear to disregard it. The idle threats about the Irish invasion of Canada will do no good; they find no general response. as it would be not only impolitic, but ungry («ful to involve the interests of the country of their adoption by so rash an act Much more ikely of success would be the united prayer of so nu- merous a pertion of the population of the republic to its government to intercede with that of Eng- | vnd fora more humane treatment of their afflicted brethren, than the policy they are now pursuing. In faver of the foregoing opinion may be urged the facts ‘that England, up-olicited, through Lord Minto’s late anjerion, bas interfered in the internal affairs of Swit- verland, Piedmont. Tuseony, Lombardy, and Rome, and thas at this time a fleet placed to intercept and prevent the forces of Naples operating against Sicily. Medi tion unsolicited is only another term for gratuitous meddling in many cases; but the trequent examples of the English government might, with grent justice and propriety, be adopted, to recall them to a sense of j tice towards Ireland.’ In her arason of famine, Ameri- ca has extended the hand of charity, and now, in the time of political celamity, may she ‘not extend that of conciliation. The five American travellers, who were arrested at Armagh, and imprisoned at Dublin, have, after examination, heen liberated. as it was found the: ‘were continuing # pleasure tour through Ireland, which they had prosecuted through the Lage part of Europe. The zea! of the authorities in this, as in many other instances, has been too precipitate, in- volving, asit has done, the infliction of a temporary degradation, to sny the least. on innocent parties, | which, though temporary, was none the less unjust. It isto. be hoped that Lord Clarendon has made such reparation as the case required. A similae incident is related of the bungling stupidity of the Irish police, who, during the present week, arrested a staid and primitively dressed- member of the Society of Frien who was actively engaged in distributing food to a famiebing population in the south, The society, of which the good man is the representative, bad, during & preceding week, dispensed in charity the sumjof ten “thousand pounds, which ought to have proved some shield against a restrained course ofaction. The quiet protestations of this meck Friend were uttered in vain. a tacit submission in the mean time did not spare him from violence. Tie was dragged along and burried on board her Majesty's steamer Bloodhoand, (significant name.) there to be examined by Commander Somebody, who, with an air of gravity, becoming the occasion, in- ‘terrogated the whereabout and whatabout of this em- dodyment of peace and good-will, for the space of three long hours, which ended in his discharge, with an ad- monition that in substance cautioned him to be care- ful how he did good to the poor. It yet remains to be told that considerable mirth bas been excited at the ‘expenre of this charitable agent, who, it appeared, was a victim to the policeman's improper interpreptation of Mr. Doheny’s description, as furnished in the binck ges of the Hue and Cry. Diserim‘nation could h Fetzed no part of this man’s qualifications for office, ‘or be never would have traced. in the plain garb of the Friend, the appliances of « fashionable tailor, or in his face the evidence of a love of strong drinks, which are attributed to the patriot Doheny by the government nt. Notwithstanding the most active vigilance is exer- cited, this gentleman eludes all pursuit, though his ‘ultimate capture is more than probable. In the mea time, his position and privations must be extremely Daraseing, a8 the most rigorous punishments await those who dare to shelter him ; in fact, every feeling of humanity must succumb to the dictates of # stera Jaw, which it is the necessity and, probably, the duty The unfitness of Mr. O'Brien ition he assumed during the late cently been made more apparent by is absurd conduct whilst in prison, loading to the of a large quantity of correspondence, which olved Mr. Dufly in ® charge of high treason, it ia asserted har placed many Catholic dignitaries ‘The ineanity that could write a fetter in prison to an accomplice to secure # | carpet-beg. in & epecified place. and destroy the eor- respondence therein, is inexplicable. as he must have known that the letters of privonere are invariably anbe jected to the oxemination of the governor. Mr O'Gor- of the people to obey. for the prominent p: insurrection has r eels an in a very equivoeal position Mar's cecupe Wea Acoomplished with great coolness, ander the guire of a middle-aged lady. The fears as. tone cf bold defiance to which they have hitherto been unaccustomed. There was no attempt at evasion of | payment; it was a denial of the justice of the claim | there was a mistake in the matter; the party to apply | to for the payments; was the one they serred—the Saxon government. Statements about misery univer- | sally prevailing in Ireland, are frequently passed over asa matter of conree, as it is only when ‘they are ac- | compan ed by rome prominent and wofel proof that a moment's attention is enlisted. At Clonmel such a | proct existed last Saturday, when more then a | thonsand unemployed anen ollered their services for one penny a-day and a dinner of potatoes, or Indian cern meal, The ungentlemanly conduct of the Irish Solicitor General towards Mr. Bull, to whom he at. tributed indirectly mercenary motives in defending Mr. O'Doherty, bas, on the demand of the latter pro- duced a correspondence which ended in a ratisfactory explanstion. Mr. O’Gorman’s voyage , commenced so auspiciously from Ireland by a steamer, bas ended by a safe arrival on the French coast, near Brest. The friendly aid of a fishing boat belonging to the | above place, accomplished his deliverance from Lord | Clarendon’s unwelcome hospitalities at Kilmaiaham | priton. ‘Thousands, yes, thousands of unexecuted warrants, are now in the hands of the representatives of Irish justice. The chartists are now having their | time of trouble. Forty-six have had true bills tound against them in Lancashire, and the latest accounts from Yorkshire are, that at Bradford the authorities have bad a grand chartist hunt. but the game secured | fell short of expectation, the birds being shy and strong on the wing. The leaven is in the mass of the | people; the fermentation proceeds, and will only cease | when its legitimate purposes are accomplished. | Our Southampton Correspondence, Sovtnamrron, August 25, 1848, | Specie from Mexico to Englanl—elffairs of the British | Colonies—The Island of Cuba— Prospects of Revolu- tion—The China and India Markets—Pirates—Re- volts—Fights in India— Cholera in Egypt—Spain and | Portugal—Mexico—The Exchanges— Steamers, ‘The royal mail steamship Great Western, Captain Chapman, R N., arrived here on Saturday last, with the mails from Mexico, New Orleans, Havana and the British West India colonies. She had a large freight and about 140,000 pounds sterling, in specie, prinei- pally from Vera Cruz and Tampico. This packet brought the intelligence of the effect produced on the British colonial possessions by the measures proposed by the English government for their relief. To these measures I adverted in some of my former communica tions, and I expressed an opinion, which was generally shared in England, that the proposals would fall far short of what was absolutely required to place the West Indians upon anything like an equality with their former position, | am induced to take notice of West | Indian affairs, from the great interest which now ap- pears to be taken regarding them in the United States. ‘The advices from Jamaica and Trinidad, particularly, represent the extremest dissatisfaction and disap- pointment experienced by the planters and merchants, when learning the inadequacy of the ministerial news, which was received by the Thames steamer a tew days prior to the Great Western sailing for Evgiand, It will be seen that ali the Jamai: Apers teem with com- plaints, and the Jamaica Despatch (considered the planters’ organ) says, Unat the day of hope is gone for | that island. It is true enough that Jamaica, and the British West India ‘lauds generally, are in & deplora- ble. pitinble state; that for some time past sugar has | been produced at'a loss, owing to the low prices in the European markets, arising from excessive competition and immence supplies of slave-grown sugar from Cuba, Puerto Rico and brazil, and that the colonial Loances of most of the islands bave been, and ure, in a dilaph- dated conditfon—the public treasury of of Jamaica, tor instance, at this moment being quite empty, and the salaries of the oficers not able to be pald—yet, notwith ftanding ali the prevent unfavorable appearances, I think that the knglish colonies have seen Uheir worst, and that some trifling improvement will be hereafter gradually obrervable, | bare this conclusion on the following grounds, which are, im a degree, irre. weotive of the slave question. The Engiish colon'es have experienced the depression naturally s) mpathetic with the feartul commercial and financial crisis ex- perienced in England jart year, Uh alone would be tufficient to produce a great amount of depression nod fiagnation. ‘ihe, again, the failure of the large West India firme, and the consequent withdrawal of eapi- tal, both fictitious and actual from the colonies, put an end to confidence and checked operations. These circumstances, aggravated by the extensive introduc- tion of Havana and Brazilian produce, induced the amount of prostrative stagnation that has caused tho ‘West Indians to grumble 60 loudly, and with good reason. Trade and commerce in England have now fallen into a considerably more favorable channel, comparatively speaking, and confidence. though slowly, is evident}y gradually dawning. This will oom- municate a beneficial stimulant to the colonies, and the measures for West India relief, though, totally in- adeqate to remove the whole amount of depression, will, after all, do some good; a3 instanced by an ad- vance at Jamaica of the price of sugar, the staple of the island, the last quotation thence coming ut 17s. to 21s, per 10 Ibs, whereas the price two months before, was only 12s, to 16s. An additional reason for pre-aupposing ‘some amelioration of the commercial distress in the West Indies, exists in the fact, that a great change is taking place, and will take place in the foreign colonies, Under the emancipation of slaves in the Danish and French islands, it is certain, from all past experience, that a less supply of sugar must now be anticipated from those colonies, and that sugar will no longer be grown so cheaply by the me- dium of free labour as by slave labour, and the dis- criminating duty to be levied on foreign sugar, pro- vious to its admission into this country for consump- tion, must make # better market for British colonial sugar, Hope also exists amongst the West India merchants in regard to the state of the island of Crba, that powerful competitor of free-labor sugar. It ix fully expected that the Span’sh colonies will catch, if they have not already, the seeds of the revolu- tionary and insurrectionary mania. Any change in the position of Cuba, or the emancipation of its slaves, would reduce it to almost as bad a condition, LD. tage—a step whieh does not involve much preseat denial, when the change from the fiscal laws, intro- duced by the Americans during their temporary oecu- ation of the country, is likely to prevent any immoe- has elicited from the Pope the following proclamation “ H. HL considers the entry of the Austrians into the Pontifical Bator. asian offence to him pervonally, in his quality of Sovervign inte receipts, and which, as regards the future, is not putation sompecs! of Cardinal’ Mann? ana ain Tae trout 8 dee | to be relied should Congress, whenever the accu- | and Simaretti, to intin &n order to retire, menacing the gove mulations may seem convenient, find it necessary, through some new movement of Paredes, to prohibit, by a new law, the Minister of Finance from appropri- ating the funds to their destination. Altogether, the prospects of the bond holders are bad. and the quota- tion for Mexican stock on the London exchango is now only 16% to 16%, whereas a month since it was 17 to 18, ‘Some idea may be formed of the prejudi- cial effect which has been produced on the price of these securities (once great favorites with the spec lative jobbers) by the war between the United Stat and Mexico, when it is known that prior to hostilities ‘oemploy all the ‘ineane in his power Inx, and still lesa to prevent, ed by the Minister of War for the defence of the Stal ‘The Chamber of Deputies have decided unanimously on an appeal to France, and an official communication of this devision has been made to the Freuch ambas- sador, The same mail also brings a private letter from Rome, of the 7th, which says ;—The Austrians, under the orders of Gen. Welden. bave again invaded the , Legations. According to the last accounts, a corps of they were selling at 36 to 45; they have, consequently, | 4,000 men bad occupied Ravenna, and posts of occupa- bad gato a depreciation of nearly 160 per cent. | tion were left in all the cities between that place and he Washington sailed from here for New York last | Ferrara. Sunday, the 20th inst., punctually to her time,and || ‘The avowed object of this was to prevent Venice hope the will muke a good passage, She was crowded from obtaining tupplies from the Pontifical shore with parsengers and full of freight, and her voyage | ‘This will necessarily lead to the occupation of Anco! cannot fail to be highly remunerative to the Ocean | frem whence, in a few hours march, the frontiers o| eam Navigation Company, Tho large number of Meples may be reached, This news has come to com- passengers taken from here, and the valuable freights, | plicute the situation of affairs at Rome, so long exces- prove the correctness of what I told you informer let- | sively difficult. My letter of the 4th announced the de- ters regarding the capabilities of Southampton to pro- finitlve dissolution of the Maniant ministry. ‘The new duce a large traffic to New York, provided the steamers ministry is not yet constituted. In the sitting of the were punctual to time and departure, and performed | Chamber of Deputies of the 5th,the old under-Secretary fair voyages. The Liverpool folks are crowing” very gave the following notice :~“If, between this and the 7th, loudly because the America beat the Hermann on the the ministry is not appointed, and, as in the present last voyage out to New York. It was only by 24 hours, grave circumstances, the State should not be without » taking the respective distances into consideration; responsible ministry, shall propose such measures as and when it is also considered that the Hermann had the urgency of the case demands.” On this notice such an immense freight, as ally tohave been being given, the whole assembly clapped their hands. Zz financially and commercially , as the English islands; and as it is pretty well known that the germs of revolt are ready to be kindled, and only waiting a favorable opportunity to develope’ themselves, it is considered that the social disorganization to which Cuba would inevitably be reduced, would Jessen the supply very materially, and increase the cost of raising its produce; and thus the West India colonies of Great Britain would thrive, and improve upon the misfortunes of their neighbors ‘These are the opinions (practical and sound, I believe) enter- tained pretty extensively as to the existing and pro- spective state of the Wert India islands. The popula- tion of the islands are notoriously discontented with their usage from the home government; but that dis- content does not, on the whole, go éo far as for the colonists really to desire a separation from England. On the contrary, I imagine that a trifling improve- ment, such as ‘may now reasonably be expected, will put them in better epirite, and act as an incentive to exertions to do something for themselves, which !s now all that is required to place themselves in a bet- ter position At present, information from Cuba is impatiently looked for by every arrival. ‘The Great Western's ad- vices from Havana direct, had the effect of causing the news via New York to be diseredited, us all was quiet when the steamer left. ‘I his was disappointing to some of the sanguine West Indians and protectionists here, and they are fervently hoping for a complete overturn of the existing state of affairs in Cuba, I underotand that a leading London newspaper has despatched an emisrery to Havana, with instructions to take a tour of the island, and report its actual position. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam. Navigation Company’s iron steamship Indus arrived hore this morning, from Alexandria, with the Eaet Indian and China mails. The advance letters and despatches were received in London, ria Marseilles, on Monday, the 2ist inst. ‘The latest dates by this mail are, Cal- outta, July 1; Bombay, July 1; Madras, July 9; China, June 24; Alexandria, August 9, The mercantile in- telligence does not appear tp be of much importance, either from India or China, The produce markets in Calcutta had slightly improved; opium had advanced in price; the money market was still tight. A letter from Hong Kong states, “ We obzerve an increase of foreign vessels, carrying up native produce to the north, particularly sugar from this port to Shanghae. Owing to the late equalization of duties in India on foreign and British bottoms, the American flag is already in active and successful competition with the country thipping. which must ruffer severely.” Cotton had declined in the Canton market, the stock being very heawy. ‘A successful rencontre had taken place between the Britich man-of-war Scout and a most audacious ret of pirates near Amoy. Commander Johnston was slightly wounded. The coast neur Amoy is represented to be swarming with piratical boats and prohas heavily armed with guns, gingalls, matchlocks, fire-pote, &c. The most important news brought from India by this mail, is in reference to the revolt in Moulan, which had been brought toa conclusion by the rapid and successful operations of Lieutenant Edsards, and the forces under hie command, against the rebel Molraj. It appears that Lieutenant Edwards succeeded in effecting a junction with the Rajah of Bhawulpoor, after crossing the rivers Indus and Chenab. On the 18th Juce, the united forces came into collision with the army of the Molraj; they awaited his attack, and sustained a tanguinary conflict, of nine hours’ dura- tion. The rebel army were completely defeated, and driven f-om the field with the lors of nearly all their artillery six out of their ten guns remaining in the power of the British, The cause of the Molraj was suppored to be completely lost, and it was expected the utmost he could do would be to regain his fort. ‘The gallant conduet of Lieut, Edwards in this action has been the theme of much praise in England; and the fact of his having eo expeditiously and completely suppressed a formidable and organized revolt, will earn | for him no mean place in the annals of Indiansaffairs, You will ee, in the London papers, along account of the Dutch expedition to Bally, which, it appeay ended in a most signal defeat and basty retreat, expedition comprised nearly four thousand men; arms. in transports, under command of Major Gengril J. J.C, Vander Wyck, who embarked in the D war steamer Hecla. The attack on the stronghold, Daja Raga, tried the strength of the Balinese, and ex- hibited the bad commissariat arangements of the | Duteb, who. in a moment of apparent victory, were | compelled to make an inglcrious retreat, with heavy lors, Some idea may be formed of the determined na- ture of the engagement. from the fact of the Dutch having expended, in two hours anda half, 0,000 rounds of bail cartridges and 300 grenades; while, on the part of the enemy, the resistance was of a mest farcolous description. ‘The Ballinese relied on their skill as | riflemen, and a number of officers killed and wounded | afforded’ proofs of their ability Had their artillery | Leen as ekilfully directed, it is believed that scarcely | a Dutch soldier would have escaped. An order had been sent from Bahoia, recalling the expedition; and the war would be again undertaken when more favor- | able of portunities thould occur. | The eccounts brought by the Indus from Egypt re- present the cholera as raging there with great vigor. | In Alexandria seventy deaths per diem were taking | place, but the disease had slightly moderated during | the last two days, prior to the steamer’s sailing. On | the first appearance of the cholera, Ibrahim Pacha | and enite started for the Island of Rhodes, in the | admiral’s ship, accompanied by nearly all the Egyptian | fleet, and lett the administration of the country to | take care of itself, He would remain cruising avont | fora month or two. Mehemet Ali had not cuttered | any change either in his bodily or mental state The | Nile was rising with unusual Tapidity ; the prospects for the autumn crops were most favorable ‘Trade was , in a stagnate condition, and, ae agreat many people had placed themselves in quarantine, no improvement | in commercial transactions were expected for a con- siderable time. Exchange on London 99 to 0935 | The Indus brought specie from Alexandria to the value of $345,000, which is for delivery at the Bank of England. | ‘The steamer Montrose arrived here yesterday with dates from Gibraltar to August 15; Cadiz, 16; Lisbon, | 19; Oporto and Vigo. 20. In Spanish and Portuguese affairs there was nothing of great importance occur- r An attempt at insurrection had again been made in Seville, and a military conspiracy had been | discovered in Madrid, baving for its object the over- throw of Narvaez. and to make General O'Donnell | Prime Minister, ‘The Jatter bes recently returned from Cuba, immensely rich, having been the Captain General of that island. Fro. Lisbor, it is stated. that the Cortes were closed on the 15th of August by Queen | Donne Maria in person, who delivered @ curious speech on the occasion, exhorting the deputies to em- ploy the parliamentary recess by inspiring the people with a love fer the oxisting institutions, which, said her majesty, vil be the mort powerful means of saving them from the influence of exaggerated ideas, and | inculcate thore sentiments of obedience to the laws | and uuthorities, and that love of Jabor, which can alone insere the true felicity of the people. The Conde de Thomar Was to go as Portuguese | minister to Madrid. . | The exchange at Lisbon on London, at 30 days’ sight, was 523 to 6254, and 60 daya’ date 2% to 62%. | Lirbon Bank notes were at @ discount of 39 to 40 per cent. The Portugese 5 per cents were 39 to 41. and 4 per cents 32 to 34. Spanish doubloons, 14.580 to 14,600. Spanith and Bragilian dollars, 920 to 023. Mexican duilars 915 to 920, At Gibraltar, on the 15th, exchange on London was 4534 at 90 daye, Freights and prod rally, un- changed from my last quotations of 1 Vk. Mexican political advices. received in England by the Great Western steamer via Southampton, and vii New York by the Kuropa, are more favorable than were expected in regard to the preservation of order in tha: country, the insurgent forces having been de- feated by the government troops. The poor English Lolders of Meaican bonds appear, however, doomed to perpetual disappointment, and their chances of ob- taining remittances to pay overdue dividends, appear as remote as ever, A communication has just been received by the cbairman of the bond holders’ com- mittee from the Mexican Minister of Finance, stating overloaded when ehe left here, it cannot bo wondered ‘The time belore the leaving of the post. will not per: the America should gain @ elight advantage. Under haps allow me to give you the consequences of this in- any circumstances, however, the Hermann made an cident, The march of the Austrians has been a new excellent passage, and has made herself a reputation, | brand of discord thrown in the midst of the permanertt ____ANGLO-AMERICAN, | | effervescence. Yesterday evening, the Corso and pa other public places of meeting, were filled with people, Our Paris Correspondence. | net quiet as ordinarily, but most hostile to the upper Panis, Aug. 16,1848, | clasres. All the carriages were obliged to withdraw The Insurrection Committee—Italian <Afairs—The from the hisses which everywhere saluted them. A Pope-ustria-General Welden'e Proclamation-. | Priskt who was standing ale the corner of a street, was ener " | wounded by a poignard. The leaders of the emeute Firing of Palaces in Milan—Genoa—Charles Albert's | remained masters of the field. The mob then deter- Proclamation—The Venetian Provisional Govern- | mined togo to the hotel of the French embassy, to pit | demand the immedia intervention of France. The crowd marched to the Palace Colonna, the residence of The two great subjects which have engrossed pub- | the ambassador, to whore salon three delegates from the lic attention here, during the past week, aro the re- | people were adwiitted. | T'he ambassador replied to them in these terms :—“! can hardly believe, gentlemen, that port and evidence of the insurrection committee, and | you are serious in Fequirl ng the intervention of France, the of affairs in northers Italy. since the language of your journals and public tribunes i As allcorrespondence with Milan is, more or a0 oppored toit. I know not what resolution France ill not, therefore, in all proba, | BAY t#ke. and in the absence of all authorisation suspended, and you will not, therefore, in all proba- | | 9m umable togive you any satisfactory reply. If, bility, receive the letter of your correspondent from | however, you will prepare a petition, and it rhail be that querter, I will communicate, in this present let- | #igued by a sufficient number of respectable persons, q Peatins ANE At Wee to repretent the Roman people. I will take care to ter, the news q transmit it to my government.” I de not know if the Public expectation has been on the stretch, from | course rv commended will be pursued. day to day, as to the production and circulation of the The ordnances forthe armament, enrollment. mo- immense mass of documents and evidence which form | bilization of the civic guard. formation of military (what they call bere) the “ pieces justificative” of the | Supplies succeed each other with astonishing rapidity; report of the insurrection committee. They aro not | Unhappily the spirit of war is extinct here, Rome yet printed, and wiil not possibly be ready for cirou- | will not, perhaps, furnish fifty new volunteers; and jation before Saturday next. They will, it is said, | they will be the fifty, legionaries who retured from form three or four quarto volumes, and will presentone | Cicenza, the reduci.as they are here called; more of the most singular commentaries on the men and | thane third will net again engage. France ean and events who have figured on the stage of Europe since | Ought to intervene, not in sending am army in the the revolution of Petraaty: It is expected that the | first place; but by mediation having her army ready debate on them will shiver to piecos the parties now | to enforce her reasoning. Italy, who fancied she could existing in the Assembly, and will be attended by the | a0 all by herself, could only involve herself in @ vain wreck cf more than one great reputation. Accord- | 8nd puerile ararchy. ingly. unheard of efforts have been made to emother | Tune o’cLocx—I have just heard that the new Mi- the inquiry, and prevent the publication of the evi- | nistry is constituted. Carboli has the Foreign irs, dence. There efforts have been, hitherto, abortive ; | Count Fabri the Interior, Count Lauri the Finances, nevertheless, they are, not yet discouraged, nor and the other Ministers retain their portfolios. they cease until the day upon which the monster evi- | _ The Gazette de Dos, of Berlin, contains the follow- dence and documents shall be published. | ing statement: “We learn from a quarter entitled to By the last mail you learned tho intelligence of the | Credit, that yesterday the Ministry sent courier to total defeat of the Piedmontese army, under Charles | Paris, with the following conditions as the basis of the Albert, and his retirement from Milan within the | Regctisticn concerning Italy. in reply to m peremptory frontiers of Piedmont, under tho terms of a capitnia- | question of the French government "Ist. The libera- tion signed by the commanders of the two armies, | tion of Italy, unless she prefer to remain under the do- This capitulation has for its conditions merely that | Minion of Austria, 2d. An engagement to pay a por- the Sardinians should be allowed to retire unmolested, | tion of the public debt. 3d. A conclusion of an ad. and that the lives and properties of the inhabitants | Yautageous treaty of commerce.” It is certain that of Milan should be respected. An armistice was agreed | the actual cabinet of Berlin was, short time since, to, first for three days and afterwards for six weeks, for | little disposed to the liberation of Italy. the avowed purpose of giving time for the diplomatic A telegraphic despatch, received at Turin on the intervention of France and England, which has been | 12th at7 A M., announces the arrival of Charles Al- offered and accepted, with a viow to the amicable set | bert at Alexandria. The following proclamation was tlement of the differences between Aust d Italy, | Published at Vigevano on the 10th :— and to prevent the calamity ofa general war. The | (‘The proclamation, of Charles Albert, alluded to by Aurtrian army hasadvanced in two principalcolumns; | O8F correspondent, has already been given in our the one under Marshal Radgetsy occupies Lombardy, | clumps.) having its bead quarters at Milan, the other, under | _ Advices from Turin, of the 11th, mention that ru- General Welden, advances along the line of the Po, | ™0Fs were current in that city, that a treaty was on into the duchies, menacing the legations and the | the point of being concluded between the European Grand Duchy of Tuscany, At the time I write this, | Powers. for the establishment of a new Lombardo- our Jast advices from the legations are to tho 9th | Venetian kingdom, whose king, according to the desire instant | of Russia, should be Beauharnois, and, according to The Pope had protested against the occupation of | that of England, Coburg. The Turin ministry was any part of his territories by the Austrians; but in | 20t then constituted. spite of this, on the 7th, a body of Austrian troops oc- | , The Venetian provisional government relinquished cupied Bologna. General Welden, however, in face of | their power on the 7th, (according to advices from this protestation, did not think fit to give the occupa- | Venice of that date,) to commissioners Fe de by tion character of military violence, A convention | Charles Alert; the annexation of that territory to the was made betwen the Prolegate and Imperial General. | kingdom of Northern Italy having been confirmed by The Austrian troops occupied only three of the gates, | the Sardinian Chambers. A proclamation, issued by San Felice, Galliero, and Meggioca ; they were not to | the commissioners, recommends the most determined appear urmed in the town, ke. &c. Contrary to this con- | Fesistance to Austria, The solemn cession of the sove- yention, 400 Hulan cavalry and a company of infantry, | reignty of that city and the Venetian provinces to the entered by two different gates on the eame day into | Commirsioners of Charles Albert, was made in the aa- ity, and took up a position in front of the palace of | cient Library of Venice, on the 7th; the Cardinal and vernment. ‘The captain of the Pontifical cari- | Principal public officers being present. The Cross of ers then, went in the name of the Prolegate to de- | Savoy and the Lion of St. Mare were on the standards. the reasons. for this mancuvre, which did not | _ Letters from Florence, of the 8th, announce that the oe = —_ = inl TWO CENTS. Suenaice’s Lace House. Laxe Gronoe, Septomber 7, 1849, Trip Along the North Shore We broke up ourencampment on Monday. Comingto the nearest landing on Lake Champlain, upon the day the Saranac passed up, I hung out my banner, asagreed upon between me and the captain, viz: the same big blanket rhawl that was wrapped around my gouty toe at the fancy ball. Up went the stick, and the old Rob Roy fluttered gaily im the breeze. Down to leeward | c#me the “Saranac,” the passengers wondering what | the deuce rent the steamer into such a port. But | Captain Chapman is not the man to leave a friend in | the lureh, dithough, truth to tell, he js something of » | wag in his own way; so, wfter backing and filling, now | advancing # little and then retroating. like @ coquet- | tish young woman who knows her power, the ‘Sa | pac’ finally “come to,” aud let me on board. After | shakiny bands with ‘the worthy commander, my first | question was for a newspaper—for | had heard nothing of that great outside barbarian, the world, for more than two weeks. Now, be it known, that Chapman always keeps a nice, clean-looking file of the New Vark Herald, daily, and this was at once put into iay hands Finding that you had kept things in good running order, giving to mankind « truthful history of the sublunary things of yesterday upon each wuodecding morning, | next thought of dinner, which was quite ready, and to which even the Captain admits I did ample justice. My appearance, as | came on board, was tolerably grotesque. I had no time to change any of my habiliments. pushing as I did for the boat; my beard was nearly athree weeks’ growth, and my bair had not made acquaintance with comb or brush for about the same period. Presently, [found that | was attracting sb ttention of the passengers, beyond what was pleasant. Go where [ would, do what I would, there were winkings and blinkings, and low suppressed ex- clamations of “lawful sakes alive,” and “did you ever,” here, there, and everwhere, around me, [could stand it no longer. and seeing Chapman pass me with an intolerably waggish look in his mischlevouseye, I seized him by the arm, marched him into m, room, and shut the door. “Chapman,” rald 1, are facing a man that has killed me, if you hope to get off alive, w doing to set the passengers after “Upon my word, Mr. Shandy,” said the captain, very demurely, “just nothing at all [knew you were ® fancy man, and attended the fancy balla, and as @ Great many were asking me about tho big ball at Now- port, which has just come off,I told them that you were right from Newport, direct, and had not had time tochange your costume! I gave in your name Count Lopez de Quisquerando, and referred them to the Herald for a description of your person. But here we are at Ti, and, as you go to Lake George, I must put you ashore. "Forgive me, my dear Mr. Shandy. Let us ‘laugh while we may,’ you know.” So saying, tho worthy, kind-hearted, fun-loving captain shook me cordially by the hand, and I stepped ashore near the ruins of Ticonderoga. Passing across to the landing ot the Lake George boat, I took the steamer “W. Caldwell,” Capt. Farlin, to whose gentlemanly atten- tion I was indebted for much agreeable information on the trip, and arrived at “Sherrill’s,” in time for tea and trout. Tam ao well satisfied with the house, in all its department, that I shall spend several days here. And although I agree with Talleyrand, never to recom. mend acook or physician, lest I be guilty of manslaugh- ter. as accessory before the fact, still | must says good word for this house of Sherrill's. His table is unsur- parsed by any that I have met with, his errangementa are made with great quietness and great dispatch, and he has, besides, a peculiar way of making all his guests feel at home in his establishment. What need that I say anything of the scenery of Lake George, when amorous swains, lovelorn’ and hir- , and gentle maidens, simpering and sentimental ve sketched and have colored, have painted and lisped the praises of the picturesque “Ilorioon ! ut, fore-George, when I saw the rough rocks, piled into mountains towering above my head, and the fear- ful chasms through which the mad torrent dashes, and the rude, unsightly precipices, to look down which the eye becomes dim and the head grows dizzy—I turned back, in my imagination, as 'twere, instinctively, into the eternity of the past, and travelling away beyond the period of our “Revolution,” I came to the scenes of “The old French War,” when these fearful wilds wer) penetrated by European armies—when cannon were transported to the very summits of the highest of there mountains—when the chivalry of the old world were pends against each other in the terrific wild- nesses of the new,and where the sleep of the soldier who laid down to dream of friends or ladye-love across the waters, was disturbed by the yell of the savage, or the cries of the wild beasts of the desert! I thought of all this, and my blood coursed nervously through my veins, beating once more with the fulness of life, and I did forget for the moment, that there were such things as men monkeys and fancy balls, paroquet-women and polkas, : 5 Lethe bale . 1 shall come home before long. I cannot nm time ; only, it will be a day when the Troy, Captain Frazee, takes her turn down, | am comfortable on Doard that boat always Please to aek my friend Monnott, of the New York Hotel, to have my room put in order, and | will serve you as well when occasion requires. | SHANDY. ou panther | OvTRaGEovs ATTEMPT AT AnpvcTION AND See pvuction.-—-Thursday night, at a late hour, a man appeared at the Monterey House, Market street, near the Ferry landing. in company with two handsome, well dressed girle—one about eleven and the other ten years of age—seeking lodging for the night. The bar- keeper informed him he had no accommodations for ith the convention. The colonel who bad | Pope had tent acovrier to the Pro-legate of Ferrara, in pursuance of anterior orders, immediately | With despatches, ordering him to sigmify to the Aus- | ithe: interior of the city, and. relinquished | ttiuus that they shall leave the Pontifical States within fo the Nationgl: Guard, A very™ H three days; and other advices say that Gen. Welden ween php bdfinne and Austsiuie which wus nctar | bos been recalled from his command, his conduct as to | all modi proclamations of Gen. Welden, | the Pontifical States not being approved by the Aus- one of which | sénd you as a sample, and which isas | trian government. follows; “My troops shall maintain good urder and The latest news arrived here from Bologna stutes | have, in some measure, been allayed for t that, on the efternoon of the vth, the fighting at that city bad ceased; and that the Bolognese were complete masters of the city and the neighboring heights, having driven away the Austrians, with considerable lose Great uneasiness and uncertainty, however, prevailed as to what might ensue, The peasants from the neigh berhood, and within twenty miles, were arriving in great numbers, weil armed, to the defence of the city. dircipline when they shall set foot on the Pontifical territory; all viclence against peaceable persons shall be tried by court-martial, But on theiother hand, I will, without fail, shoot, because I do not choose to make any prisoners, whoever shall be found with arms in their hands, or shall show any kind of hostility to us. Wherever the Imperial troops are in garrisom, all the arms shall be delivered up, aud the authorities are made responsible personally for their towns, and tho victuallirg the Imperial troops.”” On the 8th instant, in the afternoon, an Austrian officer, the bearer of despatches to the Prolegate, in passing through the town of Bologna, was killed by some Bolognese, Half an hour afterwards a soldier, | C alto the bearer of despatches, met the sume fate, The | Decker. was put forward on trial, charged with tae | Austriong, at the gate of San Felice, levelled a cannon | Sb0ve offence. The case was opened by the Assistant | and fired on the people. The Austrians then evacu- | District Attorney. | Sted the city, and retired to Montaguoln, ‘They num. | _ Issac Van Bentnvysex was the first witness sworn. | Dered 2,00, with four cannons and a howitzer, and | He testified that on the 14th of June, 1837. the pri commenced bombarding the city, which was set on | foner got married to his sister, Caroline Vau Benthuy- fire in several places, and eontinued burning from five | *€®, by the Rev. George Benedict, of Norfolk street, in the afternoon till nearly eight, On the side of the | Baptist church, in this city. . Bolognese, there were 50 carubincers and 30 custom | Tbe Kev. Mr. McCaxnon, rector of St. Joseph's house officers, with about 500 street porters and some | Church. was the next witness. He testified that he They took Montoguola by assault, | Werried the prisoner on the Sth of January, 1848, to and drove away the Austriaus. General Weiden then | Catherine Collins, the second wife. ‘The defence put impored a fine of 100 crowns on the city, and de- | iM was, that prisoner had contracted his second mar- mended eight hostages. ‘The Prolegate wished to offer | Tage uot until atter he bad procured a divorce from | himself as hostage, but the people would not allow him | bis first wife. The billand decree from the equity side to do so, and, incensed by the demand, rose, en masse. | Of Supreme Court were putin. showing that the bill General Welden then tent in four thousand fresh | W#* filed on the 12th April, 1848, and the decree grant- troops, who were attacked by the people, and | ing the divorce, was issued on the 30th June sudse- : quently ; 4 pombarding the town; but the peasants came to the | introduced on the stand. Her appearance was much asetetance of the townspeople, and obliged them to | it ber favor, and rhe testified as to the fact of her first discontinue the fire. : martiage, and again asecond marriage in prison with The Bolognese then sent {nformation of these | Niles. celebrated by the Rev. Charles Parker, oa the events to all the cities of Roucnate The diplomatic | 5th July, 1848, at the request of prisoner. The case body at Florence, on hearing of this affair, forwarded to General Welden a protest, and request that he would order a discontinuance of the attack on the | Law Intelligence, Grnenat Srssions Sept 14.— Before the’ Recorder, Aldermen Smith and Dodge.—John MeKean, Esq, District Attorney. Tricl fir Bizany —Wiliam Hi. Niles, alias Charles | was submitted to the jury by counsel on, both sides. The prosecution contended that a ‘clear case of bigamy was made cut—the divorce not sued fer or procured, until after the second mar town. ‘The Austrians lost aboutforty and one officer, i : was celebrated. The first wife of prisoner, who mp- Re nn Canes chien ce and peared in court, was also tendered on the part of the | Prosecution, but was objected to on the part of the defence. The jury found the prisoner guilty, andthe | court sentenced him to five years imprisonment in the State prison. ‘The eourt adjourned over to this forenoon, at 11 o'cloek. ‘The greatest apprehensions were entertained in Tuscany ot the approach of the Austrians, but they present by the publication by M, Corsini, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. of a statement regarding the Austrian army, n which be says that an offi communication ofthe Englith minister, resident at Florence, has announced © him that General Welden, in consequence of the intervention of that minister and the French charge de ofjoires, has declared that this portion of Tuscany thal be reepected by the Austrian army, on condition that internal order shall be observed in the Grand Dueby, and that there shall be no levy en masse, nor apy act of aggression. A similar intervention has taken place with General Pergias, the commander of the corps d° occupation of Modena, which, it was ex- pected, would produce similar results. It is pretty certain that a body of Austrians have trken porsession of Pavia, which is almost deserted, Misceilancous, } ‘The terminus, at the end of the line, of the New | York and Philadelphia Telegraph Company, is to be | removed from Jersey City to this city. To accomplish this, the wires are to be carried 45 miles up the Hud- ton River, where they will be thrown across and brought down on this slde, making in all 90 miles of additional port planting and wire stretching, to get from Jersey City here. It ja rumored that two vessels are to be sent over Falls, on the 20th instant. The Iris says :— M., the Pirate, » vessel of 100 feet in id and tame animals on board, length, with al with A deputation of cltizene, headed by priests, met the propriate flags and streamers, Austrians with o flag of truce, ‘They have also, it SP ttitedtrots her moetings Oro miles Store the teemr, entered Modena, and restored the fermer | fae” It isi government. Some travellers, arrived from the neighborhood of Milan, inform us that at Milan all the streets we rerted, apd that the palaces Litta, Borromeo, and some others were fired; and the coloring given by some of these, which, however, is not near the truth, is, that the Milanese bad resolved patriotically to sacrifice that city as the Russians did Moscow. News has aleo arrived that the populace bad again risen sgainet the Austrians, and thee they were again fighting them, but this is not credited. fon county, Tenn., died on the 7th ult., by his In Piedmont the king has removed his head quarters | will emancipated 25 slaves, ful Jeap entire, with spars and riggi Il standing. At 8 o'clock in the evening of the same day, a fire a loaded with ail manner of combustibles, will be ready to alip her cables, showing a ship on fire, untilafter two miies through the rapids, she will make the fearful plunge while still ins blaze, The number of deaths in Boston, last week, was 39. Dr, Elias W, Napier, a wealthy gentleman, of Jack- that no portion of the first instalment of the indem- nity money from the United States is to be handed over to the agents to defray the arrears of the solemn contract mede with th» bond holders, two years back, and which now amount to $6,000.000, The finance minister dees not question the c:aim, but unfortunate: ly about three works befire receipt of the letter to which bis communication was an answer, Congress hed puseed alaw © prohibiting”? t vernment from cirpceing of the amount inthe manner proposed, and fyem this caure alone, 3! appcors, the finance minister rays he is prevented from complying with it. In this wey the Jugeled ties are band: d about from one to the other; the minister bas the best intentions, but he must chey the Congrese—and Congress, if they were apy caled to wovld probably reply thet they would Go justice, but must be guided by the minister. Mean- while Senor Palacio takes credit that the tobacco and orber contracts bypethecated to the bond holders, have sircedy Leen Cace more eet apart for their advan- ie a aie te # ony ..! be ee dak - | Rev. Mr, Prentiss, of New Bedford, bas been elected | The Medmontese journals demand with the greatest | 1° ne Erolesaorebip of Natural and Revealed Religion energy that court mastials shall be held on the events | '™ NUON COlsse, rinewick: Me noaton on and conduct of the war, They attack bitterly Gene- | |, Dt. Morrill made a balloon ascension from Boston ot rals Bava, Biscarette, and Salasco; and also an oMcer | the 1ith inst. He came down about « mile ond a halt of the commissariat, who informed Charles Albert, at | from the village of Quincy. A young Jeaid net Mowzanbano, that the troops were well supplied with | *cempanied bim, but the balloon car would not ae provisions, at the very moment the soldiers were dying | CO™™edate them both of hungei ‘A duel was fought on the Sth inst,, near Lexington, At Genoa, affairs wear a very sorrowful aspect Some | Ky. between Willem O Smith, Eaq., of Paris, an cmas Ti Holt. Enq., late of St, Louis, An exchange of shots took place ‘without effect, when the affair was settled, ‘The quarrel, it is said. grew out of @ political diteverion between Mr, Smith and Mr, Holt, a% or near Faris, & short time before the Governor's election On the 12th inst., there was eoarcely water enough in the Ohio river at Cincinatti, to permit the um beats to paws between that city and Louisville, as ti of the forts have been occupied by the National Guard, who are employed in dirmantling them, as they com- mend the town, and the Genoere do not like to expose themselves too much to the tender mercies of the Aus- trinns, should they pay them a visit Advicos fom Rome, of the 7th, havo been received since yesterday, and bring accounts of the excitement | and asked if they wanted to « ge | unable to procure a situation from the sho' | House, as above stated, After ascertaining these fact females, ‘The man went to the Main Street House, obtained a bed for the girls, promising to eall for them in the morning, and then returned to the Monterey House tor lodging for himself. The bar-keeper, sus- pecting something wrong gave information of the man’s conduct at the Police Office, and also as to the place where the girls were taken. Marshal Jennings jmmedistely went to the Main Street House, and told the landiord not to give the children up until he again him. In the morning the man, according to pro- mise, calis for the children, and on being requested to delay taking them away, suspects that his villainy was suspicioned, and immediately zoos to the Marshal and informs him of having two stray children under his care, being unable to find their parents, The Villian is suddenly changed to a philanth: starts off voluntarily to assist the Marshal in search- ing for their paronts Being unable to find them, the Merabol and this man separated. Upon again going to the Main Street House, where the children are re- tained, the following facts had been aycertained from the eldert girl, who appears to be @ smart and intelli- gent child, in reference to who they are and their pretent condition. That they are cousins and nam- ¢d Hannah and Sophia Little ‘That they go to rehocl to Mr. Hicks. and upon returning from school Wednesday afternoon, they stopped in front of the menegeric, corner of Ninth st. and Wash- ington Avenuc, when a man came up to them the show. They replied, in childish innocence, in the affirmative, when he took them in, showed them around the pavilion, bought candies and sweetments for them, and talked to and treated them in @ most affectionate and kind manner, When night came on, they expressed anxiety about going howe, when this villian persuaded them to remain with him ; that he would bea father to them, &e., and supply thelr every want, a promiting them rings and such other notions as please the fancy of children At this time the exhibition for the evening is clored. He tells them that he is to be employed by the showmen as @ driver, and made pro- lifc promises in case they would accompany him. ‘Without fully obtaining the consent of the children, he takes them to the White Mansion House on Second street, obtains a bed. and then retires. Thursday morning after breakfast, the children are again tak to the menagerie by their abductor yy him p vided for during the day—a portion of the Ume being fecreted. At night the villian tells them he has been and in- tends going to Indiana, where he would meet with « circus and go with {t, at the same time exciting their fancy by pleturing to'them the happy and Interesting life of being circus actresses, xe., which the children in their innocence highly fancied, and consented to ac- company him. He then proceeded to the Monterey active pursuit was made for the villian, who was arre: ed at the Upper Ferry, in the act of crossing the ri He gave bis name as Homer, and so registered himself at the White Mansion Houre—with family. The coi duct of this villian towards the eldest of these giris, in dicates the brutal and diabolical object he had in view in abducting them from their homes. Whenever op portunities afforded, improper and indelicate liberties were taken with her person, which the fiend, under the garb of father and protector, claimed of her as « privi- lege he could without impropriety indulge in. This is one of the most diabolical and outrageous attempts upon the virtue of two innocent and unsuspecting children that has ever come to knowledge. The villian attempts to implicate the drummer of the band hed to the menagerie, with whom, from all that rn, they were to go away yesterday morning; to what extent the drummer is concerned, if at all, it is hard to say. We presume he will be made to an- ewer, and tell his own tale. It also appears, that a location near the ferry landing was selected to lo the children, #0 as to have them convenient to t! ferry at the time the music wagon crossed—in which, the ‘rupposition is strong, they were to go. These Leautiful and interesting girls, are the daughter and piece of a highly respectable widow lady, residing near the Big Mound, whose distrese, at the long continued absence of the children, after diligent and persevering ™ bad been made for them. be more readily imagined than described. Fortunately, the matter was exposed in time to save the children. They were re- stored to their distreseed family, and the perpetrator of the outrage committed to prison, where he will await the penalty of the law.—St. Louts Republican, Sept. 9. Mare Ronner Arresten.--The Western mai! having been lately robbed of considerable sums of money, the Post Office Department instituted an in- vestigation, which resulted in the arrest, at Winches- ter, Va., of J connextions. On his person was amount of $2400, part of which was id was also found upon bim $680 in half notes, the other Pee oe of which are supposed to have been forwarded found money to the atited. There nother letters, It is said that Fentin was an inti- mete friend of the Postmaster’s son, and was in the habit of calling at the office on Sunday mornings, te and indignation occasioned by the conduct of the Austrians, toring the Pontifionl territories, ‘This | W#terwne constantly falling, talk and smoke