The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1849, Page 1

———Sa— NO. 5483. Interest ig from New Zealand, By a late arrival, we have received our regular files of newspapers from Auckland, the capital of New Zea- land, We have dates of the New Zealander, a semi-weekly newspaper, from October to 30th of December, 1848. The numbers before us are the first that we have ever seen, It is a very well got up sheet, handsomely print- e@, filled principally with European news and adver- tisements, and contains very little local news, except such as is found in the advertisements :— “Orenina oy tur New Westeyan Cuarer.—This edifice, being now nearly completed, will be opened for divine worship on the next Lord’s Day (22d Octo- ber), when the public services—at eleven in the fore- noon, and six in the evening—will be conducted, D. V., by the Rey. J. Watkin, and the Rey. J. Wallis. A collection in aid of this place of worship will be made at the close of each service. Strangers attending will be provided with seats to the extent of the accommodation available, A Society's Tra Meerixa will be held on Monday evening. the 23d, in the Old Chapel, to which members of the congregation, and subscribers to the new chapel building tund, are invited. ‘Tickets, one shilling, to be had of the Chapel Stew- ards. Auckland.” The idea of a Society ‘Tea Meeting in New Zealand isanmovel one. It is not a great many years since when at a tea meeting of the New Zealanders the pro- bability is that the missionaries themselyes would have been served up insoup, and the Rev. J, Watkin, and the Rey. J. Wallis, instead of conducting the pub- lie services, would have furnished food for the society. ‘The following article relative to the press in Sydney, proves that new papers have their troubles at the other side of the world, ax well as here, The Herald isthe only paper that had “ been inex- istonce four years’ “Tue Syoney Paess.—The-dustralion newspaper died yesterday. It was established, in 1824, by Dr. Wardell aud Mr. W. C, Weutworth, then just arrived from Eng- land; since that time it has passed through many hands, and has fora long ti t that influence and position which it gained’ by the ability which it dis- played in its carlier days. Want of support is the rea- on assigned for its discontinuance. ‘The Sydney Chro- nicle, after an existence of about eight years, will, it is ek. understood, breathe its last to-morrow, the oman Catholics, whose expecial organ it has always Deen. not having given it sufficient countenance to ena- dle the proprietors to continue it. There are rumors of other papers being started; how far they are well grounded we cannot sa) eve, however, that a weekly paper, on * the Lingerest,”’ is to be printed with the types hitherto used by tho Chronicle. With the exception of the Herald, there will be mo paper in Syduey which has been in existence four years. The changes in the colonial newspapers during the last few Years, have been most astonishing ; there is seareely a person now connected with the press who was so ten years since—the Sydney Guzette, (the original paper of the colony,) the Monitor, the Colonist, the Commercial Journal, the Obse apers which, at one time, ap- peared to be well established, having gradually divap- peared from the political horizon, besides a host of mi- nor publications, which have at different times been started. and, after a short existence searcely known to the public, have been discontinued, because the print- ers have refused to give any more credit ts the pro- prietors,”? Notwithstanding the bad success in startinga news- paper, it would seem that another was about te be com- menced, The New Zealander advertises the following prospectus :— “On Thursday, the 4th January, 1849, will be pub- lished the first number of an English and native news- paper, to be called the Maori Messenger. In announcing this forthcoming journal, it may, probably, be deemed requisite to offer a passing obser- vation on the motives of its pablication, as well as to explain the manner in which it is purposed it shall be conducted. The Maori Messenger, then, will take the field in the absence of any other literary vehicle, exclusively de- yoted to native culture; and as a medium through which the native mind ‘may be enlightened aad in- structed—amused, and at the same time informed. Its compositions will be first carefully written in the Eng- Nish language—simplicity and perspicuity of style conciseness of expression, being the leading featui and afterwards accurately rendered into Maori; so that those unacquainted with the aboriginal tongue, still, by judicious contributions on matters of in- terest and utility, become practical benefactors to the astute and docile people amongst whom they have willed to cast their lot. Each paper will be so arranged that the respective languages shall appear in immediate juxta-position to each other: pre ting a means, it is imagined, which may assist the student anxious to acquire the know- ledge of either tongue. Political and polemical topies will be inadmissable; civilization wad ineulcation{ of the moral, social, and industrial virtues, being the lead- ing aim and object of both editor and projectors. ‘To enlarge upon the advantages derivable by both races, from a well conducted journal of the character which the Muori Messenger would fain achieve, were an act of supererogation. ‘The task, no doubt, isa most arduous one, differing as it does so very materially trom all the recognised, though multifarious, labors of journalism. But the editor respectfully, yet at the ‘same time contdently, appeals to the sympathies of his fellow colonists in the intellectual welfare of the native race, to lighten his labors, and to aid him in the promotion of the honest cause he humbly aspires to werve. The Maori Messenger will be printed in double co- lumns, English and Maori, of # similar size to that of the New Zealander, Its issue will, for the present, be limited to once a fortnight. Its price has been fixed at three-pence per number, in the hope, at so moderate a charge, of insuring an extensive circulation. Communications are respecttully invited, to be ad- dressed to the editor, at the office of Messrs. Williamn- son and Wilson, Shor tland atrect, Auckland, by whom all advertisements will be reccived.”” The following editorial is satisfactory, so far as re- gards humanity in New Zealand. Cannibals don't get up “ sweet sounds and soft scenery’: — “We are glad to announce that one of our few sources of enjoyment is, again, abut to be open by band of the 58th regiment, so long precluded per- forming on account of the inclemency of the weather, will assemble in the grounds of the late Government House, every Thursday afternoon, from haif-past thi until half-past five o’olock. The spot selected i most appropriate ono, soft scenery and sweet sounds being in harmonious keeping. ‘The following is the programme of to-morrow’s performance — Overture, Op. . .* Fra Diavolo”..........Auber, Melange, Op... .“ The Maid of Honor’’. . .. . Balfe. . Jullien, Quadrille,. . The Swiss” Cc e1 vav., OP + Ricel. ‘Waltz. . i -Labitzky. Polka... 2. ‘The Cricket”? . Jullien. In addition to the new Wesleyan Chapel, we have the following additional;— “Scorer Cuuncn-On Thursday evening an adjourned meeting of the subseribers to this building was hetd at the hall of the Mechanics’ Institute. The report of the committee having been read and adopted, the com- pleting of the edifice with scoria, or by substitution of timber, was considered. The latter was a sug- gestion of the committee, of the propriety of whic! vhey, however, gave no opinion, The motives for the suggestion were alleged to be twofold—the recent earthquake at the South, and the limited state of the exchequer, The latter, we opine, was the more weighty objection of the two. Despite the apprehensions of some, not descendants, we imagine, of those Scots wha did wi’ Wallace bleed, the advocates of scoria won the day—an oarthqnake, amongst exhausted yolcancer, being voted an idle bug- bear; and a decision having been come to, to build the walls of seoria, to roof the church, fit the doors and windows, but leave the finishings and decorations until their pockets bad grown rieher, An additional sub- scription list was opened, to which the worthy chair. man, Mr. Shepherd, obtained many names by his suavity and good hwmor,”? Another:— PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. An adjourned meeting of the subscribers towards the erection of the Presbyterian Church, Auckland, will be held in the hall of the Mechanics’ Institute, to-morrow (Thursday) evening. at 7 o'clock. M. WHY TLAW, Convener of Committee, Nov. 28th, 1845,’ The Episcopal church in New Zealand, is evidently “behind the age,’ and don’t get along as well as the ethers. ‘The following extract from a letter of a clergy- man explains the matter :— ““THE EPISCOPAL, CHURCH IN NEW ZEALAND. Lerren 1,.—To the Editor of the New Zealander.—Sir: It were much to be wished, that when new colonies leave the mother country, the wisest and most skilful men should be choren to conduct thei forth, euperin- tend them in their initiatory labors, and suggest such Fegulations as were adapted to their new condition, A good beginning is equal to haif the work. A small body acting upon principles so well defined as to avoid the evil of continual debate; so just and liberal as to reeure the good will and co-operation of every indivi- dual, will soon outstrip @ larger body, encumbered by inapplicable precedents. undefined principles, or an un- tar distribution of executive or legisiative power, ‘That peculiar cireumstances require the immediate adapting hand of legislation, is an axiom in all systems of government, political, spiritual or social, ‘Lhe early history of the American bE piseopal charch thould be a warning to the church in New Zealand, of he evits that flow from the waut of # well detined sys. tem, and of a central administrating body. Though the ly settlers in that noble territory were Protes- tant Episeopalians, they oon became insiguificaat in the increasing stress of Romanists and neither tention, until, having shaken off the burc ef the mother church, they in the el: tighteenth centary, met in convention, those articles ot union under which that branch of the Christian family las continued to grow with such asto- n'shing and delight/ul rapidity 7 What will be the futur wdition of the New Zea- Jand Episcopal Chureh, is, on several grounds, an ta- teresting question, Shail we, like the early church in America, continue to Hnger on # kind of dying life? or shall we at onee take our stand ay a useful and influ. ential boty in the island’ #eOuber Christian bodies, on settling in these colonies have, in rome respeets, & considerable advantage over the Episcopal, having at home been theown so much om their owa rerourees, they were obliged to devive such axystem as would edace the lirgest amount of eid from the whole body; emi having within them a regulating power, they accommodate themselves easily to countries aud circumstances; and find them- SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1849. as much at home in a distant colony, as inthe placopel syst the contrary, havi Episcopal system, on the con , having been £0 long aceustomed to lean onthe arm of the Btate, and teemploy the eomplicated machinery of govern- ment, and nicely balanced laws provided by it, finds in its position here, that it has every thing to commence anew. We are moreover forced to this strange dilemma, that we have to commence, and yet cannot commen before we take one stepin forming an ece! fystem, we are forced to these no easy inguirio obligations still rest upon us by virtue of our descent from the Anglican stock? How far may we proceed in the modification of our system? And will our mea- sures, after all,be invested with the necessary sanction?”* Correspondence forms a very important portion of a well conducted newspaper, both in England and in the United States. The editor of the New Zealander has copied their example in this respect, and we doubt whether he can be beat or even equalled in the origi- nality with which he carries out the idea, “ORIGINAL CORRESSPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealander: Sin :—Did it ever oceur to you what the end will be of such an influx of miserable cattle from New South Wales as we have been lately subjected to? If the townspeoplethink they will have more beef, or cheaper milk, they will soon find out their mistake. Uf what use are lean cattle, if they cannot be fattened? Every blade of natural pasture is now devoured by these lo- custs ; anda dairy man told me that he has to milk fif- teen cows now, to get the same quantity of milk that eight gave him lest spring. None but those who have enclosure, can now hope to bring a beast toa marketable condition; and how many will be supplied thus I need not calculate, ‘They may say, go into the interior, find out new runs, But this is not a pastoral country; the land and climate are too good for this region to be wasted in cattle runs. There isnot to be found enough of poor tracts of open land, where you may see your stock for miles, and your sheep feeding at a gallop; but the country is too generally covered with obstruc- tive vegetution. Do you not believe us? Then go into the bush yourself. ‘Truly yours, RURICOLA,” “Phen go into the bush yourself? is excellent; if editors of newspapers adopted this suggestion, their readers would be the gainers of more reliable infor- mation. The following advertisement bears conclusive evi- dence that the New Zealanders have a “Meehanies’ Institute,” “sculptors,” and “stuff to make statues out o! “THE PUBLIC are respectfully informed that there is now exhibiting, at the Hall of the Mechanics’ Institute, statues of the principal native Chiefs who figured in the late northern war, made from volcanic luva in the immediate seat of the Waimate. Admission—1s. each, Children half price. ANDREW MONRO.” ‘The editor of the New Zealander thus discourses, in a leader of Dee. 30:—* The Tasmanian intelligence, re- cently received, possesses no gencral interest, unless to thore with sympathies to deplore the altered condi- tion of that once noble province, degraded and despoil- ed by the felon brood to whose scourging it has been delivered, tied and bound. Never, since the foundation of the world, has there been @ parallel spectacle to that which Tasmania now presents:—A fair and fertile country, blessed with the most fruitful fields, the most salubrious climate, the most inviting territorial attractions, and all the natu- ral advaniages that industrious man can demund or desire; to bebold such a country rendered the moral cesspool of the widely extended British empire—how- ever intolerable the curse—is no reproach to its be- trayed inhabitants, but the deep, the damning, the ia- effaceable disgrace of the whigs, who first devived, and still enforce, that bestial conception, Itis a stainthat will cling to their worthless memory throughout all time, It will be written in nauseous characters amidst their ignoble chronicles; and after historians will, in all probability, denounce them as the infamous minis- try that paved the way to crime, erewhile destroyed by fire from heaven. ‘Tasmania appears to labor with but one desire, one effort to castfrom her the incubus that weighs her, mo- rally, socially, and physically to earth. To achieve hint aiss, har oclaniste have prefezredian iustiectual pe; tition to'the Governor to grant tickets of leave, or passes of removal,to convicts as they arrive, so that the festering corruption may be dissipated and dis- tind amidst the surrounding colonies. We cannot lame them for the desire, although we cannot but feel most thankful for the protective frustration of their rayer. A longing and inquiring eyc is turned towards New Caledonia as asuitable field for the further in- dulgence of prison discipline theories; and we must say that we cannot but agree that the time has long since arrived when Van Diemen’s Land should be freed from the further accumulation of pollution. No country has ever been so scandalourly outraged. Free settlers were eeduced to emigtate in order to new tralize the small amount of crime that had been pi marily introduced ; and when that object had been ef- fectually and triumphantly achieved,a ministry of yes- terday step into office, reverse the hon and the ho- norable course of their enlightened predecessors, and by a turn astern of the colonial office puddle wheel, submerge the fated province with infamy of their own filthy exportation. ‘The deceptions practised upon unhappy Tasmania, have been of the most flagitious character. Earl Grey has been guilty either of deliberate untruth, or of gross prevarication, and, in evidence of the fact, here are our proofs, which we quote from the Hobart Town Courier of the 15th ult. Lord Grey instructed Sir William Denison to an- nouncs in the most unreserved manner, the intention of the ministry to grant free institutions to Van Die- man’s Land. Sir William Denison did so, The session of Parlia- ment, according to the latest received accounts, was nearly at anend ; and from a question put to the mi- nistry, it pppented asif Van Dieman’s Land were not to get the free institutions which it is intended to con- cede to the other Australian colonies. Sir Willism Denison announced the Intention of her majerty’s government to discontinue transportation to Van Dicmen’s Land. Her majoety’s government has eontinued it in a worec form than ever. Local institutions have been promised ; local insti- tutions have been destroyed. What conclusion are the people to form—in what promise are the people to put their trust? They aro to put their faith in themselves alone, They must remonstrate; they must do everything in their power peaceably and constitutionally to secure their rights. ‘All our communications, public and private, are couched in similar strains. Murder and robbery are rife. Hobart Town, late the most safe and peaceable of any of ber Majesty's possessions, is now infested by wretches who scruple not at noon-tide violence. Con- victism is the universal blight—the leprous curse, Convict laborers and convict mechanics come into ruin- ous competition with the free, who are “fleeing for their lives.’ Many have recently arrived here, and have obtained good employment, and a friond of ours writes that were moderate priced passages from Hobart Town to be obtained, and a dozen vessels laid on for this port, they would be filled up In less than four-and- twenty hours. Desirable as such a consummation would doubtless be to us, is it not deplorable that a once prosperous province should be so destroyed a3 thus to crush its life's blood from out it? Alas, Tas- mania! May thy dark hour speedily pass!" ‘Those who wish to know more about Tasmania are informed that it is so called from Tasman’s Land, « peninsula connected with Van Dieman's Laud by a narrow isthmus. ‘New Zealand, at the end of some of her campaigns, has very unequally distributed the awards, The edi- Yew Zealand paper gives his ideas about it, tor of the New in the following fashion :— “Sympathizing, as we have ever done, in the disap- pointment which must have been felt by those whese gallant devotion merited a very different acknowledg- ment than that which it has pleased the powers that be to bestow, we could not find itin our hearts to ch presse communtention (rather out of season) merely ecause Its interest is not quite so fresh or so exciting as it was some cighteen months since. Our correspondent has done justice to s few of our gallant defenders; but his list is till a very incomplete one, and we conceive that goed service in the South was quite as much entitled to honorable distinction as good service in the North of New Zealand. Unluckily, none of the conflicts, either South or North, found eo desperate cute achronicler as the Des- itch writer of Ruapekapeka, If they had, amid an fopartial distribution of decorati ee we conceive that Captain Edward Stanley, of the Calliope, and Major Edward Last, of the 90th regiment, woul not have gone without their ribbands, Lieutenant Ed- ward Holmes without his step, nor many other brave men without their hard won meed. We fear the matter is not likely to be reconsidered but that the award of the Horse Guards, like Lord tog Russcil’s measure of reform, carries “finality” in its face. Had New Zealand, as the Hum Fums of China, pro- duced its chests of sycee, a medal might have been acrowed from out the captivated tin; but fore kit of riwi, or & basket of kumeras, what better than a beastly bivouac, with abundance of hard knocks, could be ex- pected or exterted? Alas, for martial glory ! when its outward honors are conferred when terrifying a horde of wealthy pigtails, but withheld when successtully resisting # race of poor but undaunted warriors !"” In the same namber we found no marriages, no deaths, and only one birth- as fellows :— On Tuceday, December 12th. at Quartly Grange, the wife of Dr. Weekes, of ason and heir.” ‘We euppose that child will be called a “ereole New Zen ander” The weeks have a calendar, “THE AUCKLAND ALMANACK, for the year 1849, ¥ ney published atthe New Zealander OMoe, Price. Doginning to arrive, it was necessary to Our New Zenland editor winds up the year, in the as follows :— Fanewrt. Foury Erawe! Yet a few brief hours, and poor old Forty Hight will have fullilled tts destiny—swept down the ull engulph- ing tide of time to mingle with the bright or baleful its elder born. It is a solemn moment—tvat et no pause, between the death of the matare the birth of the unknown year! is it a fi season for idle revelry ? Methinks tis a etrange. a misplaced arrangement of human pleasure, to dedicate to mirth and merriment the parting moments of the expiring year—of a period which, trumpet-tongued, calis for retiectivg thought aid pensive retrorpeetion, ‘The close of w year. like the end of the aet of a play, should prove a stage at which the actor may review the errors, or the excellences of the past; whenoe he moy ponder how best to redeem by-gone failings, to ——S———————————— TWO CENTS. avoid future defects, and earnestly strive to approach perfection at the last. ‘Would that God would inspire our hearts and souls with a scintillation of his own heavenly wisdom, that when the last and closi: e of life's brief and bitter re we fall,” loted us, with the We mi and conclude t ti ith of the true Christian.” constancy, the hepe, veral d the The Napier Family. ' The appomtment of Sir Charles Napier to the command of the British forces in India havin, attraction to the Napier family, the following wi be read with interes: _ (From the Dublin Press.] The Napiers, of Merchistoun, are one of the old- est families in Scotland. Sir John Napier, the celebrated inventor of logarithms, was lineally de- scended from Sir Alexander Napier, who held courtly offices in the reign of James II. of Scot- land. © The family intermarried with several of the first patrician houses, and was ennobled in 1627. The sixth Lord Napier was twice married, and the gallant Commodore Sir Charles Napier is the eldest son of the sixth lord’s second son Charles, who was also a naval officer. The sixth lord mar- ried, secondly, in 1750 Miss Henrietta Johnston, of Dublin, who had isssue by him George Napier, who became a colonel in ‘the army. He was a man of considerable talents, a soldier of durin, courage, and possessed considerable knowledge o| the art of war. He served in the American war in 1777, and was afterwards on the Earl of Moira’s staf! inthe Duke of York’s expedition. He be- came comptroller of military accounts in Ireland, and was also town major of Dublin for some time. . While he was residing in Ireland, about the pe- riod of 1781, he made the aequaintance of the cele- brated Tom Conolly, of Castletown, the first Irish commoner of the day in point of family and for- tune. Conolly was at the head of the country gen- tlemen in parliament, and possessed considerable influence. He had married Lady Louisa Lennox, the second daughter of the second Duke of Rich- mond, and there resided at Castletown, with Lady Louisa Conolly, her younger sister, one of the most remarkable woman of her time. That younger sister was the celebrated Lady Sarah Lennox, of whom George the Third was so enamoured that it was believed he would have made her his Queen. She was awoman of dazzling and magnificent beauty, and her manners were most captivatitg. She was the first of her sex who inspired the heart of King George with a tender passion, and his ad- miration of her was no secret. Lady Sarah’s eld- est sister (the Lady Carolme) was married to men Fox, the first Lord Holland, and father of the illustrious whig orator. Lady Sarah had fallen under the tutorage of her brother-in-law Fox, than whom a more artful man of the world never lived, and the young Lady Sarah spared no pains to cap- tivate the heart of her youthful sovereign. She used to appear every morning, in the spring of 1761, in a fancy habit, making hay in the lawn of Holland house, close to where the King would pase Wide Walpole’s George III., vol. I, p. 64.) ae on fee married a mu pee handsome spe an, though e intimacy ha one so far that Lady Sarah did not deapait of Fecciving the crown from her royal admirer. Lady Sarah how. ever, had to bear Queen Charlotte’s train, as one of her bridesmaids, and she alterwards married Sir Thomas Bunbury, of Suffolk. “ Her union with a clergyiman’s son, in preference to some of the greatest matches in the kingdom, proved,” says Walpole, “that ambition was not a rooted passion in her.” Did Walpole think that one of the Suffolk Bunburys was disparaged by having been in holy orders 4 , The marriage did not prove a happy one. It was dissolved by act of Parliament, on May 14, 1776— (Collins’s Peerage, by Sir Egerton Brydges, vol. 1, page 210.) She afterwards resided with hersister, dy Louisa Conolly; and her residence in Ire- land was rendered more attractive to her, from the fact that another of her sisters, Lady Emilia Len- nox, had married James, twentieth Earl of Kildare, and, afterwards firet Duke of Leinster. Lady Emilia brought not less than seventeen children to the bed of her liege lord, and was mother of the ill-fated Lord Edward Fitzgerald, her fifth son. It is observable that the second Duke of Richmond, father of the Countess of Kildare, had not less than twelve children, of whom the eleventh was the beautiful Lady Sarah new spoken ot. In society at Castletown, Lady Sarah met the Ion. Colonel George Napier, before mentioned, and was united to him at Bengrove, in Sussex. , Castletown, in Kildare, was one of the most splen- did residences then in Ireland. Mr. Conolly main- tained extraordinary hospitality, and arranged h house on the plan which Mr. Mathew, of 1 town Castle, first exhibited, of having a coflee- room for his guests, where they might 8 live as at a hotel, andnothing to pay. (See Sheridan's life of Swift.) The whole country about Castletown teems with interesting associations, to the Irish- man of taste and reflection. There flows the Lif- fey, and yonder is the spot, sacred to a true ro- mance—more strange than any fiction! There, un- der those trees, stood Vanessa’s bower, and there, too, is the garden where, to quote from Cirattan’s fine lines— “The stern satirist and the witty maid Talked pretty love, nor yet profaned the shade.”” There, on that sloping bank, in the grounds of Celbridge Abbey, did the famous orator of ireland pace to and fro, meditating those sublime speeches which carried the palm of superior eloquence in his own country, and disputed it with the effusions of Fox in Engiand, and of Mirabeau in France! Vancesa’s bower, and Henry Grattan’s haunt!— what associations of romance and history are join- ed to that lovely spot!’ The very scenery itself is rendered more beautiful to the ‘refined mind that muses by the river which flows on as calmly as when Swift strolled with the beautiful Vanessa on its margin; or when the great patriot of Ire- land dreamed true dreams while he soothed his ex- cited mind by its murmuring course. ‘There is not, perhaps, another spot in Ireland sacred to so many sentimental associations! (See, for particu- lars about this interesting place, Scott’s Life of Swift, second edition, 1824, p. 246; Monck Mason’s “Hibernia Antiqua,” p. 316; Grattan’s Life, by his son, vol. 2, p. 42; and Bremer’s Beauties of Ire- land, vol. 2, p. 73.) ‘ Not, far from the spot associated with the names of Swiftand Grattan is Oakley Park, the residence of Mr. Maunsell (tligh Sherif in 1841). In 1781, Oakley Park belonged to Mr. Conolly, of Castle- town, and was let by him to Colonel “Napier, who married Mr. Conolly’s sister-in-law, Lady Sarah. There they dwelt together, and there was born their third son, William Francis Patrick Napier, the in- comparable military historian. The eldest son, Charles, the hero of Scinde, was born at White- hall, on the 10th of August, 1782. The second. new Sir George Thomas, K-C.B., &c. &c., 30tP June, 1784; and the historian, 17th Dec., 1785, (Burke’s Peerage, 734.) 4 Besides these children were Richard, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Henry Edward, who died a captain in the navy, 1836; and Emily Louisa, who married, oddl Ce the present. Sir Henry peg of Suffolk, nephew of Lady Sarah’s first husband, and second son of the celebrated caricaturist.—(Burke’s Baronetage, p. 46, Lady Sarah Napier was @ very remarkable woman, and in Moore’s Life of Lord Edward Fitz- gerald (vol. 2, p, 230, supra), will be found some very interesting letters from her pen, which attest her mental vivacity and genius. She writes from Castletown to her brother, the Duke of Richmond, not long after Lord Edward Fitzgerald died:— “This whole week (August, 1798) has been passed in accusing, judging, condemning, and ruining the characters and properties of poor Edward and his family, and on Sunday Lord and Lady Castle- reagh, and others have made a party to come and dine and stay here; so that all Dublin will hear that the very people who eee the week in plunging daggers into poor Louisa’s heart hallow the seventh day by a junket to her house!” The sisters were uncommonly attached to each other, as may be seen from the correspondence in Moore’s biography of Lerd Kdward Fitzgerald, and the letters of both upon the last days of Lord Edward Fitzgerald are as striking a picture of tragic emo- tions in real life as any artist could depict. ‘The young Napiers were all sent into the army when they arrived at the proper age. ‘They are still well remembered in the county of Kildare by seme old people; and about ten years ago, Sir Charles Napter paid a visit tothe scene where he passed his early te and pointed out the spots where, with his gallan< brothers, he had performed many boyish exploits. The young Napiers were famous for their activity and courage, even in their eerly days, and a spice of eccentricity; the oddity of genius was discernible in their characters. ora long and interesting biographical account of the hero of Seinde, the reader may be referred to the Dublin Universtty Magazine, for Novem- ber, 1848. But none of the Napiers have earned a brighter name than the third son, William Napier, the author of the ablest military history in any lan- guage. Le bas reaped laurels which ene may ven- ture to. predit will live as long as the language in which he has wnitten. His mind is masculine, ar dent, nnd imegmative : riehly stored with the li- terature of anci*nt and modern Umes,ans he is mas- ter ofap impeimous eloquepee, which rovses by ite energy, and delights withits picturesque and vivid lustrations. To criticise sg.macterly and justly re- nowned a work as “ The cater of the Peninsular ‘War” would be superfluous. ith a full acknow- ledgment of ropa le marvellous brillianey, it may be doubted whether the great essayist could roduce so massive, so scientific, and so criminal a istory as Napier’s Peninsular War. The siege of Badajoz—the death of Moore at Corunna—the battle of Albuera—contain passages of composition whichvare masterpieces of epic prose. Public cha- racters are painted with critical skill, and scenes described with a graphic force that neither Thierry nor Macaulay could excel, while in weight of mat- ter and’in sustained energy of execution, the reader is reminded of the stupendous work of Gibbon. It is a very curious fact that, after the first vel- ume of this noble history was published, the late John Murray, of Albemarle street, repented of his bargain, which was £1,000 per volume. The house of Boone then took up the offer of Colonel Napier, and published the succeeding five volumes. Never did an publiatien make so great a mistake as Murray didthen. But probably he was led into it by his toryism, which was alarmed by the liber- alism of Napier. as Besides the history of the war, Sir William Napier has written ‘The Conquest of Scinde,” and_a vast number of articles and pamphlets in the reviews, One of his most remarkable articles is a slashing review in the Edinburgh Review, tor 3835, in which he gibbets to public scorn Mr. Car- rick Moore’s miserable memoir of his illustrious brother, Sir John Moore. The reviewer was in- dignant at the wretched attempt ot his author, and indignantly winds up with the question, * Cain! Cain! where is thy brother?’ In the same arti- cle, at page 17, the writer casually glances at his early life in Kildare. ‘Wg ourselves were then very young,” he says, ‘but being connected with the aimy, we were constantly am e soldiery, and we well remember with indignation the tales of lust, and blood, and pillage, perpetrated on the Irish peasantry, and recorded by themsel When a young man, Sir William Napier possess- ed extraordinary activity, and it is told of him that he could jump his own height in a standing leap. His regiment was the gallant 43d, and he was se- verely wounded at the battle of the Coa, his arm having been amputated by the late Surgeon La- merte, of Cork. Some few yeurs since a gardener was excessively insolent, at Bath, to Sir William Napier und his eon, (who is dumb, but a most in- telligent and handsome young man,) when, with his one arm, Sir W, Napier knocked the gardener down. On the case being brought before the ma- paca no fine was inflicted, as it was thought the gardener deserved his punishment. Sir Win. Napier married Caroline Fox, neice to the great whig statesman, ond daughter of Gen. Henry Fox. ‘Thus the Napier family, independently of its own ancient descent, is connected By marriage with the ducal houses of Richmond and Leinster, besides the illustrious house of lox. ‘The sons of the his- torian of the peninsular war can thus boast that they have in their veins the blood of Charles the. Second, King of England, und the family blood of Charles, the great king of ull whigs, past, present, and to come. Snowy Mountain in Africa, {From the London Athenmum, April 7.], The announcement of the discovery which the Rey. Mr. Rebmann, of the Church Missionary So- ciety, has made of a lofty mountain covered’ with perpetual snow, in the parallel of Mombas in East- ern Africa—about four degrees south of the equa- tor—induces me to trouble you with a few observa- tions with reference to the subject. Several years ago, Mr. Cooley wrote as follows:— “The most famous mountain of Eastern Africa is Kirimanjara; which we su e, from a number of circumstances, to be the highest ridge crossed by the road to [the connty off Monomoezi.”—Journ. Roy. Geo. Soc., xv. 213. I have it in my power to state that the mountain discovered by Mr Reb- mann is named by him Kilimandjaro; so that it is no other than the “famous mountain” of which Mr. Cooley had thus heard. Its elevation cannot well be less than about 20,000 feet—which is much high- er than anything we yet know of in Eastern Africa; the loftiest peak of the mountains of Samen in Ab- essinia, Abba Yared, being only about 15,000 feet above the ocean. e Kilimandjaro is evidently the “‘white mountain” reported by M. d’Abbadie (Ath., No. 1,111] as hav- ing been described to Baron von Muller’s boatman on the Nile by Nikla, the king of the country on the banks of the Bahrel Abyad under four degrees and five degrees north latijude. ‘In my youth, (said Nikla) I travelled a heat way towards the south, and found there men white like Turks. I saw there the origin of the Bahr el Abyad—so named (said the boatman) from avery large moun- tain, whose peaks are completely white. The river threw itself from this mountain, which is called the White Mountam.” It is added, that “this boatman, who had visited Nikla four times in or- der to purchase ivory, had never heard of snow, and could not give an exact idea of the distance from Nikla’s country to the far distant White Mountain.” The interval between Nikla’s coun- try and the snow-capped mountain seen by Mr. Rebmann—from four degrees north to four degrees south latitude—is about 500 miles, which is not at all an unreasonable distance. This accords, too, with M. Werne’s statement, that the Bahr el Ab- yad comes from a distance of thirty days’ journey south of the extreme point reached by the second Egyptian Expedition up the Nile, which he accom- nied. ata a comparison of these various particulars, it seems to result that the Bahr el Abyad, the direct stream of the Nile, has its origin in Mount Kiliman- djaro, in or adj g to the country of Mono-Mo- ezi. Ihave on frequent occasions explained (see especially Edinburgh New Phil. Journ., xlv. 221, et seq.) that in the language of the Sawahilis, or natives of the Zangebar coast of Eastern Africa, Mono means king, and Moezi means moon; and that it was from these people that Ptolemy derived his name of the mountains of the moon, (Moezi), in which he placed the sources of the Nile—the lakes of that river being fed by the snows of those mountains. It is now shown to be more thar pro- bable that the words of the Alexandrian geographer will, after the lapse of 1,700 years, be found to be true to the letter. on f This result in no way militates against the state- ment of Herodotus and other writers of antiquity, that the Nile rises in the west. Two different main branches of the river were known to the ancients. The one of these is the Bahr el Ghazal or Keilah, with which Herodotus and others anterior to the time of Ptolemy were acquainted, and of which they heard from the natives of the const of the Mediterranean; and its sources must be looked for to the west of Darfur, towards Lake Tchad. The other is the Bahr el Abyad or White River; the knowledge of whose sources and of the snowy mountains in which they are situate was acquired by Ptolem though the Greek merchants of Alex- andria trading with the east coast of Africa. The Church Missionary Record for Pebruary last (vol. xx. p. 30, et seg.), contains a brief but very interesting account of Mr. Robmann’s excursion to the mountainous country of Tuita, situate about ninety miles to the west of the missionary station at Rabbay Empia (New Rabbay), near Mombas. He was accompanied by only eight persons, and met with a very friendly reception trom the natives in the interior. He states, that “ the character of the peeple 1s free from that savageness which would render it unadvisable for one or two indi- viduals only to reside in their country—and rather displays much composure, gravity, and quietness, as is’ generally the case with people living in mountainous countries.” Hence, there is every reasen to hope for a fayor- able issue to Dr. Bialloblotzky’s expedition into these regions. It may be permitted me to recall tothe remembrance of your readers the plan of his journey, as settled with myself before his de- partore from England in June last.‘ Proce sto Mombas, on the east coast of Afric about 4 deg, 8. lat. At Mombns, or in its vi make arrangements for travelling into the inte with a native nor otherwise. Tt is antici- pated that a jo of about 300 or 400 miles from the coast, ina direction between west and north- west, will bring the traveller to the edge of the table-land of Eastern Africa, at the water-purting, between the busin of the Upper Nile and those o the rivers Lufidji, Ozi, (Pokom zi or Maro) and Sabaki, flowing eastwards to the Indian Ocean. On reaching the table-land, determine the southern limits of the basin of the Nile, or that extensive tract of Africa which drains towards Mgypt; and visit, if possible, the sources of the principal streams which unéite to form that river,” We. itis a great satisfaction to me to find myself so much mistaken as to the distance ef the eastern edge of the table-lnnd from the co: which would now appear to be oaly about 100 miles, instead of 500 or 400, as I had been Jed by various circum- stences to conciude, And it is not less gratifyin to know that Dr. Bialloblotzky will find so mac! of his work prepored to his hand by these prelimi- nary labors of his worthy countryman, of whose experience he will enjoy the inestimable benefit. Jam, &e, C.'T. Brn. The Indian mail has just bronaht me news from Dr. Bialloblowky. On the 4th of January last he wus at Muscat; whither he gone on from Aden and Macalla, and where he was looking for a vee rel to ke him to Mombas or Zanzibar. The Gold Region, The letter from which the subjoined extracts are made appears to have been written by a member of the commission for running the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, It is addressed to a gentle- man in Charleston, and published in the Mereury:— Bay or San Francisco, April 10, 1849. l arrived here on the Ist instant. Our commission | had a meeting the next day and became organized, , but have not been able to commence our duties fort the want of means, The Commodore and all the!; navy officers are well disposed to co-operate with us, #0 far as regards the lending of boats and crews | for them, but the many attempts of the sailorsto desert from boats when ashore, and even from the ships at’) anchor, will not justify the employment of the sailors upon our work. There appears to bea wild phyenzy amongst all classes to get at the diggings. The most extravagant estimates are formed of the gains to be derived from that occupation, and the cost of labor rocured tor ordinary purposes is proportionately ex- rayngaat, The servant of one of our Commissioners was at San Francisco a few days ago, and received the offer of one hundred dollars a month; and. on his re- fusal, it was intimated to him that he might make double that eum. I was, a few days ago, at Beni- oe, & new town, laid out, and about to be: built, some twenty-five or thirty miles frem this, in the: direction of the mines. It lies on the north side of they strait that connects the Bay of San Pab’o with Soisum Bay, into which the Sacramento and San Joaquin ri- vers are discharge: Generel Smith Commodore Jones, went there im the steamer Edith. While at anchor there, three of the crew af the Edith deserted, although their wages” were one hundred dollars a month and found. These fects willillustrate the wild notions of the working classes as to the value of labor. Success at the diggings depends on luck in finding goot spots. Many fail, and none succeed who hife la- . So they say. [From the Boston Transcript.) Say Francisco, Mareh 6, 1849, Tembrace an opportunity to write you by a vassel t Mazatlan, it being impossible for the steainer to leave for some time, as every man has left her, except Cap- tain Marshall. Woe left Panama on tho first day of February, and arrived here on the 28th, stopping on the way at Tubasco, Acapulco, San Blas, Mazatlan, and Montcicy. Befwre we got to the latter place, owr coal was all gone, and we had to burn up the spars, hen- eoops, and cverything else we could lay hands on, Were detained there four days cutting’ wood, which brought ushere, ‘The steamer brought up about 375 passengers, and | believe they all Lett her dissatisfied mevery particular, Our fare was miserable, and it I live to ‘come home, I will bring a sample of the beef such as was given us to eat on the voyage. It is very cold here, and lust Saturday we had @ govere snow storm, which affects us very much after such a long stay at Panama, with the thermometer at 90; however, we are getting used to it, and waiting for the weather to moderate 40 a8 to gotup to the mines, which seems tobe the object of all now, although you know they were ashamed to own it before leaving home, saying they Intended to go Into business, &o. I have been offered two hundred dollars a month, as clerk, if I would bind myself fora year, but I prefer trying the diggings one saason at least. From all [ean learn, the average of tho miners is about $20 to $30 per day. D. and myself continue together, and fo far, to our mutual advantage, Wo tried to hire some kind of a shop, but found it impossible, nor could we get a chance to sleep in a house, unless we paid something like fitty dollars a month, and at that, would be obliged to sleep on the floor, Not being in # condition to pay such extravagant rates, we hunted round on the second day, found an old shed, without floor or door, which we hired for $40 per month, and yesterday we opened an “Auction and Commission Store,” and are doing very well. We hada largesale yesterday, and to-morrow have another, which rather disturbs the old merchants, who, until now, have had everything their own way. You recollect the pair of horse blankets which you wrapped around some of my things, and will hardly believe me when I tell youl couldsell them for $30; woollen socks will bring almost any price; lumber i ‘worth from $800 to $600 per thousand. A good cai ponter can get from $16 to $20 per day, and if any faul is found, will drop his tools and gs, as it is easy to another job. I sold pistols at auction for $40 a {pair, which cost $6 in New York; and fine ivory combs at 50 cents, which cost about 60 cents per dozen, and other A large party of us, including’! fy {adeing from the number already there, and those jown to be on the road from fowa, Wisconsin, Miehi- ee andthe northern part of Illinois, there will be at east five hundred wagons cross the Missouri at that point, and that they average four men to a wagon; equal to two thousand ma. On Sunday and Monday Inat, some of our citizens be- ‘came alarmed in consequence of a few cases reported to becholera, The truth is, a3 near ay we can learn, there have been ten cases reported to be cholera; of these, nd Monday. Of these five, three were residents of St. Joseph, and two emi, have been informed that two deaths, from cholera, occurred yesterday. The sicians say there is hot a case of Asia n, [Correspondence of the St. Louis jublican. tpg 2, Tilo, There are a few cases of kness here; some two or the past week, aupposed to be cho- era. We hear that the cholera and small pox prevail ‘Tosome extentat St. Joseph. Tho California emigrants ‘ere fast moving out. There isa report in town, that . W. Paul’s eompany have lost thirty mules, which a ed away from camp between this and the Kansas iver, ‘The first train of the “ Pioneer Line” has n and isnow in camp about ten miles from h have secured the services of the oves Harris, known to everybody who has lived inthe mountains, or passed the road to California or Oregoa, “Black Harris.” Asx a guide, you are probably aware he has but few, if any superiors second train will start the first of June, One ee edand eight passengers go out in the first train, if they all arrive here in time. A Vietoria letter of the 18th ultimo, from Rev. Mr. Weld, chaplain of the Fremont Association of Emi- ants to California, shows that,the company, on reach foe that point in Western Texas, beoamy disheartened the Indians, cholera, poverty, and some 2,000 miles of” wilderness yet to be traversed, being too much for them ‘The company was organized in New York by Mz. Jeaac Brower, all of whose calculations had proved ious, and he had honorably surrendered every- hing to his associates. Mr. Weld says companies were ‘onstantly passing them on their return home, com- tely broken and discouraged. T’be route is fraught, © says, with immeasurable diffloulties, from disease, accidents, and attacks of the savages. And yet a por- tion of his as:ociates had csncluded to goon, Among those whe were to return, we notice Mr, Thomas Hol- thia.elty,—Newark Adv. CONNECTICUT. 2 The bark J. Walls, Jr., Capt. Sanford,was towed to. the mouth of New Haven harbor. on the 26th inst., where she anchored, to wait fair wind and weather, and was reported to have sailed on the 2th. The following is a list of all on board :— Officers and crew:—Josiah Sanford, jr., master; Na- thanicl M. Wallis, Ist Charles Carter, 1st cook; © York; Charles H. Taylor, lst steward; Joseph Alexan- der, 2d do.; Sherwood Wildman, Hugh MeNeil, Eden Booth, Wiillam A. Noyes, Abel Robinson, Philip Ho- nessey, seamen. Williams’ and Stanley's company: John Williams, William L Farley, James Andre: A. H. Glover, William Libbey, E. Cherrington, Ge fisen, J. H. Lounder, Joseph H. Mack. Brother ‘Mining and Trading Company.—Abel H. Cook, t; George H. Foote, Secretary; Welling- ton Tuttle, Treasurer; Wm. J. Smith, Horace W. By- ington, E. Fdmondson, Physician; Matthaias E.. Wil- Ing, Chaplain; James’ ¥. “Bacnes, Stephen Bidwell, John Cunningham, William Dann, Win. M, B. Gor: ham, Monroe 8, Gillett, Henry Leonard, Robert W. Monson, George Pratt, Samuel L. Potter, Leverett G. Smith, ‘Henry C. Smith, M. P. ‘Thomas, L. Wheeler, 8. F. Hicks, A. T. Bunnell, G. A Colton, T F. Castle, Charles W, Foster, Nathan E, Hawley, Hiram Jerome, Walter L. Kilbourn, Levi ion, Wm. Mor- gan, I Moses, Joel H. Root, William M. War- ren, Salmon P. Burdict, John F. Beach, John L. Clark, Samuel H. Clark, Theodore Green, Isaac R. Higby, Na- than Mansfield,’ Exekiel W, Nettleton, Sherman D. Steel, Henry K. Stowe, Samuel Tibbats, Isaac N. Gil- bert,’ Ambrose Hall,’ Richard M. Kirkham, Joseph ‘W. Narramore, Alanson X. Welton, 8, B. Blakes- lee, George L.’ Goldsmith, Lewis Clemmons, Lyman Smith, Robert C. Bronson, Henry Betts, Thomas B Davis, Thomas Jones, Austin W. Dorman, Samuel D. Hills, Giles wah Norman Mills, Charles Stone, Zina Mallory, James Smith, George Jacobs, Wm. Smit, Nathaniel W: Wallis, Silas P. Gammons, Daniel Drew, goods in proportion. With the exception of the rent of the “old shanty,” we manage to get alo: all expense, Keeping bachelor’s hall for about 75 cents a day. I have a little bag of the real stuff, which I shall send by the first oppertunity. It th here, and eyery poor devil, with hi his back, will have a pouch full of gol payment generally, at fourteen dol anda half an ounce, From my own observations and inquiries, I gould say, that the stories published in all the re fore [left, were not exaggerated at all; in fact, | do not believo the hal hall write you soon after I have been up to the mines, and give yous description of the country, ke. It is’ very peaceable here, but there is no law, Movements of California Emigran: [Correspondence of the Little Rock Demoer: Vax Buren, April 18, 1849 ‘This has been u buy day in town; many of the Cali- fornia emigrants took up their line of march. In con- sequence of the miry condition of the roads through the Choctaw Nation, and tho, delays aud obstacles met with by the partios that went that route, many of the emigrants who were encamped on the south side of tho river, crossed over and took the road on the north side, up to Webber's Falls, following Gregg’s route from Van Buren to Santa Fe, Although the road to Webber's Falls has not been worked upon for several years, and is therefore ina bad condition. it is far preferable to the one through the Choctaw Nution, because it has a hard bottom abounding in neither swamps mor miry Places, It is easier to get a wagon over # rough rocky roud than through mud up to the axletroos, and hence the emigrants that had not left up to this date, adopted this route. ‘Tho Little Rock company left on the 16th. Having come upall the way on the south side.and being en- camped on that side, took the route through the Choc- taw Nation, but had selected a different road, going some eight or ten miles up the Porteau before they cressed. 1 heard from them yesterday; they had reach- | ed the Porteuu, and so far had gone on very well. The Van Buren company left to-day, taking the route b Webber's Falls, and will unite with the Little Roe Company at Little river. The Rev. W. W. Stevenson, who has been very sick, is convaloscing and witl take the raddle to-morrow, in company with his son John, and proceed by modern journeys until they overtake the company. ‘Among the emigrants who left this place, to-day, were the Empire Mining Association, Capt. E.'A, Bald: win, taking with them 3o paek inules, and one two-horse wagon, hauled by four mules, They intend to make the wagon keep up at apack mule rate of travelling, ‘They will go through all the “nigh cuts,’ and will take the old Spanish trail from Sante Fe to Ciudad de los Angelos: and expect to get through in 65 days with good luck, Thisis one of the best fitted out companies that I know of, being provided with all kinds of machinery and India-rubber fixin’s including alife boat, eapabie of earrying 12 men at atime. [n this company are some young men, sons of the wealthest families in New York they go to «ce the “elephant,” and they'll see it, Left to-day, also, the Washington City Company, Captain E, B. Robinson, They have ail ox teains, and are taking along harness for mules, when they get to Santa Fe, if they kee fit, Along with this company, are several scientific gentlcmen, geologists, meneralogists, aseayers, Ke.; one, Mr. Buchel, brother-in-law to Mr Preuss, the artist who accompanied Col. Fremont in his expeditions, This company has agold washing ma- chine, which will do the work of 150 men ‘The Louisiana Mining Association, Captain Pebrah, | had all horse and mule teams; they were well organized | and fitted out, E, H. Hunting, Henry D. Platt, Thomas Bishop, God- frey Blutoe, Henry E. Joh: Hiram J. Wallace, Thos. Abrams, New York ; Nathaniel M. Hicks, Isaac H. Merriam, Henry W. Stillman, Albert B. Candee.—Total, 104, MASSACHUSETTS. The bng Ann, Captain Burnham, cleared at Boston on the Ist inst., for San Francisco. The following are the names of all who go out in her:— The Mattapan end California T: and Mini Company—Hosea H. Smith, President, of Deerfel New Hampshire; Jas. K. Gardiner, Vice President, of Saco, Me.; Isaac F, Ryan, Scoretary, of Freetown, Me.; Capt, 8. P. Burnham, of Gloucester; Joshua C, Grafton, of Boston, Lorenzo Lawton, of Freetown, Me., and ‘William Austin, of Boston, Directors; Dr. John May, of Burlington, Vt., physician; Matthew Stuart, Edgar Humphrey, H. Peeler,J. W. Rice, W Hoonge, J. Cheever, ‘T. C. George, Enoch Strout, of Boston; Jas Nalan, John Donald, Edw. Thornton, of Malden; Reed Welch, Jas. Lowery, Edw. Short, of Lowell; Henry Long, of Fort Covington, N-Y.; Wm. T. Thompson, of Jericho, Vt.; ‘Thos. Winthrop, of Ballard Valo, Ms.; Jona. Hopkins, Burlington, Vt.; John Goodrich, of Concord, N. H.; ‘Thomas Sheridan, of Roxbury; John Sweeney, of Stow Me.; Thomas W. Southard, of Salem; Wm. Benton, of Gloucester; Dunbar Averill, of New Fame, N. H.; Daniel L, Smith, George Goodridge Jr., of town; Hen Hassen, of Boston; Jona. P. Lougee, chester, N. H.; James ©, Taber, Ist officer of the ship, of Freetown, .; Wm, Allison, 24 do., of Somerville, Ma; H. B. Thomas, seaman, of do.; Hy. L. Blake, Francis O Smith, seamen, of Boston; Fredk EF. Lufkin, seaman, of Con- {. Passengers —Joln Smith, of Orleans, Mase. ; Ney, of Portland—Total, 44. The hip Jacob Perkins, Capt. Collins, sailed frem Boston, on the 2d int , for Sau Francisco, with the fol- lowing passengers:—Mosers, Edward F. Baker, of Rox- bury; John Rayner, of South Reading; F. G. Fitch, of Charlestown, N.H.; Thos. Rogers, of Pittsteld, N. ¥.— ‘otal, 4. | _ LOUISIANA. The steamship Isthmus cleared at New Orleans, on the 28th ult., tor Chagres, with the following passengers:— Mrs, Irene MeCready, Mrs. E. Rust, Mr. P. M. Seoof- fy and lady, Mr. William Greene and lady, Mesars, An- tonio Gobi, H. Hart, J. 8. Moore, Julien Gallard, B. HH. Howell, Wm. Corcoran, Robt. Bradley. —Total 13, M. Provpiox —The mystery which enveloped the ubode where M. Prondhon had retired, has been discovered, he lives now in Geneva, in the house of M. Fasy, chief of the democrats in Swit- zetlund,and has changed his name for that of M. Froment, professor of mathematics, and_ political refugee from Belgium. It appears that M.Proudhon, when he was living in Paris, was courting the daughter of a lace maker, and had fora rival a oung man employed in the store of the future fathe r-in-law of the celebrated socialist. When M. Proudhon was obliged to fly out of Paris, by the failure of the “Bank of the People,” and'the verdict rendered against him for articles published in the journal Le Peuple, a love correspondence took place between him and the young lady. The rival ot M. Proudhon intercey one of her letters, which, very curious to say, was terminated by a iece of poetry, directed to the old and ugly Freach lls him “My angel!” Our who understand the French language, will e the poetry, which is as follow: Fourrierite, in which she ¢ reade Captain Metcalf and party, from St. Joseph, Missouri, | went with pack mules, expecting to unite with Bald- | win’s and other pack mule companies at Little River, | where they will number about 200 strong, It is strange that Independence claims to have the best reute, yet the citizens of Missouri come from the | very neighborhood of that city, through by the Cana. | dian. | Although several hundred left here to-day, and thin- | ned out the crowd, yet there are small squads that will | not leave for three or four days, and some not fora week. They are detained waiting for friends who have | not yet arrived, and parties will continuo to leave here, | every two or three days for at Jat a fortnight. Ano- ther party is fixing up to leavéin May; this will afford a favorable opportunity to those whocannot get off un- | til next month, Many letters have been received here, from other States, stating that numbers will be here to leave in May. 4 ‘The Cotton Plant arrived this morning, bringing up a | few more emigrants, among them . Pona, and Mr, | Hays, of New Orleans, They are aheat of some friends, | and will either stay here or a few miles back of town, « few days, until the Penmywit comes up, with their friends, numbering some 40 or 60 emigrants, If they | should not be abcard, they will hem leave with the first | eompany. ‘The Fort Smith Company, Capt. Dillard, left on the | Mth. The Van Buren folks, although they only left to-day, expect to be at Camp tolmes first ‘This California emigration has been the souree of im- mense profit to the citizens of Arkansas, and should be encouraged by the press, the public men, and every one, ‘They have left at this point, aione, about $60,000 | for oxen, horses, mules, bacon, flour, ke., &¢.; and probably a6 much more at Fort Smith Fivery branch of business flourished, Next year, after the advan- tagex of this route over all others become published to the world, the whole emigration will go het ae dere ond kaneas; and our merchants, farmers, stock ell. should prepare themselves ton t for the outht, Although 3.000 omigrants hay is yet a surplus of stock and provisions at both ‘The St. Joseph Gazette of the 27th ult. say: | the past week, some twelve, hundred emigrants have | sph, by land and water. A large num- Here ee peek encamped at this piace for several i Up to Thursday, near ber that have Oe anes : eft for California, r thoes Paooed wagons had wed the Missouri river at | Dunean's ferry, four milewabove town, while more than | double that number have crossed at the St. Joweph | We aleo learn that several hundred have crossed | yent ferries between this place and the Bluffs. We think we are tafe in raying that one thousand was | gone are now over the river above this place. ‘The Adventure of the same date says:—We are in- formed by & geutioman, just from Council Bluifs, that, _ © The elevators ar | to arrive, and this quantity will go into beat, m Et, par eon doux souris, a Pour moi, mon séraphin, tu quittes ta de Sans crainte de fouler In fange dici-bas, ‘Tu souris ii ma joie, et, quand mon ame pl Au lieu de tenvoler, tu me suis pasa pas, Fyoops in Syria from Beirat, in Sy published in the New England Puritan, ‘gives th following description of the destruction ‘« floods of rain. in that country :—The p. Veen unusually severe ginning of the new year, th of a day, now and then—has tinuous torrent. That you m: storm, allow me to mention # few parti ’ of the houses in Beirut have been pulled down, owing to the large fissures that ap in the walls, so that it was dangerous to live in Others that have not been Injured so much prevent their falling. Am printing-office of the Greck Chureh has as no longer tenantable, At Nahr Beirut, Kefr Sheema,a icreat deal of property has been destroy- ed by floods inthe rivers, In Wady Shabrur, there have been several land-slide Upwards dred he fat, whi ny hous same fate. in other parts of Lebanon have shared the Near Sidon, « land-slide completely destroy- ¢ia village, burying, it is said, the inhabitants in ite ruins Tur Trave or tur Urern Lakes.—A glance at the shipping list of the Buttalo Commereial Adver= tiser of Monaay, gives a fair idea of the extent of the commerce of the Lakes, That paper reported as having arrived at Bufalo, from various ports on the Lakes, from Saturday noon te Monday noon, 13 5 propellers. 1 bark, 8 brigs, and 70 schooners, with 200 000 bushels of wheat, 180,000 bushels freigh of corn, and 24,000 bbla. of floxr— equal to an aggregate of beif » million bushels of grain, besides the usual uaptity of provisions and lumber which secompanies a fleet from the West. Of the mode in which these large receipts are to be dicpored of, the Commercial Advertizer remarks :— Dearly all full, and as near as we ean get at it, there is not storage room for over 160.000 bushels, 100.000 bushels have The balance will have to be provided for in some way or other. and as the break in the cansl will d boats some three or four days, forwarders who are fortunate enough to have boats here, will obtain a slight advanee in canal frvight.””—.dibany Argus, June 6