The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1849, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. NO. 5545. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 1849. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN, INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE The British mail steamship Great Western, Cap- tain Wolfe, arrived eaily yesterday morning from Bermuda, with advices from that place to the 7th inst., inclusive, and later intelligence from all the ‘West India Islands. The news is of interest to those connected with the southern islands. The dates are as follows:— ‘Nassau ( uly 24 Belize (Honduras) .July 13 Jt, Jago de Cuba...July 8 Kingston (Jomaica) July 23 Jacmel (Hayti).. June 15 St. Juan (VP, Rico). June 29 Georgetows (Dem.) July 22 Berbice, June 18 Gauduloupe Dominique. Antigua. . Monteerrat- The Great Weetern has $1,328,060 in silver and gold, cn freight, destined for England. The advices from Bermuda, of the 7th instant, say:— We are rejoiced at the copious showers of rain which — bave fallen at intervals since the publica- tion of our lest number. The parched and wither- ed aspect of the country, occasioned by an most unprecedented conunuance of dry weather, has in some measure already changed its ap- pearance—the fields, ‘cc., are beginning to look green and animated. Havana is suflering more severely from yellow fever than has been known in the memory of any T8On. There is no political news of importance from Havana. The commercial accounts mention that the weather has been very favorable for the grow- ing crops. Since our last advices there had been a steady and active demand for sugars, prices had advanced from 4 to 4 rial, according to quali- ty. The inquiry for Spain was reviving, and as the accounts thence were favorable, 1t was oly that a good deal of sugar would be sent forward during the latterpart of the season. The exports for Eu- rope generally proceeded with activity, and the Gelk {the crop wasnt market; but liscle wae being shipped to the United States, and the receipts from the interior becoming smal In Demerara there seems some prospect of a suc- cessful arrangement of the differences between the Governor and the combined court. Small pox still rages at St. Vincent with unabated virulence. ’ "The ne estate Plantation Richmond-hill, in the island of Mr. Fi d : for $4,600, barely £1000 sterling. This estate was, atone period, and that not a remote one, valued at Leguan, formerly the pro; of the late mn had been sald Ay saauegiin sale not less than £50,000 sterling. The Attorney Ge- neral had introduced a bill into the Legislature to secure a dividend ef six per ceat on the paid up capital of the Demerara Railway Company, s0s00n as the line shall have reached Buxton. In St. Lucia the Legislative Council met on the 25th ult. to discuss the financial affairs of the colony, with a view to the alleviation of existing difficulties, and devising ways and means for the service of 1850. A committee had been appointed to investigate the aflairs of the Treasury and its resources. Governor Darling was said to be deter- i to reduce the expenditure, and some swee ing measures were anticipated. There was a defi- ciency of nearly £2,000, caused by the riots of March last, and for which Earl Grey had declined any loan or assistance. It was probable that the 2s. tax on cultivated land would be raised to 4s. peracre, and that a duty on the exports of sugar and rum would be imposed. : _ Sir Charles Grey, the Governor of Jamaica, has dissolved the House of Assembly of that Island. : Boe a Gee ie on the islaod nee rend and promising, particularly on the ial side ‘of the island. In the interior parishes, also, very salutary rains had fallen. The favorable advices received from agen, announcing the slight rise in the value of West Tndia sugars, had operated in favor of advanced rates in Jamaica, and had given a trifling es to business. With jowever, to coffee, the reports are not £0 Rois, and the crop will be very deficient, some of the planters declining even to pull the berries, declaring the present market prices to be perfectly unremunerating. ‘The island was perfectly healthy and quiet. In articles of import very little change taken place, and quotations were much the same as at last advices. Freight and exchange as noted. The Barbadoes news is not very important. The weather was comparatively fine, and the island heal The Governor, Sir W. Colebrook, had returned after a tour to Trinidad, Tob: cents, Curacoa, ec. All vessels from St. were placed in quarantine, in consequence of the existence of smallpox in that island. The Antigua Odserver mentions, that the weather am that island remained dry; but a few slight show- ers had fallen in various parts, the supply of mois- ture, powever, being insufficient to effect any sensib! od. The manufacture of sugar was progressing with considerable activity, and two of the most extensive producers stated that the crop would ly come nearer to 14,000 than 12,000 h end as previously estimated. ‘Tobago papers contain nothing of interest. St. Vin- At Grenada the Assembly had imposed a tax of ten | reent on all incomes paid out of the treasury. The quarantine was reduced from twenty to ten days. At Trinidad a retiring pension of £333 63. Sd. had been voted to Judge Scotland; but Mr. Scott gave notice of a bill to deprive, for the future, all efficers of such pensions. “ # So much for the British West Indit islands, We continue to receive sad accounts of fac- tious tumulis, assassinations, burnings, and every jent of a 7? state of anarchy and confusion from the French islands. Governor Broat tore ge pox — mage gen ae 4 gone to the nel theatre of popular dis- cord, he, laren of Geadaloups, where a deape- rate conflict continued to be maintained between the Biseettisis and the Scheleherists, The reeult of the Guadaloupe elections was not known in Martinique three days ago. Only the votes of ten, out of the thirty communes ot the colony, had been announced, and that ver- bally, by the master of a small vessel which arrived on the 23h ult., who also stated that the votes up to his departure from Basseterre gave a majority of 1 to the montagne party, MM. Schelicher and Perrinon, over the moderates, MM. Bissette and Mendesir Richard. Pte 3 nam suspected inst! from the i ion of the Schelerist faction; and of Marie-Galante, we have the fol- lowing, published in the Martinique Courrier of Sa- | turday, the 7th ultu.— Some hours before the di tare of the schooner, - Governor General Bruat, who arrived the previous evening on board of the steamer Flan, and with one ates - ity a C4 fone = -p prised, by a sloop despatched by “aprons from Join- ville-Bowrg foe thre purpose. that on ) Cyn Ae 26th) She voting room in one of the electoral of Marie- Galante bad been invaded by & body of armed men, who, after having violently interrupted the proceedings Of the office, spread themselves about the streets and places, vooiferating cries of “To arms |’? and menaces of death. Jt was also universally raid at Poinie-a-Pitre, that the oMicial despatches by the #l contained intelligence of a most serious conflict whic! had taken place between the aggressors in the above mentioned disorders, and an armed force called out for their repression. 1t was raid that a shot bad been fred at M. Bonneterre, the Mayor, who presided over the ¢n- cerrapees Proceedings of the elections; and that he, with his family, and ai tionary LL thowe against whom the revolu- fury seemed more particularly levelled, had under the necessity jeserting the commune, le. Bourg, escorted ted militia, It was led, eleven different points in the country, and that the brig Cygne, stationed at Marie-Galavte, bad been obliged ts land her crew. We are informed that on the 26h of June there was an émeute at Point au Pitre, in the island of Guadaloupe, the natives having risen against the authorities in consequence of some contemplated smunicy changes The attempted insurrection owas quickly suppreseed, but not before twelve lives been lost. Fine at Maniivs, N. Y.—Yesterday morning, about 3 o'clock, a fire was discovered in the stable of John Wood, which soon spread and communi- cated to the adjoming building. The following were entirely des royed:—The tavern, grocery med bare of Joba Wood, loss $2,000, insured 1,000; the bardings were new. Suliman and Jark’s chair ——- joss about $1,000, insured $600. Homiin’s stable and blacksmith shop, loss ay mp ey June's pay" pon ebop, lows $1,009, no insurance. — It 1s sup; to have been the work of incendiaries. Moat of the muevable property in the buildings was saved.— Albany Jounal, Aug. 10. . Vincents | | been fired at Gaudaloupe, at the | Oar Irish Correspondence, Dustin, July 26, 1849. State of the Crops—The Condition of the Cown- try, $e., $e. Thave just finished a tour over the greater part of freland, and I am most happy to inform youthat the crops in all parts are in the most healthy and flounshing condition. As yet, the great staple of food, the potato, has shown no symptoms of blight; and those that have been taken from the ground for already the spade is busy with the young roots— | are of a quality superior to anything I have seen. | The oats, too, and the wheat, and the barley, and the blue biossoms of the flax, are glistening to- wards a healthy ripeness, over the whole surface of | the island. Every spot of Irish land seems to be oceupied with crop, even up to the summits of her dark mountains. 1 have travelled much, yet I have seen no coun- try more beautiful than this; none that exhibits greater proofs of a ladorious and toilsome industry ; and none where the fruits of its industry are so rudely wrested from the hands that nurtured them. It is lamentable to reflect that at least half the pro- ceeds of all this smiling harvest, as soon as it is taken from the ground, will be carried te other lands, to sustain the ruinous expenditures of an | absentee squirearchy. This isthe true cause of Treland’s lean poverty—of her bitter misery. It is very simple, and most easily understood. Every acre of her soil pays a rent, the greater part of which is squandered by her landlords in the salons of Lendon and Paris ; for, though they may reside | part of their time in their castellated homes, yet | these are moments of economy, after their purses | have been drained by their annual visits to London and the continent. What can be the state of any country whose any acre must yield un annual average of five or | ten dollars, to be spent and scattered in some other land? And this, too, without any exchange or re- turn; and this, too, in addition to the most inde- | fensible systems of taxation under which a people | ever groaned. But have neither space nor time | to philosophize upon the condition of this uahappy | people ; and the heart bleeds, while it disdains to employ sophistry in a case of such palpable plain- ness. | Before my eyes, while I write, two distinet ‘eups mark the prominent peints of the picture. on one side of the street I see a collection of stur- | dy but starving peasants—their garmients compose: oF a thousand miserable rage, miserably stitched together ; while not ten paces distant, stands a knot of dragoon soldiers, dressed in all the ele- ance of lace and lacquer; and yet the sweat of the peasant has burnished the button upon the sol. | dier’s coat! A fat shopkeeper is looking on, and he will tell you that the English government is the best for them, as it only can keep them quiet. He believes in the statu quo order of things. He be- lieves in ‘* peace”. '—that, miserable watchword of 1 the tyrants that ever lived. i And yet what can be done, politically, for these ‘ople Ty the sword, nothing, I assert, without esitation, that a repeal of the union with England-- in other words, the independence of Ireland—at the present time, would be followed by the utter ex- tinction of either the Protestant or Catholic race in that country. I make this assertion from a_re- cent and thorongh conviction of its truth. Ten days ago, 1 was an ardent repealer; and though my hearty desire for the independence of Ireland remains unchanged, my judgment tells me that I have been wasting my sympathy upon a dream. Ihave heard and examined the sentiments of both parties. I have conversed with hundreds, and Iam convinced that their hatred to each other is sufficiently intense to hinder them from ever uniting in one cause, however sacred that cause might be. ‘The hostility between Turk and Greek 1s not more deadly than that which exists between | the Catholic and Protestant of Ireland—so dee; and deadly, that they would go to hell tearing eac other, rather than either should take precedence inheaven! | vs These horrid and unnatural antipathies have reached the brutal climax of mutual murder ; and nothing stands between to prevent them from enacting the tragedy of the Kilkenny cats, but the British bayonet, that bristles thickly ever the whole island. nd. But be it not thought that any charitable mo- tive onthe part of England has placed these bay- onets to preserve peace. The history of the past sufficiently proves that the English government has been chiefly instrumental in producing this ea oe | hate ; and she holds the position of the }OX residing over the battle of the lion and tiger. I believe thet the true cause of the late repeal fail- ure in Ireland } is not generally understood in the | United States. If I mistake not, the belief exists, that that cause stified by the fear inspired by British bayonets ; and by this thought, Irish cou- rage has greatly fallen in the estimation of men.— | They have been grievously Mahony oo and a better | knowledge of facts will restore that brave people to its ancient character. It would be absurd to suppose, that cight millions of a race, who have never shown the white feather on any field of bat- tle—even when they have fought with no higher principle than their own pastime—if united upon the sentiment of republicanism, or even upon the lees jnopiring _idea of national independenée, could be held in subjection by a few thousan mercenary troops, employed by a nation not much more powerful than themselves. No. Were the Jhish people united in this cause, the red soldiers ef England would long since have been brushed off like larve. But they are not united ; not five mulliens of them ; and these are opposed by three millions, who are backed by almost all the sources of strength—by superior intelligence and wealth ; and when they possess neither, are stimulated to | an energetic opposition by the knowledge that their very existence depends upon it. This is the true theory of Irish | Saror oe upon the government of England, and the true cause that check-mated Copraciet of . " | Were Ireland all Catholic or all Protestant, she might obtain bey oe to-morrow—nay, she would long since have had it ; but, as she is, it will be plain to every thinking mind, that her indepen- | dence now must be the ruin of at least one of theso | reces. Our Paris Correspondence. Paris, July 26, 1849. The Speech of M. Thiers om the Proposed Newspa- | per Law—The Theatres—Trade—Another Insur- rection Anticipated, §¢., §c. The week has been barren of political news, but haa been signalized in the Assembly by a speech of M. Thiers, delivered on Tuesday, which has pro- | duced a prodigious sansation. M. Thiers has made a most overwhelming retort upon the repub- lican and democratic party, and, indeed, upon all | that party which may ceme under the denomina- | | tion of anti-monarchical, on the occasion of the law against the press and the state of siege. You | will perceive by the journals that a gagging law to | muzzle the press has been proposed by the govern- | ment, and 18 supported and will be carried by an | immense majority in the Assembly. The princi- | pal provisions of this law are copied from those of | the well known laws of September, promulgated | and maintained for a time under the monarchy, and supported by M. Thiers and his party. These laws were etigmatised by the opposition in the old | Chamber of Deputies, as being Dirconian. The | leaders of the very party who thus stigmatized them, and who for years made them the theme of invective against the successive administrations of | the government of July, have, now that they are themselves in power, not only proposed the same aws, but annexed to them conditions of oppression | land aggravation, compared with which the laws | they formerly attacked were mild and indul- gent. The state of siege occasionally de- clared wnder the monarchy, used also to be the incessant subjects of invective with this party; | yet this same party has not only now declared the the state of siege, but aggravated it by the suppres- sion of a large portion of the public press. You | can easily conceive what arms ot attack and re- tort these circumstances supplied to an orator like M. Thiers; and be assured he was not at all eparing in their manipulat He attacked right and left, with the fury of a tiger, and the eloquence of his oration drew down acclamations of applause from all parties present, except the personal objects of his attack. M. Thiers, nevertheless, and his Panny, support the government, while they attack it. They aup- port it because they desire to oppose the ultra-de | from Transylvani: | papers, that the Russian forces under General Lu- mocratic party, though they secretly desire to over- throw the republic itself, 4 There are but three anti-monarchical journals now pecihieed in Paris—the ional, je and La Presse. You will, doubtless, be surprised to hear the last named journal, so the organ of Austria and Russia, c! d as an anti-monarchi- cal organ; but so it is. This is one of the mutations witnessed in these most strange times. The theatres, m spite of their lamentations at thin houses and the want of government support, still continue, with two or three exceptions, to be open. It must be admitted, however, that their condition is deplorable as that of commerce 1m general. shopkeepers of Paris are in des- on The cholera, émeutes, aud the hot weather, ve conspired to drive them to the brink of ruin. It is confidently maintained by parties here, who pretend to be well informed as to the secret opera- tons of the socialists and red republicans, that another insurrection is not only contemplated, but inevitable, and not only inevitable, but not very fay distant. ‘The secret societies, notwithstanding the state of siege, are in high vigor, and theagents ef insurrection are, it is asserted, as confident as ever. These reports may be put, in circulation by the monarchist party, but there is no proof of this. On the contrary, it is evident that the partisans of con- stitutional “monarchy in the Chamber are using all available means to prevent an insurrection, The sure road to the establishment of monarchy in France would be the temporary success ef the red. party, and it cannot be denied ‘that the partisans of monarchy have opposed, and are opposing, theirsuc- cess by ail practicable means. You will doubtless perceive by the journals, that yesterday brought us a tetegraphic despatch an- nouncing the lon; peace between Austria and the Piedmont. [A still later despatch throws some doubt over this.— | Ep. Ierarp.] Panis, July 26, 1849. The Bourse and Money Market. Still I have to report complete stagnation at the Bourse. Indeed, as I have already told you, at this season, in all but extroardinary years, no other report 1s to be made. The principal capital.sts being absent from Paris, nothing important will probably be done until their return; meanwhile, the market is heavy, and looks to the settlement to produce some little change. Persons not in the habit of watching the thermometer of the Bourse, cannot, perhaps, understand why with more favorable cir- cumstances, both withinand without, than preceded the rise to 91, the funds shovld remain about or qd | under 88. This is to be accounted for by the ten- dency to heaviness, or even decline, inseparable from periods of stagnation, end by the expecta- tion of a new loan, the probability of which | have heretofore noticed. This loan is probable about the month of October or November, pro- vided the then state of the market renders it ad- visable; but should it be otherwise, the minister can wait amore favorable 5 epi f He has now 32,000,000 in the bank to his credit, after hav- ing paid almost all the dividends on the 5's, and every day augmentations of capital flow into the treasury in exchange for treasury bonds, which now pey 54 per cent for three, and 6 per cent for six months. ‘The fluctuations, you will observe, in the lst of prices fer the week, which I subjoin, are no in- | dications of the real state of the market. At such a time of stagnation as this, when transactions are rare, a few trifling bargains affect the quotations, and, being bona fide, are necesearily quoted, show- ing apparently to persons not versed in the mys- teries of the Bourse, a change in the position of the market, which 1s merely accidental. Bonds of the city ef Pans are still in demand and favor. The city has put out offers for a ten- der of an additional loan of six millions, which will readily be subscribed, but probably not on so favorable conditions as the last, owing to the prizes on premiums not being so large. ‘he prices are as under:— ie 6 3 cent, Bank Shares. 68. a 50 2.293 » 53.30 87 70 2290 » 63.16 8165 2.300 + 53.15 87.65 2,295 52.80 87.15 2,280 63.25 87.65 2280 por Berwin, July 24, 1819. The Great Hungarian Movement—The Danish Armistice—The Position of the Duchies—Trouble Ahead—The Election—Alliance of Kings, §c. The Mighty Hand that guides the destinies of people and nations, and has so often saved Europe, when barbariem and despotiem, war and anarchy, seemed to threaten the further progress of eiviliza- tion, has moved to help the Hungarian people, in their struggle to resist the aggressions on their national liberty, and to defead Europe against a Cossack invasion. ‘The intelligence I have this day to communicate to you, from the seat of warin ILungary, 1s decided- ly favorable for the Magyars. The fortune of war is about once more to turn on their side. According to the official bulletins of the Austrian, Russian, and Hungarian generals, and to all accounts received, very important movements have,of late, taken place on the Danube, and in the south of Hungary. The Hungarian Generals, Gorgey and Detnbinski, have succeeded mbreaking through the line of operations of the Russian and Austrian armies inthe north. A sanguinary battle has been fought near Waiwen, which lasted for three days, but which, according to the reports of the Russian and Austrian com- manders, ended without a decisive victory on either side. From ether accounts, however, we Jearn that the operations of the Hungarians have nevertheless been attended with complete success. The plan ef+the Magyare, to divide the line of the enemies, and separate the Russian and Austrian forces, which was the great point to be gained, seems about to be executed. In addition to this news, we have intelligence confirmed by the latest Vienna ders kave been defeated by the Hungarians, near Fogaras, and that General Bem has taken posses- sion of Bistritz. At the same time, we learn from the south of Hungary, that the Hungarian forces have gained a complete victory over the Ban of Croatla, near Sanct-Thomas, and that the latter has fled, with the remainder of his army, towards Semlin. The Magyars have crossed the Theiss, and have liberated the fortress of Peterwardein, which had been besieged by the enemy. Such are the accounts we receive at the present moment from the seat of war on the Danube, when the political horizon of Europe seems to be dark- ening all around, as if the night of despotism was about to retin. Such is the intelligence from Hun- gary at the moment when Rome has surrendered, the insurrection in western Germany is subdued, France has deserted the cause of liberty, and a dis- honorable pence is dictated to Germany by the coa- htion of absolutism, headed by the mightiest prince on earth—the Emperor of Russia! But for this dawn of light, prospects in Europe, indeed would seem to become darker and darker. * ‘The armistice and preliminaries of peace which have just beea concluded with Denmark, have created the greatest indignation in the duchies of Schleswig Holstem. Almost th hout Germany, this settlement is regarded with a feeling of shame and humilia ut, though it is stated that the central power bout to protest against the con- clusion of the armistice, on the part of Pras ithout its concurrence, and several Germat said to be disposed to lend their su ies, in case of the continuance of the war, there is little probability that the duchies will receive any further assistance from Germai the present state «f things. Prussia would disre- gaid every remonstrance on the part of the central wer. Hanover and Saxeny have already signi- Red their acquiescence with the treaty. Austria and Bav the States most likely to oppose Prus- sia im refusing to recognise the convention, have been influenced by Russia to give their a Bavaria has already ordered her troops to ret Of the smaller States, none would venture singly to refuse to obey the dictates of Prussia. Thus the duchies willbe thrown on their own resources, in cave of the continuance of the war, which they would have to carry on not only against Denmark, os a against “1 ant being — min necessary, to force them to accept the conditions of the treaty. The case of the duchies, if deserted by Germany, will be desperate and hopeless. They, nevertheless, are resolved not to submit to the terms of the armistice, whatever the result may be. The Schieswig Holstein Diet has looked-for definit.ve treaty of | unanimously rejected the convention. The go- vernment of the duchies has notified its non-ae- ceptance of the armustice to the Prussian govern- ment. Ithas, at the same time, issued a circular note to all the States of | Germany, explaining the reasons which render it impossible for the duchies to accede to preliminaries of peace, by which their political union and independence is set at naught. it} expresses confidence in the honor of the German nation, that it will not forget that it has pledged itself to defend the rights of the duchies ‘ainst every invasion onthe part of Denmark. Alas! the German people, at the present moment, are net able to defend even theirown rights against the sagressions of despotic governments ! Accord- ing to the latest accounts from Schleswig Holstein, preparations were being actively sareeton for the prosecution of war. The population was resolved to sacrifice everything rather than accept the ar- mistice. i The resolution of the radicals to refrain from takin; part in the election for the second Chamber, has been carried into eflect throughout Prussia. | Everywhere—in the capitalas well as in the provinces—the democratic party observed the strictest passiveness during the clectoral proceeding; and the result of this stratagem has even aston- ished the ultra conservative party, no less than two-thirds of the whole number of primitive voters throughout the kingdom having abstained from voting. In several purts ot the provinces the elec- tions could not take place, the number of voters present being not equal even to the number of electors, who were to be chosen! A telegraphic despatch, received by the govern- ment this morning, announces the surrender of the fortress ot Rastudt to the Prussian troops. Yester- day afternoon the troops entered the fortress with- out one shot having been f The Prince of Prussia is expected to arrive here in the course of a few days. 4 « Atthe urgent request of Prussia, Bavaria, and other German States, the Swiss government has just given orders that the leaders of the late insur- recuon in Baden, who have taken refuge in Switzer- land, should not be allowed to remain there. ‘The Swiss authoritics have been dwected to order them to the frontiers. Thus is national law practised at the present moment, in Europe. Our Montreal Correspondence, Monrrean, August 8, 1319. The Christening at Monklands—The Reported Re- signation of Lord Elgin—Reform—The Cholera —Thade, §c. Monklend, the country seat ofhis Excellency,the Governor-General, was the scene of much festivity and gayety on Monday evening last. The occa- sion which called forth so unusual a circumstance in what the “Canadian Punch” terms the ‘‘eudal castle” of the Elgin family, was that of the chris- tening of his lordship’s son and heir. Quite a gal- lant and gay company, of about fifty persons, were present on this joyous occasion. Of course, with the exception of a few big guns amongst the milh- tary, all those present were members of the reign- ing party. Ministers, legislative councillors, and legislative M. P.’s, together with a few of the higher office officials, were mingled together in glorious confusion. Every luxury that money could procure, was heaped in profusion on the well- spread board. I am told that his Excellency was exceedingly gay, nay, even facetious. A few more wrinkles (which is not to be wondered at) had en- graven themselves on his broad and open forehead. The Countess of Elgin, who 1s a favorite with all parties, and possesses a charmingly kind counte- nance, appeared to have suflered much more than her good lord. She is exceedingly delicate in health, and the late troublesome times, with family sor- rews, would necessarily work much on so feeble a frame. Her Majesty had been pleased to direct that the child should be called Alexander Victor, which appellations were, of course, bestowed on lum. The latest rumor is to the effect that his Excel- lency has resigned, and will shortly depart, via Upper Canada, to Buflalo, from thence to New York, and so take the steamer for England. I do not think it impossible that he willselect this route, when he takes his departure; and that he will take his departure, I do not think at all doubtful. For how can he posaibly retain his position as the “Repre- sentative of Bri itish sovereignty in the Canadas,” and remain what be now virtually is—a prisoner at Monklands. He dare not come into Montreal—he dare not goto any other of the principal cities and towns in the province—and It certainly is m/fra dig. situat! were tracke. If the English papers talk of reform, &c French Canadian cOntemporaries are not them, either, in the talking part of the bu: Le Avenir, the steunch advocate of eo i and the orgen of M, Papineau, is the leade Franco press in this mat er. 1 therefore tof the In a late number, the Glewne aa ramime is temptingly offered to public the eager p French Canadian Education as exte . Encouragement of French Canadian institutions and societies. Sobriety among the people. Agricultural progress Colonization of wild lands. Electoral reform based upon population. Repeal ot the Union, Universal suffrage, Eligibility, (he does not say for what,) dependent upon public confidence Liberty of the press. Reduction in government expenditure, Judiciary reform Post office reform Reform of the Legislative Council. Reform of abuses Abolition of seignorial tenure, Abolition of the system of tithes Abolition of the reserves for Provestant clergy. Parish mupicipalities. Decentralization of power. Free pavigation of the St Lawrence. Liberty of exchange of productions, as complete » possible, without affecting Equal rights, eq The greatest ano tion tothe United States L’ Avenir says, “this is what we shall always denfind, without ceasing, until those changes, ameliorations and liberties are yielded to the people of the country. Without those liberties and umehorations, and many others besides, there isno safety for our population, no rest for the defenders ot the people. And until the people shall have ob- tained them, they will for ever be like a flock of sheep, whom any man may, for his own profit, f, and whom he ean lead hither an der that itis the Canadian people who are to omplish ‘ annexation,” or they would not have been so impraden their programme “French Canadianism before everything.” Itisa great mistake, and equal toa declaration of war agai their Anglo-Saxon brethien. It 18 openly advocating a “war of races.” The Anglo-Saxons say, the French shall not rule us; we would rather e annexation. The French sey,“ French Canadian before every- thing We will rule; we are the most numerous in Lower Canada; we do not care for Upper Canada,but we desire Lower Canada for ourselves.” ‘The question to be setiled first, then, prior to a call for “annexation,” is a question of race. Settled it must be, sooner or later. The couatry will never be prosperous or contented so long it is un seuled. J.’ Avenir strikes a blow at the Pro- testants, and se rr religious question, * Abo- htion of the reserves for Protestant Clergy.” ‘These reserves are lands kept for the various Protestant denominations, and are better known as “the Clergy reserves.” This is also impru- dent, and merely adding more fuel to the flame. The other measures of reform will meet the sup- port of the Anglo-Soxons ; in fact, they are those which the British pepulation have been demand- ing for years. Tne 1’ Aventr, told, has a very large circulation, and possesses great influence ; it says much for the proprietors, and is destined, i think, to be the instrument of great organic be ea in the Freuch population of Lower aneda. The Montreslans have at lust roused themselves out of the deep le sharay into which they have fallew of late yenrs. On City Fathers paseed the motion, ha t the issuing of the city bonds to the amount ef ),000 for the further completion of the Vortiand Kailroad. This sum, taken with $100,000 edvanced by the Montreal & ys $100,000 by the British American Land Company, and $100,000 by the contractors, will advance the rond thirty-five miles further, which distauce having been attained, it will be entitled to to insert in | the benefit of the late act, passed during the last seseion of the Provincial Parhament, in which it is provided that, after seventy-five mies of railread shall have been completed, the stockholders, or persons who advance money for the completion of the running part of the i are entitled to a gua- ranty of six percent interest for the money vanced on the part of the Province ; so, there is some chance, at last, of this important work being finished. ‘The cholera 1s on the decrease here at present, and although I do not consider that the reports of the Board of Heath come up. to half the deaths that really take place, yet the virulence of the dis- ease 18 not to be compared to that of 1832 and "34. ‘The vegetable world is not afiected in the same munner,and there appears to be absent in the present type many of those symptoms which materiatly istinguished it in I In consequence of the silly notice ot the Board of Health, prohibiting all amusements, the city has suffered severe loss in the shape of travel ; s1x hundred Americans, whom it appears had designed coming here, have been so frightened as not to attemptit, ‘The hotels, in consequence, are suffering greatly, and everything languishes. | The weather is exceedingly fine ; now and then we have a thunder-storm, which clears the atmos- phere, and renders everything much pleasanter. In the commercial world everything still conti- nues excessively dull. Ashes. —Pots $5 70 ; pearls @5 €0. The tlour market is quite flat. F. Notes from the Watering Places. Unirep Srares Horet, Saratoaa, August 8, 1849. The Drawing Room-The Ball Room—The Dining Hall—The Promenades—The Ball of Last Even- ing— The Dresses—Henry Clay—The Test of True Politeness and Courtesy—Concert—Presence of Mr. Clay thereat—The Fancy Ball—The Equ- pages and Laverves—Continued Arrivals—The Weather, §c. So far from exaggerating, I freely confess that I am unable to describe in an adequate manner the brilliant scenes which are constantly passing before my eyes at this far-famed establishment. Whe- ther I regard the drawing room, where some of the most exquisitely handsome women that the world can boast of are to be seen, not engaged in unmeaning and frivolous conversation, but in the discussion of questions which require the aid of the higher powers of the mind in order to elucidate them ; whether I regard the ball room, where amiability and elegance rule ; or the dining hall, with its long lines ot fashion, and its thousand re- . flections trom the brilliants and jewelry worn by the ladies; or the various promenades, where the majestic forms, and the strikingly interesting and lovely countenances of those who grace them, are to be seen in groups, I am equally at a loss for language to do justice to the facts, and I had almost walt that I defy any man to draw a full, true, and faithful picture of the moving pamorama. The power of the pen, in this instance, at all events, is in my opinion superseded. ar The ball last evening went off in fine style. I need not go into particulars as to the ladies’ dres- ses, but they were splendid indeed. White figur- ed silks, lace, and muslins, were the fashion.— One lady wore a dress composed of net, with flounces, embroidered with silk ; another wore a sky blue and white shot silk dress, with flouuces, which reached almost to the top of jhe skirt ; and from these the style of all may be interred. 1 hed forgotton to mention that on Sunday last Mr. Clay, while in the Catholic church, wes over- come by the heat, and was, therefore, obliged to reure. In aiew minutes after, he was seized with a violent pain, and, in the h ght of it, he said to | his physician, Dr. Bedford—* } Hy good doctor, be kind enough to apologtse to the Bishop for me, for baving left the church so abruptly.” While utter- ing these words the hon. and learned gentleman suilered intense pain. Now, [ record this mcident as a high tribute to the courteous and elegant mind of Henry Clay. He forgot his pain to express his apprehension that he had been discourteous, for having retired while the bishop was preaching, | although the cause was so distressingly urgent. ‘This isthe true point of observation from which the human mind is to be viewed. The test on this oc- casion was, indeed, a trying one, This mormmg the Derwort family gave a con- cert in the new bull room, which was very. well attended. The Hon. Henry Clay and a distin- guished party were present. Mr. Clay expressed | | himself highly gratified, and so delighted were the ladies that they greeted these talented chil- dren with the heartiest applause. The three young ladies play the violin with great skill and taste, | the eldest of whom is about thirteen years of age, and is a very fine lady-like girl. She sings very sweetly, as do also her sisters. The litile boy, Master William Derwort, plays the violincello with astomisiing ability. He is now a little over six years of age, and he performed in New York (that great mart fortalent of every kind and order) when he was but three years anda half old. [ | believe that the unmixed satisfaction which this exceedingly talented performance afforded to the audience, showed itself in another very substan- ual torm, 1 would re nd all concerned that the fancy eo that they may have time to prepare tor the grand mectmy. The one this year will be immensurably © ior to anything of the kind thut has ever been witnessed here. No expense | will be spared by the runificeat proprietors, and, | by those who will attend it, there will be a dis- play cf nich and costly dresses, which will throw } into the sh hose of the preceding season. ! | _ The arrivals still continue to pour in from every | State in the Union, while the departures are very | inconsiderable. A large party isexpected in a day | or two from Baltimore been prepared for th Mr. Clay’s friend reception. re to give him a dinner to- | morrow. 1 will tend the particulars as soor as | possible. It will be a festive and aa intellectual | gathe ri The eflice of Chancellor of the Kitchen, other- k, asa very Unportant department, pty as to meats, made dishes, ry, pastry, &c , whieh the | tebles present, tly demonstrative of the | abilit of the incumbent, Monsieur Le Cormpte, | and the estimate set upon it by his employers may | be inferred from the tact, that for his services | during the season, he receives seventeen hundred | | dollars. } | There are several equipages here, among which are these of Mr. Langdon, an open landau, drawa | by four very splendid horses, and driven by the | owner himself, by whose side a servant in livery, having a broad silver band round his hat, sits; Mr. Little, a elose carriage and pair, with coach- men and footman in Yo livery; Mr. James, a | curricle and pair, with servant in livery; Mr. | Waddell, a curricle and pair; Dr. Bedford, a car- riage, and pair, | beheve; another eurricle and pair, with a groom in livery, in the English style, But the name of the gentleman who owas it [do not Wetmore is expected in two or | ice creams, cc know. Mr. h three days, from Sharon; when he was here be- fore, his equipage was an open landau and pair, | with a coachman in plain livery. | The weather continues beautiful, and the vil- | lage just new 18 a charming and an attractive spot, “"¢ ‘art Istanp, Coxornss Haut, August 6, 1849, i The Politicians and the Foreign News—The Mow | quito Coast Question and the Doctrine of Mr. Monroe—High Surf and a Lucky Rescwe—The Herald run in by Express, §. §e. “Two things break the monotony Of au Atiantic trip. — Someti ! you ship a sea, ‘And sometimes sev a ship.” And 60 it is at the sea shore. It is a monotonous business, after you have acquired the inventory of the locality. They who have their thousands of loore cash, plenty of time, and a family of interest- ing daughters, in raptures with the romance of the ealt water, may doubtless, as many do, pass a | whole summer comfortably enough at Cape May ; but to him who exists upon the politics of the day, to whom the morning papers are a greater luxury | than Congress water or the Atlantic waves, and | who feels that he has not the record of the world’s | doings posted up till he has read the Merald—to such a customer, the crowded tables, the dinner ceremonials, the ten-pin alleys, the shoou aller. - the bilhard rooms, and all the other odds and ends of a fashionable watering place, without | the benefit of the morning papers, fresh from | the mint, are a dead bore. And yet even he has something of enjoyment in witnessing the alandum of the crowd to the festivities and sports of the season, and the zest with whieh they enjoy the fun. And he has yet another resource for killing time, Not in. the soft nonsense of the ball room—sot in the light gossip of the young misses ball will take place on Friday the 17th inst, | A suit of apartments has | fay that there need not be ex: | mage do the parlor—notin the salt water— of pins—not in long rides in the dust or the dog days ; but in getting intoaknot of old politicians, in a quiet corner, in the discus- sion of the momentous events which agitate the nations on both sides of the sea. Sunday's Herald, with the foreign n great demand to-daj $ came in from the steamboat landing, and a half miles off, and as one rider came fifteen minutes nearly ahead of the other, he gai an advantage equal to a hundred and fifty news- papers, over his competit . The news was read and discussed, and, among the most intelligent men here, the following are the conclusions upon the foreign advices : 1. That the gallant Hungarians will be crushed. 2. Thata permanent French army will be requi- site to hold the Po ip poses, at Rome, as the tem- poral sovereign of the Papal territories; and that the old man 1s afraid to go in. 3. That the news has a favorable squinting to am alliance between Turkey and Great Britain, for the arresting the southeastern annexations of Russia. 4. That France is disgraced; and = * 5. That the continent of Kurepe, without the aid ot France, must retrograde to the old, rotten mo- narchy system, embgacing France herself in the catalogue, with Russia as the continental dictator. _At home it appears that the administration are disposed to adopt the policy of Mr. Monroe, of enang foreign ieee from the control of the affairs of the independencies of North America. This is the policy of the locofecos to Cape Horn, vide the resolutions of Mr. Allen in the U. S. Se- nate, 1846, and the speeches of Gea. Cass on the bill for relloving the Yucatanese, 1848. This po- hey was opposed by the whigs in the Senate, Mr. Clayton among them, as proposed to be re-declar- ed by Allen and Cass; and if the cabinet are now disposed to adopt the policy in, reference to the Mosquito coast, we apprehend it will be from the necessities of the case, and not that it is a pre-or- dained principle of action. Mr. Dix also frequent ly referred to this subject at the session before the last, as demanding the attention of the govera- ment, and it wasan oversight on the part of Pre- | sident Polk and his cabinet, that they did net re= quire the British goverument to explain their movements in the Nicaragua country. Perhaps Col. Polk expected the election of Cass, and left ths question asa nest-eng for him to latch out with John Bull, sausfied that he would make the most of it, and get a fight out of it if possible, as a compensation for the loss of the “inevitable war® on the Oregon bill. As it stands, we trust her Majesty’s advisers will be required to explain themselves as having no au- thority over the Mosquito country. But we are running off from Cape May. There was a dreary thinning out from the Rotale this morning, pethaps ot not less than four hundred Sunday visiters. There are still some two thou- sand visiters on hand, including the arrivals this afternoon. The day has been stormy—the sea high: A stranger and his wife, the man wearing a life-preserver, were carried out by the waves into deep water—the boat was not out, the sea being too rough; and in this extremity, a line of men was formed, hand in hand, from the shore to the two frightened individuals in the surf, and thus they were brought safely to the land. Dr. Fiske gives one of his lectures on psycho- logy this evening, at the ‘* Kursaal,” and crowds of visiters are going over from the hotels. A man who lives not to eat, but eats to live, is satisfied with camp fare, and out of all patience if compelled to undergo the through trip of a fashiona- able dinner; but to those who would come to the Cape for good Satsg we can safely recommend them to Congress Hall, without any disparagement to the Atlantic or the other hotels, for they are all ambitious to be the best. w. in Branrorp, Dovnir Brac, Conn., August 7, 1849. Things in Waterbury, in New Haven, and other places—Visiters, §c. §c. From Litchfield to Waterbury the ride 1s one of the finest in the country; winding through the | mountains, the traveller is surprised with the beauty | of the scenery and the high state of cultivation ex- | hibited on either side. Waterbury is probably the | most thriving and prosperous village in Connecticut, | laid out in good taste, and ornamented by nume- rous public buildings, as well as private residences. The Episeopal Church 18 an elegant affair, and would not suffer by comparison with some of your finest churches in New York. There has recently been built a very expensive hotel, called the “ Scovill House,’ which, tor magnificence of ex- terior aud superior accommodations, cannot be excelled. This hotel has all the modern improve- | ments, and water is carried into every room by ipes, from a spring on a mountain, The Water- bury band discoursed excellent music on the beau- tilul evening we were there. | From, Waterbury to New Haven is about twenty | miles ride, along the valley of the Naugatuck. | ‘Atter_regaling the inner man at the “Tontine,” io New Haven, those who wish for quiet comfort and the pleasure of sea bathing and sea air, will turm their course to Branford Beach (if they have ever been there), and will not be happy ull they are | once more seated under the comfortable roof of Mr. L say, is a host “as isa host, Your readers have hod a description of this beautiful place, its “brave old oak” and majestic forest groves. Worn out | by the suflocating air of erowded eities, beneath these trees the traveller may quietly repose— “Here in the sultriest season let him rest; Fresh is the green beneath those aged trees; Here winds of gentlest wing will fan his bresat— ansley, our host. Mr, L.. as Burton would From heaven itself he may inhale the breeze, Oh, let him seine scorching ray with disease, is length, the loitering pilgrim untired, the moras the “aoea," ‘the awny, = This house is crowded with } oung men, with some married ane Reg their wives. The palm is universally e ‘d to Mrs. P. of Springfield, for herw t ' ness and ality of manners. Mrs B > ot’ Beuae ford, wi Ser pretty ehild, are ing a sensa- tion among our bachelor guests, tia said Ji H., of Georgia, a wealthy bachelor, is about enter the blissful state of matrimony with a boarding here. On Friday evening of last cur capacious dining room was cleaned for a dance; “And when Music arose, with its voluptuous swoll,”’ many a gay heart bounded th the mazy dance. dione this house is the Hrantord Point House. juently cross over to enjoy the society of the ladies. Miss (., of Hartford, Mise H., of New York, and Mrs. 8., of New Ha a beautiful young widow, with solid charma, are the favorites with our young gents. Miss G., besi her other numerous accomplishments, excels at wy” ten pins. A few days since a large beautitul sail boat Comm “Commodore Bill,” (and a better sailor, or more worthy man, never walked a quarter deck,) and eniled to Pot Island, a place made celebrated by tradition, a8 @ resort of Capt. Kida. On this islond is —- ny - 4 rock, twelve fe wi perfectly formed, and holdi bor barrel. Some think it was made by ¥ but undoubtedly the water has, ey Nia’ worn oe A public house is the only building on the Yesterday it rained, but this, nor the wind, did not prevent a party going out to sail. Some cast up their accounts by a process not laid down in any system of book-keeping —others braved the dangers of the deep with the hardiness of an old seit The storm continued yesterday ; but new “Th a. he, ee dewey morn, With breath all incense, and ith check all boom, Langhing the clouds away with playfal And looking 4s if earth ee ‘The Weather ana the tiledgeville, Oe, Recorder, of the Teh Inst. sa: now been upwards of four weeks since it com: meneed raining this quarter. There has seldom day elapsed. until Sunday last, without more or falling The een been literally deluged, = yy frome ee pe Tyne washed. This mi SH of cemtaat le leet rmectnsacncee u out corresponding fruit, now. after the seoond week in August, to be overcome, conflicting, too, with the securing of fodder Thus, under the moet favorable cireusmstances for the = were we called upon to express an opinion, more than two. thirds of the uenal product, i that mach In regard to corm. there basin general been no particular da- . h it will be somewhat rotted, atlit bundance made Peas. potatoes, ke , ‘The omt crop was but The y of us took the lore, commanded by scorn, ‘no tomb The M It has Those that were not killed by the frost are au frem the rot. We learn that the rinesom the are yielding better crops, Mori side bills