The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1852, Page 3

ATLANTIC STEAM NAVIGATION. ~ Whe Passages of the Principal Steam Lines New York and Europe During Below will be found tables of the time made, during the past year, by tho principal steamship lines between this city and Europe. It includes the Collins and Cunard Liverpool lines, and the Havre and Bremen lines. In comparing tho avorage trips of the two imme- diate opposing lines—the Collins and Cunard ves- sels—it will be seen that the latter are ahoad of their opponents on the esstern passages by about two hours, but the former more than make it up on the weatorn passages, their trips having boon accomplished in fifteen houys undor their compoti- tors. With the exception of one vessel on each line, the Arotic (Collins) and Europa (Cunard) having to put into Halifax for coal, their voyages have beon accomplished with great regularity, aad without accident, during the entire year. Tho castern passages of the Havre line to Cowos have averaged over a day longer than the Liverpool tines. They woro also twenty-three hours longer than the Collins vessels on the western trips, bat only about cight hours behind the Cunarders. It will bo berno in mind, however, that Cowes is about eighty milos further than Liverpool, so that on the western passages the Havre line has mado equal time with the Cunarders. ‘Tho trip: of the Bremen ptoamors, both east and west, have been rather protracted, they having made only ono trip in twelve days during tho whole year. COLLINS’ LI’ EASTERN’ PASIAG , u aM 2 8 PMR Ui 6 AM It 2) Ww PM 6M 1 @ Pa 37 PM 12 7 CO cP“ Wil w@” PM ii 6 16 eM 610 1 3 PM 10 9 45 PM 10 10 15 PM Ww 6 WO M* IL @ 09 Pu Ww 10 00 AM 10 ab 0 AM W 2 00 PM WW 7 16 AM WW 16 AM ll 2 15 YM lL 5 00 ++ NO D PM 12 90 Atlantic, Deo 2 ec 17-8 PM il 8 00 Arctic,..,Deo 2—12 bh Jan 1-6 AM ll 13 00 Total time of 24 pacsegor 5 Nome. Artic. es eats Api 315 PM Apl 1)-10:15 AM Moy — M asin’, one Bas Sree eas Bee! ral sesseeeasesene BS! Seen Total time of 25 passages... Average timo of each passage j Put into Hatifax for coal. CUNARD LINE. EASTERN PASSAGES. ssage. . Arr at Liverpai Jan 11 ol. 4M za) Neme. Atri Left Ne Ja. sont f- SHERSSE 2 REEREEEE. coueces-S5 Howiaet~Fe wrlce america ‘Total time of £2 passages... Avorage time of each pase: nol PASSAGES. trr. at N. York. Jan 17— SSrtStenk' ISERSE = Ss Average time of eac “7 Pus into Matifax. : 3 LINE, SAGE: eirvived at Pied ttt eof 11 pre ¢ timo of eno : oP d 5 1PM AM Mi no of onal pace WESTERN Les u F's 1 ; Aila a Of a andol pi, ued tylag frosen 1 atly on Monday moxr ' four'h of Py t iuenes, h A tiatun ~J | sales, & ripter. war Tun Over by @trmin avd Kilod ay New Ded fera. om Batorcsy, . | zen of this cor Interesting Correspondence. Our Washington Correspondence. Waasninaton, Jan. 19, 1852 Congress and Intervention—Scott’s Opinions— ard’s Policy—Webster om the Indepevtent Union Tack—Panic among the Demacracy—Prospect of some Trouble on Interrention—Captain Long’s Correspondence—Cotonels Benton ani Fremont— Miss Hayes— The Weather. Monday is genorally the day for tho dovelope- ment of business in the two houses of Congress, and from their proceedings to-day, it will appear that they have cut out several important jobs. At tho proper time we may expect an intoresting do- bate in the Sonate on Mr. Clarke’s anti-Koasuth resolutions. Mr. Clarke isa Scott man, and does not offer his resclutions of non-intervention in Euro- pean affairs without a full knowledge of what ho is doing. General Scott is understood to be teetotally opposed to the polioy of Kossuth, and this impres- sion of his position on this subjeot has strengthened him among Southern whigs. As the advocate of intervention, acsording to the scheme of Seward and Company, Creneral Scott knows that tho South- ern whigs will drop him, and fall back upon Web- ster and Cobb, as the Indogondent Union ticket. Thore is somo danger, in any event, of this indo- pondent ticket. Seward goes for the power, and Scott may cut Kossuth and his policy out-and-out, and ho may endorse the Compromises, l'ugitive Slave law, and all, agit is understood ha inteads to do, and Seward will go for him. The first thing is, to get possession of the government, and tho tirst necessity for this is avaiable. Gon. Scoti’s im- menéo military popularity, so completely over- shadows ali other whig candidates, that ho is now conceded on all sides to bo their only man. And intervention is mot a whig doctrine. It never was. It is too progressive for taat party. Iv is bett stited to Tammany Hall, and threatens to become a egerious matter of contention between the Northern and Southern democracy at Baltimore. All the proceed among the legislatures of the Nor‘thora States upon intervention, and ell the popalar re ceptions of Koseuth, including Tammany Ifail and Jackson Hail, of this city, show that tha Northorn demoorats sie fairly in for this thing and for the Gorman voto We expect, however, that the South will! control the decir \timore, unless the affairs of Europe should take some sudden and startling ro- volutionary turn. There is somo alarm, however, lest this thing of intervention shall gain sach headway ia tho North, as to bo unmanagaable at Baltimore. in which event there will be a row anda split in the party, for tho South will nevor swallow the doctring. In this view, the progress of Koseuth and his policy in the West, becomes decided.y interosting Mr. Webster, it is rumored, will shortly come out with another Hulsemann lotier for domestic consumption. It is also ssid that utterly abandon- ing the idea of a nomination by the whig National Conventien, Mr. Websterhas eoriously turned his attention to the expedient of an independent union ticket, and intends to run any how. The Compro- mise resolutions, lately introdaced into the Senate by Gen. Foote, are believed to have been a move- ment for a Ree A for the benefit of Webstor and Foote, or ebster and Cobb, as the case may bo. The rorolutions intended to bo offered to-day by Mr. Smith, of Alabama, calling for the official naval correspondence in relation to the conduct of Kossuth on board the Mississappi, were cut off by a debate on a pee wld Thoy will probably, now, not be offered before Monday nex’, which is the noxt resolution day. . Col. Benton, we understand, has just fina!ly con- cluded tho sale of Fremont’s Mexican tract of forty thousand aores, in California, to a London company for e million of dolla: Miss Catharine Hayes draws overwholming houses at a dollar a ticket—reserved soats two dollars. It is{found that this last tremendous snow storm will cauec great suffering among the poor in dis- triots where such a winter as this has never boon experienced before; and it is aleo feared that much of the grain of the oountry will be frozen oat. Wasnincron, Jan. 20, 1852, Gen, Duff Green and the Meaican Indemuities— Bir. Bern hisel and Mr. Briggs—A new Negro Question, and Brother Brooks again Miseing—Bounty Land Test— Gen. Cass not on hand. As was to be expected, Gen. Duff Green, has stirred up a considerabie egitation in the House, on the subject of the egencies appointed at the lact rersion, through which to make payment of the indemnities due to Mex: ico, General Green says, substantially, that botweea Mr. Webster, Corcoran & Riggs, end the Barings, of London, somethivg like a million and a baif of dollars were made, or will yet be made, ont of a payment of $8,000,C00 due to Mexico, We apprehend, however. that the only difference Iu the case is between tweediedum and tweedledee—whother Corcoran & Company, or Gan Duff Green & Company. rhall have the benefits of the job. It is unfortunate that Mr. Webster, then, should bave to bear the brunt of the fight. Gan any man be- lieve for a moment that Mr. Webster would, under any consideration, consent to pocket a share of the profits of e transfer 0: speofe to Corcoran and the Bariugs, in exchange for Kexican bends, at from 60 to 76 per cent discount, with which to pay the Mexican indemnity, a at par value. j Mr. Briggs has iutroduced a resolution inquiring into the irgality of the clection of Mr, Bernhisel, de- | Tines in Nav Orleans-- Pre legate from Utah, We understand that the resolu tion will be enlerged tomorrow, ro as to comprebent | au inquiry into the epictiual wifery of the Mormons. | It 1s @ pretty well eetublished fact that Jamss | Brook: the vote on tho Fugitive Siave | lew. ¥ 3, ® resclution was offered declaring | the right cf the States to exolt egroes within | coming or remeining within their borders, The rasclu- | tion wae intended #* an answer tothe demands of Great | Britain in reference to certain local laws of Charleston, B. C., under which free negroes coming into that port, | oa board thip, are taken cif ond kept im prison til the | veese] leaves the place. The object ig to protect the elty | egeinet the incendiary schemes of the abolitionists. Great Britein suffers from those laws—she has agisated their eonstitutionality—and thisreeclution was iavended to advise ber that the federal government can baye nothing to do with the subject. Upon suspending the rules to admit this resolation, the oa, James Brooxs identally not fo om a3 in the case of the eBlave law, And th rt p n the offirmative ition om this titk- is a judicious p And so we go. Lich question 20. Wasntneron, January = Thirty Fi th Anni« iof | American © ver ry Dis Mr. | — Re. °o Am annual mociing venerable and vone: | the Hon.\Daniel Webster pros | of the United States, the Secretary of udge Mel of the eme Cou members of Congress, were present. comfortably filed the spaci lower floor e frat Presbytevian cherch, in which the meotin, was held. M r. Webster, on teking the chair, spoke a2 fol* lone— Gentlemen of the Colonization Socioty—There iy | not only ne this society, but also no citi- who more deeply laments than is to be asoribed my being t, to assume the chair of this | | fully couy by which Resolved, That African 0] as mann eel ann sclenlmeien, a8, 8 and the encouragement of the g snerel, poi sera gene: Mr. S. lamented the absonce of Mr. CI , and spoke with unaffected enthusiasm of the success of his labors. Mr. S., in tho outset, spoke so the fol- lowing points:—1. That the Northern States aro ot benefited, but are rather injured, by the pre- sence of a free colored population in their mids‘. 2. That tho South, and all classes of the South. are injured by this class of their population. 3. That the free colored people thomselves are inevitably degraded by contact with the white race, and do not axhoy that liberty, nor any of thoso adi ages of heppincss and improvement, which they may attain under a government of their own and a community to themselves. Mr. Stanton then prosesded to the main subjeot—tho propriety, and expediency, and g00d policy, of establishing the proposed Ebony line of steamers to tho coast of Africa. Ho adverted to the immense steam navy of Groat Britain. Ina case of necessity, she could bring out a thousand steamers upon the sea. We were also far behind \useia and "tance in this important element of self- defence. He contended that our navy should be so reased by steamships aa to be serviceable to com- merce in times of peace, and readily prepared for action in time of war. Should there be peace for the next twenty-five yearr, our naval establishment, at the present rate, will cost ua some $20,000,000. What is to be,done with this vast sum! What might not be done with it for the benofit of the country! He thought that much might be done to strengthon the navy, and to benefit ourcommerce at the samo time, by tho introduction of steamships, which would be useful to promote our commerce in peace, and to defend it in war. tHe dwelt upon tho superior efficiency of steamers over sailing vessels. fe enlarged upon the advan tages to commerco, a3 weil as to the white and black races, which would dow from this Ebony line, and dwelt upon the powerful agevey it would oxert in the suppreesien of the slave trade. He pleaded thatall that was necessary to Africa—tho land of promise to the black man—was to make Africa at- tractive. This was already being done, and could he fully accomplished, so that our free colored population would fly to tho shores of Liberia with the avidity with whioh tho sons of Evin are now lying for refuge to the sbores of tho United S:ates. Che Rey. Philip Slaughter was next iatroduced, and spoke to the following resolution: Rerolved, That the scheme of American colonization i broad enough for Christians of all creeds, Politicians of all parties, to stand upon, and th: ite principles are in harmony with the rights of individu. als, the iighta of the States, and our obligations to the Union. Mr Slaughter, following in the same gonoral train of remarks 24 the gentleman from ‘l'ennessco, delivered a very beautiful specch in support of colonization as the cheap, efficient and providen- tinl agent for the redemption of Africa, tho civili+ zation and christianization of her people, through her decendants returned from our shores; and, also, 43 an instrumentality promotive of tho harmony and stability of tho Union. Mr. Webster read tho two preceding resolutions, and cordially invited apy other gontiemen to speak upon them, who might desire to do se. The audi ence, however, insieted upon hearing tho Cireat Nx- pourder himself. Whereupon, Mr. Webster rose, and enchained the attention of the audience for perhaps half an hour, ia a calm but earnest argument in support of African ooloni- ration. He said it had been many years sinco ho bad taken a part in this society. [t had been formed, chiefly, under the auspices of Southern gentlemen. Its first president, ho bolioved, was tho eminent and virtuous Judge Bushrod Washing- ton Among the Vice Presidents was the present Preeident, since then called upon to take aa active part in its deliberations. Mr. W. had novor onter- tained a doubt that this society was useful and practical, and that it might ultimately prove to be of the very highostimpoitance. ‘There is no power in us to sce tho end of all things, from the be- ‘inning. God Almighty is his own interpreter. he cupidity of men is thus often mado inetrumental to the great ends of his beno- ficence. Mr. W. then proceeded to show how tho introduction ef slaves into North America might eventually reeult in the redemption of Aftica, and in the difiusion of liberty, knowledge, civilization, and roilgien in that benighted continent. Tho ways of Providence are intricate, and human ima- givation traces thom in vain. We cannot see whero they load, nor where tho oo wbinatien onds; but we may depend upon it, that although wo see tho white and black races brought togother with their instinctive ropulsions—that gb it may be impossible for taem to live t gother upon terms of equality. is still tho évsign of a good Providence that it shall end ia the bappincrs of all. Ho then argued tho prac tleabiltty of the scheme of colonizstion, upon the auds as the other two presediag sp akers, b 2 own peculiarly strong aud sonorous style. Ween Mr. Webster had concluded, the reto lutions were adopted, and the mosting adjourned The exceeding coldness of tho night prevented ueually large attendance of speakers and listeners; but though the meeting was not a crowded or enthusiastio as the last, it exhibited a steady improvement in practical results. Our New Orleans Correspondence, New Orzeans, Jan. 10, 1852 s of the Great ling in the South Sow stern Conventioa— re towards Kossuth--Defence of Consul Owen—Sad Accident— The new Prima Donna, Madan Wile mann, &e ‘Tho weatber, which has been vory cold here for the last ten days, has again become ag mild and as balmy as epring. The recent heavy feiluros, aud the rivers beirg closed above, have mado business very dull. Man) of our first merchants are in a very tight place, and an inorcace of failures is looked for. ‘The old cry of “hard times,” is heard on every hand The great Southwestern ‘ond Convention, which has been in session for the last five days, ad yesterday evening. The convention was hotels, b Oar State has od from its dormant and inanimate New Orleans had become like some ago at a cross road, enly e ed or pro. on visited by travell nsible of ba: Jrosds are tho be dregged out of tho mud. ons, ollered by Mr. Burw of the coma cault of the labors of tho th of the ( each road Jrleane a ky Pb ¢ ond Navk Pew G ulsrille ational route mn of ours—who at illustrious fellow citi , tivation, | » of the early founders of this i {and who has for co many years manifested his | sense of its importaroe, in his me " ed success, active use- 1 his devoted i by continued iline in th care of his nilamep, appeal | to the ‘Throne of Graco and of Mercy, n y for | | b's restoration ie health, but for tho coatinued | w is £ooicty d prosperity of U Butlor, Chapiain to th ve tcf the annual rey ot L + the Ke net the last 3 fore appropriated by ¢ Gr their expens slavee of the b remembered, ¥ } . of our eruivors, ardgis curs i men, women, and ehiidren—tu ver to the Liberi colony. ‘The number of emigrants taken out to 1 & the past year, is 750 ir rms | er shan of any preveding your sac | { bliss | te Sv Fonthweat the Viorida wod Pewinaular vc rpi=—The Mobile and Onio ro A and Nashrille road; the and Ohio rond; th ‘t . 1; the J New Ore pringe exter or Vent f, and (here diverg ni sud | trans, 4; | lis | Mr. Burnell evpported lutions by an { be end highly intercstir Ho mentioned | the singular clroumetance that the mex | this conventio direct mail t bat eurveyed kb with certain bravebes le had fixed upon tho ¢ el from New Orleans to ( on G to the capitals of tua Mids REY Gives, aud Wink Heiemen the resolutions on the ground that they were ad- assembled, Congress, 3 being constructed in sections for noarly the wholo distance. sate diferent tines, of railroad for tho soveral tates mentione: resolutions, wero unanim- ously adopted by the convention. Resolutions wore offered Ls AS . Ecéo, of Mis- sissippi,for a line of railroad San Diego or San on the Pacific coast, by the way of El Paso, to the State ef Texas, and for a momorial to Cane, asking for an appropriation of fifty millions of acres of the public lands, lying in tho State of California, for the construction of the Great South Western Railway. Capt. Piko, of Arkansas, opposed the resolutions, and said it was tmpossible to build the road to California, without the assistance of the North. We must interest them, and ask for a moro contral trunk, witha branch running South and North, wo would got no railroad at all. If we wanted to keep California wo must bind her to us by a great national railroad, or olso as soon as she gets out of her swaddling clothes, sho would throw off hor allegiance and set up for horsel, and we would loose her. The resolutions were laid on the table. Mr Choteau, of Missouri, proposod the following resolutions : Resolved, That the obstructions to the navigation of the Upper Mississippi by the Des Moines and Rook River Rapids, are such as reyitize an immediate action of Gon- rers, Reselved, That the enlargement of said canal to meet the wants of commerce, deserve the serious and prompt action of the National Legislature. Rerolved, That the Senators and Representatives in Congrees be, and are hereby requested, to bring this gubjcct to the consideration of Coagress. Kesolved, That the bars atthe mouth of the Missie- sippi river area great obstruction to commerce, and tat the same should be removed as soon as practi Reeolved , That in the sense of this Convent liberal eppropriation ehould be made by Cor removing the obstructions to the marig et River, Mr, Isaac E. Morse, of Louisiana, the defeated candida‘e in the b’ourth Congressioaal district, who wore & pair of brown siciped pants, whiob gave him the air of a convict ia the penitentiary, opposed verso to the intorests of the convention and that they would injure the great objeot for whioh it had bi Ho tanoied himselt bask on the floor of id rallied once more on tho old demo- craite doctrine of opposing internal improve 8. Captain Pike, of Arkansas, said ho was personally in favor of the resolutions, and he bolieved that there was not a whig or democrat in his Siute who would not vote for them, bat as they had boen made a political fire-brand of, to disturb tho oon- vention, he would move they be lwid on the table. ‘Tbe vote was tuken by Staves, and tho mtioa pre- vailed After tho disporition of some unimportant mat- tors, the eonveution adjourned sine dte lum sorry to say that the focling iv the South towards Koseuth, is anything bus cordial. He is grossly misconstrued aud misrepresented by many of our leading men, who, without studying bis cause and his principles, have become yioleatly pre- judiced sgainst him. ‘They chargo bim with being @ demagogue, and with gross impudence, ia coming here to construe for us our policy, and Washing ton’s farewell address; noither ef which he cannot be fairly charged with. There are others, 1am happy to say, with more enlarged winds and iiboral views, who cherish for him tho protoundest admira- tion, and Kossuth has but to come among us to destroy tho prejudice of weak minds, sud roceive as reat @ heartfelt welcome as has yet grosted him. Phey say the people of Now York have mado asses of themselves, in paying him so much devotion; but I recollest when General Bertrand, oae of Na- poleon’s marchala, came hore, the people made groater asses of themselves, by ng tho horses out of his carriage and dragging it through tho streots. The defence ef Consul Owen does not receive muoh sympathy hore, though his explanation cer- tainly puts him in a better position with our psople. ‘Tho prese of our city publishes it without o»mment. Had he, in the first instance, fell buck oa Mr. Fill- more’s procismation, and published to the world bis instructions, with the efforts ho did make, hoe would have ocoupied higher ground, and the plume would have fallen on the shoulders of the l’resident. A sad accident occurred on the Sth instant, to a ton of Colonel Isaac T. Preston, of Carrollton. ‘The young lad, who is about 12 years old, was riding a poney, and driving a loose horse ahead of bim; while reaching forward and striking the borse with a switch, the horse kicked him with his bind foct, tearing away the upper part of his right cheek, breaking the jaw bone and destroying tho eye ball, which was forced from the socket. Our theatres are all in fali blast, but tho French opera is the only ono worth attending. ‘Tne new prima donna, Madame Widomanr, is the best we bave had here for years, end is thoughi to be supe rior in every way to Parodi. ‘Wo ore anxiously looking for Miss Kitty Hayes and the alte opera, RUHEUS., Our irish Correspondence. Durwuin, Jan. 5, 1852 ar Gowk News for the Priends he Cathulic Defence As n Ireland and Now York— The Lae Mr Bateson— Another Atteonpt at Murder The Electric Telegraph The year 1851 has joined its predecessors of the past of time, and it is but natural to look back upon the twelve months which have flown away, and endvavor in the retrospect to discover what Ireland has lost or gained during thoir lapse. We fear there is little room for congratulation. Above all looms the melancholy and distressing fact of a fearful decimination of our people. While every other nation is gaining almost frem one end of the carth to the other, the census of the past year bas disclosed that a million and a half of the irich people have been struck off her roll, Had this beenthe work of a hoolihful emigration—of a high minded and buoyaut poople seeking new chores and now scttlements for a superabundant population in the prairies of the Weot, all had boen weil; but, alae! even our exiet ais the result of the same thrice told tale—/rish mirgoversin Irish mistulo, famine. ‘There have cau the decrease of human beings—these bave turned the lund, in many parts, into acomparative wil- derness—these have caused, inthe wild justice of revenge, the re-establizhment of ribboa and other recret gvcicties—theso bave driven, and probably i thousands of nd Now h Bm? The Old of the Ir ution —Steam b for their advantage, thouands upon th he hii » to other countri until, like the Je uder every go- that the same company which has submarine tologra| Pot lish shores, has in the it guaranteos the com; ment @ proposal by whi: tion, a part Halied Period, of a submari telegraph upon vory same ‘and con- Struction, betweon Kingston Holyhead. The sole condition required by the com is, that tho government will pay it, for the exclusive uso of two wires which Fi} ed placing at its disposal, a yearly sum of £1,000. Application has been mado to her Majesty, to grant a charter of incorporation to certain porsons associated togethor for the purposo of establishing and maintaining a communication, by means of steam navigation, between Galway, or somo other port on tho west coast of Ireland, aud British Ame: the United States of America, and othor ports of North and South America; and for carrying on any busi- ness, for tho purpose of land transit, connected with said navigation, under the name or style of “The European and American Steampacket Company.” It bas been suggested that in the prosoat state of the country, and tor tho more immediate suppression of those secret socictios which are the curso of Ire- land, a special commission should be issuod for the immediate trial of the parties committed for the murder of Mr. Bateson. Meanvhils, the fearful tragedy has brought its natural consequences. The Castle Blanoy estate had been purchased by a Mr. Bates, who had it etillin his power to withdraw from his bargain without any responsibility; he has now resolyed ho will not come to Ireland. “‘The improvo- mente he had already commenced ho has ordered to be digcontinued; even were he obliged to pay tho entire purchase money, ho deolares ha never would livo in aneighbvorhood whore the very sound of hia name, so like that of poor Bateson, might prove his death warrant, town, had app d 2 quarry on tho sido ofa ay leading f i y road, and d, which is situated atthe back of o. ere he observed threo men ‘Thoy seon made upto him, following him attor abusive language, they beat bim with a! and stones, and flung him into the quarry, leaving him for dead. A woman passing toat way acol- dentally peresived hum, a ran for help. Ho was removed to bia own houco, and medical attendance was soonst bund, when it was discovered that he long parallel wounds oa tha side ; the skuil was donuded at the corners of the wounds, the right eac was split, and tio right side of the faco wuvh awollon. ‘lhough ro- stored to corsciousnr sé after mauy hours’ exortion, his care ie considered nearly hopeless. Tho repu- tation korne by Mr. atwood is that of a kind and considerate landlord. ‘Tbe principal part of his Dundalk evtate is occupied by himecif. In gust last, however, he removed 41x ore: froma a faria which they had hell covjointly, and for which littleor no rent bad been paid for sove- ral years. Jt is conjectured, and not without reason, that the removal of thege conan's is the caue of the atrocious assault. Government has iseued a proclamation offering a reward of one hundied pounds for the discovery of the miscreants concerned in this gutrago. It is easy to suppose tha’ considerable alarm pre- vails, both among lanclords and agents, in the disturbed districts, and many of tho tenantry oven labor under serious approhension from the exist- cuoe of ribbon lodges in toeir vicinity. An armed pa.ty, covristivg of at least five men, on Iriday night last, visited the dwelling of a farmer named ‘Thomas Hoolahan, residing at Ballywilliam, near Parsonstown. Hoolahan bad not retired to bed, although it was about eleven o'clock, as he was un- well, He hoard the dogs bark, and went toa win- dow. When he saw the party approaching, he drew back, and a shot was fived through tho kitoh- en window, and one of the party said, ‘‘Havo no- thing to do with William's land.’ A second shot wee fired through Hoolahan’s bedroom window, and a Jeadon bullet was subsequently found quite close to the bed. Hoolahan’s wife aud sistur got up; they looked out, and, as there was good hght, they saw the party, and rocognized somo of the gang. amongst whom was a servant of thoirs, who bad been discharged some months ago. A notioe wes putin through oue of the windows, tareaten- ing Hoolahun with the death of Pike, if he dared to interfere with William's or Widow Cary’s land, both of whom havo beenevicied The notice was signed “Ce ptain Fire Bali,” and there wai a rade drawing of a ceflin at the bottom On Monday evening, a man named John Over- end wesreturnirg home to the village of South, from thi of Dundalk. At m placa called Knock e was met by tro men, who passed then oxo of tneut, turning suddonly dis-haiged a pistol, toaded with slugs, at Gging the contenta in the amall of his back. end toltothe grovnd imme. and the nts deci per. slugs havo tin ed, and Overend is not vers dangerously wounded Hie wes employed as a bailiff onthe es- tate of the Key. Arthur Clive. Two persons have Lear erresicd cn susp: , and lodged in Dundalk jail. Our Quebee Correspondence. Quvenec, January 17, 1852. f the Ruchmond Reilway—Rumorel Fuilure of the Scheme for the Hatifax Linc—bnpivial Co- lontal Interests— Emigration Statistics for 1831 — Pauper Emigration--Destilution, §e. ‘The first ecd of the Quebec and Kichmond Rail- way was turned on Wednesday.! Lady Eigin’s health was not enflicientiy restored to permit her to bravo the sigors of an castorn gale ; and the Governor excured ifon some similar ground. The cabinet minis however, mastored in great foico, and with the civic authoritice, crossed the St. Lawrence--no very cary maticr jast now, a8 the river is full of large flakes of floating fee, which drift with tho tide with dar rous ,impetuosity--and met at the E min tho dirccters of tho railroad Tho cercmony went off as such offairs usually do; the mine was exploded by tke Hon. F. Hincks at right moment; speeches, appropriato to the oo- M, Wore delivercd by the ministers and meom- of the City Council; after which, a chom- | 1p at the expense of a undivided attention g& the il; fous let grown his may bea beg f t The ha but it ina country, government sion of Parliame et them, from ¢ g—nelt arising from 1and tenure—see the p lot them | 28, onoand all, dl faith, to remove thei; then wi misrule be il; then will lod 0 aud ribbon, disap the J out, and a prospect of f to the country & Co. who suspended pay rool, aud ents pear, human lile will be blood be wa , how ani 1, oven y aoe od bas evor contrived to pre pati n, in 1829. ‘Ado Lewin Wy urdu vi aad Wowk mlinyye puodelt ey ¢ that U! k of the | 1 tke gow y Opp verte tho ¢ ae earl with ¢ Weelto Poriai vill enefit from the the border of forests Waive whica w ion of te Portland io the r ples be oo ould the Mat ‘eo of Canadé fortunately. t Howe's san+ ar. t the tng Britain, in . rtroops troa H & to | od, Liarl Grey seema ob (ener Cpe ig be Ave teed Lae, A elddly | x | nor h valley o! moved from the frontier of molesation in cane of udging from the te. inti to formes i. predict anything with certaints Tho Legislature of ewe session; and Messrs. Hincka, have left for Fredericton, Young, and Tache Y on, to try to settle matters. From circumstances which have come to my know- ledge, I havo reason to bolicve that the toicrably prepared to meet with a dleappeinoedeie : I shall keop you duly informod of the rogult "4 their mission. The New Yorx Henarp is famous for ita star tistics, and I make no apology for dovoting a por- tion of this letter to the ‘‘philosophy of figures.” Ihave obtained a copy of the report of the ohief emigration agent, for 1851, and busten to cuil frow it a few data, which ! send you in advance of the provincial presa. ‘The grand total of the emigrants landod the colony during the year 1851, wag 41,076 souls, agninet 82 in Is acd 33,494 in 1849. OF these, 41 076, 22, are from Ireland, Ey aa increage of about 4,100 on last year; 9,077 from Mngland, showing no increase; 7,042 from Soot- land, being about 4,000 more than last year; 870 from the continent of Europe; end 11,06 from Avotker brutal murder has beon attompted noar | the lower provinces. At Now York, tho name Durdalk, in tho county of Louth, under a | ber of emigrante, during 1851, have besm, Stunces which prove the formidable extent and da according to the New Yor« Ieaany, 289,608 ing character of the ribbon organization ia that | coule, zgainst 212,7 aud 220608 part of the country. ‘Tho violim in tais in- | jn 1819. ‘Irom 1 250 persons emigrated stance is Mr. James Kastwood, Justice of the | to New York in int, chowirg an increase of 40 per Peaco and leputy Lieutenant of the county, | ort on Inst year's emigration; while the Lrich omi- Whose property of Castletown House ia sitmated | gration to Canada has unly iscroased about 24 per Within a mile of Wundall. Mer. Kastwood, | cont, in the same space of time, Tho diiferenes ia while walking bome from Dundalk to Casile- ming to Various onures, among which the recom- ndxtions of friends already sebtlod in the United States, and the belief (which ia almost goneral in Ireland) that the a lorioas tor the Wavsport of emigranta in the 05 Bre BUpe- rior to those in Canada, may bo allowed aw lurge share of infuone Brom England asd Scotland the emigration to New York has beea St nearly stationary. From Scotland the emigration to Canada hes increased about 1.44 por cont on last year. chiefly composed of pa this country by th Unions, who arr complete destivutio Cho increase, | nin sorry to say, has been per emigrants, gent out to landlords and the Poor Law od eo iuaotate of the most out monoy 0; food, and, im meny instances, without clothing Krom the continent our emigration is small, 870 souls; while ihatto New York amounts to nearly 90,000 souls. One main cause of the vory inadequate proportion borno by Canada isthe supmences of oar govorn- mont in refusing to sond Commissionora of smigra- tion to Germany, who might dissominato smong the people euch information respecting the re eourocs of Canade as would indnce a port.oa ab least to chip for Quohee Of the “bow emigrants who arrived in Canada, it is estimated that 4,000 remained in Lower Cae unda; 18,515 settled in the Western provinsea; and 18,561 went to tho States. Somo, trom want of ewployment here, but the greator portion in purcuance of thelrorigisal design when they left ircland, baving merely adopted tho St Lawreaoe route as the shortest und cheapest to Wisvoasin. ‘the mortality, during tho seasoa, has been small, being ocly 0 Gf per cont on caca 100 peraona embarked. The discaves have boon chiely small pox, measles, and ecarlatina Tho most remarkable feature of this yoar'a cmigtation, has been the wholesrlo shipment ot paupers from Ireland and Sootland. Tom thouss:d persons were sent out by the Poor Law Union and thoir iandlords. Colonel Gordon sbipped 1,651 individuals from his catates wn South Uist and jsarra, in Scotland, uttorly deati- tute of proper clothing und bedding ; many obil- Oren, nine and ton years old, not having arag to cover them. ‘The wife of the captain of one of the veteela in which they eailed, was busily en, during the voyage in convorting old bread, gt canvas, ard blankets into coverings forthom. One man passed (be inspection at quarantine with oo ment but 2 woman's petticoat. The landlord of unfortunate creatures had paid their passage and the emigrant tax, but refused to benr any share of the expense oftheir maintenance aftor they roached the wharf at Quobos, or of their convoyance te thore parta of Canada whero they could procare employment. Pity them aa wo must, their cendijon. even atter the hardships they have urdergone, is botter anywhere than in their: Hi ome. They said many of them ted for months vious to their mn on ehellfish a: awoed pickod ap ke of their island; that tho ordinary © ofa laborer in South Uist was one pound of 1 wrotched pittanes even cons yment was not bo be found pet, notwithstanding theses incredible sufferings, the poor wretches were 80 mash atéacbed Ww theie i lo that mony of them refused to ombark ter America, and fled to the woods, whence they were brought back by Col. Gordon’s factors and & kod hipped in hundoulty. , chiefly from Clare and Korry peisons were sent out by the poor ud tucirlandlords ; most of whom ree ceived & sm. y on their arrival bere, tocnable them to reach they destiaation ia Upper Caneda or the States. Iftheee paupers were ail abl: died mon, who ar- rived in the rirg of the year, the province would beas great a gainer by receivirg, as Britain is by gettirg rid of them. Unfortunately, the propor- tion ot children is nt least equal to that of mea, ond that of women nearly twice ss great Di the part eenson, too many have arrived here ine ftate of ecimplete nin the months of Oc tober.ond > he wot aud cold wea ther is heginniag to ect in, aud the demand for le- bor bas begun to fa n such cates the most ogaravated enflurings to the emigrants, and ooca- bion# oxpenre to the prevince are inevitable. [tis the intention of go’ t, | believe, to propose to the Legislature ng next seesion, &@ measure by which the tax on ¢ ‘auts wil be modified se as to compel their ar: here not later than Jane. STADACONA. Mrassce or tue Governor or Missrssipet.— Winfield, of i, cont hi ual meg tothe Le, Go ludiug to isc measures, he says— Since the |: ession of the Legislature, d throughout the 30 of @ series of of adjustment, ov, and the iticons of aud to led for son of tho groat ine by tho Lonos to what y, in accordance assed by the predvoed in ape urse to cal of th of ac pee sizeippi were willing to ae- of adjus » as passed i al to § ple; and 1% is the a & sg at bear! the qnicty } ard good order of sovioty, and who (eel the r y of union and harmony uyou a great queee whic! ests are involved, aie be in- h. pablio lertve no i i » mone trate Ces, snd de more tuan & tus pros the Integrity ofthe constitution, pe wate the Uniowy bine povived Das eey Wer Tewd Wee Owed