The New York Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1852, Page 6

' - nations it is difficult to form an; » take THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN MOVEMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN, Effects of the California and Australian Gohl Discoveries on the Commerce of the World, The Emigration Mania in England, Scotland, and Ireland, &e., &e., &e. TNE EVPECT OF THE CALIFORNIA AND AUSTRALIA GOLD DISCOVERIES ON THE CURKENCY AND VALUE OF PROPERTY. (From the London Times. June 25.] The considerations which, three years , Wore almost derided as to the probable effects of the in- creased supply of gold, are new assuming a prepon- derance over all other subjects. The anxious pause of curiosity is latent, but it is nevertheless fait by every one, and it is easy to understand why it has not Ritherto been more decidedly oxpressed. The tand owners do not care to avow the full extent of their hopes, and to stimulate a cry from the annui- tant class for preventive meddling. That class on the other hand, together with the much larger body who dislike everything that upsets routine and necessiiates thought, endeaver to pursuade themselves into indifference. Their original dis- belief having been forcibly overcome, they seek new refuge in the conclusion that fresh uses for the recious metals will prevent any alteration of value, | tats have yot to bo introduced. We have hers, Bpecimen of the limited created oven by the “of the man would put the like amount into a savings peeks and in bape manner oven our. pettiont tradesmen, inste: keepin, ing '» sort now universally to some establishment that _af- fords them the convenience of a drawing account. Cheques, bills of exchange, postage stamps, olear- ing 8, circular notes, money orders, railroad steamboat season tiokote—all show the rapid tendency of civilization to supersede the necessity of a constant barter of the precious metals; and it may even be questioned whethor, with the growth of morality and of deteotive skill, the danger of for- gery, which was thesole objection to notes below £5, has not also disay As regards anin- creased consumption in the arts, owing to an abundant supply, the form of tho suppo- sition assumes a iteration in value to, have previously taken place. A reduction of five or ten per cent in such things as gold and silver would muke little differonce in the number of purchases of wrought articles, in which, after all, the manipulation constitutes one of the chief ele- ments of expense. It is, moreover, against all ex- perience to suppose that 4 large demand would be coincident with a falling market. With a possi- besa of gold and silver steadily declining in value, people would be much more likely to diminish than to increase their-purehases. This ground of calcula- tion seems, therefore, to have no bettor foundation than the other. Any increase of consumption that e remaining class. conniaing of ordinary men of business, who are not affected by the bias of either the landlords or the anuuitants, hesitate to discuss a subject which they have no time to work out, and on which, nevertheless, they are expected to be per- fectly clear. Under these circumstances, although it may involve a repetition of former statementerit will be useful to review once more the general bear- ings of the whole question. ‘0 arrive at an exact solution it would be neces- sary to ascertain the amount of gold and silver in the world, and the present annual consumption for coinage and the arts. This is impossible, and con- joctural quantities must consequently be taken. The total of coin has been gue: at £400,000,000. Of this £150,000,000 may be assumed to be gold, and £250,000.000 silver. “The annual consumption of gold is believed to be under £6,000,000. Starting with these figures, if the demand for gold were likely to continue limited to its ordinary amount, an ostimate of the effect of the supplies now pouring upon us could easily be formed. Those Pa s within the few years since the discovery of California have probably in the aggregate lets us an excess of upwards of £30,090,000 over what has hisherto been found sufficient for current wants, and to maintain an ee in the general re- lations of property. The increase, therefore, has been equal to twenty per cent on the whole sum in existence; in other words, the measure of value would appear to have been extended one-fifth (just as ifa twenty-five inch measure were extended to thirty inches), and hence the effect to be looked for is obvious. ere gold is the standard, the price of every article adjusts itself to the relation it bears to that metal. If sovereigns were twice as nume- rous, @ may would demand two where he now takes one. An incroase of twenty per cent in the supply should, therefore, have been followed by a propor- tionate advance in the nominal value of ‘all things. But ane are wanting of any such general ad- vance. It is necessary, therefore, to inqaire—first, whether any absolute test is available by which the change can be shown to have taken place in some one instance, although it may have been coun- teracted in others; and next, if this be impossible, whether the Ta anomaly can be explained on different grounds. The most direct test would be sought in the price of silver, that.article, next to gold, having hitherto been the least liable to variation. But it was lon; ago pointed out that in thoso countries where ea and silver constituted equally a legal tender, one metal, as it became moro abundant, would displace the other, and that the surplus of gold would thus be reduced, and a large amount of disengaged silver be thrown upet the bullion market in its stead. Previous to the Californian discoveries, silver was the circulatiog medium, both in France and the United States, because since the periods when the double standard was fixed in those countries, it had increased rather more rapidly than gold, and all per- sons having payments to make selected it, therefore, as the best medium. Its relative cheapness in France, however, as compared with gold, was less than 2 per cent, while in America it was merely fractional. When the Californian supplies came forward, the difference soon disappeared, and silver would have become Senay, much the dearest but for the displacement which then, of coufse, occurred. When 100 franes in gold, instead of being worth 102 francs in silver, fell in value to a fraction below 100 francs in the latter metal, it became forthwith more profitable to make payments in gold, and to sell sil- ver at the market price for exportation. In this ‘way a large infusion of gold took place in France, while in the United States it absolutely became the most common circulating medium. Thus, the effect of the new supplies of gold has not been limited to that metal, but has been diffused over gold and sil- ver, and hence, instead of being equal to 20 cent, which would have been the case if the £150,- 000,000 of gold had alone been in question, it has been only Fa per cent, from being spread over the entire £400,(00 000 of gold and silver. By a recognition of this fact, all surprise at the absence of — very striking disturbances up to the present time is removed. There is quite enough to ‘warrant the assumption that an influence operating on one side to the extent of 74 per cent has been partially rendered impereeptible by the force of cir- cumstances in an opposite direction. In the first aM there have been the effects of increased pro- juction from free trade and free navigation, the latter of which, combined with railroads, have cans- edalarge amount of goods that would otherwise have been in store or in transi(u to find its way to market. Next, it is impossible to estimate what po | have been the extent of hoarding in Germany and Italy; and, lastly, there remains to be taken into account the uniform tendency to a fall in prices pr 2c Soe upon the march of invention and the simplification of labor. ‘e have now, however, to consider the future. So long as there is any silver, to be supplanted in countries where, owing to the existince of a double standard, it is optional for the debtor to pay either in gold or in silver, the effects of the increased pro- duction will continue to be extended to both metals, and consequently, if the surplus of gold this year should be, as has been estimated, £25,000,000, its influence on prices could be but 6 or seven per cent. But the period must Pra approach when the dis- placement of silver will have ended, and when the changes brought about will be upon gold alone. In France the existing amount of silver is still doubt- less very large, but thisis not the case in the United States, and the proposed law by which the coins be- low a dollar are to be deteriorated 6.91 per cent will prevent for the present any action upon that portion of the stock. In Germany the debased state of the silver coinage will likewise for a long time preserve it from displacement. In Holland silver has been already established as the standard, and cannot therefore be driven out. With regard to Eastern esti On the whole, however, we may infer the po: lity of the displacement process still occupying three or four years, and that during that time, therefore, the ef- fects to be produced will be spread, as they have thus far been, over both metals. At the end of that period the consequences will be felt by gold alone, and the relations of property -emeazured by a gold standard, will proportionably exhibit a more rapid disturbance. At the same time it must not be overlooked that the increase of gold each year will have meanwhile diminished the per centage ot alteration which would otherwise place. For instance, the total amount of gold in the world, which is now assumed at £150,000,000, would then possibly be £250,000,000, and a pro- ‘duction which, operating upon the first sum, would cause a rise in prices of ten per cent, would, under those circumstances, cause only an additional rise of six per cent. This is a feature of great import- ance in the whole question, because it will con- stantly tend to counteract that increasing ratio of disturbance which might be aes , if the supply of each succeeding year should prove larger er. It is likewise to be borne in mind that, with a diminution in the purchasing power of gold, there will be a proportionate diminution in the in- ducement to seek it. If the quantity of gold were doubled to-morrow, man who is at present con- tent to work for one ounce a woek, would then not be satiefied with less than two ounces. In the face, however, of there qualifying circum: stances, and of the uncertainty of all the assumed totals that have been dealt with, it will be plain to most persons that there is enough to suggest some very Teeided ideas as to the main results that are coming on. A mistake of a hundred millions in the fi , one way or the other, would only make a Sfference of three or four years (where the annual ly is at the rate of £30,000,000) in the date of ent. Even if we,were to take the whole £400,000,000 of assumed money asliable to be acted , it would require little more than fifteen years Bi the existing production to cause an alteration in the relations of property, of fifty per cent. t it is urged that the extraordinary impulse iven to trade and luxury by these discoveries, and the greater prosperity of the whole world, will cause an f sword i for coin for circulation, and a vast consumption both of gold and silver in manu- factures and the arts. It is difficult to see how these conclusions are arrived at. In California and Oregon new communities have risen up, numbering two or ) three bundred thousand souls, among whom com- merce has shown an activity never before witneseod, and yet a fow millions of bullion have sufficed to satab lish an abundant circulation, although ali the aenns of coonomising it which axe usual ia oldee ‘ may possibly take place is consequently likely to be altogether of an unimportant kind as re; the great question at issue, and even if anything of the sort should be observable, it will probably be more owing to clectro-plating than anything else—an invention which, it was at first thought, would lessen the demand, but which has increased it by superseding all inferior materials. THE EMIGRATION FROM GREAT BRITAIN, {From the London Examiner.) EMIGRATION FROM THK HIGHLANDS. The society *for one teen from the Highlands and Islands of tland is doing a pre- eminently good work in an admirable way. ‘I'ho breaking down of smail holdings, and the failure of the potato crops, have combined with other causes to reduce very many faznilies in the extreme north of Britain to a state of the most hopeless deatitution. They have been aided by relief committees until regently, but that fund being now exhausted, the Highlanders are left to face the hard and nakod truth. Of the over-peopling of a barren soil, the burdened condition of estates,and other Highland troubles, it is not requisite to speak in detail. Tho Highlanders, so long averse to emigration, now de- sire in large numbers to be carried to a home in which they may be fed, if they can take their living homes, their wives and children, with them. The pastoral habits of these people fit them thoroughly, more thoroughly than any men in Eu- rope, for the very duties which it is desired at tho ? aptipodes that men should cross the water to fulfil. The iene shepherd in Australia, surrounded by his Highland family, will not be tempted readily to Mount Alexander ; his temper and habits make ie unfit for the lonely life in a tumultuous community to which the gold digger submits. In our High- lands there are starving shepherds without flocks, and in Australia there are fat flocks without shepherds. Our Highlanders are panting now, like every Irish- man, to emigrate, and a society is at last formed to aid them to the utmost in a healthful, manly way. We have read with great satisfaction all the pa- Hee and correspondence that this society has put forth. Every precaution to ensure efficiency in the working has been taken by its promoters, and we should find it difficult to exaggerate the claims which it appears to us to possess on an extended and earnest public support. No help is to be granted to a man in making up the sum of money payable for passage by the stipu- lation of the government emigration commissioners, until he has collected every penny of his own sub- stance and applied it fairly to the helping of him- self, The passages will be in vessels chartered by ‘overnment, upon the government plan, which has en relaxed and modified judiciously on certain points, to fit it for the peculiar circumstances of the case. Only such families will be assisted as are do- clared by the government agents fit to earn their bread across the water. Accepted emigrants who require aid are not to be assisted as objects of charity; money will be lent to them by the society, upon condition of repayment. Nor will the society in any case lend the whole sum required by the emigrant; it firmly requires that one-third of the loan shall be in each case advanced by the proprie- tor whose estate is relieved by the emigrant’s depar- ture. Emigrants who, after they have prospered in Australia, repay the sum advanced to them, will be entitled to suggest, for preference in selection, any Highland friend who may desire to follow them. All money repaid being re-applied to the purposes of the society, it follows that a guinea will pass to and fio, losing a little in each transit, by the average amount of accidente and losses, but still passing to and fro several times before it has become a sum unable to perform Bervico. Within the last few weeks the Queen has made a liberal donation of £300 to the aociety, of which the Prince Consort, with a donation of a hundred guineas, had already become president. A small number of Highland families are already on their way to bettered fortunes. Space is offered in three ships during the ensuing month for Highland emi- grants. In the Miltiades, which is te leave Liver- poolon the 20th of this month, there is accommo- dation offered for 150. The Georgiana, which leaves pic a! on the 3d of July, will be made entirely available for Highlanagemigration, ¢: ‘ing 260 ssengers. The Chance, from Liver on the 4th of July, can accommodate 100. The sociot; is also at this time eee propriety of add. ing to their means of transit by the charter of the transport ship Belle Isle, which will accommodate about 750 emigrants. Such arrangements are, of course, dependent on the amount of favor experi- enced hy the society in its relations with the public. Its plan, however, is too simple to be easily misun- derstood, and, when understood, too sensible, too admirable in every way to be neglected. [From the Inverness Gourier.} THY EMIGRATION FROM THE NORTH The voluntary emigration from the north to Aus- tralia. as well as to North America, proceeds at a very great pace. Every steamer which has lef: In- verness for the south since the beginning of last month has carried a number of emigrants, whole | families as well as young couples an single men; and of late not a steamer has left Muirtown Locks for Glasgow the decks of which have not been liter- ally lumbered with the huge chests and other pro- | perties of the exiles. 1852 is proving an excellent jeap-year for the young women. The Commission- ers of Emigration have for some time past discour+ aged the emigration of single men, seeing the dis- proportion of the sexes which was already com- fide of in Australia; and the consequence has een that numerous marriages have taken place all over the country, the newly wedded pairs proceed- ing immediately southwards, under the charge of the Sora of the Commissioners, to embark for their future home in the land of promise. Now the Commissioners have absolutely resolved to send out ne more unmarried men, and as the rage for emi- gration is extending far and wide, not a few unions will be struck up, that advantage may be had of the government passage and allowances. Good news this for many solitary hearts pining in our High- land glens. We are informed by Captain Macin- tyre, the local emigration agent here, through whose hands many ha’ assed, that numerous young women have Mibeey for passages who are un- able to pay the small sum (£1) which all emigrants under the Commissioner's regulations have to pay. This is a cireumstance which should be smmedi- ately brought under the notice of Sir John Paking- ton and the Commissioners, whose anxious desire it is to send out respectable young women. A small allowance might easily be made to meet the sums which these applicants cannot pay, or a local sub- scription might be raised to aid rome of them. We observe that a Midis for the Scotch emigrants is now to be established by the government in (las- gow. This will be a decided convenience, as hith- erto the Scottish hg ici have had to proceed to one or other of the English ports to embark for the land of gold. Numbers of young men who go out on their own resources are preparing to go from amongst us, and not a few of them from the other side of the Ferry have already completed all the | opie arrangements. There will soon be a humerous Highland colony in the Australian towns and valleys, Hi the emigration continues at the rate at which it has begun and is now going on. THE GOLD DIGGINGS. aren the London Advertiser, June 14.) The tide of emigration appears to be now rapidly flowing ina new channel, for besides the ordinary emigration of mechanics and agriculturists, foster- ed by government and private enterprise, large numbers of individuals belonging to the middle classes are flocking to Australia, with the view of tag, their fortunes at the diggings. It is stated that during the last few weeks about forty young inen, late assistants in a large linen drapery estab- lishment, have quitted their employment as dis- neers of haberdashery and linen nt and have duly equi themselves, and taken berths in passenger versels bound for Australia, their des- tination being Melbourne and the surrounding gold country. But the above is far from being the only instance that could be cited of the nt mania for emigration amongst the clas of persons stated. On all «idee we hear of individuals, members of re- spectable fomilies, olerka, shop ‘nasiatants, and oihera, preparing for a voyage to the antipodos, in- tent upon taking up the dangerous tr; of gold gathering. Tho increase of vosool# put on the sore ab : From the Edinburg Courant. South st. Davia street, Edinburg, bs for some days past presented a very animated 100, in of of persons hav- ing applied to Mr. Wi Bowie, at the Govern- ment Office, for passages to Australia under the government scheme. On Thursday tho number exceeded 500, sndvestecie it was tittle leas, notwithstanding the day being unfavorable. While such is the desire among farm nies to proceed to Australia, we understand that very many of the higher classes have at the samo ae engaged passages to these colonies by private saa THE EYODUS FROM IRELAND. The Western Star, speaking of the exodus of the people from the province of Connaught, says there is no doubt that in a few years more—if some stop is not put to the present outpouring of the people to America, and latterly to rAnstrolia —there will not bea million of the present race of tnhalitants to be found within the compass of the four provinces. ore the west, it is added, they are flying in hun- iS. ** No thoughts of the land of their birth seem to enter their minds, although the Irish poople have heretofore been proverbial for their attachment to their country. The prospect of an abundant har- vest has not the slightest effect in giving pause to their outward movement. The predominant, and in fact the only feeling, that seems to pervade them, is an indescribable anxiety to get out of the coun- try at all hazards. If war, famine and pestilence were known to be close at hand, there could not be greater avidity shown to fly from their houses than 18 every day exhibited by the hundreds who crowd our high roads and railways in their Jonna to the shipping ports. Think of assengers sailing from Limerick during the past week! And then we have hundreds weekly from Waterford, Cork, Dublin, Sligo, and Belfast. We have it from competent au- thority, that within the past 14 months close upon | 10,000 of the,population emigrated from the north- ern province of Ireland. The same authority, writ- ing from Belfast, on Monday last, says: ‘ You will recollect that I was the first, some two years since, who called attention through your excellent jour- nal, to the exodus from Ulster. I can assure you that for tens going at that time we have hundreds now, particularly since the accounts reached of the gold diggings in Australia. In many: cases the younger male membgys of families are proceeding thence, to pave the way for the other branches, who are delaying their departure until they hear somere- liable accounts of the chances for industrious farmers inthatcountry. Itcannot be denied that among this class in the northern ray ibee deep discontent pre- yailsin consequence of the unsettled state of the re- lations between landlords and tenants, and I speak my personal knowledge when I assure you that the breach between those important classos has been considerably widened since the commencement of present, I look forward at no distant day tosee the sturdy and industrious farmors of Ulster ‘so few and for between as to leave ample scope for any immigration which either Englan likely to supply.’ With respect to this same immi- gration, we Fercelve that it is proceeding at no very slow pace. In Connaught alone we have at present several hundreds of Scotch and English farmers, oc- cupying farms, and in some places pretty extonsively, and we perceive by the reports of the recent sales in the Incumberes several English purchasers, 0 that it is not at all unlikely we shall have, to some extent at least-— although brought about by different means—a new plantation of be such as was shadowed forth by the late Sir Robert Peel, some short time previous to his death. we must return again; in the meantime we have which is progressing around us, and which will afford materials to the future historian who may be aa to try his hand upon ‘Ireland and the Trish In 1852.” The Watering Places OUR WHITE SULPHUR CORRESPONDENCE. Waite Sunpuur Srxras, Frederick County, Va., July 8, 1 Summer S!etches—Visiters to the Spris We feel luxuriously disposed to writing this morn- ing. Everything around contributes to this feeling. whole edifice—we have the deepest of chairs and the softest of footstools ; and had we dropped down here from the clouds ignorant of our locality, we would think of Switzerland or Italy, or funcy ourselves on an excursion with Wordsworth among the romance of his Lake Scenery ; or with Sir Walter Scott, in some fairy spot of his beloved Highlands. The air, free from the dust, floating particles and exhala tions of the city, is perfectly transparent, and the sky of aricher blue. Beautitul before our window waves the leaves of a veteran of the forest, while the birds from its branches are treating us to their liquid whistles. They are holding a Congress in that old tree, intent only upon themselves, not caring for the fate of their old friend that has borne their weight from the period of its green beauty until now. There is a moral under this which might be applied. (Dear Baltimore Convention demo- cracy—a word in your ear—we are a genuine Cass admirer.) But sce, one of the orators has left the old tree probably in disgust ; he means, of course, to dapeil to his constituents in the farther woods, and ** define his position.” The house is a noble colonnaded structure of brick, half embowered in rich foliage. It is entered bya broad flight of steps, leading to its lofty por- tico, from which two doors give admission into a spacious dining room and parlor. The upper por- ticos are supported by slender columns. ey fur- nish a fine promenade in wet weather, and add much to the lightness and beauty of the edifice. From this admirable foreground gently sloping hills spread away into the country; while in front, a lawn, enamelled with a rich coating of verdure, is rolled out like a carpet, and dotted with lambs, peacefully Grazing, or indolently reclining, upon | the thick gr: eyond the lawn, and extending | farther into the plantation, are fields containing cattle, reposing, feeding, or standing in social clus- ters. On our left, a few hundred yards from the house, stands the neat building of the slaves belong- ing tothe establishment, the smoke issuing from | its chimney curling gracefully upward, and floating | away on the breeze in thin blue clouds. Soq ia its aspect, that you ete fancy the inhabitants | were taking a Rip Van Winkle nap of twenty years | —a nap filled with dreams of the sweetest and most agreeable nature. This building, combined with the bath-houses and other watering place appurten- ances, presents the appearance of a litte village: | The spring attached to. the grounds is colebrated for its beneficial effects in all diseases of digestion, chronic, bilious, aud congestive fevers. It is en- cireled by massive columns, and surmounted by an arched roof, which affords a cool and shady retreat. The water is of an icy coolness, and its constituent qualities, as ascertained by chemical analysia, are sulphate of magnesia, iodine, and sulphur, which exists in such a state of combination as to render the waters not very disagreeable to the taste, yet highly beneficial to the patient. The visite ho are daily increasing, compose the most spirited and pleasant society, which is varied by the constant arrival and departare of clusters of fair beings from V lester, only five miles distant. A glimpee through the trees now and then detects groups of twosall over the grounds, enjoying the rich beauty of the day ; and some reading Milton or Spencer with a most sentimental air—doubtles* making love to some nymph or dryad. The first ball of the season is to be given to-mor+ vening, and all the ‘ors are in pleasant ex- for the courteous proprietors are con- pectatior A le n stantly inventing some noveltics, which are certain to surprise and delight their | boc The intelligence of Mr. Clay’s decease was re- ceived here with deep feeling. He has, by slow decay, passed away, and is seen no more. The angel of death, with extended wing, has long ho- vered round waiting for his prey, and his fettered spiritis at length freed from its prison of clay, and its noble energies transplanted to a wider sphere of action. : It nf be doubted whether in this nation any one could have fallen who would have been so la- mented by the opposite sex. With the ladies, Mr. Clay was a universal favorite. Why was this? Women are acute observers, and it required no close observation to read, in the childlike simplicity of Mr. Clay’s mourners, the genuine kindness of his heart. He bore within himself a standard of lofty honor, of pure sentiment, of high and Lethe f virtue, the visible manifestation of which the wealt! of his intellect sorved only to adorn. The closest scrutiny of hie character, under a variety of ciroum- stances, but more fully established his ee, as agreat and good man, full of sympathy for all mankind, keenly alive to injustice and wrong, and ready to yield his own preferencesand gratifications romptly, for the good of that country to which be Hevoted hie life. And so ho died? ‘Departed one, farewell | A long, a last farewell we bid thee now; Pale death has set his signet on thy brow; ‘And in that dreamless cell, | Where worn mortality cast off ite woes, In biest oblivion of all earthiy throes, ‘Where but the lifeteas dwell, Thou ha«t Inid down in everlasting rert Care cannot roach thee now, por grit detract bresat with the electioneering canvass. Ifmatters proceed as at | or Scotland is Court, that there have been | This is a subject to which | stated sufficient to indicate the social revolution | The room we occupy is quite the easiest part of the | ‘Tho Barowm and Bateman Trouble. Now Yorks May oy BR, Mr. Hewry L. Bareman, Sir:—I understand that you are writing to Amerioa offoring to en; your children, on your return bere next eutuma, and saying that your engagement will then have ceased with mo. T am aurprised at this, inasmuch as I gave you writ- ten notion of my intention toirenew our enpe nt for the ng wees had 2 Tight to, securing my contract. You my agent you accep: at notieo,and I believe you wrote, me to the same effect, although the letter is now mislaid. If you su that because the children have made for each of us a few thousand pounds more than you expected, you can therefore trifle with me, and break an agreement, kaps, by me in good faith, you are mistaken ; and I wi to you for $50,000 damages, the moment you touch our soil, unless you upbesitatingly fulfil your contract with mo. ai will try men even more than adversity, and if you lot a few thousands set you crazy, and lead you torepudiate your contract with me, you will rue it tid the day of your death. Task nothing but what is right, and that I will have, if the power of man can accomplish it. Tho children can draw an average of $1,000 per night in America, every night from tho day of your arrive! util the end of our second yoar—one-half ey draw will be taken by the managers, and one- half of the remainder is mine, and I must havo it, or you and the managers will get injunctions every time they attempt to perform. Bo warned in time. . Yours, (Signed,) P. T, Barnun BATEMAN TO BARNUM. Canuponia Hore, Epinsurc, May 24, 1852. Mr. P. T. Barnum— Sux:—Tho contents of your letter, dated May 6, have excited my utmost astonishment. I ideny entirely your assertion that you, or Pies agent in London, gave me the notice required by our con- tract previous to its renewal. io did not do so, nor would I, under any circumstances, have agreed to your name being attached to my children, in their dramatic career, for another year. I propose, at the termination of their tour through the United States, to withdraw them from the stage ontirely; but it would be a very unsatisfactory conclusion to their triumphant success, before the most critical audiences in the world, were they to be hereafter associated with the speculations, &c., &¢., which havo rendered you notorious. In this country, nothing but the real genius of the children could have overmastered the strong barrier of prejudices your name, previous to their appearance, hud upreared against them. I again repeat, the contract was not, and shall not be re- newed. You have this time neither a child nor a woman to contend with, and managers are too well aware of the law in such 2 case to be debarred from engaging so powerful an attraction as my daugh- ters, by your empty threats of prosecution. 1o voice of the people will be everywhore against you, in every city. I shall be prepared to guarantee managers against cat loss caused by os un- grounded law proceedings, should you be so ill- advised as to attempt to control my movements. The fortune to which my children’s talents well entitle them shall not be made the prey of an avaricious and useless adjunct. In your previous engagements you had at least the merit of aiding your protéges by your nace ufling. In my case you have done nothing. ile my children have been achieving the most brilliant triumphs hefore a European public, and the British press has lavished encomiums upon them unexampled in theatricals, you have remained inert and silent, using no means to have this known at home, but ek to their merits alone for a continuance of your splendid profits. 1 repeat, your agreement with me, after the 17th of June, is null, and henceforth the Bateman Children will be exclusively under the control of their proper guardian. H. L. Bateman. THE BATEMAN CHILDREN IN EUROPE. The success of these extraordinary children has been so brilliant inthe United Kingdom, that we conceived a brief summary of their triumphant | career in the various theatres in England, Ireland, and Scotland, would not be uninteresting to the American friends of the little artistes. Before the childron had opened in London, a world of prejudice existed against the merit of precocities, and when they were announced atthe St. James’s Theatre, the play: going people ghrngaed their shoulders, and the press merely mentioned the fact of a juvenile délut, without a word of encouragement. Tho eventful ‘first night” arrived; the attendance was fashionable; the critics came in early, and all was expectation, apath doubt, notwithstanding the undoubted prestige the children had brought with them from the United States. The curtain bave no hesitation in saying, on as_impar- severe an audience as could be found in any urope, compored as it was of the literati, and a representation from each of the Lon: | q } upers. The 2 y selected was a portion of | “Richard the Third,” which commanded the most earnest attention, and the curtain descended amid a perfect’shower of bouquets, applause and enth asm. The ‘young couple” succeeded, and if it were possible for the former excitement of admira- tion to besurpassed, it was manifested here, after the charming assumptions in Seribe’s sparkling comedy. aul the audience was Madame Rachael. the great French tragedienne, and at the end of the performance the sought little Ellen, and kissing her, pronouneed her the most wonderful child she had ever seen. not excepting Leontine Fay, who was ce the pet of the Parisians. The short season at James's was very brilliant, the performance s times being under the immediate patronage ot the Duchess of Somerset and the Spanish Am- bassador, while among the habitués was the Duke of Devovehire, the Duke of Wellington, Lord John Russell, B. Disracli, Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, Sir Henry Bulwer, Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, Abbot Lawrence, Mr. Balfe, the Duchess of Kent, lady Byron, Mrs. Newton Crosland, Mary Howitt, Agnes Strickland, and others of distinction. No flake of snow exposed to the rays of a torrid sun could have melted quicker than did the stolid coldness ofthe London play-goers in regard tothe existence of great genius in children; their popularity did not come by a dull scale of pia ale oleh but it was sudden and brilliant. They had only to be heard to convince, and the triumph was most gratifying to the Americans in London, who were delighted to find in Jobn Bull that commendable willingness to respond to an ap- _ of American genius. At the close of the St. James's engagement, the children proceeded to Scotland, and at Edinburg and Glasgow, the bonnie plaids echoed the London verdict with an ardor quite unusual in Scotland, where the ‘ muckle” citizens are apt to be frigid unless their fancy is enormously tickled. At Edinburg, little Ellen was féted and caressed with a degree of attention that told plainly the strong impression she had made by the force of her tiny genius. From Scotland the children again returned to London to fulfil an en- gagement with ‘Emperor’ Bunn, who was just about to open Drury lane with opera, and for seven weeks did the children delight the largest audiences that since the days of Edmund Kean have honored the classic walls of Old Drury. Bunn was so grati- fied at the success of their engagement, that he of- fered them a large sum to remain till the end of the seagon, an acceptance of which was impossible, as important engagements were pending in Bath, Bristol, and Plymouth, to which cities the children next proceeded, creating a perfect furore amon, all classes of playgoers. In Plymouth, “ Ellen was presented with # miniature gold service, emblazoned with her name, while ‘* Kate” re ceived from tho ladies a work box of tortoi shell studded with amethysts. At Bath, the nobi- lity were very attentive to the little Americans, and Lord Clifton got up and conducted a “reception” in | most gorgeous style, in honor of their genius. They were waited on by at least a hundred ladies ard nobleman of rank. The Inst Loudon engage- ment was at the Royal Surrey Theatre, which was highly successful. "They here produced anew come- dy, written for them by BayJe Bernard, Esq, the author of “His Last Legs,” &c., called “The Old School and the New,” with great effect, Ellen play ing a blasé boy of the Sir Charles Coldstream school, in the highest style of art, and with a free- dom and ease that one rarely sees off the French stage. In fact, Malle. Rose Cheri, the Parisian artist, who was in London at the time, pronounced the assumption equal to the palmiest efforts of Frederick Lemaitre, which is the strongest com- mendation that can be given. At the close of this Surrey engagement they again proceeded to Scot- land, where they again lighted the citizens of Edinburg. From Scotland they proceeded to Ire- land to fulfill an engagement in Dublin; from thence to Cork, and then over to England, playing in Manchester, and after fulfilling farewell ‘on ments in London and Paris, and performing before the Queen and Court at Windsor, by command of her Majesty, we learn it is their intention to return again to the United States. rose, we A Remarkable Case. New Portiand, Me., April 29, 1852. Dear Sin—Our community—that is, those of us who have been made acquainted with the facts— are in quite a state of excitement from eaten mor- tem examination which took place here about two weeks since. The subject of the examination—a married lady, some thirty-five years of age, residont of one of the cities of New Brunswick—was sent hither, in tho care of ber family physician, to be buried among herfriends. This physician, who was a chum of mine, called upon mo soonafter his arrival in town. He named to me the circumstance of his having ® corpse in charge—that of « patient of hix own, whose ase be had not only been unable to check, but to dingnose correctly—and invited me to weit. Ididso; aud was aa greatly purried how, from appearances, to account for death in the case as my friovd bad represented pimaelf to have boon ef time pre’ is, subject to ‘‘yollow dreams,” @reama in which tho flowers, or fruits, or or whatever objects, presented ueaally landscapes, ves most olothed in yellow. I was informed also that had often the same yellow tinge. These, with an habitual lead color about tho stools, an occasional encrimgoned deposite in the urine, and a constantly reourring ploasurable thrill, as it were of electricity, throughout the of the liver, wore the only particularly marked symptoms to bo observed in patient up to the time of her death. It was in the midst of one of thrills, one more intonse, and more pleasurable seemingly, than any which had su ervened hitherto, that had taken its departure. ‘he patient had taken internally no other medicine than an oceasional dose of oil tor La poe of six months before her death. Her eyes been troat- ed with a weak solution of the acitate of lead and tho sulphate of zinc. Sho had practised bathing in cold water. Of eourse, I proposed an examivination of tho corpae; and, the consent of the friends being ob- tained, and the aid of Drs. S——, W——, P——, and B—— being secured, we sot to work at once., We directed our attention first to the eyes, so, through their nerves, to the brain. There was nothing about the eyes themselves, other than the peculiar coloring of the irises already namod, nor about either the poy third, fourth, or sixth pair of nerves, to call for observation, although they were subjected to the most careful scrutiny under a powerful microscope. The ophthalmic branches of the fifth pair, we satisfied ourselves, were changed very slightly; thoy had an appearance such as might have been presented by the passage through their substance of the cortical matter of the brain, giving a deeper tinge of gray than is natural. Neither in the brain nor in the spinal cord proper was there any discoverable sign of alteration. But the semi- lunar ganglia, with the ganglia giviog ori the par vagum and to the trifacial nerves, exhi decided marks of change. This change consisted in a deepening of the gray of the cincritious sub- stance into blue. The heart and lungs, and the upper and lower portions of the alimentary canal, appeared in their ordinary state; but upon the more central parts of this latter, there were minute cicatrices, similar to those present after recovery from typhoid fever. The spleen was slightly en- orged with blood. The kidneys were somewhat jabbier and paler than they should be. The liver was very nearly of the ordinary size, perhaps a little less, and offered to the eye an aspect analo- ous to that which it offers under a disease known iF the name of cirrhosis. Throughout its sub- stance were scattered small masses, of a brownish yellow tint, varying in size from a beet seed to akernelof corn. The most of theso, we convinced ourselves, were nothing more than lobules, rather parts lobules, of the hepatic tissue, collected toge- ther so as to form a kind of nuclei, containing stag- nant bile. A few of them, however, those of the larger size, and which were situated more nearly to the mouth of the different duct, were of quite a dif- ferent character. They resembled not so much de- posits of biliary matter as of a salt, having some one of the metals for a base. The gall-bladder was about half full of bile of the natural consistency ; but colored more like the juice of violets than ordi- vary bile. The body of the bladder itself, was of the usual form and appearance ; but the neck was, as it were, a horn growing out of the liver at one end, having the gall-sack hanging, as a shot pouch, from the other end. We pressed it with as great a force as we could between the thumb and fingers— it was as unyealding as a neck of stone. We dis- sected it away from its attachments, fully expecting to find one of those extraordinary ossifications which are occasionally mot with as results of the animal uneconomy. On the contrary, we found a tube—a sort of siphon—the principal portion of the substance of which was unmistakably metallic. The end extending into the sack, which was longer, smaller, and more ey tubular of the two ends, was of a pure golden color; that coming from the liver, which resembled an irregularly shaped porous plug more than a real tube, hada yellow cast ; but this yellow was not entirely unmixed. The whole mass, after being separated as carefully as possible, by washing, from animal matter, weighed four pennyweights and eleven grains. Of course, we were not so presumptuous as to decide ourselves upon the nature of the substance thus discovered; so we sent it to Prof. H , to be analyzed. He pronounced it to consist of an oxyde of iron, phosphate of soda, traces of animal matter, asubstance which strongly resembled sulphuret of lead—but which was not, as there could be no lead extracted, by even the nicest processes—and of gold. There were forty-three grains of this, by the profes- sor’s weight. No other idea as to the canse of this singular phenomenon can be offered, as I can see, than that the woman must have taken gold for a medicine. She was treated about a year ago by a homeo- path, and it is known that gold, aurwm, is among the homeopathic (so called) remedies. { ahould have named that some ten or a dozen citizens, who could be depended upon for all proper secresy, among the number, Mayor D—, and the Rev. Mr. K—, were invited in at the close of the examination. Yours truly, To W. T., M.D. (the St. Croix.) Epitor or tuk HERALD— I offer the foregoing ‘‘case” to your readers, sup- pressing, in accordance with the wish of its reporter, the real names of the parties and the places concern- ed. This, for the reason that it was deemed best not to give undue notoriety to the matter at present, or until some further particulars with regard to it shall be learned. I simply state of this reporter, that I know him very wal; having studied medicine under the same tutor that he did; also, that Ihave had some acquaintance with several of the persons pres- ent at the examination; I would suggests too, in passing to the thinking and reasonable portion of those whose eyes may chance to meet these lines, whether they would not do well to receive this as her strong testimony against the miserable ery, yeleped homeopathy—its peddlers, when “stiek to their text,” to their infinitesimal just nothing at all for their patients; rhaps most usually the case, making ime!s the cover of their chicanery, they in their new poisons in quantities, they are sowing broadcast the seeds of death. Gold, in any shape, is not allowed place inthe allopathic Mate- ria Medi Let the supporters of the true system of medicine, laymen as well as practitioners, now start anew in the work of purging away all quacke- ry. Yours, truly, Joun Amos Fre.p. Avremyy vo Kin Frustratep ny A Lapy.— Some months since, a shooting affair took place in Fayette, near Calvert street, Baltimore, in which Mr. George W. League, merchant, attempted to shoot down a young man named Joseph Creamer. The newspapers at the time gavo particular accounts of the bold transaction, which constituted an excit- ing topic of conversation. It was then hoped that neither of the parties would again appear in public print until the time of their respective court trial It seems necessary, however, to mention another afinir of the same parties, going to show that Mr. League is not content with the reference of his wrongs to legal tribunals, and further, that if Mr. Creamer is very desirous of prolonging his life thie world, he had better “move to parts unknown.”* It appears that on the morning of the 5th, Mr. | League, with Miss Rosalba 8. League and other members of the family, obtained a carriage, and sroceeded in the country to the Relay House of the Itimore and Suequehanna Railroad, intending to spend the day; during which the aforesaid Mr. Creamer appeared, and was observed quietly walk- ing along in company with a young lady. When Mr. League saw him, he ran and borrowed a heavily loaded gun, and getting near Mr. Creamer, and taking deadly aim, was fast on the point of adding to the awful transactions of the fourth of July, by poppimg off his friend whilst ‘in all the vigor of manhood,” when, thanks to kind fortune, a lady chanced to see the murderous weapon aimed at the oung man, and rushing forward, threw up the gun just as the trigger was about being drawn, which terminated the design. The affair occasioned con- siderable excitement at the time. Shortly after- wards Mr. League and his family re-entered their carriage and drove home.—Balt. Sun, July 7 ‘The Weather and the C: we On Long Island, and throughout Westchester county, rain is aoa needed. The carth is com- Vt parched in many places. There has been no rain of consequence for nearly three weeks, and thecrops are suffering very much. The hay har- vest is generally over, but the crop of grass is very light. Many of the farmers have been soning Ores to secure fodder for their stock, The wheat is x far eee that the Jptarin wil oe A sas much, but corn, oats an tatoes Ww! rative failure, Mh the exception of the i lands,) unless there is rain very soon. From the Savannah R lican we learn berg oe wheat, oat, and rye crops are very fine. Of the pe a crop the a ai ing to too much rain. M The Maseillon (Ohio) News, of the 8th, says the wheat harvest bas just ‘commenced in Stark county, a yi bundant. a Ne Jie dey the farmors are in the midst of ir harvest, which ia excellent. The corn {a eaidgeo be very §no, and oata promise on unusual large cyop 4 rd of camps, I placed myself on board speaks discouragingly, | 9 Military. Bist te Tondon ‘Times poratic. ags, & le of 60, mre) spmnmedat scored ad mi ee ye visit to this a stoam- er at the Tower, and for a couple of soveric, 5 Sethe i soba ad ctonathe’ toon: to Leak oe and thence 4 railway, Breal: ‘yslowitz and the si ‘arsaw, for four more, and addi: thereto three rove: for on the ro: I found os tp 1 miles from London for the trifling outlay of a £10 note, and certainly not dis- inted in the object of my journey. ly only regret has been the paucity of British red coats among the military sti ors who had flocked to the scone of pageants, and with whom. through Colonel du Plat, the English Consul-Gen eral, and in virtue of my cloth as an officer of the Indian Army, I have bad the honor to share in tho Tmperial complaisance of a daily invitation, and a “mount,” to witness a series of interesting and in- structive field days on a scale unknown in Kogland, or even in India, and such as attracted many dis- tinguished members of other armies, among whom were Lieutenant-Genorals the Count Leiningen and Count Clam-Gallas; Major-Genorals Count Thun, Count Menadorf, Euvoy Extraordinary at the Court of St. Petersburgh; Count Stornberg, Count Mon- tenuovo, son of Marie Louise by second marriage; Colonels the Prince of Glucksburg, and Baron Arnim, Aide-de-Camp to Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, and a host of other staff and ficld officors, Austrian and Prussian. Tho week opened with a reviow, on the lst inst , of the whole of the Second Corps d’Arméo, com- ‘ising 48 battalions of infantry, and one of tirail- leurs, each 1,000 men; two regiments of Jancors, and two of hussars, each 1,200 strong; four ‘‘polks”” of genchemnss; Cossacks, Circassians, and other irre- gulars, each “polk’ containing 400 mon; 188 pieces of artillery, horse and foot, and a baggage train; the whole under the command of Lioutonant-Gene- ral Paniutine, who distinguished himeeif so greatly in co-operating with Haynau’s army in the Hanga- rian war. The army wae drawn up in five lines, on the plain of Powourki, about tbree miles from Warsaw. His Highness the Viceroy of Poland, Fiold-Mar- shal Prince Paskiewitch and staff, arrived on the ground a few minutes before 10 o’clock; and ae the appointed hour drew nigh the crowd thickened; some of the notables of the Emperor's suite making their appearance, the chiefs of whom, the Counts Orloff and Adlerberg, I was presented to by Colonel du Plat, as also to Prince Gortzchakoff, the chiof of the active armée. Punctual to time, the Emperor drove UR, accom anied by his Royal Highness Prince Frederiok Uharles of Prussia, and transferring his majostie person from the droskha to the saddle, looked a3 much at home in the pigskin as imposing in his casgue! . Baotal oi 'y only compatriot, a Sco’ yeomanry officor, and myse! Peat this juncture called to the front by Count Orloff, and by his Excellency presented to the mighty Nicholas himself, who, after making a few courteous inquiries as to our respective services, sprang his eoduints abana gallop, followed by a phitterin retinue in the various colors of all na- tions, and was received by the Ficld-Marshal amidst the deafening huzmas of some sixty and more thou- sand pair of lungs, the devotion to their soldier King continuing to be vociferously manifested as he rode down the lines. The infantry ranked three deep, were formed in two lines of contiguous close columns of battalions, each line occupying about two miles, and with a corresponding Svpeage of cavalry and artillery our eight miles’ canter down these successive lines, at his majesty’sfpace, was a “ breather” to begin with. In such a cursory glance I could not judge of the purses matériel of the men, but considering they had already been several hours under arms, in dust and sun, there seemed no want ofattention to exter- nal polish, whilst the admirable quality and oondi- tion of the cavalry horses was too apparent to be overlooked. Some of the artillery horses looked a little done up, but they had been some hours in yoke, and perhaps hada heavy pull or two in bring- ing the guns to the ground. ‘arching past in slow time, the infantry showed paca drilling, and the cavalry appeared well broke; both, perhaps, a little overdone. The infantry are traine toa peculiar step, worked up to a redun- dancy of knee action, which, however conducive to regularity, is anything but graceful. ‘assing in quick time, a more business-like ste; was adopted, and in column of regiments, each regi- ment comprising four battalions, and each columm showing a head of 200 men, the accuracy of allign- ments and distances in such massos was truly eur- prising, the martial strains of the united four bands of each regiment rendering it a musical as well as military feast. The cavalry are well mounted on punchy, woll-* limbed, free-moving horses, most of thom bred ii central Russia, and some brought from the Crimea and Ukraine; they are plain about the head, and rather short necked, but in texture of bone and si- new indicate tolerable breeding. They are of very -ven stature, averaging, I should say at a guess, searcely fifteen hands, and the equality is prosorved by a wise rule of casting all colts that w over & prescribed maximum standard of about fifteen hands «ne inch. With Rustia’s resources her cavalry is thus mount- ed on medium sized troopers, which all experience knows to be the a sort for work, and at a price vastly below our English or Indian remounts, 70 rubles or £11 being the government figure here for athree year old; and the supply is so immense that every regiment I have seen musters its 1,800 horses of one color. Ihave heard the temper of the Russian horses questioned; but from the generous determination with which I have seen those animals take the col- lar in getting guns Svire bogs and heavy sand, I should say they are libelled. The cavalry, I think, are over schooled; jeer ata trot, the Emperor applied repeated of ie) which proved them handy, and with which His Majesty seemed satisfied; but to acquire this proficiency there is a deal of haunch work and a straining of hind quarters, which must of necessity impair speed, and consequently diminish the im- petus of attack, in which velocity is as powder. The men look well en masse, but individually T cannot admire their seat nor method of saddling. They get too far aft on the horse, and vice versa as regards their own centres of gravity. The saddles are placed clear of the withers, but the hs take the horses by the belly instead of the brisket. It would swell this nete to inconvenient bulk to describe the evolutions of the day, and may suffice to state that the Emperor repeatedly expressed his approbation, which called forth the invariable re- sponse in Russian, of something to the effect of * We do our best, and will try to do better.’” Following His Majesty, steeple-chase fashion, ta the carriages, we mado our salaams; and meeting him again next morning at the Place d’U; . saw 16,000 infantry anda due Be rtion of cavalry and artillery inspected, after which two polks of ir- regulars performed a few vagaries of eastern war- fare, the helter-skelter, devil-may-care tactics of these Ruso-Asian men of war being attended with some casualties of course; but one clever rascal contrived to distinguish himself by purling heels over head before the Emperor, and with a well feigned convulsive shudder and a flourish of his heels seemed verily to “kick the bucket.” His Majesty, moved with compassion, rode towards the apparently defunct warr who, watching his op- portunity, sprang to his fect, caught a passing com- rade’s horse by the tail, although at full gallop, and shortening his grip as be was dragged along, vaulted up behind with the agility of a monkey, and was borne in triumph off the field, the stern gravity of the monarch being somewhat moved as he re- marked that this was the second time he had been similarly taken in. These “‘suwars’ are a motley lot, resembling, im some respects our ixregulars in India, except that they receive no pay, but are levies from their res- pective districts and villages in the ‘enstern frontice provinces. They possess Oriental attributes of reli- gion, dress, and arms; they ride their own horses— wiry, angular, ewe-necked galloways—evidently reared in nature’s nursery, and therefore handy, en- during animals. On the 3d of June we had a cavalry and horse are tillery field-day at the Place de Mokatow, in whiois all played their parts well, barring one slight mia- take of the horse artillery blazing away at the ex- tended irregulars. But we know what may happom in the best regulated families; and let me recom- mend any of your mili readers, who has the sage ‘wag con via Berlin, Czenstochava, to fancy, to take advantage of such another io ty, if it ever offers, and after he has seen a battery of Don Cossack horse arti come into position at score over broken ground, he can draw his own ene cry following days were occupied with in- fantry inspections practice. Andaltheugis not with an aptitude for the science of war, the Russian foot soldier is an unflinching teol, which, when packed inte thousands, becomes for- idable. mon the 7th we had no less than 216 guns Memes for practice, being the whole of the arti ate tached to the Second Corps d’ Armée, and a division of the 12th brigade, belonging to the Fourth C d’ Armée, and three batteries of Don Cossack artil- lery, composed of-— 6 12-pounder batteries, called “batteries de posi- tion”... 5 Pe eservcereees « 56 pieoos. 11 6-pounder light field batteries : 2 horse artillery batteries (regulars) .. 8 do., Don Cossacks (irregulars)...... au 21 battories. 216 guns. A battery of Rursian artillery compriaos oight pieces, six guns, and two howitzers, called ‘“sicor- nes;’ but on war complement each battory is in- creased to twelve picoos, and some of those at prac~ tice on this occasion appeared to be on the war ot fablishment