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UNRRIVAL OF THE ALBATROSS. deen the Fishing Banks—Seture Official of Fishermen—Lnportant British -. Decuments, ke, &., & ‘The steamship Albatross, Capt. Kearney, arrived yesterday morning, in seventy hours from Halifax. ‘We have received by her, files of Halifax and Prince Edward Isiand papers to the latest dates. Our thanks are due to Capt. Kearney and Purser Palmer, of the A., for late news. The intelligence coming from the fishing grounds is interesting. Among the documents furnisbed us, is an act rola- tive to the fisheries, and fer the prevention of illicit trade at Prince Edward Island. Tho following is from the Charlottetown, (Prince Edward Island), Royal Gazette, of July 26:— The Telegraph. tender to ber Majesty's steamship Do- Vastation, recently sent to cruize in the Gulf, by diree- dion of the Admiral. for the protection of the fisheries, Beized an American fi-bing vessel for violating the terms Qf the convention of 1518. wud brought her into this port on Saturday last. This ix tho result of our Lieutenant Governor's able representation to the Colonial Office on the subject of protecting car fisheries ; and we sincerely trust this seirure will ct of opening the eyes of the cabinet at War the advantage their peo ple will derive from p» right of fishery ‘Om the coasts of thir iclond with the concession of reci- procal trade {From the Halifax Pritish North American, July 30.) WHE PisuRRIES!—ACTION! acTiON!! acrion!!! Now that the goverument have determined upona vigorous and effective protection of the fisheries of British America, the people of these provinces—No- ii eular—shoud not be slow to appre- tention to their most important commercial and industria! interest. Ye have already noticed that two vessels have been scived and d inte St. John, and we now announce that another b id carried nto Prince Edward also reported that Captain Crowell has seized another vessel; but the latter is as yet mere rumor Amori shore com- We also observe that the Maunitics are moving ina perfect blaze of excitement ing up memorials to on the subject, and a their government © protection of armed ‘wossels for their fi We have eve: Admiral Sir force under his com berm onfi nee in ymour—the efficacy of the nd, and his prudence not to everstep the bounds circumscribed between the two countries by treaty; but we think that the earnest- ness and promptitude with which the home govern- ment has undertaken this work—so long and ear- mestly sought in vain by the colonies—ought to ‘moet with an expression of the united gratitude of the people of British America. Every town and fishing village should hold public Meotings as soon as couvenient, and the people, en masse, sign memorials, thanking her Majesty for those mexsures of protection, and praying for a con- tinuance of them. The first move should be mado here, in tho capital of Nuva Scotia. Let ua tell her Majesty, that although the Ame- ricans Lave been perinitred to plunder us for many Jong years, that is po reason why so unnatural a system should continue Let the merchants move atonce. Now is the time—now or never. ‘ning Chronicle, July 20.) THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN FISHERIES. The subject under which we are writing, and which has recently engrossed the attention of the American public and ihe United States Con- {Prom the Halifax 3 gress, looms high and far above every other uestion at present before the colonial public. e tuke some credit to ourselves for having worked up the posaeston to the fisheries” to ite pregent importance. wealously l2bored to ‘mpress upon the community the necessity of preserving, for our interests, the valuable fishing grounds with whieh the British provinces ase every where surrounded. The value Of these to our repub neighbors will be best understood when it is known that this productive branch of industry alone employs twenty-one hun- dred sail of American vessels. manned’ by thirty thousand men, and the -apital invested is stated at $12,000,000. ‘Up to tha present period tho Ameri- ¢ans have enjoyed unlimited privileges on our pre- serves. As colonists we have been unweariedin our exertions to obtain reciprocal trade with our natural customers--tbe Americans; but while our reasonable requests have respectfully outer- be or years past we have eit on 1 unn a whole- North Ame- * to be coaxed by the ed by for e the mother country are some lesson. The co i not “humb $ at hom The que ments provincial matt tive of the peculiar the United States dong tampered with t ween England and leges ha been too whim and caprice t if he choose, m more favorable te iron or cotton te: What the colo: and, until this r shall go in for the m fisheries that our financial ¢ Ui and fair r le request is gra: ent protection for our THE FISHE [From the Prince Bdward 1 We call the attention of our r patches which appear below. They will be read hy the inhabitants of 1 island, without reference to party ortho past nh unmixed pleasure, and we are satisfied all will express their approval of the admirable and effi manner in which the nego- tiation has been conincted, and the happy results which have attended it. ‘The first despatch of His Exceilency is cleur and business-hke, and brings out Gn strong relief the evils entailed on our subjects b3 the way in which the Am have been permitted to violate the treaty There can be no doubt that the admission of Amer‘ f fishing might be advant States would in return ieee and colonial built e of duty. But to surrender a pri e desired by the inbabitents of Maine and Ma setts, who send annual)y about three thou: il to fish on our waters, while th here to thair re- Btrictive tariff. and h. if ibitory duties, would be unwise and impolitic. he, better policy for us to adopt, in order speedily to obtain ** reci- rocity in trade” with the 3, is to en- force strictly our legitir and to compel the Americans to |.cep ir prescribed limits of three marine This vantage- ground ought not to be unless it be paid for with reciprocal conc Excellen- cy, in this despatch, has most, a rights, not of the pecnle of P. E. mn 0 the colonies generally: and we are satisfied that his services will be duly appreciated and respected by them. Steamboats to protect onr fisheries from spolia- tion have been repeatedly a pelted for, and for years t by the Executives ae how Scotia and New runswick. The same request was lately preferred by Canada; and to His Excellency, for the first time, a favorable reply has been given. The la'¢ visit of the war steamship Devastation to the nor’ shores of the island, created a great commotion among the American intruders, and has made them put of to sea. The last reports from that quarter are cheering, and say that our own and the Nova Scotia fishermen, who can lay in shore, rejoice in a more abundant catch. It will be gratifying also to our readers to observe, that the Colonial Minister has advised Her Majesty to give the royal assent to the bill passed by our Legislature, providing boun- ties and premiums for the encouragement of the fisberios; while a similar bill, passed in New Bruns- wick in 1850, was negatived. This decision created one of the most violent debates which has lately o2- curred in ary Colonial Assembly. Suck, then, is the benefit of having our affairs superintended by a Governor ef talent and business habits—once a mem- ber of the House of Commons—and on intimate and friendly terms with the leading statesmen of the day. We publish these remarks with no offensive spirit—it will of course be bailed by our friends as a trophy to the administration ; but we au that party considerations will yield on this subject to the blic good, and that men of all parties will unite advocating a line of policy so well calculated to promote the general interests GHE LT. GOY. OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND TO THE HOME GOVERNNMENT. Governuenr House, P. B. al . 1851. November Mr Lorp:— * * * * ¥ ‘é 8. In so far as thie colony is concerned, the ques- tion of the fisheries has now become one, which, if Joft much longer in its prosent unsettled state, may be attended with some serious consequences, when they are least expecte!. Several of the masters of the few vessels belonging to British subjects from the neighboring provinces, who were fishing this geason, have already complained to me of the Amo- ticans setting the treaty at dofiance, and obstract- ing them on the best fishing grounds, somo of them stating that they are else “they would take the law inio their own hands,” and claiming protection frem w the inhabitants of the colony generally, the United Rtates fishermen ere welcome visiters, frequently purchasing their agricultural produce; and they would be glad to see the United States subjects @niching fish along our coast, and curing them on shore, Fetieving that agricultural produce would thereby be enhanced in value, capital introduced, by the Americans, fishing stations ¢ * clwd, Suita blo schooners built on the Island, and ite commerce | extended 4. For although the sea around this Island tooms with fish, that branch FP tere tite been prosecuted to any extent, aving prin- sipall confined Taecnnalves to ship building. psy mine wre large, and are often unsal: . In the trade has become a ruinous one, aad must’ ned. 5 It must be a time ere the Ls peean rad r class of mien, numerous enoug’ fe ale ihe fisheries om the same system of shar- ‘as the Americans carry on with great success Last session, the Assembly voted a small sum for premiums, to encourage the fisheries; five or six schooners were fitted out for that purpose. They were tolerably successful, and I hope thew will in- crease, but even should they do so to a mach groater extent than I anticipate, it would not alter m: opinion as to the desirableness of endeavoring, if ible, to make some amicable arreug onsen with the United States government in regard to the Con- vention of 1818, either by its suspension on certain conditions, or its relaxation on similar ones, for a limited time, to be annulled at the option of the British or United States cays on due notice being given by either. P. E. Island is, and will continue to be, the head quarters of the American fishermen, and-nothing will conduce more to its fu- ture prosperity than a settlement of this quostion. 6. To the United States government the fisheries are of vast importance, and they will become moro so inthis part of North America, when the New Brunswick railway runs, as is proposed, to Schediac, within a few hours sail of the hurbor of Bodeque in ‘whelmed by numbers, or | while to | this Island, from which the produce of tho fisheries would be sent to Boston in a very short space of time, leaving the fishing vessels to prosecute thoir occupation instead of carrying home their cargoes, as they frequently do, and returning to the fishin rounds in the same season, performing a voyage of 200 to 1,500 miles 7. Your lordship will have some idea of the magni- tude of the Ameriwean flect of fishermen, whon | in- form you that about the latter end of September 250 United States schooners came into Malpeque, on the north side of this colony; they are beautifully equipped, averaging from 60 to 110 tons, and their crews consist of from 10 to 12 men each. About 1,£00 of them landed at Princetown, and attended an agricultural show there; they behaved as well aid peaceably as so many sailors congregated togo- ther could be expected to do; but this will not ale ways be the case where brandy and rum ate to be sold eo cheap; they are under no control, and a3 they daily infiinge the treaty, by fishing close to the shore, the US. government cannot be expected to send one of their cruizers to enforce it, and other- wise to keep the peace among them. Should any disturbance hereafter take place, which from many accidental causes is not improbable, the government of this colony would be placed in a delicate position with the subjects of a foreign, yet friendly State. 8. Early in the summer, and afterwards in the autumn, Her Majesty’s ship, Sappho was here. Com- mander Cochrane was desired to communicate with me, and authorized to show me his instructions; their object was the poems of the fishories—the daty is a delicate and dificult one—his cruise embraced the Gut of Canso, Labrador, Newfoundland, Gaspe, and to the westward. The sloop of war, I imagine, traversed not Jess than 6,000 er 7,000 miles, and the idea, therefore, of protecting the fisheries in this vicinity was quite absurd; and further, it is impossi- ble to protect them without a steamer being stationed here for five months, the expense of which, I may fely assure your lordship, this colony would ob- ject to pay. Some of the Ste hacae 2 provinces, I understand, fit out protecting vessels at their own expense; they suas attach | Shee importance to the fisheries from the capital ombarked in the trade, and the number of men employed in it; but P. E. Isl: is bid differently situated, having neither capital or labor at stake, both of which they think would be secured to them by an abrogation of the treaty of 1818. Should Her Majesty's government, how- ever, consider that the protection of the fisheries around this Island might induce the U. 8. govern- ment to come to an amicable arrangement, the ex- periment would be well worth trying by the employ- ment of war steamers. The United States fishermen, who at present, undisturbed, pee lta carry on their trade, are a numerous body, and might prove too strong tor their ship building countrymen and other interests, which are opposed to concessions which otherwise would be readily granted. 9. As the Legislature of this colony will, when it assembles again, address Her Majesty, and as I am sure this government will readily attend to any sug- gestion I may be able to offer them, I shall be very bappy to be favored with your lk ip’ After due consideration, L am of opi the Assembly and Council pray for a suspension or xati * the convention, they ought also to and stip Vileges being granted to them, wh avigation Act accords to the subj d States, in regard to the ad purchased by ' the admission of our as that of American sub- ons cannot be granted, to rietly h capital: to estah- | = shores which are so h of commerce and | glis s stations along ted for that br: losed letter from the United State your lordship’s pera re of the That gentle construction which is now put by the Br the Convention of 1518, viz.: the three miles distance from the shore is to be co puted from th d lands, and not the bays: if his unfortuna' men had been three miles enward of the two extreme points of the coast to he refers, they could have easily rounded the | to the lee side of it in safety. The were saved, upwards of 300, have b nt home at the expe! of the United State rmment ; and your lordship will see by the an- nexed eXtract from a Massachusetts paper, that the} were sensible of the hospitality that they met with from the Islander: s be bed * * 11. In conclusion, I hope that the importance of th ion to which I ate requested your lord- | ship’s attention, will plead my excuse for the length of this despatch. I shall be glad to hear from your lordship on the subject to which it relates. * * I have the honor to remain, my lord, faithfully your lordshiy bedient servant, A. BANNER. EXTRACT OF A DESPATCH FROM SIR AL | BANNERMAN TO EARL GREY, DATED FE! | 1852. “in regard to bounties, the United States go- vernment pay large ones: and, as I stated to the Assembly, we have no business to complain of whatever policy that government may consider most conducive to the interests of their subjects. But I am of the sane opinion with your lordship—averse to impose a tax on the whole community to benefit one particular class; for a trade, requiring a bounty, Ci mean 4 continued one,) will turn out to be a fic- titious one. Our neighbors and the Irench govern- ment will find out in due time: but thatis no business of 01 The act of the Assembly of this island, passed in 1851, only lasts for three yea: I understood it te be merely an encouragement by lature to give premiums, as they very pro- provements in agriculture to another nt branch of industry and commerce—the ut should the colonists find out—which to do—hefore the expiry of the act, isions will be a considerable drain on will themselves remedy y that can be r te of Prince Edward As to th about which T have troubled your lordship ¢o much, I have no hesitation ing, that were I the sole proprietor of this i looking to the question as one involving y con interests, and vot as a national onc, J would petition her Majesty to abrogate the Convention of 1838, and graciously ask for permission to invite the American fishermen to visit our s to carry on their trade, and make the best arrangement 1 could with them. Bat this cannot be done at pre- sept; and I would fain hope the question may be easily and amicably adjusted; and if that could be accoinplished, nothing, I think, would tend more to cement amity and frieadship with Great Britain and the United States.” they are that its pro their limited | IMPORTANT PETITION TO THE QUBEN. To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesi, We, your Majesty’s dutifal and ye subjects, the Legislative Council and Assembly of Prince Edward Island, in Colonial Parliament assembled, bumbly beg leave to renew our assurances of devoted ey aon attachment to your Majesty’s person and go- vernment; aud we beg again to approach the foot of the throne on the subject of our joint address, forwarded to Great Britain so long ago as the year 1549, praying for an abrogation or relaxation ol the treaty of 181%, with the United States government, as concern the fisheries surrounding this island. This address, as we wero informed by your Ma- jesty’s colonial minister, was most graciously ro- ceived by your Majesty, and, we were told, would receive the earnest consideration of your Majesty’s overnment < We beg to state that this subject becomes of daily th moment. € . Your Majesty's representative, the Lieutenant Governor of this island, in the late fishing season, | had the oppertunity of personally witnessing hun- dreds of fishing vessels, belonging to the United tates, Sshing on our shores and ie ag | our Fist vs, in direct contravention of the treaty of | 1818, Hie Excellency hag not. the means of preventin, an intrusion eo detrimental to our best interests— single sip of war of your Majesty fleet, usually om- ployed in this duty, being inadequate to the éxten- ave € vice required of her. The citizens of the United States have an advan- { | shall | democrats, but even ther Pi | pretty strong in tage over the subjects of your Majesty im this i re rrr rrr TE A IR AI TN island, whichprovenie all successful competition, our own. fish, ht on our own shores b ere carried into their ports by themsol wo are excluded by preteotive d The of this island passed twelfth year ot our Majesty's reign, which offered to reciprocate with the United States in the inter- st which offers, our fish and agricultural pro- di ¥ Which latter there isan oxteasive demand in the Northern States of the American Union—re- main subject to high dutics, And although the British navigation laws have heen co relaxed, that foreign built Vessels, owned by Brivigh subjects, ma; obtain Britise istries, & ooncereton Som which the citizens of tho United States bave very recently derived great advantages, by thesaie of their vessels, sti d onthe shores this island, during the disastrous gale of last au- tumn, no reciprocal advantage is offered to us, which, if obtained, woutd be of immense importance a rye 4 of ships and fishing vessels in this island. Your Majosty’s subjects are desirous to continue te cultivate the good wil! of the citizens of the Uni- ted States by overy reasonableconcession, and with due consideration of the value of the intercourse, which, on a basis of reeiprocal advantage, might be established. They presume that the immense importance to the United States of an uninterrupt- ed right of fishing on the shores of this island, as a basis of treaty, ought to ensure for them valuable concessions; and if this be not possible that the fish- eries ought to be scrupulously maintained in tbe spirit of the treaty of 1818. We most ashe pray that your Majesty will bo most graciously pleased to take the premises into your favorable consideration, and cause to be re- moved the restrictions of the treaty of 1818 prohibiting American citizens from fislang within certain pre- seribed limits on the shores of this island, provided the American government admtt articles, the growth or production of thts island, nto the United States, duty free, in accordance with the act of the General Assembly of this island, passed in the twelfth year of your Majesty's reign, entitled “An act. to au- thorise free trade with the United States of Ameri- ca in certain enumerated articles, including fish, also vessels built on this island to Amerivan re- gistry.”” Andas in duty bound, we shall ever pray. pre >! of certain enumerated articles; votwith- TELEGRAPHIC. ENCROACHMENTS OF THE FRENCH FISHERMEN TO BE CHECKED —THE CAPTURE OF THE AMERIOAN SCHR. UNION—OPINIONS OF THE NEW BRUNSWICK PRESS. Rosrox, August 3, 1852. By the arrival of the steamer Admiral, we have 8t. John, N. B., papers to the 2d of August. Vice Admiral Seymour has purchased o brig and a schooner, which have beem manned aud armed to protect the colonial fisheries from the encroachments of the French, ‘The schooner Union, reported yesterday as seized, was taken in the Gulfof St. Lawrence by the Telegraph, ten- der to H. M. steamship Devastation. The Néw Brunswicker thinks that when the people of America understand the mutter better, they will have but little cause of complaint. It considers that the reported terms of the new Reciprocity bill are too favorable to the Americans. ‘The St. John Courier again explicitly declares that there is no intention to enforce the headland to headland part of the fishing treaty, nor to demand reciprocal free trade as the price of arranging the question, our Maine Correspondences Bancon, Me., July 20, 1852. Maine Politics—The Temperance Law—Maine sure for PierceThe Congressional Districts—Messrs. Evans and Webster, and alleged Cause of their Quarrel—The Fish- vies. ‘The papers out of this State have much to say about the condition of political affairs here, and one would think that Maine was about to yote for General Scott, than which nothing could be more unfounded. There is nothing in the stories that the democratic party hore is broken up, so far as the Presidential election is concerned, though there is some prospect of the State election being attended with considerable amusement in the way of dis- appointments, The whigs have a sort of notion—I speak of the mass—that they are about to defeat the election of Governor Hubbard through the workings of the liquor law ; but theg leave out of their calculations all those members of their own party who will vote for that gen- tleman, if it shall be made apparent that he is to be put down for his action in behalf of the temperance law, ‘They also leave out of their calculations all the free soil- ers, many of whom will support Gor. Hubbard, because they believe he is the object of untair opposition on the part ofthe (so-called “rumiies."” What between temperance filers, I shoulda’t be surprised if he were to cbtain votes enough to re elect him—though he may not. The nomination of Mr, Chandler will rather aid the demoesats than hur It will cause thousands of votes to be lost t idk but for such nomi is pretty well under e. Which he would, ed The whole thing d ought to be out of the © as to prevent unsophisticated individuals from ing that Irank Pierce will not car: » vow of hich he is just is of being 1 in New Han it's pros- half » Island as General Pierce Is might ven- ture to is bebalf, Thev sequal be Y the uniled votes of Hu wilibelarger, The supporte ear their sup of the Pr at my he what i he be injured by (heir able to maké out of the 1 In Mastachusctis it way be of will not Le the value of down, or whatever may lighter than the reli “down east The democ respects, hope to do some of the ¢ Peru, in defiaa v n Why the whigs are quarreling in v farther ifficulty nominated troubles 1 Pierce for t er portion . and stands quarrel: going on democracy, 2 expect to profit hy them it no} that they may. In the nob-eot district, the democratic fend is far jitter than that in the fourth. The Sixth district is not so badly off for the hey are fu from being united, e (the “J. 5. 2.” ot (iveeloy's there. on the whig side, as he would receive all the tion support, and in rather popular than otherwise. in the Fifth, or Kennebec dis- trict, the whi; a heavy majority. and there are tions that the whig convention. which is to meet on the third of August. will nominate either Mr. Evans, or Mr. Paire of Hallowell, and @ nomination is the same thing asan clection Mr. Evans is the head of our whig party, both from talents and position, Ife it wax ted the tide against the Webster party in the Baltimore convention. and who probably did as much as any other one man to prevent the nomination of the Massachusetts statesman, The friends of Mr. Webster have assailed him very barshly for this, and have attribu- ted his conduct to hi appolntment as an. office-secker, Mr. Webster having refused him. or induced the Presi- Tt is supposed that Trifune) might make a dent £0 to do. the place on the Supreme Kench.made vacant by the death of Judve Wocedbury. and other pleasant things which he for, Mr. Evans's friends declare. that so far from this being the case. the breach between two t men, whe once sworn alltes, is all ewir sell, and ori d in their leader vy were dis: seems that when Mr. Evans was can Commissioners, the state to him the li 7, of Stace unlertook to {conduct he should pursue, telling him what claims he must press, wnd that. too, without to theirj hemust not p: Mr. vane being somewhat und: dominion of the id ce will, and not exactly rel rand least ll, in one where his character mi, n ade to suffer, if he should act blindly. not only obje to being wade a tool of, but positively refused to ob feeretary's instructions, Hence the rapture between them, Such is the «tory, for the accuracy of which I by no means vouch— merely telling you the tale as it was told to me; Dut there nothing intrinsically improbable im it. AS matters stand, the animosity between the gentle- nenwill probably produce more evil te General Scott than democratic dissensions on a local subject. though it is not Pied that cither party will be much affected by these side issues, Mr. Evans. it is sup) |, Would have great intluence with { administration, should it ever be formed. and this gives to him a great number of “friends,” of a peculiar sort—such as usually are found about gentlemen who have political standing, Should the whigs carry our legislature, he would probably be sent to the United ‘States Senate. in place ot Mr. Bradbury, but who is much more Likely to be succeeded by a demo. crat of the same name—a man of ability, residingin Bast- ort, Pom the Firet and Second districts the democ united aud strong. In alluding to their dis some of the districts, it is proper to say that they are founded on local affairs, and have nothing whatever to do with national politics. How much soever the democrats of Maine may differ upon questions relating to thom- selves, it is certain that they are united in the support of General Pierce, who Will have one of the largest popular votes ever th own inthe State, The idea that Genoral Reott ix speeially popular here is not well founded, He never bad any chance of our vote, and there is nothin: in the proseut condition of the whig party. thet would warrant the belief that they are about to accomplish any thing here in 1852. The fishery troubles have made considerable feeling in Maine. Nota few of our people would be glad to see the knot cut with the sharp «word of war. Maino, like all border countries, is warlike--has more tecling’ agaist England than most parte of the Union, The opinion prevails pretty extensively among us that we ought to order and control American affairs without regard to English ideas; and if the fisheries are not Amerlcan, what can be so? England would seem to have afforded an opportunity for the realization of this view of the subject, Which is as sensible a one, to my mind, ag that of allowing a great interest to be for ever dependent upon the chances of a foreign nation having wise men at the head of its government. I have heard men-—by no means rash men cither—ex press regret at the probable de- feat of the Derby ministry in the late clections, as that event will most likely postpone what they hold to be an “imevitable’’ occurrence, and which never would be bet- ter eatered vpon than now, CASTINE, Our Niegara Correspondence. Neagana Faxs, Thursday, July 29, 1862. Pwd of the Political Bustle and Confusion—Review Of the Field of Lundy's Lane. The unwanted bustle and confusien which, for tho last fow days, completely interrupted the seronity of chia fashionable asjourn, has again departed, and permitted peace and quietness to return to hor fa- 1 Youite abedo. The olep-trap eraters, noisy politi- oiana, gaping sight-seers, embroidered coldiers, blacklegs and pickpockets, and Ladians and druak- arde, who frightened the quiet summer visitants, have all evacuated the place, and loft it again to respectable and fashionable people. The crowds with whjoh the Lundy’s Lane celebration overrun this village, seemed not ualike a horde of soldiory descending @n some quiet mountain hamlet, where a man of war had never been seen befere, and quar- toring themselves on the convents and monasteries, with this exception, that here they were willing to pey for what accommodation they could get—and well they had to pay for everything. Tho bar- reoms must have made, in the four days, (Sunday and Wednésday inolusive,) more than, en ordinary oceasions they would do for the whole’ season. Charging double © price for everything, and evon then the supply not being e to the demand. Tho boarders at the international, Cataract and Falls hotels must have “rejoiced with an Cayeng parture of the Goths and Vandals who came, ruth- iessly, to disturb their classic equanimity, crowd up their bedrooms, and devour everything at table. Those at the Clifton do not feel the change co much, as they were not.so much affected by the incursion. i put up at the latter house, but felt rather income moded; not that anything was lacking in the com- | forts of that establishment, but that I could not | cross the river after ten in the evening, on account | of the miserable, contemptible poliey pursued by | the propristors of the ferry. But of ‘this,wmore in wy next letter. Lundy’s Lane, the great battle from which Scott | has got one of his noms de plume !—I visited the ; scene today. Nothing is there to mark the oo- | currence of such a grent fact in American his- | tory. No column trophied for triumphal show.” A ‘pretty considerable village—Drummondville— is situated adjacent to, aud partly on, the field. That plain looking school house, with the little | children playing in front, and its equally unprotend- ing neighbor the Methodist chapel, and that little graveyard, overgrown with long grass, and utterly neglected-looking, they stand on the very spot where tho daring Colonel Miller attacked and cap- tured the English artillery. And there, just across, | where the road now runs and within that thicket, the enemy, after a seas to fight, retired, leaving our troops masters of the field, with the loss in killed and wounded nearly equal—between seven and eight hundred men each—with the odds in our favor of the nine guns which the Americans wore obliged to leave behind them, and General Riell, twenty offi- cers, and two hundred men prisoners. And in that little graveyard just spoken of, were buried peace- fully in death, officers who had fallen in the mortal strife, and by the roadside, under those large trees, were piled together the dead rank and file ot either army, and with layers of wood a funeral pyre was built, and the bodies of all burnt together. And years afterwards, an old British sergeant used to point out the spot and show under the grass the remnants of thecharcoal strewn about. The sergeant has joined his oldcomrades. The dust and sand from the road have obliterated all trace of the charcoal, and the village children play around, unconscious | that the scene of their infantile mirth has been years ago, the scene of human holocausts, offered upon the shrine of the demon of war. And this was tho battle which the whig party of the country had resolved to celeprate in honor of | General Scott, who bore a distinguished part in it. But the venue had to be laid in another territory, and among a people differing in political sentiments aud government from that which occupies the neigh- borhood of the field of Luudy’s Lane. The spot chosen was a grove, on the American side, in the immediate vicinity of the village and falls. Two platforms were erected for the speakers, and various stands and tents occupied the ground for the sale of ice creams, gingerbread, lemonade, ram, and such refreshments, and for the exhibition of all the other great traveiling curiosities—fat oxen, sea deg, Ame- rican giantess, &e—which the occasion held out inducements to. ate place to congregate a inazs of people in, thought I, when as early as Sun- day afternoon J could not get a bed in any of the | three principal hotels. And at that time not one- fh of the crowd bad collected. But, said one of ittee of arrangements, we haye procured Jes mammoth tent, which will accommodate ons And the tent was neglected to furnish ght the chairman prietor that they did not require it td pay him for the one day. ) committee of man z+ ment mis- ud gave over the thousands who had esentation, to be preyed upon by acklegs and pickpockets that the cities of the Union could furnish. ng, and in ane celebration eve these hyperbol- firm there were 50,000 persons present. e the number of arrivals did n one-third of that figure, and m might be set down as coming es of curiosity, induced by the reduction Of the speakers unnoun- cominittee, in their programme, but one rv Jones— made his appearance on the 1 the only other speakers of ability or ing the two days, were Governor Hunt, of Indiana, ant Judge Johnston, of Ohio. were listened to sometimes with stolid indif- e, and sometimes were applauded with the ghosts of cheers vas the character of both days’ proceedings, do not except the e convention of Tues- ay, Which certainly did present objects of interest. tered the crowd through 2 labyrinth of stands tents, where rum and were discussed, sition to cool the throat of burning eloquence. Further in the grove ou passed large camp fires with some drunken lying about, and, then you came to a hollow, around the sides of which were seated i 2 some three thousand people, mostly f boys and girls, clasping each atthe same time that they secmed to be paying attention to the eloquent speec! of Govervor Jones. Fancy one or two lanterni hung up here and there, and the moon shedding her silver light down ores the openings of the trees then clap ina hundred Indian girls’ with bloomer hate, scattered in groups, and you will have con- ceived something like the picturesque seone of Tues- day evening. About the termination of the proceedings on Wednesday afternoon, the want of orators during the day had reduced the attendance to one or two bundred. A few countrymen still kept gazing at the puffy little man who was addressing them; no one else was attending tohim. We then noticed a com- ical looking old man walking up and down in an excited and apparently insane manner, with hi band to his hat, somewhat in the style of a mi itary salute. His manner amused the boys and js more than anything the orator could say or do. Presently the old man made his appearance on the platform, and as the benches were empty, we heckoned him to a seat. We then foun he wanted to make a speech, or read a let. ter which he held in his hand, addressed to brother Horace Greel, The chairman declared him out of order, and would not suffer him to pro- ceed; 0, as he nid his communication was very im- portant, he gave it te me to publish. After the convention Was declared terminated, he got up and adéressing the people, said, ‘‘Ladies and gentlemen: you all want to know who Tam Well, thon, per- haps you have all read of the villanous old King Ammon, whose deeds are recorded in the seriptures Well, then, | am that identical cursed old ruffian.”” vi he ducked his head, slapped on his hat l. the air of a man who had just performed some prodigy of self denial, and strutted off the platform with as mnch dignity as might have appeared “Proud Ammon. when his iron car Was yoked in wrath, and thundered from afar.” other very. loving] Destrvcrion or Tun Nortoumprr.any Briper sy A Tornapo.—On Thursday evening, about half past 6 o'clock, a violent tornado suddenly passed over this place, and in its course, we regret to say, swept from its foundation that portion of the Nor- thumberland | ed spanning the river from the island to the Sunbury shore. Tho bridge now lies crushed ina mass of ruins, above the piers. Mr. Krum, who resides on the Grant farm at the eastern end of the bridge, had just driven off with a four horse team, and by the time he reached his barn, about 20 yards distant, he saw the whole structure raised up and ‘hurled into the river.—Sunday Ame- rican, July 31. Texas Crenitons.—Leslie Combs has published acard intho Washington papers, in which he protests against any change or modification of the act of Von ees, donating ten millions of dollars to Texas to pay er debts, unless his debt, sud others similarly situated ore specially provided for. inasmuch as Texas has sub- jected him and others to the penally of repudjation, as will be manifested by reference to her legislation on the suljeot. Cook, & well known and highly Paltimore, died in this city on Saturday morning. at tlie fdvanced oge of seventy-seven He was one of the few survivors of that gallant band who defended our city from the attack of the British in 1814, having been « member of the Fifth Regiment at the time of the pate of North Point.— Baltimore /merican, Mug. 2. great joy” at the de-. | ime to releotin the dst rardlog ageing’ danger from pag Fe mR ume > five and thirty years when some terrible had ocow rod. bai 1 now repeat that conclusion The furnace and machinery must be all within a tankof boiler iron, the upper edges of which must not be less than six feot above the upper deck—this tank to be vered with a deck just sufficient to support tho weight of the engineers and firemon—no passonger ever to be on tbat deck orin the tank In an ex- plorion, the tank will cause every matter to be thrown prem. Some scoleasansy ocour from the falling of materials. but no loss of the boat—no fire, no aw can well occur; and @rould the boat spring aleak, the tank, being water tight, will sus- tain her, so that she cannot sink. In all cases of explosion, I have noticed that the bottom and sides of the boat are never dam: , While tho strongest timbers ef the decks are broken like straws. Fire could not reach the boat, out of the tank, for there is nothing readily combustible there Let every steamboat traveller put bis hand on the wood work next the boiler or smoke-pipe, &¢.. and he will find it commonly too hot to bear. If there are knots inthe boards, he will see the turpentine fried out of them, paint blistered, &o. If tin plates, soldered together, have been put between the wood work and firo works, he will often see the plates uu- soldered by the heat. Have we, then. lost our senses? Can it be that more such awful burnings are reserved for our wives and daughters, as that of the Henry Clay? Our character is at stake before the whole world. Not only are we beginning to be charged with a frightful want of humanity, but with that which will hurt «ur self-satisfuction infinitely more—that is, want of | 196, tonnage 70.118, rense. M. The Crops. The Winyaw Observer says :—The rice crop looks well, and promises to yield in accordance to its pre- sent appearance. The growth on Santee is luxuri- ant, and on some plantations the rice is shooting. The full of water has been too large to benefit the corn crop, yet we heur fluttering accounts of a bountiful harvest. Wo learn from St. Louis that every boat now arriving brings wheat growa the present season, which is chiefly a prime article. It now commands €8 to 70c. The crop is very large, and prices may, in consequence, recede from present rates when tho market comes to be filled. The crops of all kinds in Florida are represented as more than ordinarily promising. New wheat and oats are beginning to come freely into Philadelphia from the South and the interior, and prices are tending dewnwards. Tho New Haven Courier says the drought has done much to injure the crops in that section. The hay crop will not probably be moro than half the average, and the same may bo said of the potatoes. Liquor Law. Two small seizures of liquor were made in Boston, on Wednesday. One of the men arrested was dis- charged, there being no proof that the liquor (about ‘a pint) was for sale. Manuel Dutry, a Portuguese, has been convicted under the new liquor law, at New Bedford, and or- dered to pay a fine of $10 and costs fomounting to $14 24), and to give bonds in the sum of $1000 that he would not, within one year, violate any law concerning the gale of liquors. In consequence of. ie inability to pay the fine, he was remanded te jail. A quantity of liquor, belonging to David Gard- ner, Salem (Mass.) was seized last Saturday after- noon. The Palmer Jowrnal states that the rumsellers and temperance people of that pate have not trou- bled themselves yet about the Maine Law. The se- lectmen will probably appeint an agent to-day. Some persons in Newton, N. H_, sent a man with # horse and wagon to Newburyport, Mass., to lay in a store of the ardent before the supplies should be cut off by the new liquor law. “COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS. MONEY MARKET. Tuonspay, Aug. 3—6 P.M. The stock market opened Leavy this morning. Trans- lous were to @ limited extent, and prices were slightly At the first board Nicaragua declined }; per Montgomery Miming, 34; Morris Canal, 1; Erle : Harlem, 3¢; Reading Railroad, 45; New sey Zine, ';. Delaware and Hudson advanced 1 per cent from last sale; Panama Bonds 3{. At the second loord Montgomery Mining declined 134 per cent; Read- ng Railroad, 4; Erie Railroad, 3, There was a greater ivity at the afternoon board, notwithstanding the ine in prices, and the operations were principally The market closed weak. with a downard ten- rod. ‘or cash cency. We have repeatedly cautioned the public against the )ubbles which have appeared under the name of miniug companies, and which haye sought, without intrinsic merit of thelr own, to establish a current value on no- thing but similarity of name and object, with those which time has proved to besound and meritorious. As far as we have yet ascertained, the New Jersey Zine Company is the only one possessing tho reality of valuable mines and expeditious and economical modes of working them; yet we find new candidates for public favor pressing their claims under cover of the success of this company, with which they have no one point in common, It needs only a reference to the stock list for the last three days, to prove that these mushroom projects can fade with the vame rapidity with which they rise. ‘The annexed statement exhibits the yalue of merchan- dise and specie imported into this port during the month of July in ench of the past two years-— Commence or THE Port or New Yorx—Jery Ivrorrs 185. 1852. 1 Dutiable Good: Free Good: Specie. 1,027,481 OL $1,143 150,067 Total .... + $15,485,325 $12,518,535 dee. $064,087 The withdrawals from warehouse during the month were $1,099,800; warehoused during the same time, $423.- $19, The total value of imports and exports to this port during the first reven months of the past two years, were as annexed:— Imports asp } First seven month Imports Exports spouts or THe Pony of New Yorx. i 185: 852. Excess of imports... 11,564 $2,074,000 The difference in the balance against usin the foreign trade of this port. during the first seven monthe of 1852, compared with the same period in 1851, was only $2.074,000. It appears by this that both the import and export trade of the port has considerably decreased, leay- ing the excess of imports upwards of two millions of dol- Jars legs than on the first of August 1851. This is not uch a favorable exhibit as we furnished at the close o¢ th of June. The difference in the value of exports «port this year, compared with those for the same ‘od last, has been almost entirely in specie. In 1851 up to August firet, the value of specie exported was $25,007,085. This year, to the same date, the value was $15,005,008, Decrease this year $0,492,077, which corres- ponds very nearly with the total decrease in exports as ~Lown in the above tables The reccipteat the office of the Assistant Treasurer of thie port tordsy, amounted to $105,219 26; payments, $196.093 50—balance, $4.312,249 74 ‘The cteamship Hermann, from Southampton, brings four days’ later intelligence from Europe, The news is not important, and does not vary in any material point from that received by the previous steamer, Quotations for cotton and corn were steady, but the markets wore in- active The City Fire Insurance Company have declared & semiannual dividend of ton dollars fer share; tie Citizens’ Bank, four per cent.; the N, Y. Life and Trast Company, five per cent. In July there were 727 arrivals at Boston of vessels constwise, and 965 foreign; clearances, 367 forelgn, 344 coastwise, Gold imported since January 1, $526,204; silver, $60,287. Exported, gold $1 ‘5 83; silver, $110,537 40, ‘The receipts at the Philadelphia Custom House, for duties on imports, during the first soven months of 1852 amounted to $2,410,052 83, against $2,455,002 65 for the same time in 1501, showing an increase thie yoar of $55, bag 72, The arrivals at the port of Quebec to the D0th of July, inclusive, this year, were 697, tonnage 220,185. Last year, arrivals 789, tonnage 206,203, Less this year, arrivals questions and queries relative (o defunct rete ly and the North Amerjoan banking institutions general | Trust and Banking Company particularly, may be inter- esting to certain parties, who have recenly purchased that tock, in anticipation of another division, Specuta- tors in this clas of stocks fn Wall street, seem to care vory little for the doubts and uncertainties which from time to time arise, relative to the legality or validity of the transactions, They go in tor « profit. If they are very good—if not, still pretty 264, as it migh have beom worse. Wall ateect value is regulated entirel by supply and demand The question im that Latitud® is what a stook will bring and what it is werth:— ‘te al caso. for example of the North Amoricn: ing Compeny, nearly all rook for in bonds aud mortgages lont of these ant at the consequently bi these subseribers would be liable for any defiolency of ment of these bonds and mortgages—in other words. a would be a ‘set off by the receiver of said indebtodmex against such stock thus transforred, if the first inquiry anewered affirmatively, 2d. Chancellor Walworth, when im office, refused to al -protecting the unwary. By what authority kas sinoe been made, or if made. what law annuis the righ\ of “set off” in case any stockholder, at the time of Hac > im bonds and mortgages, which proved te be worthless, in whole or in Party or the payment of which he repudi- ates He sells stock to B. GC, & D., and it is such stook forms the basis of the stock speoulations in Wi t. A few of the original subscribers paid their bonds am mort; , principal and interest, but they formed honorable exception, and if present themselves for exhibition at the World's Fair, is to be, they will ba sure to take thi premium. Dickens, in the chanoery suit” of Jarndyce larmdyoe. describes avlittle old women” who is slways expecting # decision. So it is with the Speculators in the stock of the North American Trust and Banking Company—they are expecting a decision It seems not to have entered into the minds of th speculators. that with the stock they purohased the li bility of the original holder. Section 19 of the Ge: Banking law authorizes @ transfer of the shares, language is:—" And every person becomi by such transfer shall. in proportion to his sbares, to all the rights and liabilities of prior sharebolders,”” &. ‘The receiver or creditors may invite « every perso! coming asharebolder” * to step up ¢0 the captain's of- fice” and pay the liabilities of prier shareholders. ‘Tt appears from the report of Captain Simmons, Reyal Fngineer to the Railway Department of the Beard o: rade, that the number of passengers travelling on rail waysin England and Wales, which, in 1850, amounted to 8,514,435, reached 70.471,179 im 1861, showing an increase of 20 per cent, while the receipts from those Passengers | rose from £5,888,603 to £6,952,612, being an increase of 18 percent. The mean length of railway upon which this traffic was conducted had increased in the same perio only 6.6 per cent. It appears that ir the preceding years for which returns of traffic have been prepared, the ave- rage annual increase in the length of railways in Emgiand © and Wales had boen 21 per cent, being more tham throe * times the rate of last year; and that while the average number of passengers has increased annually 11.03 pec - cont, the receipts from passengers have increased 6.4 per cent. Hence, it would appear that although the rai way communications im England and Wales have in the past year, increased at a rate much below th? average, (being about one-third), the number of pas- sengers has increased at a rate nearly amounting to double the annual average, amd the receipts de- rived from them at nearly three times the ordi nary rate of increase. The number of passemgers in | tho last yoar has exceeded the number which would have deem conveyed by railways, if they had only increased at ‘he ordinary rate, by 5.502,602; and the receipts from them in the same manner by £687,133. This increase is im agreat measure to be attributed to the vast facilities for travelling afforded to the public by means of excursion trains, which in 1860 had received a great impulse, but was developed in an extraordinary degree in the past year, during the exhibition. The mean length of railway open for traffic in Scotland during the year, has increased 6.2 per cent, while the number of passengors has only in_ creased from 8,844,191 to 9,286,313, or 4.9 per cent, andthe receipts from them from £600, 082 to £622,549, or 3.7 per cent. The mean length of railway open for traffic im [roland during the year, has increased 12; per cent. while the number of passengers conveyed bas only increased from 5,495,796 to 5,633,603, or 26 per cent; the receipts from them. having risen from £339,076 to $365,603, or 7.8 per cent. In England and Wales the receipts for goods have risen frew. £5 480,771 to £6 044.183, or 10.3 per cent; in Sootland, from £721,176 to £814. or 12.8 per cent; in Ireland, from £174.959 to £198.459, or 13.4 per cent. The gemeral results of traffic over all the railways in the united kiug- dom show that the aggregate number of passengers con- veyed in 1850 amounted to 72,854,422; in 1851. to 85.301.095; being” an increase of 12.596 673, or 17 2 per cent. The gross receipts from passengors in 185@amount- Ato £6.827,761; in 1851. to £7,940.764—showing an in- crease of £1,114.003, or 16.3 per cent. The gross sum re- ceived for the transport of goods amounted, im 1950, to £6.376,907, and in 1851, to £7.056,695—showing an in- crease of £079,788, or 10 6 per cent. The gross revenue of all the railways, arising from traffic of all descriptions, which in 1850 amounted to £15,204.668, amounted, in 1861, to £14,097,450, or very nearly £15,000.000—showing n increase of £1,792,791, or 13.5 per cent. Steck Exchange. $10000 U 8 6's -HS_, 10 shs Nic Transit Co. 71g 1000 do 11774 | 50 Dan Coal C 63% 4000 0 86's 1177, BOON J Zine 13 200 U 8 6's S100 Bdgew'th Land Ga’. 63g 00 Kentucky 100 Canton Co... b33 79% 00) Pe feet the 1000 Erie. 50 BT 1200 ECnBs 71 © erg 2000 Hudson Ist 87h 1000 Panama RR Bas. 135 ne 400 do, . + 1826 S736 1088 5735 1h sony Os 90: 106, 9 5 Bauk 90! 5 do 7 43 Ii: State or 64 East Riv I 73 do. Sees OF 50 Morris C 10 Mad & lad’ RR... > 16 140 Flor & Ki SNY&NU RR... Wt 100 Mont Minin} 50 Mich Con RR. 19% 100 do. 175 Nio Transit bo do.. ro ae co) do, BOARD 2006hs Reading RR.s15 9014 200 (Rar 10 90%, coord aT Ez ds 8736 5 weien #3 5 5 Uti o2Mad & Ind. 1 CITY TRADE REPORT. ’ Toxspay, August 3—6 P.M. Asins—Favored factors, 60 bbls. having realized $4 75 i $5 50a $5 56% for : bes le 7 is. sour Can: , at }; Super~ + at $3 8% mixed to fair Western and ordinary to straight State,at $3 0334 a $4 063,; choice State. fa- vorite Ohio, and fancy » Western, at $4 061% a $4 18%; 56. with common to good Southern at $4 314. a 4 Rye flour and corn meal unchanged. 4 300 bushels ord! nary white Geneseo wheat found buyera at $1 03; 4,000 prime mixed Canadian, at private contrac red Carolina, at 90c.; and 25,000 bushels corn, at 62c. .643,¢. for unmerchantable; and 64)c. a 653¢e. for mixed West- ern—the former quotations. Domestic oats seemed im request, at dic. a dée. per bushel Corron.~-There has been a good demand to-day for the fA) and the sales amount to 2,000 bales, at full prices. Correr.—We only heard of 200 bags Rio having been taken, at 91f2.9%,c perib. Market firm, Fisu_---Nothing of moment was done in cod or mack- crel. $00 boxes vealed herring realized 50c. cash, Frvrr.---There were 3,000 bushels African peants pro- cured, at 95. a $1, according to quality, Freienrs.-.-To Liverpool, 1.500 bbls, flour were en- gaged, at 10d.; grain was at 3)sd, a 4d., and cotton at 3s, td. per bale. To London, 1400 bbls, flour were takem, at Is, 6d. and measurement goods at 20s. There was no change to notice in rates for Havre. There was a fair demand for California, at previous rates, Hemr.—About 45 bales American undressed found purchasers at $117 40a $120-—usual credit. Inon.---Seotch pig was finn bat inanimate, at $20 50a $21; 6 monthy. pens ee were] actively inquired for at $1 6234, cash, 5 Limr---Seemed dearer ; 4,000 bbls. haying been dis- pored of at 95 a $1 for common Rockland, and $1 15a $1 20 for Lump:--closing at the outside prices. Navat Srones.---'The only sales reported to-day, were of spirits turpentine, in lots, at 3734 @ 38 ots. ind 45 bbls, common rosin, at $1 40. Oiis.—The day’s business embraced a cargo of crude sperm on private terms, The market price was $1 25 per gallon; 4,000 gallons linseed, at 2c. per gallon, cash; and 200 baskets olive, at $3 each, four months, Provisions remained active and firm, the day’s transac- tions reaching 900 bbis. Prime ce nged piow hed 17x and $20; 200 pkgs. salted shoulders and hams, at 8% a9 and 10%sc.; 200 bbls. prime lard, at 11!¢ a 11 5<c, per Ib ; and 400 Ibs. old prime, with new mess beef, at $74¢ a $0 and $1549 a $1335. ° Rice.—Within the last three days, 300 tierces prime have been sold at $4 25 a $4 37 54 per 100 Ibs, foar.—There have boon 100 boxes Castile purchased, at 9 a 9340, per Ib., 4 months. Spits. alow wore made of 000 bbls. Ohio and " whiskey, at ax Lg 21 4c. cash, with 40 bhds, drudge time, &e, ian.=-Muscovado was in brisk request, and 900 bhas, were sold, at JX a5e. per 1b, usual eredit. The stock on hand last evening amounted to 50,959 hhds., 22.406 boxes, 11,017 bags Manilla, and 9,550 do, Brazil. ‘Tarrow.——Lut 8,600 Ibs. prime changed hands, at 85; a 84K, per Ib., eagh RECKINTS OF PRODUCE. By Nontn Rivek Bosrs.—-20.111 bushels wheat; 6,600 do onte; 24.400 do, corn; 8,663 bbis. flour; 47 do, ashes; 58 do provisions, and 479 do, whiskey. By Ene Rarcnoan.-2i4 pkgs. bubter, and 930 sides . legit a vw Haven Raiunoad.d2 pkgs, butter, and’s6 do, Mecee,