The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1852, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. 6UR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. Ascension of Mont Biano by an Bmerican. INPANTICIDE BY THE COUNTESS KIVSIA. DEATH OF MADAME LAFARGE. HB LONE STAR MOVSMENT IN SPAIN. BUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION, die., dics, de, Ap Ascension of Nont Blane, by an Ame~ rican. 50 THE EDITOR OF THE NHW YORK HERALD. Cuamount, Savoy, Sept. 4, 1552. ‘The sveccseful aecension of Mont Blane—the | Dighest monptain in Europe—is regarded as a per fermance by (he tourist; and as many thourand at- | tempts have been thwaried by the caprice of the elements, I cond to the Hurap a brief account of | ap ascension made by myself, on the stand 2d of | Beptember, being the first made by an American ahoce the year 1519. | A desire to visit tho vale of Chanouni haunted | , mefrom sbildhood, and having achiered my favor- dee wich, I was next determined to attempt the as | ent of Mont Dime, perilous thengh it wae repr sented, and direuaded as I waa from the task. In thsco days afver my arrival in Chamouni, I had mde aj} preparations of guides, portera, sorrante, | provided with food, slothing, and the ne: Jes for tho journey; and on the morning of the first, started off over the ive fields of the glacier | Bon Bortone en reute tor the Grand Mulets, where tt was our inte to repose the first night weather was remarkably fine; and thoug en'y one ofthe party with a drop of the Bexon in my veins, Wo were all in without experiencing any part cept a somewhat dangerous tramp over abounding in chasms, we arrived at tho Grand | Mulets, which are a mars of huge rocks at an o6le- | Correspondence. Lonpow, Sept. 14, 3852. Controve sy— The Perwoiam Right—The Condition of Europe, ¥c. Toe Unghish jourvals have bees busily engaged in discussing the question concerning the Lobos Islande. If any ether man but the wosk and pa- fillanimoos Lord Malmesbury had happened to have been at the head of the foreign department, the qoestion of right to gather gueno from two bar ren roeke standing out in the middle of the Paci- fic ocean, would never have been questioned. J adverted, at the origin of the mstter, when the guano was first discovered, to this important qnoe tion, and related how the merebants, by s commit- tee, had made represestations to Lord Malmesbery of the injnetice of their ships being prevonted by the Pernyiam government from gathering the pre- ‘ious offal. Tne reply of Lord Maimesbary to the rtrong reaonstrances ef the merchants interested in the metter, was evasive, and, reduced to com mop, undiptematic langnege, amounted to saying that he knew not whether Peru bad or had not aay yight to the islends. Now, however, since Mr. Websier’a famous letter to Mr. Jewett, and the departure of an American merchant fleet to gether the rich ataff, the English act and reason as if they seemed to regret that Lord Malmesbury had deprived them of the by giving an opinion whieh ciently well understood to be adverse them, by taking care not to be in their favor. her competent eletesman would andoabtedly ced at once un energetie opinion in fa for of the open mght. But cow, sipce America has deslarcd’ for ime open the Bi ne and all, ory cat, spo lation! ‘The long ar- gnmeuts they nave entered into, to prove ihe eluaive right of Peru, amoans to previ 6 then ihe existesce, aod Ub of tho pre thant. 6) po Our London Te Loves was to chunes, m au tro rox f, nor ev: por Pera & cross vation of about 10,000 feet above the level of tha | sea. Here we unpsecked cur provisions, and my | guides made a hearty meal, and prepared a fire from materials brought from the rillsge by the { 2 porters. ‘The elevation of H thie spot comma @ fine | view of the Des Taceonay & sa well » valley of ¢ m: tho | Cel de . » @Aniand ¥ 4 Midi, i t = set fri v most 2 spectecle Lev rune © g- Be- fore reiiring, the he northeast eatne rolting | around the dist of the Mont Blane chain, ; and ny guides immediately sigttied that this wag! & bad onion, and intimated that oar forces must be strengthen With every desire, therefore, to far- ther iho suecces of my undertaking, I immediately @erpatched 2 porter down the glacier, with written | nd mo | instructiovs to a friend in Chemouui to three more guides meal, the novelty of which, at such an elevation, ra- ther added to the rest of the appetite, we once more packed vp our kurpeacks, leaving what super- fluevs luggage we could spare on the rocks, and | goon were on onr snowy pathway. I found the azow in come places extremely soft, and at evory step sank to our knees init. In about three hours We reached » steep embankment of ice, divided by B Crevice HT dcudéal _wilth. viong the ledge of whieb, atier the guides and myself were tied to each wether hy ropes, at about ten fect apart, we continued to creep, on the extremest vorge of a preeipioe many hundred feet deep, until we arrived upon the Grand Piateau, about4 A.M. Thi in is nearly two miles long, and at ifs extremity is an ampbitheatre of pooks ond icebergs, above which the summit of Mont Blanc rises almost perpendicularly. Here we were in constant terror of avalanchos falling from the peaks skirting this bleak expanse, and with our anterns proceeded caniiously onward. I now ex- apors from the dangers of the air, and aa agonizing this nothing could allay. Two of the cuides were seized with bleeding at the nose, while a third coughed with intermittent difficul Hesting at every twenty steps, we managed to reach # piie of rocks, called the Rochers Rangos, at | wo & sbout 2 P.M. ain came to a halt; \@ | ment had not, | and Prassia. of, and | wi in si y th y g cre and pimy matter The Boghen se’ 8 seston on the proper, end took ab ns th why shou! by Perv is inse to all former preeevents sense an If the stock-jobb: Lord heve ariecn. Now that fhe demoera the continent of Ei y erached on oy action, revolution or political exc to be locked for in the quorrels and con us of the despots nud great powers t.emrelves. 0 alread, proms of high quarte}, and olcments of u dis. rension, between tho Wo xreat powe: That they are commerci heads and unfricod!y, has been we time to be the case, owing to the different views o! the two countries on the establishment of a general tarif’ unica, Austria being desirons of such a union in opposition to the views of Prussia. Bat another element of dissension has lately arisen, which will exercise no doubt s powerful inf the affairs of the continent. This is the religious clement, which it appears by affairs lately in pro- gress, has hegan to develope itself with its usual snd ebaracte: bitterneas. Since 1848 the Papal i by the despotic powers, has boon ox- Germany, calledin to aid the legiti- in oppressing the people. B uu to oppose this great power, pe on t would carry all before it, ne Jesuits has therefore met with » swhich it little expected. While they ing all before them, ond re-estublishin ivn in Austria, where ig had been under by popular and liberal principles, they begin to mect with opposition in the States of Prussia, and even in Saxony, Wuttemburg, and Bavariy P sis, with its Protestantism, 23 now pitted in 6 avtagonism against A vstria and its Jesu’ conversions to the Jesuits in Prussia countevanced by th ary Jesuits, who Is power of lately mere favored, with the cold shoulder. Leading official men, who ome converte to the mission d from their sitnations in consequence. vamed Von Kettemburzh bad been : 1 A the preset to conform to bis ff a wall of ise al- oraplished by cut: yh to adn and then commence mort perpendicu! i. i in the ice, Jar feet, with an axe bronght for the purpose, The | progres here was very slow, tho racefsctiom becom | ing very oppressive, and the guides being exhausted | with fatigue. My position on th waa now truly perilous. storm were every m the guides doubt expressed in their ga efdark clouds re men with the axe tur avy farther. 1 im tained a fecling of to euccecd, and unaware o Gvereome, } proposed to fifty franca, in addition would attain the s i ed vigor at this of me 3 wit . At Jongth a wren nd the summit, t out, refusing to proce that they ent: ed on by adosire 1 dangers t one hundred and mn, if thay gad we had fairly reached the top of the frowning | Mar de la Cote, and within fifty of the it, | amente car leatly w z nail and snow, | oy us, notwith. | wsaes. The guides now | » and finding ail re- | d that the | ‘os’ faces were olanged—ono je the rest wore asp 1¢ socxd. Jt was greduslly disappesred as we tein The burning, maddening th to rage with grosver fury. My torg | @xy and hard trom my imouth, mud on dessending the perilous footmarke of the Mur, I threw prortrate on the in utter exhaostion. guider likewise foliowed my oxamp!e, and for & few Moments we watched the auow clouds whirling and Winding in fantastic shapes around the peake above us. Beeking the shelter aflurded by the Rochers Ranges, 1 was enabled, alver a few moments rest, y the maguificeat socues around gne of enuny Italy stretched side, and eoomed Lke a mep to be more peaks than on tl vey. In faci, Mout Dione ne the northern extremity of the range of primi- five racuntains. This birdsoye view of th itone | i | supported the t pared to de- | 7 ever, rebelled, and the n rdat right to req ment, however, inter ntry, and ordered the J that part of the coun been issued against i oe dence. aries to be expel aginning to work ion of Irelan tated as ever by intornal dis xpeeted of a people enushe by the worst and mo ever cured & country ed, t neither y the wild games they play of the unhappy materials of a ik upon, whom iendlord oppress upidity Juced to the lowest alage of poverry and Cogradation. most t else can be ed, and plua- of Innd owns s rapid 5 erpoo , and others, being throng o seit for the gold regions oonteing daily two columns of advertil d to sail for Por ference to the large shipments ioh had lately taken place, a contiau- ened to produce a searcity of proceeding at G about t Tien of the silver oliculating medium, the London Times | remarks :— i f the shipments were confined to gold eoin no t evil would arico. Logs of interest and th ht would be the only conseqaones, aod 1d bo re-adjusted no of specie to thi It is undcretood, however, thot the al not been confined to ¢ aro A want of he colonies, as well as of d this want haa b to be fonred that, ae in igantic structure and organ a Phe plains of Lombardy and France : enveloped in w haze, and did not shut out the view, the bine Mesitera defined in the distanoo, ‘Tho gl the; Alpe on the north sido since of their groups ixt green velleys, present a grau vision eommand Bac our pleasure f storm above incresecd, besring on its blust th rucbirg Comm the 1ncwptal v d ixed with rocks and spectecte as fur aa the thia respoot hero end and the keen ¢ prints wad f we dercende J a momentary dre @ force of the wind would detach the huge a of snow on all si:tou and ove’ in us, We @ reached B 2 prepare lor tue passage Mulets, under tho for afew momente in oréer of the dreaded giaciors At about nighifal), with ong solitary lantern, 2 mode our way over the upper portion of the giavicr Da Tacsopay; the storm, scill vnabated, drove us onwerd, mpd threading the wide crevasscs with feelings of dread, reachel the junction of the two vast feide of ice, where, by an nnforcunate error of the chef we lost our pathway in the mow. Our ex- treme etete of exhauscion, to; er with the violence of the storm, ond the vexation naturally arising from 8 false porituon in our route, bere soted upon us, and rendered ue almost ey pete of crossing the chasms that yawned in fearfal lation on all sides of us. How | ever battled the perils of that night I own- ttell. The thought of my situstion slarms me oven now at 1 think of it. After an anromitting search of four hours wo finding our oa after Agi? descent of three hours more we entered Chamouni at fve in the morving, having traversed the mountains of eternal mow forty-five and sufficiently impressed with the | and horrors attendant upon an as- cent of Monn Blane, oo DMiyaee, WA a present circu int & pre mented: be glutted ir natural desire is to 0 this o barrersmery, of those to whom they signed. The attention of the government ie nndorstoad to have been woto this stato of things from recent exosssive domands upon the mint for silvor coin, vhich can be accounted for under no other fuppesition than that of a large export to Auctra- lia. Tho natural remedy to prevent the recurrence of such on demand, to the ultimate ineonveniense both of the colony and the mother oountry, would be to declare by royal proclamation a jirnitation upon the tender of Britieh silver coins in the Aus- ivalian provinces, similar to that established by law in Great Britain, and it is understood that euch a meneure isincontemplation. It must, how- ever, be some weeks before a privy council oan as- sembie; and several months must elapse before an order ised by it cod be promulgated in Austra- lia. The remedy will be too late to rectify what has passed, but a word of caution and an intimation that euch a ponceee® hle, may have the fect of proventin: jorease of ents of silver cole before tho real wants of the chlonien for increased circulation of this description are fully aecertained, same | Acy | nee On | ries, are now | esuit mis | The | s Steam “cently incerporated “by royal charter, ure now pres 1g forward their arrangements for taking =p ‘he line, and heve contracted for the immediate construction of five iron sorew steamabips of 1,500 torsburden and £00 horse power. The voavels being ofiron, it was considered more condacive to tony of ection for the ship and engines to be in- cluded in one accordingly the buildere of the ship willalso manufacture the machinery. Mr. R. Nepior, of Sianea Rs is building two of the ebips; Messrs. Caird and Company, of Greenock, one; ‘Mernrs. Reid and Company, of ‘ort Glasgow, one; ond Mesers. Miller, Ravenhill and Company, The first vessel is to be ready in e mors from the present date, and will be at onee despatebod to Sydney as a pioncer of the line, and thence to occupy the Pasitic station to Panama, The highest rate of speed possible hes been the ovly condition imposed on the contractor*, and it is, therejore, expected that there veesels will provide for the most repid end regular route to Australia. The communication each way is to be monthly, and the Australarinn Company's steamships will run in correspondence with the direct Weet India mail steamers from Chagres to Southampton. It is anvi- cipaied that Bydney will thus be reached in 50 vo 55 days from Bouthamplon. if Spain. ¥ Some iron war steamers of a peouliar constraction | are now building in Mogland for the Sprsish go- verrment. They are epectally destined fur pro- the coasts of Guba from any furtuer pirasi- acks, acd for this purpore, xithough they srry long 32-pounders, are to be of suv light draft of water thas they will be able to run into all the ebali bays aud crecks in the islond. The Spanich government having divided (o employ Dew steam-vescels of Byttt dranght of water, aud each to carry two S2-pounder guava, for t of sdding to their equadron for the prote Onba ana their possessions in the Wess in first of these vessels was Javached on 6 from the building. yard of Mr. Thompso hitbe, her constructor, Ata quarter be Miss Novaria Martor performed the christening, by sprinkling the content: of wine over the bows of the stermer, and m ante afterwanis, she slowly gtided inte her future clement. -tardst the cheers of the assein vied specta tera. ‘Tho vessel was then takea in tow by @ sieaw-iug, aud brought alongside of M Joba Penn & Sons’ extablishment at Greanwich, to be fitted with her engines of 120 horse power by that fi The Printero is baiit exactly on the same lines as the Banehes, designed by Mr. O. W. Lang, | xsistent to the tonster chiowright at Ohwhaa dockyard, that vessel having given greet satis- faction os to her speed and other seagoing qualitica, when employed es a mail packets on the Holy hend station, Tho Banshee was iso built by Mr. Thompson, and the timbers of hoth ber aad the Primero bave been put together ou the diagonal neiple, which combines greatetrength with eafet: lent to the trame of the vessel, each jes of planking of waich she is eon- , g independent, although strongly at- tached to bb other by copper bo. The Primero is 370 eet in length, with & breadth of beam of 20 feet, avd, with all her guns, ammunition, aud stores nm board, will only draw five feet of water, and oa + account will be admirably edapted for the pur f boat parties when attempting to land with or privateering intenii on any of the Eballow water coasts of the Spanish possessions ia the Weet Indies. It is stated in private letters from the Spanish | capital, that the governmens’ was in a state of much | alarmand anxiety, in reference to the accounts | which had reached Mad of the establishment of | # formidable league throughout the United 5 for the conquest of Cuba. ‘The Spanish go | ment is detertmined not to loose that fine island without a struggle, in antivipstion of # farther atiompt, Jarge re-inf its of troops are to sent to Cuba, and a frigate, and all the availat war steamers, will alio be despatched a2 soon a po* | sible, to cruise in the vicinity of Cuda. The Risorgimento pabl | nent, catracted trom the Jia GoD AND TH. Halian National Acsoelation No, 105. Tn conse:juence of the instructions | have ree: i om heppy to forsard to you the decree of the union of Turcong with ihe Roman dominions. Th sélcnn One. Te fortitieg those who love and desire tho republican w It Wise pates the ilmsions of the fed t rtikes tot rt the paitivans of constitia- 1 monareby. and fells hko a mortal weight oyu You ave frem this day inverted powers ibherent to your miscion. Greeting and fi nity, Florence. 20th August To the citizens co ial Inter b Op his part, th Bic at Rome, recogn and di fin union of the democratic associat the Roinan States with the 1 provinces. union of Tuscany with Ro: ig now morally 2 i says the Jralta e Popolo, with ali the possible. There remuins, however, one dificulty—that of carryiog it into exocution. | | | | + trifling The Iiing of Sweden and his Family. The following is xeseived from Mannheim, dated the Gth inst Hasard has given mo the King of portic Hav 1 de PBurop beim, th ra was placed bef my name. 020 f ished to read written in diferent hands authentic! € n und Norwa ; Augustus, odora, Countess | Prince of Sweden and } Sweden and Norway; Tl temburg Twas then informed, th and a numerous svite, bad : 4th, nud were still staying at the hotel. was no guard of hon tinel at the en door, the King r be released from all retn At this moment the royal fe walking, the King and two of his e we lians’ diesecs. ‘The King bowed very p . and stopped an instant on the Janding plage to ed- dress come questions to the Inndlord. J had time to | notice him joule | are tall aud slender, they have an Englizn o nance; the sort of paletota they wore helped to give bem an appearanoe thoroughly Engliah. The royal of Swoden embarked on board 8 steamboat for Coblentz, this morning. It was awful weatuer. The Regent of the Duchy of Parma. IMF RISE AND PROGRESS OF AN ENGLISIL STARLEDOY. ‘ho following curious details sre given concern- ing tho present regent of the Duchy of Parma—an Englishman who has arrived at that high elevation from a very humble rank fn hia native land :— The eleva is not only a eingular instar mn of Ward to the regeney ot Parana of the mutability of but rere qualities of « DE ev Ward wor inslly a Yo 0 hy ho obtained i vrew the familiar eo eenso and vo- ri om To, ying the lad’ merit, service, And promoted him a 8 of command in o be head groom of tho decal stand. Upon val in Italy w ve it Was foon at the i ich he displayed in | the menag: tof the stables was applvable to a | variety of other departments. In fact tho Duke uch a bigh opinion of b dom that he very { rarely omitted to commit him upon sny question | that he was perplexed to decide; aud the suc ' Ww never ed to crown Ward's advice, g { 9 eyes of the fi ft by referring them to k bim on apy bus dinal d Ambo: #0 Charlee of I Sout ehort all *§ Go to Ward.” Tho oxp: ing beew reduced to le nistration, while tho Dako’ of ali Lealy, it etruck the P. that it wou!ld be a good thing could be introdnoed into otber Word tried his hand on one contiaually enlarging his sph from horsehold wat be d to thore con- nected with the State, which, indeed, is such a miniature affair that it docs not groatly pose the limits of some private mestic establishments Ward, now become the frctotum of the l’rince, won, in the disturbances which preseded the revolution- ary year of 1818, a diplomatic dignity, and was vospwtohed to Florence upon a coufidential mission of the highest importance He was doputed to de- liver to the Grand Duke the act of abdication of the Duke of Litcoa. At first the Grand Duke was doubtful whether he could receive, in & diplomatic capavity, & messenger of whom he had only heard in relatien to the races of the cascine, where Ward had been in the habit of riding as a jockey. But _ it 200n appes that the Lucchese envoy had in # commiesion mating him the vianww af tho ¢ the worde * Ask ¢ ppli nsos of the n half, um horses were the env noe naturally enon; Pare evonc artinonts if y f influenoss, until to Vienna in a diplomatic capaci Sehwor zen! ‘Was astonished at his capacity; in fact, the ci-devant Yorkehire stable boy was the onl, one of the diplomatic body that make bead Pee the impetuous counsels, or rather dictates, Schwarzenberg; and this was found high!y use- fulby other members of the diplomatie body. Amoag others, Meyendorff, the Russian smbanador, eulti- vated him greatly. An English gentleman supping ove night at the Rassian am! ed him vpon hie excellent bam. ‘There's a member of our diplomatic corps bere,” replied Meyeudorf, “who suppiies us ail with hams from Yorkshire, of whieh county he is @ native.” Ward visited Eng- land. Lhe broad dialest and homely phrase betray- ing his origin through the profusion of orders of all countries tparkiing on bis breast, be rarely ventured to appear at evening sowées. Lord Palmerston de- clared he was one of the mos} remarkeb!e men he bad ever mét with. Ward, throagh ali bis vielsei- tude, has preterved an honest pride io bia amtive sountry. Ie dees not conceal bis humble origia, ‘the portraits of bis perents, in thelr homespun clothes, appear in the splendid saloon of the primo minister of Parma. Death of Madame Lefarge. Madame Lafarge, whose trial for poisoning her hus band created 86 great a sensation about a doen Jears ago, died at ibe bathe of Useat on the 7ch of Reptewber. Her beaith, broken by'the events of her life and her twelve years’ imprisonment, had improved of late, and she bereelf at one time ex pressed ber belief that she ehonid completely recover. An uotavorable ehange took place bata h \ her deava, which was exused ry complaint, he wae im her thicty- eoventh yeor, pressed @ wieh to he t of Colonel Aw Or, and who, ¥ hie dcuth, about to months ei bad shown er all th reofm parent. Her wish hes beon omplied with. The Presse contains am totver ro- sprcing the devease ef Mao. Le “Up to the last boar of her exe’ ne. Lefur: protested her innocence. The letters from h which sre remarkable in the highest degree for Gepth of sentiment and ability of style. Hor death haa plnnged her nucle, M. Collard, the direc: the Lunatio Asylum of Montgoliier, an eminently werihy man, into an affliction difligals to describe, Tho eyes of Eme. Lafarge were closed by her cousin Malle. Collard, who for ten years, never qaitved her in her ceptivity.” ego, which says: Infanticide by a Princess Corntens, Lot laws and learping. trade ane comurerov dite, But give us stil—au old nobility. ¢ Hon, Lord Joha Mannarss The French government, in the plenitude of ite no rality, is much +mburrassed with a strange affair which has just teken place in Pads.aed which has caused magh secret scandal, Ic is the arrest of n Uohemian counters Jor infanticide. Derpatodes havo. of course, boon sont on the subject to Vienna, and the greatest efforts wil Goabt- Jers be made to prove that sbe is i 4, The name of the cotntess thus srresced is Kinska; but the journata, in giving the details with tolerebie necuravy, have. lv de- |. fexynee to her bigh rank. suppresved the mame. The fol- ipg is the account given of the matter by the Dro, % the law journals, and im general very weil in- a « tribunals will, withont doubt, soon be called upon to try 6 case which, from the rank of the acomed persomy Will excite greatsensation. The Countess ——, Deloviging to a princely boure of one of the small Staten ot the Germanic confederstion, manifested wara pss sions at an early pe snd to prevent their producing results, ber family basteued to got her mar- joge did not subdue her pacsious, aud after a few stormy ycars the became a widow. Her misconduct now knew ro } tling ber eduention, her rank, ant all respect (or propriety. She had a saccaseion of lovers, and graduolly descended in the social 8 she went off with. the traveller of » commerci Louse. whose character was bad, and who had been attracted as much by her large fortane as by her beauty. Afcer an abrence of some time they returned to and took up thels abode in a epiendid hotel of the Chante MA ye the clerk caused her to put her i h he got discounted, and pai Phe Count of being grading life that the countess was load- in Poris, endeavored to effect a change by c her reparsiion from the msn with whom s his did not sufllce, She Lock one lovera! last the man cho on was alow Jew, © with ervey i ber of her property, wn doned her of destitution, when fa wa fod Of p Soon afer this the ox- of preguancy had disappeared, and ru sie bed heew seesatly d end hud This rumor having reacked the foe, om inquiry was instituted. and it was a ebila pad been bors alive. aad imavedi 1 end thrown down a wate joret. The has been arcested, and is pow in the prisou count, adds:— ‘The -y Old cut illustrious Prinecly faraily of ates of ind. if we are pereonoge who has oe understood to be Kinska his ; Der fath ich, the Counts tister mnt de Ziseby Kora pected every moment In Par Mi The artiole in th on the resola+ tions of the councils-genera}, shows thut the govern- ment approves of the desive for a changs in the form of goverum General Y d ton days agoat Algiers, from Btidah, ant carriage, di 3 dromedsries. ‘These animals bad » few days : a journey from Mideh to Boghar, of 230 k LO Englich ) in twouty fo ral drove them from Blidah at the of about sixteen kilometres (about 10 miles) or, although they were not well accustomed , end the & was insonve! aro very docile. It is beli in the course of a short tine it will be pd train diomedaries as te make them of ¢ tothe colonists, aud to seud expeditious into tue desert. Some months ago, a reientié out from Copenhagcn to expl land, and report on their mineral resources. This expedition hus j ned to Denmark, with a c go of minera s industry. The € Th expedition was sent e the bills of Green- sador’s, compliment | | wekeofa I axilion eteam | | cious metals, bui they have br lead, nickel, tin, and copper mixe ver—the whole’ val at nearly two thousar poune he Society a to he cnoouraged by | theso first fruits of its enterprise to r tions; but the rigors of tho climate deter even Norwegiwn minerg from embarking adventure. Axother well known journalist, M. Anténor Joly, has just dicd at Pa Hie was founder of tho Vert- Vert, ® paper which had 9 gras Bu0c0: i duy; and waa the director of tho Théitr tenaissance, where ‘“ Ruy Blas” and “L’Kau Mer- veilleuse” where first produced. Alexander yon Humboldt, who has acoompanied the Kirg of Prusna to the soa-const, surprises people by the bodily vigor which ho displays, iu f eighty three years, After walke ebout for the greater part of the g of oli sorta of public featty! D the evening to the royal without showing signs of fatigue. » party, The celobrated painter, Begos, has just finished the piotnre which wa: ordered by the King of Pru sia, * It is by this “the Betrayal of Jesus by Juda od to be the finest work ever prodeced Napoleon haa mado very considerable pur- the Exhibition of Mine Arts at Pari z them are pictures by Conder, Johaniot, wad Souas Mr Macaulay has completed two more volumes of bis Listory, which are expeoted shortly to apped k Thirty #ix live rattleanakes have been imported Alleghany mourtwina. Some d board in keeping the oases fr s the ship ren ehort of water, an { thoy contained bottled porter, 0, wo hoor of the doath of M. A. Mie- y hig conntrpmon “ the Nestor of Bwisa He wae the founder of tho Gazcte de and although blind during tho last is lige, bo occupied himeclf with the in which he had taken # prominent He was in his sinone, r half s century, te the last. sixth your, * You may be interested,” siys a corrarpondent, “to hear that. Kobl, the travellor and author, is | dilig ged in preparing a work on oe | graph covery of Atserica. Hoe has mado a most voluminous collection ef mapa, chictly traced himeclf, and this from good authorities; and his MS.—which already extends to several hundred folio pages—promires to yield matter for many quarto volames. Mr. Motley, an Awerioan to whom was introduced, has been redihiog at Dresden, in order to avail bimeolf of the royal library, poouliarly rich, he atates, in tho history of the etherlands, which he purposes writing.” LP Tie R pag pe making a great soutiful fuguo-weiting in ‘Thentrten ! Franz Liezt’s new com) which waa luced at Ee ek ore owotertoa Wy Maragt, ith by M. Van Gordon, who caught | ot It is \blish the bopper : intended to pul portion “Cassilda” will be short}y produced at Oarlsrahe. F. Heller has just published a sonata for piano- forte. which is stated to be the finest of this oom- poser’s productions. Heller's vew composition, “To Hope,” from Tiedge’s “ Urania,” has just been published ab Leipric, and pronounced by the critios w be a very superior and finished work. Rubinetein’s national opera of “ The Battlo of Kulikowa,” has been brought out at St. Pewersvurg, and been enthusiastically received. Galli’s now opera, “The Duke of Feix,” has been highly successfal at Padaa. Maresbner’s new opera, “ Anstin,” will he shortly played, for the first time, at the Imporial Opera, Vienna. Wagner's ‘‘ Tanhaiiser” has become & univergal favorite throngbout the whole of Germany. Btrauss will shortly proceed with his orchestra to Paris. Charlotte Birchpfeiffor is writing a libretto for a new opora by bis Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe | Coburg Gotha. Mad)le. Wagner, whose engagement with the Berlin Royal Opera commenoes in September, will meke her débit there in “* Norma.” ‘Tho celebrated bass, Draxler, is engaged at the Royal Opera at Vienna for a number of years, at a salary of 9,000 florins. The teaor, Ander, ia also engaged at the Royal Opera for ten years, ata sala- ry of 10,000 tiorins, and a pension of 2,600 floring. , The new Court Theatre at Hanover was opened oa the Gest of September. The performance com- menced with “Lasso,” and a new composition by Mazechner. Ira Aldzidge, the black tragodian, will perform at atthe end of Septewber. Dienhardat of Vieora, is writing the history of all the thea of Vieux. Bic. Baife and his fomily x through Borlin net week, en route for 3b Peiereburg. Tho Paris payers report the death of Malte, Nohblet, Jong known as premedre daunsewe at toe and who will be welremem- had suflered from w long and pave ie ry o!d singer hos just died at Stoekhoha, This is M. Abberg who *Soreat *as the Freach Fay, the prine in the opera of “Gu Wase’ he words of whieh were hy og Gostavus the Third, aud the music by the Abbé Vogler. Interesting from the River Plate and the Se The royal inal stoamship Teviot atrived at Bouth- Ampton, Hogland, on the 1th of September, with the Bouth American mail, and dates from Buonos Ayres to Augui evideo Angust 5, Rio de Jangiro August 14, Bahia August 15, Pernambuco Anvgust 21. The following aro extracts from a lettor dated Buenos Ayres, August 2:-— July Bas been a stirring month in the pollttes! ofrries of our city. The provitonal governinent was of thort duration and General Urquiza lies aasined the tition which the victery of Caseros enabled him to It might bave been better if he had never delegated Secto authority, for tha Buenos Ayreuns after bavic ted the sweets of liberty, submit with bad grat new dictatorial régime, That he hes forfeited tha gen. sympathy and confidence is ung: nable; andthe plications iu the interior provinces also presencia fur ple nepect. Ie is currently reported tha General Bonardes has been reputed in the province of Sen Tuan, and attempts have been made to reinstate him by force. av the snnoan ced policy of the Provisional director requires, expcet to hear of & Northern coalicon. and then a gnr anxiously cherished hopes of & ational 0753 fon. ‘The long ozitated question of the indepenience of raguay has, at list. been decided. It was to be reeog nived on the 17th of July by the representative of the eration, and will, doubtiess, be ratified in due by the Provisional Director’ ‘The navigation af i being conouded to Paragnay as an ivdesendent the Par: State, Pngland may, of course, im the same,on the principle of the “ most * const; iin the treaty with the Argentine republic. We aze all weil plesved to are this pacilic polution of a kaotty qusetion, t le men in Harope must uot be too angnine of an in:menl ate colden harvest, documents f e ainst General Verasoro ag a fait mpl and we presume General Urquiza, naleny volons, st Rovept St a8 auch, although it may prove an ino: jent or Gangerons precedent. The new authorities, untounsed confidence in General Ur- qniza, ond their readiness to oo operate fa all that may ) the natios ion. irector appoints Generat ww aud Murine for the Ac. ppointment Likely to be aa comneh from avy objection ar from the souree Whence his Jate Provisiona! G Dr, Baldom he atministrat tof ih» Supren from which he bad been dleplaced by a de ch—a measure thet must be regarded as large section ot the ecmmanity. d we have ou to believe them of aforthooming measure that will lute possession of alt his the largest landed sro- ons. ‘To al! there alfates.and our anticipative anxieties as to the fate of the National Congress, ard the figaneial ex- pedients that must be resorted to, and you aay judge whother we recline on beds of rove Sir Charles liotbam and the French Favoy have ar: rived at Montevideo, snd are expected here ina fer days, as also Sardinian Ravoy end a Papal Nuncio, so that tomatic staif iz about to receive ® power: orcement. Report says that Str Charles and his ; tion in protend- Parana iu ch arma vey an imperial representative to republic. S a De. Pena » for the purpose of luding a de y of peace; but haviug expressed a desire that tho negotiations should be continued in Buenos Ayres, the jlian cabinet consented, and Senor Limpo de Abreu was shortly to proceed thither. ters from Rio mention that the Argentine confe heave acknowledged the independence of Pars To obtain this ob- ject, med by Corri- entes mfederacy. It waz eneh mission would Mr. Sehonols, the Aine- rican Minister, who preceded the British 1 ench envoys, was told by General Urquiza that tho rivers must neral Urquiza bad eppoi T Plenipotentiary to } reey ay. not be effected until after th In all probability oreould © federa 7 would be given to the representa two European pow Our accounts from Rio de Janeiro, which ex to the I4th ult, convey no news of importa ‘The new commercial code recently introaue not working well, and in the chamber of deputies a cial committes bed been moved for to consider amendments in it. In the chamber an emondment to the following effect had been proposed by the finance committee :— From tue Ist of July, 1862, the rate of 7 per cent, now payable on expeited goods of national production. shall ‘be reduced to 6 per cont, and government Is od to make o reduction of 1 por cont. more aftarghat period, if it be found that the measure doce not cauréa deficit in the means required to meet the oxponses deorved by law, This project was eubecquontly left to the disers- tionary action of the government. Tho dopuaties had approved a c1 ot «ight hundred cantos for the purchase of steamers to be employ edin euppress ing the elave trade. The goveroment had noc yot decided to which of the two companies should be a concvesion of the proposed railwoy from Janeiro, bat an exclusive privilege forninety ) been grented to Mevaree Edward and_Al. for oonatruvting.e railwey inthe Pro- ‘1 from Ree commence at movxtoina In the t con i into two ines, one se he other ni Some merol, Permission to establish steara navigation ou the uhward to the city of thwerd to Porto Novo river Bon Fra ‘oo and it #. Bome other projects, connected with mining, were also being mooted. A from Itio hy this packet gives tho subjoined partioulars ia reforence the slave rade and other matters :— All yend'ng diffienltfes connected with the lave trade will be jin London, The Mraclian Minister of the Caurt of St, Jomes, Senor de Macedo, haa full powors to conelode a treaty for this purpaie. The Breailian fo: vernment iy zoulowely setive oa regarde the eupprossion of the trafic. but jaet now efsoua:tances have occurred. Thich would, without reason, vem to iuculoute a contrary notion 1 fi omen Prevdso, one of tho most woalthy. mngher Anion in ordezed out of the country, and mut Lave before the 33th of September next, Le wns formariy a artner of Thorns dn Costa Ramos end was suspeoted by Iie government of being still engaged in the craflio. ‘There ‘were Bo pro Jhe was suspected, and being « forelguer {hie rufiloed te get him ban'-hed the country. ‘The government ts energetic on this question, end is determined to prosecute or to banish any man, be he who he may, engaged, or suspected to be engaged, in the slave trade. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. At Buenos Ayres commercia) matters wore an unfayor- able aspect, and the demand from the provinoes bad ex. perieneed o check, owing to the political excitement maniferted in the interior. Complaints were made that the rivelry of Montevideo was beginning to be felt. In articles of daily consumption the market was abundantly supplied, prices, however, being reckoned barely remune- rative, speculation being priacipally confined to the cious metals and to ‘pubite Lotte ries—the latter s recent financial innovation of questionable 6x pediency in a co Manity sien? y enMictantte eveitalle. TMhe mart of Me tives of the | vf Rio were secking | up te diet per itemplation of passing over the Oriental republic, aie they are In there we believe and trast become eattle to. circumstances hide from the River Plate may whet fruits of the mew system come to bear Os cnr export pro- Maglaba ‘and the eosttoent ‘clog Sues hk salad hebee gland an: eoutivent }. fur salted 80e. for taliow. and Os for dey hides, “ Exchange €6s. id per douvioon, at whieh eonsiderable Dburiners bad been done Several large vessels had left: Buenos Ayres in bolla»t for the Braziliva porta, ‘The mercantile accounts fiom Rio de Jenene mention that excbange bad experiencsa but liste xlvaration, after a small fluctunsion, had closed frm at 2734 to ‘Transxctions ia Londey for this psoket amounted to LU 51,C00 francs om Pare at 353 to) sales in July reached 140,000 bags, and the 14th of Angust 45.060 begs; exportwa, to jatest dates 72.904 bays; stock 1% 000 bags, ebietly of inferior, deveriptions. in hides. the favorable ugoovats irom th do States had given # considerable isapuire to the! market. Owing to the greater demand fos money, stor bad been done at 101 to 102, «nd provineiel at per. Di counts ranged at 5 and 55 per oont,, wlihough the ban! rate Was 6 per cent, In livights the market wae frm i consequence of ile few disposable oogsineatal bottoms Brittsn vessels were jon sally not in reqaest, the nayaral rornts (vaye the Rio Mercantile Jovtrnol) of the tnanner ji which the eargoes are deitvered. Limited recefpts and oa ine demand for cosh for eteain purponea Lad A sensibig rhe to the price An Amotisan eteaiee, bowed to Califi ) pay eynu to. L6 per tum forthe eont ra tar Leviot 1a artic normons, tx i 3 Were extensive wt reduccd| d, owing to Ie was vory tittle good su bat the weawiser hud tity ‘Of old angaz was expected s! via be mado va easing terms, a 'y of the new arop belng a yoo her should remain ne for ge rope on eale, oFing to the late raiy proved, avd rome qui Pureharos i: was acriving fom che omy Liberal supplies were looked for im about a month Hi very abundant. Freghis were expeoted to rale hi: dorieg the coming crop rownn Exobange ctosed firm «| <7 3ed., and @ large business bad been dove for the Tivie | Deubloons very se: Ia dry goods there were fey | Ameriewn on the market. British menufseiurea wor } jecs ruled ‘very low, particularly tf vrespondence. u 1, September £8, 1852. | | Opening of the Railroad at Sherbrooke, by the Gd vermor-General—Junciion of the Queder Line al Richmond—Cerenonics at Sherbrooke— Connection of the Line with New York-Eyffeet of these Inte | national Lines—Dlam for Constituting then New, | tral Territory | AsT promisod, in my last, I ehall proveed to gi sn aecount of the interesting exearsion made Sherbrooke on Fridy evening, by the Governo: General, the members of the Legislature, and othe " | invited guests, of which I hoppenedte be one. | The steamer John Muun, Capiain Armstrong, very splendid vossel, started at seven o’cl ek, nof withstanding a stormy night bad set im, and read Longueuil, opposite Montreal, about eight o’ol on the following morning, whore the cars were waiting—that intended for the ascommodation his Excellency and cuite being decorated with tw! royal stan 3, of miniutare dimensions. Addresses of a o atulatory natnre were di livured at the principe! places slong the line, whi lies through a very icvel tract of country, the of which appears to bave beonm extiausiod by in: provident culture; aad at seventy-two miles from Longuevil the cars reached Richmond, where ¢ junction has been formed with the Quebec line, the rails of which have been iaid. f At this point, whore a lopgybridge erosyges f, river St. Francis, and connoots Melbourne with Rib mond, the country umed qaite a digerent pect, the scenery being mountainous, relieved the most ro} tis scenery, wh this portion of the province to be devominsced | Switzerland of ion = Tho: roitrovd. for a eo | sideruble dista: juid plong the river, which eventually c sd in about, starting, not, E the delay | receiving and replying idreates, Sherbrooke, the presen’ terminus of the ty-six wiles distant from Longueuil licre the population of the torn and sarroun country appeared to be sssombled ca masse; a on abill,on Which floated tho national standai | was collected a Jarge party of matea and females, | 2 more commanding view of the approachil | , and whero the authorities of tho 3 | Were met to: weleome the Governo | whom addresses were pr corporation. ‘This ceremony | Journed to the sta dred feet in } Hine, nin bo: y cighty in breadth, where jn st had providedfo vired persons eat dow, »do ample aod appro) had boon disposed of, the he royal family, aad the ot | sident snd directors of the company rrg | diopk, the last of which was proposed by the lar f Elgi ‘hich had accompanied the ers} aud pational airs. Naying appropr , it te h, which tho Pre: responding to Pr hhis ¢ depre rs of the said hnd passed sway sinoe 0 ‘ace the comimencemey mied on tho i that must flow from the connesti bya line that would ull ere to moet anotlt | nee, thas eompletit the c'relo from which would radiate countless vantages The heatth of the Preeident end Directors of tl | St Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad Comy | rep i ppr »priate speech by the Hon. | Ni who roferced to the doubts ontertained of the smooces of an 6 is fact advancing to compl to be finished only twe tuo company, and mpeny to Island Pond, one b . Montreal, sixteen of wh | alluded to the | Vinces, which hb: | were last assembled t | of the underta’ | | terpriso whi | tion, there | ty miles by th the Canavinn | and forty two ie on Ame ce of whioh, from Pout, is about twenty four miles, whieh will be completed, thus coancetieg Canadas in th rection with the two pri cities of the Unim And it joa remaztabio fact, that from Richmow Bpringteld, about th: ndcod miles, the railos willbe, as nearly» ° straight, distance that bee b A company—2 to Connect | twenty mil The eile | cation betweon tho f not bo withous ite effect upe J the two nations; and when the fishery disputehi have been settled, ypenrs to ene that sop ay ravgerment might be ‘eaterod into for the peta q constituting, at nentral terntory, that portion thy country throngh which they may ran, Ib ‘vor, evident “that war con only be provoked bee Inglard and Aweria by objoois of a mitin| character, with which the prople of the tert will have nothing to do. At present the pornuey ecourity of tho#a lines would be jeopardizedy ty altered cireumstances correquent upon such, ¢1 tingeney, which may, at any time, oceur; ax it tho interest of the parties more immadiatyy corned, and of #!l who reside in tho vicinityof 4 railroads that are being oponed, that th amovnt of wealth which musi nevosearily by intq od should be placed besond injury from any adv ebange in the relations of the two nations, to wh tho territory they ¢hall traverse respoctively belon and I have co donbt that wore the attentio American and Britioh stetesmon drawn to the joet, an orrangemont might be affected of oe: tactory nature. About four o’elock the after se} rated, ex, Pratusl good wishes by relternued cheering; early the next morning they unde: ramparts of Cape Diamond without the occu ofany accident to mar tho pleasure of sion, Captain Armstrong, by unceasing v) providing for thoso undor his mon stationed throughout the entire tine of rail within sight of enh other, provided with fe EEE