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6 AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. Our London Correspondence. Loxpoy, August 29, 1856. fhe Pushionabte Lonion Hegira~A Young Joker in the Royal Family—Pun not Encouraged in High Quarters— Charles Kean—Barney Williams and his Beer Half— How the Guards Dined a la Duke Humphrey—The Mo- dern Orpheus—Music and the Drama, dic., de. ‘The Queen was of w ber highland retreat yesterday morning, and the Chevalier Wiko turned his back on the ghores of Aibion, some weeks sivce, with his optics lan- guishingly fixed on bis nativeland. London ts therefore, ull of emptiness, and those of us who are loft are like King Poopoo and his wife in the bottomless pit, left to peopoo each other. The Chevalier is not the ‘only person who gets into scrapes, for it appears that the Princess Royal has (according to the following anecdote) been in disgrace of late, She is reported to be remarkable for her wit, and her bon mots are said to be of firet rate quality. She is not the less remarkable, being a fe- male as well as a Princess, for hay vg 4 will of her own, and ofa pretty determined character. Mr. Brown, a medical practitioucr, in the viciuage of Windsor's Meads, is a frequent visiter, a kind of daily purveyor of domestic medicine at the Palace, and the Princess often addressed him thus'—‘ Good morziog, Brown,’? omitting the “Mr.’? This came io the ears of the royal *‘sa,’” who forbade its ecurrence, av atened that on its being repeated she send Miss Guelph to bed. On Mr, Brown's next athe presence of Victoria, the royal princeas with “Good morning, Brown,” and Brown, for [ am to be sent to bed, B:own.”” a kept her word, ta loss to conjecture how or in what way we We are Lon’ ouers bave offended Mr. Charles Kean, (soon to be Sir Kean, as the French style oar barouets and knights,) but next Monday he threatens us (trom the placarded walls of the metropolis), with an appearance as “Rolla,”’ and shortly a‘terwards will offer ois “Bottom,” in Shaks- Midsummer Night's Dream,’’ for public approval. nt just possible that the Times will move for an notion to stay proceedings, for we are getting suda- moral here just now Borcey Wilbams and bi ct gi imate hit, and after wheel, at the Adelp! re-epgaged by Mr. Webstei 4, for six months. The er to the Hourenold Brigate—the 3,000 Cri- mean médai-men of tue Guards—at we Sarrey Gardens, wae balfa failure—the mort important balf—the dinner and the divx. But that they bad al! dined previous at pora’” have made a le weive woeks right off the iowiog houses, have beon On terms periectly a la barracks sn emeude might bave been the result. Jullien baving turned marchand de vin, supplicd one bottle of champago:—thst is eau sucre—to every three, The report is that the banquet was not alene moant bet Crimean misman- ea condveted tha or uo his usual Mosaic attire, wita the addition of a foather ia bis breast, plucked from the eagle that is reputed to bave carried him, whem a chilc, trom his movnia‘e bome to the realms of narmony.’ He must have realized a large umount by the charge of ‘lve shil. The continued rains of late have been alto the interest of the Surrey Gardens laces of similar am. sements. yperatic stars, wader the condustorship of the festivals, where Sims Reeves, Mviame me Clara Novello are every re trrumphant is about to play an en. agement with Mrs. Sims Reeves, for a mooth, at the Standard, at the rate of oue hundred pounds por to ceiev ato Crimean glory. end starvation. Jul mes Anderson sbortly leaves us for Atnerica— are sta lossto comjecture We pay and him weit. yet with all, be calls poor old Eugliad a ui up countey—eays be makes a go-d barvest in the United States, where be talks of locating wll the end of tas chapter ‘A Mr. Charles Dion opens the Lycsam theatre ‘a 2 few days, with a host of provia own, saving the ever welcome and telenied now Mrs. usband, by Altre on. . om plis b ‘end with hi tea gardens in @ manwer—noi very poor Madame Vestris e is gone, regretied b; eth Waat taleat an actress of the Caited promi: mg oy, Sept. 2 Bet Against Biographer —Drey ce—that being ar wide of the water. reports of half yearly paying divideads trom $line, which has been tors (Hudson, to wit) acd 2 plundered it since the first sod was turned, is ina plight, tadeed. A sporting dogs’ man (through the medium of the turfjoarnals) bas offered to back bis donkey, fificon years old, for a run of fix m jek mail tfain for the eum of Lie eit for Saifola, se. condad ther nder. Mont Blane haying been done (acended) so often, our tlimbers have tarned their attention to Mount Ararat. Four Zogisbarco have lately performed the feat with Albert Smith, after near two thousand ofthe Alpine King tn Piccadiily, ts off, for uoliday, either to Switzerland or E-zeroum sog for news from Moscow. Shoals cf sigt @uccets aad mimic sc We are ales eeers aro already there, and the barbaric pomp will, no jag to all bebolders. Lord Granville goes representative, wccompanies with a bost of led from the aristocracy, and all at the ex- pense of good easy Mr. John Bull ‘The Queen of Gude, with her son and brotver, anda whole gwarm of attendants, eunuch: included, bas arrivod ia tows from Southampton. She comes—poor deluded wo man'—to seek redress (rom the EastIndia Compauy, who have teroed ber out of houre and home, an! generously ollered to alow ber so much # year out of Ler owa tn come, What equity can she expect from acouairy which doce not act up to its preachings’ We dou’t like Ameri eso slavery. nor Russia ia the Danubian Priacipailties, nor Walker im Nicaragua; but wet fancy to an in jom—no matter what our friendly relations may rio bech—aod we seize upon it. Mignt 's right ian entoniler,”” Bo doubt wel! backed raiment. w led vo expect t y Dublication of the { viograper. James that Bosweil's cor. Willan Jobnson's | ter Cunningha aa a cantad and templart, a Mr. mportant knowledge of the great ae ch and Lord Powla, with the able acsistance of Mr Jobu layne Collier, (x Shaksperean celebrity,) will shortly provent the literary world wih s goody quarto of Michael Drayton's poems, ons of the most important contributions that have been mde for many years to our knowledge of the literature of tae ago tn whic Avon's immortal bard lived and flourished. The Princess's theatre, (votwithstandin, the first of September,) war tolerably @apered or otherwise,) last evening, the season Of the first pictorial representation of “Pizarro.” The u@, pone of the mort admired, bas boon caro- lly shorn, end the parts reduced to pantomimic action. The “Nelce’'—en.scene is very showy and ef- fective. the music, Fthioptan, the dancing ae usual, and {f possible more thinly feat, approved, America Kean as Rolla.’ looked like David by the side of Mr. Ryder, who played “Pimrro, the personification of « ab Soliah. The other characters were well in the ae where beads of animais were iatroduced in reuef. ‘We have bad extraordinary wet weather of late, but King Pheobus thia aternoon, thank heaven. appeared im ascendant. You will scarcely believe it, but seeing the difficulty of procuring (owing to the vine disease on the continent) and reasonable priced wises, Cham. mes particularly, we bave taken, and kindly, to th» Favivauce of Longworth’s sparkling and still Catawba Tt # now to be found on most dinner tables at the west end and the srocplags ates tbe style. ir, Charles Oar Parts Correspondence. Pani, Sept. 1, 1866 fhe Weather in France—The Harvest— Burden of the Mili. tary Systen—The Vine Crop— Ia Betraordinary Peoun dity tn Some Parts—The Presidential Election in Ame vr a=The Murat Designs on Napler—Interesting Oom- cesations between Lows Napoleon and Prince Lucien Murat—The Court at Biarrite—Aduiteration of Milk, te, he ‘The weather is strange and fitful, and has been so for (he last fortnight. There ts no doubt that the north of France has suffered very considerable loss in wheat and Other grains in consequence of this, and the difficalty of Procuring the required mumber of haods. From the in- formation collected from the congress of agriculturists Bnd corn merchants which has just been held at Dijon, it Bppears that by dividing France into three parts, one @hird—that is to may, the southwest, the south, and the Ppanks of the Rhone and Saonc—may be considered to have bed a bad harvest. Another third, comprising the entre—Burgundy, the Nivernais, Berry, the mountains Of Auvergne and the Limonols—have had an oxtraor inary good one. The remaining third, the west—the Tight bank of the Loire, the departments of Paris, the orth and [orratne—have had « harvest rather below the Brerage crop {ntependently of the weather, nature of the soll, cu'ti- {CPiva, aad 90 forth, there is 0 doubt that at be time of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1856. the recolfe, the huge military system of France wolghs heavy on theland. Untempered by the clouds and dews end mists which beset like a curtain of gauze the whole island of Great Britain, the sun of France blazes with almost Arabian fierconess over the whole champagne part ef the country, ripening the corn with such sudden- Ress that without hands to gather it the waste becomés exceesive and lamentable. While the agonized agricul- turist {s compelled to look on and wring his hands in sor. row of heart; while weighed down with crushiog mort- gages, which the fertile soil presents him with the means of modifying or liquidating altogether, he sees the towns echoing the footfalls of young, vigorous and stal- wart armed men, who spend their lives in military pantomime while the food of millions rots on the ground for lack of hands to cut and garner it. It is, perhaps, well it should be so. Uatil men feel the iron enter into their souls—until misery, famine aud its attendant, the plague—eeize them as it were in their hearths ani bomes, the folly of perpetrating a system which deducts from the productive labor of the country its primest pith una sinew, will never be understood, The truth will burat wpon them oue day, and the only sstonishmeat will thea be that it should not baye been perceived before. But as he clerical wit of England prognosticated, that until a biehop should be burnt, the requisite procautions against fire would never be taken by the raitroad companies, so until a wholesale calamity bas fallen upon the countries of the European ccntinent, will each go on feeding and paying Isborers to sharpen the sword rather thaa the sickle, ‘The fears which were at one time entertained respect- ng the vine, have, to rtain extent, proved ground- less, though unquestionably the disease to which it has of late been subject has far from disappeared altogether. The last rains, although prejudicial to the serials, have been beneficial to the grapes, and Ropes are caerished that the vintage will be both early and abundant. If we may judge from the following account in the Alsacien, there is every reason to expect that tae measure will be full and overflowing — Apropos of the vine and the extraordinary quantity of grapes produced this year in Alsace, we bsve been told of a fecundity aa raréss carious. At Reblenheim, near Colmar. on a single of vine, mabing part of a vine bower or trellis de muscat rouge gris, 690 grapes were counted, baving each on the average 120 grains, thus giving a total of $3,000 grains, Jt is ossimated that this stem alone will produce more than sixty quarts ot wine, although placed iu a position unfavorable for vegetation, inasmuch as it is embedded in the wall which supports the vire arbor. As may be imagined, with the Court at Biarritz, and all the wealthy or aristocratic classes at Dieppe, Havre, Trouville, Baden-Baden, or Hamburg, and clouds, dease and drear, overhanging the capital and sadly inter- foring by their capricious outpoarings with the al freva concerts and threstrical entertainments which are wont At this season of the year to spread such a charm over the Elysian Fields of Paris, there is not much gossip afloat worthy of being wafved across the Atlantic, or lixely : tion of your readers, now so occupied Presidential contest, which Europe watches with no le*s interest than America. And here, I cannot belp observing that tho manly tone of the remarks contained in the Hrasip touching that Ostend Conference, where Mr. Buchanan condescendend to sit down with such inferior men &s Masou and Soulé, and endorse prin- ciples fitly belonging, aa itsays, to the bighwayman’s code, has delightet every one. {t is considered the voice of Americ: proclaiming to the civilized world the free pulsations of her noble heart, ard giviog the lie to the may aspersious which the tmizeraple appointments of President Pierce, at home and abroad, have eo long od to be cast upon her.. With the election of Col. mont, there will, it is hoped, be especiatty along fare to the shadow which has been thrown upon the —gentiemen, such as have dignified in former times their country in every State of Evrope—will henceforth be her repre- sentatives, God knows there isamp'e room for improve- mest But to return from this digression, T was about to say that the only of a Comestic interest om occupying ithe public mica, i# the present move of the Murat party respecting the throne of Napes. { bave been tnfermed by authorities which ‘I reason to depend, thst before going 10 Aix he went nee with tae Empe ce Lusten Murat determined to Plombieres and had » long con ror. “[ teil yo,” said pis Moje yulet tone whi deserts him, de mage your cbt in Europe th any future 1 be ewept avay enti wish you well, but! can do no more, Naples can mo sore bave « king th gn bayonets n France, with i remiaded Napoleoa that suck resignation, uader circotastances — such tranquil submission to the opinions and dicta of oibers, bat pot alw-ys becn therule of bis Majesty's com duet. “I grapt it,” w 1 got by it wos imprisopmett in a years, be r, 16a,” ‘ub and brit my abortive I could not po ot perce ve the same your cause that | beloved mysel no my own’ propose to oniy don"t embre!t us with Ex, on'y belp you,” be lwughingty acded, ‘if y Prince Lucion Murst did not think it peceseary to muke ny Btate secret of this conversation on his eap sequent retera to Par! and { have every reason to believe that I relate the convereation precisely as it occurred It will be perceived that the young Prince Murat, who married the ouly daughter of Priace Wagram, the cescendant of Bertnior, tte Great Dooaparte’s favorite general, takes no part in the jonrney co Aix les Bains. This young man is ip the Guides, nad of course could pot do £0 without compromising the Fmperor. It will be re collecte¢ that it was in relattor to bim ou the occasioa of nis marriage, when the mouctary arrangements were being arranged, and in avswer to some carping observa. tions of Prince Wagrava’s, that the Imperial allowance was not sufficient for the husband of hie daugator, that it was said, “excellent Prince, thoug?: the allowance to your futere son In law i# moderate, there is a ‘crown’ over and above." The age of this youth ts about two aod twenty. Io figure be is tolerably bandeome and wel! grown, but without any pretension: to th: extraordinary Deanty of bis grandeire, the former King of the Two Sicilies. Nor have fever heard any thing which would Lad me to believe him possessed of such talent as, sup. poring him to be the real party for which the present effort is made, might osablo him to rteer bis course eafo- y through the rocks and shoals which preseriptively be feta voyoxe in wearch of a throue, ‘The obesity of his father, the ditfoulty of locomotivenuaes attending his huge unwieldy frame, 06 gigantic in statore as gross ia bulk— the bum drum bousekeeper-like character and deport- ment cf bis wife, give an air of ineflable ri lieule to the iden of bis desiring to the partof Charl s Kaward on his own accourt, and landy yourg g-nUeman in the ‘upt'orm of the Guides, whose great exceilence is reputed his cientific manuer of playing orohs cache with bis young wife, does not seem the very beat person for his repreve Their Majesties, we are informed, continse at Biarritz in the enjoyinent of excellent health, iudivg in that de ehtful retreat all they desire of repose and tranquillity casiona! exc A limited nb eons @itted esch day to the hoper of aiming at the imperial table, and receptions take place twice a week— that is, on Thursday? end Sundays. The Bishop of Bay onne, M. Labat, the Mayor the Villa Bugenie an We tr shal Borqnet, Marshal S«rrno Procureur G sneral ba @ same hor were present the General Courby de Co in the evening oness de Turgot, d, MM. Mario end Monteverde, members of be Com mission for settling the Limits of the frontiers, The sotree was kept up till ons 0’ in the morning. Their Majesties entered the saion at half past eight, and remained to the end. The Emperor wa taed twice, and Madame de Loarmel bat the boncr of being select to dance a votilion with him. It was only the other day that all lraace was chanting dirges on the death of General de Loarmel, her hasban¢: but time, we ‘onlly coftens tive grief of widows om either side of >, and the French, no less than the Agacrican ed, are reldom ipconsoteable. ‘The Correctional Police being somewhat elack handet just now, i@ running A race against the milk dealers, for their abomizarie sdulterations, and yerterday doomed ten of them to three and #ix months’ imprisonment, with a fine of 50 france each. Our Berlin Correspondence Bras, Avg. 26, 1866. rand Military Manawrres—Conetitution of the Prussian Army—Rawmets of its Soldiers, and tnoaprcity of is Cenerale— Affair of the Rif Pivates—The Projwied Be petidion agains! (he Moors—Pranes Solicite! (o Join in it Another Scandal in Berlin, de., de. Binoe the return of the King from Toplitr, aet the de parture of the Empress of Ressia for #t. letersburg, his Mojesty bas been amusing himself wih a reries of milite ry parades and reviews, which begao last week in the Vieinity of this capital, and will be continued in various parts of the kingdom, till about the middle of September, ANer & review of the Guards, which came off on Friday, A grand fleld manowyre was performed by thet corps de élite, ending \0 & representation of a pitched battle, or, to speak in less ambitious language, a sham fight. Un'or. tunately the weather was detestable, as it bas been nearly all this qummer, and ‘he troops have suffered al- most as much from wet and sold a® the Allies did in the Crimea. To morrow or next day, the King and the heir apparent are to start for Pomerania, to review the first corps d'armée, and then proceed to Helisburg, in Prussia, where the first corpe is stationed. Heilsburg is famous in history for an action that took place there on the 10th June, 1807, between the Russians and Prussians, under Bonnigsen, and the French under Soult, in which the lat. ter were worsted; and the ensuing manoeuvres are to con. viet in an exact imitation of the operations of the two armies during that affair, There ie tome talk about the Emperor of Russia being presemt at this m litary epectacie, whieh is to itustrate tne ancient com panior abip in arma between the two Powers; bat ag the coronation bag bees put off till the 7th of September, and the manguyres at Hotlsberg are te commence ou the Otb, I do not see how this is possible, ‘The Prussian government is doing its utmost to place the army on an efficient footing, and to make up by con- tinual drilling for the want of experience im actual war fare, which is felt to be @ serious drawback on tho vaunted perfection of their military system. The truth is that the Prussian army bas got two great defects—tho soldiers are too young and the generals too old. Every Prussian is bound to serve in the regular army for period not exceeding three years; after which he is dis- missed to the reserve, or landwehr (militia); end as tho service offers few inducements for any one to make It hig profession who does not belong to the privileged classes—the promotion being exceedingly slow and the pay next to nothing—the consequence is that there are scarcely any old soldiers in the army, and it is com- posed almost entirely of recruits, who, whatever may be their pluck, bave not the stamina requisite to go throug the fatigues of a campaign, and would fill the hospita!s before meeting with an enemy. As to officers, Prus not being engaged ina greai war gince 1816, promo- tios bas ever since gone ou ~~ seniority, the rales of which are only infringed in favor of princes cf the blood royal, andof other German dynastics, with the exception of whom no officer, however distinguished for talent and abuity, bas apy chance of attainizg a high command be- fore Lay'vg passed the threv score and ten aliotied to rasa. General Wrangel, on whom the King has just conterred tho bain of a Field Marshal, has been unusually lucky, bay- ing been placed at the head of an army at tho juvenile age of sixty four; but then he entered the service in his twelfth year, and gained his first steps on the field of battle during the French war. He is the only Prussian Geueral pow I'ving who has ever commanded in the field, excepting General Borin, who was commander in chiet of the Holstein troops at the siege of Frederica, where he Was Desten all to — by the Danes—waich, however, does not prevent him from enjoying the reputation of be- ing the best Prussian General, according to the proverb, “parmi les avengles, le borque est roi? It it anould ever come to blows with any huropean Power, it is not un- likely that able commanders would — ‘up in time, but that m ght not happen till the Prussian army had been half destroyed by the incapacity of its leaders. ‘The intelligence of the fray between Prince Adalbert and the Rif! pirates occasioned quite an excitemeni here, azd is the subject of genera! comment. Most peuple are of opinion that the Prince showed a degree of rashness more excusable in @ young middy than ina Lord High Acmiral, and thet he ought to have minded his own business, acd pot have meddled in what did not coucern him; but they aro neue the leas nettled at this first chock experienced by the “infant Prassian navy,” and are grieved at the loss of life by which ft is aitended. Avy how, Prugsia cannot sit down quieily under the affront; end'as no redrees can be expected from the Sal'an of Moreeco, whose authority is not recognized by the Riff geptry, the only way to éatiefy her wounded dignity is to tiack the pirates ia their stropgheld, and take posses. sion of their country, as the French did of Algiers. I bave been given to uncerstanc that government 1s strongly in- chned to vpdertake such an expedition, which, in fact, has been contemplated for come years past—ever since the ot @ Prussian mercbantmap avd the murder of w by these corsaire; but the cifliculty is how to set abceut It. Of course the Prussian army i3 quite pume- rous enovgh for an enterprise of this kind, and even ® sirgle division of it would probably be sufficient to over. come apy resistance that might be offered by the Moors; Dut an army carrot be conveyed sech a distance without @ fleet of men of-wer and transports, aud in this respect we are not 0 well provided. Vrussia hes never been a oavel or colopizing Power. Nearly two bondred years ago the Great Elector, Fre¢erick William of Brandenburg, attempted to lay the four dation of a marine and to make @ setti¢ment on the coast of Guinea, but these plans were totally begleeted by b's successors, who tarned their whole stiention to military armaments, and at the acces- sion of te present king, Prussia had, I believe, not so much a a guaboat to celerd her sborcs aainst a hostile attack. The events of 1848 ard ’49, when the Prussian pcrts were blockaded by tral! Danith squadron, showed the neceseity of putting an end to this state of things, and since then a havy bas been gradvally forming, bough ow- {og to fiuancial dificulties Jere ite progrees’ has id than was hoped and expeoted. It con- th's moment of the forty four in frigates is (purchased from the English) and Gebon (a Da- nish prize), the former of which is Dow on @ cruise to ube ceastot South America, ond the latter is raid not to be seaworthy, the steam coi vettes Amazon aud Davtzick, of twelve, and Barbarossa, cf teu guns, aud the Mercury tiansport ‘of with forty tour gunboats, of one, two ‘ach, whose sphere of action is confined han four men of war, i be availaole for ai peditioa, a iorce bardly sufficient to bon! of a jotvia of pirates if the latter should tale it im their beads to attack the invaders, and quite inadequate to cover the ‘The only #a) to meet thts defulercy w T will respectable maritime ower who would paval ce, while the military pert of the exi! would be rished by Prossia, There \# hardly a doubt but that giana would rendily agree to such a proposal, having a large fleet unemployed, and avxous to reap a few of the Inurels that were Dlighted by the premature termination of the Rustien war; but it is the question how the descent of on Apglo-Truasi ment ov the African coatt, in the victoity of vould be relished by “our mag- napimous ally,” and wrethe Louis Napoleon vould not yppose kis veto to such a proceeding. Couriderations of thts patnre bave viy not been without iniu sian government; at any ed porltively that the king, instead of apply- Fngianc, as he would bave done if free to act ao g to bis’ Own imelipation?, ave is erroneously serfo1 Ly some of the Loudon pape made up bis mond to claim the ageistance cf France. Count Batzfeld, the Pivsrian Ambassador at Paris, baa received jnstrac tes to sound the Emperor on this subject, ard, if the y should be favorable, our age, which has wituessed ange evepts, may ree Fronco and Prussia, in be reco!) 8 of Jena and Beile Alliance, united Albmterirg’ expedition against Moroceo, Of course thia country would expect to have @ share of the rpoils; a slice of territory i Africa would be a nice outlet for her eurplos population, and Louis Napoleon would Lave uo rescenable objection to gratify ber wishes, as he could always take it back again whenever he thonghi fit. It is rumored.to0, that Russia bas offered ber co operation; but this could uot be thought of lor « moment, a the appear- ance of a Kutrian ficet s0 near Gibra tar would be too much for the patience of John Bull, sorely tried as it bas been by the events of the last few months. A ecancelous affair, in which avoiber pear connexion of royalty is implieated, bas made almost as much noise asthe escapade of Prince Adalbert, bes des being far mere disgraceful to the parties in it. Thore is a certain Prizes William of M bug, nephew to the Kiog and younger broher of the Grand Doke of Mecklenburg pcbhwerin, who bas made himself notorious here fortome ears past by his gallant adventures and by a dissipated Course of life ip general. Thocgh onty posecesed of the sionder portion of a younger son, eked out by the far from muniticent allowance of a wajor ia the l'rasetan Horee Guards, bis extravagance was unbounded, and be is known to have lost large sums at play, which wore generaily patd by bis mother, the Dowager Grand luch- eos, whose favorite be is, and whe is represented by ill intured folke am not being insensible herself to the charts of the gaming table. He was » prominoet mem- ber of the fr jockey club, whove doings | alluded to ec me time nd was present atthe kick up that led eventually to the death of President Von Hinckledze Of late it seems that he has been more than usually unlucky rds and on the tarf, for by depsrees bis debts accu- od te the enormous sum of 140,000 thalors ($100,- (40), for which he bad given bile and 10 U's He credits pplying to bis mother was vselesa, Wing 10 aeaist him, the payment an amount was above bor means; and, to cut the matter short, one ¢ay the Prince was ing, and by the last acedunts be had crossed the Rus- frontier, and was beyond all pursuit. The King is outrepeous at the conduct of his epbew—the more #0, as many of bis debts were contracted on bis word of honor, which be bas broken by dden * absquatulation.” 1 bear bis Maje har give ders t settle with the Prince's creditors, ane pay bis celta of benor, as well ax ol) evch demande aa can be legelly proved againe\ bim. «lore abeconcing, he sent in bis resignation of bie com meio in the Prumsien army, to avoid being casbierea, ond {t te ea'd be will be rept to rosticate ia some small parrcon town Im the interior of Russia, where Le will bave senty of leisure to sow bis wild oats, and no opportunity « {odulging im thowe exceeres that bave broacht m this cetastrophe. Two boon companions of bis Ser High pera, Lientenanta in the Guards, teok to flight at the same time, leaving debts to the tame of 60,000 thalers, whicl the vnfortenste creditors will have to whistle for, royalty is not likely to interiere in behalf of these less jinetricus defaulters. Mr, Squier and the Central American Ques tion. (From the Birm!ngham (Fng ) Journal | ‘The real propelling intelligerce that bas forved these s\nirs out of the cend Jock they been brovght to by that sublime combinetion of motcal cunving and recipro- cal abort sightedpese, the Clayton Bulwer treaty, is Mr. K. G, Squier, the celebrated American traveller and ex- plorer, to whore research and perseverance, jn the face of tbe greatest difficulties, bis countrymen fod Europeans owe their knowledge of the rewources and poculiaritice of Central America {na eimilar degree as io Fremont in re pect to California. He is Precisely the same stamp of pen aa the popstar candidate for the Presidency: adven- nro’, eagrctus, simple minded and straightforward ibe coutirter fie name is identified with be hae made the study of hit life; he bas traversed them in every dire jon, investigated thelr early history delineate? the mopuments avd remains wich the of an archwoto gist and the acumen of a virtuoso; and has ret forth thelr mocers requirements and capabilities with a clearness and force thet have simultaneously converte! them into a lever for the removal of moet complicated po ittcal difficulties, and the opening up of new fields jog the commercial enterprise of the Gid Werld and the New. But for his mastery «f the whole details of thie much javolved question, his consequent ointion, and 4 clear pere of the means to ite pacitis bis successful empl. yment of thore mea from his personal infoence and the confia ter inapired, It ts hard indeed to imagine how tein, especially with a man of Lord Palmorston’s anteoo. conte, supreme in oflice, could have receded from the Bay Islands, whore retention would bave b bling block to any amicable understanding with the United States. Without such understanding the peace of the two countries would have been liable to disruption at any mo- ment, through the temerity or caprice of any official of either Power; and, if once an explosion of that kind tok oud to measure what might be its re. juier’s-skill and prodence are primarily be bt man to represent Honduras, and tho it place as die , the ey Sane ee aw ene, Ser eee edjaetmont, W pertics ree a; eaataiie, w promises pati Minny 4 the time to come as it ia satisfactory it, present ‘of the old truth as to the world’s ignorance of those who most largely influence its affairs, it may be remarked that Mr. Squier’s name bas pever ap- peared in these negotiations, nor has he himself persoa- aby ever Sgured in them ostensibiy. Eschewing notorio- vent equally eschewing the indulgence of a predilec- which sometimes suppiies tts love of tinesse and intrigue—he bas contented welf with renderirg the stores of bis knowledgo and observation available tor the formation of a sound judgment on the part of thoso capable of ruling events, apd the end has alike justifiod his Feenolnace and rewarded his industry. Though for- merly a diplomatirt himseli, he has ignored the conven- tional tortuosity of that profession; and his Cage | simply truth for ite ova take, he bas gone about it wil t ness, and without circumlocution. Speed and guc- cess have attended his efforts. Within a period more brief than is recorded of any transaction of equal magni - tude and complexity, the matter has been virtually brovght to a close—the two great countries that stood in ap atiitude of mutual defiance ond resentment, have re- sumed the most friendiy relations, although atte 2p formally completed by the presence of # British at Washington; while a third country, hitherto almest un- besrd of, bas been evoked from obs urity, and invested with acommercial importance that can scarcely be ex ag gerated ip ref rence to the immeciate mercantile future of the globe, It sbould serve as a stimulant to our ad- mipistrative reformers who detire that the work of the present should not be dope by wen of the past, to know that Squire is still in the early’ primo of life, after ha gone through a prolonged mental and corporeal strain whose inten: bis voluminous heise. od pregnant as they are with evidence of romantic vicissitude and labori- ous intallectval toi), scientific and scholarly, ‘most inadequate idea, In eppearance he is short, spare and wiry, the configuration of his frame not at all suggestive of the s'amina that must have been requisite to sustain wee privations and hardships of all kinds attendant on bis cxplorations in the region of the Red Men of the Missi. sippi deserts on the one hand, ard among the debris of the mystic greatness of the ancient Mexicans on the other. Neither dees bis countenance evince the sternness that might be Re ey in one who bas £¢ continuously looked danger ip face beyond the contines of civilization. The expression of his visage is mild and prepogsessing, full of spirit and intclligence, derivable in a great degree from a light blue eye—that primary cbaracteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race, in whose ‘ manifest destiny,’’ as the all dominating branch of the human family, he is an im- plicit believer; and ag he bas bad a very diversified acquaintance with the genus humo in most parts of the gicbe, bis opinions on this head are, perhaps, entitled to be regarded og rometbing more than the epeculations of either a physiological or psychological curiosity monger. Settlement of the Sound Dues Question. = La Presse, Paris, Aug. 23.) ‘The Sound dues affair is still pending, and the political calm now reigning in Europe, far from’ rendering the so- lution of this question less desirable or less opportune, makes it, on the contrary, rather more necessary. It is curing # time of peace that the difliculties which are apt to complicate inter pational crises sbould be settled; and it will be remembered that the moet serious reproach which bas been addressed to she United Siates when, last spring, they pretended, in conformity with their treaties, to relieve themselves from the Sound ducs, was precisely that of adding a difficulty the more to the ex- treme peril in which Europe then found berself involved. Whetber this coneideration exercised its influence with them or not, the United States have postpoued thelr pre- tensions fer another year; but next spring the question will present iteclf between them and Denmark in its whole gravity, and then no consideration of conventence or of ims pee | can apy lorger be oppored to the vin- dication of their rights. It is meceseary, therefore, that this question should at once be sctiled by diplomacy, if we would avoid its being banded over to the decision of an armed force, and its entangling, by the very rature of the interests it em- braces, all the maritime rations in its complications. The United States insist upon their pretensiona to free them- selves from the obligations of a treaty by which they re- garded themselves bound ouly up to the period of its ex- piration. They offer but a temporary indemnioation for the rervices rendered by Denmark to the navigation in the Sound. Denmark, without accedirg to their prin- ciple, and stabbornly persisting in its antiquated maxims, would willingly accept the inderni cation offered to it, either as @ natural and permancet revenue, or as a sum of acquittance based on the absolute recognition of its principles. ’ Flere the contest between them is at an end; but the ques- tion Dearé this particular character, that it cannot be de- finitively resolved in au teolated way. 'Tke rule adopted for ite regulation must necessarily become a common one for all maritime rations; for none of them can, either as to the form or to the matter, consent to a treatment which, as regarés the trace in the Baitic, would creste amongst rival nations a privileged siteation, Hence the great cuffieully ; for the joterest whieh the United States, in con- cequenee of the very limited navigaion of the Ba'tic, beve at: take in this questicn is so trifila, qu , that if the Hop between them and Denmark were reduced to alternative, whether the sum of acquittavce for the nd duties #hould be paid om ihe basis of a tem- porars or absolute indemaitication, or in ether words, & sum more or less considerable in dollars or rix- lait, the olution would, doubtlessly, very soon be arrived but the basis which will serve for the arrapgewent between the United ta nd Denmark, will at the fame time serve to fx the quota of all the er Waritime powers as regards the general iademni- tion; and bere lies the difficulty of the maticr. We bave made kvown the projent feared by Denmark ‘or the total capitalization of the Sound @utics, and pro- pored by it to the reprerentativee of the Powers, who, im the commencement of the year, took part in the confe enees at Copenbagen. Denmark is, at the same time, pereistipg both in its right to the Sound duties, and ia the prneiples upen which, for three cent ithas based it; but it concenta to reeign them in exchange for a pe- scniary, fixed, and immediate compensation. It tends to the sum of thirty-five milioue of rix dollars, or coe hundred and seventy five miiliups of franes, to be paid by the maritime powers, in exchange for the duties ik tevied on the pavigation. ln @ table sunexed to the protocol of May 9, 1856, by whieh, provisionally, the conferences of Copenbagen were closed, this sum is divided amongst the Powers repregented at the conferences, according to the relative importance of their navigation in ibe Baltic, eave a email iraction reserved for the Powers not represented. Den- mark, whieh reeerves for iteeli the right of fixing, by particular treaties, the mode snd terms of payment of the quota falling to the share of each Power, o! S, at the same time, the right to appreciate the official securi- tue by which tbe payment is to be guaranteed, Beeides, it is known that several /owers have consent- ed, without reserve, to these conditions, but their efforts been frustrated by tbe opposition of England. giond hes, in this effair, the largest interest, for her ebare in the Davigation of the Sound is nearly 26 per cent of the whole; and esccording to the table of repariitten annexcd to the protocol of May 9, would bave to contribute, in the common indemnificatioa, the enormous sum ef 10,146,953 rix¢ollars, or nearly sixty millions of francs. It is easy to vadorstands z land hesitated before this exorbitant contribution, She (id not, bowever, reject in un abrolute manner the Danish project! but nominated a commission of examination to xquire into the basis cf it, or to suggert a bew one lens onerous to ker finances, This commission is now in sea- clon, and, up to this day, bas not as i promu!gated ot- Ovlally ita decision. It is seserted that it is intended to propore new pion, ¥bich would substitute for the pay- ment of the toils claimed by lepmask the payment of the more or lees restrained or porte of departore or of arrival, eo that the merchant sh'p:, in going fo or coming trem the Paltice, would no longer be obliged to wtop n the Sovnd, in order to pay their tolls at the Custom Howse of Oreeur d, but would psy them into the hands of ‘he Conaule, or of the other epecial agente of Denmark, other at departure of those which would leave the ports, or ai the arrival of thore which would enter ‘a coming from otber karepean countries. The Cuties and their tarif's would thay be preserved, the only alteration would be in the mode of pay t Up to this day, we must confose that, although this tingular system bas been for seme Sat prepenst, we cod Lot take it as serious. However, tt is wi in such end its adoption by the commision of ¢xamina- omipeted by England is asserted with eo much confidence, that it is worth while to examine more ateatively into ite bearings. ite Great consequence, in our judgment, wovld bo to overthrow the most solid ly real one of the pretensions of Denmark. ced, it calla Mm question the usefuloess ich may re- sult from the maintenance of the Sound duties to com- ree in general, and the services whieh Deamark was ppored to render it. If it is already an advantege to ing to ciepenso wilh stopping in the cond parsing under capnona of , then tLe payment of the Sound tolls, far from being the > Mt in of © service rendered, is, on tbe contrary, a more impored op the navigation already so di ihoee watery, To stop before the fortroes of Kronen- berg, to be stationed in the straits during the accom- ‘ng Of the formalities preceding and secomupenying necergary verifications [or the setiiement of the tolls end thelr pay me vt, is an incre of charges end dan. Ureethe fret reeu't of thie pew egrtom, bed draws, 5 Seas inbee Habba! ebedldoralions fi teme coniributicns, modified, in the the seine COBO CS of the leealities and the nature of things, when we had been denied the truth of it; but by the very fact of this ew proporitien, its evidence becom unquestionable ‘This fystem, which, on the other side [would involve grave question: of international sovereignty, nations be- ing wot neeustemed to vee, in this way, foreign duties aived on their own territories, would same tine, have on existence, all the other motives in favor of the botition of the Sound dues oud the affranchisement o bat passage. It maintains, jadeed, ali the pretensions ail the prineipies op which Denmark establishes ite ht to the preservation of the toils; it recognizes, cr, at , it does not deny, inany way, the pretension of Den. Jo exercise, over ihe Sovad, ty recognized neither by interation Cone and treaties, ny with the Danie a cloved sea, the ¢ @ portion Of it# maritime territory, sub padetends and ports themsctycy, to ite exclusive laws, yoiee and regulations’ it modifier and transports only ibe mode and paymen the tribute whieh the Danish monareby, in ite full so nty, impores upow general vavigation; all other details remain as before It has offen been said, but |t must bo still as often re. peated apd inceseantly proved until the truth is univer. faliy unde retood and accepted, that Denmark can rest itt pretensions of maintaining the Sound duce, in the pre- senee of the genera! reclamations aroused against them, only on the basis of services rendered by it to the gem ravigauion, in exchange for those tolls, whether they con- subsist or be abolishe? by means of com yen sation be, henceforth, but the 0 of wervicns pag AI — armen pe f ‘acili ating, prote: ‘aneu! navi in those: perilous atraite which separate'the Baltic from the seas, Every other basis given to the continuation thone, duties false one, eontrary to the international law, to reason, history, and ply CAL RY ti ties by which they have been conceded to lt. For the future, those rights wil! have no other basis, and, more- over, {t will be-well understood that they are maintained end subsist but as payment of services rendered, and as indemnification of expenses incurred or to be incurred in order to assure their efficiency. ‘We shail inceseantly call to mind this starting point of the solution at it looked for, because the question put, and because it is at this time generaily so little anc so badly understood, that it is over and over egain forgotten. It is only recently that we bave seen in a respectable paper—the Constitutionnel —the following passage :—'‘ Denmark has no other right save that 1g from long possersion and general con- went, It is too late to contest it at If, in the origin, the establishment of the Sound duties was but an Al'the beuctts of preceripdon.” Ths i tn all vempocts all the benef res oription. 4 a very Jectring. But without’ new theor; international law, which, amongst sove- reign vations, would derive right from’ abuse, it is still mere singularly oblivious of the [iene and facts which have infit this question of the Sound duties,6o often uring the last three hundred ys are, then, unaware of the long possession of iy Depmark, and the genera! consent which has it for three centuries, regoeing on treaties of which we bave given the list and substance, and those treaties never according to it that right of possession, but with analways condititional, temporary aud rvocable title. Are they, hkewise, ignorant of the fact, that if prescrip- tion is a mode of acquiring rights in point of international as well as civil law, it is under certain conditions which nobody is allowed to deny, and that above all things, @ State canrot set up a presori a aeeiaetteaaern likes, nor can any individual against ? And it is preeisely because the establichment of the Sound duties reposes, not only upon an abuse but upon a tile. and that this title is conditional and re vocable, that Denmark cannot “ by change the cause and principle of its jon’’—that the Sound duties rei ed conditional and revocable like the treaties which established them. It is this point of which every one, and ohiefly Denmark, ought to be well copvinced in Europe. Otherwise Den- mark, reproducing continually its antiquated pretensions and fale principles, will eternize this debate, which it is the interest of all Powers to put an end to before the United States, which are decided to do it, send in an armed force to assert their right. Otherwise the Powers most kind!y disposed towards Denmark will find them- selves obliged next spring to choose between this kindly Saneene the laws, interests and great principles, of which the United States present themselves as the most active and resolute champions. ‘The Trouble between Spain and Mexico. [From the Paris Constitutionnel, Aug. 31.) Yesterday we geve notice of the recall of Sr. de Jos Santos Cad Minister Plenipotentiary of an near Mexico. Here is the text of the decree of Aug. 23, which pronounces this recall:— Approving the reasons which have been exposed to me by my, ibs Bechetar of State for Foreign Affairs, with the savics of the Council of Ministers, I order Sr. Miguel de los Santos ¢ his functions #8 m inary Envoy aad le! notary near the Mexican republic. Given in my Palace, Aug. 23. "THE QUEEN, ‘This decree, published by the Gaceta of Madrid, of the 26th August, is countersigned by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Pastor Diaz, Our correspon¢ ent did not make known to us the mo- tives of this revocation. We find them in an article of the Journal of Madrid, the tenor of which, if ita news were confirmed, would have a real gravity. The article conceived in these terms:— Amidst the standstill which the state of slege forces upon the expansion of the interior policy of the country, the exte- rior question, agitated for’ some time by the diilerénces with Mexico, has just awakened with & new interest, at the very moment when a complete and amicable solution was believ- in, ed in. ‘The government, in virtue of the decree published by the Gareta of to-day, disavows and revokes its representative, Sr. Miguel Alvarez, doubtless, for having made concessions incompatible with national pride and the good right which is on the side of Spain in her reclamations. ‘The mediation which France, with @ common accord of the parties, was called to exercise in this conflict, scems to have become infllcacious, according to the report of the Impe- rial charge d’afiaires in Mexico. ‘The quarrel has, thus broken forth again with all its former rancor, and it would be possible that its final issue would be euirusied to an appeal to arms, The Epoca, on its side, regards the recall of Alvarez as ‘a cisavowal on the part of the government of his acts in Mexico. The Congressional Difficulty in Washington. (From the London Times, Sept. 6. The American crisis is by no means ov The last ewe from tbe United States representa the struggle as stil gomgen, The Housee of Congress have again met. Av olarmist message from the President solemnly puts before them the frightful but inevitable consequences of the exiting collision, unless something is done to relieve it—the pay of the federal army stopped, the contracts for eplistment coorequently broken; the disbandment of the ormy ; the suppreesion of the whole orduance department; the areenale sbut up; all sea and land fortifications aban- coved; the exposure ef @ pations! frontier 0° more than four thorsand miles in extent to the attacks of y eavages, Who Will retaliate for the cbeck in which the fed- «ral jorees have hitherto kept them by rapine and murder, epd every fort Of eggrestion upon a thin undefonied border population; the “striking of the national flag <b the battlements of the fortresses which defend tho meritime ciuee ogainst foreign invasion; the violation of © pubic honor and good faith, and the discredit of the Coited States in the eyes of the civilized world.”’ Such, says the President, * wil be the direct and immediate Cileets of the refusal of Congress, for the first time in the history of the geveroment, to get supplies.” The argument i# a strong, an irreeistible one; but, unforta nately, it cuts two ways, ond ac mits of two dtrcctly oppo- ite applications. Suen being the coxsoquences of ‘stand- ing out, one sice must give way, but which side ‘s to give way! That‘s the question. The President and the Se- pate sey, the House ol Representatives must give way; the Hovse of Representatives says, the Presideat and wurt give way. You must relieve the Army Appropria- ‘ion Dill from the proviso respecting Kansas, says the Senate; you must accept the provieo a] to the Ar- my Aprepriation Dill, says the House of Representatives. That is the prevent porition of affairs then, and neithor side bag hitherto given way. In the meantime, Cassan ora notes are heard, aud old General Cass takes upon bimnsclf the melancholy office of the ancient bard, and eings the dirge ot the American Union; he gives it ag bis deliberate option tbat the daye of the republic ore numbered. The republic, however, will —— get over the hitch this time by a forced concerns: le by one of the two eo Appearances favor the triumph of the ie Representatives, and the forced acceptance of the Kansas nips Raed panne ‘Tee House of Representatives, with its addi of eleven votes geined on the republican side by the absence of mcmbers, whom the extraordinary summons had not ro called to Wesniogion, stands firm to the Kansas bot the Senate el signs of giving way, and Mr. Hun- ‘8 motion to adjourn, which is equivalent to a resolu- Ret to accept the proviso, seems to require more courage, or more rashness, for its adoption than the Se Late poseereee. Should this be the u of the present crisis, then the Uy ited States will Dave surmounted this particular trial; Dut at the keme time two most important consequences will follow from the moge in which the crisis has been rormounted, ove affecting the balance of parties in tho Union, the other aflecting the constitution of the Union. South ond the North—the siaveowner and the oppo- tof slavery, whether as an abolitionist or non exten- ric nis! —bave hitherto stood on equal greund, and neither party could claim the Unjon on their side. But sucl victory a this will alter this balance, and give s supre- macy to the anti slavery party, which the opposite side will bave much difficulty in resisting. The one side fecl \teelf the conqueror, other the conquered, and lavery enthusisem will cain boldness aud strength the slaveowner, feeling himself beaten, wiil benceforth fight the battle of siavery with confidence. He will feel his weaknees, and in preportion as he feels weak he will be aiery; be will grow disaffected to the Union, and bis ‘thougbts will more and more recur, either tly or openly. toa separaticn as the ultimate defence for slavery and security for property. He seems at pre- # pt to depend on the direct iavor 0: the executive for bis peeition, when left to himectt anti siavery enthusiasm is tro etrong for bim, as the triumphant career of the free Svete party in Kansas at this moment, even with the fede- ral forces sgainst them, sufficiently shows. When the Howe of Representatives has once tied up the hands of the executive, hia position will be i & poor one. This will be one consequence, then, of sucn an gas of ibe prerent etruggic—a change of the balance of parties ip the United Statee, Another jvence will be a moi: of the constitution of the Ut The Senat» has present cecasion placed itself in opposition to the Hicure of Reprcseptatives on the slavery question, and at row its shield over \the slaveowner. What which makes the Senate more favorable than the wer House to slavery and gives it these Southern sym yothics it might be ¢ifficalt to eay, Perhaps the reason mey be simply that the fenate is a more ol tnd therefore & mcr conservative body than —_— Tt ie just one atey ved irom the popular seftrage, porely representative character, It is a fore, naturally more considerate to >; yerty And more the & sgunat the Canker of rupture re vharly abe he & g j than petituted Boure. It ie less liable to be car- ied away by party epirit and epthusinem. But what. ay be ie Tesecn why the Senate has opposed the House of Representatives on the present ii the Setate oppores that House, and is obliged ive wey the Scnate must pecessarily lose in power, t be Americen Cobatitution, and the splation mill be affected. ds to the popular house Le of these pre volar cecasion give Way agein; that will be expected cm it, it wil be considered its proper and constitutional >: ofpeeition to the Bouse of Representatives will be «cridered enooustitutic cal, at least on ali impotrant Wieete teccine absurd to tak of the constitation of tho United (ce becoming more popular, and yet ruch a triumph ag «Co (he part of the House of Representatives will tend to take it eo; it will give the House of Representatives «re of on exelecive position as an exponont of the pa rua) will—more, in ite attitude to the President and Se rete of that relation which oor own House of Commons os to the Crown and the House of Lords. The Amori- ‘an De Lolme will bave to modify his accurate outline of be Americen constitution, and confers that time and «te. the growth of precedent, the formation of political w idem and understanding, have altered ite original and Ccegned proportions. Svch @ crisis as Present «ne, then, however for the \ime it may be got over, must be éxpected to leave traces bebind it. We cannot hear wp Pape | of a rupture of the Union made tn the very scnate bouse of the United States without apprehension, for it must rs great oy —y an Ameri:an pro- pheey anything oppored mer! strength and glory. The Juneoy of keeping the con ficting elements of which the republic is composed tn order is evidently greater every day, and ofl by means which danger seems only to be make the ’ ‘in ‘ ‘ People. - (From the London Times, Ang. ™), ms The Americans were perbaps the most ex; i net the most efficient, in th sceeceenaneey neod and the duty of itary rule. We know what the ma- tional com; sy ‘and expectation are in the United A conceive the effect of a suddem awakening to the idea that the rapid decline of the threatenod to annihilate the future of #8 country. The first three oe ago. ie extraordinary mortality fro sumption, the difficulty of rearing children, the chine of their women, and the rarity of old among them first fixed their atten! and’ then smelled, the i ; of those who taaied the facts. that white clean as 19 tol. Boing further ques- tioned, he showed that in that wen unfavorable im- fluences were concentrated in a remarkable manner, and met by no adequate sense and nce. It was true and everybody began to see it about the hapa | that the was raw, and subject to the defects settlement and it an old country for out door exercise and amusement; that the paucity of pative"people f over-work and over- excitement, and frequent intermarriage of blood while immigration bi t in the vices and maladies of a low class of foreigners; ap manners was as pernicious to the beer boozing of the Germans and the wi ing of the Irish were to that of the workin; that, above all, the absence of the quietude state of society—the perpetual fluctuations of critical social condition—were in an Ca igo Se favorable to the genera) health of body and discovered that in Europe it is nowhere a common thing for parents of large families to be left childless age, kde ered, 2 5 H < f eee FEE 2 § s bitual amidst the,excitements of Americaa life. appears that enacdng liquor laws, which must fiouing a the wrong end; and” thet it would je wrong end; wt to er! st the causes of the vicious thirst; nobody who has seen the wonder at the effort. A general convention to the public health was another result; an: the hurry, the overwork and worldly anxiety e hurr; over wor! wor! zens of the fervent and busy new Tepubllo. A among the fashionable, exposure in winter over heating in unventilated houses, men, the excess of tobacco chewing, Ppractice—all these E 3 iH priyiee i Hs jerbecatiee( ate areca (te imaginati grasped at in the United States, as an reatenea doom. Some of these which imply practices of temperance, cleanliness, bodily exercise, mental re- pose, and a repudiation of drugging have wrought so well ’8 really to improve the prospects of the community ;and pew bope is pow opened by a really effective movement for the improvement of dress, in a sanitary view. this curious sudject we have at present no space. We can only point out that tbe duty which in United States is 80 sorely needed and £0 clearly perceived ts needed among all c'vilised peoples, and ought to be un- dertaken by tho eral conscience. Great advances bave been made in England and France of late in precaution and supervision. The work bean te eometbing like due activity and consistency if the medi- cal pri of all countries would unite their know- ledge and experience in opposition to those chroais and deparmenta: maladies and evil conditions which are per- petually more fatal, physically and morally, than the pest of she Dobrudcha or the slaughter in tne Crimea. ‘The Harvests in Europe. From the London Times, Sept. 6.) ‘There seldom was a year when the prospects of the barvest were either more varying or more important than we now find them. Abou! ten weeks ago the indif- ferent yield of last year, the extraordinary consumption of the war, the fact of ee growing districts in the Fast baving been left untilled, and the backwardness of the spring, raised the prices of grain to a pitch et least z i eudden change of weather, the crops, roee, and we bave now bad a week weather, and b> 4 we read that the corn market is “dull,’’ or « ny certainly seems to ample ir that still poaitonren, it wil farmer if his rickyard is not at leastas well filled as im most former years. Thus far there is n0 of i § z F H H a is 4 F set i : itis Vite rope iftbe minds of men ful , from sores ever and ‘lings ever threatened wi bs ar but more usetul rivalry of ways, steampackets, mines, fox of traders, ‘ae ocrrenes of ‘ 4 Pe more. From the continent the accounts of till more favorable. As it was earlier than in this co try, it bas not suffered to the same extent by the change of weather three weeks ago. if respondent writing from Magdeburg on recording bis observations om ® jourae, deseribes the harvest F i HE ERES ! 3 plain of Germany and Frence, itzerland, are now traversed by the effect upon prices is the same as we rienced in this country. Buta few years ago valeable and moveable things—wheat, fat beasta, butter, cheese, and eggs—varied considerably dinwicta net very wide apart; and it was usual hes to Ox their residence to okie Gis abs aimee om & necessaries of were ridiculously cheap. cheaper by two perce a pound; the price ; egus were to be had dance, abd povliry at fabulous the oply means of conveying these distent market were slow, costl; All that is now past. In bp, Wales and the Highiands out of the question, ply | almost uniform, and no one di moch dead vantage com; with are doing the rame tor continent, pif rf He é H 3 E eli i F = requently often twice what they Tt is #0, at least, in ail articles of ‘tne best of every: é i g Hy iis : i day were of frequent occurrence. here are many things to considering the cest of in countries Foodent, and pertape some ot pondent, and per! tee of the most vigiast railway Isbor is cheap, it t# commonly ro much the less valuable; if ag ment? are simple, we may be so I i i i" ii 35 = capable ot beavy wi a necessity of bad road rows to obstruct the rays of the sun and barbor and inreets, on the other hand the subdivision of ¥ \y, aod the minutencas of the devoted to the dif- ferent orog®, present a more check (0 profitable cultivation. Throughout « great part of Germany. in- H dal; i i Whe, agrieultu: i compared wiih this couotry, At al! events, we thovld like to gee the compariton instituted these who have had the advantage of a resitonce, with smple means of information. Uniowbtediy @ oportion of the Continent is cultivated im a Way that would not answer in this country, aud that would ruin both peasant and proprietor in the . Ne- verthelese, in &® year as this the result is an aban- dant harvest, “pn ft Pw ay of Ons, and many crops nown here; and, by all’ accow pa ore [egg Fg Rg gd We J wit a iJ |, too, nty after eace, It comes 4 from. hae eaprotective cmmorie ns bx loymenta of A not unreasonable to hope that mach os ned undertakings which will invite the co. of different ‘States, will serve to heal sorea, to eface ond even to soften and : tony |

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