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2 Fe ee: ae AFFAIRS iN EUROP ‘The Chess Contest in Englw q, OUR LONDON COKRNSVONDRNG Leawnon, AW ant 20, 1858. in Englind— an Morphy in Par- Oreatin 9 in England His : ' Ihieg Magmates of the wah & ate Latest News ? :especting His Match ‘Te Lowenthall—The 8? oe Beween the Young -risam and the Leading Br igiish Player—IAs of the Keita and Wounded— The Md ich with Stauntm, cbc., dc. "The appenrance of your gifted coustryman, Paul Murphy, in Kurope, bas been the egal for excitement in the bers world, umparaileled #959 2° memorable o9u- ficto Lavourdenrns oa “oP onet. For centuries past Bogland bes Bow TE 4 45 the adopied home of the COdcees Giese 1 ont every eduomted person here is more OF Hose 8OGr sca with her mysteries, and Amatours (rom — were of tbe globe bave gained their proudest Inurels = ar midst. Ip London, t’bilador rendered bis name 4s enduring as the game iisell; Ladourdennais showed him- self wviveiole, Avderson's fame became Baropean, and Lowentholl, Harrwitz, Horwitz, Lowe and gcores of others became “bousebold words" in chers. Now, more than ever, s.cangert frequent our shores for the purpoee of dis. playing heir #no# ledge of the game, Alston being looked upon at the tryeting piace for chess knights errant, and the approaching meotiog ai Birmingham of the British Chess Aszociation promises to be w very Athby de la ‘Touche of Zatrikioiogiea! tonrnays We used to ask iu Europe, * Wao aver reads an Amert- can book?’ No ese puts that question wow, unless with the certainty of writiog bimself dowa aa ass.” Washing- ton Irving, Fenimore Sooper, Lovgfellow, and others far oo numerous to mention seldom equalied, never sur. passed, in the various branches of literature, aod their works are eveo more popular in England than in the United States. Our davy avd weekly newspapers are in- debdted for column ypon column to the American press, and your opinioss are cited as suthority upon questions af- fecting the Puropean continent alone, We have, in fact, become beaten out of our Old Worid egotism, and are forced to admit that the intelligence of our transstisntic ‘prethren is not merely expended in the mechanical pur- suits of a nascent civitizstion, but that every study which elevates the man and adorns the pation is vigorouely pursued in America. Europe. But Americeu intelligence is displaye1 in more esthetics! pursuits thar even these; and comparing é<great things with smell,” we may sum up your discove ries in ecicooe aud your achievemeuts in art and literature, and ken them to the doings of the boree tamer, Rarey, who bas “stood before kizgs’’ and exploded the fallacies Of a thousand years. She gem» of chess has beem the intelieciual pasiune of the great and learned from remots ages. It ts mixed up with ihe bistory of nations—at home aud in every clims, from iceland to Japan It is not mere éradition, bat posi- tive bietories! fact, dba! the greates; warriors 492 philoso phers ip cifferent countries, cevoted many hours to tie siudy dally. Brabmios in In¢ia, Boozes in Odin, bishops ‘and cardinels throughout Barope, all worshipped at the sbrine of Cwm, Phe trevbadours eang ite praises and counetilied the knighis to make “ibe King of Games” their chie! pastivoc: whilst in ihe Tar Saat, Tameriaus, the Great, pamed one Of hie eons Scbasbrobe, tm honor of -cheas, in ihe intellectual fecuisies and bepite is eo that heathen oaticus have ascribed to ita divine origin, sud learped mea have even recommended tt in pinoc bf mathematicr, as m Detter “schooimasier for the mind ” The fret congrers of American chose players, held iast year © New York, gave an impetus to tne game tarough Out your immense terrivory. In fact, you seem desirous shee ing all Creation” ae well ip Chere as is other shing and cube are sprivgizg up throognout the different tra Atlantic cities Whore HUB bers Will abortly sur, asx taowe Tom astovishing progress is priacipally 5 al Marpby, who started at onco veraal potice, ike Minerva, en L of Jove and, after Dim, to the feste of Louis Paulsen ia biindfola play. Bot Paul Morphy + eplewaid sucestees ip America were not regarded in Karone an evidences of first into v ekil! tt wae brosdly assarted that “possioly sr Morphy might be ei! thet bis admiring fellow coupirymrn repre sented, but be had never played a game which would bear the test of ansiysis.”” Eavy, with lying tonges silenced to eome extent when his arrival io E came Knows, rome two months since. Amete:r Smaieur measured swords Wik him, and aepreci gave way to to silence, for be bag not yet met bis eqaal, aes the greatest players tp Eogiaed have opposed m. Soon after the New York Chess Congress haa te ite eittings, the New Orieans club offered to back Mr. Morphy ayairst Mr. Howard Staunton for $5,000. Is bad been proposed that the associated players of america shoud challenge Europe to produce bis eqoal. This would bave besa the proper course; bat the pusiilaminity of certaty influential members of the Congress, a4 their jeaionsy of Morphy, who had beatea them “cut of their boo’ prevented the cha'lengs being The pluckices wigbls must now regret their oppo: & Sinoe the lamented death of Tol abourdonnais,n> player bas perbape ranked so bieb as the Koglish Stagnton, aud a viclory over him i* regarced as the crowning giory of @ bere knight's am dition. Hu “bandbooks”’ on the game. transieted into all languages of the civilized worlc, are every ehore ‘the iaw aed the testimony,’ and b's powers of acalyeis ere censicered unrivalled. For macy years past the eovtor of the chess cepartment of the /I/ustrated Londen News, bis repuiatiup bas grown with tbe growth of (het journe! His opportunities for buildieg up & colos. sa! repuiation Dave been such as no player ever possosged, ‘and bat s few years Daok, ihe name of Steunton was re: vered in chees we thatof Nerton inecience. Bat & short sighted smbrtion made him “o'erlenp bimesif time courted and fiateared Wy all, and justly 90, too—for chaste deeply indedvad to b a3 Dow lost much of bis popa’artty bo bis vanity oresful aad bis utter want of wagnanimity in dof ls opponents as joa!,”’ &e , leaving cia reader to draw the pectssary inference of big own wonderfal superiority, Whilrt nur notes Ow lowt gamer ceil forth soch remarks ae ‘the piay oa dott Bever rises above the dull level of parlor meaicorty ” Posterixy may pardon such evidences of wounded varity, but bis contemporaries Bot: more eapecially @ be defea’ is Certain to entail ‘upe bis acversary an ding Gmount of obtoquy and Gepreciation But you may consicer me treepate ag Gpon nots making you party w our dog. v Ip arewer to the formal challenge of the New Orieans 19>. Mr Manton replied that the eating European players bad other and more serious occupations thay coves, nad that for himeeif, he wae prevented by literary duties from undertsking ®> long & voyage a tha: to the (He is bow ef itiog & be w etition af Stak pere, of whien critica speak farorsbiy ) Paul Morpd the chivalris spirit of kigot errantry, thereupon crosssd the Allsatio and tbrew cown his gauntlet 0 propria persona. Br Stacrten conld pet, of course, Gec'ine the vha'lenge; more particularly a# be Ded eiated tp the columns of bis paper, bat if Mr. Morphy Gerired to play bim, be must come to Exglao¢ Ip acceptitg the dif he requested that the match might be poetpoaed a mouth or two, io or Ger to wlody the opeuinge and eoditgs of games, he being somewbet out of practice To this proposition Morphy of coded, and & contest will shortly commesce 1) excite more atienvon than any game during tho tors. The americas people wil) peturally ‘ew Yous Hanato for news of the battles fought in ee inteviectusl © campaign your correspon: dent will meke it bots bee auty acd bis pleasure to keep you an courmm of every eriecde theretn > Stace his arrival in Lovdon, Mr. Morphy bes ervayod his out moet prominent yiayers—with at one Drawn. player. Morphy mmedately after hie arrival, but voyage scrors the Atisatio bed with bim the faignes of & somewhat affectel y cywotrymeac’s powers, How- ever, & Weer sullloed to reinetate hi bia wonwed hesi'h, and be scored the Anel eight without « break. Mr Owen, genuemen well haowa chess players under the nom d+ guerre of “Alter,” ie ro- garced ag of equa! streugth with Mr Rarnes. Mr Boden Tanks among the first six Esropesn ap Staunton, Anderssen, Key terbraedt, Vow Der Laz wenthall, Harrwits and Bocen—and the observati Li made at the St George's, by & gentiemen weil qualided | to “a that be dic wot thwk anydoty could win from hum (Boden) i such large proportion. Mr lowe @ a5 «ametecr of log stanting, baving breken many @ lance with all the most emiaent tasters of the peat thirty years. and stevacbly m tare player. Mr. Hampton ie the Secretary of the & George « Oud, end, both im his ofic's) and private capaci y hae | shown buneeif av earoeet well wisher to your Country man. Mr, Biro bas the repatation of being owe of the mort brillieat nod tnebiag of Reropesn piayers; but all alike seom to lower their crests to the keigt: of the Creecen! Oty Tos shove games wore merely played for “love” or bonor, seach gertiemas being you may ene)') understend. of tt edveniurer cavers. If 5 to #et oF to rent Dot have felt so piqued. but’ to be confounded Yan. ie wore vhen di again, Pant Mor the chess world until ie not ie flesh and biood to obs are wet at rest by thi r, and it would be difficult ked or adm'red i two conaulte'ion games wih Mr Owen, Mr ti partion ware scored by toe Iatter gen nhing as Lumeroas contests if which Morphy gave greater Of Which be Won, without a single no ving player can give (de oduee @uch fecility a# your coun ryman New York x Boon after Morphy's arrival, he was ¢ colebrates Hungarian, Lowenthal, to play £100 & side, the winner of the rst sive games to be the bas bese The oe one of Your ploughs tura up our fleids, your reaping machines gather in our harvests, English journals send to the Uniied States for printing presses which canpot be equalled hore, your shipbullders have Droken up our veese’s and remodelled the navies of Urs, widelice-= | thas Paut Morphy is the suoeriot of every living | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1858. cities and townt bavo already bogun togwell beyond tuair | horticulture, The most exquis!te flowers ary arrargod in tf il a i i i Ly 5 2 sabe? hil i FERSEYE F| unacoustomed to giving there ouliar odds, The oply way in which I can account for Ris that your Counwymax possesses @ genius for the game—ap intuitive knowledge of cause and effect, com- buwed with a prodigious mem far excelling thing resulting from mere stu : and experience. R am 4 Lona gots bgt Morphy. the mated beaten all bis oppovents in Europe, the least proportion detng three to one; and the former, shows by his ‘back. way dnees in,coming forward,’’ toat he is not very desirous ‘af the encounter. of three to two are freely offered in ye ae pote gta ay jah pin ut [think we Dot auy 'y > cially when he has alrcaay accepted ge chal The Jolene young Paul—or as tho: fall tin bere ‘rom ia courteay to antegonists, and courage over the , “the chivalric” —bas frequently told him, “1 sm: not desirous of playing for any stake, no profeetional i nt ah i ya oad ime to Cnn tend for anything, large or #1 you may 5 faton Is ar tale object, aud Tleave the entire choice of Can any man with common courage If Staunton does, we'll taboo terms to yourself.’” a een he contest? im. Our Paris Correspondence, Panis, August 17, 1858. Moral Retults of the Cherbourg Festivities—he Atlantic Telegraph——Scepticiom of the French Savans—The Paris Conferences and the Danubian Principalities Question— French Opinions on the Right of Search Question—The Pavis Journals on Free trade—The Austrian Ooncordat— A Homily for the Sabbatarians, €c. ‘The festivities of Cherbourg are over, and the Emperor of the French hag succeeded moet perfectly in bis main objcct—to inepire England with @ proper respect for his gevius and power, and to prevent even as much aa & thought of forming another alliance but that of France, No one could be more delighted than he is with the appre- beueione and fears inspired by the oannsn at Cherbourg, tnd no one understands better than ho the economy of boilding fortreases to prevent wars. The only fortress | Engieud posresses coxeists in democratic ideas, of which she is endeavoring, in Europe, at least, to make ; hersslf the representative, and which gives her the | power to create cnemies to every exisiing European yoverument In the midet of them, and in p'aces most fatal to their existence. Against ideas, even fortificatioas, ean- pon and mortars, ere upavailpg; but Eoglend is only & retotler of democratic ideas, most cf which she hereelf enly obiaiwed second hand from America and Fravce. Berides, official England is moro frightened at the progress of democracy than France | herself, aud will always use that weapon (wiih which Caring already threatened the Congress of Vorona), with the extremest caution. So throughly are the iu fugutial classes of Eogiand averse to popular govern- ment, 80 great is their coptempt for the shopkeeper, the mechanic, the journeyman, and that last, bu: most noces eary clement of industry, called the operative, or the mere “band,” that they would sooner ally themselves with the most absolute despotiem then proceed baad in nand with those over whom they have lorded it for centuries. It is easier oven for Russia to coquette with progress in & do- mocratic direction than for Bogland to atopt it otherwise then as & make weight to the machinery of atte, and as & means of raising reveaue. The necessity of raising revenue bas introduced every particie of reform and poli- tical progress that Fugland may boast of, and she intro duced neither more por less than was absolulely nossa- tery to answer that purpose. Even her Iate professions of friendship sod regard for the United States are pothing but an anxious concern for the prosperity of her best customer, cccasionally intermixed with & goverpmental extempore side play, exhibiting the old ochre diseaso, The people of England, that is to sey, the great mass whict neither reads nor thioks, though some of them bave money ‘in the tunds,” bave a notion tbat the Americans are @ disaui connection ‘of theirs, Dut whether cousina er copsina germain, they cannot tell, and the term “‘brethren’’ ia ovly weed by ore tors en a figure of speech. Still, ihere are about a buy dred members of Parliament, and a majority, as I honestly believs, of the great bankers and mercaante, who can read the future, who are asxious to maintain friendly relations with ua, The news of the succersial epterorise of the magneue telegraph, conpecting the United Staks with Grest Britain, producea ao immense effect on tac higner incustrisl clases; an effect euch as n0 American preeent st the time, te apy of the large cities of England ceulG Dave witnessed without beiog proud of Lis desc anc of biscountry. Hoglsmd understands the full value of that success, sad hes bailed it with ac sir of triampa, Bbich, a8 some of the oicest ipoabitants of Londou have assured me, can only be compared to the pride aod exu!- tation with which the island over tlowed at the news of the daitle of Waierion. The ruccees of the wiegraph is the Waterloo of peace, and a ceptal offeet vo ce bugitiauon of Cverbourg; for such that great /éi¢ actusily was, wheo you courider itsorigin and bering. very reileoting Foglishman fell it 80, and it most have been a reliei from the coid formalities of a forme! French welcome, when | the Queen's yacht weat round from ship to ebip in the English ve ‘and silently informed each Brith com mavaer poet the Avaatic telegrayo bad become a ‘fixed fact.’ Here in Paris the news has predused but very littis ef fect, and strange to ray, some very ecientific men still Cour! its feat euccess. They bola that the ninery woolen s the loast thing wil! dawage it, ap@ ioat it will require Constent renewing, Walch will be cOanccted with an immenre wut god gromt practics: difflcuities, Frepeh savans are vadouriediy the best iv formed wee of the world, but they bave not always been happy i» age the practical results of pewly disto- ti ‘The scientific «ommission which reported po ane ph at ny ptirn eka apy Sap benenvaly} og sibility of applying tt sucsesefaily to the propelling of ves seie;and the ol4 Englirh proverb, whice saith that the proo! of the ‘Une eariag thereof, is perhaps ae 00d Be BDY BD: apriont) of ® orin proved by & success! Germany bave at least, a8 Sebillor told thew, p lity Of thinge that were deae; but the Preach obilo. the impowmibility of Mined Bat never mix: that Ihe world bas made a gr civilization, and to mex cetic telegraph, Uke the invonioa of printing mad discovery of tbe Americen comtinent, will mark an era in univereal bistory. The moet perfect political cam has succeeded the poli tical exe!tement at Cherbourg. Paris is co'mg om with ils system of improvement aad embellishment inaugurates by the Emperor, as heretofore, aud the Confereuces for the reguiatien Of the government of the Priacipalitier wil.soon be brought to & close. It ia not likely that these Goptererces will now lead to any serious eompticasion; but thatthe Work now Gone will soon hare to be doas over again, admits scarcely of a ¢oubdt. The five Powors ot Europe who were jointly the protectors of the Daou ; dae ities, do not pail im one direction, and | three of them at least, if not four, have ulterior objects in . What is now simed st is the pacificstion of the and Christians in (hoee cvuntries, which, however, eanily be effected. To uphold the satus of is rot ta the power of Fag! and Fraace, were that teak enurely conG ied to their care. but witb Rasain and Austra pulling ia a different direction, the thing ie altogetber inajce! Pence is not the policy of Roria— at least net any longer than ebe aball need to repair damages and arm for anctaer encounter, while Aus'ria, »a, oompelied they that, the fact is pate: step forward in the great work aod Transylvania, to w than eny ower nation in rope. evors have gone, Austria has got the better of Rcevia, for. contrary to All expectations, the divided government of | there Principalities remains io subsiauce, but whether ly inure to the benefi: of Austria or Ras It is very probabie thet the | | Tf Lord Palmerston bed one, fi Was 009 expeus've to be adopted by bis succersor, or Wo reorive the support uf the Mencnester pariy. Mosnwbiie the Rossing flag, which by the lete treaty of pence was almost driven from the Black Sen, hae made ite appearance in (he Mediterranean, whore Huan samers will Feo ComMpets wita Franch, Holi and Islan, and where Pussian men of-war may fad it a7 pleseent to pass the winwer wonths as at Croneiatt. Tho progress of Rarsia for the lest two years hee beon ina proper direction. Emperor Alexaader |. iooke to the de. Yeiopoment of the internal rerouroes of his empire, after | the mode of the United States, aa the best means of | wtrengtbening his foreign policy ond giving ef fet to bie army aod navy. If asia be | again cniled into the field, she will present | hereelf not only armed she hat nerer | been before, bot in 8 condition which will enable ber to concentrate her {prcee with ease and short time | wherever it odleenry for ‘ner to elle as | avert one. Her polioy cow clearly | comtinente— Pure; wo the mouth of Amoor, o@ strong enough to protect her colonists and merchante against any forciga powor Tnroade op Chins may now be made by her with ths same ‘eane that abe succeeded in dewohing one Tork ish prov. after the other, aod soquir! some of the most valash'e | territory from Persia, Russia is the only Furopsan Powor whioh, by virtue of ber Asiatic possession, her semi Asiatic character, and her vast homogeneous population, | can aasienilate ihe Asiasics whom she may Conquer, aed thue actually substitute Ruropead inatituvions for Asistic ‘ones nations cannot utmost exertion of their power will pevor nesimilete with the Eogleh, | the Ber bartane will mate China nen dertrous of 69 clover contact with Englishmen or French mea. ‘While a4 the Parte Conferences barmooy | now takon @ military vee's, the Nord, the Russian organ va, ha the hay Journal, which is sow Paris three years ago, and it thoroughly meta. mf a ne Com to 1848, find that vast changes have ag>in been introdu: which make the French capi ia Ad Oae thiag only Pgs = re! Ds. five houses and years ago rented for 2,000 fraces, now bring 30,060; tailor’s shops oa the Boulevard des Jtaliens, pay as igh ® rent as 48,000 francs @ year (about $0,600), 2 the question is only to what extent must these men be patronized, aod by waom, to continue to fay such rents? ig a fermi. nus d quo to everything, and eavecially es regards questions of political momy. With all my sivcere t gevernmoat of Fracce, admiration of the Em peror whoee gecius bas introduced tmprovements in every department of sdwiniatration, aca whose force of obsracter and constant vigilance have given to Frauce the ‘most influential poeition among the nations of Lut T ibiok that the floarce deparimect is that which has allowed to go ons if there were no limit to the capacity of men to create wealth, or as if wealth had uo reference to time or space. The property ceatroyed by improve- mente is not wholly represented by the incr>aeed value of the improvement, aud the rive of every species of proper: \y reduces the value of weges in @ much shorter time than weges themseives rise in consequence of the im- provement. We bave had quite a discussion on tree trade between the Didats oud the Constitulsonnel. The Délbats was dis- posed to become the chempicn of the freo trade move ment, while the Cimstitutionnel—true to ita old iasiacis, which, it appears, have but very little differed since the time Alphonse fhiers was convictsi—defended the protective policy. Depend on it the French {rce tradors ure Lot in earnest, and the yyetem has too long Bes.des, not in a conditien to com: To the fre'gnting a the French lishing com- mission bouges in forelyn countries, bul wait uli atrangers come Wo buy or give orcers in France. Thay tre thu ua- able to take advantage of foreign markets,an? the com missions op the exchange Of products are curned almoes exclusively by bet par Toe French are sq mUgh AC customed to ® central administration af thaie yiraics thal thes are eee wi'lipy to leave the regula\ions of trade to the cere of their government, and actually believe that the goverbment can do it effectually. Notwithsiandicg all this, the mooeyed men of France seer t> have less cenfidence in the government than cither the working classes, the peasantry, or the army, and thy French funds have not improved since tho late Paris treaty of peace. Thees are the anomalics to which France is still exposed, and they are esgerly watched by Engisnd It ts the com- mercial claeres of France which are most favorably ais- posed towarce Englaud; but these classér are not heey 2 y existed in France to abolish it 2 la Robert Peel. Frevch commerce is ready to beck their opinions with money The army, peasantry, and .b. clergy of France, bave no aympath tations, ihe bsbite or mancers of the British peope: snd if the Duke of Malakoff manifested a par- ticular pleasure at the worde of peace and muiual good understanding whic flowed from the lips of the Emperor 4 Cherbourg, then you msy depend on fi, ne only acted a part in chat magnificent melooramati> performance, or ex- pressed only bis tadividual aseept, not that of toe army, wboee laurel clad repretentative Le ir. ticers ol the Freoch army wart prowotion, aad promotioa is but siow- ly sttasned in time of peace fhe deciarsicn of Geperal Cars that in reply to Lord er he bad Do proposition to make, but waa ready to leten to and consicer thore 2 Great Brita‘a might make to prevent the oar pationa! tag for pur- poses of illiet trace, ig pot considered hore as re opening the question of the right of cearch or visitation. Englaud, I rasrer think, #1)! not prees the propoeition which she has to make on tha subject, just at is moment, but rawer weit Ull tho feeling produced by ber recea: eoaduct w ward cur ships atd tlag ball have rubsited. Avverica ar- Hugland msy negotiate on that subject, bul the right of search will never bo renewed. An eccies'natica! council ie convoked at Vieune to give eflect to the Ime esncordat coneluced by Austrie with 110 Pope. Tote is done et the request of his Holivess, who, it seems, is not eatsted with tbe qauner in which we pro- visions of the copcorda’ ere carried into ctiec! fhe ut most (he Emperor of Aurtris, Fraacia Joseph, is raid to be | Willing $0 couces is “freedom of the church withia the | views and purposes of tbe Sate.” ne couceil will ve hela soon. ° The Exmoperor’s fite op the 16th was a very splendid affair, ed parsed eff wih all the decorum aad order whict mark theae celebrations in France The most curions cir- cumetance on grand cecssions of this nature im thia coun- try in, really, the itivle that {t seems neccesary to do for the peop evjcyment ond the general arrasgemen’ thar all sbel! aberwin from labor Tbe aaimral gaisty of the pation al cbarscter is of itself almost eutirery sufficient. There are to be svdu (roe theatres, all apecvcks being gratoitously thrown open, aud It is amusieg to seo the Lence which the working ciasses exhibit to re entry, taking their ¢ianu at the door loug belore the 0; ing. are sho: ides, and the ogsin at the Parriere du Tren There are tumb'ers too, aod mouatebanka everywhere; but the section of the populace which avails iisell of these acotesories is very insignificant as compared with the im Mckee Megecs Which derive their evjoy mont from simply finding themee!vrs abroad in holiday gard, walkiog, chat- | ting, riding or sitting with thoee they lowe. This ie the en tho most magnifcout file to me ut M i one that the mied loves to | cwel' on,for it it both pleasing snd instructive. It reade | = lewroa to America aud England waiea bo coun- tries would do well mark, learn aod inwsrdly di- fest.” Itehows that with all onr boasted reformation there must De remetaing yetten in the State, when tn Pro- testaat courtrien epjoyment is insaparadie from debauch. | Here is a mighty capital into which from all parts 0! the | empire are cally emptied the foulest spirite; bebod it oa | w Sabbath day! Theatres are open gaieriss aud extit- tions 00 ail hands inrie you to enter, resiaurants wear their most attracitve livery. Yor will be booked, con- ‘ounded, apd inquire: Is not thie the Lora’s Day? Yee, you will Lage gen acey <— relaxation, a? well es prayer: we tie day! Sow go through this beli-cocmed city, where, to your mivd. the Devil reigns @upreme, seerch its ourlieus, go beyond its bar- Tiere. and whist do you ree the poople doing? Are they Grupkards’ Are they relicking it unseomiy amatory strife with their sweetheart’ Do they ¢xhibtt any one of the external ine'gnia of debauchery’ Ix there a loud ory, ® rode py*b, a vioation of acy of the cmrmances de wciett? 1 aivewor: For any ene of thexe things you will show me I wi! show you twenty thousand io London, and aa many, In peporiion to ite population, im the most God ke, Sabbata obeerving of \merican cities Cur Madrid Correspondew Manuin, Augest 14, 1968. Movements for an Imprevel Organization of the Liberal Party— Interesting Inciinis of the Queen's Visit to Lem—Effect of the Fiench Paxport System on the Spa- nish Pronticr—Sule of the Ancien! Munda—Ourious His torical Invertigati m— Progress of Material Improvements ard Government Reform: in Spata—Singular Narra (ive—the Story of Monee Christo Realized — Multiplication of Roiirrad Pr jects and cther Speculations ~Spanish Church Intolerance in the Liandsin the Gulf of Guinea. ise that the Dake of Vicvoria, that ancient patrlot who wes surprised two years azo by ("Donnell in his poll. tioal career at the head of the covermment, and driven out from |! tbat be bes lately bad an interview with some of the leading liberals of Spain with regard to futare party im provement. The agitation a! some of the towns conse- quent upon tbe preparations (or election to the Cortes pave. Degun to be felt at large. The interest, however, of the country is upmistakeably engrcseed by material affairs, such as running eleamehipe and, above all, railways. A journey to the const by the railroad is now the farhion, az ‘weil a8 the prescription of the facuity for the cure of every ip trmity. The prescription given m all cases, with the cer. tainty of the one that came from Sangrado is, ‘fourteen tea baths” and the entire comt of going and coming, and taking in that amount of health, ia set down in the phar. macopia at Afty dol’ars just. The enjoyance of the dose jutt now, is in the paracieo of the world, Valencia, among Moorish turrets, and groves of olive and orange. To sees this gay world, and t look upon the sea, for the first time for many, s bo little thing. The old pleture, the an- cient heirloom, which the cold of winter and severe want could no} drive lie Owoer to take from its ancient nail, yields to the tempiation of the modern summer, aod is sol t—a venerable Van lyck, a suspected Murillo, the Mater Dolorosa, Even the curate, never believed to have done wrong, is thought to have exchanged for a consideration to 0 bo Sait Datbing, & real Zudarae in the sacristy (or an imi- tation and copy by the execrabie and never-to-be cursed sufficrentiy, Giordano. This # the madness here aow thet rules the hour. ‘The progress of the Queen in her pilgrimege to the northern parte of Spain affords a strong contrast to the pomp of movement and applianoor attending just now the sovereigns of Pogland and France. She goes in four wheeled vehicles to visit the shrines of the sainte and beroes of the oldea time; there are the glories of modera improvememt, with only some aifectation of the past. No guards surround or protect Ioabel Il; ebe ia in the midst of her people—they speak to ber and she to (bem. In prosing through the province of Leon ehe visited the greet altar, and prayed foro time before the silver urn that for fonrteon centuries has held the asbes of Isidro, the patron aint of Madrid, inseparable from her boy, the Trine of Asturias; and thence she tarned her siepe to the ancient Pantheon, the resting place of the Kiege of Leon—Alonzs 1V., the monk, of Re miro I1., of Ordono Ili., of Baacho 1, and many who have ‘snd climbiog poles oe the Place dea | bol « peme except in the hearts of Spaniards, nor a memo rial beyond the wormy vellums of the monastriss. The names of ladies, better known through romance, are those of K.vua, Urrace, Ximerra, Zaida—Queens of casiles &.0 kingdoms, that are sometimes provinces and ofven le 6 then connties now The primiiveness with whion the royal cortége has been met bas given a grest charm to in- Cidente otberwiee uninteresting, and the bearty manifos- tations of love bave in many instances affected her We Jeety to tears, In the same kingcom of Leon the party * wes greeted by «@ dozen litile girls, im the dross of tneir country, repreecuting as many towns, who presented gifte w the young Pricce, The one from Murias brought, butter from ber cottage, singing her couplets; the owe trom Valencia, honey ina jar; trom Or vigo, igen; frow Sehegun,a lamb; from tne flocks of Kino, o white kid; Trem whe wilo cliffs of Villefranos 8, fawn; and so 00 (roo Leon, Astorga, Laveciila and Banezy. She of Pooferrado oe iu the spirit, but wita noose of the rvagaarss of At morn I left the distant sill ‘To bring tis LiMle basket bore— An off'ring from our provy fii! , And nove more riob can any bear. Our pebbles thera bave yielded these—~ These apriga of gold which bare I bring; Recetye tis homage—Let it please— For thou wilt need it, little King. Thotr Majesties, traceported witn deign', diracted all theee little teetimonia.s of macny and respect to 98 taton core of, 80 charmingly presen! by the young sheperd- ceses. Tne requirements impesed by the Freneh governm:nt wuh 10 passgorts, Bince the faqous atiempt to taxe the life of the Kmperer, have bad We effect, so far, to de- creaee toa most serious extent ‘ureign travel inw France and the sate of its manufectures. In leaking to that meare for salvation, the view was undoubiediy takoa which absorbed toe attention of the devotes, who, ia tovs- ing to the croga, observed with eatiefaction Mat it wae of tuver. the great preventive has been found fraitful ta iuoome, Dut is found also to have the unfortuaate qnality detected in the Dianket by the Irishman, oamely, that in removing ove fart to supply what he thought ornt nyprat to the head, be wok away that whick was directly neces sary for the covering of the feet. The rovenae proposed, it Sppears, canust Bo raised without a correspon ting an’ even greaier amount of loas wo the country rom the in juries sustained by indvstr's! erd Gotmeroial intoresta. tt Can bardly 09 Ca'culeied with what hezard of kivgtom end Imperial biood this liberal closiag of the eye of tho French frontiers is attended; suffice it say, that purcty for the public accommocation, a Consul was placed at Irup, the Jast Spanish town on the interior tiave! to the orth, thus caicbing accidentally the latest dripping from this couphy. From this tax the expensive and hospitabie dipiomatic csiabligbment at Madrid ic kept up, aniine copaulaies throvgkout the country are pain. Under 'he preeeure of this real or pretended fear fur the life of N poleon IIf., the city of Metz is found so far to suffer from its effecte as to have ventured to put in cir- cwation ® petition fur signature, asking ithe ra Yaxation cf the rules existing im respect to pase- ports, they being found prac ically to produce such ‘a dim*nution Ip the pumber of etranger? resurting to that ciy as must prove fate: to the indueirial uedertakings Which grew Up in times Of leas reatrained iniorastionsl communication. The Royal Academy of History bar cffored a prem{un of $000 for an essay Wat sbat! set forth ine site of andien\ grouna whereon was ‘oughs toe batt giver by Hircio and Dion surements mude sud directions and distances Considered-— go to show so many contradictions and impoesbiities in sbe many authorit’es, that what bas veen something like ep arcient tracitica until now, bas come to be doubied and almoot dwregsrocd Some find tho spot ia Ronda, and others lock for is tp she provisce of Oordova, rather taaa iu that of Maloga. [ho matter is of curious merert ia tao history of tbet surping polo! im ine a of mankind, and {tw eatd that vem of the mont loarcet of Spaia have entered into competition forthe reward There are cx plorers already, it is «ald, gotog over the country, giving te subject the moet exec! ecieatide a'tontioa So broad a fleld vestigation way necessarily Ax som? ower sites aod citlos 0: ancient renown. the positions of which are | ofteu made to fit (his or that Tui, of at best some vague tradition or uvconsidered authority ‘The reforme and changes wace by the new government give surprise very general satisfactian. Tae new Mayor of Madrid, the Marquis of Vegas ce Armij>. very pectec!y made au enrly cal: the otver morning st the > Hospital. Io a very unvent! mspser, for so grea! a be went personally about to examine the condt- He first tweeted the different food orepared da, cansedghe quality of the salt tobe texted, ard sent a wemple away for ane/yats, examined (ne m0-8 yoom nd locked pro ‘Thence ne wout to tne dicit g ree, and directed that open Detereon tt ihe dormitories ehculd be fortnwito perosceatly cloeed. Bie won very much scandalised a: the lururions state of the wash rooms, lined with tiles 0° Cains, the tables of jasper, aod supero looking giasses, while he fouad the bed cietbes io asked bow often the intter were change? every three months or thereabouts, og aoeonat of the high price ona great rearcity there wae of linen. Finding ia ibe infirmary that the old and young were lodged wgstber, be commanded that they bv separa’ed, and for the purpose he directed this ball at ones to be divided intotwo. Od- serving COA Some Of the little children had wore eyer, he | orderea that they should be k Apart from tne others | ard washed at separate places. ving that many were Dereteatec, be looked into theebtate of tho department weere the alpargatas were mado, and discovered oue caure Gt the insuflicieasey Of the supply was ® want of the materials to toake them. Locking « Little further tute tae shops, he fovnd them badly conducted, and directed, for | the better supply of moceraities, that they should bo made visowaere. Finwly, be gave orders that e large bathing Tom be eowstrucied, to be enpplind freely trom whe water just brought to the city by the complevon of tha canal of Toavetia I], and thats plao be directly drawn of tard sabmitied to Dis iHSpection | Ie acy other coucisy than Spain the etory I am aout to tell would apprar to be @ romacce, but here where porbirg os strat ge, avd where eve the occurrences of the bour sre colors contwually with Oriental Lebt, potoing is rare and few (bingsetarvie Ia the year 1424 there went w Nebelca a Commissioner of Aprea os, Wao hai some alfex of gellavtry with a insic of that pince. Ik was the cocssion Of & difficulty between bia aud turee young fri- lowe ©. SbOUL sevoutes years Of age, in Whied, beyoud wo walls, Ue stranger was left fees. fhe uggroaeore taapaged for atime to crnoral themselves, two of them floalty giving themselver 0 justice, secused their com panion aa being the cause of the Geata, and were tried and acquitted. The circumsteuce bed paged away catirey from tbe public mind, until the oluer day a gen tloman of Madrid, well ¥nowe a8 @ jovraslist aol for the bind) 'cees of hip Oispoeiton, Was Bt Nobeida, nea he was tola the story, and in Comfi¢spee, that the third youtm bad biteken Bimeetf toa vault, where, completely without ght sud nearly without wir, he bad continued ever since, maintaieing bimneif ane those dependert on him by Dis labor, sna that bia name @as Josgaia core. appeared ‘nthe cod that he Gad aiodeo bimvel, fo tha: piace direst upon the communion of th» mercer, apd net hing ef. \erwards \0 Move away ad leave Dis parents, Who were gettiog Oi, abd two misters younger than bimeri{, he bad conrnued there and them by tne making of contections for a period of nearly thirty years At the closs of about twenty cers tare roms sea only ene weter acd bimeeif, bus he ae remensd, and preferred to cloee bis lite where #0 Jong @ period of it haa aiready Deeo epent. His wnind, so tar from oaving become ascotic, bad petumed a soft tranquility, od dis lolure boura be nad omployed im acquiring Freceh, the study of biatory aad other crasches of learping. This a%0vuot, with some ofbor particu are of the case, baving Deon padiirne tin the jourcaia the other cay, the gentiomaa referred to, Jaaa Rico y Amat, bas come outMunder Deown signature, and aller rectify ing Rome miselate Dene, gives the sudsance of the above, and sods as follows:—"*foat model of piety ‘and resignavion hae not Desa parioped aa it im stated, Dut Mecharged (rom be ancient com) imiat by the Autisacia at Valeocia, confirming in that the decision of @ lower iribu pal, It may be ead that bis pardon wae obteimes, Dat aa be bad never bees conaomucd, the words are no! jastl My irien?, Don Jore Sirera, being No- year 1858, be heard by an are ¢ by Soria, and watursily mov fad a tae, at the Oourt, bat consequence of the violent civil broil wat took 286. Weng myselt in the Province of atioanw er, the facts were told 4 { directiy hpeteoes to the retrost of tois unfortenste nh ote . Posi aad communicative, in no Way desirous of returning to te which, fortenetely for him, he bat never known. 8 @0u! had learned from siacy aod labor that w iy which the world i# api to texea by saifer ings at the price of tex: He catered thet uhiety, yeare ago, ® Youth of geventoen, bis lonks ble ence in the forty seventh year of hie age with white hair, His heart war then full of bopes and sions which have forever vanished, but be has consolation hat (hey have not beea stricken dowa by the hand of realty. Hew macy, many there are ia the world who might wish they hed passed the life of Jos quia Soria. 1 conclude,’ says the wrier a) the close of bis note “by giving you thanke for the favora>ie rotice (p bis peme and for myself, and to the learned Jatge, Doo Aptonio Alix. for the hate toes he hae mate 2 this cease, ard the humane corsiferations be has sliowed ty wegen in favor of the recinre, apd also to ths superior tribonal which, m permittpg Josquin Soria to go free, ae cxpsalted the true eptrit of the lew aod the seat! mente of baraeaity.”” At Macrid no persons of Bote are to be found at p-e<ent, except the cfiicere of government and two or threo Fore gn Winieters. Perects of the highest fashion are for too mort pert at Paris, or at cool spots among the I's rences. Cue crops of toe year—all kindé—wili prooably be abun jant , tho fraita of the season are in groat variety, and plenty everywhere, Here, where everything i* dear damon plome Rnd green kages are al flye Canis the por peaches from Zargaza, equal to tho Dest, ix con and grapes, the on! ute from the cog? former four cet inting two # F aterm: ‘ons sad musa melons alcne two and three tunes the price of grapes by Weight. Oranges sat ports are also ia plenty, but few sold. It is impossibio to opeak of the quantity of fruit that je daily consumed : the 9 popu ation, pnd partioviariy the lover orders. appear to live exclusively poo it, ana perhaps it ia the cheapest as ae their healthiest food for the sesson. Every place, street corner and square is filed with every morning from the country, aot put in baskots, pan- piers, under speda on the ground, ‘apd in bins; and large an the amount Is, it Is nearly ail sold before midnight, This season continces @ long time —throughout all the warm weather—the fruit by the dryness of the cli- mate, which permite nothirg readily to decsy. Melons, pears and egranates shrink and ory; grapes gradusily become raisins on ihe branch; and figs, if all ywed to hang, reman n the same wey preserved. Nove appear imper- feck none bitten or pecked by bird or bug. The liveliest interest contincea to be fait for the rapid coont; nction of ra:ireads; lavorers aa) money are jo plenty eherover there is work amd confidence. The structures of this fature in progress are exiersive, and on this acconat in ayear or two moro, will add greatly to the value of coudtry property avd tho general prosperity. The wane qual prices of articles of consomption, particularly be- tween points of the interior, because of the expense of transportion, are almost incredible, The railwaye will ev0n equalize the values and supply definonoles, Some encievs limie. ihe walls bout Alicante bave just boon or to 1 thrown do+n. Some of the bast private residences at Madrid are beyond #hat wero its barriors t 70 or three yesrs ago. Lands at large are sougot be brought into cu'tivation Dy exten ive systeme of irrigation; the wa ere of the dalyuiver, itts thougtt, may be most pe en ape | used in this way, aud studies are Dow making by under the air ment, to arcertain the practical ‘there @ pow weakh ead a young coergy iu per bape wed by the aisiripution ia some part of she luadle tracts bewoxing to the crowa, now idle aud The patrimony of the Queen of spain is groser IF princes op carih, but the ivooms is smal atus, Spain; for & secular purposo das given evident pleasure to some OF the liberal journals, which are Dot #8! al) dolicate im Calling the atloation of the coprorvanive and Catholic people t we fact, sekipg, with | crisz, to be diractea tO a source of comvstent relief. Discusion, revuvlican paper, gays, wich a wink:— Work co festivals! Chat appears to we to De & great aiz—one that only can be redesmed by the absola- lion of a Bshop The prociewation made by Commander Don Carlos Chacon, cp the occasion of his taking possersion of the great by, islanda in the Gait of Guines, bas beep published here | trom the lish, in whoa lapguage it was issuod, pro- bibiting (yer of woy religion but the Roman Getno- He or Apcetelic im the colony of her Majesty, being For- panco Po, Anpabon and Cortsco. Though belonging to Spam—bougat by ber trom Portage! —tv000 inauds nive been for many yeara iu the 3.00 of tbe Englieh, sad wcotsiderable population ef c'v lized blacks Bave cottied Upon (bem, she most of them of the Baptist persuasion Tae fo the iebahitavts, aud that fast has wiforded av opport: nity to the liber) jouroais bere of attacking she tnt iauce of the edict, pot pecavee it 's wot tw unizdo with in structions or the concordat existivg with the love, whereby the domaine of Spain sbal be Catholic ovly, or the copatitution, if {t could be known whic of the several instruments thet besr tost name is tn force, but because of the ipability of te government, ‘should its officer be disobesad, to put the requirements in force without very considerable disbursements aad the employment of sroops that the couniry capaot well spare: becaune If the present people are drives away thera ‘will be noue tc take chélr places; Span‘ah colonists hay. ing to be for lorg timo supportec at groat erét there, when their services wovlt be more needed at home, acd because the ieee of the whole scheme of tak.ng po cession there, with four Jeeuite and a Governor, is of a doubtful polly, aud at best dictated by toe hope only of aremote good. Cue mat- ter bas thus given the jioers: journals a covir from which they cau attack @ poiat they would mo: find it convenieat otherwise to oppose opeuly, They are wiands, they asy, of which we bud nu thought whee these two celebrated ipatruments were draws up cvir which we bed the right of cominton it Is true, Jeb otbere haa colunize*,a a Degan to civilza—trl Age is NOL epoken ano Whore the inpubitants are tt) Of Delong to the Angiieay eburch, Ube Occtdente of us Th Avr apmomness the arrival at Osledo £f tna Condéeq Torrens, we Gerorel Kor do 0 05 public business, aud Gee "ige, he Aweric: - Ur, en route to jo the royal pany ie its pilgtimage to the’ Virgin of Covadonga Tus rane paper onees tbe news of the sudder demise of the Psizcors Gallitzen, the wife of the Kossiad Sinieter to Spa'u, whose sump {uous entertainments are eiegmat hosp itulities last winier werd be af miretion of Kacra The Clamor Publico in aubsiance thes doscsats on the | positions of Great Britain snd Spain to cach uther as to ibe woseure of their greiwuds, of the'r lutwerts aod Jnstory during the cectary. [tis @ (sir specimen of tho epirst of the press bere with regard to (ust couatry The English gcveroment not only bas no ground for Dt ope'aat Spelo, but she owes ber gravtude for supe ard just; while for more than ove buadrea indebted to ber only for injuries rea ana filty yease cpoie Great Britsin bes long occupied the Span'eh post of Gib raitar, woence she fh n bor smug. rics = In 18) loom, and aflurded & eid wWhercon they might 6 Britain would Lave scocum ‘owere, How baw g Oud endoNTEy oR Bains’ tbe metro rcillau gove w orger zo Statee. Ucn 80 Darped m refusing to envoy to ik sentative of a P lowerlog of the Lord Welltugton drought abc preferred against the Fieucd for injuries dene to us, par bepa in her good «fMicee te deiral toe inverion cf i643: or Derbaps i the ipfluence she has been aed tv exert ia our politics! alfaire, alternately abantontog or eapporting this or that party. ‘vivite that ber cruizers meke to oor Vessels, in te liege! prizce ot them that are mede, wheroy sve hes macaget until cow to keep down our commerce with Africa We bave friepdepip, warm feeling and admiration for the generous, active end intelligert English poople, but with ‘Une government we re ever incigoaut for the city end perfidy it eo ofko shows to Spain. Whatever the dimes nowapaper mey please to sale, if itis toe interest of Eugiand to protect cur i#land, thas government will ¢o to; if itehoule not be ao for ber maleris! r totereste, alt the considerations of lo y end decorum wi not be enough to command that pratec tig. Spain will pever trust sny vatica to mato good ber rights iz what ts jartly bere. The reason that we bola Cubs today, notwiv language of the Jimes end of Lora Malme. ‘s because we mi + by canncn and bayor heavy cetences; becavse it is ia the pwsen bative berp, who look to their properties thas they not de & rp From them by lilibusteroe, eavege or civil We value moat highly, and ever sell. toe fi And tho sympathice of tor great Brith public for own: bu! We can never hold ihe eame regard for the pro- 6 tecticn of a povercment thet hae acted for eo long s time tuence of fear; that inavita We wirong, avd s Detore whom she fee's that sbe is weak, that dares not Lift her eyes in the presence of Anglo America. nor utter ore word tbat shall raise @ feeliog ia the breast of Broa. Forte, oat to the extent even of t faction upon Neplel eo weak wita should be uatted by »ped that into ther that feeling in the net with regard to Spaio, and Yalxesbury, is wothing elee tae Hon of the Arveri¢ay people: wt the More than & question of cotton and a ques. roger, obited to & mont pitta anoe of the true state of Europe, from woich @ comy on of povlic alfairs may Bt acy momen Brive, io which Spaie i a great Power, must heve her weight a8 ore whict cau 23d $00 ,(CO men into the frida. Our Berlin Correspondence. Berwis, Auguat i7, 1868. Queen Vicdoria at Petslam—Inieresting Description of the Palac: of Babelsberg—Horticultural Cu-fed' Wavres of Prince Packler Mutkan—Piret Visit of the English Queen © Berlin—The King of Prussia’ Aralth—The Late Fenda in Suicsia and Saxony— Exienvie Destruct m Of Property—Iligh Handed Measures of the Prussian Authorities Against a Naturatized American Citizen, de The arrival of Queen Vicwrla at Potedam took place rather later than was expecied, owing to her bavicg pare oda night at Dusseldo~:, instead of travelling straight on w Hanover. On Thuratay evening the whole pypulation of Potadam was in motion, pouring out to tbo railway ter. minus where the fathers of the city and a whole posse of officials were in waiting to receive the Island Queen. Se- vera! bours elapsed, however, withont the expec’ed vir. nal being given, and it war not till peer balf-part also that the telegraph announced the departure of the royal Wwein from Brandenburg. The Princess Frederick Wililan drove ont as far as the Wild Park station to meet hor pa rente, and accompany them back to Potecem, wlers they arrived at five minutes past ten amid the cheering of tus acscmbled spectators, whose hurrahs complotely drowaed the sounds of the military music that commenced playing @) econ af the train hove in sight. [t const ed of seven beggace wagons, three passenger cars, aad the royal salocn carriage, in whieh the tllustclous visitors were seated. the terminus the Queen was received by ail ‘he members of the royal family of Proseia who bad ‘not joinea her on the road, and afer # short laterval they ontered the royal cquipages to proceed to the palace of Rabelsberg. Quern Victoria was in sn open chaise, with the Princess of Promia and the Princess Frederick William followed by the Prince Consort, the Princes of Prucata and Prince Frederick Williem in a similar vehicle; walle the other princes and princosess their suite brow ht up the rear, preceded by outriders with fambeanx, and attended by a military escort, Ata quarter to eleven a rigna! gan gave notice of their arrival at Babvelrberg, aod the crowd then gradually dieperned, delighted with having seen tho Queen, who appeared in excellent health ant spirits, and replied very graciously to the vociferous choors tha saluted her as she presed slong. The visit of the Queen of England will not bo solernized by any pubile diepinys or court festivities. In lieu 0 thewe the {iaatrions guests will oojby duriog their stay at Pabelaberg the undisturbed bappiners of a family moeting ami¢et the lovely scones which the beauties of the surrounding londecape dincloaes to them. The palace of Tabeisberg was erected about twenty ive years ago by the late King Froderick William Tif, for his second sou, the present eof Prossia, by whom it has been great. ly ‘proved and beautified. The park covers about 909 org®; and even Rngiand, #0 femous for her noble parks sodjereant inno cat bardly boact of a more finished " of orvamental gerdening. The growna rises from the river in a picturesque ascent, above which i teen the palace, whore, the Prussian banner fying tbe central tower, denotes the presence of the owner. It fncce the south, and affords & superb prospect over the ently inclining Inwn encircled by the fincw trees, aod Slop g down towards the deep blue waters of the (accuse Noting move piasing ome Be Vian thie river, stedced with pails and. akite, aad qittoring In the raya of the fae 4 yerrace in fren) of # hoe "pe poegestot by © de cines Veretorbener” (“Tat famous (or bie taste tn 1 gard to Packer, autber ct ube «Briere {ets of & Getmac Prince”), who is pop course Of the Commendans bes given great dlasaiisfaction May be, we snould look for it 1a the | tanding the melerly bumbles herself . ewe! parterres rub! © toe front of the duliding; tboueands of Meare, toe mont megaitooat gradations of Gulor8, Deauti'u! lobeliiag, verbouss, aud whatever olse the weason and the art of gurdeving can produce, are unired in els t varieiy—the plactstians intersected wits five gravelle that traverse the ground: ia every Tear ef ths palace ie sa aveoue of old called toe ‘Linseus of Voltaire,” trang. v here from Sanssousi ia 1848 avd ‘49, and ‘overtooking the ball aad havqueting saloon, which ie ‘Dw lt ip the medieval siyte of wagnifisence, Lower dowa there ia ibe marbdie ‘byet of ine lave Queea Louise on ao lofty pediment, simost hidden by au over- Tanging »eb, and from hevce fliwer parterres of wi porrme huss are again visible, including roseries of the moet delicae acd unique epectes. Tae wore Gietant poriions of the park are a» less ariistically {wo oui then those in the immediate vicinity of te palace; picturengue vistes openicg from various poifia, eape- ly ‘rom @ tower at the aouthweavern extremity froat- the Havel and tbo oily of Potsdam Tuis wwer, | wo'ch ts 160 oF 270 feet in hoight, is complecely sur- | rounded by water, sad connected with the ined | bya drawbrid Toe summit ig adorosd with four small | wuerets, in the middie of which rises vho figure of an enor- | mous eagle (be Prussian arms); aud either irom thence or from @ gavery that ruve around the tower, about half ‘way up, you have a epiendid view of Potsdam, Gheneske, | Novares, and tbe wooded beights that extend as far aa , the eye can reach, end amorg which the Havel and ite iekee glioma like sparkling gous in & dark robe of verdure. | On Suacay moroing the two privc:pel churches in Pows- dam--tne garrzon cuurch aud the Friedeorkriecho—pre- rented av uousval spevtsc'e. they have generally but very ‘lender congregations, the icbabitanis of Potsdam beg vs remarkable for their anti-cnurodguicg proponaikes as their pe'ghoors ia Berlin; bn? ov this covasion they wore both filed 10 overflowieg, not,law afraid, from any feel- leg of Cevotion, ous mw expectation of the Queea of Eogiand’s atl nGing a! One of these places of worsvip. It appears her Mnjosty prefered tbe garitsen church, wb'ch covtalas the mausolcums of Frederick the Great and his fataer. ‘The ret of vhe party that arrived there wore the Prince and Princess Charles, and Prince Aloert aad bis sou, fol- ra, Aud olbEer Meaberd Of the Queen's retial gi 4 ltaey haa Alrendy Commenced when two royal carriages | drove us to tae church doors, im the firstof whica was | sewted Queen Victoria, the Prisoe of Prassia, and Price | aod Princess Frederick William, and in the second the | Princess of Prussia and the Cousort. Tasy were received by the Governor of Potsdam, the To Chief of Potice, aud a pamber of roval clay conducted to ‘two pews set apart for tl ncurebold, the iadies Occupy ing one aud the gontie! } other, while the gaileries were thronged with officers and soldiers = La gh Seger gee A papel Rata eating clergyman, Dr. ing, preached a very fron au the parable of the Pharisee and the publican, but I belive the congregation were more engaged ta leoxing at tas Queen than in atsending to the lessoas of holy writ. Outwaidly, bowever, the strictest decorum provailed, the royal party seiting @ laudable example in this respset. Ox leaving the church the ilius:rious yisivers Wore Qra'a esluted with loud buzzas as they deova Ceriuas te parien and across the bridge that leads to lace of Berelsberg,whero ‘bey spent the reat of the day cn famille. Stoce the arrival of the Queen the bee gardoce at- teoved to the palace heve been oloved to the public, which: has cansed some disestisfaxtion. Yeater lay Victoria paid her Grat visit to the oapiial, ad- compavied by ber busband and dauguyer, ard a! (bp reat | cf thersoily, Ber chief bdjeci, it secms, was bo luspect | the pa sce totended for the twa revideace oF Prince Fre- ; Gerick Willian and his young snd whiod is pot yet qu ie Gpiehed, elihough they beve been working ut & for the leet two years. It not belong gonoraliy kuown het abe was coming to Borlio, toere wore only a few groups of Idlers aseem dled, aud the royal cortege passed Aong al- | mel unnoliced until it reached the Prince of Prussia’a palace unter der Linden, when & dense cro@d collected, aod ber Majesty appearing on the balcouy, was greeted | with the livetieet Semonstrations of oothuziasm. Uafor- tus ata.y the weether, which a. firs} bad been rather tae, | gore became decidedly unfavorable, and afcer one or tw | pregaratory ehowers it dually began to rain cats aud dogs, arerehieg the epeciaiors to the edie ana sendiog thon fiy- ing in every direction. Iu short i as 8 reguiar ‘“Queon’s ore thonge sheir oiowe carriages wnat bays soya! party from tne pelling of the pitiless storm, rvet Daye oven giad enough wheu they got back to | lowed by Lord Malmesbury, Seorerre of State for | aflaire they Bate oburg ibe iwet coc unig from Vegerasee concerning tho King’s hea'lp mye rachor more encouraging, Sod hopes are ovem hei’ out test be will reiare wo Saus-Souci towards we end | of the mouth, im order to te ait Kngliab gueets before | Weir Copariurs No doubt it must be extremely mortify- ing {cr bim vot to be abie to recsive Quoea Viccoria on her ‘Vine to his captel, and pethape b's paysicians may have 1b. ugh) the wexauon cocaswoed by 8acd & dwappotiniaeas more irjorteus © hig thea the exctemeat of the meeting. Nevertaciess, from al! [ bare heard hitherto of his state © ming, T ara till tnciined to be sceptionl as to the trave of (hi* report, Withough Ik Procseds (rom & source which ix joo of correcs intormatton upon every- Tae late flo apicned iramaare loes of property fo tiles, Thurivgier, the Hartz mousteing, she Prucsian ducay of Paxoy, and eapscw'ly io tae kwgdom of thas pame. It is not uous! for 16 weters to rise so nigh Gariog the summer seavoa ; when there have been grea; inwu- davions they Dave generally taken place in tho spring, afer he melliog of the snow in the mouatains. This sum- mer, however, ater a jong continued drought, beavy | Tain eet io thas lasted four days apa nights without iatermis- | blow, strowg gales Dicwing ibe thuader clouds from une | plaine te the bigher where they discharged their contents. There w a chain of mountains called the E-zgo- lirge, forming the froatier betweon Saxony aud Bohemis, | 806 extending into Silesia, the mosi elevated point whereot | tt ebout thrce thoasand five bundred feet above the level | of the sea. Many small rivers bave their source ia these beigbty, and wWough of litte secount ia geveral, they ewe ap ito respectable streams when several of them unite in their course towards the valley. The chief of theve rivers are the Malde, the Pleisse and | sho later, in cagony; the Neisec, the Queiss and the Bodu, im Silenia; Desices mountain torreots and hivalets too £vmercus to mention, which are almost cry ju the guemer; but now, fed by the incessant rain, over- owed (heir banks o ail sides, carrying sand and’ rocke cow to the deids and submerging the crops of greta and Poteiocs, which 19 many parts bare been entirely de- Tne cities ot Zwiokau, Ch: ncipal Sufferers from ois the watery element. ru , Maite baving riseo Bfieen fect la one wight at Zwickea Bod to the adjowing goun' AL oy were flooded; anh at inbaoitea by upwards of tri raiiroad from Drveden via Leipsig to Glanctaa, fol Givision Of equal séretg’D. ao } parte ire trains wes teiegraphet beforerand, 0 tat every thing might de ready on the railroads to for- ward them without loss of ime They arrived in time P saye the lives of toany of = See. whoee oumes were raept away oF top. 0 by ihe ragiog floods; bot the majority ef them lost all thelr favirg potticg but the clothes Onemirtz ano the adjacent 5 i fi HH i i i mous; irou were ket pisces ang highways tguo sated, the appearance of uy Wwe Churches and larger buildiogs Greary waste of waters. The wero Wkewwe flooded by a sntaall Weiseen 2, that empties iteelf into the Erbe, loaees were by quactiies of bein, ‘away fom the mines in the Piavensche Grand. It forvupaie the embank mets of the. reliways stood it well, and thus effurded means of lendiag aid to the over- flowed disiricts; evem they, however, were brokea throogh in rome places, but repaired again with all paset- bie expedition. From Gowliz, m Siesia, thoy report we river Niet#e Bed riven to an unprecedented height, covering all the low lands ap the viciniy; villages were weder water, & der Of cattle wore droweed in the stables and the post roada in that direc ton being f-oded, the Communication was com terrupted, lo the Hartz great loss of iife property was coctpioned by a litle mountain aiream—the lise— swelling 10 @ rushed lowe ii 5 i i i ree i i village of Iweoborg i@ an old stone bridge, although * | tte damaged, was Mill couvidered many spectators tock (heir stand oa It to conte mp fearful vut tsjestls spectacie around mg hy before dark, the bridge being undermined by the action of the roshieg stream, tho structure suddenly gare way snd susk cows inte tee watery chasm, burying im tte ruins eight bamen beings whom were several Young females whose caricaliy ved them to ihe soone of disaster. ‘The inévetrious mavufasturing town of Chemintz, whiot ‘ban suffered #o much (rom the inundation, containg about forty tncusand itliaditente, and is (he onief em orm of the cotton manufacturing in Hexony, whieh has ad increased sirce the adhesion of that kingtom to the vorein fhe spinning milis in the clty and vicinity are about one bapared in numbder, with housand tpin- dles, which consume inore than fifty thousand bales of cotton wool, besides twenty five thousand cwt of Englieh cotton twist for The swoktog frames emount to twenly seven thousand, ce million dozen of cotton hosiery arnually, of which {s exported to the Uninet Statens: and ing of Worsted, cottoe Bad elk fa>ricn Oocupses ADOU threw thonaend looms. The loea rustaived by the water mills, dams and bridges being ig od aS pe Sere ed uate Reena. oo poor Abe\r , by the Inet accounts, the waters were ing to je, and it} wae hoped that in asbert every’ world return to ite former routine. Giauchan itnow raoke third in bir of Westpbalia, the fatto: jeden, In the province ' my She Feo. tay cen te ropotted, wien tay hot be tninteresting to ‘our Gorman readers, A Dr. Herts ery, who hat formerly ha at the grammar choo of that city, aud had emigrated to America in 1861, returned there the other day ip order to eettie some family aiTaire, Timmer. bie arrival be ae #ent for by the police, aad that he would not be aliowod to stay at Miatea than foar days; at tbe expiration of whieh time, if 1d not lonve voluntarily, he would be expelled wm 4 armis, Ag tt wee tmporelbte for him to coneinde bis ar- rangemenia in 60 short a tine, he applied to the Pren- fem of =the ‘inca! government of den, who received very civilly, buat that the police hat only acted eecording to thet instruc- tons, which ho, the President, hed no suthority to mo- dify. It sppears that Dr. Hertzberg played rather ® pro. mipent part in the revolutionary movements of 184% and 1949, and bad been sunjeoted to & prosecotion on thet ae- cout, which, however, cuded with bis aeqtittal: and aw ho fe an Amerié&n citizen, and provided with a passport of the United fates government, it te diffienit to see whas right the suthorities of this ovnntry ean have to impede his freedom of sotton. Ho has throatenet to try hi before the Amerionn atmbaseator at this court, bet the Pevemian jcovernment is to exotesively afraid of | revole- tionary emiasaries,"’ that it will not be easily induced to Freeind Any m¢amurer that may havo been tacon there formidable individuals; aad although Dr. Mo may be ianocent of any counostion with thom, we oe

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