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2 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1860. ADDITIONAL FROM EUROPE. THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT IN ENGLAND ‘td and Comfort to the Abolitionists, British THE WINE TRADE OF FRANCE. AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. Our London, Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin and St. Petersburg Correspondence, te., &., &e, The Anti-Slavery Conflict in England. OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. | Lonvos, Dec. 13, 1859. Britsh Designs on the Integrity of the Union—England fays Our Federal Days are Numbered—Effect of Senator | Seward’s Presence in London—What Great Britain has to Gain—The Abolition Dectrines Upheld—An Anti- Ameri can Secret Service Fund—Lord Palmersten’s Views of | North and South, de ‘Through the medium of your able and fearless journal, I beg leave to call the attention of my countrymen, and especially those of the North and East, to the designs of | ¥ngland against the Amorican Union. | Born and educated in the North, and having ever been an ardent admirer and supporter of those great champions of American industry, Webster and Clay, it cannot be upposed that Ihave any undue sympatuy for the South. But | cannot but regard with doubt and apprehension the effect of the mistaken agitation of the subject of slavery inthe Northern States; and my anxiety has been greatly increased by the confidence which exists here, among politicians of every shade and class, that the days of the ‘American Union are numbered; and I regret to say that that belief was greatly strengthened after the arrival in England of the distinguished New York Senator, When it ts remembered that England expended more ‘than seven hundred million dollars in the attempt to sub- jugate the colonies; when it is remembered that secret so Cicties were orgauized in certain Northern States, by British agents during the war of 1812, for the purpose of making a diversion against our arms; when it is remembered that large sums of nmincy were furnished from Great Britain for the purpose of sending men and arms to Kansas during the uufortu nate struggle in that Territory; when it is remembered that during the Crimean war England, through her Mi nister at Washington and her Consuls at New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, in contempt of our laws, secretly enlisted troops to fight against a Power friendly fo the United States, and that when charged with the offence, said Ministers and Consuls solemaly denied all paiticipation in said enlistmeats, even after their guilt had been established in the federal courts; whon it is remembered that after Great Britain had dis- Bvowed the action of Mr. Crampton, in consequence of which be was dismissed from Washington, she appointed him Minister to Petersburg, thereby gi to her disavowal of his conduct. things are remembered, no one should be surprised to,learn that the British government have determined to devote two hundred thousand pounds sterling (something Jess than a million dollars) during the approaching Presi. dential canvass in fomenting bad bloot in the North and | ‘West against the South, in the hope thereby of producing ‘8 dissolution of the Union. I know this to be the fact; for I have it from @ person of undoubted credibility, and am only prevented from giving bis name from the certainty that it would involve him in the most serious difficulties, | But is there anything astonish: | if not prove his ruin. Is it 6 nge that the people who expended ed million dollars in their endeavor Id now be willing to expend to enslave our fathers one million in order tosunder the North from the South, thereby regaining the real, if not the nominal, aceadancy over at least one section of the States? Is it strange that the people who entertain an hereditary hatred for us and Our institutions should desire to sec both crushed and overthrown? Buf some one may ask, what has England to gain by | the dissolution of the American Union’ What has she to gain? Fverything. We are now her rival on the sea, and measure with her ton for ton in the great race of steam and Bail for the carrying trade of the world. She knows that our shipping is owned almost exclusively in the Northern coast States; she knows, too, that the best paying freight Dorne by thoge Northern yeasels comes trom the planta. tions of ‘the Soutl—from the three million bales of cotton, from the sugar, the tobacco and other products of the ve States. She knows well that the Union once dis. solved, the most inveterate hostility must ever after exist between the North and South; that, from necessity, the latter would be compelled to form a European al lance, to resist the aggressions of her more powerful neighbor; that the terms of such an alliance would ex. clude Northern, and especially New England, vessels from the southern trace, by the imposition of such one- rous and discriminating taxes as would render competi- tion with Great Britain impossible. She knows well that, im such a state of things, Northern manufactures would be exciuded from the Southern market, through the agency of a high tari, while British goods would be received free of duty. She knows, too, well, that, herself these advantages, both’ Northern shipping and | poeeeeine Northern manulactures mast cease to exist. But what advantages would the South secure from such an alliance? All that she could desire. The fleets of England would Protect her on the sea, and the subsidies of England ‘would support a Southern army of 150,000, cor ot Southern men, aud commanded by 'Sonthern officers, fo protect her from incursions from the North, or to pass the frontier with fire and sword to seek ‘vengeance for some unredressed wrong. Bat would England support such an army in the South’ does she not support a much larger army io India for a ess consideration’ But has the South the troops’ Do not misunderstand me. 1 would blush with shame did I be: Neve that the North was not equally as brave as the South. I do believe so; but the organization of the South would enable her to bring into the Geld not only a more powerful, but also a larger force than the North. In the South, the labor is performed by the ne} jn the North by the whites. To organize a Northern army, farms aud workshops must be aban doned, factories must cease their busy hum, and the s Tefuse to produce from want of cultivation. Far different ‘is it with the South. At the first tap of the drum, an take the field, without withdrawing one man from the ordinary course of labor. How was it during the Mexican wat? On the first levy, Ten pessee and Massachusetts were each called on for one regiment of volunteers. In tess than three weeks Tennessee offered the ices of thir: ven regithents, while Maseachusetts with difficulty raised one. Again’ I say, do not misunderstand me, for Lavow that there is s much courage in one State as tn the other; bat I also ‘vow that Massachusetts bas not thirty.seven thousand men to spare for war, unless, indeed, she be invaded. It may be asked, “Why is it that England always takes part with the North Against the South if she ever hopes to form an alliance With the latter?” The er ig simple. She knows that the North is aggressive, aud that the South is driven to desperation by the constant assaults upon her legal rights, and she hopes that by fostering and fanning the fa- naticism and madness of the North an anti-slavery army can President may be elected, who will commit fome act which will at once involve the Union in civil war. Itistrue that the London Times says that “the anti-slavery men of the United States are the allies of England,” and as far as the dissolution of the Union is | concerned, the fimes is correct, for, in that sense, but in that sense alone, ‘the anti slavery men of the North are the allies of Engiand;” but in every other sense they are her matural rivals, for it istheir sbipping which excites Brit ish jealousy—|t is their manufactures which are beginning to compete with thoee of England in all the wants of the world. But is not Eogland actuated by philanthropy, bv Ben fA for the slaves? “No, not one iota more than are Governors Banks, Seward and Chase. But do you hooestly ask that question when you know that Great Britain bas two hundred millions of slaves in India, whoee condition is im every respect infinitely worse than that of the slaves of the Southern States? No! England has no sympathy for the slaves of any country. She has become rich and powerful upon the blood “and toil of millions of men whom she bas reduced to the most wretched servitude. But if you honestly believe that England entertains any senti- ment of friencship for Americans or of sympathy for the Slaves, listen to what she to say as to the causes of her admiration of Mrs. Stowe and of her sympathy with the slaves.” I quote from a work of 166 pages, pub- lished in London, and entitled ‘Slavery in the United States.'’ On pages 37 and 38 we read as follows:— ‘We have shown bow much of the popularity of “Uncle Tom’? from its appealing to our aympathies. We fear that we must add that moch of that popularity arises from ite to our artipathies * * Te evil passions incle Tom" gratified in England were not hatred or . wut Jealousy, apd national vanity. We Been smarticg under the conceit of America; we of hearing her boast that the the most enlighiened country the world Our clergy hate ber voluatary system: democrata, ,our an: Siowe as a revolier from the 2 ‘ll the weak polats in bie see that the sale of “Unck Tom” in Fagtand, book pronounses to be “the most marvellous phenomenon the world hw ever seen,” caused by British sympathy for tue African, Dut British hatred to Americans. We see ‘that Stowe was not welcomed to England as a philanthro. ‘but that she was hailed ‘as a revoiter (rom the camp enemy, who could betray ail the weak points in bis | the gaps in his line.’ Her welcome was as cor extended to Benedict Arnold, Charies Samaar Seward. She was welcomed not as an Am ri. like them, ag the enemy o& Ame-rica— Krevolter,” ‘prepared to betray tue camp her countrymen to the assault of their ‘oes. it will be asked, whore is the proof that Great Britain Sending, and has already sent a pict —two aillion | doliars—to the Northera and Western stare, for the pa of exciting those sections against the <9 lvhy ane vr was th i i = ETE He ofii,t fe Hi i E ie é g E g ; grep ie the agents of the British governm rt e proof that the British Minister » in distributing ne ie : to ealist trove | it Bristow , Crampton aud the © 4 rs Tanawer, | their innocence; and after their guilt was proven, the government of Great Britain disavowed their conduct, and ullowed them to be dismissed in disgrace from the United States; but ket it be remembered that she immediately afterwards conferred the Russian mission upon the vory man whose action she had disowned, thereby proving her own complicity in his conduct. It will rdiy be asked that I should pro- eure the certificate of the Chief of the Foreign Office, who wiclds the Secret Service Fund of England, to provoke the designs of that government agaiust the Union of the States, But the hopes and purposes of that government are clearly foreshadowed by the London Post, the official organ, which, in a late article on the ap- proacbing Presidential clection, uses the following lan- guage:— ( 1£a disruption takes place, the Southern States will have the best of the bargain in one easeniial point of view. The North- cween the Canadas on ihe one side, wien on the otper, will have no room for annexation over defencelesy or outlying countries. siave States, on the other band, will have a boundless territory on their southern froutier, and th they may be con lent. 1k Js obvious inst aah aa erent, Mhenover it takes . traught with immense consequeaces, aoe. "Jeuroy the great nad incressiag” political urope. Tt will ie - niticanoe of the tates ou tbiw side of the aflantic Two confederations, vitally bosulle Wo each other, will tn all even thie country ove ally, and #0 foist contingent wan Silene howility to Ua ta fuluz6 struggles in which we. may be engaged. Having said thus much as an inducement to tho South, the writer plays on another chord, in order to Wind the North by professions of sympathy ; and pronounces the charges Of treason against Mr. Seward, to be ‘‘calumoy.”” T would giadly give you the name of my authority, as to the employment of a million of British gold in the com- bg Presidential election, but [ could not do go, without ruining oue of the very few Englishmen, who is really friendly to the United States. Forewarned, forearmed; I have discharged my duty in convey ing to you these facts, and I leave to you the more responsible one of sounding the toosin, to rouse aM Amer- icans, who love their country, toa true sense of the im- Pending danger. ‘ Lonpos, Dec. 7, 1859. A Paris Correspondent in the British Metropolis—His Im- pressions by the Way and in Town—Fog, Mud, Dirt and English Ale—The Cabmen and Hotels—Sulserviency tothe Aristocracy in Fashion, and Their Tyranny—How Some Americans Fes Towards the Country—Mr. Sew- ard’s Visit at Court—The Herald Ruled Out by the Duchess of Sunderland—The Session of Parliament, and Palmerston's Plan of Action, dc. Instead of indicting a letter from Paris, 1 must this week address you from this great capital, business having compelled me to leave sunny France for a few days stay in gloomy, foggy, rainy, muddy England. You are struck with the difference between the two countries, as regards elegance and comfort, in the outward seeming, the mo- ment you land at Dover or Folkestone. The railway de- pote in either of these places are cold, dark, jail-like build- ings, when compared with the light, airy and convenient deboucheries at Calais or Boulogne, I confess to a mortal dislike to Dover as well as Folkestone. 1am always ill when I arrive there, from {he effects of the passage, and | feel annoyed at the want of accommodation furnished by | the English seaports. At Calais or Boulogne there are fine eating places (buffets), where a person can ge! nice hot soup or a glass of good Bordeaux. At Dover or Folkestone the people stare if you ask for soup, and offer you hale instead of wine. On the occasion of my last trip I left the shores of France in | the bright moonlight; it was clear, cold and | dry. In an hour and a half J landed at Dover, in the midst of hail, snow and rain, tramping through | six imcbes of murky, dingy snow. The change was too | great for my moderate stock of philosophy, aud I am afraid I made use of some very strong language as re- gards the weather in England. I have, during tho last seven or eight years, visited England scores of times, and have ever met with cloudy, gloomy skies and dirty streets. I must here also advert to the superiority of the rail- | way cars in France. They are most luxuriantly fur- | nished—bave, in cold weather, pans containing hot water | to keep the feet warm, while you sit on the soft cushion, | On arriving in England you are put into narrow cars, par- Uitioned into small compartments, while you miss ‘most decidedly the soft cushion and ‘the cleanliness of the 1 believe, howevgr that on the Great Western line the cars are better;®but I can assure you, as many of your readers can bear witness, the cars of the Southeastern line here are wretched when compared with those of the Chémir du Nord. I arrived at London at nine o’clock in the morning, whirling rapidly over the chimney pots of the suburbs, until arriving at the Waterloo Bridge; and, after waiting a long time in the Custom Heuse, until a surly, ill conditioned official bad turned my trunk upside down, looking for false bot. toms and secret drawers, 1 managed to getacab and drove up to a most excellent family hotel. It seems strange to find London as quiet as a grave- | yard at so late an hour; but such is the fact, as it is only about half-past ten in the morning. that the shopkeepers take down their shutters, and that the city begins to as- sume an appearance of life. This proceeds from the fact, L suppose, that it takes along time for the daily fog to disperse, as I notice when riding from the depot to the hotel, that one’s vision does not extend beyond a circum- ference of a few fect. 1 always wonder how the cabmen can dash along as they do without killing a pedestrian at every turn; but still at all risks and hazards they drive along helter skelter, throwing their poor horses upon their baunches as they get unpleasantly near other vehi- cles,and then with a bi, hi, and a vigorous slash of the they go, getting through the streets at a rate ‘ally alarming. As regards celerity the London cabmen certainly rank A No.1. I must, before leay- ing the cab subject, state what I commder a | most extraordinary fact, that at night the vehicles are allowed to ‘rattle about the town without having any lights on them. In crossing a street you hear splashing noise near at hand—you cannot tell on what le of you—until, with a rattle and a bang, a cib dashes past you, almost crushing your feet and covering you with mud. Coming frem Paris, where the municipal regula: tions are so perfect, au but wonder to see the igdif- ference digplayed by the authorities of London upon this | subject. ere is really danger to life and limb in such reckless driving at night of unlighted cabs through dark streets. All these things, as I said above, are the more sensible to one accustomed to the care evinced in Paris for the safety of the citizens. 1am always struck when in London, with the difference in the aspect of the lower classes of English and the lower French classes. In Paris they always look cloan | and tidy; the women wear white caps and coarse, clean dresses; they have a certain style of dress that at once dezotes their station; the men wear large blouses that give them anair of cleanliness. In London it is quite the contrary. The poorest beggar must c@uip himself in habiliments such as clothe the highest of tbe land, and | thus we find the apple women wearing old, greasy tat tered silk or velvet dresses, that 01 adorned the fair and the wealthy. A bonnet, crushed and dirty, but still a bonnet, replaces the neat, clean cap of the Frenchwo- man; but then the old, bloated, gin soaked apple woman would scorn to appear in the streets without a boonet— all Koglish ladies wear bounets—she ninet follow the ex- | ample. As for the men, I would require the pen of Dickens and the peneil of Hogarth to give @ just idea of the wonderful getting up of the poor, dirty, dull looking veings that crawl aboot London | from’ginshop to ginahop. ‘The reason of all this iazitation ts that in England there exists a social tyranny such as is unknown in any other country. The aristocracy hag so lomg borne down upon the masses that it has become second nature with them to admire and copy after their tyrants. The middle classes must, at all. hazards and ex pense, copy as near as they can the manuers and customs of the aristocracy, while the lower classes imitate in their torn the middle classes This is exemplitied most clearly from the following fact:—Go to the smallest theatre in London, the farthest removed from the West End, and you will see the ladies all wearing low necked dresses and short elceves, while wreaths and jewels (imitation) adorn their heads. Why is this? Becanse they know that at the Opera Lady Palmerston thus dresses, and of course Betsy Hopkins must, as nearly as she can, follow the example. IT was last evening at the little Strand theatre, and was | astonished to hear the usher request of an American lady | thst entered the place that she should remove her bon- | net. “Can't wear yer bonnet, marm,” said the man, with deprecating smile. As the theatre is about the same we us the hall occupied some time ago,ou Broad- | way, by Wood's Minstrels, you may conceive’ the Ind: astonishment at the request, as well a3 at observing that all the ladies present were decked out in the heigat of fashion and full dress. Thus it is through all the ramifi- cations of English society. The coal beavers and cartmen belong to elubs, because tife lords do; and at their dinners they get drunk and make speeches, because the lords do. Were it neccesary I could go ou making comparisons that prove the correctness of what | stat as regards the social slavery that exists in England, but] am weli aware that the fact is one that must be patent with all my country- men that bave visited the country. Ido not, of course, now refer to such gentlemen as Mesers. Sumner, Seward, &c. They must have exalted ideas of the country, as, owing to their abviitionism aad toadyism as regards Euglish justitutions, they were made ioos of di ‘their stay in Great Britain ‘As for Mr. 4, be will, of course, bear Evgiand in the apple of his eye, if only iu gratitude for having been breeched and coated in two hours by the coart tailor, and having had an opportunity of informing her Britannic Majesty that he came to Europe to study despotism—a fact which stamps his greatness at once. Ob Herain, you have iocurned the weighty displeasure of Engiana’s abolitionists; you dared to state that Sumner, ‘Seward and Hale should be hung ‘pstead of Browa. For this offence, the Duchess of Sunderiand has ruled you out of her good books, aud you are forever disgraced. This *xoes to prove by how slight a Ue we hold the goot will of the at. Poor Heratp, you are much abased here, in dull, busy Loudon, and, like Peter, I bave abjured you. T tell it not that I write to you, and send my letter to the post in a most guarded manner. Ths coming session of Parliament will be a mont stormy one; but T am assured by africhd whois in the sont. dence of the Premier that he (Lord P.) hega bill to pre- sent that will enable bim to get the Detter of all opposi- ton. | | Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, Dec. 12, 1850. The Inhuman Torture of a Child by Her Parenta—Convic- tion of the Offenders—Lord Brougham in the City, and His Opision on Peace or War—Marshal Niel Again we Duty—An Aristocratee Duel, de. The result of the prosecution of the couple named Dem rt he barbarous treatment of their eldest daugh- Sha, Was & verdict of guilty, with a condemnation ro hard tabor tera ave the statement of the prasecation, Chat the daughter Adolina, soven- teen years of age, had been subjected to the mostincrediblo torments; that her whole person was emaciated, and her arms, neck and shoulders, and other paris of her p°rsoa, which cannot be more particularly alluded to, were | covered with frightful sores and scars, Since that the evidence of the girl horself has beem given, aud anything | more appalling has rarely been heard within the pro cincts of a court of justice. She stated that the da‘ly habit of her parents was to scourge her until they were botn exhausted with their labor; that she was constantly | thrown on the ground, while burning coals and red hot irons were applied to different paris of her person, aud that though it was her father who performed these mon- strous operations, her mother never failed to assist. She added she had never sufficient nourishment to sustain her, and thatat night she was placed in the box, now before the court, the size of which was sufficient to prove the cramped nature of her position, and the lid of whick was shut down so that very little air couid penetrate. ‘The defence was that the girl was a confirmed wanton, had already been seduced, and required these extreme measures to reduce the pruriency of hor inclinations. Tord Brougham has only just loft for his scat at Cannes, after passing a few days in Paris. Dining one day with M. Thiers, some one of the company laughiagly asked him if he really thought the peace of the world was worth five years’ purchase. ‘Why, five years,’ he answered, “is @ lustrum—an epoch. In the decline and fall of the Roman Empire many odd events occurred in that brief space of time; but as France, or rather the French Empire, has not reached its culminating point, and Umpire c’at la paiz, it is quite possible that the peace of the world is worth that insurance.”’ His lord- ship spoke with such unaccustomed gravity that the con- ‘versation was not prolonged. i heard this anecdote from a — ‘who was an car witness. larebal Neil is in Paris. He is to preside over the committee established at the Ministry of War for the de- fence of the coasts of France. The ports of Algeria are to have some twelve or fourteen millions spent upon them. ‘The roadstead of Bagia is to be the poin’ of concentration for the French squadrons on the coast of Africa. We have bad a small duello to enliven us. The Mar- quis de Gallijet and the Marquis do Lauriston, when at the Opera afew nights ago, chose to amuse thomselves by ex- changing a slap on the face, the consequence of which is that a rendezvous took place yesterday, and fists were ex- changed for ‘ords, Each party was wounded—the Marquis de Gallijet through the right shoulder, so badly as to be unable to continue the contest. ‘Things for a time may assume a more amicable with England, but the sore is too deepin the Fi mind ever to become perfectly cicatrized with. out another outbreak. Like an unfortunate mar. ried man, who cannot help himself, in coase quence of the bondage he is in, it is wonderful how much a vation will bear, and how long it will bury old grievances whon it feels it has a government that cannot and will not express its sympathies. But change the circumstances—give that nation for its all powerful oxecu tors the incarnation of its wrongs—from him great in council and great in war, passions thus develope thom selves that even he cannot allay; aad such it is with France. It is the familiar household talk of all people here—again aud again the nation has been crossed—not by the valor, but by the porfidious treachery of the English, in its onward course, and that to noglect the opportunity which Providence has placed in its hauds of retrieving the past, of humiliating a country who has flourished over the oppressed greatuess of la belle France, would be a direct rebellion against God. Ap extraordinary trial is now in progress in the Oour do l’Aasics de la Marne. A father and mother with five children are accused of having subjectei their eldest daughter, Adeline, to @ continuea system, not of mere ili usage, but of torture, which, for wanton barbarity, is, it is to be hoped, unprecedented in the annals of crime. At present the trial hag not advanced further than the statement of the prose- cution, from which a tale of horror is iaid before the Court of the most loathsome and revolting nature. A box is in- troduced containing the implements of hellish torture wherewith the father is charged with having visited the victim, his daughter. It has a chain of padlocks. The interior discloses a bottlo containing nitric acid, a copper vessel for burning charcoal, pincers, shovel, cords, and a wooden apparatus for stretchiog a’ victim on a bed of torture. The couple would seem to be in the position of smallcotticrs. They lived apart from their neighbors, in the greatest seclusion. But, from time to time, ot about of the cruel manner in which their chil- dren were treated. At last the magistrates of the dis- trict paid a domiciliary visit, the result of which is that the father is accused of having lacerated the body of his eldest girl, to that degree that her body is a mass of putrid sores. Instances are specificd of the most refined description, such as the Middle Ages could alone furnish samples of; and, to crown all, the monster is accused of unhallowed attempts on his daughter's virtue, whose resistance he punished, with the connivance of his wife, her mother, by stretching her on the floor, fastening ber heels to a table, where she was left for bours, during which he inflicted on her the most brutal tortures, literally impaling his victim. The descrip- tion almost beggars the accountof the redhot irons used on the person of the miserable E 1ward the Second in Berkeley Castle. The daughter’s evidence has yet to be given. Let us hope it may fall far short of substantiating the statement of the prosecutors. ‘The following copy of a petition to the Emperor is given in the Memorial des Pyrenees:— Sinx—I received under your dear uncle two wounds which are the ornaments of my life, one in my lett thigh, the other at Wagram. If two ea, In support of which 1 eu- clone ample certificates, should appear suscepuble of a per. mission to keep a tobacco ahop either at Sevres or elsewhere, I thank you beforehand for your amlability. Please post-pay your answer. In France no one is permitted to set up a store for the sale of tobacco without an especial permission. These li- censes are generally bestowed on old soldiers or their widow The positive announcement of the approach! * looked upon as a veritable eto Apartment ator! Congress is a good time coming by the Parisians. ts are already at a premium. The ministers and various functionaries have been apprised that an unbounded hospitality is expected from them. Every- thing that the drama, the orchestra, the danco, the reception and she revue militaire can do to give éclat to the diplomatic assemblage @ promised. sing letters are coming in from the de: of England, Austria, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and all the minor Kuropean States, for accommodation for themselves and families. The scencs of 1860 are to be unequalled by the annals of the second empire. The Wine Trade of France. OUR BORDEAUX CORRESPONDENCE. Borpgacx, Nov. 23, 1859. The Wines of France—Yankecs Bamboesled—Ihe Firm Ac- tion @f the American Consul—The Small Town of Celle Bears off the Paim.in Adulterating Wines—Angus B. Feach upon the Adulicration at Cette—The Genius of Swindling in Amerioa—Five Million Acres Devoted to Wine—The Wine Sent to England Superior to that Shipped te Amorica—The Reason Why—The Wine Mer- chants te Her Majesty Queen Victoria—Origin ef Namea— Ejaculations of the Neapolitans, dc., dc. ‘What shall I say of the wines of France, and of the abom- inable decoctions served up under the name of wine inthe United States? itis proverbial throughout Europe and America, that no people that the sun shines upon are 80 badly bamboozled in wines as the Yankees. Any one who has lived in the United States knows the case is bad enough; and the next inquiry is, what is the remedy? Unquestionably the production of native wines, and the importation of pure wines from foreign countries. 1 do net know comparatively in what kinds of wines adultera. tion is most extensively carried on, but from what I nave seen and tasted in the United States, I am sure that the coctoring, bedeviling, and compounding of spurious wines ig most extensive in port. madeira, sherry, claret, sauterne and champagne. I have reason to know that some good has been accomplished by the faithfulness and firmness of the American Consul at this port in the pre- venting of false invoices, in the shipment of various pro- ducts, and particatarly of wines to the United States. He not only compels the captains of the ships to make aifl- davits as to the actual cost, but to the identity, name or quality 0. thearticle. He considers it slightly questionable, particularly uader your system of ad valorem duties, when: tempts to pass an invoice of « best Chateau vintage 1852," at ten cents a gallon; and when the vaiue hag been adjusted, he (the consul) baving a care for the palates and stomachs of hig countrymen, asks the captain quictly if the liquid under consideration is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, real, genuine claret wine, of the growth and vintage named in the bond. Of cour e, many of these gentlemen find themselves very eXtensively cornered. One of these nautical swindlers was go badly “riled” at the large amount of dirt he had toeat, that he made uze of such language as compelled the Coasul to turn him out of bis offve. Further than this, he was refused a clearance for his ship for some two weeks; and then, on eating very humble pie and correct. ing his false invoices, was allowed to depart along with his spurious cargo. ‘These things avail but little, however, ration being principally on your side, But for extent and ingeniity in adulteration of win s the small tewn of Cetie, on the Metiterranean, bears off the palm. Hear what Augus B. Reach vaye of the manu- factures of Cette:—- Tanid that it was good—; for our stomashs—to see no manish basting at ote, Feason is that Cette ie a great manufacturing place, and tha: what they manufaeture there 18 neither co:ton nor Perigord pies nor Kneis biscuits, but ‘will a Cotte Industrial write with 5 ness over his Porte Cochere—Ici on fabrique the world, indeed, are made in ¢ al for ce § § 5 H j a a Le ih i ; F F 5 ij it fis | i i i i fe fe Hi # i 4 i E ; é 4 i Li i the very capital and emporium of the tricks and rasoalities tae very ca Ae eed eupplics alaarst. ail the of the Northern Ki ike. To the o beaiaer Boas of Jobannisberg, Hermitage, and wu Margaux, the fine Qualities and dainty aroma of which are highly prized by the tropaatiantic amateurs, The Dutch flag fluttered plentifally tn the harbor, so that I presume Mynbeer isa customer to the Cette indusirials, or, at all events, he helps in the distribution of their wares, dhe old French West Indian colonies also patron. ize their ingenious countrymen of Cette; and Ruseian magnaies to get drunk on Chamberiin and Romance made of low Ehone, and low Burgundy brewages, eked out by the contents Or the graduated phial. “1 fear, howaver, that we do come \n, in the matier of," fine golden aherriea, at 228 9}¢4. a dozan,”’ o * peculiar old crusted port, at 1a, 9d."—for a share of the Cette manufactures; and it is very probable that. afver the wine is fabricatea upon the shores of the Mediterranean, it is still fur- ther {mproved upon the banks of the Thames.’ ‘The colors in the above beautiful carwon may be laid on rather thick, and, perhaps, the breadta and style is a Nittle Hogarthian, looking at the waggish propensity of John Bull to crack a joke at the expense of the Yankees. But, my word for it, the picture is the size of life, and quite as natural. 1am well aware that neither all, nor one-half of the light delicious wines from the volcanic soils of Earope, can be exported to advantage Iam also aware that the tic genius of swindle in America stalks abroad, viai- le and invisible, in such Protean forms between pro- ducer and consumer, to that extent that no mortal, except he be a farmer, and eating food of his own raising, can tell the quality, value or goodness of anything he con- sumes. Iam, bowever, strongly inclined to believe if New York were to commence busi- for and na- prices: tia oF low,a ‘There are in France, according to an official report made in 1852, about five million acres (1,977,000 hectares) devoted to vineyards. At this time I suppose the entire Product throughout France ig not far from 350,000,000 gallons. Of this amountthe Americans might buy, im- [yy exchange for cotton, tobacco, breadstuffs, &c., (rom ten to twenty million gallons a year, and consuk their palates, and particularly their digestive organs, more rationally, than to consume the oceans of swill they do under the vi “French Brandy,’ &c. I do not jous names of ‘Lager,”’ ‘Old Bourbon,’’ Fish to condema in wholesale terms any class of dealers; but I appeal to your readers—those always excopted 'who are engaged wholesale or retail in swindling and poisoning the Americans—if some of my choice figures of speech are not directly applicable to a vast quantity of villianous po- tations, sold and swallowed in the United States under the name of various wines and liquors? ThisI do know, that in claret, sauterne, hock, burgundy, champagne, port and sherry, some of the first class wine dealers an many wine drinkers of London have articles that are infl- nitely superior to those usually sold in America. This re- sults from a variety of causes. In the first place John Bull takes mighty good care of his stomach, and the dealer necessarily has to consult thts pecaliar idiosyncrasy of his customer. The producer and consumer are nearer to- gether; many wine merchants of London make regular visits to the wine countries; the wine trade with England has been established a much longer time, while a great many consumers will have the very bust articles produced, without regard to prise. America until lately has been a new country, and till a compar: tively recent period, there were persons in Ameri whoknew much of the qualities, or would pay a fair price for good wines. If other things were equal—were there the same watchfulness, good judgment, and ability to pay a fair compensation, the chances of deception and adulteration would be considerably greater. Freights, too, being higher. the expense is necessarily more. As for my single self, 1 must say that, with ten or twelve years of adult existence spent in America, I never drank a glass of a port wine until I crossed the ocean and went to lon. I beliove, if good, pure foreign wines were sold largely in America, it would stimulate the mative producers to im- prove the quality of American wines,while it would make consumers better judges, and able to discriminate and tell the difference between a mixture of villainous whiskey, sloe juice, decoction of logwood, and burnt alum, and a good brand of Chateau Margaux, straight from the Medoc. ‘A few months ago I beard that a noted firm of Loudon wine merchants—Chillingworth & Son—had established an agency in New York for the sale of their wines, prin- cipally port, sherry, claret and champagne. Of course foreign wines taken to London for exportation pay no duty there, so that a port wine can go from Oporto to the St. Katherine's Docks, on the banks of the Thames, ripen there; thence away to America or India, to even better advantage than if taken direct to either of those countries in the first place. Tho moist, cool, equable climate of England, is peculiarly ted to wines that require ago, particularly wines uke rts, ‘sherries and clarets. Ido not suppose there is a fe of port or sherry wine sold in India or China not gent direct from England. In Earope it is 8 well derstood commercial fact that nearly all the best port sherry wines exported from Portugal and Spain are to England. Certain trade regulations favored this for long period; besides, the English were disposed to pay the best prices. Chillingworth & Son are wine merchants to her Majesty the Queen, and if the agency at New York is conducted after the style of the London house, I have no doubt the taste of the Americans in the old and mellow wines will be greatly improved. To my palate, claret and sauterne are the finest wines a Christian ever put under his jacket. I am not, however, disposed to quarrel with burgundy, hock, or lachryma Christi. The last named received its cognomen in Catho- lic countries, where, in consequence of being very delicate and superior, and ‘consequently precious, and made in very small quantities, it received the appellation of “Tears of Christ.?” One of these, a light sparkling wine, 1 have drank at Naples, it ieee Pew made at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. Another of same name—German wine Lagrima Christi—I found in the Tyrol, grown on the bor- ders of Venetia. It was a light still wine, inclining to sweet, not high spirited, and a delicious flavor beyond all praise or ceacription. While daintily sipping it in mode- rate draughts, thanking heaven that you have been cre- ated, you can readily appregiate the ejaculation of the Neapolitan—“Drink lachryma Christi, then die”’—for you have lived long enough. Our Berlin Cerrespondence. Baru, Nov. 80, 1859. American Thankagiving Day in the City—Dinner at Minister Wright's—Beans, Turkey and Pumpkin Pies—Dificultic, of Getting up the Pie—Toasts and Speeches—A Death— Church Progress—Personal List, dc. «Where the prey is, there will the eagles be gathered together,”’ and where there is anything to be learned, to be discovered, to be made, pecuniarily or intellectually, there will you find the Yankee; and where the Yankee is “nore will you find progress and pumpkin pies, theology and thanksgtving. Tdon’t know how it is that this great city, which re- minds one of the image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream, has so suddenly found favor with the American travelling and and student public; but it is nevertheless true that the number of Americans now in Berlin is double what it has ever been before. One great attraction is the watchfu' care of their interests and the generous brotherly hospitality extended to Americans by our doservedly popular ambassador, Governor Wright. ‘The halls of the University, the wards of the hospitals, and the cliniques of its renowned professors are thronged with busy students; the musty tomes in the royal library are reverently handled by the disciples of Edwards, Dwight, Stuart and Taylor. . ‘The roya! manufactery of arms is direcied ty a man (Mr. Petzold) who is himself guided by the experience gained in the gui and pistol manufactory of Col. Colt, of Hartford, and only yesterday I heard that an American had received a patent for a ‘bridle bit,” which is heve after to control the cavatry of the Prussian army. But it was not to glorify the descendants of ‘‘Gon. Jack- son and the"American Eagle” that I commenced this let. ter, but to tell you of our “Thmnksgiving,” and perhaps to say a word of our promising !ittle church. Yes, indeed! we had Thanksgiving, and we lacked not fer baked beans and roast turkey, for plum pudding, nor yet for ‘pumpkin pie.’’ Albeit, ali these are exotics and hard to be pursuaded into the service of ‘‘Thankgiving.” The principal use of pumpkins in Prussia is, I beliove, to grace the terraces ‘‘San Souci,’’ and to form the chief or- nament of the little grass plota in front of the New Museum and Royal Library; but an enterprising Yankee determined that they should not waste ali their “sweetness” on unappreciative Teutons—and when Yankee determines, the thing is done—onlistea the services of a New York lady, who was dasiared at first to be “too small’? to know anything about housekeeping, much less about the mysterious compilation of such a dainty work as # pumpkin pie, and the result was—but I bog pardon, I am proceeding Dutch fashion, opening the Dill of fare and reading from the bottom instead of the Fraiving ail mention of the skillful manquvring and delicate diplomacy hasnt Med bring the ** Wirth” of the ‘*Kron Prinz’’ to abandon his long cherished belief in the virtues of goose and ‘‘sauer kraut,” and to adopt the new heresies of turkey and cola slau; and tne difficul- ty of xing a recipe for plum puddi as he persisted in Gling ty a tho Head of the Sook, fauall introduce you without into the “‘speis-saal’’ of the aforesaid coremony Kron Prinz, which was decorated with flags, and where covers wore laid for Leen Ciarenel At halt past four about fifty gentlemen were assembled, and the tide of conversation was only interrupted by an occasional “rustling of silk and creaking of shoes,” which “betrayed”? that woman was to grace the feast with her presence. At five Gov. Wright ‘took the chair,” a lady being seated on cither hand; eight others were scattered among the sixt, tlemen present. Rev. Ms, Hamilton, of New Haven, opened, the festivi ties by reading the psalm, ‘The Lord is my i Se a i eee aif : ¢ i E § i E The little Indy’” het Predictions o Mie faith Oomph Ne poasibse 1a A land where oysters are uot oysters, and chicken pie ls 0 deseort of speeches and toasts was inaugarated ty Governor Wright, who gave, with a few brio and port nent remarks on Prussian “ King and the royal New England Thankegiving. “baked beans. Progress ‘and influence, the family.”” Dr. Abbots followed with the “ Prosident of the United Mr. Gage offered a few happy remarks on the first Mr. Cutler Toad ‘an original mirth-provoking poem on Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Mulford, added accepta- ble contributions to the amusement of their convives. Mr. Bacon, Mr. Kemp, Mr. Riley, Drs. Ward aud Hot- comb, of New York, ‘said their says,” we took up a handsome contribution for the poor, about forty thalers, sang ‘Home Sweet Home,”’ and our Thanksgiving dinner was over. It was quiet and subdved, a ‘“‘translated”’ affair, as one speaker remarked; too suggestive of homes and 'Thanks- givings far away to be thoroughly enjoyable; and tears, too, mingled in our ‘‘cup of Thanksgiving.’? On Wednesday, 23d inst., Mrs. Heine, a daughter of the ancient and honorable Sedgwick family, had died. were saddened, and this effect was painfully deepened by the place and circumstances attending it. Her remains are to bo sent to Amorica for interment. Apropos of our collection—it was placed in the hands of Rev. Mr. Nippert, an American citizen, who has under- taken a sort of work under the direction of the Methodist church. He has a church and flourishing Sab- bath school. It is in the same room—No. 2 Johannes ‘strasse—that the services of the American church in Ber- lin are held, ‘This institution has existed about year, and is now ‘well attended, scarcely a seat being vacant. Among the men here one is al found ready and a Men of every shale of opinion alter- the word of God. wage, usefulness will expand, nae little American church will become a powerful instrament for good, not only to Americans, but to those among whom our lot is cast. The honor of planting this little seed, which promises such goodly fruit, belongs to Gov. Wright, our ambassador. NAMES OF AMERICANS AT GOVERNOR WRIGHT'S RECKPTION, NOVEMBRE 12, 1859. Marne—Mr. Paine. Vrusoxt—Dr. and Mrs, Bunting. Mastacuuserm—Mr. Allen, Mr. Burrage, Mr. Crowning- shield, Mc and Mrs. Cunningham, Rev. Mr. Gage, Mr. Higgiugon, Rev. Mr. Jenkins, Mrs. Vettiker and Miss 0. Conxxcricvr—Mr. Bacon, Mr. Birney, Rev. Mr. Hamil- Roes| Mr. Skiff, Messrs. E. Walker and A. B. Clarke. New Your—Dr. and Mrs. Abbott, Mr, Cooper, Mr. Cut- ler, Professor Drisler and son, Mr. Dodge, Mrs. Fried- lender, Dr. and Mrs. W. F Holcomb, Wm. Heine, Mr. Lowe, Mrs. Morgan, Misses Morgan, Mr. Morgan, Mrs. Peyser, Mr. aud Mrs. Lawson, Mr. Stevens, Dr. J. H. and Mr. Strong. ; Pexssyvivanta—Rey. Mr. Reily, Bishop O'Connor, Rev. Mr. Murford Maxvanv—Mr, Gorsuch, Mr. Vetres and Rev. Mr. Kemp. ‘Owio—Rev. Mr. Nippertand lady, Mr. Pease. Inpiaxa—Doctor Armstrong, G. L. and W. A. Ketchum, Misses Merrill, Miss Wiley, Mr. les. Tuuxow—Hon. James M’ Knox, Mr. Diller, (Consul at Bremen) Bishop Jacoby. Musovni—Mr. Blair, Mr. Leonard, Mr. Hutchingson, Doctor Bocher. ‘Vinaista—Rev. Mr. Griffin, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Paine, Mr, Mr. ¥. J. Fisher. : Pree Canouxa—Mr. Boggs, Mr. Caldwell, Me. Coftn, Mr. Pringle. GronGia—Doctor Pope. ALanama—Mr. Underwood. LouisiaNa—Mr. Butler, (Secretary of Legation. ) Canyorsia—Mr. Zellerbock and Mr, Booheim. Bertin, Dec. 10, 1859. 4 German Congress Dissolved— What Was Done at Wurt:- burg—The Resignation eof the Minister of War—Naval Expedition to Japan, de. ‘The little Congress of Wurtzburg is already at an end, and the illustrious statesmen assembled there have re_ turned to their various Courts to report progress, The re- sults of their meetings are still shrouded in mystery, and although the Augsburg Gazette, and other journals of simi- lar calibre, continue to dwell upon i ‘™mense impor- tance, and ‘the wondertul effects that be anticipated from it, the incredalous public porsist iff opining that if its object was to neutralize the agitation in favor of Prussian supremacy, the whole thing will tarn out a dead failore. As long as Prussia refuses to forsake the ground she now stands upon, the Dii mirorees may resolve whatever they choose, without their resolutions having the slightest prac- tical value. By what has leaked out concerning them—for, in spite of all precautions and cunning efforts to put the profane vulgar on @ wrong scent, complete se- cresy can never be attained in such matters—it would appear that under the mask of patriotic zeal for the unity and integrity of Germany, the real aim of these confe. rences has been to concert proposals to be laid before the Diet for an increase of the military force of the Confedera- tion, according to which the federal army would be raised to a numerical strength of 700,000 men, and divided into four great bodies—the first to be commanded by an Aus- trian general, the second by a Prussian, the third by a Bavarian, and the fourth selected alternately by the three leeser kingdoms—viz, Saxony, Wurtemburg and Hano. ver. In time of war a member of this quatuorvirate is to be appointed generalissimo; and ss the philo-Austrians are sure to be in the majority, tle chief command would of course devolve upon one of those heroes who have just gained imperishable laurels at Magenta and Solferino. ‘Thus, as I said once before, the nations ask for bread and their paternal rulers offer them @ stone; Germany wants more liberty and self government: the princes respond with more soldiers and more taxes. Bat this dodge has been tried so often that its success is become extremely problematical. The people are quite willing to have effi- lent measures taken to protect the country from f aggression, and they know ve: state of Europe it is idle to think of turning their swords into ploughshares; but they are determitisd to have some equivalent for the sacrifices incessantly impoged upon them, and if their sovereigns imagine they can niske use ofthe cloak of patriotism to confirm their own power and to tighten the yoke upon the neck of their subjects, I rather suspect they will find themselves mistaken. The other questions said to have been mooted at Wurtzburg are the erection of a Su- preme Tribunal for deciding cases of federal law, the introduction of a uniform system of weights and measures in Germany, and the extension of the rights of citizenship throughout the Contederation to the inhabitants of all the different States comprised in it—measures good enough in | themselves, but which might just as well be discussed at the Diet, and are obviously only intended as » bait to | make the people swallow the proposed extraordinary in- | crease in the military armaments. ‘The resignation of General Bonin, the Minister of War, has created considerable sensation, and is generally re- gietted. I mentioned some time since that he had drawn up a plan for the reorganization of the Prussian army, which was approved of by the Prince Regent; but subse- quently, it seems, objections had been raised, and it was decided that the improvements should be confined to the artillery, the engineers and the fortresses, which are to be provided with rifled cannon alter the French pattern, but that thd iniaatry, agd above all the landwehr system, should remain Ti¢uaoged. Bonin adhered to his opinion that a thorough reform of the entire military egiablidbment was necessary to thet the exigencesof the times, and retired from office on Snding bimself unable td earty out bis views. He is suteeeued by Liettenant Gene?al Von Roon, of whom I can te you nothing except that D9 is reported to be a highly svientific officer. If such is th énge. he must be aware of the deficiencies of the Prussian oye and how little chavive of success it would have if masailed by « Power like’Prance, whose military organizatict hag been raised to the highest point of efficiency. Unfortunately, people here are still too nmch under the influence ef tne reminiscences of 1813 and 1814. Inflated with nationtl va- nity, they sincerely believe that it was the Prussian legions. alone who toppled the Great Napoleon from his throte: and that if the presont Emperor should presume tu attact® them he would meet’ with the same fate ai bw uncle, ‘They forget that at that period Prussia was bactod by a European ooalition extending from the Vola (> the ‘Tagus, while Napoleon bad left the flower of tis army in the snows of Muscovy, and had to carry on tie war with hasty levies of raw recruits; and yet oveu tuen it was only by dint of unheard of exertions and a fortunate concatenation of events that they were able to overthrow the power of the most warlike nation ov the continent. Since then the military art bas made enormous strides, while Prussia has been reposing under the shade of her former victories, and if che were now called apou ty make head single banded against the veterans of tne Crimea and Lombardy, the consequences could hardly be other wise than disastrous. It was this conviction that taduced Gen. Bonin, one of the most experienced officers in the Prussian army, and the only one who hag ever cem- manded in actual warfare, to propose @ reform that would have corrected the defects of the present system, and raised :t to a line with the military institutions ef the other great Furopean monarchies. It is possible that bis plans May be fohowed up by his successor, at least so far as they are oanctioned by the Prince Regent, if not, tant pis for Prussia. The screw corvette Arcona was to leave Dentsic last ‘week for Japan, but her departure has been delayed for aday or two. She is commanded by Captain Sno:tevall, @ Swedish officer in the Prussian service, and has a crew of 375 urem After touching at Portsmouth she will pro- ceed straizbt'on to Singapore, withont calling. at aay in- termedikte pret, unless circumstances should require it; | whereas’ the Thetis frigate, along with the sen: Franeniob; whtch are now undergoing repairs at mouth, wfil'ka# from that harbor via Tenerife, Pernam. doco, Babi, Rio Janeiro, the Plate river aad Cape of Good , to Batavia. At Ringapore the whole sqnadrom ‘will rendezvous under the orders of Capt. Sundevall, and continue thetr' voyage to Siam, China and Japan, from ce the Arcona and Fraueniod, after accompiehing the object of their miasion, which consists tn negotiating & treaty of friendship and commerce with the Tycoon: of Japan, will retut home. while the Thetis will go round by the Sandwich Islands, Valparatso and Montevideo, and thus complete the circumnavigation of the globe. | It is likely the squadron will be accompanied by @ transport, if they can meet with one to suit their purpose. Further accounts (rom Dantaic state that the Prussian Ambaasa- dor at Constant has requested his government to send an armed ship to the capital, to be stationed there, for the protection of Prussian and other German s1b- en emptre, and thet in cme: the denoatsh vessel Lorelay has reosived orders to ns got ready for sa with all convenient apeet. 30 you aaa tha Prustian (leet, diminutive as it is, begins to move «rat and show iteeif in salt water, and aithough Mrussia crtainly never be a great maritime power, the ume aa) sistant ‘when abe will cut a tolerable Agia xem the second rate naval States. P ~ Our St. Petersburg © Sr. Peruseuna, Oct. 26, en New York to Lvervoot en ian» Capital—Landing a Steamshi; Of the Humber to ‘Towards Judland land's Indebtedness to the Norsemen—Nearing Eli Beminiscences of the Sound Dues— Winter in thd’ ‘Sea— From Cronstadt to Ss, Grand Scene] Approach to the Oity—Bussians ‘Going Ahead" —@ Policy of the Czar Alezander—The Official Visiteto and Japan—Activity of Count Mowankef Amoursky, The Persia reached Liverpool on the 8th inst , at 8.A.M., and the tug landed a part of the passenger time for the 10:30 train to London—that is, those whe their baggage in hand. I must gay I cannot speak e” facilities of tue noble ahip for landing passengers with degree of satisfactfin. But it may be accounted $r ¢ the fact, perbaps, of our arriving at Liverpool ¢ most, which most ungraceful feat we performed to ‘small terror, confusion and admiration of the whole rine of the congregated world, not to say anything off extreme peril of the Persia herself, asiphe was near stern.cn into a large ship under tow. But it will for a landsman tp criticise the mancuvring of men; 60 we must let the Persia land stera on, or h ‘as she chooses, and also let her make® her p " uncomfortable as possible, just previous to arrangement and order of their baggage, which is ly without order, system, or the slightest care of sponsible party on board. ‘The whole affair of baggage seems to be left seems, I say; yetthe amount of black mail passengers in gotting their baggage on board ‘Doat would some method om. passengers’ Omebody on . lonly remained in Liverpool to await the first from Hull, and came on hoping to leave there the day for St. Petersburg, but as was no steamer ing I remained over Lent owe night, when Iomb on the Emperor (pace wheel) for Cronstads. vie nore, Denmark. We, hewever, did not sail until We aoe in consequence of the agents, Mossrs. & Oo., not having the ship's papers and bills of ready, causing a detention of twelye hours. But little can be said of the shores of the Humber + of well that in the present steams along under a clouded and rain-threatening the number of vessels and smacks give, ho a degree of liveliuess to the Humber waters, which weal T thiok, fs the fourth tnt portance of th full, T thin! is the foul im | ce 1 of England, and is certainly well chosen and wel e1 to command the Northorn European commer ticularly that of the Baltic; in fact, you will find at steamers for all the important ports of Norway, Sw Denmark, Russia, Prussia an@ Dutchland, Bremen, burg, Scotland, ke. The markets of Hull are wejig plied, the city is lively and animated, and appe Joy a'prosperous commerce. Its docks for he ao} dation of its shipping are spacious and we! the city itself looks substantial and well built, many of the streets are disagrecably narrow. sidewalks, dangerous bi6 to pert On leaving Hull we steamed across the ward the coast of Jutlaod. The b hold its cloudy, dreary sway over the d waters whereof erst the Norseman st turous bark in search of plunder and lands. In fact, Hull, which we had just mistakable marks of its Scandinavian Visite! bability is that these hyper boreans gave to Britain their first lessons in the science of nat imparted to the Briton their love for and th on, the Ocean. Now what a most singular ap derful has been wrought in the cou ing years. despised and plundered Brity upon the Norge and Scandinavian & moré refined ,& more honest co evoked the mighty power of steam with w: tends ‘these dark and boisterous the ces) , the kicked, the cuffed, the rob #9 enslaved, now repays the barbaric hosta,o° with science, civilization and commerce, ‘What a wonuerful people the ro lc ss to patch up the pretence for the levy of The third night came prog A ‘upon us the gate at which the dues were of yf but now, ‘Alas, poor Yorick,”’ the dues are no} cht go off into a strain of by atten the of it over the jester’s skull.” I visited three years previous, when the discussion relative Sound dues was near its cul point, and the were much excited in consequence, fearing the to tration of their commerce, in case the United § of Europe. In conversation with merchants of El then, I told them that the United States would not and that, if they chose to act upon my advice, they prepare for the worst. Our fellow rs—al English but co our country full justice for emanci the commerq the Baltic from that odious and Danish toll: which bad been set up by kingly hands, aud to whic the nations of Europe bad bowed in humble and submission. The night was dark and disagreeable: fore I did not goon shore, and not having visit the grave of Hamlet, I will not trouble you with of it upon trust of memory over three y paseage of the Bultic in the fall of the year. now nearly approacbing wicter in these clime adark and ae affair: rain, clouds, @now, ¥ and fog. We glimpees of the coast and of Copenhagen, and steamed very slow! an almost constant head wind. In the summer inst., but too late to reach St. Petersburg the We lay off in the stream until next morning, were travsferred toa small river steamer and this city about noon on the 20th, making t one days and four hours from New York, losing three days in England, and being two days lo than necessary in making the voyage Hull t city; so that in fact the transit should only be set do eee days. ugh St. Petersburg durin, visite become familiar to me, and a rll nage first somewhat dissipated, yet the approach to this Nor Venice strikes one again and again with admiration. golden dor and spires of the numerous churches, wincing Neva with its artificial solid granite shd flanked with long and lofty ranges of palaces, its bi of iron and boats, its crowded shores where the b unwieldly barges from the interfer come to deposit roduce of the Volga and the minerals of the Ural, um and the dip of the city rising above the ¢! your steamer and the whistling of her steam,-her Y quays and her thousand little droskies, squads of couted soldiers led by officers in shining helmets, of officers of the various services hastening im ever regtion, the uncouth sheepskin clad mujie, the long coatad merchant—all strike one with increased newed interest. Ob! Venice, Venice, when thy marble halls are levé! ‘There aba!) be a loud lament along the sounding ses. If J, a Southron) wanderer, weep for thee, ‘What should thy sons do? Anything but weep. Ishall not, neither will the sons of this the Briton over the ‘ Gling, * is troe, with difficulties, and sys@etbs to which more southern Burope is @ siraj but yet tie uncouth energy, the wonder Titality, We vigor and the almost superb of these uoriuern races, ; on avi mouild into shape auch .dees,and such progees Sonrarte wk wa proving a ees Tmensural ring De Opemout of thetr counery, their co, waeree and th Powers of France ani England. So mote yume raviel Amoursky, Eastern Siberia, was in the Ye ing an opvortunity to ry commanicate | Ambassador, who was then at Pekin, and | Teceived by the Chinese. I learned sonal friend of the Count Moaraviet, he would return to the Amoor ip time before frost should set in, and to arrive at Irkoutek in November next, and that short lime thereafter it would be known when he eros, exploratic A vo Chotavis