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, WHOLE NO. 8532. STATE OF THE UNION. “PECIAL REPORTS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. be Question of the Day as Considered in Massa- husetts——Sentiments of Lowell on the John Brown s..d—Helper’s Book Among the Factory People—Paucity 0: Southern Orders in Boston— The Negro as He is Understood by New Eng- Yandere—The Irrepressible Conflict in the Em- pire State—The Ensuing Presidential Contest— The Republicans in Trouble at General Scott's Nomination, he. ae. &e. MASSACHUSETTS. @UR SPECIAL LOWELL CORRESPONDENCE. Lows, Mass., Jan. 18, 1860 Manufactures of Lowell—Her Market the World—Her Sud den Growth—Her Milis Managed by a Few—Sentiment @ the People in Favor of Unton—Garrisonian Senti ments— Union Mecting—Gov. Banke’ Velo Sustained—The Lawrence Tragedy—Incompeency of Those in Charge— Beckleseness of Life, dc., dc. ‘The manufactures of Lowell are well known in almost every part of the world, for the world is her market. Al- most every railroad train that flies across the country, and almost every ship that leaves its port, carries the fabrics of her looms and the products of her thousands of industri- ous operatives as a portion of its freight. Thirty-six years since Lowell was unknown. A few struggling farmers ‘ecoupied her soil. To-day she is a city of 40,000 inhabi- tants, with twelve manufacturing establishments, running fifty mills, giving employ ment to 15,000 operatives, to say nothing of half as many more employed by firms and pri- vate individuals. Capital, art and industry have wrought this wonderful change. A large majority of the people of owell are a reading and thinking class, coming to no con- olusions without sufficient reasons. Lowell is in one respect unfortunate. Her destinies are Taled by a clique of incompetent men, who have, by the proxy vote, fastened themselves upon the management of our corporations, to live on, but not by them. They sit Uke an incubus on our industry. They came into power under the shadow of the large owners who laid out our mills, and for years carried them forward with success. ‘The latter have nearly all passed away, their estates been d@ivided and their shares sold out to the people. Among these widely scattered and divided interests designing men of name and inflaence have succeeded in fastening themselves and relatives in our places of power, which ‘ve made to be sinecures. These offices, filled with the snobbery of Boston, constitute the present cottonocracy of Massachusetts. They are men without much capital in the corporations, some of the chief managers in them often owning buta single share. Their predecessors once held the political power of the State; but that has passed ‘away with them, and the present cottonocracy have little fmfluence on our political action. Individually the officers of our manufacturing corporations are many of them in- terested in the commission houses of Boston that sell our goods; and such would not hesitate to eat dirt for trade, as they do to keep their places; but aside from those, our citizens express their sentiments, and act on them openly, without regard to consequences. ‘The republican sentiment predominates largely here; but yet our people as a whole are conservative, Union lov- fg and order maintaining, disposed to adhere to their constitational obligations. The same is true of the masses of other manufacturing cities and towns in this vicinity. ‘They are ready to aid im preserving the purity and integ- rity of the Union; to maintain the constitation as recelved from ite framers, and abide by the laws of their country. ‘They condemn and discountenance the late raid of John Brown and his associates, and believe their fate was merited, although there are those who think that ‘‘jastioe might have been tempered with mercy.”’ The people aro wot disposed by themselves or their influences to infringe fm the remotest manner upon the rights of any portion o @ur common country. While a large majority are proba- bly opposed to the further extension of slavery, particu- Jarly to that part of the country from which it was pro- hibited by the Missouri compromise, they are willing to eoncede to the slaveholder all the its and privileges which the consttution secured to him. Were foreign enemies to invade the South, the men of New Eo; would rush to the assistance of their Southern brethren as did their ancestors in Revolutionary days. It must be admitted , however, thag there is a clase of per- sons among us, claiming to belong to the republican party, but little removed trom Garrisonianism, which belongs to no political party, who are loud toned and deaunciatory in their language towards the South. They are few in mumbers, at jeast in this vicinity; but what they lack in numbers they make up in noise. They falsely assume to speak the sentiment of Massachusetts, and their views are too often regarded in other sections of the country as being that of the whole people. Their numbers, as stated above, are small, and their influence still less at home, they being Jooked upon as a species of monomaniacs, unfit to be irust- ed with the affairs of State; and they and their sentiments are never endorsed by the prople. These men would deify John Brown and his confede- rates, and are ready to uphold every assazsin, had they the power, who would murder and commit other crimes to carry out their views. Sach meu should never be re- garded as representing the views of the North any more than the expressions of the “fire catera’’ of the South ought to be congidered as representing the senti ment of the people of that section of the country. A Union nee was held in this city Dec. 29, which was largely attended by members of all parties. 0. M. ‘Whipple, one of our most wealthy citizeus, presided, and resolutions offered by Dr. J C. Ayer were unanimously adopted. The resolutions were to the effect that the citi- zens of Lowell repudiate the acts and designs of John Brown and confederates; disapprove all attempts to iater- fere with the rights and internal policy of our sister States, discountenance sectional fanaticiam, whether North or South, and deciare that the perpetuity of the federal Union was paramount t all political consideratioas. Speech's were made by Dr. J.C. Ayer, A. R. Browa General B. F. Butler, late democratic candidate for Go- vernor and delegate elect to the Oharieston Oonvention. ‘The meeting wes very enthusiastic, the Union sentiments of the speakers being frequently cheered. Ag an evidence that the people of this community are not bound up in the nigger, it may with truth be said that the reorpt veto by Governor Banks of the clause in the to become members of military companies, was received ‘with enthusiasm by nearly all classes, and has added very moch to the popularity of his Excellency. Heloer’s Compendiam is mach sought after by men of ‘ell classes, the recent exciting debates in having created a curiosity to read ite contents, rather than with = view to endorse them asa whole. One travel agent recently stated in this city that he had a de: for 700 of the book, which he could a» p-ocare in Boston. late terrible calamity at Lawrence created an in- ‘xcitement iu this city. United to usby ‘and rolationship—in fact being an nine miles distant—built up and this city, hor griefs ara felt as oar r citizens went down there on {he the benevolent task of removing Laqrence, like ourselves, is ruled by the pretentious of family scions, and this disaster is felt of this system under which we of this corporation wore selected their family connections, and withoat sappored or known fitness for their cuties. It was known when the Pemberton Mill was bailding ‘was done without experience or competency of the charge—that Structare was insufficient and Gapgerous, and has been considered unsafe ever since. ie the tesiimony of tho mason woo laii tho iis, and such is the concurrent testimouy of may who watched their progress, ere is a instance where Massachusetts, with all her philanthropy, permitted men in charge of her minufas- tarivg interests to be more reckless of the lives of ber AH if 3 SPERESE Te all its borrid consequences. Ful of Muscles and sinews, whica, la a with a black skin, wonld bring # mi ere in the South coald be foaud aa as. id trnat this amount of ytmpathy they have for ton of doilara. socistion of slavehoiters tbat Property (to say nothing of th Uhetr fervauis) in @ trap totleringto ite fal!,and which muet sooner or later crush in one horrible ruin its hundreds of victims and thousands of hearts? OUR SPECIAL BOSTON CORRESPONDENCE, , Boston, Jan. 11, 1260, The Black Plag Flying a! the Capitel—Pr lic Sontimest on te Present Condition of Political Afairs—The Trate of Becton swith the South-—the Propowd New Steamship Linna—Pawoity in Southern Orders Bosom Merchants as National Mom—The Patriotism of the Mastet—Secediny Republicans—New American Organisations, &:., de. The binck fag literally flies at the Capitol of this Com- monwealth, for the republicaus in power have painted Diack the poor Indian whose form has ¢o long been stand- ing In the Beato cont of arma. The ebony fignrs faunte from whe fidgstatf on the dome of the State House when ever the wiscom of the Commonwealth congregstes to wate and unmake the laws. It is anderstood that this expressive symbol of the John Brown sympathizers was mot We ounce pion of his Excellency Covernor Banks. ‘Taking thet black flag as astarting point—asan acknow- | yedgment of the supremacy of the negropHilists in Massa- chusetts—one of your especials will look around and give an unprejudiced transcript of things as they oxist here, the views and opinions of its men—the upper few, the middie conserves and the lower masses. Also he will en- deavor to furnish an account of the “‘ state of trade,” com- mercially, socially, politically and religiously, between the North and the South, as the various elements are here evolved in the course of time and the progress of events. ‘As regards the metropolis, Boston, a majority of ite solid, reliable, effective population detest the existing sec- tional controversy. The minority are zealots, who are Jed by men of undoubted talents and one-eye 1 genius; and there is still what may not be inaptly termed a middie class, politically speaxing—those, for instance, who love the nigger well, but their country more. Among this class you will find some merchants, a fow bank officers, and here and there a millionaire. Men of property know and say that any community that counte- nances such forays as that of Harper’s Ferry encourages and invites the incendiary and the assassin to visit their own homes. They reagon selfishly, perhaps; but it is un- questiovably the reasoning of common sense. The condition of the trade of Boston with the South is rather anomalous. To illustrate: some of the leading merchants have been for years endeavoring to get up a line of steamships between Boston and the Southern ports. Those who have attended their meetings for such Purposes know that there is no lack of the spirit of enter- prise. Politicos do not to any extent, if at all, enter into the considerations pro or con. The only question is, will it pay? Settle that point, and the thing is accomplished. ‘Thuc it is that two iron steamships are now in the course of construction for the new line between Byston and Charleston, S. C., it having been satisfactorily ascertained that the line between here and Baltimore pays princely, and that the figures look smilingly for a similar return from the outlay on the line to the Palmejto State. Your especial hears, from the best authority, that the process of the construction of those steamers has not beon retarded entet wo pay, there cannot be any doubt about its ahead, Again: meet- {mgs at once hopeful and full of ses and cash have been held in the of wi some of our sound- est merchants have . in regard to the estab. lishment of a line of steamers between Boston aud New Orleans. Political events may cast a shadow over this movement at this time; for Ubat the operations, thus far, are notin acondition for public developement, but prove that it will “pay,” and all the insurrections in the world will not prevent Boston merchauts from investing trough ia thorough siple,” hs fortunstapertaps, that yle. perhaps, most of the leading Boston merchants are national in their son to dou thelr entering int an nproming specule- fon yal ent an un cul tion, whether it be the establishment of a line of btoam: LM eg etiam or the opening of a gravel trade wi completes the anomaly in the OfBoston and the South. It is a fact that the agents of some of our leading houses have returned from the South without their usual orders. It is also afact that houses who do not send agents abroad to solicit or to receive orders bave a list of Southern customers at this time like unto the of Falstaf's bréad to sack. It is fur- thermorea that our shoemakers—and you mus! koow that every eighth being in Massachusetts is a shoemaker— have a most gloomy prospect, their Southern orders have failed, and some of the rns will follow suit to the word. Yet, with all this gloom, with all this abolition of a trade that should have been fostered by every sound consideration of State policy and Brinapl, you may bo assured that if danger menaced Union from abroad, or if another Jobn Brown raid should be be avowed and publicly advocated, the great mass of the people, nine-tenths of the population, ‘would rush to the standard of patriotism. Yet it is ap- parent that some of the political leaders in the republican Tanks fear to touch John Brown. The old man threw around himself and his marderous deeds so much of the Py ys element—an element all potent in Massachusetts, in interior—that they dare not desert him; and yet they hesitate to embrace him. Like the hypocondriac who imagined himself delivered of a hedgehog, they say of the Harper’s Ferry affair, ‘It isn’t very pretty, dat I I must love it.”” it while the politicians are endeavoring to soften the character of the acts of Brown, the body of the re- iblicans— the men who voto—utterly and entirely repu- ee eee cae be held responsi- deeds will retire from the party ogether. And in this connection it may be ‘stated that the American party of this State have begun to organize Union clubs, into which the seceding repubii- fo lock. “They calnlate upon a strong of 20,0 tog to flor upon a ,000 in Presidential election Bostos, Jan: 14, 1860. The Negro as he is Understood in Massaghusetts—A Democra- tic Dinner—The Universalists and the Catholics Coalesce— Governor Banks—Bz-Governor Seward—The American Vote, de. The status of the rogroes, or, as they are termed in New England, the ‘colored people,” here is simply this:—They are respected as a class by politicians, because they have votes; by philanthropists, because they are considered a down-trodden race, and by rascals of all dyes, because they have bones and sinews, and intelligence enough to give them a power whore the whites are weak, effeminate, unsteady. The preponderance, so far as Massachusetts is concerned, is whitish, and yet the black flag flaunts from the Capitol The biack interest is belched from most of our pulpita, although, now and then, we have an oasis in the de- sert of pulpit wretchednesg, in the shape of somesuch man ag was the chaplain at the banquet g’ven by the Jackson Club, at the Revere House, on Mog v evening last, in honer of the anniversary of the a& Ne @ Orleans. Taking the remarks of that gentloom 4 as a significant point, we are forced to the conclusion that one religious sect, the Universalists, as a class, are distinctly in favor of the whites. And, taking the remarks of another religion- ist, Mr. Patrick Donohue, editor of the Catholic Pilot, as a type of ancther class, we are sustained in the opinion that extremes have met, and that the Presidential canvass of 1860, now just entered upon, will be one of harmony | among the ew Bn its religious element, but of dis- jointed and possibly irreconcilable anti affiliation in some of the moet practical and essential points. For a basis, take the American (s0 called) vote of this State—twenty thousand strong. That vote will bo cast for Governor Banks. His two years ameudment agains’ the foreigners will be oversiaughed oe superior—and, as some of the republicans ro term = it—the superd action of the Chicago Convention. Ex-Governor Seward is a favorite here only among the extremists in the republican party—not the real abolitionists, who are a despised and des; class—but among men who pre- NEW YORK. OUR CAYUGA BRIDGE CORRESPONDENCE. a Carvaa Baras, Jan. 12,1860. Views of the Irrepressible Conflict in New York State— Pnside Prepat Republican Policy—The Presidential Campaign— Trouble Caused Amongst the Republicans by the Candi dacy of General Soott—The Cagger and itichmond Clique Meditating @ Bolt at Charleston, dc., Bs. In old times Cayuga Bridge, asevery tolerably read man knows, was famous, no lees as a political than a geographi- cal landmark, in our State. It was in this neighborhood that apti-Masonry took ita rise, and 20 long as that faction- had an existence it could command majorities in nearly every county west to Lake Erie, throughout waich por- tion of the State the democratic party never gained much of a foothold, though itcould roil majorities achieved in the the eastern and middle counties up against this politi- cal bulwark in thoagands sufficiently numerous pinewen tines out of twenty tocarry the State. In a real senso, Gayuga Bridge may be said to hava been, for 1, wards of twenty years, the scene of an “irrepreesibie conflict” in which the weat overcame the east, and which fiaally re- sulted in wiping out the hitherto invincible democratic ma- Jorities, even up to the Mohawk Bridge, which, a3 a potui- cal boundary line, has come t> occupy the pace of the once famous Cayuga Bridge, from whence this or ig dated. ‘This brief remiviscence, which at once opens a wide fickd that might be explored with inlorest, sorves to carry the mind back over ao oyent- fai period in the political history of our State. Oar dating Place, therefore, becomes at once suggestive, and ah idea: and wheth r chotea for this reason, or for a more literal one, matters not Standing on the old Cayuga Bridge, with the last twenty years in the mind’s eye, it is c.oult to comprenond that MORNING EDITION—MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1860. which is now true of the real, fixed, conscientious (or | What is worse, fanatical) sentiment and purpose that un. | questionably animates the great mass of the people, from | the shorcs of Lake Erie, not only up to this ancient land- mark, but, like a torrent, has swept onward over the in- terior, carrying with it the Tenth Legion even to the Mohawk, and that threatens to pass on to the Hudson, where commerce first feels the tidal pulse. ‘What is this sentiment/—this purpose? Of course I mean touching the topic of the day, slavery. ‘You of the great city of New York, and of other cities, may hold your monster Union meetings, adopt your stately resolves, make your record clean, re-dreas your patriotism in new and spotless robes, and. stand as one man, invincible for the Union; it is nevertheless a solemn fact, palpable, ineffaceable as the cloudless sun at noon- day, that in all that part of the State lying west of the Mobawk, where the republican vote is much the largest, the preponderating senuments concerning the late wicked and murderous auempt of John Brown at insurrection, is regret that he did not succeed, and intense admiration for the man. I say this is the sort of feeling that lies nearest to the heart of a majority of the voung population, em bracing, of course, nearly the whole of the republican party throughout the west, the interior, the south, the tort, up to the Mohawk. it may not as yet have fount ® voice—it may never be expressed; but could men be allowed to act wholly free from consequences or responsi bility—if they could strike and never be seen or knowo— this ia the substance of what they would go and do. Let me not be accused of sympatby with this of I only write what a free miogling masses hes taught mo, aod will teach any one, is the sentiment that has taken deepest hold on the masses. The more remote you get the more sharply defined is the fact. To-day, Wendell Phillips ut ters concerning John Brown and slavery what is more acceptable to the mass, (certainly of the republican party im New York), than EAward Everett. The truth is, the Phillipees, the Curtises, the Maria Childses, an‘i the like, have come to be the real leaders of the republican party. Not that they have lowered their tone or standard, bu: that fanaticism bas grown to their standard. What has produced this growth in fanaticism it is not necessary to discuss now. We are only dealing with the fact as it is, Such is republicaniwm in New York today. Whether this inside feeling will be suffered to show iteelf in all things touching the action of the party is another ques. tion. Because such is actually the inside sentimeat of nipe-tenths of the repubhcans, it does not necessarily fol- low that all prudence will be abandoned by the leaders, or that diversity of views as to ®@ Presidential candidate cannot exist in the . The leaders know very well that while this species of fanaticism will enable them at any time to burl two hundred and fifty thousand votes in any direc- tuon—in fact, that it seems 9s the very best kind of dis- cipline—it will not do to gratify all its demands, for just at present one of the cards of the leaders of the republi F gomogye not for homo, but foreiga consump. tion. Hence, while much notse and fuss will be per- witted in the Legielature over the Personal Liberty bill, good care will be taken that no such bill passes this win: ter. Its failure will be so managed as to veil the precon- certed design, and yet meke fanaticism all the sharper for the next onset, and for all kindred enterprises. Thus tae Personal Liberty bill at Albany will fail this winter, and none but the leaders will know how it happened, not withstanding the republicans have two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature, aud the mass of the party demand the law. The leaders have certain objects to achieve before committing that particular outrage. As to a diversity of views among republicaas concern ea their Presidential candidate, such diversity does actu. all re. although, as a general thing, to be a repuolican in New York has beea only another thing for an enlist- mett in favor of personal Sewardism. It is an indisputa- ble fact that Greeley and the Zriune some time sinco “went pay ir. Seward, and mainly for Mr. Batea, though the likes have not as yet come to be as strong as the dislikes. Between Greeley and Weed, as the representa. tives of Sowardism, there is far from tne most cordial un- derstanding. , the compliments that have lately passed between these gentlemen have not been of the most endearing sort. This breach has been widened lately ys) the criticisms of the Pribume upon the recent action of the Republican Committee in fixing the time and ace of the Presidential Convention of th ty. In ‘ition to these intercsting features of the “inside vie ‘the republican party, it may be stated that several “old stagers” have Jately put their heads together to concert measures for procuring delegates to the Chicago Convention opposed to Mr. Seward. For fortber information the curious should apply to the Hoa. Truman Snith, formerly of Connecticut, now of your city. The bringing forward of the name of the Great Paci cator, General Winfield Scott, as tho one on which tho le can sucessfully upite,and thereby rescue the m from fanatics and factiouists at cither end of the | Union, and place the federal government in the hands of one who, after more than forty years of importact aud varied servico, has seemingly been spared finally to save strife—I gay tho use the ensuing canvass has given republicaa leaders great trouble in epirit. It is a remarkable fact that a great many of the men in our land, heavily exercised my state of things in oar country, had, without apy concert, but each one for him self, not that even a@ single other mixd was thus employed, were looking towards General Seott as the man on whom to unite as leader in these perilous times. Hence his name bas been publicly suggested. This remarkable coincidence has beenshown by the correspondence that haz taken place. From correapondence with the h of the peo ple—by which I mean not mere poiiticians, bat thiakieg, patriotic, representative men all over the eoantry—as ‘well as from afree mingling with the people thems:!ves, lam entirely persuaded that even the most ardent friend of General Scott bas not sufficiently estimated the degree of favor with which the proposition to make bim a caadi- date at this time is received. This ieehng is not conflaed | to nor is itchiefly found among those partial friends and | admirers of tbe man and his services always to be found | all over the country, Dut it is among the sober, reflecung | | | men, who feel a deep concern at the perils that menace the ‘republic, and are looking about for the moans of escaping from them, aud who, when acting together, have | the power to move an empire. That the land is not fill-d | with ehouts ig no proof that there is no deep feeling. It ig one that will not make a fuss, nor expend itself ia prema- ture and aimless explosion, or fruitiess exploits of any kind. As Cayuga Bridge is on one of the central thorough"ares through our State, agood many people of at! sorts—some of them politicians and party leaders-- come this way ; some of them “stop over,” and thus one way and another wo pick up a@ good many things that do not get jutothe pa- pers. Itisan admitied fact, I believe—a bit of philoso phy of the human charaster—that men when they get away from home become communicative and confidential. ‘On no other principie could a leading democrat, who ba9- pened to be here lately, have induiged himseif so feoely as he did while speaking of metters and things in general Among other things, the prospect of a “al brenk up ‘at the Charleston Convention, and of ths Cagger aad Rich- mond delegation being foremost in the row, was freely admitted. t begins to come out now that, true to the old policy of the barnburnera in this State, of bolting whenever they fail to carrying their points, the Cagger an‘ Ricbmond Regency are meditating a bolt at Charles- ton. In the heart of thie organization is the aboli tionized faction of 1848—the ‘‘corner stone’ men, who pitched the tune. which the repubticana afr wards took up. It is hard work for them to keep step with the national democracy. In fact,a good many of hem, ‘who have not found a home among the republi- cans, are soured with regrets thereat sofis are old hauas at bolting; and it having been a good while ince they have had an opportunity of poem bic their pro- ponsity for the thing, many of them, ospeciaily the Cas sidy wing of them, are growing a little impatient for a bolt and a jolly row generally. Be this as it may, | tainly fs urue that the leaders of the Cagger uni Rich- party have begun to talk among themselves of the contingency of a bolt at Charleston. ee the Syracuse Convention, w! carried so high a hand, they have Deen sad! ry a succession of events and a variety of circumstances. In the be gen election ‘was a disaster, for all they got, les proof of their ‘weakners, was through the Know 5 came Wood's success in your city, whieh nearly broke their these events comes the 2 by false shading, the delegation ns a whole, in caso they found themeelves holding the winning card, shoal 1 go for feymour. This isthe way Cugger & 0. supposed they haa fixed things. But the resuit of the election, the suc- cess of Wood, and certatn other ht ing, have operated £0 a8 quite tO spoil their game. They some time vince? | gave up the idea of Seymour, although they continued tho dry nursing under which he waa placed at flat. A unanimous vote for Douglas was next talked of a3 their policy; but it some time since turnad oxt that they might as well have ed @ unanimous sup: port iv Brigham Young, for ail the chances of success there were. And pow, as ct jocroases that even if they are admitted into the Charieston Convention a, al! it Will be to beck seats, they begin to talk among themsei 8 of a bolt, and a repetition of the row of 1848. Of course they will place such & stop on the alleged high haui24 measures and demands of the South, and ao on; but who does not know that these corner stone barvburners will go anything if they but win the Rpalls? Much wore hes been dropved here of an interesing ebaracter on this and kinired topics. besides vo ittie amount and variety of Ip concerning men’ ant things generally, for which I bave not room tn this epistle. WHITE SLAVERY IN ENGLAND AND BLACK SLAVERY AT THE SOUTH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New Yorn, Jan. 12, 1960, | In these days of abolition discussion and excitement, 1 ink it would be well to iovk ootagionally to other coun. es and their condition in reference to evils which are | charged by fanatics as artslag from tye system of slavery. Tn Frederick Law Osmeted’s book, entitled “Walks ant Talk | page 275, 7 find the following | this part of England (i paseng reford, Monmouth, Be oe ~——— brutal and licentious creatures thet we saw in the king- dom. We were told that they wore of the purest Saxon blood, as was, indeed, indicated by the frequency of blue eyes and light bair among them; but I did not sce in Ire- Jand, or in Germany, or in France—oor aid | ever see among our negroes or Indiana, or among the or Malay®, men whose tastes were euch mere instincts, or whoee purpose of life and whose mode of life were 80 Taw, 00 Ue that of domestic aniumgis altogether, as these farm “T was greatly pained, mortified and ashamed of old Mother England in acknowledging this, and the moro so that I found so few Evglishmen who realized it, or who, realizing it, seemed to fee! that any one but God, wrh his Jaws of population and trade, was at all accountable for it, Even @ most intelligent and distinguished radical, when | alluded to this clement as @ part of the character of the country, in replywg to certain very favorable he had been making of Eogland with other countries, said :—'We are not used to regard that class in forming ® judgment of national character.’ Aad yet T suppose that class is larger nomers than any other im the commopity of Kogland.”’ Mr. Olmsted is now Superintendent of the Central Park, and his testimony, I presame, will not be ques- "tioned by apy one. Let us, then, coase to taunt the South as the centre of all that is vile aod corrupt, owing to its system of slavery, with this picture of he present condition of England before us. Without slavery, we here find ® more degraded condi- tion of the laboring population than, according to Mr. Cimsted, can be found in any country he bas seen. The North has quite enongh to do to take care of her own evils and dangers, while the South justly says ehe has not interfered in any way with’9ar interoal affairs. i that the present excitement will Trad ulti- mately toa union of all parties, both North and Soath, who sincerely desire the permauence of our gtorioos sys- tem of republican government, to tht utter rout aod dis comfture of the traitors who would overthrow jt, I have the honor, sir, to subscribe myself JUSTIM A. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Bostox, Jan. 9, 1860. Tread the Hrratn, and feel a deep interest in the dis- cussion of the slavery question, and admire your articles on this subject. Allow me to suggest_you will find some very powerful arguments in “Colman’s Practical Agricul- published in 1856, by J. C. Derby, New York. Colman was a pative of Massachusetts. He was sent out to Eur by the Nationel Agricultural Society of the United States, and I think Massachusetts aided him pecu niarily. He gives a reliable report of the condition of the ulation of Europe, which, contrasted with ves at the South, shows, as Charles 0'Uonor expreeves it, that glavery ia a benign institution. Some extracts from it at She greens, time wiil do good. For ia. stance, in vol. }, page 56, alluding to the gang aystem in England, he showe, on government authority, that 70 out of a 100’of the girls become prostitutes. Their wages are a mere pittance, &c. In vol. 2, page 579, ha says, * South Carolina slavery, as far as the physical comforts of the laborer are concerned, has many advantages over this.’” LECTOR. NECESSITY OF AN INTERSTATE LaW FOR THE PROTECTION OF BLAVE PROPERTY. TO THE EDITOR OF THB HERALD. New York, Jan. 12, 1960. ‘The time has arrived for the order loving citizene of this republic to come to the rescue. It i¢ necessary to return to first principles and practices, such as the founders of our government establishea. These are found in the history of the past. The constitution of the thirteen original United States found them al! slave States but one. That instrument was made by free white men, as the self-governing power, and tho status of the colored races was provided for as inferior and dependent on the white, The slaves were deemed pro perty within each State, so far as the local law provided, and persons having certain personal and legal righte; and a right. of passage of masters with their slaves from Stdte to State was a univer. fal custom and an acknowledged legal right. This was 80 when aod g utter the constitution was a lopte Runping off slaves and the reception of runaway slaves were strongly condemned by public cpinion. Our revised statutes provided for more than a right of passage. They provided for # nine months’ reai- dence of a master and hig domestics, though slaves, within “this State, as a recognition of the coustitational comity of our Union. All the other States recogaized the same principle and the same practice, though the times were differeut. As there rights arise trom the equality of the States and their unity, they are of re 4 & part of our constitutional law, and not a privilege wholly dependent on the consent of a State. The time of such allowed residence varted iw the several Biates,end if Cougress, by act, were to regulate thie matter, and make a general act of Congress upon the basis of our nine monthe Revised Statute provision, tt would be well Inter-State commerce is within the power of Congrers, and the sooner an act is passet the better. That act would end a fertile source of contro- versy. Ry a return to the above principles and prac- tices, and by tne above act, the slavery agitation would be gotten rid of, and Congress might devote ite attention to ovr foreign affairs, and to the important inveres‘s of our republic. Fr. THE LATE CASE OF LYNCH LAW IN SOUTH CAROLINA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. As long a8 the incendiary abolition papers alone took notice of the expulsion from our State of one James Power, it was not worth while to give them a true statement o. facte, as the publication thereof could not baye been ex- pegted; but after reading the comments on their remarks on the subject in your issue of the 4th tnet., it may be as well to give you the unvarnished trath in relation to the individual above mentioned, and leave all who are not blinded by prejudice or wild fanaticism to draw their own conclusions. An esitorial article in the Independent of December 29, 1869, beaded “An Irishman’s sufferings in South Carolina,” states that said “ Power” had called at their office, and they bad listened to bis story. No doubt they did, and any- body who reads their concluding paragraph attached to the Useve of falshoods and garbled facts, as told to them by bim, will see the érift of the whole matter. They wish to get tbe foreign and especially the Irish vote over to their party. James Power, in tattered clothes and forlorn condition, applied for work at the new State House in Cotambia, $C, representing tbat he hai scarcely been able to ob- tain any employment since he left Phitadelphia The shops of the new State House were crowded with stone- cutters; but he was allowed atrial. Among his earlier exploits was that of spencing his firat month’s wi io drunkenness and rintons couduct, of which interesting oc- enpation he was cured by being accommodated witn a room ip the lock-up. Upen promises of reform and tteady conduct, be was retained at work dariug the sum- mer and fall months. Shortly before his discharge from the work, a gentleman in this city missed @ vainable dog, and wheo it astound in Power’s poasession, he stated that he had stolen it in order to obtain a reward which he thought its owner would offer; and, upon being interro- gated ag to what part of the world produced su:b a poor spevimen of humanity, he replied that ne was born and red in Connecticut. Before bis discharge from the work he bad heen repeatedly warned by his fellow work- men to desiat from making attempt: to gain proselytes to abolitioniem—some of hia a‘vances being actually made to men Southern born and raised. After indulging in one or two more drunken frolics, he was ¢! from the work, and 80 far from being ar- Testes by a ‘vigilance committee,” he was taken by the Sheriff op a ball writ, issued to recover ® debt of come forty dollars, run up by him in a grogshop, and of which amount he was endeavoring to cheat his creditor vy ap- sconding. His stat arg Well Worthy of being relied on from the fact that when here he said he was @ native of And now represents himscif as being an Iriebmian; seconaly, they may be taken, because having been drunk and disorderly, the police were under the né@ ceetity of extending to him the hospitalities of the watch house; thirdly, he is a strictly reliable character, being an adept io the Honorable profession of dog staaling, and fourtbly, be Iansit vig tones suranecenn) 4 Leng making a jab! among us, w abs. Mtiontze all he thought he could aporoach, and has conse- quentiy proved bimerelf a good law breaker—all vory re- deeming traite of character. There is no dissatiafaction at his al ce from our city, and you may rest assured fered Le Boog of bis stampcome this way the probs- bility is they will not get off as easiiy as ‘Poor Power.” A LOVER OF TRUTH. Covcwma, 8. C., Jan. 10, 1860. THE STATISTICS OF SHOWN e HELPER'S BOOK UP. ym tha Moston Post.) A late number of the Jowrnal contains, under the caption, an elaborate (pufl of Heloer's fafamas book, over the signature of 8..”? not the distiugtiaho authoress of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,’ we take i:—for at taet aecounts she was in Milan, Lombardy, admiring th: statuary im the Koman Catholic churches and giving a cold shoulder to toe ebarity boxes in their vestibules The writer of this adv: t. be, calle this repub: “ewonderfal book.” It ts xo, “wor statistics, ae well ag “wonterful for ity a menia, calculated to alt ona section of the Uoion from another, to sever the North froin the South, to dis golve the tise which biod together our natioua! confese archy throughout the land and Ireuch the flag of our Union wm biond f “Mr Relver deale to stativties. flgures, numeral faete,”? pays the writer—" His (acu are lndisymtable—his theory that stavery ie & curse is th Joy weer! aot his facte—and ‘his couvapeons Vindication of a trae principle twabove the language of praise. He isthe Brutus of toe hour; and Bo mse eho reas the Congreseimal record, can fal) W gee tbat the dagwer 18 rencling Cesar’y heart” Now we propore ty thow the tailsey of gome of those “Sudiepwtable facis.”” Wr lor Bays = cones repert of ihe United States sbowe that in =the dried craas—of tbe free States wae cart yee than all the har, and oc, bud Cotten of rt shows no sach thing On page the ‘value of the tea ja 1860." The The tact censure rep 76 of the Coinpendintn, we tla gi agricultural proavets of Wwe United 3. and Wiltehire) were the most degraded, poor, stupid, value of the above named staples are estimated ag fv! lows :. ‘Thus it will be seen in 1860, exceeded the value of lions of dollars. One twelfth of the value tet neees es cees sane ess S184,/212,086 the ha oes sotion siost, nearly two mil- 4 Be the hay crop—say eight millions’ worth—was raiged at the South. ‘This would leave the excess of Soutbern cotton at full ten millions of dollars over the Northern hay, while the larger value of the tobacco, cane sugar, hemp and rice swells it to over focty five millions of dollars ($45,341,692). So much for this superlatively false imate, which the Journal bas given its columns to disseminate among the people of New Ergland who have not easy access to the real facts. Similar false statements have from time to time: d in the New York Tribune and other repub- lican sheets, and never been before thown up, to our knowledge. It is more that the statistics of Helper’s lying book were prepared in the Tribune office, the conductors using Helper’s name to father falee See, whieh they would not risk the little repu- tation they have left to do openly. ‘Again, Ho)per’s endorser in the Journal weitos:— When Mr. Helper tovehes commerce and manufactures figures scald with their sarcuem. Tonnage of she free States, sea pone (foreign exchangeable values), 167 to 107; im- por ol, « Tonpage of the tree States, four to one.”” Where was itemployed? In carrying the hay crop w fe a ports to pay for importation or take the cash? No. appval report of the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress: for 1851-2, the succeeding year, it does not that a tipgle ton of hay was exported. (See 42) Ine: porting Northern manufactured articles Of the total ex- porte ($192,508,964), more than one hundred and ninety- two miilions, the South exported more than one half, not including specie—eay full one hundred millions. Of the balance, ninety-two millions, nearly two-thirds, wae in specie ($37,437,837), and manufactures of all kinds fur- nished only ($7,672,151) legs than eight millions. Thisshows where the topnage of the frce States was employed, 80 far as it was paying to carry abroad our exports, and thus help support our industry ani pay up for over two hun- dred and twelve millions of foreign goods imported during that year ($212,045,44z). We have eaid thatthe hay paid nothing. ‘Northern manufactares ‘a fraction over seven anda half millions. Vi ie food raised North and South, including wheat, flour, Ceyrritne rice and potatoes, paid nearly twenty millions ($19,882,- 588). Here is some thirty all told paid by the North in productions that year for our importations. ‘Where did the balance come from? From the export of specie and Soutbera produetions. The exvort of cotton was over ecighty-seven millions a obmapeary nearly ‘twice the export of Northern and agricultu- rai produce. The value of tobacco exported exceeded ten Millions more ($10,031,283); of rice nearly two and a balf millions ($2,471,029}; to say nothing of the products of the Southern forests, and making no account of the Sonth’s proportion of the’ thirty-seven militons of specie which was exported to pay balances against us, Jens y, about five millions imported during the same year. Our Northern tonnage, then, must have been employed to a very large extent in shipping Southern cotton and to. bacco to pay for tbe iron for our Northern railroads, wool for our Northern manufacturing establishments, dry goods for the ladies, linseed, sugar, coffe, tea, hides, &o. In this view of afew plain facts, what then must be thonght of the sixty eight distinguished republican mem- bers of the last Congress whe have endorsed, over their own signatures, this lying Helper book, to further excite the North against the South, and thus make a little more “bleeding Kaneas” capital for the next Presidential cam- paign Le ae will our Sorgen ee iene nal, and its correspopcent, who calls Helper ‘Beutas of the hour,” the democratic party “‘niggercrats,”” &e.? SALE OF SLAVES IN PETERSBURG, VA. A bale of fourteen slaves was msde in Petersburg on the lith inat., incluaing men, women and children. They brought $16,575. The Late Capture of the Slave Yacht Wanderer. ‘Wo have received a letter from Mrs. Dresser, of Bruns wisk, Me., stating in emphatic terms that the adven- turous individual late in command of the slave yacht Wanderer, who represented himself as Lincola Pat- ten, of Bath, Me., and subsequently alloged, by par- ties pretending to knowfhim, to be a Captain Dresser, of Brunswick, Me., is not her husband, but an impostor. Our information as to the identity of the individual men- tioned in an article a few weeks ago, was derived from a firet class firm in this city, and they, we are assured, were guided by no other than the purest motives to serve the ends of public justice, gave us our information. There has evidently been a confusion of facts in this case, = ‘Mrs. Dresser, in her letter, admits the truth of cortain allegations in our former article. Without the slightes desire to wound the feelings of thy’ of an hones ses captain, now absent on a legitimace voy! we would recommend a suspension of public opinion until the mat- ter can be investigated. Woe are further assured by Mrs. Dreseer that ber husband has not been in this city for a period of ten years, nor in New Orleans jor ,the past four years. ‘A poor, brainless fellow, who edits a paper at the tail end of the United States, gets terribly wrathy about our tg and gets off the following lucubration in regard it:— ‘Some miserable fool has set a story afloat that one of our own citizens, by the name of Dresser, is of tbe yacht Wanderer. It is sufficient to say that thero is not one word of truth in the statement. 16 poor crea- ture imposed upon the Portland Argus, in sending a com Tounication to that paper. If the correspondent was an animal enough to be born with ears, they ought to be cropped”? ‘Alter writing the above, our exchange papers reached us with the statements reiterated, that Captain Dreaser, of this town, was captain of the Wanderer, and had been engaged in the slave trade. This demande that we should treat the matter in a little more serious style. We will choke that lie, at allevents. Cuptian Gilman Dresser, to whom the paragraph refers, has been at home since the fret of November, and sailed only last week, in a large ship, from Portland to New Orleans. Ho has had no more wo do with the Wanderer than with the man in the moon, and no one here believes that he ever had the least con- nection with the slave trade. “We observe that one of the New York papers has a long article, purporting to give an account of the career of Coptain Dresser, ail, or pearly all,of which is the merest fancy. Come, gentlemen, lie now about a captain from some other State, Three of ours have had to stand their hand, and that is quite enough.” Our New Mexico Correspondence. Cenotueta, N. M., Dec, 16, 1859, Mecting of the Territorial Assembly—Invarion of Sonora— Naval and Sccial Improvement of the territory, dc. The time for the meeting of the Territorial Assembly being at hand, the representatives from the various coun- ties are hasiening to the seat of government. As none that I bave seen have any ides of what business will be transacted, I cannot give you any general idea of tho probable proceedings. It is the general opinion that nothing of importance will be done. Numerous rumors are afloat concerning the raising of volunteers for an invasion of Sonora and Chihuahua, also reports as to the movements of United States troops in that direction. These reports are not generally credited. Capt. Blas Lucero, the veteran captain of the “ Spies,” it 1s thought will organize a company of rangers. The now officials, prefects, atcaide, alguaciles, &o., elected Inst September, are’ playing the very inischief with unliconsed groggeries nnd general dealers. Nam- bers of whiskey merchants and kuick-knack sellers have been arrested and fined, much to their surprise, and it may be to their edification. have been no murders latoly, a very unusual thing; in fact the country seems to be improving in morals. Business is remarkably dull, and but little money in circulauon. Drafts, heretofore eagerly sought after, are disposed of with great difficulty. Personal Intelligence Charles F. Loosey, Esq , ‘Acnrian teaet! General at the: port of New York, was amongst tho son beard the ker City for Hayaue on Saturday last. Mr. Locesy wil vi Porto Rico in his travels, and will be absert about two months. Fx-Governor Mattison and family, of Illinois, left Spring- field on the 10th inst., for New Orleans. Senator Clingman, who has been quite an invalid for nome weeks past, ia well enough to loave his lodgings, and proposes carly next week to deliver his speech the Senate, notice of which has been given. ‘The Hon. Joht Cochrane, of New York, who hag been covtned to hie bed for a few days past at Willards’, with & very pain{ul affection of the throat, is much bettor, Mr. Peck, the defaulting State Treasurer of Maine, has been bailed out of jail, the ball—$60,000—boing furnisbed by Portland parties. Mr. Peck bas gone to Augusta, in obedience to the summons of the Legialative Invostigating Committee. Mr. Thomas, of Portland, having doclined the office of Treasurer of tue State of Maine, Nathan Dane, of Alfred, was bornivated for the office by the repubilcans, and was elooted on Wee nesday, in couvention of the two branches. Mr. Dane ts said to be a gentieman of the highest charac- ter and landing. It ie supposed that be will accept. ‘The cilicial reception of the Princese de Metternich, wife of the A jas) Atm jor, took place on the afternooa of 20th ultimo at the Tellerics. Three court carriages, with ix horses each, went to fetch the Princces aud ber e in the Rue de Grenelic Saint Germain, and entered the Tuileries by the triumphal arch on the Place da Car- ronsel M. Horace Vernet has been charged by the French 0. yernment to patut a fuil length portrait of the Duke of Maxents, to be placed in the Historical Museam at Ver- sailles. Brooklyn City News. Cooxmmrrrr Bits —A large namber of counterfert five doar bills, on the Wamsutta Bau! (Rover, Mavs, were cirenlaut about the city Satarday night. Two young men, name CW. J.kloy, were ar- rested by the police of attoraptiog to pasa pais of the above denonuoation, and were mitted to auswer. Objects of the Congress Names of the Plenl- potentiaries— Biographical Sketches of the Representatives, Sreuneorpersecemenan ies Sessions Open in Paris, Thursday, January 19, 1860, &o., te, bo. The long deferred European Congress will meet in Paris on Thursday, the 19h inst. It will be one of the most interesting and important convocations of the Powers of the Old World that has ever been held. The eyes of the whole civilized world are now directed towards Paris, and the greatest interest is everywhere manifested as regard the themes which tha)l be brought up for discussion, and the spirit in whick they will be considered. Austria has recently published a “convocation circular,’’ in which Count Rechberg—one of ber representatives—eays that ‘‘certain modifications of the prelimivaries entered into both at Villafranca and Zurich have rendered the Congress necessary; and all representatives of the signers of the Treaty of Vienna, whether of high or low degree, will be convoked to bear apart.” It seemed very certain—up to the period of the publication of the late pamphlet of M. de la Guerroniere on Italian affairs, which bears the stamp of imperial inspira. tion—that Cardinal Antonelli would meet with Count Cavour at this important session, and os the opinions of the two statesmen are go diametrically opposed on Italian questions, some sharp controversies would, in such an event, be naturally expected to ensue between them. Count Rechberg engages his word that the Congress is to meet for the discussion of no other question than that of Italy. ‘This is in itself a matter of no slight difficulty, but at the same time it does seem probable that the opportunity will not be lost for coming to some conclusion on other long unsettled topics of paramount interest to all Karope. The fact that all those who were parties to the treaty of Vienpa have been invited to take part .in the present Congress would seem to imply that this already torn and damaged treaty is to be brought up for thorough remodelling, or, perhaps, to be torn up altoge- ther. The position of the exiled dukes, the Suez canal, the proceeding of the Pope in regard to the boy Mortara, the temporal authority of his Holiness, the war of Spain with the Moors and its ultimate tendency, are all questions which may directly or indirectly load to discussion, if nob to difficulty. Tho Paris Pays conceives that the present Congress will be far superior in its organization, and more strictly guided by the dictates of justice, than former assemblies of a similar character, The writer expresses himself in the following somewhat optimist style:— On the present occasion we shall not, as in past times, see diplomacy engaged in dividing and separating, in al- lotting and distributing populations without regard to their rights, their past career, their origin, and their naturatcon- nections; on the contrary, an old nationality will rise again, of which assembled Europe is about to confirm the deliver- ance and fix the conditions. Brate force will no longer im- pore its will, but the vaice of justice will be heard. Wo do not overlook the importance and difficulties of certain ques- tions still pending, but the good faith, equity aad accord of the Powers will be able toeolve them. All will be set- tled wisely and peaceably. Justice and right will prevail, in respecting all real interests, exaggerating no principles, and subjecting what is secondary to what is essential and fundamental. We await the issue with confidence. The Siéde thus exprenees its opinion on the subject:— italy. cided on, and if it has, that it will be possible it. ‘Tho sovereigns must hold to securing the worla by removing the causes of dispute. Powers are already preparing to bring before pean tribunal their grievances and their ‘The treatics of 1815 are now set aside. that a new international law which, worm eaten as it has been for falls completely into ruin. The attention of Switzerland fede towards Pog parts of vrai) which she con- 78 a8 Decesmary Protection her le ‘The Federal Council of Berne has just commusiented $0 the governments which will take part in the Congress long note on the ition of the provinces of Chablats of igny. r alterations in territory affect and the whole of Europe; and so soon as the Coagreas shall bave assembled we shali examine whether the pro- gramme adopted comprises all the questions which it is easential to solve. ‘The Débats expresses surprise at the language contained in Count Rechberg’s circular, which declares that repre- sentatives from Tuscany, Parma and Modena ought to be admitted to the diplomatic assembly as soon as those countries should have returned to a normal position, for the purpose of guaranteeing their completo independence. The Détats makes the following observations:— After the solemn declarations of the French govern- ment that the old sovereigns of Central Italy should not be restored by force, this language of M. de Rechberg’s Bg no little — ee eae astonishment will irther increased on readin; of the despatch in which M. de Rechberg (abd gh tn that the restoration of the Princes ex oelled by factions, and the re- establishment of Lie Pontifical government in the revolted provinces, must be the firstobject of the Congress. Such, if the Inesden Journal has given a correct abstract of the despatch, are the means which Austria thinks necessary to secure the tranquility of Italy. We must wait for the text of the despatch to know the precise truth on this subject. But if such are really the pretensions of Austria, we greatly doubt that they will be supported by France: and that doubt is justified by the well known intextions and forma! declarations of the French government, NAMES OF THE REPRESENTATIVES. France—Count Walewski and the Princo Latour d’Au- vergne. Exct.axp—Lord Cowley and Lord Woodhouse. Rvesia—Count Kiseeleff and Alexander Garstchakoff. Rvssia—Count Pourtales and Baron Schieinitz. Avereis—Count Rechberg and Prince Metternich. Srain—Senor Calderon Collantes and M. Mon. Barvixia—Count Cavour and the Chevalier Desambrols, Porrvcat—Count Havaradio and the Viscount de Paiva. Roms—Cardinel Autonolli. ‘We hereafter supply abbreviated biographical sketches of the plenipotentiaries of the various Powers who have been invited to the Congress, and we are satisfied that our readers will be better prepared to understand the views which they may severally ‘ake by reviewlug the course they havo hitherto pursued and the position they have held in regard to the politics of Europe. Notwithstanding that we have advices stating that the Pope declines taking part in the Congress ‘unless the rumored authorship of the pamphiet entitled ‘Le Pape et le Congrés’ be denied by Na- poleon,” wo have also given a sketch of the life of Cardi- nal Antonelli, whose voice will certainly be beard, if not in Paris, in the Eteroal City iteelf. THE BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES. LORD cowLEY. Hizwny Ricnaxn Onarizs Wauumsizy Cowiay (second baron), the English diplomatist who will represent the British government at the Paris Congress, was born in London in the year 1804, and is a son of Lord Wellesley, brother of the Duke of Wellington. This nobleman, who is at present the English Ambassador to Paris, has repre- sented bis country in nearly all the courts of Karope. He commenced bis diplomatic career in the year 1624 as an attaché at Vienna, then at the Hagur, and in 1832 he be- came Secretary of Legation at Stuttgart. At tho end of 1838 he was removed to Constantinople, and was on seve- ral occasions called upon to direct the embassy in the ab- tence of Sir Stratford Cunning. In 1848, Lord Cowley, who assumed this name on the death of his father, which occurred in the previous year, bed to conduct, as Minister tenipotentiary m Switeer- Inod, some very delicate negotiations which concerned the tranquility of neighboring States, and had w bo pre- vent on a special mirsion to Frankfort, where the con- ftituent Areembly held their sessions. In 3861,bo was accrediten by bis gove. nent to the Germanic Confedora- tion, and contributed by hix counsels and his infasnee to the re-establishment of the slute quo in Germany, On the accession of Napoleon tie Third to the throne, it ap- poared to the government of Lord Derby that thers was no more fiuing person than Lord Cowley to prepare the bases of 6 durable alliance between France and 4, and with that view he wa sent to replace Lord Nogmas- by ag AmlLaseator to Paria in 1852. He represented Bog- Ioed, in covjuncrion with Lord Clarendon, in the Congress which took piaos in (hat expttal on the 26th of February, 1956. Lord Cowley 18 attached to the liverat paciys LORD Joi WODEHOUSE, This nobleman bas been selected to assist at the Oon- gress as the second representative of Great Britain, He in a peer of Eegland and a third baron, and was born tn London in the year 1826. After having. completed his bludies in Eton College and the University of Oxford, he wes married to the clijest daughter of the Count of Otare, gud tock the vecant seat of bia father m the Honas of ed fil Lords—ibat pobiewan having died ja the yoar soon ne he atta'ned the required age in 3647. His ovini are (hose of thé moderae whign and ; was Under § try totho Sinister of Foreign Affaire from Decemher, 1852; and ia Joly, 1856, Lord Palmerston appointed him to goto Russia in the quality of Miniate