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ENGLAND AND I'n'i-".uiNn‘.—A London corres-
pondent ofthe Journalof Commerce. a writer
evidently possessing good sources of information
expresses the following opinion of the result of‘
the Repeal agitation.
Notwithstanding the formidable appear-
ance of the repeal agitation, and the stupid
blunders of the authorities, both in England
and Ireland, I see no reason to change my
opinion as to the impossibility of Mr. 0'
Council ever succeeding in giving Ireland
an independent legislature. It is an idea ‘that
it would be too rediculous to be entertiiined
seriously, were it not for the utter imbecili-
tv and madness of the ministry, who are re-
ally doing the most difiicult portions of the
agitation for the Liberator. That good will
come otit of the present movement I have
no doubt, as the grievances of Ireland will
be forced upon the attention of , England:
but as for repeal, that will not, cannot, must
not take place. A repeal of the Union would
be the first_step to a severence of the two
countries, and that final result would be inev-
itable. .l.o.hr.t Bull cannot afford to loose Pat.”
'€’*‘ .
Guardians an-cl’ Conservators.-— By ‘=1
law 0-f the G'eneral?Asscnibly. passed at “S
last session, it is made the duty of all Guar-
dians and Conservators "to render their ac-
counts against their Wards, for adjustment
together with the particulars of the estate. of
such Wards before the Courts of Probate,
respectively having cognizance thereof, at
least once in every year during the commu-
ance of their Guardianship: and in case any
Guardian (or Conservator) shall have
neglected to render his account and state.
ment as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said
court to malgc order thereof.
B another section ofthe same act, it is
provided “that all persons appointed by the
Courts of Probate to sell the lands of minors
who have sold the same, shall render to the
Court of Probate once in each year, his or
her account against his or her ward, togeth-
er with the particulars of the fund or proper-
ty in his or b.er hands. If the person so
authorized to sell shall neglect annually to
render such account, it shall be the duty
of said Court to make an order directing
him or her so to render his or her account.”
Guardians and Conservators by attending
to the requirements of this law will save for
their Wards the fees which would accrue to
the Judges of Probate for issuing and serv-
ing a citation, in case they neglect to attend
to their duty.
Instinct in a Bird. —One of the most re~
markable cases of instinctive knowledge in
birds was often related by my gran If-ithcr,
who witnessed the fact with his own eyes.—-
He was attracted to the door one sumriier
day by a troubled twittering, indicating dis-
tress and terror. A bird who had built her
nest in a tree near the door, was flying back
and forth with the utmost speed, uttering
wailing cries as she went. He was at first
at a losssto account for her strange movement ;
but they were soon ‘explained by the sight of
.8 snake slowly winding up the tree.
Animal Magnetism was then unheard of;
and whosoever had dared to mention it,
would doubtless have been hyng on Witclfs
Hill, without benefit of the clergy. Never-
theless, marvelous and altogether unaccount-
blc stories have been told of the snakes
power to charm birds. My grandfather
having a mind to test the truth of such sto-
ries. thought he would watch the progress
of things, but being a humane man. he re-
solved to kill the snake before he despoiled
the nest. The distressed mother meanwhile
continued her rapid movements and troubled
cries; and he soon discovered that she went
and came continually with something in her
bill from one particular tree—a'white ash.—
The snake wound his way up, but the in-
stant his head came near the nest, his folds
relaxed, and he fell to the ground rigid and
apparently lifeless. My grandfather made
sure of his death by cutting off his head, and
then mounted the tree to examine into the
tnystery. The snug little nest was filled
with eggs, and covered with leaves of the
white ash!
The little bird knew, if my readers do not
that contact with the white ash is deadly to
the snake. This is no idle superstition, but
a veritable fact in natural history. The In-
dians are aware of it, and twist garlands of
white ash leaves -about their ankles, as a
protection against rattlesnakes. Slaves often
take the same precaution, when they travel
through swamps and forests guided by the
North Star; or to the cabin of some white
man who teachs them to read and write
by the light of pine splinter, and receives
his pay in massa‘s corn or tobacco.
I have never heard any explanation ofthe
effect produced by the white ash: but I
know that settlers in the wilderness like to
have these trees around their log houses,
being convinced that no snake will volunta-
rilycorne near them. When muched with
the boughs they are said to grow suddenly
rigid with strong convulsions; after a while
they slowly recover, but seem sickly for
some time.——M'rs. Child.
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YANKEE I.\"oi~.'Nni1‘ir.--Tlie N. Y. True
Sun, has an article on ‘American Invention’ in
which the writer is led to indulge in the fol-
lowing strain on the Ornnipoteuce of Yankee
conirivance.
“There is scarce a people on the face of
the earth so ad .ficted to invention as our own.
It seems to be"an ingredient in their dssposi-
tion,--something ‘come by nature’ which
they cannot help,—a safety valve for the
evaporation of their surplus brains. The
Yankees, in particular, possess this charac-
teristic feature in a remarkable degree.—-
They almost disdain to do any thing except
by theaid of machinery, and they have
found ‘themselves rapidly making money out
of their own extra ‘help.’ If they plough ii
is with some patentimprovement: if they
plant, they prefer doing it with some wheel-
ed vehicle which was rapidly between the
furrows: if they reap, it is with a newly in-
vented sickle: iftbey mow it is done_ with
a two horse power machine; if they ride
it is on a patent saddle: if they soil, it is in
a newly modeled ship: if’ they wish to
ascend a monument, it is done by steam. In
short there is nothing they will not do, or
attempt, to save them, and increase their pro-
ducing their power. Such a race can never
orig remain unprosperous in their aflairs,”
RoYA1. Coartiasx-o.vni;i\'ci-:.—'I‘hc following
is a letter from King Denneyra negro P0l8-01339:
whose dominions lie on the shores ofthe Gab-
con river in Africa, to Queen Victoria. It was
recently laid before the British Parliament,
with other papers relating to the disasterous ex‘
pediiion to the Niger. The presents his sable
majesty acknowledges were a gold medal and
a chain.
To Queen of EnglamZ.—Sistc-r, King
Denney, of Sand Point, River Gaboon, must
embrace you for the things you sent me by
Captain Tucker, your war ship Wolverence
who dashed them this day with grand cere-
mony, which much pleased me. King Den-
ney was too much glad to save Quet-n’s men
belong Lynx, which cost I20 dollars, which
I too much glad to give’ Querm King
Denney wishes very much to be brother to
Queen: and will be very glzid suppose Queen
_let no Spanish ship come for slaves; and
suppose Quren sent plenty English ships to
meet for trade for ivory. cum, beeswax, dye-
wood, and ebony. And King Denney wish
my sister send me great coat, with secam-
potos of epaulettes, \\’lSl.COtIl. and trowscrs—
plenty gold in them----cocked hat, with gold
and leather—sword and belt, plenty gold—
and two easy chairs; and King Dtnney
wishes Queen health and good bye. King
Denney very glad he hear Queen got hus-
band. his
“King pg DENNEY.
mark.
“King Denney, 3d day of Moon, i. 9.
May I6, I840.”
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Ecce Sig2i.um..—A friend of ours recently
returned from a little pleasure excursion of
four lliousand mi/es. wanting seventy VVe
went from Boston to New York to Albany
and Buff.ilo—tlience, by the Lakes, to
Cleveland and Detroit; thence by the lakes
to Chicago, and then went into Illinois, Wis-
consin and Iowa, visiting Galena, Mineral
Point and all the other important mining
stations and towns on the Mississippi, to St.
Louis, returning by the Mississippi and
Ohio, to Cincinnati and Pittsburgh; thence
b ' railroad to I-Iarper's Ferry and Bultiriiore
and by Philadelphia and New York, back
to Boston again. On this broad circuit, he
sat down in hotels of every class, in steam-
boats and rail 1‘o:id-refreshment rooms, in
log buts, in the woods and on the praries-—
dining with farmers. miners, boatmen and
travelers of all professions and pursuits, and
yet, in no one of these places, on all this
route did he see the dinner table set out -with
a'.eca'nlers, except in ii single instance at a
single place—aiid that place was the hotel
in which he dined at Harpefis Ferry/. VVe
are sorry we have forgotten the name of the
keeper ofthe hotel in question, for we should
like to give it to the public, for the benefit
of any of our readers who may be traveling
in that direction.—Norwich Courier,
Major Noali's.‘viesseiiger is making some very
interesting disclosures of the manner in which
Capt. Tyler, is turned to account by those who
have an axe to grind.
“A few persons in this city, notoriously
without moral or political influence, agreed
to visit Washington, tissiiining to themselves
the character of a special coniiniltee from
the Democratic party. On their arrival they
were received as such by Mr. Spencer and
they represented to the President, that the
only object which prevented his being unan-
imously taken up as the Democratic candi-
date, was the continuation of Mr. Webster
in the Cabinet: that if he was removed or
would resign, a mass meeting of 20.000
people would assemble in the Park, and by
acclamation nominate Mr. Tyler, and fire
I00 guns on the occasion. _
Mr. Webster, unwilling to interpose any
political obstaclesto the advancement of Mr.
Tylei"s interest, withdrew from the Cabinet;
but no mass meeting followed, and no I00
guns were fired. It was a fraudulent pre-
tence throughout, and Mr. Spencer knew it
to be such. The Dariiocratic party made no
such propositions; entertained no such in-
tention towards Mr. Tyler, and were indif-
fercnt whether Mr. Webster remained in the
Cabinr-t or retired: ifony thing, they be-
lieved that his eminent talents added force
and respectability to the Cabinet.”
It will be ri-collecied that a number of the
Democratic Review had a biography and
portrait of the President. This vas repre-
sented to Mr. Tyler as a spontaneous com-
pliment to his character and pretentious by
the DL’triOCI‘:ilfC party: through theirfavored
organs. and was a most auspicious sign,
brought about by his conservative friends,
when the truth is those very friends paid for
the engraving and wrote the biography them-
selves, and managed to get it smuggled into
the Review. How many appointments they
received for this piece of joggelry, I cannot
s:i_v——but they obtained some offices and con-
siderable influence.”
From the Georgian.
Intolerance-—thc recent Insult lo Ilfr. Ece
retl——It'is a strange anomaly that persons
frequently prefer to see 2! person of no reli-
gion at all than of one difl'e.-ring fi'oni theirs.
The bitter hatred existing between the pi.iri-
tans and the High Churchrnan of the British
Commonwealth is a m-.ittei'of history. The
recent insult of our Minister at the “Court of
St. James, at Oxford University, is a fresh
example of this, as it was under.-tood that the
objection to his receiving a degree was his
Unitarian views of Christianity, while it
is notorious that in times past avowed Infi-
dels have received the honors of that ortho-
dox school.
This tendency in many to prefer (practi-
cally) no religion to one differing from their
own. reminds me of an anecdote of Louis
XIV, so illustrative of it that it will bear
repeating, even to those who recollect it:
The Duke of Orleans proposed to him an
Embassador to Spain, whom he accepted,
but the next day recalled because. he had
heard he was a Junsenist. "By no means,
your Majesty.” said the Duke, “for, as for
as I know, he does not even believe in a God ;”
"May [depend upon that .7” asked the King
gravely. “Certainly,” replied the Duke,
smiling. “\’Vell, then, let him trike the post
in God’s name ’7-——1l1ic/tael Semim,-,
It is said that the Memphis lies in a favor.
able position to be got off‘; her head of}
_$h0f5$ and floating in her bed at high water.
Altcmptczl Assassination of the Post
Master General.— W.e regret to state that a
most painful occurrence took plaice yesterday
on board the steamer Georgia, of the Balti-
more ancl Norfolk line. Itappears that the
boat on ‘her passage to Baltimore, took on
board at Old Point Comfort several passen-
gers, among them the Hon. C. A. Wicltllffe
Postmaster General, his two daughters and
several other persons and ti }‘0'mg mil“
named .1. McKean Gardner, of Washington
city, formerly First Auditor of the Post Ot-
fice Department.
During his stay at Old Point the conduct
of Mr, Gardner was remarked by the visi-
ters as of very singular character. and the
belief was generally entertained that he was
laboring undi-r mental derangement-—a be-
lief which was strongly concurred in by Mr
Wiclcliffe himself, with whom he had sever-
al times been in conversation. About half
past I o’clock yesterday, when the passen-
gers were summoned to dinner, Mr. Wick-
liffe who was standing on deck, offered his
arm to the ladies who were with him, and.
while in the act ofso doing, Gardener, with-
out any previous intimation, suddenly sprung
at Mr. Wickliffe and aimed a pow:-rful
blow with a clasp knife at his breast. The
blade ofthe knife struck the right breast
bone with much force, and traversed the
bone without, it is believed, injuring the
lungs or making a deep incision. Lieut.
Bradford, ofthe U. S. Navy, standing close
by, instantly seized Gardner in the act of
making a second blow at Mr. Wicklifle
and prevented his design. The knife was
immediately taken possession of by Lieut. B.
and Gardner placed in confinement. Rem-
edirs were immediately applied to Mr.
VVicl<lifl+-’s wound, and on his arrival attliis
city he was attended by Professor Smith,
who we are happy to learn, entertains the
opinion that the wound is not dangerous.
Iininediutely on the arrival of the boat,
Gardner was committed to jail.
Baltimore American 211.
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Captain Stoc/.'to'/t’s Piece of Or(lnancc.—-
An experiment was made last week with
this enormous piece of ordnance, that carries
:1 I43 lb. ball, at its station near the Light
House. below Sandy Hook. A point blank
shot struck a line on a target three miles
distant, and penetrated through and through
the target, which was constructed of iron
bars and wood combined, rendering it more
strong and solid than the hull of the largest
seventy four. The gun is mtideof wrought
iron, and is made of immense size. Experi-
ments will be made again this week.
N. Y. I'fera.lrl.
Slate Improvements United by Private
En.terprisc.——Next to the Erie Railroad, we
know of no improvement which is of so
much importance to the \Vestern and South-
ern pnrt of New York, as the completion of
the IVilt'iamsporl and Elmira Rail Road.
This, road, twenty five miles of which are
already completed and in operation. unites
the Cliemung division of the Erie Canal at
Elmira with the Pennsylvania canal at Wil-
liamsport. The road passes through the
Iron and Coal region of Pennsylvania, and
will aflord altogether the cheapest and best
route for the conveyance of these articles in-
to the \Vesterii and Middle parts of New
York; while plaster and salt will find its
way from this State, over the same road in-
to the he.art of Peniisylviini I. We are in-
formed that it is in contemplation to push
the work on to completion without delay.
Tribune.
From Flnrirla-—-\Ve have con versed with
an officer ofthe Army, latcly from Florida.
There is nothing important in the Territory,
more than what has already been published
in our columns. Billey Bowlegs is now
the dominant chief, being a nephew of Old
Micanopy. What few Indians remain in
the Teriitor_v trade freely with the whites,
and have pissed some severe laws between
themselves against stealinr; cattle, hogs. or
otherwise interfering with llte rights of the
citizens.-—iS‘az:anna/1. Republican 29th ult.
According to a communication mode by
M. Arugo to the Academy of Sciences at
Paris, on the. 5th. a contract has been enter-
ed into by Messrs. Baring &5 Co. of London,
with the Republic of New Grenada, in vir-
me of which the Republic is to cede to them
the line required for the projected canal
across the Isthmus of Panama, with 80.-
000 acres of land on the two banks, and
400,000 acres in the interior of the country.
Messrs. B2Il'll'I_Q’ & Co. hail, it is said, in the
first instance, fixed the amount of toll for
the navigation of the canal at the price of
18 francs per ton ;, btit they have reduced it
to 8 francs. The. work, upon which from
4,000, to 5 000 men are to be engaged, is to
be completed in 5 years.
Mr. Biddle has wrltteri another_lettei" from
And:ilusia,datcd July 20, I843. The ob-
ject of the letter is to sustain the following
propositions :— -
lst. That by the constitution ofthe Uni-
ted States, there is Crezitetl ii tribunal wholly
independent of the States, to decide all ques
tions between Peniisylvania and any other
foreign Slate.
2d. That before that tribunal, judgment
can-"be obtained for every dollar of principal
and interest of these Pennsylvania bonds,
and that all the property of the Stnte can be p
seized and sold, to satisfy that judge-
ment, just as if it belonged to the bumblest cit-
izen: and
3d. That all the other twenty-five States
are bound to carry into execution—-by arms,
if necessary—the judgement of that tribunal
against I’cniisylvani:i.—-IV. Y. He7‘al(l.
Domestic Ycast.—Persons in the habit of
making doiriestic bread, cake, &c. can easily
manufacture their yeast, by attending to the
following directions: Boil one pound ofgood
flour, a quarter of a pound of brown sugar,
and a little salt, in two gallons of water, for
one hour, when milk warm, bottle and cork
it close; it will be fit for use in twenty four
hours. One pint ofthis yeast will make
eighteen pounds of bread.
We are informed by Capt. Lane. of brig
Russia,§which arrived yesterday from Trini-
dad. Cuba, that a Spanish Guineaman arri-
ved at that port on the 2d June, and landed
her cargo, consisting 450 slaves.
Jour.‘ of Com.
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Fifteen Days Later from Ealiropc.
By the steamship Acadia, Capt Ry rie
which arrived at four o’clock on Wt-dnesJ:iy
afternoon at Boston, we have London dates
to the 18th and Liverpool to the 19th ult.-—
She was I2 days making the passage to
Halifax and I4 to Boston.
The news of chief interest relates to Bu-
siness, in which there wags a. decided im-
provement.
Dr. I-lahnemann, the founder of I‘I()n':(B.”i-
pathy, died in Paris on Sunday wcek, aged
88 years. ‘
The Sandwich Islands.——D«spatches
have been sent off by Government to Captain
Lord G. Paiilet, of the Carysfort fri-__r:it»=, in
the South Pacific, acknowledging the free
independence of King Tuiiiehaiiichu III.
and the Sandwich Islands.
Ireland continues to occupy the attention
of Parliament and the ministry, with no
prospect ofa satisfactory result. 'I'l'ie Cabinet
is divided in council, & proposes nodecided
measures. The last debate closed with a Mio-
aqi——gg_ ifjuojo uogsgiigp e uo iiigiofcui jcriaisg
smallest they have yet had. Meantime O’Coii--
nell is proceeding triumphantly in Ireland.
The Messrs. Birings, of London, has
undertaken the construction of the C.II')5ll
across the Isthmus of D.irien. It is to be
completed in five years.
VVilmer’s Times says, the weather, which
for some weeks past has been (‘xtrenielv fa-
vorable, promises an abundant, and \\'I.|U.l. is
better, an early harvest.
The Morning Herald, which is now the
sole organ which the Gt)Vt'rnlII9IIl possesses,
had an article the other day declaring that
the ministers would not have recourse to
any coercive measures against Ireland, for
this very singular reason —-that it wou'd be
the ruin of conservatism in this country to
identify it with civil war in the sister king-
(IOU). This article is regarded by the well
informed as emanating from authority, and
as consequently indicating the true Ministe-
rial policy. In the Herald of yesterday
the editor rejoices in Sir. R. Peel's declara-
tions that he will not he forced by his friends
into ii coercive line of policy. The other
Tory newspapers such as the Times and
the Morning Post, are quite furious at Sir.
Robert Peel for not adopting violent mens-
ii res at orice.——Lit-crpool .fl1(’7‘(2’l1-7'_’lj.
Great anxiety was felt in England in con-
sequence of the flOI’)'ill'l'IVill of the steiiiiier
Coliiiiibizi.
Letters from Rome state that the Pope is
anxious to revive. the ceremony of solemnly
crowning the greatest poet at the capitol.
and that he has offered this distinguislierl
honor to Chciteaubriand. The Vivoinpte
declined the intended honor.
S7min.—'I’lie Inlt-.'llll.2't‘I'lCL’ lromSp:iin leaves
no doubt that the-fate of the l‘t"gt‘l‘Il is
scaled. Madras is in a state of seige. He
proposes to keep open his coiriiiinnication, it
is stated, with Saragossa and Cxdiz—il he
can. The advance giinrtl of Zurboiio had
ent-.-red Sui-agossa, \\'l1ei‘t‘ that General was
expect: «I the lo-lowing dry with I0 bziitiilions.
-.\'l.idri'l was peaceabli-, but as for the Regent
lie is what the French papers call him--a
lost man.
Poor Espartero, E‘llfL‘(‘l)l"'(.l by disease and
liuiiletl on every side like it wild boar, Seems
likely to sink. A brave man struggling
with the storms of fate is certain to coiiun:iiid
the disinterested; but there is unhnppily but
little (llsltllt-l‘c’5l.t‘(l patriotism in Spain.
Egg/pl.—The intelligence froui Egypt is
the most l(IIp0l'I.'Inl. we have quoted limit that
quarter for some time. That vigorous and
vigilant old despot, the I'~’.ishii. has been com-
pelled, by th_e-advance of years and the pres-
sure of infirmities, (which for years he has
endeavored to conceal.)
‘To shake all care and business from his age,
Conferriiig all upon the youugei'sti'cngtli'
of his grandson Abbas Him he empowers
to act in his stead and to succeed him, to the
detriment of his own son Ibraham, an Inva-
lid. In the event ofthe Pasha’s death, this
arruiigcnient may issue in t] serious turmoil,
as Ibraliiin and Abbas have a long and
deadly enmity to satisfy, and as each ofthem
is supported by numerous and influential
partisans. The Paslia’s choice, however.
is amply justifierl, for if we mistake not, re-
cent travelers describe _Ibrahim as a man
who indulges in the grosses’. excesses, and
associates with the lowest class ofsociety.
Dcc’iii.e ofthe Trade with America.-—-It
appears from a return just laid bt.'fDl‘f? Parlia-
ment, on the motion of MI‘. Thornely, that
the exports of British goods to the United
States of America, in the year 1842, were
less in value by the sum of nearly Twelve
I-Iuntlred Thousand Pounds than they were
in any previous year since 1833, and that
they were less by more than one hzilf than
the average annual exports ofthe nine pre-
ceeding years, the average yearly exports
from I833 to 1841 (both years inclusive)
being ofthe value of 457,880,000, whilst
those of 18-12 were not of more value than
6£3,528.807. This alarzning decline in the
largest branch ofthe foreign trade of the
country, we regret to say, is not confined to
a few or even to several articles, but extends
to all, with the single exception of tin and
tinned plates, as will be seen from the fol-
lowing statement of the fluctuations which
have talten place during the period referred
[0 Z
The value.of' the apparel and I1fll)el‘(1flSl]el'y ex-
ortcd from Englaiicl to the United States in 1833
was £127,911 ; in 1836, £254,269; and in 1842,
£84,893. The value of the brass and copper man-
ufactures in 1833 was £158,456; in 1836, £270,-
028 ; and in 1842, 89,952. The value oftlic cotton
maii1ifactiii'es and cotton yarn in 1833 was 1,733,047,
in 1335. 2,729,430; and in 1842, 487,276. The
value ofthe earthern ware in 1833 was 221,661 : in
1836, 495,512; and in 1842,16S,873.
the liardwares and cutlery in 1833 was 711.305; in
1836, 1,318,412; and in 1842, 298,881. The value
ofthe iron and steel, wroiiglit and iiiiwroiiglit, in
1833 was 415,515; in 1836, 913,387; and in 1842,
394,854. The value ofthe. linen maniifactures, in-
cluding linen yarn, in 1833, 832,612; in 1836, 1,-
688,012, and in 1842, 463.465. The value of the
silk inaiiufiicturcs in 1833 was 251,278; in 183?,
537,040, and in 1842, 81.243. The value of the tin
and timicd plates in 1833 was. 141,259; in 1836,
246,378; and in 1842, 144,451. The value of the
_woolcn maiiiifactures in 1833, was 2.289.883; in
in 1836. 3,199,198; and in 1842, 892.335, and the
value ofthe other British and Irish goods in 1833
was 699,772; in 1836, 1,025,389; and in 1842,
422,404. The total value ofthe British exports in
America in 1833 was 7,579,699: in 1836, 12,425,-
605; aiid in 1842, 3,528,807.
The imports from the United States into
this country show a very different result.—-
The import of bark has increased betiveen
The value of‘
I833‘ and I842, from I8,459 cwt., to 27,648
civts; thritof salted beef from 899 co-ts. to
7024 cwts: that of butter from I cwt. to 3.-
769 cwts: that of cheese from 9 cwts. to 14.-
097 cwts: that of wheat from nothing to 16-,
Ill quarters: that ofwheaten flour from
35,659 cwts. to 38l.066 cwts: that of burns
from 72_cwts. to ll33cwts: that ofliird from
nothing to 26 555 cwts: that of pork from
I352 cwts. to l3,408 cwis: that of rice from
24,1 I4 quarters to 40,450 quarters '. that of
clover seed from 350 cwts. to 22,632 cu ts:
that oftobacco from 20,748,3l7 lbs. to 38-
6l8 012 lbs , that of cotton wool from 237,-
506 758 lbs to 4l4.030,779 lbs : that of tur-
pentine. from 322.486 cwts. to 408,330 co ts:
and that ofsheeps’ wool from 334,678 lbs.
to 56I,028 lbs.
With regard to shipping, the American
tonage (t‘l'llt’I't‘(l) has increased from 229.809
tons to 319.524: and the British toiiage from
I I4 200 to l95,745 tons.
After iiinking every allowance for the
more lb in usual euib:ii‘r:issrnciil of trade. in
the United States, in I842, the. fIl':l'. part of
the above rt-turn cannot be regarded as being
Ol.hl‘r'\VlSL’ than most tinf-ivorable to the pros-
pects of English industry. whilst the sec-
cond shows that the bal--nce oftradc is tur-
ning against this country in a manner which
renders it doubtful whether we shall not
shortly have to pry for American Cotton in
specie instead of goods. Nothing but it
very great revival of the demand for Eng-
llSlI ma niifactures can save us from this
evil: and. witlioiit ii l'(’f0l‘lI'I{]llOI'I of the A-
merican Tariff‘. there is very little hope of
any l‘t‘,\-'lV:Il at all equal to the rieccssitii s of
the case, but we must consent to make liber-
zil concessions if we wish or hope to receive
them.
Titurii .\IA.\'Fui.LY Sroiri-:.\'.—O. A.Broivu-
son, liasin the last Democratic Review, a paper
on “"l‘he Origin and Ground of G-.ivernineiii,"’
which emboilies much irutli essential lo the
public welfare, which has not hitherto been duly
set before their readers in the publication claim-
ing to be especially Dnnccialic We take from
it the following extract, wliicli embodies a scaih
ing rebuke to the deinagoguisiii ofllie day which
passes with I00 many for Democracy:
"There is :i strong tendency-—:in-l I hold
-I dangerous teridency—aiiiong us. to under-
iatc the l!It['0I'l2II)(‘t‘ of liberal studies, pliilo-
sophical in vi-siigiitioris, profound scliolaiship.
and St‘lt‘l’1llflCtlllzllfilllenls, and to extol and
defer the alleged wisdom and good sense of
the small iiiiiiority at the liencl of one or th-
Otlwl‘ ofthe two great political partit-s into
which the country is divirleil. More schol-
dfslllp for the sake of scliolaisliip. is no
doubt coiileiiiptiblr-; we want no j)t’Lil-1lIlI'y,
no dileitaritisiii. That sort of s('liol:irsliip
wliicli in its spirit and effects, looks nevi:-r
beyond the cultivation, the lIIlL’ft‘Sl, or the
pleasure of the SCl]'..'liII‘ himself, if: serve no
eiir‘oiii‘:ig-eiiit-i'it frogii zi Clirisiiari people.-—
All scliolarsliip. or scholistic, or scientific,
or even nrtistic aiiainnients, like the posses-
session of prop rty, place, or power, sliould
be regardi-d as ii sacred trust, to be used iioi
for the personal good of the possessor, but
for the moral, intcllt-ciual, and sacred eleva-
tion of the mass. The literature we want
in this cougtrv, is not the lIl.t‘l€1l.uIt’. \\'lllt.'lI
results from deferring to popular passions
and instincts, nor indeed the lIl.t'I‘:}lI1rL' that
rises not above the Simple tIp[1I'«‘lIt-‘nsltirl
ofthe rnnjority; but:i lllt'I’i1llH't‘ll1=]l.l)rt3:lIlIt'>
a free, noble, and generous spirit; lll'll. is full
ofthe love of man as man; and that kindles
up a holy artlor in all who come iiiidei‘ its
influence, and imparts to them the needed
wisdom to labor for the moral, the religious,
the intellectual, and the pliysical \\'ell-being
of all men, especially ofthe poorer and more
numerous clnssess. The t- iidency of which
we speak, is the creation of a literutiire the
reverse of this. It is a leveling tendency;
hut levels downwards, and not upwai'ils.—
Instead of feeling it an imperioiis duty to in-
struct and elevate the mass, and to bring
thought down to a level with the narrow
views, crude notions, and blind instincts cf
the riiultitude. If this tendency is continued
and encouraged, our whole intellectual
world will become superficial and void, and
American life too feeble :1 thing to be worth
possessing.
\i'Vl')ttI is most dangerous in this tendency,
is the fact that it is thought to be too demo-
cratic, and is (‘IIC0l‘iI‘i‘tgt'(l by some who have
the ears and the hearts of tlie Deinoc:acy.—-
To set our faces against it, is to expose oiir-
selves to the vague charge of being aristo-
crats, and to be denounced as the enemies of
the people. as men who have no confidence.
in the people, no love for popular govern-
ment; but who would introducea monarchy
or build up an aristocracy, or something else
quite as bad, if not worse. But I for one
meet this charge on the very threshold. I
deny that this tendency is deiiiocratic, or
that it results from democracy; it is deci-
dedly anti democratic. and originates in the
abuse, in the perversion of democracy.---
There is democracy, in any worthy sense of
the term, only where. each man has a mind
of his own, and utters that mind, clearly,
distinctly, without sufl.-ring it to be lost in
the voice of any other man. Moreover,
Democracy, regarded as a principle, is not
necessarily a deferring to the mass, but is
the wise and just institution and administra-
tion of Government, for the highest and best
good ofthe whole. people. I am thought to
want confidence in the people; but I have
really uiore confidence in them, than he has
who said the other day, ‘Since I have been
in office, I have made it iiiyduty to ascertai-
and conform to the will of my consiituents;”
for I dare tell the people what I believe to
be the truth essential to their well being, and
contradict them to their very faces when I
believe them in the wrong. But my confi-
dence in the people is in their capabilities,
and not in their actual attainments, or in the
practical wisdom of their actual judgements.
The people in whom I want confidence is
the political people, the people whose voice
we collect at the ballot-box, who in fact
are, and always must needs be. only a small
minority of the whole population. The
genuine people, if their voice could really
be heard. would be loud and earnest in con
demnation of the tendency of which We
speak. They feel that they want intelli-
gence, want liglit,and they look eagerly
around for it; immense bodies of shallow
pzlletl politicians, who dread nothing so
much as popular intelligence, and whose-
whole chance of success is in shutting out
the light, and making the people believe
that they, the people, are already masters of
political science. Here lies the evil.—
Nearly all our writers, our whole newspaper
press, with a few honorable exceptions, do
little else than echo what they take to be the
dominant convictions of their respective-
parties, sects or schools; and if one (‘lIt|DCt‘S~
tothiok for hiuself, and labor to advance
the mass, to elevate the standard of thought,
the whole pack,
‘Tray, Blanche, Sweetlieart,littlc dogs and all,’
are let loose. upbn him, and he is forthwith
rundown, as a wild beast, or ft savage who,
it sufli-red to escape, would coiruji the pee.
plc and eat t.l]l. their substance, perl aps di-
vour their women and children.
"Now, in the name of science, of knowl-
edge, of wisdom, of virtue, of the people of
oulragerl dcmoc-rric_1/, I for one solemnly and
eziinestly protest against this servility to the
mass, it St“l'VIlll_\', to \\ bich a man never sub-
mits in good f-iiih nor for lIOIl'Sl. purposes
always base and S-.'lfl.~l1. I love my country;
I love her political iiistitutions; and I am-
uuibitious ofseeiiig my cniintrynien lalriiig
the ll‘-Ll in every ilepartiiiint of high and
manly lltouglit. I am not willing to t.e al-
ways (It-'['iL’lILll‘fIl. llpcti foreigners for my in--
tellectual IIllIl'llItt‘IIl; I blush to thi-i-ik that.’
whe n I would read a profound uoik on
science, \\‘l'It'Ill(‘l‘ nioral intellectual, social‘,.
political, or religious, I must order it from
France, or Gt'l‘ITitIny. But so it mtist be, till‘
we cease to hold it (leii.oc:atic to echo rnly
the tlioiiglits of the people, evi n tlirugh it
be ll-elr “.-obcr second thought.” WW: inusi:
dare to speak for truth, and dare utter ii, and
dare utter it for the elevation of the people,
inst:-ad of iiiere-lv obeying ,llIt'ITI, \\lll*'lI will
never be obe_yirf_r_r ilif-in, but the miscrablc:
rlcr/zagrigucs and petty; 7m/iliciriiis, ii;/I0 are
miscrl 2°/tlo iviiporlaricc fig; llic C7IC7'_2]/ ’ll‘fI/B
7.1‘/rich f/l£’]/ scrcrmi. tfemocrarg/, and by the‘
/I/url, 7i=i7i(l_7/ yirnfcssinris i‘/icy ’l)I(l/it‘ on all ac“-
CIL.S‘ffI')l.S nf rle.--ntirm, lo the 'u'c/‘fare of the peo-
ple. and oflheir grunt uilliiigness to receive
'lie comuinnds of the prople, and to live and
fllt‘ in their so-i‘vice.”
“Sii.iiiiviAiiY.
1)csli.litlion anrl Sic/.'nc..\'s in New Orleans.
-——Tlie Courier ofthe 22d uli. sziys:-——‘\\'e
have been iiiforiiirtl by the S- Cl‘ll2ll'_V of the
Cliuiity I-ilosi-ital, lhiat ll1vl‘(* are now in that
instiliitlon 437 p:ilit-nls Iinrlvr I|t‘t'-III‘.tIll.—-'
This is the g_iri-air-st numbi~r of sick that
have lucii :t'lii.iiit-if into it at any one time
since its t‘Xl$_lt'fl(‘t'. 'l'lie liigliest iiuiiiber of
:‘idiiii.<sloii$ (lui'iiif,z IIIL‘ jlff"\'2ilt'l!(‘(“ of tin’ «pl-
tlt‘I'IIlC has iiever before t‘XCt‘ft'Cl(-‘(I 406.
The Canton Rinl.——It appears from :1 Car.-
toii letter in the Boston Daily Advertiser,
that the amoiiut of the Aii:eric.=n claims for
pro;-ertv <lesti‘o_vi-it by the II:()l'I at Ci:t.'l.i‘n, is
95‘3<l6,f5S0. I7i'oiri ziiiotlier letter, it iippt-airs
that the Viceroy has guaiamievtl l|’I'lt'lIllIIl_\,'
for said losses, (ulicilir-i‘ for Ihur full on ouiit
irlniiiii-d, we ate iinnble to say.) pay able in
three months from April last.
Blllf News For the Iron 'I‘rar.7c.—-The
Coiirio-r ile Lyons states. that \\'aiei' pipes
iiiaile olthick glass, covered \\ll.ll zi coating
of hiiuuu-ii, and anode to IDSPII into r-ncli oili-
er with l')IlI)!l‘t‘II joints, are being iiiaiiulac-
turcd at Rive dc Gier. Thrse pipes \\lll, it
is usseiti‘-d, bear it higher (I! give of prt:‘stii‘e
than those of cast iron, and are 30 per cem.
cheaper.
The Post Master Ger/eral.-——'I‘lie Med-
i.-oiiiaii of \\'cdnesdu_v evening COIl'tll7lS a
letter from professor, N. R. Smith, the sur-
geon in atterirlance upon Gov. IVii:l.'liffe, sta-
ting that he \\ as doing well, and in a fair
way to rtcoi-er. Gov. ‘vViclcliffe expressed
his full conviction that Gardner was insane.
C0771.])ff7ll.c7tf0.7':I/ —--An ill nntu red lunrlsirian
in :i fitof spleen, once said, ‘He that can-
not eat any thing, dressed in any way, at
iID_V time, out ofany thing--and iliis under
the sight ofariy dirt, the i—-ffcct of any smell,
the sound of any discord, and the feeling of
any motion, should not go to sea.’
A destructive hail storm passed over Es-
sex and Jericho, Vermont, on Siiurday week
doing great damage to the fruit trees and
crops. Stout corn was entirely demolished,
and wheat, o.-its, rye and barley were conver-
trtl into stubbles, without cutting.
A Paiinsy/fca-nia Dialoguc.—“Hallo l
I-Isird Cider! What do you think of your
Whig President?”
‘I-Ii.-’s (lead, I-Ieaven bless him l-—\Vhatdo
you, think ofyour Democratic Governor .7’
——The Loco pulled his hat over hiseyes,
rind made tracks venoinously.
A Novelty ——The N. Y. Journal ofCom-
merce of August 21, says: Yesterday was
discount day at many of our banks. The
offerings were extreiriely small. At one of
the largest banks, when the directors came
together, they found that they had not aprop-
osition to consider.
A girl of thirteen, residing in Burlington
Vt. is now pregnant by a married man nam-
ed Butler, \\ ho adopted her four or five years
since. The man who so.-rluced her is n hoary
headed villain nearly sixty years of age. He
is now in jail. "9"
L I. Rail R00.//. —'I‘he Directors of this
company, encouraged by the success of theie
enterprise so far, have determined to put the
whole unfinished portion ofthe road under
contract l'tl'Imt'(lltlIt-'l_V.
Quebec, July 24, l843.—Flour has droop-
ed daily; the shipments to the Lower Ports
have been trifling, and the demand for con.
sumption languid.
Oliver Cromwell was born on the 3d of
September, on that day fought his three
great battles of Marstown Moor, Worcester
and Duinbar, and on that day died!
Fare Rerlucecl.—The rates of fare on the
New York and Eric Railrord were reduced,
20 per cent. on Monday of last week.
There were 99 deaths in New Orleans.
during the week ending July 22d, seven qt’,-
which were from yellow fevér,
A Pliilzidr-lplii:i Loco Foco gave Gov.
Porter a not very sly hint of his dissatisfac-
tion in the following 4th ofluly toast: ’
The next Governor of Peiinsyivnnia
may he be angorphaa without any male re-.
Iations, ‘ . ,
Norwalk Chronicler