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BBy Alail.
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROFPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE CALEBONIA
The stonmship Caledonia arrived at Boston last
Saturdey night, bringing the following mtelligence
one week later from Emrope.
The news from Fraace is not important. The
mew Ministry hael as yet met ne reverecs, aad the
trinls at Versailles were more imcrntingh from
somc charges against Changarniv, which he de-
nics.
The quarrel between the President and the other
members of the family, are all in train of adjust.
ment. The President. on the Roman and Turkish
question, has boldly deolared that Prance mast as
sume a deoi led tone, worthy of her dignity and
character.
Mr. Rives the mew Minister Plenipotentiary of
the U. 8. was received on Thursday by the Presi
dent ofthe Republic. The Prince was most gra
ciovs, but he observed that in consequence of the
Jdifferences that had wrisen between the twe Giov
ernments he would have been deprived of the
honor of receiving him if, instead of being a Re
publican Munister, be bhad been @ Monarchical
Ambassador.
La Presse contradicts the stutement made in La
Patric to the efieet that the French Government had
dispatched e courier from Paris on the 15th ult.
1o St. Petersburgh, te explain to the Czar that the
sailing of the Freach and British fleets towards
she Dardannelles was the eflfectof a misunder
<ianding.
Klapka has been in Paris during the week.
The King-of Spain has refused to go te any
more entertainments rather than meet Chnstina,
The Spanish cainet troubles arc net vet setled,
Fead Effendi has been informed by Count Nes
selrnde, that the Czar demands that the Hunga
rian refugees should be located in the interior of
Candia, or on such point of the Turkish territory
as may afford the greatest facilities for keeping
them under surveillanee. 1t the refugees wish to
go to France and England they can do se.
Mr. Case, American Minister at Constaatinoplo
has received a letter from Americans in Paris ex®
pressing eympathy for Hungarians now in Tur
key.
Haynau published at St. Petersburgh on the
29th October an amnesty which included all those
political prisoners whase sentence docs noteondemn
them to mere than twelve months imprsonment.
Fifty-#ix of the prisoners in Hungary were liber
ted 1n consequence of this amncesty.
The Emperor directed that all officers who re*
turned tothe Austrian standard previeus to the
2ith November, 1845, shall be restored uncondi
tionally te their rank ; also those who returned pre
vious to the end of Junuary last, provided they
show themeelves loyal, and that all who returncd
from 18t of February to the 14th of April may be
reinstated after undergoing examination.
The Austrinn official portravs thesufferings of the
refugees at Widden us being very great, and states
that from fear el being obliged to embrace Mahom
medanisms, a great nuwber ol them desired to return
to their own country. From 2000 to 3000 had al
ready returned and were to enter the Austian ser
vice.
Generals Bem and Guien were using free ex
ertions to prevent others from following their ex
ample.
In English news, nothing important.
It is said from motives of economy the Lords of
the Treasury have declined to sanction the Brevet
proposed in conscquence of the Queen’s visit to
Ireland.
Sir James Ross has arrived in England after an |
absence of more than four years. ke had not ’
heard of Sir John Frankhin. The Chiettain, a
whaler from Davis Straits confirms the reported
stories of the Esquimaux, and the Captain be- |
lieves them. |
Sir Henry Bulwer le/t Por'smouth in a govern
ment ship, for the United States.
General Narvacz is descended from Roderigo de
Narvaez, the eclehrated Governor of Antiquera, in
the reign of Ferdinnnd and Isabella
A benevolent lady, whe signs herself as M. O,
having read Lord Asbley's letter of the 10th it
in the 7imes, sent to the Society for Improving the
Condition of the Laboring Classes £lOO, as a
thankoffering for preservation of herselt and fami
ly from the late epidemie. 4
Thackeray, we are glad to hear, is rccu\'crinfi
from his®severe i'lness. His usual Christmas boo ‘
will be published at the regular time. |
The last number of the Ravue de deux Mondes
contains an admirable arlicle vpon the works of
Professor Longfillow.
The Duke ot Wellington, ae Lord Warden of the
Cinque Ports, Leld a Pilots Couart at Dover last
week. The noble duke looked well and hearty.
The Athencum reports that the late Mr. Lewis,
who recently died in Paris, has bequeathed to the
Nationul Gallery the sum of £10,000; condition
ally that a portrait of his father, the celebrated
actor of a past age, be hung vp for exhibition with
in iis walls,
Lola Montes is the subject of many a paragraph
in the Barcclona papers. She goes to the pistol
galiery every day, and astonishes the officcrs of the
garrison with the precision of her fire.
The sewish Chronicle says that several Jewish
families have emigrated to the United States from
Bohemia, with the view of founding the Jewish
settlement in the State of Wisconsin.
At the last meeting of the learned societics in
France, a gold medual, value £lB, was awarded to
e M. Max iiucllrer, for a MS memoir, in FEnglish,
entiticd “Comparative Philology of the Indo Eu
ropean Languages.” Another prize was awarded
to the author ot a paper on “Slang.”
By a new law on sporting in Prussia, noone is
to have the right ot shooting unless possesscd of
300 acres of land.
According to the Atheneum Lord Campbell has
declined to write the lives of the last thrce Lords
Chief Justices, namely, Kenyon, Ellenborough,
and Tenterden ; assigning as his reason, that
though ht%nmembered Kenyon, and had plead
ed before Ellenborough and Tenterden, all three
were too recently dead for the truth to be told
~—having surviving relatives sure to take oflfence
if the lives were written in the mauner in which
he should wish to write to them.
A Frescu Marver.—A curious circumstance
has just occurred in the department of the May
enne, which will come under consideration of the
tribunals. A national guard was eupposed to have
died from indigestion caused by diunkenness
Twelve men and a sergeant accompanied the body
to the fluvc in order to px the last military honors
to the deceased. The coffin had been lowered in
to the grave and the usual salute fired, when at
the last discharge, which came from the musket of
the sergeant, a groan wae heard to proceed trowm
the coffin. It was instantly taken up and opened,
when the supposed dead man rose up, and on ex
amination it was found that, the sergeant having
by negligence londed his piece with ball cartridge,
the ball had passed through the thigh of the man,
and had thus prevented his premature interment,
As a reward for this unintentional service, the re
suscitaied man, who is cured of lus wound, now
claims damages from the sergeant for the injury
sustained,
Naples.
T.e Debats publishes the following letter from
Naples, dated the 50th alt:—
“The accounts from Purie, which reachcd here
yesterday I:‘y way of Toulon, have breught the re
sult of the discussion oo the afluirs of Rome, and
have not failed to produce a lively impression. At
Portici the greatest satisfaction was evinced. No
other proofs of that are wanting than the reports
which were immediately ia circulation. and which
are confirmed this morning. Itis decided to ex
pedite the promulgetion of the organic laws an
nounced in the motu proprio, and to extend the
Wwo narrow limits of the amnesty. The HolyFuther
leit this morning for Beneveato, where he will re
main for sowe ’-yo. He wishes, io thus going
home, ns hie expresses it, Lo teetify his desire of
soon returoing o Rowe. He considers the lust
vate of the Legislutive Assembly as rendering his
return to the Vatican possible, and as imposing
on him the duty not 1o remain any longer at a dis
tance from his subjects. He is therelore, seriously
engaged in pfqmunt for his definitive dej arture
tor Rome soon alter his return frow Benevento.
A Royal Deeree, dued the 27th, hae just been
promulgated, which enacts that in future every
tutor, whether public or private, male or fi mnle,
whatever may be the neture of the instruction
given—science, leiter, languages or fine ans—
must be provided with au authorization from the
King, saothor from the University and vadergo a
wrillen exansnation n the groat Catechisw of the
Chnistian m. and must moreover, answer be
iore the of the Faculty of Theology te
questions on the spocial points of his or her in
struction which regard n;m
The decree says. in express terme. that thie ¢x
amination shall even be required rom wasters w ho
teach wriing and m:li.?. and from the prolessors
of foreigo languages drawing. An indieation
not less certain of the n-uroum of the cote.
brated society and of ite influence in the councily
ol the King is visilde at the theatrc; the female
dancers have resumed the green drawers which
they had laid aside last year when the Constitu
tion was proclaimed, and an order has been given
that ey are to avoid any thing red in their cos
tumes, lKe mixiure of the red and green with the
white of their petticoats having the inconvenience
ot calling to mind the tri-colored flag of Italian In
dependence. The accounts from Sicily are without
importance ; the wisely liberal concessions made
by the King's Government, and which contrast so
strongly with what is practiced here, appear to
hlch given perfect satistaction to the Sicilian peo
ple.”
Austria,
The Austrian ministry, in its want of money, has
token a leaf out of the English tax-book, and has
published an imperial order for un income-tax, to
be levied tor the year 1830, This is provisional
until the meeting of the Diet, which some | ersons
discomposed by this novel claim on their ‘»uru-,
think that it will take place in the Greek Kalends,
that is, never. After all the judicial murders that
have been perpetrated in Hungary by Haynau
(whose agency in them must not be allowed to di
rect blome from the Austrian Government who or
dered and sanctioned them), he has actually, at
Preshurg and Pesth, opened the prison doors for
the relief of some parties who were there immured.
£iThe Hungarian retugees at Widden appear not
to have been well treated at first by the ‘s urks
Encamped outside of the town, they endured pri
vation and cold, amd were mrmenlc«{wuh apphea
tions to become Mussulmuns, to which more than
a hundred have listened. In the number is Bem,
whose motives for such an act are best known o
himselt. The rest have declined to be converted ;
and more than 2000, in answer to an appheation
of General Huuslab, have retarned to Austria on
guarantee of tree pardon. ‘The remaining fugi
tives, on complaints made to the Divan at Con
stantinople, have been treated better, and are or
dered to be quartered within the town. Kossoth
i« reported to be well, and to maintain the true dig
‘nity of his nature under all changes. General
Guvon and Mr. Longworth have been elaimed as
British subjects by Sir Stratford Canning, and
have taken their departure for Constantinople.
The French fleet of seven vessels of war and a
steamer, was seen passing the island of Malta on
the 26th ult., on its wauy. as was supposed, to join
the British fleet should events in the East require
' any combined action. ;
On the st of Nov, General Heynan proclaimed
the Hungarian constitution at Pesth, and it will
now be published throughout the length and
breadth of the land, in the respective languages of
the inhabitants, At the same time General Hay
nan proclaimed an amnesty to all who have been
condemned to imorisonment for the tern of one
year or less. He has also directed that no further
steps are to be taken against those persons who
stand accused of concealing Kossuth's notes and
small quantities of ammunition, or of having sup
phied the insurgents with military stores during the
war. The punishment of death will notin future
be inflicted upon such Hungarian insurgents as
have been simply guilty of political crimes, but
only on those who may be convieted of murder.
either directly or indirectly. or of having exercised
systematic cruclty against the other races inhabit
ing Jhe country formerly comprehended in the
kingdoms of Hungary, Croatia, &e.
Turkey and Russia,
A letter from Vienna of the 4th inst. states that the
Porte has pledged iself to keep in safe custody, in
one or more of the Turkigh fortresses, all thoze ret
urees whose names inay be mentioned by the Rus
sian and Austrian governments, and vamediately
to banish the others —probably with the exception
of those who may in the meantime have embraced
the Mahometan religion—f{rom the Turkish territo
ries. Of course, thig news completely confutes all
the ridiculous reports according to which Kossuth
and sowe of his colleagues are already on their way
to join Messrs. Plasky and Telcky in England.
Tue Waces or War.—At a recent meeting
held ut Excter Hall, in London, Mr. Cobden made
some statements which are caleulated to give dig
nity to the agitation in which he is embarked, for
the submission of all international disputes to ar
bitration. 7 ) g 250
Among other things he stated that of the £54 000 -
000 of revenue raised by the British government,
£47 000 000 were expended upon the interest of debt
Sfar a past war, or lo sustain a standing army, and
tlat only £7,000 000 were appropriated to the civil
governinent; including the civil list, the Queen's
establishment, the administration of justice, and
all the officers, &c. Thus six-sevenths of Eng
land's enormous revenue, go to war and prepara
tions for war, and only one-seventh to civil cx
penscs.
Relieved of that burden. how much less misery
would be suffered in England, how much easicr
would be the work of reform, how much less die
astrous would be the changes which her institu
tions require, and what a power of enterprise
would be emancipated and set in motion through
the world.
Again, referring to the necessity of a mmding
army to prevent the rising of the people, he statec
that two years ago thére were 2,000,000 of sol
diers enrolled among the nggregate powers of
Europe; yet with these two willions of armed
men tntheir pay, revolution had swept over these
countries, and not a throne but tottered to its bage,
to resist this revolutionary tendency the armed
force of Europe is to be increased to four millions.
What will be the eflict of this but to aggravate
the burdens of the people, and conscquentiy the
insccurity of their rulers ?
Since the war ot ilBls,the powers of Europe have
resorted to loans instead of taxation for war money,
and over one hundred millions of pounds ster
ling of borrowed money, have been expended since
‘1 that period in supjorting their armaments. This
resource, however, is not inexhaustible, for Aus
trian bonds have recently gone begging both in
}En?lund and in Holland, where not a shilling
could be raised on them, end Mr. Cobden thinks
that Russin's responsibility is very slight, not
withstanding her reputed wealth, The Czar is
borrowing, Limselt, while he is taking up £2,000,-
000 of the Austrian loan, £5OOOOO more to the
Pope, and £200.000 to the Grand Duke of Tusca
'ny. All this, Mr. Cobden thinks, is inquitous,
' and seys that for au investment for his children
‘he would not give £2O for the Russian bonds,
| which the bulls and bears on the Stock Exchange
, are sclling off at 108.— N, Y. Post.
UNNATURAL AssAuLT.—A most unfortuna‘e ren.
counter took place in the town of Chazy, Clinton
county, oa the 17th inst , the particulars of which,
as we learn them, are ae follows :—Some time
since, Henry Worden, a man about fifty years of
age, and for many years a resident of Cgazy. and
a thriving farmer, rented his premises to his son
Gilbert. Theson being dissatisfied with his situn
tion, commenced moving from the ;premises. He
had started to drive away a cow, wfiich he claim
ed belonging to bim, and had proceeded but a ehor)
distance, when he was commanded by his father
to desist ; but the son, who was assisted by two of
his younger brothers and a neighbor. refused to do
80. The father immediately went into the house.
took down his gun. which was loaded with two
balls and a quantity of fine shot, and went out
with it in his ‘llnund,uud told his son if he did not
stop he would shoot him. The son replied * that
he v ight shoot and be d—d.” At this crisis the
wife of Worden appeared and beggcd of Lim not
to shoot, but she was soon oilcnccjwby the threat,
‘“ that ifshe did not get out of the way he would
blow her brains out.” He then too{ delitierate
aim at the son and fired, breaking the son’s left
leg übove the knee, and considerably injuring the
otfier. e then drew a pistol and snapped it twice
at the two other sons. who were assisting, but
fortunately it did not go off. Worden then return
ed to the ficld where he had been ploughing, and
resumed his work as though nothing had happen
ed. Heis now in jail awailing his trial. Albany
Eve Jour., Friday.
Deatn vrow lue Prick or A Piv.~The Al
bany Knickerbocker states that on Suturday a
young man named Henry Dodge, accidentally run
a pin into his arm just below the elbow, which
was instantly extracted, and it was anticipated
that nothing serious would occur from the slight
accident, but on Tuesday his arm began to swell
most alarmingly. frow the cflects of the poison,
and though medical attendance of the best cha
racter was sccured immediately, the swelling ex
tended to the belly, und on Wednesday Lie was no
more.
The Boston Traveller publishes the following ex
tract of a lever, dated August 224, 1549, from a gen
tleman in Canton to his Fm-nd in this city :--
“OQur community has been thrown into a state of
great excitement fvvum @ report that a large quanti
ty of ginseng has been seized, Laving boen smug
gled by celufn American merchants. T au glad that
the Chinese are determined at last W put down this
system of wholesale cheating, by parties calling
|Kmm¢lvc pious and honorable merchanis. 1 ¢,
assure you that during lhOJm two years, whole
cargoes have been omufi!l , both out aud in, in
value, millions upon millious of dollars.”
———
An Island ceded to the U. B.~Mr. Squier, the
United States Charge 1o the Central American
Republics, having received information of the in
tention of the English to seize the lsland of Tigre.
lbdon,in" to Hounduras, and commanding the en
re Pacific coast, has negociated a mn{J with
i:iomlum, by which it is ceded 1o the United
ales.
Vinwoxt.— By the Montpelier Patriot extra of
Monday morming we learn l'l:.ut in the election of
delegates to the convention to amend the constitu
tion ~145 towns send 95 demoerats and 50 long
tenm. being a gain of 70 as compared with the
ynme towns it the last September election. There
enn he 1o donbt but the Xemncral- will have a de
cided majority in the convention.” The plirase
“long team' applies to the Taylor Whigs. It
seems that the people will notirust them toamend
the constitution.
The Norfolk Herald pnblishes an aceountof a
mutiny which occurred last Sunday night week
on board U. 8. ship Germantown, lying at Gos
port. The tronble originated in some of the crew
becoming rebelliovs, and the eontagion spreading,
the officers attempted to comiannd order, but failed
to do so. Groans and huzzas then followed, ac
companied by belaying pins being thrown at the
ofticers. one of which stenck the Ist lientenant
The crew were called to gnarters, but disobeved
the order when boats were sent to the ship Penn
svlvana for assistance, and the mmtiny quelled,
and the mutineers confined in irons,
TTPNNIMH for the Relief of Sir John Franklin.—
Lientenant Lyneh. the eommander of the Dead
Sea Expedition, has volunteered to hend an expe.
dition to start as early as practicable next year to
relicve Sir John Franklin. He proposes for the
government to sanction the attempt, and afford of
ficers and men (all volnnteers) and provisions
and in ease there shonld be a question s to the
legality of paying the expense of such an expedi
tion, he thinks he could raise suflicient from pri.
vate sonrces to charter, strengthen and equip a
steamer to carry out the object.
Atthe last term of the Albany Mayer's Court,
Henry Pohlman, a boy about 17 years of nge. re
covered $2 800 of Henry Y Yates, 10 years of
age, for injuries received from the firing of a pistol
ball into the upper part of his thigh, which ren
ders him a cripple for life, The defendant was
firing at o mark, which was placed near a wood
shed standing on the rear of & vacant lot. Some
of the balls passed through the shed, and one of
them wounded the plaintiff. who was playing in
the yard, on the opposite of the strect,
Sioeking Death.—" The Lawrence Courirr states
that the almost lifeless body of Benjamin Webber,
an intemperate man of abont fifty years of age, be
longing to Haverhitl, was found in Lawrence,
near the road leading to North Andover. on
Tuesday morning last. He was lified into a
wagon and brought to town, but was a corpse bhe
fore arnving. e had laid out in the terriffic
storm of that night, and perished. Two empty
rum jugs were fonnd with him.
Important Decigion in regard to the License Law
in Permont.—~The Supreme Court of Vermont
have recently decided that a firm doing business
in the city of New York, and who, in the Siate of
Vermont, made a contract with an inn keeper, to
forward him, by eomamaon carriers, spirits, which
they knew he intended to sell in violation of the
license laws of Vermont, eannot recover the price
of such spirits in the courts of Vermont.
1 New Way to Pay Old Debts~Mr. R. W,
Walker, a representative to the Alabama Legisla.
ture from Tnskegee, has given notice that he will
early in the session bring forward a bill anthoriz
ing the State to purchase 100 negroes, to be sent
to California to werk in the gold mines, and the
profits of their labor to be devoled to the payment
of the public debt of Alabama.
Receipts at the Fair—" The Managers'ol the A.
merican lustitute report the entire receipts at
Castle Garden in October at £1~670. The ex
pensas were wbont $l2 000 Jeaving ¥6.670 for
profit, of which $5.000 hus already been applied
10 the purchase of the building now ocenpied by
the Institute in Broadway.
Surgical Operation.—~We are informed that on
the 19th inst.. Dr. Kimball of the Lowe!! Hospital
successfully performed un operation, which by the
records of surgery it appears has been attempted
but four or five times. ‘T'his operation consisted
in tying the internal iliac artery.— Boston Trans.
New Merico.—The Washington correspondent
of the Charleston Courier states on the best an
thority, that New Mexico is about te form a pro
visional government, and send a deputaton to
Congress ; but will make no provision in relution
to slavery.
| Strange Revenge —A woman (Miss Duncan) has
been arrested in Ypsilanti, Michigan, for setting
ffite twice 1o the house of her former lover, whe
married another girl She meditated his death
' she confessed, but sueceeded only in burning part
of the village .
! A writer in a foreign journal saye, the exact
- velocity of electricity along a copper wire is 225,
000 miles in a second; 1t is calculuted, according
(ly, that we could telegraph to onr aatipodes in
rather less than the HOOth part of one second of
| thne.
More Female Physicians.—Among the pupils at.
tending the lectures at the Medical College, re
cently opened at Syracuse, N. Y., are Mrs. Glea
son, of the Glen Haveu: Water Cure, Mrs. Davia,
of Mt. Morris, aud Miss Mary M. Taylor, of Bufia
lo.
Fast Sailing.—The barque *Gipsey,” Caprain
Hurchinson, which arrived yesterday morning in
22 days from Gibraitar, accomphished her outward
voyage frow this port to Beyrout, Syria, i 36
days,—an unpreccdented performance.—~N. Y.
Jour, Com.
From Tumpa Bay —New Orleans papers of the
15th contain late adviees from Tampa Bay.—
They represent that the Indians had refused to
leave the conntry, and that Gen. Twiggs was pre
paring to hunt thew out with all possible despatch.
‘ Accounts fromn Dermuda state that a riot had
occurred at Hamilton, in consequence of the Legis
latureintroducing into an ordinance a cluuse subject
i"fi debtors to the same prison discipline as crimi
nals. Severallives are reported o have been lost.
- Alexander C. Stimpson, of New York. aged 31,
has been poisoned at Fayetteville, N. €, by his
wile, agaiust whom he intended to file a petiton
for divorce. The coroner’s verdict was not made
~public for two days, and the woman escay -1,
' Pacific Naval Station.~Com. Joseph Swith, for
several years past chief of the burean of yards and
- docks at the navy department, will soon repair to
the Pacific, to assume the command of our naval
| furces on that coast.
| Gov. Johnson. of Louisiana, has issued his pree
! lamation, noufying the removal of the public of
fices of that State to Baton !{(m‘e, on the Ist of
December next. Baton Rouge is thenceforward
to be the Capital of Louisiana.
The Erie Conal.—The Canal Commissioners at
Albany have extended the time for closing the
canals until the sth proximo, in consequence of
the deluy occcasioned by the late freshet in for
warding goods.
The enginecer of the New York water works
entered the aqueduct. on Thuarsday last, and pass
ed throngh the whole line of thirty-three miles, on
his voyage of semi-aunnal examination. Of course
the water was stopped off,
| A Corron Facrory AT New Ogreans.—A
number of enterprisiog citizens are now enguged
in organizing a company, with a capitul of 3200 -
000, for the ercetion of a cotton intll iu or near
| New Og¢leans. -
Acquitted.<T'he jury in the ease of the United
States ve. James McMasters, tried in Pittsburg for
harboring a fugitive slave, returned a verdict of
acquittal, the prosecutor to pay costs, amounting
to übout $l2OO.
The Drurys.—These men, who have been in
dicted in New York for an attewspt on the life of
Thomas Warner, say that they will be able to
prove thatthe case is the result of a base conspira
cy.
. Hector Moore, a member of the St. Louis bar,
' has been convicted at Memphis, Tenn., of the
abduction of a negro, and sentenced to the peni
tentiary for five years
Jobn Dunn. on trial for the murder of his wife
on the 13th of July last at Hoboken. has been
found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in the pen
itentiary.
Heavy Damages.—Horace Jennison, of Newton,
has obtained n verdict of §2OOO dumuv-. in asait
of slander against William White, of Watertown.
The pillory punishment is still in use in Sweden.
Drankards ure punished D:{ it. They are exposs
od on Sandays i front of the churches.
The President has nfiicinl‘l’y recognized Manuel
Armendari as Consul from the Mexican Republic
for the T'erritory of New Mexico.
The Fdinburgh Review says the cabbage con
taine more mnscle-sustaining nutriment than any
other vegetable whatever.
The number of post offices in the United States
on the first instant was 17,164,
Hostilities in Yucatan between the whites and
Indians have ceased.
~ Republican Hevald.
. PROVIDENCE. _
Wednesday, November 23, 1849,
THE CABINET AND THE NEW YORK
HERALD~A VERY “RICH” DEVELOPMENT,
There is no end to it ; everyday bringsnew ev
idence of the greatness of this adwinistration ; not
on'y of the moral greatness, but of the greatness
in point of invention and strategy, a sort of genius
for making the wost of internal resources. In the
Cabinet every thing counts. 1f the {Tome Sccre
tary has an o'fice to dispose of, and somebody has
a house to rent, it is the partofthis geninsto bring
these two things together, and make them tell for
the Secretary’s pocket. So if the Secretary of
Ntate has important information which the public
onght 10 be in possession of, and at the same ftime
stands in need ot sowe puffing to keep his head
above water, the zenius of the new administration
must discover if the former cannot be sold for the
latter. Whose business is it, so long as the world
is not made poorer ! Nobody's of course.
Well, we have now a new development of the
same good genius. Itcomes out by accident, al
most ; or is wrenched out at Jeast, unintentionally
~withoat any malice aforethonught. The regular
T'aylor orguns in New York have lately pounced
upon Bennett, or the New York Herald, because
hie hus ventured to hint in no very pleasant termns,
that the Cabinetis a mass of corruption—made np
ifignorant blunderers and unprincipled adventu:
rers. Bennettis mad, they have shouted—mad, be
cunse the Cubinet hus not given him the public
printing and advertising. An unlucky charge '—
Bennett arms himself to the teeth, and sallymg out
in column upon column of letters from Washing
ton proves that if he had been willing to prostitute
his paper to the unqualified puflery of Clayton
and his associates, he might have commanded the
exclusive conlidence and favor of these blunder
ers, and all the patronage of the government to
boot.
The letters from Washington referred to. were
written to Bennett daring the last summer. by
George W. Brega, a*‘gentleman” holding a high
position in one of the Departments, and posscs
sing the most intimate relation with Mr. Clayton
and other members of the Cabinet. The letters
bear upoa their face the evidence of their truth,
and are conclusive that the Cabinet attempted to
buy up Bennettand mnake his papertheir confiden
tial ergan. We have not room for ail the extracts
given, but snbmit the following as furnishing an
idea of the whole @
Your article referring to the New York appoint.
ments wus read by Clayton before the Cabinet and
greatly approved
Iforgot 1o mention that he said the administra
tien had no organs here nor did they intend to
have. * * * He assured me, ulso, that he
had not explained the position of the administra
tion to any paper but yours, nor did he intend to
do so, at present, ot all events. He appears to
have a high respect for the Herald.,
Waswivgrox, June 13, 1849.
I wrote you in haste, a few lines yesterday eve
ning, upon the subject of some interviews I had
with Mr. Clayton The cabinet is extremely de
sirous of getling your cordial support; nn! Mr.
Clayton has requested me to sce yon personally,
and explam exuetly how mauters stand. Youn can
if you choose, possess more inflnence with them
than any man in the United States, and get ad.
vantages in the way of exrly information and doc
uments of incalenluble benefit to the paper. Inthe
mean time, ull [sce you, wiil yon suppress letters
from here abusive of the cabinet ! T'hey annoy
Geuneral Taylor very much.
I wust you will excuase the liberty I take in ask
ing yon not to insert letters against ‘the adminis.
tration, but I do so by the request of Mr. Clayton,
and, perhaps, when you know exactly what the
policy of the administration is, and what your po
siion with them. by rendering an independent
bnteffective support, can be, you will fcerdi-pos
¢d to comply. Xll I ask now is, that until you
hear what | have to say, yon will give orders that
these awtacks shall be omitted.
Wasninaros, July 12, 1849,
I have had several conversations with Mr. Clay.
ton nupon the subject of the foreign and domesue
policy of the adunnistration. I inclose a letter up.
on one of the topies discussed. und have in it giv
en Mr. Clayton’s view. [le wishes an editorial
upon it, also, if you see fit to write it. He says
the President has no desire to cheat the country ;
that he was elected by moderate men of all par
ties, and that he will faithfully carry out the doc
trines of the Allison letter ; that l{e old hunker
portion of the Whig party, who elamor so loudly
abont the success of the Whig principles. and who
wish to have an ultra Whig administration, had
better at once go out from the party, that he de
spises them, and under no circumstances will he
permit their dictation. He called my atiention al
#o to a matter which I have not yet seen noticed
~the fact, thatin the inangural address the word
Whig is not once wentioned.
Mr. Claytoa desires above all things, that yon
should come out strongly against the old hunker
portion of the Whigs, and show the dishonesty of
the endeavor, now the election is over, to tuke
from the moderate men who achieved it all eredit.
The party which has succeeded should be called
the republican party—it is not the Whig party as
the party is known ; and Mr. C. has no intention
of retrogading from the position which he took
::nen he expressed his preference for Taylorover
Clay.
* * * Ifyou could give the cabinet a liberal
support, yon would find that yourinfluence would
be nnlimited. Ican get yon the advertisements,
[ think. and if necessary. acknowledgments of
your services, and an explination of their neglect
in not giving them 1o yon before. 1 confess | feel
a strong desire that the Herald shonld do the cab
inet justice ; and [ feel un equally strong wish
that the cabinet should do the lleu{d Justice. Yon
have had reason to feel annoyed at their condunet;
but it is not too late to overcome those ditficulties,
and prove that neither the Ecpr.ss, the Courier,
nor any other paper, possessed greater influence
than yon do. ¥ . - v v ¢
Will you write me a confidential letter upon the
subject of the cabinet, &c., so that [ may know
whether there is any chance of a compromise.
The question may now arise, does Brega report
truly the conversations he has had with Clayton ?
In a card published in the Republic, he says he
had no authority from any member of the Cabinet
to offer the Herald the Goverument patronage,
and that no member of the Cabinetis responsible
for any thing in Lis letters ; buthe does not deny
that what he wrote to Bennett was strictly trne.—
Indeed, if it were not true, why is he permitted to
continue in office 1 "I'rue, Brega tells us that the
letters, as published in the Herald, are “full of in*
terpolations, und garbled from the originals ;"' but
he does not tell us what the interpolations are, nor
what has been omitted that would make his cuse
better. Even this assertion the Herald plumply
denies. It says:
“ The originals we have on file, and we chal
lenge an examination and comnmon of them
witfi the correspoudence as published in the Iler
uld. The only “interpolation” is the heading
over each letter, explaining ite contents, which s
no interpolation at all.”
Here the matter rests, Brega is continned in
office. The facts set forth are not disproved, and
are only denied in vague terms. They form anoth
er chapter in the interesting history of this interest
ing Cabinet. Let the people pounder it, and ask
themselves candidly if this is not a great and grow.
ing adwministration.
Tuasxscivive Senmon (short hand).—Remem
ber the poor—have mercy on your stomach—make
" prm;t to your wifo—'p 1o meeting—be cheei
ful, be kind, be generous, be happy~ns THANK:
yuL.
MONEY WANTED-HOW TO GET IT.
An empty Treasury is talked of. The **Repub
lic" has announced that there will be a deficit at the
expiration of the fiscal year, of from fifteen to
twenty illions of dollars. The Secretary of the
Treasury says it has not been ereated by the car
rent ordinary expenditures of the government, but
by the paywent of arrearages due on recount of
the Mexican war—the allowance of elaims, the in.
alment provided for by Treaty, &e. The Union
thinks the deficit, il it exists, is 40 be aitributed to
the wasteful conrse pursued by the Cabinet, in al
lowing unjust elaims, and ereating illegal offices;
in other words, that it was not inevitable, but has
been prouduced, if at all, by unfair means.—
“Strange rumors”, it says, * with regard to aliow.
ances of old elaiws (repudinted wnder former ad
ministrations) by the Secietary of the luterior. have
been for many woenths afloat i this city ; but not
being in possession of the precise facts, we have
forborne to allnde to them, exeept in general
terms. We havefulso heard of the fiting ontof il
ilegal expeditions to California; of illegal employ
meut of clerks and other persons about the gov
ernment; and of varions other extraordinary if not
illegal expenditures, since the present cabinet was
installed in power. It isin this way a deficit was
produced, il any exists; and, of course, in an
nouncing it, the administration puts itseif npon its
trial, and must submit to a most rigid and search
ing examination into all its expenditures by a com.
mittee of Congreas. And if such an investigation
shall be wade, we predict the developement of
more acts of down-right corraption and profligacy
in the nse of the public money than have occur
red during the last twenty years.”
The Union does not, however, believe that up
on a striet and searching examination of the Trea.
sury, the deficiency alleged will be found to exist
It would not be surprised il’ the grave annuncia
tion of it, in the administration orgass, “‘had some
connection with the operations of the stock ex-.
change.” 'The editor of the Journal of Cummerce
is equally incredulous. Ile looks upon the state.
ment as a mere prediction, and entitled to abont
thesame weightas other Whig predictions thathave
failed of fulfilment. We recollect the terrible pre
dictions which Whig statesmen made when the
old Bank was killed—how that commerce was to
be ruined and the sonrces ol revenue completely |
dried np. We recollect what similar predictions |
were made when the Sub Treasury became a fixed
fact. And whe does not recollect that Daniel
Webster aud George Evans, and all the Whig
statesmen—when our present tarifi was adopted—
predicted that it would almost instantly bankenpt
the Treasury. They declared Mr. Walker mnust
be insane, when he averred that his tarifff would
vield at least three millions more of revenne an
nually than the old one; and that he was mad
without method—insane and foolish tuo—when he
declared that the prices of produce would be wmade
higher, that the fariners would be benefitted. by
the change. [His predictions have been more than
realized ; and most wofally have the Whig states
men, if they had faith in their own words. been
disappointed. Itis possible that a similar disap
pointinent awaits themn now.
But the Whigs know what they are driving at;
they know what they want—though it may be they
exhibit the poorest kind of guess work, as to what
they will get. They want a higher tariff, nnd they
are silly enough to think they can wmake people
believe that a higher tariff will yield more reve.
une. Experience has taught them but litle on
this point; one would judge, indeed, it never
taught them anything, onuny point. But they are
to be excused ; for it mnst be admitted that this is
their only chance of npsetting Democratic policy.
They cry of protecting labor is dend ; and if the
working people yield o their demands at all, it
'must be when driven to it, as a means of preserv
ing the credit and honor of the country. T'he
question is—(if we admit that the deficit referred
tr actually exists)—=Will a high aritf, a rewurn to
the Protective policy, beiter accomplish this pur
pose than the tarilf we have now ! The average
annnal receipts under the present tariff,-exceed the
average under the tarifl' o' 1842, by abont skvin
MiLLIoNS OF DoLLARS. The purpose is to increase
‘these receipts still more. Asmen of common
SeNse, SHALL WK GO BACK, OR FORWARD ?
But ro matter. ‘The Whig ecapitalists may
preach about competition with pauper labor and
about an empty Treasury, ull the world gets old
and gray ; the people know what tLey mean, and
wlhat they want—they know that money in our
pockets, and starvation for the luborer, is at the bot
tom of it. Knowing this, they will not cousent to
a higher tariff, be the Treasary empty or tull.—
They are not to be taxed any longer for the bene
fitol capiwal. They want free trade, for their own
benefit, and they will have it. “I'he time is gone
by when they will consent o a policy that has
starved and enslaved the laborers of every coun
try that has adopted it, and that is bringing the old
und thickly settled States of our own country to
resemble the monarchies of the old world—enrich
ing the few, and grinding the masses in poverty.
Tur Crimax Carren.—Colonel James Wat.
son Webb, the editor of the New York Courier
and Enguirer, has been, during the last week. on ‘
a visit to this eity ; and report states that he left
with the commission of charge to Vienna in his
pocket. It was stated and generally believed, that
when Colonel Webb's name was submitted to
General 'l‘u, lor lor the Madrid mission, he sa:d he
knew Col, Webh's history well, und that he would malke
no such appeintment. W hat has induced the Pres
ident to alier his decision, we leave the public to
conjecture. We have noticed that the Courier
and Enguirer has recently contained articles praia.
ing und complimenting ex governor Seward of
New York, written in a very different spirit from
that which was formerly exhibited by that journal
towards the abolition senator from ‘ew York
We presume that it is not anticipated that Colonel
- Webb's nomination will be sustained by a dozen
‘, members of the Senate, if by so many. But we
verily believe that, under the rule observed in
sich cases, hie will notwithstanding his certain re-
Jection by the Senate, receive the outfitand ayear's
csalary. That will be reward enongh for his ser
vices, considering his disinterested pledge not to
ask ofiice lrom General Taylor's administration.
|== Wash Union.
| L% If we were a member of the Senate, we
' shonld vote to confirm Col. Webb's appointment.
- We believe he is gnite as good as Ewing, or Col
lumer, or Clayton, or Fitz Henry Warren—bet
| ter than an average of uld Zack's officers. Peo.
plesay thathe sold himeelf, once, to the U. 8.
| Bank ; and we all know that he was accommoda-
Cted with a loan from that institution, abont the
‘ tme of going over to Whiggery ; but the interest
| on all that he received amonnts to but little mere
' than half as much as Daniel Webster receives, in
the *hape of a pension for supporting the Whig
| party—a party which he knows, even better than
| Webb does, *is not fit to be” supported. In his
| ordinary transactions we havealwaysheard Webb
[ well spoken of. He engages in no small cheat.
| erics and tricks—and is square out what he pro
fesves to be. As an employer, he always pays the
highest wages—pays in cash, and pays promiptly
~and lovoks out that the weak in his employ are
notimposed npon und erowded by the strong.—
He ix generous, perhaps to a fanlt; and as gen
erous in his political as in his other relations of
life. He does not often descend to low personal
abuse of political opponents, and seldom attacke
the motives of cncwies, however severe they may
be upon him. He is not constantly preaching np
dvimocracy, and free suffrage, avd freedom to the slave,
and freedom tothe masses, and homes for all, and ar
the same time endeavoring, by party manauvres,
to erush and degrade labor and the laborer. We
like him, with all his fanlts, much better than we
do ha!l the prominent men in the Whig party ;
and if that party has been driven to give him an
office, we hope he will be permitted to enjoy it
while the party isin power. Of course we nei
ther forget nor forgive his support of Rhode Is
land Algerineism ; but we may say, thatwhatever
his motives were, they have operatedto make him
consistent. He did not applaud Dorrism in theo
ry, to denounce it in practice ; he did not de
nounce it here, to support it in New York, as
other Whig editors did. Perhaps the worst that
can be said of him is, that his politics have bheen
his eapital in trade, aud that when he has sold out,
} he has made a busingss of it, and gone clean over
‘with all his buggage. T'he suspicion isthat he has
‘done this just once; others have done it half a doz
en times, without making half as many enewmier.
It is of course understood that our advocacy ol
Webb's confirmation, is based, in the main, on the
belief that he will make a good officer = that he is
capable and will prove faithful 10 his country, and
‘that he will be acceptable to those of his country
‘wen who may need his services abroad. llf the
choice were to be made to-morrow, between Webb
and Abbott Lawrence, as Minister to any Court
under heaven, we wold choose Webb, as the
greater and the better man.
THEY DONT LIKE IT.
We quoted a short time since, for the sake of
calling the Jourmal's attention to it, the following
paragraph from the Washington Republic. one of
the organs of the Cabinet, and the organ of Gen
eral Taylor :
“ President Taylor has ncver declared war against
the Sub Treasury, that we have heard. We are not
aware that the Whig party desire to meddle rwuth .
The Journal has not said a word on the subject
that we have seem, nor have the other papers of
the Whig party, scattered over the Union, with
two or three exceptions, The New Huven Her
ald, altra Whig is one of these exceptions ; and
we may be excused for qnoting a portion of its
comments on the Republic’'s negative definition
of Taylorism. It says :
“There have been one or two articles in the
Washington Republic of late, that wstonish us,
Whigs as we are, we will vot second any such
ultry twaddle and chicanery, even if from the
F’residem himselt. Whatis the meaning of the
above sentiment from the Republic ? and what is
the poliey in obedience to which itis put forth 7
Why, the Republic, in its zeal 1o carry the Whig
party in the different elections, and keep the ma
jority, deserts the trne \Whig ground of the country
and atterupts to paddle somewhere between the
two great x)‘:uliu. w wake capital. For shame ¢n
it? For shame on such a down-right perversion
of Whig doctrine, and that in the eyes of the
whole nation ?
“ We are not aware that the Whig party desire
to meddle with the Sub Treasary ! Pray, then,
Messra Editors of the Republ.c, what do they de
sire to meddle with 7"’
““ What do they desire to meddle with 1" A
very perinent question. Our opinian is, they de
sire 1o meddle with almost anything, where there
is a chance of putting rocks in their pockets. They
own most of the bank stock. and would therefore
like to get the public monies into the banks. They
own most of the cotton and woolen factories, and
would therefore like 10 raise the tariff a peg, as a
means of putting money in their pockets. There
matters, the Whig party—what here isleft of it—
wold certainly hike 1o meddle with; but whether
General Tavlor would like to meddle with them,
is another gquestion ; some say yes, and some say
no. llis Cabinet has meddled with several mat.
ters, without making a fortune, fimancially or po
litically. It has got itself into hot water, in one or
two instances, by meddling with foreign affairs,
and will hardly get ont ofitin the next three years,
Ewing weddled with Donglass, for the sake of
cheap rent, and Clayton with the New York Her.
ald, for the suke of pufls ; but neither scemed to
have gained anything in the end.
But we must not meddle with these matters
which belong to the family. We give place to a
few comments on the Republic’s item, which the
Saco Unton—a Whig paperof Maine—appends to
those of the New Hauven Herald :
* The next thing we suppose it possible we may
hear from this supposed sewi-ofliciul organ of the
admimsiration, iv that the President hus never de
clared war against Walker's Tariff of '46 ; and
that * the Wlig party do not desire to meddle
with it.” Some months ago sigaificant hints were
given out in certain high quarters, that the tarifl’
must be taken out of the arena of politics. Per
haps the Republic may fiud it convenient to let the
Whig party off from the advocaey of a change in
the taritf an well ax from the sub treasury ; and if
it were disposed to go still farther, it might keep
narrowing the circle so as to leave asingle princi
ple to coutend for, aud that the one generally des
ignuted aw the ** spoils priaciple.” This might suit
the recipients of the public favors at Washington
and elsewhere—possibly might prevent the admin
istration from the opprobrium of ultra Whiggery,
or any Whiggery to hurt, as the term anti ulira
Whiggery was ouce defined; batit would 10t suit
those chigl who desire no offices, and support
the Whig party believing they are doing their du
ty to their country.
T'his last journal—the Saco Union has hit the
nailon the head. T'he “spoils principle,” is the only
priuciple of this administration. It got the spoils
by keeping mnw, and it can best retain them by
‘carrying out the sume policy. The moment meas
‘ures are talked übout, Whiggery is ruined ; for
the people care more for measures than they do for
‘olficn. I'rue, this policy may not suit “ those
Whigs who desire no offices ;" but it fortnnately
happens that their number is small, and their in
fluence in the party incounsiderable.
From the Detroit Free Press.
HOW POPULAR HE HAS GROWN.
The election in this State being over, the Ad
vertiser now dares to speak lavorably of General
Taylor. Hearit:
“Itmay be coufidently stated that no President,
at least since the days of Washington, has ever
grown more steadily, constantly, and rapidly in
the affections, good will, und respect of all classes
of his countrymen, than has President Taylor.”
Every election that has been held since General
Taylor ook possession of the White Hounse, has
resulted in favor of Democracy. Behold the vie
wries!
Tennessee, that went for Taylor by thoneands,
has elected a Dewmocratic governor by a large ma
jority.
Indiapa has gone for Democrats by thonsands.
Towa has not left a grease spot of Whiggery
within her borders.
North Carolinu has frightened the broken-prom
ise party awfully. "
d’onmclicnt has elected three Democratic con
ressmen, leaving ouly one for the Taylor side of
&w Honse.
Virginia has sent almost a unanimous Demo
cratic delegation 1o Congress.
Texas is Democratic all over, as usual, only a
hittle wmore so.
Kentucky has sent a majority of Democrats to
her State convention, now in session.
Georgin o Democratuc governor and a Demo
cratie lermlnuro by large wajorities.
Maryland has increused her Democratic votes,
and sends an increased Democratic delegation to
Congress. EPy ! ¥ Ak
Maine is Democratic by thonsands, and Whig
.or{ there has been knocked into a cocked hat!
Ohio has elected a Democratic legislature, and
has alarge Democratic majority on the popular
vole.
Pennsylvania the good old Keystone, has elected
a Democratic canal commissioner by an old-fash
ioned Jackson majority, and has a Democratic ma
jority on JMM lul{ot.
New York has virtually repudiated Whiggery.
It is now a drawn battle. Last full it gave tens of
thousands of a majority for Taylor.
Louisiann, ‘Taylor's own Siate, haspwept all
traces of Whiggery from its borders.
Mississippi. .'l‘nylnr’o former residence, has
“awfully” twked Whi‘rr{.
Michigan has chased the last ““old coon" up Salt
river.
Wisconsin has fairly smothered Whiggery by
some 7,000 majority.
Yes, Taylor “has fmwu steadily” and Whig
gery has grown rapidly “beautifully less.”
Manron Post Orrick.~The Postmaster Gene
ral has estublished a new post office at Manton—
t'nmnrll Rockville—and appointed William 8.
King, Postmaster—Journal.
Tue Cavtronsia Quesrion.—We have men
tioned the rumor that some Sonthern members of
Congress would oppose the admission of Califor.
nin as a State, because the people had prohibited
shivery in their con<titution. We think it is pos
sible a very few indiscreet propagandists may do
503 but we do not believe that any considerublo
portion of the Southern Jelegitions will assnine a
position so manifestly at war witih the spiritof onr
institotions. ‘The best ground they ean take is,
that every Suite shall decide for itself whether it
will have slavery or not. We believe Mr. Wil
mot himself, and many of the prominent free soil
ers, is willing to concede this. They only cluim
that the proviso shall apply to territories. If the
doctrine is departed from, the South ean never
hope to see another slave State admitted. As we
have said. we do not believe any cons derable por
tion of the South will a<k a departure from it.
But there is yet a question open, on which we
may expect adisagreement. The Stateo! California
claims the whole of the Pacitic coast. It bounds
iwell on the North by Oregon und on the South
by the lower California line. The Sounth will lot
consent to this; and indeed there seems to be in
Justice in it. It shuis out the other Siates, which
wust be organized, one of these days, in the rear;
Just us New Hawpshire would be shut ouy, if
Portsmonth and a few viher towns were given to
Maine or Massachusetis. or justas Alabama wonld
be shut out, if Mobile Bay, and iw linle strip of
territory, were given to Florida. We anticipate
that the slavery agitation of the coming session
will chiefly grow out of this bennadry question ;
and as there is a better chauce fur honorable
* compromise” on this than any other of the ques
tions at issue, we shall not be much surprised if
the Union is mot dissolved by anything short of
warmn weather.
A worp ror THE olp Tree —We mentioned
a week or two since that the Manufucturers Hotel
estate had been purchased by several of our bank -
ing and insurance companies, and that it was con,
templated to remove the old hotel, and also the old
horse-chestnut tree which stands on the premises.
Wefeltlike protesting against the destruetion of the
tree. and we feel like it now ; but we suppose our
protest will have little effeet with the soulless cor
porations which propose to oceupy its site. Ita
waving branches anl eooling shade do not bee
long to the same world with bank notes and as
surance policies ; and it is hardly to be expected
that men who get their living by shaving notes can
appreciate the luxury of an hour spent in the re.
freshing shadews of that old wree in Summer time.
They will cut the old tree down ; break its very :
heart; severitsvery life sirings; just 1o emable them
scives to renlize a few more pennies per day as the
profit of their heaped np gold. We ntter a deep
curse on the act, as our ouly comment,
We perceive our friend of the Pawtuket Gazette
and Chronicle has spoken of the murderons inten
tions again<t the old tree, and in the right spirit.—
We copy his article below,
“Lar THAT 01p Tree stann.” ~We learn from
the Providence Journal that several banks and an
insurance company have purchased the Manofac
turers Hotel estate in that city, and (hat a hand
some block is to be crected thére, We are glad to
learn this, but are surry to learn that the old horse
chestnut tree that standas on (he estaie i 8 10 be hewn
down. Is destruction will be deeply regretted by
thousands. That old tree has for probably more
than half a century farnizhed a cool and dclyighlful
shade, and standing in that part of the city whero
people * most do eougregate,” the invitation of its
outstretched branches 1o the erowd to come and
find protection from the scorehing rays of the sun,
has been accepted by more persons, we think it safe
to say, that any other tree in the country ean boast
of having favored in the same way. Tlhe old horse
chestout ought to be saved, and the city of Provi
dence ought to see that it dues not fall Lnellh the
woudman's axe. 1t will be a species of vandal . m
to cut it down. The building which is 10 10 be
erected can and will, if it should be destroyed, be
rebuilt, but if the tree is destroyed, the man does
not live who will see another like it in Market
Square. For our own part, if we were a citizen of
Providence, there is unot a building in that city
which we should not rather see burned, than to wit
ness the destruction of the old horse chestuut.—
Puwlucket Gazelle.
I Brackwoon's Macazing, for November
has an inviting table of contents—" The "I'ransporta
won Question—My Peninsular Medal, Part 1—
Disenchantment—Across the Atlantic— Peace and
War Agitators—The I'rench Novels of 1249
Dies Boreuales, No. 5, (Christopher under Can
vass.) The article on the Transportation Ques
tion contains some bold remarks, and some cool
suggestions. Ilere is a remnark which it makes in
the outset—leaving the idea to stand or fall, with
out argument, enlargement, or comment.
“It is now known that Imprisonment has no xv-
FECT WHATEVER, either in deterring from crime or
in reforming eriminals.”
The article contends that T'ransportation is a
a blessing to a colony, when the convicts are kept
in a minority, but a curse when the convicts sent
out are so numerous, and free sctilers so few, that
the former forms a large proportion of the com
mun’ty compared to the latter. To rid the British
“I'ransportation” colonies ol this curse, it recom
mends that the government provide, at the publie
expense, “for the emigration of a certain portion
of the most indigent purt of the community, who
cannot get abroad on their own resources, and
scttle them in the same colony with convicts.” 1 also
recommends that men be transported for the lesser
crimes, so that the the hardened eriminals may not
be able to have everything their own way, by
means of their relative strength in numbers. The
article is written in the business style, but one
finds in it a terrible picture of the miseries of life
in a crowded monarchy. We have not read the
other articles. Whitney is agent for the work.
7" Henry Bull, Senator in the Assembly from
Newport has resigned his seat, and is going to
Cuba
Mr. Dixon, the Member of Congress elect in
the Western District, has resigned his seat as rep
resentative from Westerly.
One of the Inspectors at Newport has resigned,
for ** private reasons.” We judge from the tears
which the News sheds over the event, that the
Algerines down there, havn't got anybody to tako
his place. £
V 7 E P. Wwirrre, E«q., of Boston, will de
liver the opening lecture hefore the Franklin Ly
ceum, this evening. Mr. Choate, who was an
nounced for the first lecture, after disappointing
the Lyceum and the public once or twice, surren
ders w 0 his * professionnl engagements.” Mr.
Whipple's lecture will be (ollowed by a Poem, by
Park Benjamin.
{7 The U. 8. Cirenit Court, which has been
in session several days in our city, adjourned on
Saturday, 10 meet again on the Bih of January.—
Judge Woodbury left the same day for New York
city, by way of Worcester.
Free Traox.—~The Loudon Daily News, in
epeaking of the dispnsition of America to recipro
cate fully and promptly the relaxation made by the
British government ou the navigation laws, re
marks that “'it furnishes the highest confirnnation
which modern civilization can afford of the wis
dow and justice of that measure. It udde the testi
mony ol the freest commonwealth, to the judg
meut of the greatest Empire in favor of free ship
ping. It combines the free enterprise of the two
most commercial, wost enlightencd, and most opu
lent nations in exisience, ngainst the jealous ped
dling exclusiveness whereby less wise and gener
ous comnunities vainly hope to grow rich '
T'he London Times says, *“We have all of ve
in Europe much to learn in the constitutional ~
hwumruqu of republican governments."—
I'hat's u fact ; and the rooner the monarchiste ?
to school ud’,onboir lesson, the sooner tboi will
he pn‘rnd or the chauge that is inevi y
Bost. Post.
dwin P““1,., » near relative of President Polk,
las been o&;‘wiuhd quartermaster general of Ten
nessee by the governor of that State.