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New Series.
TUESDA'y, BIAB.CH 3, 1846,
Vol. 4.-No. 16.
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' A'TWISTIFICATIOX.
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When we see it written write,
lint when we see it written right,
"We know 'tis not then written wright,
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Must not be written right or wright,
Nor yet should it be written rite,
But write, for so 'tis written right.
THE YANKEE BALL
A Talc or Hie IXevoIiitlon.
Holmes' Hole is a harbor well known
to all navigators of the coast of New
England. During the year 1781, while
the hopes and fears of the American pa
triots were alternating, a half a dozen
British frigates were lving snug in the
Holmes' Hole harbor. Time hungheavi
ly on the hands of the officers on board
their -essels, and they availed themselves
of every opportunity of breaking in upon
its tedium.
The project of a ball on shore was jot
up, and the hearts of the British officers
bounded merrily at the prospect of the
pleasures in store for them. The Yan
kee girls, although not remarkably dis
posed to smile on a British uniform, were
nevertheless not adverse to indulging in a
little flirtation with those who wore the
redcoats. .Ladies wear the bump of flir
lation on their heads the world over, and
it is therefore not to be wondered that the
girls in the neighborhood of Holmes'
Hole were willing1 to have a few hours
gratification at the expense of the enemies
of their country. To bring the lion hearts ,
of these officers to terms of capitulation,
was an object not to be resisted; and ac
cordingly these damsels arrayed them
selves in their bright smiles, and repaired
to the festive hall at the time appointed.
Brilliant shone everv thing on that
evening. The officers were there forget
ful of the errand of butchery on whicn
thev were come to the country, and in
tent only on winning honeyed looks and
love-lit smiles from the breathing forms
around them. The dance went on; and,
as fair and sylph-like forms wreathed
thought he mazes, the proud Britons for
got their sweet-hearts at home, ;;nd yield
ed up their devotions to the fair strangers
before them. Swiftly flew the ivinged
hours away, ami the solemn chime of
mid-night swelled the air before the
sounds of music ceased, and the parties
separated, Villi the hope ol many such
meetings in future.
It was too late to return, to the ships
that night, and the gallant officers, after
discoursing on the comparative merits of
the beauties by whom they had been en
tranced, drank a toast to woman's smile,
and prepared to retire for the night.
Pleasant dreams charmed their plumbers
fairy forms flirted around their pillows
avav their spirits bounded over the
wide expanse of waters between them
and their distant homes, and they revelled
in half-awakened scenes of former bliss
and sleep to them was a repose and a
blessing. No thought, no suspicion had
they of coming evil; but, busy with the
past, all forgetful were they of the power
of the future to bring a saddening change
over their hearts, and they slept away
with the smiles of tranquility playing up
on their sealed features.
But all were not asleep that night.
Rbere were others, counting on future
gains and glories, whose wakeful enter
prize banished slumber from their eye
lids, and filled their hearts with those
high sensations which deedsof chivalrous
darin always foster. To these it is now
our duty to turn.
The " Vineyard Sound is about five
miles over. While the dance was in
progress on the one shore, preparations
of another kind were in progress on the
opposite one. The tidings of the ball
were spread throughout the vicinity, and
eighteen brave fellows agreed to make
that night replete with gloomy as well
as brilliant recollections to the British of
ficers. The moon was in her last quarter, and
as she sunk below the horizon, and her
girdling light vanished from the heavens,
a company of resolnte fellows descended
the bank and made to the water's edge.
A couple ol boats were soon unmoored
and launched on the unsteady element,
filled with as gallant crews as ever start
ed on an eventful enterprise. Every spir
it swelled high as they cleared the foam
of the breakers and the crafts beneath
them rode gracefully over the gentle bil
lows. "Now, my hearties," said a voice from
the bows of the large boat, "the first thing
that 1 have to ask of you is, that you
obey orders."
-Aye, aye, captin," responded the oth
ers. "Then boys, draw your pistols, and
prepare for a shot."
, Every fellow that owned a pistol that
is, a canteen or flask- drew it forth and
uncorked it
MAU hands ready? Then, my hearties
I twig this toast: Success to the Vineyards
i and a bad night's rest to the red coats!"
The toast was duly honored, and every
fellow took down his canteen and re
placed it in his pocket.
"Now this is my first order: no word
is to be spoken louder than a whisper, be
tween this and the other shore. The
success you have just drank to, depends
on silence."
"Aye, aye," muttered all hands.
The oars were muflled to prevent a
splash in the water, and onward the boats
went silently. Their heads were pointed
directly towards the tavern where the ball
had been, and each fellow mused on the
scenes which would transpire on their ar
rival. "I'll be shot if Iran keep still, Joe,"
said a youth by the name of Sam Dareali
to his next neighbor, in a whisper. "I
can't help thinking that chiefest of witch
es, Sally Renham, is at that party."
"Weil, what harm if she is ?"
'None, that I know of." returned Sam,
"only I don't like the thought of that fair
hand being touched by an arm that wears
a red coat."
"The girl, Sam, is a fair one, and she
is as true as she is fair. Her heart never
harbored love for a lory. You. see, it
runs in all female flesh to like to win a
heart, if it be but to see with what kind
of grace its owner will yield it up."
"Truer words were never spoken, Joe;
but why the devil a girl, when she's got
one heart safe, can't be satisfied with it, is
something that I don't understand."
"I guess there's more than that in fe
male human nature that you don't under
stand, Sam. Woman has a great manv
kinks that are perfect mysteries to me.
But as to being uneasy about Miss Ren
ham's hand, it is sheer nonsense. Her
eye. can blink as kindly on his majesty's
epauletts, but it dwells, Sam, on the plain
rigging of a lad that we both know pretty
well."
"Who's that !"
"Whv yourself, Sam. Heavens! what
blind fools love makes of you fellows.
All you have got to do is to capture the
biggest officer in the gang to-night, and
that actItell you, won Vf ail to take captive
the fancy of the lady. She's fond of do
ing like things herself."
"Give us your hand, Joe, and I'll prom
ise you. that if the taking of the proudest
officer at Daggett's to-night, will please
Sally, she shall be pleased. I swear the
prisoner sholl be mine."
"Luck to you, Sam," and thus their
colloquy ended.
It was full two o'clock as our party
hauled their keels on the strand. A few
whispers passed around, and then they
mounted the bank, and struck directly for
Old Daggett's. As they drew nigh they
separated, and in a minute a complete line
was. drawn around the house to prevent
escape, if any should be attempted.
A party of the foree returned to the
house, and soon presented themselves at
the door of the room in which their des
tined victims lay, dreaming of anything
rather than a capture. The door turned
on its hinges, and the loud voice of the
leader of the invaders commanded the
sleepers to surrender. The room was
soon a scene of confusion. The Britons
were at first disposed to make resistance,
but seeing no way to escape, and know
ing their good treatment depended on
their submissiveness, they surrendered
with as much grace as was desirable.
Out of their beds thev were forced, then
as sleepy looking fellows as one would
wish to see. One of. them, corpulent,
red-faced, and larger than his companions,
grumbled as he rose, but a hand was pla
ced on his shoulder, with an order to be
as still and brisk as possible, and he sub
mitted. "I've got him Joe," said onr lover Sam,
to his friend, who was assisting a reluc
tant leg to force itself through a pair of
inexpressibles.
"Well, hang on to him."
"Aye, that I will, like death to a grim
beggar." Then, turning to his prisoner,
he added. "Come my dear sir, I don't
want you to be officious, but let me as
sist you in adjusting your wardrobe.
"While you are gartering that stocking,
I'll garter your neck with this cravat."
"Take that, d d you, for your im
pudence," said the officer, at the same
time levelling a blow with his clenched
fist, which Sam parried.
"Tenderly, tenderly, my dear fellow,"
said Sam; but if you want the use of your i
peepers by the time day-light comes, you
will be sparing with your fists.
"Who and what are you ?" asked the
officer, looking grumbly up in Sam's j
face.
"My name is San? Dareali, at your ser
vice, which, being interpreted, means
Sam Daredevil; I will promise you a
touch of my nature and friendship, too,
before we separate.
"You are a develish clever fellow."
"Thank you sir; it runs in the Dareali
family to be obliging. Can I be of any
use to you in putting on your coat; for I
shall be under the disagreeable necessity
of marching you off right away. "What
is this silly thing good for ? said Sam, at
the same time pulling the apaulctts from
the officer's shoulders; "its only fit for -a
child's plaything." And he put his foot
on the toy. ' -
The Briton's 'face grew very red, but
he had to keep quiet, as Sam assured
him that, as he was going a long journey,
it would only be an incumbrance to his
shoulders, and he had done what he had
from the kindest intentions.
To the door Sam led his prisoner, and
meeting his friend Joe at it, desired him
to say if he had not captured the biggest
game. Joe deliberately glanced his eye
about the officer's sturdy dimensions, and !
replied aihrmatively.
When they reached the outside of the
house, a short parley ensued, in which
it was determined the enemy should be
hurried by a forced march, off to Boston.
One officer, who could be neither persua
ded nor forced to put on his regimentals
up stairs, and who had been brought
down for the purpose of seeing what effect
the chill. air would have upon him. swore
he would die before he would move a
foot. One of the captors who had him
in tow, now applied a switch to his bare
feet, and he moved them with much brisk
ness, to the delight of the joyous Ameri
cans and the evident chagrin of the offi
cers. The poor fellow at the earnest entreaties
of his friends, after being dragged a few
yards, very reluctantly- yielded up his
resolutions, and drew on his pantaloons.
The whole party soon got under way,
and made good haste to their boats and
over the bay again. Many were the
jokes which circulated among the merry
fellows, at the expense of their prisoners,
who although in the midst of a superior
force, could not altogether resist the spir
it of insubordination.
The prisoners were got safe into quar
ters by day-light, and, after breakfast,
were ordered to prepare for an overland
journey to Boston, where they arrived in
safety, and were deposited for safe keep
ing under the protection of John . Han
cock. They were soon exchanged, and
lived to relate in their homes, to their an
xious friends, all the scenes which trans
pired between the ball-room and Boston
the corpulent one not forgetting to
make affectionate mention of Sam Dareali
who, be it known, was shortly after mar
ried to Miss Sally Renham, and lived to
tell his grand-children the story of that
night.
VERY LATE FROM EUROPE.
Arrival or the Steamship Cam
bria. "
By the Steam Ship Cambria we have
news from Great Britain as late as the
4th of February.
The news is of the most important
and gratifying kind.
Parliament had assembled, and the
Queen's speech, as well as the tone of the
press, with regard to the United States, is
of the most pacific character. ,
Expressions of regret are made on all
hands that the difficulties between that
country and the United States about Ore
gon are yet unsettled.
FROM WILMER AND S.MITIl's EUROPEAN
TIMES, FEBRUARY 4.
The steamship Cambria, commanded
by our excellent and esteemed friend Cap
tain Judkins, takes out to-day the most
important and gratifying intelligence that
ever left the shores of Great Britain.
Sir Robert Peel England's powerful and
brilliant Minister has developed his fu
ture commercial policy. It is at once sim
ple and comprehensive; and, under its op
eration, the exchange of commodities be
tween this country (England) and the U
nitcd States will be carried to an extent,
and will be mutually productive of advan
tages, greater, to quote not irreverently
the words of of the sacred volume," than
the eye hath vet seen or the heart hath
conceived." The new scheme embraces,
with a full sense pf their importance, the
principles of free trade repudiates all
protection lor commerce, manufactures,
and agriculture; admits corn duty free at
the end of three years, with a scale, in
the interim, which will probably oscillate
between four and six shillings per quar
ter, (eight bushels,) and at once admits
Indian corn and buckwheat free of all du
ty whatever. , To the details of this great
measure we earnestly entreat the atten
tion of our commercial, readers. Great
Britain at the present moment is in a
blaze of excitement; men talk and think
of nothing else, they have set their hearts
upon securing the great fiscal scheme for
the regeneration of the country which the
Premier has laid before Parliament! and
they desire to curtail the period fixed
for the total extinction of the corn laws.
The friends of peace and progression on
this side of the .water hope- earncsdy
and sincerely hope that the new policy
will bind America to us by "the tiesof
amity, brotherhood, and interest, and that
the miserable squabbling about a barren
waste will give way to more liberal, civi
lized, and comprehensive views. -
The immediate effects of the new tar
iff on the prominent articles of American
exports we have noticed elsewhere. Al
together, the subject, in its various pha
ses, is the most important that ever cross
ed the Atlantic since the introduction of
ocean navigation; and all that is now
wanting is for the Government and peo
ple of the United States to meet us in a
kindred spirit, and, in the true spirit of !
commerce and of friendship, forget! the
past, and run a generous race of mutual
happiness and prosperity for the future.
Mr. Peel's Financial Scheme.
Our columns to-day furnish evidence
of great revolution which has taken place
in the public mind relative to the fiscal
policy of the country. Governments, it
is notorious, in all highly civilized coun
tries, are always conservative always in
arrear of the people's requirements. It
is certainly so in England; it is more or
less so in the other countries, making al
lowance for the difference of moral and
physical causes. The Minister who car
ries out Bentham's axiom of "the greatest
happiness of the greatest number," will I
best serve the interests oi humanity, ai: '
fulfil his own high destiny. But where thr
representative principle is at work; where
the public mind possesses sufficient intel
ligence to grasp the great truths, and de
sires their embodiment in action all that
the State pilot has to do is to be the in
strument of realizing an enlightened poli
cy on the safest principles, and with the
most tender regard for the interests, feel
ings, and sympathies of all classes for
those who have thriven as well as those
who have suffered by the previous poli
cy. This course of action describes in a
few words the secret and the success of
Sir Robert Peel's ministerial career. It
has been alleged against him that he ncv
cr anticipates always lags behind public
opinion. It is true. He is essentially a
practical man, and never jeopards success
by experimental trickery. The body po
litic, like the physical frame was formed
for nobler uses. He has tact, judgment,
and a thorough appreciation of charac
ter. Once in action, his indomitable en
ergy braves all dangers, bears down all
opposition.
But these preliminary remarks are kee
ping us from the object at which we de
sire to arrive: to- point out to our readers
the most striking features in the plan for
the fiscal regeneration of the country,
which Sir Robert Peel, in a four hours'
speech, introduced to the House of Com
mons on the 27th instant. In that speech
he took an elaborate review of the fiscal
condition of. the country, and announced
the reduction of duty on a number of ar
ticles which press upon the commercial
and agricultural interests. He impressed
upon the manufacturers the necessity of
preparing for the advent of free trade, by
giving up whatever limited amount of
protection they now enjoy from foreign
competition in the shape of prohibitory
duties; and the duties so imposed he an
nounced his intention of reduciug to a
nominal amount. But this appeal to the
manufacturers is useless; they have long
since publicly repudiated the benefits of
all protecting duties; have declared that
they seek for no aid beyond free scope for
the exercise of their talents in the open
markets of the world; and have often said
in substance of the agriculturist, "do thou
likewise." The timber duties are to un
dergo a revision, but into the details of
the change he did not enter, reserving it
for another day.
For the -reductions on tallow, on paper
hangings, on soap and candles, on boots
ond shoes, on foreign spirits, on clover
and other seeds, on provisions, (fresh and
salted,) on vegetables, on foreign made
carnages, we must refer to our ample re
port 'of the speech itself in another col
umn. We can do little more than indi
cate in this place, currenle calamo, the
primary heads of the scheme. Sugar,
that great article of colonial produce,
which, next to the com laws, has been
most virulently assailed on account of the
tenacity with which the Minister has
clung in screening it from competition, is
still to be more or less protected. Slave-
1 . it 1 1
grown sugar ne still regarded as an aoom-
mation; but the duty on foreign free-labor
sugar i to be reduced 3s. Gd. per cwt.
The cornIaws he proposes to abolish total
ly and unconditionally, on the first of
February, 1849, and in the mean time a
modified sliding-scale is to be substituted
for the one at present in existence. For
instance, when the price of corn is under
38s the duty 'will be10s.; when above
38s. and under 40., the duty will be 9s.;
and so on, the duty declining Is. with a
rise in the price of Is. until the price
reaches 53s., when a permanent duty of
4s. is to take place. In order to propitiate
the landlord class, sums of money are to
be advanced by Govefnment for the lm
provement cf agriculture. The law of
settlement is to be altered, so that, after a
servitude or residenca of five years in a
manufacturing district, the peasant who
has left the plough for the factory must
receive parochial aid, if he require it,
from the place of his adoption, not the
place of his nativity: the same with re
gard to his children and his widow.
Moreover, the highway rates are to be
remod eled on a plan which is to save a
a tug at the agricultural purse; and various
other charges, hitherto paid out of coun
. - u .1 f r-
ed prisoners, of prosecutions at sessions
the education of the workhouse children,
fee, are to be paid in future by the State.
In a word, the new scheme is as near
an approximation to the principles of free
trade as can be safely consistent with the
policy of a country which has its credit
to support and the interest of an over
whelming national debt to pay. Sir Rob
ert reel has acknowledged the principle ;
that duties ought to be levied for revenue 1
and not for protection, and his future pol- j
icy, it is clear, will be directed to that end. ;
But it would be too much to assume that j
Ire can carry out the new course of actionon !
which he has now entered without a strug
gle, and a desperate struggle, too, with the !
powerful interests which believe them- j
selves to be jeoparded. The protection- j
ists are boiling with fury, and the lan
guage recently held in the House of Lords i
by the Dukes of Richmond and Buck- !
ingham indicate the fierce passions which j
sway the breasts of British landlords to- '
wards the most clear-headed practical !
statesman of his age. Agriculture, they '
say, cannot exist without protection; but
Peel savs it mcst exist without it at the ,
end of three yeajs.
Thus arraved, the hostile "forces face
each other with scowling front, and in j
the centre stands Peel, looking gravely on, i
pret?rving a placid dignity in the midst of j
the or.s'aught from either party. In the j
Hcu e of Commons he is omnipotent, '
and, however furiously the war may rage
out of doors, it is believed that he will be
enabled to carry his tariff by a majority j
of eighty certainly by more than fifty.
When matters come to a cnsis,"and the
free-traders in the popular branch of the
Legislature have to decide between sacri
ficing Peel and his plans, they will be
come, it is believed, less crotchcry and
more practical.
Looking at the question, then, in every
point of view, taking into account the
present position of parties, the advent of
a new election, the flush of triumph which
mantles the cheeks of the free-traders,
the gloom and anger which reign in the
faces of the protectionists viewing the
state of the registery, the condition of the
food market, our relations with the Uni
ted States, the absence of an excitement
except on the great question of free-trade j
we arrive at the conclusion, not only
that Sir Robert Peel will pass his new
tariff triumphantly, but that he will do so
in the present Parliament.
Mr. Cobden has publised an address
to the farmers of England on the propo
sition of Sir R. Peel, relative to corn.
His object is to convince them that it is bet
ter for their interests, in every point of
view, to have the corn law3 repealed at
once, instead of waiting for the Ministe-
rial term ot three years.
UNITED STATES AND GREAT
BRITAIN.
The European Times of the 4th inst.
nv: " I hp rnmmf-rpi.i infol hcprifp
which goes out by this packet is necessa
rily of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.
A state of transition is, of all others, the
most unfavorable for the requirements of
trade, for the uncertainty which precedes
the change unhinges the operations alike
of buyer and seller, of exporter and im
porter. .
"The new policy of the united States,
as indicated in the report of thejAtnerican
Secretary oi the I reasury, has comman
ded much attention in the British Par
liament. Sir Robert Peel spoke highly
of the report in the great speech in which
he introduced the new Tariff, and subse
quently, at the request of Lord Montea
gle, the Government consented to reprint
the document, and place it on the tables
of both Houses of Parliament an hon
or which was probably never awarded to
any similar document before. All these
facts prove the desire which the British
Government has to make our future rela
tions with the United States as amicable
and as business like as possible.
"Markets, as we before 'stated, are all
more or less affected by the Premier's fi
nancial expose; and business can hardly
be expected to resume its healthy tone 4
until it is known whether the measure
will pass or be rejected whether there
will'be'a dissolution of Parliament this
year or next.
"The intelligence which has come to
hand from the United States shows the
angry discussions which have taken place
in Congress, but the cotton market has
not been touched by it. Pacific people
here, connected by business relations with
America, express wonder that Mr. John
Quincy Adams, the steady and consistent
friend of peace, should have shown the
effects of age, on an otherwise vigorous
intellect, by pandering to the prejudices
and policy of the war-party. Notwith
standing the bluster which is uttered in
Congress, people here cannot bring them
selves seriously to contemplate a war a
bout Oregon; it appears too absurd for se
rious attention. Nevertheless, it is in the
power of hasty and intemperate people
to precipitate matters beyond the possi
bility of redemption. The mention of
the Oregon dispute in the British Parlia
ment contrasts strikingly with the war
fare of American Senators and members
of the House of Representatives. Stur
dy Republicans might take, in this res
pect, an example of forbearance and gen
tlemanly deportment from the speeches
of Hume, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord
John Russell, on the second night of tho
session."
OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.
In the House of Commons, on thefirst
night of the session, the Ministerial and
the Opposition leaders both volunteered
explanations on the circumstances which .
led to the late Ministerial crisis. JThcia
explanations now belong to history.
Their interest is merged in the still great
er plans for the future which the financial
scheme of the Premier has developed.
Peel, it would seem, supported by two
or three of his colleagues, wished to open,
the ports for the admission of corn duty
free when the potato disease became a
larming. The majority of the Cabinet
opposed his views, and fiuding their dif
ferences only widened by discussion, they
went in a body to the Isle of "Wight,
where the Qnecn was then staying, and
placed their resignation in her hands.
The subsequent results arc potent to tho
world. To Lord John Russell was con-,
tided the task of forming a Cabinet,which
broke down through the difference be
tween Lords Grey and Palmerston. Our
republican readers who take an intercut
in the style of communication between
the Sovereign and her advisers for th
time being, will peruse the-notes which
the present and the expectant Premier ad
dressed to her Majesty during the minis
terial interregnum. The grammatical
construction of the notes has undergone
much torture by the Sun reporters of tho
rival statesmen 'n the press.
On the first night of the session the in
terest centered in the Ministerial expla
nations. These explanations were prin
cipally confined to the popular branch o
the Legislature, for the theme was evident
ly distasteful to the seccder, Lord Stan
ley. On a subsequent night, however,
the Duke of Richmond called upon the
Duke of Wellington to supply his ver
sion, and he prefaced the request by ask
ing whether the hero of a hundred fighu
had received her ?Iajesty's permission 1 1
do so. The Duke, with the frankness
and promptness which mark his conduct,
immediately launched into ahistory of the
affair. It was a very different story from
that of his oily and appearance-loving
colleague at the head of the Government.
The Cabinet differed about the corn-laws,
but he disliked a difference in the Cabi
net more. To preserve unanimity of o
pinion he was ready to sacrifice any law
to give up any pet scheme. According
ly, when the Whigs, through divided
councils, broke down, Sir Robert Peel
wrote to the'Duke, who was in the coun
try at the time telling him that he woul I
meet Parliament alone, if necessary, and
propose a repeal of the corn laws. The
Duke immediately gave in his adhesion,
and highly praised the "pluck" of his
right honorable friend in coming to such a
determination; it was what he would have
done himself under the pressure of simi
lar circumstances. Altogether, the Duke's
explanation showed how differently edu
cation and character cause men to view
the same facts. The large and compre
hensive vision of the stateman contrasts
amusingly, in this instance, with the nar
rower range of the military disciplinari
an. The election for the West Riding of
Yorkshire will take place in a day or two,
when Lord Morpeth will be returned
without opposition.
The Cabinet remains a3 apparently a
nitcd as if they had been expressly instal
led in power to carry out the free trait:
theories of Cobden and his allies- A
mongst the resignations of members of
Parliament may be mentioned that of Lord
Ashley. The other evening he again in
troduced what is termed the ten hour
bill, a measure which, it will be recollec
ted, nearly upset the Government a year
or two back. His lordship has resigned
on the plea that, as he was sent to Par
liament to support the corn laws, which
he C3n no longer do, since his opinions
have undergone a change, his constituent
have a right to a return of the trust they
reposed in him. It is more than suspec
ted that other reasons have induced his
resignation.
THE AMERICAN MINISTER AT
PARIS.
Mr. King, the American Minister at
the Tuilleries,has been drawn into corres
pondence with M. Guizot, for the pur
pose of rebutting a charge preferred against
him by the Iondon Times, of garbling
the views of the French Government on
th
ic subject of Texas, and producing thcrc
v the explosive missive in the Pres
ent's message, which has caused such a.
d
sensation in France, anci suca ,-pnnracrea
discussions in the Chambers. Mr. King
is sadly too thin-skinned; and he has not
bettered his position by appealing-,
through Mr. Guizot, to the public against
the strictures of a newspaper. A high
diplomatic functionary ought to b above
this. The Times returns to the char,
and scarifies Mr. King unmercifully. Mr.
Kir.f's letter is rhetorical and infliJ;
that'of Mr. Gnizot brief, cold, and to ihft
i point. A press of matter yeniy ia$
j crowded out this corrcspo:id-uce, the'eom
j prehension of which would have been
incomplete without the article from nc
Times, which provoked it, atid the rejoinder.