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VOL. 1- , -NO. 117.
.6trattgette 44,11 are iit
• For the benefit of strangers and others who may de•
sire to Oat ens- of our public, institution, we publish
the annexed list.
roaLta P 1.0006 00 Aidusalttnv.
'Academy of Mule, (Operatic,) corner of Broad and
Locust streets.
Arch Street Theatre, Arch, above 6th street.
Parkineon's Garden, Chestnut, above Tenth.
National Theatre and Citron, Walnut, above Eighth:
Sandford's Opera Itourle,(Fthionian,) Eleventh, below
blarket.
.Wainitt Street Theatre northeast corner Ninth and
Walnut.
.Thomeure Varieties, Fifth and Chestnut. •
Thomas's Opera House, Arch, below Seventh.
Aare ice Samosa.
Academy of Natural Sciences, corner of Broad and
George streets.
Academy of Fine Arlo, Chestnut, above Tenth.
. Artists , Fund Hallrhestnut, above Tenth.
Franklin Institute, No. t South Seventh street,
Believing/G . INSGrorioss.
- Almshouse, west side of Schuylkill, opposite South
street,
Almshouse (Friends% Walnut street, above Third.
Association for the Employment of Poor Women, No.
292 Green street
Asylum for, Loot Children, No. 86 North Seventh
street.
Blind Aeflum, Race, near Twentieth street.
Christ Church Hospital, No. 8 Cherry street.
City iloapital, Nineteenth street, near Coates,
Clarksonla Hall, No. 163 Cherry street.
Dispensary, Fifth, below Chestnut street,
Female Society for the Relief and•EmploymenL of the
Poor, No, 72 North Seventh street.
Guardians of the Poor, office No. 58 North Seventh
street. -
German Society Hall. No. 8 South Seventh street.
Rome for Friendless Children, corner Twenty.thtrd
and Brown 'streets.
Indigent Widowe' and Sine" Women's Society, Cherry,
east of Eighteenth 'amt.
Penn • Widows' 'Asylum, West and Wood streets
.Eighteenth Ward. ,
Memento Hall, Oheetnut, above Seventh street.
Magdalen Asylum,
_corner of Race and Twenty-that
streets.,
t Northern Dispensary, No.l Spring Garden street.
Orphans' Asylum, (coloredd Thirteenth street, near
Oallowhill„. •
, Odd Fellows' Hall, Stith and Miami street.
, do, S. coriter'Broad and Spring Gar.
• ,•• den etreets. •
'do; 'Tenth and &nth Streete,
Third and Brdwn streets.
Do. • do. Ridge Road, below Wallate.
Pennsylvania Hospital, Pine street, between Eighth
and Ninth.
Pennsylvania Institute for the Instruction of the Blind,
corner Rade and Twentieth street
Pennsylvania - Society for Alleviating the Miseries of
, Public Prisons, Sixth and Adelphi streets.
Pennsylvania Training School for Idiotic and Feeble.
Minded Children. School House Lane, Germantown,
office No. 162 Walnut eteet.
Philadelphia Orphans' Asylum, northeast cor. Eight
teenth and Cherry
Preston lietrest, Hamilton, near Twentieth street.
Providence Society, prune, below Sixth greet.
Southern Dispensary , No. 88 Shippey street.
Union Benevolent AssoCiatiOn, N. W. corner of
Seventh and Panama streets.
Willie Hospital, Race, between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth etreete.
St: Joseph's Hospital, Girard avenue, between Fit.
teenth and Sixteenth.
Episcopal Hospital, Front street, between Hunting.
don and Lehigh avenues.
Philadelphia Hospital for Illeeasee of the Chest, S. W
Corner of Cheetnut and Park eta, West Philadelphia
The Home for Destitute Colored Children, situated
On Girard avenue, drat house above Nineteenth street.
PUBLIC nrfiLleiNos.
01140 M lime, Chestnut street, above Fourth
County Prison, Paeeyank road, below Reed.
City Tobacco 'Warehouse, Dock and Spruce streets.
City Controller , ' Office, Girard Bank, second 'dory.
Commiesioner of City Property, office, Girard Bank,
second 'dory. - •
City Treaeurer'e Office, Girard Bank. second story.
City Commissioner's Office, State Hence.
City Solicitorie Office Fifth, below Walnut.
City Watering Comm ittee's Office, Sontliweet corner
fifth and Chestnut.
Fairmount Water Works, Fairmount on the Schuyl-
kill. •
Girard Trust Treasurer's Office, Fifth,above Chestnut.
House of Industry, Catharine, above Seventh.
House of Indnetry, Seventh, above Arch street.
House of Dotage, (whited Parrish, between Twenty
Second and Twenty-third street.
House of Refuge, (coloredd Twenty-fourth, between
Parrish and Poplar etreete.
Health Office, corner of Sixth and flansom.
House of Correction, Bunh
Marine Hospital, Gray's Ferry road, below South
street.
Mover, officer 8. W. corner Fifth and Chestnut ste.
New Penitentiary. Coated street, between Twenty
first and Twenty-second streets!.
Navy Yard, on the Delaware, corner Front end Prime
greets.
Northern Libertlee Gee Work", Maiden, below Front
street._
Post Office, No, 237 Dock street, opposite the Ex
change.
Poet Office, Kensington, Queen street, below Shacks
mason street.
Post Office, Spring Garden, Twenty-fourth street and
Pennsylvania Avenue.
Philadelphia Exchange, corner Third, Walnut and
Dock ntreets,
Philadelphia Gas Works, Twentieth and Markets office,
No. 8 S. Seventh street.
Pennsylvania Institute for Deaf and Dumb, Broad and
Pine streets. -
- Penn's Treaty Monument, Beach, above Hanover
etreet.
Public High School, S. E. corner Brood and Green
Public Normal School, Sergeant, above Ninth.
Recorder's Office, No. 3 Stile House, east wing.
State House, Chestnut street, between Fifth and Sixth
otreets:
Sheriff's Office, State House. near Sixth street.
Spring Garden Commissioner's Ilan, Spring Girden
and Thirteenth streets.
Union Temperance Hall, Christian, above Ninth
atreet
United States Mint, cornet of Chestnut and Juniper
United States Arsenal, Gray's Ferry Road, ne-aiFede
ral street.
Naval Asylum, on the Schuylkill, near South street.
United States Army and Clothing Equipage, corner of
Twelfth and Girard streets.
United States Quartermaster's Office, corner of
Twelfth and Girard streets.
MUM.
College of Pharmacy, Zane street, above Seventh.
Eclectic Pledical College, Haines street, west of Sixth.
Girard College, Ridge read and College Avenue.
Homoeopathio Medical College, Filbert atreet, above
Eleventh.
Jefferson PledicalCollege, Tenth street, below George,
Polytechnic College, corner Market and West Peen
Sqrre.
enneylvenla Medical College, Ninth street, below
Locust.
Philadelphia Medical College, Fifth street, below
Walnut.
Female Medical College, 220 Arch street.
University of Pennsylvania, Ninth street, between
Placket and Chestnut.
University , of Free Medicine and Popular Knowledge,
No. 08 Arch street. •
LOCATION or 8011E111.
United States Circuit and District Courts, No. 24
Fifth street, below Chestnut.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Fifth and Chestnut
streets.
Court of Common Ilene, Independence [fell.
Distriet Courts, Nos. 1 and 2, corner of Sixth and
Chestnut streets.
1 Court of Quarter &talons, corner of Sixth and Chest.
streets.
lINLIGIOUN INSTITUTIONS.
American Baptist. Publication booty, No. 118 Arch
street.
American and Foreign Christian 'Onion, No. 14t Cheat.
nut street.
American Sunday School Union (new), No. 1122
Chestnut street.
American Tract Society (new), No, 029 Chestnut.
I:piecopal Reading Rooms 524 Walnut etreot.
alenonist, Crown street. belowi Oallowbill street.
Pennsylvania and 'Philadelphia Bible Society, corner
of Seventh and Walnut streets.
_ .
Presbyterian Board of Publication (new), No. Ein
Chestnut stree L.
Presbyterial" Publication lianas, No. Int Chestnut
tared.
•
Young Men's Christian Association, No. 162 Chestnut
street.
Northern Young Men's Christian Association, Ger.
mentos= Road and Franklin. - •
Philadelphia Bible. Tract, and Periodical Waco (T.
H. Stockton's), No. 55.5 Arch aired, first house below
Sixth street, north side.
Lutheran Publication Society, No. 732 Arch ,treat,
below Eighth.
RAILROAD LINES.
Penna. Central B. R.—Depot, Eleventh and Market,
7A. „Mail Train for Pittsburgh and the West.
1255 P. M., Fact Line for I'ittoburgh and the West.
2.30 P. M., for Harrisborg and Columbia.
4.30 P. M. Accommodation Train for Lancaster.
11 P. M., Uprose Mail for Pittsburgh and the Went.
Beading Railroad—Depot, Broad and Vine.
7.80 A-. M., Express Train for Pottsville, Williamsport,
Elmira and Niagara Falls.
3.30 P. M., as above (Night Eames Train.)
New York Liner.
1 A. M., from Kenaington, via Jersey City.
6 A. M., from Camden, Accommodation Train.
7 A. M., from Camden, via, Jersey City Mail.
10 A. IL, from Walnut stroot wharf, via Jersey city.
2 P. M. via Camden and Amboy, Express.
3 P. HI., via Camden, Accommodation Train.
5 P M., via Camden and Jersey City, Mali.
0 P. IL, via Camden and Amboy, Accommodation.
Connecting Lines.
6A. M., from Walnut street wharf, for Belvldere,Easton,
Water Gap, Scranton, to.
6A. 11, for Freehold. •
7 A. M., for Mount Holly, from Walnut street wharf,
2 P. M., for Freehold.
2 301'. M., for Mount Holly, Bristol, Trenton, de.
P. M., for Palmyra, Burlington, Bordentown, Au.
4 P. 11., for Belvidere, Easton, An., from Walnut street
wharf.
5 P. M., for Mount Holly, Burlington, Aka.
Baltimore R. R.—Depot, Broad and Prime.
8 A. M., for Baltimore, Wilmington, Now Castle, Slid. Motown, Dover, and Seaford.
1 P.M., for Baltimore, Wilmington, and New Cootie.
4.15 P. M., for Wilmington, New Castle, Middletown,
• Dover, and Seaford.
P. M. for Perryville, Fast Freight.
11 P. 11., for Baltimore and Wilmington.
North Pennsylvania R. /I.—Depot, Front and Willow.
rA. M., for Bethlehem, Keeton, Mandl Chunk, he.
10 A. Hl. for Doylestown. Accommodation.
216 P. 5.1•, for Bethleheni,Enaton,.llauch Chunk, leo.
4.30 P. M . for Doylestown , Accommodation.
10 A. M., for Gwynedd, Accommodation.
Camden and Atlantic B. .11.—Vine street wharf.
7.30 A. 11., for Atlantic City.
10.42 A. M., forlladdonfield.
4 P. M. for Atlantic City.
4A5 P. M., for Haddonfield.
For Westchester.
By Columbia R. K. and Weetcheoter Branch.
loom Market street, south eve, above Eighteenth.
Leave Philadelphia? A. M. afill 4 P. M.
, c Westchester 6.80 A. Si., and 3P. M.
On SoNDAI3
Leave Philadelphia 7 A. 11.
" Westchester 3P. M.
Westchester Direct Railroad, open to Pennelton, Grubbs
Bridge.
From northeast Eighteenth and Market etreetn.
Leave Philadelphia. 6, and 9 A.ll. 2,4, and 6 P. M.
Pennelton, Grubbs Bridge, I, 13, and 11 A.lll, and
4 and 6 P. M.
On Saturdays last train from Pennelton at 7 A. M.
. Oa Sensate
Leave Philadelphia 8 A. M. and 2 P. M.
Pennelton 9,ti A. 41. and 6 P. M.
Germantown gr. Norristown It. R.—Depot, 9th and
Green.
6,9, and 11 A. M. and 3, 4.45, 6.45, and 11.15 P. M.,
for Norristown.
6A. Si. And 8 P. M., for Downingtown.
8,9, 10,
M. and 11. he 3,0 A. M, li d 2,4, 6,8, and .
for Cstnut D.
6,7, 8,9, 10.10, and 11.30, A. HI., and 1,2, 3.10, 4,5,
6,7, 8, 9 and 11.80 P.M., for Germantown,
Chester Valley
PR. l .•— Leal, Philadelphia 6A. M. and
. M.
'Leave Downingtown 7X A. M. and 1 P. M
STEAMBOAT LINES.
2.80 P.M., Richard Stockton, for Bordentown, from
Walnut street wharf.
10 nut 11.49 A, 21., and 4F. for Moony, Burling.
ton and Bristol, from Walnut street wharf.
9.80 A. M. Delaware, Boston, and Kennebec, for Cape
may, first pier below Spruce duet.
7.80,A. M., and 2,3, and 6 P. M., John A. Warner
and-Thomas A. Morgan, for Bristol, Bun
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" WHAT'S IN A NAME:"
Such a question as this was put by SOAKS
PEARE into the mouth of ono of his charac
ters. As' regards Royalty, undoubtedly there
is a great deal in a name. When AtIOVSTUS
CJPRAR assumed sovereign rule in Rome, in
stead of taking tho name of King, which had
been abolished, in the expulsion of TARQUI
rn es SUPERBVS, 500 years before, he called him
self Emperor (Imperator) which 'indicated
a soldier rather than a ruler. When Duke
FREDERICK, Elector of Brandenburg, took the
title of King of Prussia, in the year 1700,
there was great excitement among the crowned
heads of Europe—some of them without half
as much territory as he was master of, When
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE seated himself on the
throne of Franco, he was careful to avoid auy
identification with the old regality of the
Bonnoons, and, a soldier as well as a sover
eign, called himself Emperor, which feudal
as well as classical tradition had made a title
of honor and supremacy. 'When the Duke; of
Orleans was elevated to royal sway in France,
avoiding the title of Emperor, as too much
identified with the NAPOLEON dynasty, and
that of King of France, borne by the elder
Bowmen branch, he called himself ft King of
the French" to indicate that he ruled, not by
any "right divine," ; as master 'of -France;-hut
by the choice and with the approval of the
French people. When Loris NAPOLEON placed
himself on the throne, he rejected the name of
King, associated as it was with a family which
France had thrice driven into exile, and en
deavored to renew the glorious recollections
of his uncle's brilliant career by reviving the
title of Emperor. Nay, only a few months
ago, Prince ALBERT, husband of Queen VIC
TORIA, of England, succeeded in obtaining a
grant of the title of Prince-Consort, having
vainly requested his wife to give him that of
King-Consort. Her Majesty declined to divide
her title, even with her husband, but declared
him Prince-Consort, (after nearly eighteen
years of marriage,) and, whatever the avowed
object of this public recognition may have
been, the real motive was to prevent the royal
family of England from taking precedence of
their own father. The younger son of a beg
garly German principality, Prince ALBERT
had no claims, even by hie marriage, to be
called Royal," and therefore his own sons
would take precedence of him. Now, with
the actual title of "Prince-Consort," he also
is fully entitled to the pas as a "Royal High
ness," and, it is to be hoped, will have quiet
rest and pleasant dreams in the possession of
this new "dignity." There is something very
absurd in the notion of tfu middle-aged, stout
gentleman being terribly annoyed at the idea
of his own eons walking out the room before
him.
"What's in a name ?" A great deal more
than people may imagine. We speak, of
course, of names which have importar.ce in
different localities—wherever titles do not
exist, for instance. But they do flourish in
England, and it is a moot point, at present,
should Queen VICTORIA MIMIC 010 sovereignty
of Hindostan, under what name she shall
govern there. Some of the English papers
suggest that she be called " Queen of Iliudos
tan." But they certainly do this in ignorance
or forgetfulness of two facts—that the inhabi
tants of Hindostan, when Hindoos or Ma
homedans, attach wonderful importance to the
rank and its degrees, and that, with them, the
title of Emperor is much superior to that of
King. If the British Sovereign is to govern
Hindostan, in her own name, (instead of by
the clumsy mode of having the East India
Company as a proxy inler,) she must not as
sume a title less imposing or less dipiktl
than the very highest which the Supreme
Itulorstof that country ever bore, in itto rnt
ness of their power. As the Imperial title is
that which the Great Mogul bore, VICTORIA
must take that—or none.
The English people have been so accustomed
to the titles of " King" and " Queen," for
more than fourteen centuries, (if we count
from VORTEGERN,) that it would pain
fully affect them to change these titles now.
Considering the vast extent of territory which
the Queen of England is placed over—what is
called " the United Kingdom" being a very
small portion of the aggregate—the British
dominions may truly be said to constitute
an Empire. Yet, it would go against the grain,
with the British, to have to call their Nor
"The Empress Victoria." If she must be
Empress in Uindostan and Queen in England,
why not blend the two titles, and call her
the Empress-Queen, a dignity which was so
honorably sustained, within the past century,
by MARIA TIIERESA
When the Emperor CHARLES the Sixth
died, in 1740, his daughter MARIA THERESA
was left, at the ago of twenty-three, with the
title of Queen of Hungary, her husband, the
reigning Duke of Tuscany, being a man with
small intellectual force. Her very succession
to the Hungarian Crown was challenged—her
dominions invaded—her personal liberty In
peril. It was then that, throwing herself un
der the protection of the Diet of Hungary,
with the ancient crown of Sr. STEPHEN on
her youthful brow, the selmetar of State
girded by her side, and her infant boy In her
arms, she addressed the assembled Magnates
and other Orders of the Kingdom. When she
spoke the words, "The King of Hungary,
our children, our crown aro at stake. For_
oaken by all, we seek shelter only in the fidelity,
the arms, tho hereditary valor of the re
nowned Hungarian States," the whole as
sembly, as If animated by one soul, and
speaking with ono voice, drew their sa
bres half-way from the scabbard, and
exclaimed, " Our lives and our blood for
your Majesty. We will die for our King,
MARIA THERESA." (VitCHI et Sanguinem
pro Majestate Vestra ! Moriamur pro liege
nostro, MARIA THERESA I") Nor was this
enthusiasm short-lived. With the aid of her
Hungarians, she conquered Bavaria, forced
Prussia into a peace, rescued Bohemia from
an invasion, and four years after, a tearful
suppliant, she hail appealed to the Diet, was
crowned Empress of Germany, her husband,
through her influence, having been elected to
the purple. Nor, in her prosperity, did the
Empress-Queen (as she then was called) for
get that she herself had suffered, and that the
liberties of her country had been imperilled.
When the partition of Poland took place, in
1772, MARIA THERESA loudly and forcibly,
but vainly protested against the iniquity of the
deed. Russia, Prussia, and Austria were too
strong for her, and the robbery was com
mitted.
Every thing in Europe is donenecording to
precedent. We have pointed out the reasons
for calling VICTORIA, as ruler of India and
England, by the imposing title of Empress-
Queen. In the case of Ilindostan, "a name"
really is of importance. Perhaps the ultimate
submission of that vast country, so full of un
developed resources, may depend on the title
by which Queen VICTORIA Shall rule over it.
With them, hitherto, Emperor has been the
supreme rank. Any thing beneath that will
be taken, by Sepoys and Mahomedans, as an
admission of inferior dignity, power, and rank.
The Carthagelia correspondent of the New
York Herald states that the United States schoon
er Varina, with tho members of the Atrato expo
dltlon, had arrived at that place. Tho object of
this expedition is to make a survey of the Atrato
and Turando rivers, with the view of constructing
a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. To meet the expenses, Congress, it will
be remembered, passed an not appropriating twen
ty-five thousand dollars. Lieut. Craven, of the
navy, and Lieut. Michler, of the topographical
engineers of the army, were appointed to the
work, and with the necessary hydrogrephical and
topographical assistants sot sail on the 12th of Oc
tober last from Now York for the Gulf of Darien.
They arrived at Carthagona on the 3d of Novem
ber, and have boon engaged there in collecting
Information relative to the country which they are
to explore. Nowa from the whaling fleet in the
()Adak sea represents the season as having
proved a most fortunate one so far as regards the
quantity of oil . taken, but there had been little
whaling save in the southwest gulf.
PHILADELPHIA, 'VVONSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1857.
DR. MACKAY'S LYRIC rep, / 11 4
Charles Mackay, the lyric 00, ,
been lecturing, at Bestow-and New 'Forks on
the National Poetry and Ballads et gne.o,
Ireland, and Scotland, will probably ropearthe
course in Philadelphia. Ito is a mes unto
awning man, well acquainted with' tbo' Mora.
turn of many countries, and has cliattrlbtded
largely to that of his own. Although Only
forty-five years old, be has witnessed someatir
ring events—commencing with the Belgic Revo
lution of 1830, being at Brussels ab Mei t4o.
In 1831 he published a volume,of intretns, nud
soon after became assistant editor of .thti Lon
don Morning Chronicle, in which capacity:, O
continued for about ten years,quitting It to, etr
duct a paper in Glasgow,(the, Uni,VereßY, ;o f
which city made him Doctor of ',awed pad,
his return to London, contributing plot* of
lyrics to the Doily News, under the, iamb; of
"Voices from the Crowd." For . 150146 i *rd
he has been one of the principal edittiitiXif lhe
Illustrated London News, the most widety4di
minted newspaper in the World. MPS, MAY,
he is contributing to it, in a series dr letters.
his impressions , d' the United Statea.
Amid the constant exactions oCnewSpaper
editorship, Dr. Mackay has found (or made)
time to write a great deal of poetry, and,ethu
pose several pose works of considerable motif.
It is by his poetry, however, and chiefly by his,
songs, that he is best known., • Ifis luto Most
purely poetical, and best sustakfed poeraSpare
t!The Salamandrlne," and tone triallt of
Gold"—the latter published in IBSC :Ms
fecundity as a lyric poet is rematkablcv4 et,
be has not written a single weak song.ilt , at,
of his lyrics are; to be found in the velunta_ ou.
titled "Voices fVotn the Mountains, 6 ,itT.ea
from the' Crowd," "Ballads' and ',. • Cal
Poems," "Town Lyrles,". Mut' , t , Sen *; for
Music." He has himself musical tastean SOme
Musical knoullaige. As a poet, be it ver
been with.and for the People,tor;ill't ' rd
battle.' of Might, against3l%K - bats .an,..upt
st
batant , done More 'efficient service - , on, !ts)wi. ,
pular side, than Charles Mackay. Hislibo,ft is
filled with fine humanity, which tako the
whole world within its grasp.
Here are a couple of his songs. Thit first
belongs to a series called t!The Emigrants,"
describing the voyage from the old costar
the arrival here, and the fortunes oCt4ie
children of labor who bring strong hanth.Mid
willing hearts to the battle for life. k'Xivii
first is :
0 ,...
TO THE WEST! TO TILE WEST! , ' -, 't T
I. ..:I '
,
To the West! to the West! to the land dam (to,
Where mighty Missouri rolls down to the soar
Where a man is a man, if be's willing to toll;'. -
And the humblest may gather the fruits' of the
soil
Where children aro blessings, and ho who both
most
Rath aid for, his fortune and riches to boast; '
Where the young may exult, and the aged tnity
rest, .. •
Away, far away, to the Lend of the West
n.
To the West! to the West! where the rivers . that
flow,
Run thousands of miles, spreading out as they go;
Whore the green waving forests that echo our
call,
Aro wide as old England, and free to us all ;
Where the prairies, like rams where the billows
have roll'd,
Are broad as the kingdoms and empires of old;
And the lakes aro like oceans in storm or in rest,
Away, far away, to the Land of the West !
To the West! to the West: there is wealth LtYlie
won,
The forest to °leer is the worjclo be done:,
We'll try it, well do it, and never despair,:
While there's light in the sunshine, and breath 4
the air.
The bold independence that labor shalt buy,
Shall strengthen onr hands, and forbid us,to nigh.
Away, far away ! let us hope for the best
And build up a home in tho Land of the Week
And here, very apropos at the present mo
ment, (when, by the way, Trade has rather
the worse of it,) is another lyric, from the
mine pen, which has truth as well as poetry in
it:
TRADE AND SPADE
Between two friends in days of old
A bitter strife began ;
And Father Spudo end Brother Trade
Disputed man to man.
" You're vain, undutiful, and proud,"
Said Spade, with noshing oyes;
"You earn your thousands while I starve;
"You mock my children's cries.
"You ride in state with lordly,looks;
" You dwelt in bower anti hall ;
Yon speak of me reproachfully,
" And prosper on my fall.
"So from this hour, tashino or shower. ,
" We'll learn to live apart :
" I ruled the earth ero vou were born- 7 .
"I cast you. from my heart "
If.
And Trade lost temper in his pride, -
And ntter'd words of scorn :
" You do not know the ways of men,
" Amid your sheep and corn.
" You doze away the busy day,
" Nor think how minutes run ;-
0 Do, put your !Mulder to your work,
And do as I have done.
" You'vo all the earth to yield you wealth,
" Both corn and pasturcland ;
"I only ask a counting-house,
" And room whereon to stand.
" And from this hour, in shine or shower,
" I'll learn to live alone;
" I'll do without you well enough—
" The world shall be my own "
And thus they wrangled night and day,
Unfair, like angry luau;
Till (bingo went wrong between them both,
And would not right again
But growing wiser in distress,
Each grasp 'd the other's band •
"Tway wrong, " said Spade '•to rail at Trade ,
'' Ile loves mo in the land."
And Trade as freely own'tlhis fault :
" Pee been unjust," ho said.
To quarrel with the good old man
" Who grows my daily bread.
4 . Long may we flourish, Trade and Spade,
"In oily and in plain !
"The people starve while we disputa—
" We must not part again."
And all the people sang for joy,
To see their good accord;
While Spade assembled all his eons,
And piled bin plenteous board.
lie fed them on the best of fare,
Untived the foaming ale,
And pray'd on England's happy shore
That Trade might never fail.
And busy Trade sent fleets of ships
To every sea and strand,
And built his mills and factories
O'er all the prosperous land,
And so we'll sing (led save the Queen
And long may Father Spade,
For sake of both the rich and poor,
Unite with Brother Trade.
To try and sell a house,.by showing a brick
or two, is only more absurd than to attempt to
indicate a poet's genius by quoting only a con•
ple of songs. Yet these specimens prove, at
least, that besides rhyme and rhythm, Charles
Mackay has feeling and common sense-01e.
ments too rarely combined in modern poets.
BURKE ON ECONO3IV
A correspondent has not only drawn our atten
tion to an extract from lidraund's speech, to his
cook, at Bertoon's field, on the necessity of econo.
my, but has favored us with a slip cut from an old
paper of Juno 21, 1785. On the back of the slip
we find an advertisement of " The celebrated Dr.
Price's Observations on the Importance of the
American Revolution, and the means of rendering
it a Ronofit to Mankind ; addressed to those Fran
States as a last Testimony of Good Will." There
is also an announcement of " The Denture excel
lont Observations on Civil Liborty ; and all tho
American Pamphlets published during and since
the War."
In those times of pressure and panic, when every
effort should be made by all people to economize
in their expenditure, tho good sense of Burke's re
marks, though mingled with quaint humor, may
be perused with advantage. Mire they are :
"And now, old Dorothy, lot mo particularly ad
dross myself to you; to you, Dorothy, who rule tho
roust, and are permitted to havo the government
of the boiled. 0, my girl ! think, think upon the
virtues of economy, in the basting of en hare, or
in the buttering of a pig, think of the virtues of
economy. Though short pie-crusts ho commended
by epicures, be not profuse in making them.
Though high 8011E0I1111g8 are a recommendation in
many eases, yet, with you, Dorothy, lot modera
tion preside. The rabbit skies and the dripping
may remain your perquisites, but, believe ma, be.
Hero moo, 0, my cook ! the times, the times are out
of joint, and your master has small hopes of bettor
days, Tho days I have beheld when I was a jour
neyman to the marquis, alas ! I shall behold no
more. No, afflicting thought! I may now bellow
till I mun hoarse, and there is no man who regards
my bawling. I look to the presont ministry ns a
man without hope, for I foresee they aro likely to
remain In office till I ant gathered to my fathers.
I look upon the coalition, and contemplate naught
but poverty, nshory, and despair. 0, Dorothy,
Dorothy, 'dear Dorothy, greasy Dorothy, have
compassion ; I therefore beseech you, in ail things
lot economy prevail !"
THE KINO ui PORTUOAL.—An anecdote of
the young King to going the round of the Lisbon
coffoo-houses. Report says that Don Pedro the
other evening visited the French play, but left tho
theatre before the end of the performance, and on
entering the carriage told the servants to proceed
to tho Fever Hospital of Santa Catharine. On
arriving at tho entrance it is said the King gave
orders to the porter that no notico of his coming
should bo given, and at once entered the wards.
Hero ho had an opportunity of seeing tho actual
state of the hospital without tho necessary arrange
ments for a royal visit having boon gone through.
Ufa said his Majesty soundly rated several of the
attendants and farmerlam who wore not at their
posts, and strongly remonstrated with ono of the
surgeons who was taking the pulse of a patient
with his glove on.
Illy papers received by the Star of the Well J
VERY LATE FROM UTAH.
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TILE THREATS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG
THE ARMING OF THE MORMONS
The Sacramento frezon gil es a narrative of C
8. Langdon, formerly connected with the United
States surveyor's office in Utah. We extract the
following :
I was engaged as a clerk in the United States
eurveyor'a office, and witnessed the breaking-up
of the United States Court, and, as the Mormons
ex reseed it, the stampede of Uncle Sam's officers
I felt that the crisis had come, the blow had been
struck. an insult flung In the face of our Govern•
Lima that could not be calmly bone. I have as
yet been disappointed
Brigham Young had publicly declared that no
United States officers should again set their feet
into the Valley, and I wished to know the extent
of the preparations they wets making. I visited
the arsenal, found they had a fair display of at
tillery. 1 also visited their publio and private
workshops, saw them vesting catmou.shot, and
mannfacturing grape and canister in great
abundance, and come fifty men making Coles dra
goon-else revolvers. Minh more intermation I
obtained in regard to the alliance formed between
the Mormons and Indians, their plan of attack
upon the troops, etc., at least sufficient to make
myself a mark to vent their fury upon, and hurl
their darts of destruction at, viz., the Danites.
Accordingly, on the 25th day of July, when
crossing the stunt, I was assailed by a party of
ruffians, was knocked down anti most shamefully
beaten with clubs and stories. I was literally nut
and bruised 'and, mangled all over my head, face,
breast, hands, and arms. I was taken home un
couseious,'end had it not been for some emigrants
there who interposed, I should have been brutally
murdered in the streets, and without the . taut pos
sible chance to defend myself.
AU was quiet until the night of the .27th of July ,
I was diaturbed by loud rapping at the back doer
of the office, (I lived next door,) and else heard
voleee at the front door; f heard Mr. Wilson raise
the window above and ask what was wanted ; he
was ordered to come down end deliver himself up
under arrest by the authority of Governor Brigham
Young. lie asked what eharee they had against
him; " Comedown, and wells —nation show you,"
was the reply.
The next heard was the door being broken open,
and the voice of Mr. W. in expostulation with
them ; the entreaties of his wife,-begging for them
to spine her husband, mingled with their oathe
and °Wane expressions, rendered the scene per
fectly heart-sickening. I lay almost powerless
with the painof my wounds andeonflieting thoughts
and emotions, until, suddenly, I was thoroughly
aroused by hearing them beneath my window, et
the back door, I told my wife not to make a noise,
or oven cry , she did not cry, but her last words
were, "Fur God's qako, George, fly! Go—go—if
you can—l—l—cannot see you murdered' Oh,
go! and I will do the best Item to detain them"
I had time to put on n pair of pantaloons :olden°
stocking, when, without any ceremony, the door
was burst open, mid a posse of midnight assassins
entered below. I motioned to my wife to extinguish
the light, which sho did ; they immediately made
a rush for the stairs (expecting, no doubt, that I
was preparing for fight, but I could not have killed
mouse then); I stopped and kissed my infant
boy, perhaps tor the last time on earth—then barely
had time to leap from the window, and in doing me
I out my foot very badly; it seemed the fetes were
against, me ; hut; suddenly, the thought struck my
mind that if I could possibly make my escape, I
might probably bo the means of saving Wilson,
thinking they dare net execute their bloody pur
pose ou ono alone, es tile other would be too formi
dable a witness against them ; for I thought of my
wife and my child; yes, I might yet live to rescue
him from the blighting Minium of their teaoh
ings—from a life of poverty, ignorance and wretch
edness. Thus, with renewed energy, I pursued
my way through the corn fields and thickets, bare
footed and bareheaded, and nearly nude; but,
at lest, I found a friend who relieved me ell that
lay in his power, by giving ma a pair of moccasins
and an old hat. Thanks, nay friend; may you
never want relief.
I was hotly pursued several days. The next
morning after I started for California I had the
satisfaction of seeing seven of my pursuers, mount•
ml and armed to the teeth, pass MO within twenty
yards, while I was secreted behind a sage bush ;
I could not refrain from a smile oven then in my
critical position, to see their knives and pistols
hung to their bolts, while I had not even a pen•
knife.
I have not yet hoard (rein Salt Lake, and do
mot know the late of Wilson. If he escaped with
life, it was by being compelled to take oath to
support and fight for the Mormon cause He has,
however. sufficient philosophy to know that no
such oath would have any force or obligation.
I entertain but little fears for the.safoty of my
wife and child; the Morinono 1.01(10111 molest or
harm IL woman, except to coerce her into measures
that aro sometimes very disagreeable I rely en
tirely on the well-known fortitude and firmneas
ocf my wife, and do not think I shall be disap
pointed.
The Los .litotleB ;_qtro publishes a deposition of
Ms. Ellis Eames, in relation to the condition of
affairs in Deseret and the late massacre:
We learned from lir. Dunion, surgeon to Brig•
ham Young's twiny, that they had taken a vote at
Salt Lake City, that if the United States army
found its way into Utah, they themselves would
burn the city, towns, forte, de., and lay every
ittearit•stiva ashes. That they had already
picked out seorot places in the tueontains, to
cache ". their provisions, and make their future
abode with the Indians The Doctor stated that
arrangements were already entered lute that, pro
vided the army should enter the settlements,
retry city, toren, and riltasie in the States of
u o l i f n , m a , la! lowa at(' ald be limn , .
diately burned , that di, y ha,l tarn to de this
who were not blown to be silo, tutu , And that
they would cut off all the emigrant trains, army
stores, stock, ho.; that no Loan, woman, or child
should hereafter cross the plains without being
scalped! 'ulna they depended upon and expected
the Indians to perrorrn this infernal anti eon artily
part of their designs.
After I loft the Mormons, I got along peaceably
with the t indians, who aro not direAly under Nor.
mon Influence. I staid at Painter Creek several
(lays, within six irides of the scene of the late hor
rible massacre, where I joined the company of the
United States mail to San Bernardino. While at
Painter Creek, I saw some of the Mormons draw
ing some of the wagons belonging to persons who
fell in the Into ma , sure towards Cedar City ; they
did not explain to Loo anything of their business, or
of their possession of the wagons , seemed eery
distant and indifferent in their communications
I asked no questions; I 'wished to as old suspicion.
After leasing Painter Creek, and arriving at the
field of blood, I discovered several bodies that
were slain, in a state of nudity and a state of pu.
trefaction. I saw about twenty wolves tootling
upon the carcasses of the murdered I noticed
that the women and children were more generally
eaten by the wild beasts than the men. Mr. Ilunt
and his companions often laughed, and made re
marks derogatory to decency, and contrary to hu
manity, upon the persons of those who wore there
rotting, or had become the food of wild beasts.
Although this terrible massacre occurred within
six miles of Painter Creek settlement, and thirty
from Cedar City, yet it appears that the Mormons
are determined to suffer their carcasses to remain
uncovered, for their bones to bleach upon the
plains.
Brigham made a fiery speech in the " Bowery,"
at Salt hake City, on the 13th of September, in
which his policy is clearly .(et forth. We give the
material portions.
It is a pretty bold stand for this people to take,
to ony that they still not ho controlled by the cor
rupt administrators of ouri General Government.
We will be controlled by thorn, if they will be
controlled by the Constitution and laws, but they
will not. Many of them do not earn any more
about the Constitution end the laws that they
make, than they do about the laws of another na
tion. That oleos trample the rights of tho people
under their feet, while there are also ninny who
would like to honor them. All we have over
nsked for is our constitutional rights. We wish
tho laws of our Government honored, and we have
ever honored them, but they are trampled tinder
foot by administrators.
There cannot bn a more damnable, dastardly
order issued than was issued by the Administra
tion to this people while they were in an Indian
country in 1840. Before see left Nativoo, not leas
than two United States Senators came to receive a
pledgo from us that we would leave the United
States, and then while we svcro doing our best to
leave their borders, the poor, low, degraded curses
sent a requisition for five hundred of our men to
go and fight their battles ! That Ms President
'olk, and he is now weltering in hell with old
Zaehary Taylor, where the present administrators
will soon be if they do not repent.
Liars have reported that this people have com
mitted treason, and upon their lies tho President
lion ordered out troops to aid in officering this
Territory, end if those officers aro like many who
have previously been sent here, and we have rea
son to believe that they aro, or they would not
come when they know they are not wanted, they
are poor, mi.(erable blnekler, broken-down poli
tical hacks, robbers and whoremongers,men that
are not fit for civilized society, so tey must
dragoon them tipott us for offieers. I feel that I
won't bear such cursed treatment, anti that is
enough to say, for see aro just as free as the
mountain air.
I have told you that if this people will live their
religion, all will be well ; and I have told you
that if there is any man or woman that is not wil
ling to destroy anything and everything of their
roperty that would be of use to an enemy if left,
I wanted theta to go out of the Territory, and I
again say so toolity, for when the time collier to
burn and lay waste our improvements, i/ "no mon
undertnies to shield his he will be ,hrored down,
for " Judgment will be !cid to tho lino and right
eousness to tho plummet. ' NOW the faint-hearted
can go in peace, but should that time come, they
must not interfere. Velure I toll a retlii what I
have, in time, your by, there quell nut be one
ng, nor one foot u% lumber, nor a , ttel,
nor a tree, nor rt paittele'of glrt,, and Any, that
will bruit, left it rant, aof our ellellite, :I It,, VC
SIVUI it, if driVell to ethellift 1/, to 'airily /ay
tnnftr, Uu the name of Liners Owl.
I am aware that you want to know whet will be
the result of the present movement against us.
" Mormonism " will take an almighty stride into
influence and power, while our enemies will sink
and become weaker anti weaker and bo nn more,
and I know it just as well now as I shall five
years hence. Tho Lord Almighty wants a name
and a character, and Ile will show our enemies
that lie is God. and that lie has set his hand again
to gather Israel, anti to . try. our faith anti inleg•
rity And Ile is saying, "Now, you any children,
dare you take a step to promote righteousness in
direct and open opposition to the popular feelings
of all the wicked in your Government r If you
do, I will fight your battles."
Our cite/tiles had letter count the cost, for if
they continue the job they will want to lot It out
to nib-contractors before they got half through
with it. If they persist in sending hoops hoe,
I want the people in tine West and in the East
to understand that it will not be safe for them
to cross the plains.
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
TIM SESSION or PARLItISENT to be opened
o tl l:it in Lt i r i s n d g ay the ne i x n. t e , se D ll e t c :‘, e ,e n a ib r e . r
T 3 be wi ti l r i b lit e the
sa.
sion—being the closing one of the last Parlia
ment—commenced on Tuesday, Feb. 3; and
mas abruptly brought to a termination in con
sequence of the vote on the China question in
the HOUSE of COMMONS, on the 3d 01' Much,
being adverse to the Government. Parlia
ment was dissolved on Saturday, Maich
Lord Palmerston having resolved to take the
sense of the nation vn the matter. The new
elections resulted in a considerable accession
of strength to the Government, showing that
its policy With respect to China was generally
approved of by the electoral bodies. The
second session—the first of the present Par
liament—began on Thursday, April 80. At
its opening Mr. Dennison was elected Speaker
of the house of Commons, in place of Mr.
Lefovre (now Lord liversley), who had stated,
at the close of the previous session, his inten
tion of iesigning. Parliament was prorogued
on Friday, August 28. The two past sessions
Hero opened and closed by commission.
It is in contemplation, when Parliament as
sembles, to call out all the regiments of militia
not yet embodied, as Lord Palmerston hesi
tated to assume the responsibility of this step
without the sanction of Parliament.
It is said that Sir 11. Keating, the Solicitor
General, had declined to accept the judgeship
about to be vacated, and that Mr. Sergeant
Bytes has taken the office. The learned gen
tleman has returned several hundreds of pounds,
with his Wet's, in the Royal British .Bank
Case a.
Earl Grey is preparing for the press a work
connected with the progress of parliamentary
reform.
The Liverpool financial ieformeta believe
they have discovered a nice little discrepancy
of upwards of £5,000,000 in the Government
accounts. It appears that this discrepancy
exists in a late return of the expenditme for
the army, navy, and ordnance departments,
for the year ending March 31, 1856, and the
official financial return, and that furnished on
the motion of Mr. IV. Williams. The former
gives the total expenditure as .C 47461,187143.
id.—the two latter as £52,817,696 18s. Id.
The highest return is the latest.
Messrs. Longman, having taken the advice
of the highest authorities of the present day
upon questions relating to the English lan
guage and literature, have signified their in
tention of having the word ""telegram" hence
forth inserted in all dictionaries published by
them.
Mr. Lumley, of Her Majesty's Theatre, is
giving a series of concerts in the principal
cities of the Netherlands. Madlle. Piccolo
mini, and the other members of his gifted com
pany, have well sustained their reputation in
these concerts.
The Bishop of Oxford has delivered at
Reading a long lecture in support of foreign
missions. With respect to India, he strongly
denounced the. sanctioning and maintenance
by the British authority there of the native
superstitions, shinning the true interpreta
tion of the cause of England's recent disasters
to be that "England has been false to Eng
land's faith, and timid of avowing England's
God.,'
M. foyer proposes to dine one hundred peo
ple in each funnel of the Leviathan, imme
diately after the launch.
Admiral Sir Maurice Berkeley, it is said, will
be called to the peerage, as Baron Mowbray,
of Berkeley.
Viscount Strangford died on Saturday week,
after a short illness, and within a month of his
marriage. The deceased peer, George Au
gustus Frederick Percy Sidney Smythe, Vis
count Strangford, Ireland, and Baron Pens
hurst of Penshurst, Kent, was eldest son of the
sixth Viscount. Ile was born at Stockholm,
April 10, 1818. In 1810 he was returned to
the 'House of Commons, in the Conservative
interest, for Canterbury, and was its represen
tative in Parliament up to the time Of the
general election in 1832, when he unsuccess
fully contested that city. His lordship was,
in Jamutry, 18 Id, appointed Under-Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, which office he
continued to fill up to the dissolution 'of Sir
Robert Peel's Administration. On the de
mise of his father, in May, 1833, ha succeed
ed to the family honors. His lordship mar
ried, a few weeks back t Miss Lennox. eldest
d'aughter of Mr. Kincaird Lennox, Or Lennox
Castle, N. B. His lordship's brother, the
Hon. Percy Smythe, attached to the British
Embassy at Constantinople, succeeded the
title.
PALMER'S TRI tt.—yrom an official docu
ment, it appears that the whole cost f Pal
utur'd ptoetioution amounts to 1:7,1t3.2.
The British bank directors are to be led at
the next Hilary term, in January.
Tut: Lark: Denim: MAnnman.—The metro
politan and Liverpool police have discovered
that John Blair Wills, one of' the brothers
collect nod in the infamous double mu iage iu
London, was in Liverpool from the lth to the
6th inst., and that on the 7th he sailed in the
Great Western for New York, taking with him
sonic luggage and a little boy.
IL heems that the demand for CIMOIiTIE
in
creasev to such an extent that the present
manufactories ale unable to supply it. To ob
1, bite this difficulty a manufactory is Icing
erected at Stocksbridgc, Deepear, close to the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lificolnshbe line,
by Mr. Fox, the well-knownunilirella•manu
facturcr.
The Rev. Charles Kingsley has promised t o
deliver the inangutal lecture of the winter
season at the Bristol Athenzeum.
Sin t• Es BainiKu .—Letters upeeivcd
Not folk state that Sir James Nooks., of Sata
oak, is about to I hit this county}. Borneo
was tranquil.
PRINCE Act aL v.—A Hampshire paper says :
The public generally does not know that we
have his Royal Highness:Prince Alfred (de
stined at no very distant (Fay, it is presumed,
to become Lord High Admiral of England)
sojourning at Alverstoke. An establishment
named Alver Bank, a small but ample man
sion, has been engaged, and in it the sailor
prince has for sonic little time past been do
mesticated. He has an ample retinue of ser
vants, and a talented staff of attendants ' amongst
whom we may name Lieut. Cowell, R. E., who
was his highness's companion and guide during
his continental tour ; Dr. Minter, surgeon;
and the Rev. W. Jolly, as naval and general
instructor. His little princeship gives dinner
parties, and may be frequently seen • cutting"
about this port.
Mr. Rathbonc, besides being a large share
holder, is the chairman of the directors of the
Liverpool Borough Bank. Confident in the
stability of the bank, ho a short time ago ad
vised a lady to purchase shares to the amount
of 1:5,000. As soon as the suspension became
inevitable, Mr. Rathbono sent to the lady a
chock for .C 5,000, and transferred her shares
to his own Caine.
Dr. Cllathorne, the Roman Catholic Bishop
of Birmingham, has addressed a pastoral letter
to the churches in his diocese, in which he
strongly condemns the cry for vengeance on
the Indian people. The word revenge, lie
said, was unworthy of Christians. The Rev.
G. R. Gleig, chaplain-general to her Majesty's
forces, has issued is pamphlet expressing the
tame views.
The dwellings of the poor in the Highlands
or Scotland are so deplorable, and the lodg
ings of the agricultural servants so well calcu
lated to facilitate vice and immorality, that the
Synod of the Free Church of Lothian and
Tweeddale, on the motion of Dr. Begg, has
appointed a committee to investigate and ie.
port upon the evil and its cure.
The great French actress, Madame Dorval,
loft a boy ill-provided for. He went on a
visit to George Sand, who lives retired on her
estate In Berri. Touched with his destitution
and ON idellt talent, the republican lady took a
sheet of satin note paper and wrote to the
Empress Eugenie, asking for an appointment
to some college for the youth. The Empress
immediately complied.
There is a talk in Parisian circles of his
Majesty intending to confer upon the gallant
Havelock the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
A French paper gravely informs its readers
that Lord Brougham and Lind John Russell
head the Socialist party in England.
The manufacturers of St. Etienne have just
. .
completed the order given by the British Go
vernment for the manufacture of 20,000 guns
and 20,000 bayonets. The guns are beauti
fully finished, and the total cost amounts to
18,000,
The Untrery publishes the Latin text of the
Pope's bull, in virtue of which the name of the
Emperor is for the future to be introduced
into the Roman liturgy in Prance.
The workmen of Lyons and Paris are now in
Hill work, and the manufacturers halo suffi
cient orders in hand to employ their men the
whole or the winter. Provisions haw con
siderably Men in price; bread is very cheap.
Good drinkable wine is now to be had for
seven sous the pint. Soup•kitchens are being
organized in different parts of Palls.
Mdllo. Rachel continues to reside at Cannes,
and it is said no very material change has
taken place in the state of her health.
Millie. Borghcse, the beautiful singer of the
Theatre Lyrique, leaves to marry a trading
captain of Bordeaux, who takes her out, as it
were, as part of his venture. Wherever his
vessel, La Jells Javotte," touches, his wife
k ik ,ilig_q k m
lint give a concert. The concert given, the
merchandise disposed of,away sails the "John
Javotte" for other clinics. There is something
new under the sun at last.
M. Dupin has been appointed Procureur Im
perial in the Court 01 Cassano!). M. Dupin
was tiirinerly President of the National As
sembly. He was also one of the most notable
adherents of the Orleanist party, and his ac
ceptance of office under the empire has caused
great sensation in Paris. The conduct of M.
Dupin, in ieaccepting, at the age of seventy
five, a post of emolument under the usurper
against whom he had so vehemently protested,
is the prevailing topic of conversation. M.
Unpin is a rich man, without children, or any
of the family burdens which arc so often
pleaded in excuse for dereliction of duty. In
contrast unit this case, that of Lamartine and
the Emperor is cited. At a critical
Louis apolcon sent the famousorator an offer
of the comfortable and lucrative post of Presi
dent of the Senate,Vith J:2o,oooper annum to
sustain the dignity. Lamartine, although
stamped in po erty, had the manliness to de
cline the offer.
A lady in high lice in Paris has suddenly
disappeared. She is nor; ell on the very un
romantic account of debt. Her extravagance
is said to have been unbounded, and to her
gantter alone ehe owes over .£6OO.
POPULATION or PRENCII CtriEs.—The An
nuaire du Bureau des Longitudes for 1838 pub.
lishes the following' as the population or the
twenty-five first cities and towns of France, ac
cording to the quinquennial census of 1806 :
Paris, 1,174,346 ; Lyons, 292,731; Marseilles,
233,817 ; Bordeaux, 149,928; Nantes, 108,530;
Rouen, 103,222 ; Toulouse, 1 03,144; St.
Etienne, 91,432; Toulon, 82,705; Lille, 78,-
6 11 ; Strasburg, 77,655 ; Metz, 64,727 ; Havre,
64,137; Amiens, 56,687; Brest, 54,233;
Rheims, 51,725; Angers, 50,726 ; Moutpelier,
49,737 ; Nancy, 48,109 ; Orleans, 46,922 ; Li
moges, 46,561 ; Rennes, 45,631 ; Besancon,
43,544; Caen, 41,394; and T0ur5,38,055.
A bridge is to be thrown over the Rhine
between Strasburg and Kehl, to unite the
French and Gentian railways. It will be
composed of live arches, the two side ones
being so arranged as to allow vessels with
insets to pass through.
M. Guizot has left Paris for Val Richer,
to finish a new work which is to appear in
January.
The debates that took place in both Houses
of Parliament last spring, on the subject of the
dowry to be voted to the Princess Royal, have
been translated, by order of the Prussian
Court; but whether for the purpose of forming
the commencement of an archive for the fu
ture house of the young Prince, or merely
to enable certain persons not conversant with
English to read them, has not transpired.
The Prince of Prussia has sanctioned, in
the name of the king, the bill for imposing a
tax on joint-stock companies.
POPULATION or AUSTRIA.—An Austrian sta
tistician has just published a classiacation of
the people of that empire. The last census
stated the population at 36,398,354. Of this
number the dominant race yields the smallest
proportion, there being less than eight millions
of German subjects of the Emperor. The
Selavonie race forms the bulk of the empire,
being nearly fifteen millions in number. The
Asiatic tribes under Austrian rule are between
five and six millions, and of these the Magyars
in Hungary are the chief portion. The Aus
trian army, which, in its complete state, rann
hers 616,000 men, is ""the largest army in Eu
rope for actual service."
The Vienna journals announce that a tax on
dogs is to be established in the Austrian em
pire, from the first of January next, and that it
is to be ten florins per head.
A society of credit has been formed at
Stockholm for mutual support and to main
tain the public credit.
Omar Pasha has been appointed Pasha o f
Bagdad ; or, In fact, a kind of satrap, ruling
almost independently.
A company is being formed at Constantino
ple to start an English weekly newspaper,
under the title of the Lerant Herald.
For the future we believe that troops for In
dia will be sent overland. It has been aster.
tallied that as many as 1,000 per month can be
accommodated.
It is the intention of the Court of Directors
of the East India Company to propose the
grant of an annuity of £l,OOO a year to Gen.
tiir Archdale. Wilson, of Delhi, and also to
grant two several pensions of £5OO to the
nearest surviving relatives of the late Generals
Nicholson awl Neill. bi the case of General
Nicholson the pension will accrue to his mo
ther, and in the ease or General Neill to his
widow. We Mist that Government are pre
med to propose a pension Of £l,OOO a ear to
General Sir Henry Havelock, of Lucknow,
alto is a Queen's officer. General Wilson, as
also Generals Nicholson and Neill, acre com
pany's otlicers.—Thtly News.
The !rags of Melbourne were lighted with
gas for the first time on the 10th of August.
THE NEW ZEAL OD Gounli mis.—News had
at rived in Nelson which created a very great
sensation. It it as to the effect that Ellis's par
ty, consisting of eight men, had with two
toms and a cradle got out of the Slate Filer
nine pounds weight of gold in one day. It
was also stated that another party, consisting
of three men, had got from the Dry river three
Pounds weight of gold in the course of a week.
Success at the diggings is steadily increasing,
and by every atrital of the local steamer suc
cessful diggers were :dinning w ith
bag, of the precious metal. The accounts
which they were giving of their good for
time were inducing others to go over
and try their luck; and, as the clops
were now petty well sown, it was expected
that another fortnight or three weeks would
see one halt of the adult male population of
Blind Bay digging gold at the Aorcre. We
also hear of new held, being discovered and
worked, which shows clearly that the gold ex
tends over a large tract of countiy. Up to
the latest date the value of gold disposed of
in Nelson is upwards of .010,000, but the
quantity which has, in addition to thi,, found
ita way to Wellington or elsewhere, there was
no means of ascertaining, nor the value of
that, which must be considerable, remainingin
the hands of the diggers.—dustratien and
New Zealand Gazelle.
ENGLISH COPYRIGHT%
' (From the Illustrated London News ]
We have before us, by the kindness of a friend,
a t ery curious blue-book in English literature, a
folio volume of some two hundred pages, containing
the names of the existing proprietors of some of
the most remarkable copyrights in English litera
ture. It is, of course, incomplete, and in come
points, we suspect, inaccurate; but what it pro
fesses to give it gives--a list of works in respect to
which notice has been given to the Commissioners
of her Majesty's Customs that a copyright exists.
and that the introduction of pirated copies from
abroad must be prohibited under an act of the pre
sent reign by the oflicersof her Majesty's Customs.
It is, at least, a list of notices gives by publishers;
though Mr. .Moron, strange to say. has not at
tended to his own property and to the property of
his authors The name of Mr. Tennyson. for in-
Stance, is not to be found throughout the folio.
This custom house blue-book dispels many po
pular beliefs currant in society. Thus the often
repeated story that Lord Macaulay bad sold his
Whig history to the Messrs. Longman for an ans
nuity is to be upset by the custom house fact that
the old historian is the proprietor of his own copy
right. IVe would mention other currently-ex
pressed opinions that will not stand the test of the
book before us. These, however, we shall not at
present reek to displace, but shall content our
selves with mentioning the more remarkable reve
lations to be gathered from a careful perusal of
this guide for custom house officers at the sea-ports
of Hingland, Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man,
andTi , s 7 rerick-upon-Tweed. Thus, though Lord
Macaulay possesses the copyright of his "His
tory," he is not by the return made from the Row
the proprietor of his "Essays" and his "Lays."
Messrs. Longman own the"Essays"and the "Lays."
Mr. Murray is tiro proprietor of Lord Mation's
" History of England " Lord Campbell has kept
his " Lives of the Chief Justices," but has sold his
' Lives of the Lord Chancellors." The Messrs.
Blackwood are the fortunate proprietors of Sir
Archibald's .',[iron's History Mr. Hallam retains
his own copyrights Mr. Carlyle is the owner of
the "French Revolution ;" but Mears. Chapman
and Hall are the proprietors of " Cromwell's
Speeches." Mr. Dickens has a share in every one
of tits works ; but has only ono copytight entirely
in his own hands—" 081 er Twist''—bought back
from Mr Bentley for, we believe, five times the
stun Mr. Bentley gave first. Mr. Thackeray is a
first shareholder with Bradbury and Evans in
" Vanity Pair " and .• Pendennis." and joint.
shareholder with Smith and Elder in his "
tory of Henry Esmond." Sir William Napier's
" History of the Peninsular ' is part the
author' and part the property of Messrs. Boone.
Mr. Borrow hold. The Bible in Spain. - butt has
sold " Laveuvo ' Slr Cunningham is the propri
etor of his "Handbook of London," end Mr. Ford
has sold his .' Handbook of Spain" to the Tonson
of Albemarle street Dr. William Smith has not
a 5i0,, ,, 10 share in any cf his admirable dictionaries.
Bradbury and Evans possess the copyright of
i'orster's Life and Adventures of Oliver Gold- '
smith." Dr. Layard is the proprietor of his three
books about Nines, ch. Mr. Ruskin holds all bis own
copyrights but one," The Seven Lamps of Architer•
tore, ' and lota is the property of Smith and Elder. ,
Mrs. Jameson powesses her •` Legends of Madonna"
and her "Legends of the Monastic OHM. " Mr.
Warren has no pecuniary interest in his " Ten I
'thousand a Year, or his Diary of a Late Phy
sician." Aytoun has sold his " Lays," and Barry
Cornwall retains a half-share in his " Songs " Sir
Ruler Lytton's copyrights we cannot understand.
Mr. James owns some of his novels ; so, also does
Mrs. Gore sumo of hers. How additionally in
teresting would this book be did it only contain
the prices at which the EC%eral copyrights were
obtained from their authors by their present pas
sessors. For Instance, what did Lord Macaulay
get for his "Lap," and what did Professor Ay
coon obtain for ?
MOTIcS TO maaitsrpsesErs.
Col:wpm:leßt4 cor ‘i TII Pun , ' trill piece kw la
mind tke (allowing nalei :
Every oontiannieatinn taut be scoompinted by the
acme of the writer. In *Web to hums eorteetnee• of
the inopiphy, but one &Ida of a Cost Acta be
written upon.
We gum be greatly rhilitod to tlildieha* t a.P.a."7l.
weals and other Pates has eontribetions giving the eu
rent WIWI of the dap in their partionlar localities, the
reeourees of the surrounding country, the loareese of
population, and any Information tkat will be interesting
to the general reader
GENERAL NEWS.
From Northern Mexico, we are informed of
a treacherous and desperate reactionary revolt
made at Tampico on the 13th ult. On that day.
Don Eclogie G. Valdomer entertained Genera)
Moreno, several, officers of his staff and some dm
tinguished citizens, at dinner. In the midst of the
feast a revolutionary cry was heard, when the
guests were immediately seized and imprisoned.
They were rescued by the town people, and Don
Valdomer was shot dead daring the riot. A strict
custom-house order with reference to the permits
for goods from the frontier had been issued. In
order to prevent smuggling, all articles mint be
accurately permitted and certified to before taken
into bond. By way of Brazoa Santiago, we learn
that a hurricane occurred in Alamo', Sonora, on
the sth alt., which destroyed a vast amount of pro
perty. It was also crop : in Lower California, where
it► destroyed all the s.
Mr. John R. Schultz, a volunteer in the war
with Mexico, died at his residence in Lancaster,
Pa., on Monday, in the 33d year of his age; and it
to be buried this afternoon at two o'clock, with the
honors of war, the Lancaster Peneiblee haring been
ordered oat to attend his funeral. Mr. S: was
member of Captain Smith's company--of the Scott
Legion—and was one of the first boat-load of Ame
ricans who stepped upon the sands of Vera Cruz.
and ho served with honor from thence to the capi
tulation of the city of Mexico. At the Clete of
the war, Mr. Shalt: returned to this his native
city, when he engaged in business, and hiss over
since been known for big Integrity and moral
worth. lie was an affectionate husband, k good,
kind father, and died lamented by a large circle
of friends.
Mr. Henry Robinson, living on the south
ern part of Montgomery county, 111. lout saran
horses in the abort space of thirty-six Lon, in the
early part of last week The animals died in a
singular manner. After feeding as Witt they
were turned into a lot, where they gradually be
came stupid, and in the °curse of a few hours ens
aessively laid down and died- Shortly before
dying their nostrils are said to have expanded, aa
is the ease when horses hare been driven hard.
One of the lot was taken away and ridden to a
neighbor's about the time the others were turned
out, after feeding, but laid down and died in about
the same time with the rest. Other home which
were fed alongside of some of those that died Just
previous to their death were not affected. The loss
was estimated at 11,00.
There are twelve convicts in the Auburn (N.
1.) State Prison for life, nine of whom were senten
ced to be bang for murder,but whose sentences were
commuted. One is in for burglary and larceny,
one for rape. and one for anon. 'The oldest con
vict in the prison is a poor foolish fellow by the
name of Wm. Pierce, from Franklin county. Be
was found guilty of murder in 1839, and his sen
tence was commuted by Goy. Seward. He was
incarcerated at the tender age of 15 years. He
has been in prison nearly nineteen years—the beet
part of his life. The next in point of time is Thos.
Topping, who is in for life on a commutation. lie
has been in 15 years.
The goal° Commercial says the schooner
Shickluna, from Chicago from St. Catharine's.
during the severe storm of the 24th ult., lost her
boat from the davits when above Rondeau, Lake
Erie, on the 25th. The vessel stranded on a reef
above Port Colbourne, from which position she was
being removed on the 341 of December, when her
boat made its appearance in the lake, and drifted
alongside, all right. The crew joyfully hailed her
as an old shipmate, and the omen as aro& one.
The distance, in a direct line, from the locality
where the boat was lost to where the vessel was
stranded was nearly two hundred miles.
The burning of Bethany College, near
'Wheeling, Virginia, mentioned in Tan PRESSr
yesterday, it seems does not involve a loss of over
$30,000. No hiatus, however, appears to have
taken place in the operations of the college, and
measures have been set on foot to restore the phi
losophical apparatus on a larger scale than before..
A larger and more appropriate college editce will
be put in immediate course of erection. The
faculty report that there exists no just reason for
any of the students to be withdrawn, nor, in hot,
for any of the friends of the institution to be dis
couraged.
A babe, nine or ten months old, step-child
of Abraham Wittemyer, who lives between 3litlla
and Perrysville, Pa., Was frozen to death one nigh t
during the cold weather in:Col-ember. The inhu
man parents tried to break it of crying by patting
it in its cradle and pushing it back under the bed_
Theydid so one night, and the child cried until it
was exhausted; the parent, fell asleep, and in the
morning, when they awoke, it was dying, or dead
—both legs frozen to the knots, and its arms stiff
up to the elbows.
The Cape Cod Telisraph announces the loss
of the brig Vernon, from Baltimore, bound to
Bangor, with a cargo of bbls. of Roar. She
went whore on Friday last, upon the south side of
Cutty hook Island. entrance of the Vineyard
sound, and bilged. Five hundred barrels of flour
had been saved, anti been taken to Holmes' Hole.
The brig's rudder is gone. and the cargo is badly
damaged. The vessel would probably be got eft
should bar weather continue.
On Sunday night a fire occurred at Peters
burg, Va., which partially consumed the baildieg
occupied by T. W. Royston k Co.'s clothing store,
J T. Young. jeweler, and MeNairy Hobson. but
and shoe merchant. The stock of clothing in
Royston k Co 's store was almost totally damaged.
Their 1.1 , 3 is estimated at $.10.00. which is covered
by insurance to the amount of $20,000. Mr. Hob
son's loss is about $l,OOO no insurance. Mr.
Yacrev.,*.c to is small, and insured.
The Bath Organ says, N. S. Stimpaott, who
1• now confined in Augusta tMe 1 jail, chazeed with
tiring his osrn house in Windsor, confess - Zs to a
whole catalogue of crimes—that he net fire to his
own house in that city, that he set the lire in
which a woman and two children were burned a
few years situ, near Deacon Mitchell's; that be
led the loch in barninA. the South Church: and
that he was ringleader in the corner-stone mob on
the site of the Catholic Church.
Michael "Sheenato, who was tried at Erie,
Pa.,for the murder of John Lindt, and found
trialof manslaughter. but was granted a new
trial by Judge Galbraith. and set free on 52.403
bail, died in the county jail on the :: - ,thdust The
coroner's jury found that the deceased came to hia
death from delsrr rent r,cm , :zs, brought on by ex•
cessire use of ardent spirits '
A gentleman in Terre Bathe has a map of
Mexico drafted by Aaron Burr himself, in contem
plation cf tits expedition against that ee.c.ntry.
when ho was arrested for treason The different
point, on the gulf, and the location of the principal
places in the interior, are delineated with a mi
nuteness and fidelity sellout met with in pmduc•
tions of this character.
James Shepherd, who has been four days
.n trial in the Court of (depend Se ions of New
York for anon in the first degree, was convicted
on Monday The crime is a capital one. and ha
will prohntily be eenterced to death. The proofs
against him were very strong, and the jury were
engaged but a ehert time in considering, their ver
dict
Dr. Daniel Downey, a Catholic priest, kill
ed William 3fullins, at Staunton. Va , on Sunday
night. The affair created much excitement. The
priest wished the deceased to marry a young girl
whom be had betrayed, and he refused. Dunn
an altercation which ensued, the priest, in order
to sire hi.: own life, was compelled to !hoot Mullins.
The wife of Mr. Bazil Hall, residing at
Alexandria, Ta.. was most cruelly murdered on
Sunday evening. One of her slave women with
whom she had a dispute seized her and held bet
over a fire until she was literally roasted alive. The
husband tried to shoot the murderess before she
was taken to primn.
Mr. Gardiner Furnisa, according to the Now
Orleans Delta, has, since Mrs. 'Woodman's return
to her father. again written to her in his own pecu-
liar style, threatening to publish other letters of
hers unless she should retract the statements con.
mined in her affidavit.
We learn from the McKean (Pa.) Citizen,
that a new judicial district in this State is in con
templation. It is to be erected out of Jeffers,m,
Clearfield, Forest, and Elk counties. Efforts will be
put forth to effect this at the corning session of the
Legislature.
Whitmel Stallings, for many years a
member of the North Carolina Legislature, died,
last week, in Gates county, North Carolina. 311113
Roberto, Seq., one of Me rice president= of the
Seaboard Agricultural Society, died recently in the
same county.
Only three C.ISC9 remain to be tried before,
the naval courts Commander Ringgold, it.is
stated, still be restored to full rank, much to the
gratification of a large body of friends. About
sixty applicants trill either be reinstated or ad
vanced from their present positions.
Peter D. Ludwig, who was sentenced in
Reading, Pa., on Sattirda7, to fire years' imprison
ment in the Eastern Penitentiary for rotting firs
to the barn of 'William Hain, committed suicide
on Sunday afternoon in his cell, in the county
prison.
The St. Louis Repz:bUral states that the
money for the payment of the interest on tha
public debt of the State of 31litsouri is already
provided, and that the annunciation of this fact
may be expeettq in New York within a day or
two
William Bali, Esq., ex-Governor of Ohio,
now• a citizen of Illinois, has been indicted by the
grand jury of the county of his residence for men
slaughter, for shooting dead one of a party of sere
naders of his house last spring. Hon. Thomas
Cumin has been engaged 83 one of his counsel.
it tire occurred at Danville, C. W., on the
11th instant, which destroyed a large sash factory,
two flouring mills, and a saw mill The total tos - I
of property, including wheat and tour. is estimated
at $35,000, and was unituured.
George McWhorter, principal of the First
Ward School in Milwaukee has obtained a verdict
of $10 , 600 d am ages azainrt the city for injuries
sustained by falling ed . a bank in an unfit:tithed
street.
The large steam flouring mill, at Nelson
s ille. Ohio. was deAroved by fire a short time ar,
and several dwelling-houses were burned with it.
Lo,sslo, ooo —no insurance.
Rev. William Ma'kney, a veteran local
preacher in the 'al. E Church. died in Mercer
county. Pe. November 12, aged se, enty-twa
years
lion. Sidney Breese, lortucrly the Senator
from Blinn's, hen recently been ele..ted, by a large
majority, Supreme Judge of that State.
Two little boys, named Porter, while play
ing in a pond at Cincinnati, the other day ; were
accidentally drowned.
An extraordinary fall in the price of grain
has occurred in all the markets in Spain.
Wet. Wainwright, Jr., and J. A. Lehmann,
of this city, were in Paris on the Nth ult.
Richard Clabby was accidentally killed at
the gas works ha Baltimore, on Monday.