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POETa7.
. A Psalm of the Night.
Fades from the west tho farewell light
Flung backward by the setting sun,
And silence deepens as the night
Steals with its solemn shadows on !
Gathers the soft, refreshing dew,
On springing grass and floweret stems—
And lo ! the everlasting blue
Is radiant with a thousand gems !
Yo visible spirits! bright as crst
Younglon's bi:th•night saw yo shine
On all her flowers and fountains first,
Yet sparkling front the hand divine;
Yes, bright as then ye smiled, to catch
Tho music of a sphere as fair,
Ye hold your high, immortal watch,
And gird your God's pavilion there.
source of al! life, and joy, and light I
Creator of each starry sphere,
That o'er mo on the arch of night,
Gleams like a diamond bright and clear;
Oh ! as I gaze, transported now,
Upon this blue respendant dome,
Deign but to hear my prayer that Thou
Wilt call my erring spirit home.
Home, from the world's fast fading bowers
Frail vision and deluding dreams,
To that fair clime of Eden's flowers,
Sweet airs and softly gliding streams;
Oh, make me feel that while I stay,
A sojourner and stranger here,
My soul must seek its homeward way,
Far, far beyond each starry sphere I
I kneel before thy gorgeous throne,
Upon thy footstool, King of Kings!
And gazing on the glories shown
Beneath the Holy Spirit's wing--
Abject and weak, my awe-struck heart
Would from Thy dreadful presenco flee,
If, Saviour, Thou did'st not impart,
Rays of undying hopo to me.
As yonder foist and glimmering star
Receives its lustre from the sun,
Though from its fiery splendors far;
So from Thy love Almighty One
My spirit drinks immortal light—
Oh, never may that tight decay:
But like yon diamond of the night,
In Heaven's own beauty melt away,
ItIaCMLL.A.N3BOT7I3.
A Writer Aurenors.—The Magnetic Tele
graph is causing great wonderment throughout the
country among the rural population, of whom ma
ny anecdotes are told. We find the following in
a country newspaper :—Last week we were infor
med. a young genius from a northern town, who
had been disturbed in his agricultural retirement by
the vague reports of the wonderful lightning de
spatch, walked into the railroad house in this vil
lage, and inquired when 44 the telegraph would be
along?" Some mischievous boys, seeing a chance
for sport, gravely informed him that it was about
time for it, but that he would have to look sharp to
see it, it went so quick—assigned him a stations on
a wood pile, and directed him to fasten his eye along
a direct lino between two of tha posts. Our phi
losopher obeyed instructions, and shivering in the
wind for an h our or leas, with his eyes strained on
vacancy, and his head slowly revolving from " polo
to polo," to the no small amuaemcnt of the bysten
dere. His patience at lust gave way, and with much
indignation, he exclaimed- 0 By golly, i believe
that are telegraph am a humbug." "Humbug
sir. Why, what has given you that impression of
it ?" raid one of his instructors ; " did you not see
it ?" " See it, be darned! Their haint nothin'
passed between thorn peals, no how." 44 Most cer
tainly there has. You must havowinked, or you'd
have seen it spitting fire•as it snapped past about
five minutes ago." " Well, I did wink wonce,"
said our hero, " but I winked as quick as I could.
Who'd a thought it 1" mud the poor fellow retur
ned home disappointed, resolving that the nest tints
he would look without winking.
In Waterbury, Coin., there is a pin machine
which wakes eizlny millions of pins each day.
From the New York, Spirit of the 77mes.
A SNAKE-BIT IRISHMAN.
AN ORIGINAL TENNESSEE HUNTING INCIDENT.
As a Mounseer' would say, 'one gran, mag.
nifique, pretty good' Deer Hunt came off a few
weeks since in the mountains of Morgan county,
Tennessee. The party—made up of the best ma
terial—consisted of Judge A—, J. M. W—,
J. and some two or three other veteran
hunters, rife for sport and full of fun. As my ob
ject is not to give a detailed account of the hunt,
but only one of its incidents, shall content my
self with merely saying, that after a few days' hunt
the three gentlemen named returned with twenty
pair of horns and Jivers specimens of smaller fry.
J. A-- killed a fine buck at 160 yards off hand,
shooting at the head and hitting it. Judge A—
(an ardent sportsman and splendid rifle shot) also
killed a longtaw.' But a !Luce to this, and now
for the incident.
As every day had its night and every rose its
thorn, so this mirthful party had its pest' in the
shape of a huge, rawboned, loquacious Irishman,
who, uninvited, hod quartered himself in the camp,
boarding and lodging at the expense of the crowd.
and contriving in countless ways to render himself
a nuisance when awake, and when asleep accom
plished the same praiseworthy end without any
contrivance at all—it being a natural gift, and used
by the professor with most tormenting effect. Tire
man snored—and hate he snored, will presently
appear; suffice it to say, a more unmitigated nui
sance was never abated in a more summary man
ner.
They soon learned by his conversation and be
haviour that ho was afraid of snakes generally, and
sold snakes' in particular; indeed I think that the
sequel warrants the bold assertion that ho would
have given long odds in favor of a Stock Creek
gouging, rather than face an 18 inch mocasin with
bells on his tail' as ho termed rattles. The man
had hoard some awful snake yarns or tales since his
laving the sod ;' this was evident from the morbid
dread,yes,horror,he felt of the crawling tribe. Well,
with the Queen of Sheba Ito might truly say the
half had not been told him,' after a night's expe
rience at a hunter's camp in Tennessee.
On the second night of his intrusion ho made
himself more than usually welcome, 'getting sir,'
somewhat, sir, shot!' as Tom Turray said when
on ounce of lead took up its lodgings in the fork
of his breeches, thinking (if lead can) no doubt
that it had more room there than in the powder bed
of an old brass boring iron. He told long dry
yarns, all having a more or less remote bearing on
his own prowess or skill, and more than once insin
uated a desire to make a demonstration by having
the use of the skull of 'onny gentlemin present,
and of a two fut thorn, for just a tninit !'
all this was very pleasant, and I have no doubt per
fectly satisfactory, so far as he individually was
concerned, but with his hearers it was quite a di&
relent thing; yet they still endured it; but the cup
of patience was nearly full, and that night it over
flowed, bearing on its boiling current, the cause of
the 'rise,' to regions far away and unknown.—
After lie had wearied himself with his blather,'
and showed symptoinsof turning in, Jim
told him a fete y arns bearing on the much dreaded
snake subject, and particularly on their size, variety
and amiable temper in those parts, dwelling at
length upon their apparent social disposition, as
mimed only with fell intent to those whose nearer
acquaintance they sought.
This evidently did not sit well on the excited
stomach of this pugnacious sprig-of-self-ahillalah,
as was manifested by the furtive and uneasy glances
he ever and anon cast at his blanket and locution,'
—hut bed time came, and after reconnoitering his
sleeping ground he proceeded to count his beads and
the chances of being 'anakc-bit' before day, then
'tucking in' hie blanket and wishing the sowls
ov all the snakes in three parts in particular,' in a
country where, to say the least, they would have
I but a slim chance for indu'ging in their natural
torpidity, lie fell asleep.
And now tho storm began. llis snoring greW
fast and furious, loud and long: occasionally a sort
of half snort, half grunt, terminated with ' snakes,
' by japers, blast their sowls ! uh ! alt !' when there
canto the variation or chorusin the shape of a grind
1 of his teeth that threatened to drive them through
his jaws or crush limn to powder; by way of va
riety he would hold his breath a few seconds and
then snore again, and such snoring ! my stare, that
I could spell it! It was sort of cross between the
breathing of an asthmatic elephant and the bray
ing of a auperanuated donkey, whose will last lon
ger than hie wind. Well it thus continued with
the regularity of the whip-poor-will's cry until, say
half an hour before day-break, when J. H. NV.,
(Jim W. we'll say,) whose stock of patience had
1 1 long evaporated, unrolled himself from his blanket,
• saying in his usual ouiet way, humph, I'll stop
that inferno! concert or start the maker of it, see if
I don't! Uniphl' He then awoke Jim A. and
, the Judge, when the plot was laid and thus carried
into execution..
W. got his hunting knife and going to where the
offal of a large deer had been thfown, he cut oir
about seven feet of OUT, and securing the ends
with twine to retain the contents, In, tied the ono
end of it fast and tight to u corner of Paddy's shirt
tail that hail wander.] through u riot' in the seat
of his breeches, coiling it alt op smooth bx Isis side,
snake like and nue. All things thus arranged, thp
compitatot:, laid down again, and at the conclusion
Uaen. a M€M) a a3aI4ICIS.
of mil, of the stage-horn snares with the a intake
cowl' variation, Jim A. roared out at the top of his
voice, He vans! Ho woe! A big copperheaded
Miele rattle snake, eleven feet long, has crawled
up my breeches and is tying himseo' into a dou
ble bow knot round my body I' giving the Irish
man, with every word, a furious dig in the side with
his elbow, with a running accompaniment on his
shine with his heels! Of course all this noise and
hunching awoke him quick and wide. In his first
movement he laid his hand on the nice cold coil of
gut at his side. Hissing out a " Jayzus" from be
tween his clenched teeth ho made a bound that car
red him some ten feet clear of the camp, and with
a force that straightened out the coil and made the
snake's tail crack like a cart whip! Casting one
wild blazing look behind lie tore off wills the rapid
ity of lightning around the camp in a circle of some
forty feet across and at every bound shouting, or
rather yelling, .Sazo 'im! once 'im by the tail!—
Oh, howly Vargin, stop 'im! Och, St. Patrick!
tare 'im till jabletts !--A who! who ! Bata 'im
to smitereens with a gun, can't yeas! He's got me
fast howled by me—! och he has by japers! an
he's mendin his hook a wha ! Howly Father lic's
got a aback hook on 'is tail! Oh, murther, he'e
forty fut long !' On making this last circuit he ran
through a part of the smouldering camp fire, and
the twine at the aft end of the gut caught fire.—
This brought a now terror, and added a strong in
ducement for him to put on more steam and in
crease his rate; round and round ho went; He'a
a fiery sarpint. Och, help! I'm swallowed (jump
ing a log) intirely all but my bed ! He's saxty fate
long if he's aNU Thread on his bloody, fiery
tail, will yoes I They to save me!' then as if in
spired with a new life and hope, he roared out,
Shoot 'im ! Shoot 'im ! but don't aim at 'es !smell
Shoot! Shootl'
Now here was a picture. There stoood the Judge
hugging a sapling with both arms and one leg, his
head thrown back, emitting scream after scream;
here lay Jim W. on his back, with his feet against
a tree, his arms clavated like a child's when he
wants you to help him up, and it was scream after
scream with the Judge. All sounds at all like or.
dinary laughter, had ceased, and the present notes
would have rendered immortal the vocal frame of a
dozen panthers, accompanied by tho frog whistle of
a steamboat. Yonder stands Jim A.--"fat Jim"—
with his legs about a yard apart, his hands on his
hips, shouting at regular intervals of about five se
conds, " Snake !--Snake ! ~ — Sustcs! ! !" at the
same intonation, but so loud that the echoes mocked
each other from fifty crags, and "Snake! Snake!"
reverberated loud and long among those' mountain
elopes, while his eyes carefully and closely followed
the course of poor Paddy round the camp. After
running round the camp about thirty times, the
persecuted one flew off in a tangent into the dark
woods and the medley sounds of 'snake! murther !
saxty fate! Holy Virgin!' &c., gradually died
away in the distance, and the hunters were alone.
timph,' said Jim W., (after stopping his laugh
ing hiccough,) umph, I thought that gut would
slop snoring at this camp at least, umph.' The next
evening the Patlander was seen travelling at a
mighty rate through Knoxville, with a small bundle
under 0110, and a huge shillalah in tire other hand,
poked out ahead of him in a half defensive, half ,
exploring attitude, when he was hailed by Arehy
Mc-- with Which way, Paddy?' Casting
round at the speaker n sort of a hang dog, sulky
glance, he growled forth, a word at a step, "Strate
to Ireland, by Japers, where there's no snakes !"
You cannot say "snake" to either member of
the party yet, without its costing a set of vest but
tons or producing a "stitch in the side."
An Amusing Anecdote.
Wo transfer to our columns the subjoined amu•
sing story, from the Buffalo Commercial Adve:•
tiser :
" We notice in an gastern paper a report of a I
.recent action against a London chemist, on account I
of a hair dye that indeed of turning complainant's
whiskers to a jetty blackness had raised a blister, in
eonsequence of which, whiskers, skin and all peeled
off. This case reminds us of another attempt at
hair dyeing, the consequences of which, if not so
distressing, were actions enough to the party. In a
country village in this Stato,sonbe twenty years ago,
the village Doctor was chosen Deacon in the Con
gregation Church. Tho Doctor, though a hale,
hearty man, had turned gray very early and
at the time we speak of, Ids locks had become of
almost snowy whiteness. Ho was a gallant man,
though a sincere Christian, and his henry honors
somewhat annoyed him. So to grace his new dig
nity, the night before the Sabbath when the Sac
rament,' as the comniunton was termed, was to ho
administered, he undertook to dye his hair to a he,.
coming brown, more suitable to his age. We know
not what application lie made use of, but during the
morning service, while the now Deacon sat under
the pulpit, as was customary, the action of the light
rapidly worked- a chemical and almost magical
change in the outward adornment of his head. Seine
of the locks deepened into a rich brown, while
others flashed into a fiery red, and sumo gently sub
sided from their pristine whiteness into a most del
'irate pea green. All unconscious of these variega
ted honors, at the close of the ordinary service, the
Deacon utnhirtook to olliciate, hearing round the
consecrated bread and wino, The communicants
wore humble, sincere christions feeling deeply the
solemnity of the occasion, but the now Deacon's
hair woo 100 much fur roost of them. Them was
Ia grim telaxation of the ui the older among
them, who might have eat for pivtures of the old
covenanters, while the younger could scarcely re
frain from an unequivocal smile. Tho venerable
apostolic man, who ministered to the congregation,
and who, with the meet fervent piety lead a quick
sense of the ludicrous, soon noticed the unwonted
bearing of kis flock, and its cause, and as the Dea
con returned to the table, quietly requested him to
refrain from farther service in favorer an old brother,
to supply whose place and infirmities of age, he had
' been chosen. The next day when the Doctor start
, ed to visit his patients, his head was clothed with a
nicely fitting new black silk skull cop, and several
months elapsed before he again officiated as Dea
con,"
Firrnitco STOIIE.-A chap from "the bush,"
was patrolling the streets of Boston, a short time
since, with a sheet of gingerbread under his arm,
and gazing at the signs, when one which was la
belled "General Finding glare" attracted his at
tention. He entered, chewing hisgingerbread, and
after a severe effort at swallowing,liko a hen eating
dough, ho exclaimed, " I swow ! you must be dar
ned lucky elope to find all them hero things,—l
s'pose you aint found my umbriller nor nothing,
are you?"
TALL Krssiset.--During the late sleighing, it is
said that fifteen hundred gals were kissed in the
State of New York alone. They were genetully
delighted with it; only two of them pouted, and
one slapped the fellow in the face, but, as her hand
was very small and soft, lie looked up and asked if
it was snowing, as he thought he felt a snow-fluke
fall on his cheek.—Boslon Yankcc.
FORMIC-11 INTE77IO.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMER UNICORN.
EIGHT DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
The Oregon Question in The house of Lord,—
Later from Poland—News from India—Re
lotions of England and America, Aspect of
Affairs Favorable-• General Want and Distress
in Ireland.
[From the New York Sun, Extra.]
The Royal Steamship Unicorn, Capt.-, with
eight days later intelligence from Europe, was tele
gr,Thed at 20 minutes to 1 o'clock P. M. this (Fri
day) afternoon, and arrived at her wharf, East Bos
ton, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
The Unicorn came beautifully up, passed the
Cunard wharf, stretched across the harbor, and
touched at the end of Commercial wharf, where she
landed her newspaper packages.
The Revolution in Poland has been put down by
Austrian bayonets.
Bonded flour and wheat aro to be admitted in
England at low duties, on the third reading of Cm
new corn law.
The latest reports fiom the manufacturing district
are, we regret to state, of an unsatisfactory charac
ter. Leeds, a small business is doing.
Within the last day or two, however, a rather bet
ter feeling seems to have gained ground, and the
general opinion is that the worst stage of the reign
ing stagnation has passed, and that a livelier busi
ness is close at hand.
We are indebted to Adams & Co's Express for
the early delivery of our files by the Unicorn.—
They also report a sad accident to the magnificent
steamer Oregon. In passi rig through Hurlgate, this
morning, she became unmanageable and ran upon
a reef of rocks. She now lies in danger of becoming
a wreck.
Mr. Whitney engaged M. Delamoie to bring over
the steamer Unicorn, who it is said knew little
about the business.
We made our extract. chiefly from the European
Cotton market unchanged, provisions nominal,
flour and grain as Worm
There has been a dcbalo in tho English House
of Lords on the Oregon question, and another war
excitement, with great blustering or the news
papers.
- 'Mantic= has brought orders to a conbiderable
extent, some of which will require two or three
months to complete. A greater activity has, there
fore, prevailed at the Cloth-hall.
The packet ship Virginia, late Captain Them,
reached Liverpool on that fish, we are sorry to say,
without her commander, ho having been killed
whilst on her passage by a blow from the quarter
boat, which woe drove through the house on the
deck by a heavy sea.
Agitation and suffering continuo in Ireland, and
to add to the evils of the time, the Irish Coercion
Bill has passed the House of Lords.
Free trade is spreading in Russia and France,
and a commercial treaty has been made between
Russia and Sardinia.
[From Wilmer & Smith's Times.}
Tho Oregon Question.
'Wo have given in another column the conver
sation which took place in the House of Lords rel
ative to the state of our relations with America,
between the Earl of Clarendon and the Earl of Ab
erdeen, on Tuesday evening last. The speech of
the foreign Secretary, it will he seen, woo concilia
tory but determined. Ile expressed the strongest
desire toe peace, coupling it with the assurance that
it could yet be preserved, and intimated that nodding
would be left undone to preserve it, cons4.tent with
the honor of our country.
But he gave no inforination es to the state of tho
tlegotieinno refused to produce all 'he inna,t,
marked for, end only consented to submit a portion
of them to the house, alleging, as a reason, that the
public interest would antler by the inspection of the
whole. Nothing can be inferred from the tone of
this conversation, ne to the turn which matters aro
likely to take on this mooted subject.
'rho general belief in this country is, when the
question had been left in Mr. Polk's hands a mss•
sage from the Queen will afford Ministers an oppor
tunity of declaring their ultimatum by Parliament.
That the worst is anticipated, is evident from the
extraordinary, the unprecedented activity, in all the
different dock-yards.
The other day, at Portsmouth, in order to test
how coon a line of battle ship could be got ready
for sea, the Bellorophen, which was dismantled at
the lime, and her masts rigged, her gene pointed,
her Mores housed—in short, everything appertain
ing to this splendid man-of-war was put in "•apple
pie order in sixty hours by the officeis end crew !
This feat is considered the most remarkable in the
history of the British navy ; but it was rendered
ridiculous by the authorities when the experiment
had been completed, ordering the VCESei to be again
dismantled,"
THE OREGON QUESTION,
House of Lords, March 17.—The Earl of Clar
endon moved for such portions of the diplomatic
correspondence respecting the Oregon negotiation,
us the Earl of Aberdeen might think it consistent
with public duty to produce. Nothing be fur
ther from his wishes than to embarrass the Govern
ment; but though the language of the British and
American Governments had been entirely pacific,
yet it could not be denied that the two countries
were insensibly drifting toward a war. It was time,
he thought, to break the silence so rigidly preserved
on this side the Atlantic, and to furnish the House
with all the information that could pendently be
furnished:
He was convinced that an abler negotiator than
Mr. Pakenham could not be found, and that the
government had acted most judiciously in every
step it had taken in the mutter; for it had declared
to the world that a would not engage in war until
every means of keeping peace were exhausted. It
was morally impossible that two such nations as
England and America should embroil themselves
for a comparatively worthless territory, and he
should conclude by moving for the correspondence,
and by asking what course the government intended
to pursue in the event of the 6cnate concurring in
the twelve months' notice.
My lords, I think that the desire expressed by my
noble friend is quite natural and reasonable. I
think, when we are receiving, from time to time,
from the United States, information and documents
of the highest interest and importance, affecting us
in the manner in which these transactions do, it is
quite natural that your lordships and the public
should desire to receive from the government of this
country authentic information as to those transac
tions, accompanied by such other information as it
may be safe and proper to give.
I therefore think 4 l have no valid reason for ob
jecting to the production of those papers for which
my noble friend has moved; especially as a great
portion of them be already known to your lordships
and the public. But I must reserve to myself the
discretion of, for the present, suppressing a large
portion of the correspondence which has taken
place between her Majesty's minister in the United
States and myself, the production of which, at this
time would he injurious to the public interests,
But, my Lords, on the other hand, it is certainly
possible, (though I would reject the motion) that
all our efforts may be unavailing. In that case, I
can only say that it will be my endeavor not only
to secure the support and .countenance of every ono
of your lordships, but the sympathy and approba
lion also of every state in guiope, and of the whole
civilized world. (Hear. /leer.)
My lords, I think my noble friend will, perhaps,
not expect me to go farther into the subject at pres
ent, and I will coneindo the few words which I
have thought necessary to address to your lordships,
by repeating emphatically what her Majesty has
been graciously pleased to say from the throne... ,
"That no effort will be spared, consistently with
the national honor, to bring this question to an early
and a successful termination."
Lad Brougham referring to a statement that boa
been mado respecting a globe said to bo in tho pos
session of Mr. Everett, on which the Oregon boun
dary was marked favorably in A when, said be had
yesterday received u letter from Mr. Everett, which
quite confirmed the truth of the assumption which
he (Lord Brougham) bad offered at the tune.
It appeared that Mr. Everett had ordered the
globe through another person, and that the trades
man had marked the boundary in the manner re
ferred to, perhaps with a view to pay a compliment
to Mr. Everett, but without the previous knowledge
of that gentleman.
With respect to the question before the house, Ito
could only join his hearty wish, and express his
confident hopes, that all these negotiations, trent/te
rm= as they might be would lead to a harpy issue;
and also his entire confidence ill his noble friend
and the rest of her Majesty's Government, and un
happily for us, for America, and fur humanity at
large—these just expectations prove unfounded,
mankind would find out to whom the blame should
be Imputed ; and further that although the calamity
of war would be looked at by all with the utmost
possible aversion; by none would it be regarded with
apprehension or alarm.
Lord Ashburton felt sure that all which caution
and prudence required in this negotiation would ho
observed by his noble friend and that the honor of
England would not be tarnished. When he looked
nt the probability of two countries like Englandand
America rushing madly into war on a question in
which nothing was at stake but their honor, ho
could not for a moment doubt that, whatever might
be the ebullition of popular feeling hero or in the
United States, the sterling good sense which espe
cially characterized those two countries would pre
vail, and preset.ve both from that ultimate sham
live which he could not contemplate without feel
ings of the utmost horror.
. lie held it to bo hopeless for either to seek to ob
tain advantage over the other in what are called
the terms fur negotiation. The only question was,
how to settle this disputed right in this manner
which would be best for the two notions. The no.
gotiation could not he in better hands than those of
his noble friend, and ho felt also, on the other hand,
confidence that the people of the United States
would M least eorne to a fair and honorable, and a
safe conclusion on lire subject.
IRELAND.
Thu vaiivu , aewuute 1 11%cd Guui 1,.1.1110 5,M,6
`KSCrancrollcs) 7C3a). ebemeb.
the sailing of the last steamer, arc far from being
of a satisfactory character. Want,. or at least its
immediate prospect, on the one hand, and crime,
the details of horrid and sanguinary deeds, on the
other, form their chief feature.
The people of Mayo have been greatly excited
in consequence of a contested ehmtion, which took
place for that county daring the week ending
March 7. The repeal candidate wee a Mr. M.
MT) onell ; his opponent, a liberal in politics but
not a repealer, was a Mr. Moore. The result of the
contest was Mr. M'Donnoll's return by a majority
of CO. The military and the peasantry came into
conflict with each other during the coarse of the
election, when the former were obliged to fire upon
the populace. One life was lost, and some few
others wounded.
Daniel O'Connell's health is rapidly failing. It
seems now a pain for him to make a speech its tho
House of Commons on behalf of Ireland, and whets
he does so, it is delivered in such a tamed, weak,
and subdued tone, that one can hardly recognize
in his person the great and popular agitator who
harangued the countless thousands on the Hill of
Tara, and Mullaghmast—who led on his marshalled
bonds throughout three provinces, in defiance of the
monarch's denunciations, and the almost unani
mous opinions of both Houses of Parliament. But
time has made traces upon his constitution ; and
from the general report it would seem that ho now
requires ease, and relief from the care and toils of
public life.
The Dublin Evening Packet has published a
statement of the receipts of the Repeal Association.
The income of 1843 was £47,914 ; 1844, £43,-
306; 1845, £17,969. The total receipts from 1840
to the present time is set down at £127,869 1 lc 70.
The Irish Coercion Bill, which originated in the
House of Lords with theEarllcif St. Germain., has
passed through every stage of that branch of the
Legislature, end now awaits its fate in the other
House. Some of its most stringent features hero
been reduced, but the measure is still highly penal,
and the severities of its enactments, unless they aro
still further modified, stand a chance of rendering
the measure, a dead letter. The bill is being fierce
ly opposed in Ireland, and the liberal press in Eng
' land is opposing it tooth and nail.
POLAND,
Poor, prostrate, subjngated Poland, the Ireland of
the Continent, has been making a fruitless, blood
less effort at a revolution, or se the failure of na
tional patriotism is always termed—an Insurrection.
The little Republic of Cracow, which is 110 W in
possession of the Austrian troop, has been (behead
quarters of this unfortunate attempt to restore the
nationality of the Poles; but the conspiracy had
extensive ramifications in Prude, Rani., se well
as Austria.
CRACOW OCCUPIED ay TUE AUSTRIANS,
Subjoined is tho official account of tho occupa
tion of Cracow, as drawn np by Gen. Guilin of the
Austrian fames :
Ca .cow, March 4.--The intrurgenta retired front
the city on the 'light of the god inFtent.
The condition% on which the Austrian General
received the capitulation of the citizen. of Cracow
vvero,
Ist. That they shobld denims up to him all the
the known loaders of the rebellion who reinuitml iu
the city, or point out to him their residences.
2d. That a total disarmament of all the inhabi
tants should take place, and that all weapons should
he deposited in the castle before noon on the fith
instant.
And 3rd. Any person, who during the stay of
the Austrians in Cracow, appeared with weapons in
his hands, or in whose dwelling anus of any kind
should be found, should bo judged by court-martial
within twenty-four hours.
According to the Silesian Gazette, that portkor
of the insurgents who surrendered to the Prussians
who promised pardon on the condition of subniit
ting to the arrangements which may be made in
their regard by the three protecting powers.
The Emden correspondent of the Vl'eseZoitung„
states that it was generally believed there on the
Gth inst., that the great body of the insurgents
would retreat to the mountains of Gallicia, and
there commence a guerilla warfare.
According to the same correspondent, the incor
poration of Cracow with the Prussian monarchy is
openly desired by the citizens. The Manheini
Abend Zeitung also expresses the opinion that the
Polish insargents will retire to the Carpathian
mountains, and there act the part of the Circassian.
INDIA
The latest accounts from tho East show that the
condition of the British empire in that part of the
world is the reverse of satisfactory. The blood
which flowed on tho banks of the Sutlej, on iho
three memorable days of December last, hos been
shed in vain.
The Sikhs have been punished, but not 'miima;
and they return to the conflict with increased nuur
bets, and apparently additional determination.
In the meantime, the interest of the nest and
succeeding Indian accounts, will turn exclusively
upon the Sikh war. The March mail will bring
the details of another, perhaps of several bloody en
gagements between the Ilriti, forces and the Sikhs.
The beat must be hoped for ; but the waist is pos
sible.
The hope which woe entertained that business on
the Continent of Europe would before this resume
ils eleadv and regular course, after the stagnation
which prevailed so long, remains unfiniunstely )et
unfulfilled.
tom'` Colonel Crockett once snid " that polio's] ily
is like soap ; it hardly still . ..us !slow it gas,buck to
lye and grease uguits."