The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-16 00:00:00

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We °mot manna, in any way, any communication that Le seat to us anonymously; but those who choose to addrms us in confidenee will End their COn A d ence respected. NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANY MANUSCRIPTS WHATEVER. se Advertisements intended for TAe Ezprese lout be at the Office by Two o'clock on the day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Ten DAv.—Morninir, 35 nun. past 10; Afternoon, 33 min. past 11, To-nonnow.—Hornlng, eVz pod --; Afternoon, 2 nun. past 0. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16. LORD ABERDEEN made a great and fatal mistake, when he consented to the conclusion, even in con tinge ecy, of a marriage between a son of the King of the FRENCH and the sister of the Queen of SPAIN. Common sense at once shows, that a marriage which is only to take ph cai I s ich and such o rntingencies, is very unfair. To promise two young people to each other, both possessed of every attraction personal and ambitious, is to create a kind of link, very difficult to break. To introduce the Due de Mora- PENSIER and the Infanta to each other's hopes and affections, and to tell them, at the same time, that the fulfilment of their marriage depends upon the fertility or barrenness of a sister, is cruel. It natu rally tempts the young, as well as those who counsel them, to overleap such seemingly preposterous ob structions. Lord ABERDEEN, therefore, in consenting to a marriage between the Due de MONTPENSIER and the young Infanta, so soon as the Queen should have offspring, placed too strong a temptation in the way of Lours Pmurre and his mat Monarchs, we are sorry to say, arc seldom tied by those laws of honour in the observant* of promises, which bind gentlemen. The deal ings of princes in the matter of intermarriages, are very much like those of gentlemen when they deal in horses. The gentleman throws off gentle manly principle, and royalty condescends to jockey. Lord ABERDZEN was deplorably outwitted when be consented to the marriage, with limitations, which, he might have known, such a king as Lours- PHILIPPE would infallibly set at nought A firm and decided language held to Doves-PitturrE, instead of the deceitful aznicabilities of Eu, might have aparedithe country the mortideation of seeing Spain in danger of becoming a French apenage. From what has transpired ad Mr. Buhwra's notes and rensonatranceis, it would appear that this diplo matist and his government take the ground of resisting es tots the marriage of the Duc de MONT PENSIER. We fear that such ground is unten able, after the admission of our late Foreign Minister. The utmost that eau now be done or, hoped, is to keep the King of the French to his solemn engagements, and mist the marriage of the Infanta so long as she remains presumptive heir. But after all, we have no mew of resistance, except each violent meamires as it would be absurd to employ. j Our policy, for these few years past, has been to give up all influence in the Peninsula, all mesas of guiding its councils or its goverment. There is not a Spanish party or a Spaniard, who looks to England or who eonsiders her other than a captious, niggardly, cowardly, ill-humoured, and cold-hearted power. Our characteristic, ea far as Spanish politics are con cerned, has been to slander our friends, and lick the feet of our foes. We were told, over and over, that this was the wise and prudent plan; and we now see the result It is one question, however, what we ought to do, and another what we have done. The interests or the dignity of England are not alone concerned. The interests of Spain herself, and of France, are more vitally affected. As to Spain, the marriage of the Infanta rivets her chains, as a country necessarily dependent on France. Let Queen ISABELLA do what she will, let her re-establish the constitution, let her allow its free play by admitting the liberals to power, every act in that direction will but create a host of malcontents, who will have a court of their own in the Tuileries to repair to, and a rallying point from which Spain may be menaced, when not governed. If the Q ueen of Spain have no children, every eye and hope will desert her, to turn to the presumptive heir and to the Orleans dynasty. And even if she have a family, what difficulty or disturbance can arise, especially with a personage so imbecile as the Queen's husband to meet it, that some sections of the people will not look beyond the Pyrenees, for a prince with far better means and powers of governing, aweing, and rewarding. It is needless to recapitulate the uses that France will make of Spain, when once her influence is esta blished there by this marriage. Her naval, her com mercial, her colonial policy will be so directed, as that the House of Bourbon shall outweigh, over awe, and exclude England. This bas hitherto been French policy in the Peninsula, and it will now march to its completion. Nero necessarily arises the worst result of this Spanish marriage, in the inevitably and newly awakened rivalry between France and England. Oar present Parliament may be very pacific and tolerant The present King of the French is very prudent and adroit; and, no doubt, would do his best to prevent his ascendancy in Spain from at first creating too meek annoyance in England. He would probably at first provide for the interests of our Spaniah bond holders. He would flatter oar free-traders. He would try to coax that party amongst as which is a b sorbed in domestic and economical progress, so as to make it blunt the edge and anab the spirit of any over active, or• over patriotic, diplomacy. But Louis PHILIPPE will one .day be removed freak * scene ; w h i l s t th e policy which he has left behind will hoer* ripened, will have mede•advances towards driving us from tile iZetliterraneary will have nullified' mix Mimi" szul, wild: influence, our trade. Jowl Butt, may then awaken red the world may me a renewal of those , . long and dla :strous s I the germs of which are Always ow n , ~""! start up. think that the result of the AB it not lann:4l,* revolution of hay, smil et Abe easmatiou of Louis FIIIIIPPL, will tha lan ale ON restoration Europe of Loots Foot's policy, of that hostility batman Engboi sot the BOURBONS, which caused fts: Soft wars and slaughter thaa BONAPArTIST aid* did ? For, after all, thew quarrels between England France have never been caused by the discordant real interests of the two countries, bat by questions dynastic and personal ambition. During the centuries that history has written in blood, el war and every battle have been occasioned the jealousies and quarrels of princely f lies. The BOURBON family has shed more blood by its ambition than any family in modern history. We name this as a warning, but in no fear of its recurrence. We are aware that it cannot again be the case. Whenever a family, by its ambition or in terests, shall stand in the way of European happineao and concord, we feel confident that, in the prawnt condition of the world, that family will be sacrificed, sooner or later, by the common consent of all nations. We should be very sorry to see the house ORLEANS assume this superannuated position. We should be sorry to see its chief re-enacting the old dynastic dramas of the seventeenth century, and making nations the foot-stools and play-things of family pride. We should prefer seeing in the ORLEANS Princes the models of constitutional sove reigns. We would rather they should become far greater, more powerful, and more glorious, for acting in the fall spirit of their age, than LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH for acting in his. But if this family will in their diplomacy go back to the old policy of the family compact; and if their politics tend to arrest and eseamoter constitutions and public liberties, instead of developing them ; and if their main tenance of pence be employed in the concocting of causes of future war, as well as in amassing materials for the prosecution of such war;—then we do hope and believe that the populations of the different countries thus placed at strife, and led to harm, and to fight blindly with each other, may come fully to perceive the true and small source of so much misery. Once perceived, it will require no great effort to prevent such poison flowing from it. But we repeat that it would be with the bitterest regret we should find the family of ORLEANS declare itself openly inimical, by its avarice or ambition, to the mutual good understanding and independence of European nations. THE problem will soon be solved. This day week will probably witness the Duke on the Arch. Mr. WY/in.'s work is completed. Colossal Copenhagen, with his gigantic rider, hangs from the scaffold of the casting-room. The place has been visited by hosts of connoisseurs. Report says that the Duke himself has inspected his exaggerated Eidolon. His comment was characteristically brief : a " good morning" to the artist. Did he feel some misgivings? The elevation of the work will be an epoch in the _ _ life of the Green-park gate-keeper and his family. Mr. BCRTON has answered for the stability of the arch. But he is not an unprejudiced authority. The sub-committee should be compelled to live in the apartments of either wing, till the enormous mass bas had time to settle itself and the controversy. Meanwhile the ceremony will be imposing. It is to blend commercial and military pomp. The pro cession from Mr. Wrsrr's studio will be luaded by the Duke's regiment, the Grenadier Guards, band playing and colours flying. The car will be mounted on the wheels of a Great Western engine. The forty horses which are to draw it are a contribution from Messrs. Goring°, the patriotic and enterprising brewers. Where the committee and sub-committee are to walk, we have not ascertained. We would suggest to Sir FREDERICK TRENCH and the Duke of RUTLAND the propriety of their walking in front, scattering copies of the correspondence, and singing Io Peeans over vanquished public opinion and out raged taste. Never, since the time of the Trojan horse, has such an equestrian monster paraded the streets of a capital. The infatuation, however, which in the tale of Troy fires a whole population, is in this case, we would hope, confined to a small section of subscribers. But, if limited in numbers, they are great in obstinacy. In vain the Woods and Forests, the Treasury, the archi tect of the arch, the voice of the press, urge PRIAM'S question,' : - Quo mama Use irnmanis . eyrui statuftet Quit auetor Quidoe pains! t rue religtol nut qua machine ball Which we oay English: What in the world do they mean to set up a charger so swfitgin' ? Has Trench tea to worship an idol, or Hill made a new warlike engine ? We get no answer, but the quotation from Sir F. Tamemn's new deealogue, .‘ Honour the Duke." Without any dean to detract from the glories of his Glum F. M. the Doke . of Wzturrorort ; with every Cisposition to vinpathiee with the country that glories in crowning his prey head with reve rence ;we wish to knew why seeped to the Duke must express itself by outrage to taste ? Because his Grace's merits outrun all measure of praise, most his statue violate all laws of proportion ? He may have his statue. He has deserved his statue. We should have supposed he had had enough of stews. He has braved the battle of taste and the breeze of epigram in the character of AC1111.1.1+3, for some quarter of a century in Hyde Park. He has borne the brunt of city wits in front of the Exchange. Why must he identify himself with the ignorance and absurdity of the day in Grosvenor Place ? However, the mischief is done for the present Up he goes. For three weeks only--say the sub-com mittee. - Seandit falalis madams mum, Feria armia ; preri dream inareptaque puella Sacra eammt,fusentque mange contingere pawing Illa ambit, ftedisque ninon* illabitur %we.. Or vernacularly : On goes the mar to the arch built by Declaim Burton, Pregnant with battles of taste—the committee, their object now certain, Sing forth their mean, and glory to handle the cables, the road in, Ala which advances the Duke by the forty-horse power of We would fain play the Laocoon, to warn our fellow Londoners of the consequences of this atrocious viola tion of all artistic principle. Yet it is probable that the warning will not be needed. The disproportion of arch and statue Will be more eloquent than the appeal of Sir FREDKRIM Merrell. The figure is of a pale gold colon? ' as we are informed. The fresh surface of the bronze will catch and reflect the sunlight, sad incongruity may •for a time be hidden in splendour. The experiment is a new one. Such a figure on such an arch nowhere exist. On the " mane ignotum pro magus:two" principle, London may applaud what it does not understand. But there are laws of proportion which must not be violated. An etch is an arch : a pedestal is a pedestal. Mr. Burrotes erection will be too small for the former, too large for the latter. The Duke will be between two artistic stools : would that he may share the fate of other things in such a position, and come to the ground. Figure and plinth together will be nearly forty feet high. The arch is sixty-seven. The length of the arch is sixty-two feet, that of the statue twenty-two ; the width of the former fifty feet, that of the latter eight. According to trite pro porfion, the pedestal of an equestrian statue should in length, breadth, and height, nearly aqua the figure itself. These proportions are not arbitrary. They have been fixed by the practice of the greatest masters of their jtt,and are, founded on immutable principles. Theyilrinot hi violated with impunity, though a Tams decree the Nielation, and the Duke &WELLINGTON exeMpLifyite The matter recta with the public. As HuMPtY-DoloPti can go up, Elnliti Dampty may some down. If we are anxious to another to the long list of artistic eyesores which make London ridiculous, we have curly to leave the Duke on the arch. If we would spare a great commander the ridicule associated with a misplaced and clis- live so popular a theme and so promising a project ; and the French League is no sooner installed, than the very journal of the court comes forward as an abettor and an organ. As a sign of the times this is even more important, than the acquisition of such powerful and intelligent aid. It shows that the electoral and parliamentary influence of the monopolist is no longer so paramount and so formidable; and that a minister need not fear to brave it, or shrink from invoking popular interest and support against the dictation of the interested few. The first step to Free-trade in England was the introduction of a wedge amongst the originally compact interests of monopoly. By separating - these interests, and subjecting a few to the experiment of an equality with the rest of their countrymen, the effects of free competition were found to be by no means so dreadful as was feared ; and whatever the effects to individuals, these at least became interested to extend a rule already applied to themselves. The Journal des Debuts perceives the wisdom of sach tactic', and commences by showing in how very unequal and unfair proportions the boon of pro tection is distributed. Thus it demonstrates that the protective, or rather the prohibitive duty, on the in troduction of foreign cattle into France, however it may raise the price on the German and Spanish frontiers, yet scarcely raises the price of cattle through out the kingdom more than one per cent. of the value. It then takes the case of iron, on which it repre sents the duty as augmenting the value by twenty per cent.; a considerable miscalculation. Cent, per cent. would be nearer the truth. However, it suffices for the argument to show that the French agricul turist benefits one per cent. by his monopoly of the meat market, whilst he pays twenty per cent. more than need be on every implement and every article, in which iron forms a component of the price. The argument might, indeed, be carried much further. For, as the French population is with regard to meat monstrously underfed, even in proportion to its means, a very great increase in the supply would not at all diminish the price ; that is, if the duty were taken off or lessened. So that the agriculturist benefits in no degree by the absurd law which starves the population. Never was a country, certainly, in which mono polists' interests should have so little power as in France. There the class which lives by the rent of land is neither numerous, wealthy, or powerful. With a view to the uses of a land monopoly, the returns upon capital so expended are too trifling to offer temptation to any, save those who seek retirement, or solidity of investment in rural pleasure. The great body of landed proprietors are those who themselves consume their produce, and therefore care little for its price in the market. And, at all events, any rise in the price of their produce, in consequence of corn or cattle protection, is infinitely counterbalanced by the price they pay for other neoesearies,such as iron, clothes, &c., beyond what free trade could afford them at. The only landed proprietors naturally linked with the monopolists, were the forest owners. But rail roads and other causes are fast placing a' cheaper combustible within reach even of the owners of forges. French monopoly interests are thus narrow ing at the base ; and it only requires an extension of the electoral franchise, so as to allow the consumers to be really represented, in order at once to sweep away the entire fabric of prohibition. It is to be hoped that even the Conservatives will admit the necessity of this. The adherence of some of them to free trade evinces that they deem the time come fora certain degree of progress. M. OUIZOT has com pleted and exhausted his policy of peace, which can now be maintained without rendering all other thoughts subordinate to it It is time for French stateamen to turn their minds to, and occupy the country with, ques tions of material development. M. DUCIIATEL, as one who has long studied political economy, may fairly hope to take the lead in such a movement; and the opportunity is favourable and tempting, not only to his individual ambition, but to that of a large body of Conservatives, who are weary of the exclusive lead and worship of M. GUIZOT. Party rivalry and differences amongst the ministerial party themselves may thug come in aid of the good cause in France, as the same motives proved not anittfluential in England ; while, if the French Oppo sition be wise, it may, like the Whigs, allow such divisions and ameliorations to ripen, through its own moderation and tolerance. The result of the new elec tions in France much resembles that of our own last election. The Conservative party in both cases is too large to hold long together. The men of talent and new ideas am ongst them, feel that they can afford to shake off they more bigoted, stupid, or obstinate of their follow ( vrs, since a diminution of their majority by 40 or 50 vote's will not absolutely ruin them. We shall thus latch ibly see, sooner or later, some French Conservative-chic f strike into at least theoretic libe ralism and progre. is. The Journal des Debats points the way. We have received by our usual exprem our private correspondence and t he Paris journab of Monday. The Marquis de Ca. wa, attache of the French Em bassy, at Madrid, az rived in Paris on Saturday, beanng despatches for the Foreign-office. The Due de Mont/Tenger will no t leave Paris until after the result of the assembly c the Cortes (( which com menced on the 14th inst.) be known in aris, which may probably not arrive u. atil the end of this or the beginning of next week. Preparations are making at Brest, for (it is said) a two-fold destination, Tahiti Madahliecor ; 3,000 infanby and 500 artillery wi be - embarked- Mr. - King, the Amencan . Wagger at the Court of France has resigned his functi o and having quitted his hotel in the Faubourg St. G mmain, awaits onlythe reply to a despatch he has forty, tided to the Cabinetat Washington. It was said the t Mr. Bancroft, the American Naval Secretary, had Cestified a desire to succeed Mr. King at the Court o. t the Tuileries, but this choice would have involved the necessity of a the mi n i stry, to w hi c h the President re fused in assent. The Scientific Congress in France c dosed its trans. actions at Marseilles on the 10th ii lit. The next congress will be held at Tours. Lieutenant-Colonel Oourby de Cognol a, ene of the French prisoners detained at the Beira of Abd-el lader, has written the following letter to his father is.hir, dated August 15 : al I take advantage of the d of an Ar. oh ealulee, am barer of a letter to LW- hrina, respecting. ea in =of prisoners, which I was requested to do mina to avaignac, to inform you, that I am still in t a Med :of the living. The Emir is quite willing that an ext of prisoners should take place, but does not wish it to be at Bigigor through the medium of the Moon, The 1, VAlle I s send to the Genersl, is to request his to info eas Marshal that Abel el-Hader refuses to accept the me& 'a dmix of the consul at Tangiers, who was the person de `• 0116.f0r the exchange; but that he reedy to consent, 11tad is Marshal will entrust the affair to one of his gaimak, that the exchange take place near Le ll a4isghrina. .11an z if the Marshal consents, our unhappy condition may asap he changed. If he does sot oonsent, as We fare wine miry day, we ma istsannes all hope of seeing our country =Colonel Myles' has spoken continueily to me of the fah he ask lemon said in the army- All that is Iorlonoulable; but librr &ems it that with all those gym our government has net the humanity to , relesse rets this horrible position in which it his le* us for eleven when all that is demanded in exchange for oar free. the freedom of fifteen or eighteen , some of Nita weimn and children; c surili this i ff i r ell ot known In Noma., As yet, we have su our unhappy fate with me ieninia, but it has now e insupportable, and we only hoi,3 rat in the hope that the government or theManhal SPAIN.-PETITION TO THE QUEEN AGAINST THE INFANTA'S MABAIACIS.—The Liberal party in Madrid have published a petition, addressed to the Queen, strongly depre cating the marriage of the Infanta Luisa with the Due de Mootpenaier. The following are the most important extracts:— --- • " It is anw a century and a belt since Spain—that Spain, strong and powerful, at whose name the boldest nations bowed down—that Spain in whose dominions the sun never set--that poesmsed Europe ; that discovered and conquered Americo; that Inlnvaded Asia; that took possession of Africa; that same Spain has at this day scarcely a spark of life. For a century and a halfthe invading torrent bas been pouring down upon um from the crest of the Pyrenees, and on all sides &- souring our nationality, Our =tome are French; our language would not be understood by the UOllll, the Herrerria, the Cer vantea, or the Solis. Our fathers could not recognise our cos tume Our Government Is French, our Administration French, our laws are framed on a French model, and • French law it was that was mar depriving your Majesty of the crown of Spain. To destroy that law it became necessary to rouse the energy and patriotism of the Spanish people, and to carry on a war of seven yenta Senora, French inyardon is Mereaeing every day; and in vain all the instincts of nationality are rising against it. A few men, despising all that belongs to their own country, only value, in policy, in legislation, in uses, in materna, in language, whatever comes from the banks of the Seine; and, profiting by the exalted position in which they are undeservedly placed, endeavour, now more than ever, p of Spain a eatellite of France. On the other hand, Senora, the direct influenoe, not only of French ideas, beta*, government of that nation, is felt on all sides, even to the point that the most in fluential member of that cabinet is enabled to boost in the face of the Parliament that Spain is ruled by a French party. When we read and see such things, Senora, the blood mounts to our Ames, and our hearts are filled with bitterness at seeing that the densendenie of those 1 who triumphed at Pavia, are reduced to devour in Keret and impo tent silence their shame and their diasitene. For the het century and a-half, Senora, we are trarelling filds reed ct &stylistics. If you open the pane of history which converses le that perled, you will And nothing but miafortanes coming la as hem So ether ro e of the Pyrenees ; wars to which we have bees dreamt Wham ; wars which we have had to sustain against its naerplngeallinvegingpeepseh ; lows 1 immense, irreparable, which its Modem sad lii he have 00:14 aimed sta. It is tow time that a virago= hind shinig put no gad to this invasion of every species of ern; sallaboshl robins the_ Presees a dyke of Espanolisiis against which the inspetuone sad the restive current shall dub itself. Nations, Senors, have their malpethice as ' well as individuals; and in the present ease, the intipathy of the Spanish people, net to the French people, but to all Chit France Im poses on as, that antipathy is well founded. Could your Majesty go amongst the maestro of your people, and hear their voice—the voice of the high, the middling, and the low ;—one cry you might hear,—one cry only, and that is,' Put no trestle France? You are not acquainted with the antipathy against all that is remelt in Spain. You do not know, because you cannot know it, that =leer ol and deep-rooted antipathy. To give your majesty an idea of its magnitude, we Mull only inform you that, in the ordinary language of the people, the words' traitor' and ' miscreant' do not rouse In their hearts so much aversion as Afrancesado. "Ah l Senors, if you knew how much this nation has suffered from the assaults that have 1 from France ; if you knew how much it has suffered du the present century alone, you would not be surprised at this hostile feeling against oar neighbours. The meet iniquitous of all treason. was that perpetrated by the French government in 1008. It brought on ue a war which commenced with the lad of May, and dung which the most obscure family as well as the highest, suffered immense loaves. Our fathers lavished their goods, their blood, and their liven, to place on the throne of France a branch that had tees expelled from it; and that branch, with the bleakest ingratitude, paid us, nine years afterwards, for our service, by tearing from us the liberty we had won for ourselves. The justice of God fell upon the ungrateful, and Frenchmen were those who avenged us. A new branch mounted the throne; and scarcely was it placed in the pet it bad along sighed for, when the unfortunate Spanish Liberals were #7"persecuted by that mme government that flattered them the day be- The Minas, the Valdez, the fettled, —yes, Senora, the Isturits themselves can tell you what was the conduct of the King of the French." The document concludes by the expression of a confident hope that her Majesty will not, in defiance of the laws of the kingdom and the constitution, permit the immediate suc cessor to the crown to marry a French prince. FRANCE.—NOTICE TO CHAMPAGNE DRINKERS.— According to the returns made by the officers of the French excise, the stock on hand of Champagne wine in the Department de la Marne, was, at the date of the let April, 22,U7,871 bottles. GERMANY.—REPLY OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO THR MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OP COLOONE.-BERLEN, SEPT. 9.—The Burgomaster and Municipal Council of Cologne have sent an address to the King of Prussia, dated August 14, relative to the riots which took place at Cologne' on the 4th. The address was presented to his Majesty, and the following cabinet order has been issued, dated Sans- Souci, Sept. 4, 1846:—" I have learnt with much sorrow, by the reports of the authorities, and through the address of the Burgomaster and of the Municipal Council of Cologne of the 14th instant, that a considerable number of the inhabitants not only opposed the measures taken by the police for the tranquillity of the town, and offered resistance to the troops oat to enforce order, bat that they also assailed them with stones. Resistance to the authorities is everywhere a serious offence, especially in a town which may justly be called one of the ramparts of Germany. The interference of the troops is therefore wrongly termed'insig' nificant in the ad dress. lam of the opinion that, on the contrary, the riot ought to have been put down by force of arms, and that it is greatly to be regretted that one man was killed, and others dangerously wounded, as stated in the reports. My troops showed a general coolness and praiseworthy moderation, so much so, that I expressed my satisfaction to them on their conduct, through the commander-in-chief. If, as it is stated in the address, without however being proved, peaceful citizens were ill-treated by the soldiers in parts of the town distant from the scene of tumult, or if they have committed any other excesses , the offender shill be punished according to the rigour of martial law. I acknow ledge the services of the citizens in endeavouring to main tain order ; but I blame the more the organisation of a civic guard, without the express sanction of the authorities, as it might be thought that the civil and military authorities, after having resorted to force, entrusted the mainte nance of order to the citizen*, whilst it is my camas desire to avoid even the appearance of such weakness. If the municipal authontlea complain of ;not having been "%informed of the messures taken for the evening of the 4th, principally of an imposing min ' tary force (as it is stated) on the market-place, I declare that after what took place on the evening before that the appear ance on duty of those two hundred men was not an extraor dinary measure, and that it was excusable, as on the one side it was a precaution against further excesses; and on the other side, that the burgomaster was informed of the fact. " Nevertheless, according to the wish expressed, I have ordered that, in future, when extraordinary measures are deemed requisite, time permitting, the municipaL autho rides shall be informed, so as in their turn, to inform the citi zens, and to demand their concurrence. I have reason to hope that the good sense of the citizens and of the authorities will prevent the occurrence of such event- :•1 future." FRANKFORT, SEPTEMBER l2.—T1::: AFFAIRS OP SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. - (From a private corespond ent.) " For the last eight days several conferences have been held by the different deputies to the diet, and it is certain that for the moment all other matters have been set aside to take into consideration the all-important question of the duchies. Great unanimity prevails in general among the members of the diet, but different states of the con federation have not yet sent in the necessary instructions to their representatives. Bavaria has already declared itself in favour of the incorporation of Schleswig with the confedera tion ; as regards Holstein and the annexation of Lauenburg there seems to be but one opinion at the diet. M. Munch Beßinghausen insists on a prompt solution of the question, so as to put a stop to the agitation which pervades not only the duchies, but all Germany. This state of things is the more embarrassing for two of the great Ger man, and at the same time European powers, as they are both on the point of contracting considerable loans ; ' that to be contracted by Austria amounting to 4,000,0001. As regards Prussia, some great financial measures are immi nent, and a convocation of the states-general may be looked for. The late disturbances in the Rhenish provinces, and the precarious state of the Grand Duchy of Posen, have only retarded the publication of the new Prussian constitution. MM. Canitz and Duesberg are favourable to the system acknowledged by the majority of the Prussian Cabinet. It is an error to suppose that Prince Metternich, in his recent interview with the King of Prussia, endeavoured to dissuade him from all innovation.—P.S. The report on the different acts relative to the duchies is ready, and it is certain that the resolutions of the diet, in the form of an advice, will be pub lished before the end of the month." PROTEST OF THE DUKE OP OLDENBURG.— The following is the protestation made by the Grand Duke of Oldenburg against the letter patent of the King of Denmark : "H. R. H. the Grind Duke of Oldenburg has learnt by a letter patent of H. 11t. the King Christian VIII. of Denmark, published at Copenhagen on the Bth July, 1846, inserted in different journals, and which he (the Grand ' Duke). saw by chance at Satin tin the evening of the 16th, that it has pleased H. K. to express his opinion and make known kis intentions in a case of eventual succession. As H. R. H is not informed whether H. Id., before publishing that letter patent, had consulted the heads of the different branches of the house of Oldenburg, and especially as no steps had been taken in that respect with H. R. H. the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, who by existing treaties is the representative of the head of the house of Schleswig Holstein Gottorp in Germany. H.R.H. the Grand Duke of Oldenburg only saw in that declaration made with out his consent the sole opinion of H.Y. the king, and at the same time he was convinced that as head of his house, it was his duty to maintain his eventual rights against any prejudicial ecmsequences for himself or his house which might arose from the letter patent, and to protest formally 'gaunt it."—Hamburg, July 16. BligsLAll, AIIOUST 31.—Three important docu ments have just been published in P The ti ueouraged by what has taken place in Galicia, refused. in e e Math districts to submit to the sera*e, and recently when th e landowners proposed to changelthe corn% into a fixed t ax ,they replied that they did not understand why they were t o pa ) , new taus when it was the {Magian of the Emperor, not oni'v p rein the corvies, but anti to divide amo un t th em the _LW and forests of the noble. Government could no longer 71111111i11 silent ; dalleesexpoee itself to a false in terpretation by the authorities. Some explanation was wawa, ; it has done more, it has informed its mints how it attired its will to be made known. The three documents mentioned above are : I. Immmelimet to the anthoritiee concerning the publication of Pao phase of 7th ........ r• - ' : - . l c *. . mg!, RESB, WEDNESDAY MIXING, SEPTE .`.n: • - fi t o,' 1846. Louis * • -...- 'N„-.41 Ao. AN `' ~1 via- 1 s. ,'‘ ~a4* 4 F aw ilipi hrid I ti t c * ..„A, put t 06, „.. 0 ... Of Jae on in . 'O4 , 4f Ls pig It . . 111 fouo all mrrso 3 oo or Ile *pip el 041' Ord, '• and lkki \ the of dot** • t bad titstek t if •, , t .- • , ant ---- - c MO" `4 bore .11y , ib We have received :ear letteei ' jestenalii filial aka Mf a ever contend *A -is the pertintic ity of t . ritEntait lc Madrid of the 9th fast. . DI litaaldenatiees a report ;' .i 1 : TRENCH, and the supineness .of _tat Woods and of Carlist bands having ippeami in Catalonia and in; id and Forests. In any country but England we ahould Navarzek but discredits the facts. The sante journal the nt and have little fear of the result - . . cingratulates the country. and all ies concerned, thei i ons e t..--- -- - - - ---- ----- - - on the approaching nuptiaLs of Maris' obli Luisa with the Due de Montperuder. It adds that of I to tea Tut Journal des Debate, no unimportant convert, t he re p l y of Mr. Bulwer to Isturitz's second note was ';'l:,." eve merely a repetition of his first letter, adding, that he aani ed g, dec la res itself in a solemn article the champion of . only followed the dictates of his private feelings rigb fain t_ Free-trade. The French court and conservatives m presenting the objection he had done, whilst await- rec' blood seem determined that the liberals shall not monepfi • ing official instructions from his Court. ton _. . lane, 1846 ; 2nd, the ukase buffet *I .71L /oast ark Ia ordonnanoe addressed ky the Prisoe-troyernor to the differ ent civil governor, enjoining them to publish the Imperial ukase in every district within a given time fixed by the Minister of the Interior, by persons worthy of the confidenn of the government. It is their duty to make the peasants fully understand the intentions of the government: they are to inform them that the Emperor has expressly forbidden the land-owners to expel them in an arbitrary manner front their domains, but on the sole condition that they ME their obligations. Those who do not are not to count on the clemency of the government but will be expelled from the land at once. As regards the suppression of the cornes and tithes, the ukase only alludes to such as are not legal, and the pea sants are to be made to understand that they have not the right of deciding on the question. The authorities are to recommend them not to listen to interested insionsvions, bat to await the decision of the government, which watches with paternal solicitude over their privileges, and will decide what ems Into be suppressed. Entire submission to the order of tie government will convince it that the peasants are worthy of the favours accorded them by his Majesty. The government is firmly resolved to pronoun all such as offer resistance to their landlords, or to the authorities, or who excite others to disobedience, as the government will not tolerate any illegal act. This ordonnance is signed by Prinoe Psakewitch. SWITZERLAND. CESSION OF TERRITORY. ZURICH, Seer. 10.—This day (10th) the Swiss Diet was occupied with the affair of Appenthal. The president de clared that the report current among the public that Appen thel was to be added to France, was void of foundation. The is one league and a-half in leneth,sand one league in breadth, li with two or three hundred inhabitants, ands of great importance in a military point of view. The deputy of the Canton de Vaud stated that the inhabitants considered themselves as Swiss, and proved by documents that the valley formed part of the confederation. He said that the conduct of France was not very honourable, and demanded that the matter should be laid before the Vorort, as it was important for it to be made public that the confederation did not intend renouncing any of its rights. The proposition was unani mously adopted. ITALY.—DISTURAANCF-i AT FAENZA.—Rome, 29th Aro.—Great excitement still prevails at Finest. Some persons cried out, " Death to Pius 1X.," in the streets. POPULAR DEMONSTRATION AT ANCONA. FLORENCE, Sept. 3.—According to:news received, which, if correct, is not without importance, the population of Ancona is said to have assembled a short time since on the square before the palace of the delegate of the province, and pre sented him an address by deputation, demanding—first, the permisidon to erect a monument to Pius IX. ; second, a con vocation of new provincial councils, which would efficiently represent the wishes and wants of the provinces, and en dowed with the power of proposing the necessary measures for the welfare of the people. The news of this popular demons'ration soon spread through the different legations, and caused a great sensation. It has been remarked with pleasure that the censorship at Bologna has greatly dimi nishs d. The daily journals of that town, Le Strode Ferrate, the Tarfolln, II I'onero, and especially the Teuineo, contain articles in the spirit of reform. ASSASSINATION OF A REVENUE OFFICER AT BOLOONA.—A letter from Bologna states, that the San fedisti have been guilty of a horrible assassination. A revenue officer having refused to participate in their machi nations against Pius IX., fell a victim to his devotion. As he had expressed his intention of going to Rome, fearing lest he should inform against them, they shot him. The crime was scarcely perpetrated when the sanfedisti, who were anxiously awaiting the result in the streets of Faenza, began to cry out, " Behold the fruits of the amnesty ! " Happily the victim of this cowardly act bad still life enough left before expiring to denounce his murderers, and the motives of their act. They wished to impute the act to the effects of the amnesty. His statement was taken down, and sworn to by seventeen witnesses. The whole population of Faience, without distinction, followed the murdered man to his grave ; the funeral was on a magnificent scale. Public opinion also points out the sanfedisti as the murderers of the Swim Colonel who was assassinated on the public square of For:i a few days previous to the above-mentioned murder RUSSIA.—The Journal dea Debits gives the fol lowing, on the authorityof the St. l'etersburgh Journal, in a letter dated Kislovodak, Aug. 17 Since our last accounts the enemy has made no decisive movements. On the line of the Sownja a party of 300 horsemen and a body of infantry attempted a coup de main on the poet of Troitsk, but the mountaineers were repulsed with great loss. In southern Daghestan, an assemblage of the enemy was made on the frontier of the province of Djaro-Belokung, but a movement by the commanding officer with a body of troops compelled the enemy to disperse and renounce any offensive operations, if such had been their object. The powder magazine at the fort of Evgeneevsk, on the Soulak, was struck by lightning, on the 16th July, and blown up. The enemy advanced from all sides, in the hope that in the confusion caused by the accident they might be able to gain possession of the fort. The mountaineers brought down three pieces of artillery, which they got to bear on the tile du pont, which was at the same time attacked by the inhabitants of the Tillage ; but General Prince Bebontoof, having forseen what would take place, had adopted measures accordingly, by which the mountaineers were vigorously repulsed. Accounts have bees also received of some successes obtainel against Dainee Bek." AMERICA.—We extract the following paragraphs from the papers received by the Caledonia:— THE MORMONS.—There is every prospect of fur ther difficulties between the Mormons and the anti-Mormons in Hancock county. The Antics are reported to be organ ising a large party in the vicinity of Green Plain', about six miles back of Warsaw. They have also taken out writs for a number of Mormons who are in and about Nauvoo. The attempt to serve these write will, we !suppose, be the signal for attack. The large Mormon vote cast in Nauvoo at the last election, has convinced the anti-Mormons that there ire more Mormons in and about Nauvoo than was previously represented. These they will endeavour to drive out of the country. The Mormons, or rather the cit'zens of Nauvoo, are anticipating an attack, and are organising the citizens into armed companies, and preparing for resetance. The time in which the Mormons stipulated to leave the state having expired, and there being but few, if any, leaving at this time, the matter will soon be brought to an isaue.—St. Louis Repub. LETTERB OF MARQUE.—We see it steed in La Petrie, of yesterday, than Don F. Arrangoiz, Mexican Con sul at Havana, has written to the acting consul of this city, ordering letters of marque to be issued hero. We have since learned through a person late from Havana, that by the packet ship which wale se lent for New York on the same day that the P. Soulsrleft for this port, similar orders from the Mexican governittiit had been forwarded to Don Juan de la Cinuaja, consul-genital in New York. Our contempo rary says he hopes that the government of Louisiana will be on the gui vise, in order to prevent the arming of privateers here. The Patria says Senor Arrangoiz, the Mexican con sul at Havana, had 'literal applications for commissions against American commerce in the interval between the arrival of the Dee and the sailing of the P. Soule. Mexico had been very considerate in deferring to issue letters of marque till the gulf is pretty well stocked with American cruisers.—N. 0. Delta, Aug. 21. INDIAN MASSACRE.—A letter from Fort Washita, July 28, says thirty persons left Fort Smith three weeks pre vious, for California, and • report had come in from the prairies that they had all been murdered by the Camanche Indians. EARTTIQVAKE.—About five minutes before five o'clock yeatetday morning, there was an earthquake, which was very sensibly felt in this city and the vicinity, and accompanied by the usual rumbling noise. The shock was sufficient to cause the rattling of doors and window shutters, and to render the o-cillation of the walls of houses distinctly , visible. The motion seemed to proceed in a direction from north-west to south-east, and lasted several seconds. We hear of the shock at Springfield, at the same instant, where it is said to have been of llonger duration than could have been produced by a cannon, or the explosion of a powder mill. At Worcester, bells were rang in houses. Braintree, Dedham, Concord, and various intermediate places felt the shock. At Newbury-port the time is fixed at five o'clock. At Jamaica Plains, a chimney was shaken down. A writer from Beverly says " it sounded as though a dozen railroad trains were passing over my house." The Traveller says the magnetic intensity at the observatory at Cambridge was greatly disturbed by the shock. The vibrations appeared to be in a direction north and south, and to have continued for a second or two. We shall look with in terest for news from South America, which will probably bring us the intelligence of a severe earthquake in that sec tion of the world, the effect of which we have slightly felt. Some early risers assert that there was a slight shock felt in this vicinity about half-past four. From all the late accounts which we hear, we opine that the great shock was felt gene rally throughout New England. The Northern Lights were brilliant on Monday night till after twelve o'clock.—Boston Courier, 26 Aug. PROBABLE , SCB-MARLNE VOLCANO.—The ship He lena, on her late passage from Batavia to Canton, when in latitude 16 N., lon. 125 E., fell in with immense fields of floating pumice stones, apparently not having been long erupted, as samples that were picked up were perfectly clear of slime or grass, which would not have been the case had it been long afloat. Many pieces were as large as a common bucket The nearest land to windward was the Efarisumes or Ladrone Islands, about one thousand miles off. It seems impossible that it could lure come from thence, nor could it have come from Laconia, dead to windward. AN ELEPHANT'S Domos.—We learn by a gentle man of the city, who was at Lockport on Saturday, that at noon of that day an elephant belonging to a menagerie exhibiting there, walked out of his tent toward a span of horses attached to a waggon some twenty rods off. The horses took fright as the huge beast approached them, broke loose, and ran a few rods to an angle of a fence' the ele• phant followed, capsized the waggon, and threw the horses some two rods over the fence. One of the horses rose with several broken ribs, and managed to escape his assailant, i which fell upon the other with hie tusks, tore out his entrails, and continued to toss him along the fence some ten rods or more. At this time the keeper, who was at dinner when the elephant escaped from the tent, came up, and called the animal by name. The elephant immediately obeyed the word, and followed the keeper to an orchard about a hun dred rods off, where he was secured by strong chains made fast to the trunk of a full-grown tree. Just as our informant left in the afternoons, he heard that the elephant had up rooted the tree to which ia was fastened, and had injtireda man; but learned no particulars. The rags of the elephse it is said, wag timed by some tobacco concealed in the f that lame of the biltanders offered to him. People cannot he too cautious how they trifle in witch a way with an ele phant.—Buffalo Commercial. ATTEMPTED PIRACY AND MURDER.—On the 20th of June the Governor of Porto Rico despatched to St. 110111111, a man-of-war acheenerrfor, the purpose of convey ing to sc. Joan a party of his friends to spend the holidays of the fcliC of Bt. John, and for the better safety of the vessel, twelve soldiers were embarked" et Smut* Under the ?mpression that there was a quantity of board, some of the soldiers planned to murder Ma II and crew, and run the vessel into St. Domingo ande l " about half-way between Porto Rico and St. nemgs t made the attempt ; and having secured the eabin-daegg the officers, and the scuttle forwa r d u p on t h e watt& bgV g i they very nearly succeeded in overpowering the w ok deck, when the first mate having accomplished the limi up of the cabin fastenings, a most desperate streak place, in which four of the soldiers were slausitssid pitched overboard with the pikes fast in their bfiliee, it vessel, in consequence of the occurrence, returned Is s t. Juan, the chief officer and two er three of the crew severely wounded.—Acadian Recorder. BRAZlL.—Adviees from Rio Janeiro to the 17th '. of July, received via the United henpo that the*. ligence of the war with Mexico, just received there, hi • created a great sensation, and freights for American shim. were scarcely obtainable in consequence. The Am•" . commodore, Rousseau, lying there in the Colombi a trim the iinP“ , - had given notice, however, that he was daily espeet43 i ,g more L brig and corvette, whi c h s h ou ld convoy any Americ a nsmei ith Geo. • ei chantmen home, on ap plication . to him. America me& layer and . 4onstituted and • it il stated, had fallen into disrepute, and could only be ne t ; y of tiated at considerable disadvantage in the rates of man*. we a kfeeling Troop. were despatching by the Brazilian govern *tame district* rather large numbers to the province of Rio Grande, oh* ,dOsterks = in as reported, was in apprehension of hostile intentions eeth s i m .;= edhse fee in part of Buenos Ayres. -•4he cordage of • • PERU.—From Lima we have accounts t o the 44 .4,,, 6 ' 00° " 0 ;t 141 /,,,,,, t of July, but they are politically without interest. El Of. i vc er , a. - m. His mercio of the 9th of that month contains a copy of the e a• oa t h, chairman . patch of H. E. Senor Iturregui, the Peruvian envoy I Ne lathe tons on the w here, to his government, dated the 16th of Willem, , ant edwouid went to ~ eing his arrival in this country on the Gth of May, Cha pel "lib i l l ' te ' LTilf taken the West India steamer Forth at the Rio Chape l a e • the 28th of March. He advises of having on the 14th p ays g approbation of a copy of his credentials to Lord Aberdeen, then at the pa, reign -office, and that he was waiting the orders of 8.8. R. . 6 n " -ng Carr ° The Lord Ma to be admitted to an audience in order to present them i s rd -moth a state , original. The following copy of a letter from one of Oa Oxford Charles 11 Fentlemen attached to the legation in this capital, tea f ri eet s,, Lpper cad the c '''kif London and in Lima, which is published in the same journal, will be gs Mon, on which t rused with interest, both on account of the impressions p ee "..._ se ei , n duced on his arrival by his first acquaintance with thU , g i i c t or r hip an metropolis, and the reflections on his own country, egg& .0 The Lord Ma judicious and patriotic, with which they were accomp . —" Lendon, May 16, 1846. On the 28th of March, we sa, barked in the RiuChagreeon board the steamer Forth, ahe itut PRIXOY l'aented to the C. vess e l of 2000 tom \r e set off the same day, and, Mud* t^Couneil Commi at Carthagena and Santa Martha in the republic of Ne n ,- should not be hu Granada, at K lepton and Spanish Town in Jamaica, Sante. f de Caba in the great island of Jacmcl in the republic a( The paper w ge "thVournals of ,Aldermen. Hayti, the islands of Puerto Rico, and St. Thomas, which it a beautiful isle belonging to Denmark, we arrived on *a m: Co missloN 19th of April at the Bermudas, belongit.g to the English. Os ..la 7PECTS or • the 20th we transhipped to another steamer called the Med- ' ovuertome.—Y . way; on the 22nd she began her voyage, and in sins. ' the City of Lon. days, that is, on the 6th instant, we reached Soutluimp u g, the weekly des. a port of England, and on the 7th arrived in this camel, : chair. A man u teeming in two hours and a half a distance of more that had taken an and skty miles by railway. This city, in which swar m Ws • millions of inhabitants, is a world of which he onl can cleansing associ a perfect idea who sees it with his own eyes. The teamM, courts and alleys y fame the theatres, the palaces, the parka , the monuments nisi - condition that . Golden-lane, U. to immortalise the memory of great men ; all, all appellee poorer parishion matter of enchantment. So much magnificence, bowery, - nation instead • has caused me a melancholy impression, comparing it with 'teemed to pref - the state of our country ; and how indignant I feel ea scavenge rs : b ac observing here so muc h order, such riches, such immure rendered imps progress,--and there (Peru) so much disaccord, so mad To bring his dirt misery, such frightful retrogression. Even the Spade supplied with * colonies, even Cuba and Puerto Rico, show a degree arm Sewers relathe gresewhich astonishes and saddens the Peruvian who rails dirt, &c., into an them. When shall we be united, when shall we be truly • he nailed on a patriotic ? I will not take up more time with recollection • tired of a 40s. so disagreeable." (After giving an account of lb . habitants of Col" first --- - of the Legation, already adverb! • .....---- _ taw of rim tit _glum I: 07 veroa.l 1411 War - ii I ' ate,' 711 t Old and the .d ~cltlty nhou Wmdntai Lofts. litsmu of i duty to proceedings . to in the letter of the Envoy, the writer proceede)—" Pitt Adams (British Envoy in Peru) has not yet arrived, anal hope that the British government, listening to the *Urn tions of justice and propriety, will ulaapprove and Nail the ntiadoings of that gentleman, notwithstanding his palms and flatterers. Our guano has somewhat fallen in price the market. The competition of that from Africa, &Moult of inferior quality, is the occasion. Ou the coast of Patagonia alone it is said that 300 vessels are loading. With the es rival of Senor Iturregui the value of Peruvian bonds his risen considerably. It is believed that order begins to be re stored in Peru, and 'hat already tak we are thinking of ing steps for the payment of the foreign debt, about which strong reclamation and remonstrances await us." women, rose en • with a hammer, No sooner was shows and his f of the police, 1 who was the and held to b - Fanshawe now to enable him t , mates of the the assault. T questioned the in the matter. • been waited on connected wit pointed out the filth being cue wards interfere . The inmates h from his coudit ,many shillings i discussion, the C missioners of Sc purposes. They entitled to sup. were bound to p put him into the • ME REC Is James Arnold, : lists of voters fur day, in the Cou arrangement, th Mg the lists ; an for the several p fur that purpose Iclaims and obj represented by statement of tho COLONIAL. PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND.—SusstrirrEs FOR THE POTATO.-Mr. A. Gesner has addressed a letter to the secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society of this colony, in which ho states that during his geological reeennoiescuseraf the island, he has embraced every opportunity to seek fee the esculent roots upon which the aborigines subsisted for merly. With the aid of two intelligent Micmac Indians, be has obtained two kinds of farinaceous roots, " as promiiing is their appearance as were the indigenous potatoes at Virginia, carried to Ireland by Sir Walter Raleigh, from which the common kind was derived." Mr. Gutter pros lathes, as soon as his public duties are finished, to prosecute the inquiry. In the meantime, he will forward specimens Of the roots to agricultural societies in England and the neigh bouring provinces ; and he has already engaged several goof farmers in Prince Edward's Island to try experiments with them. His account of the roots is as follows: ``llle Brat roOt.Tra; found at Idog I;la1;c1,I(M14;hinood Ray. It a called by the Indiana mw-ea-ante. When discovered (Aug. 3), the top of the plant bad withered, and no correct opinion could be formed re. peeing its appearance above ground. The bulbs, now perfectly ripe, were found in the hard-wood fe an inch deep in the nod, which is covered by a thin layer of de cayed team( To some bitlbn the dry tops and ligaments were attach The surface where these roots al found is completely shaded ; but the soil is good and the aspect They may be obtained in other parts of Prince Edward's island, bet they are rare, and it was with difficulty that a pint of them could In procured by a whole Indian family. The average size of the bells* that of cherries], but a few are found of much larger thinned. h their appearance they resemblethe common potato, having apparently the peculiar indentanom called eyes. The akin of the bulb in of a rusty brown colour, and the ligament by which each was nourished was fold perfect, although it was dry from tiptoe.. The interior of the balk as very white, and the root, has the Mate and odour of the potato new in use. The Indians state that this vegetable, if kept either in a dry or moist state, will not suffer any decay for a long period. Iley an very &emend*, and contain a large per centage of starch, which remedies that made from wheat ; by being dried the bulb did a little ; bat it immediately expand. on being thrown into warm der. As an article of food it to excellent, and as such is highly esteemed by the Indians, who generally remove every root as soon as the habitat of the 'plant is discovered. It contains much nutrit ye matter, is whadome, and I have no doubt, if properly cultivated, it wM prom to be ptolillc. This plant is very different from a variety of wild arts hake found in the neighbouring provinces ; with it grows a ioag white root called by the aborigines eau-chook, which is employed by them for medicinal purposes. The other kind of wild farinaceous root, which is more pleatifal than the one already noticed, is called by the Indians saisina4m. It was found on several of the islands in Richmond Ray, but meat plentiful at the base of the mad mounds of Flab Island. Its favourite site seems to be along the skirts of the sand-bills that form the deans along the mad, where it is nourished by decomposed see. weed and shells. It occurs in the midst of matted grams and wild tares, and frequently occupies patches of several Nunn rads. The leaf of the saavdadern resembles the leaf of cultivated potato. he stock is like a small vine ; the mots are situated two inches below the surface of the soil, and the bulb., of oval figure, are strung toge th er like beads, being attached to mob other by a s trung ligament. They are of a blackish brown colour, and also resemble potatoes in their general characters, being dry, farinaceous and very nutritive. They are eaten by the Indiana, and have saved zany from starvation at times when, from boisterous weather or other cause, they could not escape from the island.. ; yet they are ma ' dried by them lees palatable than the muspid-rete. The existence sf both varieties and their sites the native* have long endeavoured to keep secret from the white inhabitants, and their preservation on the islands may be earthed to the absence of wild animals at those isolated places, for the racoon, woodchuck, and porcupine detour yes' greedily. The plant is very hardy, and the stock that remains in the ground during the winter, sends up green shoots in the succeeding spring; the decayed tubes are found with ripe bulb.. This vane, wasfound on the 12th day of Attempt, at which time the blowonts bad disappeared, and the need had probably fallen, sthomth the Mlle are not ripe at the date of this communication. I have eaten some of the roots, and found them very dry, mealy, and palatable." !be Conn. The Queen and Prince Albert returned to Osborne house at three o'clock on Monday afternoon from South ampton. COWES, SEPT. 15.—We believe it is now arranged for the Queen end her household to leave Osborne-house for Windsor to-morrow week, which event will be a fertile source of regret to the residents of Cowes and the island generally ; as the condescending manner of her Majesty during her stay here has been the theme of praise and admiration to all who have come beneath her Majesty's notice. Lord John Russell arrived at Osborne-house yester , day afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty . WINDSOR.—Her Majesty the ueen Dowager, ac companied by her Royal Hi ghness the Princess of Prussia, will arrive, upon a visit to her Majesty, either on the after noon of the 22nd, or during the forenoon of the following day. Several other royal and distinguished personages have received invitations to the grand banquet which will be given by the Queen on Wednesday. Her Majesty will also give a grand dinner and evening party on the following day (Thursday). • Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Captain Chappell had also an interview with the right hon. gentleman. The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Lord Chancellor had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-office. Mr. Strutt had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday. Sir William Denison had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Enderby had an interview with the Earl o f Clarendon, at the Board of Trade, yesterday : The Rev. Mr. Forshall had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Excheeper. Dr. Lindley had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey, at the Rome-office. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT. — E. Btrntt, Esq., for Derby, COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday the first Court after the holidays was held. —THE LORD MAYOR'S CONISERVANCT OP THE UPPFE PART OP TEE Tapatias.—Tke report of the Lord Mayor's visit to Oxford and his conservancy trip in the Wesurn district within his jurisdiction was brought up and read. — The following are extracts On Friday morning, the 7th August, the Lord Mayor was joined To To The Reformer. 1114( O. but they had e through wrtien et 16,.. ) wn sod 359 The number of vo and on the bowel list, from deaths with the Reform 100 voted with the It had been pr tone in the liv taken at the Arnold, after c• proceeding fur • d era' company. wf yWshhoi individuals pounds, should last year, on a . lists had been go remarked, woul oohed. About lists. The ove called on, but th court then adjou LONDON P/I ing in aid of hoaxed in 1841 f season, was bd. Threadneedle-s explained the secretary, read the necessity w the numerous di notice, and ap. During the past tickets for dtMbs. 41b loaves of . • 1861, itioTia.Tou Letters having I) teas of Lincoln, list of patrons a the adoption of the uses of than ever sic there WAS eve severe one, the in potato crop. He poser would cons a deserving atoll adding to its fun tion. Other Father with a v in acknowledging of the Inatatuts sure :—it all almoner, and i bounty no badge the children belo bered so as to toged offer a won out of • Mfrs in different juts of the societ certain would thanks was then the proceeding,. ST. PANCRAS day a goecial m:: poor of St. Pane noun, to inqu nagement of th the death of M ess of Thursd warden, was in he Pointed out t lion- Mr. Chu had recen • several bun. vas the fa7t . e of that hot 16 to 30 of el were most fred obaract fort both n ! kt ee rar : :::: : : p . rese 't4 oon k;"Pih i l e t raii l i d w iPe t e e d : alluded to at the Viler mp on app • Lroll• Another ea it I ," °died, rwir" of beds in it of the same dime P ic " and the . ...want (imams rtI P .4 ), the h —one s been o ; 6 0 and nil c_V3 Uolu ulnae A on4.11*1?