The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-08 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP ASIA The Royal Mail Steam-ship Asia, Captain Judkins, rounded the rock at midnight on Saturday, having left New York on the 25th ult., and for the first time steaming direct to Liverpool without the usual call at Ilalifax. She has made the passage in ten days and seven hours, allowing for difference of time, being more than five hours • I t' F -in her I ne run it less than was occupied by ae Europa i. _ June last, and about eight hours less than the America occupied in her last homeward trip. Allowing, however, for the Europa's detention at Halifax, the latter vessel has made the quickest passage ; but the Asia's run out is still the most rapid on record, and her homeward voyage is shorter than the quickest achieved by any of the American line. The Asia ran one day 311 miles. She brought eighty- six passengers, and £51.500 in specie. The steam-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, arrived out at New York at 6.45 p.m., on Saturday, the 21st ult. She left Liverpool at 2 p.m., or. the 11th. and made the passage, therefore, in exactly 10 days 9 hours and 25 minutes, being rather more than the Asia's calcu lated performance. The Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Stone, was spoken by the Asia about 15 hours sail from New York. She would arrive shortly before midnight on the 26th, completing her run in 12 days 17 hours. 'lle United States Mail steam-ship Phila delphia had arrived at New York with mails from Chagres to the 9th, and Jamaica 13th ult., and about £200,000 sterling on freight. The United States Mail steamer Ohio bad also arrived at New York with Havana mails of the 18th ult. ' and £lOO,OOO specie on freight , transhipped from the Falcon, arrived from Chagres. In Congress the bill to snppress the slave trade in the district of Columbia had been voted on its final passage by a majority of 33 to 19 in the Senate, and of 124 to 47 in the House. This completes the series of measures proposed by Mr. Clay in the Compromise Bill for the settlement of the slavery question. A bill has also passed the House prohibiting the lash in the naval service of the United States, and abolishing the use of ardent spirits except in the cabin. The House of Representatives had passed a bill au thorising the Secretary of the Treasury to permit vessels from British North American provinces to load and un load in ports of the United States, provided similar privileges be returned. There had been numerous arrivals at Cuba from Spain, including Lieutenant-General Don Manuel Guna and Don Juan Pavia, Governor of Mantanzas, with other officers of the Spanish army. Orders have been issued for the formation of four battalions of infantry of one thousand men each, which, with four squadrons of cavalry, with a brigade of artillery, and a company of Sappers, were immediately to be added to the force detailed for the protection of Cuba. This would form an army of 18,000 men. The town of Cardenas had suffered from a fire which destroyed several buildings and threat ened to consume the whole city. The efforts of the mili tary, in addition to the labours of the citizens and autho- Titles, were necessary to put a stop to the conflagration. The authorities subject all the foreigners who arrive at the island to a rigid examination. Military_ discipline was enforced v r;fa. - • eat rigour the mill' teing regu drilled, guards stationed every night on the wharfs ot Car denas, and the most vigilant precautions taken to prevent surprise. The Cuban prisoners had been sentenced to seven years' transportation. Rumours were afloat of another contemplated attack on Cuba, the first descent to be made on Hayti for the purpose of overthrowing Faustin I. It was said that a long correspondence had taken place between Mr. Webster and the Spanish minister on the subject. The treaty between St. Domingo and Great Britain had been signed. It was to endure for ten years, and permits the right of search for the prevention of the slave trade. Dominican vessels suspected of being engaged in human traffic were to be delivered up to the local authorities, and judged according to the laws of the republic. MORE ABOUT JENNY LIND The excitement in New York caused by Jenny Lind's concerts appears, if possible, to be on the increase. Her third, fourth, fifth, and sixth concerts were attended by 8000 persons on each occasion, and her triumphs were complete. The New York Herald gives the following re port of the attendance at the last concert : On Friday evening, the Swedish Nightingale gave her sixth, and, for the present, her last concert in Castle Garden. The numbers were decidedly greater than on any former occasion, and the enthusiasm and excitement partook almost of the cha racter of madness. • There were upwards of nine thousand hu man beings, who seemed to be all carried away captive, as ab solutely as if it were by the wand of an enchantress, or the strains of a siren.. There was not a standing spot in the bui!d ing, that was not covered with human beings. The stairs, awl even the passages leading to the stairs, were densely filled, Yet the programme was the same as on Saturday evening. For the first time, the holders of promenade tickets did not get a seat, for the simple reason that there was not one in the building long before the concert commenced. Nor was it the inside of the building alone that had listeners of Jenny Lind. There was a steam-boat lying outside, filled with people, who paid fifty cents each, and the waters all round were blark•with small boats, a seat in which cost two shillings. From the closeness of the weather, and the density of the people, the atmosphere within the building was very oppressive—far more so than on any former occasion. Strong men had to quit the garden, and women, in great numbers, were compelled to leave in a fainting state, their dresses dripping with perspiration. Had the building not been surrounded by the sea air, it would have been intolerable. The people—the middle classes- were there in all their majesty ; but not the upper ton. It is a cu rious fact that the up-town aristocracy, who would monopolise every refined pleasure if they could, have not yet patronised Jenny Lind. 'rhey Lind that the high prices have not made her concerts exclusive, and they appear to be dissatisfied. On each occasion she is described as singing "with even more than her usual inspiration, and being received with a warmer and heartier greeting." Her singing of the " Herdsman's song" seems to have electrified our Yankee friends. She was bailed with multitudes of en cores, and " bushels" of bouquets were showered upon her. She is still surrounded by a mob whenever she is recog nised in the streets, and all the inhabitants seem to vie with each other as to who can show her the most attention. During the week the songstress has visited several steamers and newspaper offices, and, of course, expressed herself "surprised and delighted" with everything she saw, especially with the printing establishments, the wonders of which the Nightingale is described as examining with much precision. On Saturday morning she received the Hutchinson Family, who were desirous of calling upon her before their departure for the West. She received them with cor diality, and expressed a wish to hear some of their songs. Whereupon, the brothers and sisters drew together in a -group so familiar to all, and sang The Cot where we were Born." After this, they sang an original " Welcome to Jenny Lind !" the words of which were written by Jesse Hutchinson, jun. It was a simple and genial expression of feeling, and sung with touching and appro priate expression. Madlle. Lind, who sat with downcast eyes during the song, at the close expressed her acknow ledgement of the graceful compliment, and the family withdrew, evidently highly gratified with her frank and cordial bearing, as simple and unaffected as their own. On Wednesday Maxine. Lind was to leave for Boston. She has presented to the proprietor of the Irving House, where she first resided, a splendid diamond pin. Sae re moved to more retired quarters. The Boston Times of the 23d ult. says,— " Already we hear that a distinguished dealer in periodicals, a gentleman au fait in matters of the stage, has announced his intention to pay five hundred dollars for the first ticket ; also, the proprietor of a weekly newspaper, and a celebrated hatter, are prepared to 'go their deaths' for the first ticket. The competition for tickets will be lively, even after the first one is sold, as Jenny will not sing at any other place in New England. Already orders have been received from leading members of the aristoc..acy of other cities. The sale of tickets will take place in the Triennial Temple on Wednesday morning, and Colonel N. A. Thompson 'will have the honour' to knock them down. Jenny will arrive by the Fall River cars. At noon she will receive a number of callers, among them Mayor Biglow. Her apartments are at the Revere. Altogether we are inclined to the belief that Jenny will receive a greater reception in Boston than in New York." We conclude with the following furnished by a corres pondent of the New York Herald:— "Your information, which I perceive was exclusive in refe rence to the soirée given by the Mayor to Jenny Lind, is cor rect, as far as it goes ; but you have not published the dialogue in detail between the Nightingale and the Mayor. It is as fol lows :—Mayor Woodhall ( advancing to the Nightingale with faltering step and long face)—As Mayor of the city, I have asked you here in personal respect, and in order to introduce -you to American ladies. Your society has delighted us this evening. ( Mademoiselle Lind bows.) I know that, under or dinary circumstances, it would not be right to ask the addi tional favour lam about to ask from you. Indeed, I feel that it is scarcely right, under any circumstances, to ask it. But if you have no objection, I hope you will grant it. When we want to bear you sing, we go to Castle Garden, and we do not now desire that you should sing any of your great songs, but if you would just givens a taste of any little melody, in order that we may have the pleasure of hearing the quality of your voice in a private room, you will confer obligation on us all. " At the conclusion of this speech, uttered in the most insi mating manner imaginable, Mademoiselle Jenny Lind, who listened very quietly all the time, then drew herself up to the 'height of her dignity, and said,—' I would be most happy to sing for you, and I would perhaps be offended if you had not asked me; but I have made a contract with Mr. Barnum which prohibits me, and you know, as he is a man of business, that I must toe the mark as a woman of business in America.' " The Mayor turned away rather abashed, observing that he knew it was not right to ask her. " Glory to you, Jenny !' said I, sotto voce; and I though* Of the story of Mrs. Wood, who, when in this country some years ago, was asked to sing under similar circumstances, and at first declined, but afterwards, on being informed by the lady kf the house that it was for this reason she was invited, cheer fully sang all the evening. Next morning Mr. Wood sent in a bill for 1,000 dollars ? which was paid. Had Jenny Lind sung for the .acnt a far Malayo r rger bill than and his frie thandst. , " I suspect Ba rnum woul d have CALIFORNIA. The steamer Philadelphia has arrived at New York, bringing dates from California to the 15th August, and 41,500,000 worth of gold dust, with a large amount of gold in specimens of heavy lumps of the prec ious metal. The Ohio U.S. mail steam-ship from Havana, with the California mails, had brought half a million dollars of gold dust, on freight and in the hands of passengers. The New York Herald for Europe says, with respect to the yield of the California mines thus far : " It is estimated that California has sent into the world, during the past two years, full one hundred and fifty millions of dollars worth of gold dust, which has been distributed as follows: PRODUCTION OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA TO AUG. 1850. Shipped to the United States 830,000,000 Taken to Oregon, by miners 10,000,000 Taken to Mexico, by miners 20,000,000 ' Taken to England, through Mexico 15,000,000 Taken to England, via Panama 20,000,000 Shipped to South America 25,000,000 Shipped to Sandwich Islands 5,000 000 Shipped - direct to Ragland, via Cape Horn 10,000,000 Shipped to other parts of the world 15,000,000 Total 5150,000,000 " It will be seen by this that but a small portion of the pro: duct, up to this time, has reached the United States. A pot*• countries." tion of that taken to Oregon will, in time, reach this part of the country; but most of the shipments to Mexico and South America will ultimately reach England. The large capitalists of London have made great efforts to get hold of all the California gold dust possible, for the purpose, in the first place, of making money by the operation ; in the second place, to avail themselves of the law comvelling the Bank of England to pay a certain price for the metal; and in the third place to accumulate in England an enormous amount of gold, for the purpose of securing that ascendancy which she has so long enjoyed in the financial world. The Rothschilds have been the most prominent operators in this business, and they 'ht ^ rich - vest. Wit' , "vents in nave, n_ dom. reaped a__ every port on the Pacific, they have had facilities enjoyed by no other house. If the production of gold in California continues at the rate already realised, the Bank of England will be com pelled to apply to Parliament for a repeal of the law referred to, as the value of gold must undergo a material reduction, and its position as a circulating medium changed. Sooner or later this must be the result of such an increase in the supply; but as there is such an immense field for the employment of money in this country, it is our impression that the value of gold will, for a long time, be higher here than anywhere else, and that we shall draw within our limits an immense amount from other In the meantime, the social condition of California gets worse and worse. A kind of civil war has arisen between the parties possessing land in California, by grants from the Republic, and what the American journals call " squatters." Blood has been shed ; and at the date of the last arrivals it seemed probable that a desperate con test would ensue. The following is the report given in the Herald: "The outbreak commenced on Wednesday, August 14, when an aimed body of about sixty of the squatters were proceeding to the prison ship to release - two of tlieir party who - were con: fined on board. They were confronted by Major Bigelow and members of the Corporation. An affray soon commenced, and the city was aroused to arms. Major Bigelow was shot in three places, and died in fifteen minutes after. J. W. Wood land, City Assessor, was shot dead, and several other citizens were killed and wounded. Dr. Robinson and a man named Mahloney, two leaders of the squatters, were shot dead, as were several others of the party. The squatters force soon swelled, from the sixty first engaged - in the affray, to a body of armed men, numbering between seven and eight hundred. The keepers of gaming houses and sporting men generally sided with the real estate•owners, or citizens proper. A tremedous force was fast accumulating. The steamer McKim was despatched to Benicia, and the Senator to San Francisco, for arms, and men to use them. Just as the steamer Carolina was getting under weigh (about 4 P. M.) a despatch was received on board from the Pacific News office, stating that an express bad just arrived bringing the intelligence that Sacramento City had been reduced to ashes, and the squatters were receiving reinforcements of men from the mines. This intelligence, however, needs confirma tion." The news from the mines continue 3 to be of the most encouraging character, several lumps of from 10Ib to 40th of gold being found. • Fever was prevailing, to a limited extent, at Chagres; but it was expected that by the ►riddle or the latter end of October it would entirely disappear. A failure had oc. curred in Sacramento city, in which Mr. Barton Lea had stopped payment, owing g 1.400,000, which sum it was expected would be ultimately met. There had been in consequence a run on the Sacramento banks, which had been sustained. The markets for produce and manufactured goods are reported as being, on the whole, very fair. The corre spondent of the Herald remarks : considered good great animation, the stock being peculative demand large lots of bulky articles are forced on the market, consider ab'e concession has to be made. Considerable difficulties arise between the shippers and consignees of goods. It should always be inserted in hills of lading, to be taken in 10, 15, or 20 days, as the case may be, with this clause :—` Provided the ship is ready to discharge them ; also, that the ship should commence discharging them as soon as practicable.' Much injury is also sustained by the sweat of vessels. We beg leave to suggest that all vessels should be well ventilated passing through the tropics." Money was at 5 to 6 per cent per month. Gold dust was worth $l6 to 4316.25. WEST INDIA MAIL, The Trent arrived at Southampton on Saturday, with dates from Jamaica to Sep. 13. The rains in Jamaica continued. In St. Andrew's the lightning had done some damage. The heat was intolerable. There was a mis understanding between the local authorities and' Sir Charles Grey, because the latter refused to pay the legal tax on his income. Ground provisions were most abund ant. It was stated in a St. Lucia paper that the Emperor of Hayti had been assassinated by his prime minister. The Trent brings 241,365 dollars, of which 30,067 are for Mexican dividends. BROTHERIX LOVE.—Two brothers, one a soldier in the 26th Regiment of the. Line ,, were found last week lying at the bottom of the wall of the fortifications of Arras. The soldier still breathed, but soon after expired ; the other was dead. It appears that for a•length of time the two brothers detested each other, , and at last, when excited by drink, agreed to go on to the ramparts, and struggle with each other until one pushed the other over into the depth below. This they did, •whilst a third man held their caps. The result was that both fell into the ditch, the one dragging the other after him. TERRIFIC ACCIDENT.—Advices, of the 21st ult., from Spain, relate that a dreadful accident had occurred to the diligence from Barcdona to Valencia. It had fallen over a precipice between Oronesa and Benicasin, and, with the ten passengers, and two civil guards, the mayoral, postil lion, and zagal, and six horses, was precipitated from an immense height, the passengers, no doubt, perishing in their descent, and the vehicle being completely knocked to pieces among the rocks. The bodies of the victims were carried out to sea by the mountain torrent which dashed down the cavity into which they fell ; but six of them were washed back again, aid thrown on the coast and the bodies of five of the horses, with a fragment of the coach, and the mail-bags, were washed on shore on the 16th, at the Grao, or port of Castellon de la Plana. D. P. V. Arguelles, governor of Castillon, has ordered a solemn funeral service to be performed on the lith, in the principal church of that place, for the victims of this catastrophe, into the cause of which judicial inquiries had commenced. DREADFUL DEATH OF A FATHER AND SON.—On Fri day, a man named Potter, and his son, eight years old, belonging to Topsfield, while on a gunning excursion, came to their deaths in the following horrible manner. It is supposed that they, during their excursion, tried to cross the Ipswich marshes, the father with his son upon his back, but that the weight of the two sank the father into the mud so that it was impossible for him to extricate himself. From appearances, the son, after the father was thus fixed fast, went some distance further, probably to get assistance to extricate him, when he also sank in the same manner in the treacherous bog. While they were in this helpless position the tide began to rise, and they were both drowned. Their deaths were not known until they were both missed from home, when a search was made, and their horse and waggon found where they had left them. A further search brought to light the dead bodies of the father and son in the places were they had sunk into tne mud, which held them fast while the waters overwhelmed them.—Boston (American) Traveller. THE REFRACTORY ROMISH PRELATES—M. Fran zoni, the Archbishop of Turin, has been sentenced by the High Court of Appeal to banishment from the Sardinian territory, and the revenues of the see have been placed temporarily under sequestration until the vacant office is filled up. Immediately the sentence was pronounced one of the magistrates of the court left Turin for Fenestrella, the fortress where the" trehbishop was confined, to inform him of the judgment pronounced by the court of appeal, and to give him the choice of the country to which he should desire to retire. It is reported that the archbishop has expressed his intention of proceeding to France. The Archbishop of Cagliari having issued a bull of excommu nication against the authorities, a council of magistrates wh e ig I Was convoked on t 1 21st, ..ne they issued a decree that if the archbishop did not within four-and-twenty hours retract in his own handwriting the excommunication he had issued, he should be banished the state, and the reve nues of the diocese be administered by the proper autho rities. This decree was notified to the archbishop on the evening of the same day, but he refused to give the re quired retraction. In the night of the 23rd a body of carbineers escorted him on board the royal steamer In cusa, which left on the morning of the 24th for Civita Vecchia. THE NEPAULESE AMBASSADOR AND LOLA MONTES. —The Erivement treats its readers with the following : " Before quitting Paris the Nepaulese ambassador sent to the celebrated Lola Montes a magnificent robe of cloth of gold. Lola Montes is the only woman in France or in England with whom the Prince Jung Bahadour could con verse in the language of his country, and the charm which he found in the conversation was very great. There was for a time a question of the departure of the Countese de Lansfeldt for Nepaul : but, after a war of three years with England, Jung Bahadour signed, in the name of the Sul tan, his cousin, a treaty with Great Britain, by which it is prohibited to any European to enter the empire of Nepaul under any pretext. Even English subjects are not exempt from this clause, which the Indian prince deeply regrets; for, but for that, he would have taken with him two hun dred persons to spread in his country the intelligence and civilisation of Europe. The English government is said to have dreaded that Lola Montes would have in Nepaul the success which she had in Bavaria, and the two English captains must have made some observations which prove that the Nepaul treaty was made alike for men and women, for Lola Montes remains in Paris to plead at law against a fickle, if he is not an unfaithful, husband." This paragraph, says Calignani, is what the French call familiarly a canard. The Nepaulese ambassador, if it should be translated to him before he quits France, will be equally amused and astonished to learn that he made a present to the Countess of •Lansfeldt, in Paris, and conversed with her in his own language. We believe that the countess has not been seen in Paris for more than a month. THE PRINCE OF THIEVES.—The discovery of the most perfectly organized band of brigands which has flourished since the days of Maudrin and Cartouche has furnished us with plenty of anecdote during the week ; the very elegant, well-dressed, well-spoken, moustachioed young gentleman who was the -acknowledged chief of the band being well known amongst the higher circles, where, until very lately, he shone as one of the most seductive lions of the day. Several most awkward, uncomfortable stories have already cum,. t. ~,,,ornirict rho ladies whose trophies in various shapes have been found among the hoards brought to light by the vigilance of the police. The journal which he kept of his adventures promises to furnish much amusement to the scandalmongers for a long time to come. One story; which he tells himself, is int:resting to us in a greater degree, perhaps, than any other, from the fair heroine being an English lady, well known in the circ'e of the Tuilleries during the reign of Louis Philippe. Every item is set down in the journal with dates and names in full Jan. 4th. Went to pay my accustomed visit to Madame de S—. Found her vapourish and sentimental as usual. Of course, displayed my accustomed aptitude in the art of exhibiting the par fait amour, by dint of which obtained from Madame de S—, under pretence of showing me the portrait of her husband now in England on business, a sight of her jew els and other valuable objects, which she keeps in the second drawer of the secretaire, to the left of the fireplace in her boudoir. While her handkerchief was to her eyes as, overcome by the delicacy of my sentiments, she wept, I contrived to obtain the impression of the keyhole in the wax I always carried in my pocket. Jan. 9th. Went earlier than usual to Madame de S— ; told her of the very suspicions-looking personage I had met coming out of her apartment, and asked her, with great interest, if she could rely upon the honesty of her servants. Jan. 10th. Went to Madame de 5 the moment her kind and tender summons reached me. Found her in hyste rics, all her jewels gone ! Diamonds to the value of four thousand pounds carried off ! How wonderful ! had never been to the secretaire since she had shown them to me ! Bade me hurry to the police, called me her only friend and supporter under this dreadful calamity. Did my best to comfort her, but, according to the report made bk Crochu last night, she overrates the value of the jewels in so impudent a manner that I can hardly refrain from breaking out into reproaches. It is I who have been robbed and swindled !" This specimen of the journal of the " Baron des Ardennes," as he has called himself, will give some idea of the rest. Many a fair lady at this moment finds herself recalling her souvenirs with doubt and perplexity, and Carlier has already de clared that he cannot go amongst his friends without being absolutely abashed by the inquisitive glances di rected towards him.—Paris Correspondent. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. This meeting commenced on Tuesday last end closed on Thursday. The following are the chief races :—On Tues day the Grand Duke Michael Stakes were won by Har dinge ; Tomboy, 2 ; Mooltan, 3 ; Preslaw, 4; and Utrecht, 5. Utrecht, with Tomboy in waiting, made the running to the bushes, where the latter took it up, Hvxdinge and Mooltan following him. These two ran together in ad vance until half way up the cords, where Hardinge chal lenged, and won on the post by a head. Mooltan a good third. Run in 1 min. 19 sec. The third Triennial Stakes were won by Hermandez ; Merry Peal, 2; Payment, 3. Prestige took the lead at starting, followed by Antigone and Scandal, the favourite waiting on them in company with Merry Peal, Payment, Aaron Smith, and one or two others. No material change took place till they got to the dip, where the favourite and Merry Peal went in advance, the former leading and winning by a length ; the same be tween Merry Peal and Payment ; Prestige fourth. Run in min. 14 sec. On Wednesday, for the Second Triennial Stakes, (second year,) two started, Clelia and Compass. They were won by the former by a length. The St. Ledger Stakes were won by Nutshell, beating Garforth by half a length. On Thursday, the First Triennial Produce Stakes (third year) were won by Landgrave ; Elthiron 2. Vatican, Herbert, Letitia, and Fire-eater aso ran. Bet ting : 6 t 8 5 agst Vatican, 5 to 2 agst Elthiron, 4 to 1 agst Landgrave, and 10 to 1 agst Herbert. Letitia took a strong lead at starting, followed by Elthiron and Her bert, Landgrave lying in the rear with Vatican. Except that Fire-eater dropped astern at the bushes, there was no change until near the Duke's Stand, where Elthiron took up the running, attended by Vatican, Landgrave waiting on the latter. On reaching the cords Landgrave went up, headed Elthiron, and won cleverly by a length, Elthiron beating Vatican by three lengths. Run in 3 min. 55 sec. The Queen's Plate was won by half a length by St. Rosalie; Little Jack 2. Zadoc, Van Dieman, and Goodwood, also ran. Betting: 6to 4 agst St. Rosalia, 7 to 4 Little Jack, 5 to 1 agst Zadoc, and Bto 1 agst Van Diemen. The Rutland Stakes were won by Buckhound, beating Merry Peal, Artizan, Beau fort, and Phlegethon. Betting : sto '4 on Merry Peal, and 3to 1 agst Buckhound. Artizan, Merry Peal, and Beaufort lay together in front until within a distance of home ; Merry Peal and Buckhound then singled them selves out and raced lame together, Buckhound winning in the last stride by a head. Run in 1 min. 23 sec. CESAREWITCHSTAKE.—The Emperor of Russia having withdrawn the £3OO formerly granted, the sum is now given by the Jockey Club. The nomination fees, how ever,' more than cover the amount. The Emperor's Plate has•not been discontinued. TEE LATE ST. LEGER RACE.—It is singular that the only horses which ran dead heats for the St. Leger, and won afterwards, should be sons of 'Voltaire. It is also remarkable that Russborough should ,Yie a grandson cl Voltaire—Tearaway, the sire of Russborough, being by Voltaire, out of Taglioni, by Whisker. I'be objection to Russborough after the dead heat with Volt igeur, on the score of age, is deemed a compliment to the Ii dish, it being supposed that no three-year-old could have effected so much in competition with the Derby winner. IRELAND. The Very Bev. Thomas Townsend, Dean of Waterford, has been elevated to the see of Meath. A numerous meeting of the tenants of ,the Marquis of Waterford has been held to denounce the conduct of the party who forwarded a Rockite notice to his lordship. Dr. Gray, proprietor of the Freeman's Journal, and his brother, Mr. Wilson Gray, have seceded from the Irish Tenant League, on the ground of the dangerous responsi bility which arises from the system of organisation now finally adopted by the League. Cork and Galway are carrying on a little bye battle for the prize that is assumed to be intended for the worthier harbour as a Government packet station. Cork sneers at Galway. while Galway retorts that Wicklow would be just as good a harbour for the purpose as Cork. _ Lord Dungannon has aisc . overed that John Gilmore, who holds under him 54 acres in Downshire, at lls. 9d., the Irish acre, has been sub-letting 10 acres to Peter M'Cormick at 465. 4d., and all the while, complaining of tyranny and oppression. The county Antrim estates of the Earl of Mountcashell will be set up for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court on the Bth of November next. The income is abont £12,000 a-year, and the encumbrances nearly £300,000. Lord Mountcashell is himself the petitioner, and it is ex pected that the produce of the sale will go far towards enabling his lordship to hold his extensive Munster es tates free from debt. MEETINGS.—TEN ANT-RIGHT.--We present our readers with as extended a report of the above meetings as our space will allow. The numerous attendance, the enthu siasm displayed at them, and. above all, the business-like manner in which they have gone to work, to carry out the plans of the League, afford the brightest omens of good results to follow. The presence of Mr. Sergeant Shea, one of the most eminent members of the English bar, and a man of large landed property in the county. of Kilkenny, in the chair at the meeting of that county, is a circum stance of no ordinary moment. He is not the man to commit himself to an illegal or " Communistic" move ment."—Derry Standard. BIBLE-BURNING BY A PRIEST IN CLEGGAN.—Far in the west lives a somewhat noted priest—W. Flanelly by name - -P.P. of Ballinakill, in Connemara's wilds. Last winter this worthy son of the pope was summoned to a poor widow's death-bed side. She felt her end draw nigh. and sought the absolving hand of her church's anointing priest. The heroic Flanelly_ came and sought with eager glance - for heresy's fell trace ; he rested not until he fixed his basilisk gaze upon an English Bible and an Irish Testament ; with clutch triumphant he cast them in the fire, manfully to burn down heresy ! The widow's daughter sought to save them after the priest went out ; but he returned, and taking the remnants cast them into the sink, and vigorously trampled them'beneath his feet. Those remnants, burnt and befouled, were gathered up, and are now preserved as a standing memorial of priestly and popish detestation of the sacred word of the living God.—Dublin Herald. WANTON ATTACK ON A CONGREGATION AT CHURCH. —A correspondent of the Kerry Post states that on Sun day, the 22d ultimo, during Divine Service at Templenoe Church, within five miles of Kenmare, and shortly after Mr. Rogers, the clergyman, bad ascended the pulpit, a most furious and unprovoked attack was made on the church, the rattling of stones being heard on the roof, and the most savage yells rending the air without. On passing to the school-house, which is some hundred yards from the church, and in the direction of the chapel, the mob gathered with redoubled fury and more savage cries. It was the usual monthly examination of the Sunday school, and Mr. Rogers and some of his flock (among whom was Mrs. Mahony and others of her family) went into the school-house, in the direction of which the rabble were fast collecting. The Rev. Dennis Mahony, calcu lating on his influence with the peasantry, inconsiderately went among them to advise them to disperse; and while be was in the act of doing so, received a severe kick from one of the ruffians in the crowd, from the effects of which he has since suffered severely. Several other blows were inflicted ; nor was Mr. M. the only member of the family that suffered from the dastardly attack of these hounded fiends. But their fury rose still higher; and the object of their vengeance was the school-house, which they now encircled. Mr. Rogers was within quietly examining his pupils when the yells of the savages without soon rendered all hearing impossible. Notwithstanding all the storm, the school was closed with the usual singing and prayer, and (strange to relate) when Mr Rogers appeared out side all was comparatively calm. There was not far dis'. tant a public-house to which they occasionally repaired, and from the vicinity of which John O'Sullivan, the parish priest, at last emerged, and harangued the mob in osten sibly soothing terms, telling them to despise, as he did, the proselytising soupers, for that he would soon put an end to them. ALUMNI OF T.C.D.—The Most Reverend Michael Slattery did, as Mr. John R. Corballis truly intimates, receive his academic education in Trinity College, Dublin, whereof he is a Bachelor of Arts ; having done homage on his two knees to a Protestant Archbishop for that degree. He was fed find lodged gratuitously by the foundation of Queen Elizabeth, during the four years of his undergraduate course; for, his " Grace" was a Sizar, and, if we are rightly informed, studied in the same class with the Bishop of Cashel. He was indoCtrinated in astronomy by the late Archbishop Magee, who held " heretical" opinions upon that and other subjects. The late Bishop Elrington taught him Natural Philosophy and the Laws of Motion, whereby he might have learned that no body can be in more than one place at one time. He imbibed true notions of optics from Dr. Stack, who, —if eye-sight had anything to do with the matter—could have shOwn him some light on certain practical questions of 'Ph.olagy. He ptchea up nearnen Greek he knows from the Rev. Dr. Graves ; and Dr. Miller, late of Armagh, was his tutor in History. Now, is the Most Rev. Michael Slattery any whit a worse papist for all this ? Have the innumerable legs of mutton that ho masticated, at the expense of our Alma Mater, shaken his affiance in the Pope, as the source and centre of every good gift, upon earth and above it ? Is he not still a potent believer in all that his church holds to be essential and indispensable for his soul's health ? Is he less of a " good hater," so far as regards' Protestant Institutions; than if he had never eaten commons off the same trencher; with Toby Burke. or chopped logic in one division with the present Bishop of Cashel? It would be an insult to the Most Reverend Michael, and we are sure he would take it as such, to resolve any of these questions to the prejudice of his orthodoxy. Why, then, does he require the Pope to re-enact those Penal Laws, by which the subjects of his Holiness, or of his predecessors, were once excluded from the Irish University ?—Dublin Mail. O'CONNELL'S GRAVE.—NO monument is raised to the memory of the great " liberator" over his remains at Glasnevin Cemetery, near Dublin. A gentleman who has recently visited the spot thus describes what he saw. " Neither age, name, when or where he died, is to be seen. The coffin rested on tressles, over which was an iron sheet, erected to prevent the water oozing through the earth dropping on the coffin. The coffin is covered with silk velvet, originally said to be puce colour, with gold ornaments and handles. At the foot of the coffin rested a handsome wreath of silver and gold flowers, with an inscription indicating it, for " Ireland's best of pa triots." The doorway was barred with iron, and the wreath, from its position, seemed to have been thrown on the coffin through the bars. Whoever the party was that offered it at the shrine, it possessed a melancholy interest, for it was the only relic visible from a people who at one time acknowledged no other sway but O'Connell's. The following colloquy passed between the party and guide : " Is this the spot where the national monument is to be erected ?" "No ; there is other ground set apart for that." " You can't tell when the monument will be erected ?" " Indeed I can't." "Is it intended that the coffin shall remain here ?" " I should say so !" was the reply. "Is it possible that his relatives or friends would not be permitted to remove the coffin ?" The guide shook his head and replied in the negative. This answer so as tonished the party that they inquired the reason, when the guide replied—" The fact is, gentlemen, there is a deal of money due on the coffin !" He was pressed to explain, when he stated—" That it was the Committee of Glasnevin burial place that went to the expense of bring. ing over the coffin from Genoa. Now until that money is paid the coffin will not be allowed away !" Having thanked the guide for his attention, who for his class in life was shrewd and intelligent, the party got on the car and proceeded to Merrion-square, to see the residence oc cupied during his lifetime by him whose coffin was just seen. The house looked gloomy and desolate, amidst the stir and bustle that surrounded it. Large printed bills on the windows announced—" To be let P It may be here stated that the £350, which had been subscribed in Cork towards the erection of a national monument to O'Connell, has been diverted from its original purpose, and expended in the purchase of a stained glass window, which has been put up in Father Matthew's new chapel in that city. COAIMERCIAI The Flour market has been very quiet since the rather large operations reported in our last : the speculative demand hav ing almost ceased, the last arrivals amounting to 1,700 barrels still remain on the importers' hands. The operations in Bread Stuffs generally have been very limited : indeed, we have scarcely anything new to report, with the exception of a few sales of Wattson's bread. Meal is in very small request. Much rain continues to fall throughoht the island, and the canes look promising. It is highly probable that from the Will soon be brought to market.' In some parishes on the north side they are so plentiful that yams &c., are being sold at as low a rate as 3s. 6d. per cwt. Kingston, however, and the parishes adjacent, are not so well supplied as to injure the de mand for imported breadstuffs ; but they are likely to be so in the course of a few weeks. INDIA THE OVERLAND MAIL. We have received letters and papers in anticipation of the Overland Mail. The dates of the intelligence brought by this arrival are—Bombay, Au'ust 31; and Alexandria, September 23. British India is profoundly tranquil ; and even Peshawur has become as quiet and safe as the average of Indian stations. A new pass is being surveyed to Kohat, which, if found practicable for guns, will, it is stated, render our communications with that post independent of the Affreedies. Lord Dalhousie is still enjoying himself at Chenee, a mountain village situated amongst the Hima- layas, about 120 miles north-west of Simla. - Sir C. Napier is expected to arrive at Bombay in November (vid the Punjab and Scincie), on his way to Europe. Civil war still rages in the Nizam's territories with varying fortune. The defeat of the Nawaub of Elichpoor, reported by last mail, was not so decisive as was at first anticipated. By the last accounts the Nawaub had rallied his forces, and on the 9th of August gained a considerable victory over the Nizam's troops. The inhabitants of the country are fighting for the Nawaub, who appears very popular. The Nizam's household troops have again mutinied, on ac count of their long arrears of pay. His Highness is, it is said, resorting to the most discreditable means for raising money, by debasing his coinage and selling immunity for crime to rich offenders. The rainy season has been generally in Western India an average one, but with some local exceptions. At Bom bay little more than half the usual average has fallen. Lord Falkland is recovering from a severe attack of fever. Sir Willoughby Cotton has also been suffering from indisposition. _ _ The Bombay business season has opened promisingly ; the price of cotton wool has risen 12r. or 14r. per candy, but very little now remains in the market. Business is just beginning to be resumed at the presi dency on the conclusion of the rains; commercial pros pects seem cheering. The Calcutta trade returns for 1849-50, just published, show an increase of one-seventh on the imports and one-ninth on the exports of the pre'- vious year. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.-The Holsteiners, on the morning of the 29th, made an attack on Frederich stadt. At Suderstapel and both banks of the Eyder an irregular cannonade continued throughout the day. At five in the afternoon part of the town had been set on fire. but up till ten at night had not been taken. Tonning was occupied by the Holsteiners, who had made 217 prison ers. The King of Denmark bad left Copenhagen for Hamburgh. The Kolner Zeitung, of Wednesday, has a telegraphic despatch from Hamburgh of the 30th ultimo, stating that the Schleswig-Holsteiners had attacked and carried with the bayonet two of the entrenchments of Frederichstadt. They took 14 pieces of artillery. It is also stated that Frederichstadt is now surrounded on all sides. A despatch dated Altona, October 2, has the fol lowing :—Yesterday, at 7, a.m., the Schleswig batteries re-opened their fire on Fredrickstadt. At 11 o'clock the attack was suspended, as a messenger bearing a flag of truce came to Col. Von der Tann asking permission for the garrison to withdraw to the north. The Danes being unwilling to leave their cannon and arms as required, the fire recommenced at 1 a.m. The Danish guns reply but feebly to those of the assailants. The sound of firing, as if to the north-east of Fredrickstadt was heard at Kiel, on the afternoon of the Ist. It was thought probable that a general engagement was commencing. Tonningen and Garding having been again taken by the Danes, were re captured by the Holsteiners on the Ist. After four years' labour, the great tunnel through Mount Carioso, on the Florence and Leghorn Railway, has just been completed. Oporto letters of the 29th ultimo state that the wine crops were being gathered with safety, and the vintage is now expected to be a good one. M. Poitevin, the well-known aeronaut, ascended on Wednesday mounted on a live ostrich ! What will bal looning end in ? The - Queen of the Belgians is too ill to be removed from Ostend to Brussels, and great sympathy is felt for one who is so universally respected. CASSEL, OCT. 2.—The permanent committee having protested strongly against the ordinance of Sept. 28, have indicted the ministers on account of its issue, and demand their immediate imprisonment. The Holstein correspondent of the Times says that during the late action between the Danes and Holsteiners, at Missunde, while he was watching the Danish batteries, a Jew pedlar was on the hill, with companions, offering spy-glasses for sale, " dead bargains." _ The Pope's Government has contracted with a ship builder at Havre for the construction of a steam-frigate. This is the wisest thing Pius IX. has yet done. There is no telling how soon—unless the "Chair of St. Peter" is to be upheld for ever by French bayonets—" his holiness" may have occasion to ' cut his stick." In such an event, it will be mighty convenient to have a steam-frigate all his own, to make his escape in. Advices from the Sandwich Islands reach to the 22nd of June, and describe in the highest terms their rapidly increasing prosperity. Liability to desertion continues to cause the visits of whaling ships to be less frequent, but the extraordinary growth of a more permanent commerce in connexion with California, and indirectly with Austria, New Zealand, Calcutta, China, and the Indian seas, ren dered this of no account. A terrible accident occurred on Saturday night last in a small village called Weiss, not far from Grez, whereby a great number of lives were lost. The village in question which is also called "'Saviour of the Meaddw," is a favourite place'of pilgrimage at this time of the year, and was more than ordinarily full on the dmr in question. The weary pilgrims had all retired to rest; and were sound asleep, when suddenly fire broke out behind a hayloft in which were a couple of hundred persons at the time. More than half of them are said to have perished in the flames, which speedily communicated with the adjoining houses ; and a high wind blowing at the time, half the village was burnt down, and many more persons p,,rished. The exact number is not yet known. THE I,IIIIPOOL STANDARD. VERY IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE Several of our liberal contemporaries have published a letter from Mr. Corballis to Dr. Murray, who styles him self Archbishop of Dublin, wishing to know how the " faithful" are to understand the late synodical address on the subject of the colleges ? " Are we hereby actu- ally prohibited from sending our children to these col leges ? and, if so, how far is such a prohibition actually binding on us, in foro conscientie 1" Mr. Corballis says, further, that he submits his questions for the purpose of " making known to the numerous persons who have spoken to him" the answer of " his grace." To this appeal, the oracle delivers his response, with singular want of clearness, as follows : " Mountjoy-square, Ist October, 1850. " My DEAR FRIEND—I have received your interesting letter ? and I need not, I hope. assure you, that I participate fully in the deep anxiety which you so justly feel; but I must pray you not to press me to enter in this moment into details on the painful subject to which you allude. I may. however, mention that a petition signed by thirteen bishops has, pro bably ere this. reached Rome, supplicating our most holy father, Pope Pius IX., to refuse his sanction to certain propo sals on points yet undecided, relative to the subject of acade mical education. To the decision to be given thereon, what ever it may be (though I still venture to hope that it will be favourable to the petitioners), those prelates will be found among the first to reverentially submit; but, in the meantime, I am not aware that there is amongst them one who would wish to extend the provisions of the pontifical rescripts, already issued on that subject, beyond the strict letter of what the holy see has prescribed.—l have the honour to remain, my dear friend, yours most faithfully, t D. MURRAY. J. R. Corballis, Esq. As a sort of finishing touch to the above, the Dublin Herald publishes the following letters as a further corre spondence between the parties : " Rosemount, Roebuck, Oct. 1, 1850. " My dear Lord,—lt may not be unknown to yo n , th a t I obtained a gold medal in Trinity College, and that astronomy formed one of the studies for proficiency in which that honour was awarded. Now, I have lately seen an extract from an astronomical tract, by the Most Rev. :Qr. :Cullen, lord arch bishop of Armagh, and primate of all Ireland. I beg leave most respectfully to inquire whether, by the terms of that ecclesiastical manifesto, I am actually prohibited from believ ing that the earth goes round Ike sun, and commanded to believe that the sun goes round the earth, and if so whether such prohibition and command are actually binding in foro conecienti ? Revemntly waiting your reply, upon which I shall instantaneously act, I remain your grace's obedient servant, &c. &c. " I he Most Rev. Archbishop Murray, &c." " Mountjoy-square, 2d Oct., IMO.' "My dear friend,—l have received your interesting letter, and may state that though I am not sure that his holiness Pius IX. will not listen to the representations of those who would wish the earth to go round the sun in preference to the other arrangement at present in force; yet I consider it by no means probable that his holiness will continue, as heretofore, to send the sun round the earth. The matter has been sub mitted, along with other points connected with the proposed educational institutions, to his holiness, and in the meantime, which I hope may not exceed a few days, you may as well believe that it is going neither way. I remain, my dear friend, yours, &c." UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. At Trinity College, Cambridge, the prize for the best English essay has been adjudged to G. M. Gorham, son of the Rev. C. Gorham. The Syrian Bishop of Nabk, on Mount Lebanon, has arrived in Dublin on a mission connected with the late troubles of the people in his diocese. Mr. Wilson, vicar of Islington, has received from the Bishop of London " a godly admonition" for " not having daily public prayer in his parish." The Rev. Wesley Farrer, who has just been ordained by the Archbishop of York, has been Eppointed to the curacy of Lanchester. Mr; Allies has been recreating himself at Salisbury. He is about to enter, as private tutor, into the family of Mr. Maskell. The commissioners to the two universities will, it is said, meet in the metropolis early next week, for the pur pose of appointing secretaries and other preliminary busi ness. In the course of the present month the Bishop of Man chester will consecrate no fewer than three new churches within his diocese ; one at Barton, near Preston ; another at Healey, near Rochdale ; and a third at Ramsbottom. • •-••-• •al A split has taken place in the tractarian ca m p. The •• Revs. W. Palmer and G. A. Denison have retired from the Bristol Church Union, because that association " will not put forth a formal and explicit statement of prin ciples." * The Bishop of Exeter's movements at Durham have been minutely chronicled, but the Gateshead Observer states that his lordship's visit to the Roman Catholic In stitute of Ushaw has not been mentioned. Why so marked a silence on so grave a step. The number of missionaries despatched from England are :—By the Church Missionary Society, one hundred and thirty-seven ; Society for Converting Jews, seventy eight ; for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, three hundred and thirty-four; Wesleyan Society, three hundred and sixty-eight ; Baptist Society, one hun dred ; London Missionary Society, one hundred and seventy-one ; Scotch Churches, one hundred and fifty ; various other religious bodies, one hundred ; total, 1,438. A DISHONEST TRICK.—We perceive that several of our contemporaries have been taken in by the trick played off by the Romanizers, and their organ the Guardian, in publishing a prior document in the place of the " resolu tions" and " statement of principles" actually moved by the Rev. W. Palmer, at the meeting of the Bristol Church Union. As the wrong document has gone the rounds of the papers, we feel it our duty to call special attention to it, for the information of our contemporaries and of the public at large.—John Bull. THE TRACTARIANS AND THE PRESS.—The Tracta rians have just completed a new church at Plymouth, to which the Rev. G. Prynne, a gentleman who recently brought an action against the proprietor of the Plymouth Journal for libel, but failed in obtaining a verdict, has been appointed. The reverend gentleman determined on making the admission to the consecration by tickets only, for one of which the proprietor of the Journal applied, but was refused, " as his avowed intention was to report the proceedings, a feeling essentially alien to the spiritual worship of Almighty God." It appears, however, that tickets have been given to other reporters who wished to attend as reporters. _ The first meeting of the Society for Promoting Chris tian Knowledge, since the long vacation, was held on Tuesday. The standing committee recommended that the sum of £3,000 should be granted and placed at the disposal of the Lord Bishop of Toronto, towards the en dowment of a college of a permanent character, in con nexion with the Church in his diocese. A let ter wag read frog, Lord Lyttelton, requesting, in behalf of the New Canterbury Association, a grant in aid of the endowment of the Bishopric about to be established in that settle ment. His lordship stated that the association was pledged to the appointment of a Bishop (the Rev. Thos. Jackson), who would take the spiritual charge of the settlement, and to provide for him an adequate endow ment out of the produce of the land sales. It was stated that a considerable portion of the new diocese would extend beyond the Canterbury Settlement. The stand ing committee proposed, and it was unanimously agreed to, that a grant of £l,OOO should be made in aid of the objects mentioned in Lord Lyttelton's letter. DR. WOLFF AND ISIS PUPIL.—Dr. Wolff is still at Isle Brewers, a little village inhabited by 250 souls, all of them poor labourers, who chiefly receive support from Lady Wolff and the good Doctor, who provide them in winter with coals ; support entirely the school, containing 75 poor children ; and have also established a clothing club for the poor women. The income of Dr. Wolff's living amounts to but £l5O per annum—and yet, with God's grace, he has been enabled by means of the profits derived from his lectures, to contribute £7OO towards the erection of a parsonage, and, as soon as the patron of the living —Au... from the Cape of Good Hope, he intend. to erect a school house. It is thought that the Doctor would have been ruined long ago if he had not increased his come by having taken into his house a pupil of extraordi nary talents to whom he teaches the following languages —Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Rabbinical, Italian, German, Ethiopic. The name of his pupil is Mr. John Rose But lin, 20 years of age, late student of Trinity College, Cam bridge, the son of the rich country gentleman, John Butlin, Esq., of Ealing. Th e t a l en t s o f this gentleman for learning languages are most extraordinary.—Exeter Flying Post. THE QUEEN'S SUPREMACY.—The lawfully recognised doctrine of the Queen's supremacy in the Church of England has been attacked'by the Bishop of Exeter, in a subtle explication of the various canons and articles relat ing to her Majesty's authority, by which he endeavours to show, that although " the King's Majesty, under God, is the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other his highness's dominions and countries, as well in spiri tual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal;" yet that this, in spiritual causes, only means to exclude the power of the Pope, because by one of our articles The Church hath authority in matters of faith. It is implied, therefore, that the Queen did wrong in remitting a matter of heresy to the Committee of Privy Council which ought to have been adjudged by the Church itself. According to this view, the power exercised by the Queen is simply an usurpation ! There is one small difficulty from which the bishop has not yet attempted to relieve us, namely-- where the Church is to be found to which the cause might have been remitted by the Queen. If we look about among the Tractarians for a solution, it will be as bad to find as Popish infallibility. Sometimes it is in the people, sometimes in the clergy, and again in both clergy and people. THE DARK SIDE OF CALIFORNIA. Just one week after the Times is in an ecstacy of admi ration at its discovery that " California seems to be in earnest at last," and can scarcely find words with which to paint its conceptions of the glories which are to follow, there appears in the same journal the dreariest of all dis mal descriptions of what is called " The Dark Side of California," as if there were a fatality of inconsistency about the paper which no command of intelligence can avert. This pitch-black side of what seven days since was all shining in golden light is supplied by " English correspondents," in contradistinction we suppose to the Yankee scribes who furnished the Times with its previous accounts. At all events the last picture offers a melan choly contrast to that which preceded it, and if the source be genuine, it should De nearer the mark. The writers set out with the pleasant intelligence that we are not to believe all " we read in the papers," (Ame rican of course !) for " the fact is the different papers have different interests in the different mines, the pro prietors of each are more or less speculators in the differ ent new cities and townships, and their different puffs have deceived many thousands of emigrants and caused much distress among them." What a blow does not this give to those marvels about the gold lumps as big as giants' heads and camels' humps, of which we heard such very authentic histories only a week ago ! But this is nothing to what follows. " Lately,"—this is written as a matter of only a line and a half importance,—" Lately twenty-seven people have been murdered at the Stockton mines by the Mexicans and Sonorians." The a English correspondents" proceed, full of blank despair,—" It is generally believed that next year the diggings will greatly fall off in their produce of gold," and for the sufficient reason that " the whole of the gold digging country is taken up by upwards of 100,000 gold diggers, who will find all there is to find before November next !"—when the wet season sets in. What a prospect for those who rushed off last Tuesday on the strength of the assertion in Monday's Times that—" In the last week in July six men took out of the same diggings forty-two pounds of dust !" It is true our contemporary did not say " gold" dust, but he meant it, and the delusion was complete. But there is another " prospect" even worse than that. The reader will recollect the glowing descrip tion of San Francisco city which we gave in our last from the " leading jou rna l,"— w h at fi ne gar d ens , delicious fruit , and " fashionabl e marr i ages " occurr ed there; and all that. Behold what the "English corres p o ndents . '' a lt a c y,s , —" This place, lately has increased greatly in size, in a great part of - the town is built on the water upon pil es. Think of the fine manure views the mud must o e k assured us , s about to that the tide runs downs No wonder " San Fratnheiisscoisn now as well supplied with f r uit and vegetables as metropo lis" of London as the Times of Monday we —" For six hours in the day the sand blow it is far worse than driving to Ascot or Epsom lot of o mnibuses, (charming on a dusty day just behind a San Francisco is " place !") Nearly the whole city of not the diggings of gold that built upon loose sand. degree that you could not observe a friend across to t t h h e e s r t a r c e e e s t! of British, French, ni never to be accounted for. tschec.m: merchantsthousands who have sent their goods here lace hundreds take advantage of has made this place, but Whenever a fire takes P as whether they are burnt out it, and close consignments the place is almost as "fashionable" or not." It is clear first told us. The " English " The city may fairly be called corresponden ts' from parts of earth. The worst characters all hell upon ittteidhsaSs beena t ea, globe are here, and all the known vices are carried out the to the greatest extent." " There is plenty of law here, " " Great distress and disturbances are but no justice. ted bore bi the wet season,—a day's work may be eXpec asour 'eenteal g r r on . Ott. 8, 1851 i done as i n then m fora t l o h a e f s o t : ts bread, siz o f r ee perhaps deep ~...m....... le a ) just commenced to pave the streets here (Sa n , ,„ d aril with three-inch planks all over. The,,,e" et that r " brilliant assemblage of beauty and her e , dr . less. . rsa : WO pitted in last week's Times, have " B• 99ein fa b s i b e 4l°"l 'ilj winter ?" But these are only a sprinkling of Califortiler; mendations. " Parties are freugently shot 00 1 ; 4 1 ' ing-rooms, which are plentiful, and numerouslYbio, " on account of the disputes regarding the g ar° bad I no more notice taken of the affair than if a rat sbo killed." think) " very cold in the morning and eveninganale ssE o oc n ior e trDsp i oi f or fan t rd h so,o e ncl ' e ` in the middle of the day, and generally hal f ,;°, Pis; wind from the south-west from ten a.m•, to ' a fter u t. , "This place is a horrid hole," (se ° JO the best part of the day ! A little further on , „iota' scribing the appalling misery endured by those:01)&01 who cross the mountains into California. end lease "what on earth puts it into people's heads to _oo homes and civilised society" to go to such a PlB.oerng as~oll• this country :" which we should take to be as true s light.—" In our house we have mice, rats, s nake- t o f all whites take r lives for one vent ,f, and the r° ' spiders. I saw a snake lying on my bed the, biaa iieo: so 1 just took the rifle and shot him tbroeg u t bico' and all ; be measured four feet long and wes s T OO living being enormous my wrist." And again :—" The day, before te rn Rs' bat killed two white men in this valley with t erfu 7ot t ° County,"enC w vt oeiu h irs z erFci t de e eost rn :non a stbot n dshaete ' e s dornist i 'estl i f s'aYal e t'ni n'.drd‘ the dating reibi a lneegrgre f sea r t f' ' l.tri g ee:sBl n ' i n°l:if° . i 4 I:11e fz: br e:: : c a.' jet please :I e' 1 they very seldom commit any depredations now , d• Olt! faithfully narrated. And for all this the writer 40 0 to dig five dollars'the "clear kl° to 1 bee 9 ; and had managed .Aeaty English os worth o f dust per day , money" up to August Ist, having evl" several months in the country. Rffrtruiturat anb Porttraitta,a most_—_— pro P g e r r e h s a s p o s f o h n o e rt o i f ee t l h tu e ral se ie T e i s e e t extraordinary faercyt fteh,s3til:titeio.irlefi course between this country and the Uniteu 0 : 4 p leP i , y_ery limited with respect to the intetchangev>l!'fr Every person who returns from the States spelt!! t in io g lvn t s erms of the beauties of the wild flowers (3 ! • many of which are hardly known in our collectoftivio unnoticed rs the di beautifulffiweour d t offoterheienneogsysse, b t i i to e i to s wl a e t a l e p a p s te t at ' br e to i 01 1 :. $ ,1 oo f . lands which are easily gleaned. MoreocvaerrP.ethgbPi; which are the most neglected are those whi ch we llt t o and might grace the poor man's garden Pl° t e s of ° o o ' nobleman's parterre. In America manY sPe ci , g petb l fol and Asclepias, the beautiful Gerardias, Lilutosb-e.besalio Cariadense, &c., Liatris (several species), t . t oceil i bef Hedyotis or Houstonia aerulea, Convallarlii 1 10 0 , and others, are found in profusion, whils t ivi c olle ct lor are rarely seen, and then only in curious L., see They are all sbewey, easily propagated eitheris7ot.oo'ta ddeiveidsiotfhi,eya,ndanodifeirloondoreddiffis cmulotryei,notlhigehttrabinelroutotiviticli, our markets almost as fresh as when just 1,4 the b e .;), might be said of the plants of Europe. 14°"1ciponerfoor tiful Violet.cress of Lisbon (Cochlearia which was introduced as a new plant o n o ly - otn a p bo iore years back, and is now a favourite conservaf id be o, to in the south of England. We believe it wo u rs erft ° ;itals profitable speculation to an enterprising flat)? ser.d a clever botanical collector throuli" la ud ° k w countries of Europe than to the more distaot 100005 t pitt t weio r loora o etnun p hnsl i td c eat s twvb . : ooeaerrncedia: S el uiuric.ttsiaicvsehresefd.faeuaflrttllohyonmue countriesrg Germany feather-like keoreemuictlooadtivwinioeheyorwcautetvflhiredr:egotollinlegto:l;sder:grii oniaietl:tagnl,nrit:iesnieseountot,droiiejogsieboe:yselit:iild,:f, the plants cultivated in the numerous urc.)ovtivoe, ato n osn o re t we e e s otlof m l tt a iith d i ee e i ls o am f nho t da h ssrt e cdal c opy o ren m k ,n.apmioanwreanEnt ornamental gl e asthrnuaedrcedbsi:sni e;ssnestdroconifi;:_s l gmifetaendswriatche, activeand p w e o r u ee ld pti f o u o rn s. ish muc h sE tort I D M' MISCE L L A N ' it t . r i g in 9 ,' SO! Victoria Regia at Chatsworth.---Tbe 'f r o t i P" o rtic! / ,; Victoria regia, which was received he re . p sour c ed '''t Gardens at Kew, and of which a descriPti°o„ 1 00' 1 00 ° nos otherwise lars.were given in a previous paper, has l! n u , the s ie j ' a pro . ; 140th leaf and 112th flower-bud ; d ur : a luds ‘ , t a rthfl e :4 p so rov co e the plant's partial torpidity, a few of t i l. the ir gi:i i t s te a. 70 duced were removed at an early stage ° a id (lebl d rigv ie which it was desirable the plant shool i el ,i`qi,eir brototo w a is s e uc d c e e t s r s i i m on en o t f al fl t o o we t r b s e sb l o ie s . l 6 l , ll. so l , ll p li e o e r; of those permitted to remain exPan ae ' caber '74 o ' '.• fectly, although during the brightest w e- 0 ' hig l ,i de gree too , it was found advisable to afford sone c olog t he ti' it the flowers, iii order to prevent their be . da ys, ~ no ug h ii tive, perishing in much less time than o % o t 11 3 1 :yholig ri period of their durat'on. This ol d P -• 5 0 ' of e te e og , ' . 0 00 t tii leaves, some of which are of a very ~.„rist t o , w e there is an evident diminution in the indicate°"-teeto .' a , leaf which now expands, evidently a . r r s u 'ri c h plant is fast approaching its period of t i . e itoice rf i r oto 0 d V of the early, as well as the more r eeeip ea red„.'d, on i :/eb" dance of fine plump seeds have been Pl , ° e pro l 'i' e eil ` c a t i ii , t' a large number of strong plants have ' e 1,00 ' i aetlY the kindness of the Duke of. Devonshire,do l ea fot 00 11 —a llborally Aibiributod. The :leo." tjt. „ / r l' all t ill a ' The which now occupies the tank of the n' ar y ls' d ot• jus t described, was sown on the 12th Feb, r- the iliarcl" 'tlie pot, and placed in the tank occupied ,"I t i i o f I , whell 0 0 first leaf made its appearance on the l' os ru• ~e r h tt isoll one day less than a month after being - 0 01in iae l 0 1 4, young plant had become sufficientlY•ea'theinlephlifiar. placed in the centre of the large tanktibed for' t 0 5 p ule prepared in the same manner as deserloe p lan ve t fl e a, This was done on the 26th of June . . th 0 tyve m . me n d th e tinily sheltered for a few days , sci. r ow° Ifiy, 511 as" placed over it, upon planks, until theled raPftb Ang sli When established the leaves on t6l 0 the ' 01l ti lpfl' first flower-bud made its appearance ° at for t the f 0 fee t which opened in its white and frsg ru i ri tre 0° vce re , 4 .,,s , of September, and fully unfolded its t c he lea re: iie ',pr o s lug day ; at this stage of its growth ea se in - rese ll The 8 inches in diameter. A gradual i li a _ jou , a t 1,?..i.5. Try tinued since that time, and the dinle'L'a p f flo_f a sr o 4, about 5 feet, with a constant succestsce leavqesTroet,"ty growth is remarkably vigorous , en d c ater "' al if o' e a ' e° likely, in a short time, to reach the °f ie , • aek t hut ce 4 although the diameter is 33 feet 6 in.e ,ittio d 0 Fe o cei a t judge from present progress, there is k i lap anv ," .e iplonve year the leaves will be much larger.; w eed t" k i p g• t be seen ; indeed, at present, nothing eaL ri t is Et a ts i u ,, p gst and healthy progress the whole P d other other,P .kr u to 'o ls ' various species of Nympbrea, ble vsP i " .. " . 10°' - eut ° ' small tanks also, grow with remarlia eera i e s, rn_ . lot os i, these may be mentioned NyrnPl' rea c qe cios u T t 'he tl a it dentata, and odorata ; Nelumbiev_,tare inui tie to' and others; and altogether the strut' s pecie s Liar° dered most satisfactory, as e ve ' •th. R s " re, flourishes to a degree seldom r net . T_ tO r e re pOy Chatsworth.—Gardeners' Chronic,e;imailen.o pe ed f o t Permanent Pasture.- 0 °, 13 ., Y , i ,r - o g- f the 14 . °ll cou nt re ° i l l rnent pasture there is a prevaie"t - this is ° tll , oil wo• on Rye-grass during the first Year' aa i t is l ip . t he in its being a less durable Plant , ape ntlY "Luir e d by Grasses that some being more Per ~s others req. naue_thet not run to Bent till the second )re"quoities, r f wes t he soil to contain particular nutriny vegetate-Petlugct t °. 01 rest from culture ; all are fickle inwith it r i co) and culture do riot suit them. the superseavo,f 00.40 Lolium perenne running to Bent to be wondered at, as in the corerneo!i,_ su tfiel 9 „olo 4 ir we add Trefoil, because it wouldrn.tl, the fa li e ; a d ,.ef up at the first year ;on the othe r 3" tile a titlin3 he r e c t i i o n; te , halian Rye-grass may be sown i_ rding pl an, ra , o r , it e. crop on the following years sow it is not uni th; fi ' ' or 20 years to come to maturity, e other ha prove tbe t 00 on th to the age he arrives at ; tends to pe i tpl a stiii but for a few hours. This all r ythiog , a a t it s , o re ° , and similarity of nature in time to arri ve , rei s 4 ' o il IP species of grass takes a longev t i n forroi n f o the ' tlio' e ( rity than another. Thenic: 3, 7 _ . adap ted ~, iati ug, ioo , grasses is, to have sorts not t n.), w ithoo tlP ;poceli s so: , ear, yield a fair crop for the firs y but tO fOrr a a yell ° ye ij e which do not run to Bent, health. S on ' efor t! t) t and hea ' rem ain p p ou herbage to create fat it to . .11 ~ and allow d) roil s tea d er i Lolium perenne alone, man's 51 1 the ' regitv trusting that nature (without,. will come 0 sin s p re gori.iie Grasses required. Plants elf. G rus ' e littl e 11 1es 5 e t e d not him), unless he exerts. i stakes very _0 aii e r, ecially ous, the Rye-grass esp . ds of the Year; ,aid to ll ; is . ment from tbe land at peno e grass so e' ° •Jd sPn a ho r io mixturehe such as to allow one the soil r ' t Cli: 6 •011t,, A re st. another, the natural products e 0 „d i unusual ... g it is e r e To obtain our object, an . uired. t he ig and pulverisation of the soil ring ..., w ith o orl g e, extirpate weeds if the up h i e 19 0 0 3 0 vegetSW. , . gr „.11 ..0 Good rotten dung or decayed. turf e art o, a s yv ta tiu f substitute for old • h ear r eg e • 0 quired as a covered wit lated, ill° should be very slightly of the e have observed at every ploughing d being is produced ;in wet seasons the see ei. _,,e. the rain is sufficient.—Agrtcti ltural Gag OPERATIONS FOR TOS plantsflowering advantage. s wi 11 Stove, Conservatory, drc.—We hav e • o ter (111 loo r mended the removal of all plants to their so , t be „ter' If this has not already been done, it cariu" eo !A; delayed without certain injury. I , t he stoveiol so, ' befor e A t 04 The thinking gardentr will apply this rule tcitoueodikdjj tering plants which have comptheir floice ~. 0 too much stim rooqvi Ile' ulus will spoil their future g ,5 d not kill them. tV il ' Flower Garden.—Autumn has begun Gbereab feted el.le to s . t i r i i so sq 1 0 1 0; partment of its glories ; and the gardener so. _erati,oilr raise as many plants of such kinds as scarlestitir pi,eo r ca o lceolarias, Bouvardias, tke., as be can Pe s q 0n1Y,,V, , 1: for; remembering that such plants, 4 ig 5 c . P,, ali o v during the winter., make the best 1i0n.„,,,,.e:„.",, the followin g season. Auricular need attetwotil 14 nation layers should be potted off, or else left € co oli 0 0 . , Kitchen Garden.—Prick out a good stoel‘ ° I e. Itol r plants under hand-glasses, or in a cold fr i or t ° too late to plant out cabbages for spring use ' winter coleworts. fit t m e d u by ba,.e roi 010::: Morphologist.—The lion) ' OP re truss of the Pelargonium is curious, but no t tY 1 , Several instances have been shorn to to "" f o r Pp sent season. iiel4 ot J. S. Jones.—The e .10 Denbigh Plum is ex,,, c t voi , 4 chen use, ' .. _ and is a large, • handsome fruit, u di tor a dessert plum. ~i,, 2 deftftll A . No. 1 is Aster Bostoniensis; .0-' packing ; s a t .a_sThTe To cog totf siesarveosrt P tuicolfieiotirt, , No. 3, Cereopsis lanceolatik Peet t tt i s It belt