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THE TWO LOCKS OF HAIR. A youth, light-hearted and content, I wander through the world ; Here, Arab-like, is pitched my tent, And straight again is furled. Yet oft I dream that once z wife Close in my heart was locked; And in the sweet repose of life A blessed child I rocked. I wake ! Away that dream away Too long did it remain ! So long that both by night and day It ever comes again. The end lies ever in my thought ; To a grave so cold and deep The mother beautiful was brought; Then dropped the child asleep. Rut now the dream is wholly o'er, I bathe mine eyes and see; And wander through the world once more, A youth so wild and free. Two locks—and they are wondrous fair— Left me that vision mild ; The brown is from the mother's hair, The blonde is from the child. And when I see that lock of gold, Pale grows the evening-red ; And when the dark lock 'I behold, I wish that 1 were dead. LONGFELLOW _ - LITERATURE. Boos FOR REVIEW, &C.—Books, New Prints, Music, Szc. intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red ?ion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed "to the Editor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded and receive attention. Popular Scripture Zoology, containing a Familiar History of the Animals mentioned i n th e Bibl e . _ _ - - By Maria Catlow. London : Reeve and Co. This work, by a writer so eminently gifted as Miss Catlow, is an acquisition to our already rich stores of Biblical literature. Any work calculated to delight the mind of the young student, and at the same time to throw light upon the history of those matters which are inseparably united with our dearest interest by their connection with Holy \Vrit, must be acceptable to all intelligent Christians. Like all the works in the beautiful popular Natural History series which Messrs. Reeve and Co. are publishing, the present volume is beautifully illus trated with a profusion of coloured drawings of the animals, given with most life-like fidelity. To those acquainted with the now numerous works of Miss Catlow, it is not necessary to praise the book itself it bespeaks most industrious research, and all the care and perfection which a well-stored mind and judicious taste could confer upon it. As a family book or present for youth, its beautiful illustra tions and scriptural explanations render it very desirable. Diogenes LaWctius. London : Henry G. Bohn. In this volume of Mr. Bohn's justly-esteemed Classical Library—to which the humble students of England especially owe so much—we have a literal translation, by Mr. C. D. Yonge, of "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers," by Diogenes Laertius, the Cilician,—an historian who is conjectured to have lived near the close of the second century of our era, although some place him Bo late as the time of Constantine. Diogenes divides the philosophy of the Greeks into the lonic, beginning with Anaximander, and ending with Theophrastus ; and the Italian, beginning with Pythagoras and ending with Epicurus, in which lie includes the Eleatics, as also Heraclitus and the Sceptics. As the foundation almost of the history of Greek philosophy, and the source whence nearly all the modern treatises on that subject draw their information, we cordially recommend the work in its present form. The translation is executed with a fine scholarly feeling; the printing is not only correct but elegant ; while the price makes the book a wonderfully cheap one. Hogg's Instructor. Edinburgh : James Hogg. This periodical appears for the first time as a shilling monthly, after the fashion of Tait, instead of a threehalfpenny weekly of the style of Chambers. This change would seem to indicate that Mr. Hogg's subscribers have, during the few years of the Instructor's existence, ascended the mental ladder, and are now evincing a desire for less ephemeral food. And all success to the enterprising publisher, say we, and may the advance in the dignity of his once weekly sheet prove no pecuniary misfortune. With the exception of a short couple, the whole twenty papers in the present part are original ; and not a few of them are from the best approved hands. George Gilfillan discourses right eloquently of the glorious orator Edmund Burke, " the greatest and least appreciated man of the eighteenth century ;" a scientific dweller in the metropolis sends a graphic account of the Exhibition of Live Fish newly opened in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, which is clearly destined to put the poor hippopotamus into the shade; Thomas Aird, the gentle editor of the Dumfries Herald, addresses a young poet, whom we take to be Alexander Smith, of Glasgow. De Quincey, one of the most brilliant writers of English that ever wrote, tells us "how to write English ;" and a smart biographer, who knows thing or two about Liverpool, sketches the pre sent Chancellor of the Exchequer and his progeni tors in a lively and an apparently faithful narrative, extending over five pages. Introduction to the History of the Nineteenth Century, London : Henry G. Bohn. The author of this work, Professor Gervinus, a native of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, rose from the humble position of a mercer's apprentice to be a lecturer in the University of Heidelberg before he was thirty years of age. Promoted to a professor ship in the University of Gottingen in 1535, he went forth as an exile in 1837, in consequence of the ex-Duke of Cumberland, the King of Hanover, abolishing the Hanoverian constitution and de manding from the professors an oath of allegiance to his absolute sovereignty, with which many of them were not willing to comply. In 164 t, Gervi nus was appointed Professor of History at Heidel berg ; and in 1848, as one of the leaders of the constitutional party, he was elected a member of the German Parliament which assembled at Frank fort. For his last work, the one whose title stands above, he was, on the 24th of February last, brought to trial at Mannheim—the work having been condemned as an act of high treason. On the 2d of March sentence was pronounced against Professor Gervinus, condemning him to an im prisonment of four months, and ordering his work to be publicly destroyed. As the production of an eminent thinker and an active politician, as well as from its being a portion and the commencement of a great work, this pamphlet must be interesting alike to the student and the "general reader." It has been worthily translated, and is brought out with all the taste and cheapness—two excellent qualities—which distinguish the emanations from the press of that busy bibliographer, Mr. Bohn. Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh : Blackwoods. The July number commences with an elaborate review of Weiss's History of the French Protestant Refugees—a subject at all times interesting, but more so at the present time, when Rome is trying to raise her hydra-head not only on the Continent, but in our own beloved land, which has gained so much by resisting her. A paper on Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Madonna contains some curious particulars of religious superstition ; but we cannot agree with the writer in wishing to see a classifica tion of these absurdities, considering that they are the offspring of falsehood, founded on ignorance and credulity. The continuation of " Lady Lee's Widowhood" brings us from some pleasant scenes into the commencement of one of a darker cha racter; but the attractive style of the author is well maintained. A review of the recently-published correspondence and other papers of the late Marquis of Londonderry, better known as Lord Castlereagh, vindicates that much -maligned statesman from the obloquy which was so unjustly cast upon him while Jiving. England owes him far more for his good services than ever she was inclined to acknowledge. "Paris Theatricals" gives some amusing account of the amusements in the French capital ; and the suc ceeding article on " The Fine Arts and the Public Taste in 1553" is an entertaining running commen tary on the present war between pre-Raphaelitism and post-Raphaelitism. A chapter on " Life Assu rance" contains some very judicious and sensible remarks on the sin and folly of hoarding money, tending as it does to miserly habits, the end of 'which is thus graphically described "THE MISER'S DEATII-BED. " Of all creatures upon earth, n one i s so d es pi ca bl e as the miser. It is not impossible that the profligate may have a friend, for there is usually left about him some touch of humanity—some one unbroken chord of the finer feelings of our nature ; but the miser meets with no sympathy. Even the nurse who is hired to attend him in his latest hours, loathes the ghastly occupation, and longs for the moment of her release ; for, although the death. damp is already gathering on his brow, the thought s o f t h e departing sinner are still upon his gold, and, at th e mere jingle of a key, h e s t ar t s f rom his torpor, in a paroxysm of terror, lest a surreptitious attempt is being made upon the sanctity of his strong box. Deeds there are many in that box ; but where are the deeds that should have com. forted the dying man ? What blessings has he purchased for himself through his long and useless life ? There are no prayers of the orphan or widow for him—not a solitary voice has ever breathed his name to Heaven as a bene factor. One poor penny, given away in the spirit of true charity, would now be worth more to him than all the gold that the world contains ; but, notwithstanding that he was a church-going man, and familiar from his infancy with those awful texts in which the worship of mammon is denounced, and the punishment of Dives told, he has never yet been able to divorce himself from his solitary love or lust, or to part with one atom of hi,s pelf. And so, from a miserable life, detested and despised, he passes into a drear eternity ; and those whom he has neglected, or misused, make merry with the hoards of the miser 1" The concluding article is on " Gold and Emigra tion, in their effects, social and political." This is one of those powerfully written political essays for which Blackwood is so justly celebrated, and is well deserving attentive perusal, particularly by those who are lauding Free-trade policy for consequences which have sprung from its direct failure. The writer shows clearly that while gold has been the main cause of our present commercial prosperity, emigration is tending to results directly the reverse. Our prosperity has been in spite of Free-trade, and if we have avoided the disaster consequent upon our monetary system, it is because Providence has THE tIVERPOOt STANDARD, TUESDAY, ,TETY 12, ISS TWO DAYS IN A SCOTTISH ISLAND. BY EVERTON PAUL. (2st Wednesday morning crossed from Ardrossan, a fashionable little town on the coast of Ayrshire, to the Isle of Arran—one of the loveliest " features" of the Clyde. From the Firth we had a fine view of the town we had just left—its castle and hill, the elegant summer pavilion of the Earl of Eglinton, the handsome hotel built by his lordship's uncle, and that beauteous line of sand rimming the sea, on whose smooth surface " The Devil of Ardrossan" was wont to wander wildly in the olden time. This personage with the imposing title was a member of the llontgomerie family, and was likewise Baron of Ardrossan—the title, if we mistake not, by which the late Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland is entitled to a seat in the House of Peers. The old Baron was a mysterious individual, and seems in some respects to have borne a mental resemblance to the infamous pro genitor of the last Lord of Newstead, whose peculiar ways gained for him the name of " Devil Byron." On turning from our shoreward observations, discovered that there were on board many " ladyes fair," who were being treated to a sea-jaunt by their husbands or lovers — for the Glasgow people are wondrously attached to the Clyde, and " down the water" is a familiar phrase in the Scottish Tyre during the summer and autumn months. Admired the ladies vastly ; they are not so rosy or so nicely-rounded perhaps as the English fair, but there is a soft, calm, spiritual beauty about the Scotch lassie which their contemporaries in the south lack. Steamed across in a couple of hours to Brodick, the capital of Arran, both in beauty and in size—boasting of a bay lovely beyond description, with the proud old castle of the Duke of Hamilton embosomed among trees, and backed by hills enclosing some of the finest valleys which the Scottish Highlands can reveal. Found the village full of visitors, and lodgings at a premium. Doleful tidings of as many as ten human beings rejoicing in the occupation of a single room, the said room being at the same time peopled with rats and other similarly vvell- favoured specimens of the aboriginal inhabitants. After seeking about, with the assistance of a kind friend got domesticated in the house of a venerable old lady, who had kept summer boarders during the greater part of a long-protracted life, and whom one of our party recognised as the very individual with whom she had resided in the island some twenty years ago. An old barn, with a couple of beds, was all the good lady could afford—as the rest of her house was already occupied partly by a newly-married couple, who warn thorn eriPnaing fhP. honoymann, and partly by tho Sheriff and Procurator Fiscal, two important personages, who had come across from the adjacent island of Bute on one of their periodical visits to dispense law among the unsophisticated natives. Had not been long there till we were very strongly advised by our land lady's venerable daughter—a young woman of some where beyond fifty—to pay a visit to the Sheriff's Court, which was then being held in a queer sort of out house at the rear of the village hotel. The sappers and miners had been in the island for some time, taking the trigonometrical survey of that portion of Scotland, and it would appear that, in their acquaintanceship with the rustic maids, they had provided a goodly amount of work for the sheriff and his man—the red-coated intruders having in nearly every case set all the orders of the resi dent justices at defiance. Wished very much to witness a Highland trial, but preferred a sight of the neighbouring glens, before we returned to a trout dinner in Wellington. square, as the collection of houses, of which ours formed a part, had been sarcastically named by a waggish visitor. Up Glen Sherag, to the house of a friend, and down in the gloaming, conversing by the way with a couple of Scotch ladies, who promulgated to us their decided con viction that, so far as Arran and the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland were concerned, the most talented preachers were in the Established Church, and not among the Free body, who came out at the disruption of 1844. Knew that exactly the opposite was the case on the other side of the channel ; but, as we never had heard a High land sermon, did not attempt to contest the point with our fair friends. On our journey that evening we saw one church—a little bewildered building in the glen. Our companions, although familiar with that part of the island, had never seen the clergyman's house, and were inclined to the belief that he did not reside near the scene of his ministrations : certainly, in the character of the popula tion, there was indicated a startling necessity for his pre sence amongst them constantly. Ignorance and super stition clouded the countenance of the people; and, truly, one who has alone waited the nightfall in a lone Highland glen, cannot feel surprised at the fact that fancy and the fairies should loiter there long after they have disappeared from the mainland. Rose on the morrow, after a not unbroken night's slumber, and early astir as we fancied ourselves to be, found that the village appeared to have been wide awake for a good half day. So away at once, after a hearty breakfast, to the summit of the great Benghoil, Anylice " Mountain of the Mists," or, as it is called by the common people and the maps, Goatfell. Past Brodick Castle, through its antique and right pleasant park— then, for some hundreds of yards by the side of a brawl ing rock and tree-crested rivulet, which has worn its daily deepening channel down the mountain side for hundreds of years—seen from the opposite coast like a silver streak in the sombre granite, and now, when we are by its side, murmuring into our minds fancies and waking dreams which we never shall forget. From the base of the top most cone of the mountain we had a hard hour's climbing among rocks and boulders—a task which almost made us imagine at the time that Albert Smith and Mont Blanc were trifles, but afterwards rendered us somewhat sorrowful when we learned that all the labour was un necessary, as a path which led round the shoulder of the mountain could have taken us to the summit at an ex penditure of a fourth part of the time and a tithe of the perspiration. On nearing the top an uncivil mist (which in Scotland means a soaking fall of rain as well as a fog) descended, and we were fain to hide under a huge rock. Imprisoned beneath the granite we searched our pockets for a book, and the first that came to hand was the common prayer. Straightway we read aloud that glorious composition, The Litany—wondering the while if that most inspired-like of all uninspired writings had e'er before been read so near the Scottish sky, and in the very heart of the clouds which o'er-canopy the land of Presbytery and the Covenant. As we finished, the mist came scudding up the hill to its summit, then departed. It rolled up like a curtain from the surface of the sea, leaving the deep blue furrowed waves, specked at intervals with light, fleecy clouds, which lingered on the firth, as if loath to rise from their sporting with old ocean. " It's very wundy, sir," was the greeting of a lowland labourer, who just as we were leaving reached the summit with an immense load on his back for the use of the sap. pers and miners, stationed on the mountain ; and, with the wind blowing the way we went, a short half-hour brought us to the base of Benghoil, to our thatched resi dence in " the square," and a right merry fireside, where tale and joke went fleetly round. One of our party had a very good story to tell. She resided with a woman in the village, whose mother was far advanced in life, and quite incapacitated from taking any part in the housework. The daughter had some old friend on a visit, and to this friend she had been heard on the previous night confiding all her woes. " I wish with all my heart she wur aneath the sod," said the unsophisticated islander. _ _ " Oh, Kate, how can you speak so of your mother ; she is a very smart old woman, and does not give you much trouble." " Oh, aye," replied the crone, " Oh, aye Out she's jist a great po-o-ther, though,"—meaning that she caused work and did none herself. You may rest assured that Kate was only a type of her class in the island ; and when we left its pleasant shore, and our aristocratic dwelling in " the square," it was with an admiration and a love for the scenery which we were sorry we could not extend to the people who had been born and reared in its midst. Everton, Liverpool, July, 1853. RANGE OF THE HUMAN VOlCE.—There are about nine perfect tones, but 17,592,186,041,415 different sounds ; thus, fourteen direct muscles, alone or together, produce 16,383 ; thirty indirect muscles, ditto, 173,741,823 ; and all in co-operation produce the number we have named, and these independently of different degrees of intensity. —Musical World. REFINEMENT IN THE, FEATHERED RACE. A few days ago, a bird's nest was discovered in the pleasure ground of Earl Manvers, at Thoresby-park, composed of the following materials, namely :—A lady's cap, a collar, a habit shirt, and a quantity of lace, amounting in value to 165., the whole being interwoven with twigs and bits of bay and moss, and not at all injured. Several articles of the above description had disappeared from the bleaching-ground, and different persons had been blamed for the supposed theft. The real thieves were a pair of missel-thrushes, which had chosen a fine cedar tree near the place for their summer abode, and had used the above mentioned articles to construct their nest ; but not being skilful enough to weave in the strings, the nest was dis covered by one of the gardeners. The nest, when found, was quite finished, and had received two eggs. It has been carefully removed from the tree, and sent to his 1 lordship, who is now in London, and will probably find its way to the British Museum.—Leicester Journal. WOMEN AND PORPOISES.—WeII, it's the natur of por poises, when a she one gets wounded, that all the other porpoises race right arter her, and chase her to death. They show her no mercy. Human natur' is the same as fish natur' in this particler, and is as scaly too. When a woman gets a wound from an arrow shot out by scandal or envy, or malice, or falsehood, for not keeping her eye on the compass, and shapin' her course as she ought to, men, women, and boys, parsons, and their tea-goin' gos sipin' wives, pious galls and prim old maids, all start off in full cry, like a pack of blood-hounds, arter her, and tear her to pieces ; and if she earths and has the luck to get safe into a hole fust, they howl and yell round it every time she shows her nose, like so many imps of darkness. It's the race of charity, to see which long-legged, cantin' bilious-lookin' critter can be in first at the death. They turn up the whites of their eyes like ducks in thunder, at a fox hunt, it's so wicked ; but a gall-hunt they love dearly, it's servin' the Lord.—Sam Slick's Wise Saws. THE MAIDS AND THE WIDOWS.—The following peti tion, signed by sixteen maids of Charleston, South Caro lina, was presented to the governor of that province on March 1, 1733-4, " the day of the feast:" —" To his ex cellency Governor Johnson. The humble petition of all the maids whose names arc underwritten : Whereas we the humble petitioners are at present in a very melancholy disposition of mind, considering how all the bachelors are blindly captivated by widows, and our more youth ful charms thereby neglected : the consequence of this our request is, that your excellency will for the future order that no widow shall presume to marry any young man till the maids are provided for ; or else to pay ea c h o f th em a fine for satisfaction, forin vading our liberties : and likewise a fine to be laid on all such bachelors as shall be married to widows. The great disadvantage it is to us maids, is, that the widows, by their forward carriage, do snap up the young men ; and have the vanity to think th e i r merits b eyond ours, which is a great imposition upon us who ought to have the pre ference. This is humbly recommended to your excel lency's consideration, and hope you will prevent any farther insults. And we poor maids, as in duty bound, will ever pray. P.S.—I, being the oldest maid, and therefore most concerned, do think it proper to be the messenger to your excellency in behalf of my fellow-sub scribers."—Notes and Queries. CORREPSONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. LIVERPOOL ELECTION-RADICAL CALUMNY. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I have read with the greatest surprise some obser vations attributed to Mr. R. Gladstone and Mr. J. R. Jeffery, and stated to have been made by them after the close of the poll. These gentlemen are stated to have each uttered an un qualified assertion, that for £5OO the election would have been theirs at two o'clock. Now, sir, I most fearlessly state that a greater calumny on the Freemen was never uttered ; and, as I take the unsupported word of disappointed partisans to re quire proof, I challenge those gentlemen to name upon what ground they dare to make an assertion so fabulous. Mr. Gladstone's attack upon the Clergy, and Mr. Jeffery's statement, as to what number of men MIGHT be drunk, pass for what they are worth ; but the statement, as to the Radicals ever having a shadow of chance for .500, or £5,000, is prepos terous, and only shows how far partisanship will lead men from the facts. If you refer to the poll, it will be found that the largest number polled for the Conservatives, after two o'clock, was under GOO, and the Radicals polled above 400; so that the Conservatives only increased their majority by about 200 during the last two hours. Does not this prove that the electors did poll early, and that if any undue influence was at work, it must have been with the Radicals, for the gain to the Conservatives before two o'clock was, on the average, above 200 per hour, and from two o'clock only 100 per hour? How can any gentleman, with the facts of the case before him, dare to make assertions as to the probability of undue influence on our parts; and if the facts were unknown, how dare the state ment to have been made ? Now, sir, the gentlemen named, Messrs. Gladstone and Jeffery, have given the world to under stand that an offer was made to them as to the purchase of votes. I hope, sir, these parties will now be pressed for the proof ; nothing must let them escape ; they must state who made the offer ; by what authority such pretended person acted : and why they—the purity men—did not Pilo Rurb wholesale briber into custody. If this be not done, I feel assured that the town will pass a verdict which will not be relished by these professors.—Yours, respectfully, THE TOW HALL BANQUET, JUSTUS To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—The Liverpool Albion, of to-day, in its account of the banquet to the Members and defeated Candidates, given by the Mayor, on Saturday, states " that Mr. Bold responded to the toast of the Vice-Chairman, in an injudicious speech, not withstanding the remonstrances of his friend. He was fol lowed by Mr. J. Buck Lloyd, who reprehended the introduc tion of politics on that occasion." The health of the Stipendiary Magistrate preceded mine, and that gentleman, in reference to the last election, complimented the town on the total absence of intimidation or violence, and, after so doing, used the words, " but I atop there." On my health being drunk, I rose and expressed my satis faction at hearing the statement of the Stipendiary Magistrate, and said, (for I felt that his words might have a meaning attached to them beyond what he afterwards assured me he meant,) "/ will NOT atop there," and added, " I believe so perfectly pure an election never took place in the town." What injudiciousness there was in this remark I am at a loss to understand. I may add, that all my friends around me approved of the course I so adopted. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS BOLD. Water-street, July 11, 1853. " THE HOUSEL•ESS OLD FREEMEN." To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Slll,-1 pray you give this a corner. In the Albiou of to-day I find a long panegyric on the modest and unassuming tactics of the Liberal (?) candidates for the representation of " this good old town ;" after which it states : " To cut a long story short, we went to the poll, and were beaten by the independent votes of the houseless old Freemen." Now, Mr. Editor, I challenge your contemporary to prove that the election was won (or that they were beaten) by the houseless old Freemen. Thank God, to be houseless is not to be despicable—(Foxes have their holes !)—and if he will take the trouble to count the number of Freemen who voted, and are rated above ten, twenty, or a hundred pounds, he will find that they were not beaten by the " independent votes of the houseless old Freemen ;" but rather that they were in the lane while the right men had the field.—Yours truly, Mr. Editor. BAT FELIX, Cricket on the Hearth. Liverpool, 11th July, 1853. VERACITY OF MR. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE AND HIS " MAN FRIDAY." To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR.,—Although the election is now over, and any lengthened notice of the practices of the opposite party may be considered unnecessary, and tending to the maintenance of ill feeling, still I may perhaps be allowed to make a few strictures on the infamous insinuation made by Mr. R. Gladstone and Mr. Jeffery, at the close of the election, in Clayton-square, when addressing the supporters of Sir E. Perry. I allude to the ob s ervation about having the election in their own hands at two o'clock, if they would purchase 560 Freemen. Such is not the fact, those much maligned men having nearly all polled long before that hour, and that without receiving any remuneration whatever, beyond the gratification every man would feel in performing a sacred and conscientious duty in an honest and straightforward manner. Because the Freemen will not kiss the hand that smites them —because they invariably support Church and State Principles —because they prefer the management and leadership of those Conservative gentlemen, through whose noble exertions we have been secured the advantages of the Bible in our Corpora tion Schools, and not those principles of Infidelity, Socinianism, and any other ism which what is falsely termed Civil and Reli gious Liberty is so well calculated to encourage—we are to be charged, on every occasion, with bribery and corruption in the exercise of our franchise. These gentlemen I now call upon emphatically to prove their statement; they must do so to clear their own characters; though probably possessing, as they do, no regard for the cha racters of their opponents, they can hardly be expected to care much for their own good name.—Yours, A CONSERVATIVE FREEMAN OF EXCHANGE WARD. LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN ON THE MISSISSIPPI.—No. I. WE have been favoured with some letters which have been received by a gentleman in Liverpool, from an American friend in the valley of the Mississippi, who, in 1851, travelled on foot, through a great portion of England and Scotland, making himself acquainted with the condition and manners of the people in the old world, and fulfilling the wish of his early youth, to visit the land of Bruce and Burns—the home of his maternal ancestors. "yiqua, lliam!. Co., May 20, 1853. "The spring I spoke of in my last few w -, ords to you has nearly passed away ; and though the birds send forth their morning and evening songs with as much seeming mirth as they did in early spring, we must soon lay aside the present name and call the season summer. Then it will be the summer songs of birds, though merely a repe tition of those they sang before. The mocking-bird will not quit his mimicry because we say summer has come, nor will the robin stay his chant because we say spring has gone. We shall soon seek the shade of tall forest trees, which were clothed in verdure by the spring. Spring, indeed, is about to take its departure, but then we shall have summer with us, and what matters. Spring is not so much more beautiful, after all, than her sister seasons. I love spring while it is with us, but I shall love summerjust as much when it comes. So, let the seasons go and come, I shall love them all in their proper turn. " Some nights ago I sat beneath my window casement musing upon the beauties of spring, when all at once a strain came pouring across the fields from a boatman's horn, filling the whole atmosphere with most delightful melody. Oh ! how my heart rejoiced as the notes danced upon the breeze. This, thought I, 'is another of the accompaniments of spring ; yet, will not the same strains float as buoyantly upon a summer breeze ? The boatman knows not of, neither cares he for seasons as they pass, but winds his horn as the spirit moveth him. " When I last wrote you, the farmers were just planting their corn (not wheat and oats, for these Americans sow), and now it is growing and waving in the wind like small forest trees. Fruit-trees, which were then just in bloom, are now loaded with green fruit, which progresses rapidly towards the maturity which renders it fit for the harvest. And it is seldom that a season has been more liberal in its promises of abundance. Everything green looks ex ceedingly well—wheat, rye, oats, barley, corn, potatoes, and the various grades of vegetation that form staples, are promising far more than we usually gather from the fields in one season ; and when the products of this great valley of the Mississippi are cast abroad over the earth, we shall be able to say, after feeding the nations of the world, we have still plenty for ourselves. You can have little conception of the great productiveness of this valley until you have spent a season in it. Its extent is quite sufficient to raise food for every being in the world, and its fertility even surpasses that of the Nile. The grass which grows spontaneously upon its prairies reaches a height that is truly wonderful, often growing far above the common height of man. The fruits which are native to its soil are various, and some of the varieties possess nutritious qualities equal to the domesticated fruits of any clime ; and the whole valley, with an area of many thousand miles, is beautified with flowers of every imagi nable hue, shedding a perfume which cannot fail to de light the admirer of the beauties of nature. At the present time, indeed, we are in the midst of flowers. The horny locust, a tree of gigantic dimensions, is covered with flowers that fill the atmosphere with delightful fragrance; and the wild rose, which occupies the quiet nook, beckons the stroller to pause and admire ; while the grape-vine, which has climbed to the topmost branches of the sturdy oak, is now loading its sprigs with fruit, that we may, in the proper time, go and " help ourselves " to the sweet burden of its summer pilgrimage. The pawpaw tree, too, ' promises a rich feast of autumnal fruits, Oh ! what a lovely season is near at hand. Spring is just taking its departure, after spreading a carpet of flowers beneath our feet, and summer comes to ripen the fruits of the earth ; and then comes autumn, the season for gathering ; and winter, when we may " pile up the fire on the old hearth," and there sit to enjoy the social blessings that seem too good for such undutiful children. " Now, my dear W., have I said enough about this reversed it. Alfred the Great : His Life and Anglo-Saxon Works. London : Henry G. Bohn. The history of this volume possesses an interest, from the circumstances under which its execution was undertaken and achieved, and from the fact that to a foreigner we owe this tribute to the worth of the greatest of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers. Dr. R. Pauli, a German, conceived the plan of the work at Oxford, in the November of the eventful year 1848, at a time when German hearts were trembling for the safety of their fatherland. A daily visit to the Old Bodleian Library was resorted to by Dr. Pauli, as the best means of dissipating the gloomy thoughts engendered by the news from his beloved country; and it was in the midst of these that he studied, as a starting-point in English history, the struggles and victories of Alfred of the West Saxons. Not, however, till two years had intervened did the work appear ; and although it was written by a German, and for Germans, we believe that the present translation by Mr. Thorpe is well warranted. Tho ctylo of Oho book io oacy, fluent, and graceful. We may be disposed to find fault occasionally with the critical part of the work, but there the author, probably, did not satisfy him self. To Dr. Pauli we owe a deep debt of gratitude for the justice he has done our greatest king, and for the sincere love with which he has evidently entered upon the task of placing Alfred's life before his countrymen. The publisher has appended to the life one of Alfred's greatest works—his version of Orosius, with a literal English translation, and an Anglo- Saxon alphabet and glossary. Believing, as we do, that the students of England are not sufficiently directed to drink at the pure " well of Saxon unde filed,"—and that the study of Saxon is quite as necessary as the study of Latin to him who would write the English language with propriety and strength,—we cordially thank Mr. Bohn for the present re-publication of Orosius, the work of our great West-Saxon monarch, which most loudly called for a new edition, not only on account of its scarcity and cost, but also because of the glaring inaccuracies, both in the text and the translation, of the only existing edition, that published in 1823 by the Hon. Daines Barrington. The Tranderer, by A. Fesca.—Oh! would I were yon silver moonbeam, by Redwitz.—" Die Throne," by G. Hazel. London : Cramer, Beale, and Co. Three songs from the German adapted to the English version, and constituting a very attractive auxiliary to our vocal literature. Stella Polka—Stella Waltz. London : Jullien. Two contributions to modern dance music by Charles Henry Compton, a young composer, who not only displays considerable genius, but gives goodly promise of future excellence. The Polka is sweetly pretty, and the time well marked for dancing, and the Waltz contains some charming passages which cannot fail to render it a favourite. L'Art du Chant applique au Piano. London : Cramer, Beale, and Co. A series of twelve pieces, consisting of airs from various operas by eminent composers, arranged by the celebrated Thalberg, whose name is a sufficient recommendation of its merits, and forming delightful exercises for the piano -forte. It contains composi tions by Weber, Beethoven, Mozart, Bellini, Mer cadante, Meyerbeer, Rossini, &c., and the prevail ing feature lies in the vocal part, of which the notes are printed larger than those of the accom paniment, in order to be more readily distinguish able, so that the performer may strike them clearly and distinctly. This series will be welcomed by all lovers of good music as a really invaluable addition to their repertory, and at the same time be of eminent service to the student. VARIETIES. A BROAD HINT.—' Sally, what time does your folks dine?' Soon as you go away'—that's missus' orders. A LANCASHIRE THREAT. -Always threatening to rain.—Punch. THE TIDE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN.—A man at tempted to seize a favourable opportunity a few days since, but his hold slipped, and he fell to the ground, con siderably injuring himself. A QUAKER LADY, after listening to the extravagant yarn of a storekeeper as long as her patience would allow, said to him, " Friend H—, what a pity it is that it is a sin to lie, when it is so necessary in thy business." " I DON'T BELIEVE it is any use to vaccinate for small pox," said a backwoods Kentuckian, " for I had a child vaccinated and he fell out of a window and was killed in less tha❑ a week after." ASTRONOMICAL PUN.—When Sir William Hamilton announcedto the Royal Irish Academy his discovery of the central sun—the star round which our orb of day and his planetary attendants revolve—a waggish member exclaimed What ! our sun's sun ! why that must be a grand sun I" RECENT NUPTIALS.—Mr. Samuel Cox to Miss A. Chinne Some praise the lips, the eyes, the nose, And some the soul within ; But Mr. Cox more wisely chose The beauty of A. Chinne. PRINTERS versus BREWERS.—The question " why printers did not succeed as well as brewers ?" was thus answered :—" Because printers work for the head, and brewers for the stomach, and where twenty men have stomachs, but one has brains." THE following emphatic declaration of the celebrated Irish orator, Boyle Roche, has a true national flavour : " If the question is put to me, Mr. Speaker, I'll answer boldly in the affirmative—so." Another Irish member said, on one occasion, with similar felicity—" Sir, if I have any partiality for the honourable gentleman, it is a partiality against him." WHAT Do You THINK.—A young buck of the soap lock order, who wore an unshaven face, because, as he said, it " looked foreign," lately accosted a Yankee as follows I say, fellow, some individuals think I am a Frenchman, and some take me for an Etalyean—now, what do you think lam ?" " I think you are a darned fool."' replied Jonathan. A POSTHUMOUS EPISTLE.—An Irishman, on arriving in America, took a fancy to the Yankee girls, and wrote to his wife : " Dear Norah—these melancholy lines are to inform you that I (lied yesterday, and hope that you are enjoying the same blessing. I recommend you to marry Jemmy O'Rourke, and take good care of the children. From your affectionate husband till death." THE SLOW MARCH OF THE TEAM.—The stranger in Devonshire will not fail to notice the peculiar intonations employed in driving a team there. It is not the words used to encourage the animals (though they are in a great measure peculiar to the county) that will arrest attention, but the tone or tune in which they are delivered, re sembling with great exactness, says an observer, the chantings or recitative of the cathedral service. " The plough-boy chaunts the counter-tenor with unabated ardour through the day, the plough-man throwing in, at rntevals, his hoarser notes. It is understood that this marching chant (which may sometimes be heard at a con siderable distance) encourages and animates the team, like the music of a marching army, or the song of the rowers." —Cocks's Musical Miscellany. SAM SLICK'S " CAUCUS MEETlN'."—Thinks I to myself : Sam, you'd better be a-movin' too. You're gettin' over head and ears in love as fast as you can. and are as soft as if you never seed a gall afore. So sais I : " Sophy, sposin' Mary and you and I take a walk down to the beach, and I will send a note on board to the captin." And I took out a pencil, and wrote to him an invite. Well, as soon as she went to get ready, I called a council of war, and held a regular caucus meetin' be tween my head and my heart. So I puts my elbows on the table, and claps my face in my hands, and opened the session. " Sam," sais I, " w h a t d o you think of this gall ?" " She's handsome enough to eat." " Will she do for transplantin to Slickville ?" " The identical thing." " What do you intend to do ?" " W e ll, t h at ' s exactly what I want to know." " Will she take you?" "It's more than I can tell." "You aint a Blue -nose." " I a m glad of it." " You're a clockmaker." " I aint ashamed of it ; and if she is, she's a fool." " You aint "That's a fact." " Not much lo o k s to brag That's true." " And talk Yankee into the bargin." ‘, " I can't help it." " Well , you've wrote books." Let her take the books then , and leave me." "But aint she the finest (rail you ever did lay eyes on?" 1,, And modest, and " And the sweetest ?" " Lick the double of that mul man.ti " nd at her like all that ?" " Yes all that, an , plied by ten." " UP, then, a ; " What, give up all my prudenc e . Offer on half-a-day's acquaintance, and have all the res t of m y life to find out her faults. Women aint bosses , and they want to be put , ant li keWhS aa t m thro' their paces, and have their wind tried. If I'm took in, it will be myself that did it ; and that al Slick, is it ? " Well, it aint, that's a fact.' cussed thing love is ! It puts you in a twitteration all over just wh en you ought to be cool, and turns a wise man into a b orn fool. Sleep on it. You've just bit it, sais I. Now you talk sense ; you are gettin' to be your self agba. "—San: Slick's Wise Saws and M o dern In stances. valley of the Mississippi ? about its fruits and flowers ? If I had a paper large enough I would surely say, no ; for I would try to describe their fragrance and delightful flavour, so that you might almost taste and smell them as you read this letter. Besides, I have not yet even men tioned the playful freaks of the bounding deer, or the wanderings of the discontented buffalo. But then, we have also in this department a " dark side to the picture." There is the treacherous panther prowling about through the woods, whose long sharp claws and blazing eyes are ill calculated to give us pleasure ; and the rattle-snake, that crawls in the grass, though very kind to give us an alarm of approaching danger, is very quick, always angry, and deadly poisonous. Yet the good hero surpass the evil, and our hopes are seldom chilled by fears. Our rivers— beside many of which the Thames and Mersey would be as little brooks—abound with fish of nearly every imagi nable description, and the sport we derive from deceiving the speckled trout to " bite " at our secreted hook, is far too much to emanate from such a cruel process ; but then we forget the cruelty and enjoy the fun. I really wish you could spend a season with me in this new FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE.—Considerable (sensation was created in Paris on Wednesday, upon the occasion of their Imperial Majesties going to the Opera Comique, when it was reported that an attempt had been designed on the Em peror's life. Among the crowd who pressed around the carriage was a man in a blouse, from under which a pistol fell to the ground, that led to his immediate apprehension, as also to many others, some of whom were soon after wards liberated, but the remainder, being found with arms on their persons, were detained until further inquiry should be made. Their Majesties went to the theatre un attended, where they were received with enthusiastic applause ; but upon their retirement, at the close of the performance, they were accompanied by an escort of Cuirassiers. Admiral Hamelin, who replaces Admiral de la Susse in the command of the Mediterranean fleet, left Toulon on Sunday in the La Plata steam corvette, to take command of the squadron. The departure of the Emperor and Empress for the Eaux.Bonnes is said to be fixed for some day between the 16th and 20th of the present month. A rumour having spread through the mercantile com munity in Paris that Lord Aberdeen had resigned, a de cline in the funds took place on Friday. As, however, the news wnq not confirmed, the funds gradually steadied. GERMANY.—From Coburg we hear that Prince Albert is expected there for the arrangement of family affairs in August next, and that it is not improbable his royal highness may also visit his relatives resident in Vienna. SWITZE RLAND.—lmmense damage has been done in the canton of Grisons, and, indeed, throughout Switzer land and Lombardy, by torrents of rain, and by the avalanches. SPAIN.—A Ministerial crisis, and this time a decisive one, is generally expected. Unpleasant scenes are reported to have taken place at the Palace lately, and the Queen and her mother are said to be on very bad terms. Indeed there seems little doubt that matters are in a serious state. Queen Christina is making preparations to leave Madrid for Dieppe or Biarritz ; and the Duke of Rianzares is ex pected to visit Paris. Great importance is attached to the approaching departure of Queen Christina and her family from the Peninsula, though the motives assigned for it are very various. DENMARK.—SeveraI cases of Asiatic cholera have occurred at Copenhagen, in the quarter of the city where the barracks or dwellings of the sailors are situated. Hopes are entertained that the change of temperature, combined with effective sanitary measures, may stay the progress of the scourge. Meantime the Swedish autho rities at Helsingborg refuse to allow passengers to land coming from the Danish coast. PRUSSIA.—The King, Queen, and Prince Albrecht of Prussia, together with the Archduchess Sophia of Aus tria, left Sans Souci, vi& Berlin, for Hamburg, on the 30th ult. The royal party observed the strictest incognito, the King and his suite being in plain clothes, an extremely rare circumstance. The King and Queen of Prussia travel under the name of Graf and Griffin von Zolern. The Queen of Greece and the Grand Duke of Oldenburg joined their majesties at one of the stations on the road to Hamburgh. RUSSIA.—The Russian ships in the Black Sea con tinue to show great activity. Ships of war are constantly leaving Sebastopol to maintain strict watch along the coast. The Kolumna Russian frigate had on the 20th ult. advanced and tacked within three miles of the entrance to the Bosphorus, the wind having permitted her to fall into the eddy of the current. The agents of Russia have been industrious in exciting fermentation among the Christian inhabitants of Servia and Montenegro, against Turkey, and their success will probably be heightened by the news of the Pruth being passed by the Russians. The purpose of this agitation has been to complicate still more the Eastern question, and to excite greater difficulty in English and - French inter vention. TURKEY.—A despatch from Bucharest, dated the 2nd instant, states that the Russian troops had occupied the Principalities, and that new negociations were to be opened at Constantinople, for which purpose the Czar had commissioned General Ozoroff to proceed without delay to the Turkish capital. Another despatch, dated Vienna, the Ist instant, states that the Pruth had been crossed both at Leova and Skouliany, the troops passing at the former point being destined for Wallachia, and those at the latter for Moldavia. It is a general belief that the Aberdeen ministry has determined not to allow the English fleet to enter the Straits upon the Russians crossing the Pruth ; the fact of such an event not being considered important enough to justify so warlike a proceeding on the part of the British government. An Austrian corps d'armee is preparing to enter Bosnia and Serbia. The Turkish armaments are carried on with unflagging zeal, and the popular excitement has risen to such a height that the government scarcely ventures to talk of negocia tions. Admiral Mustapha Pacha had left Constantinople for the Bay of Besika, to confer with the British and French Admirals as to the most convenient arrangements for anchoring their fleets in the Dardanelles. The Prince of Serbia has offered to place at the Sultan's disposal 45,000 troops, of whom 15,000 are for the de fence of Belgrade, and 30,000 for the protection of the frontiers of the Principality. Gold is being coined in great abundance at the Mint, and four machines are at work day and night. Four ships are being fitted out for immediate service at the Arsenal. The Sanitary Intendance has abolished the quarantine of Syria. The English Ambassador received despatches on Friday, the 17th, brought by land, and on the following day the same courier left. From Salonica, under date of the 11th ult., it is an nounced that Omer Pacha had gone to Schumla, where large masses of troops were being concentrated. Advices from Jassy, to the 24th ult., state that the Russian consuls in that city and in Bucharest have been summoned to appear before Prince Gortschakoff for the purpose of giving information of the resources which the Principalities can afford the Russian army. In pursuance of the system, by which Russia intends to prejudice the inhabitants of the Danubian provinces against Turkey, the Sultan's firman, granting fresh guarantees to the Christians, has been prohibited circulation in the Princi palities. M. Ozeroff is at the head quarters of General Gortscha koff. The peasants in Moldavia are selling their draught oxen at any price, fearing their impressment, and the introduction of the murrain from Bessarabia. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. By the British and North American Royal Mail Steam ship Asia, Captain Scott, which arrived on Sunday, we have advices from New York to the 29th ult. The Asia sailed from New York, at 1 15, p.m., on the 29th ult., and 3 40, p.m., passed the steamer Africa, and ships Upland, American Union, and Intrinsic, hence for New York ; on the Bth, at 2 19, p.m., passed the screw steamer Taurus hence for New York. She arrived in the Mersey on Sunday at 5 15, a.m., having made the run in 10 days, 11 hours, and 4 minutes. The Asia brought 139 passengers, and $591082 in specie on freight. PASSENGERS : Mr. M'llwain and brother Mrs. Taylor, Miss M'Lean, Hon. J. Hill yard Cameron, Mrs. Cameron, two children, and two servants, Miss Easterly, and Miss Watson, Mrs. Dunlop, infant, and nurse, Mr. R. Tyler and lady, Miss M. Jenkins, Miss Clayton, Miss F. Jenkins, Mrs. Hurtado, two children, and nurse, Mr. Brand, lady, two children, and nurse, Mrs. Hamilton, Miss Hamilton, Miss Easterly, Miss Hamilton, Mr. J. M. Leigh, Mr. Cowlishaw, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Leisey, Mr. W. Smith, Mr. Lovett, Mr. Laza, Mr. Hart, Mr. Perry, H.8.M., consul at Panama. Mr. Kuhn, Mr. Oser, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Slidell, Mr. Masenciorff, Mr. Watson, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Carew, Mr. Vander Henvel, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Bettey, Mr. Barr, Mr. M'Lean, Mr. M'Conkey, Mr. Parker, Dr. Bell, Mr. Goodman, Mr. Westcott, Mr. Carvalho, Mr. S. Bull, Mr. W. Reid, Mr. D. Ropes, Mr. E. Crepin , Mrs. Praderas and four children, Rev. G. Perkins and lady, Miss Hutchinson and maid, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. C. Patter son, Mr. Bogle, Mr. Ramsey, Mr. Gates, Mr. Benjamin, Mr. Myers, Mr. Goodenhover, Rev. B. T. Hafkenschied, Mr. Morris, Mr. Clay, Mr. D. M'lnnes, Mr. A. Walker, Mr. Brenan, Mr. Lay, Senor Don Juan Antonia Fer nandez and son, Mr. Rodgers, Mr. E. B. Smith, Mr. Clough, Mr. Roy, Mr. Markham, Mr. Rjnmein, Mr. Genibrel, Mr. Juintana, Capt. G. Heation, Mrs. T. Con nor, Miss Juintana, Master Juintana, Mr. C. T. Stewart, Mr. R. L. Fabrian, Mr. Young, Mr. John Mure, Mr. R. Taylor, Mr. C. Graseman, Mr. Chotte, Mr. Mackenna, Mr. Simmons, Miss A. Heation, Miss C. Heation, Miss Hodge, Mrs. Cobden, Mr. Ponjol, Mr. Dudoussat, Mr. E. C. Angiolim, Mr. F. Attwood, Mr. Poulteney and lady, Mr. Fluck and lady, Mr. Y. R. Smith, Mr. J. Lyons, Mr. A. Ogden, Mrs. Walker and child, Mrs. N. Kochilberg, Mr. F. W. Stone, Mr. R. Kortosk, Mr. J. Stevenson, Mr. S. Hope, Mrs. Newell, and Mr. M'Lever and lady. _ The steam-ship Baltic, Comstock, arrived at New York on the 26th ult. from this port. An extensive fire had occurred at Baltimore. In con sequence of the rigid enforcement of the 13th article of the new constitution of Indiana, the black population of that state were leaving in hundreds for quarters recently vacated in the Eastern States. All persons whose mothers are unable to prove the possession of a greater proportion than one•sixteenth of European blood, and who came into Hoosierdom s ince November 1, 1851, are forced to leave. All negroes, mulattoes, quadroons, octageroons, duodecaroons, &c., who can prove a re sidence in the state prior to November 1, ISSI, are allowed to remain under certain conditions, and by re gistering their names with the county clerk. Any per son who employs a negro who is in the state, contrary to the new law, is liable to a fine of not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars." - Her Majesty's fri Leander sailed from New York for Halifax on the 25th. Shortly before sailing one of her boats was sent ashore, with eight men, in charge of a midshipman, to bring off stores. While at the wharf, four of the men deserted ; the other four preferred re maining. The midshipman attempted to prevent tbeir desertion, but a crowd of bystanders threatened to throw him into the dock if he left the boat. The Leander would remain at Halifax till the 3rd of August, when Lord Ellesmere and suite would join her there, and return to England. Letters from Bogota state that the new constitution had been Advices from Venezuela mention the continued prd 23rduit. adopted, and was to be promulgated o n the gress of the revolution in that republic. The following is the new Pilotage Tariff at New York "Merchant vessels inward-bound, drawing less than four teen feet, $2 per foot; ditto fourteen and less than eighteen, ation at $a armed ser.vepsseerlsfo,ost ; 5 out of sight of Sandy Hook Lighthouse, in the day tim e ' fair weather, pay one-fourth more ; merchant vess el !? outward-bound, $1 50c., $1 75c. and $2 50c. per fe°" eighteen perfoot. ankl ,e u ss p e w is ard s, . boardedN draught as above. Foreign vessels, not entitled to enter on same terms, to pay one-third more from November Ist to April Ist, $4 extra for each vessel, corning of going ; for extra detention $3 per day, and necessary ex penses, if at quarantine. A pilot carried at sea shall receive •5100 per month, during necessary absence. $25 petleltT for understating draught of a vessel. Moving a DB.'q from one river to the other, if a seventy-four, ,f 120; ri gate, $l5 ; sloop-of-war, $'10; merchantmen, $5. Mov ing from quarantine to city, one-fourth of inward pilotage._ Hauling from river to wharf or hack, $3. Rewards to be provided to encourage relief to disabled vessels, &c. The inquest at Montreal, on the bodies of the persons killed at the Gavazzi riots, was still proceeding. Lieu Whartlev, of the 26th Regiment, deposed that the corn' mand to fire upon the mob was given by the mayor, Mr: Wilson, and this portion of the evidence was corro borate by several respectable civilians. The mayor, however , strenuously denied that he had done anything beyon d reading the riot act, and he endeavoured indirectly to throw the blame on the officer commanding one of the' divisions which fired. The inquiry was adjourned until the 17th June. From Kingston, Jamaica, we have advices to the 22‘ 1 ' ult. The yellow fever continued to prevail amongst the shipping. The weather had been favourable to the grow ing crops, and the canes were looking well. The King ston Journal says, "There is no alternative between re bellion and the dismissal of the present members of the council, and the appointment of some more obedient and subservient creatures to the will of the assembly." Th e inspector-general of Bahia had died. The governor of Demerara had arrived at Kingston, en route to England' The following synopsis of the new Mexican tariff hs .. been published in the New Orleans Picayune :- The following are the ports declared open to foreign cOni• coerce :-On the Gulf of Mexico : Sisal, Campeachy, San Juaa„ , Bautista de Tabasco, Vera Cruz, Tampico de Tamaulipas, 111,‘` Matamoras. On the Pacific Ocean : Acapulco, Manzanillo, Sae Blas, and Mazatlan, and Gaitnas, in the Gulf of California. 00 the Northern frontier: Matamoras, Presidio del Norte, an d A Paso del Norte. On the Southern frontier : -Comitan and Tuxtla Chico. Cotton Goods: Cotton, per quintal, .83 ; socks, men's and women's, dozen, 50c. ; ditto, children's, dozen,3oc'; undershirts and drawers, dozen, S 4 ; tape, per lb., 60c. ; gloves , dozen, 50c. ; yarn, white and unbleached, after one year, per lb., 15c. ; ditto, coloured, per lb., 30c. ; thread, spool, 300 yarl dozen, Sc.; ditto, balls and skeins, lb., 30c.; sheetings, bleache and unbleached, one yard wide, 30 threads or less to the quarter-of-an-inch, per vara, sc. ; ditto, ditto, of more than jv threads to the quarter-of-an-inch, per vara, 6c.; printed cot tons, checks, &c., one yard wide, per vara, 6ic. ; cotton, damask' vara, Bc. ; fringe, white and coloured, per lb., 30c. ; stockings' men's and women's, per dozen, .B'l ; ditto, children's, dozen , 50c. ; muslins, printed, one yard wide, vara, 6c. ; muslins, and coloured, fine, one yard wide, vara, Bc. ; ditto, worke d ditto, vara, 10c. ; handkerchiefs, one yard square, coloureds each, 4c. ; ditto, white and fine, one yard wide, each, 6c.: ditto, worked, one yard wide, each, 12}c.-Woollen Goods: Carpet. ing, 1 yard wide, per vara, 50c. ; socks, men's, dozen, SOC„' ; ditto, children's dozen, 30c. ; undershirts and drawers, dere." ; .S 3 50c. ; cassimeres, 1 yard wide, per vara, 40c. ; wool, 117 quintal, S 2 50c. ; worsted work, per lb., -81 ; stocking'?, men's, dozen, ,81 ; ditto, children's, dozen, SOc. ; weal?' and worsted yarn, per lb., 35c. ; broadcloth, 1 yard Wid e ' fine, per vara, 60c.; handkerchiefs, all kinds, each, 12ir.; woollen stuffs, plain, white, and coloured, 1 yard `rid e ' per vara, 7ic. ; ditto, worked or printed, per vara, Linen Goods: Carpeting, 1 yard wide, per vara, 7c.; sheetings' 1 yard wide, per yam, 4c. ; hemp, per ql., -81 20c. ; soda , ' men's, dozen, 50c.; ditto, children's, dozen, 25c.; tape, kends' per per lb., 36c.; gloves, dozen, 50c.; thread, all kll all 1"" per lb., 45c.; twine, per ql., .83; yarn, per ql., -B'2 40c. ; "fir per ql., 50c. ; linens, white and coloured, 1 yard wide, common, per wars, 4c.; linens, plain, and grass cloth, white or coloured, not over 36 threads to the quarter of an inch, 1 Yar d wide, common, per vara, sc. ; linens, of more than 36 three l to the quarter of an inch, 7c.•, linen, printed checks, &c., 1 Yar square, per vara, 7c. ; linen damask, 1 yard wide, per va ra, (-X;; linen, worked, 1 yard wide, per vara, 12ic. ; stockings, men fi per dozen, Si ; stockings, children's, per dozen, 50c.; kerchiefs, plain and coloured, 1 yard square, per dozen, 61 : 1c ' 1- handkerchiefs, white or with coloured border, 1 yard squat . .! per dozen, Ai ; handkerchiefs, worked, 1 yard square, Pe,' dozen, .$2.-Silk Goods: Blondes and laces, all kinds, per IV .B'B ; raw silk, per lb., 60c. ; silk, for embroidery, per lb., ' 2 ,5 0 2 c . ._; m sil i k x , ed for G t o w o i d s , t, : p c e o r t l t b o . n , S an 2 d ; s s i i l l k k. go p o e d r skiln;dlsi,npeenr lb., silk, per lb., .81 30c. ; others, not metal, as linen, wool, silk, al; cotton, per b., .B'l 50c.; wool and silk, per lb., -B'l 50c. ; good with metal introworked will have to pay twenty per cent. (3 7 their valuation. A new tariff will go into ope ra ti on on the Is of September next for all vessels bound from Atlantic ports t ° ports on the Pacific; on the Ist of October for vessels fro n t European ports to ports on the Gulf of Mexico; and on the 1 , 6 ! of August for vessels from American ports and islands to Peru on the same side of the continent as the port of departni, Until this tariff is enforced, duties will be collected by the "" of the 4th of October, 1845, with the reforms established p t y at , l 3 le . laws of the 20th of November, 1849, and 34th of January, 18 " f The imports of cotton yarn will be permitted for the testa ° d, four months, from the Ist of June, paying a duty of 15c. a poun COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW Yortic, June 29. there l has been ONEY.—During h e latte r stocks. The market for Government and State Stoc ks shows the same firmness as for some time past. Th e considerable animation a of ti on the n past speculative fortnight demand for U. S. loans for Government account and banking purposes is sufficient to absorb all that are offered at advancing rates. Money continues abundant. Interest on demand loans has declined to 5 per cent. Business in foreign exchange has not been brisk, but prices have varied but little. We quote bills on London, 01 to 9i Pe r cent. prerc. ; Paris, &c., f. 5,121 to f.5,13_1, sixty daYs s t and f. 5,10 to f. 5,111, short sight; Hamburg, 36i to 361' (From the New York Shipping List, of June 29.) COTTON.—The Baltic's advices from Liverpool have imparted a rather more cheerful tone to the market, but as holders have been free sellers, there is no improvemen t to notice in prices : our rates, however, are above the parity of the Liverpool market. We quote Atlantic Otherpuli Ports. - Florida. Ports. , Low to good ord. Low to good mid. to 9 1 10 —ll 10 —ll 10i 114 Mid fair to fair 1i —lt 11.} Ili 12 — l3 Inferior 0 0 0 0 —' ° RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON. A Exports to Total Exports Stock al l ; Receipts. (it. Britain. to For. Ports. on shipb .• 1853. 3,161,736 1,593,195 2,328,201 268,5 37 1852......2,955,293 1,559,892 2,291,140 182, 321 : Increase. 206,443 33,303 37,058 79, 21 ' (From W. P. Wright's Circular, of June 23.) , 0 This market, influenced by foreign accounts, continue s to wear a quiet and spiritless aspect, with but small do l 'i sales. Holders on the one hand refuse to offer 020 , stock at reduced rates, while export buyers on the oth er are not willing to ship until better satisfied that the pea ce of Europe will not be disturbed. I have no new feat to advise in relation to the growing crops. Every thing, , is yet in the future. If we have seasonable weather hen ce forward, the late reverses will be repaired, and if we 133 13 not, they will be aggravated; this is all that can be s a * at present on the subject. bOI BREADSTUFFS.—The demand for flour for the trade continues on a rather extensive scale, and a fax business has also been done for shipment to Engl ari The supplies are moderate, and prices in general h a s'c been well maintained. Wheat sells readily at an advan of lc. per bushel in some qualities. Indian corn with oll material change. tbe FROVISIONS.—Western pork arrives freely, and, at, - ,f demand is light, prices gradually tend downward. is in good supply but fair request. Prime mess rema l P o quiet, at -818 to 420. Lard is quite heavy, bu s ine, being tpel tend n d t upward nowpwbaurtdmerely in;the g sofaool good demand, s immediate 40, oo and Il home m sacks e held L iverpo ol wants. pretty Cheese goes off steadily, at 7c. to 81 c . f or f a i r t o pr ime. SALT.—The arrivals b o th of West India and LiverP° ° ; have of late been sm a ll, an d w ith a good demand PricAe; group pried and 7,355 ditto fine. - at IRON.—The market generally is firmer. Scotch P i f is b $28,50 to $3O, 6 mos . ; E ng li s h b ars , $55 ; an d S c " -- iron, $37,50, 8 mos. FREIGHTS.—To London and Liverpool freights abr.a; pretty active. To Liverpool : Cotton, 5-32 d. per flour, Is. 90. per brl.; grain, in bulk, sd• per b" w. ' • To London : Flour, Is. 10 - id. to 2s. per brl. To Havre' Cotton, L'c. per lb. NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 27.—Cotton has been active , under the Baltic's advices. The sales reach 5,000 b a les , at full prices, but without any positive advance. Middling is I\ q i n o o ß te l d LE a , t J l u oc N . E to 2s l . ol 1,500 bales, at CHARLESTON, JUNE 28.—Sales to-day, Receipts,9oo. Middling, 10c. Stock on hand, 21,000 c S . ales for the week, 1,900 bales' prices ranging from Sic. to lOc. HAVANA.—Sugars are dull, and the prices o The and low browns and rnuscovadoes have declined. 00 0 exportation list shows an exportation this week of 23, boxes, but much of this was embarked before the bad t weather set in. We have now in this market abl s 220,000 boxes, and the receipts during the last two week have declined. Freights : There is still a want of si' o l _,P; ping, as there is an immense quantity of sugar in sy , To London, for small vessels, the figure is at present q_!, In exchange on London little has been done, and to -Itow has fallen to 104- per cent. premium. nfiS t SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 31.—Our market for La r month has been characterised by extreme dulness in ~I . i, the staple articles of trade. In the face of the large 81 , 0 yak and knowledge of the fleet of vessels fully due , one has dared to enter the market to purchase largely' f wbhailte se: FEMALE PHYSICIANS.—The female medical college on Pennsylvania will commence its next course of lectures Oe, the Ist of October. Its faculty consists of five male 8 , 13 ,1 two female professors—the latter regularly gradus.:or physicians as well as the former—while the dernoustt3' in anatomy is also a female physician. A COLONIAL LEGISLATURE.--TheLieutenant -Gover b n° l s of Newfoundland having informed the House of A.sseillo that the Revenue Act would expire in three daysfil that it was time they should pass a new Revenue Pl 5/ they characterised it as a Cromwellian act, "the ra ° o " 1 atrocious, black, and condemnible " in the annals Newfoundland, and concluded by unanimously voting.,,ix a breach of the privilezes of the house. On the follovtl day they passed the bill. THE COMBINED FLEETS OF ENGLAND AND FB.ASCtSes —lntelligence from Besika Bay to the 26th of June 5 t 5 that the two fleets remained at that anchorage, exc10.21% ing visits, salutes, dinners, and toasts. No less than admirals' flags were flying at one time. To reinforce tl; first French squadron under Vice-Admiral Baron de," s G u a s m s ee,rr bearing the ari n g secondthe fl u a n g d o e f r Rear ßear . A A d d n m ii r a a l a l R c o q na u ianioat with a the p t a 1, 1 , , re l t Le h r i o n fo , r c a e n and is N raiseda val considerablysteamers , - - n4 foss6s, arrived from Smyrna on the 18th of Jun e, 1 , - icls beSo_ t va o Cls f Great Britain, not only in number, but lik etvisu eett a ais ttihr r 'r m aei ament. On the 20th of June, in honour of the Clu ,dos of England's accession to the throne, Admiral Du`Litli entertained at dinner the three French admirals, their respective staffs, and the whole of the The well of the French as Dent the British fleets. The F.T_ admiral subsequently ertained Admiral Dunda b and er , most of the captains of the English squadron at