The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

Y,ibtrp,a,ol ',s/ifanb'a.rbi. TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. THE WEEK 25, 1853. THE saddening influences of the weather which we noticed last week as having imparted a dul less to ordinary conversation has sin ce prevailed with little intermission. The wind has more than once veered to the north, and hopes were entertained of a change to a seasonable frost, but a few hours served to dispel the illusion. On Friday night and Saturday morning the wind increased to a gale, and the sea was so high on the bar that the captain of the steam-ship Canada, which had started for Halifax and Boston, deemed it prudent to put back. As this was the first time that such a circumstance had occurred, it naturally excited comment, but it was generally admitted that he pursued a wise course. The depth of water on the bar was within a foot of the draught of the ship, and though she might have ventured in ordinary weather, it would have been folly, with a violent sea running, to have risked the safety of the vessel. The news of the safe arrival of the Great Britain at Melbourne has created general satisfaction, espe cially as her rapid passage from the Cape proved her s uperiority as a sea-going vessel. The length of time occupied in the whole voyage is solely attri butable to the insufficient supply of coals, an error in judgment which cannot again occur. The fact, also, that no death had occurred on board out of the number who left Liverpool is the more gratifying when compared with the accounts which were re ceived at the same time of the lamentable mortality on board the Ticonderoga, which left Birkenhead with so many poor emigrants. Liverpool lost one of her merchant princeS on Thursday, in the death of Mr. CHARLES Law- RENCE, which took place at his residence, Mosley Hill, Aigburth, in the 77th year of his age; His name had been long known and highly esteemed as the head of the firm of CHARLES LAWRENCE and SON, and he was identified in a prominent degree with the increasing prosperity of the town. He was chairman of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, the first and most prosperous undertaking of the kind, up to the time of its amalgamation with the London and North-Western Company. He served the office of Mayor of Liver pool in 1823, and he was also a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant of the county of Lancaster. Though he had reached the venerable age of 77, and his gradually declining health had led to an anticipation of the melancholy event, his loss will not be the less felt as one of the worthies of Liver pool. The funeral, we understand, is appointed for to-morrow (Wednesday), at St. James's Cemetery. At the meeting of the Dock Committee on Thursday, the vexed question of the rejected tender for the construction of the proposed docks at 'Wapping was again brought under discussion, but without any approach to a satisfactory conclusion. The proposal to pay the expenses incurred by Messrs. BAKER and SON was rejected by those gentlemen, a being an admission of the justice of their claim without being a satisfaction cf it, while their offer to refer the question to the decision of an eminent engineer, at the choice of the Dock Committee, was rejected by the latter body, and consequently nothing was done. The distribution of prizes by the Liverpool Art Union took place on Thursday, and, as will be seen by the list which we have given in another column, the greater part of them were to subscribers in our varied in value from £5 to £5O, own 1 _ r sum may be considered equi7 valent to the amount of patronage which artists of a high order expect to receive, something will have been done to stimulate increased exertions. The arrangement of the learned judges for the several circuits at the Lent Assize, will bring Mr. Justice CRESS ELL among his former constituents. He will be accompanied by Baron MARTIN. The lovers of really good music should not for get the series of concerts which are given every evening at the Philharmonic Hall. It is an ex periment whether Liverpool can support first-class concerts at a low price of admission, and it may be asserted that the character of the entertainment is far superior to anything that has been previously attempted. If the success should be commensurate with the return to which the projector is entitled, Liverpool will take the first rank in the kingdom fox her patronage of this divine art. THE INCREASED RATE OF FREIGHTS.—At the banquet given at Southampton to the directors of the General Screw Steam Navigation Company, Mr. W. S. Lindsay is reported to have stated, that, from his own experience, the rate of freights out wards had increased 100 per cent. during the last twelve months, to which the Times adds, by way of commentary—" So much for the injury which has been inflicted upon British shipping by recent legis lation." No doubt our contemporary would wish it to be inferred that it is our recent legislation— referring of course to the repeal of the navigation laws—which has given this great stimulus to the shipping trade of the country. We certainly can , ,mot endorse Mr. Lindsay's statement, to the extent of 100 per cent ; le fear he draws a little on the imagination. We fully admit, however, that for some months past,. the merchant navy has been recovering from the extreme prostration to which it was reduced by the act of 1849. This we said in an article on the subject in our paper of the 6th instant; at the same time we showed what had brought about the beneficial relief to the shipping interest, namely, the great emigration to Australia, consequent on the discovery of gold in these colo nies. Now, unless it can be shown that it was our recent legislation that called this golden region into existence, we can see no connection between that legislation and the improvement in the prospects of the shipping interest of the country.—Shipping Gazette. MR. JOHN BRIGHT'S ESCAPADE.—In reference to Mr. Bright's libel on the Constitution, at the In gersoll banquet, the Manchester Courier of Satur day says :—" We must, for the honour of Manches ter, repudiate the reflections that are made upon the `manners' of Manchester's sons. Mr. John Bright is not a Manchester man.' He was not born here. He has no connexion whatever with the place be yond being elected her representative by those whom Manchester would be ashamed to own as exponents of either her principles or her manners.' He is essentially a vulgar fellow.' The real repre sentatives of Manchester are not vulgar fellows,' although it must be owned that the politics of the majority of the electors are low enough to encourage such a supposition. That Mr. Bright possesses a large share of rough, uncultivated cleverness is per fectly true, but there are among the constituency of Manchester hundreds of men who are equally clever, far more refined, and infinitely better educated." Of Mr. Bright's unhappy speech the Courier says : " It surprised the American Minister, and disgusted those who surrounded him. It was quite as mal apropos as the speech delivered by the same blun dering vulgarian at the opening of the Free Library. Worst of all. it required a sound-hearted, clear headed ' gentleman' from Liverpool to correct it, — for no Manchester man' rose to perform that office,—possibly, because what Mr. Bright says is never regarded by the intelligent members of the community which he, so oddly, represents in the House of Commons." THE CARLOW ELECTION.—The importance of this victory can scarcely be over-rated; but its rationale requires to be expounded for the benefit of the English press, which will, in all likelihood, misunderstand or misinterpret indications clear to every Irish mind. The triumph of Mr. Alexander was attributable to his own popularity as a resident gentleman and extensive employer, and to the tem porary awakening of the people to the hollowness and insincerity of the p r iests and demagogues. He was, , in fact, considered as, to use his own words— "he considered hi mself t h e represe ntative of all classes in the borough, for he found among his sup porters men of all denomination ; and as and of every religious town, he had them all with the tradesmen of the down to the nailors." w p i t th h . him, from the millers in the employment of the t reasur y wed mob was, indeed, did somewhat for its pay ; b ut candidate, and Mr. th e Carlow were on the side of Alexa nd er ,ilaanced in f inti m i_ spite of priests and agitators they kept po the town, and prevented the coercion the p eace of dation that carried the former election. anLdet this b e clearly understood, that the priests of all from Bishop Haly to Father Maher, used the e ' lass o t strenuous exertions in favour of Mr. Sadleirin moat strenuous that the discontented brigadiers; had act nor part in the matte matter. Those move able by treas ury or relig ious motives were mo ve d to vote for the Aberdeen and Roman candidate No and they did so vote.d it stone was left unturned an to secure their support, brigadiers secured to the extent of 91 votes. The w ere d.d not in the field at all, and they most assuredl y not move a single man to poll for the successful candidate, nor did they withhold from him that was unsuccessful a §ingle Ygte.--Dublin Evening Mail, THE GOOD AND CHEAP WOOL OF AUSTRALIA has done more for our woollen manufacturers than English, Spanish, Silesian, or Austrian fleeces. The supply of the raw material has hitherto teen regular —the demand for the manufactured material in creasing —and the condition of our operative dis tricts prosperous. But the desertion of the shep herds from the sheep to the gold-fields, and the consequent neglect of the flocks, has led to a fear that the raw material will fail and much misery ensue, unless s hepherds be provided for Australia who cannot desert. It is suggested that boys and young women should be sent out under proper protection, and with security for their not abandon ing their pastoral office. Swains, shepherdesses. and abundance of auriferous deposit, would at once reconstitute a golden age. The su gges ti on m i g h t be made effective in the hands of practical men. THE FRENCH EMPEROR.—If Louis Napoleon's career were a three-volume romance, or an extrava ganza at the Lyceum, we should now have got to the last chapter or the final scene. 'We have him an Emperor, dressed in white culottes and diamond buckles, and dancing with all his might. His whole court dances after him; eight balls to be given by eight high functionaries (not one of whose names is half a century old) are advertised at once in the papers. Splendour and adulation surround him. He treads on velvet and is served in gold. It is not a romance however. The gaieties of to night are to be followed by the cold realities of to-morrow. In the midst of all this mirth and magnificence, down go the funds. The funds, as Sydney Smith said, are the greatest fools in the world, and their behaviour at this moment is doubtless quite inexcusable—still, down they go.— London Guardian. THE NEW EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.—Some years ago there was resident at Malaga an Irish man whose name was Fitzpatrick. He was British consul at that city, and he sipped its sweet wine, eat its raisins, and became, as Moliere's Don Juan recommended poor Monsieur Dimanche, the father of a family. The second daughter of this family, Miss Fitz patrick, in due course of time captivated the heart of a very poor younger son of a very poor but ex ceedingly noble Spanish house. He was known as Don Fernandez de Montigo. The youthful pair married. Death soon after became busy with the elder branches of the race; and in a short time the newly married Don found himself the chief of the family, and combined on his own head the honours of Count de I‘lontijo, Duke de Teba, and Duke de Pernamando. In these titles, of course, the young wife shared. She was rendered all the happier thereby, seeing that she was now on an equality with her elder sister, the present Duchess of Alba and Ber wick, who had espoused a descendant of the once famous and illegitimate son of James 11. of England. The " Countess-Duchess," or "Duchess-Coun tess," blessed her husband some quarter of a cen tury since with an exceedingly fair daughter. The child was sweet and sylph-like, of buoyant spirits, wildly gleesome, and with bright blue eyes that gleamed through her auburn locks, like the clear morning star through a summer morning's dawn. This child bloomed into girlhood, and there was growth of beauty with increase of bloom. She was graceful of carriage, with a shape like that of Prior's Emma, "fine by degrees and beautifully less." She dressed rather like Nora Creina than Lesbia ; had the latter's " wit refined ; " and, better still, the gentle heart and the killing glances of the former heroine renowned in song. Thus armed for con quest, Mlle. de Mor.tigo, as she was called, appeared in England in 1852, set an infinite number of foolish hearts aching, witched the world with her noble horsemanship in the Park, and then suddenly disappeared from our horizon to rise again near the I Elyse,e in Paris. The noblest salons of the French capital were but too happy to welcome this nymph and her mother. In external beauty, they might have served a pain ter as types of Spring and Autumn. The entire world of fashion was enraptured with both ; and Louis Napoleon soon began to be as ecstatic as the world of fashion. At every festival given by that very estimable individual, mother and daughter were present; and on one occasion, when a special hunting -party was arranged by the Emperor at Compiegne, the Duchess of Pernamando and the Countess de Teba (as the daughter was now called) were the only ladies invited to be present. At this juncture, the Emperor was knocking at the door of every royal house in Europe, asking for a daughter that he might take to wife, and having the door closed upon him everywhere as a rejected suitor. As intelligence of each refusal reached France, if Louis Napoleon looked and felt chafed, the Coun tess de Teba neither looked nor felt in sympathy. She so contrived.that the sun of her eyes should rather warm the disappointed wooer to new efforts in another direction. His attentions to the young lady became more marked than ever, and universally talked about. The countess affected coyness ; but if, like the lady we wot of, she ran "ad salices," it was with no intention of not being overtaken among the bowers of Compiegne. At imperial fetes by day and balls by night, she was now the lode star of the Emperor. It was manifest to all that the most phlegmatic of men was most consumedly in love. His cour tesy was candyed to a sweetness that only ardent lovers know of ; and it was when he was pressing it most on the Phillis who was yesterday " forward," and now so "coy," that he was thunderstruck with the intimation that the duchess and her daughter were about to return to Madrid. As his lips breathed protestations in the lady's ear, she was seen passing on as though " in maiden meditation, fancy free." The nearer he pressed the more she seemed to shun him. It was Daphne and Phoebus over again, and the former appeared on the very point of exclaiming, as she prettily but not too hastily fled—" Fer opem—si flumina numen habe tis." The intention, however, was only apparent, not real. The new Anne Boleyn was a match for her too unscrupulous adorer. The Spanish Pamela was intent upon marrying the French M. Burchell; and it was hard if Iberian and Hibernian wit toge ther could not do for her who possessed it what shrewdness did for the crafty widow of Scarron— namely, raise her to a throne. Louis Napoleon was given to understand that his homage could be no longeraccepted unless his intentions were honourable. Well : Paris began to be excited, and mothers who had marriageable daughters were especially indignant at the diea of the grand-daughter of a British Consul becoming the consort of the Jupiter Scapin of France. Privy Councillors and Peeresses affected to believe that the whole matter was a joke. The Princess Mathilde (daughter of Jerome) shook her obese sides in farcical rage; and her brother, Jerome Napoleon, at present heir to the empire after his father, turned livid at the thought that anything serious would be accomplished. A per sonal female friend and confidante of the Emperor, however, gave a grand evening entertainment. The Countess de Teba was invited. 'When her carriage was announced as being at the door, the hostess descended to the threshold to meet her, and honours were paid to her such as only royal heads could claim. The young lady alone was calm, but all was perturbation around her ; and every one divined that the Empress of the French was to be recog nised in her who was made the object of so profound a homage. At the same moment Louis Napoleon was presi ding at a Council of his Ministers, most of whom were struck into a ridiculously pitiable condition when he announced that, on his retiring, M. de Persigny was charged to make an important com munication to them. That functionary bluntly imparted to his colleagues that the Emperor in tended to marry Mlle. de Montijo, Countess of Teba—that he did not ask their advice, his mind being made up—but that he admitted them into his confidence as a mark of his condescension. Ac cordingly the poor, stock-jobbing, gambling, servile Cabinet accepted the communication without much comment. One who whispered " Mesalliance" was reminded that the throne of Josephine would not be disgraced by the accession to it of the Spanish lady; and that the Creole woman, whom the first Napoleon loved and betrayed, won more respect from the world than the Imperial Arch-Duchess, by alliance with whom he hoped to consolidate his greatness. And such is the outline of this modern romance. The grandson of the old-fashioned Corsican lawyer espouses the granddaughter of an old British con sul ! There is no disparity of condition here. Th e "loose man," who five years ago lodged in a back room in King-street, St. James's, has won thehand of a clever young lady not with out who, as many years since, was There is no " mesaMance" living as modestly, with more empty title than solid th ousands in Madrid. here. The Emperor of the French , w h o se birth is mill m eg p i r ti ess ate of son of m o a could be strong suspicion of illegitimacy , makes E a lady related to a descendant of an riate—save, indeed, that the gentleman has th e b e re a Ppro former King of England. What P st of the bargain ' ? He is as despicable as Louis XlL —s eis h ofg ood repute, albeit shrewd, as our Mary g of England who married that dissolute monarch. -- Church - and State Ga,zette. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JANUARY PLAYING AT SOLDIERS is far too serious a joke for Lord Hardinge to smile at. Ships have lately been taken up to convey the 85th Light Infantry •on foreign service. The regiment was no sooner ordered on what by feather-bed soldiers is consi dered a disagreeable mission, than some of the officers requested the usual permission from the Commander-in-Chief to " sell out." Lord Har dinge peremptorily refused, and the carpet knights are compelled to go and labour for their laurels. This is as it should be. If " Private John Hobbs" must go with his regiment, so should those who are bound to set him good example. Idle and much be-laced gentlemen, with long resonant Nor man names, are not to retain the old privileges of conquest over the humbler Celts and Saxons. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. -No one knows better than Louis Napoleon that, the less people have, the more they commonly spend. The budget for next year exceeds by upwards of two millions sterling the budget for this, and the government is now embarking in a vast and costly enterprise, which cannot be based on any expectations of com mercial profit—nothing less than the establishment of a line of steamers from Cherbourg to the French West Indies. Now as there is no demand for such a line, as Cherbourg is the worst possible starting point for it, and as the undertaking cannot possibly pay, can we wonder that the English press sees in it a disguised scheme for increasing the French navy, and fresh evidence of aggressive designs. Natural suspicions, we think. " Odious calum nies," the ?loniteur calls them.—Guardian. THE TRUE CAUSES OF THE DEPRESSION IN THE FRENCH FUNDS are, in our opinion, the un sound and even dishonest practices which have been resorted to, with the cognizance of many members of the Government, to give an artificial stimulus to credit, and to create a transient and fictitious prosperity, not based on the legitimate production and increase of wealth. For more than six weeks the tendency of the market in France has been to depression, although the Government has notoriously employed all the means at its command to keep up prices. At the same time the excess of private speculation in various crude schemes has been unexampled, and the avowed object of the increased facilities of credit granted by the Bank of France and the Joint-Stock Banks, under the sanction of the Government, was to encourage a spirit of adventure to the utmost. An immense number of lines of railroad have been conceded and commenced ; public works of every kind are begun, with apparent indifference to the means of paying for them, although many of these under takings had, from their magnitude and magnifi cence, been postponed by former Governments.— Times. THE GREAT MINISTERIAL EXHIBITION.— The Great "Metropolitan" Exhibition of Poultry— Pigeons and Rabbits—being CONCLUDED, the Public is respectfully informed that the " Great MINISTERIAL EXHIBITION (including some very extraordinary specimens of the Pigeon tribe—such as " Capuchins —Tumblers —Pouters— Carriers," &c.,)—will take place the SECOND WEEK in February. TESTIMONIAL."—CORNS ! CORNS ! CORNS ! —Mr. RUSSELL has operated upon my corns— with great skill—and without causing the slightest pain ! ! _ " Credat Juckus." Broadlands, Jan. 20, 1853. - DOWNING-STREET MARKET.-' _ - QUOTATIONS." •" LATEST Old Meadow Hay (Broad-lands) a 60 to 70 Old Scotch (Aberdeen) Clover 7O to 75 Inferior (Netherby) ditto 56 to 65 Wheat Straw (furnished by Cardwell, Molesworth, Young. and Co.) UNSALE-ABLE. STOP PRESS ! — ERRATUM.—For W. S. Wodin's "Soirees Comiques," read Charlie Wood's " Minis tereComique." MOTTO.—"Ex quovis LIGNO,' non fit Concel larius (of Exchequer). MOTTO—for Sir J. Graham—by MAzzIXI.— "Litera scripta—(non) manet."—John Bull. LOUIS NAPOLEON'S MARRIAGE is another, and a very striking, instance of the impenetrable secrecy and uncontrollable wilfulness with which Louis Napoleon forms and acts upon his own propensities and resolutions. No doubt, all the ordinary consi derations of policy, decorum, personal dignity, and usage might be urged, and have been urged, against this marriage. All the Ministers remonstrated; several of them resigned in consternation, when they thought of the ridicule and contempt with which such an alliance would be spoken of in the salons of Paris and the Courts of Europe. Louis Napoleon heard what they had to say, refused to accept their resignations, and confirmed his deci sion by ordering M. Fould to make the formal demand of the young lady's hand. We are not disposed to take an unfavourable view of this deci sion ; but it is impossible not to see that a State in which such events are possible is governed by coups de tete, and that any other sudden caprice of desire, resentment, or ambition, which should get possession of the Imperial mind, would be gratified with the same disregard to all existing modes of opposition. In short, a man who acts thus is not only absolutely without control, but he takes a certain pride in demonstrating that neither the advice of his Ministers nor the motives by which men are commonly affected have any power at all over one of his decisions. The course of conduct to be pursued by such a man is wholly beyond the reach of foresight and of argument. It is impossi ble to affirm with certainty that there is anything he will not undertake; it is difficult to be prepared for those things on which he is secretly intent.— Times. THE GREAT EMPEROR AND THE LITTLE GOD. —Napoleon 111. has met with his match at last. The Eagle has dropped his thunderbolt, and has been metamorphosed into a turtle-dove. Jilted by the Princess Wasa,—snubhed, if report speaks true, by one or two ladies of right royal descent,—the new emperor has determined, since he cannot gratify his ambition, to please at least his fancy. While our readers are perusing these lines, his Majesty is making to the Senate, the Legislative body, and the Council of State, the blushing confessions of a heart irresistibly smitten. Those bodies, we dare say, little suspected, when called into existence by the will of the dictator, that they should ever be sum moned to the Tuileries for affaires de cceur. How ever, so it is. The gaoler of France is himself the captive of a Spanish maiden with coal-black eyes, and Mademoiselle De Montijo is destined to share the imperial throne. Were it not f or th e prover bi a l caprice of the mischievous little god who has van quished the conqueror of the barricades, we should feel disposed to wonder at the precipitation with which the illustrious heir of the great Emperor has determined to condescend to fellowship with mortals of common flesh and blood. Although his chance among the princely houses of Europe may have been but small, the possibilities of contracting a dynastic alliance were by no means exhausted. The imperial family of Soulougue might surely have furnished a princess of suitable years and accomplishments, and congenial tastes; or, in default of a Haytian beauty, Queen Pomare might have supplied from among her relatives one of those Otaheitian Houris, celebrated for their expertness in swimming and in the art of love ; and considering that "L'Empire c'est la Paix," there would have been a singular appropriateness in selecting an Empress of "Pacific" origin. Besides, there was another and a most brilliant chance open to the fresh-dubbed Majesty of France. We have not heard that, except on the boards of New York, the immortal Lola has formed any fresh engagement; and considering the nature of the alliance between the Countess of Landsfeldt and one of the most ancient princely houses of Ger many, a more suitable consort could hardly have been found for a Potentate who is the very imper sonation of antagonism to the principle of legitimacy. —John Bull. AMERICAN STATISTICS.—During the past year 299,504 aliens arrived at New York, of which number 117,537 were from Ireland, and 118,126 from Germany. In 1851 the excess of Irish over the Germans was 93,373. The German immigration had increased by 48,248 persons over the previous year, Whilst the Irish had decreased 45,719. The German immigrants were of the poorest class. The immigration from England was 31,275, showing an increase of upwards of 3,000 on the previous year. The immigra tion from France and Switzerland had increased twenty five per cent. The number of British vessels which arrived at New York was, 49 B4 ships, 252 barques, 407 brigs, and 22 schooners. Th e se numbers of course include vessels belonging to the British possessions. POPULATION OF THE CANADAS.—The recent Cana dian census returns, for 1852, state that the population of Lower Canada, which, in 1827, was 471,876, has nearly doubled during the subsequent twenty-five years, and numbers at the present time 890,261 souls ; while that o f Upper Canada, which, i n 1842, was 486055, has also nearly doubled, and now amounts to 952,004 ; of these there are natives of Lower Canada. Upper Canada. Total. England and Wales 11,230 82,699 93,929 Scotland Ireland Canada, French origin 669,528 2 6 ,417 695,945 Canada, not of French origin 125,580 5 2 6 ,093 651,673 United States Other countries Total 990,260 952,004 1,8427276 FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. The question of the marriage of the Emperor, about which there have been so many reports, is now set at rest, the bureaux of the Senate, Corps Legislatif, and the members of the Council of State, present in Paris, received on Saturday, at the Tuileries, a corn munication from theEmperorrespecting his marriage, in which he announced his intention of espousing the Countess Theba. We have giyen fuller particulars of the lady in another column. Louis Napoleon, accompanied by his aides .de- camp and several Marshals of France, among others, Marshals Reille and Magnan, took his seat on the throne. The ex-King Jerome was seated on his right hand, and Prince Napoleon, his son, to the left. The marshals and admirals stood on both sides of the two Princes. The Emperor stood, and in a firm tone of voice read the fol lowing address : " I yield to the wish so often manifested by the country in coming to announce to you my marriage. " The alliance which I contract is not in accord with the traditions of ancient policy, and therein is its advan tage. France, by its successive revolutions, has ever abruptly separated from the rest of Europe. Every wise Government ought to try to make it re-enter in the pale of the old monarchies. But this result will be more surely attained by a straightforward and frank policy, by loyalty in conduct, than by Royal alliances, which create a false security, and often substitute family interests for those of the nation. Moreover, the example of the past has left in the mind of the people superstitious feelings. It has not forgotten that for 70 years foreign princesses have not mounted the throne but to behold their race dispossessed and proscribed by war or by revolution. One woman alone seemed to bring happiness, and to live more than the others in the memory of the people—and that woman, the modest and good wife of General Bonaparte, was not the issue of Royal blood. It must, however, be admitted that in 1810 the marriage of Napoleon I. with Marie Louise was a great event. It was a pledge for the future, a real satisfaction to the national pride, as the ancient and illust r i o us branch of th e h ouse of Austria, who had been so long at war with us, was seen to solicit the alliance of the elected chief of a new empire. Under the last reign, on the contrary, the amour propre of the country had to suffer, when the heir to the Crown solicited fruitlessly, during several years, a princely alli ance, to obtain it only in a secondary rank and in a dif ferent religion. " When, in presence of old Europe, one is borne on by the force of a new principle to the height of ancient dynasties, it is not by giving an ancient character to one's escutcheon, (envieillissant son blason,) and by seeking to introduce oneself at all costs into a family, that one is accepted. It is rather by ever remembering one's origin, by preserving one's own character, and by adopting frankly in presence of Europe the position of parvenu —a glorious title when one obtains it by the free suffrages of a great people. Thus, obliged to depart from precedents followed to the present day, my marriage became a private affair, and there remained only the choice of the person. " She who has been the object of my preference is of distinguished birth. French in heart, by education, by the recollection of the blood shed by her father in the cause of the empire, she has, as a Spaniard, the advantage of not having in France a family to whom it might be necessary to give honours and fortune. Endowed with all the qualities of the mind, she will be the ornament of the throne ; in the day of danger she would be one of its courageous supporters. A Catholic, she will address to heaven the same prayers with me for the happiness of France. In fine, by her grace and her goodness she will, I have the firm hope, endeavour to revive in the same position the virtues of the Empress Josephine. " I come, then, Messieurs, to announce to France that I have preferred the woman whom I love and whom I respect, to one who is unknown, and whose alliance would have had advantages mixed with sacrifices. Without disdaining any one I yet yield to my inclina tions, but after having taken counsel from my reason and my convictions. In fine, by placing the independence, the qualities of the heart, domestic happiness, above dynastic prejudices and the calculations of ambition, I shall not be less strong because I shall be more free. " Soon proceeding to Notre Dame I shall present the Empress to the people and to the army ; the confidence they have in me assures me of their sympathy, and you, Messieurs, on learning better to appreciate her whom I have chosen, you will allow that on this occasion also I been inspired by Providence." The Emperor then bowed, and proceeded, with the same ceremonial as on entering, to his private apartments. The following list of the numerous titles of the Coun tess of Montijo is given as an heraldic curiosity :—" Dona Maria Manuela Kirkpatrick de Closburn, Countess Dow ager of Montijo. De Miranda, Banas y Mora ; Duchess de Penaranda •, Mother, Guardian, and Administratrix of the person and property of my daughter Dona Maria Francisca de Sales Portocarrero, Palafox y Kirkpatrick, Croy de Havre y Lanti, Lopez de Zuniga, Fernandez de Cordoba, Leiva y la Cerda, Rojas, Guzman, Luna, Enri quez de Almanza, Cardenas, Pacheco y Acuna, Avella neda, Guzman de Iscar, Rodriguez de Aza, (Mica, Bazan Osoria, Enriquez de Valdes y Cardona, Acevedo, Chaves, Hinojosa, Chacon, Mendoza, Cardenas y Zapata, Vargas, Luna, Vivero, Cabrera y Bobadilla, Lopez Pacheco, Funes de Villalpando, Frances de Arino. Albion, Gurrea, Fernandez de Heredia, Monroy, Aragon, Enriqucz de la Cerra, Navarra, Lodena, Bracamonte y Davila ; Countess of Montijo, De Miranda, De Banos, De Mora, De Fuen tiduena, De Albitas, De San Estevan de Gornaaz, De Ca sarrubios del Monte y de Santa Cruz de la Sierra ; Duchess of Penaranda ; Marchioness of Valderrabano, De Osera, De Barcarrota, De la Algaba, De la Baneza, Do Moya, De Villanueva del Fresno, De Valdunquillo y de Mirallo ; Viscountess of Palacios de la Valduerna y su Infantazgo, y De la Calzada ; Lady of the Casa Fuerte de Arteaga, De La Puebla de la Calzada, De Huetor- Tajar, De Cespedosa, De La Adrada, De Codesal, De Vierlas, De Romanillos, De Las Baronies de Quinto, Figueruelas y Estopinan, De Las Villas y Valles de Aza, Iscar, Valdeginate, Puebla de Naciados, Palos, Villaiba del Aicor, San Pedro de Latarce, Horcajo de Las Torres, San Martin de la Fuerte, Moguer, Belmonte, Seron y Layos, de Las Regalias y Preeminencias de Mariscal Mayor de Castilla, Alcaidia Perpetua de la Alcazaba y 1 Fortaleza de Guiadix y Capitania Principal de los cien continuos Hijosdalgo de la case de Castilla • Petrone de Les Insignes Iglesias Collegiales de Penaranda de Duero y de Santa Maria la Mayor de la Villa de Sales, de la Ilustre Capilla de la Santa Epifania de la Ciudad Ile Toledo, del • Colegio de Santa Catalina Martir de los Verdes de Unirersidad de Alcala, de la Universidad y Colegio de San Gregorio de la Ciudad de Oviedo, y del de San Pelayo de Salamanca, del Convent , " de Religiosas de la Santa, Espina de Gelsa, y del Hospital de San Andres de la Villa de Belmont ; Grandee of Spain of the first class, &c." It is stated that Napoleon Bonaparte (Jerome's son) is to be married to the young Princess of Wagram, and that all the preliminaries have been settled. The Princess of Wagram's grandmother was a Princess of Bavaria, and as the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte was a Princess of Wurtemberg, he will find himself connected with most of the sovereigns of Europe. Great preparations are making for the ball to be given to the Emperor by the Senate on the 25th, which is intended to be the most splendid of the season. A sum of 80,000 fr., including 25,0001 r. given by Prince Jerome, is allotted for the expense, and it is expected that a further amount will be called for. The imperial throne of 1804, which has been preserved since that period, has been restored, and is to occupy a platform in the grand gallery of the Luxembourg, on the occasion of the ball. The Paris correspondent of the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung writes :—" During the night, from the 4th to the sth instant, a cabinet council, at which the Emperor presided, was held •in the Tuileries, when the question was earnestly discussed, whether the notes of recognition from the northern powers should not be rejected, and war immediately declared and commenced with the utmost energy, and the exertions of all resources. The Emperor. however, it is positively known, effected the carrying of a resolution for the maintenance of peace." During the whole of the week great excitement has prevailed on the Bourse, and immense losses have been sustained by various parties in consequence of the great fall in almost every kind of stock. The excitement has now partially subsided, the Emperor's settled deter mination on the subject of his marriage not having been followed by the resignation of his ministers. The marriage is positively fixed for the 29th inst. The Emperor has determined to make St. Germain his principal hunting station, on account of its proximity to Paris. Orders have been given to the principal Veneer to hunt a stag in the forest there twice a week regularly through the season. The Moniteur of Sunday week contained an article which excited great sensation. It was a reply to some remarks on the Emperor in the Times, the Morning Chronicle, and the Morning Advertiser, and passages were quoted from each to show with what acrimony and violence these journals speak of the man who has been placed at the head of affairs by the great majority of the French people. M. Fould, who complained that he was not so well paid as some of the other great functionaries, many of whom have from 200,000 f. to 300,000 f. of annual income, has had an addition made to his salary of 50,000 f. Shade of Louis Philippe, what changes ! SWITZERLAND.--The correspondent of the Debats writes from Berlin :—" Prussia has come to an under standing with England respecting the course to be adopted towards Neufchatel, and is now negociating in order to bring the French government over to its views. The king attaches great importance to this affair." ITALY.—The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states from Rome that the Pontifical government has sent a list of names to all the police offices of the state, with orders to arrest the persons therein mentioned, whenever they shall set foot on the Pontifical territory. The Sardinian government has sent Dr. Ghione, a learned canonist, to assist its ambassador at Rome. It is inferred from this proceeding, that the courts of Rome and Turin continue negociations on the ecclesiastical af. fairs of Piedmont. SPAIN.—General Narvaez has addressed to Queen Isabella a spirited remonstrance against the '• unconsti tutional projects of reform" published by her Govern ment, which sow defiance, alarm interests, arouse po litical passions, and appear to drive the Throne towards a precipice." The reply to this document is an intimation that " his Excellency has incurred Her Majesty's highest displeasure," and an order to proceed forthwith on his mission to Vienna, from Which, on:account of its frivolous character, he had prayed that he might be excused. GERMANY.—Private letters from Berlin state that Prussia will support in the Federal Diet the Hanoverian proposition to erect batteries upon the North Sea and Baltic coast. Many of the interior, and especially of the southern States regard this as purely a matter concerning the maritime States, and will oppose the application of the Federal revenues to the object. The German States have formed a convention, whereby each state is bound to receive back any native subject which will be expelled from another State. DENMARK.—The Volksthing has rejected by 'fifty votes against forty-five the removal of the Customs Frontier from the Eider to the Elbe. The vote was in tended to be a demonstration of general opinion against the Ministry, and was accepted as such, as the Chamber was dissolved. 25, 1853. PRUSSIA.—In its sitting of January 12, the first Prussian chamber adopted definitively and without dis cussion, the bill which modifies the constitution by fixing the general elections for the second chamber at intervals of six years, and rendering the session of the legislature biennial instead of annual, as at present. In the com mittee of the first Prussian chamber, the proposition of the government respecting the peerage was adopted by a vote of Sto 7. A Berlin letter says that the Prussian ministry, not being able to remove at once the difficulties in the way of a postal arrangement with France, intends commencing negotiations first with Belgium. RUSSIA.—The great military activity in Poland in creases every day. The number of soldiers in Poland at this moment is not less than 80,000. The cholera 'has not yet disappeared. The Russian Synod has determined to send the Monte negrins some valuable church services and ornaments, in proof of their sympathy. . . Advices from Constantinople state that the intelligence from the Caucasus received there, through Trebizond, was very unfavourable to the Russians. Besides the vic- tories of Chamil Bey, who had forced the Russians to abandon the positions gained last year, Mehemet Arnim, his Naib among the Circassian tribes on the coast of the Black Sea, had collected all the provinces hostile to Russia under his sovereignty, and had recently achieved remarkable success. Several Circassian vessels had arrived at Trebizond, Synope, and Constantinople, with slaves, having forced the line of Russian vessels which blockaded the Circassian coast. TURKEY.—The Journal de Constantinople states the Turkish Governor of Scutari, Osman Pasha, had chased the Montenegrins from Piperi and Zabljak, and driven them impetuously to within their own frontier. 25,000 imperial troops were to be assembled, and it was believed at Constantinople that the mountaineers would he reduced to subjection in a month or six weeks. George Petrowitch Negosck, cousin of Prince Daniel, arrived at Vienna on the 17th. EGYPT.—The anniversary of the birth of the Prophet has just been celebrated at Cairo, with the usual festivi ties, and the extraordinary ceremony of the Doseh was performed on the 23rd of December. On this occasion a number of dervishes and other mussulman devotees place themselves on the ground side by side, as closely as possible to each other, with their backs upwards, and the Sheikh, or chief of their religion, passes over them on horseback. None of the men thus trodden on showed signs of being hurt. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. By the United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Capt. West, which arrived in the Mersey on Thursday forenoon, we have intelligence from New York to the Bth instant. The Atlantic brought forty-three passengers, but no specie. On the oth instant the Atlantic passed the steam-ship Humboldt, and on the 17th exchanged lights with the Arctic, in lat. 50 18 G. long. 24 VT. A bill appropriating 519,500 to discharge the judgment obtained against Colonel Fremont in England, while acting in a military capacity in the service of the United States, had passed the Senate. The New York papers contain the official correspon dence in reference to the proposition of Great Britain and France to the American Government to enter into a mutual agreement disclaiming all designs upon Cuba and guaranteeing its possession to Spain. The overthrow of the Derby ministry is the subject of much congratulation by the Liberal prints. A despatch from Louisville announces the killing of six firemen by the collapsing of a flue on board the steamer John Simonds ; and from New Orleans we have tidings of the explosion of the boilers of the steamer Fusileer, whereby some seven or eight persons were killed. In Mexico the revolution was still raging, and a Min isterial crisis had taken place. M. Mariano Yanez has resigned his office of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and his resignation was accepted. It was thought that President Arista wished to form a compromise Cabinet. The revolution was progreSsing in Tamaulipas with fear ful rapidity. Cardenas, the usurping Governor, has been taken prisoner by the insurgents. Canales was in hiding, it was not exactly known where. Colonel Basave, who was in command of the troops sent to Matamoras by Avolas, has surrendered unconditionally. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. HORATIO GREENOUGH, a celebrated American sculptor, died at Boston. of a brain fever, in December last. SUICIDES have of late been prevalent in Paris and its neighbourhood : several cases have occurred daily for some time past. PROFESSOR KISS, of Berlin, whose Amazon in the Great Exhibition was so much admired, is occupied with a group representing the Archangel Michael in conflict with the Dragon. MR. JOHN FINN, the father of a " fast" young lady, of Melbourne, cautions all clergymen from marrying his daughter, Mary Finn, " who is under age, and to whose marriage her parents are opposed." Abd-el-Kader, accompanied by his suite, arrived at Syra on the 31st ult., on board the Labrador. Free admission to the Dardanelles was immediately granted by the Sultan, and the Emir was admitted to an audience. GOLD AT THE CAPE. — Advices from Natal, of the Bth of November, announce the alleged discovery of gold in that colony. A. specimen of quartz containing about two ounces had been left with a chemist at Pietermauritz burg, but no information could be obtained about it, ex cept that it had been brought from Mooi-river by a Dutch settler, who desired to have it tooted. MELANCHOLY END.—In the Melbourne Argus it is mentioned that a pocket-book had been turned up by some diggers containing letters showing its owner to have been J. Thompson Bramwell, a late arrival, and a nephew of Alderman Thompson, of London. It contained bills for £7OO on the Bank of Australasia. Mr. Bramwell was understood to have left Melbourne for the mines with £l,OOO in cash, beside the bills, to buy gold, and he has not since been heard of. DUEL AT BOULOGNE.—An sffair of honour at Boulogne has caused no small sensation in the fashionable circles of the locality. The belligerents were an Hon. Capt. C-, of the C- Guards, and a Major M-, also holding her Majesty's commission. The cause of the quarrel was very trifling, arising out of a few words spoken at a public dinner table. The major received the fire of his adversary (happily without effect) without returning it, and imme diately afterwards acknowledged himself in the wrong. POETIC JUSTICE.—A middle-aged single man was dan gerously ill near St. Omer. He threatened to disinherit any nephew or niece that persisted in attending on him ; all but one left him—of course they could not disobey the injunctions of a dying man ; but Josephine would not desert the perverse sufferer—he might disinherit her if he liked. He died a few days ago; and it was then disco vered that he had considered Josephine as the only relative who had proved disinterested, and he left her all his pro perty—valued at 80,000 francs. A DUTCHMAN CONSULTING THE RAPPERS.—"" Ish flat you, Mrs. Hauntz ?" inquired the Dutchman. " Yes, dearest, it is your own wife, who—" " You lie, you tevil of a ghost," interrupted Hauntz, st ar ti ng from his seat ; " mine frow speak noting but Dutch, and she never said tearest' in her life,--it vas always, Hauntz, you tief or, Hauntz, you tirty shkamp !' " and the Dutch man hobbled from the room well satisfied that the " rap ping spirits" were all humbug, and that he was safe from any further communications with his shrewish "frow" on this earth.—American paper. A CITY OF DOGS.—A Madras paper contains interest ing canicidal statistics for the curious, from which it ap pears that in five years Madras had been relieved of about 19,500 dogs, whose yelling had been silenced for ever by a very summary and efficacious process, at an expense for slaughtering of £253. The period for authorising cani cide commences with the 15th of April, and terminates with the 15th of September of each year, a period of five months ; so that on an average, 800 dogs were destroyed in the brief period of one month by the club of the dog-killer, and thus put beyond the possi. bility of getting rabid. DEATHS FROM STARVATION.—A married woman was found in her room, in the village of Lansingburg, (Pa.) quite dead on the 22nd December. When discovered the body was found in a sitting posture against the wall, and the room presented the appearance of the most abject want. She had two small children—one of them a little boy three years old, was found in the bed, the other an infant of fifteen months, was found upon the floor, al most dead, its life being only preserved by the warmth communicated to its body by a dog, whi c h h a d k ep t it s midnight vigil, laying close by and partly :across the in fant sleeper's vital parts. PLEASURES OF THE TROPICS.—On Wednesday morn ing the bar-keeper of the Pavilion Hotel, Taboga, not appearing at the usual hour, Captain M'Kinney, the proprietor of the house, proceeded to his room to call him, when, to his astonishment and horror, he found him insensible and bathed in blood. After the usual restoratives were applied, the bar-keeper stated that on the previous evening, after retiring, he remembered ex periencing the most delightful sensations, as of fanning, which soon put him into a deep sleep, and he had no con sciousness of the attack made upon him until the morn ing. The only wounds by the bat were two small spots on each of the great toes, from which it is calculated the man must have lost at least half a gallon of blood. He is at present so weak as to be unable, for a short time, to attend to his usual business.—Panama Star. THE ERICSSON CALORIC SHIP.—The New York Tri bune says :—" The performance of the caloric-ship Erics son, on Tuesday, the 4th instant, is considered entirely conclusive. The vessel went down the harbour with the wind and tide at the rate of 14 miles an hour. The engi neer allowed the fires to go entirely out while the vessel lay at anchor below. On the following day they were rekindled, and the ship was propelled back against both wind and tide at the rate of 71 miles an hour, with but a partial application of power. There were some imper fections in the working of the machinery, arising merely from defective adjustment, or imperfect packing; but nothing that was reckoned as casting any doubt whatever upon the entire and perfect success of the great experiment with the ship and engine as they now stand." The New York Herald, of the Bth instant, says :—" The Ericsson was put under caloric early on Tuesday morning, and started from Williamsburg between nine and ten o'clock. At 9 hours 56 minutes she passed the flag-staff on Gover nor's Island, and at 10 hours 30 minutes and 30 seconds she was abreast Fort Diamond, thus m a ki ng a distance of 71 miles in 34 minutes and 30 seconds. From thence she proceeded down the bay, rounded to below Spithead-buoy at 11 hours 21 minutes, and there anchored in consequence of a snow squall. She returned on Wednesday, and anchored off the battery at about two o'clock in the afternoon. The distance between the stated points on Governor's Island and Fort Diamond being accurately known by triangulation to be 7 miles 660 yards, the speed attained was as stated about 14 miles an hour. The con sumption of fuel is ascertained to be only six English tons per 24 hours, a saving, as compared with steam-ships, of more than 80 per cent. As the ship draws 16 feet 10 inches on an even keel, this performance at a first trial has astonished all concerned in the enterprise.' TRANSATLANTIC JOURNALISAL—The following speci men of " fine writing" is extracted from the political cor respondent at Albany of the New York Herald:—"The political cauldron begins to boil up like a kettle of ma. The incoming Governor Seymour is to have us as busy as a bee in a tar bucket getting out his message. Some hall dozen of the faithful profess to have seen it, and they all unite in saying it is emphatically a comical document , and nothing else. The canvass for the Speaker of the House is going on very brisk. A count of noses has been made, and the original hunkers have a majority of twelve; of the eighty -six democratic members, still no one can calculate on the soft shells, and when the last comes in caucus on Monday evening next, the State officers (barn' burners), backed by the Atlas and Evening Post, 00' dently reckon on a triumph. Mr. Gale has broken loose from the New York delegation, and goes it strong for the barnburners." AUSTRALIAN WINES.--in 1845 there were 611 acresof vineyards under cultivation throughout the Colony, pro* ducing 54,996 ga ll ons o f w i ne , an d 1 ,4 3 3 gallons of brandy', In 1846 the quantity of land under vine was 749 acre , and its production was 52,337 gallons of wine and 1,38 0 gallons of brandy. In 1847 there were 899 acres of vine' yards, producing 54,035 gallons of wine and 1,402 gallone of brandy. In 1848 there were 887 acres of vineyardSo producing 97,300 gallons of wine and 1,163 gallons of brandy. In 1849 there were 963 acres of vineyards, pro. ducing 95,843 gallons of wine and 1,266 gallons of brandy'', In 1850 there were 1,0691 acres of vineyards, producing 111,085 gallons of wine and 1,958 gallons of brandy ; and in 1851 there were 1,86 - acres of vineyards, producing 84,843 gallons of wine and 1,641 gallons of brandy. One of the greatest difficulties which the manufacturers of the Australian wine have had to contend against of late has been that of procuring bottles, and they now have under consideration the propriety of establishing a bottle factory' - - MARTIN LUTHER'S WEDDING-RING. —The New York Times gives an account of the discovery of what is sup' posed to be the wedding-ring of Martin Luther, whose name and the maiden name of his wife are inscribed upon it. The story of the relic is, that a German, a jeweller, in Broadway, recently presented to Lieut. D. a gold ring for sale, and wished merely its amount in weight as an equi' valent. The ring attracted the attention of Lieut. D., and, he purchased it at an advance of its nominal value. 00 inspection it was found to be the wedding-ring of Luther' It is in good condition, bearing little mark of chafing of extraordinary wear. It is by no means massive, but, 00 the contrary, slight and delicate in form. Previous to it. being shaped to the finger, the plate was chased into figure of the Crucifixion, most delicately and beautifully wrought, so that the cross and paraphernalia appertaining are distinctly visible. On the centre of the body of the Saviour is inserted a ruby. The inside of the ring bear l this inscription, in hold letters, in German text :—" Mar' tin Luther, Catherine de Bore, 13th January, 1525." DEATH OF GENERAL PIERCE'S SON.—By a serious accident on the Boston and Maine Railroad, the President' elect has been deprived of his only child. The Ne e York Herald says :—" The simple fact is, that the car ill which General Pierce, his lady, and son happened to be, passengers, was th r o wn o ff t h e track, and precipitated. down a steep em b an k ment, making a complete forward turnover in its descent. General and Mrs. Pierce, aka some ten or twelve other persons, were severely, thong not dangerously, injured. But when the former recovered his child, he he found that his brains were dashed out—be was dead. Personal injuries and sufferings were a ll ab' sorbed in that dreadful affliction which had thus suddeull overtaken,—even in the hour when the sky was brightest' when Heaven looked most propitious. and when the hopee and aspirations of a great nation had centred in hire; Wondrous and inscrutable are the ways of Providence' Who can fathom thy mysteries ! The deceased wa s the only surviving child of Franklin and Mrs. Pierce. 116 bore the name of Benjamin, in remembrance of his brave grandsirc. He was a fine, healthy, and amiable boy, foe whose future the brightest prospects might have bees anticipated." THE MEANING OF THE EMPEROR'S STAG HUNTS,' The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardia n says :—" The Paris papers contain the most elaborat e notices of the intended halls and hunts of Louis N a p o leon' Orders have been given to the principal veneur of Germains to hunt a stag in the forest there twice a wee through the season. A ccoun t s diff er as to the otject has in view in devoting so much of his time to that amusement. By some it is said that the score of phYss cians whom he has i n hi s pay h ave unanimously agree d that he must take a g r e a t d ea l more active exercise, a nd study less, or he will s u ff er f rom a so f tening of the brain'" Others affirm that these hunting parties have been got " merely as a blind to s creen f rom pu b l i c observation ? frequent, long, and earnest conf erences w hi ch he has lately been holding with several o f hi s genera l s, w het matters of much mo re i m p or t ance th an th e price of reli and railway sh ares are di scusse d . O ne result of Suitt discussions, I suppose, must have been the increase four millions of francs which is said to have been made to the marine department of the budget, for the p ur pose ° G increase the oce a n squadron, to finish Ch er b ourg , and arm the coasts.' " A HIT IN THE DARK. —The Englishman (Decemb er 4) publishes the following amusing episode in the Bur c i mese war ;—" The s e tti ng sun was gilding the bro ad waters of the Irrawaddy as th e steamer Mozuffer, witb the Calcutta mail, cas t h er anc h or below the Hast i n gs shoal, dreading, at that late hour, to attempt its danger:, ous passage. But a littl e ti me h a d she lain there when the Mahanuddy, feeling her way, cautiously yet elosel e f d approached her, and a staff-officer from the last-named vessel, hailing the Mozuffer, eagerly asked for the lates t news. ' The news !—th e news ! ' exclaimed he 1312; about 50 persons, officers and privates, clustered around; anxiously awaiting the desired information. ' Newk' s responded a gruff vo i ce f rom t h e Mozuffer—' ay, there I news, and good news , too, for you military. Tha i old woman, God w i n , h as b een superseded, and Genera, Cheape has been appointed to the command in his room. General Godwin was himself the officer who was toll the news ; those a roun d hi m were his staff, or the troop' proceeding to the capture of Pegue ! We will Int attempt to describe th e scene ; it sufficeth to say, the principal actor in it was furious, immediately stopP L e o the Mahanuddy, an d or d ere d the officer commanding ° l c Mozuffer to send him his despatches. Those pres o tell us that it was difficult to say which was most anlog r ; ing, the rage of th e G enera l or the consternation on b oa rd the Mozuffer, when they learnt the name and rank of th e officer to whom they h a d i mpar t e d the interesting intei V Bence." AWFUL CATASTROPHE.—A correspondent of 4 6 .4 Panama Star of the 18th ult. gives the following dew of the destruction of Acapulco by an earthquake :—" Cortes will bring you the news of a severe earthquake ',""g Acapulco. The fi rs t s h oc k occurred at 20 minutes Pi t o 10 o'clock on Saturday night, December 4th ; and t° shocks, although l ess severe t h an the first, have bees repeated every hour or so since. It came without notice or previous ind ica ti on, except that about six, p.m., t he mercury suddenly rose to 88, being three degrees warre ho than during th e d ay ; b ut even this cannot, perhaps/ 410 attributed to th e eart h quake. The ground rolled like ocean in a sw e ll, an d t h en a trembling motion was felta lasting thirty s econ d s . Ab out thirty of the best build % in town have be en ru i ne d , some falling completely, WiPiO all of any worth have b een ser i ous l y i njured. The loge at least 200,000 dollars. All the bottles, glass, 11/1 ,0 crockery ware in the h o t e l s an d pr i vate houses _,, thrown from the shelves and tables, Yesterday ragg r ee quite a severe shock was felt, throwing down a fen ro itotz which had partly fallen at the first shock. The Hotel fell at the first shock on Saturday, but by 51 0 .: ( 1,01 miracle every one was saved in th e t own . In fact, R,g not heard of a single life being lost, although not 1 6 ,'1 2 were seriously injured. Th e w h o l e popu l ation now nil in the streets or in the c our t- yar d s, and processions, images of the Virgin and Christ, p eram b ulate the streetos with solemn strains of music, singing, and muffled di ne; imploring God f or mercy, As I write to-d a y, Decere 9, at noon, I h ave constantly to spring from my des k ' 0 4 shock after shock is repeated, for fear of falling tiles walls. Writing under such circumstances is rather uncomfortable business; so, having given you the 111 _% facts, I will close. A vo l cano i n erupt i on was se , ` o f plainly by the passen g e rs o f th e C or t es on th e even ing the 9th, about GO miles back of Acapulco. The weath er previous to the earthquake, and d ur i ng th e s t ay of f u o . Cortes, was very sultry, with a clear sky and burlw'' sun." ( S.) DEFINITION OF A " SNUBBER."—An Albany jkot paper thus chronicles a scene in the police-court of t city :—" As S qu i re P arsons was attending to the police „, 1 r w e a t s u r b a r so personalua ga t hp s pt i x eun o pr l o ca c er kg wase, d o wn the t S h u a n s d gb a nr y ea al m cf ho e r r o n af i n general g the, a p e y a o c u oe E r — ostiot m s t si r tt a ah te d . of merriment from the spectators. His hat, without., crown and with but half a rim, stood on his head at e rd angle of forty-five degrees; his coat, bereft of halt; skirt, bronzed throughout with dirt and grease ; hiof ( jui taloons of as many colours as Joseph's coat, each'e%, having its own patch of territory ; while his boots St l de , gled hard to resist the disposition of his feet to protru „, WhereTtl t y s accoutred, inquiredc d o o u t y r o e d uh , v h ne e squire ea. s k I t) cathhteeb magistrate. m gsi Erie Canal.' How long have you lived there ? ' g, a ve. since the scow-boat Betsy Baker was launched.' ' l ', your Pand po n honour'P thev ir you the captain ? " No, I'm the snubber.' The sar i ber ; what's that ? " Well, now, your honour, I suspec t , that you was a lamed and eddicated man, ad yet 9 ° . don't know wh a t a snu bb er am ! " I confess I don t' please tell us.' Swelling and raising to his full belie.; with a sense of th e dignity of his position as l ex i cogra pe% to a court of justice, Mr. Smith,,with a bow of m ajesti.,v consequence, thus unbosomed himself :—' A snu bb er . it please the court, is one notch higher than the first Ma"; and betwixt him and the cook. H e h as d ou bl e ra tion and an extra pint of grog a-day. H e snu b s t h e boat whte7, she heaves-to on the heel-p a th s h ore , an d unships tP. whiffle-trees in passing a lock. In a storm he takes al: post of danger immediately abaft the stove-pipe, with it' axe in hand, ready to cut it away if the craft is throro; on her beam-e n d s . If t h e ga l e carr i es away the towli,eo I mounts the h encoop an d ra i ses a fl ag o f di stress. If tea crew heave-to the small boats, lis the last man t o leal° the ship, and then only not till he has lashed the heln i , to keep the boat before the wind and prevent her sinkillo crosswise the canal. In a calm I waits upon the eoom washes dishes, peels potatoes, and snubbs the captain whe n he interferes with the cook or the kitchen arrangement ° ' In short, the snubber is the biggest man on the quarter; deck or before the mast, excepting, perhaps, the captiu4 Now, squire, if you're satisfied with this expl ana ti on , can " Igo ? ' The squire let him off this time, and in half-u: minute he was leaning it down State-street as if the choler' or an anti-renter was after him." HORTICULTURE..--OPERATIONS FOR THE WEO —The Greenhouse is now in full beauty. CamelisOf acacias, many of the winter flowering heaths, ep oc rise o . l Daphnes, and several showy New Holland plantsareinPe bo r fection ; to keep th em so a ll th ey wan t i s a carefully moderate supply of water and f r esh a i r w h enever th e weather permit. The beautiful Coronilla glauca is now in War , ' but like many winter plants which lose the fostering 1 10 fluence of the summer flower sh ows, we very rarely s ee grown well, although the profusion of its little coronets % golden flowers, and its sweet p r i mrose scent, entitle iti, careful attention. Our wi n t er p l ants w ill never have a 'll'o chance until Jardins d'.Hiver are established inlarge toll; and winter exhibitions held for their encouragement. the out-door departments nothing can be attempted - 0 present, for until th e so il b ecomes d r i er a ll the operatioo of digging, trenching, &c, will b© impracticable, by gri da bu Ex bei Ea tio the Fa, ace Pu the gra Ch ing sec btu Ca Ca Ri l Tu het Mt wit ags R,