The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-26 00:00:00

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PESTE, JAL 16.

(nos ous OWN

If you should ask me whether it is possible to
prevent the downfall of the Austrian empire, I
conscientiously answer yes ; but the Austrian
ministers must make up their minds to accept the
laws of 1848 for Hungary, without any insidious
intentions of taking back in more propitious times
what has been granted in the hour of danger. Let
Barou Nicholas Vay be appointed prime minister
of Hungary, to form an independent ministry, re-
sponsible to the Hungarian parliament ; let the
Austrian debt be equally divided between Austria
and Hungary ; let the administration and system
of finances beyond the Laytha be administered ex-
clusively by Hungarians, and Huugary, establish-
ing the national guard against any encroachments
of a central power, will be satisfied, provided the
other provinces of the empire are governed in a
constitutional way, so as to exclude the idea that
either the brutal centralising despotism of Baron
Bach, or the cunning intrigues of the system of
the late Prince Metternich, could be re-introduced
once more. Italy is for the present moment un-
able to make war. Austria has therefore some
time for reform ; she ought to settle the
Venetian question as soon and as completely
as possible, since it is impossible to deny that
another storm is brewing. Neither Germany nor
Italy can remain in their present position, the desire
of union, or, if you prefer the expression, of unifi-
cation, has seized the German and Latin races, and
in the background looms still the mighty Oriental
question, which must be solved within the next
ten years. Unless Hungary is completely pacified
when a European disturbance or war arises—and
it may arise at any moment—Napoleon,or Garibaldi,
or a German revolution may put the spark to the
train, and Austria will be blotted out from the map
of Europe. Repression cannot save her, it may,
perhaps, prolong her agony and defile her death-
struggle with blood and civil war, but it cannot
give consistency to the tottering fabric.

PRUSSIA.

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RINULTS OF THE RECENT TRIAL OF ENGLIARMRN

AT BONN.

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An event has just occurred in Prussia which
materially affects the issue of the late trial of the
English n Bonn, and is not the least remarkable
part of the affair. One of the English, it way be
remembered, had been condemned on the 24th of
December to pay 100 thalerst, and four others 25
thalers each, besides costs, the rest being acquitted.
Many of their German friends advised them to
appeal from this sentence ; but at a meeting held
on the 26th of December it was resolvei not to do
so. At the same it was agreed, by equal contri-
butions from each of the accused, to defray the
expenses of the trial. This proposal originated
with the parties who had been acquitted ; and,
resting as it did upon the principle of joint respon-
sibility, which had been uniformly maintained by
all of them, was finally adopted. The court had
indeed refusal to recognise this principle ; but the
Englishmen were still convinced that it was just,
and proved the sincerity of their conviction by
obeying it. The money accordingly was so raised ;
the fees of counsel and other incidental charges,
amounting to about 150 thalera (or 280 were forth-
with paid, and a larger sum was retained fur the
payment of fines and costa, as soon as the) should
be demanded.

No one thought that a remission or modification
of the sentence wax likely to follow ; neither was
any attempt made to seek it. But what has hap-
pened 1 On the 2nd of January, a few hours before
the expiration of the time within which au appeal
might have been lodged, King Frederic William IV.
of Prussia dies, and, with the accession of William
1., comes the usual proclamation of pardon of all
political crimes, including the particular Class of
offence of which the English bad been accused. It
is dated the 12th of January, and thus the English
find themselves unexpectedly relieved at the last
moment from all penalties. unfortunately, the
relief conies in such a shape as to make it impossible
for any to regard it either as an act of justice or an
act of favour. It rests not upon any consideration
of the real merits of the case ; but is, logically
speaking, a mere accident, confessedly beyond the
control, and perhaps even contrary to the expectation
and wish, both of the judges who passed, or of the
superior authorities who may have reviewed,
the sentence.

THIS ELEt-rxlc LIGHT ig now produced by the
Went but immense force of the magnet, precisely similar to
that employed in Herring's Magnetic Brushes. Dr. Hassell says,
I regard them as the moat perfect brushes hitherto monk', so
respects their mechanical cunstniction and their maimed&
action." They are the remedy for grey hair, neuralgia. rheum,
item, Couuterfeltsarr being made.—ittllces, 3?, !lasing.
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LONDON, :UTURDAr, J N. 26.

THY. American Revolution advances. Missis-
sippi, Florida, and Alabama have now seceded
fr au the Union. But it is must important to
observe that none of the Northern or Border Slave
States have taken any definite step in the same
direction. And these an: the States which would
suffer immediately in the event of the Slave
separating from the Free States. In such an
event, what is to prevent the slaves escaping
across the line, and the slaveholders of Kentucky
and Virginia losing much of their property ? The
same mail which brings this intelligence brings also
the Message of President BITH•NAN with respect
to South Carolina. If the original message to
Congress was weak, the present lucubration is, if
possible, still weaker. The events which have
lately occurred with reference to South Caro-
lina are related with sufficient accuracy—the
duty cast upon the PRESIDENT to protect
the property of the Federal Government
is asserted with sufficient distinctness
and an intention to perform that duty is plainly
intimated, although it is admitted that nothing
effectual has been done in pursuance of such
intention. On the contrary, the hopes of the
PRESIDENT of a peaceable solution have proved
vain. Not only the Federal buildings, but the
stores of arms and ammunition belonging to the
Federal power, have been seized and appropriated
by the Secessionists ; and to crown all, a vessel car-
rying reinforcements to Major ANDERSON in Fort
Sunit.:r has been fired at and damaged by the
guns of the Charleston batteries. According to
the PRESIDRNT the Union was never before exposed
to more serious danger. The imports have
fallen off with a rapidity never yet known in
time of pease—the Treasury is empty and can pro-
cure no money—trade is paralysed—manufactures

are stopped—the best public securities are suddenly
depreciated, and thousands of poor workmen
are thrown out of employment. The emergency is
unparalleled, and yet—what does the PIUS/WENT
of the great American Republic propose to do?
To meet these portentous difficulties what remedy
does he suggest 1 With the exception of a faint
reference to some revival of the Missouri compromise
—to a prohibition of slavery north of a certain
line—positively nothing. Having nothing to
'mimes; he casts all responsibility upon Congress,
and conjures them in the name of the Union to
devise some remedy. What that remedy may be
it is no business of ours to suggest, but if the
Union is saved it will certainly not be by the
energy of President BUCHANAN.

PeiN. irt.L4 to which, as a nation, we have
practically assented are—that every individual in
the nation has a right to • subsistence—to the
absolute necessaries of life—from public charity,
if he cannot otherwise obtain it ; that, for pro•
dential reasons (genial and not sordid considera-
tions), such legal charity must be of a strictly ab-
stinent character ; that it is for private charity to
du whatever else is needed, to give other aid than
bare food and shelter, and especially to prevent,
as far as possible, that resort to legal charity which
must always be more or less of a disgrace, and
therefore demoralising. The theory is that this
spontaneous charity is really private in cases which
require the gift of actual food and clothing. The
department in which private or spontaneous charity
may fairly be publicly administered is that in
which particular classes need • special aid, involving
nu disgrace to the recipients, because they could
not have created the resource for themselves. (Mr
Hospitals, Ragged Schools, Reformatories, and
wine few Homes and Refuges for classes of per-
sons in peculiar danger or disadvantage, are of this
kind ; and, though there is always mach that is
questionable in a system of official man-
agement of benevolent funds, our public chari-
ties of this class are • blessing and a
credit to the elinini )))) ity. But we have long
passed the line—and of late outrageously—which
divides this social blowing from the social curse of
a public administration of private alms, in the
form of the absolute necessaries of life. In other
words, we have taken out of the hands of the
Poor-law office its proper work, and have done it
as ill as it was ever done by the town guardians
and county magistrates of thirty years ago. We
shall suffer over again what we suffered then. Our
police offices have been converted into relieving
offices, thus associating the idea of success-
ful mendicancy with the solemn impressions
belonging to courts of justice. We have
crowds in attendance who had no cos-
e..ii at the police court at all ; and bags of
looney emptied among them by hands which
had ,iiiite another kind of work to do. It is no
par: of the duty of police officials to do the
work of the relieving officer on the one hand or
the charitable citizen on the other. In the same
way, all the associations for relieving hunger, cold,
and nakedness become vicious in principle as soon
as they are made public. We may use the con-
venience of association, and cannot avoid pub-
licity in takiiil care of the sick, the unprotected,
the blind and deaf, the ignorant. and the over-

tempted ; but the actual subsistence must be
otherwise imparted, if we would not create:evil
instead of curing it.
It strikes everybody that nowhere (but in the
exceptional case of Coventry, which has other
reasons for the distress) has there been anything
like the pressure we have witnessed in London.
The reason is, unquestionably, to be found in tho
extent and notoriety of the London winter cheri-
' ties of the last few years. Elsewhere the guar-
dians of the poor have exerted themselves, and
shown resource as well as activity ; and private
charity has been watchful and diligent, as it
always is if left to do its own duty. In the
metropolis—in the very heart of the empire—the
Poor-law administration has scarcely come into
view at all, and we seem to have had almost as
much of its work to do as it it did not exist. We
shall be told that this is our own doing—that we
assumed the business ourselves, stepping in be-
tween the poor and their proper guardians : and
we shall hardly escape without sonic taunts for
having bred more destitution for next season than
we have relieved in this.

There must be am end to this pernicious confu-
sion and mismanagement. The great question is
how. The difficulty is greater than it would have
been this time twelvemonths ; and it would then
have been greater than the year before : which is
a reason not for hesitation but immediate decision
and steady action.
ku equaluied rate levied on the metro-
polis and neighbourhood would have afforded
scope for such an enlarged Poor-law ad-
ministration as would have met the special
calls of the season. As it is, the poorer parishes
are ruinously burdened, and yet unable to cope
with the destitution about them, while the rich
parishes which have few or no poor are rated so
low that hard and careless citizens give next to
nothing, and the liberal throw their money in
handfuls into some advertised fund, in blind trust
that it will be well administered. We must see
that the Poor Law is so dealt with in Parliament
this session, as that it may, at less cost to society,
do much more good; and be rendered able to meet
any emergency caused by weather, as it was
designed to do. An equalised rate ought to be
able to cope with any natural amount of real de-
stitution, in any season ; and we must take care
that it is rendered sufficient. Again, we must
mend our methods of charity—send no money to
police magistrates beyond the original and special
purpose of their fund ; cease to throw our money
into the lap of any society or committee which
invites the poor to come and beg. We may give,
freely and abundantly ; but it should be by pri-
vate
methods, directed by our own knowledge and
judgment. If the guardians could undertake all
the overt and desperate cases, and we would look
to the more delicate and hopeful cases within our
own observation, or that of private persons whom
we can trust, we should soon extinguish the
temptation, the scandal, and the unfathomable
misery of such a prevalent mendicancy as has dis-
graced London this winter. It may seem easy to
give out from the bench of the police-office that,
now the weather has changed, no more per-
sonal applications for relief will bo entertained ;
but the evil is not at an end because the
independence of thousands of homes is de-
stroyed, and the self-respect of a multitude of
our fellow-citizens broken down. It will take a
long time to build it up again ; but those who
really wish to do good must set about it. There
is no great merit in giving money out of a full
purse. Let good-hearted Englishmen show that
they can do something better, by applying them-
selves to the work of systematically obviatingdestitu-
tion, instead of trusting to random and temporary
ways of getting rid of it.

MILTING Or PARLIAMZNT.—The following circu-
Lir has been addressed to the liberal members of the House
of Comma.: - " 94, Piccadilly, 22nd January, 1961.
Sir, -As matters of considerable importance will come
under diacomiou at the meeting of Parliament on Tuesday,
the kith of February, I shall feel greatly obliged by your
attendance in the House of Commons on that day.-I have
the homier to be yours faithfully, Par.serurrom."
LORD BROUORAM AND THR &SHIM:HAM CON-
MEWL -The following letter was received by Mr. M. I).
Hill too late to be read at the meeting on Wednesday : -
" CABINS (Var.) Jan. 19.-My dear Hill, I have again to
express my peat regret at 991 king able to attend the
conference. You may well believe how deep an interest I
take in it. There wants some such thing to give one com-
fort in these times, when such untoward events are, it is to
be feared, in pngresa. The difficulties unhappily interposed
by various causes (wine of a kind not easily removed) to
the settlement of Italy under a constitutional government,
freeing her from the wont tyranny of modern times, and
above all, the alarm felt by all the friends of human im.
peovement at the risk of disunion in America, are natu-
rally uppermost in one's mind at the present time. How
much it is to be wished that the contending parties in both
Italy and America would take a leaf out of our books, and
learn the wisdom as well as virtue of compromise and mu-
tual concession T Our constitution is the genuine (result of
this wisdom. I heartily wish Gnomes to the conference, and
believe me, sincerely yours, H. BMOUGHAM."

The United Serrico! Gazette of tu-day,after quoting
from the Express of Out evening the communiaition
U 713 to the new government order as to the rifles of volun-
teer, adds, "We are further informed that in the cases of
corps the men of which have purchased their own rides,
the order is equaUy imperative, the government, however,
eggreefag to pay the cost price of the area on their being
&hewed up."

The Critic says :—" Mr. Thomas Crosrt, better
knows as 'Tam Crow,' for .sty years the driver of the
Lytm Goa* is shout to appear la literature, an the author
of The Autobiography of a Btage•Coachmau.' Haviog
bees 'a load of anecdote' wheo seated no his box, and
patronised by the Norfolk gentlemen, whom he amused
by ►ie racy conversation, he will no doubt have a good deal
to say that is amusing both about himself owl some of the
leading characters of the district. The work will he doll•
cated to Mr. Villetsois, the master of the Narfolk fox-
bounds, and be published by Yearn. Ilurst and Blackett."

•
THE ScE OF W. Mt •LATER.—Woit..OTTER, FICA HAI,
—At lent the paws, orei • Pt- for the election of a nee Bishop
of Worcester in the room of Dr. Pepy'o deceased, lies
been received by the dean sad chapter. After ammiderable
delay, occaeioned, it is said, by the difficulty shout the
future residence of the biebop, the dean soil chapter have
a meeting, and Wedeeeday next is appointed for the
electioe of the bishop. The bishop nominate iDr. Philpot)
has appointed A. U. Hooper, Fig. of this city, proctor, his
seeretsry.
WlND:sun Cants, JAte. 22.—This day had
audience of her Majesty : General de Bonin, on a special
minion from the King of Prussia, to deliver • letter an-
winning hi. Presenin Majesty's ocemeion to the throne ;
soil the Count de Bernstovff. Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipoteutisry from the King of Prussia, to deli-
ver his new credentials. To which audiences they were
respectively introduced by the Right Hon. Lonl John Rus-
sell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary State fur Foreign
Affaini—Umerte.

—TIU
WHING-,TEEET, JAN. 24. —The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint Yamamoto Din, Fip., to be
tremens fur the blend of Ht. Luria; and Jobe Palmer,
Pal., to he treasurer for the Island of Domieica.—Gaterre.
hloAtti. tic Te.ter., WHITEHALL, JAN. 25.—The
Right Hun. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Conseil
for Trade have received from the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairo a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's
ambassador at Paris, enclosing a copy of a French Imperial
decree, Wog the import duty upon gilt or silvered copper,
spun on thread or no talk, at 100 franca per 100 kilo-
grammes, ischoling the additional decline. —Glareffe.
84.AR1, or TRADE., WHITEHALL, JAN. 22. —The
Right Hoe. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Camel!
for Trade hereby give notice that the .Voaiteer of the 19th
instant contains a French Imperial decree exteoclieg to
goods suhject to duties of 10 francs per 100 kilogrammes
And upwards the privilege of paying duty oo their net
weight may, which privilelte liar hitherto been rootlets' to
goods subject to duties of 40 francs per 100 Likgramni,s and
upwards.— Getteffe.

SW Can.

WINDSOR CASTLE, JAZ 25.
The royal (limier party yesterday included the
Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Allee, the Princess
Mary of Cambridge, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Westminster, the Earl and Countese of
Tankerville, Lady Geraldine Somerset, Lord Waterpark, the
Right Hon. the Speaker, the Right Hon. B. and. Mn.
Disraeli, the Hon. Vice-Admiral Sir R. S. Dundee, and
captain Purey Coat.

The band of the Royal Hone Guards played during
dinner :
Pm Redouble
overture...lSe Hebrides"
Valise. Der Vrosmet
Kelectkai, "Blanca- Belle.
Quadrille, "Dlnoorah" Strauss.
The fourth dramatic mimosas tik uMaoo took place
in the evening. The programme vac as follow.:
A Play in Ave acts, by sir Mined Behrer Lytton, entitled
RICHELIEU ; 01, THE CONSPIRACY.

Loni the Thirties'lt
iimeton, Duke of Orleans kb Bream .
Banda. !favorite of the [fat;—Firet
ema Gentln of the Chamber
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Caramel ltichelicu Mr. Phelps.
TM Chevalier de Mauprat Mr. tiermaun Vesin.
The Siker de Beringtien In attendance
aa the Ittai—oue of the eauspinton, Mr. 3. G. shore,
Jo=Ea Capuchin— Ittrbellcu's con-
)
Haggai ha °Seer of Ildmilinfs House-
hold Guard—a Spy)
Francois 'Yin' Page to Itheliallsal
Dr tlaremoot a courtier Mr. C. Vent.)).
Governor of the Bastile
Captain of the Archers
Pint Secretary
Served Secretary
Third Meeretary Mr. Henry.
Page
Julie de Menniiir NE Orphan—Want to
Itlchebee,
Marnni oh Lome Is ftfebeUetes pay,
l' ruler the dinettes of .... Kr. W Budhani Donne.
Stage Manager Mr. George ELM
The Theatre arranged sod the *ornery painted by Mr. ThiltuAk
Grlcve

The Queen and Prince Cowart walked in the Home Park
this morning, and visited the Duchess of Kentat Frogroore.
The Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Alice, and Princess
Mary of Cambridge, drove out in an open carriage and four.
Princesa Helena rode in the Riding•hoaee.
. . .

The following visitors left the Citale in the forenoon :-
The Lord Chancellor, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Westminster, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the
Right Hon. the Speaker, ViorAdmind the Hon. Sir R. S.
Dundee, and the Right Hoe. B. and Mrs. Disraeli.
The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent
yesterday afternoon at Frogmore Boum.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the official residence of the Pint Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present
were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornwall
Lewis, Lord John Russell, Duke of Newcastle,
Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Duke of Somerset, Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, auol the
Right Hon. E. CardwelL

Mr. James Anderson (chairman), Mr. Geo. Frederick
Young (deputy chairman), Messrs. Wm. Phi Rippe, Frederic
Homes, W. H. Tindall, Clifford Wigram, George Marshall,
re
A. 0. Robinson, and Wm. Boner (sectary), a deputation
from the General Shipowners' Society, ou the subjectsof re-
ciprocity and belligerent rights, had an interview with Lord
John Russell at the Foretgn-office yesterday.
Sir James Dalrymple fr.:lphinstoine had an interview with
the Duke of Newcastle on Thursday. at the Colonial-office.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
front the Governor of Newfoundland.

Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commiwiooer of
the lonian Islands and to the Governors of the North
American Colonies and Bermuda.

VISIT OE HER MAJERTY TO THE CITY.—We learn
that her Most Gracious Majesty intends visiting the City of
London early in the ensuing season, for the purpose of
inspecting the beautiful church of St. Michael, Cornhill.—
Cif y Press.
The Countess Amherst has arrived in Grosvenor-
square from Montreal, Sevesosks.

Viscount Palmerston arrived in London yester-
day from Breedlands. Her ladyship and Viscounts= Joce-
lyn and family will not return to town until Monday.
Lord Campbell has returned to Btrathedeu House
from visiting her Majesty at Windier Castle.

Lord and Lady Herbert of Lea have arrived at
their residence in Belgrave Kum% from Wilton House,
Dear Salisbury.

Court Jaucourt arrived at Albert-gate Houae yes-
terday, from visiting the Fed and Countes+ of Wiachilsea,
at &And! Park, Kent.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have arrived at Grosvenorirate from Windsor Cadle, where
they have been on • visit to her Majesty and the Prince
Consort.

The Ron. Evelyn Ashley arrived in town yester-
day from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston. at
Broadlands.

Sir William and Lady Somerville arrived at the
Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Wednesday last, from the
Continent. On the following day the right hon. baronet
and Lady Somerville arrived at Farr/ince'. Hotel.
Convocation will assemble for Multiuse on %A-
way, Feb. 6, and the sessions will be continuous for the
two or three days immediately following.
The Atheneum announces the formation of ;inch
a committee as has rarely been formed in England, for the
purpose of raising a Duodonsid Statue Fund. Lord
Brougham is the chairman of this committee ; and in the
list, though it is only just begun, are already the names
of the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke d Bedford, the
Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of
Wellington, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis
Townshend, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Marquis of
Headfort ; the Faris of Shrewsbury, Scarborough, Errol,
Harrington, Hardwicke, Forteacue, Fife, Durham, and
Bective ; Lords Baynham, Beauelerk, John Manners,
Ibrington, Paget, &atom), Napier, Brougham, and Bel.
haven ; Sir John Pakington, T. Milner Gibson, and C.
Tennyson D'Eyncourt ; Vies-Chancellor Stuart ; Admiral.
Sir Augustus W. Clifford, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Sir 0. F.
Seyniour, Sir F. W. Austen, Sir Houston Stewart, and
Hobert (;odor ; the Marmot Liverpool, Manchester and
Salford ; together with a long list of intellectual,
and commercial notabilities. Mr. C. B. Earp is the
secretary of the committee, which in a few months will
probably include the name of nearly every man of eminence
in England.

The Botley Farmer,' Club, one of our moat active
local agricultural societies, resolved at their meeting kit
week that "on account of the monopoly they enjoy, and
the large quantity of land they have severed and destroyed,
the directors of the London and South Western and other
railways are under a moral obligation to render every pos-
sible assistance towards the improvement of the land io
the neighbourhood of their fines, by transporting, at the
lowest remunerating rate, chalk and other minerals needed
by the soil, and laying down or assisting others to lay down
the necessary sidings for the purpose, in situations most
convenient to the owners and occupiers of the land." The
immediate occasion of this discussion was the refusal by the
South Western Railway Company to undertake the delivery
of 20,000 tons of chalk at a point upon their line to which
no engineering objections existed, and at " any fair rate" of
payment for the carriage of the same.
The Cambridge Lulep•ndeal observes of the
list of honours at the Bachelor of Arta' coninienee-
ment, " The hopes and fears of the Honour students
are at length at au end ; they now know the best and the
worst of the fate they have been expecting ever since they
came up as Freshmen. Mr. Alai", who has gained the poet
of honour, is, we believe, a dissenter, the son of a dissent-
ing minister, and was educated at the City of London
School —an institution which seems likely to occupy a very
leading place among the educational centres of the country,
furnishing many high men for the universities. The smaller
colleges have done better than usual ; Magdalen has the
second wrangler ; Pembroke, too, has distinguished itself,
having two wranglers among the first seventeen."

We reel in the Atheronern:—" Many of our
renders lave walked down a favourite resort of artists in
snmmsr•time, called Milfield Lane, Highgate. It is with
great regret we observe that a wholesale cutting down of
trees is taking place there, to such aa extent as entirely
to destroy the picturesque beauty of the 'wale. If we am
correctly informed, Lord Mansfield as the great authority
in that pan of the world. Should such be the came, may
we entreat him to spare the trees—their value can be very
little compared with the delight afforded by their presence
to many a painter and lover of rotate who, if this destruc.
tiro by perbvvered in, mu•t Le drivcu from a fa vouriLe
haunt."

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