The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-22 00:00:00

BARRY CORNWALL.

"His renowned songs have all the beauty, and
greater force and freshness than Moore's. His imagina-
tion is bold and vigorous, and his fancy throws around
his compositions the most luxurious tendrils, chastened
with airily-hung flowers of thought.
"His larger poems resemble the bold stems of high-
soaring pines, through whose dark-fringed tops the
glittering moonbeams dart, and fall on the gleaming
leaves of the giant ivy wreaths entwining them, and on
the fanciful flowers of the sweet-scented woodbines, in-
termingled with and hanging out their waving tassels
from sach dark coverts."

Charming as the songs of Barry Cornwall are to us,
we cannot, however, consent to hear him brought
into comparison with the author of the incom-
parable melodies. Besides the foregoing, a multi-
plicity of other poets are enumerated and criticised,
such as Schiller, Pope, Goldsmith, Campbell, and
Chatterton ; and subsequently Alastor refers to such
" high arguments" as the definition of time, or as the
relative position of man and nature, conveying his
more recondite notions upon creation and existence
through the medium of "an explanatory vision of
thought," in which he shadows out a forthcoming
poem, entitled " The Enthusiast." From what we
have already said of the volume before us, and from
the passages excerpted from its pages, we doubt not
but that the reader will, with us, look for ward not
without curiosity for the appearance of its successor.
" Excelsior" has, by its earnest spirit, won from us
our hopes for the success of " The Enthusiast.',

A HISTORY of MODERN WINES. By
Cyrus Redding. Third Edition. Henry Bohn.
Considering the sale of a work as the only rational
criterion of its popularity, it is, of course,:unnecessary
to observe, after mentioning that the present edition
is the third, that Mr. Redding's " History of Modern
Wines" is regarded by the public as meritorious.
'Without siny question, the volume lying before us is
the best ever penned upon the subject dearest to the
heart of the bacchanalian. It comprises not merely the
original merits of the work, but a variety of additions
also ; and those, many of them, most delectable to
the bon vivant. In his preliminary chapter the
writer gossips very delightfully about the wines of
all times, ancient and modern—wine being, as
entymology tells us, yin to the French, win to the
Anglo'-Sairon, :rein to the German, vinn to the
Dutchman, wyn to the Dane, vinum to the Roman,
vino to the Italian, vino also to the Spaniard, vinho
to the Portuguese, and owns to the Greek—so similar
have been sentiments entertained towards it by Dean-
kind in all ages and in all climates ! To render his
indulges himself' now with a scrap from Ovid, now
yet more palatable, the author
gossip upon the subject
with one from Martial, now with one from Horace,
trolling them out with an unmistakable gusto. Then
follow his admirable dissertations on the Vine and on
the Vintage. Therein he tells us all about the matu-
rity of the grape, the mode of gathering it, the way
of pressing it, the treatment of it in the vat, the
course of fermentation; and all the subsequent pro-
cesses conducing to the glorious ultimatum of a nectar
fit not only for the consumption of men but of gods.
The wines of France, the most wonderful of all, are
enumerated by Mr. Redding with an evident admi-
ration ; and next he takes into account successively,
those of Spain, of the Canaries, of Germany, of S wit-
zerland, of Portugal, of Madeira, of Italy, of Hun-
gary, of Austria, of Styria of Carinthia, of Greece,
of Persia, of the East, of Africa, and of America.
Ultimately he initiates the reader into all the mys-
teries of keeping wines, and lets them into the secrets
also of their adulteration and sophistication. The Ap-
pendix to the volume is especially valuable, and here
and there are scattered through its pages some very
elegant and classic illustrations.

MURRAY'S READINGS FOR THE RAIL.
Further instalments of this very admirable series
of cheap republications have more than justified the
praises lavished by ourselves upon the enterprise im-
mediately upon its commencement—at the same time
that each additional work betrays, more and more
clearly, the value and variety of Mr. Murray's latest
scheme in the way of a cheap, instructive, and enter-
taining periodical. Already as guarantees of the
truthfulness of his very propitious prospectus we
had welcomed the appearance of the first series
of " Essays from the Times"—awaiting still with
-some curiosity the issue of its immediate successor.
Already again we had expressed our satisfac-
tieu at the reprint in a popular form of Lord
Mahon's very admirable history of "The Forty-five."
And the last of the sources of pleasures afforded to
us by the development of the project sketched
out for himself by the publisher was the production,
at a comparatively insignificant pride, of an abbreviated
narrative of " Leyard's Nineveh." Added to all these,
we have now three new instalments to particularise as
lending their attractions to the series, and as furnish-
ing worthy materials as Readings for the Rail.
we had
bperaeuvi toifti.usllyfomrmentiinontehde
carrying out of this excellent
" Nimrod
`:s Nimrod on
in theaCphoapsue'l'awr
enterprise.
on
at the
similar manner
we
nn e have,raosatnhnaot
equallyunce as publishedmastrly
in
essay of the late Mr. Appleby, known as" Nimrod on
a l s now
well t
the Road." It is somewhat amusing, by the way, to
read the latter paper, boasting, as it does, throughout
of the speed secured in the way of
ago --boasts that are now-a-days rendered
loco-
motion by the fast coaches of thirty years_
laughable by the velocity obtained on the
railways, alai 6/ the annihilation of time, so to speak,
by means of Cie electric telegraph. It was an in-
genious notion, that of Nimrod, to portray in a vivid
manner the changes brought about among travellers
through the means of certain imaginary adventures
of an old gentleman, of a hundred years ago, suddenly
awakened from a trance and spirited away on the
Comet in the midst of the roar of Picadilly. We
should like amazingly to read a similar story told in
regard to railways by a yet more brilliant writer than
Nimrod, we mean Sir Francis Head, the delightful
author of " Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau,"
and very recently of the "Faggot of French Sticks."
Among the more amusing witticisms in "Nimrod
on the Road," commend us to that in which
the American of the name of M'Adara is
designated facetiously the Colossus of Roads.
Reading this moat charming and graphic paper, the
least instructed readers in such matters become,
long before its conclusion, familiar with every portion
of a coach, and with all the accompanying technica-
lities. Clambering on the box, or on the bench,
stuffing trunks into the boot or the slide, stepping
down by the roller-bolt, or sitting up on the gammon-
board, incomprehensible though some of the
phrases might have been beforehand, become readil
y before before the close of this most gossipping
and lively dissertation. There is a gusto, moreover,
quite catching, in the author's account of "the

springing the cattle" on the level country, Towards
the conclusion of the little volume we come upon a
droll enumeration of the various kinds of vehicles
which have been successively popular in this island—
the family coach, the singlebodied phxaton, the
curricle, the gig, the whiskey, the stanhope, the
tilbury, the buggy, the dennet, the cabriolet, the
doublebodied pbwaton, the britschka, the donkey-cart,
the pony-chaise, the barouche, the chariot ; and we
might add, the drag, the dog-cart, and, cosiest and
most popular of all Just now, the brougham. Be-
sides the popular works already enumerated as
forming portions of the Readings for the Rail, we
may mention a charming little edition of " iEsop's
Fables," interspyirsed with a variety of fanciful or
facetious illustrations.

EMILY _HOWARD. By Mrs. Dunlop. 3 Vols,

Colburn.
The scene of this novel is laid in Portugal, and the
descriptions of life in that country, and the customs
and manners of the inhabitants, give it an interest
and originality not often met with in works of its
class. The heroine and her mother are English, but
most of the chief characters are Portuguese. The
authoress is evidently acquainted with the nation and
country she describes; the account she gives of it
is very favourable and attractive. We must except,
however, the marriage regulations. All is arranged
by the parents, and as their ideas of family grandeur
sod the necessity of keeping up their ancient name
far supersedes any desire for the happiness of their
children, the most melancholy disappointments result.
The , plot is simple, but the interest continues
throughout unabated, and the tale forcibly exemplifies
the evils ensuing from indecision, vanity, and deceit,
and shows how the joyous and light-hearted Emily,
the only child of an indulgent mother, reared in a
home of plenty, never troubled by a care, and totally
unprepared for sorrow, surmounts the heavy misfor-
tunes which suddenly befal her, by a sense of right
and an earnest endeavour to fulfil her duty. She
finally attained a degree ofpeace and happiness which
her rival, the vain and deceitful Inez, though living iu
the midst of undisturbed prosperity, never knew. It
is a most fascinating work, 'which the variety of
scenes, events, and characters prevents from ever be-
coming tedious. The following extract is when
Emily, all her bright hopes completely overthrown,
pays a last visit to a favourite spot;—
" They went first to the ruins of the Moorish castle;
and as Emily sat amongst the large stones and broken
carved work, where she bad loved to play as a child,
and gazed now on the moss-grown arches and crumbling
walls, and now on the peaceful valley and slumbering
ocean, solemn thoughts arose' within her, and her spirit
was wrapt in a calm which she had of late feigned, but
longed for in vain. The wild desolation, in the midst of
which she was seated, spoke to her only of decay and
the mutability of all things earthly, whether it be ever-
restless man, or his works, or his joys, or his sorrows.
On the very spot where she then sat brave men had
fought for victory, bold minds had schemed, human love
had rejoiced, fond hearts bad pined; and what now re-
mained to tell of those hard-won triumphs, of those proud
designs, those dreams of joy, those withering regrets ?
A ruin !

" But the seasons had never ceased to roll on in re-
gular succession—the rich valley bad yielded its har-
vests, the orchards had blossomed, the rocks had still
towered in unchanging grandeur, and the ocean had
alternately slumbered and tossed itself in fury,—all
alike unconscious that generation atter generation was
being gathered to the tomb. As these thoughts passed
through Emily's mind she felt for the time raised above
the passing show in'which the few years of human life
are spent, and her soul found a temporary rest in medi-
tation on the power and the promises of the Eternal
Creator. ' Yes, all things change but Thee,' she mur-
Inured, and the heaviest sorrow endures not through
eternity.'

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, JAR. 21.
The following had the honour of dining at the Royal
table last evening:—His Grace the Duke of, Wellington,
Lord and Lady John Russell, the Right Hon. Sir F.
and Lady Arabella Baring, and the Rev. Mr. Birch.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards attended in the
Castle during dinner, and played the followingseltction.
Overture, " Lodoiska"
Waltz, "Bird of Paradise" ................ Koenig.
Selection, " Freyschutz"
..................... Weber.
Finale, sth Symphony ................... Beethoven.
Galen, "Prince of Wales"
.................. Seaman.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and
performed the following compositions:--
Overture, " Zampa"
Quartette (Op. 43), allegro, adagio, tempo
di minuetto, two violins, viola, and vio-
loncello—Messrs. Sainton, Day,
and H. Chipp Spohr.
Aria, " Euryanthe"
The Queen walked in the Home Palk and the Slopes
this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and younger
members of the Royal Family, took their usual walking
and pony exercise.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting
this forenoon, attended by Lieut.-General Sir Edward
Bowater, Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Hon. C.
Grey, and Colonel F. H. Seymour.
Lord Byron and Lieut.-General Sir E. Bowater have
succeeded the Earl of Morley and Captain Hon. J. Dan-
man in their duties of Lord and Groom in Waiting to
her Majesty.
Invitations have been received by the following per-
sonages, and they are expected to arrive at the Castle
to-day:—Lord and Lady Seymour and the Hon. J. Her-
mione St. Maur. Viscount Canning, Sir James and Lady
Graham, and Colonel Wylde. Lord and Lady John
Russell took their departure this morning.

Mr. Mitchell, M.P.'had an intervie
w with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at
his official residence in Downing-
street. Mr. Bonham Carter had also an interview with
his Lordship yesterday.
The Hon. Col. Anson had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Down-
ing on Tuesday.
deputation from householders and residents in the
district of Burnham, Somersetshire, had an interview
yesterday with the General Board of Health, at their
offices, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Messrs.
John Gunter, George Reed, and Samuel Hobbs, mem-
bers of the local board of health for the Burnham
district.
Mr. R. S. Maedonnell, governor of the Gambia, had
an interview with Earl Grey at the Colonial-office yes-
terday.
The Cambridge University commission had a meeting
yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of
the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—the Bishop
of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Sir John Herschel, the
Rev. Professor Sedgwick, and the Rev. W. H. Bateson,
secretary.
Lord Monteagle had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday.
Admiral Pandas had also
an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet.
Lord and Lady John Russell arrived in town yester-
day from Windsor Castle.
The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday for his
seat, Bowood-park, Wiltshire.

LONDON LIFE A,----ia§4.7.----"___
The half-yearly meeting OfRANCECO MP A 1V Y.
the offices, 81, King William_ thl3 company was held at
in the chair. The auclitors'street, City ; Mr. C. Franks
assets of
showed that the
funded property, and other
amount to, from annual dividends of the company, now
on morigages, 99.3. 511. 19s. sis on stock and interest
• ; annual premiums on
4,846 existing pelicles,
2d 207,473;
1;
32,314/. is. • . Is. 4 balance in hand,
furniture, Sze ,totall, 306,825/. 9d. A. re-
duction of 69 per c mt. is
now mac!©
n
-d e in the premiums of
policy-holders. After a short
was stated that the whole of conversation, in which it
thoie profits were divided
amongst the policy-holders in
et,
premiums which, within la
s' shape of diminution
dinini short time had increased
from 67 to 69 per cent, di
and, therefore,
the income-tax was only
_ on their vested pro-
perty, the report was adopted
elected an auditor, in the room of
Mr. V. B. Corrie
appointed a director. The c 7.11 .of Mr. T. Howell,
chairman then brought
forward the following resolution •
be authorised to pay the ' ' That the directors
representativest of Matthew
Ledger, who died in California on
16th Sept., 1851,
without having obtained a licensel:l;
directors to go to that country, the 8 from the court of
of 591/. 15s. 2d.,
being the office value of the policy Nill
0.15,009 on his life
on the day preceding that on which
- resolution was
void." The chairman stated that this policy became
rendered necessary in consequence
of Mrhaving vitiated his policy by going from Yau . Ledger
Land to California without the consent of Diemen's
Mr.. Ledger having contemplated proceed. the directors.
ma, his representatives in this. country fling o Califor-
company for permission for him to do so, to the
however, declined to pay the extra a ' Mr. Ledger,
to state that
0n,.. the premium. it was, however, fairtneant required
extra
Mr. Ledger had always paid the
for. residing in Van Diemen's Landa premium
should be
director's now thought his representatives and the
allowed to receive the amount his policy
iwas worth the
day before he voided it by leaving the
to, the fol-
lowing This resolution having been agreed to
before 0, the delay
lowing was also passed, to avoid, in futur
necessariiy ceased by having to come
its ly.coniing
meeting of the policy-holders to obtain th.., a general
the payment of the value of a policy oue'...t• consent to
theourt, hold on
voided-.—" That the order of the general
the 13th of January, 1830, relatii,g to
in
dying
by t every case
the office value of a policy on the life (quay Payment or
by his own h::.nels, be rescinded; rind that
society
where any policy of assurance issued
shell become void, the directors be authori„„h.2
policy
not ex-
powered to pay, if they shall think fit, any 'e-(i and em-
ceeding in amount the office value of the
day preceding that on which the policy 'nicY on the
wall have be-
come void."
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors closed
the proceedings.
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THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION AT. G— p
tAT BRIDGE.
—The jury, after hearing much contradictory evidence as to
the construction and strength of the boiler which
ex '
loded
eventually concluded their labours by returning follow:
the
ing verdict :—" That the deceased came by their deaths
through the bursting of a boiler, but what .
w,, the precise
cause of the boiler exploding there Was not sufheieat evidence
to show."
MRS. ITLENNAL—We learn that Mrs. M`Lennan
and child, who were so providentially saved from the wreck
of the Amazon, arrived in this city on Saturday evening,
and
are now staying at Comely Bank. Mrs. 11PLennan is still in
an indifferent state of health, and of course suffers much
anxiety regarding the fate of her husband, who was also on
board the ill-fated vessel, and has not since been heard of.—
Zciltiburgh, ,Advertiser.

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC.
LIVERPOOL. JA.N. 21.
This afternoon, at half-past two, the United States
mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, arrived in the
Mersey, from New York direct, with thirty-nine
passengers, and 700,000 dollars in specie on freight.
The Pacific left New York on the 10th instant at
noon, and encountered very heavy adverse winds
throughout her voyage. Immediately upon the re-
ceipt of the telegraphic announcement of her being
off Holyhead this morning, it was currently reported
that Jenny Lind was amongst the passengers by the
Pacific ; but it now appears that the Swedish song.
stress has delayed her delay to Europe until the 28th
instant, when she will sail on board her old favourite "
ship the Atlantic, under the command of Capt. West.
On the day of the departure of the Pacific, a tele-
graphic communication was received in New York
trom Philadelphia, announcing the safe arrival on the
previous (1,,y, at the latter place, of the screw-steamer
City of Pittsburg, after a passage of forty days from
Liverpool.
The Royal mail steam-ship Cambria arrived at Bos-
ton on the Bth instant, at one P.M.

• The principal and most interesting intelligence by
this arrival is the conversational banquet given to
Kossuth 3t Washington, on Wednesday, the 7th inst.,
at the National Hotel. About 300 persons were
present. The Hon. W. IL King, President of the
Sanate, presided, supported by Kossuth and Speaker
Boyd on his right, and the Hon. Daniel Webster on
his left. Several distinguished individuals occupied
seats near the chair.
The first toast was " The President of the United

States," to which Mr. Webster responded. He said—

"I am here, to-night, Mr. President, with other heads
of departments who belong to the executive administra-

Lion Of the Government, and who are the confidential
councillors of the President. I rise in their behalf as
well as my own, to tender to the company our thanks
for the manner in which the sentiment has been received
by the meeting here assembled, and to assure you, sir,
a❑d all present, that in kindness and good wishes
towards the guests of the occasion, and in attachment to
the great principles of political liberty—(Applause),—
and national independence—(Applause)—there is no
man who partakes in a higher degree than the Presi-
dent of the United States in the general feelings of this
vast community.—(Applause.)
Mr. King, in giving the toast of the evening, said:—
It was one to which every generous American would
cordially respond. He, in common with others, while
the Hungarian struggle was going on, rejoiced in her
success, and mourned her temporary defeats. We
honoured those who struggled, and were prepared to
sacrifice all to obtain liberty. We followed our illus-
trious guest in his mournful exile, were the first to call
him to return, and the last that were ready to receive
him with open arms to the land of liberty and of hospi-
tality. The toast I give to you is this:—" Hungary.
represented in the person of our honoured guest, having
proved herself worthy to be free by the virtue and valour
of her sons, the law of nations, and the dictates of justice,
alike demand that she shall have fair play in her struggle
for independence."—(Enthusiastic cheering.)
In reply Kossuth made a long speech, which he
thus commenced :

As once Cyness, the Epirote, stood among the senators
of Rome, who, with an earnest word of self-conscious
majesty, controlled the condition of the world, and
arrested mighty kings in their march, thus, full of
admiration and of reverence, I stand before you.
Legislature of the new capitol—that glorious hall
of your people's collective majesty. The capitol
of old yet stands, but the spirit has departed
from it and come over to yours, purified by the
air of liberty. The old stands, a mournful monument of
the fragility of human things—yours as a sanctuary of
eternal rights. The old beamed with the red lustre of
conquest, now darkened by oppression's gloomy night—
, yours beams with freedom's bright ray. The old ab-
sorbed the world by its own centralised glory—yours
protects your own nation against absorption even by
itself. The old was awful with irrestricted power—
yours is glorious with having restricted it. At the
view of the old, nations trembled—at the view of yours,
humanity hopes. To the old, misfortune was only in-
troduced
with fettered hands to kneel at the triumphant
conqueror's heels—to yours, the triumph of introduction
is granted to unfortunate exiles, invited the honour of a
seat, and where kings and Caws never are hailed for
their powers, might, and wealth, there the persecuted
chief of a downtrodden nation is welcomed as your
great republic's guest, precisely because he is persecuted,
helpless, and poor. In the old, the terrible vice victis was
the rule—in yours, protection to the oppressed, ma-
lediction to ambitious oppressors, and consolation to
the vanquished in a just cause. And while out of
the old a conquered world was ruled, you in yours
provide for the common confederative interests
of a territory larger than the conquered world
of the old. There sat men boasting their will to
be the sovereign of the world—here sit men whose glory
is to acknowledge the law of nature and of nature's God,
and to do what their sovereign, the people, wills. Sir,
there is history in these parallels. History of past ages,
and history of future centuries, may be often recorded in
few words. The small particulars to which the passion
of living men clings with fervent zeal, as if the fragile
fingers of men could arrest the rotation of destiny's
wheel—these particulars die away. it is the issue which
makes history, and that issue is always logical. There
is a necessity of consequences wherever the necessity of
position exists. Principles are the Alpha; they must
finish with Omega, and they will. Thus history may be
told often in few words. Before the heroic struggles of
Greece first engaged your country's sympathy for the
fate of freedom in Europe—then so far distant, now so
near—Chateaubriand happened to be in Athens, and he
heard from a minaret raised upon the Propyleam
ruins, a Turkish priest, in Arabic language,
announcing the lapse of hours to tho Christians
of Minervastown. What immense history in the
small fact of a Turkish Imanm crying %out " Pray
man, the hour is running fast, and the judgment draws
near." Sir, there is equally a history of future ages
written in the honour bestowed by you to my humble
self. The first Governor of independent Hungary,
driven from his native land by Russian violence, an exile
on Turkish soil, protected by a Mahommedan Sultan
against the blood-thirst of Christian tyrants, cast back a
prisoner to far Asia by diplomacy, rescued from his
Asiatic prison by America, crossing the Atlantic,
charged with the hopes of Europe's oppressed nations,
pleading, a poor exile, before the people of this great
Republic, his down-trodden country's wrongs, and its
intimate connexion with the fate of the European conti-
nent, and with the boldness of a just cause claiming
the principles of the Christian religion to be raised to a
law of nations, and to see not only the boldness of the
poor exile forgiven, but to see him consoled by the sym-
pathy of millions, encouraged by individuals, associa-
tions, meetings, cities, and states, supported by operative
aid, and greeted by Congress and by the Government
as the nation's guest, honoured out of generosity with
that honour which only one man before him received—
and that man received them out of gratitude—with
honours such as no potentate ever can receive, and
this banquet here, and the toast which I have to
thank you for.; oh, indeed, sir, there is a history of
future ages in all these facts."
Kossuth then glanced at the fate of Hungary,
paid a tribute to the greatness of the United States
developed by union, and touched upon the principle
of non-intervention :

" We have no fair play (he said); the Cossack already
rules, by Louis Napoleon's usurpation, to the very bor-
ders of the Atlantic ocean. One of your great statesmen,
now, to my deep sorrow, bound to the sick bed of far
advanced ego—alas! that I am deprived of the advice
which his wisdom could have imparted to me—your
great statesman told the world !30 years ago that Paris
was transferred to St. Petersburgh. What would he
now say, when St. Petersburgh is transferred to Paris,
and Europe is but an appendix. to Russia? Alas! Eu-
rope can no more secure to Europe fair play. Albion
only remains; but even Albion casts a sorrowful glance
over the waves. Still we will stand in our place—sink or
swim, live or die. You know the word. It is
your own. We will follow it. It will be a
bloody path to tread. Despots have conspired
against the world. Terror spreads over Europe, and
anticipating persecution rules from Paris to Pesth. There
is a gloomy silence, like the silence of nature before the
terrors of a hurricane. It is a sensible silence, only dis-
turbed by the thousand fold rattling of the muskets by
which Napoleon murder& that people which gave him a
home when he was an exile, and by the groans of new
martyrs in Sicily, Milan, Vienna, and Pesth. The very
sympathy which I met with in England, and was ex-
pected to meet here, throws my sisters into the dun-
geons of Austria. Well, God's will be done. The heart
may break, but duty will be done. We will stand in our
place, though to us in Europe there be no fair play.
But so much I hope, that no just man on earth can
charge me with unbecoming arrogance, when here, on
this soil of freedom, I kneel down and raise my prayer
to God—' Almighty Father of humanity, will thy w
mer-
ciful arm not raise a power on earth to protect. the !Eti,_,
of nations, when there are so many to violates r
It is a prayer, and nothing else. What
remain to the oppressed if they were not. ,eri_
mlttcd to pray? The rest is is the hand of Good. wr
encou-
tlemen, I know where [ stand. No honour,
n where I
raging generosity, will make me over
forgetro my duty
stand, and what is due from me to yell-
Here
will be
is silently to await what you or your ()pluck!.
and be it y our N'', ill
knows to be my prayer and na
pleased to pronounce about that which Wpielabc
,op,inio.n
to pronounce, or bo it your aim,wiyilnot
before it with de_
will understand your will, and to take 130ticO of it,
v.otion, hopeless, perhaps, but my bow
wart full of admira-
tion, love, and gratitude t? d even here, I may be
glorious land. Eat one sing
younirYogrenerous eoe, to your
le
wrd as may secure me f'm
Ford
the noble minded p onle
permitted to say, only suehbeing misunderstood. I came
.0 t'ots enerous epemti ' %`" -
of the United States to
reeuom
pathy for the impending
thesen oppressed nations enter-
Republic, as a state, as Dower
lig°l9sttaruingribitglofrfeeopypr. es;.ed fv° "4. ra-
I interpreted the
on the European continent,
u
oestmen, senators,,aa and-
hopes and wtain; but as to your great
ishes which
on
legislators of that.Repubhc,. only t ase.ertain from their
wisdom and experience what is their judgment upon a
earth, I stand before . thestat
ae •ion of national law and international
qt..,s, .right. I
hope that they will, by theforeboding
events and now , .
t
events on the other great continent, feel induced to pro-
nounce in time their vote about that law and those rights,
and I hoped and hope t. a. prono.uncing their vote it will
be in favour of thne broad principles of international
justice, and consonent with their republican institutions
and their democratic life.. That is all I know and Europe
knows; ws; the immense weight of such a pronunciation from
such a place. But never had I the impious wish to try

to entangle this great Republic into difficulties
inconsistent with its own welfare, its own security, its
own interest. I rather repeatedly and earnestly de-
clared that a war on this account by your country
is utterly impossible, and a mere phantom. I always
declared that the United States remained masters of
their actions, and under every circumstance will act as
they judge consistent with the supreme duties to them-
selves. But I said, and say, that such a declaring of
just principles would insure to the nations of Europe
fair play in their struggle for freedom and independence,
because the declaration of such a power as your Repub-
lic will be respected even where it should not be liked;
and Europe's oppressed nations will feel cheered in
resolution and doubled in strength to maintain the de-
cision of their American brethren on their own behalf
with their own lives.
Various speeches followed, and the banquet passed
off most satisfactorily,
On the following day the Jackson Democratic
Association entertained Kossuth at dinner, five hun-
dred persons being present, and he spnke at conside-
ruble length in explanation of the position of affairs
in Europe as connected with Hungary.
A correspondont of the New fork Herald writes
as follows :

" Previous to Kossuth's arrival in this country, I
statcd to you that dispatches had been received by the
Government, giving an account of his conduct on board
the Mississippi, and which were calculated damage
him in the opinion of the people of the United States.
With e view, probably, to avoid all appearances of hos-
tility to the Magyar, the subject was dropped, and, when
the Mississippi arrived at New York, one of its officers
went so far as to denounce, in tufo, the injurious imputa-
tions. But the subj,ct is now attracting attention here,
and there is no doubt Congress Will call for the informs-
tion in posJession of the President. The most important
dispatches are in the State Department, and they consist
of coraniunicat ions from Captain Long to Consul Hodge,
and the Consuls dispatches to the department.: In ad-
dition to these, the navy department has on file dis-
patches from Commodore Morgan and Captain Long.
These dispatches detail a series of insults, on the part
of Kossuth and his suite, to the officers of the Missis-
sippi, which nothing but the forbearance of those in-
sulted, the peculiar position in which they were placed,
and the partial apologies of Kossuth, could have pre-
vented from being summarily punished.
Kossuth had had an interview with Henry Clay,
who welcomed him cordially to America, but depre-
cated any intervention in the affairs of European
nations. The health of the venerable statesman still
continues to decline.

" We learn from Washington," says the New York
Herald, " that Kossuth does not deem it necessary
for him to immediately return to Europe, now that he
is convinced his mission to this country has proved
a failure. Perhaps Louis Napoleon's coup d' &at also
assisted him in arriving at this conclusion. It is said
that he now contemplates a visit to the West. After
once seeing the fertile land in that region, it is not
at all unlikely that he will be disposed to settle quietly
down there, and pass the remainder of his days in
agricultural pursuits. Possibly he may yet be a
member of Congress from one of the western states."
A telegraphic communication from Washington, of
the date of the 9th, says :—" Henry Clay has written
a letter in favour of General Cass for President. I
stage this on unquestionable authority. It is also
asserted that Mr. Fillmore will soon be out with a
letter declining to be a candidate, but intimating in
favour of Daniel Webster. Great commotion among
the other Presidential candidates."

The report of the late judges and other officers of
the territory of Utah, respecting the religion and
polygamy of the Mormons, has been laid before the
President. Accompanying this curious exposé of the
doings in Mo rmondom was a counter statement from
Governor Brigham Young and his coadjutors. The
latter party, of course, charge the judges and secretary
with official misconduct, but do not establish the fact
that the social condition of the Mormons is any better
than represented by the nturned officers.

A CHALLENGE FROM KOSSUTH TO CAPTAIN

LONG, &c.
(Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.)
WASHINGTON, JAN. 7.—A1l the circumstances con-
nected with the alleged difficulties on board the United
States steam-ship Mississippi. after she started with
Kossuth and companions for this country, as reported
under the authority of an attaché to our paper, are
gospel truths, and are on record in the Navy Depart-
ment, and will be furnished when called for officially by
Congress. The thing went so far that Kossuth chal-
lenged Captain Long, but subsequently withdrew the
challenge, and apologized. This apology sealed Captain
Long's lips—for among men of honour retractation and
apology close the lips of both parties. Still the facts
occurred, although suppressed for the time. It was a
series of petty insults and vexations, continued from day
to day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JAN. 10.—Government securities and
State stocks are in demand, and our quotations are fully
maintained. Speculative railroad stocks and bends have
been rather fluctuating, but with the ease now mani-
fested in the money market, prices appear gradually to
assume an upward tendency. The goneral tone of the
money market, from the unceasing abundance of capital,
is easier, which is not witht-Ait its influence upon the
price.of money. The sales of mercantile paper range
from 9 to 12 per cent.—choice names being held at lower
retes of interest.

NEW ORLEANS, JAN. B.—The Cambria's newsEhas
been received and published. Cotton bxs been active,
the sales reaching 7,500 bales; prices closed at an ad-
vance of *O.; strict middling being quoted at Tic.
CHARLESTON, JAN. B.—Cotton has been in active
demand—the sales of the weak amounting to 3,700 bales;
prices close buoyant, and have an upward tendency.

THE LOSS OF THE AMAZON.
PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.-Th o Hecate steaus-sloop,
Commander Hand►, which was dispatched from this port
on Thursday last, on the, we fear, now hopeless task of
discovering the remains or survivors, if any, of the ill-
fated Amazon, returned here this morning without being
enabled to accomplish any of the objects of her mission.
Her machinery broko down while at sea, and as soon as
it can be repaired she will start again. She weld into
Brest, and cruized about the spot whore the accident
occurred, but could not see or hear anything more than
is already known. One of the trawling boats of this
port brought in yesterday a piece (about half) of a
ship's new fir beam, about 18 feet long, In the middle
of the beam is a piece of an iron knee, and a number
of iron spike nails; it is supposed to be a lower-deck
beam, about 12 by 15 inches square, and to it is attached
part of a lady's dress, slightly burnt. One or two of the
sides of the beam are only rough-hewn.

Several ships in the port have reported that pieces of
wreck are floating near the Bolt Head, in consequence
of which Messrs. Fox, S 'us, and Co., have issued ad-
vertisements to the following effect:----" Wreck.—A
quantity of wreck being reported to be floating about the
coast, supposed to be part of the remains of the Amazon,
parties bringing in the port any portion thereof are re-
quested to communicate immediately with Fox, Sow,
and Co."

WEYMOUTH, JAN. 19.—The paddle-bex of a large
steamer, supposed from its size and appearance to have
belonged to the Amazon, was washed on shore yester-
day in the West Bay, near Fleet.
DARTMOUTH, JAN. 20.—The remains of a lower made
mast, 62 feet in length, burnt from end to end, with
several small bolts and three iron hoops thereon, about
24 feet in diameter and 4 inches broad, supposed a part
of the Amazon was picked up yesterday, about nine
miles S.E. of le Start Point, and towed in here by the
pilot cutter Fanny, No. 13, of this port, Robert Kers-
well, master.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Yesterday afternoon a large
piece of wreck was washed ashore on Swanpoe.lb
having, in connection with the circumstanefe
its
st the
!a,
having
de-
struction of the Amazon, every likelihood o
formed a part of that ill-fated vessel. The piece of
wreck consists of six 20 feet 8 inch in length planks of
red pine, with the remains of a seventh plank, almost
wholly burnt away; they are three inches in thickness,
with a nine inch aurfaee. There are four stanchions,
on beams, that had been tenentei at one if not at both
ends; the thickness of the stanchions, or beams eight
bothct i on
ends
of
inches by six inches, and in length six feet, The
wreck had most
evidently been subject to the
a
a fierce fire. No paint being discernible, a anu
of the wreck being fair, it is hard to judge as to what
part of the vessel, or to what vessel, it belonged. The
most probable thing my
appears, to e.
Jjudgment, of its
having formed a part of a dwarf bulkhead in which
goods or stores are stowed on board ofsteamers,
part of an orlop deck._ The flush aide Of or
was
the wreck
much more charred and burnt than the sides to which
the beams are attached. I cannot believe it forms a part
of a paddle-box, as was reported here last night. The
wreck has not been
water. A piece of
black cotton riband, as
rnaifilpYadrtays in
glcd
endrou one of the spik 'of a hat band, was entan-
ord stanchion was enalls of the wreck. The fifth
the nails remained. gone, if one had been attached;
BRIDPORT
, JAN. 20,
The part of a paddle-box re-
ported picked up yesterday is now on the beach; the
half of the brass b
4 cwt. 101 b • with earing taken from it this day weighs
~ ten upright iron bolts, with screws,
about 20 feet long
see the
name'' Low ltroor." Everything is quite new.
G

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on which day all persons who were disappointed in receiving
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derived from various sources; and other valuable statistics.
It is surmounted with an engraved View of the Building, and
has been prepared by Corporals A. Gardener and J. Mack,
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of the Royal Commissioners, for the Weekly Dispatch. In
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LIVES of THE QUEENS OF ENGLA.ND, BY AGNES
STRICKLAND.—The fifth volume of the newly-revised edition
of Miss Strickland's popular work, just published, contains
the lives of Anne of Denmark, Consort of James L ; Henri-
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ous information, and of singular value. With the exciting
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tory hurries on from page to page. Her volumes are fall of
confirmation of the poet's assertion, how realities at times
outvie romance—how history may nurse fable in the start-
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