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strongly to the triumph of prejudice in that quarter.
We may now realise to its full extent. the mischief
that is wrought by the agency of delegates, and the
active doings of those who go about from place to
place stirring up dissensions, and putting ideas into
peoples' head that had not entered there without
their intervention, and their illusory declarations of
peace where there is no peace, but strife and dissen-
sion. One striking proof of the effect of all this stop-
page to trade may be witnessed in the fact that the
Journal de Liege states that great activity has been
produced among the manufacturers of Belgium
through the strike of the iron-puddlers in England.
" Numerous orders for iron have been received.
from Holland and England." This is one of the
worst features of these altercations, that they do
not stop their evil effects with the cessation of the
immediate cause. No doubt, long after the dispute
has been settled, the trade of this country will still
suffer seriously from the consequences of these ill-
advised outbreak's. " The hand that kindled cannot
quench the flame," may be truly said of all these
disputes, and so far has this one extended that the
consequences must be serious.

Austria has adopted a wise course with respect
to Hungary, and, doubtless, the good effects of the
new regime will soon be apparent. Herr VON
SCHMERLING announced in the Reichsrath that the
Government intended to maintain the principle of
" strictly carrying out in Hungary the general con-
stitution of the whole empire." Such a resolve can-
not prove otherwise than satisfactory in its results,
and it is to be trusted that they will be enabled to
carry out their purpose in its entirety and full in-
tegrity. Of course these and similar undertakings
are certain to meet with opposition, and, accord-
ingly, it is no matter of surprise that Herr VON
SCIIMERLING should have stated that the Govern-
ment was prepared to come to an understanding with
the Liberal party in Hungary, but they met with
obstacles from the so-called Conservative party.
Prussia will certainly be taken aback by these new
tactics of the Austrian Government, and draw from
them unfavourable auguries as to her chance of
success with her favourite schemes. Altogether,
the aspect of affairs has altered considerably for
the worse as regards the policy of Herr BIS3IARK,
and the attitude Austria has lately assumed prog-
nosticates a steady ;Ind determined opposition.
Affairs in Berlin itself arc also going very much
against the authorities. The military committee of
the Chamber of Deputies has rejected the navy
estimates, as well as all the amendments, and there-
fore the whole of the military and the naval pro-
posals of the Government have been thrown
out. If all went smoothly last year for the
Court and Cabinet of King WILLIAM,
it does not seem as if the future would be
so prosperous, and certainly the present is rife
with portentous events and unfavourable omens.
Each day's intelligence tends to confirm the belief
already entertained of the reticence of Austria re-
specting the proposals of Prussia. People may go
too far in carrying on their wily games, and thus
it has proved with Herr BISMARK. Ile may
now find out his mistake too late, and have to
contend against internal strife and external opposi-
tion. He will not find any sympathy in his diffi-•
culties, for the oppressor is always told of his
crimes when it is seen or supposed that the world
is going against him.

The Stonewall and the Federal Fi igates.

(From the Correspondent of the Herald.)

FERROL (Spain) March 26.

Since writing my last there has been no news of
the Stonewall. I therefore think she must have
made either for Lisbon or Santander to re-coal.
The weather is calm and fine ; there is therefore no
fear for her safety.
The enthusiasm and admiration of the people here
is not to be described in words; nothing else is talked
of ; one hears the same subject in the streets, clubs,
or private houses. The officers here have arranged
t o give a splendid banquet to the officers
and crew of the Stonewall, should she re-
turn ; they will be carried through the
streets in triumph. At Corunna also the
excitement is very great ; all, even to the ladies,
are loud in their praise of the handful of men on
board the Confederate. It is intended there also to
give dinners and balls to her crew, should she put
in. None of the Federals dared venture on shore
after their public disgrace ; they would most cer-
tainly have been mobbed. Even as it was boats were
rowing near the Niagara and Sacramento, hooting at
their officers and calling them cowards and cochinos
(pigs). There were, I believe, some 8,000 persons as-
sembled near Corunna to witness the fight, had it taken
place, and among them the Governor General, who
publicly said that should any of the Federals come
on shore and enter any of the cafe's or clubs, all
Spaniards should get up and leave the room in-
stantly. The American Vice-Consul in C orunn a, Mr.
Fuentes, has been hooted and whistled at in the
public streets. There is also a Mr. Palmer, an
American by birth, but at present chief engineer of
the Spanish frigate Tetuan, who has got himself
into bad repute by his activity in acting as spy for
the Federals since they came here. He is hissed at
and mobbed by the women and children of the town,
and called the Federal spy, and is a disgrace to the
Spanish navy, having used his position and uniform
as a cloak to his real character, he having gone on
board the ram when she first came and taken ob-
servations for the use of the Federals, and since then
been contmually watching and telegraphing the
movements of the Stonewall.

All day yesterday the Federal ships had steam up
in Corunna Harbour as usual, and men at the mast-
heads looking out. I think they wished to leave,
but were afraid the ram might make her appearance
from behind some point or creek and surprise them.
I believe they sailed last night, taking advantage of
the darkness to make their escape, and also to avoid
the hooting of the people. The contempt of all here
is much increased at the fact of the brag and bom-
bast the Yankees indulged in before the Stonewall
came out, they saying that she would hardly make
a good breakfast for them. They also said that
after the fight they intended giving a ball, &c., to
the leading people of Corunna.
I fear I have but given a very imperfect idea of
this affair, but hope the facts I have stated may be
of some service. It is impossible to praise too
highly the daring and courage of the Stonewall and
her handful of men in defying two ships of 23 guns
and 800 men to come out and fight them, mounting
but three guns and 80 men. We only hope they
may return here to receive the praise and admira-
tion they so well merit ; a braver crew never trod a
deck.

LETTS'S MONTHLY POSTAL ALMANACK—onIy
this very day commenced--what though it is a
little fly-leaf publication of merely four pages is
the result of, in its way, one of the happiest
thoughts imaginable. It will prove month
after month the greatest comfort in every
mercantile house in the land, as well as in mul-
titudes of private dwellings. On the first of the
four pages there is given a calendar of the month—No. I.
being, of course, this present month of April, 1865. In a
column running down the page to the left hand of the
days of the week are specified at their right dates the
days when the different mails are made up in London. In
a column running down the page to the right hand of the
days of the week are notified the mails to bo expected. In-
land Offices and Despatch occupy the second page. Foreign
and Colonial Despatch occupy the third, which also enu-
merates the ships advertised to sail during the present
month, naming the parts they sail from and the place of
destination arrived at. The last page comprises in it a
mass of valuable general information. A fly-leaf really
worth its weight in gold—in its way a positive boon or
benefaction. _ _

THE RAPHAEL CARTOONS.—Her Majesty has been
pleased to allow the seven Raphael cartoons, now at Hamp-
ton-court Palace, to be brought to London. Thoy will bo
placed in the South Kensington Museum, as part of the
Loan. Collection..----4thenwum.