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TABLES for the FANCIFUL.—No. 111.
THE POET AND TILE RUIN.
Along the Medway's beauteous brink,
A poet strolled to gaze and think ;
When lo ! an old romantic tower
Arrested him with mogic power.
The poet stood to gaze awile
Upon the antiquated pile ;
And while his raptured vision falls
Around the venerable walls,
He feels the Muses' secret power,
And thus addressed the ruined tower :
" Hall, fabric of the bygone days,
On thy rich scene. I love to gaze ;
Like some fair picture dost thou seem,
Near Medway's undulating stream.
Those old, grey mouldering stones of thine
Inspire a fancy warm as mine ,
And thus I've owned the secret power,
Thou venerable ruined tower."
" Thanks," said the pile—for stones are able
To talk away, like bricks, in fable—
" Thanks, worthy poet ! many thanks,
For musing thus on Medway's banks;
But really I'm surprised that you,
Who sing of Moses as you do—
Yes, I'm surprised, I must confess,
You did not touch upon my dress.
This ivy mantle, which you scan,
Acts as does Moses' dress on man.
Had you not been to Moses' Mart
For garments so extremely smart,
You'd look, from what I see of you,
Not quite so handsome as you do.
And this, applied to me, fond youth,
Is nothing but the ' naked truth.' "
The Bard had not a word to say,
But feeling guilty, sneaked away.
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CLEVER SUICIDAL DODGE.—A new method of
raising the wind was recently resorted to in Paris, by
a couple of precious scamps, which should have succeeded
if ingenuity of this kind were entitled to any reward.
The sharpest Jeremy Diddler would not be ashamed of
the trick hit upon by these Parisian gamins. About ten
o'clock in the morning, and a tolerably chilly morning
it was, the passers along the Quai aux Marche au Fleurs
noticed a young man, with a very melancholy and suici
dal look, standing near one of the bridges, alone. Sud-
denly he cast his eyes upwards, as if to take a last view
of the skies, muttered, apparently, as if in prayer, for a
moment, and then plunged headlong into the river.
While all stood paralysed at this rash attempt, a young
man came up, and, with great simplicity, inquired what
was the matter. The individual who was floundering
in the turbid current of the Seine, and who had just
risen to the surface, was pointed out to him, when, at
once, stripping off his blouse, and ejaculating that he
would save the unfortunate, or perish in the attempt, he
plunged in after him. The bystanders watched with breath-
less anxiety as the heroic youth dived, came up to the sur-
face, and again went under, in his endeavours to save the
wretch who had attempted his own destruction; and,
finally, when nearly all hope was lost, the crowd were
rejoiced to see the suicide brought to shore with life still
in him. Close by was a house or station where half--
drowned parsons are restored, and those who rescue
them receive the municipal reward of twenty-five francs.
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admirationpraise which his gallantry called forth on all sides; but,
fortunately, just as the reward was about to be given
him, and while a subscription for an additional sum was
being raised, a policeman stepped up, who knew them
both. They were brothers, were two of the best swim-
mers in Paris, and made it a business to go about saving
each others lives for a living.
DARING ROBBERY BY THE SWELL MOB --On
Friday morning, as Lord John Scott was standing upon
the race-course at Goodwood, a member of the London
swell- mob advanced in front of his Lordship, acid coolly
snatched his gold watch and chain, with which he was
makiug off, when a party of soldiers on the ground came
to Lord John's assistance, and the fellow wes secured.
Instantly a gang of about thirty rushed upon them, Lord
John and the soldiers were beat off, the fellow rescued,
and the party got clear away, carrying with them his
Lordship's property.
There is a medium between a foolish security and
an unreasonable distrust.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

Yestereven—a fair and still one—gradually
deepened into night, and the good folks of Cove pre-
pared to betake themselves to their virtuous beds.
No one dreamt that the Queen was within one hun-
dred miles of them. The harbour watch was set on
board the vessels in the bay, and the scattered lights
from the ridge-like terraces of the little town began
to twinkle across the sleeping waters of the Cove. It
was about half after nine that the group of boatmen,
who, as usual in all seaport towns, were loitering
upon the beach, saw a bright red speck of light ap-
pear over the high bluff land to the north of the
harbour. It might be a mere accidental fire—the
light of a gipsy encampment, or the flare of blazing
brushwood—but it grew broader and brighter, it
waved and flickered in the fitful night breeze,
and at length the gazers exclaimed, " that it was a
bonfire, a signal light, kindled upon one of the towers
of Trabolgan, the residence of Mr. Burke, M.P., awl
that the Royal squadron must be in the offing !"
Then, indeed, there was a season of bustle an 3 awaking
in the town of Cove. Boats put off without passen-
gers, in the impulse of the moment, and presently the
Royal Alice steamer, a small coasting craft, which
had just returned from her daily voyage, and was
blowing off her steam alongside the wharf, rung her
bell lustily, and steamed out again into the offing.
Meantime, all on shore was doubt and confusion.
But lights which had been extinguished gleamed
again from the casements, and presently the illumi-
nation lamps which had been only partially put up,
began to twinkle forth with their loyal mottoes,
expressed in brilliant and variegated hues. All
this time the broad red star glared brightly from
the turrets of Trabolgan. Then a rocket shot up
into the night air from Fort Carlisle, and the
signal was immediately repeated from Fort Camden.
This was the first official information given of the
approach of the squadron, and the sticks of the worn-
out meteors had hardly descended into the sea,
when blue lights suddenly flared forth in the har-
bour, flinging their lurid glow far and wide across
the still water, and lighting up the stately hulls and
symmetrical spars of the two vessels which displayed
them—the Ganges, 84, and the Crocodile frigate.
These lights were still burning, when a distant
moving spark announced the approach of the first
vessel of the royal squadron. The lantern in ques-
tion was borne by the Victoria and Albert, and pre-
sently afterwards the night signals of the other
steamers streamed successively forth as the squadron
made its way between the high bluffs which shelter
the Cove of Cork from the roll of the Atlantic.
Presently it was evident that the royal yacht had
steered for the Ganges, and the listeners on shore
could hear the splash of her anchor and the rumble of
the chain cable as she brought up ahead of the line-of-
battle ship.
The magistracy of Cork, who had by this time
been roused, forthwith tumbled into a boat, and
started, as fast as rowers could impel them for the
royal yacht, with the intention of asking instructions
as to her Majesty's pleasure for the proceedings
of the morrow. The deputation was received by
Sir George Grey, who appointed ten o'clock to-day
for making the final arrangements. Her Majesty
was then asleep. The deputation were informed
by the Home Secretary that the voyage had been
a most favourable one, and that thirty hours had
scarcely elapsed since the departure of the squadron
from Osborne-house. I may mention that Rear-
Admiral Dixon had also gone on board the royal
yacht.

So much for Cove. Let me now revert for a
few moments to the proceedings in Cork. About
three o'clock, 'A.M., a Queen's messenger was thun-
dering at the door of the Imperial Hotel, where the
olfueCssorko,f his son,
dLowrdereKisltwayorintbg,. andThtihs
Earl of Bandon, the Lord-lieutenant of the county
ecoMuraierr-
bore to Cork the first authentic news of the
unexpected arrival at Cove, and very soon after the
receipt of his intelligence the illustrious personages
whom I have named were on their way to the har-
bour. But intelligence does not spread fast at an
hour when people in general are enjoying the sweetest
bit of their night's rest, and when, after an early
breakfast, I went abroad into the streets, not one
person in a thousand had an inkling into the real state
of matters. The morning was advanced before the
Mayor started from his residence to proceed to Cove.
Meantime the preparations for her Majesty's recep-
tion were going leisurely on. The workmen ham•
mered and sawed away at the triumphal arches, and
slowly swayed up the wreaths of evergreens, and the
folds of bunting which were to adorn them. The
shops were opened as usual, the ladies and gentlemen
who intended to proceed to sea in the Minerva, the
Viceroy, the Preussicher Adler, and the Nimrod
steamers, all of which had been advertised to start
to meet the royal squadron a considerable way
from the coast—all these deluded ladies and
gentlemen, I say, gobbled down their break-
fasts with superhuman speed, and hurried
away down to Passage, in the full assurance of a
glorious day's cruise before them. Alas I they ar-
rived there only to find that the object of the excur-
sion was suddenly rendered null and void. Why
should anybody go to meet the Queen, when the
Queen had already arrived ? The reasoning was
undeniable, and if the steamers were not stuck in the
mud, the excursionists were.

And so—in doubt and perplexity at Cove—and in
utter ignorance of the real state of matters at Cork—
the day wore on. The sun was not high when I
started seaward, on board a river steamer. The
morning was grey and cloudy—the breeze light and
flickering—and altogether the weather had an uncer-
tain look. At Passage lay the ill fated steam squa-
dron which was to meet the royal fleet. The tide was
flowing rapidly, and they were getting up their
steam, and shortly after we passed they one by one
heaved their anchors out of the mud, and stood away
round the Great Isle down to Cove.
The vast sea basin—as each steamer successively
whirled from Monkstown round the corner of Great
Island—presented a really stirring and beautiful
sight. I have already endeavoured to familiarise
your readers with the general disposition of its
land and its water. Let them, then, in fancy, place
themselves on board the steamer, from the paddle-
box of which I caught my first glimpse this morn-
ing of Cove. To the right they would see Haulbow-
line and ;Rorke stern unaltered, and impassable,
as behoved there Government stations to be, only the
royal standard floated above their rocks and
fortified places, instead of the usual plain
George's ensign. To the left they would observe the
bustling town of Cove, a great deal more bustling
than ever—flags by dozens floating over the roofs and
chimneys wreaths and garlands stretched from
wharf to wharf—dusky crowds thronging terrace and
beach—flotillas of boats surging against the shingle
of the long-extending line of coast. Then our ima-
ginary spectators will glance right ahead—will mark
the vast miscellaneous fleet of boats, yachts, merchant-
men, and war steamers, which stretch away right
down to Cove—all of them bright and fluttering with
gaily stretching lines of bunting. There are some
half-dozen men-of-war steamers. Observe their
raking masts, and the white hammocks, lying like
so many pillows along the dusky line of gunwale.
Bunting of every shape and hue is fluttering
from truck to deck. The honest merchant ships
are making as much display as their less showy

I have slightly indicated the position of the royal
squadron, and the order in which they lay. Let me
repeat that the line of steamers extended, in a gentle
crescent, ahead of the tier of merchant vessels, from
the northern end of the town of Cove towards the
harbour mouth. Immediately on my arrival off the
Columbine Wharf I got into a well-manned whale
boat, and pulled for the royal yacht. She was sur-
rounded with an extraordinary fleet of sailing and
rowing boats; you might have stepped from gunwale
to gunwale for a hundred yards on either side of the
steamer. Of course every craft in the fleet was loaded
with passengers, almost to the water's edge, and a
more eager, a more loyal, and a more enthusiastic
assembly never floated upon salt water. Neither the
Queen nor the Prince were on deck when I rowed
round the yacht; but it was evident, from the prepa-
rations being made, that her Majesty would shortly
leave the vessel. The Fairy, the Banshee, and
the Fire Queen, had their steam up ; and
the bright blue painted boats of the Victoria
and Albert floated alongside, ready to be put into
requisition. All this time a constellation of eyes was
bent upon the deck of the royal yacht. Every lady
who emerged from the companion was an object of
the most eager interest, and there existed a curious
but very popular error, which caused it to be con-
sidered that anybody who walked the quarter-deck
of the yacht with a cocked-hat was Prince Albert.
When at length her Majesty and the Prince did
actually make their appearance they were saluted
with a roaring burst of acclamation, and the flotilla
of attendant boats in a moment appeared to become
one mass of waving hats and handkerchiefs. I
never heard more heartily expressed enthusiasm, and
the mere cheering was varied by the loudly shouted
Irish blessings and words of welcome, which were
uttered with as much force of lungs as thorough
heartiness of feeling.
In the middle of this ebullition I pulled shore-
wards. The beach was a moving mass of people.
Vast throngs, made up of boatmen, peasantry in
their Sunday dresses, and citizens of Cork in all the
smartness of provincial dandyism, jostled each other
along the shingly beach. From roof to roof and
chimney to chimney of the ledges of whitewashed
houses hung wreaths and garlands, loyal mottoes,
crowns and harps ; ensigns of all hues and shapes
fluttered gaily in the air, and every now and then a
tiny battery, established in some private wharf, pealed
forth its rattling note of welcome.
Here let me pause for one moment for a character-
istic anecdote. At one little artillery station I ob-
served a gentleman, dressed in a species of uniform,
exceedingly busy, loading, priming, and firing his
tiny cannons. His apparent enthusiasm excited my
attention. " What button is that," I inquired of a
locally informed friend, referring to a rather con-
spicuous set, apparently of uniform buttons, worn by
the amateur cannoneer in question.
" That button," replied my friend; " oh ! that's the
repeal button."
I think there is a moral in the anecdote, and so I
give it.
I have spoken of the green-awarded heights which
rise above Cove. Rather to the south of the town
there swells upwards a partially rocky, partially
grassy eminence—very steep and tolerably high—
which is called Spy Hill. On its breast and on its
brow were arranged a goodly array of spectators,
principally, I should think, farmers, and farm
labourers, male and female, from the neighbouring
country. They were squatted in thickly spotted
groups upo.a the grass, blackening with a dusky
swarm of human beings the wavy outline of the steep
and rocky hill. Having a shrewd notion that not
the worst point of view had been selected by these
good people, I clambered up the hill and joined them.
em:"
n lidad, sir, and do yez think she'll land ? Och,
I can hardly give you an idea of the eager vivacity
and outbursting loyalty of the throng among which
I found
es y
ths,ee thruelf welcome she'll get ; and sure it's
then,
her right."

" They say she's put a bit of green on," alluding
to the Queen's dress. "Deed and it was putty of her
to do that same. It's for the sayke of the ould
counthry, sure."

•
" 0h,., more power to her. Faix and it's herself is
the clever woman ; and sure if she had her way,
there wouldn't be one at all, at all, that would have
died of the hunger."
Listening with a somewhat curious ear to hundreds
of such retaarks, I gazed long upon the beautiful
scene around me. The broad waters of Cork har-
bour lay sh:;.ning beneath me—dotted over, swarming
indeed, with. craft of every rig and size, with num-
berless boats, rowing and sailing between and around
the lines of anchored ships—with the white canvass
of gently gliding yachts—with the dingy forms of
river and tug steamers spurting out white columns of
steam, and with the stately hulls and symmetrical
rigging of the anchored men-of-war.
All at once there came upon the ear the loud boom
of a heavy gun pealing across the calm sea. All
eyes were turned towards the Cove and to the circling
cloud of white smoke which curled up through the
rigging of the Ganges. Another heavy and echoing
report. La Hogue was joining in the concert.
Bang ! Bang ! loud, clear, and ringing, pealed out the
neighbouring guns of the Crocodile. As loud and as
sharp the shove batteries answered them. Then came
a series of dull, heavy thuds far from seaward, and the
white smoke rising slowly and solemnly over Spike
Island, and th-ifting lazily before the breeze, showed that
the heavy guns of Fort Camden and Fort Carlisle were
chiming int., the cannonade. Presently the whole
view was blotted by driving clouds of white smoke ;
but it was nod long before an eye tolerably practised
in these matte rs could discern the Fairy shooting ra-
pidly amid then anchored vessels with the royal stan-
dard flying at her mainmast-head. The Banshee and
the Fire Queen followed in her wake. For some
time it was difficult to determine upon the course of
the beautiful little craft. Sbe dodged in and out
amid the anchored and sailing craft—now sweeping
round with he r head one way, anon swinging sharply
back on her heel and retracing her course. At
length she c.iosed in with the land, coming as it
were alongsi le the town of Cove, and running pa-
rallel to the beach, at about a cable's length from the
shingle.
Then it was that rose the first great cheer—the
vast universail hum swelling at last into a roar of ac-
clamation. Fast and sharp rung the loud clear re-
ports of batter:,r after battery ; solemnly and harmo-
niously upsprtung the swell of the National Anthem
from band aflte r band ; but, above both—above all—
there floated, -universal and absorbing, into the soft
summer's air, ..the gentle but irresistable peal of ear-
nest voices, e:l ioing from wharf to wharf, and street
to street, and 'hill to hill, the shrill trebles of women
and children blending with the deep hoarse hurrahs
of the men, but the whole mighty tumult seeming
to form one extempore hymn of welcome
I do not know whether, in describing this grand
popular chorr cs , I have done it too warmly ; but I have
stated faithfu'ily and exactly the impression which it
left upon my self; and I have sought to conjure up the
scene and so and to the senses of your readers.
The Colin. nt,ine Wharf had been gaily fitted up for
the reception ce7 her Majesty; and as the Fairy paused
alongside it, .and the guns of an adjacent battery
pealed out a r( .yal salute, the Corporation of Cove—
or more cor,Te( :tly speaking, a deputation of its inha-

The upward voyage was very beautiful. The tide
was almost full, and the blaze of the summer sun fell
rich upon the shining river and its engirdling wools.
From under the green hanks of Monkstown pealed a
loud salute of artillery, and the thronging masses who
clustered upon the rocky beach added their voices to
the roar of the cannon. Passage was hung with gar-
lands, and gay with flags and mottoes. Here again
the people cheered and the cannon roared. Then
Lough Mahon spread out before the royal voyagers.
Yachts and fishing craft, gay with flags and garland-
wreathed spars, gemmed it. The guns of Blackrock
Castle next tolled forth assurance of an Irish wel-
come. Then the glorious panorama of the Glanmire
bank opened up in all its forest beauty—its peeping
villas crowned with flags and characteristic devices
—its white river-side terraces and rows of trim
cottages crowded with cheering and rushing mobs of
spectators. _ .

In about three-quarters of an hour after leaving
Cove the Fairy was alongside the Custom-house.
The Mayor had preceded her Majesty to Cork, and
the preparations for her reception were hurried for-
ward as with railroad speed. The military and con-
stabulary were speedily called out to line the streets ;
a regiment of Lancers did duty in South Mall and
along the Grand Parade. TLe 41st and 26th regi-
ments of the line were disposed in Patrick-street and
Great George-street.
The Custom-house is an unpretending looking
building, ranging along a considerable extent of
quay. A ledge of roof slopes outwards from the wall,
so as to afford shelter for goods which may be dis-
posed underneath. Upwards from this roof was
stretched a rich web of scarlet and purple cloth, gar •
nished above and below with garlands of evergreens,
with wreaths of flowers and gilded crowns and harps,
and emblazoned with the motto, " Cead mille failthe"
—" A hundred thousand welcomes." A proper
landing stage had been erected, and rich carpets laid
down upon the pier. On either side were stages
hung with drapery and 'crowded with ladies. A
similar class of pavilions struck the eye upon the north
side of the river, and the wharfs, as far as the eye
could reach, the rigging of vessels, and the windows
and roofs of private dwellings and warehouses, were
crammed with spectators.
On her landing, her Majesty was met by Mr.
Lyons—now Sir James Lyons—the mayor, and the
different members of the corporation, by the Marquis
of Ihomond, the Earl of Bandon, tho Lord-Lieute-
nant of the county, and by Lord Dilworth, the High
Sheriff of the county of Cork. Here the corporation
address was presented. I transcribe it :
" May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's
dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Councillors of the ancient city of Cork, humbly approach
your Majesty to tender to you, on behalf of ourselves
and our fellow-citizens at large, the homage of our pro-
foundest loyalty, and of our deepest affection and attach-
ment to your Majesty's sacred person and crown.
" We gratefully beg to express our deep sense of the
high honour and distinction conferred on us by your Ma-
jesty's graciously condescending to select our city as the
place where you and your royal and much loved Consort
pay your first vibit to this portion of your kingdom; and we
hail with the sincerest feeling of joy and exultation your
august presence here, and ardently hope that your Ma-
jesty would be graciously pleased to cheer and gladden
us by frequent visits, and thus diffuse pleasure and
happiness amongst us. We sincerely hope that your
Majesty's gracious visit will be like those of the Angel
of Mercy, with healing on its wings, and that it is the
harbinger of bright and better days for our country,
which your Majesty must be aware is passing through a
fearful ordeal.

" We know that your Majesty deeply sympathises in
the sufferings and privations which your people have
undergone, and are still going through; and we are con-
vinced that nothing would afford a higher gratification
to your royal breast than to mitigate and relieve those
sufferings, and to raise the moral and social condition of
your Majesty's much and long enduring, but patient and
faithful Irish subjects.
" We trust that your royal advent here will lay the
foundation of a better order of things than has hitherto
existed, be the means of fully developing the great and
varied natural resources of our beautiful and fertile court-
try, and that its prosperity, and the consequent comfort,
happiness, and contentment of its people will be the
glorious and blessed results of your auspicious visit.
" That your Majesty may enjoy a long and prosperous
reign over a united, happy, and contented people; and
that you, your Royal Consort and family, may possess
every happiness that this world can aff,rd, is the ardent
and sincere prayer of your loyal and attached subjects,
the Council and Citizens of Cork.
" Done under the Common Seal of the Borough
of Cork, this 24th day of July, 1849, in the
13th year of her Majesty's reign."
Several other addresses from various public bodies
in Cork—from the Cork Royal Yacht Club and the
grand jurors of the county, amongst others—were also
presented and graciously received.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Lady
Jocelyn and another lady in waiting, then ascended
an open carriage belonging to the Earl of Bandon,
and presently the royal cortege began to move along
its destined route through the city of Cork.
Let me first describe the general order of the pro-
cession. It began with successive bodies of mounted
police and Lancers. Then came the Mayor, who had
already received the honour of knighthood, in an
open carriage, attended by two members of the cor-
poration. Then there followed a group of mounted
officers, preceding the royal carriage. Next to it
was that which contained the E trl of Bandon and
Sir George Grey. Then came here and there groups
of Lancers and mounted constabulary, mingling with
and escorting a long train of carriages containing
most of the notabilities of the city and the county,
the tail ending with a succession of joints, formed of
simple and unpretending jaunting cars.
The reception of the Queen was universally en-
thusiastic, but was not perhaps so noisy as some of
which I have had experience. The truth is, that
there was a vast deal of curiosity to satisfy, which
contributed to deaden the cheering. People ran along
with their hats off, gazing and staring at the un-
wonted visitor. A species of respectfnl, loyal, affec- •
tionate inquisitiveness seemed to be a principal feeling.
There was little uproarious cheering, but there was
a strong low deep hum of acclamation rising every
now and then into a loud jubilant shout, which would
run backwards and forwards, be taken
reproof fromtosLeoef
to street, from window to window, take
rothe
sunny air.
till it pealed out clear and strong into
I have already traced the .rouatle
which the royal
the trim and
cortege followed. It passed
handsome South Mall, under triounmgphal arches and
between two lines of houses the windows and roofs of
which were masses of cheering spectators. The same
description applies generally to the entire route.
Everywhere there were flags, garlands, and mottoes

" If the tide should suit, her Majesty would, on quit-
ting the royal yacht, ga up the river to Glasgow in the
morning in the Fairy, on board of which vessel she will
receive the addresses to be presented. After which her
Majesty would proceed by the route proposed by your
Lordship, visiting the University and the Cathedral, and
ending at the railway station, where her Majesty would
enter the railway carriage and proceed to Perth. But
the time will not allow of her Majesty accepting the in-
vitation to a dijeuner, or inspecting the various manufac-
tures of Glasgow and its neighbourhood.
" The general arrangements proposed by your Lord-
ship appear to me to be very judicious, and I have no
doubt that her Majesty will be much gratified by her
reception.
" I will write to your Lordship again, when the time
of her Majesty's arrival can b 3 more accurately fixed.
" I am commanded to desire that your Lordship will
convey to his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, and the
members of the Western Club, her Majesty's thanks for
their offer of the club-house. but her Majesty's stay in
Glasgow will not be of sufficient length to enable her to
avail herself of it.—l have the honour to be, my Lord,
your Lordship's obedient servant,
(Signed) " G. GREY.
" The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Szc."
—North British Mail.

THE UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON.
SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 4.
The Ocean Steam Navigation Company's steam-
chip Washington, Captain Floyd, with mails and pas-
sengers for England and Bremen, from New York,
arrived in Cowes Roads at four o'clock this morning.
After transhipping the portion destined for England
into a small steamer especially provided, the Wash-
ington continued her voyage to Bremen, and the
English passengers and mails were brought to South-
ampton by the steamer above alluded to. The Wash-
ington left New York on the afternoon of the 20th,
and has therefore brought three days' later news,
which, however, is not of material importance.
Cholera had diminished considerably in New York,
and in the principal cities which had been afflicted
with this pestilence. In New York, during the
twenty-four hours previous to the sailing of the
Washington, the deaths had been thirty-six out of
eighty-seven cases. In St. Louis the general health
of the city was improving. _ _

The steamer Alabama had arrived at New Orleans,
by which dates from Chagres to the 20th of June
had been received. Mr. Rossitor, bearer of dispatches
from Valparaiso to the United States, was a passenger.
At Panama very few emigrants were left, nearly
all of them having embarked for San Francisco. The
better class of people had also nearly deserted the
place, the cholera having made its appearance there,
although not in a violent degree. It readily yielded
to medical treatment, and but two deaths had occurred
the one an American, and the other an Englishman.
The names are not given.
Immense quantities of gold had been sent from
Francisco. No less than a million and a quarter of
gold dust had been run into bars, marked, assayed,
and forwarded from that place to Panama, for
England.

The Chili brought 775,000 dollars in specie to
Panama, which was reshipped on board the Teviot
(now hourly expected at Southampton) at Chagres.
In Peru there has been a considerable lull in the
disposition of merchants to engage in ventures of
merchandise to California, caused by the reported
reduction in prices of every description of goods at
San Francisco ; but the emigration to California still
continued to be considerable, principally by the lower
classes.
At Valparaiso the tide of emigration to California
was also very strong ; created, no doubt, by the
continued arrivals of gold from the diggings.
The New Orleans paper brought by the Alabama
contained news from Jamaica to the end of June;
the intelligence was interesting. At the opening of
the Legislative Assembly, on the 26th June, the
Governor male a speech, in which he advised the
Assembly to receive the loan offered by the British
Government, and urged the devisal of some measures
to restore prosperity to the colony, of which he spoke
in desponding terms.
The Kingston Journal states that the session would
terminate soon, as the majority of the members
seemed determined to transact no business.

Another meeting respecting the violation of the
slave treaties by the Spanish and Brazilian Govern-
ments had been held, at which resolutions were
passed, that petitions to the Home Government, and
signed by the people, should be presented, urging the
adoption of measures to compel the enforcement of
the treaties alluded to.

The subject was creating great excitement in the
island. It was asserted that the slave-trade had
been carried on as extensively as it was during the
seven years previous to the passing of the Act for its
suppression.
advanced. Sales had light, and the prices had
The stock of flour in the Kingston markdetbveveasn
1, had not arrived
l.
The Caledonia, from Liverpool, had andmade
corn at
a3t423 . per
rr
bushel.barr e
Her arrival
out, although on her thirteenth
nt d
Meal abundant, at 155.;
Schoarrne,
din sales, and money was
Awlaaarkaentxiohuasdly
but little inquiry, the banks
very abundant, din hceonsSetqoueeknaoned.
cotton, and flholeuoevronikreh,ledarnef—ofiru'ri ma
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
da:Cille:AtselpJ:succilt.:ll:9tw,f6riterhe.ixyal—Another steamer's news
week's later commercial
being.T ,
being
advices from Europe, had a tendency to check operations
in some descriptions of produce. The market for
Western and State flour was somewhat brisk. The
receipts of common Western were large, and prices rifled
a shade lower than were current yesterday. There was
a fair demand for export, and moderate inquiry for
home use. For good State and Western holders were
firm. There was nothing of moment doing in wheat.
Corn was not quite so firm, especially common and lower
grades, while there was a fair inquiry for export. Rye
was quiet at yesterday's rates. Rye flour was firm, but
inactive; while meal was dull, and transactions light.
Pork was firm, and in good demand, in part for the
West Indies, at steady prices. Beef continued firm, and
in good demand for the home trade.