The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-17 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 17, 1840.

15. A battalion of Lght Infantry with the Colonel at
held.

17. A Lietaeume.l: ut i'dot Gila.

Kleher, Kellerman, &c. Here were represented all
"arms" of the Irneer;al Guard, Horse Grenadiers,
US, Dr+l';: Chasseurs,
Grenadiers, Fusileers, Chasseurs a pied, Pontoneers,
Marines, Guides, and even Mamelukes. Many of
these veterans had, in addition to scars and cicatrices,
other strong personal claims to interest ; so that between
the excitement of what we had seen and what was on
the point of passing before our eyes, and the associa-
tions and recollections conjured up by the aspect of the
men whom the imagination almost pictured as called
from the grave to figure for the moment in the pageant,
the mind yielded to them involuntary homage and respect.
Among those glorious debris of the Grand Army and
of the old Guards there were many of those celebrated
warriors, the Polish Lancers (of the Guard),' who are
also the survivors of the Polish Revolution of 1830 and
1831. For these, perhaps, above the rest, was respect-
nil sympathy entertained by the persons near to me, at
least. I must also mention a chef d'escadron of the
Mamelukes of the Guard, on whom every eye we'
turned. The treneral belief was that this individual
was the favourite Mameluke of Napoleon,- but he
(Rustan) is, I believe, dead,
to ngth the car arrived, preceded by a charger
magnificently caparisoned and led by two servants in
the state livery of the deceased Emperor ; but all that
you will find described in the accompanying letter, so
chat little of my task remains. I shall only observe,
that shouts of " Vive l'Empereur!" rent the air, and
contrasted strongly, and 1 need not add favourably,
with the cries of " A bas Gdzat !" " A 1)33 les
Anelais !" and " A has Palmerston !" raised by the
students. I cannot, however, take leave of this part
of my subject without bearing testimony to the good
sense and good feeling evinced by the population, who,
I am sure I may safely say, from Courbevoie to the
Hotel des Invalides, in no single instance responded to
those cries of the students. This conduct is the more
creditable to the city of Paris, as no fewer than half a
miliion of its inhabitants were eye witnesses of the scene
and ear witnesses of the shouts uttered by this handful
of young madmen.
'THE CHAMPS ELYSEES.
So early as eight o'clock on Tuesday morning the
Champs Eiysees presented an ani:nated appearance ;
numerous bodies of pedestrians kept moving forward in
the direction of Courbevoie ; troops of the line arrived
to form the line along the road through which the pro-
cession was to pass. The National Guard began to
arrive at nine o'clock, and the battalions were observed
to be more complete than on any occasion of their as-
sembling since the revolution of 1830.
Marshal Gerard, attended by a numerous and bril-
liant staff, passed through the Champs Elysees in the
direction of Neuilly, to take his station in the proces-
sion. The multitude continued to arrive in great num-
bers, and patiently awaited the signal gun which was to
announce the setting out of the procession from Cour-
bevoie. About a quarter past twelve o'clock the
procession, which was opened by a squadron of Cuir-
assiers, made its appearance in the Champs Elysees,
and moved slowly forward, halting at intervals.
The anxiety of the multitude was excited to the
highest pitch, but when the funeral car appeared, it is
impossible to describe the approbation of the beholders.
Shouts of admiration spread through all ranks ; some
few raised their hats and cried " Viva l'Empereur," but
the majority seemed to have reserved all their applause
for the car, which fully equalled in splendour any fune-
ral car which has been seen, at least in modern times.
As it passed through the Champs Elysees, a demure-
looking personage amongst the bystanders pointed to the
Palais of the Elysee Bourbon, which appeared to be un-
tenanted and guarded by a solitary sentinel, and ob-
served that the present ceremony might afford a salu-
tary lesson to Governors, and remind them of the little
dependence to be placed on their most favoured courtiers,
if they reflected that some of the most prominent per-
formers in this great festival, got up for the purpose
of doing honour to Napoleon's remains, were the
most active twenty-five years ago in forcing the
living Napoleon to abdicate at the palace of
Ek see Bourbon, without even having secured
his personal safety, compcllisg him to throw him-
self on the generosity of the King of England, who,
though be might have treated the Emperor with un-
necessary severity, had at least preserved him from the
penalty which was inflicted upon his brothers in arms,
Murat, Ney, and Lebedoyere. Amongst the persons
in the procession who attracted particular attention was
Marshal Gerard. Count Montalivet appeared at the
bead of the cavalry of the National Guard, of which
he is the Colonel, in his costume of Peer of France.
The Prince de Joinville and the crew of the frigate La
Belle Poule were the objects of peculiar interest, and
the 86 eagle rhich represented the 86 departments of
France, and which were carried before the funeral car,
excited usual admiration.
It was observed by many that this was the first pro-
ceesion in honour of Napoleon's remains which satisfied
all parties. Immediately after the funeral car had
pissed through the Champs Elysees, the immense mul-
titude which had been assembled there for so many
hours retired slowly, and in perfect order, and the
streets of Paris, which had presented a most deserted
appearance until two o'clock in the afternoon, once more
assumed their usual gaiety.
PLACE DE LA CONCORDE.
This position, perhaps one of the most prominent,
and certainly the most magnificent in the whole line
of procession, presented an animated appearance at an
early hour. At half-past seven o'clock the Rue St.
Honore, and the different avenues leading to the Place
de la Concorde, were already thronged by a dense crowd
proceeding to the Champs Elysees and the vicinity ; an
immense portion, however, of the floating mass halted
at the Place de la Concorde, as a convenient and appro-
priate place for witnessing the eeremonv. The Place
de la Concorde, although capable of affording a good
view to at least 100,000 individuals, did not contain
more than half that number, no doubt from the wish on
the part of the public of getting as near as possible to
the starting point at Courbevoie, and probably with the
view of catching a glimpse at various parts of the
route. At an early hour all the terraces of the
Tuileries facing the Place de la Concorde were
thronged by those who had been fortunate enough to
obtain tickets and summon up sufficient patience to sit or
stand out several hours of intense cold. The balconies
of the Hotel of the Minister of Marine and of the
Garde Meuble were densely occupied by privileged
spectators. On looking across the Place do la Con-
corde from the Rue Royale the eye became fixed upon
talents of the Committee seem to have principally
the Pont de is Concorde, u
centred. The two lofty columns at each end, stir-
pon which the decorative
mounted by gilded eagles, and decorated with rich
silk tricoloured flags, the eight colossal statues lately
erected on each side, among which was one of War,
exactly in front of that representing Prudence, a pro-
fusion of tricoloured banners, a double file of National
Guards, troops of the line, and municipal cavalry, the
newly-finished facade of the Chamber of Deputies at
the further end, and the . plendid statue of Immortality
on a pedestal in front—all combined to render this spot
truly admirable.
The disposition of the Parisian population on this
occasion, as far as we saw, was perfectly peace-
able and tranquil. And this was not the effect of
any severe police regulations, or imposing demonstra-
tion of armed force, with the view of " awcing the
mote" but quite spontaneous. In the first instance it
was expected that the procession would reach the Place
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made its appearance. The cortege moved slowly on in
the order above described, passing through a double file
of National Guards and soldiers of the line, Winding
round at the near side of the obelisk, and continuing its
course in a straight direction across the Pont de hi
Concorde. On the arrival of the Imperial car all eyes
became rivetted on this unique specimen of funereal
pomp, and every effort was made to keep it in view as
lent; as possible ; its appearance, excited a general burst
of admiration, and indeed it would be difficult to ima-
gine any thing capable of producing a more striking
effect. Tho ceremony passed off in this quarter without
any accident or interruption of order, or even good
humour.
The programme of the grand ceremonies of the day
bad announced that Messieurs the Peers and Deputies,
&c., were expected to be in their places in the interior
of the Invalides by eleven o'clock, and that private
personages munificently supplied with tickets were not
to be later than ten. It was near noon when the crowd
was still waiting to be admitted at the great gate of the
Invalides. The great court of the hotel had certainly a
striking effect when one first entered and cast a hasty
coup d'mil around one. The amphitheatre of steps that de-
scended from the gallery to the ground,the black trappings
which were hung round the upper gallery, and the general
effect of the archways covered with festoons and garlands,
were imposing ; but a nearer look betrayed the coarse
painting of the canvass scene that covered the usual
walls of the court, the wood work of which was in many
places badly joined, and convinced me that the decora-
tions bad been patched together in haste and without
taste. In the interior of the chapel the whole system
of embellishment had been the same. The coup d'reil
was admirable, but the painted canvass, representing
trophies, shields, and laurel crowns, enwreathing swords,
which was suspended between each archway ; the
great porch built in the same scenic fashion at the
entrance of the beautiful chapel of painted archways
and columns, and the coarsely carved and gilt cande-
labra that lined the whole length of the nave, to say
nothing of two great machines at each side of the
entrance to the dome, which looked like whitewashed
fonts in a country church mounted upon a stage
pedestal, and of which it was impossible to devise the
meaning or purpose, unless by supposing that baste or
negligence had left them imcomplete ; all this,
when
one looked again, was poor, tasteless, mesguin, mean.
The truth is, all this was unworthy
of the solemn occa-
sion, the national pomp that better taste might have
exhibited, and the name
Never-
theless,
of a great nation.
after having done justice to the stage managers
and scene painters on this occasion, I ought to add
that, thanks to the splendid vista of the chapel, the effect,
taken as a whole, and as a piece of scenic effect, was

fine. The great altar, which generally separates the
lone line of nave from the dome, had been removed, and
feorn the entrance to the other extremity of the Borne
the view was an unintetupted one. The space under
the dome, arranged as a chapelle ardente, was filled
with a blaze of light from the thousands and ten thou-
sands of wax lights that hung in lustres or lined the
walls, until the ex tr,mity of this part ofthe chapel looked
one great wall of fire. In the midst was erected the
catafalque upon which the coffin was to be placed, and
stands hung with black drapery rose tier above
tier for the reception of all the; different corps d'etat,
the members of the two Chambers, and the Royal
Family. Along the nave the archways, both below and
above, had been filled with tribunes for spectators, and
were decorated with black velvet draperies, studded
with the different Napoleonic emblems . The real
sight worth seeing after all, the only imposing sight in
fact, was the crowd in mourning dresses that filled the
chapel, first along the archways in the nave, then in the
tribunes of the dome as they became crowded with the
representatives of the. diff%rent bodies of the State, the
Ministers, and staff, the Marshals, and superior officers
of the army, and seemingly all that France still con-
taine:l of brilliant in uniform or costume ; and then the
long 'vista of the nave as it became lined with the differ-
ent deputations of the Court of Justice, of the thousand
and one departments ofthe French state mechanicism, and
at a later period with the officers, non-commissioned offi-
cers, soldiers, and sailors, who had formed a part of
the procession. It was near two o'clock when a signal
scented to be given, and the Archbishop of Paris, at-
tended by ether bishops, by his clergy, and an immense
body of priests, of all variety of Catholic pomp, ad-
vanced towards the nave, but it was only a false alarm,
and they again retired. After a delay of impatient but
silent expectation, the funeral procession entered, headed
by the train of priests. Before the coffin walked the
Prince de Joinville, who had accompanied the body to
its final destination. I had heard the King annaunced,
a loud voice celled out "Le Roi " but I did not see
his Majesty pass in the funeral train ; and I presume
that after performing the reception of the body at the
entrance, he found his way to his appointed seat during
the mass by another passage. To ste the coffin borne
along the nave was a sight that set all the mes-
quittene of the painted theattical show around
at defiance. It was one of sentiment, and not
of show. As the coffin advanced, borne upon
the shoulders of the thirty.two non-commissioned
officers appointed for that purpose, accompanied at
each end by General Bertrand and the Marshals wise
occupied each corner, covered with the funeral pall,
with the Imperial crown reposing above, there was an
evident thrill, an evident electric mot:on, which per•
vaded the crowd that lined its passage. The old In-
valides, who occupied the first rank, were deeply moved,
as he whom they had tor the most part obeyed with
such fervour and enthusiasm in life, was borne along in
death. Their emotion appeared to me to be one of pride
and joy more than of grief. He was restored to them.
The same sort of electric movement of feeling seemed to
animate the mass of military men who lined one side of
the dome as the coffin was slowly carried along up the
steps that led to it from the nave. In a few minutes more
it was being raised into the catafalque that occupied the
middle of the dome, and the mortal remains of Napo-
leon reposed where his last wish was that they should
repose—a wish which he thought in his dying moments
to have been a vain one—in the heart of his own coun-
try, in the place worthy of France's greatest Gene-
ral—under the dome of the Invalides. The mass then
began. Mozart's Requiem was admirably performed ;
but, in spite of this edmirable performance, in spite of
the intrinsic worth of this beautiful composition, it did
not seem to be a funeral mass appropriate to the occa-
sion. It wanted that stamp of originality which a na.
Lion's reverence to a national hero ought to have com-
manded. It was an occasion, surely, when a mass should
have been composed to mark the event• Time enough
there lies been since the vote of the Chamber ; but this
opportunity of doing justice to so unique a ceremony was
lost. This was hastily done, as everything else had bcea.
The voices of Lablache, Tatriburini, Dupree, Marie, Grisi,
Per*iani, Dorus Gras, Stolz, Bercollet, and other cele-
brated singers, made the music tell magnificently. The
Requiem of Mozertsould not, probably, be better per-
formed. At the conclusion of the mass, the sacred
water was sprinkled upon the catafalque by the Arch-
bishop, and then handed to some of the Marshals and
older officers near, to go through the same rite, accord-
ing, to the observances of the Catholic funeral service.
It was long before the chapel was in any degree cleared.
The crowd lingered still behind and turned again and
again to look at the coup (twit of the burning wax-
liehts, the chapelle ardente, the illuminated catafalque,
an:; the long vista of funeral pomp, however mean it may
have been in its minor details. Curiosity was, as usual,
the only predominant feeling—tievotien was, generally
speaking, quite out of the question, and of enthusiasm I
could not see a glimpse. The only words that reached
my ears w ere exclamations of curiosity from the ladies,
a few political speculations from the gentlemen around
me, or such remarks as " Hush, that's Grisi's
" How charmingly Dupree songs," &c.
Thus ended a ceremony which, for the interest in.
spired by the occasion, for the extraordinary congrega
tioa of men whose actions for good or for evil have been
celebrated throughout the world, and for its own in-
trinsic splendour, will probably long remain without a
rival.

TEXAS.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Nov. 1, 1840.
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House o
Representatives,
I have much pleasure in again meeting the assembled
representatives of the people, and in offering to them my
congratulations on the increased prospects of happiness
and prosperity which are presented to every class of our
citizens. Since the adjournment of the last Congress the
settlements have been extended on the various parts of the
frontier, the seasons and the soil have offered the richest
reward to the labours of the agriculturists, and the coun-
try has continued gradually to improve in the number
and capacity of its population. Scarcely five years have
elapsed since Texas, without money, or arms, or any of the
means of war, and with a population less than forty thou-
sand souls, first raised the standard of resistance to the des-
potism and misrule of a Government claiming the control
of boundless wealth, and of eight millions of inhabitants ;
and yet
has
that short period, against such fearful n
odds, she as not only achieved and secured her indepen-
dence beyond the reach of doubt, but has maintained a
well organised Government at home, established foreign
relations abroad, more than quadrupled her population,
and now exhibits to the world a country teeming with all
that is essential to
.the necessities or happiness of Man ; and
this, too, without incurring a debt exceeding five millions
of dollars, including every species of liability, both foreign
and domestic. Can such a state of things as this produce
gloom and despondence in the hearts of those whose in.
domitable courage and persevering resolves have achieved
so much? Assuredly not. On the contrary, we find in it
abundant cause to felicitate ourselves on the almost magi-
cal change which so short a time has already produced,
and every inducement to stimilate us in the pursuit of that
policy which has thus far led to such fortunate results.
Our Foreign affairs have experienced but little change
since I last had an opportunity of addressing you. With
the United States and France our relations continue to be
of the most friendly character. Great Britain, influenced
perhaps by Mexican interests and policy, yet withholds the
acknowledgment of our rights as an independent and so-
vereign nation. How long she may continue to maintain
this attitude we have not the means of knowing ; but that
she will eventually change her policy in this respect is most
certain, and from the tone recently assumed by some of
her influential journals in reference to this country, and
the many acts of decided friendship extended by her Mi-
nister in Mexico to our agent, during the past summer,
we may hope that the day is not distant when she will be
disposed to act, with a more enlightened and magnanimous
spirit towards us.
With Holland and Belgium it is probable that treaties
of friendship and commerce have already been formed.
General Junes Hamilton, one of our Loan Commis-
sioners abroad, was authorised to propose such treaties
previously to his final departure from Europe, and by des-
patches recently received from him this Government was
informed that his negotiations had already been opened in
Holland with every prospect of early and full success,
and that he anticipated no difficulty in effecting similar
arrangements with Belgium, as it was understood that the
Government of that country had already intimated a will-
ingness to recognise this as an independent nation, when
an application should be made with that object.
In regard to Spain, no overtures have as yet been made,
either in respect to the recognition of our independence,
or the establishment of commercial intercourse. The dis-
tracted condition of that kingdom for some time past,
growing out of her domestic wars, has heretofore rendered
the period inauspicious to any proposition of the sort, as
it could not he reasonably supposed that she would, amid
her own revolutions, be disposed to acknowledge rights
which, however just in themselves, had been so recently
acquired by revolt. Her acknowledgment of our exist-
ence as an independent nation would necessarily exert an
influence over our relations with Mexico, and in that view
would be valuable to us; but the benefits which would re-
sult from the establishment of commercial arrangements
between the two countries would be vastly more inn.
por• taut The proximity of the island of Cuba, and the
many articles of almost indispensable necessity produced
upon that island, which are consumed by our citizens,
afford of themselves sufficient evidence of the import-
ance of a direct commercial intercourse between the
two nations. At present the coffee, sugar, and other
produce of Cuba are imported into Texas through the
ports of the United States, by which means they come
charged to us, not only with double duties, but with the
increased expense of double freights, commissions, and
profits, all of which would he saved were our merchants
and ether citizens permitted to carry on a trade with the
IHavannah and other West India ports.
As regards our position and controversy with Mexico I
have but little that is either definite or satisfactory to com-
municate. Continuing to pursue her tardy and inert
policy,
licy but little progress has as yet been made towards the
adjustment of our differences. Our agent has been re-
ceived and accredited, and negotiations have been so far
entered into as to permit him to submit the propositions
offered by this Government as the basis of a treaty, which
propositions, up to the date of our last advices, were held
by them under consultation and advisement. Many reasons
might be urged why negotiation, though unpromising in
its aspect, should be preferred at this time to a state of open
and active war. Among these reasons the first and moat
prominent one is, the heavy expenses which a war of this
kind would involve, and the already depreciated state of

our currency. That we could raise at a short notice all
the men which would les necessary for an invading army is
beyond a question ; • but the furnishing of supplies, muni-
tions of war, and transportation of such an army, would re-
quire
an outlay in the expenditure, which would be se-
riously felt by every class of our citizens, and would mate-
rially retard the growth of that prosperity which a state of
even comparative peace is so ;sell calculated to foster and
encourage in a community composed, as ours generally is, .
of thrifty agriculturists and industrious mechanics. Another
reason is, the effect which the renewal of the war would
have upon the negotiation of a loan abroad, and upon the
success of which much of our immediate prosperity depends.
We are in debt, and must remain so until the resources of
the country arc more fully developed, and so long es we have
to dep and for our daily moneyedoperations upon theproreises
of the Government to pay at a future day, no matter in what
form they may be issued, these issues must and will depre-
ciate. This depreciation of paper not founded upon a specie
basis or its equivalent is inevitable, and to the cement of
the depreciation is the loss of the Government that is corn-
pelleu to resort to such issues. It is therefore of the ut-
most importance to our financial prosperity that we should
effect a loan, as it probably is at present the eilits means
which can be rescrted to for keeping our currency at par,
and of preventing these losses; and any operation of the
Government which will have a tendency to lessen the pros- ,
pects of accomplishing this object, unless unavoidably
forced upon it, should be well weighed and considered
before it is resolved upon. That a renewal of the war will
have this; effect upon the negotiations for the lean is the
decided opinion of the Commissioners employed in that
negotiation, as will be seen from the letters of General
Hemilton, which also accompany the Report of the Secre-
tary of State.
The running and marking of the boundary between the
United States and this country has not yet beers com-
pleted. I have considered it my duty to keep the navy at
sea for a short period. But I was constrained by a sense
of justice and a regard to the sacred faith of the country to
abstain from making captures of Mexican property while
our accredited agent was engaged in Mexico in a negotia-
tion for peace with that Government.
I regret that it is not in my power to give to the Ho-
nourable Congress more steisfactory information in refer-
ence to the operations of our Loan Commissioners abroad.
Upon their arrival in London in the early part of the sum-
mer they found a state of things existing so entirely ad-
verse to the objects of their mission that they did hot
feel justified in even attempting to renew their negotia-
tions in that city. The extraordinary difficulties and em-
barrassments in the monetary affairs of the United States
—the suspension of specie payments on the pert of the
banks, combined with the neglect of some of the States
to meet their European engagements with that prompt-
ness which had been expected—had produced such a ge-
neral distrust in transatlantic securities of every descrip-
tion as rendered bankers and others averse to dealing in
them, even at a heavy depreciation. When to these causes
are superadded the want of confidence which private
individuals felt in the stability and permanence of our Go-
vernment, in consequence of the refusal of their own to re-
cognise its existence, and the prejudices which it is the
policy of a large party in that country to foster and encou-
rage, we cannot be surprised at the determination of the
' Commissioners not to open their negotiations until a more
auspicious period should present itself. That an arrange-
ment
might have been made in France for a loan to sonic
extent is highly probable, but whether that arrangement
could have been effected upon terms which a wise and pru-
dent policy would approve is somewhat doubtful.
In the correspondence of General Hamilton it will be
perceived that almost entire confidence in the ultimate suc-
cess of his mission is still its moat prominent feature.
Should he fail in his operations at the Hague he will return
to London, and, if he can then succeed in obtaining a re-
cegnition of our independence by the British Ministers (of
which he has now strong expectatiens), other difficulties
may be overcome, and, failing in that, it may be inferred
from his letters that it is his intention to proceed again to
France, and to close his negotiations upon the heat terns
which can there be had for this country.

Aluongq the various duties vilfich still claim the attention
of Congress during the present scssien, there are none more
important than those which relate to the fiscal affairs of
the Government That a system of finance should be
adopted, if practicable, which to some extent, re-
lieve the pecuniary einharra%smetes of the country, i, so
obviously necessary that it can require no argument from
me to enforce it. The entire expenditure of the Govern-
ment, embracing everithing that is required for the
successful administration of its civil, military, and naval
departments, would probably not exceed four hundred
thousand dollars a year, if these expenditures could
be met with funds not depreciated in value; and when
it is known that the revenues of the nation
provided for by law, if faithfully collected, would
amount annually to nearly one million of dollars, it would
seem that a system might be devised which would not
only remove present embarrassments, but which could be
gradually extended to the extinguishment of the national
iLbt. The duties on importations, as fixed by law, with
us are, with one or two exceptions, fifteen per cent. ail
yak), em, when really not more than three per cent. is ac-

tually paid, while in the United States, until the recent
modification of her tariff, alter the entire payment of or
national debt, and the accumulation of a surplus of forty
millions in her treas;ury, the import duties were actually
from twenty to fifty per cent. ad valorem, on most of the
essential articles of domestic consumption, and in but few
instances was it less then filteen per cent. on any article.
Thus it is seen that in the United States, while revenue
was required, the duties were from five to fittcen times as
mucli as is actually paid in this country, end the difference
in the direct taxes will be found upon examination to be
nearly as great.
In regard to the details of the administration of the
Government during the past year, I must beg leave to
refer the Honourable Congress to the reports from the
several departments, which accompany this communica-
tion. Owing to a severe and long-protracted illness, I
have been unable to bestow that personal attention to these
details, which, under other circumstances, they would
have received. Indeed, so constant, and often so excru-
ciating, has been my sufferings for some months past,
that, in making this communication, I have been com-
pelled to pass by many subjects of interest, which I de-
sired and had intended to present to your consideration.
Reposing, however, that entire confidence in the wisdom
and patriotism of the representatives of the people that
their selection and high station implies, and feeling every
assurance that their entire efforts will be directed to the
promotion of the best interests of the country, I am con-
soled by the reflection that, although my personal infirmities
may prevent my being an efficient coadjutor with them,
their own exertions will more than supply the deficiency.
MIRABEAU B. LAMAR.

GERMAN COMMERCIAL LEAGUE.

FRANKFORT, DSC. 10.

Tho Loipsie Allgemeine Zeilung has been the first to
break silende on the subject of what it calls the "enlarged"
demands of Prussia, as the basis of a renewal of the Ger-
manic Customs League. These demands, which the
German paper does not specify more nearly, are, a compen-
sation for the loss of revenue which accrues to Prussia from
the mode of dividing the duties collected according to the
number of the inhabitants in each of the contracting States ;
and which is not only unjust to Prussia, as being the coun-
try in which the greatest consumption of colonial produce
takes place, but likewise as being the seat of the largest
cities in Germany. Berlin contains 275,000 inha-
bitants, Konigsberg 70,000, Dantzic and Cologne 60,000
to 65,000, and Breslau 96,000. With this act of justice,
however, the claim of Prussia to the meed of extraordi-
nary disinterestedness in its efforts to support the " Ve-
rein" necessarily ceases, and a proportionate weight will
be added to the votes of the other States, whose interests
are not always identical with those of the leading power.
This would, consequently, have been a favourable moment
for a Commissioner from other States to have mooted a
consideration of the principles on which the whole league is
founded, and, perhaps, a more favourable opportunity than
was offered last year. The fitness of the present occasion was
very much heightened by the discussion of two other points
of vital interest to the League. The treaty concluded under
singular circumstances with Holland, by which half re-
fined sugar was admitted from that State at a price with
which the beetroot factories could not compete, was tin-
popular enough on that account ; but was made still more
so by the discovery that the drawback allowed by the Dutch
Government to its refiners on goods exported to Germany,
was exactly equal to the low protecting duty imposed
by the Vercin." As the financial difficulties of the
Dutch aro no secret, this unesual consideration of one
branch of industry was naturally enough ascribed to a
plot for ruining the refiners, as well as the manufacturers,
of sugar in Germany, on the success of which the con.
sumers would have to make the hest terms they could
with the foreign dealers. The first step taken to avoid
the extreme of such a dilemma was the extension of the
Treaty to the cities of Bremen and Hamburgh, by which
the sugar of the West Indies was admitted to compete
with the produce of the East. It must be observed that
the Dutch Treaty contains no stipulation in favour of the
manufactures of the German States, so that the loss on
the side of the latter is perfectly gratuitous. In this state
of things it cannot well be doubted that a judiciously-
selected Commissioner from any Great Power possessing
Colonies, and empowered to treat upon the principle of a
fair reciprocity, would have met with attention ; and it is
to be regretted that no such attempt was made. The
second grand point which came under discussion was like-
Wise of a nature to favour proposals for putting the com-
mercial relations of Germany with her neighbours on a
sound footing : this was the attempt to reconcile the
varying interests of the two leagues—the North-western,
and the German or Prussian league. The former, esta-
blished between Hanover, Brunswick, and Oldenburg, on
a most judicious and liberal footing, has been renewed,
notwithstanding all the efforts mado to induce the
Governments of those States to accede to the Prussian
system. As this resolution was deliberately taken after
full as much experience of the effects of comparatively
free trade as the Prussians have had of their policy, it
speaks strongly in favour of the arguments adduced by
the north-western Governments, and the same arguments
apply with equal force to many of the southern State-i, It
is a pity that these arguments were not supported by the
weight of foreign diplomacy, and the offer of reasonably
extensive advantages arising from commercial reciprocity.
Such a mediation would have gone far to reconcile the
present commercial schism in Germany, and to have
brought about that union which all friends to Germany
and:to sound commercial policy ardently desire.-- chrc,„iee

Lord and Lady Dinorben, accompanied by
Lady Gardiner, are expected to arrive at Bute House
early in the ensuing week, from Paris. Prince and Prin-
cess Capua and family also return next week from the
French capital.

The unfortunate woman who lately attempted
_
to
force her way into Buckingham Palace was brought ba-
fore Mr. Hall, at Bow-street, yesterday, and an inquiry
,
took place as to the state of her mind, when no doubt re-
mained that shc is insane. Mr. Hall communicated the
result to Mr. Phillips, of the Homo-office, and a warrant
was made out for the committal of the prisoner to Bedlam,
till such time as the pleasure of her Majesty
may be known.
The evidence was taken in private.

EVENING -EDiTiOA.
THE WEATHER.

There rya; a h: avy f dl of snow yesterday, which lies on
the ground to the depth of seteral inches. A
three o'clock yesterday the gliss stood at two degrees be-
low the freezing point. The wind at the commeacersient
of the frost was at N. N.E., and it is considered a remark.
able phenomenon by the " weather-wise " that, alt hough
the wind chopped round yesterday to W. and S.W. by
W., the frost was not diminished in its intensity. When
the lucky guess of the renowned Mr. Murphy, happened
to turn out a " hit," about three years ago, the thermome-
ter, in the course of the day on whwir the prediction of the
weather-prophet was verified, stocd for one hour and a half
below zero, but if we recollect rightly, at no period during
that season was the frost so steadily progressive in its seve-
rity as it has been during the hest three days.
The Serpentine has hardly ever been known to freeze in
so short a time as it has done in the present frost. In 24
hours the ice was of sufficient thickness to bear, but still
very slight. Although the ice was not more than half
an inch in thickness, yet a number of inveterate skaters
ventured on the Serpentine, and on the pond in Kensing-
ton Gardens. and many continued throughout the day. It
was really frightful to observe the undulations of the vast
sheet of ice on the Serpentine as the adventurous crowds
sported upon its surface ; but although serious and well-
founded appreheesions existed in the minds of the Humane
Society's men fur the safety of
the skaters and al derF, up to
the evening no accident, beyond a few spr ;tint el ankles and
one or two trifling dislocations, Lad occurred. Every precau-
tion in case of a aerials calamity occurring has been adopted
by the Society. A number of lifeslines have been thrown
across the river, which have already proved serric,-
able. In connection with this plan, Mr. Williams (the
superintendent) has contrived an apparatus somewhat re-
sembling the fire-escapes so frequently exhibited in the
streets, with wheels and ladders, but made to act in a
horizontal and downward direction, as circumstances may
require. This contrivance is so simple, that it might be
propelled upwards of 200 yards in the direction of the per-
sons whose lives may be endangered, and that with the
greatest ease and certainty. There is also another inven-

Lion which hus been tried with success, and which is well
calculated to Efford relief where there are a number of
sufferers. It resembles a sort of floating-tower or plat-
form, resting on two small canoes, which are shod with
iron, and which arc alike available for speedy transmission
both on the ice and in the water. There are no less than
fourteen baths kept in 4he receiving-house.
In the Regent's-pail the skaters were numerous, and the
ice piety fair. Two ac,:idents occurred, the first about
two u'eleck, when three persons, named Nlichael Welch, of
No. 5, Nightingale-street, Joseph Broadbridgc, of Bos-
ton-place, and Robert Locoek, of No. 14, Little Exeter.
street, all in the neighbourhood of Lisson-grove, became
immersed together. Iceman Charles Davis immediately
went to their assistance with his iceboat, which being vio.
lently seized by them, he was jerked out into the water.
The whole three, however, succeeded in getting into the
boat, in which they were assisted b) Davis, who got out
with the assistance of ladder brought by another iceman.
About the zanrc time a gentleman, who refused to give his
name, but %dm was stated to reside at No. 10, Chester-
terrace, was resent d ty iet man Beckers, by means of Mr.
Willi m's double breaker iadskr, an invention a Lich bids

fair to be of great public utility in saving the lives of per.
sons immersed.

This nyJrning the mercury has risen, and the streets in
:he metropoii,; are %vet at ,d dirty from tile thawed suxs.

31ANC1IESTER BOKOUUH COURT.

;,ppl,e,tion for an ordcr in bzstardy «as inzde on
\\Wnc iy, at the Borough Cnurt nu one of tug late ovcr-
seers of M,nehester ( Mr. Dcflinno), tthicli created con-

sidtsmble intcrest

Mr. heron, town-cicik, appeared on the part of the
parish rnslke the application, and Mr. Sudlow, attorney,

for tae defence

Mr. IL ro.:. in opening the case, said that this was an
apl7lie.ltion to rfia.hurse the pnrlih for sums of money laid
out in support of Ann Watson, the mother of a L.Abtard
child bcl9nging to the defendant. He appeared on 1),.!..ia1f
of the prt.,:et.t. ovcrseera, who, I* ha?, been stated, micro
L.etu3ted in this c.;se by vindietis.,! f.::lngs i i takirg this
course against Mr. Defiine. TLE, charge he utterly dia.

claimed : tin ehurchwt_rthin,,, W cresidcd at the bustar•!!
cranely ccncurrcu with the overseers in the
course wh:ch bc taken in this matter, and were in-

do ci of opinion ti.a. they were absolutely bound, as public
servants. to bring the ease before the Court. The evi-
der.ce produe,.d before them was such that it appeared Mr.
Minn., ought to b:; charged with this child, and, there-
fo7e, as gur.rdarts of the public funds, rs: which the
of ;he child bzcome chargeable, they coulc_'. not in
justice do other,tisc than they had. sum:: further ob-
servp.tions, Mr. Heron proceeded to eyidctice.
Tnc notice having been admitted, Me. Watkins, a k
isi the overs, ofnccs, proved that the mother r:t the
child hal become chargeable to the parish.
Mr. Heron asked if it had not been proved that Mr.
Dcilinne had already given her five shillings himself.
Mr. S.dlow objected to the question, but not Were
the witness had answered in the affiGnativo.
Ann Watson, the mother of the child was then sworn
and in AL:over to questior.s trQui Mr. Heron, stated that
she was tweuty- one ;ears of age, and lived in Every-
street. For about eleven months she had been employed
es a weaver in Mr. Lord's mill, is David .street.
first met with Mr. D.:flinne one night early in Fe-
bruary last.

Ater souk further statements, b'ne said shr. vcent to
Mr. T.Y.ilinne':; 1,,w,e, and be pronthed to send a gentle-
man to hcr wi.uid pmvide for t11,.-!

She was eross-examiLed at length, and insinuations were
made, that sin. had previo;:sly conducted het self improperly,
The Rev. J. &alio who ;poke to character, said
he had known Watson several years, during which her con-
duct wai unexceptionable. She was a teacher in his Sun-
day-school, and much resp:eted. She left the school
about 15 months since throw•li the death of her mother.
tic had conic forward to speak for her in consequence of
having-heard that the most unfair means were being taken
to rake up evidence against her characti:r. Persons had
been met in the open ,'recta and asked if they knew any
thing against her, nod taken to a public-house and treated
in order to gelevidente out of them.

By Mr. Su:Now—lle had not iptiroidated any witness;
he had told one ma❑ not to say anything untrue, as it
would be woiEe for him.
This being thecai.e,

Mr. Sudlow addressed the Court for the defendant, and
commented on the evidence of Watson, whose statement,
he said, was so loose, that no dependence could be placed
on it, and said he should be able to call witnesses to show
her a woman of abandoned habits. lie then called several
witnesses, and the Magistrates consulted together a short

time, when
Mr. Maude said it was evident the girl had not been a
girl of very modest charac!er, but the detendent seems('
to hare lost sight of the fact that, even supposing she had
been one of the must abandoned women, unless they brought
evidence to throw dJubt upon her statements as regarded
this particular case, it r;ils not enough to warrant the Ma-
gistrates in refusing the order.
After scme inquiries about the health of the child, the
order was fixed at 2s. per week, to be reduced to Is. or
Is. 6d. if it should be found that the mother was subse-
quently in a condition to du without the Cult amount.

It is rumoured that Lord Barham will be created
Earl of Guisborough on the christening of the Princess
Royal.
A CLANNISH FEUD.-011 Saturday last the
remains of Duncan George Forbes, Esq,, of Culloden,
were interred in the family burying-ground, in the Cnapel-
yard, Inverness. Unfortunately this funeral was marked
by what we must be allowed to call a barbarous relic of
feudal manners. For upwards of a century there has ex-
isted a feud between the men of Fereintosh (part of the
estate of the deceased) and the men of Culloden, as to
which was entitled to carry the body of the laird or sur-
round the hears:, in its progress to the grave. At the
funeral of the former Culloden, father of the late laird,
the Ferrintosh men obtained the precedency, and
they insisted on retaining it also on this occasion.
When the procession had gone about half a mile on
the road, part of the Culloden people, stung with
this supposed affront, and perhaps partially inflamed
"ea ardent spirits, entered the woo.) by the road-side
saa armed themselves " with sticks, with which they
sallied forth to attack their opponents, and drive
them from the hearse. Some severe blows were inter-
changed, and a few of them were cut on the head and
across the face, while others were knocked down and lay
insensible on the road. The Culloden people were rein.
forced by a band of idle young men from the town, who
had been previously connected with the district, and thus
strengthened, the party succeeded in driving back the main
body of their opponents. A few of the Ferrintosh men,
however, held fast by the hearse, in spite of every oppo-
sition, and never relinquished their held till the proccS,
sion had arrived at the burial place. After a pause, the
attack was relieve ed Gil the road, and continued for sere
time with equal violence. Mr. John Alle,!be„n, messen-
ger-at-arms,
obi);
ikii
il holdingg t hackj
their
iarndbetterdividing
feelings,the m
leire., and
interfered to quell the uweently disturbance,
feared that
ceeded in restoring peace and ordsr. It was
e_hyard, where
sue-
the contest would repeated in the &i
apnadrtlPy'rltflyY
fart he
tchreo vev:,lifiwor,;3 se d
but
i tchnes ,-_ a
excellent
i
ar
rNaliaiteertc
e):.re,.l:trii,lll tv:ieliephastsiaegree
police, preve eted such 'a
'deplor •ble result.
adopted, and the ex,rtious of Mr.
perintendent of tn and
.the su-
The gentlemen: of the district, and the
on each ~ide, c:mied
the
cumn,
white re.afpectslfe tenants
with spactaturs, i',irning
wake I beside them. Tfi e whole of 1.11.01:1 os
surroundingthec(iwuanlcirsY,
tombs, and moneekles in the churchyard were covered
The)ver
tuhtemgc.),-..
at ,
es isl etnoeteh
typ prevailed
easternAillC:'dv newel
ixut.ahrni.ddne,
extremity
yh .P.:O 'hie.
toijyrcewh'luPs:cechatyraarcirieded,
and committed et its " narrow h tote."—lneerness Courier.
FAT
qtr. st Gil tilts. body of James Redmond, aged 38, a cork-
cutter,AL FIGIIT.--An—An ru-
conelteelcu Lit evebing before Mr. Payne at Guy's Hos.
adjourned from Tuesday night was resumed, and
, at a public-house in the Bo-
pita'. It appeared that on the evening of the 2d instant
deceased had Tenn drinking
with several of his fellow workmen. They all left
him, save one, Joins Betts, and they began to drink gin
b,..fore the bar. At length deceased declined drinking, Betts
fi i Betts k
Alter the 't it was ps en
they commenced figittieg.
in
Horsmonger-lane gaol, re.
quarrelled with him for leaving off. drinking so soon, and
into custody, And is now
mended from Union Hall, until the result of this inquiry is
known. Mr. Haynes, the house surgeon, said deceased
was winlitted with fracture of the right leg, but showing
no other external injury. From the first he went on un-
favourably, and on the 10th Mortification of the fractured
limb act in. lie died on Sunday last. He had since care-
fully made a post wortern examination of the body, and he
was decidedly of vpi; ion that fracture of the leg andcon-
sequent murttfication were the cause of death. Verdict—
Manslaughter
,as he ld y e s cai
d,,fla:yi : , ~,tn Junthe
bodyi e Betts.
s .
at the recent fire in Church-street,
of the: man who perished
, long inquiry the jury returned a verdict that the deceased
THE LATE FIRE IN CHELSEA.— inquest
u lAM:ft:Testa
, was accidentally burned, but how the fire was occasioned
there was Ile evidence to show.

EVENING _EDITION.

SIR JOHN HARVEY AND GENE-

RAL SCOTT.

(From the American Star.)
One of our neighbours on a recent visit to Upper Ca-
nada, happened to meet with a distinguished British officer
of the late war, on his way to Queenston, to make some
arrangements preparatory to the great meeting which was
to devise measures for the reconstruction of Brock's monu-
ment. There was something peculiarly earnest in the
;train of his remarks deprecating the conduct of those on
either side of the border, who would stir up strife between
the two countries. He was a native of the Emerald Isle,
had been in many a hard fought battle, and had risen from
the ranks to a station of high command. His views of the
relations between Canada and the United States were not
only just and wise, but noble and generous, and ought to
be every where circulated. I have made an attempt to em-
body them, preserving as much as possible the style
and language of the speaker—" sir," said he, " hitherto
Generals have been rewarded by their countrymen and
honoured by mankind for gaining victories over their ene-
mies by the sword. And the greater the destruction of an
army, the greater, usually, has been the praise bestowed
upon the conqueror. It has been my lot to be present at
the fall of some thousands of my fellow-men upon the
bid of battle, and deep and durable were the melon-
:•nely impressions made upon my mind. Yet lam one of
'nose who admit that conquerors may entitle themselves to
Lc ranked among the benefactors of mankind; nay, it
gratifies me to see statues raised to their memories.
" But are there no other means than victory in bailie
Thereby the soldier may entitle himself to the applause of
,oankind ?—applause unmixed with grief for their gallant
'lead, or sympathy for sorrowing widows and orphans,
lathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters, overwhelmed by
their affliction for their loss ?
" I have already read the correspondence between Major
Gen. Scott and Sir John Harvey, and if I had power to
raise everlasting monuments to one American and one
Briton, I would forthwith have two erected to these two
G: lanais, one in London, and one in Washington, to com-
memorate their wise, frank, benevolent, and true Christian
conduct on that critical and important mission.
And these monuments, I would not have placed in church
or dome, however hallowed by time or decorated by art,
but under Heaven's glorious arch, illuminated by the sun's
bright rays, and open to the view of all mankind.
46 While in my youth I was exposed in battle, then Iliad
parents and brethren only to grieve had I fallen, and they
needed' not my assistance for their support. Were these
two nations new to be involved in war, 1 must quit wife
and children to defend my country and my fireside, and
should I fall, leave them to the charity of the world ;
thousands of us Provincials must do the same. How exalted
in my eye do these two men now appear, who have thus
stayed the plague of war with which we were so imminently
threatened." .

Would that the journals in America aad Great Britain
might repeat this voice from the woods of Upper Canada,
.lad summon their people to the exercise cf their nobler
:.,3ulties in this new field of national rivalry. Let such
;:ionuments be raised, and thus cultivate and perpetuate
" Peace on earth, and good will towards men." What a
new and noble example for future generations I
Why not ? Surely those men deserve more from their
country and the veld, for having kept these nations from
war—nations descended from the same ancestry, speaking
the same language, professing the same religion—than
either could have done by any slaughter of his kindred,
I.owever triumphant.

A COOL VIsITOR.

(From the Gazette des Tribunaux.)

A big Englishman, with rubicund countenance, en-
2red a restaurant a morning or two back in the Rue
8:. Honore, close to the Petals Royal, installed hinuselt
._!)1-nfortab1y with his back to the tire, and his abdomi-
..,d regions close to the table, and had himself served
in succession with a crowd of dishes and bottler. The
carte mounted up to a considerable sum, and the gar-
::)n had already demanded payment three times, when
owner of the house, fearing that the stranger did
•ot perfectly comprehend what the waiter had said, and
at he was much more conversant in the cuisine than
the language o: Frenc2, rose trom his post at the

:r, and explained that the business in hand was to post
he price of the astoundiog consumption of viands,
:ties, and liqueurs, which had just taken place.
" I know wed enough what you want," replied the
t'.aglisliman in very passable Preach, and without die-
-oneerting himself the least in the world ; " there's no
in life is your talking to me, for I don't mean to pay
you. The fact is. I have no money ; besides, its only
debt, so you Lad bettec retrain quiet, and don't troubk,
digestion."
flow !" said the ic(lignant Baniface, " you have no
~oacy ;o pay, and you tell me that, after )cu have
:ike an ogre and drunk like 0 druinnylrs ! But
thi,:gs are not arranged after this fashion in Franc:..
..:1-1 I shall cad the guard instantly."

DJ So, do so, ;ton aict boa' Icquicr," rejoined ac
,1141ishman, and, 3Lre:e3tog 11l :Is:At back cotn!ortablo
3 his chair, he avvated :he rcsu;t of the landlord's

!.!:rat Kith marvellous quietude and coo!nvs).
When, however, uroo the requisition of the enraged
reoaurat:.;ur, the Municipal Guards from the contiguous 1
past of the Chateau dEtu presented themselves, quitting
at once his real or assumed indifference, the son of
Allan opposed a most vehement resistance to the
armed force, who summoned him to follow them to the
post, exhibited his pugilistic science in a way to astonish
:di the bystanders, called them " cowardly Frenchmen,"
indulged in the most injurious invectives against the
business population of Paris, and did no: proclaim a
truce with his coarse vociferations mail the door of the
6)/971_ (lock-up house) was closets upon him.

This scene, which occurred hitwecn five and six
o' lock in the evening at so frequented a spot, had oc-
casioned, as may Weil be conceived, a very numerous
assemblage ; and insulting words and much excitement
were the consequence.

Oa the fallowing morning the Englishman was ques-
tioned by the Commissary of Police, and gave his name
Moore Young. He alleged that he had only arrived
rein London on the previous morning, and that he was
merely passing through Pars on his way to Italy to
meet his wife.
Mr. Young was remanded upon the twofold charge
escroperic and tapage it jurieux (swindling and vio-
lent assault).

FATHER MATHEW'S PUBLIC Roo:ll.—We
may perhaps interest our readers by giving them some
details of our visit to Mr. Mathew. The room in which
members are received is large, and furnished with a desk
and wooden benches. When we entered it, " the presi-
dent" was not there ; but there were men and women of
dl ages, waiting to take the pledge. Among them was a
sturdy mountaineer from Kerry—a fine athletic fellow who
lead led his " faction" for a quarter of a century, whose
head was scarred in at least a dozen places, and who had
been renowned throughout the country for his prowess at
,:very fair within twenty miles of his home. He had long
`peen a member of this society, end had brought a few of
ais "friends" to follow his example. He described to us,
with natural and forcible eloquence, the effect of temper-
ance in producing peace between man and man, in his own
::.:nediate neighbourhood ; in terminating the brutal
fights between two notorious and numerous factions, the
t.;oolecns and the Lawiors, whose names had figured in
in,ery criminal calendar for a century back. "No matter
what was doing, it was left undone," he said, " if any one
either party chose to call up the rest. They'd leave
..ne hay half cut, er the oats to be shelled by the four winds
of heaven; and, taking the hay-fork, the reaping-hook,
and the scythe in their hands, they'd rush out to massacre
each other. Tubs of potheen would be drunk hot from
the mountain-stills ; and then, whooping and hallooing hie
-wild Indians, they'd mingle in the unnatural war of Irish-
man against Irishman. I've known them fight so on the
wa shore, that the sea has come in and drowned those
that had fallen drunk in the fray. How is it now? At
the last fair at Tralee, there wasn't a stick lifted. There
was peace between the factions ; and the Coolcens and the
Lawlors met, for the first time in the memory of man,
Tvithout laving a dead boy to be carried home to a widow's
abin."—Mr. and Mrs. Hall's Ireland.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ST. JEAN
if ACRE, BY AN OFFICER ON BOARD THE THUNDERER.—
Before we took Acre the military thought it the maddest
thing the navy ever attempted, but they were mistaken fur
once. Some of them gave us six months to take it. The
Colonel who commanded the ramparts at the siege is a
Pole, and he is now on shore severely wounded. He said
the buoys we hid down some days before were, he thought,
the respective positions the ships were to take up, and he
ereeordingly laid all his guns to that distance, and placed
sand-bags under the muzzles of each gun, to prevent its
shifting; instead, however, of the buoys marking the posi-
tions to be occupied by the ships they were laid dowe on
shoals which the ships were to avoid. He was astonished
ashen be saw us coming inside the bulys, and ho attempted
to remove the send-bags, but before he had time rie
opened fire, and the smoke of our guns hid us from his
sight, so that he could not discover whether his shot took
effect or not. This accounts for all the shot -going over
us. The Colonel bever expected we would attempt a
breach to seaward. He thought we would land and
attempt a breach on the land side. In that case he was
Prepared to resist us. He was told that if he had not
evacuated the place that night we intended hauling close
in next morning, and making a breach. He asked " What
then?"
He was told we should have landed all the Tutk3
in the breach. Still, be said, could not have taken it,
as the Egyptians would have beaten the Turks off. But
on being informed that are should have hacked the Turks
with 1,200 Englishmen,
he admitted that the town mud
then fallen into our hands, as no
Egyptian force would
,
stand against a body of Englishmers.'
A HUNGARIAN TIIENDER-STORM y
vapours began to detach .theaseivcs from the distant hills
a!eaut which they bad been draped sincesunssweitf,aoiged
d to
scud along over the deep purple vault like swift-winged
me sengers of evil : a haze 'gathered about the moon, and
graduell/,;eing a dark veil Wore, her glory ; and sec
faint
felt that we had approached the mountains as thQ "
Murmur of far-off thunder brake eeleienlv upon the silence,
and she wizard lightniag, letwan to skimmer over toe er
and dome, and to glance from easement to casement.
When the storm burst it was awfully magnificent I Peal
'11)" Pedrauled and echoed *the heavens; the sheetad.
vapour which filled the atreet„nith the momentary light of
day was traversed in every:direction by fiery threads of
intense brilliancy; and the tremendous rain rebounded
front the pavement as though it lacked space to fall. At
length, subdued by their own
violence,
the elements sub-
eided into rest; nor were we surprised on awakening the
fleet morning in order to pursue our journey, to see the
heavy clouds rolling away like dark spirits before the
rising. sue, which was streaking the sky with gold, and
zooming to lay barn the treasures of the ore.laden moun-
Lains. —Miss Pardoe's Cam ()fate maxiar.