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JULY 7, 1846.

which was received with three cheers. The committee
of the League immediately agreed to proclaim the news
throughout the village, and act upon the spirit of
their messenger and allow no delay in having a triumphal
demonstration ; and at five o'clock an univeral turn-out
of all the different bodies and societies in the neighbour-
hood, amounting in number to two or three thousand,
with banners and music, was exhibited. They then
walked in orderly procession, and, before dispersing, gave
three cheers for Cobden, and three for the Lague.
They then retired to the Freemasons' Hall, where seve-
ral congratulatory addresses were delivered, with a few
original and mirthful songs, and at a little before twelve
o'clock, the meeting broke up, after one of the most
cheerful, orderly, and joyful meetings ever held in this
neighbourhood.
BUSBY.—At this village on Monday evening, a public
meeting was held in Mrs. Wilson's Hall, over which Mr.
Davii Lowden presided, when addresses were voted—
one to Sir Robert Peel, and another to Mr. Cobden—the
former expressive of sympathy with the Premier in his
present position, and both congratulatory to the Premier
and ML Cobden on the passing of the Corn Bill. It was
also agreed, at the same time, to celebrate the passing of
this important measure, by an illumination on the follow-
in evening.
FREE TRADE DEMONSTRATION AT STRATHAVEN.—
On the arrival of the mail on Monday bringing intelli-
gence of the repeal of the corn-laws having received the
Royal assent, a number of the inhabitants of Strathaven
formed themselves into a committee, and resolved that a
demonstration should take place in honour of the event,
on the following day. On Tuesday, accordingly, the
various trades turned out in procession through the town,
accompanied by two bands of music, with flags, banners,
&c. During the procession, the parish and relief bells
rang a merry peal. The houses end shops in the various
streets were decorated with evergreens and arubs,
which gave the town a very gay and enlivening appear-
ance. In the evening, from 80 to 100 gentlemen assem-
bled to dinner in the Avondale Inn hall.

EAGLESHAM.—Ever since the corn-law question was
introduced into the House of Commons by Sir R. Peel,
the people of this place have manifested the utmost
anxiety for the issue of that question. No sooner,
therefore, was the news learned of the final passing of
that great measure, on Saturday afternoon, than they
began to demonstrate their joy by firing guns, and
hoisting flags and other emblems. The members of the
instrumental band also turned out with their instruments,
and paraded round the village, followed by a large por-
tion of the villagers ; so that, with
Banners flying, music sounding,
Laughing, cheering, guns rebounding,
all went merry as a marriage bell till nearly the clock
struck twelve, when all returned to their respective
places of abode.
Ara.—On Monday last, rejoicings were got up in Ayr
for the safe passage of the Corn Bill. In the evening
some rioting took place, in consequence of the mis-
chievous part of the population having resolved upon
bonfires, and being rather unscrupulous in the means
they took to procure materiali. After the arrest of one
or two of the ringleaders, order was restored.
Kmaraurrocx.—On Monday a meeting of the Magis-
trates; Councillors, Commissioners of Police, and Dea-
cons Conveners of the Trades, was held in the Town
Hull, at which it was agreed that the gratitude of the
people of Kilmarnock, for the repeal of the Corn-laws,
should he expressed to-day (Tuesday) by a suspension
of business at four o'clock, P.m and a procession headed
by the authorities—the assembling to be at the Cattle
Market, and the procession to terminate at the Town
Hall, where an address to the Prime Minister will be
read from the balcony, and submitted to public approval.
The windows of the shops are decorated with bushes.
The magistrates will meet with the burgeses in the
George Inn at eight o'clock, for a social sederunt, as in
the good old times.
STEVENSTON.—The inhabitants of Stevenston had a
procession on Saturday, accompanied by the band, when
all things went off in a very spirited manner.
GIRVAN.—PUBLIC REJOICING.—Monday being the
day fixed on to give expression to public feeling in re-
ference to the joyous triumph of free trade, at an early
hour the houses were decorated tastefully with boughs
and flowers, and the principal streets spanned with gay
and neatly constructed arches. Although the weather
was by no means fine, the town everywhere presented an
animated appearance, most people seeming to vie with
each other in the expression of happy feeling—" all
went merry as a marriage bell." About mid-day,
agreeably to previous arrangement entered into, a pro-
cession took place, consisting of the various trades,
headed by the Town Council. In the afternoon a
numerous and respectable party sat down to dinner in
the Burns Inn.

SALTCOATS.—On Saturday, after the arrival of the
Fleetwood steamer at Ardrossan, containing the news
of the passing of the Corn Bill, the town bells rang a
merry peal in honour of this glorious event. Flags were
hoisted on the house tops, or other conspicuous places.
In the afternoon a pnblic meeting was called by tuck
,of drum, iv hich :Wits- respectably-attended; when its waal
...solved that on Tuesday the inhabitants should have,
another flay of rejoicing. On that day all the houses
and shops were, ....)eaiugly, nicely decorated with
evergreens, &c. About 3 o'clock, a large procession.
composed of merchants, sea car tains, &c. walked through
the principal streets with flags, small vessels on poles,
and bands of music, which tended greatly to the enjoy-
ment of the people. The principal shops in town were
closed nearly the whole afternoon. About 100 gentle-
men sat down to dinner in Mr. Campbell's Hall, Sara-
cen's Head Inn.
BEITH.—As soon as the intelligence reached Beith,
on Monday, the 29th ult., that the Corn and Customs
Bills had received the Royal Assent, the windows and
doors were profusely decorated with flowers, shrubs, and
evergreens, whilst the Beith instrumental band peram-
bulated the streets. A number of miners from the
Kilbirnie iron works and neighbourhood came into the
town preceded by a piper; the bells on the spires of the
Town-house, Free Church, and Old Church, rung a
merry peal, and the whole town assumed the appearance
of a gala day. At six o'clock, P.m„ a procession of be-
tween four hundred and five hundred of the inhabitants
took place, without almost any intimation being given,
showing the decided interest which the people of Beith
took in the passing of these great national measures.
The procession, after making a circuit of the town
formed in the principal square, when the Queen's health,
aid Sir Robert Peel's, were given and received with the
greatest enthusiasm. Short addresses were made on the
momentuous occasion which had called them together,
by Robert Ramsay, Esq., merchant ; and Mr. Robert
Shedden. A meeting of about 120, took place in the
evening, in the large hall of the Saracen's Head Inn,
when several toasts, prefaced by brief and appropriate
speeches, were given, and warmly responded to. As
soon as it was dusk, a display of fireworks took place,
whilst four large bonfires of coals, which had been
kindled during the day, cast their illuminating gleams
along the streets, lighting up the countenances of the
crowds of joyous citizens assembled. As far as we learn,
the whole went off without the slightest injury or offence
of any kind to any person.
PERTH.—On Wednesday last the city authorities and
inhabitants of Perth celebrated the passing of the Corn
Law Repeal Bill by a grand public procession, with
banners, music, &c. ; a public meeting on the North
Inch, where the assemblage were addressed from hust-
ings ; and a dinner in the evening in the City Hall.
The Perthshire Advertiser says, " There must have
been fully 10,000 individuals on the Inch before the
procession commenced. We cannot say how many
might have been in the procession ; but those conver-
sant with the town may form some idea of its magni-
tude when informed that it extended the whole length
of South-street. A number of the devices on the flags
and banners were very apt and appropriate ; such as—
Let those who till and those who weave,
And all who by their labour live,
Rejoice, for now their market ground
Is measured by the world's wide bound.
Let the corn consumer rejoice, and may the producer
never have cause to mourn.' Thanks to Sir Robert
Peel.' The Triumph of Free Trade,' &c. The
bakers, who were preceded by a very fine band from
Strathmiglo, in Fife, carried a very spirited representa-
tion of a baker and corn-dealer in combat, with the
motto, ',No more bonded corn."

FAREWELL ADDRESS.
(From the League.)
Our task is concluded, our labours are at an end. We
have seen the great principles for which we have strug-
gled through seven years of doubt and difficulty brought
to a triumphant issue, and permanently established in
the legislation of the empire. The records of Parlia-
ment are the evidence of our services ; the freedom for
which wise men wrote, and good men sighed, and brave
men struggled, has been won peacefully, honourably, and
completely. Laws devised by a jealous, monopolising,
and ungrateful spirit to restrain the bounties of Provi-
dence, and fetter the energies of an industrious, a brave,
and a loyal people, have been swept from the statute-
book to take their place in the records of unhonoured
history. We have extended the right hand of fellowehip
to every nation upon earth, and laid the foundation of a
brotherhood which will unite the whole family of man.
Compared with such a victory the triumphs of con-
querors and the achievements of heroes sink into insig-
nificance. Our march has been stained by no blood—
our success is sullied by no tear. There is no regret in
the bosom of the victor, and there soon will be none in
the heart of the vanquished, for ours is the triumph not
of force but of reason ; not of ambition, but of benevo-
lence ; not of a party, but of the united empire ; and,
we might add, of universal humanity. As there is
nothing to cloud the joy of present success, so is there
no painful association connected with the history of the
agitation by which that success was obtained. Our
march from the starting point has been steadily
onwards ; our course has never swerved from the single
object which we had resolved to pursue, and our means
have been as noble as our end.

For the first time in the world's history a great revo-
lution has been accomplished without physical force
being so much as mentioned in the whole struggle. Con-
vinced of the power of intelligent opinion, we set our-
selves to develope that intelligence and to form that
opinion. We foresaw that our mission should be educa
tional, and we accepted its conditions. The League
undertook to instruct the people, to reform the economic
creed of the country, and to overthrow the fallacies
devised by an ignorant selfishness, and supported by an

unthinking credulity. We had no bribes to offer our

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converts ; on the Contrary, large sacrifices were re-
quired from all who joined our cause. So hopeless did
our enterprise appear when first undertaken, that it was
regarded as something little short of insanity. Hope
and encouragement, however, grew rapidly around us.
We asked men to inquire, to investigate, and to examine,
and we found that every one who thus exercised his mind
ended by adopting our sentiments.
The system of lectures was an early and necessary
part of our educational course; the gentlemen employed
for this purpose by the League spread the doctrines of
free trade through the length and breadth of the land,
and the reception which they everywhere met convinced
the Council that there was a mass of sound opinion
spread over the country which only required to be
organised and concentrated to attain its object. Nothing
was more surprising than the rapidity with which sen-
timents of sympathy and confidence were developed
among free traders. Community of feeling became the
bond of friendship, and it was cemented by community
of suffering.

The financial and manufacturing distress which the
free traders clarly saw would be the result of a perverse
code of commercial legislation after sending before it
a premonitory shadow, spread a deep gloom over all
the branches of 131 itish industry, but more especially
over those engaged in the production of textile fabrics.
The ministers of religion met to protest against a sys-
tem which violated the first principles of Christianity,
and outraged every precept of the Gospel. Appeals
were made to the Government of the country by deputa-
tion after deputation, but instruction had not penetrated
into high places—the educational mission of the League
remained still incomplete. An outbreak of a singular
character in the manufacturing districts equally attested
the distress of the operatives and the strength of their
moral principle. The League held out to them hope and
encouragement ; they were saved from the wild excesses
of despair, and tranquillity was restored without blood-
shed. Men at a distance were astonished and perplexed
by such a phenomenon. They called for inquiry, and it
was granted ; the investigation only showed that physi-
cal suffering had prompted to the movement, and that
moral principle had brought it to a peaceful end.
The crisis passed over.; more prosperous period
arrived produced by the causes which the League had
accurately predicted, and attended by all the circum-
stances which it had minutely foretold. The soundness
of our principles had thus been tested by the two ex-
tremes of fortunes ; our confidence in their truth was

strengthened ; the process of conviction was ace• lerated,
and new converts gathered around us every day. We
had multitudes of recruits, and not a single renegade ;
countless volunteers, and not one deserter. The League
had taught the lessons upon which events supplied a
commentary ; the evidence of the truths we inculcated
was brought within the daily range of every man's ex-.

perience.
For a long time the monopolists viewed the progress
of free-trade opinions with apathy or indifference ;
sound opinion had already taken a deep root in. the
country before they showed themselves conscious of its
existence. At length they discovered their danger, and
began to prepare for defence. All the fallacies which
Adam Smith had exposed, and his followers demolished,
were dragged from obscurity and obstruction, and were
reiterated in nearly the same words and syllables at
every farmer's dinner and agricultural association. But
the free traders had gained an immense advantage by

forcing the monopolists to speak out. Fallacy-after
fallacy was demolished as fast as it appeared ; farmers
began to think, and labourers to reason ; they saw the
monopolists ever shifting their ground—driven from
pillar to post, and from post to pillar—while the free
traders constantly preserved the same simplicity and
consist"ncy of truth.
Publication was one of the earliest modes of diffusing
sound principles which the League adopted. Tracts were
disseminated throe ~h a large portion of the electoral
body, and a journal was established in Manchester as a
record of proceedings. When the increased importance
and interest of the debates on Mr.Villiers's motion gave

evidence that the time of a decisive struggle waiap-
proaching, the journal was removed to London, where it
took the name of the League. Like the body which it
represented, the journal strictly confined itself to the
discussion of free trade and its collateral topics, holding
itself independent of every political party, unawed by
the frowns of power, and inaccessible to the blandish-
ments of seduction. No man, no journal, and no
institution, can be expected to. please everybody ;
but there never was a journal so widely circulated against
which fewer complaints were made, either in public or
in private. Whatever may be thought of our pretensions
to talent, we believe that no one will contest our claims
to temper and discretion, even under circumstances
which might have rendered a little warmth excusable, if
not justifiable. It is.neither our wish, nor our purpose,
to enter into any details of the management; but we
'may state that it is an unprecedented event in literary
history for. a journal, devoted exclusively to a single
topic, to maintain a permanent interest for its readers
through •the period over which our
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and though the paper %via ,published at a priae.which
rehdered it unprofitable as a pecuniary speculation,' we
have reason to know that this was' more than compen-
sated by the subscribers it procured to thp general fund.
There was one department of the business of the
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League, unconnected With its educational mission, which

has excited much attention on account of its coystitu-

tional importance ; we mean the registration. Sir R.
Peel was the first to proclaim that the battle of the con-
stitution should be fought in the registration courts, and
his party found the benefit of following his advice. As the
League depended for success solely on constitutional
means, it was necessary, as the combat deepened, to in-
vestigate the means which the constitution had placed
at their disposal. By the ancient laws of the realm
the possession of a forty-shilling freehold confers a
vote in a county ; and hence free traders were
urged to procure such freeholds, the League pro-
vided proper agency to facilitate their acquisition.
It has been absurdly supposed that some of these
freeholds were purchased from the League fund; but in
every instance they were bought and paid for by the in-
dividual free trader, the League only procuring for the
purchaser legal aid and guidance in effecting the trans-
ter. Had the existence of monopoly been protracted to
a new Parliament, we hive little doubt that the League
system of registration would have been found as effec-
tive in other counties as it proved to be in the West
Riding of Yorkshire. •
The announcement of the Ministerial measures just
brought to a successful issue under the guidance of Sir
R. Peel, tested the strength and consistency of the
League. It was supposed that it should of necessity
declare either for one party or the other; but it held to
its independent course, and submitted to the House its
demand for total, immediate, and unqualified repeal.
When that motion was rejected, it refused to play the
factious game of the monopolists, but steadily supported
the Minister who "paid 17s. 6d. in the pound, and gave
good security for the remaining half-crown."
Let it be remembered that the free trade agitation
was the only movement exclusively originating with,
and conducted by, the middle classes recorded in British
history. The League sought no aristocratic leader, and
submitted to no titled guidance ; it was perfect demo-
cracy with all the unity of a despotism ; it had no re-
cognised head in whom itsipowers were concentrated, no
absolute leader by whom its prcceedings were uniformly
directed. When any business was to be done, the fit
man was found to volunteer without the trouble of a
search ; and he took the lead in his selected depart-
ment until his mission was accomplished. Mutual
agreement and mutual confidence supplied the place
of command and obedience ; and hence the steadiness
of the power applied effectually prevented any de-
rangement of the machinery. Everywhere in the
League the spirit of self-sacrifice destroyed the
spirit of selfishness so often apparent in other asso-
ciations. The desire of all was to have the good effected;
but the individual instrumentality was never brought
into question. But the League itself was founded in
self-sacrifice to an extent unparalleled in the world. The
members of the Council were not idle men of fashion,
on whose hands time hung heavy; as little were they
professional politicians, taking up an agitation as a
means of opening paths to place and power. They were
all merchants and manufacturers to whom their counting-
houses, their warehouses, and their factories were more
valuable and precious than any offices which it is in the
power of the Crown to bestow. Splendid as were their
pecuniary donations, their devotion of their time and
toil to the cause was a far heavier tax, and involved a
greater amount of loss. They had no ambition to gra-
tify; and, as the event proves, so far from seeking to
make the League a leverage for personal elevation, they
have resolved on its dissolution the moment that its
object has been accomplished.
Many zealous friends of the cause will no doubt
grieve over the dissolution of the League, and regret
that its machinery was not applied to effect some other
social improvement. But the League has never broken
faith with the public. The most precious point ;al its
history is its unsullied honour ; and this must 'ne
suspicion. ,
pre-
served not only without taint, bi withon2i
To preserve the organisation and mac',"anery of the
League, and hand over the (.14.trection 'to some other as-
sociation formed for a diiierent object, however benefi-
cial, would be inconsistent with the promises made from
the beginning of the agitation, and would violate, if not
the letter, most eer
t..ainly the spirit of the League's en-
gagements. 115:iherto there has been the most perfect
unanimity in the working of the League. Never was
there so large a body in which there was so little, not
merely of dissension, but even of difference of opinion.
But this unanimity would be at an end the moment that
it became nfteasary to choose a new subject for new ex-
ertions, and the result would exhibit a majority with
little reason to boast, and a minority with much reason
to complain.
Singh-Jnese. of object has been one of the chief ele-
ments of the success which has crowned the efforts of
the Leagues. There were many occasions in the course
of the, struggle when a large addition of strength seemed
likely; to bet gained by allying our cause with other de-
mand more; or less popular, but the seductions of tem-
porary amiLantage were resisted, for the League relied
for. kiticcessi more on strength of argument, than on
strength of numbers. Truth must, in the long run,
previiil, land its progress :would be retarded if it had
been Ipr esented to the public mind in such a form
as to idi4tract attention. To have superadded another
topic! tsi our legitimate demand would, have alienated

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many whose aid was desirable, not merely to increase
our strength, but to smooth down the preju-
dices of adversaries. We sought to win our
way, not by conquest,- but by conviction; our victory
has, therefore, been noiseless, " and for that very
reason is likely to be perpetual in its results. The
silent ebb and flow of ocean produces eternal
changes on the continents of the earth, but the
effects produced by the storm and the tempest are either
effaced by time or again uttered by the next convulsion
of the elements, Truth, like its Divine Author, is to
be found neither in the worldwind nor the earthquake,
but in the still small voice.

That on some occasions more violent language was
used than the occasion required, or than strict decorum
might sanction, may safely be" confessed ; the immen-
sity of the means was inseparable from the excess. An
agitation spread over the whole extent of Britain must
have occasionally fretted and foamed, like the tide when
it passes over a shoal or is 'impeded by a rock ; but
these aberrations were lost in 'the- general advantage ;
the (lathing of the spray was but an incident in the
onward flow of the mighty waters. There 'was an ele-
ment of safety present in the very worst of these perils
—the perfect publicity of the League's proceedings ; and
publicity is the best means to keep men innocent and
to keep them rational. In none of the League's pro-
ceedings was there any vulgar denunciation against the
Government, or any mysterious admiration of revolu-
tion ; we had no crime toconceal, and no folly of which
we should be ashamed.

The objects, of the League were national, not selfish ;
they sought to protect the rights of the industrious from
the wrongs of the idle ; to secure to every man who
sought to earn his subsistence " a fair day's wages for a
fair day's work," and they sought this as earnestly for
the labourers of Dorsetshire as for the operatives of
Lancashire. They showed that protection deprived
labour of its fair remuneration, and they listened to
the cry of distress which the agricultural labourers
uttered in their homely but forcible language, "We
be protected, but we he starving." If the country
is now convinced that the condition of the agricul-
tural population imperatively deman : investigation and
redress, it is owing to the League ;—if the Arcadian
pictures of rural felicity which floated before the
poetic vision of lords and squires have been dis-
pelled to reveal the naked polities of misery
and degradation they concealed, it owing to
the League ; if the ravages committed by game on
the property of the farmer, and the moral ruin brought
by game laws on the character of the labourer, have been
so exposed as to rehdetthe continuance of such a system
impossible. it is_owing to the Leage; if the wrong which
insecurity inflicts on the tenant, and the limitation which
the same insecurity affixes to the amount of employ:-
inent for the labourer be now notorious and palpable, it
is owing to the League: In fact the League has done
more for the agricultural than for the manufacturing in-
terest ; and ere long farmers will hallow its memory
more affectionately and snore devotedly than traders.
Our association, Eke every other institution, must
perish when its destiny is fulfilled ; but it leaves to the.
world the rich bequest of a bright example. Hence-
forth let no labourers in the cause of enlighted philan-
thropy despair of final success. The stripling with his
stone and sling has proved adequate to the overthrow of
the mighty giant. Noble ends sought by noble means
,more than compensate for any original disproportion of
physical strength and power. The League is truly a
great'fact—a fact gained for humanity, and established
as an eternal precedent in human improvement. -"
corded honours shall gather round its monument,"Tor its -
origin was in rectitude, its course in justice, and its end
in blessing.

FLANDERS and HAMELTRGH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, JULY I.—The King, accompanied by M.
Counag, intendant of the civil list, set out yesterday
morning for his seat at Ardennes. His Majesty will
return in a few days.
The American ships in the port of Antwerp are
dressed out in the gayest colours to celebrate the settle-
ment of the Oregon question, by which the peace be-
tween England and. America is consolidated. The 71st
anniversary lof, the independence of the United States
will be celebrated on Saturday next, the 11th of July,
by the crews of the nineteen. American vessels now in
the port of Antwerp. They will go in procession
through the city;-preceded by the flag of the Union, to
compliment their consul, &c., &c.
The Chamber continued to-day the debate of the
convention with France. Nothing is at present decided
respecting the close of the Session; a few words
were dropped yesterday in the Chamber. It
seems to be tacitly agreed that • the Budgets
for 1847, which are before the Chamber, including that
for the War Department, will not be voted. We cannot
refrain from pointing out the irregularity of the mode
of proceeding. The Chamber declined discussing the
Budget of the War Department forthwith because it
was immediately to proceed to examine that of 1847,
and now the latter is to be deferred.

BRUSSELS. JULY 3.—The Chamber, in its sitting to-
.day, resumed the discussion of the Convention with
France. M. D'Elhoungh spoke at great length in fa-
Tonr of the Convention, and M. Dumortier against it.
M. Duvieres, late Minister of Finance, died the day
before yesterday, in the 74th year of his age, and was ,"'
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buried with the usual honours. !9
On the Ist of July there were in the basins of Ant- t
werp, 240 merchantmen, 90 vessels from the interior,
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and 41 barges, or lighters; in all 371, exclusive of the :c
ships in the road, and the numerous boats in the canals.
STOCKHOLM, JUNE 26.—The Crown Prince set out
yesterday on his journey to • Schonen by land. The
King goes in-morrow to tho wort.rn pruirilleett. and then
to Schonen. The Queen goes to morrow by steam-boat
to Norrkoping, and thence to Schonen, with the Prin- •
cess and youngest Prince.

On Midsummer-day it was remarkably cold ; early in
the morning there was some ice on the water of the basin
in the park. Persons who left Scideunanland the same
morning give similar accounts, and say that great quan-
tities of gardens and vegetables were destroyed in two
very cold nights.
BonEMIA, JUNE 20.—We learn that the owners of
noble estates, now assembled at Prague, have resolved
partly to give up their exemptic n from taxes, and have
proposed to apply the amount to the reduction of the
taxes of the peasants.
LOWER ELBE, JUNE 26.—The situation of Lubeck is
said to excite much attention here in influential circles.
It would appear that much sympathy has been frequently
manifested on the part of Prussia ,or the three cities.
This city, once so powerful and rich, now surrounded
by two hostile states, unless there should be a speedy
change in Mecklenburg and the Duchies. The accession
of Mecklenburg to the customs union, or the establish-
ment of an independent German government in the
, Duchies might ensure some benefit. What hope there
may be further we do not know; it is, however, certain
that the German confederation is resolved to maintain
the integrity of Germany. At least the party interested
has received a satisfactory answer to that effect in reply
to its proposals.
GALARZ, JUNE 18.—The Prussian consul having
taken down his flag, in consequence of a dispute with
the chief of the local authorities, the Prussian ambassador
at Constantinople has directed Counsellor Loos, Prussian
Consul-General at Jassy, to go to Galarz to investigate
the matter.

The marriage of the son of the reigning Prince of
Moldavia with the so-called Countess Dusch is dissolved,
as it appears that she was a French actress. The lady
has now lett the principality, indemnified by a consider-
able sum for the short time she has performed here.
DRESDEN, JUNE 23.—The ex-dictator of Cracow, M.
Tyssowski, is still in his asylum in Saxony, in the for-
tress of Konigstein, and the Russian Government still
demand that he shall be given up, because it knows that
he is in the possession of all the threads of the late con-
spiracy. It is said that Tyssowski took on him the dic-
tatorship during the late insurrection, to prevent greater
mischief, and that he, in fact, saved the lives of the
foreign ambassadors. On this account, Austria has pro-
posed to the Government of Saxony to provide for M.
Tyssowski's removal to New York, which is to take
place next week from Trieste. Only M. Schroter
news, with increasing vehemence, his demands on
the part of Russia. If the delivering up the fugitive
will •r not be considered, it is still insisted that his de-
position shall be communicated. It is observed that his
treatment is much better than usual for a rebel.—
Hamburgh Papers, July 3.

TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF A
WHALER AND A FRENCH EAST INDIAMAN
BY FIRE.
Letters have, during the last two or three days, been
received, communicating the total destruction of the
whaling-ship Helvetia, 330 tons burden, and the French
East Indiaman Nouveau Tambour, both of 'Nhich, wo
regret to say, are supposed to have been wilfully fired
by incendiaries.
The loss of the Helvetia, which was c(Jmmanded
Captain W. Porter, occurred on the night of the 25th of
February last, in SaTidwich Harbour. Besides 15
barrels of sperm oil., she had 1,500 of seal and othe
commodities on
pleted for 'ooard, and preparations were com:
the, homeward passage when the disco-
very was Int*,,de. It appears to have commenced in
the fore
girt of the vessel, between decks, and every
attempt, on the part of the crew to get at it proved
abort"oie. The alarm was given to the authorities
asl:,ore, who instantly caused the military to be turned
out, and directed every assistance they were in posses-
sion of to save the vessel. Long before the vessel was
boarded the flames had gained the oil in the mainhold,
and burst forth in a terrific blaze, firing the rigging in
every direction, which, owing to the wind, was soon
consumed, the masts falling over the vessel's side. At-
tempts were made to scuttle her, but she stin floated, and.
they abandoned her. Subsequently, in tkie course of the,
night, her cables were cut and the shit), drifted down the
channel with the tide ; the guns on, ;,he fort opened fire
on the burning vessel in order to sink her. Several shots
pierced her bows, but had no 'effect ; and about three
o'clock she struck on a reef, tin d stranded in six feet of
water, where she continue:l to burn for nearly two whole
days, and was entirely consumed. That she was wilfully
set on fire the comme,nder and the officers have not the
least doubt. They exempt the crew of the diabolical
act, believing it 4.0 have been committed by a native who
was employed can board, and had made his escape imme-
diately after the outbreak of the fire. The captain and
officers aro Sufferers to a considerable extent. The ship
was insured for 12,0001.
The burring of the Nouveau Tambour took place on
the evening of the 18th of last month, June, off Mar-
seilles, a few hours after her arrival. The fire originated
in the after part of the ship, under very suspicious cir-
cumstances, and terminated in the destruction, of the
vessel. Unfortunately, one person perished. in the
flames; he was a son of the captain, v,nd amidst, the con-
fusion fell backward into the main hold, which was in
one body of fire, and his rescue was beyond all bur:o_Bn
`power. The ship's loss is calculated at 7,00a—Sunday
Times. . , .01

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