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of its advocates cause hope in the mikes Ai\ ttlitos *&6 NT
admire the policy of its framers; while the next tele-
graphic communication from Washington dashes aside
this hope, by announcing the as powerful appeal of some
southern or northern ultra, each of whom appears deter-
mined to make no concession to the prejudices or policy
of the other. In fact, no two things can be snore anta-
gonistic than the relative positions of the free-soil and
pro-slaverypernbers in the present Congress, the latter
of whom, by the way, are pursuing, and throaglyut the
session have been pursuing, a course more than all
others most calculated to defeat their own pretensions.
One of the last amendments proposed was a wise one,
being to set aside further Congressional wrangling re-
garding the boundary of Texas, and to refer it to com-
missioners, who, if well chosen, could patiently investi-
gate and fairly decide the claims, now so long under
discussion by those who are so profoundly ignorant on
the subject. Should this amendment be adopted, it may
secure an immediate passage of the rest of the Bill.
The democratic party, north and south, will of course
rally all their powerful force to oppose to the utmost the
present Administration, strengthened as it is by one of
the most influential Cabinets that could have been
formed. Nor will this opposition be confined to the de-
mocrats, for a very considerable discontent has been ex-
pressed by members from the extreme south, without
regard to party, that no one from that section of the
country has been called to the councils of the President.
It is even alleged that he determined not to nominate to
any department a citizen of any state which had sent
members to the Nashville convention. This may be only
gossip, but will of course answer the purpose of the Op-
position quite as well as if it were true; at all events,
considering the present subdivided state of parties, the
fact is by no means insignificant.
One knotty difficulty has been overcome by the release
of those prisoners at Savannah who were captured on the
Mexican island of Contoy, and were charged with forming
part of the marauding expedition under M. Lopez. The
right to capture them on neutral ground is easily justifi-
able by the policy which dictated it; nor can any surprise
be felt, considering the proximity of the place, that the
responsibility of so doing should have been readily as-
sumed by the Spanish authorities at a moment when the
whole island was naturally frightened from its propriety
by the rumours then so rife regarding the numerous
horde of robbers who were preparing for invasion. The
guilt of the parties, too, is unquestionable, and has since
been admitted even by themselves, though not proved on
the trial. So that, as they confess that they have been
well treated, their imprisonment may be looked on as
far less than their due. The case of the two vessels is
different, and they will no doubt be condemned without
any attempt to prevent it, inasmuch as they had on board
artillery and various munitions of war, without any ma-
nifest or other document to prove the legal shipment,
clearance, or destination. In fact, it may yet appear in
evidence, that not even legal possession of these Articles
was obtained, but that they were stolen from the state
arsenal at New Orleans, with the connivance of those
who had charge of them. The investigation of this part
of the affair at the approaching trials in that city will
not be devoid of interest.

General Scott and Commodore Warrington have taken
charge of the War and Navy Departments ad interim,
waiting the arrival of the new secretaries. Mr. Webster
and Mr. Corwin have resigned their seats in the Senate,
and have respectively taken charge of the State and
Treasury Departments. It is reported that Mr. Web-
ster's successor in the Senate will be Mr. E. Everett, who
was Minister to England under President Tyler.
Accounts from the west regarding the wheat crops
were never more satisfactory. Throughout Pennsylva-
nia, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, and part of Indiana,
the crop has proved excellent both in quantity and qua-
lity. In Pennsylvania and Ohio, both of which are
much depended on for supplies, there never was so abund-
ant a crop.
The custom heretofore adopted in Charleston, South
Carolina, of purchasing cotton without re-weighing it,
however long it may have been warehoused, is to be dis-
continued, and purchasers may, at their option, require
the factor to have any parcel re-weighed when they sup-
pose that loss has occurred from evaporation, waste, pil-
fering, or other cause.
Exchange on Loudon, 110 to 1101, bills in better
demand.

' THE CONVICT WEBSTER.
BOSTON, JULY 25.—An interview took places yester-
day afternoon between Dr. Webster and Mr. Littlefield,
at the solicitation of Dr. Webster, in the presence of Mr.
Andrews, the gaoler. On their entrance Dr. Webster
stepped forward and very cordially and affectionately
seized the hand of Mr. L., remarking that ho had
long desired to see him; that he could not feel at ease
until he had made his acknowledgments to him that he
felt that he had done him great injustice, and he asked
his forgiveness. Mr. Littlefield promptly and feelingly
replied that he forgave him with all his heart, and ex.
pressed his pity and sympathy for him. Mr. Littlefield
also told him that it was a painful duty he had to perform
when he took the stand and testified against him; but
that he felt it a duty which he had no right to shrink
from; and if he had stated anything wrong it was not
intentional, and he was very sorry and asked his for-
giveness. Dr. Webster replied that he had misrepre-
sented nothing—that he had told the truth. ])r. Webster
said, however, as a dying man, that he could not bring
the sledge-hammer to his recollection. Dr. Webster
spoke of his present situation, and said he was resigned
to his fate, but felt deeply for his family. During the
entire interview both parties seemed deeply impressed,
and they parted in tears.
We learn from another source that Professor Webster
seems perfectly resigned and very penitent. Ile says
that he has made his peace above, and is prepared to
die. We understand that Mrs. Littlefield will visit the
professor to-day.
It is a full professor in the first seminary of learning
in the United States who will be executed on Friday,
August 30, unless he anticipates his doom by suicide.

CANADA.
TORONTO, JULY 20.—Last night all the reporters at
the Legislative Assembly withdrew, in consequence
of one of their number being called to the bar of the
House and censured for requesting a member conversing
near the reporters' gallery not to interrupt him. The
whole press has resolved to report no more in that
House.

Garibaldi, the celebrated Italian who so distinguished
himself during the late revolutionary struggles in Italy,
arrived at the quarantine on Tuesday morning in the
ship Waterloo, from Liverpool. It is understood he will
remain on Staten Island until the arrangements for his
reception in a public manner are perfected.
THE lIUNGARIANS.—Gov. Ujhazy and his party left
Burlington, lowa, on the Ist inst. for their new home in
the prairies of Dicatur County, in that state, the point
before selected by him as the future home of himself
and his compatriots. They were plentifully supplied
with teams and the necessary agricultural implements.

THE DEATHS OF GREAT MEN.
It may be some consolation to the little to know that
their lives are us safe as those of the great, and that en
the bed of sickness there is, perhaps, more probability
that the humble attendance they may have, will ofte❑ be
more successful than the crowd of doctors who are called
to the bedside of the great. As a case in point, suppose
a poor man had fallen down and broken his rib. He
would not have been carried into an elegant drawing-
room—he would not have been placed upon a patent hy-
draulic bed—he would not have had all the talent of the
land surrounding him—but his ribs would have been exa-
mined, the fracture would have been discovered, and it
may be, his life saved. Not so with Sir Robert Peel ;
they spared his feelings, and forbore to examine and
find out where he was hurt, so that he literally died
under their hands, without receiving any aid from them,
in respect to the real cause of his death, and without
their even knowing where he was hurt; for they never
found out that a rib was broken till after his death.
Strange comment this upon our confidence in the great
names and a great host of surgeons and doctors. Had it
been a poor coati in New York, and he could not bear to be
touched for the pain he suffered, we should have given
him a dose of chloroform, set the fracture at once, 'and
%cry probably have sent him back to his work in a fort-
night. There are many similar cases among the great,
perhaps that of General Taylor may be accounted one.
These cases are so numerous, that it would seem almost
better for the rich to wish to be poor, es it certainly is
better for the poor to be contented, and not to wish to
be rich.—New York Herald.

TRADE AND NAvrGATfox.--The following is an
account of the imports of the principal articles of foreign
and colonial merchandise during the six months ending
sth of July, 1850. Coffee, 19,975,965 lbs., corresponding six
months of 1849, 22,992,510 lbs.; live animals, 31,971, 1849,
48,797; corn, 1.5E2,516 qrs., 1849, 2,246,576 qrs.; barley,
495,937 qrs., 1849, 598,312 qrs.; oats, 568,859 qrs., 1849,
493,171 qrs. ; cotton manufactures, not made up, declared
value, 277,826/, 1849, 233,679/.; cotton manufactures
wholly or in part made up, 27,81.1, 1849, 24,507/. ; em-
broidery and needlework of declared value of 104,5911., 1849,
63,196/. ; flint cut glass and ornamental glass, 409,763 lbs.,
1849, 309,465 lbs. ; lace, of value of 53,282/, 1849, 52,279/. ;
gloves, 1,921,984 pairs, 1E49, 1,764,209 pairs; bacon,
245,730 cwt., 1849, 302,383 cwt.; eggs, 62,025,283, 1849,
56,454,745; rum, 1,801,779 galls., 1849, 2,332,299 galls.;
brandy, 1,783,565 galls., 1849, 1,854,945 galls. ; sugar,
unrefined, 3,263,661 cwts., 1849, 3,014,944 cwts.; tea,
33,724,609 lbs. ; 1849, 33,772,341 lbs.; tobacco, 5,956,419
lbs., 1849, 5,483,417 lbs.; watches of the value of 54,3391.,
1849, 40,832/. ; wine, of all sorts, 4,112,396 galls., 1849,
2,956,10 galls.; wool, of all sorts, 33,584,730 lbs., 1849,
23,325,171 lbs.

There is nothirg wanting to make all rational and
disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that
they should talk together every day—. Eliza Coon Journal
HORRIFYING EVENT.—An event of a most horri-
fying nature took place in the townland of Kiltyclaugher„
about three miles from Kingstown. A poor man named
James Purvis left home on a begging exclusion. A short
time after he was seen returning, when, it would appear,
he had attempted to cross a valley between the leading
road and his house, in which was a meadow of very long
grass. He was very much afflicted with pains, and
walked with two staffs. He had got about halt across the
meadow, where he was discovered. on Tuesday last. There
was nothing of his remains but the principal bones, the en-
tire flesh and smaller bones being entirely eaten or carried
away. His old hat and shoes and two staffs enabled his
wife and daughter to identify him. lie could not have
been recognised by his garments, as the dos had torn
them to get at the The coroner was there; but
it could not be ascertained whether he bad died suddenly,
or whether he might not have been alive for a day or
two. When the few bones, and hair, and skull were
piled on the tattered garments, the sight was terrific. A
young girl, who came to see him, was so affrighted that
she is afflicted with intervals of aberration of mind ever
since, laughing outrageously, and crying most bitterly in
turn and exclaiming, " The bones "—Coleraine Chronicle.