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MAJOR AND MRS. G. DARBY GRIFFITH. f by their senators and representatives, and the end-
Just ready, in 2 vols., small Bvo., with 21 Illustrations, price 21s.
ound, less factions and intrigues which t very year
JOURNEY AC ROSS THE DESERT;
FROM CEYLON TO MARSEILLES. were concocted, as if fur the very purpose of
mpris!n7, SKETCHES of ADEN, the RED SEA, LOWER proving that Spaniards had no real conception either
EGYPT, MALTA, SICILY, and ITALY.
By 3IAJOR and 311t.3. GEORGE DARBY GRIFFITH. of liberty or patriotism, and that they could be kept
Henry Colbuni, Publisher, 13, Great 3larlborough-street. I down only by the iron hand of despotism. These are
the real causes of the apathy cf Englishmen, and
many years will elapse before the words " Spanish
patriots," " Spanish liberty," and " Spanish credit," be
even mentioned in England but with contempt and de-
rision. In all the phases of constitutional as well as des-
potic government, one deplorable proof of debasement
stood out pre-eminent, a fixed determination to skulk
from the payment of just debts. Money borrowed
under one regime was disowned by the next, and even
during the brief period of constitutional government,
no rational plan for meeting the claims of public creditors
was ever seriously entertained. Schemes in abund-
ance were hatched, promises of the most flattering
description were held out, and every now and then
some celebrated financier or money-jobber, and occa-
sionally a Spanish grandee, the richest of course in ail
Spain, were announced as on their way toEngland to do
justice at last to the public creditor and restore
Spanish finances to a flourishing condition. Eng-
lishmen, however, were not to be taken in a tenth
time; they justly regarded these schemes as swindling
tricks, sanctioned, too, by the Government, and they
have at last rather generally come to the conclusion,
that on the other side of the Pyrenees, promises, pa-
triotism, and public faith, are words without meaning.

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MR. GRANT'S NEW WORK ON IRELAND,

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IMPRESSIONS OF IRELAND AND THE

Remedies for the Evils of Ireland

We find, in the last files of American papers
which have reached us, very intelligible indications
of a desire, on the part of some of their conductors
and correspondents, to get up an Anti-English ex-
citement—in humble imitation of that which has
been cultivated with so much success in Paris, and in
other of the prime cities of the departments of
France. The American article, however, is a clumsy
And ill-devised affair. Its spurious metal and coarse
workmanship are developed on the surface. There is
no glitter and finish about it, to make it pass, almost,
for the gold of truth itself—like the clever Parisian
counterfeits stamped "English perfidy" and " aggres-
sion," with the details so minutely and circumstan-
tially made out that they stagger the most deter-
mined incredulity. The mint of a petty, vindictive
jealousy, a morbid and quarrelsome envy, is alone
ipparent on the face of the American fabrications,
unqualified by the astute and masterly suggestions of
vraisernblance which the hand of the French " de-
signer" so skilfully introduces into his work. We
have, in the Jornal do Comercio (of Rio Janeiro),
details of an affair, in which the skipper of the brig
Cyrus, of New Orleans, describes himself as having
been overhauled, off Cabinda, by her MAJESTY'S brig
of war the Alert, on a suspicion, which the skipper's
own account tends to show had every probability
which appearances and his conduct could give it, of
the Cyrus being, in some way or other, connected
with a slave-trading venture. The course which this
transaction took, according to the master of the
Yankee craft (whose account only is, as yet, before
as), was this :—On Captain BOSANQUET, of the
Alert, insisting on coming on board—the skipper
(Dumas) tried to intimidate him by a little small
shot of the jus pentium kind—he vowed that "a
protest should be made for the captain's violation of
he treaty !" The captain, very properly, persevered,
.vent down the hold, and finding "nothing but water
ballast" (a suspicious preparation enough for a slaving
:ruize), desired to see DUMAS'S papers. Dumas,
tfter some expressions of personal impertinence to the
British officer, refused to produce them, and made A
,peech very much after the style of some PAUL
JUNES in a melodramatic spectacle at ASTLEY'S.
Captain BOSANQUET, taking no heed of this balder-
dash, said he must now go into the cabin and make
'urther search ; and that he believed the Cyrus had
)een sold. Hereupon DUMAS (who must certainly
have dabbled in small theatricals) got up a tableau
'leant after this fashion :—"lmmediately I placed the
American flag before the cabin door, which was held
ight by myself, the mate, and two of my men ; and
observed to him that he could not step into the
:abin without trampling on the United States flag."
(T. P. COOKE could not have done the thing more
aandily.) "The answer was, 'lt made no difference
-0 him ; and he rushed into the cabin, followed by
ass officer and a negro, who trampled the flag under
heir feet, in presence of my crew." (The negro is
capital hit, in an appeal to a Yankee public in a
southern State.) " Then I said, 'Boys ! our flag is
nsulted. It will cost dear to the English na-
ion.' " (! I) The three seditious tailors who hung
'ut in Tooley-street a brown paper placard, coin-
nencing, " We, the people of England," and signed
•t with their own signatures, were modest and rea-
sonable men compared to this " awful smart" skipper,
.vho thus devotes the whole English nation to thz
engeance of the United States, for the disrespect
'howls to his little bit of stage property and decora-
ions, so uncivilly treated after the manner he had
limself challenged. A demand for his log-book is
net, in a like vein of ranting bombast—but the
sequel is rich. The skipper and his crew had seen
he British officer, his mate, and one negro, go down
he hold—in spite of their protest and DumAs's
oolery—and overhaul and return. But now—the
Yankee boys fall back, on the skipper's desiring them
-o stand to their arms—",handspikes and knives"—
Ind the captain of her MAJESTY'S ship Alert turned
gale (!!), and, with the voice of a coward (!), said,
Stop your men. I don't want to see any bloodshed
n- butchery!" Whether Captain BOSANQUET, with
-hat humanity so constantly allied to the calm, but
intrepid, courage of our service, did make any ob-
servation with a view to avert the inevitable destruc-
ion in which the men must have involved themselves
)y more active resistance, or whether this speech so
►ttributed to him be matter of pure invention, we
teed not inquire. The deliberate and palpable false-
mood of the noisy ruffian who tells this impudent
tory, has probably been an after-thought, to resent
,ome personal chastisement administered—or some
:ontemptuous notice taken, and exposure, of his in-
.olence, by Captain BOSANQUET. The latter taking
Lway his papers, maugre all the death-and-glory
•aunting of the redoubtable JONATHAN Dumas (who
had just before sworn to die, in that event, " with the
ensign-halliards in his hands," the New Orleans
skipper bethought him of a " tarnal 'cute" move, to
'Mind a grand claim on the English Government for
;ompensation, to a tune which all the ventures of tire
Cyrus would never have come up to. So, he says,
•° Thereupon me and my crew abandoned her, leaving
everything on board—trunks, chronometer, instru-
ments," &c. Now, the pendant to all this is amusing
mough, "if true," as they say in the States; for
mother account adds—" The Cyrus had been sold to
;orne Portuguese traders, who, immediately after the
kipper and crew had quitted, filled her with slaves."
[low very remarkable a coincidence that the Cyrus
should have had, when boarded by Captain BOSAN •
(SUET, "nothing but water ballast in her ;—no-
-,hing else!" Was the water intended for the slaves ?
Or were the slaves procured to consume the water ?

From an amusing article in the Boston Daily
Times, with the taking heading n capitals of " One
Thousand Mexican Tents Manufactured in Boston,"
we learn, that in consequence of a statement made
that journal, in September last, "that a mercantile

house in Boston had contracted to supply this number
of tents to the Mexican Government within 30 days,
ind that the contract was understood to have been
Wade through British agency ;"—a real State func-
tionary—a Mr. DEXTER, "United States District At-

torney"—had written a most affable letter to the
Boston Daily Times, begging to be favoured, on the
part of the Secretary of State, with any evidence that

could be furnished to prove this fact. The editor,

Nith much self-complacency and solemnity, does ac-

cordingly deliver himself of hii information, from

whence it results that the house referred to was

tat of GREELY and GUILD, of Boston ;—the vessel

hat carried off the tents, the Ramon de Baldo ;—and.

he instrument of payment was a draft on the great

house of BARING, BROTHERS, and Co., in this country.
" The whole case is one," writes the Boston Times,
" which reflects no honour upon the ' liberal' institu-
tions of our country. We should like to know 'by
what right' Mexico or England fits out munitions of

war in our city, and manufactures and exports in our

very midst the means of defeating the gallant little
republic of Texas, which is striving to maintain its
national independence against the despotic Govern-
ment of Mexico and the insidious and grasping
power of England?" This is really pretty well
for the Boston Daily Times, which could see
no impropriety in the permitted transport of arms,
cannon, and other ordnance and ammunition, over the