Star.
London, England, 1831-07-15 00:00:00

EMIGRATION.

Prom the American Paper Rochester Advertiser.
We have endeavoured to ascertain the number
of emigrants which have gone west on the canal the
present spring., but End the attempt futile, as the
captains of line boats do not report their passengers.
Conversing, however, with several well informed
captains of boats, we learn that the number of
passengers in the regular line of boats, which com-
pose entire families, are the number which passed
up last year.
We have noticed a reform in some of the line
boats which is highly creditable to the proprietors.
These line boats have been thoroughly overhauled;
newly painted, newly furnished, and have such an
air of comfort and decency about them, that a great
many wealthy and fashionable families, moving
westward, are seen mingled with those of the mid-
dling interest; this is right.
The Revenue arising from the Canals the present

season must greatly Jer-reach that of any former
year, that is to say, to be applicable to the canal
fund. There is a considerable reform in the expen-
ses ; and thus far, the expense of repairing breaches
has been .50 per cent. less than those expenses were
last year.
Will any mathematican undertake to tell what
the revenue of the Erie Canal will be when the
Ohio Canal and the Miami Canal are in full ope-
ration ? When the Genesse country shall sustain
treble its population ? When the territory of Mi-
chigan, surrounded on the east, the north and the
west, by navigable waters, and containing within
her peninsular borders half a million of souls ?
When all these creations of fancy shall be pictured
true to the life.

If these anticipations occasion surprise respecting
Michigan, let us examine the subject.
Every part of the territory is susceptible of set-
tlement, the whole is traversed by rivers and streams,
some of the rivers are navigable for lake vessels
for twenty or thirty miles. There is about fifty
rivers and creeks of considerable size which empty
into lakes Michigan, Huron, St. Clair and
Erie. There are no mountains, consequently these
50 streams must water the whole territory in the
most desirable manner. The surveyors and land
hunters say that the land is of the rolling cha-
racter, back from Huron ; mill sites must therefore
abound in all parts. These conveniences are
always to be prized in a new country. Indiana,
Illinois and Missouri, are blessed with large rivers,
but those denominated mill streams, are very scarce.
The health, too of Michigan, is superior to that of
the countries south. Connected with the trade of
Michigan, parts of the state on her southern bor-
ders, will naturally get their articles of luxury and
necessity by the way of our canal, and their sur-
plus produce, and productions of the forest, nuts,
swine, peltry and furs, will swell the coffers of
New York.

AUTO DA PE AT LISBOA'.
Translated front the Courier des Etats Ulli4.
Don Miguel loqu cur.

And for to-day;Gilbao
My lord and master, a ride on horseback.
No. Something else : proceed.
A promenade beside the Tagus.
There is a French vessel at anchor in the river. Her co.
lours affect my nerves. Try it again.
My lord and masttr, your pleasures are not quite ex-
hausted; and, thank heaven, there yet remain to you bottles
to be uncorked, and duchesses to sit at your fetes.
More, Gilbao, than I have the zest to enjoy. Already I
tremble like an old man, and 1 have not seen my twenty.
sixth year. My memory is gone ; I cannot think or reflect.
My head is a piece of confusion ; my body one mass of
agitation. I should think that a king could endure more.
My lord and master, you are too hard upon yourself. It
is youth which produces in you this impatience of life. Titus
was like you.
Titus ! it was lie who burnt Rome, was it not ?
If you please, Sire.
To tell the truth, my old convulsions have become in-
supportable.—The executions ! Hum, they are well enough
once or twice, but are always pretty much the same thing.
A man whom you drown—what is he but a body which
dips into the water, is pulled up with two or three pints in
its lungs, and that is the end of it. The gibbet ? 'Will do
for the people, but fur me—Gilbao, I cannot find in it but
one moment of entertainment, and that is when the fellow's
tongue becomes green and foamy in his throat.
Perhaps, Sire, you would like to taste of a little dal
mency.
Clemency—is it good ? I figure to myself it is a beautiful
woman who dues not bite ; some Tagus water mingled with
old wine—this clemency of yours.
My lord and master, it is just as I think.
Gilbao, why have our laws permitted the custom of
auto.da-fes to fall into disuse, the punishment by fire ? They
must be so refi oiling or. a warm summer night !
Sire, the best things pass away.
What if I should give the people a taste of auto.da.fes?
You are aware that nine revolutionaries await their fate in
the prisons of your majesty. -)
They are judged and condemned.
To what, sire ?
To fire! To-morrow let the windows of the palace which
look upon the square be opened. I invite to this fete my
friends, all the yoang nobles who enliven my evenings, all
the ladies of my nobility. Gilbao, you make preparations
for an excellent sapper at 7. Fires and diamonds should
be seen at night. At last I have found a fete!
And when dark night descended, gemmed with stars, the
streets disgorged their inmates. They flock to the square,
and seize upon places where they can behold the spectacle,
which is preparing beneath the windows of the king. Py-
ramids of dry wood, resinous faggots and burning torches
are waiting fir the human flash which they are about to
consume.— At last the prison opens, and nine victims clothed
in sanbenitos, and bearing flambeaux, are conducted to the
great square.
Lo ! one has already mounted the pile. Don Miguel
offers a glass of champagne to the Count Perez. The revo•
lutionary skin shrives up, the hair catches from the resin,
and the victim is wrapped in flames. Long live Don
Miguel !"
The second ascends. _ _ _

His Majesty touches with the tip of a fan the cheek of
Duchess, whose attention war distracted. " How amiable is
the young King."
The whole nine pass ou. " Long live ! long live Dm
Miguel !" All the bottles are emptied ; all the Duchesses
are embraced. The ensuing morning you mi‘ht see dogs in
the streets who were gnawing human bones ; on the square
before the palace there yet lay fragments of bottles, a few
dusty plumes, and some girdled, which had fallen from the
balcony.
The next day wan Good Friiki• •-
..
The:Duke of Sixe Coburg took leave yesterday
of the Klng, at the Levee, his Sertke Highie.s returning to
Germany at the end of the week.