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and a slipshod foot dismissal
tiler in drawing my lady's cur-

wing it at daybreak, she
and neither look fatigued,
ry. A weary eye, a pale
r that " her health was

not equal to her situation." For with the exception of an
inquisitor of Spain, there are few things more cruel than
a fine lady. Having laid it down as an axiom that a
lady's maid is simply her lady's shadow, it is almost un-
necessary to add, that there are as many varieties of ladies'
maids as of roses and geraniums; serious ladies' maids,
fashionable ladies' maids, ladies' maids on their prefer-
ment, flirting ladies' maids, and so forth. The serious
ure to be privately married to the
kness for the under footman. The
maid is above such vulgarisms; talks of
oyes iu," and goes to the Opera. The
s maid on her preferment converts my lady's cast-off
nd auipures into cash, and talks of her property in
While the flirting lady's maid cunveris them
correspondence 'in verse with one
n at How"ll and Jr.mes's, which
mding an ear to a thousand tender
try house is full of dandies, mas-
hunting and shooting season.—

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GENTLCNIEN THIEVES.—ShortIy before I left Wile°,
s roobed near Puebla. The robbers all had
ss and bearing of gentlemen. When the operation
-^ve's and trunks of the pai.engers was
,bbers said to them—" Gentlemen,
I suppose that we are rubbers by
'en, (somos caballeros.) but we
'ate, and that ha: forced upon
'moding you, for which we

we would ns! b

, in Mexico, some of them
.itic character. The case of
:xecu'ed a few years since, is
aracter deeply dramatT. I will
they were told to me : 'f he Swiss
a street of St. Cosme. About twelve
le o'clock in the daytime, a carriage drove up to his
and three men got out, one in the dress of a priest-
-re admiqed by the porter, and the door closed,
,y immediately seized arid gagged (din, went into
^,l robbed and murdered the consul. The
discovery of the murderers Arms a metal
a small piece of blue cloth attached to it,
was found clenched in the fingers of the murdered
d which he had torn from the coat of one of the
Suspicion at last rested upon a soldier, who was
're money than he cud account for. His
-arched, and the coat from which the but-
He aas convicted,
,st confidence upon a pardon,
trite aid-de-camp of President
He was brought out to
_,,y taken his seat on the fatal
laced around his neck, and the
r.hen he .aid—" Hold I will
who are my complices—Colonel Yanes is the
V' The execution was suspended, and on searching
use of Yam's, a correspondence in cipher was dis-
which fully established his guilt in this and other
Yanes was the naramonr of a woman in Mexico

dents of a c

fly sketch ther

:be for the

bastion v'•`

3en torn was fo
lied with the u

a Colonel Y

about to be turn

i there

early related to one whose word wai law, and whose
over her relative was known to be very great,
and upon that reliance was placed for a pardon, at least ;
but she was not disposed to bust to that, and let her lover
aufftr the disgrace of conviction—she went to the ju&e

infl-uer

whom the cipher had been deposited, which fur-
nished the evidence of the guilt of Yanes, and offered him
a large bribe to give it up. Hz was. an honest man and
an upright judge—he s'ernly refused the britie, and firmly
resisted the menaces of this powerful woman. In a day
or two he died suddenly, as all supposed, of poison. A
successor was appointed of principles less stern, who ac-
cepted.the bribe, and promised to destroy the paper ; but
when, in confession to his priest, he disclosed his corrupt
:ond.uct, the worthy man prevailed upon him, if he had
tot destroyed the paper, not to do so, and he did not.
'arses, in the meantime, was informed that this evidence
'ould not be produced against him, and that t' e prosecu-
m would rest entirely upon the testimony of his accom.
ice. Upon the trial, with the hab:tuat air of command
an officer, and the habitual rear and submission of the
moron soldier, Yanes browbeat and ronfu-ed his accuser
such a degree, that he felt secure of an acquittal. At
moment the fatal paper was produced, and he was
demned and executed. His not less guilty paramour
aides in the city of Mexico.—Recollections of
Mexico.

still s

CANNING AND P,EL.—Sir Robert Peel labours, as a
public man, under the heavy disadvantage of the want of
popular man-,ere, and of those personal attractions which
captivate and del,ght the mind, and often carry the posses-
sor of them far beyond his real deserts in the estimation
of mankind. Canning was as rich in the possession of
these natural and acquired graces as Peel is deficient in
them ; and it is a deficiency which no human power can
supply. At the time to which this attack recalls our re-
collections, how rich the intellectual feast of one of Can-
ning's pries! How dull and ponderous one of Peel's.
Both men, it is to be presumed, were equally solicitous to
attract and charm their guests. The one could not but do
it : the other could not had it been to save his life. The
disadvantage was great, and yet notwithstanding the defi-
ficiency, set out in its strongest colours in contrast with
the surprising brilliancy of Canning, Peel, it may be safely
advanced, was more trusted than his competitor. Ills
manner repelled, but la's conduct attracted. He was not
the man for the dinner-table, but he was viewed as wise
in council, sale in the senate, and competent accordingly
to stand at the helm of the national affairs.—Lon. Paper.

FREE PEOPLE OF COLOUR.—We hear that a numerous
body of free coloured men of this city propose to offer
their services as soldiers. Many of our coloured inhabitants
are re,,pectable and worthy people, holding considerable
property and are sincerely attached to the country; and
the patriotism that dictates the proposition is worthy of
all praise. It occurs to us, however, that it is entirely in-
admissible. General Jackson accepted their services in
1814, to repel invasion, and they proved themselves
worthy of the trust. If the city was in danger, they might
properly share in its defence. Even our slaves might with
propriety be employed. But the present campaign will
consist of offensive operations. We shall not only force
the enemy across the Rio Grande, but, in all probability,
push our arms into the very heart of Mexico. In wars of
invasion we cannot employ men of colour. If we set such
a precedent, we shall have no right to protest against the
employment of a similar force against us should we become
involved in a war with Great Britain. It is distinctly
understood that if ever the English land a regiment of
blacks in this country, we can grant no quarter to prisoners.
It will be a war of extermination, marked with blood at
every step. And we must be careful how we set the pre-
cedent, when we march into the territory of another
power.—New Orleans Jeffersonian.

THE VARIOUS MODES OF EXECUTION EMPLOYED.—
The Cavildo is a large bu Iding used for a courthouse and
a prison. On the first floor is the large court-room, with
its ante-chambers: above are the rooms appro dated to
prisoners of state of the better or higher classes, and be-
neath are the cells of those who are placed in solitary con-
finement. At the front of the building is a wile prej -cting
porch, supported by pillars, and adjoining is the coral or
yard, where prisoners condemned to death are executed.
The manner in which the victims were put to death varied
according to the propensity of the condemning power, and
according ►o circumstances. Sometimes they were shot.
Some met their fate at the hands of two lane,- rs, who,
placed on either side of the prisoner, would at a signal
plunge their glittering weapons in his body. Others,
again, fell by the most barbarous practice of drawing a
blade across the throat. All these modes of execution I
have been compelled to witness, and in no case did the
victim know his sentence until the moment before his
death, and then only by the preparation made when he is
to be shot. In the other cases the first intimation of his
fate is the touch of the steel. These things will seem to
those who have lived in a land blessed with peace and
good government as almost beyond belief, but they are,
nevertheless, truths.—Life in the Argentine _Republic.

THE OLDEST RACE-COURSE IN -ENGLAND.--The
race-course which is supposed to be the oldest in Eng-
land, and to which still belongs a fund (the annual sum
being only about £13,) and which is regularly run for—is
situated about the centre of the East Hiding of York-
shire, upon the wolds between Market Weighton and the
town of Dr'ffield, and is known by the name of " Kiplin
Cotes." The country has been enclosed in that part of
the world within the last twenty-five years ; still the race-
course remains, all under turf, as modern innovations
have not yet substituted stones and gravel in lieu of the
fine old velvet turf, of which the " bridle road'' through
the wolds is to th a day composed. The entries for this
ancient plate are exceedingly select. but unfortunately
they are selected from the greatest ruffians in the country,
many of whom, exchanging the taper jockey whip for the
more impressive bludgeon, batter arid fight their way
through the crowd of horsemen who throne the course,
and by their more vociferous exertions arid expertness at
j )stling contrive to prove to the competitors that the
race at issue shall not, in this instance at least, be ad-
judged unto the swift. What renders the difficulty the
greater in this extraordinary race.is the circumstance of
the gateways not being removed on the occas'on, and the
dreadful accidents which have occurred at the awful
crusbings which take place have in more than one instance
ended in the death of one of the competitors for the
prize..
RAISING AND REMOVING HOUSES.—One need not
walk through many streets in New York without wit-
nessing in one of them a removal or lifting up of a house;
this is almost peculiar to American mechanics, and I was
never tired of looking at it. The parties have contributed
very much to the straightness and uniformity of the
streets, and so perfectly at home are they at it, that if an
advertisement were put in the Sun, the H.rald, or the
Tribune, to remove the London Mansion House to Hamp-
stead death, there world be several offers for the job. As
for the North side of Middle-row, they would think no-
thing of removing it bodily at once to the model prison at
Clerkenwell, without any of the young misses of the family
being in the slightest degree interrupted in their usual
avocations. As for the everlasting and daneerous nuisance
of Holborn-hill, which I have been looking at more in
sorrow than in anger for these forty years, In Drew York

it would he levelled in a week. A worthy tradesman in
the city of Brooklyn, opposite New York, wanted to con-
vert his two p irinur windows into a shop-front; "No.
no," said the builder, " don't throw away your parlour, I
will lift the house up, and build you a much better, lof-
tier, and more spacious shop where the parlour now
stands." The screws and timber were accordingly brought,
and I saw the two-story brick house go up slowly and im-
perceptibly, whilst the daughters were looking out of the
window, as if nothing was goi,l on more than usual. I
watched the alteration every time I crossed the ferry to
Brooklyn, and in the course of two or three weeks the
tradesman was occupying his new and handsome store, as
the shops are called.—Rambles in the United Slates.
We fins the following curious details in the Moniteur
des Arts:—" There exist at Rome secret workrooms of
sculpture, where the works manufactured are broken
bead- -f the gods, feet of sa► d b iken 1-

arms, _ -s o ,eet or ,yrs, and bro ors:—
of nobody. By means of a liquid there used, a colbur of
the finest antiquity is communicated to the marble. Sc it-
tered about the country are goat-herds, who feed their
flocks in the vicinity of ruins, and look out for foreigners.
To these they speak incidentally of the treasures found by
digging a few feet deep in such neighbourhoods. The

English, in particular, are the victims of such mystifica-
tion; and freely yield their money o the shepherds, who
are agents to the General Artificial Ruin Anociation,
and know well where to apply the pick-axe. They are
careful, however, to spend much time and labour in fruit-
less search, before they come finally upon the treasure—
for which the foreigner willingly pays. England is full of
these antiquities or six months' age. Nor do the amateur
numismatists leave Rome with empty hands; for in that
city are daily coined, without fear of the law, the money
of Caesar, Hadrian, Titus, Heliogahalus, and all the An•
tonines—filed, pinched, and corroded, to give the look of
age. Paris may be said to have hitherto, by comparison
with London, escaped this epidemy for the youthful anti-
quities of bronze and marble—but she is devolved by the
forgers of Middle-Age antiques. It is not.,rious with
what skill and impudence certain cabinet-makers manu-
facture chairs, tables, and footstools of the fifteenth cen-
tury, and .how readily they find dupes. A young anti-
quarian showed lately, with great pride, to an artist, a
friend of his. a very fine article of Gothic furniture. which
he had just bought at great cost. 'lt is very fine,' said
his friend, after examination, and it will last you long—
for it is quite new.' ”—Athenceum.

7 AE MEXICAN SOLD IE RY.—The Mexican soldier is of
the middle stature, or below it, small-boned, slightly
built, graceful, with a smooth, glossy skin, scarcely any
muscle, no visible sinews, and of extremely light weight.
He can be agile for a short time, but is constitutionally
indolent. This is the Mexican Indian from the interior.

The soldiers of mixf d blood, Partaking of the more nom h•
ern races, and of old Spain, are stronger, rat' er sinewy,
and capable of more continued exertion. These. hnwever,
comprise only a minority of the Mexican army. The
Mexicans are capable of no physical efforts or endurance.
Their constitutions are almost wholly without stamina :
and from their habit of getting into the shade whenever
they can, during the day, taking a nap at noon, or lying
about under walls, or in shady pkces, flat upon the
ground. to play at cards for reales or medios. (aid daars.
it they have any,) they are so enervated that the climate
during the sickly season is very apt to affect numbers of
them, if much exposed during the fiermst hours of the
day ; to which, in 'act, they have n,ver been tvenstomed.
They very frequently take the yellow fever, and di, of the
vomit° negro, particularly at Vera Cruz, Tampico, and
Alverado, as well as the temeritous foreltiet s. The? even
fear it beforehand. A Mexican soldivr who has been
drunk over night wi h aguodiente, and has a sick-headache
next morning, will ask permission of his serjeant to leave
the ranks during parade or guard duty, as he is very un-
well, and will go and squat down under a wall or shed.
If yen ask him what is the matter, he shakes his head with
a melancholy, much injured, but resigned air, and answers:
" Calentura, Senor —calentura." I will answer for. it
that any moderately strong English grenadier—not a re.
gular boxer, but who can only "hit straight."—would
knock down ten or a dozen Mexican soldiers, equally un-
armed; one after the other, as fast as they presented them-
selves. Put a sword into their hands, and give a stout
HiAlander a claymore, or a raw-boned lii,hman a good
shillelah, and the ten soldiers would be very likely to
tumble to the right and left with broken blades and
broken heads. The Mexicans are by no means de-
ficient in courage. They have fiery stints, and no tear
of cold steel. They are "always ready to die." I have
even heard them in hours of danger, use that very ex-
pression. What they want is physical force ; the power
to justify their feelings. The Mexican officers are, for the
roost part, not good. They are valiant, but have nn judg-
ment. They are far too excitable, and without se:f-go.
yernment. Moreover, they are very often ouch too
young • many of their lieutenants, and even captains, being
mere boys. I was once acquainted in Vera Cruz, with
the Mexican colonel of artillery who was not two-and-
twenty. He was a very well informed, high spirited,
amiable young maw, a good mathematician, and a fine
swordsman • but of course without any adequate exneri-
ence for such a post. The Mexican cavalry is admirable—
in respect of horsemanship. The artillery is good in all
respects. In the recent battles (as well as in former wars)
they seldom failed to throw their halls and shells directly
into the works of the fortress attacked ; and before General
Vego's little fort was taken, his guns destroyed near!), one-
third of the assailants; but when the strong-armed men
' got close in among the Mexican ranks, it was all over in
a minute.