Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-08-17

VII tHc ~ot" udy VI tDc present. inODIn OF
August, you and each OF You be d,awn on
hurdle to The place Of erecution, and Tint
you be there hanged by the neck until you
are dead; then your bodies are TO be quar-.
tered. and may God have mercy on your
souls"
Truly we Upper Canadians cut a sorry
figure IN the public eye, disguise it as we
hike. we are torn by intestine factions
all business is at a sland--our finances are
exhausted, our credit beggared, our country
covered with soldiers, our jalls foil of pris-
oners, and our taverns of militia men our
magistrates are partisans, our mechanics
red hot politicians, and more treasure is
spent and spending over US than we are
worth or ever shall be. We are one of the
Queens hard bargains. Toronto Mirror.
The news of the tceek is varied and general,
though not OF absorbing interest. Like every thing
else it is affected by The duIness aud assitude Of
fer,en midsummer. Even the arrival of The Great
Western with advices sixteen days later from Eu-
rope, hardly disturbed the sumberous silence
which had pervaded all things commercial, interna.
tional and municipal. Since the coronation, Eu-
rope wears as dull an aspect as America, with not
even the excitement of strong political strife, to
prevent the rust Of inaciion. England is sleeping
of the inloxicalon Of her coronation loyalty, and
her vast manufacturing interests a'e recovering
slowly from their temporary depression, connected
with the failure of the American market mean.
while politics and moneyed operations are nearly
at stand, or indicate no remarkable occurrences
France is rapidly increasing her manufactures,
commerce and general industry, under the stimulus
of awakened enterprise, prolonged tranquility, and
steadily expanding hank pmis Spuiu tyouIu
seem to be approaching the end of her long and
desola,ing civil war, through The failure Of the SUBJ
sides heretofore granted by the despotic powers to
Don Carlos and the general exhaustion and misery
of that wrelched country: Russia is quietly pursu.
ing her gigantic schemes of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT in the
east, while her AuOcrat affects Indifference and is
absent on visit ofuncerenonious friendship to The
veteran Bernadote of Sweden, and the cont inen-
al journals are teemng with accounts of Russian
def ais in Circassa and the regions of the Cauca-
sus and Caspian accounts which we are inclined
to consider as mainly Russian tabricatous. A RI.
mour spread through western Europe few weeks
since, that the Russian troops hac entered Teeran,
the capital of Persia which, though groundless
beyond doubt, shows the ieverish apprehension so
justly entertained Of the graspng designs Of the
northern despo,ism, las well thorough justification
which lha, power has been able TO throw over its
operations in the East. fla war shall really ensuc
and his rebeious vassal CT Egypt, shall strongly
suspect that it has its OF IGN in some deep.ad
scheme of Russian ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
In our own country the securing Of a bonnt'lul
Summer Harvest is IA theme Of universal and just
congralula ion--modifed, however, by the dscour.
aging accounts Of the widespread injury of The
the Fall crops by droulh. The wheat Harvest of
the whole country will exceed by millions of bushels
any ever before secured-t being probable that
a. Ii. r. ia
essential grain than ever be(ore, and some twice or
thrice us much. The accounts from all the Yves.
tern States, but especially from the farther settle.
menls, from Virginia, from Maine. and from our
own Stale, are alike suspicious. Rye is less
abundant, but there is a fair crop. So far as we
have heard, the suffering from drouth has mainly
confined to strip ofterriiory on the Atlantic, from
New Hampshire to North Carolina, and running
back an average Of perhaps one hundred miles,
There has been local suffering in other quarters,
but not TO great extent An earlier want Of rain
was thong ht 10 have greatly damaged the Cotton OF
the South, but believe the rains of July in that
region, nearly eilaced the traces fenecis In spite
of The many complaints which reach us from par.
iicuar sections, and especially from the seaboard
for :wo or three hundred miles each side of us
we hope there will be an average crop Of Cotton,
corn, and all other agricultural products this
The area of land under cultivation is doub less IT,
teen or lweenty per cent greater than ever before.
The last advces from Europe, state that recent
rains and favorable weather had greatly improved
the agricultural prospects 9th Of Great Britain and
the Continent, and the apprehensions Of an alarming
scarcity had been entirely diss ipaed. Sill, there
is every probability tina, the coming Winter will
witness large export of bread siulfs from the
UniItd States, and perhaps, in part, to England
". Y. Paper.
The BURLINGroN.-We take pleasure in com.