Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-08-19

traders, and others, at the Mansion House,
on the Sd ult., to adopt measures for the
relief OF the prosecuted Jews at Damas-
Gus. The resolutions and proceedings
Oh the meeting were transmitted to the diff
lerent foreign ambassadors at the English
Court. Letters, acknowledging the re-
ceipt OF these proceedings, were forward
Gu 70 the mayor, from each of the embass-
les. The following is copy of the one
sent by the American minister:
"32, UPPER GRosvENoR-sT.,
July Is. 1910.
MY Lord have the honor to ack-
nowiedge the receipt of your letter, of the
ON INST, enclosing to me. for the purpose
OF transmission to my government, the
resolutions adopted at the meeting of the
merchants, bankers, traders, and others, of
the city of London, held at the egyptian
Hall. on the Sd July. in relation 10 the
crueltles practised towards the Jews in the
east.
~ beg to assure your lordship, that 1
VIII take an early opportunity of trans
hitting these resolutions to the United
States; ard | cannot better do Justice to
my own feelings, or those which, | feel
confident. will BIZ entertained by the Pres
Ident and people of the United States, in
relation to the subject of these resolutions,
than to seize the occasion of expressing
my deep sympathy in favor of those op-
pressed people. have the honor 10 be
your lordship's obedient servant,
A. STEVENSON"
AUSTRALIAN SEAsoNs.-Spring be-
gins about the end of August summer
of November; autumn of February;-
winter of MAY. In the hottest months
the thermometer frequently stands as high
as 1900 in the sun, and within doors,
about l00g.
We are pleased to hear from Halifax,
that the use Of the Sydney and Pictou
| coal, by the steamer Britannia, has prov
ed perfectly satisfactory so,
as this will give employment to a large
number of American vessels at the dull
season of the year. The Britannia uses
500 chaldrons in passage.-Bost. Press
g. Post.
FAsHIoN.--Fashion is poor vocation.
Its creed, that idleness is privilege and
work disgrace, is among the deadliest
errors. Without depth o. thought, or
earnestness Of feeling. or strength of pur-
pose, living an unreal life. sacrificing sub
stance to show, substituting the Fictitious
for the natural, and installing crowd for
society, finding its chief pleasure in ridi-
cule, and exhausting its ingenuity in expe-
dients for killing time, fashion is amongst
the last influence under which human
being, who respects himself, or who CON-
prehends the grea; end Of life, would de.
sire to be placed Ch0nning's Lecture
on the eleOation Of The WorktNg classes.
This is all true; but no man rides in q
more beautiful carriage, lives in more
elegant house, or one more richly furn.
ished, than DIR. Channing-indeed, there
is no one in Boston whose whole domes
tic establishment is more fashionable thar
the Rev. DIR. Charming s.-Boston Pres
4, Post.
LIoNs.-Two African Lions, presents
from the Emperor of Morocco to tn,
President Of the United States, have ar
t rived at this port in the brig Russell, Mat
| thews, from Observation-Disclosures Ma
tionaL Gazette.
Instead of looking down with contemp
on the crooked in mind or body, we SHOULD
thankfully look up to God who has mad
us better
knowledge, when only in the possess
ion of few, has almost always beel
E turned to iniquitous purposes.
i The corn crops of Missouri are said t
be very abundant.
: A soft shelled turtle, measuring at tn
: widest part, seven feet over the back, an
) weighing about thousand pounds, wa
r recently captured in the Chesapeake
d Baltimore paper.
:. PHILADELPHIA STEAM PACKETS
- The u. S. Gazette states that the steaI
: ship between Philadelphia and Liverpo'
j. has been already ordered, and that it is
- be superior in size, accommodations an
n appointments, to any yet projected enht
70 in this country or Europe.
rs Riches profit not in the day of Grat
IN Solomon.
S. Remember them that are in bonds,
bound with them. Paul.