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Item, rrom late EngIi.h papers.

Lord John Russell has issued invitations for
full dress dinner in celebration of the queens birth
day, on Wednesday next, the 10Th instant, at his
residence in Chesham- place.
During fight, arising out Of public-house
batants, William Robey, after fighting an hour and
a halt, received fatal blow. The other man,
Thomas Hartman, and the two seconds, have been
committed for manslaughter.
At the consistory court, on Tuesday in suit for
a divorce, by reason of adultery, promoted by the
Earl of Lincoln against his wife, the Countess of
Lincoln, the court pronounced for the divorce, the
learned counsel on the part Of the wife remarking
that he could not resist the evidence which had
been brought forward.
Machinery,,we perceive, is to be included among
the things to be shown at the exhibition of 1851
Our national industry, doubt, will make splen-
did display of steam engines and spinning jennies,
but certainly the most thorough going machine
which this country could exhibit is the British SOL
der Punch
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2s7 1897 1902 3,405,275
SOO,743 999, $50 S,743,409

So soon as Great Britain RECEIVERS from the effects
of the late famine and the potato crop assumes its
former abundance, the expectation of breadstuffs
from this country will sink to its former average
insignifcance Time will fully demonstrate the
truth of this assertion. The fact is already be-
coming apparent to the most bigoted free trader.
And why should it be doubted As much wheat
will be produced in England hereafter as hereto
fore, and no more will be consumed. Wheat can
be hereafter sent to England cheap from the
Baltic and Black Sea heretofore; and if those
regions have hitherto supplied fifteen twenteths Of
the aggregate amount imported, why may they
not in the future?
Time will quickly develope the unreliable char
acter of foreign, and the magnitude and import
ance of home market for our breadstuffs When
the policy which extended and rendered stable this
home market was destroyed by the frec-trade pol
icy Of 1876, our farmers were promised that the
deficiency would be more than made up by an in.
creased foreign demand. Circumstances beyond
human control gave temporary currency to this
promise. While our iron works and manufac-
turing establishments being closed in all parts
of the country, the European famine kept up the
price ofbreadstuffs and enriched our farmers. But
that adjunct of Locofocoism disappearing and ere
long farmers will be obliged TO share in the
difficulties which the tariff Of 1916 have brought
upon the manufacturing interests OF the country.
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LAST or THE SLAVES IN New ENeLAND.-Thc
New Hampshire papers record the death, at Han
over, of Mrs. Jane Wentworth, coored woman,
at the age OF three score and ten. Graduates at
Dartmouth will rccollcct her as Aunt Jenny, the
wash woman, and nurse in sickness. Her parents
were slaves, kidnapped when very young, and came
House, of Hanover. They were subsequently sold
10 gentleman in Salem, New Hampshire, where
they remained until they were emancipatcd by the
laws of the State. Jenny was born in Hanover, in
l777, was sold with her parents, and on becoming
free, married Charles Wentworth, a slave Of Gov
ernor Wentworth They then removed TO Han
over, where they lived till their death Jenny out
lived her husband several years, and was one Of
the last Of the African race who, in early his
tory, were held in bondage in New England.
tLotoen Courier.
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IooaarsrOsDrsor OF THE asrupuo.l

BALTIMORE, May 27--5 p. III.
The Wing City Convention win meet this even
ing at Union hail. TO select six delegates TO repre-
sent the city in the Wing Gubcrnatoriai Conven-
ton, which is TO be held at Frederick on the 9th Of
next month.
The -four market is very active to-day, with
sales of $500 bbs. Howard street, at the uniform
rate Of SIS 25.
No sales of City Mills. 50 25 refused
Sales Pennsylvania red wheat at III cents, and
white at l27 cents No Maryland here.
Sales of yellow at SO 60 cents, and white at
SO 81 cents. No oats in market.
Whisky 24s cents, no sales.
Stocks, U. s. 6's of 1867, closed at ll9. asked
U. S. 6'sof 1868 at lis. bid, ll9l asked
BEEF CATTLE.-Thc supply of beeves at the scales
day reached 400 head, all of which were taken
by the trade, at prices ranging from So 80 81 rs
per 100 lbs the hoof, equal to 81 and 50 nett,
and averaging 81 l2z gross.
Hoes selling at $6 26. Market is pretty
heavy
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TRINITY CHURCH CONCERT.

THIS Concert is designed TO aid the fund for
i building the new church. The limited size of
the present building denied accommodation to nu-
merous applicants, especially to strangers in our
city during sessions of Congress new church
was therefore commenced, and is now in progress
Although means have been contributed with great
liberality by members and friends of the church,
they are inadequate. Several ladies and gentle
men, distinguished eminent vocalists and per-
formers have therefore most kindly offered their
services for a concert to aid the fund. II is hoped
and believed that their offer will meet generous
response from our citizens and vsiters. The new
church will add ornament to the city, and increased
religious accommodation to its visiters. The Con-
cert will, in itself, afford rich musical treat and
abundantly compensate the donation given through
it to religious object
THE CONCERT
slant, at O'Clock, at Carusi's Saloon. Doors open
at O'Clock. Tickets $ ! each, to be had at the
door the hotels, the music and book stores
o. No postponement for weather.
PROGRAMME.
l. Septuo-Overture to Ceneventola. .Rossin
q Duetto from the Opera of g Maria Pa
dllla .......... .Denizetti.
3. Harp Fantasia on Italian Airs ........ Bochsa.
4. Aria from &c II Giuramento" Mercadante.
8. Grand Chorus from Ernani' ........ Verdi.
PART II.
L. The Alliance" Trio for Harp, Piano,
and Violin ....................,.. bochsa
2. Cavatina, I" Ernani". ,..................Ve Verdi
3. Air, with variations for the Violin De Berot
4. Trio from " Attila" Verdi
5. Final Chorus, I" See the God of Love
descending" ...,........ Sir John Stevenson.
May 2S-3t
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California.

The news brought to New York on Saturday
last by the steamer Crescent City, from Cha
gres, on the 18th May, and Kingston on the 18th,
brought the United States mails from California,
and $500 900 in the hands of passengers tits stated
that the number of Americans transacting bust
ness at Panama had greatly increased, and the bu-
sness of transporting passengers up the Chagres
river fast going into the hands Of the Amer-
cans.
1t appears to be healthy at Chagres.
The Tennessee brings dates from California to
Goth April
Several new diggings have been discovered at
Placerville, where the laborers get one pound OF
gold day. They are said TO be the richest mines
yet discovered.
New and important discoveries have also been
made on Trinity river, which being carefully
explored.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10.
meeting of the merchants was held here, to fix
the value of gold dust at from sixteen TO seventeen
dollars, but it does not appear to be well received
Business generally although dull, has improved a
little. Prices for all goods are still very high
PANAMA, May s.
The Columbus arrived here yesterday having
left New York February ~, making the passage
in eighty four days, Of which she was detained
twenty one days at Rio in consequence of the pre-
valence of the yellow fever. Her running time,
ucTelOTc, was Sixty Iii CO uhys Which pcllcNc
the quickest passage ever made between the two
ports. She is now coaling at Tobago, and will be
ready for sea on the l4th or 18th instant.
There has been quite strong speculation here
in tickets for the Columbus. The Storage tickets
selling to-day at $ $50 to $500, and the cabin
tickets at 5000 to $3.50, and in demand at
these figures.
Provisions are very high at present. Beef and
pork selling at $50 per barrel. Chickens 81
each Beans and peas 10 cents per pound, &c.
Coal is s45 $4s per ton by the cargo, but at
Valparaiso it could be purchased at SO per ton,
a1oat.
The smallpox is rapidly spreading; several vic
Tins having already fallen.
Mr.. Ayres, from Ohio Mr.. Robert o. Christian,
New York, and another gentleman whose name is
not ascertained, died on the 30th ult.
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COSTLY BoTTLE OF WiNE.--We cannot vouch
for the fact stated in the following, for the
curacy Of the computation of interest compounded
quarterly. We merely submit the item that is
''going the rounds for the scrutiny Of others:
"a bottle of wine four hundred years old was
drunk one day at President Tyler's table, and a
calculation was made of its cost the superstition
that the price was half dollar at the first, and that
the interest on that half dollar had been collected
once every three months, and also laid out at an
interest during the four hundred years, by which
mode the principal would be doubled every eleven
years. The result was that four hundred years
compound interest fifty cents amounted to some
$4,000, OOO."
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FRANcE.-The attempt to reform the electoral
law in France is increasing the political difficulties
in that country. The object of the government and
of the majority in the Assembly is too palpable. By
universal suffrage it is clear that they cannot con-
tinue in power, and they therefore attempt to re-
duce that political privilege to practical nuty.
The reform contemplates a residence of two years
in a single place Of each voter. and certificate
from the employer of every workman that the lat
ter has been two years in his employment. 1t also
alters the age when voters acquire the right Of suf
provisions equivalent to depriving large por-
ton Of the voters of their right, for the daily uc
tuations in trade and business compel many of them
to shift their residence frequently in period en-
mercy OF his employer, besides depriving large
body of the young men of the republic Of their cti
zenship. Such barefaced attempt to retain power
received at the hands of those who are now to be
deprived of the right, must make the government
partic uarly odous, and will only hasten its down
fall Philadelphia Ledger
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FuLroN.-A writer in the New York Courier
says that gentleman, now an honored representa-
tive of one Of the Congressional districts Of New
Jersey, visited Robert Fulton when he was in Paris
The man whose genius made a new era in civiliza
ton occupied a small and obscure room. The em-
bodment ofthe expansive power Of steam was con-
fined within very narrow limits. Like Diogcncs in
his tub, Fulton was almost lodged in the crcum.
ference of a cylinder. On the wall Of his habita-
ton sketched coarsely, but distinctly, the plan
Of steamboat. "There," said Fulton, as he
what will yet traverse the river and the ocean"
And wherever he went he carried that image of
the future with him. II he did not sketch it the
wall, IL written in his mind. He saw ii as be
walked along; he thought Of it he dreamed oft /;
and at last he acted it. The taper Of that room IL
Illuminated the world.
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UsErUL KYowLEDGE.-We find the following IN
the columns Of the London Weekly Ne,cs. As it is
interesting, we transfer il to our columns:
CouRTsHIP IN Ma INE AN Arkansas paper dis.
courscth follows concerning the girls Of Maine,
United States: alt is said TO be uncommon thing
TO find beautiful girls in the State Of Maine running
wild, subsistiDg on berries and aoorns. When a
girl wants to get married. she makes for the woods,
where she roves about until young man goes out
on wife hunt He catches sight Of girl, and gives
lasso, by which she is caught. H then takes her
his shoulders, carries her TO the highway, where
he has carriage ready, ties her feet and hands to-
gethcr, and takes her home. A minister is sent for,
and they married. The knot being tied, the
young woman becomes perfectly docile and sub
missiyc. -
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Local Matters.

The ACCIDENT AT THE ACADEMY OF THE yIsI-
TATIoN, GEoRaETowN.-Our city was yesterday
morning full of extravagant narratives Of this
event, and much alarm was felt by all persons who
had children or friends in the institution. We
cordingly conceived it TO be our duty to visit the
scene of the disaster, and truly gratifcd to
find that not 1.-THE of the mischief had been done
that had been reported, though we could not but
deplore the accident for the consequences that did
attend it. II appears that at about six o'clock on
Sunday evening, the balcony attached to the Arch
bishops residence, ranging with the floor of the
second story, while filled with persons, gave way
and fell to the ground The persons injured were
the Rev. DIR. Ryder; Sister, whose could
not learn; Miss Mary Spalding, of Washington
city; and Miss Marion Ramsay, daughter Of Cap
tain Ramsay, U. S. N.
DIR. Ryder was supposed on Sunday evening TO
be severely injured. II was believed that some
of his ribs broken. But yesterday it was
hoped that no permanent injury had been sustained
by him. The conclusion and some bruises will
perhaps prove the worst consequences in his case.
The Sister who hurt more unfortunate;
though il was yesterday believed that no danger
need be apprehended
Miss Spalding sustained simply flesh cut; so
also did Miss Ramsay, and of a still lighter char
acter.
While we tender TO all the parties the assurance
of our sympathies in this mshap, we cannot but
wonder and rejoice that no more serious calamity
attended this singular accident.
JUDICIARY REFoRM.-We yesterday found upon
our table pamphlet entitled "Speech of Henry
MAY, esq, late a member of the bar Of the circuit
court, Reform in the Judiciary Of the District of
Columbia delivered on Thursday evening, May 10,
$780, Capitol HILL. We have not had time To peruse
this speech, but infer from the well known charac
ter and abilities Of its author, well from the
evident effect produced by the delivery Of it upon
the minds Of the multitude who heard it, that it is
effort of very great power, ID one that will be
followed up by important results.
The Run TO ALExANDRIA.-A correspondent re-
quests US TO say, that it the Franklin and the
Columbia, and not the Perseverance and the Union,
that performed the trip last Thursday night.
MADAME DE MAneuERITTEs' CoscERr.-The
dropping character of the weather on Saturday
evening did not prevent the attendance of a very
fashionable, intelligent, and discriminating audi
encc, whose applause testified their admiration Of
Madame dc Ms skilful and remarkable perform
ances. Mr.. Kessler, the pianist, who accompanies
this lady, and comes, like herself unheralded,
seemed TO elicit scarcely less surprise We shall
not, however, at present offer praise to these ac
complished performers but rather initiate good
musical critic whose opinion asked by the fair
one at his side-"I will hear them again." he re-
piled His determination, doubt not, very
general; and we hope full and brilliant house will
witness the next concert given by them.
See the advertisement
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Iron THE REPUBLIc.J
The Lutte IL Still.

Inscribed TO lilss M. H., Of Ge0rgel0ton, ~. Z.
BY WILLIAM II. DosoHo.
The hand that struck this lutte is cold,
The voice that tuned il now is still;
Wake not the chords, for deeper far
Its silent eloquence can thrill
Her taper fingers frequent here
Upon the frets and quivering strings
Would pour impetuous Joy along,
Or tell Of sorrows lurking springs;
And visions soft of moonlight ewes,
Dim, underlined, come Ger me too;
The time of birds, and bursting buds,
And soothing scents, and balmy dew
When she was life, and only love,
That now 80 cold and rigid seems
When her closed eyes were radiant lit,
And pain, and care, and death were dreams
When, on the palptating air
Her touching song went floating forth.
The lutte is still-that pulse is fled
That mystic voice is gone from earth.
WAsHINeToS, May 23d, 1850.
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DIED.,

In Baltimore, on tho 2lst instant in the 47th year
Of her age, Mrs. ANN AGNES DOwSoN, relict
of the late RoBERT II. DowsoN, and only daughter
Of the late JoHS DoLouoHREy. The deceased was
native of and was raised in the city in which she
died, where she was universally esteemed for her
characteristic virtue. Beloved by all who knew
her for her inestimsble qualities, her proycrbial
charity her strict integrity, she the affection
of everybody by her smiles, her urbane and sweet
manners Death, ever unwecome, found her ready
for her summons, and she IL suddenly taken away
from her aged mother, loving brother, an only
daughter, and large circle Of admiring friends,
who will ever cherish her memory and long deplore
her loss
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BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM EUROPE-ONE DAY LATER.
Arrival Of the steamer Asia.

PHLADELPHIA, May 81.
The steamer Asia arrived at Halifax this morn
ing. She left Liverpool ON the 1lth Cotton is
frm-fair qualities had advanced pence; other
kinds per previous weeks quotation. The sales
for the week amounted TO As, 900 bales. The pros
poets of business in the manufacturing districtsa
encouraging. Flour had advanced one shilling
and six pence to two shillings. Corn had advanced
one shilling to one shilling six pence. Wheat had
advanced two pence TO four pence per bushe. Cof-
fee quiet. Provisions frm-holders asking higher
prices Sugars had advanced six pence to one
shilling per cwt. Tobacco unchanged. Money
easier-consols SO to 96S. Government stores i'm
proving. United States skies, of 1868, eleven 10
eleven and half
The political news is unimportant.
The steamer Atlantic sails on the 29th Of May,
and the Viceroy on the LIST Of June. The Cambria
had not arrived out when the Asia left
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Fourtb Ward.

For Mayor G. wEIeHTMAN.
For didermon.--HueH Il. SWEENEY.
For Common Cotnci.--THomAs II. HAvESSER,
CHARLES s. WALLAoH, and T.. M. METcALFE.
The above ticket will be sustained In the Fourth
Ward at the election on Monday next, by
MANY VOTERS.
1.-THE Intellgencer, Union, and News, will please
copy.l
Or Fourth wsrd.-MEssRs. EprroRs: You
win please announce the following ticket as suit
able persons to represent the Fourth Ward in the
City Councils:
For AIdeman-HUGH b. SWEENEY.
For Common Councii--WM. II. WINTER, NJ. p.
MOHUN, and JNO. THOS. CLEMENTS.
MASy VoTERs THROUGHOUT THE WARD.
May 25-eodH
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[coNMuSrcATEp.l

As Mr. JEssE E. Dow has presented himself as
a candidate for the Mayoralty of this city, and has
published his platform" desire TO call his atten-
lion TO il, and 10 ask him 10 be little explicit
on the SUNDAY LAW" as he terms it, respect
fully inquire Of him---and request his answer
through the Union or other city newspapers he
TO be understood az in favor of the Sunday law?
Would he give vote in favor Of the repeal Of the
law Or as Mayor, would he sign bill for its re-
peal? H.
Nav 2S
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LIFE AssURANcE.-Mr. Sumner Jewett, who lately
died at Cambridge, Massachusetts,, was in com
Portable circumstances during life, but wisely see
ing the approach of the destroyer, he took out a
policy for 81 500. He gathered to his fathers
and his wife and two children were promptly en-
riched with the amount insured. Without this
they would have been almost penniess. Mr.. Abel
Boweny of Chelsea, also took out policy for : 600
He owned n cottage, upon which there a mort
gage of $500. When he died he left nothing but
the cottage and his life assurance policy. This
money was Immediately paid TO the widow, and
she paid off the mortgage and secured the cottage.
These facts speak volumes for the system of life
assurance.
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I We yesterday in the store ofone Of our IN err
chants an ordinary stone pitcher, of two gallons,
which is now in use, and has been carried TO the
pump daily for the last twenty seven years by he
same negro. Any one having more wonderful
curiosity, in the pitcher line, will please inform the
editors.-Sdcannah Republican Of the 18Th
The pitcher is doubtless a curiosity; but il is "the
same negro" we most admire The editor appears
almost unconscious that he has written prospective
ly for that poor fellow proud cpitaph.
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GROWTH OF WESTERN VILLAGEs-The Mlwau-
kie Sentinel contains notice of the new town of
Appleton, which has sprung up as if by magic dur
ing the last year. in the northern part of that State
II is situated Fox river about thirty miles south
of Green bay, and but short distance from the
point where the river discharges itself into Lake
.Winnebago. The banks of the river are some
eighty feet high and the stream near eight hun
dred feet in width, affordng water power equal
to that of the Genesee at Rochester, and which the
propretors intend to turn to the best account The
Sentinel says the town "was named after Messrs.
William and Samuel Appleton, two wealthy and
enterprising citizens of Boston, and is the site Of
the Lawrence university, towards which Mr.. Amos
A. Lawrence, SON in law of Mr.. VIM. Appleton,
contributed the handsome sum of s 10000" Last
year, in February, the "shanty" of Mr.. Smith, the
agent, was the only tenement in the town. Now,
the Sentinel says sit boasts Of upwards ofone hun
dred buildings; post Office, enjoying daily mail
connexion with Milwaukee; Of the best hotels
in northern Wisconsin; three saw-mlls; an
demic building, the germ of the future university
and population of five hundred, more, indus
trious, frugal, and temperate Yankees. During
the coming season the work Of improving the navi
cation of the Fox river in the vicinity OF Appleton
is to be prosecuted vigorously. Four locks are to
be constructed, two just above and two below the
site of the town. This and other pursuits Of indus
try hardly fail to give fresh start to the towns
growth"
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LIBERAL DoNATIoNs.-If the people of the United
States can be accused of an over anxiety to make
money, they cannot be charged with avariciously
keeping it. Few are aware of the great amount
annually bestowed for purely charitable and phil
anthropic objects. The following the state
ments of the receipts and expenditures during the
past year. of some of the institutions and societies
in the Union, the anniversaries of which have re-
ceptlv hcen celchrated
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SHoRr-HoRs CArrLE.-A great sale of these cat
tie took place at Kirk Leavington, England, on
the 9th of May. letter writer describes it as SC
sight which England never has nor ever will see
again, to the extent and quality of the herd"
He says that the attendance was from three TO five
thousand, from all parts of the world. The ave-
rage price was about SO guineas; the highest price
o05
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FoR CALIFoRNIA.-Wel learn from the Baltimore
american that the steamship Washington, which
was in Government service during the late war
with Mexico, and more recently packet between
Baltimore and Alexandria, Virginia, having been
recently overhauled and thoroughly repaired, will
sail from that port for San Francisco in few
days. Her owners design running her as packet
on the Pacific.
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The STEAMSHIP PACIFIC, Capt. Nye, sailed from
New York, on Saturday afternoon, for Liverpool,
with sixty three passengers. Her departure was
witnessed by an immense crowd Of people, who
lined the piers, steamboats,, ships and housctops
along the North river.