Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-08-07
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New YoRK, July %, 1851.


EDITOR OF THE TINES: The British
Mail steamship america arrived at Halifax,
last evening, with Y passengers, including
the new Lord Bishop Of Nova Scotia.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool, through.
out the week preceding the America'S de-
parlure, was dull and quiet. Prices Of all
descriptions, had given woy.
A private letter by the Cherokee, informs
me that the first struggle for Cuban lnde'
pendence occurred on the 9TH OF July when
a conflict took place between the Spanish
troops and the people, which resulted in the
fight OF The military, who left 20 killed upon
The field. A general engagement is hourly
expected a! Principe, the garrison OF which
place amounted to 2400 men, before the RI
sing; but the soldiers are daily passing over
to the ranks Of the insurgent. llis expected
that, within thirty days, the revolution will
have become general, all over the Island
1t has been rumored for some time past;
that Thackeray, the celebrated author Of
"Vanity Fair" THE yellow plush cores.
pondence," and other works OF humor, would
shortly visit this country. Letters that
have received by the Pacific, place this be.
yond doubt; his present intention being TO
eave Liverpool early in September.
He purposes combining business with
pleasure; for, he will deliver here, his "Lec'
lures on the Comic Writers of England ,
which ale now attracting go much interest
in London.
Thackeray is a writer Of vigorous intellect.
strong perceptive faculties, and, in sharp,
biting satire, has no rival, save Douglass
Jerrold, with whom he has been associated
for many years, as a contributor 10 the Ions
don Punch. He is man OF about So years
Of age, and has been for ID years constant
contributor 10 the seria! literature Of England
| met him in London in 1887, when he had
just entered the literary field under the nom
de plume Of michael Angelo Ti!mars." In
early life he inherited handsome fortune,
but at the age OF IS, he found himself ru-
iped man; since which period he has supper
ted himself by his pen and pencil. lie is an
artist Of very considerable ability, and illus.
trates himself by his own works.
This bitter experience Of the instability Of
riches, and Of The trials attendant upon the
loss OF them, seems TO have soured a really
genial, warmhearted disposition; for, in his
works, he appears occasionally, to open a
vein Of gall within his bosom, and dipping
his pen in it, TO delight in porlraying the
darker shades OF character, which, TOO often,
alas mar poor, erring humanity, SO that
while you canno. deny the fidelity Of the por'
trait, nor The ability Of the artist, yet you
long for those loveable strokes of tenderness,
those simply sympathetic touches Of feeling,
with which Dickens, or Washington Irving.
would relieve the background, and Hume
the whole.
AT this season Of the year, New York is
inundated by anripe fruit, which is, doubt
less, the chief cause OF the great mortality at
present raging among our juvenile citizens.
The Report Of the City Inspector, for the
week ending July 18th, shows that, during
that period, sos deaths occurred in this city.
or these, 81 were men, SO women, 2O8
boys, and Isl girls. The majority OF these
deaths originated in the following diseases