American telegraph., 1851-05-26
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC
New YoRx, May 2.

Kafir war is still raging. II is reported that
the King OF Naples is dead. VT
Letters from Australia state that Smith
OBrien has appealed TO the English Govern
ment in reference to the petty tyranny prac-
tised upon him by the provincial authorities.
ENGLASD.-The proceedings in Parliament
are unimportant
The Worlds Fair progresses satisfactorily.
| The West India mail steamer Great Western
arrived at southampton on Thursday, with
nearly 81 100000 in specie and gold dust.
The whole was despatched to London in four
wagons. On the way three boxes, containing
gold dust worth upwards Of $26, 900, were sto-
len from one of the wagons. One box has
since been recovered, with x6500
The debate on the Ecclesiastical titles bill
has been deferred to the 18th ult The prop
erty tax bill has passed the Commons. The
average daily receipts of the exhibition are
GoOO. The steamer City of Manchester, to run
between Philadelphia and Liverpool, is to be
launched in June.
Viscount Melbourne is in such a precarious
state of health that slight hopes are entertained
Of his recovery. Lady Franklin's vessel, Prince
Albert, Is to sail for the Arctic regions about
the 18th Of June.
FRANCE.-M. Dupin has been reelected
President Of the Assembly, and Gen. Baduc
Vice President.
The President has appointed Gen. Pelissier
Governor of Algeria, in place of Gen. Hautpool
proposition for an income tax has been sub
mitted in the Assembly.
1t is said, in some quarters that Louis Napo-
leon will soon resume his journey through the
departments, and this time will proceed south.
M. Leon Faucher, the Minister Of the Interior,
had ordered the projects of the departments to
come to Paris, and ut private meeting he de-
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half of Louis Napoleon. The festival of the
4th of May had not met with much enthusiasm
in the provinces. Great indifference was man
ifested to the display by the mayors and pre-
fects.
ITALY.-Letters from Rome to May 1St say
that the president of the Propaganda, Cardinal
Franzoni, has just issued an appeal to all Italy,
calling on oil good Catholics to subscribe funds
for the erection of Roman Catholic Cathedral
in London. The Pope, who questioned the right
of the Spanish government to sell church lands,
has signed concordat which makes such sales
legal.
SpAIN.--Queen Isabella had the misfortune
to break her leg in descending from her car
riage at Aranjuez.
GERMANY.-Count Billie Brahe has been ap-
pointed To the Presidency of the Schleswig
Holstein and Denmark Assembly.
AUsTRIA.-A uniform system of weights and
measures for the whole empire occupies the at
tention of the Chamber Of Commerce. Letters
from Venice to the 9th instant, announce the
arrival at that place of the King Of Greece and
party. King Otho had taken up his residence
in the palace of the Duke of Modena A tele-
graphic despatch dated Vienna, the 7th instant,
says the principal bankers of the capital, NM.
Rothschild, Sina, Schup, and Koenigswarter,
had conference with Baron de Kubeck, pre-
sident of the council of the empire, to come to
an understanding on the final arrangements
necessary to carry out the ministerial projects.
The council of the empire has decided upon
opposing all political measures, so long as these
pecuniary embarrassments continue.
The MoCKING-BIRp. Several quarters of
our city are now vocal with the music of these
fine songsters. Many of them continue to pour
forth torrent of melody day and night almost
without intermission. The powers of imi tation
of these birds have not certainly been overrated.
When in the right humor they will initiate all
sorts of sounds, even to the Growing of cock.
| If they do not succeed well the first time, they
will repeat the effort, always gaining in correct
ness, until they master the subject-sometimes
with exact truth, sometimes failing to render
the notes perfectly.
But it is as composers not as nnitdtors, that
the mocking-birds most command our admira-
ton. There appears to be no end to their pow
ers of combination. There is variety and
strange contrast in their song, that would be
sought for in vain in any of the sounds pre-
sented for their imitation. Sometimes they
will begin low down on the scale, working up
the gamut, stopping here and there to throw off
ad-libitum variations, then starting again, al
ways ascending and repeating the same pro-
cess. Sometimes they begin ut the top of their
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ment they will touch note, repeat it several
times with greater or less degree of emphasis,
and then they will fat or sharp the same note
after the same manner.
1t would require the pen Of good musical
composer to trace out in faithful description
all the phases Of their song We have often
followed out forty or fifty different arrange
ments. Within this limit THAT of our memory
we could pronounce with certainty that the
same song had not been repeated. We are
persuaded that there is scarcely any limit to
their combinations. The lark, doubtless, sur
passes them i'll the gushing joyousness of his
note; the thrush, nightingale, and perhaps other
birds in liquid sweetness. But in the variety
and combination Of notes. in compass and fiexi-
bility, and in marvellous facility of execution,
the mockng- bird bears away the palm Nature
furnishes in the feathered tribe voices Of all
descriptions, that
"warble their wood.notes wild;"
and, by way of an excusable simile, they nfy
be resembed in their peculiar character to those
Of certain prima donnas The moeking-bird,
like the matchless Catalani, upites all styles
with a compass that comprehcnds every note,
from the purest soprano down to the deepest
contralto. The bird is aptly named and its
voice is wisely adjusted to its task. With sweet
ness alone it would be unable to render its
great variety Of intonations. Savannah Repub
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We had one of the sevcrcst hail storms yester-