The southern press., 1851-09-20

| The English papers apeculate at great length
upon the invasion of Cuba, most of them in a
tone which indicates the conviction that what
ever the Yankees undertake., they would do, and
when the news Of the disaster came they were
relieved The Times, however, says that the
execution Of the fifty was nothing less than
butchery.
The Countess Blanca Teeki has just been
sentenced by one Of the Austrian tribunals, for
\ political offence, 10 eight years imprisonment
in dungeon. Thus, neither sex, beauty, rank
nor genius escapes The revenge OF petty ty-
ranny.
| The Austrian authorities Mt Venice have
opened packages addressed to the United States
consul there, bearing the seal of the Depart
ment of State. In reply to the protest from Mr.,
Flagg our representative, they stated that the
council of revision claimed the right to inspect
all packages entering the Venetian territories.
| A sale has lately taken place in London Of
the manuscripts and books of the poet, Gray.
The chief lot consisted Of 8 vols. Of original
MS, one containing the aut, graph Of the orig-
nal copy of the "Elegy in Country Church
yard" the Long Story" the songs of " Thyrsis
when we parted swore," and Mi idst beauty and
pleasures gay triumph to languish," &c. The
other volumes comprise miscellanIes, cores
pondence, the poets notes while reading, meta
physical papers, odes, &c, the whole bound in
olive cOored morocco, with elegant borders
This lot produced f500. The remaining princi-
pal lots were Chas. Churchill's Poetical Works.
2 vols. in morocco, with many of Gray's MS
notes-sold for Ell; Edmund Hyde, Earl of
CInrendon's Z" History of the Rebellion and
Civil Wars in England" began in the year l64l,
written by himself f49, los; six MS. note
books used by Gray during his travels on the
continent and his journeys to England, f24;
Linnaus "Systema Nature per Regno," &c,
E36 Millions Poetical Works, 9 vols. mo.
rocco, having MS passages selected from the
Scriptures and from various authors, ancient and
modern, f37. The valuable collection Of man
uscript music made by Cray while in Italy, el2
The directors of the Great Northern railroad
line in England, on the recent occasion of the
Qleen's progress through Scotland, refused the
usual free passage in the royal train to the re-
porters of the London papers, when :" her Males.
ty signitied her desire TO have them present as
those labors give eclat to the movements Of the
conrt" " Let the reporters alone for telling
their own story. .
A London paper closes its account Of tie
yacht race thus 3
Between eight and nine, off Cowes were in.
Vulnerable yachts, aud on every side was heard
the hail. Is the America frsty The answer,
Yea What's second!' The reply, Nothing
The Examiner, in an able article on the
yacht races, proclaims the vice of the English
yacht system to be reliance on vast spread of
canvass. "Nneteen yachts in twenty it says,
are overdone in masts, spars AMI sails. They
are consequently only fit to sail in light winds,
and are good for nothing when it blows"
The writer adds:
"The American challenge, s'ipulating for at
least a six knot breeze, proves that the America
must be a wholesome as well as a fast craft. A
six knot breeze, with dead beat in head sea,
would be too much for many of our orack yachts,
which, if they are brought to reducing sail, are
overwhelmed by the excess of their masts and
spars in sea way.
"The truth is, they are built for the inside of
the isle of Wight, and for owners who take to
yachting for fashions sake, knowing nothing
about the IN tier, having no real taste for the
sea, subject to sickness, and combining their
trips to Hurst Castle to the west, Ryde and
Portsmouth to the east, and preferring to them
the Southampton water if weather tide raises
popp'e ON the gentle Solent. The great plea
sure OF these gentlemen Is to swagger about in
sea.toggery, and to have boats crews in smart
equipment dangling after them. Many yacht
hardly stirs from its moorings at Cowes in q
whole season; but to make up for that insction,
there is plenty of boat-work, rowing back
wards aud forwards, hailng and signalling.
There are exceptions there are some score Of
the two hundred members of the royal squad
ron club who are good seamen, ay, and compe-
tent navigatlrs to boot; but the great majority
are unskilled. The veteran yachter, the Mar
quis of Anglesca, on seeing The A nerica, re-
marked, if she is right We are all wrong"