The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-20


The English papers speculate at great length
upon the invasion or Cuba, most Of them ID 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 Timss, however, says that the
execution of the fifty WAS nothing less than
butchery
The Countess Blanca Telek has just been
oentencsd by one OF tho Au.tsian tribunals. fos
a political offence. TO eight years imprisonment
in dungeon. Thus neither sex, beauty, rank
nor genius escapes he revenge OF petty sy-
ranny
Tie Austrian authorities at 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..
FIagg, 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 s vols Of original
MS, one containing the autf graph OF the origi-
nal copy of the Elegy in a Country Church
yard" the Long Story" the songs of Thyrsis
when we parted sWore," and T" NJ dst beauty and
pleasures gay triumph to anguish" &c. The
other volumes comprise miscellanies, CORES
pondence, the poets notes while re ding, meta
physical papers, ode-, &c /. the whole bound in
olive colored nerocco. with elegant borders,
This lot produced E5O0. The r.msining princi-
pal lots were Chas. Churchill's PoeticaI Works,
2 vols. in morocco, with many of Gray's MS.
notes--sold for Ell; Edmund HYDE, Earl OF
Clarendon's History Of the Rebellion and
Civil Wars in England" began in the year l64l
written by himself, Gao, los; six MS. note
books used by Gray during his travels on the
continent and his Journeys TO England. GA
Lnn@us " Systema Nature per Rpgnu," &c.,
E36; MiltoIfs Poetical Works, 2 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 Gray while IN Italy, Fla
The directors of the Great Northern railroad
line ia England, on the recent occasion of the
Queens progress through Scotland. refused the
usual free passage in the royal train to the re.
porters of the London papers, when her Males
tv siguiiied her desire to have them present as
those labors give celia. to the movements of the
conrtw Let the rep,rters alone for telling
their own story.
A London paper closes its account of the
yacht race thus
Between eight and nine, off Cowes were in
Vulnerable yachts, and on every side was heard
the hail. Is the America firsty The answer,
: Yes What's second The reply, Nothing
The Examiner, In an able article on the
yacht races, proclaims the vice oil. the English
yacht system to be reliance on vast spread of
canvass. "Nineteen yachts in twenty" it says,
" are oyerdone in masts, spars and sails. Tney
are consequently only fit to sail in light winds,
and are good for nothing when it blows"
The writer adds
The American challenge, s'ioulating for at
least six knot breeze, proves that the America
must be wholesome well as a fast craft A
six knot bree3e, with dead beat in head sea-
would be too much for many of our crack yachts,
which, if they are brought to reducing sail, are
overwhelmed by the excess Of their lnasts 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 matter, having no real taste for the
sea, subject to sickness, and confnng their
trips to Hurst Castle to the west, Ryde and
Portsmouth to the east, and preferring to them
the Southampton water il a weaIheF-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 stlrs from its moorings at Cowes in a
whole season; but to make up for that inaction.
there il plenty Of boat-work, rowing back
wards and forwards, haiing and signalling.
There are exceptions; there are some score of
the two hundred members of the royal squad
ron club who are good seamen, az, and oompe-
tent navigat,rs to boot; but the great majority
are unskllled. The veteran yachter, the Mar
quis of Anglesea, on seeing the A nerica, re-
marked, If she is right we are all wrong"