ported by the high-sheriff of the county and the milita- queerest-though another choice was almost as queer a ry from the city of Frederick, succeeded in quieting the one. The Danville, Kentucky, Olive Branch thus hits angry passions of the people, who marched off to their off gov. Ray-who was one of the candidates for conshantees, headed by the reverend gentlemen-and re-gress from Indiana, and obtained a good many votes! sumed their labor on the following day. He also gave bail for the persons arrested, and they were released.

98,616 tons. [Pottsville Journal.

[The supplies from the Susquehannah region are considerable.]

COPY-RIGHTS. The "National Intelligencer" says An extraordinary suggestion is made in the Boston Gazette of looking to us for damages, for publishing Mr. Adams's anniversary oration! The author of it came into the world more than a century too late. We did not look to see whether the publisher had taken out a copy-right or not. But if he has done so, he will hardly subject himself to the ridicule of sueing us for a violation of his copy-right. What would be said if we were to take out a copy-right for each successive number of the National Intelligencer, and prosecute every one who dared to copy from it? Such a proceeding would be every bit as rational as to commence a law-suit against any one for copying a speech delivered before an assembly of the people.

We observed with regret, that a copy-right had been taken for this chaste and beautiful and patriotic production. We are sure that its author never contemplated such a proceding-any more than Mr. Wirt, whose masterly oration, at the celebration of the late French revolution in Baltimore, fell as it "still-born from the press" from the same cause.

Governor Ray, of Indiana, addressed the people the other day at Salem. In the course, of his speech he informed them that his enemies had resorted to every fabrication that ingenuity could invent, or calumny circulate, to injure his standing.

"Only think, fellow citizens, they have had the temerity to assert and publish to the world that I was ignorant of the appropriate functions either of a carpet or spit box. I have been informed that it has been asserted, that, at the time I visited Jeffersonville for the purpose of receiving general Lafayette, on being invited into the house of a respectable citizen, and seeing a carpet spread on the floor, I insisted on walking round it, and when the owner of the house pressed me to walk over it, I declared I would not for the world injure his quilt by treading on it-that I spit my tobacco juice on the floor outside of the carpet, and when a negro servant stared at me, and kept fixing his gaze first on me and then on the spit box-that I sung out, you black rascal, take that box away, or, by the powers, I'll spit in it! Now, fellow citizens, I can assure you that this is untrue-that, tho' I was roughly raised, I know now, and knew then, what was a carpet and what was a spit box."

"THE PENNSYLVANIA WHIG." This is the title of a new semi-weekly paper which has made its appearance in Philadelphia, edited aud published by Mr. Stephen Simpson, at 5 dollars a year.

Mr. Simpson is, certainly, one of the keenest writers in the United States, and the following extract from the leading article in his first number is offered as a fine specimen of his manner:

"It will be said in order to divert the argument from things to persons, and from generals to particulars, that I am disappointed of an office from president Jackson. This is not true; but if it were, it could not invalidate the force of reason, or destroy the existence of facts. It I am disappointed, I have been disappointed by the friends of Mr. Clay, who rejected my appointment in the senate. The president did all that one man could do for another. He labored personally to procure my confirmation. It engrossed his waking thoughts, and disturbed his slumbers by dreams; so anxious, was he, that I might be con firmed! Surely personal feelings of evil are not compatible with such excess of friendship. Nay, he went furRICHARD RUSH. This gentleman was addressed on ther. Even after the rejection of the senate, he pursued the 9th instant, by a committee of gentlemen, acting in means to commission me as a navy agent, by writing to behalf of the anti-masons, in the vicinity of Lancaster, the senators throughout the union, to procure their proPa. who desired to know whether he would allow him- mises in anticipation, that, if nominated by him, they self to be considered among those from whom the can- would yield their support. The affirmative answers of didate for the presidency is to be selected at the conven- some of these senators I have seen, but in this laudable tion to be held in this city, in September: In Mr.attempt to serve a friend, at the peril even of his constiRush's reply, he says he "must unequivocally be considered as out of view for either the nomination for the presidency or that of the vice presidency, lest a doubt should be thrown upon his motives."

[Baltimore Chronicle.

MR. DAVIS, who conducted with so much ability the Winchester Republican, has retired from the editorial chair. Mr. J. G. BROOKS, late of New York, is his successor. All we could wish the new editor is, that he may continue his paper with the same success which marked the course of Mr. Davis; and, like him, be able, after a season, to leave the cares of public life, with a competency earned from honest industry and persever[Alex. Gaz.

ance.

tutional functions-he failed. He could not command success, but surely he deserved to succeed!-I will not pause to ask, how he could venture to shake off his executive responsibility! Nay, he even went further than this. Judging that he could not procure a senatorial confirmation, the president proposed, through major Lewis, that I should receive an appointment in the custom house of $1,500 per annum for the time being, with a pledge of being appointed a commissioner under the treaty to adjust claims on France, so soon as that should be concluded and ratified. As far, then, as personal interest is concerned, every consideration led me to support gen. Jackson; and permit me to remark, that such offers are not often made by presidents now a days, to their friends!"

[There are few men in the United States whose retirement from the editorial chair we should more regret than THE FRENCH CLAIMS, it may, we believe, now be statthat of our valued friend, Mr. Davis. We have but fewed with confidence, have been settled, or rather comsuch men to redeem the press of the very general and promised, by our minister in France, Mr. Rives,-subtoo just censure that is now heaped upon it. But we ject to the approbation of the president and senate. wish him the fullest enjoyment of that honorable reputation, and easy competency, which he has so faithfully earned.]

GOVERNOR RAY. Of all the men in the world that ever was elected by the people to be governor of a state, we have thought that Mr. Ray, of Indiana, was the

The arrangement of these long outstanding claims has been effected mainly, we are disposed to think, by the untiring assiduity, perseverance and zeal of Mr. Rives; and though the sum secured falls much short of the just demands of the country against France, it goes far beyond what the French government expected, or intendled originally to pay. Without saying, therefore, that

under no possible future circumstance more might not deration; now it is the second naval power in the world! be obtained from France, we think it only just to Mr. We rejoice in its progress, for its strength and its glory Rives to express the opinion, that, in the actual condi-belong to the people, and to the cause of truth, justice tion of things, he has done well in obtaining thus much. and freedom all over the world. It is pleasant to observe The arrangement, as we understand it-and, as the that the states in which there are no slaves are advanc French bureaux are sometimes leaky, we imagine our ing so much more rapidly than the others. The fact impressions are well founded-has taken the form of a renders the evils of slavery more palpable, and holds treaty, which was expected to be executed and forward-out the prospect of its diminishing every year in relative ed to Washington by the packet of July 10, now daily importance. The population of Scotland and England, looked for. The sum stipulated to be paid is twenty-in 1811, was 12,353,000, or 600,000 less than the United five millions of francs, with a supplement of interest States last year; and New York alone has very nearly as which will make the whole sum twenty-eight and a half many inhabitants as Scotland had in 1821. millions--payable in six years. The claims of France upon the United States, including that of Beaumarchais, THE CHEROKEE ANNUITY. From the Cherokee Phawhich has been estimated at five millions, are brought down to, and are to be liquidated for, one and a half nix of July 30. We understand from good authority millions of francs. France, likewise, gives up her claim that but a small amount of the annuity (not more than under the Louisiana treaty. A mutual reduction of $200 we presume) has been drawn by individuals, and duties upon certain articles of export from each country, that the agent is not likely to receive any more customis stipulated. On our sea island cotton, the present dutvers. We understand also this mode of paying the nain France is to be reduced one half-from 40 to 20 fr.tion's money is quite profitable to whiskey dealers. the 100 kilograms. We in like manner are to reduce the duties upon French wines,--to six cents per gallon for red wine in casks, to 10 cents for white wine in casks, and to 22 cents on both kinds in bottles.

Such we believe to be substantially the arrangement negotiated by Mr. Rives--and closing as it does all points in dispute between this country and France, we cannot but look upon it as a satisfactory one. With how much reason it is thus to be looked upon may be gathered from the fact, that the commission appointed by the French government, of which M. Laine was president, composed of six members, undertook to justify, on principle, the whole system of measures of the imperial government towards the United States, by the aggressions of Great Britain on the one hand, and the conduct of the United States themselves on the other. They said, that where this system was regularly applied, we are entitled to no redress, and that it is only in cases of abusive or irregular application, that indemnity is due; that but three classes of our claims are admissible, to wit: for vessels burnt at sea, captures made before notice of the existence of the decrees, and such as were made after the 1st of November, 1810, (the period fixed for their repeal), and they indicated the sum of ten millions of francs as the full extent of what we were entitled to claim. They decided unanimously the Louisiana question against us. Such was the state of the negotiation as late as last April.

{N. Y. Amer.

THE AMERICAN CENSUS for 1830 has been completed and the result published. The population of the U. States, which was 9,637,000 in 1820, was last year 12,976,000, or, in round numbers, thirteen millions. What a prodigy is the growth of this republic! When the revolution commenced in 1776, it had less than three millions of inhabitants, and now it has thirteen! Then it was on a level with Switzerland or Denmark in political consi

[London Morning Chronicle.

We should like to know, from the agent or from some other person who is capable of enlightening us on the subject, what will be done with the money when it is ascertained fully that the Cherokees will not receive it in the manner proposed? Congress has appropriated it for the use of the Cherokees, not as a boon, but as an instalment due to the Cherokee nation. The Cherokees have designated the manner in which they will receive this money. The agent has refused to comply. Now what will be done with the money? In what way will the design of Congress be complied with? A question to be answered.

TERRIBLE DEATH.

Chambersburg, Pa. Aug. 16. We hear with shuddering, that at Mount Alto rolling mills, belonging to H. & S. Hughes, in this county, on Friday the 4th inst. a fine little boy about eight years old, the son of a man by the name of Evans, who a few days before had moved to the works, having strolled into the mill unobserved by the workmen, who were busily engaged, stretched his hand to the rolls when in full notion, which, dreadful to relate, caught hold of his fingers, and in a single instant, with one shriek, he passed through the rolls, and came out on the other side one mass of jelly, being literally crushed to pieces! His death was instantaneous. His fond mother, standing by, fainted at the shriek, and whilst in that situation was covered with the blood and bespattered brains of her unfortunate child!

There is some consolation in the reflection, that his sufferings were but momentary. No blame can be attached to any of the workmen. He was a stranger to the mill, and unnoticed until the accident occurred. The distress of the mother and family can readily be conceived. His shattered remains collected together were decently interred the next day, amidst a large assemblage of the workmen and neighbors, whose sighs and tears bore ample testimony of their feelings on the occasion, and their sympathy with the distressed family.

REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. From the New York Commercial Advertiser. There are still some veterans who fought and bled, and endured toil and privation, during the war for independence, whom the gratitude or rather the justice of the country has not reached, in the shape of pensions or allowances of any description. At the celebration of the late national anniversary, at Walden, Orange county, their claims were alluded to by the president of the festive board, Dr. Seth Capron, who is himself one of this neglected band of greyheaded patriots, in the following terms:

The chairman being called upon for a toast, rose and stated, that he regretted extremely the necessity he was under of staying for a few moments the festivities of the table; but he must repeat a sentiment he had felt it his duty to offer on a similar occasion, several years gone by, and which he then promised to repeat as often as this auspicious day should return, while time to him should remam, or until his country should redeem her pledge. He would explain: there yet remains, said he, a distinct and distinguished remnant of the army of the revolution, who, by repeated enlistments, saw much

"You

service, say (as ascertained) from 3 to 7 years, in our Upon the legal investigation which followed, an arguwar for freedom; among them are to be found those ment offered by one of the twins afforded much amuseIt was nearly in this form, and was who fought in all the most decisive battles, from Bunker ment to the court. Hill to Yorktown. Valleyforge, prison ships, and sugar addressed to Mr. Prescott, the complainant: houses bear record of their sufferings; and they hold in swear you fraid o'me; you fraid I kill you, shoot youtheir hands George Washington's certificates for faithful at same time you know I have guns-you see I shoot services. At the expense of the blood and sufferings of you if I choose-and you keep round me, following me these aged veterans, this extended republic was pur-about-I ask you civilly not to follow me--you wont let chased, and now teems with blessings innumerable, and me go away--you call me and my brother hard name-our treasury filled to overflowing; but foul injustice has and yet you swear you fraid I kill you. Now suppose guarded the avenues to that treasury with a vigilance I see a man in my country, in Siam-he goes out into that to them has never slumbered, and to this day they woods, and sees a lion asleep--he say 'Oh! I fraid that have been left with but a pittance of their monthly pay. lion kill me--what I think of that man if he go up and He would now drop the painful subject, and offer the give that lion a kick, and say 'get out you ugly beast?' I wish you'd answer me that." following sent ment:

INSURRECTION OF THE BLACKS.

We are indebted to the kindness of our friend Lyford for the following extract of a letter from the editors of the Norfolk Herald, containing the particulars of a most marderous insurrection among the blacks of Southamp[Gazette.

Those officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution, who were deprived of their pay by the poverty of their country, and of subsequent remuneration for more than 47 years of national prosperity, by the ingratitude of the republic. Music. Washington's march. BRITISH REFORM BILL. By a statement in the Lon-torn county, Virginia. don Courier, it appears that the number of £10 voters in Scotland would be 58,219; in England 372,235, of which 116,047 are in the county of Middlesex; in Wales 7,970. The present number of voters in Scot land is, according to the same statement, 4,722 only. The number of £10 voters in Ireland is not given, but may be estimated at about 25,000, making the number of £10 votes in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland 469,414. Add to these, persons having a right to vote by the new bill, on the old franchise, and the copy holders or the whole constituency of Great Britain would be about 600,000, about one-third of that of the [Boston Pat.

United States.

The mob

Norfolk, 24th Aug. 1831.

I have a horrible, a heart-rending tale to relate, and lest even its worst features might be distorted by rumor and exaggeration, I have thought it proper to give you all and the worst information, that has as yet reached us through the best sources of intelligence which the nature of the case will admit.

A gentleman arrived here yesterday express from Suffolk, with intelligence from the upper part of Southampton county, stating that a band of insurgent slaves (some of them believed to be runaways from the neighboring swamps), had turned out on Sunday night last, and murdered several whole families, amounting to 40 or 50 individuals. Some of the families were named, and among them was that of Mrs. Catharine Whitehead, sister of our worthy townsman, Dr. N. C. Whitehead, who, with her son and five daughters, fell a sacrifice to the savage ferocity of these demons in human shape.

IRELAND. We have an account of a dreadful affray near Castlebar, because of the attempt of many famish ing people near Westport, to seize upon certain cart loads of provisions intended for distribution among the yet more distressed people at Castlebar. The insurrection was represented as one of a most most violently attacked the police, that the oatmeal alarming character, though it is believed to have originatmight be appropriated to their own use-the police, and ed only in a design to plunder, and not with a view to a the military escort, appear to have shewn a great de-more important object-as Mrs. Whitehead, being a gree of forbearance, but assailed with showers of stones and many of them badly wounded, they at last fired on the crowd and killed two women and one man, who were at the head of the mob-after which it dispersed. What a state of things is here presented!

wealthy lady, was supposed to have had a large sum of money in her house. Unfortunately a large number of the effective male population was absent at camp meeting in Gates county, some miles off, a circumstance which gave a temporary security to the brigands in the perpetration of their butcheries; and the panic which they struck at the moment prevented the assembling of a force sufficient to check their career.

POLAND. A very able and interesting writer in the "National Intelligencer" on the affairs of Poland-presents us with the following melancholy picture of the state of society in that country, as dependent upon infor-rities met, and decided on making an immediate applicamation obtained through periodical publications:

"We give here, after the most recent documents, the population of the different parts of Poland, such as modern policy has left them, with a comparative view of the number of journals to that of the inhabitants, as correct as our document admits.

Section.

I. Independent Poland, or the republic of Cracow

II. Russian Poland, containing the governments of Wilna, Grodno, (1.) Minsk, Bialy stock, Vitepsk, Mohilow, Volhynia, Podolia, Ukraine and Courland

(2.) Kingdom of Poland, also Russian

III. Prussian Poland

IV. Austrian Poland

Population. mais.

107,934 5

11,289,100

As soon as this intelligence was received, our autho

men.

tion to col. House, commanding at Fortress Monroe, who at 6 o'clock this morning embarked on board the steam boat Hampton, with three companies and a piece of artillery for Suffolk. These troops were re-inforced in the roads by detachments from the U. S. ships Warren and Natchez, the whole amounting to nearly 300 Jour. One jour. nal for To-day another express arrived from Suffolk; con21,586 firming the disastrous news of the preceding one, and adding still more to the number of the slain. The insurgents are believed to have from 100 to 150 mounted men, and about the same number on foot. They are armed with fowling pieces, clubs, &c. and have had a rencontre with a small number of the militia, who killed six and took eight of them prisoners. They are said to be on their way to South Quay, probably making 110,000 their way for the Dismal Swamp, in which they will be 1,984,124 able to remain for a short time in security. For my 1,056,742 part, I have no fears of their doing much further mischief. There is very little disaffection in the slaves generally, and they cannot muster a force sufficient to effect, any object of importance. The few who have thus rushed headlong into the arena, will be shot down like crows or captured and made examples of. The militia are col

2 4,088,289 37 1,984.124 4,226,969

4

Total 21,696,416 49

5,644,550

442,784 [Rev. Enc. vol. 46, pages 783-4.

THE SIAMESE TWINS, A correspondent of the Boston Sentinel gives a detailed account of the fray into which the Siamese twins were lately driven at Lynnfield. The particulars, if true, are equally disgraceful to the Lynnfield people, and creditable to the Siamese.

*Southampton is bounded by the counties of Isle-ofWight on the north, and Northampton, in North Carolina, on the south.

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Small pox. People in the neighborhood of Fort Mitchell, Alabama, are much alarmed about the small poxbut a general vaccination was going on-the Indians earnestly seeking this safety against the disease-and hope was entertained that its ravages would be speedily checked.

The late Alfred H. Powell. The public authorities of Frederick county, Virginia, and of the town of Winchester, have rendered public honors to the memory of Mr. Powell, and no man ever better deserved them, for he was a richly gifted and most amiable man. The suddenness of his death, happened as it were, in the moment when he seemed in the full possession of his health and the vigor of his intellect, has added much to the intensity of the public feeling which must have been en

Besides these, a private letter adds the families of Mr. tertained for his loss, had it happened in a much less awBarrow and Mr. Henry Bryant-numbers not mention-ful manner.

ed.

Muskets, pistols, swords and ammunition have been forwarded to Suffolk to-day, by com. Warrington, at the request of our civil authorities and a number of our citizens have accoutred and formed themselves as a troop of cavalry, and set off to assist their fellow-citizens in Southampton. 1 trust the next news you hear will be that all is quiet again, In haste, yours.

Extract of another letter to the same gentleman, dated st Nortolk, 5 o'clock, P. M. "It is now 5 o'clockThompson's stage has just arrived-the above statement is confirmed; and in addition states, that 300 negroes, well mounted and armed, and headed by one or two white men, is the amount of the insurgent force."

Office of the Richmond Whig,

Tuesday, August 23,—10 A. M. Disagreeable rumors having reached this city of an insurrection of the slaves in Southampton county, with loss of life; in order to correct exaggeration, and at the same time to induce all salutary caution, we state the following particulars:

A Mrs. Skinner lately died at Torringford, Conn. in the 100th year of his age; she lived at Wyoming, at the time of the massacre, but escaped with six children; two of her sons were slain.

Paganini, the great violinist, was lately invited to perform before the king and royal family of Great Britain, being graciously offered fifty guineas for his evening's which being refused, in the most gracious manner, Pagawork; but he demanded one hundred and fifty guineas, nini performed on his own account the same evening; and, probably, obtained more money for the exercise of his talents than the value which he had placed upon them, when tendering them to the use of the king.

Many robberies have lately been committed in New York-and the principal actors in them were persons pardoned for crimes which they had previously committed. It is hard, indeed, that this delicate and interesting power vested in the executive, should be thas made the agent of new offences against society.

Progress of Literature. By command of the pasha of Egypt, a periodical journal either has been published in the Isle of Candia,or is about to appear there. It is to An express from the hon. James Trezvant to the ex-be written in Turkish and Greek. ecutive, states that an insurrection had broken out, that

several families had been murdered, and that the ne- up to the year 1829, it would seem that the human rePopulation of Russia. By the official census, made groes were embodied, requiring a considerable military sources of this gigantic empire have been greatly overforce to reduce them. The names and precise numbers rated. The whole amount of this population is 49,000,000, of the families are not mentioned. A letter to the post-including 17,558,898 serfs and free laborers, and 243,548 master corroborates the intelligence. Prompt and effi

cient measures are being taken by the governor, to call clergy; and, in that amount, Poland, Finland, the tribes out a sufficient force to put down the insurrection, and beyond the Caucasus, the civil and military services, and place lower Virginia on its guard. some Siberian hordes are comprised. There are 315,809

Serious danger of course, there is none. The delud-families, and 18,771,812 individuals, who pay taxes to the ed wretches have rushed on assured destruction.

A

state. Independently of the regular troops, we find 747,557 males liable to do duty in the field, namely 180, 870 peasants, attached to the military colonies, or kirks, 31,159 Metsherjacks, 28,344 Nomadic Kalmuks, regimental settlements, 262,105 Cossacks, 167,269 Bashand 68,810 Kirghises.

Mr. Jefferson's celebrated mansion at Monticello, with 500 acres of land, has been sold for only seven thousand dollars! We presume it must have cost at least ten times as much.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman to his friend in Baltimore, dated Richmond, August 23d. An express reached the governor this morning, informing him that an insurrection had broken out in Southampton, and that, by the last accounts, there were seventy whites massacred and the militia retreating. Another express to Petersburg says that the blacks were continuing their destruction; that three hundred militia were retreating in a body, before six or eight hundred blacks. shower of rain coming up as the militia were making an attack, wet the powder so much that they were compelled to retreat, being armned only with shot-guns. The negroes are armed with muskets, sey thes, axes, &c. &c. Our volunteers are marching to the scene of following communication appears in the last N. C. OxPrice of North Carolina tobacco in Richmond. The A troop of cavalry left at four o'clock, P. M. ford Examiner. A purchaser of this description will be The artillery, with four field pieces, start in the steam-the means of raising the character of our market, and inboat Norfolk at six o'clock, to land at Smithfield.Southampton county lies 80 miles south of us below viting more of the North Carolina tobacco to Richmond. Petersburg, [Richmond Compiler.

action.

States at Buenos Ayres, died there on the 14th June John Murray Forbes, esq. charge d' affairs of the U. last, aged about 60 years. He was a faithful public agent and a worthy man.

"If you think it would be any encouragement to tobac BRIEF NOTICES. co growers, you may state in your paper the sale of a Hydrophobia. A boy about 10 years old, bitten by a hogshead of tobacco, made in this county by Allen Wilmad dog six or seven weeks since, died in New York aliams, which was sold in Richmond, Va. the 23d ult. for few days ago, with all the horrid and excruciating agonies of the hydrophobia. There was also one death from the same disease in Baltimore last week. Powerful efforts should be made every where to destroy at least ninetenths of the dogs, for so many, at least, are perfect nuisances in our cities,

$21 75 per 100 lbs. The tobacco was very fine, and sold privately to a manufacturer. It weighed 1,475, and brought $320 37. I think Granville cannot be beaten by the state."

Nicety of the law. At the Lancaster assizes in England, on the trial of three prisoners, who had obtained

£100 upon a forged check, alleged in the indictment to concessions, which it was supposed they would do. Sebe made in the name of Townend, because the name ap-veral persons had been arrested in the south of France, peared to the jury to be written Tewnena, the judge charged with being concerned in a conspiracy favorable decided the variance to be fatal, and the felons were ac- to the ex-royal family. quitted.

POLAND.

The Russian army had dwindled down from 150,000 men to about 88,000, but the patriots in Lithuania were placed in a very critical situation, being pressed on all

A still more singular instance of legal nicety is reported, if we mistake not, in Leach's case of criminal law. A man was indicted for stealing a cow. It appeared in evidence that the animal had never had a calf, and seve-sides by the Russians. ral witnesses testified that until such an event should take place, the creature was a heifer and not a cow. The court considering this a fatal variance, directed the jury to acquit the prisoner, and he was accordingly discharged.

Boston auctioneers. Payments into the treasury for the last six months-by Coolidge and Haskell $4,501 42; John Tyler, 3,012 08; Whitwell, Bond, & Co. 2,506 99; E. F. White 763 19; Warren, Barry and Park 543 32. There were 13 other auctioneers-all returning less than 500 dollars-9 of them less than 100. Female knights of the garter. There have been three female knights of this most illustrious order." Lady Harcourt in the time of Edward III-Lady Gray, in the time of Henry V-and lady Suffolk in the time of Henry VI. The ladies wore the garter on their left arm. Munificence. The treasurer of the Massachusetts general hospital has the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of five thousand dollars, as a donation from a merchant, with a request that it "may be accepted for the benefit of that most useful and excellent institution."

A fatal mistake! A gentleman mistook a lady's arm for her waist, and in dancing a waltz seized the former instead of the latter. But he got well punished for so gross a blunder, for the lady, from that day forth, never forgave him for supposing her waist could possibly be as thick as her arm.

A sturgeon, weighing 186lbs. lately jumped into a small boat near Middletown, Con. to the great alarm of the boatman-who, however, soon made a good prize of his unceremonious visiter.

FOREIGN NEWS.

LISBON.

A French squadron of 13 sail was in the Tagus and had captured 30 sail of Portuguese merchantmen, a corvette and a gun brig. It was said on the 7th July that Don Miguel had dismissed all his ministers but one, appointed new ones, and was preparing to defend the city of Lisbon. A French brig was going into the harbor, Lisbon was in a great supposed to make new demands. Another account states ferment and all the prisons full. that no one would accept the ministerial appointments, and that count de Barsto had charge of all the depart ments. The soldiers were murmuring and in an ill humor to fight.

BUENOS AIRES.

The value of goods exported from Buenos Ayres during the first quarter of the present year, was $3,088,365 of that currency, equal to about $500,000 in specie. The export of hides were: cattle hides 125,000, horse hides 1,020, nutria skins 7,178 dozen, Chinchilla, 2 doz. sheep skins 4,044.

Another arrival at New York brings Liverpool papers to the 12th ultimo, inclusive.

ENGLAND.

The jury which tried Cobbett being unable to agree on a verdict, were discharged, so that he was virtually acquitted. The duty on steam power had been abandoned. The reform bill is to be gone through previously to any other business.

FRANCE.

The affair of the duchess of Berri created no alarm in France. The elections thus far are favorable to the ministry. They have gained by manifesting a disposition to grant concessions, and, having thus far succeeded, it is supposed that the "glorious days" will pass over

An arrival at Providence, R. I. brings Liverpool pa- quietly. pers to the 9th July.

ENGLAND.

The weather in England had been intensely hot for ten days prior to the 9th July. The thermometer, in London, July 5, stood as high as 91 in the shade.

It is said that the majority in the house of lords against the reform bill, will be 8-the bishops constituting that majority.

The unsettled state of France, an expected explosion at Brussels, and the excitement consequent on the discussion of the reform bill, had caused a depression in the price of stocks.

Two vessels were loading in England with 25,000 stand of arms and 48 pieces of cannon, on account of the Poles. The Russians had entered a protest against the above cargoes, but the British government declined interfering. The calico printers at Manchester and its vicinity have quit work, their employers having attempted to reduce their wages.

Ministers, it is said, will impose a tax upon steam power, fixing it at the ratio of horse-power, and thus make up the deficiency of revenue. The tax on candles is to be taken off, that on beer, leather, cider and printed goods had already been repealed.

Cobbett was undergoing a trial for an alleged libel, tending to excite the farming laborers to destroy thrashing machines. He has summoned a great many witnesses, and among the rest the cabinet ministers. He conducts his own defence.

BELGIUM.

POLAND AND RUSSIA.

Several persons had been arrested at Warsaw, charged with a conspiracy. The conspirators numbered among their ranks several generals of distinction, to the treachery of some of whom it is supposed the Russian Three millions of florins were discovered at the house army, under Rudiga, were enabled to make its escape. of one of the traitors, named Lessel. The papers discoSkrzynecki's plans of operation had been put into the vered disclose a deep laid plot. The whole of general possession of the Russians, and it was intended also to deliver Warsaw into their hands. Generals Hartig, Satacki, treacherous schemes, also a Russian lady by the name Jackowski, and several others were implicated in these of madame Bazanon. This detection must prove highly advantageous to the cause of the brave and patriotic Poles. There are at Warsaw about 13,000 Russian prisoners, and a part of the arrangement was, that they were to have been provided with arms and to have risen in all the facts to the authorities at Warsaw, in time to save parts of the town. General Janchowski communicated that city from the horrid consequences of massacre and

bloodshed.

The Poles under Chlapowski and Guilgud were de

feated by the Russians, who took 600 prisoners.

dead, and is supposed to have died by his own hands. The arch duke Constantine (late viceroy of Poland), is The Russians are making a new levy, which will increase their force to 600,000 men.

BELGIUM.

The terms prescribed by the congress of the five powThe national congress at Brussels, have not yet de-ers have been acceded to by the national congress of cided on the conditions of prince Leopold's accepting Belgium, by a vote of 126 to 70, being a majority of 50, the throne. It is thought that a majority is in favor of and a deputation appointed to inform prince Leopold thereof. His arrival in Brussels was impatiently looked for, and many of those who opposed him during the nine days' discussion in the congress, had since given in their adhesion.

them.

FRANCE.

The funds had fallen. The elections would not result favorably to the ministers unless they made certain