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GODFRICH, COUNTY OF HURON, (C. W.) THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1850.
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1 HE WtMLD Ie !'ULL OF BEAUTY.
There is s vele* witbie me,
Atari hie M ~la vette.
Ther iteeedl lispiegs wig me,
Tit tern man to nein. eyes!
Deer (rano rag aver i{ griaget.,
jib.. %odds. e.lodr;
Aad evermore it ,nageih
Tbie Wog of songs to me:—
This world is foil of braes y,,
f a ther worlds above ;
Atdll' we did oar date,
• It might be fuft of kers :"
If faith sad loviag Madame
Famed cola 'twist hart and heart,
OW )slg.tres dark bliedaen
Asd oodles w.ald depart.
f(,.« tn*. revere fergivisa,
Were hied tesrde *Weise silken,
Mowed edac.A w arereise,
'Pmead be few lieesi-broke.,
'A'h*a eledp's weed is smiling,
Why wake,y this cry fot breed?
Why ere erub.d edifies. toiling,
Qtwt--clothed is rags—oiled T
The sassy hills sed valleys
Bluth rips with (nit aid grads,
Bet the wealthy da the palace
litlU ram bis fellow we:
o Gad ! what hosts are trampled
Amid this press of gold.
What oobls'hearts are sapped of life,
What spirits lose their bold!
And yet epee this God-bless.d earth
There's room for every of ;
Unearaer'd teed still ripens,
To resat*, rot io the we ;
Per the world is full of Meaty,
As ether worlds above ;
Aid if we did oar duty.
Is might be full of love
Let the law of blemished perish,
Wan, gore sod Mori, epleedar—
And vies wfit gars to eherioh
Faeroes mere kind sad tender.
Wer re b other,
We'J vanquish lisle and Crime;
Aad clap the head of a brother,
Is any lamp or clime
If gold were not an idol,
Were mlad asd merit worth,
Ob. there world be a bridal
Betwixt high breves sad seri
Wen truth err uttered leaguege,
Angela aright talk with awe,
And God—illrmis'd earth should se*
The golden sge agit;s.
For the leaf tongues of chi- rower—
The Sewer -lips et the se a
The birds that hymn their .rptreea
imo shyest of Gerd—
Aad ab, awns wind that Imagine •
The meanie of the ties.
Have pooh s voice that aiogsth
This sear of.rases to oar
" This world is furl of bteury,
As other world. above
And if we did oar den.
It might be Intl of love."
RENEMBRA'ICE8.
Me seta& beadle the rpm drewinr;
Wirt saes the metros there/
A Malts rise,
A rased sabers Mir,
Wish meet • letter. wised sad worn,
The reseed' et this past :
Of dots of arias time happisese,
That wen toe bright to lair.
Wiry stars, the Indy dies made,
As it' wsse voice ole bead f
Tho.s few pale faded Tilly dowers.
What tM.gk4 eaa they have stirred,
S avo msmoteaa of • forest walk,
Or smitten tangled o'er,
Or plashisp o(tbe mountain brook,
Beside ber father'' door
1 tb..ght !ber all had sed tie Hawes
Upon Illy 'bridal day ;
.That .,.,tier winds hod borne their dust
With lite'• young hopes away ;
Why eraser this shadow from the put
To meek my calmer haunt
Ob, would that every Memory
Couht wither like the Hemen !"
N it beer Vier ebilde s'. Ia.ghiag play
Beside their rasher'. ham :
The lady's Mart is far away
Across the Indian wave,
Her English home lite fair *resod;
Her heart ie is the grave.
AGRICULTURE.
1f OVP TO IMPR- - . COUNTRY.
No totast►y, can ever exhibit any sign of
"roan and decay" whose fields are well cul-
tivated, producing clean and excellent crop*
*boot pesteries aro covered with good her-
bage, and stocked with a good sod imitable
i.eoription of animals' of every variety re-
quired, et to afford irppj for [boos animals, convenient and well
imintrwosed farm buildings, sad a aotllcicnt
wiTfety of ioltable agritalteral implements
of the beat description. If this were gene-
eslly the sere is Cased' then .sold not be
ditty signs .1 "rein and devise in either
News et sooatty. It is ouch a pro.perdee
Mate et the eo.Nny sed her agricultere
.tial would ti -open the store* that are
'elesi. sad amid the bosses that are now
, ire o.r e;Rbmid d we lost pes..adad
.
trlya .Cie expect t• ro-edsea eters.,
oral Meat empty basses by say other
ztw Wer
ibis by tate irrpreana wt .a the.
.ttie sooetry. rIi1I be dtmmp-
Sea7 couotry most sesta W
M
ill‘sjgs of expenditure, utiles* tory DW
los*s ether ceedtry to bestow them tin
, Tide Is i fest that he tee
ka.w .w too welt deraoed,
r'w11 P1dbsephpead Pr iteral seeaeuy
.140.011611t d1 ea 'eev. It. 1t wetdd
wy
misfits h laeapltllfanalioa to dhow hew
tbens&nembysod l dieetly. The
M ala Admits of .140,Mdele freer
dIdertgte..srt{ae, h.L but bean& `y ...1-
iae aa comae, is es exeeptime M this
led in this couotry, and may be expended
there, but this amount is not very considera•
!ble, although a great advantage 'u far as it
goes, to increase the real enema! income of
the country. flowerer capital may bo ern-
' played, it cannot fail to be useful. it may
not be profitable to the individuals who
expend tt. but after it p from their
bends ft may go into channels that will
make the eery best and mnet profitable use
ofit for the country. The mode of employ
Mg capital Ito, very great consequence as
'regards the general benefit it may produce
to a country; when directly and judicious-
ly employed in creating a new produce; it
must be iofiuit.ly better than by any less
direct mode. By direct application to pro-
duction, a new value is created at once, and
the money expended for its creation has
already gore into new chanted' of employ-
ment. The improvement and prosperity of
ageool titre to retarded and checked, because
it has to wait for espied, end ft creates it.
or accumulates it from a surplus. Hence
it is that • farmer may wait all his life for
the necessary capital to effect ;mprovcments
that would double his annual production.—
There are some parties who have overcome
these difficulties, but it is only when they
have great energy, - , and a good
idea of their buanees. i1 in almost Imp'ro-
sibte for ordinary turnery, on worn-out and
exhausted farms, to improve their condition
without some mean. ta commence with.—
The amount might not bo Targe that would
enaelo them to better their condition very
soon, but something ie required, and for
this purpose, and to supply this want we
bate suggested the expediency of introduc-
ing a Aesociatioos of Agricultural Credit"
in Canada, which would benefit every class
by the general improvement it would pro-
duee.--L. Canada digric.ltaral Jrrrnal.
GovruIIIrE]T 6]COORAOgrgyT TO AGMM-
errTVart tat Ber-ener.—The Belgian Go-
vernment has taken measures to propagate
in the country the methodical improvement
of the land by means of subsoil drainage,
which hu latterly been found so beneficial
in England. Machines bare been construc-
ted and conveyed to different pointe of the
ko gdum for the manufacture of the tiles
necuary for carrying off the water, as well
a the tools remelted for the construction
of the treochee. A complete treatise on
drainage has been written, and will shortly
be pobitshed. Lastly. an engineer (M.'
• Lecleare), from the first School of Civil
Engineers of Gheot, has been sent into
this country to study all the details of the
new system ; after a sojourn of some
months this officer bee just returned to
Belgium, furnished with all the necessary
knowledge ; he will be in communication
with all landowners or farmers who may
desire to make trial of hie plans. A decree
,sued by the Minister of the Interior regu-
lates the conditions under which the work*
are to be carried on. A society has been
formed to demonstrate the good effects or
subsoil drainage, to enable proprietors more
easily to construct the works, and to col-
lect infotmation treating of the new Flys.
tem ; some of the richest landed proprie-
tors have already enrolled their names as
members. The Minister of the interior
has placed JL Leclerc at the disposition of
this society.
TILE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.
■T T. •s. £Rima.
' Dear father,' said Mary Edward., don't
go oat this evening ;' and the young
girl, who bad hardly numbered fourteen
years, laid her band upon tbearm of ber
paten'. -
But Mr. Edwards shook her off impatient-
ly, muttering as he did so—
' Can't I go where L Please ?'
' Oh, yes, father,' urged Mary, drawing
up to bin) again, notwithstanding her re-
pulse, ' Dot there is going to be a 'term
and 1 wouldn't go out.'
' Storm ! Nonsense ! That's only
your pretence. But I'll be home soon—
long before the nine if it comes at alt.'
And saying thio, Mr. Edwards turned
from his daughter and left the house. As
Boos is she was alone, Mary eat down and
commenced weeping. There had been sad
changes since she was ten years old. in
that time her father had fallen into habits of
lateen , and not *sly wasted his w►-
etane. but abused fele family ; and, sadder
still, her mother had died broken-hearted,
her alone is the world with a drun-
ken ther.
T e toting girt* trials, ender these paha-
fel circumstances, were great. Night al-
lot eight, heir father would cow hove in-
iesieated. said at was so ran a ttti.g for ber
to get t ked word from him that a tole of
affection from hi. ltps would move her tn-
Meetly to tsars. Daily the works of d.-
olme.i.s west oo. Dreskdaa..e led to
idlsne.e, and gradually Mr- Awards end late
daughter sook lower and !Veer In the scale
sI coefart. The piquant honer where
they had lived for years was given up, and
is entail, poorly-ftntab.d room., they hid
themselves from . After this
change, Mr. Edwards moved along his
downward way more rapidly, earning len
and drinking more.
Mary grew old fiat. Under severe trials
and affections, her mind rapidly matured,
• and her affliction for the father grew 'tjon-
ger and stronger as she realised more and
more fu11r the dreaJful naturo and ultimate
tendency of the infatuation by which he
was led.
-At last, in the anguish of her concern,
she ventured upon remonstrance. Tbis
brought only angry repulse, adding bitter-
ness to her cup of sorrow. The
of a atorm on the evening to which we
have alluded, gave Mary an excuse for urg-
ing her father not to go out. flow her
remonstrance was received has been seen.
While the poor girl sat weeping, the dis-
tant rolling of thunder indicated the ap-
proach of the storm to which ohs had refer-
red. But she eared little for it now. Her
father had gone out. She had spoken of
it only with the hope that he might have
been induced to remain with her. Now
that he was away, the agitation within was
too great to have any concern for the tur-
bulent elements without.
On leaving hip house, Mr. Edwards, who
had not taken any liquor for three or four
hour., and whose appetite was sharpened
for the accustomed stimulus', walked quick-
ly in the. direction of a drinking -house.
where he usually spent his evening.. On
coterie', he found that there was a little
commotion in the barroom. A certain in-
dividual not over friendly to the landlords
had introduced himself ; and hie character
being kootin, the inmates were di'p o -ed to
have a little sport with him.
' Come, now, fellow !' said one, just as
Edwards came in. ' mount that table and
make a first rate temperance speech.'
' Do, and I'll treat you to the stiffest
`lass of whiskey toddy the landlord can
mix,' added another. ' Or perhaps you'd
like a mint julip or gin coctarl brtter.—
Anything-you please. Make a speech and
tail for the liquor. 1'11 stand the arc -at.'
What d'ye say, landlord ? Shall be
make the speech r said another, who was
eager for sport.
' Please youreelver,' said the landlord,
and you'll please me.
' Very well. Now for the speech, old
fellow. Here mount Ibis table.' And two
or three of the most forward took hold of
hi. arms,
'I'm not just in the humor for making a
speech,' eaid the temperance man but if it
will please you as well, I'll sing 700 a
song.'
' Give us a song, then. Anything to
accomodate. Bat come, let's liquor first.'
' No," said the - other firmly, ' i Must
sing the song first, if 1 sing it at alt.'
Dont't you think your pipes would be
clearer for a little drink of some kind cr oth-
ert
Perhaps they would,' was replied. So,
provided you have no objection. I'll take
a glass of cold water—if auch a thing ie
known in this place,'
The glass of water was presented, and
then the man, who was somewhat advanced
in year., prepared to give the promised
sdng. All stood listening attentively, Ed-
wards among the rest. The voice of the
old man was low and tremulous, yet every
word was uttered distinctly and with a
pathos which showed that the meaning was
felt. The following well written temper-
ance song was the one he Bung ; and while
his voice filled the room every other round
was hushed :
" Where are the friends that to me were so dear,
Long, long ago—long, long ago 1
When are the hopes that my heart used to cheer,
Logi long ago—long, long ago?
Friends that 1 lov'd in the grave are laid low—
Hopes that 1 t heriehed are fled from me now,
1 am degraded, for rum was my for —
Long, ion ago—lung, long ago.
" Sadly my wife bowed her heantifel head,
Long, long ago---leag, long ago ;
Oh bow I wept when I found she was dead--
I.ong, long ago—long, long ago.
Hire was an angel—my ?ore and my guide—
Vanity teteve the frfti rale AO tried,
Poo bnken•hearred ! 'twas well that she died --
Long. long ago—long, Jong ago.
" Let me look biek on the days of my yoath—
Loeg, long ago -long, long ago ;
I was.* stranger to vutoe and trrath,
Long. /Gag age—long, long ago,
Oh for the hopes that were pore as the day,
Oh for theirys that wen parer than they,
Ob LI' the hears tet I've p.aodered sway,
Ling, 1 long ago."
The silence that prevailed the room when
the old man's voice died, or might rather
ha said, sobbed away, w.. the silence of
death. His own heart was touched, for be
wiped his ayes, from , which tears bad start.
tad. Peewee esarcely a mosrent, be moved
slowly from the room, asd Isft bleat/drone.
to their ewe vfIl.etiose. Then was not
ase eK theca who was net wrens er leen af-
fected, but the deepest improsaiod had been
mads on the heart of Edwards. The song
seemed es !f it had bees ma& for him.—
The second vers*, particularly, went thril-
ling tp the very centre of hie feelings
" Body my wife towed bar beautiful bead !"
Now •uddenly rove Wire him the sor-
row -stricken form of the wife of hie youth
at these words, and when the old man's
voice faltered on the dne—
"Poor brckea-hearted ! %was well that abs dud."
the anguish of kis spirit was so great, that
he only kept himself from sobbing aloud by
a strong effort at sal(-controul. Ero the
spell was broken, or word uttered by any
one, be arose and left the house.
For many minutes after her father's de-
parture Mary sat weeping bitterly. She
felt hopeless and dererted. Tenderly did
she love her parent, but this love was only
s source 01 the kws•.t aoguiab, for abs
saw i,tm r.r i(tty passing along the road to
destruction without the power to save him.
Grief wastes ileelf by its own violence.
So it woe in this instance. Tb. tear. of
Mary were at length dried ; her sobs were
hushed, and she was about rising from the
chair, when a blinding Saab of lightning
glared in•o the room, followed instantly by
a dewing j .r ..1 tbnt.der.
"fife, if 1,ther were home !" she mur-
mered, clueing her hands together.
Even .hie she stood in this attitude the
door !•pencil quietly, and Mr. Edwards en•
term!.
" I thought y.ou wouhl be afraid, Mary,
and Sol carne Lente," said he in a kind
voice.
Piiary looked at him with eurpriee. This
was soon changed to joy as she perceived
that he was per(errly sober.
" Oh, fathered' she sobbed, unable to con-
trol ber fooling., and leaning her face
against his breast as she spoke—" if you
wculd never go away P'
Tenderly the father drew his arms around
his weeping child, and kissed her pure fore-
head.
"Mary,' said be, a. calmly as he could
speak, '• for yours,other's rake"—bot he
could not fetish the sentence. Itis voice
quivered, and became inarticulate.
Solemnly, in the' eilence.of his own heart,
did the father. as he stood thus with his
child in l:i+ arms, repeat the vows he
had already taker. And ha kept his
vows..
Wonderful is the power of music ! It is
the hearts's own lea/nage, and speaks to
it in a ro;ce of trreviatable peiivaion. It
is a good gift.from Heaven, and should
ever be used in a good caueo.
Wien RRvENGE.—The Celtic legends,
like the Celtic language, though deficient
in terms of art, and refinement, are peculiar-
ly rich in the expression of the passions.—
Joy, grief, fear, leve, hatred, and revenge,
glee tbro' many. an impassioned strain
which still lingers by its original wild lo
caity. Chi the shores of Mull a crag is
pointed out, overhanging the sea,coneern-
ing which there to the following tradition
Some centuries since, the chief of this dis-
trict, Maclean, of 1.ochbuy had a grand
,Bunting excursion. To grace the festivity
his lady attended, with her only child, an
infant then in the nurse's arms. The deer,
driven by then,
hounds, and hemmed in by
surroi ndmg rocky, few to s narrow pass the
only outlet 'they could find. Hero the
chief had placed one of his men to +guard
the deer from passing ; but the &taimale
rushed with e•rch impetuosity, that the
poor forester could not withstand them.—
In the rage of the in i;nent, Maclean threat-
ened the Wean with instant death, but this
pnniehmcnt was e••mmuted to a whipping
or scnurgtng to the face of his own clan,
which in these feudal times was eoosidered
a degrading pun•sliment fit only for the
loweet of menials and the wnr.t of crimes.
Tho clansmen burned with anger and fierce
revenge. He rushed forward, plucked the
tender infant. the heir of Lnckbuy, from
the hands of the Horse, and bounding to
the rocks in ■ mo "ant stood on an almost
inaccessible cliff projecting over tho water.
The screama of the agonized mother and
chief at the awful jeopardy in which theft
only child was placed may be easily con•
ceired. Maclean implored the man to (five
him back his son, and expressed his deep
contrition for the degradation he had in a
moment of excitement inflicted on his clans-
man. The other replied. that the only
emulatens on which he would consent to
the restitution were, that Maclean should
hare. Ilia back to the cord, and be pobhely
acaerged as he had been ! in despair the
chief cu'isented, sating he would submit to
anything if his child were but restored.—
To the grief and astonishment of the elan
Maclean bore this- insult ; sad when it was
completely finished, begged that the clans-
man might relive from his perilous situa-
tion with the young chief. The man re-
garded him with s smile of demoniac re-
venge, and li(tin: the child into the air.
plunged wfth him into the &byes below.—
The sea closed nice them, and neither ever
emerged from the whirlpools
and hermitic caverna that yawned over them
and reel threatened the
gator
navi-
gator oo Cur shores of Mull.
Tea Ion os TAR Woo La. --To-day, to-
monow every day, to thousands, the end of
the world is et hand.
And why sboold we fear it ? We watt
hire as it were, to tit. crypts of lift at
times, frp4w the great cathedral shore os,
we hear 1ihe organ, the choir; we nee sit*
the lights enema through the capes door
sees frimed goes up before os; and we
shall fear to meant the marrow staircase Of
the gr.ve, that leads es eat of this utaest-
taie twilight tato the sores msuai.se elf
life eternal '
NUMBER IX.
RAILROADS.
Now that the excitement arising from
the late contest in dalton bar subeaded, and
the "clear gots" are exulting a their ie -
glorious triumph,—when all that can be said
on the subject of retrenchment, law reform,
reciprocity and free trade, has beeo repeal-
ed over and over again, --and wbco the at-
tention of government baa teen directed,
as fully a+ posatblu before the meeting of
Parliament, to the sentiments of the CODA -
try 00 the Clergy Ri serves asd Rectories:
it is high time that we should apply our-
selves to the consideration of measure. for
the internal improvement of the Province,
and which are calcula'ed to increase both
commercial and agricultural wealth and ac-
tivity. Canada bas too long allowed itself
to be torn by political diesen.iotee and in
flamed by political auinioailiee; her eoer-
gtes have been wattled in, what has proved
too frequently, barren strife, iustead of be-
ing directed to the prosecuuuo and accont-
p!iahmost of material 1 is tr
facilitating the eommenicatinn between its
di+tact sections. shortening the road to a
market, lessening the cost of transporting
its produce, and in short, ancreaetng alt.
bappines@ of the prsople, by rendering them
wealthier, and eurrouud,ng ahem with more
comforts. Possesaing within her all the
capabilities of supporting a numinous pops
tattoo, of supplying thein abundantly with
all the nese series, and many of the luaunee
of life,and of becoming ultimately powerful,
prosperous and happy e she exhales a
pictureby no means encouraging. of
capital mispapplacJ, and courts misdi-
rected. having secured a system of
government based oo liberal principles.
adapted to promote the welfare of the
governed; let us employ our utmost endea-
vors to develop the resources of our coun-
try, and we will not • need to blush at a
comparison with any state on the face of
the'jp lobe.
The importance of laying open the peein-
g:tia, bounded by Lakes Erfe,,St. Clair and
Huron, composed of a soil, inferior in fer-
tility to none in America, has for many
years impressed itself on the minds of all
who have turned their attention to the sub-
ject. Two companies were formed to con-
struct railroads from one extremity to the
other, the Berrie and Detroit River Cam -
patty, and the Great Western Company,
Vie former propoeing the line from Berate
to the Detroit River, the latter from Hamil-
ton to the fame place. Owtng-•to this rival-
ry neither bare succeeded in disposing of
their stock, it. being perfectly (Arlene that
both could not prosper. The
tenacity of the Hamilton Company has pre.
vented the other lino from being carried
through by American capitalists, who would
willingly have invested their money Man un-
dertaking, which, if without competitien,
would have given a remunerating profit, and
largely furthered American. rntereste.—
Through Cot. Prince's agency an agree-
ment was entered into between the two
Companies on condition of hu withdrawing
the B Il to incorporate the Bartle Company,
that if all the stock of the Great Western
war not subscribed before January, 1850, no
opposition wou:d be offered to a charter
after that time. It is now proposed that
the road from Berrie oho kl join the Great
Western line at Brantford.
This we conceive to be the best coarse.
The objections to Hamilton for a terminus
aro the fol'owing:—One of the principal
sources of the anticipated revenue of the
road is, the amo ant which will be received
for the conveyance of American travellers.
For three months in the year these could
not reach Hamilton, -the }lay being frozen,
and the long tract of country interveniog
between Buffalo and Hamilton being only
traveled by roads which for the same time
are almost impassible. That would serious-
ly affect the receipts •from this source.—
The cost of constructing the 26 miles from
!families to Brantford would be suhc'ent
'to snake 100 miles from London westward,
as it would be necessary to rico from the
level of Ontario to that of Br1e. The ex•
penditure of so targe an amount of money
at the very outset would tend to restrain
investments in an undertaking the prudence
of which would thus be rendered so ones-
tieable. If, to avoid another of the ob'
tions, it were proposed to connect Buffalo
with Hamilton, then the road would regime
to descend ,from the level of Erie to that cif
Ontario, thereby doubting the expense
without increasing the advantage.
Both of these obstacles are avoided by
tracing the tine in the shortest way frorn
Braatfurd to the Niagara frontiee,—the
American travel is secured, and the addi-
tional expense caused by Leaving and re-
gaining eke -level of Lake rie is Fayed.—
This roEtre
presents few diffcalties, and
these Ont of a very startling aspect.
As the whole line cannot be completed
at once, it s, a ;mint of some interest to
ascertain what part should be finished firer.
And here we do not think there can be two
opinions on :he subject. From Hamilton
to London there ie a gond road—macada-
mised or planked,—and if the tran.it is not
very speedy, it is at leant secure. The por-
tion west of London i., in bad weather,
almost impa.sible, while at the eame time
the construction of a rail -road would be leas
expensive than on any other section of the
line.—Fres press.
RRt1RBT TO PURIST WATrw —h is not
50 gee tally known as it ought to be, that
pounded alum pee es the property to gorily
water. A large table apoonfnl of eleven --
ed alum,sprnhled iron a hogshead of water
the water stirred round sr the tune, will
after the !spite of a few hoots. precipitating
to the bottom the impure particles, so puri
fy it that it will be found to pours. nearly
all the freshouas and clearness of the purest
epilog water. A mullet, containing four
gallons, may be purified by s single tea-
spoonful.
1.'ret iron fitments erected in North
AmmW eras by Governor Spnttiswood, it
re 1130. i. S cousty, Va.
The largest hotel in America hat jest
boon completed to Cineienati, at a coot of
11826,00e It will odg. 6sn parsons.
ARRIVAL or THE NIAGARA.
New You, &larch 23rd, ratio.
The steamer Nes/tura has arrived at
Halifax, with eat.. (rum Liverpool to the
9th. •
The E ireopt arrived at Liverponf on the
3rd nes
the Hermans •t Soothampion
on the 4th,
The political affairs of England present
little o(special interest.
FRANCE.
The anniversary of the Republic of the
,Moth of February passed off without dis-
turbance.
The Minister of Finance states that the
revenue will be adequate for the public are.
vice this year, without a new loan or in.
creased teres.
The Postmaster Genera? opens all letters
addressed to suspected persons. This con-
duct has given rise to a warm debate in the
Assembly.
It is said that Fraaee and Russia are
completely united upon the Greek question.
it is stated that the French fleet to the
Levant bad sailed for the Greek coast.
We learn from the French Budget, just
puhli.hed, that the army is to be reduced to
408,600 men, and that the expenses of the
patine are to be reduced 84,000,000 francs.
The conduct of Lord Palmeratoo, in con-
tinuing the Greek blockade, is severely
commented upon by all rte English jour-
nal., and were it not for a belief which ex-
ist., that his Lordship has made a demon-
atration against Ruda, his conduct would
meet with general
The Runiae Government has presented an
energetic remonstrance against the proceed-
inis of the English Government, and publ c
opioioa is general that, if necessary, the
Czar will give the Greeks sufficient support.
The Russian note to the Min:.fer at Lon-
don says, "You will demand of Lord Pal-
merston to what -extent he ioteade to em-
ploy force in support of his claims, in order
that the allies of King Otho may be in a
position to consider what mean' may be
necessary for them to adopt to guarantee
the i -. , of that March and his
veopte.
•
The London Gazette says that a Queen's
meueng"er passed through Malan es the
Meth ultimo, with orders to Sir William
Parker to cease hostifl.ties against Greece.
Her _Majesty baa autholized the publica-
tion of the following liberal rewardi for the
diecovery of Sir John Franklin, vis.: £20,-
000 to any one who will effectually relieve
the crews of the ships : £10,000 for the
relieving, or information that may lead to
the relief of any of the crews; and £10,000
to any one who shall Brat encceed is as-
certaining their fate.
Acdounts from the ' -. 'ng die-
.arictrfsre not satisfactory, and many of the
mills in Maneheeter mud other places are
working short time, and some stopped
altogether. It is not believed that this ie
more than a temporary arrangement.
LAST - NIGHT'S REPORT.
New YORE, March 23-7, P. M.
The Niagara arrived at Boston thio
morning.
INDIA.
The news from lade' ie not important.....
Commercially it is not eo favorable from,
Bombay se indicated by previous advice..
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
The result of the elections were not
known on Thursday.
The Government bac established a cen-
sorship an all foreign books.
' SWITZERLAND.
The menaces of the Swiss cantonments
have been renewed: but as France and
Austria interfered, nothirg serious is appre-
hended.
DENMARK ANO THE DUCHIES.
Tho report gains ground that the armis-
lice is to be prolonged. It is currently re-
ported that Denmark has concluded • pri-
vate treaty with Prussia, by which the lat.
ter is to have the island Rouholn for ire
port. it is said hostilities with 8cbleiewig
Hole tele will be renewed.
• TURKEY.
The Sttltsn proposee that the refugees
.hal) be sat to Asia Minor fora period not
exceeding one year. Koesnth and others
are to be removed accordingly.
NAPLES.
Fears are entertained at Naples that Ad-
miral Parker will pay bis respect* to ib:
Neapolitans as soon as he I the Greek
roast. Like (care are entertained at Madrid.
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
The Vienna jeurnels state that letetll-
genee has been received from Timmy:seefa,
the Russians were assembling is con-
sidirable military force st the defile of
Guerto, with the intention of sees occupy-
ing Traneylvanis, en as to allow Austrian
troops to pas through to Italy mid the
German frontier. Haynie has called out,?„
the national gourds of sorb large town. a.+
Freeburg, to make up new levies of IMAM'
traps. Many of the p.opla left home i.
, knnwieg that obey woold he
obliged to verve. A few pelletal pn.essre
have also *seeped.
Largo numbers of the Ilongeriae nitric***