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JSjy, £-?>viii£Sy7X?3ir H istorical A gency .—-We learn that the collection of documents about to be added to our arch-ievscrf State, will be large. In the English State paper office 8 clerks were constantly employed for two years in making the copies selected there. In Paris, four clerks were employed about the same period. Many thousand volumes of scarcely legible folios in manu script had to be read over by the Agent be* fore transcribing began, and these written in the ancient forms and with a by gone or thography. To give an idea of the character of the .French document, tvo wilT mention an ex- ample or two.—Col. Brodhead has a private correspondence. of the Secretary of the -French Governor of Canada, with the cele- •■’brated Madame De Maiutenon, the mistress and afterwards the wife of Louis 14th, in * which is given a particular account of the ’burning of Schenectady. It is well known '1hatr her influence was all powerful in the government, and that she in fact appointed the Ministry whenever she chose to exert her influence. We can well account for the desire of a young official in Canada, to maintain his ground by eaily information, with the highest authority in France. The agent has also Montcalm’s corres pondence with the French Minister of War during the whole time he was in America , and letters of deep interest from the Baron Dies skau, who was deputed by Sir Wm. John son. We do not know what such men as Mr Xawrence, of the Senate, may think of such documents. Possiby he might use then to light his pipe ; but the schlolars, the literary men and the historians of the coun try will hail their rescue from oblivion, and their arrival in this country, as creating an era of no small impertance in the American -world of letters.— IV. Y . True Sun. - i‘ 3tC--ffil07;asa' ,na»gg<iia:« S h o c k i n g C a s e . —The Baltimore papers ( G e n e v a C o l l e g e . —The commence- of yesterday contain the particulars of a meat of this institution took place on Aug. most distressing case of death by violence. 7th, at the Dutch Church. The Orations It seems that a young lady living with her were brief—MLthe main well written, and mariied sister was receiving the attention exhibited souiffl intellectual training. Af- of a young man very obnoxious to her sister ter the degrees were conferred, W.C. John- and brother-iu-law. Returning with him 1 son, of Utica, delivered an Oration, setting home one evening her lover and her sister’s forth his views as to the Revolution right of husband had a slight scuffle in the hall, aud |a people. The doctrine for which he con- the young lady left the house and staid all .tended implied a pointed censure upon the night with a neighbor. The next morning late revolutbnary movements in certain she returned to the house by the back way to get her smoothing irons and coal, which she had been using, and found her sister, wh<. immediately commenced an altercation and told her she should not have any of the coal. The other replied that she had bought a part of it and would take it; and n was stooping down to get it from the barrel when her sister seized the shovel and struck her twice on the bock of her head. She im mediately fell and was taken insensible into the neighbors house where she had passed the night—the lady hearing the noise and running in to see what was the matter. This was about two weeks ago ; and the poor girl, after lingering in great distrss, died on Thurs day night of last week. The names of the parties in this most lamentable transaction are withheld. A ttempt to K ill . — Mrs. Mitchell, wife of Mr. Mitchell of the Olympic Theatre, met a girl named Mary Woodcock, in Broad way, on Mohday of last week, aud pursu ing her into a cigar store, assaulted her with a dirk, inflicting several eevere.stabs in the neck. The cause of the assault is said to be the infidelity of the husband and his connection with the girl Woodcock.— This is lhe second assault which the exas perated and injured woman has made upon the person of the girl; the first having been made some months ago ; soon after which Mrs. Mitchell attempted to kill herself by taking poison. Mrs. Mitchell, according to d l accounts, has led a very unhappy life for one or two years past, and a report has been started that she is insaoe—but we do not believe it. We shall have something to say about the “ scenes the curtain” of our theatres, one of these days.— Sat. Emp A. L iving M onster . —One of the Phila delphia papers of yesterday contains a very lengthy account of a lusus natures now in that city. We suspect the whole thing to be “ clap trap.” It appears that a lady whose health has always been extremely good, has been delivered of a child which is one of the most remarkable specimens of a human mon ster ever known. It has been seen but once by the writer of the description. The ’head, in shape and dimensions, resembles more that of a large bull-frog, than any other quadruped or biped, being long and fiat, and covered with shott, thick, soft black down. The mouth when open, is sufficiently large enough to take in a small sized egg The tongue is forked, and vvheu fretting in the least, sticks out like that of a serpeut The eyes are of a reddish cast, and constant ly in motion, rolling from side to side. The throttleis enormous in size ; aud what would choke an ordinary child, this one swallows with ease and indifference. It is of the 'male gender, and in other respects resembles ordinary children, with the exception of one foot, which is as bread as long, and may be -considered as cloven. When out ot humor instead of crying naturally, it sets up the most piteous howl imaginable, and what is very remarkable, the child, he was informed •by the nurse, has never shed a tear. Its 'food is generally boiled milk sweetened with sugar—the mother not digning to sue kle it. Its appetite is always craving, and it swallows every thing given to it with avidity. It eats very readily a saucer of its usual food at a time. It has deeu pronounc ed by a scientific gentleman who examined it, as the greatest phenomena of and the greatest wonder of the age. A full and scientific account of it would ere this have been published, but it was prevented by the father, who was tenacious and immovable on the point. If the tale is true, the child -■will-of course be destroyed—such is the law we believe, and the custom. The manager of a museum wouid make a fortune by buy ing the monster, and putting it up for exhi bition.— AmericaniN. Y.)Republican, A F isii S tory , but a T rue O n e . —The clerk of the Lodi, a sterner plying between this and St. Martinsville, has furnished us with an account of a fishing frolic on board that boat, which rather caps the climax in the way of piscatory doings. It seems while the steamer was coming across Grand Lake, under full headway, the fish in question jumped directly' over the bow and landed in a large sugar kettle; but prefering a roast to a stew, by a violent flap he made his way out of the kettle, and hi struggles soon brought him immediately up to the boiler fires and among the negro firemen. The scene was one one of high and general excitement. The huge fi»h flapped and floundered, the fiightened dar kies either run or else delubored him with chunks or sticks of wood, while the passen gers came rushing from the cabin to witness hubbub (hey could not understand ; for amid the wild shouts and confusion some of them might have thought that the boat had snagged or that the boilers had ouisted But the fish was fiually killed, and on ex amination found to be the class called by the French grand ecailles, or big scales The entire length was 5 feet 5 inches; circumferenc round the middle, 3 feet 2 in parts of our Union, and the speaker main tained his tfie*;, the subject with much spirit. The Oration of Dr. Beck in the after noon, exhibited sound views, and was most favorably received.— Geneva Cour. T H E IU 2 C O K B . THURSDAY, AUGUST 29. 1844. The Sheriff of this county offers a reward of fifty dollars for the apprehension of Joseph M. Rounds, who broke Jail on the night of the 12th of August inst. ches ; length of head, one foot 5 inches weight, 83 lbs.— N . Orleans Picayune. S hip C a n a l across t h e I sth m u s of P anama . — I. S. Pickett, U. S. Charge d’Affairs at Lima, having examined the country, assumes that the only practicable route for uniting the two oceans, is the Isthmus cf Panama—that the route by way of Lake Nicaragua, presents great obstacles, the most formible of which is that cf an un healthy country where foreign laborers can not work, and where the sparse and indolent natives will not. Foreign laborers can be safely employed on the Panama Isthmus route, where there is much less danger from disease, and much less impediment from the rainy season than on the other route. Mr. P. estimates the cost of a ship canal for vessels drawing 20 feet, at thirty millions —that when the object to be accomplished for the commercial and civilized world is considered, this seems not a formidable sum, and should cheerfully bo met by the govern, raent of the U. States, and European powers, combining not for oppression, but to diffuse the blessings of civilization and universal peace. A lmost a T ragedy .—A young female lately abandoned her home in Baltimore, and on being found by her brother, said she had been ruined by a mariied man, and hence her conduct. The Baltimore Sun a d d s ; “ Upon this declaration, the alledgcd sedu cer was sent for, w ho, on entering the house was confronted with the girl, whereupon she immediately rejterated the charge ; and upon the instant her brother, stung to mad ness with the fact, and the presence of the man thus charged with her dishonor, drew a pistol, aud was inj.be act of presenting it to shoot him dowu, when Mr. ShiAt sprang between the parties, and seizing the pisiol, succeeded in disarming the young man.— The aliedged seducer was then permitted to withdraw, and the young giil, in compa ny with a woman of the house, conducted to the police office.” S moking A c c i d e n t .— About six o'clock on Tuesday evening an accident occured at M. Le wis &, Go’s lead manufactory, south- T hu C olumbian M agazine , for Septem ber has come to hard, with its usual variety of original and entertaining reading matter, and neatly executed engravings. It also contains three pages of music. One of the engravings (Gen. Scott and John Brant) is a striking illus tration of an e.^Xmler with two red men at Niagara, in Canada, after the battle at Quecnston. ?Have we any Commissioners of Highways in Starkey 1 If we have, I would call their ntten tion to the Bridge across Big Stream, south o Dundee, which has become unsafe to cross and has been so for some time, notwithstanding they have been acquainted with the fact some time. a CITIZEN. the garb of the Christian, and wrapped in the. robe of the righteous, is guilty of crimes un numbered and ruin unbounded. How many now sleep in the silent tomb—how many wi dows and orphans have been made forever wretched and miserable, on account of a drun ken husband and a drunken father, caused by slandering from them their good name—their character—their sacred honor? Could the thousands of his victims now mouldered, and now mouldering in the dtlst—could their spirits wander back upon earthy and relate the tale of their woe—the dark catalogue of the sufferer, and the damned in hell, would sicken the eye, and reverberate in the ears of the foul slande rer, that caused them their eternal incarcera. tion. In view of all these unworthy and demo niacal crimes, of which the slanderer has been so fairly proven guilty, what earthly tribunal will not admit our last accusation, and condemn him as being unfit for soaiety, and worse than the Devil himself? M. B. A. No E xtra S ession .— We have seen in some of the papers a rumor that an extra session of Congress is to be convened. As, however, the paper at Washington which is usually conside red the President’s organ, has heard of no such thing, and the other papers contradict it, we suspect there is no truth in the rumor. The regular session of Congress commences in about three months. It is a consolatory reflec tion, too, that the next session must be a short one, as the legal existence of the present Con gress terminates on the 4ih of March next.— U. S. Sat. Post. S ickness at the W e s t . —At all the settlements and plantations on the Mississip pi, above Vicksburg, says the Cincinati Atlas, great sickness and suffering prevail, the effect of the late overflow of water. The Narragansetf took on many sick persons on her last-trip, of whom four died on the passage. Many of the settlers lost every thing, and beg their passage up to a point on the Ohio, so that they can escape from the sickness and misery that surround (hem. We see it stated, though not in (he papers of that city, that from 90 to 130 per week are dying at St. Louis, from disease_caused by the unwholesome -condition of the river bottom and the uncommon state of the at mosphere in those parts. G eneral . J acson ’ s S word — Quite a sensation was created in Chestnut street, Philadelphia, on Saturday evening, by a gentleman sho/iviug Col. Page the sword of the late president. It was sent to be repair ed. west corner of Schuylkill, Eiighth aud Pine streets, by which William Williams, a labor er in a factory, lost his life. Williams was closing the window shutters, when unfor tunately, going too near an arm of the ma chine, he was dragged in and crushed in For the Dundee Record. ' THE SLANDERER—No. 1. “ Render honor to whom honor is due.”— This is the doctrine of St. Paul—a fragment o the Holy Bible. Such doctrines are preached every Sabbath in our churches, that all who run, if they will, may hear. The right way is laid before all who wish to travel, and the pen allies of disobedience, are thundered from eve- ry pulpit. Every thing is made plain, plain as a, b, c; yet the Slanderer, in his secret machi nations, imagines good an evil, truth falsehood, and intended to deceive and mar his best com fort, and therefore he hurls back the instruc tions of the church with all the fury imagina ble ; but like the javelin of aged Priam, they fall harmless at his feet, without a pang and without a stroke. The Slanderer not only abuses the minister of the Gospel—thereby, if it were possible, de throning Deity himself—but he also attacks all good and laudable efforts of the young, for education—“ he goeth about like a roaring ion seeking whom he may devour. In sheep’s slothing, he intrudes upon society at home; blit no sooner ar*--lais- deceived associates ac quainted with his diabolical custom of slander ing the innocent and virtuous, than they, hav ing lost all confidence in his pretensions, aban don him to his own folly, and seek friends and society where none intrude. This causes his malice to rage, and in the very bottom of his heart, it recoils upon himself, and in fits of im passioned hatred, he boils over with madness, and seeks to impart to all around his awful,, though wilful -hydrophobia. There ate many of these upstarts, scalawags and scapegoats of misery, who think that all beside themselves fools, and especially so if an honest man happens to differ with him on some important question of the day. Such egotisti cal- bigotry constitutes the character of the slandering blackguard. This transposition of meaning, in the slanderer's imagining himself great I, and all beside little you, reminds me of honest Imlach’s absence of mind. In his pray er one day, he said “ O Lord! bless all ranks and degrees of persons, from the King on the dunghill, to the beggar on the throne.” Then recollecting himself, he added, “ I mean from | the beggar on the throne, to tke king on the dunghill!” Again: The slanderer is a liar, the liar is a thief, the thief a robber, and all together, he is worse than the Devil! These several charges, at first, may seem to need some proof: but to the candid and liberal thinker, they are correct and logical deductions. For, the slanderer makes it his aim to misrepresent the character of his victim, and to deceive the public, and de ceiving is one species of lying, hence he lies, N ew Y ork C ity . —The following schedule shows the progress of population in the corn- Year. Population. 1697 4.302 1731 8,628 1756 10,381 1771 21,863 1786 23,614 179.) 33,131 1800 60,489 1810 96,373 1820 123,706 1830 203,007 1835 270,089 1840 312,719 We doubt if another instance is to be found on record, of so constant.and rapid an increase, for so long a period. In 1790, New York was not so large as Brooklyn is now. S a l e o f I ndian L ands .- —These sales, which have been going on for several days, have been well attended and good prices obtained, in many condemned betore his Honor Chjef Justice Lynch, on the lOih tilt., at South Sulphur Texas, for killing two men and one boy of the Delaware tribe of friendly Indians, They were executed, the next day, in the presence of a large number of persons. * jf o r e f g n N c tos. instances exceeding the appraised value. Al together, down to the closing of (he sales yes terday, property amounting to between $130,- 000 and 140,000 was disposed of. This is the largest sale of land at auction in this city, and the auctioneer, M. L. Faulkner, deserves much credit for the manner in which he discharged his duty. The greater part sold was farm lots, but several lots in the village that has been laid out in the vicinity of the Mission House were sold at very good prices, varying from $32 50 to upward of $100 an acre .—Buffalo Commercial o f Saturday. T e m p e r a n c e a n d T a x e s . —A striking exem plification of the relations which temperance bears to the pauperism ot the country, is shown n the experience of the State of Massachusetts during the last year. According to an estimate of Mr. Williams, the temperance agent, the pauper tax of Massachusetts amounted, a few years ago, to $200,000—eight-tenths of which was ascertained to be the result of ardent spi rits. Two years ago this tax was reduced to $136,000; and the last year it amounted to only $41,000. This great reduction is to be accounted for by the cheering fact that within these few years there have been thirty thousand drunkards reformed. Thus has the tempe rance movement, besides bringing life, health and hope to the lost, and comfort and happiness to thousands of homes, put thousands of dol lars into the pockets of the tax payers of that single State. Who can be an enemy to so use ful and excellent a work? Mr. W. also states that in the town of Wor cester, within three years, the number of in mates of the poor house has been reduced from 469 to 11, by the operation of the same cause —a reformation so stiikiugly and obviously beneficial, that the town voted, at its annual meeting, to contribute $500 a year to the trea sury of the Washingtonian Society. Money could not be better laid out.— N. Y. Evangelist ffr* The St. Louis New Era states that a Mormon has arrived in that city, who reports that Joe Smith has risen from the dead, and has-been seen in Carthage and Nauyoo, moun ted on a white horse, and with a drawn sword in his hand. He says that as Joe is thus re stored to life, every thing will go on prosper ously with the Mormons. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. The steamboat Portsmouth, Capf. Devoe, exploded her boilers this morning about eight o’clock, almost immediately after leaving the wharf at Arch street, Philadelphia, bound to! nitely decided upon Cape May, with upwards of 50 passengers on and is therefore a liar. The liar that slanders,, hoard. The second engineer, Edward Stevens, wishes to degrade, to destroy the reputation of of^ Tew York, and an elderly gentleman residing , . r . . , al New Castle, named Thomas Massey, were h.s fellow men, and to take in a low, mean, and dreadfully scalded, neither of whom can sur- clandestine way the honor due to his neighbor, vive. Isaac Ames, the first engineer, and Gil- the most dreadful manner.' But for the b rea-!t0 build up his own, just as a thief secretly con- bert Johnson, both of New York, the cook, ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA—FIFTEEN DAYS LATER. By the arrival of the steamship Acadia, at Boston, we have London and Liverpool dates to August 4th. The general complexion of the news indicates a cheerful aspect of affairs in England. The weather had continued fine, and the most sanguine expectations were reasona bly entertained of a speedy and abundant har vest. The manufacturing districts present a state of comfort and prosperity, greater than usual, even in prosperous times—money was abundant and likely to continue so. First class bills were negotiated at If and othets at 2 to 4 per cent. The accouchement of t.he Queen of England had not yet taken place. She is at Windsor Castle. PARLIAMENTARY. There is little of interest in the parliamenta ry proceedings. The difficulty at the Island of Tahite, had been brought up by questions in' both Lords and Commons. In both houses the Government answered through members of the ministry, that a gross outrnge had been com mitted on the British Consul, but that the proper representations had been made to tbe French Government, and that the outrage was not sanctioned by that power. The Roman Catholic Penal Acts Repeal Bill was read a third lime and passed in the House of Lords, Aug. 1. In relation to Ireland, Sir Robert Peel has announced that Government are resolved to adopt speedy and decisive measures forextend ing education, not only by increasing the ele mentary schools, but by enlarging th« existing means of academical instruction. The Ptemier declined to give any further indication of the intentions of Government, bat from his admis sion that the Coliege of Maynootb, is not ade quately supported, it is believed that the grant to that establishment next year will be mate rially increased. IRELAND. The Repeal Association continued its ses sions at “ Conciliation Hall.” For the week ending July 20, the “ rent” was £1,430, and for that ending July 27, £1,000. The proceed ings of the Repealers are said to be more cau tious. There is no farther news of Mr. O'Connell. On the “ Day of Humiliation,” appointed on account of his imprisonment, a great disap pointment was felt in many of the Catholic chapels, and in some of them great indignation. By interdict of the Most Rev. Mr. Murray, the Priests in his arch-diocess, were forbidden to read the form of prayerlor the health of O'Con nell aloud at the altar. Lord Heytesbury was duly installed as Vice roy of Ireland, under such circumstances as were calculated to make a pleasing effect upon him. The Assizes now proceeding in Ireland give token of a diminution of crime to a considera- extent. At the King’s Co. Assizes, Peter Dolan, a laborer, about thirty-five years of age, was ar raigned for the murder of Lord Norbury, on the 1st of January, 1839. The jury returned a ver dict of not guilty. Dolan and Gill, (the latter charged with the conspiracy) were then dis charged ; tbe charge against both resting on the same testimony. MISCELLANEOUS. The seizure of Tahiti by the French is ma king a great deal of noise in both the British and French Journals, and the hotspurs of both countries do not fail to talk as if war were in evitable—though none we are persuaded will occur from this cause, at any rate. It will be a good “ nut to crack” for Peel and Guizot.— The plain English of the matter seems to be that the French eommander has seized the Island—that Queen Pomare is on board an En glish ship of war, and that the British Consul, Mr. Pritchard, was imprisoned twenty one days, and only released, on conditions of leaving the Island. He had arrived at home. The rest of the grievances amount to mutual disagreeables taking place between the English and French residents and officers. All is undoubtedly healed and arranged at Tahiti, before this time. A coal mine, at the Beaufort Iron Works, at Abergavenny, recently ignited, and is now on fire to the extent of three miles. Many seri ous accidents have already been the c®nse- quence. Some of tbe Liverpool people are in ecsta sies with American ice, a cargo of which re cently arrived there from Boston. One of the inmates of the Metropolitan Bene fit Societies Asylum, at Ball’s pond, Dalston, has given birth to no fewer than thirty-two children. On one occasion she was confined with four, on two with three children at a birth, besides at other times having birth to twins..— She distances even the queen. A publican died in London tbe other day from inhaling the noxious effluvia arising from the spirits in bis cellar. The removal of the bndy of Weber from the chapel in Moorsfields has at length been defi- It is to be given over to king of otie of the straps he would have been torn to pieces. He survived only four hours. The head and body of the deceased presented a frightful spectacle. He has left a wife to mourn his loss — Phil. Gas. B rick M aking in A lba n y . —An old “ boss” biick maker, informs us, that there are fourteen millions of brick manufactured annually in Albany ! and that this immense quantity finds a ready home market—is “ used up” for building purposes in this city. This is an interesting fact, and gives a strong evidence of the improvement and growth ol Albany. Bricks sell at an average price of $3,50 per thousand — about $50,000 for 14,000,000.— Citizen. L ig h t n i n g . — A hand on board of a sloop which was struck by lightning near Hud son, a few days since, was coiling a chain It is a beautiful sabre, and the weapon cable neat the bowsprit at the time. Af- he wore al New. Orleans. ter the flash, he walked lo the stern, arid dropped senseless. By immediate applica- Edward C. Delevan, Esq. is building a tion of cold water and camphor, he was re- Temperance Hotel in Albany, expected to xuscitated, aud will probably recover. This cost $100,000. The Croton Hotel of New is believed to be the fitst instance on record Y o rk , has been enlarged by its enterprising of any time elapsing between the 6lroke proprietor. i and the effects of li-dpniu\ - •*’&/. Emp. veys the property of another, to enlarge his own stock ; hence he steals, and is therefore a thief. A thief that steals our character, robs us of the greatest of earthly blessings; aod plunders, as it were, without reserve or com passion : just as a highway robber, or the pi rate, having plundered a ship, sets her afloat, to be tossed upon the troubled sea, until she strikes the hidden rock, and then the crew—a miserable wreck—-are overwhelmed and perish beneath the raging billows of the ocean : hence he robs, and is therefore a robber. These crimes are greatly enhanced, when we consider that, the slanderer ipd us out of our character, steals our good name, and robs us of our grea test earthly comfort, our own dear and sacred honor. “ He that steals my purse, steals trash: but whoever robs me of my good name, takes that which neither enriches himself or any body else, but makes me poor indeed.” He stops not here. Would that he did, but all in vain. Strife succeeds strife, quarreling suc ceeds quarreling, blows succeed Jjlows, and blood and murder will seem**to follow until all mankiud are engaged in a general war of exter mination ! The slanderer, though clothed in 'were also badly scalded, but are not considered dangerous. Ames, when jfirst discovered, could scarcely be recognized, being, literally covered with ashes. Poor Stevens, in his agony, beg ged to be thrown overboard, which request of course was refused, when he instantly leaped into the water, but was finally saved, and now lies, with the rest of the sufferers, at the Penn sylvania Hospital. j None of the passengers, who were principal ly aft, received any injury as far a's I could learn. The explosion caused no report, but the calamity which had befallen the boat soon became known, and considerable consternation prevailed among the passengers, who were soon after relieved by the various ferry boats. The ill-fated Portsmouth floated down the river a short distance, after which she was conveyed to Kensington for the purpose of being repaired. The cause of the accident is attributed, I am informed, to a defect in the character of the iron forming the steam chimney. The Ports mouth formerly belonged to your city, and was brought here for the purpose of running to Cape May and Baltimore as an opposition boat. She has done a good business thus far, but this j accident 1 fear will prove her ruin. There was] no blame, I believe, lo be attributed to Cap tain Devoe. the charge of Weber’s eldest son, now in Eng- j land, and will bo transported to Hamburg, and from thence by the Elbe to Dresden. Notwithstanding the frequency of his defeats on the subject of Suoday travelling, Sir An drew Agnew is again about to bring it before the Edinburg and Glasgow Railway Company. He has addressed a circular to the more distant shareholders soliciting their proxies. The cities of Scotland are competing with each other in the excellent object of founding public baths. Dundee is to have this conve nience for the people. On the evening of the 22d ultimo, a most melancholy accident occurred al Blackfriar’s bridge, London, by the break'og down of the floating steamboat pier. Four persons were, after much difficulty, rescued, and, after the most careful attention on the part of Dr. Hutch inson, they were restored to their families and friends. Six bodies have since been picked up. E xecution of F our M en —Four men, Rhea, Mitchell, While and Jones, were tried and It appears that the sum of £12,000 and up wards, is yet required for the completion of the Nelson Monument, which the Lords of the Treasury have recommended parliament to | supply ; a vote of £8,000 being proposed to be taken for the expenses of the present year. Prince Albert has sent as a present to the Emperorof Russia, a beautiful Yorkshire horse valued at 600 guineas, a splendid Durham bull valued at £300, and a pure Liecester ram. The KiDg of the French is expected to visit England in September. lie will go to Wind sor, but not to London. A new steamer, called the Cambria, had been launched at Glasgow, for the Cunard Line. CONTINENTAL. There is little new from France. The pa-
