which the government ought to have paid more freely, BOSTON SCHOOLS. The annual visitation and examinathan it gave its immense gifts to Wellington, beyond tion of the schools took place at Boston on the 22nd ult. what he can enjoy or any man should rightfully possess. and were highly satisfactory. There are eight public But Mr. Crompton's fate was a common one-and schools, with from 550 to 600 scholars each, in which are will be the fate of others to the end of time, if engaged taught reading, writing, arithmetic and geography; and in like peaceful pursuits, except they assure themselves one public Latin school, with about 200 pupils; an Engof a monopoly of the fruits of whatever their ingenuity or lish high school, with from 120 to 150; a female high industry may supply or add to the stock of human know-school, with 130. Besides these there are fifty three ledge; and, if it is allowable to compare a great thing with a very small one, we have an example of it in ourselves. Sometime ago we received a most complimentary letter from an extensive and rapidly money-making manufacturer of cotton-he used expressions concerning us too flattering to be repeated, and warmly thanked us for having powerfully assisted in building up that policy which had saved him from absolute ruin-adding, that his business afforded a fair and reasonable profit on the capital invested; and concluded by observing that he read the REGIS-tants in 1820 and 58,277 in 1825, and is supposed at preTER every week, having the loan of the copy sent to one of his neighbors. primary schools, for children between the age of 4 and 7 years, kept by females, with from 2,800 to 3,000 pupils. The whole number in the public schools is about 7,500; and there are 141 private schools, 119 of which are under charge of females. The whole expense is estimated at $150,000-of which 54,500 are for the public schools. by actual enumeration, the city contained 43,294 inhabiBoston appears to be rapidly increasing in population her share of foreign commerce is maintained or insent to have 63,500; and is also advancing in wealthbecause that this city is the focus of numerous manufaccreased, and her domestic trade is powerfully enlarging, turing establishments located around it. NEW YORK. There are four monthly lines of packets from New York to Liverpool-one to London, three to Havre, and regular lines to every principal port of the United States. It has been well supposed, that a large part of the increased commerce and navigation of New York has been caused by these establishments. We must feel these things. We do not exactly print for pay, but without pay it is certain that we could not print, no more than the lawyer plead for the preservation of property, the doctor prescribe for the healing of the sick, or the parson make it a business to prepare us for the world to come. And in this matter we are compelled to say, and we say it "more in sorrow than in anger," that, though we think that we could not be bought into the support of measures which our judgment did not approve, we have not been sustained as we ought by those whose interests are, (in the first place), most advanced by the successful establishment of those principles which NEW JERSEY. A convention of delegates from nine we have believed indispensably necessary to the well-be- out of the fourteen counties of this state has been held ing of our country, and for which we have so long and zea- at Trenton, Lewis Condict, president, at which resolulously contended. And we will go further and make tions were passed recommending that the legislature, at known an old and established opinion, that our perso- its next session, should pass a law authorizing an election nal interest would have been much better promoted in the in the several counties of this state, for delegates to meet preservation of a cold silence as to those principles-per- in convention for the purpose of preparing such a revihaps, have been yet more increased by opposing them.sion, and proposing such amendments to the constitution The few warm-hearted and considerate friends, who of this state, as they may think proper for the considerahave felt themselves called upon to help us because of tion of the people. our endeavors to help them, will not be offended by these remarks-they will only regret the existence of causes The reasons which induced the proceeding are set why they should be made, and exert themselves more forth in certain resolutions, and especially because "that in our behalf; and we have long needed their assistance, in the opinion of this convention, the existing constifor there has been a constant pressure against us for ten tution is greatly defective in its provisions, and destiyears past, and it still continues, We have not, nor tute of some of those guards and checks so necessary to reever had, so many subscribers to the REGISTER in some strain every branch of a government within its appropriate of the states, as there are millions of dollars vested in limits-too indefinite in its terms-anti-republican in those branches of industry for the advancement of which some of its features, particularly as regards the qualificawe have labored so faithfully-and with some success too, tions of members of the legislature and of electors, and if we deserve an hundreth part of the voluntary praise the style of commissions; that it injudiciously commingles which has been bestowed upon us. But here we shall stop. the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of goOur wishes are moderate, and it is time that we were "com-vernment, without defining and limiting the powers of fortable." A little attention on the part of our subscribers each, and does not sufficiently guard and protect the unawill make us so and a small degree of zeal to add to lienable rights of the citizen against the encroachments of our circulation will enable us more and more to make either." this work useful. It would be unjust, however, not to observe, that, for a year or two past, the current in favor has been stronger than the current against us, and that we have gained considerably; and that the present receipt of one fourth part of what is outstanding, would be of grateful and essential service just now-and relieve us of all difficulties which beset us. FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS. We learn from the Boston papers, that a translation of the valuable and interesting Spanish document, relating to the first voyage of Columbus, is in progress in that city, and that the printing of the work has commenced. The originals of these documents were discovered in 1789, among the archives of the duke del Infantado. They were not published until a year or two since when they were given to the public by order of the present king of Spain. The manuscript is said to be in the hand writing of Las Casas, and to be an abstract of the original journal of Columbus, made by this author while compiling his history of the Indies. It is in the form of a diary at sea, and is probably more interesting from not being elaborated. Its authenticity is said to be unquestionable. LEGAL FORMS. A young man and his father presented themselves one day at a notary's office to sign a contract. The clerk first addressed the son.-'Sir, are you twentyone?' 'Here, sir,' answered the young man is the certificate of my birth,' Very well: and you, sir,' (turning to the father), are you twenty-one? That is a pretty question,' said the father, 'do you think I am not at least as old as my own son? That is no answer,' said the notary, you must produce your certificate.' 11 5 0 3 89 [Some have extended the calculation in favor of Mr. Adams by regarding Virginia as doubtful, or claim Missouri for him.] At the next election the vote may be estimated thus: Certain for Certain for Maine, Jackson. 0 New Hampshire, O Massachusetts, Adams. 9 8 15 4 51 Doubtful. [The 71 doubtful votes are thus cast last below-18 of them for Jackson in New York, 2 in Maryland and 4 in Kentucky-so that the general is made to have 163 votes, Mr. Adams 74, and New Jersey and Ohio still doubtful, 24-in all 261.] COTTON. We have a letter shewing the imports at London, Liverpool and Glasgow for the last six months of the present year. The total is 486,026-giving an increase, as compared with the same months of last year, of 164,214 bags. Of the whole quantity 372,902 bags were from the United States, 50,000 Brazil, 38,000 East India, 9,000 Demarara, &c. 7,000 West India, 18,000 Mediterranean. COUNTERFEITS. A very large amount of well executed counterfeits, purporting to be 100 and 20 dollar notes of the bank of the United States, are in extensive circulation-apparently being simultaneously placed in the hands of confederates in various states, that large parcels might be passed off before the detection and exposure of them. One fellow lately in Virginia, paid $1,400 for some negroes wholly in them; but the blacks were recovered, and the pursuit became hot after the forger, and he was caught in Fredericksburg, with a great quantity of counterfeits on the bank of the United States and Farmers' Bank (of Virginia) in his possession. It would be well for all persons to refuse 20 and 100 dollars of the bank of the United States, for the present, except of those who are well known to them.-The bank will speedily supply a new circulation of them, and do all that it can to prevent injury to honest persons. STRANGE LOCATION. Notice is given that application will be made to the legislature for the "ninth ward bank" to be located near the state prison, New York. We hope that none of the presidents or managers of this bank will take a step nearer that place, in wha, or its like, hundreds of "rag barons" ought to have been taught humility, by being chained to the floor of a dungeon-deep and dark as their own rogueries. GREECE. It is suggested that some difficulties will arise among the great European powers, because of an interference on behalf of the Greeks, from their extreme jealousy of one another. Austria, it is said, will prove restive. But can Russia, France and Great Britain act together, though they have seemingly agreed to do so "in the name of the holy and undivided trinity?"-So, if we recollect rightly, was the treaty headed for the "pacification," alias partition and annihilation of Poland, to the trinity of Russia, Austria and Prussia. We have but little faith in these compacts, having none in kings-beyond what is manifestly their interest, or imposed by circumstances, to which even they must submit. And farther, the present treaty is strangely published, the "secret article" especially, and vague in its terms-We know not what to make of it. We are forced, however, to apprehend that the Greeks must be benefitted by any actual movement in their behalf. The Turk is master almost every where, except in the islands, and the Arab cuts throats for his morning amusement or evening's sport, whilst women are violated and old men and infants speared, that the infidel laugh may be raised at their writhings. The Edinburg "Scotchman," speaking of Greece says: The Turks are entire masters of Attica, and all northern Greece, while Ibrahim marches uncontrolled over every part of the Morea. Missolonghi, Modon, Tripolizza, Malvosia, Salona, Athens, have been successively re-conquered; and of all the fruits which the Greeks acquired by the battles and victories of their six years' contest, nothing remains but Napoli and the castle of Corinth. They have not elsewhere in continental Greece a foot of land which they can call their own. What is still worse, they have lost the confidence which insures victory; and their enemies have gained an ascendancy of which it will be no easy task to deprive them. The main cause of this change in the circumstances of the belligerent parties obviously is that the Turks have improved the constitution of their armies by adopting the discip line of western Europe, while the Greeks resist all military reforms, and continue to make war in their primitive barbarous fashion. We are unwilling to despair of so good a canse, but we cannot shut our eyes to the fact, that the resources of the Greeks, for making head against their enemies, are nearly at an end. We do not see how their affairs are to be retrieved by any exploits lord Cochrane may perform at sea; or indeed how any thing short of the forcible and immediate interference of the great Christian powers can save them from being utterly crushed. It there was but one state in the world, whose rulers had the good of mankind cordially at heart, the extinction of the Greeks as a nation could not be suffered to take place. The American democracy, the only government systematically amenable to the moral feelings of mankind, is yet but in its infancy. If it counted fifty millions of citizens at this moment, as it will do within sixty or seventy years, the Turks would not be permitted to trample on a christian nation, the descendants of a people to whom the world owes more than to any other that ever existed. executed for the duke of Bridgewater. It is about 2,880 yards in length, and some parts cut out of the solid rock. The canal is 93 miles in length, and there are four other tunnels-131, 350, 573, and 1,241 yards. The London "Courier," on the treaty, says"Appended to the copy of the treaty above referred to, "we find an additional and secret article. We can have no means of knowing whether this be or be not correct; For how can we suppose it possible that any thing so dis- The Worcester and Birmingham canal, of 29 miles in creditable can have been committed, as to have betrayed length, has five tunnels; one of 2,700 yards long, 18 feet the conditions of an article avowedly secret, and the prac-high, and 18 1-2 feet wide; and four others-110, 120, tical application of which is made to depend upon cou-400, and 500 yards long. Eingencies which may never arise? If, however, it should prove that so gross a breach of confidence has taken place, we are satisfied it will lead to a strict inquiry in the proper quarter, that the party who has thus dishonorably abused his trust, may be visited with its appropriate consequences. BRITISH BREWERIES. A late London paper saysAccording to a recent parliamentary return, there were, on the 5th of April last, in Scotland and Wales, 1,772 brewers, 900 retail brewers, 12 intermediate brewers, and 65,733 licensed victuallers, of whom 23,197 brew their own beer. The number of barrels brewed in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the 5th January to the 5th of April, 1827, was-by public brewers 1,177,127 of strong beer, 254,495 of table; by licensed victuallers, 627,715 strong, and 134,614 table; and by intermediate brewers, 2,189,000; of this quantity, 561,907 barrels of strong beer, and 68,464 barrels of table beer were brewed in London, or within the limits of the chief office of excise. The number of bushels of malt used by brewers and victuallers in England, Scotland and Ireland, during the year ending April 25, 1827, was 22,851,615. The number of bushels of malt used in the distilleries in the same period, was 3,586,273 1-2, of which 2,322,564 1-2 were from Scotland. "FREAKS OF FORTUNE. Near Pontenovo, in the island of Corsica, lives a shepherdess, who successively refused the hands of Angereau and Bernadotte. The former was her suitor while he was a corporal, and the latter while a sergeant in Corsica. She little thought at the time, that she was refusing a marshal of France and a King of Sweden. The Leeds and Liverpool canal has two tunnels, one of which is 1,550 yards. The Leicestershire and Northampton canal has four tunnels, of 275, 880, 990, and 1,056 yards. The Leominster canal has two tunnels, of 1,250 and 3,850 yards. The Thames and Severn canal has one tunnel of 4,300 yards, or 2 miles and 3-8ths. The Chesterfield canal has two tunnels, one of which is 2,850 yards in length. The Crumford canal has one tunnel of 2,966 yards, and several smaller. The Dudley and Owen canal has three tunnels of 623, 2,926, and 3,776 yards, or about 4 miles. The Ellesmere canal has two tunnels, of 487 and 775 yards. The Hereford and Gloucester canal, of 35 1-2 miles, has three, of 440, 1,320, and 2,192 yards. The Edgebarton canal has four tunnels, of 100, 400, 500, and 2,700 yards. The old Birmingham canal has two tunnels, one of a mile and a quarter, the other 1,000 yards. The Grand Union canal has two tunnels, 1,165 and 1,524 yards. The Grand Junction canal has two tunnels, 5,045 and 3,080 yards. The Oxford canal has two tunnels, one of them 1,188 yards. The Huddersfield canal, of only 19 1-2 miles long with a lockage of 770 feet, has a tunnel of three miles and 1,540 yards, through a rocky mountain. PERSIAN MAXIMS-from a work entitled "Sketches of Persia." golden crown having five sides, which was found in the The following admirable lines were inscribed upon a tomb of Noosherwan. First side. "Consider the end before you begin, and before you advance provide a retreat. Give not unnecessary pain to any man, but study the Ground not your dignity upon your power to hurt others." Second side. "Take council before you commence any measure, and never trust its execution to the inexperienced. Sacrifice your property for your life, and your life for your religion. FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN JAMAICA. In the British house of lords, June 29, lord Harrowby said, he had a petition to present to the house, which deserved attention, on account of the number of persons signing it, its nature, and the respectful language in which it was drawn. The petitioners represented nearly 30,000 persons, possessing property of not less than three millions sterling; and there were four individuals whose proper-happiness of all. ty amounted £700,000. They also possessed 50,000 slaves. The petitioners complained that they were precluded from every public office-could not sit in the assembly, and could not even hold the office of constable. Even in the attendance of divine worship there was a complete separation; the effect of their degradation had, however, been less than could be conceived, for in fifty years not more than four persons of color had been executed. The noble lord hoped that by some abler hand a bill might be introduced to relieve this respectable class of persons from this state of unmerited degradation. The petition was then read, and appeared to be from the free people of color in Jamaica, and prayed generally for relief. Lord Ellenborough observed, that he had presentèd a petition on this subject in the last session. He unMake not yourself the captive of women." derstood that the lower class of these people were so Fourth side. "Take not a wife from a bad family, and much degraded, as to be precluded from the enjoyment scat not thyself with those who have no shame. of civil liberty. The difficulty would be to ascertain Keep thyself at a distance from those who are incorriwhen the line should be drawn; it was clear that some-gible in bad habits, and hold no intercourse with that man thing ought to be done. The petition was laid on the table. A GORMANDIZER. The keeper of the Stutgard menagerie has been guilty of a very singular offence. He killed one of the two lions under his charge, and actually salted it, intending to gratify his palate with an unheard of repast. The discovery was not made until he had eaten about one half of the noble animal. The sovereign court of Stutgard has condemned him to five years imprisonment, and a fine of three thousand francs. FUNNELS IN ENGLAND. The first tunnel ever constructed in England, was on the Trent and Morsey canal. Spend your time in establishing a good name, and if you desire fortune, learn contentment." Third side. "Grieve not for that which is broken, stolen, burnt or lost. Never give order in another man's house, accustom yourself to eat your bread at your own table. who is insensible to kindness. Covert not the goods of others. Be guarded with monarchs, for they are like fire, * which blazeth but destroyeth. Be sensible to your own value, estimate justly the worth of others: and war not with those who are far above thee in fortune." Fifth side. "Fear kings, women and poets. Be envious of no man, and avoid being out of temper, or thy life will pass in misery Respect and protect the females of thy family. Be not the slave of anger and in thy contests always leave open the door of conciliation. Never let your expenses exceed your income. NEWS Plant a young tree or you cannot expect to cut down an old one. Stretch your legs no farther than the size of your carpet." A PALPABLE HIT. Extract of a letter from a Virginian to the editors of the National Intelligencer. "I happened to be in Richmond the day on which the pirates were hung, and in an attempt to attain their bodies, for galvanic experiments, &c., a very ludicrous evidence was given of the mania prevailing about state rights. Doctor of the spot the ship Blossom was to have tonched, where he remained nine days, in consequence of a fog. Ite saw nothing which indicated an obstruction to the navi gation; for as far as he could see at any time, an open sea was to be seen. One very singular circumstance was mentioned by him. In January last, when the thermometer was 54 degrees below zero, "the weather was more comfortable," than when it ascended to 12, for in the latter case the clothing was burdensome. [V. F. Com. Ad. [OFFICIAL] Department of state, 29th August, 1827. The following official notification of the blockade of Alnow published by giers, was made to the minister of the United States at Paris, on the 27th of June, last, and authority of this department: most Christian majesty, to Mr. Brown, envoy extraor dinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to France. [TRANSLATION.] who had prepared the galvanic battery, was unapprised that the act of congress, relative to criminals, authorized the court in certain cases to consign the bodies for dissection; he, of course, omitted to make the necessary application for the pirates. But, on the day of execution, finding that the marshal had no authority to permit the bodies to be taken from the gallows be-The baron de Damas, minister of foreign affairs of his fore interment, the doctor was advised to apply to the governor for permission to take them. He concluded to do so, and, knowing that there was some difficulty in the case, deemed it advisable to approach his excellency delicately, and, if practicable, get him mounted on his hobby. Sin: I had the honor of announcing to you, on the 7th To that end the doctor broached the subject of state rights of this mouth, the departure of a naval division, which and suggested a doubt whether the authority of the federal the king had thought necessary to send to Algiers, in order court extended to the right of burying. The governor to demand satisfaction for the wrongs of which the dey caught at the idea, and, without hesitation, told the doctor had been guilty towards France. This reparation not there was no doubt in his mind but that, without permis having been made, the commandant of his majesty's squadsion of the state authority, the marshal, acting under theron, in conformity with his orders, effected the blockade authority of the union, had no right to turn an inch of the of Algiers, which was to commence on the 13th of this soil; he therefore saw no difficulty in the doctor's taking month. I have the honor of informing you, sir, of this possession of the bodies the moment they were cut from proceeding, in consequence of which, all the measures the gallows. This the doctor felt as sufficient authority, authorized by the law of nations will be adopted, and put in and proceeded to the place of execution." execution with regard to neutral vessels that may attempt I pray you to have the goodness to violate the blockade. to make your government acquainted with this communication. I have the honor to be, sir, with high consideration, The BARON DE DAMAS. your very humble, and obedient servant. EMIGRANTS. From the Georgia Journal. It will be seen by the following extract of a letter from the Ameriean consul at Rotterdam to gov. Troup, that the services of Germans of honesty, sobriety and industry, can be had on good terms for any purposes of agriculture, manufactures, or internal improvement. Men of capital might make them useful and profitable in either of those departments of industry in different sections of our country, and their manners, habits and character qualifying them for free government. They and their posterity would become valuable members of our community, as Paris, 27th June, 1827, FOREIGN NEWS. GREAT BRITIAN AND IRELAND. Sir Astley Cooper attended lord Liverpool professionthey have proven themselves in other states of the union.ally, on the 9th July, and coincided with the opinion for UNITED STATES CONSULATE, of the spasmodic seizure.' The duke of Wellington is hissed by the populace, but was cheered at a review of the grenadier guards. The late arrangement of the British ministry was temporary-made up on the hurry of the occasion. The New Times gives the following as the complete arrangement. merly expressed by his attending physicians, that his attack was altogether of a spasmodic character. His lordSIR-I had the honor of addressing your excellency on the 17th inst. inclosing therewith copies of letters receiv- ship had not been removed from the library, where he ed from a most respectable gentleman residing in the was first seized with illness. A bulletin of the 10th, kingdom of Wirtemburg, and expressive of the pre-stated that he was 'slowly recovering from the effects vailing distress raging amongst its subjects, and that in order to maintain tranquility, and the internal peace of the government, passports were readily granted them for their emigration to any foreign country, provided they make known their intention thereto in their respective districts-And as the German character is well known for industry, sobriety and honesty, thus I beg leave to recommend the subject to your excellency's notice and further support, inasmuch as those who wish to go to Georgia, will ultimately become set lers and anacquisition to our state-Many of them, unfortunately, have not the means of paying their passage over to the United States. To any who would advance these they would engage their services and time, say for two years-The expenses of the Germans bound from this for any port in the United States, are estimated at about $40 per person, including their sea-stores. This amount was paid for all those, shipped last year for Baltimore. I have the honor to remain, your excellency's most reE. WAMBERSIE. spectful and obedient servant, CAPT. FRANKLIN. A letter dated Montreal, Aug. 24, and published in the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser says"In my letter of Wednesday, I mentioned that the celebrated captain Franklin had arrived near the city. He came in at an early hour yesterday morning, and proeeeded immediately to the United States. He looks well, and I understand that he has generally enjoyed good health. It is stated that he travelled from MacKenzie's river to the ley Cape, and was within 250 miles His grace the duke of Portland resigns the office of privy seal, but retains his seat in the cabinet. There are several precedents for this proceeding. It will be sufiieient to name a recent one; that of lord Sidmouth. Lord Carlisle leaves the woods and forests, and succeeds the duke of Portland as lord privy seal. Mr. Sturges Bourne succeeds lord Carlisle as first commissioner of woods and forests, keeping his seat in the cabinet. The Marquis of Lansdowne succeeds Mr. Sturges Bourne as secretary of state for the home department. Viscounts Dudley and Ward remain at the foreign office, and, consequently Mr. Canning continues first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer. Mr. Spring Rice, it is said, will replace Mr. Spencer Perceval as one of the under secretaries of state at the home office. There will be no immediate change in the vice regal government of Ireland. The marquis of Wellesley, it is understood, remains at the castle till the end of the year, when, in all probability, he will be succeeded by the marquis of Anglesea. FRANCE. The fifty-first anniversary of the independence of the United States of America, was celebrated by the Americans now in Paris, on Wednesday, at the Cadran Blue, Boulevard du Temple. Mr. Barnet, the American consul at Paris, presided, assisted by Mr. Cooper as vice president. Among the guests present, were James Brown, minister of the United States at the court of France, gen. Lafayette and his son. The company to the number of 80 sat down to dinner at six o'clock. The American and French banners decorated the room. The Paris editors compare their situation to that of the Chinese who are audacious enough to intermeddle in the affairs of government-the latter are pretty sure of getting a sound beating for every breach of privilege, Sometimes to the extent of 200 blows; and the former are liable to a punishment little less terrible. Accounts from Marseilles state, that an attempt was made by the custom house of that place, to prevent the embarkation of train artillery, destined for the Greeks, upon which remonstrances were sent to Paris. By telegraphic orders returned, the armament was allowed to be despatched. The Algerines have taken several French merchant ships. Several English officers at Gibraltar gave it as their opinion, that if the French squadron should attempt to take the Mole they would fail, inasmuch as it had been rendered almost impregnable since lord Exmouths' attack. TURKEY. The great powers have interfered between the Turks and the poor Greeks-see a subsequent page; and an article dated at Nuremberg, July 7, says "M. de Tatitscheff has addressed a peremptory note to M. Metternich, informing him that a further delay, to the end of July, would be allowed the porte to receive its final auswer, in consequence of new representations from the Austrian internuncio. But that if, at that time, the efforts before the divan should be unsuccessful, the Russian army should positively pass the Pruth. The French consular agent at Cisme (opposite the island of Scio) with two Austrian and one Russian subjeet, were assailed in their respective houses, on the 26th May, seized and carried before the bashaw; by whose order they were put in Dumbrack, a horrid Turkish prison, and loaded with irons. The application of the Austrian vice consul was treated with contempt, in consequence of which he left the island for Smyrna. The ferocious barbarity of Ibrahim Pacha is well known. The following instance is one out of many that might be produced, if proof of it were wanting: In the course of May, about 400 Turks approached a small village named Candelos, whither a hundred Greek families had retired, conceiving themselves in safety. After a short resistance, finding that gunpowder failed them, the Greeks fled and found refuge in a small church. The priest, on seeing the barbarians approach, placed himself at the door with a crucifix in his hand. The Turks trampled underfoot the sacred symbol, massacred all the persons in the church, and cutting off the priest's nose and ears, sent him to Poros, to render an account of it to his brethren. RUSSIA. who have not ceased to consider themselves and me as bound together by a patriotic tie." From the comments in the French papers upon this election, we find that the opponent of La Fayette was a liberal-whom, desparing of obtaming any support for one of their own party, the ministry had induced to stand. We have received from a correspondent, a curious document as to the details of the election. We annex a translation of it. [From the Journal du Commerce of July 1.] The dissolution of the national guards was an epoch: the election of M. de La Fayette is another. We will not say that the citizens have taken their revenge in the latter circumstance because M. de La Fayette is not one of those men who would be alone chosen to bully or threaten the administration. The constant moderation and the disinterestedness of the illustrious deputy, his public life so invariable, his private life so pure, assures to him at all times the suffrages of such electors as are neither corrupted by the administration, nor intimidated by their menaces. But we must say, that of all Frenchmen, it is he, the obliteration of whose name from the electoral list, the ministry have most at heart: because his name alone carries with it a declaration of war against all the passions and all the prejudices of the court, which the ministers are interested in managing. The name of M. de La Fayette, is in our opinion the most pure expression of whatever was good and laudable in the French revolution. His election, then, is a solemn declaration in favor of the legiti mate principles of that revolution, which are those of the charter-against the unworthy and disloyal interpretations given to it by the ministers within the last seven years. The success of the new deputy, classed as he is in the ranks of the liberal opposition, cannot but exhibit the extreme disaffection of the citizens towards his competitor. May we not be permitted to hope, that such a choice will enlighten the sovereign in regard to the administration of his ministers? Can he be longer in error as to the true situation of the country? They have given, say they, a lesson to France in the dissolution of the National Guards of Paris: See, then, how the lesson has profitted the people; how France has been intimated! Great bodies cannot long remain stationary. When a backward movement is prevented, in their turn they must advance.— The retrograde movement forced upon the population since 1820, has been stayed. A contrary movement has succeeded to it, which makes rapid inroads upon the feeble barriers that have been opposed to it. The evil counsellors of the throne have imagined that they were performing miracles in decimating the electoral population. By the influence of frauds, of corruption and violences, they have brought together a majority entirely foreign to the sentiments of France, as well as entnely opposed to her interests. They have imagined that France is powerless, and that they might at their ease, found a new monarchy, having for its basis a congregation of church-wardens. These men have not doubted that a new generation would enter upon public life, overthrowing with the energy of their age, the principles and affections formed A letter of the 24th ult. from Odessa mentions, that under the happy influence of the government of the charpeace is about to be concluded between Persia and Rus-ter. This generation of young electors will be recruited sia, the former power ceding to the latter all the terri- each year. Their voices, which were stifled in 1824, at tory as far as the Araxes, including the fortress of Eri-length begin to be heard in the five electoral colleges: In van. The annual revenue of this tract of country, in silks one or two years they will predominate-they will have alone, is computed at fifty millions of franes. This in- silenced the feeble voice of the generation who would antelligence, whether true or false, created joy at Odessa, nihilate them. and decisive military engagements are said to have preceded the conclusion of peace. LA FAYETTE. The election of gen. Lafayette to the French chamber of deputies, is another tribute to the excellence and force of that distinguished individual's character. A letter from him of the 20th June, says: "I had resolved not to stir from my rural retirement, unless some emergency commanded the services of every patriot; but I have found myself diverted from my purpose by the death of a gentleman who had succeeded me in the deputation from the arrondissement of Meaux; and by the kind and earnest application of the electors, This is the natural course of things. But it should be remembered that the administration has singularly reduced itself by its continual attacks upon the national sentiments. The sepieniality which is announced with the intention to re-establish the reign of good pleasure, far from augmenting the degree of their power, has resuscitated former obstacles, in raising up defiance and in reviving jealousy of their supposed intentions. The septennial system is a menace against the nation. That menace will be powerless. But France will not forget it. In the dispute between the country and the ministry, the sovereign has been constantly respected. When the administration has served the interests of France-and it would be impossible that this should not |