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THE NEW "HOLY" ALLIANCE. WHAT is the price which the ministry has consented to pay for O'Connell's support? He is too shrewd a judge of the value of his votes and influence to let them go cheap. The cry of Conciliation-strongest, and premiers are not false to their own hall now is, that there never was so good a government for Ireland as the present, that it must be supported, that cheers for repeal are to give way to cheers for Russell. This altered tone must have been bought at a high price.

The priests are with Mr. O'Connell to a man. They are in the secret of the promises he has received, and of his hopes of their fulfilment. Are we to suppose the priesthood so very independent as to join in a shout to swell whig popularity without sure expectation of commensurate advantage to themselves?

there are twenty in favor of paying all. Everybody good subjects of them. Catholic ascendancy is the thinks it good policy to pay the priests and make cherished purpose of Conciliation-hall. It will be done when O'Connell wishes it; for he is the convictions when their interest coincides with them. "O, but the Catholics will not take the pay!' It is amazing what some heads are fitted to believe, and some tongues to say. Did not the welkin of the whole world ring with a shout of Catholic joy when the state undertook to provide for the education of the priesthood in Ireland? rejoiced over the maintenance of the students reject Will they who the maintenance of the priests of Maynooth? Catholic ascendancy in Ireland is the Catholic notion of justice. In the teeth of all his loud professions of voluntaryism, now silent, Mr. O'Connell, in a memThere are two objects dear alike to Romish am-orable speech in the beginning of last year, made bition and to whig desire. They are, the destruc- his last declaration on this subject; which was, tion of the Protestant establishment in Ireland, and that as Presbyterianism was the established religion the endowment of the Romish church. The pre- of Scotland, and Episcopacy of England, Catholimier makes no secret of his own wishes, but seeks cism ought to be the established religion of Ireland. p disarm vigilance by avowing he has no thought Only imagine the Vatican spurning state pay! As f carrying them into effect. He is waiting for the much of state pay and as little of state control as ext election. Some members of the liberal party, very few it as much as they can get, with as little of it as pospossible is the object of the Irish priesthood. Gold must be confessed, honestly opposed to the endow-sible in the shape of chains, is the object of the ment of popery, have taken alarm at the near pros-priests."

pect of that measure being brought forward with This able extract states the question with perfect the whole weight of government support. Mr. fairness. The Protestant church will be reduced, Robertson, a writer, we believe, in the "West- and the Romish church endowed, the instant Lord minster Review," has just issued a pamphlet, ex-John Russell can securely count on his parliamentpressing his conviction that the endowment of the ary majority. Church of Rome is already a settled question in the cabinet. His language is clear and logical:

"Lord John Russell avows himself, like a man of honor, favorable to the reduction of the Protestant, and the endowment of the Catholic, Church of Ireland. This is the view entertained by nearly everybody who voted for the Maynooth endowments. Never was there a ministry so favorable to Roman Catholics. Mr. Macaulay will discover the slip in logic he made use of to secure his election. Cogency will come to him, and he will show, without an error in mood or figure, how maintenance is a necessary sequence of preparation for the priestly office. All his colleagues think so. Every sound head must regard the position Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Gibson Craig, and Mr. Fox Maule take as uniquely preposterous. On another occasion we may show how completely and conscientiously the whole Russell administration are committed to the endowment of popery. Votes, speeches, reviews, pamphlets, may all be quoted to prove how completely they are pledged, how cordially they are wedded to this great whig delusion.

We quite agree with Mr. Robertson that a state sary sequence to state provision for the education provision for the maintenance of priests is a necesof priests. One follows the other naturally. Every argument used for the endowment of Maynooth can be urged with tenfold force for the endowment of Romish benefices.

make no provision against it, we must expect to The danger is apparent. If the country will encounter it unprepared, and hopeless of resistance. The policy, once put in action, can only end with the entire destruction of the Protestant church in Ireland, and in the absolute dominion of the church of Rome. Mr. O'Connell may, after all, be sincere; these changes would greatly smooth the way for repeal.-Britannia, 8 Aug.

From the Britannia, Aug. 15.

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THE CANADIAN LEAGUE." THE speech of Lord Ashburton on Monday relieved the monotony of the debate by a reference to the real measure before the house, and the conse"The exact purport of the answer of the premier quences likely to flow from it. His address is to this question- Will you pay the priests?'-marked by the practical genius for which this emiwas, I will when I can.' He will have his eye nent commercialist is distinguished. No man is on a new parliament. Earl Grey and Sir George better entitled to speak with authority on questions Grey, the colonial and the home secretaries, are affecting our colonies, because no man is more both devoted to this measure. Sir William Som- deeply interested in their prosperity, or has had more erville, the protegé of O'Connell, is the home under-extensive experience in their trade. He is neither a secretary. Mr. Wy Wyse, who enjoys the friendship theorist nor a blind worker in the great transactions and confidence of the highest dignitaries of the of commerce. His position, like that of the comCatholic church, is on the Board of Control. Lord mander of an army, enables him to command a Palmerston has given priests glebes privately, and view of the whole field of action, and to combine recommended the same course to the government the principles of science with the necessities of the publicly. If ever there was an administration which time. If he goes farther than most of those who had its purpose blazoned upon the forehead of it, took part in the debate, it is because he sees this administration has been constructed with a view farther, and looks more steadily to remote conseto the endowment of popery. For one person in quences, not because he is more visionary in his the upper liberal circles against paying any sect, opinions.

Very wisely, as we think, Lord Ashburton says | equally by reason and by justice. This Canadian nothing of slavery in connexion with this question. League has its organ in a weekly journal, the CanaThe real point at issue, in his judgment, is, whe- dian Economist, in which its views are urged with ther our whole system of colonial protection is to great freedom and vigor. In an able report from be retained or abolished. He is satisfied that the the association a list is given of those articles on principle of free trade, once acknowledged and which high discriminating duties are imposed for acted on by the legislature, must be carried out to the benefit of the English manufacturer. We exits full extent. We yield entire assent to this frank tract a few of the items:and decided avowal of his convictions:

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"This measure involved a complete change in the whole colonial system of this country; it involved, in fact, the question of our having colonies at all. All the world must admit that the princi-Glass and Glassware, ple of protection was sometimes carried to an absurd and ridiculous extent; but that some degree of protection was required by the dependencies of a country whose great wealth had been created by colonies and commerce, no man possessed of political knowledge or experience would be disposed to The principle on which this measure was founded necessarily involved the loss of these

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colonies."

These remarks are true to the letter. Political systems are not like material edifices, visible to sight. There is nothing tangible in them. They cannot be touched, or handled, or examined, or measured; and hence to the careless or ignorant they may seem to have no existence. But, in reality, they are composed of many parts, and are held solidly together only by the support those parts afford to each other. You cannot deprive our colonial system of one of its main pillars without grievously damaging the whole structure. When the supports are weakened, it must be taken down as rapidly as possible lest it should by its own weight descend in ruins.

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These discriminating duties the League requires shall be given up. It seems there will be no opposition to their demand from the home government. Power will be allowed our colonial legislatures to deal with discriminating duties as they think best. Our manufacturers who have hitherto held almost exclusive possession of the colonial markets will then, probably, find powerful rivals in them. The goods of the United States can be carried to the West Indies and Canada more rapidly and at less expense than from the ports of Great Britain; and it is, therefore, only reasonable to conclude that a large portion of the trade and commerce hitherto enjoyed exclusively by ourselves will be diverted to other sources.

But it is on the repeal of the navigation laws that the Canadians lay the most stress. In the freetrade manifesto, the "baneful influence" of those laws is dwelt on at length, and the people are urged to join in a vigorous effort for their total abolition. Some passages in the report show how keenly the restriction is felt, and what hearty efforts will be made for its removal:

We have already an illustration of this in the state of affairs in Canada. One party is indignant at the withdrawal of protection to Canadian exports, and vehemently protests against the injustice of charging on the colony the expenses of those works undertaken on the faith of a market being reserved for its surplus produce in Great Britain. A second party, believing free trade to be inevitable, considers only how the Canadians can take advantage of it, to remove those restrictive laws by which the parent country has made her colonies a source of wealth and extended commerce to her- "The council trusts that a representation of the self. It is said, very reasonably, that, if the prin- injury to this province, arising from the restrictive ciple of buying in the cheapest and selling in the character of the British navigation laws, is all that dearest market is to be acted on by the imperial is requisite to induce the British ministry to cause legislature, it must also be acted on by colonial leg- their modification, so far as respects this colony. islatures; and that, if Canadian exports are to meet Their baneful influence has, more especially during with no more favor from England than the exports the present year, been felt both in our export and of foreign countries, the people of Canada are enti- import trade. Such has been and is the scarcity tled to purchase the commodities they require of British vessels, adapted to the conveyance of wherever they can obtain them to the greatest ad- wheat and flour, in the ports of Quebec and Monvantage. They go a little farther, and directly as-treal, that freight has advanced fully fifty per centsert that it is not for the interest of Canada to have any restrictions placed on her carrying trade; they say freights should be regulated by the same principle as other operations of commerce, and that the traders of Canada have a right to obtain them at the cheapest rates that are offered. In short, they insist that the British navigation laws, as far as they regard Canada, shall be wholly and entirely repealed. We confess we do not see how this demand can be resisted.

A free-trade association has been formed at Montreal to agitate for those changes indicated above, which, it is asserted, are rendered absolutely necessary by the legislative enactments in England during the present session, and which are demanded

um beyond the remunerating or average rate. Now, had those laws permitted, foreign vessels could have been procured in the ports of the United States, at moderate rates, (as is manifest from the low freights between New York and Britain,) to convey the produce to its destined market. Is it not obvious that we are thus placed in a much less advantageous position than foreigners, in being taxed to support British shipping, and that tax offers great encouragement to the western producer to send his goods via the United States, rather thar by the route of the St. Lawrence? Thus this col ony is laboring at the same time under the twofo. inconvenience of removal of protection, and prohib tion of free trade.

"The like evil is severely felt in the import trade of the province, and is exemplified in the article of muscovado sugar, of which our supplies are now principally derived from the Spanish islands. The navigation laws, on which we now animadvert, prevent our importing foreign commodities in any but British ships, or ships of the country where the goods are produced. Now, Spain has little shipping, and none suitable for the trade with America, and there are no British vessels to be met with in the Spanish islands. The importer of a cargo of sugar to this province is thus compelled to charter a British vessel from some distant port, to proceed in ballast, to convey the cargo, for which he pays a freight of, say 4s. per cwt., or fully twenty-five per cent. on the prime cost of the article, whilst there are fleets of American vessels on the spot, which would convey it at one half that rate. Can he, then -drawing his supplies of sugar in this circuitous and expensive method-compete in the western market with the merchant of the United States? Obviously he cannot; nor need it be matter of surprise that the trade, which, under a free system, would flow through the St. Lawrence, is thus diverted to other channels."

A MOTHER'S RESIGNATION.
"There are griefs that lie in the heart like treasures.
Till Time has changed them to solemn pleasures."

No, not forgotten! Though the wound has
And seldom with thy name I trust my tongue,
closed,
My son so early lost, and mourned so long;

The mother's breast where once thy head re-
posed

Still keeps thy image, sacred through long years,
An altar, hallowed once with many tears.

How oft my heart beats at some idle saying,
Some casual mention of that foreign land.
Wherein thy grave was dug with hasty hand,
And thy sole requiem was thy mother's pray-
ing;

Till o'er the ocean swift-winged memory flies,
To that lone forest where my first-born lies!

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Sometimes, when in my other babes I trace momentary likeness unto theeThy smile that ever shines in memory,

Thy thoughtful eyes, thy love-illumined face— clasp the wondering child unto my breast, And fancy that my arms round thee are prest.

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We do not see how a Russell government is to I oppose itself to these representations. If we allow the colonies no favor, we have no right to place them at a disadvantage. They are entitled to a real, not a nominal, equality. If our navigation laws prevent them from sending or receiving commodities so cheaply as they might otherwise do, those laws must be given up. We cannot be un-Like one of old, I glory to have given, just to our colonies if we would, because we cannot Out of my flock, an angel unto heaven. deprive them of the power of resistance.

It is assumed, indeed, that the people of our colonies care little for financial considerations, and that they are willing to forego all benefits, nay, even to incur serious disadvantages, for the honor of being connected with the British empire. This theory is flattering to our pride. We may wish it to be true, but it will hardly stand the test of examination. The current of experience is against it. It was a point of finance, a mere question of the pocket, that produced the American revolt and the war that followed it. The tax was trifling we know; and we quite agree with those who say the Americans fought for a principle more than against the duty on tea. But that principle was still a financial principle; it was, that the pecuniary interests of the people should not be attacked against their will; it was, in short, that they would not submit to be taxed for the benefit of the parent

country.

number thee among my children still; I think of thee, but 't is with grief no longer; Though parted in the flesh, by God's high will, I feel my soul's deep love for thee grow stronger:

Chambers' Journal.

As an instance of the adaptation between the force of gravity and forces which exist in the vegetable world, we may take the positions of flowers. Some flowers grow with the hollow of their cups upwards; others "hang the pensive head," and turn the opening downwards. The positions in these cases depend upon the length and flexibility of the stalk which support the flower, or, in the case of the euphorbia, the germen. It is clear that a very slight alteration in the force of gravity, or in the stiffness of the stalk, would entirely alter the position of the flower-cups, and thus make the continuation of the species impossible. We have, therefore, here a little mechanical contrivance, which would have been frustrated if the proper intensity of gravity had not been assumed in the reckoning. An earth, greatThe Canadians, according to present appear- er or smaller, denser or rarer, than the one on ances, are ready to hoist the same banner; taxa- which we live, would require a change in the tion may take the shape of a navigation law as well structure and strength of the footstalks of all the as of a direct impost; and the Canadians openly little flowers that hang their heads under our declare their repugnance to be taxed for the support hedges. There is something curious in thus conof British shipping. Our colonies were perfectly willing to live under a protective system, while it sheltered and benefited them. But it is not to be expected that they will patiently suffer all its evils while deprived of its benefits. One change must be followed by others. In a commercial sense our colonies, since we choose to abolish all differential A STEREOTYPED MIND.-At a public meeting at duties in their favor, must be made independent. Scarborough, the Rev. B. Evans made this strikThe inquiry will not then long be allowed to rest-ing remark:-" I value not at all the mind that is Of what use is a political dependence that is bar- stereotyped. Give me the sort of mental type that ren of useful results, and is known only by the can be changed when required, that will admit of exercise of a distant, an arbitrary, and a capricious additions and improvements, such as increasing authority? light and intelligence demand."

sidering the whole mass of the earth, from pole to pole, and from circumference to centre, as employed in keeping a snowdrop in the position most suited to the promotion of its vegetable health.Whewell.

NANTUCKET SAILORS.

BY THE REV. MR. ABBOT.

our national banner are unfurled from our flag-staff, sending a wave of emotion through the town. Many families are hoping that it is the ship in which their

from the absent. Soon the name of the ship is announced; and then there is an eager contention with the boys to be the first bearer of the joyful tidings to the wife of the captain. For which service a silver dollar is the established and invariable fee.

A MAN was speaking a few days ago of the emo-friends are to return, and all are hoping for tidings tions with which he was overwhelmed, when he bade adieu to his family on his last voyage. The ship in which he was to sail was at Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. The packet was at the wharf which was to convey him from Nantucket to the ship. He went down in the morning and saw all his private sea stores stowed away in the sloop and then returned to his home to take leave of his wife and children. His wife was sitting at the fireside struggling in vain to restrain her tears.

And who can describe the feelings which must then agitate the bosom of the wife? Perhaps she has heard of no tidings from the ship for more than a year. Trembling with excitement, she dresses She had an infant a few months old in her arms, herself to meet her husband. "Is he alive," she and with her foot was rocking the cradle in which says to herself, "or am I a widow, and the poor lay another little daughter about three years of age, children orphans?" She walks about the room, with her cheeks flushed with a burning fever. No unable to compose herself sufficiently to sit down. pen can describe the anguish of such a parting. It Eagerly she is looking out of the window, and is almost like the bitterness of death. The depart-down the street; she sees a man with hurried step ing father imprints a kiss upon the cheek of his turn the corner, and a little boy hold of his hand. child. Four years will pass away ere he will again Yes, it is he. And her little son has gone down take that child in his arms. Leaving his wife sob-to the boat and found his father. Or, perhaps, inbing in anguish, he closes the door of his house be- stead of this, she sees two of her neighbors returnhind him. Four years must elapse ere he can crossing slowly and sadly, and directing their steps to that threshold again. One sea captain upon this her door. The blood flows back upon her heart. island has passed but seven years out of forty-one They rap at the door. It is the knell of her husupon the land. band's death. And she falls senseless to the floor, as they tell her that her husband has long since been entombed in the fathomless ocean.

A lady said to me a few evenings ago, "I have been married eleven years, and counting all the days my husband has been at home since our marriage, it amounts to but three hundred and sixty days." He is now absent, having been gone fifteen months, and two years more must undoubtedly elapse before his wife can see his face again, and when he shall return it will be merely a visit to his family for a few months, when he will again bid them adieu for another four years' absence.

I asked the lady, the other day, how many letters she wrote to her husband during his last voyage. "One hundred," was the answer. "And how many did he receive?" "Six." The invariable rule is to write by every ship that leaves this port or New Bedford, or any other port that may be heard of for the Pacific Ocean. And yet the chances are very small that any two ships will meet on this boundless expanse. It sometimes happens that a ship returns, when those on board have not heard one word from their families during the whole period of their absence.

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Imagine then the feelings of a husband and father, who returns to the harbor of Nantucket, after the separation of forty-eight months, during which time he has heard no tidings whatever from his home. He sees the boat pushing off from the wharves which is to bring him the tidings of weal or woe. stands pale and trembling pacing the decks with emotions which he in vain endeavors to conceal. A friend in the boat greets him with a smile, and says, "Captain, your family are all well.", Or perhaps says, Captain, I have heavy news for you, your wife died two years and a half ago.'

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This is not fiction. These are not extreme cases which the imagination creates. They are facts of continued occurrence-facts which awaken emotions to which no pen can do justice.

A few weeks ago a ship returned to this island, bringing the news of another ship, that was nearly filled with oil, that all on board were well, and that she might be expected in a neighboring port in such a month. The wife of the captain resided in Nantucket, and early in the month, with a heart throbbing with affection and hope, she went to greet her husband on his return.

At length the ship appeared, dropped her anchor in the harbor, and the friends of the lady went to the ship to escort the husband to the wife from whom he had been so long separated. Soon they sadly returned with the tidings that her husband had been seized with the coast fever, upon the island of Madagascar, and when about a week out, on his return home, he died and was committed to his ocean burial. A few days after I called upon the weeping widow and little daughter in their destined home of bereavement and anguish.

SONNET.

BY THE HON. MRS. NORTON.

O FOR the time-the happy sinless time-
When first we murmured forth our infant prayer,
Listened with reverence to the church-bells'
chime-

Gazed on the sky, and deemed that God dwelt
there!

"A young man left this island last summer, leaving in his quiet home a young and beautiful wife, and an infant child. The wife and child are now No more we hear those holy deep toned bells; both in the grave. But the husband knows not, But as their echo trembles on the air, and probably will not know it for some months to So in our sorrowing minds remembrance dwellscome. He perhaps falls asleep every night thinking Breathing of those fine days ere passion's sigh, of the loved ones left at his fire-side, little imagin-Remorse and sorrow, (sad the tale she tells,) ing that they are both cold in death. Polluted the petition sent on high ;

On a bright summer afternoon, the telegraph an- | When we knelt sinless, and our God alone nounces that a Cape Horn ship has appeared in the Was in the prayer that rose to his Almighty throne. horizon, and immediately the stars and stripes of

DISCOVERY OF COPPER MINES IN AUSTRALIA. | sheep are in such abundance, that the principal

IDIOCY..

AFTER the great depression which the Australian order to obtain their tallow. The newly-discovered consumpt consists in melting down the carcasses in colonies have suffered of late, it is gratifying to mines, however, promise to employ somewhat more find that a new impulse has been given to the energies of the colonists around Adelaide by the dis-well as to furnish steady and profitable labor to a profitably the muscular powers of the buffaloes, as covery of rich mines of copper. The discovery of considerable number of miners, engineers, and the copper ore was entirely accidental. A son of other artisans required for mining operations. Captain Bagot, in his chance rambles, had picked up a greenish stone, and carried it home, where it excited some attention. A short while afterwards, Mr. Dutton, having gone to the same locality in DR. CAMPBELL, in a communication published in search of some stray cattle, was attracted by a the Northern Journal of Medicine, states, on the greenish-looking substance imbedded in the shaly authority of Dr. Kombst, that an unusual number rock, which there rose to the surface. He carried of idiots and deformed persons are to be found at home a specimen, and, showing it to his friend Jena, in the Grand Duchy of Weimar. This fact Bagot, it was ascertained to be an ore of copper of is, by the medical men of the place, coupled with the same nature as the specimen found by his son. the circumstance of there being brewed at LichtenThe next object of these enterprising gentlemen hain, a neighboring village, a very strong beer, of was to get possession of the land embracing this pleasant taste, which is a great favorite with the hidden treasure. This they did by a regular pur- inhabitants of Jena. This beer is very intoxicatchase from government of eighty acres, at the price ing, and the state of intoxication produced by it is of one pound sterling per acre. It appears that far more violent than that brought about by any there is no reserve made by government in the sale other beverage in common use. These highly-inof lands, but that all minerals, and everything else, toxicating qualities of the Lichtenhain beer are become the sole property of the purchaser. As ascribed to belladonna, which, it is said, the brewthe copper ore in this locality comes to the surface ers mix with the beer. Now, no day passes withof the soil, the working of such a mine is a com-out some of the inhabitants of Jena returning paratively easy task; and some Cornish miners being on the spot, operations were commenced immediately, and in due time a quantity of the ore was sent to England. It was found that the ores consisted of a carbonate and sulphuret of copper; and so rich were they, that, on an average, they furnished 29 per cent. of pure metal; and the sale of the ore at Liverpool brought an average of £24, 8s. 1d. per ton-a price greatly above that of any British ores, or even of those of South America, with one exception. The average price of British and European ores is from £5 to £6 per ton; and the South American brings from £10 to £15, the richest being £29. The enterprising proprietors of the Kapunda mine, ascertaining that some adjoining lands contained copper also, became purchasers of additional ground; but the value of the mines having now to some extent transpired, the price per acre was raised tenfold. Another locality containing very rich ore was soon after discovered in the Mount Lofty range of hills, about ten miles from Adelaide. This, called the Montaculi copper mine, has been purchased by a company, and is now also in full operation. From the number of buffaloes in the country, the facility of carrying the ore to the shipping port is very great. Improved modes of roasting the ores, and thus lessening greatly their bulk, are also being adopted. The whole colony is in activity, and the trade, if pursued with moderate caution and prudence, is likely to be of essential importance to the community. Not only is the British market open for the commodity, but there is also a wide field in India, China, and other parts of the world.

home in the evening highly intoxicated; and the idiotic and deformed children are regarded as the offspring of fathers addicted to this pernicious beverage. This is a curious surmise, and one which after-experience is most likely to confirm; for there is no reason why mental deformity should not be transmissible as well as physical malformation— which, unluckily, is but too well-authenticated. And should it be confirmed, what a fearful responsibility do such men incur, who, through vicious propensities, not only destroy their own constitutions, but transmit to their innocent offspring an enfeebled frame, and the worst of all maladies-a hopeless imbecility of mind! Our chief distinguishing characteristic, in creation is MIND, the noblest of all the Creator's gifts; and no offence can be more enormous than the debasement of that gift by voluntary indulgence in gross and unseemly practices. Most people, indeed we might say all, make a great profession of regard for their offspring; but we question that sincerity in every case where there exists not a strict attention to such habits of life as will, to the best of human knowledge, secure for that progeny a sound and healthful constitution. The basis of a sound constitution, bodily and intellectually, is infinitely more valuable than any other bequeathment a parent can make. Without the one, life cannot be an enjoyment; without the other, progress is utterly unattainable.

LAWFUL DUELLING.

A LETTER from Munster, Westphalia, of the 30th ult., published in the Journal des Debats, contains the following:

"The day before yesterday we were witnesses of an afflicting spectacle, and which to a certain de

A volume just published by Mr. F. Dutton on South Australia and its mines, affords an interesting detail of this recent discovery, as well as the most recent notice of the trade and prospects of South Australia. The colonies appear to be gradually recovering from the late effects of over-im-gree transported us to the middle ages. This spectacle was that of a duel under the sanction of jusportation and excessive speculation. Cattle and tice. The following is an account of this strange affair:

*South Australia and its Mines. With an Historical Sketch of the Colony, under its several administrations, to the period of Captain Grey's departure. By Francis Dutton. London: Boone. 1846.

"Two young officers, the Baron de Deukhaus, a lieutenant in the 11th Regiment of Hussars, and M. de Bonnhart, also a lieutenant in the 13th Infan

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