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The theological statute passed at Oxford last week constitutes Dr. Hampden (Regius Professur of Divinity) Chairman of the new Theological Board ; and thus, observes the Globe, it " virtually rescinds the judgment passed by the University on the Professor's theological opinions in 1836, on occasion of his appointment to the chair by her Majesty, at the recommendation of the late Whig Administration.'

The Dumfries Courier explains, that Mr. Ewart is kept from his place in Parliament by a most melancholy domestic calamity : after attending a little daughter in a short illness of a few days, he lost his child ; and he had scarcely recovered from the first shock of that be- reavement, when, on the 7th, his second daughter was taken from him by death.

Tuesday's Gazette announced that the Queen has appointed Mr. Michael Linning Melville, in the room of Mr. Walter William Lewis, deceased, to be Commissary Judge in the Mixed British and Foreign Courts of Commission established at Sierra Leone, under the treaties and conventions concluded with Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and the Nether- lands, for the suppression of the Slave-trade.

The government of Van Diemen's Land, now held by Sir J. Frank-. lin, has been offered to Lord Glentworth, grandson of the Earl of Limerick.—Morning Herald.

The Sheik of the Druses has left Mivart's Hotel for Woolwich, in order to be instructed in the artillery practice observed in the British service.—Morning Post.

An important debate occurred in the French Chamber of Peers on Wednesday, on the right of search. The protest of General Cass against the ratification of the Quintuple Treaty by France was pub- lished in the Times of Friday ; and the genuineness of the document is attested by the mode in which the French papers speak of it. The assertion of the General's spontaneous act of diplomacy, therefore, is confirmed. It seems to have been successful for its immediate object. Count Mole laboured to prove that he had always been consistent in opposition to the principle of the treaty ; although under his adminis- tration Count Sebastiani signed the preliminary protocol. M. Guizot as laboriously proved the Count's inconsistency ; declared that when he himself entered office he was morally bound by former negotiations to ratify the convention of 1841 ; and then announced, that, under existing circumstances, he could not recommend the ratification of the treaty. On the previous day, the Marquis de Boissy, reading a manuscript speech, designated M. Guizot as " the avowed organ of British interests in the Cabinet." M. Guizot rose to reply ; when the President signed to him to sit down, and called on M. de Boissy to retract ; but without effect.

Much indignation has been excited among the Paris journals by the suppression of the Temps newspaper. The Court of Correctional Police condemned Messrs. Raymond Coste and Conil, the proprietors of the paper, to the enormous fine of 102,300 francs, (4,1001.,) for having published a number without the signature of the responsible proprietor, with twelve months' imprisonment in default of payment, and the further order that the journal should be suppressed. The National remarks- " Perhaps it may be said that the Court were impelled by a species of rage against the press. By no means. The Court merely applied the minimum of the fine : they might have inflicted a penalty of 231,000 francs, and made the proprietors personally responsible for having been guilty of a mere informality."

The Temps has appealed against the decision. The Morning Post says that the condemned paper would in any case soon have ceased to exist, as it was paid out of the secret-service-money by various Ministers, who had withdrawn the subvention, and the copyright had been unsuccessfully hawked about the market for sale.

Supplementary accounts continue to appear of the railroad disaster near Versailles. Searches have drawn from among the confused heap of ashes several parts of dress, twenty gold rings, a quantity of gold and silver money, portions of watches, chains, gloves, canes, umbrellas, and of several other things which were recognized as having belonged to persons who were known to be at Versailles. One gentleman found among these relics a chain and medallion which belonged to his young wife, to whom he had very recently been married. One of the chief clerks in the office of the Minister of the Finances ascertained the loss of a young person to whom he was affianced, by seeing among the remnants the case of a watch he had presented to her. A mother also found the fragment of a box and a ring belonging to her only daughter, who went on Sunday to Versailles with her cousin, but neither of whom has returned or been heard of. Two more whole families are mentioned as having gone without a trace, one of five and one of nine persons. Several people have died in the interval. One who survived for some time was M. Brioche, a merchant from Nantes.

He had lost both his legs and both his arms, and remained a mere trunk with the head upon it. In the endeavours to draw him out of the fire, the hook of the pole which was used caught him by the mouth, which was dreadfully lacerated. Nevertheless, he recovered his senses and his speech, and was able to give a relation of the horrors he bad undergone. He was accompanied by the nephew of M. Sicard, a merchant of the Rue Thibeatode, and a traveller of the house, who had arrived only three days before from Nismes ; both of whom were by his side, but they perished in the flames ; and the death of M. Brioche him- self was announced on Monday.

The Directors of the Railroad Company have written to the widow of Mr. George, condoling with her on her bereavement and promising

her a provision for life. Others seek compulsory compensation : the Constitutionnel states that three families in the Rue St. Denis, some of the members of which suffered by the fire, have claimed payment to each of 50,000 francs ; and the National mentions that three lawyers are engaged to bring actions for damages against the Directors.

The French Government has under consideration legislative mea- sures to prevent such disasters in future ; and in the mean time the Minister of Public Works has issued provisional measures to regulate railroads, of which the following is an outline— The use of four-wheeled locomotive engines for the transport of passengers is forbidden. It is also forbidden to place at the head of a train, before the lo-

comotive engines, either a fuur-wheeled tender or any other kind of four-

wheeled carriage. Locomotive engines are always to be placed in front of the trains, and never behind, except in certain specified cases ; exempli gratia, there wheeled carriage. Locomotive engines are always to be placed in front of the trains, and never behind, except in certain specified cases ; exempli gratia, there must always be at the head of each train, composed of five carriages at the ut- most, at least one carriage without passengers, and at least two when the number of carriages in the train exceeds five. The passengers' carriages are not to be locked ; and the railroad companies are to have registers of the state of service of all their locomotive engines. The Prefect is to fix for each railroad the mini- mum of the interval which is to elapse between the departure of two consecu- tive trains. The rate of speed upon the Paris and Versailles railroads is for- bidden to exceed, at any part of the line, ten metres per second or thirty-six kilometres (about twenty-two miles and a half English) per hour.

The Minister of Public Works has directed inquiry to be made as to the propriety of permitting the use of more than one locomotive engine at a time, in steep descents generally as well as on the line between Versailles and Paris ; also into the means of preventing the throwing of burning matter from the furnaces ; and a special committee is about to be appointed to make inquiries and experiments.

The Count de Las Cases, who accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena, died at Passy on Monday last.

Tamburini has been stopped at Lyons, on his way to Italy, by illness.

There are not many new facts stated respecting the conflagration at Hamburg ; and they relate chiefly to the assistance which is sent to the sufferers from countries far and near. In London, the subscription,. headed by the Queen with 2001. and Prince Albert with 100/ , and con- taining sums of 100 guineas from the Lord Mayor and mercantile firms, already amounts to many thousands of pounds. The Queen Dowager has given 1501. As much as 10,0001. was sent over by the steamer within three days after the news reached London. Manchester has collected 3,000/. ; and Liverpool is making a collection. In Hamburg itself, the Senate have given 25,000 florins from the public treasury ; and the authorities collected by public subscription 100,000 (10,0001.) The Cologne Gazette opened a subscription in its office, and in a few minutes 4,000 francs were contributed by one hundred and fifty per- sons. The King of Prussia has recommended that a general collection be made in all the churches and from house to house in his dominions; intrusting the execution of his ordinance to the Ministers of the In- terior and of Ecclesiastical Affairs ; and he has actually sent 500 lonis- d'or. The Senate of Frankfort on the Maine have subscribed 30,000/. and have placed any sum of money, between 25,000 and 100,000 florins, apparently as a loan, at the disposal of the Hamburg Hiilf's Verein. The King of Denmark has sent to the Senate of the unfortu- nate city 100,000 marks ; the Hanoverian States, 100,000 crowns ; the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, 30,000 marks. The most distinguished members of the French Chamber of Deputies, Messrs. Odillon Barrot, Lamartine, Dufaure, Lasijainais, Lafayette, &c., have addressed an energetic appeal to their fellow-countrymen on behalf of the sufferers, and have placed their names at the head of a national sub- scription, which is opened in the office of the treasurer of the Chamber.

It is now computed that 1,740 houses, exclusively of warehouses and small tenements, have been destroyed ; and the buildings thus enume- rated are valued at 47,000,000 marks (about 3,000,0001.) The number of persons deprived of houses is reckoned at 30,000; whereof 20,000 belong to the working class.

The Senate have addressed a letter to Mr. Lindley, Mr. Giles, and Mr. Thompson, the English engineers, thanking them for their invalu- able services in rescuing the remains of their city from destruction.

The last accounts direct from Hamburg, dated the 14th, say that the attacks on the English have been much exaggerated ; though the place has been a prey to drunkenness and robberies. Mr. Lindley has been asked to furnish plans for rebuilding the city ; and he has sent to London for Wren's plan for rebuilding the British Metropolis after the fire, as a guide. ,

The Morning Post publishes the following letter by a young lady, giving the best account that has been written of the sceue: it is not always that such casualties find spectators who can so well descnbe--

" Hamburgh, 90% May.

"I know not, my dearest mother, whether my few hurried ill-written hues ut Friday lag, penned in the midst of the most terrible anguish and trouble, and confided to the care of a passer-by who was going to Altona, have ever reached you. At all events, before you receive this you will have heard of what a dreadful misfortune and of what a heart-rending spectacle this poor city has been the theatre and the prey. Before continuing, hOwever, or rather commencing my sad recital, I must hasten to assure my dear papa that his houses in the Neuer Jungfernstieg have remained untouched ; for though I know they are insured, this news will certainly be agreeable to him after hear- ing of the disasters which have reigned here—I may say which still reign, and will for a long time. On Thursday morning, Ascension-day, the 5th instant, my sister, her husband, and I, walked to the French church. Frederick, on taking away the breakfast, told us that since eight or nine o'clock a terrible fire had been raging in the Deich Strasso. Papa, who knows the distance be- tween the Neuer Jungfernsteig and the Deich Strasse, will agree that we had no cause for alarm. In coming out of church, the servant said to Madame Parish (who you are aware lives in the country, and had come thence this morning direct) that she could not go to her town-house in the carriage ; that twenty-two houses had already been totally burnt ; that, in fact, hers was in great danger, and that the fire was becoming more and more formidable. A few hours afterwards came the news that the house of Mr. Parish was no more; and that the flames were spreading every instant. Towards four o'clock in the afternoon, from our attic windows we witnessed the destruction of St. Nicholas's Church. It was terrible to sec this beautiful building become the prey of the element, which was becoming more fearful the more ground it gained. My sister and her husband were to have gone to the opera in the evening; but it was announced that, in consequence of the calamity, there would be no performance. The spectacle be- came from hour to hour more shocking. The whole city now began to show the most lively alarm. The bells, the firing of cannon, the cries and confusion in the streets, all presaged a night of anguish and terror. Our apprehensions, alas! were but too faithfully realized. It was not, however, until night had spread her sad wings over the scene that we could perceive the whole extent of the destruction which menaced the entire city. The heavens became as red as blood ; the devouring flames, increased more and more by an impetuous wind, rose to a gigantic height. At seven o'clock, Madame — came to us its a wretched state. She told us that her sisters at Holzdamm (who were further from the fire than we, the flames having taken the direction of Dreck Wall and Bleichen) had sent all their valuables to her ; so great was the fear they were in. We could hardly avoid smiling; for we thought it incredible that the fire could possibly reach Holzdamm. At ten, Madame — went home, and my sister retired to bed towards eleven ; but afterwards we received a visit from some gentlemen, who came to say that serious measures were about to be taken, by blowing up some houses which were likely to cause the fire to spread further. At half-past twelve I went to bed myself; but the noise of the explosions, the rumbling of the carriages and carts, the cries, the large flakes of fire which every instant were driven impetuously by the wind across my windows, threatening to set fire to our house, the excessive light of the conflagration, the whistling of the wind, and, as you will easily think, the idea that the lives of persons in whom we were inter- cited were in continual danger, not to mention the conviction of the number- less misfortunes that were happening, prevented all sleep. The windows trembled with the redoubled concussions of the explosions, and the whole house seemed as if it would be annihilated. In such a state I could not close an eye; visions and dreams, but above all still sadder realities, presented themselves to my imagination continually. Before three o'clock had struck, I found my- self again with my sister; who, like me, bad been kept awake by the dreadful noise caused by the blowing up of the Rathhaus. At this moment an order of the police was announced to us to wet the roof of our house, and to cause the water to flow in the gutters. Frederick had flown to the assistance of his brothers. We were therefore alone; and mounting on the roof, scarcely dressed, were soon throwing over it pails of water, and our neighbours were doing the same. We prepared ourselves for the worst—threw on our clothes—the con- fusion increased—we could riot remain. We packed up in sheets and boxes some of our effects. With the appearance of day our fears increased. It was a spectacle as sublime as it was fearful to view the sun, clear and brilliant, rising in all its splendour over the Lombard's Bridge, and on the city side to see nothing but a single mass of flames. It was not, however, a moment for contemplation, but for action ; for the worst was to come. We called for the coachman to carry away the things we had packed ; but how ridiculous to think we bad any longer servants at our disposal! The city, or the passengers, had be- come masters of the coachmen, of my brother-in-law and his mother, and not a man was to be got to carry away our effects for love or money : our horses were harnessed to the fire-engines, and the greatest confusion prevailed. Now suc- ceeded hours which I cannot describe to you. The old Jungfernsteig began to be endangered. The Alater, before our windows, was covered with barges full of burning furniture ; the old Jungfernsteig heaped also with goods on fire. On the promenade even of the new Jungfernsteig, I do not speak too largely when I say there were thousands of cars full of furniture, of merchandise, and of people who were saving themselves. Two carts were burning before our house. With our own hands we helped to extinguish the flames. A. woman was on tire before our eyes ; fortunately I perceived it in time to save her. The horses became unmanageable, and fell down with fright almost into the Alston A tremendous shower of ashes and of flakes of fire nearly suffocated us, and obstructed our sight. The wind blew with great violence, and the dust was frightful. The fire had now gained St. Peter's. The people thought the day of judgment was come. They wept, they screamed, they knew not what to do at the sight of so much misery. The horses, without drivers, were dragging the carts about in disorder over the esplanade. Soldiers escorted from the city the dead and the dying, and prisoners who had been plundering. At last, after the greatest efforts, we obtained carts and horses to transport our goods ; but the exhausted horses, as well as men, refused to work. With bread in our hands we ourselves fed them. Whole families fell down and fainted before our doors. Along all the walls, and out of the Damihor and other gates, nothing was to be seen but one spectacle of misery—a camp of unfortunates in bivouac, groaning, ex- hausted, famishing. I saw some who had become deranged ; mothers with infants at breasts which had no nourishment for them. Fauteuilles of gold and satin adorned the ramparts, and the poor exhausted firemen were reposing on them. An Englishman, Mr. Skinner, who acted as chief engineer, came into Madame —'s house, whither we had retired on Friday evening: he had eaten nothing for nearly forty hours, and devoured what we were able to give him, for provisions were beginning to be scarce, and we knew not where to procure more. He told us that if the wind should not change in a few hours, the Jungfernstieg and the Esplanade would be swal- lowed up by the fire, and that the whole city was in imminent danger, for that half the people were intoxicated. The club-house would have been blown up if the wind had not changed. My brother in-law would not quit his house till the last moment. We were on the Esplanade ; Madame — and her sisters had gone to her country-house. Our house was nearly empty ; we had ourselves stripped it of every thing that was most valuable, and carried whatever we could carry. How we had the strength to do it 1 know not. Our women-servants worked like horses ; but since some hours we have not been permitted to remain at the Jungferustieg. Although, the direction of the wind having changed, the flames and the gunpowder have spared the club- house, they have revenged themselves on the poor Holzdamm; the fire con- tinuing to rage with vehemence, and the city becoming more and more in revolt. One family has been. hunted in this manner from tour different places. There being no longer any certainty of safety on the Esplanade, at ten o'clock in the evening we set off fur the country, but the next morning early. we returned to town. I believe Madame — has at least twenty-five people in her house. She says the siege of Hamburg was nothing in comparison. The rights of pro- perty have ceased. After raging nearly one hunjlred hours, the fire stopped at the Stein Thor. Fears were entertained for St. George. I enclose a plan of the city, with the part marked which has been destroyed. The new Exchange has been saved, though surrounded by the conflagration. I cannot describe the con- fusion that prevails everywhere. All the gentlemen are patrolling like soldiers, for in no quarter is one in safety. The S—s were fortunately in the country. Their house in town was saved by the efforts of the.firemen, but has been pil- laged by the mob. Almost all the furniture was saved. 1 have seen Madame Swartz since these terrible occurrences; and she has related to me how touching it was to see the firemen exert their last efforts to save her house, saying, that having been built by so worthy a man, that house at least should not be burned, for they knew and loved the good Senator, and hold his memory in great re- spect. Many of our friends' houses are destroyed—all our tradespeople burnt out. All the old Jungfernsteig is down. Streit's hotel was blown up. Poor Mr. Streit was still in the house when it was done. He was behind a door, and has been much injured, though still living. Frederick's sister-in-law, during one of the terrible nights, gave birth to a child in our travelling-carriage, in which she had taken refuge. Many women were taken in the same way in the open fields. The dying breathed their last sigh in the streets and highways. Words cannot tell the miseries we have witnessed. At present, we only think of doing all the good we can—of saving and cherishing. But the lower orders now think they may do what they like : they take possession of all the houses that have escaped ; they transport thither the goods they have saved, and esta- blish their shops in them. In this manner our house has become the dwelling of a tailor and all his family. But that is not all; the master of an oyster- cellar, finding the situation a favourable one, has brought thither all his mer- chandise also. Do not think 1 have exaggerated the miseries I have spoken of; no pen or words can ever depict the reality."

A letter in the Augsburg Gazette, from Steyer, a manufacturing town in Austria, with 10,000 inhabitants, gives an account of a dreadful fire at that place. The letter, whizh is dated the 7th instant, says—" On the 3d, at four in the afternoon, a violent conflagration burst forth in the Faubourg of Steyrdorf. The flames, excited by a high wind, made rapid progress ; and by the next morning at six, not less than 243 houses were reduced to ashes. We are surrounded with ruins ; the streets are filled with dead bodies ; and women and children are uttering cries of despair. The working classes are the principal sufferers by this catas- trophe. Several hundreds are reduced to beggary."

The Duke of Decazes, the young French Chargé d'Affaires at Madrid, has been reconciled with the Regent. On the 12th he was pre- sented to his Highness, as a preliminary to his appearance at a banquet on the 15th, to be given to Don Francisco de Paula. The Regent ex- pressed a cordial desire for the closest friendship betwixt France and Spain.

The Britannia brings intelligence from New York to the 30th April. The Evening Express contains a long report by the Honourable Caleb Cushing, from the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the House of Re- presentatives, on the commercial relations existing between the United States and the Colonial possessions of Great Britain in the West Indies and on the continent of America. The documents accompanying the report fill in all 218 pages, and it is one of the most valuable papers Congress has ordered to be published. The pith of the report will be found in the following resolutions, with which it concludes-

" 1. That it is the policy and the desire of the United States to observe, in the regulation of the commercial intercourse between the United States and other countries, principles of equity, reciprocity, fair competition, and mutant advantage to both parties. " 2. That the existing arrangements regulating the commerce between the United States and the British Colonies in the West Indies and on the conti- nent of America are unequal, unjust, and injurious to the interests of the United States.

" 3. '1 hat so long as Great Britain persists to apply to the vessels and pro- ductions of the United States in the ports of the British Colonies in America peculiar regulations of commerce, other than such as regulate the commerce between the United States and the British territories in Europe, it is the right of the United States, and the necessary consequence, to apply peculiar regula- tions of commerce to British vessels and their cargoes in the ports of the United States entered from or proceedin to the British Colonies in America. "4. That the continued imposition by Great Britain of discriminating duties upon the productions of the United States imported into the British Colonies in America in vessels of the United States, will justify the imposition by the United States of discriminating duties upon the productions of the British Colonies in America imported into the United States in vessels of Great Bri- tain or her Colonies.

" 5. That the continued prohibition to the vessels of the United States by Great Britain of the indirect voyage between the United States, the British Colonies in America, and the British territories in Europe, or between the United States and one and another British colony in America, will justify the prohibition by the United States of such voyage to the vessels of Great Britain or her Colonies in America.

" 6. That if Great Britain see fit to adopt and pursue a system of prohie bitions and restrictions against the United States, it behoves the United States to protect our citizens, their commerce, and navigation by counter-prohibitions, duties, and regulations, and to decline to give free commerce and navigation in exchange for restrictions and vexations. " 7. But that, before having recourse to measures of legislative restriction, as the certain means of effectually guarding and securing the rights of the United States in our commerce with British Colonies, it is due to national comity to recur for that purpose to friendly negotiation with Great Britain. " And, in conformity with these conclusions, they submit the following reso- lution, the adoption of which they recommend to the House- " Resolved, That the President of the United States be, and hereby is, re- quested to enter into negotiations with the British Government, for the pur- pose of effecting a permanent, equitable, and just conventional arrangement of the commerce between the United States and the British Colonies in America.' , In the Court of General Sessions at Philadelphia, Judge Barton delivered the opinion of the Court on the charge against Messrs. Biddle, Cowperthwait, and Andrews, of a conspiracy to defraud the share- holders of the United States Bank ; discharging them for want of pro- bable cause. Judge Doran dissented from the opinion of the majority of the Court.

The New York Herald gives an amusing account of Lord Ashburtotes first dinner-party, by one of the admiring Yankee dinerrr-

" Lord Ashburton's first official dinner came off April 23d, at six p.m. This functionary is a very plain, gentlemanly-looking man, with a face somewhat careworn, and a complexion which belongs to those who have lived long and well. His suite are fine young men, generally bald, but with intellectual heads, though not very remarkable countenances. The private secretary of his Lord- ship is said to be the cleverest of the Legation. in manners they are all self- possessed, somewhat stiff in the movements of their bodies, and few or no gestures escape them while speaking. How different from the others of the Foreign Ministers here ! Why, a lively Frenchman will gesticulate more in one minute with the phalanges of his dexter hand, than Mr. Mildmay could in the whole course of his natural life.

" The dinner was served up soon after the hour of dining arrived. Late hours are, of course, in fashion everywhere among the diplomatic givers and eaters of dinners, and this one was to take place at six. The table was of the longitudinal character, and there were present about sixteen guests. Among them were the Foreign Ministers generally, the Leads of departments, and some of our leading men in Congress. There was no ceremony in entering the dining-room : the guests ' stood not upon the order of their going, but went at once.' Lord Ashburton took the centre of the table. On his right was John Quincy Adams, on his left John C. Calhoun, opposite him sat General Scott.

" Mr. Fox was not present ! It has been rumoured that Mr. Fox feels a little sore at this mission extraordinary. He perhaps supposes the business might have better been intrusted to him. But while we think very well of Mr. Fox's abilities, we imagine that the length of time he has been in public life has somewhat case-hardened him; that he takes no interest in public affairs beyond what his instructions require of him ; in short, that he has more head than heart, and that a negotiation controlling the destinies of two great na- tions, affecting every cottage in remote England and every log-hut beyond our mountains, is no more to Mr. Fox than any other negotiation, and that he would conduct it in the same cold, skilful, and gentlemanly manner which he would a game of etude, and in no other way.

" Lord Ashburton is rather a man of the people—is identified with the prosperity of the commercial classes—would be unhappy, truly unhappy, to see mother and daughter at variance ; and he would rather sacrifice the twenty-five townships he owns in the State of Maine, but to which he has scarcely given a thought for many years, and of which now for the first time he learns the real value, than involve us in a war, the scourge of nations and the desolation of mankind.

" The table was beautifully laid out; but as all his Lordship's plate has not arrived, there was no plateau in the centre, and no vases elaborate in art and perfuming the saloon with the choicest cuttings of the conservatory ; but it was still very elegant, and displayed the skill of an accomplished major-domo. There are twenty-one servants in the house; and the reader may well imagine what a godsend a score of beef-eaters must be to the cattle-graziers in this city : indeed the out-go of his Lordship's establishment will be so large, and the profits so immense to the retailers here, that we should not be surprised if they proposed in the course of a few months to purchase the claim of England to the disputed territory, and present it, as a mark of their gratitude, to the people of Maine, for being so much the cause of the present mission.

" As his Lordship has three cooks of the utmost talent, artists whom Ude himself would have not blushed to take by the hand, the dinner was not only superb but magnificent. The meats were all nicely carved, and handed round, as is now the fashion ; and the game, of which there was a great variety, was all cut lop and divided by the cooks before it was served up, then reinstated in form and figure, ready to drop apart at the touch of the first fork. Course after course succeeded, delicious to the palate and agreeable to the eye; the wines were rich and soft, and high-flavoured, having the body and strength which belong to the English cellar.

" Champagne was passed freely round, but no other wines of France, and none from the Rhineland, met our eyes. If diplomacy expresses its feelings at the dinner-table by its preferences for meats and drinks, then we say to Ger- many and France, England likes not the Zollverein, :nor the backing out from the Quintuple Treaty for the right of search. No, no! hard cider and Monongahela, which stoutly represent the apples and the corn-stalks of Brother Jonathan, shall find favour on the festive-board of John Bull when château margaux and yin de grave shall be forgotten.

" The conversation it would be improper to divulge. We do not believe it right, though it may be fashionable, to retail conversations and steal corre- spondences. We will only say, that the remarks were all of a friendly spirit, now and then approaching the confines of rigid propriety, when they related to the quality of our steam-ships and the differences of our discipline. " The dessert, among other things, exhibited a large number of the choicest fruits of England. beautifully preserved, fair to the eye, and delightful to the taste. They were much admired by the guests, and produced a round of enco- miums on the garden from which they were brought.

" Ih due time coffee succeeded ; and then the guests departed, much pleased with this first of a series of entertainments with which the new Envoy com- mences his mission. For some years ' the meteor flag' of England has not floated very gaily in Washington. Mr. Fox is a man of retired habits, some- what peculiar, and does not care for popularity with the natives.' A new system of operation is commenced. The boundary-line is to be adjusted on the dinner-table in streams of sherry, the right of visitation is to be exercised in diplomatic hospitalities, and the loss of the Creole is to be made up in black and white.

" In taking our leave, we did not forget that the fourteen servants in livery— blue coats, black velvet shorts, and striped waistcoats—had done their best to fill our plates with the dainties of his Lordship's table."

The Novascotian of April 21st tells the story of two Children in the Wood- " Two children went astray in the woods, about four miles from Halifax, at the Dartmouth side, on Monday week. Their names were Jane Elizabeth and Marg ret %leagher; the elder six years and ten months old, theyounger four years and six months. Some hundreds of people, many of them from Halifax, and comprising some military and Indians, went in search for several successive days. On Friday a snow-storm occurred, and added painfully to the difficul- ties and depression on the subject. On Sunday the remains of the children were found about six miles from the home of their parents. They were found locked in each other's arms—the younger with its face on the cheek of the elder. The elder had rolled her apron about the more helpless babe. She had the looks of care and sorrow in death, as if, which is not uncommon in similar cases, premature responsibility was felt, and that to secure and shield the little innocent by her side was felt a duty. The younger seemed as if it met death in sleep. Their tender feet were much injured by travelling, in vain endea- vours to reach home. What pangs must have introduced despair to the chil- dren's minds, mid their loneliness and hunger, day after day, and night after night, in the wilderness! And yet there were was a melancholy sublimity con- nected with their death—the ripening of the spirit under keen distress, and the mutual sympathy and love which is too often wanted at the deathbed of the unfortunate mature. The parents of the children have been subjects of deep commiseration.

" The remains of the little wanderers were interred on Tuesday, in the ho- rial-ground between Ellenvale and Allan's. They were laid in the one coffin, and in the position in which they were discovered. They had a largely-at- tended funeral notwithstanding the wet weather.