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OC7-3 ???????i? Cwnsn Parliament?The McLroi> Cass. SffVmbcs 17.?A groat number ot* petitions fot the repeal of the corn laws were presented. >/r. Barclay gave notice of an address tn the Queen, praying her to u*e her influence with all maritime powers to obtain treaties binding them to suppress the barbarous practice of privateering. L??rd Russell then rose and made his his promised speech- giving his view of the present state of the country and the line of jiolicy proper to be pursued?in other Wods, marking out the course of opposition. He began with the foreign relation^ and especially with the United States, as to which he said: * j In ore part of our foreign relations there is certainly a question in conncclinn with the United States, which, in aomoofits aspects, affords cause of unoiininess; hut my noble friend, as Sec re. fury for Foreign Affairs, satisfied the House hy the answer of the United States Secretary, that f>oth [for Majesty's Gov. Krnment ?nd the Government of the IT. nited States perfectly agreed as to the character which should he attributed to the attack upon, and the capture of, the Caroline?(loud cheers)?that it was a question to be debated faelween nation and nation, and not to be treated as a private wrong. A different view, how. s;vert had been taken by the Judges of the CState fcf New York, and if that view fhouW be carried Out it would destructive of all amicable relations between the two (Governments. If two Governments were not decide if u question was international, or he. tween jjrivate individuals, and any Judge land tfw. Dnwpr of deciding that a donation which the Government considered na. ti*?ua1 was n subject for the local Courts *m> amicable relation could subsist l?e-' <?wn the two States?(Hear, bear.) I have rend the judgment of the Judges who decided this case, and in that judgment it seemed to be admitted {hat the two Executive authorities had agreed that the case was one which should he decided that the case had stated it as his opin, j ion that it he considered as a case of war. J and therefore that it was a proper one to he decided by his own tribunal. It appears to me that this is a doctrine | to which no Government can agree.? j p?T, according to this doctrine, if Sir j Graham Moore, or any other officer who had captured the Spanish frigates, at the beginning of the Spanish war, should he taken Ixu'ore a Spanish tribunal, it would he equally competent to the Judge of that tribunal to say there was no declaration <<f war at the time these raptures were ! made, therefore the captures are piratical and the officers engaged in them are liu-1 b!c to he convicted of murder. Rut on | ? _UI u I Hie wnoit* it appears inai, aunuo^u sum 1 maybe the law adopted by the State of N<-w Y??rk; yet, considering what ha* ItCen stated on one side by Mr. Fox, am! on the other by Mr. Webster, with regard j to the circumstances attending the cap. ! tare of the Caroline, and the accordance I of opinion, existing on that subject? [ii ear]?I do not believe that the authorities of America wiil permit anv occurrence to take place which will expusc any subject of her Majesty to danger for j executing the commands of his Sovereign. I I therefore feel convinced that, while the ; two Governments are agreed, it is not j likely that there will be any cause of wai j between the two countries. I am sure that there prevails in this country, and I trust that there prevails in America also,1 the strongest desire that peace may *e preserved lietween those two great eoun. tries. [Cheers.! The noble Lord then alhidtd to Ireland declaring his entire satisfaction with the appointments made there by the new Ad. ministration, hut expressed hi* hope thai ihfl attempt to introduce Lord Stanley's ! ill would not l?e repeated. fie then plunged into the subject nftlie corn laws, insisting on the duty of gov. ernment to take that subject promptly into consideration; instead of putting itotftive .months as proposed bv Sir Robert Peel, and trying hard toe xtort from Sir floliert some distinct intimation of the course he .should pursue. SirRolwrt Pe?d replied. AVjth reference to the United States he was brief cnough. As to the United States, I confess I look to the present state of our relation" w ith them w ith great anxiety. [Hear, hear.] "It seems to he so manifestly the interest of these two countries which are united 'by so many ties, to avoid a hostile collis. ttttt, that I hope the good feeling and the good sense of the people of this country will nid the government if any necessity for that aid should arise. But at the ?amt; tune I feel the obligation of making concession derogatory to the honor of this country for the sake of a temporary con. ,ciliKt:on. ((ireat cheering.) On the corn law question he very ski!fully parried the assault of Lord John4 -taunting the late ministry with leaving 1 ne subject untouched for ten long years, and sneering at their inconsistency, after so long .a silence, in now agitating for its inimprlijito c^n^iderntion: but not one sv|. hble did ;helet fullfrom which a definite idea of his own intentions might bo gutli. ?rd. 'The remainder of his speech was devoted to the finance question, but his object seemed to be lather to show up the.errors of bis predecessors than to endighteo-the country as to his own views and .purposes. Lord PaLnenton fo!Weu in t. potrcrful vindication of his late colleagues and himself. The debate (in which many o'he? member* took part) was at length brought to a close bv \lr. Fiolden, who moved that it was the duty of the House to make immediate inquiry into the courses and extent of the distress existing in the countryi and that no supplies of money ought to he voted until such injury was made, as an amendment to the pending motion, which was that the House go into committee of supply. The vote was, for the original motion 149. For tire amendment 41. The House then went into committee, some unimportant estimates were voted, and then the House adjourned. I TUB MCLBOD CASK. Col. Napier?the author, we presume, of the great history of the Peninsular war -^has been engaged in a controversy with the Times, on the McLeod case. We have only one of his articles, but it seems to afford a sufficient understanding of the whole discussion. ('olonel Napier in Rely to the Times." Time.?"The republican sympathies were the first aggressors/' Answer?That gave England no right to invade America. | Times.?" The destruction of the Car. oline was a mattet of self defence." | Answer.?That is to he proved. If sho had been destroyed oat of the American wa; ters it would have been so. But she was deliberately attacked in the American waters without any previous demand for re dress, without any proof offered, any declaration made, that she was a piratical vessel Her destruction was, therefore, an attack on the American nation. Times.?" The State of New York was hound to enforce the neutrality of its citizens.? Answer?Undoubtedly, if it could. An Americai) general was sent with troops to enforce it. . But the frontier is immense, and covered with forests. The neutnilitv could not be enforced. Was bad faith on the part of the American Government susp ctcd 1?If so, an energetic remonstrance and notice of reprisals, if redress whs nnf frrnntnd. would have been the mode of proceeding according to the international law. Was no deceit suspected ? Then a demand for the surrender of the Caroline and her crew as a piratical vessel or the punishment of the pirates, according to the laws of America, would have been the proper mode of preceding. In either the right of the \mcrican nalion to have its sovereignty in its own waters respected would have hern conoe. ded, hut the deliberate destruction of the Caroline in those watersbeing a complete act iu itself, ami not the construction of an attack commenced before she took refuge in the American waters, was quite unauthorized by international law. Was it a matter of necessity. That necessity should have been shown : and an apology founded on it offered for the attaint upon American sovereignty. Had this been done on the instont no weakness or dishonor could have been imputed to Eng. land, and though it would b? less graceful new, it is never too late to act justly and honorably. Times.? The Federal Government has explicitly recognized the right of England to insist unconditionally on Mr. McLcod's release. Answer.?This has no hearing on the question. The captivity and trial of Mn leocK after the English Government hue taken upon itself the responsibility of destroying the Caroline, is a violation of international law on the part of America, which the Federal Government docs not defend, and which it endeavors to redress. But this in no manner justifies the pre. vious violation of international law by England. The Federal Government is willing to redress the injustice done to us by releasing McLeod, but apparently it is unable. We then, on our part, ought to express an equal willingness to redress the injury done to American sovereignty, either by showing 'hi necessity of pleading the provocation, and apologizing. In tine, if the Times would adduce those proofs of the necessity for the destruction of the Caroline, in the manner it was effected, which have been laid down in Mr. Webster's letter to Mr. Fox as requisite to bring the act within the pale of interna, tional law, it would be more reasonable an J more effectual than calling my pro. posal for an apology 44 stark staring nonsense." W. NAPIER. JiKWS OK TIIK CKUIUti.il. i The following letter, from an intelli. gent and trustworthy correspondent, will be read with interest, as apparently throwing some light upon the fate of the President | "To the Editor of the Vindicator, i 14 Sir.?On arriving in Belfast from | Brazil I first saw the announcement re I lative to the loss of the President steamer, and as anything, however remotely, connected with that vessel, must he interesting to your readers, I hasten to lay before them the facts, which came under I mv own immediate observation during 1 the homeward bound passage. On August, 29th, or thereabout, being then in the vicinity of the Azores my brother, who was amusing himself on the maintop, obI served in the distance what he considered | to be a boat exposed. On his announce I'ing the circumstance below, ine captain, alter surveying the object with his glass, ordered the ship to lie to. On approach, in" nearer, we found it was the side of an I ~ # immense vessel, having the heains erect ; | resembling masts, the other side was way. All hands concurred in opinion that it was the wreck of a Inrge steamer. It may or may not have been part of the hulk of the President. If, as has beeir conjectured, the al>ove mentioned vessel struck on the ice of Newfoundland, it is highly probable that the great Atlantic current, which aeU in frcia the North Uuri I ; ing the summer, may have drifted the iff- \ | fitted ship thus far to the Southward. At j j all events, it was the wreck of a very large vessel, and may vet prove disastrous to any crew who may have the misfortune i to run foul of it during the night. i " I am, sir yours, <kc. - VINCENZO GURRRINI." I MORE EXPLOITS OF THB grkat foigsr. , I FKO.K TIIK BOSTON DAILY ADV'KRTISE*. < We are authorized to publish the fob j j lowing letters, which show that Mumroc \ ' Edicard.% the accomplished swindler, | ! lately detected and taken into custody in Philadelphia, has been recently practising < his trade in England. We should hope | that, unless the laws of New York admin* | int?r urvnn him a sufficient retribution for | the crimes committed there, to secure the I j public against his further depredation, he < may be held in reserve, and handed over j to be dealt with according to the princi* | pies of English justice. < Marshfield. October, 8,1841. i Mr. Hale : 1 know not how 1 may f better guard the Public against further , practices of an impostor than by publish, i ing the following letter from Earl Spencer, t received by the Acadia. The accompany- | ing letter, purporting to be written by | ! me, is an entire forgery. J Of this Edwurds I had some previous , knowledge, as he attempted similar fraud*, \ some time ago, upon the late President of the Umted States, and my predecessor j in the Department of State. Yours, with much respect. DANIEL WEBSTER. Wise town, September 12, 1841. | My Dear Sir: I have thought it right ! to let you know of some transactions in { i which i have bee i engaged, and in which, j ; as I now believe, your name has been y | most improperly made use of, and your j j writing forged 1 enclose you a letter y which, when I first saw it, 1 believed to j ! be your hand writing, but which 1 now j believe to be a forgery. ? } Some time last spring, while I was liv. y i ing at Althorp. ( received a Icttter from a j < person who signed himself Munroe Ed* ? ! wards, enclosing the letter which I here. j I M*??k # mn rkoirt Ia VIAtl tlu, uiatp/l ! I j Willi u attain it ?*? Juu? i?u ^ you had given hitn a letter of introduction r to Lord Brougnam as well as this one to ? myself; that he made use of the letter to f Lord Brougham when he first arrived in t ' England, and that Lord Brougham hav- | , ingdone for him every thing he wished, j i ] he had not thought it necessary to trouble % i me with this letter. But that now he j j was iu a great, difficulty. Lord Brougham j was abroad, which i knew to be the case; , 8 j that neither the American minister, Mr. ) ? j Stevenson, nor any other of his fellow- v l countrymen would assist him, because j tkev were so hostile to Ids objects about s ihe negroes, to which allusion is made in j I the enclosed letter, and that he was acj (unity without a farthing to pay for his j I lodgings to earn turn and a son of his he j had with home to New Orleans. He there J lore sent me your letter, and asked, me to c lend him two hundred and fifty pounds, j c offering as a security certnmty bonds < * and receipts upon some hank in the Uni- s ted States. As to these securities, I r thought very little about them, but I con- r eluded they were good, as they were of- I J lered by a friend of voars Now this story |c Wi?s a very'plausible one, with the exeep- j v - - * i i? I [ linn of the assertion that tJoi. ttiltvaru s j I follow countrymen would not assist him. L, j But I thought it very probable that you j ^ ;vou!d "ive anv friend of vours about : I " ..if { whom you were interested a letter of in troductioii to Lord Brougham, and I hop- c ed it was not very impiobale that you 1 might also give him a letter of introduc* \ lion to inc. I accordingly referred Col. Edwards to my solicitor in London, and C sent up this letter purporting to be from t you. My solicitor took the letter to J .Messrs. Baring, who said they knew your ? handwriting perfectly well, and were suns ^ the letter was a genuine one. I have ( said I cared very little about Col. Ed- . * -- *l f r.ii .1 ^ f wnrirs securities, out i icu mm ? ohwui>. behave very ill to you if I permitted "n valued friend" of yours to be arrested when I could avert it by a loan of two hundred and fifty pounds. I will, indeed, say more, that I should have thought it not very creditable to my country if such a friend of yours could have been sotrea* ted without any one of us coming forward to help him. I accordingly advanced the money* lVIy solictor taking all the legal securities that were possible, and among others, receiving a certificate, front the American consul that Col. Edwards was the real bearer of that name. Col. Ed* wards promised to repay me during this month of Sept mber, saying that he took so long a period in order to he quite cer* tain that he should have arrived at New Orleans and been able to transmit the money to the day. I felt myself quite se* cure of repayment till about three weeks I ?- ? luliun mi' Qn!ir>itnr rppoivprl I I (II a IIIIIIMII <*?", T. liVII ... T 0U.w..w. . WV a letter from Col. Edwards, at Philadel- 1 phia, not written iri his own hand, hut only signed by him, saying that having 1 had business to transact in London, he c hnd employed a person of the name of J Justin, an Englishman, to transact it for him ; that with this view he had put his t j papers into the hands of this Justin, and | I sending my solicitor a copy of a letter ( purporting to be from Justin to him, Col, Edwards, in which lie tells him that he had abstracted certain securities from . these papers, and had upon them borrowed ' two hundred and fifty pounds from my ( solicitor, hut making no mention of the letter purporting to he yours at all. Jus- * tin saying that with this fraudulent object 1 he hud personated Col. Edwards. This. II confess, appeared to me rathor suspici j ous. I accoidinglv spoke to Brouguam, | when I found out that this story about | I Justin was a pure invention; that Col. Ed- j wards had really been here ; that he had I presented to him a letter of introduction | . from you, and had asked for a loan of mo- j . 4 ney, but that General" Hamilton. the inm- j ister from the Republic of Texas, having heard something of this, wrote to Lord Brougham fo say that this Edwards' had been convicted and imprisoned for forgery in Texas, and had escaped from jail; that he, General Harailiton, had told him that he knew all about him. and that Edward* had made no reply, to this letter. In consequence of this information I hail communication with General Hamilton, ind my solicitor showed him the enclosed latter, which he says.ho is confident is a forgery. - As to recovering the that of course is out of the question ; it is also hardly possible to do any thing towards the legal conviction of Edwards for this forgery, but it may be possible by expos. J ing him to prevent him from defrauding j nther people. I fear, therefore, you may j think lam giving you ag^eat deal of uo. j accessary trouble in sending you this long I tetail, but as your name had been so j much mentioned in the transaction, 1 think it isms well that you should be a. ware of what has taken place. And as we seldom act without some selfish influence operating upon us, I must also ad. init (hat I am always shall bo most hap* iy to attend to your wishes and to do nil [ can to show hospitality to any triend of irours when you may wish to recommend to mo. Believe me. my dear sir, yours, most irulv. SPENCER. Hon. Daxiil Webster, Ate. dec. dec. Mashfield, (near Bo3Ton ) Oct. > 29.1840. ) My Lord : I have taken the liberty 0 introduce to the honor of your acquain* ance, my valued friend Colonel M. Edvards, a highly respectable and wealthy rianter of Louisiana, who visits England viththe view of conferring with Her Afaeaty's Government on the subject of 200 j African captives, now illegally held as j laves in Texas. Said Africans w re sold ! vith an estate to Colonel Edwards, and! mposed on him as bomi "/We" slaves, j Subsequently learning their true claims i o freedom, ho with a magnanimity J >efore unknown, attempted their resto. ation to freedom by sending them to | in English Colony, hut was prevented | rorn sr doing !?y the direct in-i erposition of the Government of Texas. | Hiese poor Afi icans have claims on Her j Majesty s Government, and it is with the : hew of representing those clain|s in theii ! iroper light Cel. Edwards visits England. > Any service it may bo in vour Lord. { hip's power to reader Col. Edwards in I iromotion of hi.* most praiseworthy object i vill be properly appreciated. 1 have the honor to be, your Lord- | hip's most obedient servant, DAN L WEBSTER. Rt. Hon. Earl Spencer. London. what la* gentility. Every man can distinguish what they all a gentleman from a man whom d:ov lo not consider to be one. It is true, mow:ver, that every budv has not the- saute tandard for gentility, and what one! night consider to be genteel another j night consider to be very far from if.? t ir therefore impossible to give such a! lehnition of gentility as would accord vith the ideas of every one ; or, if such u ! Icfinition could be glvun there would be; vide difference of opinion us to the rules! hat might be laid down for carrying it j >ut. It'we were to venture an opinion! >n the subject, we would say that gen- j. lily is that deportment, whether at: | lome, in society, or in the street, which s the result of a desire to avoid saving or i ioing any thing that could give offance! o others. A strict o!?servance of this!1 aw would undoubtedly secure for its oh. lervant the respect of all with whom lie vouid he brought into contact, and in;, tarrying it into practice if he aims at j he highest standard of gentility, he must; :onsult the taste of the most fastidious,! >r else he may short of his object, and >e considered as genteel by one set of i )ersons and vulgar by another. A man vho should act up to the following statu 1 lard could hardly fail to he considered as t gentleman by every body although we ire free lo admit thut he might be considered by ma ny as rather too much of , ine: It is not genteel to swear. , It is not genteel to indulge in licenti- . >us conversation. , It is not genteel to talk loud in compa- , ty. i It is not genteel to laugh loud. It is not genteel to interrupt others in conversation. 1 It is genteel to be quick and abrupt in 1 conversation. Jit is not genteel to pass your opin- I on in a dogmatical and positive man- ! ter. It is not genteel to give force to your issertions by hammering on the table, >r by any extraordinary gesticulation.? Vs if you were infallible. , It is not genteel at an evening party j 4 vliere refreshments are served, to fill a) < ady's plare with terrapins, or oystors, or I :hicken, or salad as; if she had eaten no linner. It is not genteel to slam a door in going; n or out of a room where there are noj ?ther persons. | It is not genteel to tmoke cigars in the 1 street, as soma respectable person* are of. en seen to do. It is not genteel for tvcdldum to turn ! ip his nose at twcdlcdee in coni|>anv. It is not genteel to talk at concerts or' { centres so ns to prevent others from , rearing, It is not jrenteel at a table to b< gin >eforc the rest of the company are helpid. It is nut genteel to eat fast or put n large quantity in your mouth at once. It is not genteel to finish a meal until others have hacf time to make some progress with theirs. It is not genteel to eat so slow as to eat after others are done. It is not genteel wnen yon are invited to a party to meet a stranger, to go away before the stranger. It is (Hit genteel if you he that stranger to wait an unreasonable time before you leave. Rkpcblican Offick. Springfield > (Mass.) Tuesday, Eve. Oct. 5. ) RBAEFLL COLLISION OF RAIL BO AD CARS. This afternoon, the Eastern and Western passenger trains of the Western R til I Road, both going at great spued, met in ! Recurve about four miles west of Westfie!ef and the effects were shocking and disastrous.?Wesifiald depot is the place for meeting and passing, but as train from the West was behind its time, the other ?/?>/li??ln* kftninfT (n u will wrui Ullf (IIC euuuuvivi ?V arrive at the next turn out before meeting the other train. The baggage cars of each train wero behind, of course bring, iug the pessenger cars directly behind the locomotives and tenders. The two locomotives and two or three passenger cars of each train were mashed to a com* plete wreck. The passengers were jammed and tumbled together in the ruins in dreadful confusion. We are informed that eighteen or twonty have limbs broken?and as many more are severely bruised and lacerated in var. ious ways. Mr. Warren, the conductor of the train from the West, is shockingly mutilated, but his life is not yet despaired of. Tho engineer of that train escaped without much injury. Mr. Moore, the conductor of the Springfield train narrow, ly escaped by jumping off. Mr. Taylor, the engineer of that train, is badly wounded. A young ladv, niece of Jlfajor Whistler, is said to be dangerously hurt. Colonel Harvey Chopin is much bruised, but not dangerously, as is now hoped. The Rev. S. Elliot,* an Episcopal clergymen from South Carolina, and family, left here this noon, were brought back to the United States Hotel this ev. ening in sad condition. The ladies were not seriously hurt; but last two sens were wound::.!?one scratched and bruised, and the other had his leg broken above, the knee. These are dl! the particular cases of which we learn-d. We are not sufficiently informed of the ! circuuistanccr of this sad accident, to j make any comment. It is reported that Mr. Warren, men. j tioned above, died this morning. He was i formerly c>n luctor of the steamboat train ! to Norwich?subsequently clcrii of tho j stonmhoat Worccslci. | *i\n!c.?[ The R. v S. Elliot, above ref r- ; r (I t", is nn! ;he R' R v. Bishop Elliott but da* R-'v. Mr S. Elliott, of Sheldon, Prmcc WiJJi un, Snuili Cdiol.ua The Bichop l?*ft expressly attend *;ConvenUou to he a id ; in :li#? ci'y of New York, and was not acconi. ! pa hied ?y ins lamilv-j?Editors Courier. * }' A Rich Mine.?We saw a few days i since, n specimen of Ore taken fiom' a i Cold Mine, in Union" District, (S. C.,) ! that excels in richness any we have ever seen. The .Vine is owned by Dr. Adol- : l xt ... / r ai__ i__T.. I \ 1 pilllS i\OU, ^.SOIl Dl lilC UllK J L1IJU,J lint is leased at present to an English Mining Company. We were informed j, that out of ten bushels of ore. as much as j due thousand dollars worth of Gold had been obtained. We saw four pieces of the oro, the largest less than a goose-egg in size, and it was thought that the seve-1 nil pieces were worth from forty to seven* J tv dollars. Toinpnrance Advocate, j Shipwreck am> loss of life.?The Quebec Gazette states the following par..' liculurs of the loss of the barque Amanda, | Captain Davis, from Limerick which'' came on shore at Little Metis Point, at;t five oY.lnc.it, on the 26th ult. She had!' forty passengers and a crew of eighteen, j' The Captain, two seamen and two appreo- j< tiers, were among those saved. < Twenty-nine of the passengers, and * twelve of the crew were lost. I Extraordinary Scene.?A Thea tre on kirk.?"At St. Petersburg, on the 18th ult.," says the Post and Gazette, 1 "the audience at one of the principal the- ' atres percieving a great light behind the ' curtain, anticipated some grand display of i fire-works, and began to express their delight by clapping and shouts of applause. Tka .lulndivo inv wan nnlv inrroased in 1 i taw uviuoi w jw.?y ? stead being converted into terror by the I Appearance in front of the an actor, vocif- i erating the house was cn fire; for the peo- i pie thought that was the trick of the scene, i And continued their noisey acclamations, * To undeceive them the manager ordered I the curtain to be raised, and exposed to them the flames, which soon invaded the whole building. i The rush to the door became mstantlyso < roilent, that many persons were killed, or r dreadfully injured, before they could make J their escape. There was another issue, [ txit it was closed, and in ordinary times is t not to be opened without the authority of i i police officer, who had not yet arrived. J 4 ? " tkft AilOQQIAn C f\ man, seeing uj? urgency ui mc v rushed through the (fames, and at the risk ! )f his life, forced the way open, and thus i <ave?lmany front destruction. We have not hear! the' details of the accident, t fiufjnav- li-arn.; ! that, on the follow ingday I thchrav>: r)i..n. to whoinso many oth'.,i> ^wod then lives, was invested with an honoraMe distinction by the Emperor's mvn hand, and had secured to him a pen. Siou for life of 2,000f. { They oosst of having a man in New t England 106 year9 old. Some of our i ( negroes at the South are older than that. J Two Men Killed and Six Wounded! fatal accident on board tiie steamfrjoate fulton. Yesterday afternoon, a 64 lb. gun burst on board this steamer while off the Hook, killing two person* instantly and wounding six others very badly. The names of the kilied are Samuel rfnowmao, seaman, and Joseph Philbrook, ordinary seaman.?The wounded are, HusaeJ Smith, carpenter'* mate, Joshua Wy. man. quarter gunner. Levi Lawson, Thomaa Smith, Ricfd Rell, and John Cooper, seaman, at badly. - * ? The explosion did great damage to the we part of the vessel giving it the appearance of a per'ect wreck. The starboard steam chimney was blown down. She is now moored at the Navy. Yard. The guti broke in two outside of the carriage and split in the bruech the two parte of the breech taking different directions, one landed on the starboard side?(the gtm was on the larboard)?'he other went forty test aft carrying away ihe dispensary and Purser** store room, and iron s'sncheone, and then st. ving in both starboard and steamchirnnins, which added to the horror o! the scene by filling the ship with steam. The par deck is all knocked op, Lieut. Strong was thrown fifteen feet in the air, falling on the hammock netting, without materia! inju 7 !'. The utmost care was taken by Captain Newton, Lieut. Cbaton, (the first Lieut.) and all the officers of the ship, to prersot so accu cent which ihe officers greatly feared. The officers kept the men back, piecing themselves between the gun and the- men, and then fired the gun with a slow match. In examining <lie scene of the disaster it is nly astonishing that more were not killed, although there was not a man within 30 (set of the gun on its dischaige. New York Express, colt, tue mu8pehek. Colt's native place, as He staled on rut examination, is Hartford, Connecticut, where h s p irents still reside. Wo under* stand thai his father has been for many vears Comptroller of the Slate, one of w t le highest offi -es in the Common wealth, * ind also extensively engaged in the print* ine t f silks and other branches of n an ~ i'acti r . We have b<en told that lha lamily are highly esteemed, but knows to be of violent passions, ov< r which few of them have any gre. t control. One ? f the sisters of the prisoner a few years since committed suicide. .While quite young, the prisoner was detected in some dishonesty, and at nn early age he fled from hi* father's house to o ut of the Southern States, whine he rema i net I for aouie lour year*. procuring a support by various means, -oraetimeaby honorable labor, and at others bv dishonest tricks. S.sne tune after this he was charged with swindling operation# in Philadelphia ; and i.i ISiti) he was brought before the police iff this city for hating burglariously entered the office of Judge Inglis, at that time 111 M ill street, and stolen sundry papers therefrom. A lot of skeleton keys were then found in his possession and he was held to hail under the nam" of Frown, but his ease was never brought to trial. [We give the <il>ove sketch, for the purpose, chicflv, of - rclace 4o the follow, ing just and in. >r? sre couuntct of tlw New York Tribune. M From this beginning, which many are prone to think exceedingly small, to what a depth of horrid guilt and blasting infamy has he plunged ! Thus inay wo learn that crime has a vital, growing power, which, though contemptible to the outward eve in its first shooting forth, soon spreads abroad its branches, thrusts downward deep into the heart its mighty roots, and overshadows the whole inner being with its death-distilling shade.? What treasures would this wretched man now gladly give could he again be placed imon the scenes of his first lapses from r - , honesty and truth, the hitter fruit* of" whose "foul flowering he is now to reap!" ? ? a daniel going intu trk lion's den. At a recent anti-slavery meeting in Vermont, a very zealous young man introducod a resolution thata person bo up. pointed to go ro the South and remonstrate with the penple there against the fin of slavery. The resolution was adopted, ind the young man who introduced the resolution was appointed to do the hours the office, which he had been the mean* jf creating. We regret to be obliged to sav that we do not think he will proceed far on his pilgrim ?ge of love. Alexanders (Pha>jMessenger. Cut to Piecks ?A man, named Henv Stinemitz, aged eighty, was run over ty a train *f rare near Carlisle, P., on Sunday, and cut to pieces. He wasaev-2red in two, leuthwise. Killed by a Wad.?A man, named? Dinsmorc itugg, was killed during a snam ight which took place at a military parade n Colcrain, Mass., lately. The deceased vas a member of cavalry troop, and, durng a charge, was struck in the head by i rifle wadding, which penetrated the>rain, and caused almost instant death. Samuel A. Suydam.?Tliia person vas brought up before the Circuit Court >f the United States, in N. Y., on Wedlesday, charged with an assault on Mr. liver, an accredited agent of a foreign >ower to the U. S. The penality i? hree years imprisonment, or such fine as^ s optional with the Court, The District Attorney, after proving the asaault, mov. id for a committal. Messrs. Price and Morrill appeared as counsel for Suydara,. md pleed in .mitigation of proceedings. The injured huo>and had rights as well met he other. Sudani was ordered to find wiil in the sum of 810 000, which he;ave, and was uiscoafged. Cha. Mer. The London capita1! *Us have refused tfr !ake any part of the twelve million loan mthorized bv Congress. The Times atribute* this refusal to tfte course taken by . jov. McNutt, of Mississippi.