against the mountain, where its progress roses and lilies of the valley; the train orwas stopped. It is remarkable, that not-namented at the bottom with an elegant withstanding the igneous matter which it wreathing of silver hops and French roses, contained in great quantity, nothing that terminated by a blond lace worked in silwas struck by this columb, was set on fire; ver lama, like the petticoat; the sleeves the straw thatch of the cottages was only richly embroidered in silver, as also the blackened. This effect, however, may body, which finishes at the bosom with a probably be attributed to the extraordi-silver cestus. From the left shoulder demary humidity then prevailing, occasioned pends a rich drapery of blond and silver, by such heavy rains as are not remembered | fiuished on the right side by a beautiful by the oldest persons in the colony, and wreath of roses and other flowers. lasted nearly a mouth without interruption. The phenomenon was followed by excessive heats, which have caused many sudden deaths.-(Journal des Debats.) INDIES: WEST. Haytian Court-Dresses. Very superb dresses for the Queen and Princesses of Hayti, have just been finished by one of our fashionable dress-makers, in London. They are as follow: Queen of Hayti's Dress-Petticoat of white satin, richly embroidered in gold sunflowers, terminating at the bottom with a broad gold fringe, the train of white satiu, embroidered like the petticoat, looped up on each side (to form a drapery) with gold tassels and bullion; a beautiful gold net falls from the left shoulder, and is fastened under the right arm, held up by large cords of bullion over the shoulder, the corners and edges finished with tassels and fringe; a rich plume of white feathers, ornamented with combs of immense value, complete the dress. This dress may be considered as a Chef d'Oewere, being by far the richest and most elegant ever made in this or any other country. The Princesses' Dresses.-The First-a petticoat of lilac satin, richly trimmed with three rows of gold and silver fringe, arranged to form draperies; the body orna mented in like manuer, finished at the bosom with a gold and silver cestas, with a finely executed rose, from which is suspended an elegant sash of gold and silver net; the train is of silver tissue, richly embroidered round the bottom with large leaves in green chenille, the veins of the leaves in gold) and large red roses: the sleeves are of silver tissue, each with a flower, the same as round the train: a very beautiful frog and tassels finishes the back; the whole trinimed all round with gold and silver fringe, to correspond with the petticoat. Pirates: Sea-Robbers. Piracy along the coast of St. Domingo and among the Bahama Islands has arrived at an alarming height. In cousequence of a representation from the Bri-· tish Admiral on the Jamaica station, a Proclamation has appeared in the Royal Gazette of Hayti, offering a reward for taking those depredators, and threatening that no mercy would be shewn to them, to whatever country they might belong, whether American, Spanish, Portuguese, or natives of Hayti. The proclamation sets forth the necessity of protecting and encouraging the trade of Hayti, and giving security to the vessels sailing under the flag of the countries with which they are happily at peace. ITALY. Present manners of Italy. The sociable manners of Germany are gradually introduced at Milan. Count Bellegarde gives a grand entertainment every Sunday and Thursday, to which the nobility of both sexes, as well as foreigners of distinction, are invited. Count Saurau has a Conversatione every Tuesday, to which the Nobility are invited, but are requested to appear without ceremony and in undress. Here they have dancing, music, and refreshments of all kinds; sometimes German dishes are served. These are very welcome to the Italians. We now see also on Sundays and holidays, dancing-rooms in The Second-A pink corded satin petti- every corner, which were formerly not coat and train, the petticoat covered with a permitted in Italy, except during the Carbeautiful bloud lace, richly worked in sil-nival. At first the Clergy sought to prever, the bottom embroidered with scol-vent it, but in Austria they dance all the lops in silver lace, looped up on each side year round, and we now, thank God, are with large bunches of French flowers under Austria. The Italians are much pleased that the Venetian horses have been | signed by the Prince de Metternich, Lond removed from Paris. Rome: Catholic Proceedings. Castlereagh, Count Nesselrode, and the Prince de Hardenberg. This decision in ports that the Allied Powers will not oppose the return of Lucien Buonaparte to the States of the Pope, provided his Holiness compels him and his family to remain there. MADEIRA. The Secretary of the Pope has given notice, that the ancient diplomatic relations, with all privileges and immunities, had been restored with the different European Powers. The right of Asylum is limited to the Palaces of Ambassadors; also to minor offences. The privilege of a printing-press Letters have been received from the Main the Palace of the Spanish Ambassador | deira islands to the Sd uit. They bring inis abolished. All works for publication telligence that the vintage had totally failed must first be submitted to the Congrega-there-estates that formerly produced forty tion called de Reforme. Christian Prisoners. pipes of wine, were not expected this seasou to produce more than two. Teneriffe, Sept. 2.-"There is a complete The Congregation of the Missions has famine in the island, and there never was sent to Rome a list of all the Christians such a vintage known as this year. There who are prisoners among the infidels. will not be sufficient wine for the conThere is an account of 49,000 in the Regen- sumption of the islands. Estates that cies of Algiers and Tunis. It seems that generally produce forty pipes, will not the Jesuits, who had been hitherto pro-supply two this year. This, added to the tected in Tunis, and who had made success- prohibitions on the English goods, must ful incursions into the interior of Africa, have obstruct our whole trade. given umbrage to the Government. Several have arrived at Rome. It is believed that his Holiness, according to the wish which he has expressed, will make an appeal to the Powers of Europe, to deliver the Christians from the hands of the Infidels. State of the Public roads. PORTUGAL. Weather: Scarcity of Water. In Portugal the weather has been unusually dry aud sultry. In Lisbon the several springs which supplied the town, were entirely dried up when the last accounts came away, and the inhabitants were reduced to the necessity of sending The robberies in the Roman territories across the Tagus for water in barges. The have not wholly ceased, though more sewater was not brought over in casks of any verity than usual is employed against kind, but was invariably pumped first into those who render the roads unsafe. The boats, and from thence into the vessels inPapal Decree of August 12, 1815, orders tended to convey it to Lisbon, where t moveable columns, Military Commission-fetched a considerable price. And from ers, responsibility of the Communes, &c. and recalls the example of severity set by Sixtus V. and his celebrated constitution "Hoc nostri Pontificatus initio," &c. Antiquities from Greece. The statues found some years ago at Egina, and purchased by the Crown Prince of Bavaria, are arrived. at Rome, in order to their being repaired-Allgemeine Zietung, Oct. 20. State of the Metropolis. the French Papers we learn that, from the same cause, the Farmers for twenty leagues round Paris reckon little better than half a crop of corn. PRUSSIA. Berlin Fasihons. Wellington demi-boots, military (or half boots) are of fine red kid and morocco leather, or of satin of scarlet dye, with very small yellow gilt buttons, to button at the side; a star of royal purple embroider binding, with purple fringe; thin and narrow soles, made right and left, with very broad duck-neb toes. Rome, Sept. 19.--A great calamity pre-ed on the instep, but small, and purple vails in Rome, and in all the Statys of the Holy See; the city is filled with manuscript satires, in which the government is treated with little respect. The vigilance of the police is not sufficient to prevent their circulation. Prisoner at Large. Rome, Oct. 8.-Lucien Buonaparte, whose arrival here has already been announced, enjoys entire liberty, by virtue of a decision of the Allied Sovereigus, Wellington slippers are of scarlet morocco or kid leather, and also of scarlet satin; a star of royal purple embroidered on the instep; purple biuding; made right and left, thin and narrow soles, with broad duck-neb toes. Prince Blucher demi boots, military (or half-boots), of royal purple, or dark blue Season: incessant rains. A letter from St. Petersburgh, dated Aug. morocco or kid leather, also of purple satin; a small scarlet star, embroidered on the instep, and scarlet bound; red leather but-25, says:-" The weather is continually tons (covered red); thin narrow soles, made right and left; broad duck-neb toes. Blucher slippers are of Royal purple or Prussian blue (dark blue), kid or morocco leather, and satin; an embroidered star of scarlet on the instep, and scarlet fringe and binding; narrow soles, right and left; very broad duck-neb toes. rainy. Nobody can remember such a wet summer as this has been. We have simiJar accounts from many parts of the interior of the empire. In many places there have been uncommonly frequent and severe thunder storms and heil. Casan, city burned, A Spencer of scarlet kerseymere, turned A letter from Casan, of Sept 5, gives the up with royal purple, with gilt haycock following account of a dreadful conflagrabuttons, of small size, is a walking-dress tion in that city" After a long continu to the scarlet demi-boots or slippers; and ance of dry weather, a fire broke out here, a purple or Prussian blue kerseymuere spent made its first appearance in the Janiskoi the horrors of which exceed all description. cer, turned up with scarlet kerseymore, small yellow gilt haycock buttons, is a walking dress to the purple demi-boots and slippers. The scarlet boots and slippers are in honour of the English army royal'scarlet dress;) and the Prussian bine boots and slippers are in honor of the Prussian army, dressed in royal purple. This will be the winter-dress of the Court, the nobility, and fashionables of the Prussian dominions. suburb, on the other side of the river Bu lak, and, in consequence of a strong wind, spread with incredible rapidity, so that in less than an hour several streets were involved in flames. All human efforts were unavailing; the dust driven about by the whirlwind, and mixed with volumes of deuse smoke, completely obscured vision, and the violence of the fire rendered all ap proach impracticable. A number of build Possibly, in the Carnival time, furs may beings have fallen a prey to the flames, viz. added to them, for warmth. In other respects, the dress of the Court and Prussian ladies is, for the most part, of English fashion. Merinos: Wool improved. His Majesty the King of Prussia has purchased from 1,000 to 1,200 Merinos, to be transported to Prussia, there to improve the wool. All these purchases have been made nearly in the department of the Seine and Oise. The Blucher Family.-An article from Berlin says-According to an ancient chronicle, the family of Blucher was settled, with many other German Nobles, to support Christianity, about the year 1255. Ulric Von Blucher was Bishop at Ratzeburg, as also his brother Herman; and in 1586, Weipert Von Blucher was also Bishop there. The latter not being of the proper age, went to Rome to get a dispensation from the Pope; but his Holiness would not give it him till the following miracle happened, namely, that the hair of Weipert turned grey in one night. The following morning, when the Pope saw this miracle, he made no more difficulty to give him the dispensation. RUSSIA. Arts patronised: Specimens. The Emperor of Russia purchased, before his departure from France, the pictures and statues which decorated the gallery of Malmaison. the whole of the Citadel, including the Cathedral Church, the Spas Convent, St. Cyprian's Church, built by the Czar Iwan Wassilid witch, the Consistory House, the Courts of Justice, the Post-office, and the cannon foundery. Outside the fortress there have been burnt down, 3 cathedral churches, $ convents, 12 parish churches, 19 of the best stone buildings belonging to the Crown, among which are the Clerical Academy, the Gymnasium, the Vice Governor's house, and others; besides six public buildings, among which is the great Commercial Hall with all its wares, and 1000 stone and wooden houses belonging to private individuals. The fire raged in 18 streets, of which nine are totally, and the others are more thau half burnt down. In the Casau convent of nuns, all the cells and the chapel above the gate are burnt down, but the principal church, and the image of the Mother of God remained uninjured. The unfortunate sufferers are encamped in the plains near the city." SPAIN. Slave Trade.-Since the abolition of the Britain, the Spaniards and Portuguese have Slave Trade by the Parliament of Great carried it on to a much greater extent than ever. Spanish Cuba, and the Portuguese Brazils, have been extending their cultivation by means of a vast influx of slaves from Africa, from 70 to 80,000 negroes have been carried to Cuba and the Brazils, in a single year. Plan for exporting Quicksilver. it answers the hopes of its author, would The extreme poverty of the Spanish Go-enable a boat, without regard to the wind, to make the tour of the lake (or 36 leagues) in 24 hours.-(Journal de Frankfort, Oct. 16.) vernment has recently given birth to the Clerical Missionaries for Political purposes. As one of the curious means adopted by Ferdinand VII. to affiance bis newly assumed power, we learn from Spain, that he has sent out Missionaries throughout all the country, to doctrinize the people who have been influenced by the late revolution. These Missionaries are Franciscan Friars, belonging to the Apostolical Colleges. At a town 12 leagues from Madrid, one of these Friars got up into the pulpit, and harangued his hearers on the subject of the late Constitution. He said it was heretical, jacobinical, destructive of religion, morality, &c.-For a long time coughings were constantly heard throughout his audience, till at length a tall whiskered muleteer, who could bear it no longer, got up and cried out, "Father this is not the Gospel; you were sent here to preach the Gospel, and not a political discourse." In an instant all the audience rose up, the poor Friar took to his heels, escaped through the Sacristy to the Curate's house, and being pursued, fled over the garden wall. TURKEY. Mahometan scruplosity overcome. Cases of plague have become more numerous, at Constantinople, on account of the concourse of people at the festival of Bairam. The Sultan's Court Chaplain is among those who have been carried off by the contagion within these few days. His Sublimity, struck by this event, as it seems, has caused in the principal mosques the Musselman people to be reminded of the following sentence, from the Hadis Sherif, or traditions of the sayings of Mahomet:-" Let the sick have no communication with persons without, and let the healthy refrain from mingling with the sick :" a measure which gives room to hope that the Porte may in time adopt more enlightened principles respecting the plague. National Register : BRITISH. ABSTRACT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF The following tables have been published in Nicholson's "Price Current," and are said to be derived from official au thority. We have therefore thought it our duty to record them in our journal They will, no doubt, be strongly, and extensively commented on, by foreignersz who, when they see these immense amounts reduced into florins, or franks, will be but so much more inveterately confirmed in the persuasion that England is a country made up of gold and silver. That a country in so involved a state should have been able to make such wonderful exertions, as they have seen with their own eyes, will astonish them into unbelief: what the next generation may believe, cannot be conjectured: neither can foreigners conjecture the power by which Britain still Steam Boat, proposed. survives, still supports a pressure so imThere is now at Geneva an Englishman mense, and is not only not ruined, not exwho proposes to apply the steam engine to the boats which navigate the lakes. It is hausted; but cujoys a credit superior to said the Council of State has named Com-that of any other nation on the face of the missioners to examine this plan, which, if earth. SWITZERLAND. |