Jroifcsn. .\K\\ YOUK, .Ttl.Y 31. Fror,i lh)^Ian(L—\\y the packet slii|> Columbia, Capt. (Jrihairj, we have rc- ct’ivfd Enfjlish journals to the loth cf June. They are chicny filled wiili cloc- tion proceedings, and comain no |)(jlitical tien s from the continent. It appears from their contents, however, that oiir ccc»*n- ^ric countryman Randolph had ai rivcd in ILngland, and was the subjcct of almost as much curiosity and speculation on the other side ot the ^vater as on this. Our readers will be amused by some of the characteristic sayintjs reported of him in the llTijjlish newpapers. A splendid dinner was given in the Town Hall by the Mayor of Liverpool to Mr. lluskisson and ;i numerous party, comprisinjj several iistint;uished strangers, amonj; whom was Mr. Randolph. Mr. Huskisson, af- *er complimentinf^ the Mayor on the presence of one who had ever been the ardent and efficient advocate of all that was morally and politically good* in his native country, and who entertianed the most friendly feelings towards England, proposed the health of Mr. Randolph. Mr. Randolpi), on rising to return thanks said,- those who had experienced the sensations of a man suffering after a protracted and uneasy voyage by sea, and ihc privation, incident to it» on his arri val at the wished-for shore, might ibrm a small estimate of his, when he saw the British land ; but they could not duly ap preciate his feelings on the change from all that is as necessarily uncomfortable and cheerless, to the animated anti social reception he had n»ct wiih since his ar rival in Liverpool. Mr. Randolph, itj a cliasie and appropriate manner, expatia ted on the blessings we heie enjoy, and which arc fostered and protected by the ablest Minister this country ever had. He said, he could never distinguish be tween the interests of America and En gland ; whatever was beneficial to Liver pool could not but be higiily useful to AfcU' York. The interest of the cotton planter and the cotton spinner were one and the same.—The tobacco planter in America, and the merchant and manufac turer in England, who converted that plant into a source of industry and wealth, had but a common interest. Mr. Ran dolph, after having assured the company that lu: felt proud of having English blood in his veins, concluded by proposing, as a toast, “ The Town and Trade of Liver pool. ” Mr. Randolph arose again to propose a sentiment, which Jie trusted, would be received with unanimous good feeling ; and hoped that, if any one was found that could not be warmed by the sentiment, he might pass his days in the absence of ■whatever was intellectually good and a- greeable. He proposed—“England and America, the Mother and Daughter.” This toast, from its congeniality with W'hat was once uttered by Mr. Canning, in the same room, met with the warmest burst of enthusiasm, and Mr. Randolph won the hearts and good wishes of every individual present. Mr. Randolph was also of a party which accompanied Mr. Huskisson on an aquatic excursion to which the directors of the Dublin steam packets had invited him.— JNIr. Randolph is described as “a remark ably thin man, having the appearance of old age, although only in his 52d year.— He was surroundeol during his excursion by a crowd of gentlemen. He talked in cessantly and instructed as well as de lighted the company by his conversation.” At a cold collation to which the company ^at down on board the steamboat Britan nia, Mr. Huskisson proposed the health of Mr. Randolph, This produced from that gentleman the following speech. *‘\Ir. Randolph, in returning thanks for the very handsome compliment which had unexpectedly been paid him, expres sed himself proud and gratified in meet ing so numerous and so repectable a par ty of the gentlemen of this country, the parent of his own, many of whose most useful institutions, tiie trial by jury, the v/rh oniabeas corjmsy civil and religious Uber^y, and a represcntaiivc constitution, fiad been formed upon the model of those wlilch had been established in this great utid happy natioJi, by the wisdom and spirit of their common ancestors. (Applause.) .And, as his country had wisely gleaned frdin this the benefit of all Ihe grand essentials of civil polity, he trusted slie would rmulate her in the ac- qniremrrit of all those minor, but not less ‘endeari?ig vivuies und graces of social life, of whicti he had now the happiness to witni’ss sn pleasing an exatnple.— (.applause.) When he returnefl to the other side of the Atlantic, he should car ry with him a gru,teful remembrance of '.he kind, attentive, and hovpiiable re- '•.eption he had met with on this : and his f'tra'c.st pride and pleasure v.oulri be in iucU opport»nitics as might be aObrderd him of manifesting' the sincerity of his KfUngs,, by a liniilar return, not only to .'iny ot the burgesses ol Liverpool, but to any of tue natives of England whom he iniu:ht at any lime have tlie pleasure ol mtx-ting there. (Ajiplause.) In conclu- jioii, he would i>eg leave to propose as a toust, their own Livt-rpool—not the town of which they were so justly jiroud—not its trade, of which they ilaily boasted the profcperity—not its distinguibhed and tai- er.tcd re]jresenlalive, whose rccent (lec tion did honor to their choicc,—but iheir i! f. (lic gr'caL and glt'iecl iii.t'.i at the heail of the administration of the country.—(Hreat applause.”) Mr. Randolph must have talked a great deal on this occasion, otherwise the re porter could hadly have rertiembered so much. The following aTiecdotes of his conversation, nre amusing and character istic. The mixture of rejjublican and ar istocratic dotctines is somewhat curious. At half pa«t 12 o’clock the Britannia dropped anchor opposite the Prince’s I’arade, and the - company prepared to land. Mr. Huskisson and the party went on shore in the barge, and were enthusi astically cheered by the company on board the packet. Mr. Randolph still remained on the quarter deck, surround ed by a large crowd of gentlemen, whom he greatly amused by his eccentric, yet instructive and original conversations. He seemed like an ancient Grecian sage surrounded by his scholars. No sooner had Mr. Randolph quitted the IJritannia and got on board one of the river strea mers, than he wai again quickly sur rounded by a curious group. A g'^ntle- manon board the liritanniatheii j)roposed three cheers for Mr. Randolph, wli.'ch were given with great enthusiasm. The honorable gentleman, taking ofl'his hat, exclaimed, with great animation, “ (ien- tlenien, Old England and Young Amer ica united for ever ! Who shall ilivide them r” Loud cheers followed this pi thy speech, and the hand on board struck up “Yankee Doodle.” An Irish g«;n- tleman asked Mr. Randolph, what would be the best cure for the miseries of Ire land. ^1 will giveiftoyou in the words of the Bible—‘ Unrnnzzk the. ox that trectd- etk out the torn'—The Irish peasant is deprived of his due and proper share of the earth.” Another gentleman observ ed, that he did not think Coi)l)ett was (pial- ified to sit in the House of Commons I” “Cobbettnot ciualiiied to sit in the I louse of Commons,” exclaimed Mr. Randolph, “W’hy,he has (jualified himself lor a seat in that house as a lady of easy virtue qualifies herself for the Magdalen Asylum,—by a life of prostitution to all parties, and be ing faithful to none.” Speaking of man, Mr. Randolph said, “ He Is naturally in dolent, and all your contrivat?ces of church and state, or by whatever other name they may be called, are, that A may be idle while B works.” Talkitig of property—“ Society,” said the sage, “ cannot subsist without property. If, in political revolution,property be divorced from power, power will soon go in search of property. A reaction then takes place —properly goes in search of jiower, and they become once more united.” “In all state revolutions,” said Mr. Randolph, endeavor to keep down the dregs of so ciety. You can easily blow oil’ the froth: but, if once you let the dregs get upper most, depend upon it that the draught ^ill be, not blue, but black ruin.” A gentleman was inquiring about the con stitution of Virginia, the state which Mr. Randolph represents in Congress. “ Why,” said Mr. Randolph, “ we vote for representatives viva vocv. on freehold suffrage; and we Virginians would as soon have our noses cutoff as change the mode to voting by ballot.Then, sir, your mode of voting is the same as in England r” “ Aye, to be sure,” replied Mr. Randolph. “Have we not- been steering on the same course ever since we left you, without tacking or taking in sail.^ only we have thrown the king overboard, God bless him !” When the boat came along side the wall, “What a magnifi- cipnt quay this is 1” exclaimed Mr. R. “We have hone like this in America. New York and Liverpool are mutually dependent on each other. You take her cotton, tobacco, and other raw produce \ and she takes your cutleiy and earthen ware, cotton goods, salt and coal. We can’t (lo without you, and you- can as lit tle do without us. And can you conceive of greater noiisense than that two such countries should go to war.^ Ii is mere r.onsense I” l.ATRST riUJM KMtOI'K. By the packet ship York, Capt. De Cost, from Liverpool, from which j)hice she sailed on tl»e 21th of June, the Editors of the Commercial Advertiser have re ceived regular files of London papers to the 22(1, and I'^iverpool to the '2.Uli ol' .Tune, all inclusive. London papers of the evening of the 23d, were also receiv ed by the Amethyst, Cupt. Bussty, which arrived on Wednesday, at Bus'.on. And the Stepliaiiia, Capt. Pell, arrived at this port this morning f.-om Havre, bringing various tiles of Paris papers to the 2-tth of .lime inclusive. The papers are yet crammed full of matters ir.cident to the pending elections. We shall soon make some curious ex tracts of sccries at the hustings. What would John Bull say, should he ever find similar ones in this country ? Lord John Russell has lost iiis election in Hunting don. Hunt and ('obbett at the tails of their respective polls. The mound erecting upon the field of i Waterloo, is nearly finished. It is to be ICO fert iiigh. Some d' the stones ol which the pedestal is built, weigh 22,000 lbs. A colossal lion is to take his station on the top of the pedestal. Lord Cochrnui' andthe Gn e/cs.—Jirtissels papers are to the 20th of June. N’oihing new had transpired about Lord Coch- rane’t) iTitended participation in the (Jreek cause, except when the ladies callcd on the iady C. f*r a subsc’-iption for the viii'CK C.oi'iiiii»tLc'i« vi jv’ ii t ;,i_, ^ francs—adding, that “sl;.^ gave more j than any other person in the world, her husl)and, who was about to expose liis life for this sa-^red cause.” [We wish his Lordship would be about the business (piick, then—for if he stays away much , longer, we fear he will be obliged to tight alone, if at all.] Since the forego ing was written, on opening the Lonilon evening papers of the 2od, we find that Lord C. has actually departed for Greece, after publishing the copy of a letter which it is said he has addressed to the Pacha of Egypt. This paper, which is intended as a sort of manifesto, is ridi culed in the Courier, and highly praised iti the Whig Journals. It strikes us as a very singular document, to say the least. The Sun speaks of it as follows : “His Lordship grounds his interfer ence in the ciintest between the Pacha and the Gj’eeks on the privilege which the former claims and exercises, of re ceiving aid in various modes from Neu tral Sta,tes ; and on the inliuman traflic which he carries on in Christian slaves, and the cruelties which disgrace his Government. After exhorting him to hum.anitv, and the exercises of acts for the promotion of ci\ilization of his peo ple—towards which objects his Lordship tenders his assistance—he warns him that ii, on the contrary, he continues his present proceedings, “Then,” says his Lordship, “ my companions and myself cast the gauntlet down, and will contend against you. Quit the classic soil of Greece—cease your burnings, im|)alings, and enormities—and release your Chris tian slaves.” These are the o!)jects, then, for which Lord Cochrane will con tend : and truly the cause w'hich he has undertaken is a glorious one and drser- ving of the support of the whole civili zed world. The energy, gallantry, and known address of tiis Lordship, will, we ])redict, speedily alter the state of Cireek afi’airs. He is consummately skilled in tin* warfare which is carried on between the tirceks and their enemies ; and he pos sesses more, pel haps, than any man living the power of exciting the feelings and rousing the enerines of others.—The in- lluence which he ;btains over the minds of those who are under his authority, is a most remarkable feature in his charac ter, and the confidence which he inspires, united with the ardour of his own character, cannot fail to arouse a spirit which exists throughout the whole of (ireece, and which requires only to be called into action by the presence of a leader of judgment and tact. We heai - tily wish hisLordship success in the glo rious cause he has undertaken, and that the honor of rescuing from tyranny and subjection the land from whence freedom first sprung, may belong to a native of that island in which it ha« fixed its latest but its firmest dwelling.” The Courier says it has been kept a secret that lord Cochrane has actually gone to join tfie Greeks. A steam-vessel was fitted out from England, under his lordshp’s directions, which was to be joined by several vessels from ditVerent ports on its way—the whole forming a considerable s(|uadron.—The ship on board which his lordship sailed, is called the Perseverance. Loxdox, JUNE 23. It is with great regret we have to mention, that the accounts receive(4 in town from the manufacturing districts are of a very gloomy character. 1 he temporary demand which had recently arisen for goods appears to have ceased, and every description of manufactures are offered on lower terms than at any preceding period.—We subjoin two par agraphs from the Manchester and Glas gow Papers, received yesterday, which arc calculated to excite considerable un easiness : Manchester^ Tuesday.—The market to-day has been bad, and things are ex pected to get worse.— I'he most gloomy rumors and surmises are afloat, relative to money majtters ; and it is known that unless a sudden and prosperous turn o- pens upon some respectable houses,.they must go, as others before them have gone. Yarns are lov. er ; cf)jnmon Yarns, which have lately fetched Md, may now be bought at ]?, l-ld for cash. Calicoes arc also at decreasing prices j say 3d less ' than last week. I'ustains, nankeens, and prints,are at a st.md—no demand.” “ (jlnst:on\ Tnesihn/.—W'e regret to state tluit commercial alVairs arc still de pressed and of a cheerless aspect; the number of unemployed operatives con tinues to increase—distress and want are marching with vast strides amongst clas- es above the rank of common laboureis. In Glasgow and its suburijs tliere are PJ,OUO weavers, and in other j)arts of Lanarkshire 'J,000 to 10,000 more.” (ireece.—The following private letter, dated Xante, IjthMay, and which ap pears in the Paris papers, gives some shocking details ol the atrocious conduct of the Turks on their capture of Misso- longhi. I'iie palace of the Sultan at Constantinople wus decorated with “tro phies of human heads, and festoons of ears and noses”—und these are the bar- .)arians whose aggressions upon the brave (ireeks are looked upo7i by Christian statesmen witli perfect apathy and indif ference !- “'i'he details of'the sacking of .Missolonghi are but imperfectly know n’ as tl'.e approach of lcyii:tn co«s’c.rs is fur- biuueii ,; o.it wc I.avVV tiiat ioi alium rut riv :> or 00^0 heads, some of w'lich were sent oil'daily to Constantinople.— The body of Bishop .Toseph was salt ed whole, as a present I’or the Sultan.— The women and young girls were distri buted to the officers and privates to be dis posed of as each thought proper. The churches v/ere all destroyed except one, which was converted into a mos(|ue.— I’revious to being murdered, the people found at Missolonghi^ were put to the torture, for the purpose of extracting Irom them whether there was not treas ure hidden in the fortress. Upon the Christian legations at Constantinople re ceiving official intelligence of the fall of Missolonghi, they sent their dragromans to congratulate the Sultan, and tliese, on entering the palace, had to pass amidst trophies of heads, and festoons, formed of ears and noses.” It is a remarkable circumstance, that in Prussia a Jewish rabbi has made an energetic appeal to his Hock in favor of the Christians of the East, and this ap peal has not been in vain, as subscriptions in aid of the Cireek cuuse have been o- pened in several synagogues. A society formed in Silesia, in aid of the Greek cause, has remitted with'n a few weeks to the Paris Hellenibt Com- iniUee the sum of oO,(X)0 IVancs. 1 !C. i tllO N.il.Ol'ii J"Ai!’UuV If .Mr. Randolph’s conduct, on landlrf at Liverpool, was so acceptable u, f* i.tighsh populace, it appears from ther . owing paragraph, that it produced arl !- ierent impression on one of our own cV zens, in w hom, it is natural to presun the honour of his native land was tho p It Blockade of St. Domingo.—('apt. hanks, of tlie brig arrived here on Satur day, in 1 t days from .\ntigua, inl’orms, says the Norfolk Beacon oi the 31st ult.) that }ie saw a letter to a gentleman in St. John’s, which slated that the IsUuid of St. Oomingo was blojk>idfd by a Frenrh Jieet. He also saw a paragrapli in a Bai L .'.'.iocs paper, stating the same fact. Churlcfi'on Courier. dominant consideration, that the conduct of Mr. this occasion, was such as to be IS evicie,!. I'l^nclolph, on o be in hosiii ity to American feeling: and when th the shouts oi an English mob are citH as evidences of his worth, we may propriety ask—is it from such a souir thalwe arelo reccivc ou,- opini,,,/;,- the political character and course ofo public men? If so—if this ment;,U,ui moral dependence is to be forcec^ on u —let us in the name of consistency „i.it down the free institutions which our ou„ fathers have given to us, return to as'ate of colonization, hug our chains again and cxpu.ig** the name of independence iVom our dictionaries and our recollections; ’ A letter from an American gemleniin in Liverpool, jjublished in the lioston Patriot, says, “Mr. Randolph arrived here resterday in the Alexander, front Philadelphia. I understand he conduct ed himself in a most shameful manner oti his passage, and insulted both the cap- tain and passengers. I understand Capt.' 15al(lwin told him he would not rcceive un insult from him or any other persoa on Ijoard of his ship, und tiiat he would give him any satisfaction he wished lor after he arrived. I am really rejoiced thut he has lound some one that will not: put up with his impudence. I think, I'o.- the honour of our country, he should be l>ut in the-Insane Hospital, or at any rate, not he allowed to visit this country and divgrace us liere. 1 think they mav say with propriety, if he is a sample of your gieuc nun, tl;e l.ord have mercy on you; and so sav 1. ” Enrtliquiike at Bogota.—A hnter from Bogota, under date of June IStii. furnish es the following account of the earth- “ I never in my life could stond straigl quake recently experienced there j i’th’prasence of a g.'eatmon; buta’ways W’e are all here in a state of great cx-1 l)oowed, and boowed,as i‘ citemenl and anxiety.—Last niglit was '-^y t*” the most awful one I ever passed.—Wv ! ^ above sentence of Sir Pertinax Mur- were sitting at whist as the clocks chim ed a quarter to eleven : at that moment we were all sensible of the shock of an earth(]uake, not however violent enough to make any extraordinary impression, and we pursued our game. About two minutes elapbed, when we experienced a most awful repetition. 'I’he walls of the house were dreadfully agitated, our can dles were overturned, chairs and tables thrown from one side of the room to the o- sycophant, was brought forcibly to our recollection, by a perusal of John Ran- dolj;irs speeches and toasts at the public entertainments in England, an account of which was published in the Patriot!ot\j yesterday. Who can reflect upon his* indiscriminate abuse in his harangues in Congress, cf every public functionary in the United States, and then read there* ports of his “boowing and striving to catch a luock or a smile fra the greit: mon,” with “a modest cadence of body, tl'.er—wecould ourselves scarcely main- tian our erect position, and were so pcr-U^d a conceeliating co-operation of the J, that we never thought whole mon,” with his “ torrents o’fl::t;e- I'e.ctly paralyzed, of getting out of the house ; indeed, my own belief was that the house must fall before wc could possibly get out of it, and tl;at it was therefore useless to move.>^ The ceiling was corning down upon us in large flakes, and the fail of a large mirror at the moment, which we took to be part of the house, added to the alarm. It was indeed appalling—-never, never shall I forget it. It passed, having lasted 40 seconds. W'e then went into the street, where crowds were on their knees praying most fervently. A general rush was made for the square in which the palace is. There we found thousands collected. Women and m_*n just as they had jumped out of bed, with the addi tion of a blanket thrown around them— mothers in the agony of grief and appre hension clasping their children to their bosoms—faihe;’s and brothers endeavor ing to provide them with covering —groupes of iemaies in every direction calling each others name to be assured that all were safe. Dismay and despair weix’ general. No one would return home, and thousands passed the whole night in the Square. Thit e o’clock, P. M. I have just returned from making a round of the town to observe the extent oi damages. Several houses are thrown entirely down—many are rent asunder from lop to bottom. The Cathedral, a splendid edifice, has one ot its wings rent from the base to the tower. Scarcely a house in the city is without injury—mine has every one of its principal walls sj)lit in several places—tliuing room in ruir's— the partition of my bed-room has fallen in, and had I been in bed. I should have l)cen at least severely bruised. A severe shock has not been tclt here until now since the year UiQj. About six 'cars ago, it is said, there was a slight (Jiie ; but no injury was done. It ajjijrui’s mira culous that only three lives have been lust. Many who are Ix're, and were at Caraccas during tlie great earlhcpiake there, say tlint this siiock was much moi-e severe ; but the houses being belter built here, the injury has bern less. Halt past live.—1 have bf’en taking a- nothcK survey, and was suiprised to tind that hundreds of famiiies are sending beds and furniture into the pUin, and er(’clin- booths t)iere for the night. All fear a'’- nother shock. li-ih, IJo clock, noon.-—•’riie night has I passed quietly and the alarm is subsidin TiDmcham'e and mm rhanpp. v'ith them. —In the Convention of 1which a- dopted the j)resent a Constitution, Mr. Madison proposed, and the \ ii gii,ia del egation sui)ported a ])lan of a Constitution, Ijy which *• Cfj/iu'iess should hurr Ihe pourr fij nti'fdInns' all State Lair.:.'—Such a doc ry till him,” without experiencing sen sations of the most nauseating disgrsr, and exclaiming with Egerton,‘“cnnlenipt- ibie. ” Half. Patrwi. Stammerine'.—About a week sincc, a young gentleman by the name of Parsons, from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, called into our oflice, and intimaied his intention of jjlacing himself under the care of Mrs. Chapman, in consequencc of an article to wliich we gave publici ty sjme weeks ago, in which a person named W'arren certified to an astonish ing cure of stammering w rought by that lady. When Mr. Parsons atJempted to make known to us his determina tion as well as to acquaint us with his name, he impressed us with an utter hopelessness of his cure—his face was painfully distorted in uttering his o«u name; and we have rarely, if ever, seen a more unhappy instance of stammerin^'- the sarne gentleman yesterday called up on us; we were preparing for another painful exercise of sympathies, when to our utter astonishment, he txpicssed his ideas with perfect fluency, without the least hesitancy or stammering. W“ pro fess ourselves ignorant of the means em ployed in this v.'onderful cure, but we cannot withhold a public expression of our admiration of the facts. Mr. I’ar- sons says that it seems r.s it' he had ac quired anew ixi,^:lcnce—liis lirst thought# in the morning are* that he is no ionje; separated from the enjoyment o! bocial converge. Ijiill. •—040— .fimciicnii Vorcclain.—The Porceh.;'- manufactory at Jersey City, established about 8 months since, is now going on with a fair prospect of success, 'll'f nvatcrials botli for the body of the artici" and for the glazing are all found aI)iiMC' antly in the United States, and -!'• thought to l)c of a quality at least cqua! to the Ijest I’rench materials. Skilful and experienced workmen have been inilucrd to come over from I’rance, and a variety of articles of porcelain have already been finished at the establishment. A s'.il'. greater (piantity of porcelain vessels,'i’"' ny of them executed with great ingenue ty and perfection, after th(; finest models of the antique, are now ready lor the o- ven. e have seen several of the arti cles manufactured there wliich, as tn beauty and texture, are nothing inleMCi' to tiie finest French porcelain. y. r. Ui c. Pcsf- (‘ak'uliftion of J.ongeviti/,—A celebrated Mathematician has calculated, that takv ing tiic age of Mr. JeJ/t.rHon to have ."o years when he signed the l)ecla^atiol^ and Mr. Jldajns, to have been 40 year.‘i. . , I , . the chance of their both li\ing lilty ye’?*-’ trine broached at the present day would longer, and dying at their expire- M; rued ymrrtl f.-r ,s,»i ,n \ irginin-. ! tier,, i. only one in hundred riu!h‘>'t£'

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