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must be dismissed. t he mtfm ot living are thus snajehed suddenly ally- from whole, .I.Mf khMhinn niul ,nnn d thett' families (hroutenod With want. And now, sir, I beg leaVetoask gentlemen, who support iba mea. ures of' the Adminis tration, .vhat I am to say to these people? What answer r nm I tn iive them, when they ask whatis to be done for their react 1 When .

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am 1 to inform thorn we mpcnmeiu wm ended. I am lw we anxious that they should furnish me with some answer, because j I nexceive that the business dmemoriffliAns I Congress, instead of 4cing nearly through, ' is but just begun, I perceive that petitions -and committoW ire cotning from all quarters, , Jroth ll clusses, ami from all parties, in constanjaad rapid succession, evincing a fixed T . t. J . 1 resolution amongst the people, not to fall silentand uncomulninin j victims.undcr acts ot 1 Government oqually illegal and preposterous.: If I mistake not, the spirit of the country is ' Main The Pannlo mint a,,. Rmnnimpnt ! ef the country mheir Government; the in terests which it should protect Met'r interests and they Mare had enough, quite enough, of Executive Experiments. Mr. President, when will this foolish Exporimoni bo abandonod? All men may commiterrors, but wise men, and candid men, will contract them, so soon as they see them to be errors. They will not adhere to error, in spite of experience, and grow more obstinate i and more angry, in proportion as that error becomes more and more manifest. Sir, we have come to a pass in which attachment to preconceived opinions,and Mo hastily adopted purposes, must give way to truth and reason. The times are becoming too sober, for any man, or set of men, to make a stubborn point of what they may call their own consistency. The country must be saved ; and the People muct save it by compelling those who have adopted ruinous measures, to retrace their steps, if they will not retrace them of their own tree will, having seen their utter and absolute failure, and the enormous mishiefs which they have produced. Siix-BD-iy, March 22. Mr. ROBINS presented two memorials on the subject of the general distress and pecuniary embarrassments of the country; one from the town of Newport, Rhode Isl and, and the other from the inhabitant of the towns of Smithfield and Cumberland, in the same State. After describing the late prosperous condition of the memorialists, many of whom were extensively engaged in the cotton manufactures, he proceeded : Now, all their prospects are blasted by one breath of the Executive Administration of this country. Now every thing in that valley, every thing in possession, every thing in prospect, is tottering to its fall. One half of those one hundred thousand spindles are, as I before stated, already stopped ; the Other half are still continued, but at a loss to the owners, and purely from charity to the labor?rB ; but this charity has its limit, and regard to their own safety will inp, yntfjfjini.t'1' irg. to atoa the other half, through thatvallev and witnessed the scenes then displayed there their numerous and dense population, all industrious, and thriving, and contented had heard the busy hum of industry in their hours of labor the notes of joy in their hours of relaxation had seen the plenty of their tabfcs, the comforts of their firesides had, in a w-rd, Cen in every countenance the content oi every heart; and if thai: same person should travel through the same valley hereafter, and should find it then deserted, and desolate, and silent as the valley of death, and covered over wi h the solitary and mouldering ruins of those numerous establishments, he would say, surely the hand of the ruthless destroyer ha been here. Now, if the present state of things if tone continued, as surely as blood follows the knife ihjU has been plunged to the heart, anddt -ith ensues, SO surely that change there is to take place; and he who ought 10 have been tl. ir guardian angel, will have been that ruthless destroyer. Though it has been denied here that the removal of the deposites was the cause of the distress, it is not denied that it was the cruise of the cause,- it is not denied, that it has produced the destruction of confidence and credit, nor that the destruction of confidence and Credit has produced the distress. What signifies it, whether the distress stands first or second in the chain of consequences from mat measure? All the consequence?, mediate, as well as immediate, collateral, as well us direct, are equally to be ascri ' ,-ed to i'. They are all bitter and deadly waters hom the same fountain. Will it be said that these collateral conse quences were not foreseen, and therefore wore not intended by the Executive? lie it so ; I believe it was so ; but, for that very reason, and especially for that reason, and against all opposing reasons, he ought instantly to undo what he has done. If a project has been attendod with a disastrous result, t either intended by it, nor expected from it, 'is the most urgent of all reasons (and what couiu resist it?) why it should be instantly abandoneu an" especially, if that project was a theoretic experiment of Executive administration upon thirty millions of people ; and that result the sudden .'"in of lllc prosperity of that whole People. No friend of the President i p resume, will ay that these coliateral consequents wcrc foreseen fc intended by him; for his biww4Bt foe could not say more to make him the oi.' jeetof execration now and forever. For w hat could make a name more detestable to this, and every following age, than to have it identified with a scene of calamity, that will ever oe araea as an era m un; iuwj """- lamitouB periods of this country, and idcntihd with that scene as its criminal author. But the President docs not say this-far ftamrt. He denies the fact of distress; he represents that the cry of distress that conies to us from all parts of the country, is not thO

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purpose and that pupose to drive him from "he stand which he has taken His friends in this house leave us to suppose from their silence, orfheir declarations, that they concur with the Executive in this representation. The denial of die fact of distress, in the face of all the evidence before us to establish it, 1 consider as a moral phenomenon ; end to bemarked as such in the history of the wan- such phenomena have Dccn. Uut perhaps it is not wholly unaccountable. We Know that the senses do not do their offices without the consent of the conscious mind. The marble column that is standing bet! re us, and which pain's itself on the retina of the eye, is not econ, if the mind he so abstracted as to be unconscious of the imruje. So it was no absur dity, the saying " Seeing they sec not, and hearing they Hear not ; tor, tuougii a comradiction in sound, it was none m sense. A proof, by the by, (and perhaps worthy oi a nota bone in nassinu.) that the mind is a be lllji H I Bt f UI1U IIUII U1V Dl Ito" v meats, but no part of itself. The case is somewhat analogous with the : A !... tl.n mnune am its ITlstrll human mind, and intcllectuaj ol.jecls. The mind cannot see, or will not view, to tnctorce of evidence, against the predetermined opposition of (he will. The only rational and praiseworthy end of eloquence itself, as an art, is to set the will on the side of truth; and the greats I of her victories is a victory over the will. Without that victory, there arc cases in which evidence is vain, logic is vain; a miracle, & the greatest of all miracles, would be vain. It was of such obdurate and invincible incredulity it was said, and by the voice of Divine Truth itself, then animating the human form " If they believe not Moses and the prophets, neither would they believe, though one should be raised from the dead."' What could be more astonishing, to one who had not considered the force of the human will in blinding the human understanding to the force of evidence, than the denial ofthefactof distress in the face of all the accumulated and accumulatin g evidence here to establish it? To hear it said that the cry of distress is counterfeit which wc hear in all parts of the country which comes to us authenticated by the" names of thousands and tens of thousands of our fellow-citizens, and among them many that arc but other names for virtue itself; aiid borne to us, too, by delegations of the highest grade of character in this country ; and their statements, too, corroborated by a thousand facts, which no one denies, and which cannot deceive us? To hear it said in this Hall, as it has been reDeatcdlv said, that the distress began here ; that here it first sounded, and that the complaints we hear are but the echoes of that sound reverberated to us from all parts of the country ? Then w e arc to suppose that the two hundred and fifty failures in New York, and which are daily increasing, are all fictitious failures, made to make a show of distress, nolfelt, and for political effect; that the sixty failures in New Bedford, one-fourth of all the mercantile houses there, are all fictitious failures, and made to make a show of distress not felt, and for political effect; that the same scene of counterfeit bankruptcy, for on in all our commercial towns and cities, and in all our manufacturing district; that the whole country has agreed to sink the value of all die property in it some fifteen or twenty-five per centum, to impose upon the President; that the whole country is in one universal conspiracy, by hanging out false signals of distress to deceive him, and thereby to induce bun to recede from the position he has taken ; and to cap the climax, that NichoNs Riddle has done ail diis he las bribed the Wu'de country into this conspiracy'. The phenomenon is not the less, that these absurdities should be believed, while the fifty thousand witnesses arc disbelieved, and thoy the very sufferers am! victims of the distress. Again; it is said, (and BUZera iew v.orus on this topic I will relieve the attcntkai of the Senate, and re sume my seat) it ia said that the deposites were to be removed, whatever might be the consequences, if not now, shortly hereafter; namely, at the expiration of the charter, some two years hence; and the only difference then was a difference of time, anH the onlv question a question of time; and f,t host it couid only be a little putting off of the evil day. The removal now with its collateral consequences notr , which have been the destruction of confidence and credit, and a degree 01 distress that is without a parallel in our history, is certain. But the removal of the deposites, at die expiration of the charter, would not Iks attended with these collateral consequences ; for it could not create the alarm which has produced those consequenses. The removal of the deposites then would be M thing of course, and to be expected in the course of things, anil there could be nothing in it to excite alarm. We have I proof of this in our own experience. The dcposiics were removed from the former Bank, at the expiration of its charter, as a thing of course. It gave no alarm ; it had none of these collateral effects. The effect of depriving the country of the great resource of a National Bank was indeed severe, and was Bevcrcly felt; but this effect was altogether distinct from the effect of the removal of die deposites. REMARKS OF MR. WEBSTER, Onpreentmg.,inthc Senate on Friday, the Memorial from Albany. Mr. President: I have the honor to present to the Senate, a memorial from the Ciof Albany. " Ne York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston, 1ikvc already laid before Congress, the opinions c'terV'tl in those cities b) men in an classes - , 7 - , : m;. ,;,.,...M;nrr th,. panons an.';- Z I conduct of thcadmmistrati,,.. "'-t'1' public deposites. 1 o these, Albany now (joins her vohjc a voice not less clear, na less strong, not less unanimous, than F 01 her sitter cities.

) It i well known to you, sir, and to genI tlcmen on tho floor of the Senate, that Alba

ny, for its size, is an extremely commereu! city. Connected w ith the sea by one of tm noblest rivers en eartli it is placcd,also,tt the point, at or near which many hundrel miles of inland navigation, from the Wct and from the North, accumulate the prodi of a vas-t and fertile in! them, for farther transpo; proper to be borne on tide impelled by steam. In ret os of inland industry, thu; ed f'rth to the sea, A course, largo amounts o: dizc, to be forwarded inw tributcd for consumption 1 trict of the State, alonJ Lakes, and even to the sippi itself. It is nccofl place of vast exchanges! words, a place of great tr Albany, 1 believe, sir, twenty eight or thirty thou has given, I learn, on interes nearly, but not qui:c, thirty voles. Tho paper, sir, wh now unrolling, and which I ha OUlll IV UK. ' I.H.I, 1,1 Ml.". , 11,, -ljj.-,y , ,111. 1.1 J H reu names, an ueiievcu to ce quanneu ors. Great pains have been taken to b curate in this particular: and if there single name to ibis paper not belongi qualified voter, it is not only here by mistake, but here after careful scrutiny has been had, for the purpose of avoiding such mistakes. Every man, sir, whose name is here, js believed to have a right to say, " I am an American ciLizcn ; I possess the elective franchise ; I hold the right of suffrage ; I possess and I exercise an individual share in the sovereign power of the State; I am one of those principals, whose agent Government is; and I expect from Government a proper regard to my interests-" It will thus bfl seen, sir, that this paper expresses the sentiments of three-fourths of as many citizens of All any as have ever been collected, on any occasion, at the polls of thecitv. What these sentiments are, the Senate will be at no loss to understand, when the paper shall bo read. Ite signers possess the faculty of making themselves fully understood. This memorial, sir, is brought hither for the nurnose of being laid before Congress, by a committee of eighteen persons. Some of these gentlemen are well known within the walls of the Capitol, and none of them altogether unknown to members of this or the other House. They come, sir, to vouch for the general respectability of the signers to 1 the memorial. They come to answer lor j them, as persons capable of perceiving, not only the general fact, that recent measures of Government have deranged the business of society, but of seeing also precisely how those measures have operated on their own bufiness, their own cmploymer.tz, and their own prosperity. Unpromising, sir, as the task is; ungrateful, nay, almost hopeless as it is, this ,Committce lias not declined the wish of ru fellnur riiiwTifi i.mt ttie.v wov1 ' vtemn appeal to tne 1 of Congress. ihorrenrxiii i - the memorial ; for the-, among them indiviSt' cupation, employment, professi6iiy& . .e, in society. And they come to makevgood, sir, the declarations of the memorial as to the state of things actually existing at Albany. Albany, sir, has been flourishing and prosperous, and seemed rapidly rising to great rand greater heights of commercial importance. There aro circumstances which would appear to have favored Albany, and to have en ilied her to stand the shock better than her neighbors. In addition to her capital, it has been understood that she was benefited, in her money operations, to a considerable extent, by the use or the custody of Stale fends. But the S -nate will not be surprised to learn, notwithstanding all her advantages, that she has no: cscap dthe general disaster. Whatever else is to be said against the Secretary's measures, they cannot be charged with being partial in their operation. They have the merit of impartiality, inasmuch as they produce universal distress. Sir,ourcondition is peculiar. One hard ly knows how (o describe it. In the nfa the bounties of Frovidence, a a time of profound peace, we are Our Secretory of the Tftiqgy, sir, ti Midas. His touch does not turn thing to gold. It seems rather to tum ery thing into stone. It stops the func tions, and the action, of organized social life, and congeals the whole body politic, ll produces a kind of instantaneous petrifaction. We see Mill the form of our once active soi iul s stein, but it is without life. We euti timoe tho veins along its cold surface, but they aro bloodless; wc seethe musrles, but they are motionless; the external f jrm is yet fair and goodly, hut there is u cessation of the principle of ife wUhin. Sir, if one could look at the state of the country, H this moment, who had rlfever heard v. iiui the ' Experiment1 is, Which the Secretary is trying, he would natorajEaoipoosc him to be some nccromanf' -e rrospero, wnonuo puwei of action, in the whole nation, a: amusing himself, by the nower. in seeinir what sort . c , )!rca', busy, stirring col hibit, when his wand members to a sudden paui a moment of great activi' one in the precise atti s hould be found, when painters, though they cann gres.-ive action on the canw Dresent action suddenly a: interior ef the mountains caught n full life and vigor, forever in the sul.sidmg elements of the gen oral Del igc. Or porta ps, sir, such a spectator jmigbt

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quitc enough ot Experiment, efficient for every thing but are somo things, they admit, fully proved It has proved the e delusion, and almost tne msanwho undertook it. 8 most visible effects ot this meaPeopleof Albany, is its check to f the city. It has been iasi in cuses, and m the numueroi ns But here arc persons wen acith the facts and circumstances, in rn that the houses in building, this m not ono twentieth the number of yoar. What is to be said in answer fact? The carpenter and the mason standing still, with the rule and the trowel in their hands, to see when the Secretary shall have done with his Experiment. Albany is a great lumber market The verv lai-se sum of two millions of dollars is usually paid annually for this article, in that city. But there is now no demand for it. The same causes operating elsewhere which operate in Albany, the timber is not wanted, cannot be used, and cannot ee paia ior. A great coasting trade is, also, in ordinary times, carried on from Albany. Lumber and other articles, brought down the canals, are taken down the river, and scattered all along the shore, almost to the eastern extremity of the Union. And we all know what numbers of sloops and steamboats usually cover the surface of the Hudson, from its mouth to Troy. Last yoar, as I learn, from thirty to thirty-five steam tow-boats found employment between Troy and Albany and New York. This groat extent of navigation gave wages, of course, to multitudes of industrious men, whose present power of finding employment may be judged of by the fact that six or eight of these boats are at this time adequate to the calls of commerce. The whole business, it is said, has fallen off at least two hundred per cent. It is natural to ask, sir, how the times have affected the usefulness of the great Canal, the true glory of New York, that imperishable monument of the fame of a great man a . f .....nlinna lnrffA rnOUptl lO C1Ubrace a high and noble purpose,and who had steadiness to oursue that purpose, through evil report and good report, let the strife of temporary party do its best, and its worst, until he had accomplished it I am told, sir, that along the line of this great work, the quantity of flour now ready to be embarked, when the season of business commences, is not more than equal to one-tenth of the amount last year. The wheat is in the country, but there is no demand for it in the city. The farmers and the millers are obliged to keep it on hand. At the commencement of the harvest last year, wheat was 'ollar a bushel, in the Western part v where, as I am now mOeS On IlOaviij at i-. ....a yo re are cases in which the article necn carried to the usual place of sale, and carried back again tor want of buyers. Indeed an instance is mentioned of a vessel, which proceeded from one of the towns on the river, to New York, lay at the wharf a week, without being able to sell a dollars worth of her cargo, and then returned back with it to her place of departure. It will be at once seen, that those measures of Government, of which the memorialists complain, neutralize the benefits of the canal. They lower the price of wheat, in the Western part of the State, as much as the opening of the canal raised it. The cause of all this loss is obvious. There is no market ; and there is no market, because there is no money ; and there is no money because the measures of Government have deranged the currency, checked circulation, and shaken credit. One of the gentlemen now here is exten sively concerned in the business of transportation on the Western and Northern Canals. He is connected with lines, which own, to gether, two hundred canal boats, and usual ly employ fourteen or fifteen hundred men, and as many horses. An immediate loss of iployment, for at least half of this capital, these hands, is already among the mcesofthe Secretary's Experiment. s, sir, how the measures of Govaffect wages, ay, sir, wages the rcc of the poor man's income. Be it remembered, that the Administration is waging war for the benefit of the poor. It has attacked the Bank, laid hold of the public treasures, disregarded the votes of CongresB, and thrown the whole country into a state of violent excitement, out of pure sympathy for the poor, and to protect them against the grinding power of moneyed corporations; Well, sir, ure the poor better off? Are wages higher? Is employment more easily obtained? Is labor more richly rewarded? Let the Senate judge of this matter, when I state, as 1 am authorized to do, that men in Albany, who, three months ago, were earning and receiving a dollar and a quarter a day, six day s in the week, are now soliciting employment, for two days in the week only, ana ior sixty two oems a aay. Ana otner indtislriou6 men, who were receiving a dollar a By, are now content to work for their board USE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WednbsdaY) Aphil 2d, 1834 soon as the sitting of to-day was r. McUfFFiE, ot South Carolina, rose, in a feeling and proper manner, annced to the House the decease of one of colleagues, the Hon. James Blair, a Member of this House. Whereupon It was, on motion, unanimously Ranked, That the Members of this House

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Blair, at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Resolved) That a Committee be appointed to take order for superintending the funnml of James Blair, deceased, late a MnmW nf this House, lroin the State 01 South Carolina. Resolved, That the Members of this House will testify their respect to the memory of James Blair, by wearing crape on the left arm for thirty days. Ordered, That a Message he sent to the Senate, to notify that body of the death of James Blair, late ono of the Representatives from the State of South Carolina, and that his funeral will take place at 4 o'clock this afternoon, from the Hall of the House of Representatives. And then the House adjourned. COMMONWEALTHOF KENTUCKY. House of Representatives, February 4th, 1834. Resolvod by the House of Representatives, that the President of the United States, by causing to be withdrawn the public money from the place of safe deposite, where it had been made by law, and plac ing it in local banks under his control, of the solvency of which the people at large know nothing, and into whose affairs their representatives have no right to examine, has violated the constitution ana laws or tne United States; that he has " assumed a responsibility" dangerous to liberty, and which tendstothe concentration of all power in the hands of the Chief Magistrate of the United States. Resolved, That by the frequent exercise of the veto piwcr, and that still more arbitrary and dangerous one. of withholding I ills passed by both Houses of Congress, thereby preventing the opportunity of a reconsideration by that body, in the mode pre. scribed in the constitufion, the President has, to a great extent, crippled and parlaizcd the Legislative department of our Government, and in somo instances has prevented the exercise by Congress of their essential constitutional rights. Resolved, That the Clerk of this House tr: nsmit to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, copies of the foreg:ing resolutions. Extract Att. Adopted. R. S. TODD,C. R, R. Statcjs op Jefferson. The following is a copy of the Letter, presented in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, from Lieut U. P. Levy, of the U. 6. mY': Washington City, March 23n, 1834. To the House of Representatives of the U. S. 1 beg leave to present, through you, to my fellow-citizens of the United States, a Colossal Bronze Statue of Thom as Jefferson, author of the Declaration of our Independence. This Statue was executed, under my eye in Paris, by the celebrated Davto, and Honore Gonon, and much admired for the fidelity of its likeness to the great original, as well as the plain republican simplicity of tne whole design. It is with pride and satisfaction that I am enabled to offer this tribute of my regard to tho Ppncdn of the United States, through tneir nepresentativcs; anu 1 , OUn that such disposition will be made of it as best corresponds with the character of the illustrious author of the Declaration of our Indepei dence, and the profound veneration with which his memory is cherished by the American People. With profound respect, I have the honor to be your obedient and very humble servant, U. P. LEVY, Lieutenant in the U.S. Navv. A donation so munificent in its object, and so patriotic in its conception, is entitled to more tnn a naUcd record of (he fart The donor deserves high respect for his mo tives, ana public thanks for the valuable present, 'he has made to his country. The Statue is now temnorarilv nlaeed in ihe Rotunda of the Capital, and is unqtiestionaoiy me nnest work ol art (of the kind) in the country. Indeed we do not know whether the country possesses another bronze stat ue. When to its value as a work of art.we add its association with the memory and services 01 one ot the most illustrious Sages of our country, we cannot but reioice that the Capital of our country is to be embellished by such an addition toils ornaments. The Norfolk Beicon of Monday " The U. S. ship Fairfield, Capt. Vallettc, arriveu ai uuayaquil lyth JNovcmber, and on the 20th was visited by President Rocafuste and suite. The country was in n most unsettled state ; the town was in daily expectation of an attack from Gen. Flores, who was in force outside, in consequence of w men tne consul preconcerted a signal with Capt. Vallettc, to be made in case of nn attack. On the night of the 25th. hetwpnn nin e and ten o'clock, a firing of cannon and musketry was heard in the direction of the town; the signal was displayed, as agreed upon; the ship cleared for action, and a boat despatched on shore. About 1 1 o'clock the boat returned, having been fired into by the troops of Flores; two of the boats crew were wounded; and one of them, Henry Young, had six balls in him, two of which were in his head; he died about half an hour afier getting on board; the other man Wm. Gunnerson, had two balls through bis body, and his left arm broken; he was recovering. TheFairfield was atPayta,13th Dec. to sail in 10 days for callao, and thence in a few days for Valparaizo. AH well." The New-Hrleam Advertiser of the 2d intt mt my!.-"It it known, we presume, that the Mechanics' and Trader' Bunk of this city it the depository of the Pest Ofliie D epnrtment. On Saturdny, three dtnftt, of 12,000 dollars each , were presented nt the Bank from the Department, and two of them protested, there heing no funds to their oredit in that institution. One of tho twelve thousand dollars was paid, being two thousand more than the bula ee appealing oa the books in favour of lbs Depa r latent, "

FOREIGN. SPAIN. The intelligence from Spain is assuming a new shape, and additional importance. A Bn rcelona paper of Jan. 8, says : " We have just been witnesses of "most remarkable events. A Captain General Llander, in concert with our municipality (Ayuntamienlo,) has sent an embassy to the' Queen to intimate to her wishes of th province, and the resolutions which jhey had just adopted. The following are the conditions :

1. That the Spaniards receive a Representative Government, with tho liberties connected with it. 2. Tho suppression of the abbeys and all the monkish rabble, (y demas frayeetca canalla.) 3. The liberty of the press. 4. The reform of the clergy. 5. The distribution of its property among the people. 0. The suppression of the tithes and other imports injurious to farmers and land owners. The above was forwarded to the Queen after having received the sanction of Lender's colleagues, among them Quesado and Morillo. The Memorial Bordelais of iho 13th Jnuary, says that Llander has 45,000 mrn at his command, in whose name he makes his demand. The address he forwarded to the Queen had near 50,000 signatures. The people in Catalonia have risen en mane, in support of Llander's demand of a constitu tion. The Queen is said to have returned Llander's address, without giving any satisfaction as to the course she would pursue. It was asserted on the Paris Exchange, on the 15th January, that the Queen, yielded to the necessity of the circumstances in which she was placed, had changed her ministers, and consented to the convocation of the Cortes. The president of the new cabinet is said to he the Marquis dc las Amarilla. Whether this is true or false, the news produced an improvement of the Spanish funds. The London Courier of Jan. 18, however, evidently questions the truth ofthe rumor. Wo quote the following: The French papers speak of the chango in the Spanish ministry, which we yesterday mentioned as one of the rumours of the Stock Exchange. Some of the papers, however, trace it up to the messenger which liad arrived at the English Ambassador's. More than one of them speak of this scries of events the demands of Llander andthe other Captains General, combined with the number of persons who have taken an interest in the proceedings in Catolcnia, as a true revolution in Spain. We observe that General Done Jose Valdez, with other Constitutionalists, have returned to Spain from Paris Mina will probably also now find his way back. The other news from Spain isof trifling importance. RUSSIA. Distressing accounts aro given in the German papers, of a famine in the Eastern part of Russia. The Swabian Mercury gives the following letter from Odessa, dated Nov. 22: " The General dearth becomes very alarming, and it is impossible to foretell what may ensue. Every article that firms the food of man is becoming daily more and, more scarce and dear. Meat alone is cheap and this is because the graziers are obliged to kill their cattle for the want of fodder. 1 here are whole villages in the env irons of Odessa, that are entirely deserted, the inhabitants having left them in hopes of finding bread elsewhere. The Sea of Azoffis no longer navigable, so that we have no chance of supplies from the opposite shore. Immediately after receiving despatches from St. Petersburg!!, Count Wofunzow went off in haste to Ekalberinoslaw, where the famine has already caused some deplorable disasters." wJmiueme nf an Egyptian Governor. I sometimes ucconipnuicd bin) (the Gctcmor of Damie(tu) in hit excursion on the Nile; he was n capital sportsman, and made it a point to fire at birds with a single ball ; in this way I buvc seen him kill sparrows repeatedly i indeed he very rarely missed. One day 1 was disputing the excellence of an officer's pistol wbo eat by me; he would have it that it was an English pistol, though it was really a German one. When I assured him it was P.-1..L i. l.ei : 1 I "iwi jjiiiibh, ue very uriiuriuieiy priiueu n and retiring to the distance of 4 or 5 yard, he fired between my legs, ns I sat on n bench , at ajar about 30 feet distant, he smashed the jnr; and said in a triumphant voice,' WpII is that an English pistol or not?' ' Most undoubtedly,' suid I, 'it must be English.' It is very pleasant to have a drunken Turk shooting betweea one's legs. Maddeu'sTratelt. The Ladies. Permit us here to remind out fair country women that if they wruid mors frequently visit with their purifying influence that troubled fountain, the press, its bitter waters would flow forlh less abundantly ; and the storm-cloud which the eternal dashing ef politics raises to darken our heaven, would at least have the rainbow of peace spanning i" threatening front. It is said woman's sphere is narrow. 60 it it among bcrbarinnt where the fairest work of heaven is made the mean est drudge of earth. Among the enlightened free, her sphere is boundless us the sun's, ana her influence as pervadine and ns elormus. She may not jostle tbe tumultuous crowd ; but her spirit in all its forms of power may issus from the sacred ark, bearing an olive oranc over commingling oceans. Farmer' Reporter. " Smwimg." The Rnhway, (N. J ) Ad vocate mentions nn instance of very recent occurrence by which it was supposed that considerable 'portion of that flourishing village was saved from destruction, in oonsfqnenoe of a young spark " conrtin' his gal" to a later hnurlhnn some mamas Ihiak prodent. On his way home, he saw a (Umc ju't arising nmong some shavings, &c, in nn ctensive factory and succeeded in extinguishing it without giving a general aliirraHereafter, wbo can object to late sparmni