6 COUN TT. OF ven | it HERALD horseback, he used to watch for my return, and the servant would tell him his master was coming down the hill, or through the moor ; and al- though he did not use any gesture to explain his meaning, Camp was never known to mistake 'him, but either went out at the front to go to the hill, or at the back to get down to the moorside. A very pleasing event, auspicious alike to Canadians and Englishmen, has just transpired in this land of Heaven's bene dictions. On the Sth inst. at 2 minutes be- fore 9 p. m. the Princess of Wales gave birth to a fine healthy boy. I am happy in being able to state that Her Royal Highness and her little darling, are announced, by the Court bulletin of this morning, to be doing well, and in perfect health ; and the newly-arrived to be growing away fine, as a matter of course. 'The most remarkable ingredient in this quip of joy was its unex- pectedness--With the strongest fellings of devotional loyalty, I shall make free to tell my Canadian fellow subjects, equally loyal, that I have no doubt, not alittle pleasantry has been caused, even in the Royal minds, by the peculiar shape the happy incident assumed, For some days previously, the Princess had been attended by Dr. Brown of Windsor fora coldin her head. He considered symptoms were shown that Her Royal Highness'accouchment was at hand, It was however fully understood, by those who are considered versed in such matters, that the confinement would not take place till March. The Princess so far recovered from her indisposition, as to feel justified in making one of the, skating party with the Prince of Wales and invited guests, on the Virginia water on Friday, After viewing, from a close carriage, on the banks of that beautiful lake, the agility and clearness with which the game of ' hockey" was played between her Royal husband and about 40 ladies and gentlemen, many of the latter, belonging to the London Skating Club, Her Royal Highness returned to Frogmore Lodge, where she soon became so indisposed as to induce the Prince to tele- graph to the Queen at Osborne rélative: to the Princess' condition. A messenger was at once sent to Dr. Brown who promptly at- tended. By the time the messages had reached the medical men appointed to the distinguished office, the Princess was safely Geliyered, Your readers are aware that the orthodox order is, that the Secretary of State for the Home Department's presence is indispensible. Our beloved Princess, however, was before hand with the worthy yld baronet, Oulhis arrival the interesting busitiess was completed, and no doubt the Right Hon. Minister was sorely disap- pointed. I can readily pity the poor Prince. thus unexpectedly to bev. his pleasures interfered with, when he had no doubt eounted-on two months further respite from the gravity and torment, incident to this affair, to'the mind of every loving husband, especially on the first occasion. Arrange- ments had been made for the event to take place at Marlborough House, in Town, and we, as family men, can easily comprehend the predicament of the Royal, party, by being some 25 miles from the place ap- - pointed. Weshall not, we hope, be trespas- sing on forbidden ground and divulging Royal segrets, by saying that the infant Prince made his advent into this world wholly unprovided for. Various articles for comfort and clothing had to be extemporized --and the matronly knowledge and apti- tudes of the Countess of Macclesfield, - the lady in waiting, subserved the usual demands on anurse, who, at the moment, simple soul, was doubtless sitting at her ease in London looking forward. to that happy March when she should have to_per- form the gentle offices necessary for the Royal Scion. The doctors and ministers, the Archbishop, the Lord Chancellor and all the great dignitaries were all done. The stiple Windsor practitioner monopolized the honors due to the greatones. I 'should say Her Majesty might confer knighthood on a less meritorious man than Dr. Brown. The Queen arrived at Windsor at noon on Saturday and visited the Princess twice. It is rather singular that George III, was born prematurely, like the present young Prince, the parents of both being at the time Prince and Princess of Wales. I suppose we may say there is now no' fear for the line of descent to the House of Brunswick. I hope we may 'have, I mean our future generations, Albert Edward XX before the dynasty fails. The clouds seem gathering thicker in the Eastern sky, andas I predieted in my last letter, England and France will actin concert to repress the extravagance of the petty German States should they really determine to violate the spirit, as they are doing the letter, of the treaty of London of 1852. Our government is on the gui vive both as regards this country's interests and honor, as well as the integrity of Den- mark. The six powers that signed this treaty, giving Christian IX a right to the succession both of the kingdom and the Duchies certainly knew at the moment. of ratifying that agreement, to what it re- ferred and what it embraced. Ifit were inconsequent as touching the Duchies, then the four out of the six parties were hood- winked and beguiled; for it is a fact patent to Europe, that King Christian 1X was to be the. successor of precisely the same, do- minions over which the sceptre of his prede- cessors swayed. Interested parties may contend that Holstein was notincluded nor could be included without the sanction of _.the . Diet; but the internal evidence shows, that Austria and Prussia acted in a two fold capacity, in the confer- ence preceding the treaty of 1852 they acted in their own right as Powers, and, they also acted in the interest of the German Confederation, so that it may be seen their assent was alone necessary to render the in- strument valid. It was either a treaty exe- cuted and ratified, or it was nota treaty. If a treaty, all its covenants and provisions are binding alike on all the contracting Powers, what ever objections may be made to the text by the German Bund afterwards. If any of its clauses are to be set aside to suit the tastes or foregone conclusions of any antagonistic element, then the treaty in its entirety is nullified and the High contrac- ting Powershad as well remained at home in their several Cabinets. But we shall see what the Western Powers and Sweden think of the treaty ; doubtless they will attach exactly the same méaning to its con- tents when the necessity comes for action (which may Heaven prevent) as they did when they signed it. The British admir- alty have already given instructions to the Channel fleet to come into Port to await orders. This is a warning to Germany. An attempt on the part of the Federal troops to eross the Eider, will, I have no doubt, bring the British and French Fleets within sight of Tonning and the Elbe. England and France will never permit the dismemberment of Denmark. Aside from justice to that people, those Powers know the importance of Denmark remaining a member of the family of nations. The Teutons of the Black Forest would, it may be readily imagined, like to make a meal off the Scandinavian Kingdom. They need not be told how their greed longs for such a repast. be unlike the case of the grape longimg fox, He beat aretreatin good time, but they bid fair to lose their brush and get their whiskers singed. Even before this reaches you I have grave apprehensions that the « first gun'? will have summoned the nations of Europe to a general war. Should Aus- tria and Pritssia second the efforts of the Petty States, Kossuth is on the alert and wiilat once rekindle the torch of revolution in Hungary. italy isin the throes of jar turitign and will not be satisfied until Venice be delivered. And who shall pretend to say what indemnity France may demand of Germany should the Emperor, in concert with England, be compelled to act as the police of Europe ? Germany is either oyer-es- timating her strength with her 43 millions including Austria and Prussia in Germany or she is blind to the pornet's nest she is about to raise *;ound her ears. We might imao™ that the German States had already drunk sufficiently of the bitter draught of warfare in bygone days, to carelessly pro- yoke its return upon them with its hor- rible train of miseries. King Christian having adopted the advice of Karl Russell to permit Federal execution to take place in Holstein, is determined to allow no fur- ther aggression of his rights. The heights on the north bank or Danish side of the Rider, are lined with the kings troops, where formidable earth-works are formed, with intent to dispute the passage of tbe Federal army into Schleswig should their imprudence impel them thither. Those who know, anything of this knotty question are aware, that the Diet have no more right of jurisdiction inside the frontier line of Schleswig. than I have in my next door neighbor's drawing-room. What if there are Germans as well as Danes inhabiting that Duchy, does that give the Diet power to intermeddle with a state entirely out of the Confederation ? The King has sub- mitted, where it might be shown he could do. so without compromising his dignity. But to suffer the invader to tread the soil of Schleswig with impunity would be beneath the character of the Danes. I see by to-day's papers there is a telegram tre- ceived which states,--that at an extraordinary sitting .of the Federal Diet to-day (Jan. 11th) a renewed and urgent motion of Austria and Prussia was brought forward to call upon Denmark to withdraw | the November Constitution, in default of which the immediate occupation of Schleswig should take place. So this appears to be the Diet's ultimatum. But will they act in the -face of the moral and material aid threatened by England? . This constitution does not touch Holstein, and would never have been promulgated in Schleswig but by the express wish of the Dano-Schleswigers. The German portion oppose it, and ask pro- tection from the Diet. The Confederation has no more right to interfere in that Duchy because people of German descent live there than it has to meddle in the or- dering of the United States army, because a goodly batch of Germans fill its. ranks. If the Danish Rigsraad and the Council of state advise the king, from policy, in these tender times, to withdraw the obnox- ious constitution, it is well; but no coer- cive measures from Germany should compel him todoso. In the midst of all it is laughable to witness the timidity evident in the German Diet.. One Prince has been dethroned in Holstein, but the other has not mounted his stead. Perhaps he is re- ceiving the necessary training for Duke craft, which aptitude, given him of course But their longings will not. by birth, has been attenuated by his years of rustic life in watching over his game preserves in Devonshire, and cudgelling any unlucky wight His Ducal Highness at apy time caught breaking the British game laws. There is a Council of six commis- sioners appointed to administer the affairs of Holstein--these are fixed by the Diet, whilst Prince Augustenburg is dashing about in all the ardour of expectancy " bid- ing his time' to mount this inglorious throne. The case of the Alecandra is by this time universally known. At the first trial the jury gave their verdict for the defendant. Subsequently a rule was moved and ob- tained for a new trial, and argued on the ground of misdirection, to the jury by the Lord Chief Justice being wrong in his law. On Monday the Court of Exchequer was crowded to hear the Lord Chief Baron Pollock and Barons Bramwell, Clennell, and Pigott, deliver their judgments, whether the rule should be made absolute for a new trial or not? The Lord Chief Baron went into the particulars of the case. The de- fendants were charged with being guilty of an infringement of the 7th section of the Foreign Enlistment Act in equipping, fur- nishing and fitting out a ship for warlike purposes. His Lordship said that in con- struing a penal statute the Court must be certain that the offence charged came within the strict letter of the law. They had nothing to do with the political consequences of their decision, or the dissatisfaction that might occur in any quarter anywhere. He could not help expressing his regret, not un- mixed with some surprise, that the learned Attorney-General, had more than once, ad- verted to the consequenees that might arise, from their holding, that what the defendants had done was not contrary to our municipal law. His Lordship urged, that what might have been done, before the passing of the Foreign Enlistment Act, in the way of building ships in British ports, might still be done, for it left the commercial interest of ship building untouched. The great ob- ject of the Act was not to prevent the build- ing of ships, but to prevent the ports of this country from being made ports for the hos- tile equipment against a frienly belligerent. The Attorney General, however, appeared to wish to enforce against English Ship- builders what the Supreme Court of' the United States repudiated as applicable to the citizens of the United States," The following - Woreny of note as it is the gist of the question. His Lordship continued, " There is not a syllable in the Act or con- nected with it, or in any contemporary pub- lication, proclamation, or speech, or publica- tion of any kind, professing to put ships on a different footing to that of any other im- plement of war." He contended that if the Legislature's intention had been such, how easy for them to have used language. so clear that no doubt or dispute could have arisen. His Lordship concluded by stating that in his opinion none of the grounds on which the rule was made ought to prevail and that it ought to be discharged. The judgment of Mr. Baron Bramwell co-in- cided with that of the Lord Chief Baron's. | The judgments of the other two were against the former, and, as is usual when the judges are equally divided, the last is withdrawn. The judgment of the Court was therefore against the Crown, and the rule would be discharged. The delivery of the judges occupied nearly three hours. The Attorney- General intimated his intention to appeal, So he may appeal. But the best appeal has been already made to the commonsense construction of the Statute and Englishmen are satisfied. Were he to appeal to his Mistress, the Queen, I verily believe Her Majesty would give the same verdict as has: been twice given, being based on reason and justice. Doubtless the Government have a difficult task to perform towards the United States; and whilst appeal can be made, and the matter therefore virtually undecided, the Federals will be gaining their point in preventing any such yessels leaving the yards of Great Britain, as accessories to the present maritime force of the Confederates, on the high seas. We have intelligence from Paris that four Italians have just been arrested there tracked and followed from Italy by the Police. These miscreants were allowed but sufficient time after arrival at the Freneh metropolis to so far progress in their vile task, as to leave undoubted evidence that their mission was nothing less than the Em- peror's assassination. The papers found upon them was proof enough of it. There is no doubt this purposed attempt upon the life of Napoleon III finds its origin in the same red republican element which gave existence to the like endeayors of Pianori in 1855 and Orsini in 1858. Although these men are Italians, and came direct from their own country, it must not be sup- posed. that the Government of Italy, or the people generally, have any hand inthe wickedness. Far from it: they are agrate- ful people, and the king is sensible, that the Emperor has greatly befriended his country on the whole, and he is sensible moreover, that Napoleon III has greater preventives to further acts of friendship than the world dreams of. Let it suffice. then that the Italian nation be free from such a charge. The documents taken from the four Italians, show that the restless disturber of Italian repose, Mazzini, was the originator of the plot, and that the men's expenses were de- frayed by him. It is said they were for- merly of the Papal Brigade, and were tam- pered with and engaged, by that arch-plot- ter at Lugano, with the sole object of taking the Emperor's life. _Groceo, was the chief, and Trabucco, the second in command of the party. The latter, it appears, has been convicted for theft and swindling both in London and Paris. He wrote Mazzini and asked to be appointed as Grocco's lieutenant in the villanous business--Mazzini replied, accepting his offer. The letter was found at Grocco's lodgings. Grocco, it seems, has received from Mazzini, 4,000 frances. The accounts state, that all the prisoners have made disclosures touching the subject. Some years ago when I resided in London, Mazzini, I remember, sojourned there, and scarcely a day passed but we were ap- prised of some fool-hardy doings of that in- corrigible reyolutionist, or some scape-grace of his party. I sincerely hope that the British community, who have a wholesome horror and hatred of anything approaching the base, cat-like, underhand performances of assassination, will henceforth suspend the privilege of " England being the home of the destitute,' as regards Mazzini and his crew. Open the coor as wide as you can to honest misfortune, and real patriotic refugees; but close it to all such as plot against the lives of our allies, or glory in perpetuating the miseries of their country, because, foresooth, its form of Government is contrary to their predilections. Italy has sent forth a universal burst of execra- cration as expressive of the peoples' disgust at the demoniac attempt. T shall close my letter by informing you that affairs in Japan have begun to wear a more pleasing aspect. Prince Satsuma, the gentleman we gave a little threshing a few months ago, and burnt his house about his ears, and alas! destroyed the lives, and pro- perty, of his innocent people--a. necessity every right-minded man must greatly de- plore--has taken wit in his anger, and come to terms. his proud Daimio, has discov- ered that poor Richardson belonged to a great and mighty people, prouder even than a Japan Vice-roy. He wisely considered, that powerful as he was in the eyes of his retainers, and his $3,000,000, he was as nothing to the Western barbarian with his 960 ships of war, whose prowess he feels the effects of, and his reyenue of $360,000,000, So the Prince has suecombed. He agrees to pay the indemnity, to search for, and havg the murderers, when he catches them. The latter, I am inclined to think, he will not fully do, seeing that one of them is his own father. But he may have been in- spired by our shell, with a very exalted idea of justice, and so strap the old gentleman up for 'the sake of appearances. Those celestial great folk have a wonderful fund of peculiarities. I-believe the action of Kagosima may be compared to the inser- tion of the small end of: the wedge so much lauded by certain clever men. A few years, and no doubt many more murders and in- demnities, will see the Museums of London' stored with rarities and natural curiosities from the interior of Japan, and thousands of Europeans and Yankees will be rearing temples on the banks of its rivers, in which to pay their devotions at the shrine of the Godess of Commerce. LIONAB. ink 4 Liver Compraint, DyspepstA.--Jaun- dice, Nervous Debility, and all Diseases arising from a disordered Liver or Stomach, such as Constipation, Piles, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Fulness or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Hructations, Sinking or Fluttering at the Pit-of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head, Hurried and Difficult Breathing, Fluttering of the Heart, Choking Senation when lying down, Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs before the Sight, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Sudden Flushes of Heat, and Great De- pression of Spirits, are speedily and perman- ently cured by Hoornann's Germ AN Bir- TERS, sold by all druggists and dealers in medicines in the United States and Canadas. Stratford Markets. The following Report is furnished by Mesars, Hanson & Fairfield. : Wepnespay, Feb. 10th, 1864. Fall Wheat # bush.......... $0 90 @ $0 95 Spring Wheat # bush........ 0 74 0 79 Oats Hh Mish Eee? 0 00 374 Potatoes @ bush........0... 0 40 60 Péasdf bush curese.¢ 3 4 sfe'« bine of 6 40 45 Barley. qf. bush: .7. 6.) 655 5-4 56 0 65 70 00 50 25 Timothy Seed per bush WiOUl POL UUs. vise ose ye Ve Oatmeal per bbl Butter, per-ibs Vis) 20a 68 os 15 "Store Packed per lb...... 0 123 14 Beggs per 0% 400.6500 axis «os, 014 16 Mutton per 100 lbs........... 00 ~ or © OUP HOP KFPOAWUSOOOAMNMOCSCO Bee#per 100 lbs............-- 2 50 00 Hay per ton..... eee ed 6 50 00 Tallow per db et. 26 vile. 69 hes 006 07 Apples pers ag 5s .:[sfee. sued 100 25 Cordwood per cord........++. 1 26 50 MARE DID ri Ws bis grees ols 05 0 08 09 SINOOPEKINB oe 05 oes cee cee es 100 75 EGOS, F250. LL ets 450 15 DrosseduiBlogas ik 225/25 isd. 2% 4 75 60 GO OBSS: se rsehd scot bse wpcke casas ges 25 37 Montreal Markets. Baal Wee eS x, TSO as 90¢ @ 93¢ Spring Wheat ©.....5...: 95¢ @ 1 00 Flour according to quality, 3.20 to 5 5@ Oatmeal per barrel ...... 4.16.4" to,,,.;::5. 00 Barley per 50 lbs., «..<..- 7c to T5e Peas per 66 Ibs. Oats per 32 Ibs Butter per Ib. Pork, per barrel Hogs per cwt., 40c to o 16c to B 10 00 to 140 500 to New York Markets. Wheat--Spring ...... $153 @ 160 Winter Wheat 1 @2449 65c to ze! Special Notice. Helmbold's Extract Buchu, ' The Great Diuretic. Helmbold's Extract Buchu, The Great Diuretic. Helmbold's Extract Buchu, , The Great Diuretic. Helmbold's Extract Buchu, The Great Diuretic. And a Positive and Specific Remedy for Diseases of the Bladder, Kidneys, Gravel, Dropsy, Organic Weakness, And all diseases of the Urinary Organs, See Advertisement in another Column. Out it out, and send for the Medicine at once. Beware of Counterfeits. 31-2m, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. LLDOLOPL_O_OOOOOIOOOOOOPIPsowm--W--™" NOTICE. ANTED TU RENT, for one or more years, in Stratford or Vicinity, A House and Garden attached, or a Business Stand, or asStore with Stock-in-Trade. First-Class Testimonials from the city of Mon- treal can be given. The Lessees in either case, to state terms in cash down, and also amount of Stock in latter case, Apply, if by letter, post-paid, to CHAS. KAHN, Surgeon Dentist, Stratford. . Feb. 9th, 1864. 33-3in Union Hotel, MITCHELL, TJ\HE above Hotel, lately occupied by Robert Armstrong, Esq., is now open for the travelling public. The house has been newly furnished, and is in the very best condition. The very best Liquors will be found in the bar, and the choicest viands on the table. - Good Stabling and an attentive Dostler. JAMES ALLEN, Proprietor. Mitchell, Feb. 8th, 1864. 33-y _ INPORTANT PUBLIC AUCTION OF REAL ESTATE, GOODS & CHATTELS. 9X0 be sold by public auction, on the premises of the subscriber in Stratford, on Thursday, February lith, 1864, that well finished two story Frame House containing nine rooms, with half am acre of land, situated on Erie Street, Monteith's survey, Stratford (late residence of Mr. T, Orr, Carpen- ter, and first House south of Mr. D. H. Lizars, Esq.,) which will be sold without reserve, and on reasonable terms, to be made known on_ the day of sale. Also the Leases of Two Park Lots, containing about 14 acres. : Also the following stock of Farm Implements and Household Furniture : One span of Horses; 2 Waggons, one almost new, 1 Bod Sleigh, only used this winter, 1 set of double Jarness, 1 Modeland Plough, 1 set of Harrows,1 Cradle, 2 Churns, a lot of Lumber ; also otker Farming Implements.--Household furniture composed of Chairs, Tables, Bedsteads, Cupbosrds, Lounge, Cooking and Parlor Stoves $c., éc.,all nearly new. TERMS OF SALE :--For Gooés and Chattels all sums of $4 and uuder, Cash; all sums over that amount, 10 Months credit oa receiving ap- proved joint Notes, ig Sale to commence at. noon on the premises. i ' JOHN H. PARCHE, Proprietor. THOS. MILLER, Auctioneer, Stratford Janurary 30, 1864. 33-td Strayed 4\ROM the premises of the subscriber, Erie. street, some time in Tovember, 1863, A Red. Weifer, Two years old, with sone white hairs on her forehead. 5 Any person in whise possession the same may be found after thisdate will be prosecuted according to law. y G. W. BYERS. Stratford, 9th Feb. 1864. 33-tt Bistray- AME into the enclosure of the subscriber, Lot 2 on 6Con., Fullarton, some time in. September last, 4A Red Steer, no horns, comng two yearsold. The owner is requested prove property, pay expenses, and take the same away. JOHN IRVINE. Fullartonfeb. 6th, 1864 ~ 33-3in i; str ay. ¢ "AMF into the enclosure of the subscriber, y st 15, Con. 6, township of Mornington, on or about the ist of Oct., 1863, . ; A Red and White Steer, rising two years old. The owner is requested to yrove property pay expenses and take the sare away, ROBERT FREEBORN. | Millbank, 10th Feb., 1864- 33-3in A TAVERN STAND ND 20 acres of land, being part of Lot 7, 6th Con., Mornington. Good buildings 550 | attached. © x= It is the best stand in the township.. For particulars apply to JOSEPH MONTGOMERY. Edgecombe P. 0.,. Feb, 6th, 1864. 33-3m.