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Tun BITTER FRUI'rs or ltnnni.Liox.—-'I‘here is too. much exultation in the. following description of the fear6 fully changed conditiOu of the aristocracy which slavery created and enriched, and which by its own pride and presumption. brought retribution upon its own head :—- " In a trip through the Southern States at the present time one can see nothing amid the wreck more salient than the rapid decadence of the planting 7200165196. Their spreading mansions, circled by graceful veran- dalis, and set in little Edens of fadeless hedges and trees, have an airof decline, like a woman richly dressed but out of the fashion. The houses need paint, and the hedges trimming. The stepping stones, whereon so many dainty feet have pattercd between the carriage and gate, have the stains of disuse upon them. The favorite creams are gone like the slave who rubbed their glossy coats. The wolt’ of poverty iiits between the neglected shiubs and cowers behind the ambitious stuc- e0ed columns. It is not hard to indentify one of the former dam of cotton darlings. Bitterness and sadness dwell in their faces. Theyoung men once accustomed to horses. guns, dogs, a slave for every whim, and spend- ing money in unreckoued wants; the young women, lovely as a tropical ﬂower, as languid as a lily on a breathless lake, and fragile in beauty as either: his few dal pride, his shoals of sleek slaves, his resounding poli- tics, liis hospitable country palace and his prodigal cheer—all are alike bewildered by the pitilcss revolution that has stricken them with decay, own as the husband: man deadeus the forest that he may have ﬁelds instead ofcumbering groves. We do notdoubt that the once haughty and powerful slave aristocracy is passing away. Emancipation girdled that tree. The woodman does not wait to see the leaves wither on the oak around which he has cut the fatal notch. He knows that the work is done,”

'A correspondent of an English paper proposes to set- tle the Irish question by a plan similar to that of the " Marriage Fund Association.” He Wishes the Go- vernment to offer a bounty to every person of Irish (les- ccut who marries one of English or Scotch ancestry, and pay a premium of £10 for every child born of such marriages.

There is to be an Intercolonial Maritime Exhibit-ion at Havre in June next. The Exhibition embraces forty-three classes ﬁguring in the programme in the five following groups: Navigation, Goods, Fishing, Agriculture. and Complemental classes. Sailing, row- ing, and steam regattas are also proposed.

The Lynchbarg Virginian dislikes the Peabody edu- cational scheme, and says:—“ Better let our children go uneducated, and live in the woods, communing there with nature and with nature’s God, than to accept of instruction in Schools where New England polititics, philosophy and religion are to substitute in any mea-- sure the traditions of our good old State.

A writer in the Portland Press states the following very interesting facts :-—-From Chicago the distance to San Francisco by the Paciﬁc Railway is 2,338 miles, which makes the line across the Continent from Halifax to San Francisco 3979 miles.

During the discussion in the House of Commons the other day. Mr. Rose said he had reason to believe that Mr. Sherman’s bill. now before the United States Con- rcss, assimilating the American coin to the French,

would be idoptcd.

Mr. Dickens is to conclude his readings in the United States with a series of ﬁve in New York. .beginnin 0n ‘the 13th. and ending on the 29th of April. Two ays later he is to sail for England.

Mr. Peabody, the American banker, had apleasant in. tcrvicw with his Holiness the Pope recently, and on his return to his hotel sent back a cheque for 1,000 francs, in aid of the funds of San Spirito Hospital.

A brute has been executed in Virginia for having murdered three persons in a family of four. 11c cons fessed the murder, Was devoutly thankful that Provis deuce had prevented him from perpetrating the fourth, -nwas profuse in his declarations of forgiveness for al? his enemies. and hoped that neither his family nor his countrymen Would either from the disgrace he had in« ﬂicted on them. He Seems to have made as pious and edifying an end as butchers and brutcs of his class usually do. These exhibitions which are becoming so frequent, are simply disgusting. The whole system 02‘ public executions ought to be reformed. From the time a murderer is sentenced to death, he ought to be abso‘ lutelyunseen and unknown to the Outside world.

Mr. Geo. Pnanonr AT Rona—LA letter from Romd in the London News says that Mr. George Peabody and Hon. Robert C. Winthrop were recently presented to the Pope. His Holiness was fully aware of the charac: ter of his visitors. whom he requested to be seated in his presence, an unusual mark of distinction. A deli— cate token of Pro Nono's appreciation of Mr. Peabody’s universal benevolence was afforded by the Latin quo» tations from Holy Writ. showing the blessed qualitv 0: charity, which he wrote with his own hand under sdmo photographic likenesses of himself, which he presented to the party as souvenirs of the visit.

\‘i’e find the following paragraph in the Quebec 0.1::- ettc of March 20th, in reference to the Dominion ‘ stand-- iug army ’that is to be :—-‘ There is stated to be a prou- ject in contemplation to establish a standing military torce throughout the Domini JD, according to the pope‘s lation in each Province, as follows:—-—Ontario, 2 regi‘ ments. 4 battalions, 500 men each, 2,000; Qtiebec.i regiment. 2 battalions, French, 1.000; Quebec, 1 regi» meat, 2 battalions, English, 600; Nova Scotia, 1 regi- ment, 2 battalions, 600; New Brunswick, 1 battalion, 4OU.——Total 4,600.

ROBBERY A331) MURDER ON 'rnn GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.—-On Tuesday we published a short account of a robbery and murderous assault committed on the person of a respectable and inoffensive man, a drovcr named Sykes, on the Grand Trunk Railway, near Pres— cott. The unfortunate man has since died from the effects of the injuries he received by being thrown from the car; but he survived long enough to give the par- ticulars of the diabolical outrage, and the name of one of the parties—the man who demanded his money.

The Montreal Daily News says that privaten'and re- liable information 1138 been received of a Fenian move— ment in the neighbourhood of Malone. Numbers of men, supposed to belong to the organization, and all of whom possess arms of some kind, have been gathering at that point for some days. It is there a matter of common belief that their presence is the result ofa plan wich mal-contents on this side of the line are not so ignorant-as good loyalty would require them to be.

An extraordinary tragedy has lately been enacted at Todmordon, England—The Rev. Mr. I’lows, Mrs. I’lows and several of their servants were attacked du- ring the night of2ud ul-t., by a suitor of one of the maid servants. who had been discharged on account of his visits. He was armed With a pistol and an axe, killed one of the servants on the spot, and inﬂicted such dan— gerous woundsupon Mr. and Mrs. Plows that they are not expected to recover.

The‘M'ar'yland Legislature has assed a law to the effect that no liquor shall be sol in the State on Sun- day, except when prescribed by a physrcian. his fear- ful to think of the amount of sickness that will hereafter prevail in Maryland on Sundays.

Since King Geor earrived at Athens, on the 80th of October, 1863,t to Government of Greece has been conducted by sixteen different Cabinets, including that which held ofﬁce when His Majesty arrived.