The Express. — London, England, 1852-04-30 00:00:00

— M. LABOUCHERK mid he could not feel content in giving a silent vote on the present occasion. It bed been NUJ treat the government incurred a certain amount tef an p.i.ot.irity in opposing this motion, but whatever marier kite might arise, he was quite willing to take hie tinge of Lt, 41. h•- looked upon this pavilion as simply one of sped faith k Hear The right hon. member for Lambeth should knew that the government had pledged themselves to th. temporary object of the building, and that object ka....c helm achieved the pledge most be redeemed. Ile (Mr Litmus-here) was one of the pertin who had given that pl. dee. sad he felt that ho only redeemed it by resist- ico the present 11106311. Ile did not moan to say that if the teeling duke knee mad the public had been unanimous ire retention, the same rarity for observing the pledge would have existed, but from all he oould learn through the eirdisety channels of information, he did set think them was any very genus' sentiment is favour of the retestion of the building. Mr. D. CAVENDISH complained of the construction that had been put on the evidence of Sir J. Paxton. If my pledge had been given, it must have been given te the public, and the vast number of petitions showed that he public were ready to absolve the governamt. /Ile. W R OREGO as attempted to Writes the house ' but IP voice w completely drowned in the general cry fee a tool o. Lord PALMERSTON was anxious to state, in it Iher words, his reasons for giving his vote in favour of the mem hon of hie honourable friend. (Cheers.) He thought ye am who west tore the Exhibition last year could WI le be struck by the reflection that however wonderful end worthy of admiration were the multitudes ef erns of industry and art which were caw tamed ia that building, there was nothing in it worthy to reaper. with the building itself m an. object of almsration. Or could not help feeling regret that a huc..ling so extraordinary, to which there wee nothing Ia tie n. lid that weld be compared, should be _palled down inter it had served its temporary purpose. (Hear, boar.) 'ltiat sentiment must have been experienced by every man vilio, since the close of the Exhibition, had pored_ by that wonderful fabric, and every one must have wished that some purpose could be found to which its perrensat retie boa could be usefully applied. In thinking are the loft,. to which it might b e a ppli e d, many si these Lad been stated by bon. gentlemen in the debate of that maht hail occurred to him, by afro of whisk the building could be applied to metal peepers for the instruction and amusement of the potpie et the sastrepede end the ttryy at Wyo. It appeared to him that sot "sly the epeeaiem which bed b. • rade is Amer of the motion but these whisk had ems made agate& it, all, in his opinion, lad le the serds am that the sedirell was in itself one et mreatfinterestamd *nod as iaquiry—(hear, hear)—end tbesidere the re p, course was net le negative the eteds•—(beer, hew)— betto hale • eerneilene of 'curry, se that the knee as a figure cream wi(eht bre sere greyed@ ea whisk they meld testier their advise to the devernetent am le the no awe or derelities of that reel adrieehle heeding. (theirs.' Led SEYMOUR wee ndweelet to esrepy the arenden e the house, bat se he bad been - alluded le be the Merle of the debate, _be Itessed to Mira to kw • few cream He bed elm WM* in the ratter, bet • rent frrly and bossily to fella ea nreigesent lino whisk es a ensmhuref the Mte he had entered. He weed not term to the seeds is that bear in WO, bet, if be did le, be 11411111 demi, slow UM mks' • =had bee. Ora th at the radii/ be the Great kr drab' be it weidd never bow boss allowed to her hen reseed.irr, her.) The peel*. be thee eseriel iniplieneed Ws peed bleb more than that el the other mob= af the drearrent, for he leg kai r sprieetien der sere pears wbe bed reared • rep ewe of mosey in bear deemed VW tat Pent, Wes Ceti him that they freed that when relbling was twee Need there it weebl he kept there, that meetly waddle r• up. that petitions were seedy made, and the same over whop .0.10 aced to get sip the lishibitlen "weld be used to "UM the building._ He cold them that a t i bemuse of the s":"um doubt ite. ' , .... , 1: r0 Ca l wrwi ...wale.S.."ll...wilaiLzr"res:4lerminigthentais these ea t , a rue. of lee illefilmillings en the peen& when Pelnee•to ire 4011 mend. The geirememe& was sexism to serer the. loadings, hat se rarer • ere wee sited ler them that they heat out inducement's he MIME Maas is ardor to make it weer their while to porellease the kind. They *routinely invested a lases eau Is the jogroben en It. faith of the government of the day. Whet serail ta mid to those pens.. if—after having allowed then IP .owl 900,000 f. in budding WWI Meson—if try were reeked up by • I•ip purity bed& we Mows.) It would be a disheeame teenseeden i Worec whisk ao individual in that hoes. would be gu il ty I et (hm, hoe.) Why, then, should they he regardless tithe power of th e ramie ? (Dear, hear.) lie had seen rprise • letter hem Lord Carlisle en this selajest lard Carlisle was Ishaeolf a party ea the homer ennpre oat, said he feisty admitted is the u rnhi se r a nt of WM hurt. the latter parties of whisk had seed the right boa. gentleman the esserber for Lanark Ent though he road set appear row take pert is, ise proxerlings of a meeting, he did net mead wr'itleg Is Irma of the mender of the beibling. (Maas, .. 166 , O Be (Lori K e y no ter) said net weilendeed ie whir allowed a Ewa to do iedlreetJy that which he waited Set do openly. Either the obligation wee k6 aa seit MS net. It .t was, Lord Carlisle teetlbwweltlee teesthat his,,. and at is wee not he Wein haw shredied the gm* iser (Dear, hear.) While he believed the tat esando awn would keep faith by releirellig the building, yet Seer conduct had bem compromised by their ambito* and their ei er,tary, for Si. Joseph Paxton had sent r',uad line 11116111, country—(mar, bear)—to endeavour to defeat ill Willeatro, into which they bed entered. (flew, bear.) Int midi Paxton had seferred to whet be NMI a is& *Mean rat of hie celibate. A commie led been op. prow in Depurator, en which be (Lent fleyrnerl with sir W. Ciibitt and Dr. LOS", Min were adin% qualified for the purpose, for, as NO WIN the cost of mar Ware the building, no o•• ride he• • hotter a jadt: EltQua Sir W. C o las, and us the listrai 1 there could not he • sure Indio Ikea dley. Sir Joseph Pastas sobs UNA fleystort) understood from the sollmi es Lord SEYMOUR. said when he undertook that inquiry it was clear, tree the course of the inquiry, that the question of good f aith worn not to be submitted to theirconideration. Ile did not enter into it in obedience to his owa wishes, but in obedience to the wishes of the howls. Mr. ALCOCK moved that the debate be adjourned. Bir K. PEEL said the impression he had entertained that it was not desirable to maintain the Crystal Palace was en tirely changed, and that he was now as strenuously disposed support its maintenance as he was before to advocate its removal. He hoped then were many hoc . members who had also changed their opinions. He hoped, also, that the good faith of parliament would not be say serious obstacle. (Laughter.) lie would call ~to their mends the history of parliamentary pledges. Parliamentary pledges were like ductile elay, that might be formed to fashion or to caprice. Mr. WYLD hoped that the discussion which had taken place would at any rate result in proceedings to establish some permanent. national receptacles for selected products and speeimeus of arts, sciences, and manufactures. Mr. HEYWOOD briefly replied, and The house divided: For the motion lO3 Against Mejority for government llB THE CASH OF COL. OUTRAM Mr. ANSTEY moved for papers conoering Colonel Out rem's mimics and hie investigation into the 'sinews of corrupt relations between the Goicower and certain officers of the Bombay govorament, and also concerning the re moval of Col. Outman from Beroda. TM PRESIDENT of We BOARD of CONTROL stated, the papers bad only arrived ;by the last mail, and were not yet in hie hands. When the papers were ready thy would be predated. Lard JOCELY leW, after the as just given, the Nadia would be wirawn. Ilk J. HOOO demented the course taken by Kr. Anetey of Eakin statements wholly unfounded against the oaken of lie Bombay government. He denied that there was any peed for charging those ofticen with corruption, end at end that Colonel Outrun had succeeded in bringing to punishment the delinquents by whom the attempt had been MOM& to tarnish the British name. After ibririconversaii;n, Mr. ANSTEY withdrew the motion, sad moved an instruction to the select committee on Indian territories to examine Colonel Outtans. The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of CONTROL con sidered it to be wholly at vat ence with the usages of the bars to give each instructions without grounds stated. Mr. 0. THOMPSON thought it important that Colonel MO= should be sidled before the committee. The PrtiilDll3lT of theBOARD or CiiNTROL in *mail that ft nes suite competent to the committee to mil Oil. Ostenn lam Awe if they pleamd. And the SPIAILLII, having stated that it world cot be seder to vole each an instruction, the motion was with. &atm FRIENDLY 11001X1111& Mr. SOT IlEitYtlns;vei tM t of • select ormadttes to *min late the of the low Mottos to /*aft sioitale. Ms bad hile•dood • imam ea the -N', mod had emend ooneatims tee so any aseeod aolost um%amine& dog le tem mine to refer the whole swim to • L airme___lss Kr. BOT sold be did not propose to refer his Mll to n eehiel temenittee._ . _ _ _ Me H. WILLOUGHBY hoped the bill would be post. paned. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON mid the Chancellor of the Ex eherir desired his to state that he wee is fawns of the bWmg paned, am • mere continuance bill, sad the com mittee being appointed. The motion wee then agreed to. THE REGISTRATION ACT. Lord J. MANNERS moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend a net intitalad "An set for registering births, deaths, sad marriasso in England." Imam was given, sad the bill was subsequently brought in. ENFRANCHISEMENT OF COPYHOLDS BILL. Mr. AOLIONBY haring moved the third reading of thla bill, Mr O. STRICKLAND opposed it, and hoped that the bill would be poittpsmed till it could he more fully discussed. It dealt with rights of property in a moaner that could be suctioned by that house. He mowed that the bill should be reed a third time that day three months. Mr. MiLIONBY said there hid been abeadaat opportu nity for dimming the bill on the mond reeding and in canantiee. TIM asseadastat was withdraws, and the bit , was read a third bra* sad pared. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES (No '2) (SALARIES AND EXPENSES. The house having gone into committee Tweed the formal resolution providing for salaries under this bill. The Repayment of Advances Ada Amendment (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. The Menials of BLANDFORD brought up the Epis copal and Capitilariffonam Bill, which was read a trot time, and the hammadilmsnii at one o'clock. PAIL—Mr. P. SPA= for, with Captain Jones 'gaunt, Mr. la /We A WWI' INDIANAN BURNED AT Sta.—The West Indian trader David Luckie, Captain Moe, iiith a valuable cargo, took tire at ma while on kw boogerard" from Demerara to Loudon, and was tot* diliteped.o crew took to thor long-boat, and numb he OM mod a the Orinoco, about 90 miles distant, wilgo alibi a land ing. The fire is attributed to the ambettioa of the coals on board. r: Last night the House of Commons decided by , a considerable mvjority against Mr. Heywood's motion for a select committee to consider the preservation of the Crystal Palace. A fall report of the debate will be found in another column; bat though the result there shown was generally anticipated, many will doubtless feel deep regret on learning that a structure which formed so prominent and beautiful a part of an unparalleled national display is really to peas from the spot it has embellished. The speeches of last night will be read with interest by thousands. There is now a very prevalent opinion that the Crystal Palace will, in all probability, arise anew either in Battersea New Park, at Wimbledon Com mon, or in some other eligible spot near the metro polis. Whilst on this subject, it may be mentioned that the reports of the Jurors on the Great Exhibition have been for some time in the press, and that in all probability an early copy of the complete document will be ready for presentation to Prince Albert to morrow, the let of ?slay. 'The combined reports will form a large volume, some thousands of copies of which are to be printed for distribution.—Daily News. that the lite is arielask was INS whoa the warbles peek; lei he pat it to the w ef hon. eaelitmee ta the Wet aegemialai add% ..,7h t io slid habits tithe wields" pewee of the rha whether they peelieeny aid avail t=t rot 0111 eel air i l s e dela s a iesier. They Wile . whale nom early ein es la bag ill en er 'L ied ; 004 eke drew tiny ti wog *two /gar areeu to iteelle .t the extenee'weet ea g a y but Su y ? yeas it the oemeemismos ef ?lbw rig„„,,,,, or Mayfair, • at might be meemei that the 1 :,04 ono for a winter mac Mesita had Irt‘ br „.. - I the feeling* and WWII/ tithe ntiaakdaism • VIII their feelings did be este the WASS tad ii4pgs of the lower cheese; and le liSeld pat oat of titre what the wishes, feelletelper rejodiees of or middle chose migh t ee ea the subject. 1„, It had been said that RUN deans woe *I 0 , their opinion on the subject. • mem ishordad 1 1,.. 54 tn.e was never made. Bohn metes dim to the L. - Ind rem tacit two stemeriala hoe teideamen of on.- tor, the other wise the retention of ; au., the signatures were within Ave of the pate Number to both papers. (Hear, heat.) With the o mph..a of the meeting held in Exeter-hall, there baoily been • meeting at which respectable in. V. tea , and tradesmen of the district had not riven o i • a the retention of the building; and that, too, yuct .taielmit the remarkable elforta that had been used y .u. •- of the metropolis to believe that, be. re.e. the r••It 1111011 of the palace au its present objection. a ed it* motive and permanent demolition, no emar..• was left (near, hear.) That was a must spun valiatton and departure from the truth. In con- O w . queation, he had been moot anxious to aseee• •ii II .o, offered the freest access to the workinoclaues p their half Mayday* and summer evenings. The tiret wash suturally ougateated it el was that old highway rrh a h- to minter days the favourite resort and Chia source o...ten.isme4tion annum the nobility—now afforded the •.n.l soot powder wrens of transit to thu working pi.. h a meant the river. It was notorious that Ilyde• adopted our toiling fellow canters' no facilities whal e*" to areal, et From • paper prepared the other ie. he Wand the distance by steamboat from Lam. 1,,e-0 111, to Battens& was, io time, 16 minutes; oval Mark truan.laridge to the maau tile, 34 mi. wen ; trom Southwark-bridge, 38 minutes ; from London sa...lge, la animus; from the Thant.* Tutinet 3o minutes; •nhAletants of Commen•ial-road, Shadwell, Stepney, lee. lirrenwich, Deptford, Wooly/kb, and Spud , asked all a site near the river would not he far , ~aptable and useful than any other? With respect • Fame, this most curious statistical fart showed the . latetaate of river commuuication. The pouiengers by] owe steam-host company only, plying between • ftradgc amounted last year • joulon And -- _ _—4 pine re ila same% et obi& *bout half a million Mil pee to see per Kew, der MK to and from the several raw bone= .s. I=eed Battersea. (Ilear, bear. At joe.k mime mow r. dewy ten minutes at Battersea Pier; ed br ti toyed het if arrangements were made fur reser* the I.shibitkm bildiditz e la Batteries Park, it would be hr • rte e.iv,intatteell ft working people than reerhher k Wire it WY , Ile bad tow given the reasion:whish b r a... 4 the menemunnit irs opposing the mutters, but he begird to add that no unrearinalile haste would be re gain.' m th.• removal of the palace. Government were lite the by no hostile spirit, but would give every posiib: e Moat, tine the re-erection of the building in any uther site Mat might he chow :LA he feet wis,he hiadjust been informed withal he might consider tint-rate authority, that the buddies hail teen, already purchased ; that the money had bra deposited, and that the agreement. were being drawn ape the purchaser being moat anxious to enter into cum • ii:on with the government, as tit the future site of tn. ' :inc and the purposes to which it was to be devoted. • c ....I only say that the government would be wt Liny to wine any asiiistance and cooperation in their fewer, end he trmbil the building would snon be re-erected ass bappi. r site, and that untarnished by any violation of olive Loh, it might be desisted to the healUiful recre ation et the people. flaying plated before the house frankly the opulent of the government, be mast ask the house to pipe I', motion, as one unnecessary in itaelf, inasmuch as the selocet *holt it was proposed to refer to a select cow mime h ul already been fully and fairly investigated by the itftlell.lolll. Inasmuch, also, as that the object caught teaol only be granted by a violation of public faith, and fassmach so he believed that any legitimate good object IMIr I. obtained by the cordial co-operation of the new peeitiiori of the Molding with the government. (Cheers.) Are Ii*EVSCOUBT, amid loud cries of " divide," sup ported the motion of the hut. member for North Imam- Mite. saembez tor Lentboth--mil, indeed, as he had seen It laded in the paints —theit manse bad net been seat to Ma He Gal Sopa isa laipiesd et the Is the SOW abet hos, wee he arse to be het the seldom been oat to Sir Joseph bed boss to all Ile ohm eitatesea, sad whoa Mr Pules Mid bile ea be bed net rasa I be g r im i He ; altar that be bed srabla _ it. He Lbellevol that W e eddemos had bon sent to 51, Joseph riMsa es it had hem to sway ether mitoses. As regarlii the @vibes, sa ntalraW hole sad figures, he oreald rather take the G/ ilia matreeton, whe were better able to tell what would sell for, and the suet of its maintenamse. What b l d i I feseph Paxton stated is him (Lord was, that the eon of the stainless.os of the buildit i g= be, instead of 12,00 W. a year, 20,0551., sad that statesman he sent in writing. That, however, was not the wreaks. as it was now said that the building was to be self-support ing. On that subject he had the best evidence. Mr. Cole stated that if the building was to be self-supporting it must be open at night—and that it was Indispensable that it should be made a place of recreation at night. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) The building was to be nadir the management of certain trustees. The commission for con ducting the Exhibition was appointed by royal charter and under the sign manual, but this was it communion issued by Sir J. Paxton (cheers and laughter) who named trustees for interfering with the Park, and taking .hi acres of it away. (Hear, hear.) It was impossible that the parks could be dealt with in that way—(cheers)--except by act of parliament. All the resolutions of that house and all arrangements by commissions would be useless, and, tin kle an set of parliament was passed, the building must come down aud the ground be given up to the public. (Hear.) Mr. Cole hail and that the building was not adapted for a museum or for lectures, but he tallied of keeping it as a great warehouse till we could get something better. (Hear, hear.) But was that • reason for filling up 20 acres of the Park ? (Hear, hear.) If pledges like that which hail been given were to be broken, let them have no more of them ; and he (Lord Seymour) would not again in a hurry . bo • party to one. Ile trusted the house would persevere in re teeting this motion at once, and settle the question for ever. (Cheery) Mr. WAKLEY mid the noble lord who had just sat down had made a speech which appeared to him to indi cate that he had • very strong feeling on the subject, and the remarks which the noble lord hail made with reference to his late noble colleague appeared to hint to be very unsuited to the occasion. He (Mr. Wakley) had made no pledge ou this subject, and if the nimble lord had made • pledge which he could nut maintain in consequence of the power of parliament, morally the noble lord had committed no sin. They would all admit that the noble lord had done his hest to keep his pledge. This was a pledge for destruction. Suppose the pledge had been given for protection. (Cheers.) The noble lord,the Chief Commissioner of Woods ie.d Forests, had intimated that if the palace were retained, it should be removed to Battersea. Why, what kind of animal did the noble lord think existed in the neighbourhood of Battersea? Some curious monstrosity or other. He appreliendid that was the case, because the noble lord and government would give Shim some specimens if they re moved it to &diem a. Now if it were a zoological garden, then be admitted government might supply some good specimens. (Laughter.) But he could nut nailer:dm:id hoer it was to be an immoral thing at Hyde-park and a mural thing at Battersea, and it was for the mails lord to explain that which appeared to him to involve • contradictionl which scarcely anything could satisfactorily explain. He sincerely hoped that the majority of the house would approve of this motion. Mr. GRACIL who was greeted with loud cries of " Divide," and who spoke amid much interruption, was understood to deny that negotiations were going on with government as to the removal of the Crystal Palace. If they were to take it to another site there would be no ne cessity to negotiate with the government, am they could then pine it where they pleased, mid devote it to what purposes they liked. Lord JOHN MANNERS said, the hon. member for Finsbury had in a speech of unmitigated nonsense --( sties of Oh !")_—put language into his mouth which be never uttered. Ho never said anything as to the geographical morality or ingporality of Hyde-park or Battens.. The noble lord then, in answer to the hon. member who bad just spoken, read a letter stating that certain persons had purchased he Crystal Palace fur 75,0061., and that they proposed to remove the building and erect it elsewhere. Mr. GEACII said there Will no doubt that was perfectly correct, but that was a bargain contingent upon the house not sanctioning its remaining Captain PECHELL said a petition had just come into his hands, signed by the magistrates and a thousand of he inhabitants of Brighton, in favour of the retention of the Crystal Pelee.. Mr. JOHN EVANS contended that no one could say them war anything like a breath of faith in voting for this motion. It was with the Wawa astonishment that be heard the noble led the member tot Tonnes my that it was a beim* of faith not to pall the building dose, when that noble lord had sat se chin:Eau et a ommaissies, the object of which was to ascertain whether the building Gould not be retained. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1852. . gite erpresso. TO CORRISPONDINTS. • Mead blithe ef " The Reprels," eantalaire the sae earalree Geaelte,"le publieled awry Toole, sad Priasy ia Mgr' he pt. Wen meow% Mewled tor " The Uwe". Lanais Lists, P 7••, suet be el Yip fleas, 10, Bourerle.street, 7 Two e'eleit OM the aky •L potdisstlea. hIOH WATIIR AT LONDON BRIDGB Tan DAT —ilieslog. 100. SI.. 4l%ormaa. II k. isooarno—iiislog, 1 i Jamium, 13a. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 30. THE French PRESIDENT will allow no fetters to bo imposed on his absolute will b 7 the law or its tri bunals. The Tribunal of the Seine having welled its jurisdiction in the questions arising out of the ORLEANS confiscation, the PnEstnEsr has submitted the ease to his Council of State. Ile withdraws it from the judgment of a court which must regulate its decisions by strict known maxims of law, and which inquires, reasons, pronounces judgment in public, and he submits it to men who will decide according to their own vague arbitrary notions of policy—who hold their appointments at his pleasure—and who are shielded from public censure by the secresy of their proceedings. Even under the old arbitrary monarchy of France the violation of judicial inch pendency by a resort to a " lit de justice was an event as rare as it was perilous to the perpetrator. Such violation of judicial independence is avowedly a general rule of action under the constitution set up by the PRESIDENT. Since the era of the Reformation the independence of the courts of law has—in theory at least—been respected by every European govern ment ; in modern France it is to be systematically trodden under foot. Frenchmen have now less se curity for the safety of their persons and propertie, than Englishmen under lIENRT VIII. or CHARLES 1., than Prussians under FREI/ERIC THE GREAT. They are reduced to a level with the subjects of those Oriental despotisms in which the word of the sove reign is law. The French PRESIDENT is resolved to rule upon JACK CADE'S principle—all the laws of France are to come out of his mouth. The appeal against the competence of the courts of law to entertain questions arising out of the confis cation of the ORLEANS property, was presented to the Council of State by the Proeureur-General on Mon day afternoon. Next morning was published in the Moniteur the report of Colonel KSPINIIBBE, one of the comet l- ners sent into the provinces to revise the of the ital commissions. Col. e sentences .. department_ Eartaassx—who it will be remembered com manded on the morning of the 2nd of December the soldiers who took possession of the le gislative palace—tells the PRESIDENT in this report that government have been dealing far too leniently with their political opponents. The mixed commissions, he says, " have only committed the fault at an excess of leniency." " The individual pardons," be adds, " which you have already granted, mosesigneur, have in general produced a bad impair ion in the country." The affected independence which remonstrates thus with a master is perfectly sadentood : it is an old trick of the courtier to tell the object of his flattery magnanimously that he is patting too much control on his inclinations, pre .ring the interests of others to his own. The pub lication of Colonel Eseixassx's report is preparatory to the withdrawal of the hollow professions lately made by the PRESIDENT that he was about to abate the rigours of his ecercion. It is a declaration that the reign of terror is to bo prolonged in France—a enwiemsen that only by terrorism can the PRESIDENT uphold his power in France ; and it is promulgated immediately after a legal tribunal has declared its determination to assert the authority of the law even Ia opposition to the wishes and commands of the PRESIDENT. These are the natural sad necessary fruits of the coup d'elat of 2nd December. FATE OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The decree published yesterday by the Moniteur sets at length the conversion of the Five per Cent. Bente' in its right point of view, and bares to the public eye the mechanism by which that feat was accomplished. You are aware that on Monday last the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. were quoted below par ; and those ..r rentiera who had been amerced of ono-tenth of t .eir income by the conversion, were panic-struck at the prospect of losing an equal pro portion of their capital. In fact it was known that the great capitalists, known by the collective desig nation of the Haute Banque, had, both in their own interest and that of the government, in order to prevent the funds from falling, bought up the Five per Cent. Rentes offered in the market to an amount representing at par a capital of about 100 millions. Thus the government was spared the embarrassment of reimbursing the capital of these rentes, the pries was kept above par, and a panic averted. Meanwhile the Haute Banque, hay ing absorbed this amount of converted routes, had placed itself in a peculiar position. On one hand it beanie possessor of a stook of which it could not get rid without progressive loss in proportion as it oozed out into the market, and on the other head it could dictate terms to the government, as it held in its hands the means of ma kin g the operation of the con version tam out a completefailure. The coesequenceof this position was naturaL The government and Haute Banque concluded the bargain, which ap peared in the Moniteur of yesterday. Strictly speak ing the transaction is a loan, but contracted without the publicity and competition which the law de wands. The decree of March 14, ordering the con version, authorises the finance minister to inscribe if necessary fresh rentes in the Grand Line, but the negotiation must take place by public competition. The present transaction has been conducted with the utmost secrecy, and, as will presently appear, with as much prejudice to the treasury as usually results from clandestine negotiations in such matters. In exchange for 100 millions of francs in Four-and-Half per Cents., the Haute Banque has received Three per Cents., worth, according to the quotation of this stock at the date of the decree (71fr. Nike.), 104 millions, and is therefore the gainer by_ 4 millions of francs, supposing the Four-and-a- Half per Cents. at par. On the other hand, the debt of the state is increased by the difference of the nominal capital represented by the two stocks ex changed—that is, by about 47 millions of francs. The transaction, therefore, amounts ultimately to contract ing a loan of nearly two millions sterling in Three per Cents. at the quotation of 68fr., an operation which cannot be considered brilliant, as the rate of interest is as nearly as possible 41 per cent. Meanwhile, the finance minister represents the transactions as • favourable one for the treasury, as the state will have to:pay by the annullation of the 100 millions of four per cents. 72,1000 fr. less of annual interest on the whole debt. It deserve, to be remarked that a fresh benefit will accrue to the Haute Banque from re et lying on the 22nd of Juno the half-yearly dividend of the Three per Cents., after having pocketed that of the Fives on the 22nd of March. Since writing the above, I have conversed with people at the Bourse, and find that the statements of the ministerial papers respecting the nature of the - . ... • of so much devastaina and misery in the Menagerie, had TERRIBLE DISASTER AT TURlN.established his head-quarters at &ill " settlement," and exultingly called out to the troops, " Smith's people are women, f can give him fighting men," and added with • The following brief account of a terrible and des- species of fiendish delight, " I am the murderer of Mr. tructive explosion at the Sardinian capital, one Howse; I got all his money." This bravado was quickly quarter of which city is stated to haves been injured, silenced by a charge of infantry, in which the rebels were was hurried!' written upon tho margin of the dispersed &Ilia twentl f o t t fhhee Britishn ti re d n th w e nn ir dwellings Opinione of Turin, of April 26, immediately before killed and three wounded. Lieut.-Col. Eyre, when e man t the departure of the mans on the afternoon of that heard of, was near Fort Cox ' and from the lowing of oxen day, and which arrived in London by this in that vicinity was supposed to be in possession of large morning's post. Tho literal translation of the hasty able T he e . of i ll n cz, ,d Li i e t u is t.-21 ; t l n 'o a l t e h ti ne likewise dune agonottsless er bo observed is received through Ferree ' tly reliab le minion." The movement. of the field v I C:c u l l :me been, se sources, is as follows: cording to our last advice., all that could be desired. TURIN, Arm 20, MMDAY. THE Anarotas.—Colonels Michel and Eyre's move- Exploded the powder magazine of the Place Fullone, menta on the mountains have been very successful. They by the side of the Lora. One quarter of the capital has have destroyed the whole of the crops, including those of been injured. Every one is in consternation. The details the "royal family," and have met with no very great I are not yet known, nor are the causes. It is feared that resistance throughout. Col. Michel came upon the princi- , the other two magazines will follow. All is confusion. pal Hottentot imager , which he destroyed, horning from 80 I to 100 huts, Since the above was received the Journal de Turin ond t wot wo u nded . summitn f Col. Eyre including many wattle-and daub ones, with of the above date has arrived. Under the head of A h a e d li' d' s of ve o r% m t a h n eir kii caltle an the lcato " latest intelligence" is tho following paragraph, con- mountain, and was among them at daybreak yesterday firming the foregoing : morning ; and a man from Fort Cox tells us that the TURIN, 11.45 A.M. lowing of large numbers of cattle was heard by Col. Two successive shocks have been felt like those of an Michel's people, leading to the conclusion that Vol. Eyre earthquake. The powder magazine of Berge Dora has had made a g ood capture. The friendly chiefs continue exploded. The population is hurrying to the scene of die, sending in cattle, so that, with the loss of their crops and aster. The rappel a being beaten. All the faubourg in on their cattle, all that is now required to put them effect's fire. A barrack has fallen down. Two hundred deaths arc ally down is a good burgher muster, which force, acting spoken of. with that already in the field, with Sir Harry at their head, The Piedukontese Gawite of the same date as the infusing life, resolution, end vigour into the whole, when Me results may confidently be anpated foregoing, gives the news in a postscript , stating that the y m n 7 t 2 fa . voura 4 Col. rule's division has returned from the . a portion of the large depot of gunpowder in the field having destroyod all the enemy's crops is the direction suburb of Turin ca ll ed Berge Dora,blew up on the of the Kubota's. The Mead and his men am spoken of in ' morning of that day. It gives no particulars of the the highest terms, both for thshr new sad mane. Very _ . . . . Uf LYILLA N'S COM M ANboi.—On the north-eastern frostier, near the junction of the %wart and White Kei streams— the scene of the memorable battle of Innani, fought in March last—there her just taken place an engagement of the most desperate nature between • detachment of a burgher patrol, under Commandant °Millen, and a " cloud "of Tambookire, flushing in the discomfiture of the latter, and the infliction upon them of a loss of nearly 100 in killed and wounded, a booty of upwards of 1,000 head of cattle, extensive flocks of goats, and many horses. The luso on the side of the burghers being five killed and three wounded, awl 12 horses killed. Conspicuous in this affair stand the names of some who have throughout the war stood forward as the veriest patriots, us men who, regardless of present remuneration, and equally unmindful of present discomfiture, hive stepped forth to rescue their bleeding country from the grasp of merciless savage,. SHILOH, I've. 1..—0 f Lite we have had more rumours up here than real visits front our Temhoo fricods. On the Nth ult. they made a pounce down upon a span of oven, about three miles front Whittlesea while they were out griming, and got clear off with them. BVIOWILICII Duke, Fro. 20.—The cemmando, under Commandant Cole, has Warned to this town, having been in the field a considerable time. Their success is stated at 1.000 heed of cattle and a number of hares, killing 30 Kaffin end 10 Hottentots. Some Hottentot women were also taken prisoner", and brought t s Burgher's Burp. These state that pack bullocks laden with gunpowder passed the T'Sumo, supposed to have been obtained from Musliesh, and on the way to the lower country to the Oaikas and 'Dekko'. This information, given by the female prisoners respecting Binh, sh, ought at once to determine the government to institute u fear less inquiry with • view to the punishment of this trafficking chief, who is said to sell gunpowder openly at a store kept fur that purpose, and that his chi if artiel of barter with European traders who go to his country is that dangerous commodity. Unfortunately, the neglect ou the part of the government, in not prohibiting the sale of ammunition immediately on the outbreak of the war, permitted large stocks of gunpowder to lie imported hap hazard, and amity millions of cartridges to find their way into the hands of the natives, who are now using them to our destruction. It is even hinted that the three days' armistice asked by and granted to the Gaikas during the present month, was fur the purpose of obtaining a cessa tion of hostilities until their " powder oxen '• had arrived. Ilse be, their subtlety has most decidedly out witted the Commander-in-Chief, and his clemency has inflicted an injury to the colony's interests that will take much time to repair. (From the CWootist.) KING WILLIAM'S 'I OWN, FAH. 20.—Colonel Michel has destroyed upwards of 80 of eke Hottentot rebel huts on the Araatola ridges, many of wattle-and-daub. He has also a vast quantity of grain. Seyolo was collecting his people to attack Major Kyle's patrol. Ile will not do this =leas he catches the major in a trap, and he is not likely to do this. The I"Slambies arc still giving up Gaika cattle. Colonel Eyre was in pursuit of a number of Gotha cattle when the last express left. Captain Leckie, of the Queen's, was badly wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun. 1-sit. 24.—We have accounts from all the patrols. The soldiers continued at work destroying the crops up to the last dates without opposition. General Somerset has had the only fighting we have heard of. The sound of cannon and small arms were heard all day yesterday in the Tyumie lloek. A native express letter carrier was killed between I Forts Cox and Hare. We hear that the patrols are to be called in on the 28th, preparatory to the combined move meat on the Bth. Extract from a letter dated Struy's-bay, March 2, 1852 "We have to inform you that the Dutch barque Juno, Captain Chevalier, of 600 tone, from Batavia to Dordrecht, out L 2 days, struck on the pitch of the point of Cape L'Agulhiui, directly under the light-house, about half-past one in the afternoon, in very thick foggy weather. Tho writer was at the wreck about sunset, where he found the hull nearly under water, with main and mizenmasts gone, and the foremast to all appearance through her bottom. The crew were saved, but have lost everything. Unfortu nately, two lady passengers and three children were drowned. The semi was laden with collie and sugar." AMERICA. transeetioa are very much distrusted. Than it is sospectod that the 100 millions of Four per Cents. converted into Threes are not those which lay in the hands of the Haute Banque, but have been takes from the Cafes. if.. Depots et Consignations, a fund administered by the government. Owing to this misgiving, the same cloud of uncertainty bangs as ' before over the unfortunate small holders of the Four-and-a-Half per Cents., and they dread as much almost as ever lest the market should be swamped by the rentes held in reserve by the Haute Banque. For the rest, everybody asks what is the we of a Legis lative Body, which in the midst of its session has not the least contrail over operation specially included within its functions by the very constitution which called it into existence. Hero is the public debt increased suddeuly by two millions sterling, and not a single member of that assemb4 , which is chosen expressly for the purpose of guarding the public against the imposition of fresh burthens, has the pri vilege of putting an interpellation to the ministers, or of calling upon them in any way for explanations. The Corps Legislatif sat to-day. M. Billault, the president, read a letter from M. Ouyard Delalain, asking leave to print, at his own expense, the speech made by him upon the Copper Coinage Bill. Upon a show of hands the leave was given, about twenty members voting in the minority. M. Billault re marked that there were several secretaries whose duty it was to draw up the offiCial reports of the de bates, with the assistance of the short-hand writers. It was clear that no other report must be printed than that furnished by the short-hand writers. M. Ouyard Delalain said his only object in making the application was to establish the right of the Corps Legislatif to make the order. M. Billault (with some warmth) said that the right of the Corps Legislatif was consecrated by a decree. lie would never per mit it (oho questioned. M. I)elalain's observation was uncalled for. (Applause.) He then read the communication from the government mentioned in the order of the day, which turned out to be only a decree referring to the consideration of the' house several local bills for settling the boundaries of com munes in various departments. The house then passed to the consideration of the bill authorising the city of Bordeaux to borrow money for the construction of water works. M. Bucher do Chauvigne moved that the debate should be adjourned, upon the ground that the committee itself appeared to think that se veral unforsoen works would bo necessary, requiring a larger expenditure than the bill contemplated. M. ])avid, the reporter, denied this statement on the part of the committee, who, lie said, were of opinion that the estimates would not be exceeded. M. de Chauvigne that withdrew his motion, and the bill pa+sed The loan bills for the Haute Pyrenees, Meuse, and Pas de Calais, were voted without oppo sition or comment M. Langlois then presented his report upon the bill for the rehabitliation of con demned persons, which, in compliance with cries of " Head, read," he read to the house. The report stated that as this bill would form a chapter in the criminal code, it wu of great importance, and the committee had accordingly examined it with great care. Numerous amendments had been presented. The committee had rejected most of them, but they had adopted some which had in due course been submitted to the Council of State. Of these the Council had adopted several, but these which the Council had rejected could not again be discussed. Some of the amend ments had proposed to allow of rehabilitation even after death ; others desired to deny rehabilitation to persons sentenced by virtue of special laws; others went to exclude from the benefit of the law all per sons belonging to any department of public instruc tions, and others suggested the exclusion of all per sons condemned for a second offence. The committee had rejected all those amendments but the last, which it had adopted with the modification that the exclusion should extend only to the case of a second condemnation fur a crime, admitting to the privilege of rehabiliation a party who might have been sentenced once for a crime and once for a misdemeanour only. The Council of State had adopted this amendment as altered by the committee. With respect to the forms of proceeding to procure rehabilitation, the committee had not proposed to alter the bill in any respect. Those forms consisted for the most part of clauses taken from the existing code, which was consecrated by 40 . years' experience. The report was ordered to be printed, and Monday next was fixed for the debate upon the bill. M. Billault then said that it was possible that the budget for 18L3 might be presented on Saturday, in which case notice would he sent to members. The house then adjourned, without posi tively fixing any day for the next sitting. The Mondale publishes two decrees, ordering that functionaries of all ranks and all employes connected with the departments of Finance and Public Instruc tion, shall take the oath prescribed by the constitu tion within one month from the Ist of May next. The decrees remind these functionaries and employes that a refusal to take the oath will entail on them the loss of their situations. The Cltnefilutionnel says : The 'police yesterday morning found posted up in the Faubourg* St. Martin and St. Denis several printed papers, bearing the title of " Appel au Peuple," and tending to excite the most detestable passions. This appeal to the peo ple, signed " Les Amis de la Revolution calls an the people, says an evening journal, to rice. It is printed in characters which arc scarcely legible, which shows tho haste in which the clandestine press whence they issued struck them off. Several arrests are said to have taken place. M. de Morny has returned from Belgium. The question of competence referred to the Coun cil of State in consequence of the" conflict" raised by the government on the execution of the decrees con fiscating the property of the Orleans family, will be shortly resolved before the section des &mimetic's:. The president of this section is M. Maillard, but the government is anxious that M. Buroche, the vice president of the Council of State, should take this service under his especial care, and preside instead of M. Maillard. The article of the Petrie attacking the magis tracy has excited the greatest indignation among the members of the bar and bench. An influential ma gistrate has observed that a government that re spected itself would have immediately ordered the prosecution of the article, as an outrage upon the bench; whereas the government of Louis Napoleon umpired it. The French fleet has quitted Toulon, with five mouths' provisions; it goes first to Algeria. The English admiral is to meet the English fleet at Mi norca, and sail thence for Gibraltar, where it will be joined by some other ships, and set sail for Egypt and the Levant. The French fleet will proceed to the same destination after leaving Africa. The Public, which only yesterday . advocated a new appeal to the people, has made a giant stride in advance to-day, and holds out the probability of the definitive establishment of the empire in twelve days from this time, by the shouting of the soldiery in the Champ de Mars. This article is the most striking shadow of the coming event that has yet been seen. At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents, fell 20c., closing at 100.38; the Threes fell 50c., and closed at 70-85. Railways fell—Rouen, 10 ; Orleans, 7.50; Centro and Bordeaux, sfr. each; Lyons, 2.50; Northern, 1-25. A telegraphic summary of the following appeared yesterday in the Express: Yesterday morning the Amazon, 20, Captain Barker, arrived at Spithead from the East Indies and the Cape of Good Hope. She has tire days' later news from the latter place, having left Simon's Bay on the 7th of March. She sailed from Singapore January 5, arrived at Trincomalee on the 16th, sailed again on the 24th, arrived in Simon's Bay March 2, called at St. Helena on the 10th, at Ascension on the 21st, and made the Lizard on Tuesday last. She has brought home the surviving officers and those of the crew of the Birkenhead ste.mer, numbering 6 officers and 59 men, who will have to undergo a court martial for the loss of that ship. Since the departure of the mail steamer that brought tho news of the wreck to England, no more survivors had been heard of. The surviving military officers and soldiers were all in good health, and about to join their respective corps. The Castor, 36, Commodore Wivill, and the Itha damanthus steamer, were in &moil's Bay. The Styx steamer sailed on Feb. 25 from Simon's Bay, and arrived at Algoa Bay in 48 hours, and alter landing the English mail proceeded on to East Lon don. There was no man of-war at St. Helena, and the Volcano was the only one at Ascension. The Amazon reports the following merchant vessels :—The English brig Richmond Castle on Feb. 24, in lat. 31.36 S. lon. 35 E. steering westerly; the English brig W. and M. Brown, on March 1, steering N.W. by N. (wished to be reported) •, the English barque Tory, March 17, in lat. 14.26 S., lon. 7.34 W., steer ing Iq.N.W. ; the English barque Alice Maude, from Algoa Bay, bound to London (25 days out), on March 31, in lat. 3.11 N., lon. 22.07 W.; the British steam-ship Parana on April 21, in lat. 43.40 N., lon. 21 W., standing to the S.AV.; and on the 27th, off the Lizard, the Dutch schooner Pomona, 66 days from Havannah, bound to Amsterdam, and which vessel the Amazon supplied with water and meat, of which she was in great need. Major-General Cathcart had not arrived out at the Cape when the Amazon left. The Amazon has not brought a mail from the Cape. The following are the most recent items of intelli gence from the seat of war. A correspondent of the Cape Town Mail of March 6, writing from Graham's Town under date of Feb. 28, says : From a private source we learn that CoPmel Michel's psrty, on patrol in the Amatolas, base been successful in dispersing or destroying a considerable number of Rotten. tots, who are described as having been encamped in a very private and retired position. They were occupying hous es, several of which had glass windows, and otherwise seemed to think themselves quite secure. Twenty-six of these men were killed by the party under Col. Michel, and the rest fled and concealed themselves in the bush. Boma accounts have also been received from the neigh bourhood of Whittlesea, but we cannot collect any authen tic particulars. The report to which we allude, is to the effmt that a large commando is oat in the vicinity,—and that a party of these, &menet whom were two of the Curries, by some means or other, were separated from the main body, they were soon surrounded by a great number of KaSrs, and, not without difficulty, fought their way through. The KaSrs slackening in their pursuit, they turned upon them, and completely routed them, killing, it is maid, about 10 0, and eventually capturing about 1,000 head of cattle. A report was current in town yesterday that Riebcek, where there is a t with about 40 men, had been attacked by a large 'y of Ratan, and that the men had taken refuge in the church. We have beard no con firmation of this to-day. The following is from the Graham's Town Journal of the same date : Wo arc enabled at the close of this week to enumerate several very important engagements, in all of which the enemy has suffered reverses. Commencing with the opera tions of the troops in British Kafrraris, it is with pleasure that we perceive Colonels Byre and Michel doing their wonted good service. Patrols under these officers acting in concert have penetrated into the dense peons of the Keis kamma, and into frowning retreats that hut not previously been visited by a British force. Here they found a Hotten tot laager leith a great number of hovels, and about eighty wattle-and-daub hub, furnished and fitted up with doors and windows stolen from the various farmhouses in the colony, which these miscreants had dis mantled. Every provision appeared to have been made here for a permanent location. The notorious Willem Uithaalder, of the Rat River School, the author dimmer, bat states that the resin depot has base oared ; some home of the neighbourhood were on fire at the time of going to press, and that the Duko of Genoa and the ministers of war, the interior, and of public works were on the spot. GERMANY. The Cologne Gazette of yesterday contains the fol lowing telegraphic despatch, dated Berlin, April 2s, and announcing the virtual annulment of the vote come to by the Second Chamber on Monday, as given in yester da y' s paper: , ' The minister president, on the opening of the sitting of the Second Chamber, communicated to it a royal manage. The first paragraph says :—' Arti cles 6.5, 66, 87, and 66 of the constitution, are without effect from the 7th of August' fhe second para graph says From the same date the organisation of the First Chamber will be regulated by royal ordinance.'" TURKEY. The Constantinople correspondent of the Paris Omatieutionnel, writing on April 15th, says that the relations between Austria and the Porte, which have been becoming cooler ever since the refugee ques tion, have arrived at a point which might give cause to fear an actual rupture if all did not know that Austria cannot feel herself in a position to com mence a now war, even against Turkey. INDIA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) We have received our usual telegraphic despatch from Trieste. The Adria had arrived there on the 28th inst.; her dates from Bombay are to the 3rd of April. The Burmese expedition, under General Godwin, had set sail, and was expected to arrive at Moul main on the 4th of the present month. There was a considerable naval force there, and Admiral Austin was on his way with a vessel of war and another steamboat. The 38th Bengal N. I. had refused to embark for Burmah. The sth Madras LI. had been substituted. A second expedition of 2,500 men under Sir C. Campbell marched against the mountain Crubcs to the north of Peehawa, on the 11th of March. On the 20th they repulsed an attack made upon them by the enemy, after a conflict of three hours. Sir Colin had demanded additional forces. The state of the Nizam is in arliculo +north; : the irregularities of Baroda was increasing, and the recall of Lord Falkland was anticipated. The import market was firm. The cotton-market active, and prices rising. Money not so abundant. Exchange on London, Is. I I Id. THE KAFFIR WAR. heavy firing distinctly heard nearly all day in tbo direction of the Amatolu, and urticularly cannonade. Col. Michel had a brush with the Hottentots in the mountains a few days back. He has destroyed their huts, and, from what I can learn, drove them from their position, but with what loss on the enemy's side I cannot learn. Letters from Fort White state, there is no inclination on the part of the Kafiri to stop tltbtiog. His Excellency is preparing to take the field ; the troops are to be here in a few days— I suppose to recruit a littlo before the grand move on the Bth. -- Fax. 26.—The Kaffir' have shown a slight resistance to the patrol under Major Kyle, 46th Regiment. They are continually calling from the bills to tell Sir harry that they are ready, and that he must not concea l hi mse lf Tst King William's own, butcome out to the fight. Major Kyle's patrol has destroyed immense crops, and is doing ri6t rood service. Tue WATZKIELOOF.—Ifacomo still retains his hold of Watt&loot; entrenched in that formidable fortress, gar risoned by his clan and by nearly 2,500 rebel Hottentots and hostile Tambookies. t is rumoured that this chief has made a descent upon the Baviaan's River district, and ell;.•cted a very considerable foray of cattle. We bavo no authentic information on this bead, but the report hears the impress of probability, and so long as that din of rob bers remains uncleared, the neighbouring Canters must continue in a state of pitiful and injurious appri hension. The expulsion of this horde must be effected before any further armistice is talked of. To say such is imooseible is to underrate the ability of British (Akers and the valour of Brisish troops, and tantamount to Paying that both ore less skilful in operating against an enemy in Southern Africa than what their French rivals base been in the north. On the evening of the 11th instant, Mr. Sylserff's premises at Glen Yair were burned down, and the follow ing evening those of Mr. Piet Marais cod Marthinus Pre to:nu. ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, the United States Mail Steamship Atlantic, Captain West, arrived in the Mersey from New York, which port she left on the 17th instant at noon, bringing 125 passengers, but only about 1,000 dots. in specter on freight. At seven o'clock on the evening of the day the Atlantic left New York she passed the mail steamer Arctic going in. The Royal Mail Steamship America had been detained a considerable time outside Halifax har bour on the 14th, owing to the thick blustering weather then prevailing. The America arrived off the harbour at six o'clock in the morning. She sailed for Boston the following morning at 5 o'clock, and arrived on the afternoon of Friday, the 16th. The movements in favour of the different presi dential candidates arc exciting some interest. The last advices from Washington state that there is some talk of Fillmore's openly declining to be put in nomination, and expressing his preference for Mr. Webster. Kossuth has returned to Washington. Ho has remained quite retired since his arrival, but numbers of senators and representatives have called upon him. The following letter from Henry Clay respecting Kossuth is going the rounds of the American papers: I have never distinctly understood what M. Kossuth said of me at Louisville. I certainly had given him no cause for offence. The interview between him and me cannot be regarded as private, as it certainly was not a confidential one. It was attended by three members of Congress, and the attorney of the United States for this district, and would have been by others, but for my feeble state of health. What I said in the interview with Kossuth was variously and sometimes contradictorily represented in the news papers. tinder these circumstances, Mr. Ewing, one of the members in attendance, prepared a statement which has been published, and the substantial accuracy of which has been verified by another attending member. Over my own sentiments and language I thought I had entire con trol, just as Oeneral Cass thought proper to state to the Senate of the United States what he had said to Kossuth at their first interview. Mr. Ewing, in his staten eat, treated M. Kossuth with perfect respect, and said nothing to com promise him in the slightest degree. Such, my dear sir, was the origin, and such the motives, of the publication alluded to. The New Orleans Picayune has received advices from Havana to the 7th inst. A terrible fight oc curred near that place a few days previous between some American and English sailors; the military were called upon to interfere, but before order could be restored, several persons were killed. LATER FROM CALIFORNIA. By the arrival at New York of the Sierra Nevada, we are in poasesaion of three days later news from California. _ _ . There was a prospect of a row, before long, in Sonora. The French expedition, which let San Francisco a short time since, instead of being in tent on gold discoveries, actually went for the pur pose of revolutionizing that country. and establish ing an independent government, but with no idea of its ultimately being annexed to the United States. The peopleof California are very much annoyed at this, and there is some talk of setting up an expo. dition of 1,00(1 men (Americans) to go to Sonora, take possession of the country, and supersede the French. It is well known that the inhabitants of that country are all 360119 to be independent. Making but a small allowance for tho amount taken by passengers the shipment for March up to the present time- -two-thirds of the month—must be at least 3,000,000 doll. On account of the late floods the entire transit trade of Stockton, Sacramento, and Marysville was suddenly stopped. Murders and robberies have of late become alarm ingly frequent in California. It has, therefore, been deemed expedient to call the vigilance committee into active operation again. It was, therefore, re