The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-15 00:00:00

gfte erpreoo. TO (.OKRUSPON DEN TS. tir T,111.,6 ort I!' Fspeeas,"LAT 'be =MI ..ml aAte," is publbbui every Twain sal Pr.day eight. Quo f•-• f. le-of toelllCNta , s3. , ..lif f l The Lonse.. Tiftd,es E..eme to ... the o.lxo. Two o's:usk co the col .•: pub 0.540 e. HIGH WATER r LONDON RUMOR. sQ TR • I A.—Y. • In:. 61. S. Arieri n o4l. 711. 70-2posaw—No. sing, 7s. 36si *Outrank Ss. Po. LONDAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11 was a great outcry throughout France after July, 183 0, that Paris had no right to dispose 1: so summarily of the fate of the entire country. I low- II ever heroic in the combat, and moderate after . it, 1 , the Parisians showed themselves upon that occasion, , still the provincial; were jealous, and maintained I that they had a right to be consulted, especially en such grave oceeesions as the overthrow of al' dynasty and the remodelling of a consti- ' tuition. When, however, the acts constitution was I to be Deranged. and when the provinces were about to elect deputies for the purpose , the provincial constituencies never thought of insisting or proper-I, ing that a greater measure of local liberty and self government should be given to the pros inces. Had ' , such a change been then introduced, and a certain degree of decentralisation been admitted,—so as to gist life, independence, and anthority to the pro vincte,—the events of ltelti might have been pre vented. For Locus-PH LIPPE could never then have persevered in reigning according to his own personal ! views ; neither could a Parisian mob, or a pusillani mous court, have been able to convert in a few hours the monarchy into the republic. The French provinces and local interests were, however, us powerless in Psis as they had been in 115.111. Again they felt their utter want of intim. llet` at critical moments; and again loud indignation wan expressed thereat. And it was no doubt in a great measure this resentment of the provinces against 'eerie that caused the return of so large and en Scree an anti-republican majority. The National ' Assembly of the republic ditl no more for the provisoes than the Constitutional Cham oe isee, their stele policy and aim was to I, =elude the lower orders from the elections, and to keep den ti their turbulence by mesons of their army. I wtak -fel futile was thin ptlicy is sufficiently r ., ,t 1 by the case with which it we, turned against its prom et is. The curtailment of the suffrage was • the eseuste fora row .(:tat, and the army wes • five-franc picas and brandy--easily converted into an instrument. Had the conservatives or the reptildienns ef the National Atesmalely,--for they were both of them equally intereeted,--ed ablished bodies in the provinces of iwruona elected by their fellows and char g ed with certain interests and functions of local administra tion and taxation, there would never have been so neatly rallying points against the tyrant who has laid violent hold of the central authority in the capital. Iftel the l'refects not such complete power to override the procinece, and were they not MO alley ly (It the mercy of the government, military de Tote euuld not have now, with the appearance and undue the terms of kat:slily, twee extended its iron arms all over the country. in (eel, the country pee...tics 1111 means of risietance, sive the extreme one of retie llinn. Then, the upper and wealthier tle esti in Fr,uire are more disorganised than the lower. The working class, the pee/ retrial in France, as if here. eing such catastrophes as the present, have love his a et avrising and pere cling:lom, of general ae-oeintitet. Th tt these will set to work, devise and mature a ay: team of self-dth nee and of vengeance, l we usay be sure. Out the upper chess took no such precaution. They confided in repreeentative govern- I meat, snit in the majesty of the law, as if these creed awe the leild adventurer, s' ho had been raked to 111. peed of President, and who had been allowed to le COOIC 0.1 . 11 more popular than the Assembly. Even now this very usurper is allowed to triumph in his ill-doings. chiefly from the disagreement of pus the. as to the be et mode of superweling military tyranny. One party favoured a legitimist movement, another a pewialiet republic ; but neither show howl legitimacy e.r republic is to take such root in the, Meade of the people and receive such movement and immediate support from it, as to be inde petideet of a town rabble, a drunken ganieon. or a cooper:tot like the present. NI. little Ileixe has published, what is nut usual for him, a reasonable letter, in which he declares n re conciliation between upper and lower classes the telly basis of a promising and constitutional resistance to military tyruany. Nuthing more just. But what are to he the terms of the accord? If there be no more than the socialist programme of 18th, the pro. perticd classes will prefer crouching even under the wing of leeets Nietteetee's bastard eagle to trusting their fate to a red republic. triumphant and determined to carry out its social and economic principles. If that class of French reptildieens who have made political capital out of socialist doctrines do not ex plain their views more satisfactorily than has hitherto been done, there can be no combined action with the constitutional ate to preserve the country front mili tary and imperial despotism. there is one ground alone on which legitimists, One :mists, and constitutionalists, whether republi can or monarchic, could unite, and that is, a reform that would give to the great local centres, their due local and politieal influence. If the United States lave enseservrel their constitutional republic—if Eng lund hits kept and keeps unscathed its constitutional monarchy, it is owing to this—the dissemination o f powers, and its leealisation for all purposes of do mestic government; which is by no menus found to mar the strength or weaken the unity of either country, or its dealings with foreign states, or in its attitude towards the en. We are aware that deccntrelisation is unpopular in France, and that M. Tnixits would start up to denounce it with quite as much vehemence as M. Lenity.ltot.t.m. But this revolutionary prejudice is founded iu error, an error which believes that France can only conquer. and aggrandise, and extend its influence by means of a government concentrated in one hand. But surely, existing circumstances are sufficient to prove how such concentration may weaken, nut strengtheu--destroy not preserve. Be sides, these oh! ideas of conquest and aggrandisement ought to be given up. Frenchmen have quite enough to do to govern France itself, and to keep it upright, prosperous, free, and happy. And the reason that Frenchnien fail in this is, that they turn their atten tion nut to those humble and domestic tasks, hut to will4-the-w hip schemes of lording it over Europe, and restoring the ascendancy of Loris XIV. or of NAPOLEON. M. (it - 'tor and M. Timlts made, both of them, this mistake. It is time for such men to dilcern and to admit juster and more honest ends of policy. THE GREAT ExttiumoN.—Notwitltstanding the intimation given to the foreign exhibitors that all the goods wan to he removed by the 13th inqint, there is still a Urge tsantity within the building, chiefly belonging to France andponie of the (henna States. The ditliculties of our French friends have been materially increased by the events of the bat teo or twelve days; and either from miscalculating tho quantity of goods to be re-conveyed to France, or from tho wont of previous 21TallgeMerlt, filer, are no means of ship pine thew elf, and the Fustian -house authorities have been aLlue,d to relax somewhat of their strict rules, and allow the irate to be deposited forth. present on the Ordnance Wharf, as if in bond. Although the building has been handed over to the contractors, Messrs. Foe. and Henderson, a small executive mad, under the command of Lieutenant Ty:er. still remains. They have the charge of the embryo national museum, and are the recipients of the samples and speci mens coutrabuted by the various exhibitors. It is still hopeel that the building will be so completely cleared of the goods that it may be thrown open to the pub:ie use the let of January, se already arranged. All the entrances have now been shut up, except the publie entrance un the south Ude, and the east end, through which the foreign pack ages are r4llrtyed away. Here • great deal of bustle is still observable—lung ranges of carts anal wugons, some loaded anal moving otf, others drawing up to the kntl1110: to he dile,l, are to be seen. The interior of the building is lighted with gas. and the workmen are kept busily em ployed to the latest moment. The bat rings at present at a quaeer poet I o'clock. anal all the packages not then re moved are be night bark into the interior, and the building cleared nut. The number of policemen on duty has now been reduced toe MK handful, and the vast pile is rapidly ',sinning a look of desolation and gloom as seen in the hue and teeihgtit of • winter's evening. • THE PRINTING PRESS IN nm EASTERN interesting shipLient Las recently tAk..n !quo to the el'.ureh rni,sien at S unlink, is Borneo, in the tii.ipe 05 tut of type, the gift of Mr. Samuel L ewis,.. a for 01111 supply for the printing pins which, with sate type, inn pre ientvel to the :ablate by Mr. Sharpe, the beaker. FRANCE: PARIS, SATURDAY Eveseso. The Gazette des 77tc:atres mentions the following facts relative to the insurrection : The Thiatre Historique, now called the Opita National, 'erred as an ontbalonee. The house, 27, rue de Bondy, oc cupied by M. d'Enaery, the dramatic author, and by Madame L ti on Petipa, the singer, received several wounded and some dead. Madame d'linnery had her band slightly grazed by a ball. Madame Meninte, on selects of the Cirque National, was ill in bed in her apartment at the corner of the Faubourg St. Martin. lier servant op_ iea the window to see if she could find amongst the troops a soldier of her acquaintance • at the same moment she was struck in the breast by a hell and fell dead. An actor of the same theatre was wounded in the shoulder, and a dan anise, also attached to it, found herself between two barri cades in the Faubourg St. Denis jut at the moment at which there was a shower of balls. She crept into a door way until it was over. The apartments of M. Ponchard, the sinner, and his son, near the Theatre des Varietis, were riddled with musket balls, and a cannon ball fell on one of the beds. The establishment of M. Brandua, the music publisher, near the corner of the rue Richelieu and the liaulevard dee Italiens, was militarily occupied. A number of persons in it, including 31. Brenda.: and M. Sas, the celebrated manufacturer of Sax-horns, were arrested by mistake; but, fortunately M. Sax was known to one of the superior officers, and his csplaaatians caused the release of himself and companions. A decree of the President of the Republic grants a credit of 400,000 fr. to the Minister of Public Works, for continuing the works in the new ministry of foreign affairs on the Quai d'Orsay. The decree states that, by law of the lrgh of July, 1845, a credit of 4,90 0 4,000 fr. was voted for the building, and that 1,222,300 fr. of that sum remained to be disbursed. Count d'Arjnzon, a peer of France, prior to 1830, and Grand Chamberlain to the King of Holland, in the time of the empire, has just died in Paris at the agent 91. The lingots termit e , the twoprineipel prizes of the late lottery were the tiny- before y,,•.erday deposited at the Mint by a monev-changer in the Palais-Royal, to whom they had been brought by the winners. The first was found to he worth 400,181 fr. 56c., and the Fecund 199,690 fr. 67e. The public funds, boa: shares, railways, and almost every other description of securities have risen con siderably to-day. The Five per Cents. have nearly touched par to-day, the closing price being 99.3 J with a rise of 2f. front yesterday. They were at ono moment as high as 99.75. The Three per Cents. varied front 60.00 to 62.75, closing at 61.90 with a rise of 2.10. Shares or the bank of France rose from I 2290 to 2:040. All the railways rose ; the Orleans, 27.50; Rouen, St. Germain, and Central from 10.25 to 12.30; Strasbourg, I [erre, and Northern from 10 6)8.73. The New City Bonds rose 10f. )labcrly's floe tissues, 2'2.50. With the exception of Hamm Poor.and-a-Half all the foreign stocks also rest' l especially those of Piedmont, Rome, and S3ain. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The leading fact of to-day is the revocation of the extraordinary powers conferred uyon the three oem missionere sent into the provinces. M. Mantles Duval is recalled from Brittany, M. earlier from the central departments, and SI. Berard from die Somme, to give an account to the Minister of the Interior el the result of their respective missions- II& is important as evincing the confidence of the government in its newly-established sway. The Minister of the Interior ham addreseed the following letter to the extraartlianry commissioners with the decree sopping their functions : l'arit e Dec. 13, 1841. Mr. Extraordinary Commi,,ioner,—Since the b.:ginning of tke crisis, which we have just traeerseil, the govern meat judged from the conduct of the Socialist party, that sarprried before the date of 1812 they were about to use their last re,nurces and mob a desperate effort. The cor respondences despatched from Paris, the emissaries sent in all ihrecti.ots, the ;nuts dot (Ire transmitted with rapidity and ptee.sion, the proofs of a formidable secret organize tiou, ail deloonatra,til that the *Mister plant destiued to run. ouci, ty six mouths later, were going to la oak out on a gnat iasde. It wa, to parry these noun:nun eventual:ties, rod to -awe a rapid movement to their repression that the governtw.at hail recourse to your patriotism in charging vou to direct the action of audionty with union upon liar points where honest people appeared moat menaced. The plan of the anarchist* ows been battled iu teas capital by the bravery of the army and by the contempt of the good woikmeei, who have been tai (Attu the dupes of these false brethren; everywhere authority has resumed its onnire, and it bet an..s MICILSII proionir in Femme anything which has a revolutionary character. This will not prevent the Irma accomplishing a ith r..solution what is ne cessary the good and against evil. These considetations have mil:iced the l'resielent to withdraw the extraordiaary mission wl.ich you accepted. I beg you, therefore, upon the receipt of this letter,to conaider your mandate is expire I, awl to come to Paris to reinter me en account of its results, in euablina nie to appreciate the disoeitious of the popula tions which you visited. The Minister of the Interior, A. OE Mossy. The definitive composition of the consultative com mission appears in the Menii-or. It contains 178 names among which are enrolled those of the various ministers since October, 1849, with the exception of M. Faucher, of the Bonapartist generals, the high church party with Nlentaiembert at their hood, and generally those members of the 'etc assembly who supported the policy of the lilysee. The commis sion will commence its sittings on the 23rd instant, and proceed to the examination of the votes collected in the ballot of the 20th. M. Prosper llochet, for mer secretary of the council of state, is appointed secretary-general of the commission. M. Denis Legarde, former secretary re-doeteur of the As i sem bly, s appointed to fulfil the sane functions for the commission. Moskoms (colonel) [Mwelle] ; De Nourhy (Oise) ; De Mematiar (1)okba) ,• •Murat (Lucien) [Lot] ; Odier (Antoine), onager de In &Inane de France D'Ornana (gene- rat) [lodro-et-Lolte] ; DJ Parieu, uncien raiuistre (Centel); Paecalis, conwiSer a la cour de caseation; I'alst (general) [Ariogel] ; Pepin-Lehalleur (Seine -et- Marne) ; De Persigov (Non') ; De Plarey (Oise) ; Pl:ehon, maim d'Arras (Pas-de-Calais) ; Portali‘, premier president de la cour de cessation ; Pongerard, maire do Ite nues (111e et-Vilaine) ; De Previa (general) ; De Ranee (Algerie) ; Bandon (general), ancien miui•tre, gouverueur general de PA'gerie; Regnaud do Saint-Jean-d'Angely (ge neral), ancien ministre [ [Charente Inftrieure] ltenotterde do Btmiers (Da, ; diction Ittl (Lome) ; Roge (general) ; Rouher, garde des ocean:, ministre de la Justice (Puy-le-Dome) ; De Royer, ;laden ministre, procureur general a la cone d'appel Paris; De Saint-Arnaud (general), ministre de It guerre ; Do Saint-Arnaud, avocet ala tour Warped do Paris ; De Salis (Moselle) ; Sapcy (here); Schneider, aneien ministre ; Dr Segue d'Aguesseau (Ilautc—Pyrenees) ; Seldom; (Nord) ; Thayer (Amide() ; Th:eallen (Cotes-du-Nord) ; De Thorigny, Lucien ministry ; Teapot de Bereaux (Ilaute Marne) ; Tourangin, ancien prefet; Troolong, p premier president als cone d'appel de Park ; I)e urgot, ministre des atraires etrangeres ; Vuillant, marechal de France; Vaisse, ancien ministre(Nord); 1/0 Fandeul (Haute Marne); Vast-Vimeux (general) [Charente Inferieure] ; Vatt chelle, moire do Versailles ; Viand (Meurthe) ; Ve il lard (Manche) ; Vuillefroy ; Vuitry, sons oecretaire d'etat ministre de finances;; De \Vagrant. M. Arrighi de redone is elevated to the rank of Grand Cross of the Legion of liunour. The credit of 369 millions of francs opned on the budget of 1852, for covering the expenses of the public service, and the several ministerial depart ments, during the first three months of 1832, is thus ! distributed : Consolidated Debt and Sinking Fund 110,079,979 Special loans for bridges, canals, &c. 2,210,049 Inter.sts of capital of caution money 4,886,000 Pensions Dotation of the Executive Power :162,1800 Ministry of Justice --- Foreign Affairs ritblic Instruction W,,rillip - Interior 7,112,761 - Agriculture and commerce - Public Work, 36 962,691 War Marine 463 1:.2 9 8 12 Finance Expenses of collection Ruunburacinonta and rtstitutions 7,920,1i0 Legion of Honour, National l'rinting Establishment, Conaidar Chiumelries, Invalids, and Mint Total 369,0./0,000 A decree appears, orating to the Minister of pub lic works a credit of 2,100,000 fr. upon the budget of 1852 fur terminating the operations relative to the acquisition and demolition of the houses situated be tween the Louvre and Tuileries, and to the levelling of the ground situated between these two edifices. Algeria has bLen placed in a state of siege by Gen. I'etissier. The latest news from Provence is a telegraphic despatch from Gap, dated on the evening of the 10th, which states that the Prefect of the Basses-Allies, after having secured the armament of the fort of Seyne, had quitted the canton, and was making a tour through the disturbed arrondissements to re establish order. M. Steyert, appointed French consul at Teflis, has set out fur his post. Letters from 3layence announce that M. Thiers arrived there from Frankfort on the evening of the 10th on his way to Cologne. It was thought that he would go to England. M. Thiers arrived at Cologne on the next evening. A telegraphic despath from Draguignan, the capital of the Vat:, of the lath December, sa) a that tiring has been heard during two consecutive hours, in the plains of 'fourrons. It is said that the insurgents were ca:upletely routed, and that only engagements of secondary importance are now to be expected. The columns that left Marseilles under the com mand of Colonel Serreya, had pacified Brignoles and was proceeding towares the north of the department, ,to join Colonel Travers. Colonel Serreya met with no serious resistance. The revolutionery mmtiei palit of Drignoles, who were Fitting when he ar , rived, rose on his entrance to their hall, and thanked the colonel for preserving order, and °tiered to resign their functions. Ile sternly told them he weld re cognise nothing revolutionary, and ordered them to go out. Many arrests were afterwards made. Tha mail from Paris was lobbed at Visaulem on the 6th. In the Nievre, General Pellion has lodged more than 3110 men in prison. A great many insurgents were taken and shot by the troops sent in pursuit of them. The gendarmerie make fresh captures every day. An iron hand weighs upon the scattered remnants of the insurrection. A despatch from Agen (Lot and Garonne), dated December 12, states that a proclamation of the pre fect announces the return of tranquillity. A gamson remains in Marumude to guard the town. Three columns have been despatched in different directions in pursuit of the insurgents. The party of order iu 31artuaude are accused of having betrayed a de plorable weakness at the commencement of the in surrection. When a call was made upon all good citizens three only responded to the appeal. The troops have been upon the point of capturing the ringleaders. They had taken refuge at the house of Madame Itenol Fager, the mother-in-law of M. Em manuel Arrago. The gendarmes found this lady alone in her house. The dinner-table was laid for out -- eight persons, but the guests had fled. Their The names of the commission arc as follows: descriptions arc given to the authorities, nod they MM. Abbatucci, ancien consenter ala cone de cessation will no doubt soon be taken. The prima are so en (hoiret) ; ,'.chard (general) [Mosalle] ; Andre (Ernest) cumbered that the general commanding has ordered (Seine] ; Andre (Charente) ; D'Argout, gonverneur de la a fort to be prepared to receive prisoners. banque ill France, aneien ministre ; Arnglii do Padone AM. Jules Serret has been arrested for sendin a (general) [Cone]; D'Audiffret, pr e sident a In dour des g oomptes; De Bar (general) [Seim]; &League* d'Hilliers false account to the Pattie of what passed at Agen. (gem rat) [Daubs] ;It irbaroax, aucicu precureur general The most important expression of opinion which (Reunion) ; Barochc, ancieu ministre de l'interiur et des af- has appeared as yet since the events of Dec. 2, is hires etrangers,eice-president de la commission (Charente) Inferieure) ; Barret (Ferdinand), ancien ministre [Beinel ; contained m a letter of Nfontalembert, published to- Barthe, ancicn ministre, premier president de I 3 cour Cres day in the Li/jeers. In answer to the applications cocaptes ; Bataillc (Ilautc- V ienne) ; Batons (Frannie) made to trim for advice as to what cmtrse to follow [Seine-et-Marne]; Do Beaumont (Somme); Berard (Lot-et - in the ballot of tho 20th, M. do Montalembert exa- Garonne) ; Berger, prefet dela Seine (Puy-de-Dome ; Ber- mines each of the three paths open to the elector. trend (Yonne) • Bidault (Cher) ; Bigrel (Cotes-du-..'ord) ; Billoult, avocat; Bincau, &mien miuistre (Maine-et-Loire ; A negative vote, he declares, would be an encou h an absolution et its frightful ragement to anarc y, Boinvillicrs, ancien batonuier de Fordre des avocats (Seine ; Bonjean, avocet general a la tour de eassatiou (Drome ; excesses; abstention, cowardice, as lung as the de- Boulatignier ; Bourbousson (Vaucluse) ; Brehier (Manche) ; ringe monster rears ; and he arrives at the conclu- De Cambaceres (Hubert); De camha,res (Aisne); Cartier, soon that an affirmative vote is the only one worthy ancien prefet de police ; De Casablanca, ancien ministre (Corm); De Castellano (general), commandant superieur a of a good citizen and a good Christian. Strange to v the Proust is, under the direction of its new Lyon • De Caulaincourtjalvados ; Cceille (vice-amiral) say , Aseine-Inferieurell; C enet (Meuse) ; Charlemagne editor, M. Perodeaux , quite as Napolconian as the ndre) ; Chess:algae-Guyon (Puy-dc-Dome) ; Do Chas- Univers and its celebrated correspondent. ' enloup-Laubat (general) [Seine-Inferieure]; De Chas- M. Arrighi de Padone, who has been elev —. l . 7R - To uuloup-Laubat (Prosper) [Charente-Inferieure] ; Chaix iirßst Ange, avant a Paris (318 rue); De Chanties, main the rank of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, is de Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dome); Colin (Gironde) ; an old general of the empire, who entered the service De Crumeillies, anent), conseiller a la tour de caseation, in 1797. He was promoted to be general on the field ancien ministre (Basta-Pyrenees); Curial (Orme); De Co- of Essling, and took part in all the campaigns of the vervillo (Cotes-du-Nord); Dakota: (IlautcDuanne); emp i re. Doriste (Basses-Pyrenees) ; David, nation ministre ; The Presideut received this mornin at ten, a nu- Delacoste, snciea enrainissaire general du Rhone ; g , Delajue (Charente-Inferieure); Delavau (Inds"); Dolthcil merous deputation of the market-women (dames de ((Lot); Denjav (Gironde); Desjobert (Seine-Inferieure) ; la flails), who went to congratulate him upon the D.:seismal' (Allier) : Drougn-de-Lhurs (seine-et-Marne)) , defeat of the l'isieute. It is needless to say that these 'mien ministre; Daces (1 heodore) [Seine], ministre de a hasty dames, who were probably deputed by M. de ravine et des colonies; Dumas (de Pim:Rut) [Nord], Mamas the prefect of police, to Mier their comnli ancien rainietre ; Dupin (Charles), de l'lnstitut (Seine- • ' • ofcakes and - Inferieure); Bunion (general) [Landes] ; Duval (Maurice), menu, were treated to abundance ancien prone ; Eschalseriaux (Charente-Inferieure); parte. Entrains (usarechal), grand chancalier do is Legion Out of 1,060 electors in the 9th regiment of has d'honnrur ; Fevre (Ferdinand) [Loire Infericare] . ; Do sara , 1,000 have voted for Louis Napoleon, and 67 Fiahault (general). anciets ambassadeur ; Fortoul, mmistre ins ' t • 3 abstained. do Finstruetion publique (Basses Alpes) ; Fo u ld ( Achi;le), ministre des finances (Seine); Dc Fourinent (Somme) ; I Some prisoners have been released to-day, among Fouquier d'llerouel (-Aisne) ; Fremy (Yonne) ; Furtado . whom arc MM. Ducoux and Chatniot, ex-represen (seine) ; Gate (Haute Garonne) ; Gaslonde (31anehe) ; 1 Wives of the Left. De Gat:satin, anclen mioistro ;De Girardin (Ern"o I M. Croce Spinelli, the famous jeweller in the (Charentel ; Ginad (Auaustin) [3l sine-et-Loire] ; 1 , Place de la Bourse, has closed his shop, and posted Girand (Charles), de l'lnstitut, oncrabre du eonseil de ('instruction ' , oblique. ancien ministre ; Godelle (A;,,,,,.) ; • the followin; notice on the shutters : Closed on ae- Clouthut de Saint-Germain (Manche • Dc Grammont ' count of political arrests." M. Croce Spinelli Ls an (general) [Loire] • De Gruumont Haute-Saone) • De ardent republican, and a much considered member , rearm (Itcnninti) ; De Grouchy general) [Gironde] of that party on account of his great wealth. Hillez-Claparede (Bas-Rhin) ; D'Hautpnul (general), an- General Petit, Commander of the Hotel des In eien ministre (Mode) ; Hebert (Aisne) • I)' Ileeikeren ' vslides, has given notice that the f unera l serv i ce (Haut-Bhia); D'Herambault (Pas-de-Calais) ; Ilermacn ; Hi-artier (Loire); Hawn (general) [Aube]: Janney which usual:) . takes place on December 15, in core ( learn-et-Garonne); Lamle (Nantes-Pyrenees) ; La- memoration of the arrival of the ashes of Napoleon, cro , se, ancien ministre (Finisten) ; Ladoucette will lie henceforth celebrated in the Church of the (31n,11e) De Lagrange a'rcdenc ) [Gers] ; De invalides, 01 the ath of May, the anniversary of the lugrange (Giroade) ; De La Hitn (general), ancien ministre; Wangle, anion procureur general; Lan- Emperor's death. qnetin, president de la commission municipale ;Da Lan- ' The greater number of these names have already ap boi,ierc (Ille-et-Yilaine); Lancestine (general); Lebcuf peered in eke lists I sentpreviously. Among theta you OZ:LIC et Marne) ; Lebreton (general) lEure-et-Loir); perceive are to be found 13:irepresen tatives who formed Le Coate (Yonne); La Conte (C`otes-du-Nerd) ; Lefebvre - Durude ministre du emumneo (Ears) ; the portion of the Pyramids Club, who supported the Lehot (Haute-Saris); Letll3lois (Manche); Lemerner po licy of the government, 26 genemls and 29 (Charente; ; Lequian (Pas-de-C a l a i s ) ; Leetiboudois (Nord); ministers end ex-ministers. All the members of all Leravasseur Os imelnfsrieure) ; Le Vernier (Manche,' ; th e cabinets since the fall of that of Odilon Barret Leroy de 31,unesia (Loir-et-Cher) ; 31a,ma,, n (general), appear on t h e list, withthcexceptioa referred to. Th e commandant en chef de Ferran de Paris; Mag l e ministre des travaux publics (Dordogne) ; M a Z presence of General Lahitte's name is a remarkable (Edmond) [Dordogne] ; Marchatit (Nord); Mathieu instance of the adhesion of a distincraished legitimist. Buhl. &neat a la tour do ensation ((Charente); The high chinch party is represent‘dby 3lontalembert, De Malmo., prefet do police; Do Mmle (Nord) ; ' the moneyed world [iv M. D'Argout, governor of the president do chambre a la tour de cassation ; i Bank, and the bar be M. Porta(is, first president of NleynatLer, ancien prefer: (Lovre) ; 31imerel (Nord) ; Monte. ea des linir, i , Ic Pans ; De 310atalembert I the Court a cassation, M. Barthe, president of the (Dents.) • De Horny, ministre d e l'i nter i :ur (Posi-de. Court of Accounts, and the eloquent ad voca t es MM . Dame); ' De Mortcraart (llenn) [S e ine-l a f er i eure ] ;De la Chain d'Fatange and Delangle. Nor is the list THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15. 1851. a entirely without names representing' the liberal politics, among which I may mention M. Bilault. SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 9. The President of the Council has rend in both Chambers a decree, suspending the sittings of the Curtes, in consequence of the approaching delivery of the Queen. After that interesting event, which is expected at the end of the week, the session will be resumed. PORTUGAL. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Iberia, ar rived yesterday at Southampton. Her dates arc— Gibraltar, Dee. 5; Cadiz, 6th ; Lisbon, 9th ; Oporto and Vigo, 10th. The great want of rain in the Peninsula had caused the most serious inconveniences. Cattle were dying in great numbers for want of water. At Cadiz the water-boats were besieged on their arrival, and it was necessary to call out the military for their pro tection. On the 3rd, GR,V3`2,800 rein in Dank of Libbon notes were cancelled and burnt. Our correspondent writes : LISBON, DEC. 9. At the meeting called for the 7th, to take into consi deration the Financial Decree of which I forwarded you a translation, an address to the Queen was agre.t: to, complaining of its provisions, more part i cularlr that part of it which refers to the capitalisa tion of the prospective dividends upon the (sternal and internal debt but I understand trom the most au thentic source that the foreign bondholders will have less to complain of than the home landholders, inas much as the former will most certainly receive in Ja nuary the nucapitalised dividends . for one of the half years of 1850, and abot:t October, 1852, they will again receive a six months' dividend for the la;t half of that year which is not capitalisod. Exchange, 33 ; Discount of Lisbon Bank Notes 43 per cent., unsteady. ITALY. The special commission for the redemption of the imper money now in circulation in the Roman States, has announced, in a iviitication of the 2nd, that it has, in the course of last month, issued bonds of Bur rogation to the amount of 296,800 aeudi (1,600,000 f.), in lieu of au equal sum withdrawn from circula tion. We learn from Naples that the violent rains which fell on the 21st ult. caused an inundation of some of the plains at tile foot of Mount Vesuvius, and that a woman, who was crossing the high road near Due Palazzi, was swept away by the torrents. The damage to property has been very considerable. The triddo of Naples, it the Ist, announces the death of Marshal Nunziante. 'file Uoiecis professes to know that the Sardinian .I., , overtunent had, on the 7th inst., concluded the con cordat with the Pope. Two democratic journals of Turin, the Conconll'a and Ttiy/iacode, have ceased to appear. TURIN, DE('. 11. The Croce cl A'a rola reports that, in con-equencc of the mats in France, the Minister of War Luis suspended all furloughs, and sent batteties to Alexandria. GERMANY. The :Vero Preassischt &Pang announces, ia a cor respondence from Vienna, that despatches lead been received by Lord Westmorland, relative to Lord Palmerston's answer to the address from Islington, so satisfactory that the Emperor had given a gra cious reception to the English ambassador. The l'russian Chambers sat again on the 10th. after an interval of eight days, when a motion on the conduct of the Government towards the press was submitted, and referred to a committee. Some of the German newspapers state that orders have been given to call out the contingents of the 18th federal army corps. The Leipzig Ga:ette states that the whole frontier of the Upper Rhine will be immediately occupied with Austrian troops. The Prussian stoats .lazeiger announces that, by means of the submarine telegraph, the Prussian lines have bcen placed in connexion with those of Great Britain, and despatches may now be transmitted from Berlin to Loudon. Vienna adh•ims muffin' the intelligence of the con tinued transport of troops by the southern railway to Italy, the Tyrol, and Vorarliierg. INDIA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FROM TRIESTE.) BOMBAY, Nov. 12. Bombay is tranquil. Dost Mohammed is dying. Sir C. Camplicles forces re-took Michenev, and drosm back the enemy to the mountains without loss. An engagement of cavalry took place on the fron tiers of liehra Ismail Khan. The Governor-General was expected at Calcutta on the 10ih of January. Her Majesty's steamer Fox had Leen ordered to Rangoon to demand satisfaction for injuries done to Englishmen. The ships Bengali and Scaunfiene had been lost in a violent gale near Calcutta. The ship - Tayn had been captured near Penang, and all the Europeans on board murdered by Malays of her crew. The Nizam had paid the full amount due to the East India Company. Riots had taken place at Borax and Gwalior. BOMBAY MARKETS. Imports lively. Money in demand. Company's Five per Cents., 101 to 104! ; Debt Four per Cent., 91; to 92. Freights for England, 10 fires, 2 17 lower. Cottons, 78r. to 93r. per candy. Exchange on London, 2s. lid. fur good bills. CONSTANTINOPLE. A letter from Constantinople of the 25th ult., in the C'aaine ricarttc, states that M. de Lavatette, the French ambassador, after having had several fruit less conferences about the holy places, has left the matter provisionally in the hands of the Spanish ambassador. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. MADRID, DEC. 9.—Three per Cents., 36; ; after Boise, 361. Four per Cents., • after Boise, Five per Cents., 16 ; after Bo ; 18. Cou pons, 71; after Bolsa, Bp. l'assives, ; after Boise, 5 9 16. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 98. Exchange on London, 50.60 p. THE ST. Limes's Ctra—On Saturday the Master in Chancery, Brougham, appointed !dews. Tut , quand and Edwards, of Old Jewry Chambers, and Mr. Stevens, of Carlton Chambers, Regent-street, official managers and solicitors to investigate and wind up the affairs of this club, on the petition of the members of the committee of management. There is now due to tradesmen and others for goods supplied 18,00'1/., 5,000 E to Messrs. Berries and Farquhar, 1,5001. due from persons on debentures issued by the club, 18,000/. fur wiped entrance fees and subscriptions, anal a balance at the bankers of 1,329/. Creditors aro threatening actions, and Mrs. Crockford is understood to have taken the clubhouse furniture, fixtures, &c., in consideration of 5,638/. Tut PROFEsSORSUIP OF POETRY AT OXFORD.— Three candidates aro in the field for this office, which will become vacant next term, by the resignation of the Vene rable Archdeacon Garbett, viz, the Rev. I/r. Goulburn, head master of Rugby School ; the lie,. T. L. Claughton, M.A., o' Trinity College; and the Rev. J. E. Bode, M.A., ree , tor of Westwell, and late student of Christ Church. At the last election, it will be recollected, the contest was a trial of strength between the two great religious parties in the uni versity—the hi4h church party supporting Mr. Williams, and the evangelicals Mr. Garbett. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION NEAR BRISTOL —On Friday afternoon a boiler explosion occurred ttt the Sound well Coa!works, near Kingswood, Gloucestershire, by which a'• banksman" named Thomas Waller was killed and three other persons severely injured. The building occupied by the engine to whirls the boiler was attached was shattered to picas. An inquest is to be held to-day. AMERICA ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA. At nine o'clock last might, the royal mail steam ship Africa, Captain Ryrie, arrived in the Mersey from New York, which port she left on the 3rd inst. at noon, with 63 passengers, and nearly a million and a half of dollars in srecie on freight. The United States mail steam-ship Washington, Floyd, commander. from Bremen, Nov. 9, rio South amp,on Nov. 11, arrived out at New York on Friday morning at 7 o'clock, having made the passage; iu 13 days and 11 hours. The principal item of news by this arrival is the President's message, which we give below. The Congress had met on the Ist. The message was delivered on the 2nd. But little business was done in Congress besides the reading of the President's message. Among the pro ceedings of the Senate, as . reported by the telegraph, is the resolution of a national welcome to the illus. trious Magyar, as well as a resolution requesting the President to interfere in favour of the illustrious Irish exiles in Van Diemen's Land, appealing to tile magnanimity of the British government and people, and otkring these martyrs of liberty the hospitality of the republic. Kossuth had not arrived in New York when the steamer left. Mr. Lynn Boyd, of Kentucky, is chosen speaker of the House of Representatives. Notice of several bills had been already given— one being for a railroad from the Mississippi to tho Pacific ; another for a reduction in newspaper post age; another for a line of steam-ships from California to China. Reports from the Rio Grande, state that Caravajal had been reinforced by 19) Americans, and was to ! renew his attack on Mata:noraa. The Mexicans had mustered in Matamoros to the number of 2,000 men. Carvajal was at Camargo, with only 600 men, await ing the arrival of Captain Ford, who had gone to Texas for reinfotremente. . - There arc accounts from California to the Ist of No‘cinber : 2,300,000 dollars in gold dust had been received. The milling accounts were good. The United States steamer Promethem, on leav ing the harbour of San Juan, Nov. 21st, was fired intu twice by the British brig of war Express, and compelled to return to her anchorage, and pay cer tain disputed dues to the owners and authorities of Mosquito territory. Considerable feeling had been manifested by the United States subjects. TIIE AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The Message of President Fillmore, delivered to the American Congress, on the 2nd instant, is as follows : Fellow Citizens of the Senate ant of the Musa of Representatives, I congratulate you and our common coestitaency upon the favourable auspices under which you meet far your first I"%i011. Our couutry is at peace with all th;: world. The agitation which for a time threatened to disturb the fraternal relations which make us one people is fast subsiding, and a year of general prosperity and health has crowned the na tion with uuusuil blessings. None can look back to the dangers which are passed, or forward to the bright prospect before us, without feeling a thrill of gratification, at the same time that he must be impressed with a grateful sense of our profound obligations to a !smell:cut Providence, whose paternal care is so manifest in the happiness of this highly-favoured land. duce the close of the last Congress certain Cu haus and other foreigners, resident in the United States, who were more or less clammed in the pre. vious invasion of Cuba, instead of being discouraged by its failure, have again abased the hospitality of this country, by making it the scene of the equipment of an other military expedition a.;siast that pcisession of her Catholic Majesty, in which they were countenanced, aided, nod joined by citizens of the L nited States. Ou receiving intiligenee that such designs were entertained. I lost no time in issuing such instructions to the proper officers of the United States no seemed to be called for by the occa sion. Ily the proclamation, a copy of which is herewith submitted, I also warned those who might be in danger of being inveigled into this scheme, of its unlawful character, and of the penalties which they would incur. For same time there was reason to hope that these measures had sufficed to pros cut any such attempt. This hope, however, proved to be delusive. Very only in the morning of the 3rd of August, a steamer, called the Pompeii", departed from New Orleans for Cuba, having on hoard upwards of 400 armed men, with evident intentions to make war upon the authorities of the island. This expedition was set on foot in palpable violation of the laws of the United States. Its leader was a Spaniard, and several of the chief officers, and some others engaged in it, were foreigners. The persons composing it, however, were mostly citizens of the Coiled ' States. Before the expedition set out, and probably before it was organised, a slight insurrectionary movement, which ap pears to have been soon suppressed, had taken place In the eastern quarter of Cuba. The importance of this move ment was unfortunately so much exaggerated in the ac counts of it published in this country, that these adven turers seem to have been led to believe that the Creole po pulation of the island not only desired to throw off the authority of the mother country but had resolved upon that step, and had begun a well-concerted enterprise for effecting it. The persons engaged in the expedition were generally young and ill-informed. The steamer iu which they embarked left New Orleans stealthily, and without a clearance. After touching at Key West, she proceeded to the coast of Cuba, and on the night between the 11th and 12 of August, landed the persons on board at Playtas, within about 21) leagues of Havatmah. The main body of them proceeded to, and took posses sion of an inland village, six leagues distant, leaving others to fallow in charge of the baggage, as soon as the means of transportation could be obtained. The latter having taken up their line of march to connect themselves with the main body, and having proceeded about four leagues into the country, were attacked on the morning of the 13th by a body of Spanish troops, and a bloody conflict ensued ; after which they retreated to the place of disembarkation, where about fifty of them obtained boats, and re-embarked therein. They were, however, intercepted among the keys nea r th e shore by a Spanish steamer cruising on the coast, captured and carried to Havannah, and, after being examined before a military court, were sentenced to be publicly executed, and the sentence was carried into effect on the IGth of August. On receiving information of what had occurred, Comm 'don, Foshan A. I'arker was instructed to proceed iit the steam-frigate Saranac to Havana, and inquire into the charges against the persons executed, the circumstances under which they were taken, and whatsoever referred to their trial and sentence. Copies of the instructions from the department of state to him, and of his letters to that depart ment are herewith submitted. According to the record of the examination, the prisoners all admitted the offences charged against them, of being hostile invaders of the island. At the time of their trial and execution the main body of the invaders was still in the field, making war upon the Spanish authorities and Spanish subject , . After the lapse of some days, being overcome by the Spanish troops, they dispersed on the 2fth of August; Lopez, their leader, was captured some days after, and exe cuted on the Ist of September. Macy of his remaining fol lowers were killed, or died of hunger and fatigue, and the rest were made prisoners. Of these, none appear to have been tried or executed. Several of them were pardoned upon the application of their friends and others, and the st, about one hundred and sixty in number, were sent to Spain. Of the final disposition made of these we have no official information. Such is the me lancholy result of this ille ga l an d ill-f ate d expedition. Thus, thoughtless young men have been in duced, by false and fraudulent rcprehentatiens, to violate the law of their country, through rash and unfounded ex pectations of assistance to accomplish political revolutions othor States, and have lost their lives in the undertak ing. Too severe a judgment can hardly be passed, by the indignant sense of the community, upon those who, ban; bethr inlormed themselveo, hav e yet led assay the ardour of youth and an ill-directed love of political liberty. The correspondence between this government and that of Spain relating to this transaction is herewith communicated. ttheTaWl;;;Forfeiteil Although these offenders mains the protection of their country, yet the government may, so for as is consistent with its obligations to other countries, and its fixed purpose to maintain and enforce the laws, en tertain sympathy for their unoffending families and friends, as well as a feeling of compassion for themselves. Accord ingly no proper effort has been spared. and none will be spared to procure the release of such citizens of the United States, engaged in this unlawful enterprise, as arc now in confinement in Spain ; but it is to be hoped that such inter position with the government of that country may not be considered as affording any ground of expectation that the government of the United States will hereafter feel itself under any obligation of duty to intercede for the libera tion or pardon of such persons as are flagrant offenders against the law of nations and the laws of the United States. These laws must be executed. If we desire to maintain our mspeetability among the nations of the earth, it behoves us to enforce steadily and sternly the neutrality act. passed by congress, and to follow, as for as may be, the violation of those acts with condign punishment. But what gives a peculiar criminality to this invasion of , Coln is, that under the lead of Spanish subjects, and with I the aid of citizens o f th e U n i te d S tates, it had its origin, I with many, in moti ves o f cup idi ty. M oney was advanced by individuals, probably in considerable amounts, to pur chase honchos they have been called, issued by Lopez, sold doubtless at a very large discount, and for the pay ment of which the public lan. Is and public property of Cuba, of whatever kind, and the fiscal resources of the people and government of that idatd, from whatever source to be de rived, were pledged, as well as the good faith of the go vernment expected to be established. All these means of payment, it is evident, were only to be obtained by a pro , cess of bloodshed, scar, and revolution. None will deny that those who set on foot military expeditions against foreign states by means liko re fir morn e ulpnble than the ignorant and the new's „it ~hota - they induce to go forth as the osten:ible /settle. .1 tis p ro ., ceeding. Three originators of the invasion of t ,„ have determined, with coolness and system, dertakiag %Lich should di:graee their counts ,. laws, awl put to hazard the lives of .e: de. lulled mea. You will con:ider whether felt' ,; be necessary to prevent the perpetration oleo future. •-• -•-• No individuals Lave a right to hazard , . ,p a country or to violate its laws upon vague not:..: • or reforming governments in other states. *E., • ;..; not only reasonable in itself, and in score:an law, but is engrafted into the codes of other c ll as our own. But, while such are the sentim , vernment, it may be added that every indep.. must be presumed to be olio to defend i against unauthorised individuals handed to attack them. The government of the Utt: all times since its estublisemeat, has has sought to restrain the citizens try, frum entering into controversies h „ . powers, and to observe all the duties of n.• • y At an early period of the government, in ti , lion of Washington, several laws we. this purpose. The main provisions ni i . ,, cs were re-cuacted by the act of April, leis, ,y whia_ among other things, it was declared i f person shall, within the territory or juri-tlk•teei of 4.0 United States, begin, or set on foot, or prank!. , e. • ; the camas of any mil itary expedition or cute: ir: : e, carried cm from thence against the territory or . a o f any foreign prince or state, or of auy colon.. 1,. , or people with whim the United States ate II! • . per•ati so offending shall be deemed guilty of • me:toner, and be fined, not exceedtup . !eie. dollars, and imprisoned not more than • .• ,„.1 this law has been executed and cameo', s . ; 4.; of the power of the goverataent, from that In ptoelaiming and adOcriug to the dote ity and non-intervention, the United B.at• lowed tip: lead of other civilised nations; tl tho kul themselves and hnv. , been This was admitted by one of the mast (.min British statesmen, who raid in parliament, wt of the crown, " ti;Atif he wi4he'd fur n guide neutrality, hr should take that laid doWn by A .• • days of Washington and the seeretary.hip of J ...1 we see, in fact, that the act of Congrvss et 181, . the succeeding year by an act of the parli.unes : . ~.1, substantially the same in its general prov:• v. that time Care had bccn no i aular law in .t certain highly penal statute+ passed lu the r. 11., prohibiting English subject* fro!u acts ice, the avowed object of which statutr• • • , • . reign armies, raised for the purpose of restos of Stuart to the throne, should not he streugt cruiu from England lier.elf. All must 14.4 i that difficulties may alisu in law 4 referred to into execution in a countr, s: • three or four thou,and milts of sea ect,t, numb,. r of ports and barb tun and snail inb of which unlawful caperlitions may serld“. 1, without the knowledge of government, t biJne . of foreigrt Friendly i'elations with all, but entanitlin4 none, has long been a maxini with on. Our not to propagate our opinions or bol■i.. up tries our form of government by artifice r teach by example''and show by o d a:suet...4, , justice, the blessings of self-guvernutent free institutions. Let ry 6,05, . .t. .04 mike and alter its political institution- w>nii "si t e. a ciition and convenience ; but while we ! ..n this neutral policy ourselves, we are o,la , • 0 tl.o some forbearance on the part of 010 r forms of government arc different fro:a our own. • in terest which we feel in the spread of libcr..l , • And the establishment of free goverimieut., and . . 40 I With wt.:eh we witm.:s every struegle again • • opr• forbid that we shotiL. be indifferent to a •, the strong arm of a foreign power i, invoked ! • .';'••• saw:m:4a and repress spirit r.f fee • ... la •..: airy. Tte Koverumeilts of tirL - t Brit •ii. awl I ;ti -c-o-m-m7t;:• station to prevent by fut:ev, if ufs ntunts from any nation on the Isl , , tile intent. The copy of o mtmuran,luat ut . 11%, ration on this subject between the Charm , ti klrairc, • I r I;rit.o.t -niz Maj..sty and the acting Eceretary of 8 , dOl a subsequent note of the former to tie th • .rtm..nt of state, are herewith submitted, together a,t .1 r”py of a note of the acting Secretary of Stat.: . the mini, ter of the French Republic, and of th, ply the latter, on the same subp ct. These paper. m ac you with the grounds of this interposition of is ts., ! log commercial powers of Europe, and with signs which this government could notfai. • enter:ant, that 'such interp4tion, if curried into effect, . •;it kait to &noes in derogation of the maritime rik.;ht4 le.l lilted States. Tho maritime rights of the Cuit i aro founded on a firm. secure, and well-di they stand upon the ground of national indepetolui.. Atil public law, and will be maintained in all t!.e.e uu.l and just xtont. The principle which this government Lee licretoforo soiemnly announced it still adheres to, and aid aisintain under all circumstances and at till hazards. That principle is, that iu evesv regularly documented merchant vessel, the crew who navigate it, and those on bourd of it, will find their protection in the flag which is over them. No American ship can be allowed to be visited or smirched for thu purpose of ascertninimt the character of individuals on baard, nor can there be allowed any wate:i by the vessels of any fureign nation over American vessels on the coasts of the United States, or the k. , tS adjacent thereto. It will be seen by the last communicat ion front the British Charge d'Aftkires to the Ds sart ment of State, that he is authorised to assure ti., Secretary of State that every care will be (eke:, that, in , seeming the preventive measures ugainst the expeditions, which the United States government itself has denounced as not bring entitled to the protection of any government, no interference shall take place with the lawful commerce of any nation. In addition to the correspondence on this subject, here with submitted, official information has been received at the department of state, of assurance; by the Fr.lielt govem ment that, in the orders given to th e F reuct naval threes, they were expressly instructed, in any operotims they might engage in, to respect the Hig of the United State; wherever it might appear, and to commit no act of hostility upon my vessel or armament under its protection. Ministers and consuls of foreign nations are the meant and agents of communication between us and those nation+, and it is of the utmost importance that, while residing in the country, they should feel a perfect security so lung as they faithfully discharge their resmetivu duties and are guilty of no violation of our lay... This is the admitted law of nations, antline. euuntrs ha, a deeper interest in maintaining it tha n the United State, Our com merce spreads over every sea and visits every clime, and our ministers and consuls are appointed to protect the interests of that commerce, as well ha to guard the peat , of the coun try and maintain the honor of its flag. But how cart they discharge these duties unit:pi they be themes-he, protected; and, if protected, it must be by the law s o f the outwit. in which they reside. And what is due to our own reline functionaries residing in foreign nations Use:sells. the ma sure of what is due to the functionaries of ocher govern ments residing here. As in war, thu bearers of Hies of truce are sacred, or else wars would be interminable, I in peace, ambassadors, public ministers and cionoils, charred with friendly national intercour e, are object, of a special respect and protection, each according to the rights be longing to his rank and station. In view of these impor tant principles, it is with deep mortification and rsgret I announce to you that, during the excitement growing out of the executions at Ilavannah, the office of her Catholin Majesty's consul at New Orleans was assailed by a mob, his property destroyed, the Spanish flag found in the office carried off and torn in pieces, and lie himself in duced to flee for his personal safety, which he sup- posed to be in danger. On receiving intelligence of ' these events, I forthwith directed the attorney of the Cuind States residing at New Orleans to inquire into the facts and the extent of the pecuniary loss sustained by the consul, with the intention of laying them before you, that yen might make provision fur such indemnity to him as a just regard for the honour of the nation and the respect whien is due to a friendly power might, in your judgment, seem to esquire. The eurrespendeuee upon this subject between the the Secretary of State and her Catholic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary is herewith transmitted. The occurrence at New Orleans has led me to give m 7 attention to the state of our laws in regard to foreign am bassadors, ministers, and consuls. I think the legislation of the country is deficient in not providing sufficiently either fur the protection or the punishment of consuls. I, there fore, recommend the subject to the consideration of Con gress. Your attention is again invited to the question of recipro cal trade between the United States and Canada and other British possessions near our frontier. Overtures for a con vention upon this subject have been received from her Britannic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary, but it scenes to be in many respects preferable that the matter should be regulated by reciprocal legislation. Documents are laid be fore you showing the terms which the British government is willing to offer, and the measures which it nary adopt, if some arrangement upon this subject shall not b e m a d e . Front the accompanying copy of a note front the British legation at Washington, and the reply of the department of state thereto, it will appear that her B. M.'s government is desirous that a part of the boundary line between Oregon and the British possessions should be authoritatively marked out, and that an intention was expressed to apply to Con gress for an appropriation to defray the expenses thereof en the part of the United States. Your attention to this subs jest is accordingly invited, and s proper appropriation recommended. A convention for the adjustment of claims of citizens of the United States against Portugal has been emeluded, and the ratifications have been exchanged. The nisi instalment of the amount to he paid by Portugal fell due on the 30th of September last, and has been paid. The President of the French Republic, according to tl3 provisions of the convention, has been selected arbiter in the case of the General Armstrong, and has signified that he accepts the trust, and the high satisfaction Le feels in act ing as the common friend of two nations with which trance is united by sentiments of sincere and lasting ;unity. , The Turkish government has expressed its thans: for kind oce .si reception on of hgiisvre‘neetno therecent visit Sultan's t. t the agent, Amin sttt,, H o e y as e Secretary of State to Mr. Marsh, the Americas nunister at o t th h n e et 'l h fith of February last a despatch was addressed by the Constantinople, instructing him to ask of the Turkish to: vernment permission for the Hungarians, then impriseassz within the domains of the Sublime Porte, to resuore to thst country. On the 3rd of March last, both Ile USe3 of Con geese passed a resolution requesting the president to itathe