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The °NY-HYDROGEN MICRO SCOPE, by Can. reproduced with the most interesting Objects. The latest DISSOLVING VIEWS, by Charles Smith, are of great interest and beauty.—Adzabsica Is. ; Schools, Half-price. - - - - - -- RA.'D R 3 HALL, SOUTHWARK licemod pursuant to At of ent. Proprietor, Mr. R. Preece. Open every night, with Vocal and Instremental Concerts, 00 a scale of grandeur hitherto un precedented in the musical world. The Mall (capable of accommo dating nearly a thousand persons) has been elegantly painted and emtellisbed by artists of great celebrity. The whole of the an of the Establishment have given th^ greatest satisfsetion to numerous and delighted audiences. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Concert to commence at 11-a-past. Admission, aitpence. Managing Director, Mr. W. WARDE. dily swallowed. Besides, it is taking a mean advan tage of the soil, to be getting such a crop out of it on such t.:rms. His grace has serious doubts if it is quite the thing. It is too much like a manufacturing Manchester trick. He would also recommend them to have an eye to the many improvements which were being effected by the application of chemistry to the science of agriculture ; but not at the same time to do any'hing to tend to destroy that character of plain and downright honesty for which the English farmer was so distinguished. The duke believes that our agriculture is in a state of unequalled perfection. Happy Duke ! Other men, with eyes that "look before and after," see only too much to improve ; and that by hints bor rowed from the continent, where the Duke has been travelling lately, and where he has seen a great deal of wretched cultivation, caused by the great subdi vision of property, by which the holders cultivate more for their own Man the publie benefit. This last patriotic principle of cultivating for the public benefit is we believe universally acted upon by the Duke' and other noblemen having large landed estates. The same self-devotion induces them to sacrifice their rents on the smallest provocation; to kill off their game and to pay out of their own pockets such additional wages as may suffice to keep the labourer in decent comfort. In Lombardy and Belgium property is very much subdivided, and farms are very small, thirty acres being a large holding. All the world knows that Belgian and Lombard farming is infinitely beneath our own; that in green-cropping, stock-keeping and dairy-farming especially, they have everything to learn from us. It is pleasant to think, for his grace's comfort, that gross as his delusions may be, he has scales on his eyes enough to defy the light of con viction which facts might otherwise flash start lingly upon him. He still talks of " that fine character for boldness and independence so long possessed by the English peasantry." The recent Dorsetshire disclosures are nothing to him, "they shake him not." He still hopes that our " bold peasantry" will re main, as it has long been, " its country's pride !" He does not see that in their squalor, ignorance, and wretchedness, they are their country's shame, and may be her curse, unless clearer heads and younger hearts than the Duke's come to deal with their condition. Take him for all in all, we must repeat, that, as a fossil, the Duke of NEWCASTLE is in remarkably fiae preservation. DECIDEDLY, the Mexicans have redeemed their elm racter as soldiers, and maintained to the full the modern reputation of the Spanish race for stubborn valour in defensive war. Their courage, indeed, has not been crowned with success; they have not been able to repulse from Monterey the well-appointed Anglo-American army, consisting of a force almost as numerous as their own, but they baffled the American general for five days, behind crumbling and inefficient fortifications, disputing each position inch by inch, and even at the last, when driven by the cannon of the enemy to a mere entrenchment in the public square, and to a church as their chief stronghold; even in this position, the attitude of the Mexican General and his troops compelled the Ame rican Commander to grant him not only the most honourable terms that a soldier could require, but to make concessions, which would seem to prove the conquering army to have been completely paralysed by its very success. And we have the present accounts exclusively from an American source. We should have at the same time a Mexican bulletin, to explain satisfactorily the reason of the favourable conditions granted by the victors. Not only do the Mexicans march out with arms and guns, but an armistice of eight weeks, during which the Americans have consented not to move southward or westward, giving the Mexicans full time to rally and be reinforced, precludes General TAYLOR from offering any succour to the expedition against Tampico, and in fact ties the hands of the conquerors in the very hour of victory. This extreme of lenity or obsequiousness might be accounted for, by supposing that General TAYLOR reckoned on SANTA ANNA'S promises to make peace, should the movement on Monterey prove successful ; or that he had received from AMPUDIA or ARISTA de clarations of a similar kind. ARISTA, indeed, is sup posed to have all along had an understanding with the American government, and it is said that he was forced to reluctant resistance by the precipitate ad vance of the Americans from Corpus Christi. The American government, however, seems not to place such implicit confidence in SANTA ANNA and the Mexican generals, as General TAYLOR. It has disallowed his armistice, and sent him orders to pro- secute the war. It is evident, however, from the resistance of Monterey, and the circumstances owned in General TAYLOR'S despatches, and to be inferred from the terms granted to its garrison, that the Americans will find the conquest of Mexico no such easy task, should their own exorbitant demands, or the spirit of the Mexicans, compel a continuance of the war. Creditable as the defence of Monterey is to the Mexicans and AMPUDIA, it casts no slur on the valour of the American troops or the skill of their commander. The satisfaction to be derived from it consists not in the incompleteness or the dear purchase of American victory, but in the unexpected assurance that the Mexicans are still possessed of the force and the courage to assert their independence, and compel its being respected even by their formidable neighbours. ONE can scarcely say which is most extravagant— the hopes that the Irish entertain, and the services which they expect from the English government, or the hopes and the duties entertained and expected in England of the Irish themselves. If, on the one hand, the demands are exorbitant, on the other the hopes are fallacious. And the impatience of the people, swollen to frenzy by their wants, is already pressing with such violence over all the barriers of the prudential and the right, erected around it by the government, that there seems scarcely an alterna tive for the latter, except to surrender all the princi ple and calculations of policy, in order to merge the cares of administration in the more pressing ones of the almshouse and the police. That the Irish peasant, deprived of his usual and scanty means of sustenance, menaced by famine and surrounded by disease, should clamour and invoke the government, as a second providence to feed him, and upbraid it for failing to do so, is nothing wonderful. Throughout whole years of dis tress and degradation he has been told to look to political change, religious restoration, to all kinds of fabulous and visionary remedies. With him ex citement has taken the place of industry, and dreamy hopes of rational efforts. In such condition of mind, brought to such a condition of things, the marvel is that the Irish peasant has been so tranquil, and so patient, under his sufferings. Whilst excusing, and almost admiring, the conduct of the Irish peasantry, shall censure be confined and concentrated on that class which has undertaken the task of political guides to the people, who represent them, who harangue them, and who are now their mouthpieces in upbraiding the government for not being more ready and lavish with work and with pro visions, and who accuse it for not ordaining low prices in a season of famine. With even them it would be most unfair to quarrel. For certainly never were the efforts of rebellious agitation more still, and never was the eloquence of the champion of moral force tuned in a milder or more benignant key. It is impossible, indeed, to have addressed the Irish people for years with certain allusions, fed them with certain hopes, and instilled into them certain principles, without preserving much of the same spirit, a colour of the same arguments, some spice of the same old malice. But there is no more of this than is necessary. These guides and instructors of the people depend, unfortunately, on the classes before whom they pro- .:. 4 ) -.- ' 't , ..'• , ' . TRE EX PRESS ,: FRIDAY EVENIN G , OCTOBER 3 0 , 1846 . , • fees, and the doctrines which the learners have im bibed they in time force the professors to retain, and develope, and exaggerate. With this doctrinal class of Irish politicians, therefore, we cannot say that there is at present any reason for lager. 11. Admiring the .patience of the people, and not finding cause for being enraged even with their demagogues, should we join certain writers on this side of the channel in making the Irish landlord the scape-goat of Irish ill ? Too much, we fear, has been expected from that unfortu nate class, whose faults have been hereditary, and the difficulty of whose position has been inherited not only from their fathers, bat from a long and melancholy series of historical events is both countries. Whether it is fair to visit upon the esquire of the present generation the consequence of years of misrule, of confiscation, of diversity of creed be tween the class of property and that of labour, may well be questioned. And whether we can expect from them in general, or as a class, that consummate skill, experience, and prudence, which have enabled some landlords to convert their estates from a lair of indigence and ruffianism to be the abode of content and comfort, is equally doubtful. The errors, the misconduct, the intractability of these three great classes of Irish life, for that of agi tator or popular echo includes sufficient of the middle rank and professions to be styled a class, pro ceed in a great measure from their false position to wards each other. The landlords, possessed of neither power, wealth, knowledge, or respect, eminent but excite obloquy, mere monopolisers of the land, with out being the provident guardians either of it, or of its population, they sink in despair from the difficulties of position which render the Irish landlord almost as helpless as the Irish pauper. When Govern ment, acting from the idea of what landlords ought to be, and are in other countries, attempts to use the Irish gentleman as the instrument for quieting the peasantry, or employing the destitute beneath him, be is found utterly incapable and unfit. Property, in an abstract sense, may have its duties, but what are duties, which, however vital, swell to such diffi culties, that it is beyond all human means to perform them. English writers are too apt to anathematise whole classes in Ireland, and devote them, as objects of execration, to the infernal gods ; with some the pea sant is an incurable, irredeemable Celt; the profes sional man a rabid Orangeman, or an interested agitator; the landlord a main, who in failing to ex ercise authority and moral influence over a popula tion too numerous for him to employ or feed, or deal with, or intimidate, and by whom he is too often considered as a foe in race, and an alien in religion, is condemned to have his rights ignored, and his property confiscated. Nor is it merely rhetoricians and declaimers who rush to these extremes. Even the calm professors of political economy, though they may avoid repeating such charges, draw rigid conclusions from them. One would sweep away all the peasant population beyond the number that the proprietorial classes have capital to employ. Another would feed all this redundant population simply out of the rent of the land, and summon the landlords, by Act of Parliament, to find the skill, as well as the means, of putting profitably into the hands of every Irish peasant a spade and a shilling each day. No legislature could entertain either one or the other of these most extravagant and merciless proposals. In no country under British rule can attempts be successfully made to confiscate or extir pate. We must deal with classes and countries as they are, and apply such palliatives and such remedies as humanity will tolerate. But no statesman can convert Ireland into a community similar to a rustic Canton in Switzerland, where the peasantry has swallowed up all rank and all upper classes, stagnating in conse quence in the extreme of bigotry and poverty. Neither can our statesmen listen to the vows of such men as Lord Wesrxt F.ATII, or indulge them with the unlimited power to make clearances, in order that his Lordship may enjoy the sight of truly English farm-houses with their population well fed and easily managed. But the pressure of distress in Ireland is now such, that all consideration of how to treat its chronic com plaint must be deferred. Its acute and immediate sufferings are such as to demand remedies, possible and near, without any lengthened consultation of political economy or political history. The patient will not await the studies of the physician. The Irish Government made a fair trial of dealing scientifically with the ill, but humanely and resolutely flung aside such purposes, when they interfered with the urgency of immediate relief. That is now the great object, the chief anxiety, and Parliament cannot fail to sanc tion whatever measure the Government may think best to adopt for suspending the ravages of famine. The despatches of our Paris correspondent with the French journals have arrived by the ordinary express. The rivers which had been flooded were generally subsiding, and subscriptions were in progress in all quarters for the relief of the sufferers. Further par ticulars of the floods, selected from the published reports, will be found elsewhere in our columns. The strong anti-British feeling of a certain party in France continues from time to time to be mani fested in the columns of La Presse. This party, how ever, must not be confounded with that portion of the Opposition which has so long declaimed against the entente cordiale. The quarter from which the present invectives proceed is very different. It is impelled by a different moving power, probably not unconnected with foreign influence. After congratu lating the country on the vast advantages which must accrue from the connexion which has been established between the crowns of France and Spain, La Prehse declares that this advantage, great as it is, is less im portant than the fact that the step which has been taken has struck a fatal blow at that exclusive alliance which has for several years drawn France in the wake of England. England, exclaims La Presse, has shown herself in this business so haughty, so offensive, so full of hostile and in sulting reservations, that no one now in France, neither people, nor king, nor ministers, can fail to see the impossi bility of ever establishing a cordial and sincere alliance be tween the countries. The veil, which covered the eyes of those who were most blinded, has at length been tornaway, and France happilydisembarrassed from the trammels of the entente cordiale , feels that she must return to her natural alliances with the states of the Continent. Such is, in our I view, the most important result of the Spanish affair. The French government has shown that it will no longer be sub- I servient to the will of England, and that., when her national interests are concerned, she knows how to face the anger of I that nation. In fine, a great measure has been accomplished for the present, and accomplished within the strict limits of right, and with the observance of all international conveyances. An empty threat against the future has proceeded from Eng land, which striking Spain in her dearest interests, will have the infallible result of lowering English influence in that country, and England will be separated from France without being able to draw Europe into any demonstration hostile to us. Such are the present results of this affair; God knows what will be its future consequences. But if it lead to new difficulties, the right is for Spain and for us; the opinion of nations, and doubtless also of governments, will be for the right. Shame, and we hope defeat, will be for England. Please God especially, there will result from this incident a new policy to be pursued by our government, which will establish a new system of alliances, combining all the nations of continental Europe in one common bond against their common enemy, England. We are asked why we incline towards an alliance with Russia. We answer that it is because we are convinced that, sooner or later, a struggle must ensue between the Continent and that power which trades upon its dissentious. It is be cause that struggle must be a maritime struggle ; it is because the naval power of Spain being destroyed, we see only Russia which can give us in Europe that effectual coopera tion which the United States prepare for us in America; it is because, in one word, the repose of Europe absolutely requires that the colossal power of England should be re duced. and because we feel that this power can only be brought to the ground by the triple alliance which France, Russia, and the United States, its three natural enemies, will one day form to combat it. This is the language of the Conservative semi official journal of Paris, La Presse. Intelligence from Geneva to the 25th instant has brought the result of the elections, by which the Ra dical party have acquired a large majority, amount inF, it is said, to 62 votes against 31 ; and even among this minority are included various shades of liberal ism. The new council includes seventeen Catholics. The Journals des Debuts states that the majority of the Conservative party, and the friends of the last government, abstained from presenting themselves at the elections. The Grand Council was convoked for Monday, 26th _ instant. It will be a constituent assembly, the chief business of which will be the revi sion of the constitution. At the momentous Paris despatches were closed, the Madrid mail of the 22nd arrived. We have only time to say that the insurrection at Oporto, and throughout the provinces of Portugal, was confirmed. The provisional government issued a proclamation charging the coup d'etat upon the partisans of the Cabrals, who, they alleged, had circumvented the Queen, and extorted her signature to their measure. The decree for dissolving the Cortes was expected hourly, and it was announced that the new Cortes would assemble about the end of December. Splendid entertainments continued to be given by M. llresson and M. Isturitz, at none of which Mr. Bulwerattended, excusing himself by indisposition; he had gone to' Aranjnez. Juan Ripoll, commonly called Cabaheria, a well-known Carlist chief, and Juan Figua, anot her of the same party, were pursued and killed by Spanish sol diers in the forest of Segas (in the territory of Bergs), Catalonia, on the 17th inst. The linnento, of the 21st, says, that on this chief were found various papers which threw light upon the projects of the Carhsts and their means of execution. Figua was formerly a commandant of the Carlist gendarmerie. A letter from Madrid of the 21st says, that changes in the Cabinet were expected which would send M. I-taritz to Paris, and replace him by M. Mon. Mar tinis de la Rosa would in that case go to Rome. It was said that Louis-Philippe had charged M. Remigny to bring about a reconciliation of Don Enrique with his relatives, his submission being purchased by the title of Grand Admiral of Spain, a magnificent position about his brother, and a rich flotation. Queen Christina had succeeded in getting her two daughters, by Munoz, recognised at court, and addressed by the new brides and bridegrooms as cousins. She was attempting to obtain for Munoz the title of Prince of Peace, with the prefix of His lligincss„ Intelligence from Portugal has arrived as late as the 17th inclusive. The ministry of the coup d'etut encointered an opposition more irresistible and gene- 1 sal than they expected, and the insurrection had spread throtghout all the provinces of the north, the richest and most populous of the kingdom. The intelligence gives in our correspondence of yesterday from Oporto is fully confirmed. In that city and Coimbra a provisional junta has been formed, at the head of whica is the Marquis of Louie, the husband of the Queen's aunt, who had been previously Governor-General of the province of Coimbra, and Grand Master of the University of that city under the Falmella ministry. The other members of the Junta were Sa do. Bandeira, the former minister, Gen. Count Bomfin, and Baron has Antes, who also filled important offices under the Palmella Cabinet. The forfe.ture of the Queen, and a provisional regency, were decreed by this Junta. On the other hand, great efforts were being made by the Queen and Saldanha to make head against the storm with which they are menaced. Lisbon was declared in a state of siege. The King-Consort was appointed general issimo of the army, and was about to march at the head of a part of the garrison of Lisbon against Oporto. The insurgent party were organising national guards in all the cities and towns which had de clared for them. The Spanish refugees at Oporto formed a body of volunteers to support the inourrection. A proclamation was issued by the Queen on the 14th, promising to re-establish the constiMtional charters and menacing the insurgents. The proclamation was followed by a decree for the organisation of two battalions of Chasacurs; in which all persons between the age of 18 and 45 were called upon to enrol themselves within eight days; the ser vice of these battalions to be obligatory during exist ing circumstances. The Minister of Finance, Viscount D'Oliveira, overwhelmed with the embarrassments of his office, had resigned, and was replaced by M. de Souza Azcvedo, who was not expected long to retain the office. _ _ _ _ _ _ One account states that the Duke of Palmella had applied for passports to France ' and another that he had joined the Marquis de Loule Count Bonfim and I)as Antas, in the North. The telegraph having been entirely destroyed, the communications between the capital and the north were cut off, so that all immediate intelligence between Lisbon and the insurgent provinces was intercepted. A report prevailed there that a body of insurgents, under the command of Count Bonfim and the Baron Das Antes, was in full march upon Lisbon. On the day of the 19th, symptoms of disorder were manifested in the capital itself, and although tranquil lity was restored the next day, the situation was con sidered very critical. It is impossible, says one of the letters received from Lisbon, that this state of things can long continue. The insurrection having spread to the province of Minho, and government despairing of any successful resistance to it, unless by the armed intervention of Spain. It was said that orders had been transmitted to the Captains-general of Andalusia, Estremadura, and Galicia, to concentrate their forces on the frontier. . . El Clamor 'ddle° announces that an intervention has already been actually demanded on the part of the Portuguese government, by the Spanish chargé d'Afaires at Lisbon. A correspondent of the National writes as follows: Saldsnlia, on arriving in Portugal, had prepared the coup (Isaac with the full concurrence of M. Guizot, whom he had scut in l'aris in the early part of August. It is certain, moreover, that the King and Dietz, who have conducted the plot, have taken no step without the advice mud assistance of the French legation. You can not conceive with what in dignation the news of the Cortes revolution, and of the manner in which it was accomplished was received at Oporto. One universal cry of imprecation was raised on all sides against the perfidy and treason of the Queen, and the authorities 'etre driven by this general burst of indig nation to proclaim the forfeiture of Donna Maria and a regency in the name of Don Pedro V. On the 12th, this regency was proclaimed in the provinces of the North and of the Centre, as well as at Coimbra and Evora. The British fleet was expected at Lisbon to offer an asylum to Donna Maria and her husband. It was openly discussed at Lisbon whether it was better for the Queen to go into exile or to take refuge at Madeira or the Azores. The Miguelites com bined in precipitating the drama to its d e nouement, hoping that their own party may gain something in the scramble. A hasty letter, dated Lisbon, 1 ith, concludes thus: " The fermentation is universal, it becomes every moment more doubtful whether the King and Queen will save, not their crowns, but their heads. Two thirds of the population of Portugal have risen. The Algarves have followed the movement." PARIS, OCT. 27. An approaching change in the ministry is now the subject of conversation ; and several journals go so far as to give details, which they consider as positive. M. Guizot, according to these accounts, will become president of the council on the anniversary day of the constitution of the cabinet. I think I am not in the wrong in asserting that these rumours are without foundation. No doubt the pre sent composition of the cabinet may authorise almost any conjectures. Nothing can be more ludicrous than to see at the head of government such a nullity as Marshal Soult, whose great age and decided taste for retirement are calcu lated to prevent him taking an active part in affairs, who has, for several months, been absent from Paris, and who brings no other support to government than the very contro verted authority ofhis name. Every om• feels that the Marshal is no more but a sham president, a hat placed one political scat in order to prevent another party from occupying it. When the subject is spoken of to 111. Guizot, he dtcla.ses that he will keep the Marshal as long as possible, that he will deftr becoming president of the council by es ery means in his power. The truth is, that M. Guizot would already have accepted the presidency, had it not been for the opposition offered to this combination in the council itself. There is • struggle of influence between M. Duchatel and M. Guizot. The former, proud of his great fortune, and of the influence which he attained in the chamber by the handling of the elections, pretends that no one shall have the r. al direc tion of the cabinet but hint. He has for some time been announcing his intended re'irement from the ministry, in case M. Guizot should obtain the presidency of the council. I incline to think that M. Duchatel has withdrawn his threat since the Minister for Foreign Affairs enacts the modest man, and speaks of pr. serving Marshal Soult as long as possible. The minister who is the most o',jection able to M. Guizot, is M. de Salvandy. The latter is defi cient neither in good-will nor in talent; but he has no fixed rule of conduct, nor safety of coup d'ril, to judge of the moment when a government ought to act. Al. Guizot hav ing an arduous session before him, in which the law of secondary instruction will be one of the principal difficulties, would be glad to be able to reckon more securely upon the Minister of Public Instruction. He would therefore replace M. de Salvandy, if he either could or dared do so,—but he dares not. If M. Guizot consents to endure M. de Salvandy, I cannot see why he should be anxious to deliver him. self from any other of his colleagues. M. de Mackau is perfectly incapable ; M. Cunin-Gridoine, thoroughly steeped in industrial prejudices ; M. Martin (du Nord) com pletely in the hands of the bishops ; and M. Locate La plague sinks beneath the weight of a financial situation which calls for great reforms. But to balance all these dis ables, the King never fails to represent the danger of change ; he is in the habit of saying that a ministry is like a chaplet--you cannot take away one bead without all the rest s'iding off. I think, moreover I may state with certainty, that the negotiations which have been spoken of between M. Guirot and Id. Passy have rot taken place. M. Passy is unwell in the country, and has not been in Paris fur several days. He would object very strongly to accepting the Ministry of the Finances, unlcsi his friend and former col league, M. Dufaure, were invited to join the cabinet. M. Dufaure, however, has only very lately declared himself, before the electors, very strongly opposed to the present government, and could not with any degree of honour take his place on the ministerial benches beside M. Guizot. The situation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs is therefore full of perplexity, and there is only one way known in this country of getting out of it, viz. by the statu quo. I believe that the ministry will remain just as it is. At a time of general relaxation, lame combinations are the most enduring. The empire of the world is then in the hands of the nidio crite's. 0. FRANCE.—THE INUNDATIONS.--The following extracts from provincial journals and letters, although not of a more recent date than what we have already given, have a painful interest. A letter from Lyons says : —" At Roanne, several persons have perished. Fifteen hundred have lost their habitations, and about 120 houses have been destroyed. A thousand persons are lodged and, fed at the hospital of ltoanne and in the charitable insti tution the l'Unis. The loss to the state and to private individuals is immense. The defensive dyke and road arc broken through, and there is no communication between Reunite and Coteau except by boats. Not less than 85,000 francs worth of tobacco has been lost. The canal between Itoaune and Digoin is much damaged, but less than was imagined. The passage is interrupted at Pouilly from the dreadful state of the road, but the bridge is intact. An arch of the suspension-bridge at Regally has been carried away. At Balbigny, 38 houses have been destroyed. A person who took refuge in a tree perished, without its being possible to succour him. A girl of 18 was lost, with three children committed to her charge. The grcffier of the juge de pair, when going to take down a statement relative to the dead bodies, fell dead himself suddenly. At Digoin, M. de Jagny, aged 70, formerly an officer in the hucsars, persisted in remaiuing in his house, which fell down over him. liis servant girl escaped by a sort of miracle. At St. Yon. a woman was crushed to death. M. Gollet, mayor of Avraly, perished with one of his servants, whilst endeavouring to carry aid to others. Dead bodies are seen floating down the Loire, and the river is covered with casks of wine, risks of hay and corn, and other articles. At St. Rambert, all the boats that were being built, others that were finished, and a large quantity of timber, were swept off. At St. Just, the sus pension-bridge was carried away." A letter from Briar° says: •• The diligence for Brisre, which left Orleans on the 20th, was stopped by the inundation in the neighbourhood of Sully. The horses were thrown down, and the water, rising in the interior of the vehicle, threatened to submerge the passengers. They would all have infallibly perished, were it not for the devotedness of the conductor, named Narverot, who went at great risk to Sully for a boat. No body would consent to get into it. The conductor then, aided by the deputy mayor of the commune, entered the frail bark and made for the diligence. M. Ciceri, the scene painter at the French opera, was in the vehicle. In his anxiety to gain the boat he fell into the water, and would have perished, had net Narverot seized him. It is said that twelve passengers were saved after three hours' fatigue." A journal of the Indre-et-Loire says: "The communes of Berthetuty and St. Oenouph are under water. The latter can communicate with the town, but I3erthenay is completely isolated. The ruptures in the embankment in the peninsula are so numerous, that they cannot be counted. The embankments are broken into portions, several of which are not one hundred metres wide. The population took refuge on these tongues of land, which disappeared under their feet. At every instant the summit of the roofs, which the water had not yet submerged, were seen to dis appear. Steamers were sent from Tours by the authorities, on the 22nd and 23rd, to carry food and aid to the inhabit ants, but it was impossible to persuade them to quit their cattle and the remains of their houses. A farmer refused to quit his house, and took refuge in the garret, until the roof sank in over him. At Guerin, in the Nii'svre, in the branches of a poplar was found the dead body of a woman, who had taken refuge there front the inundation. In a house, a young girl had reured to the garret, where she remained without food or aid. When discovered she had fainted. The utmost care was afforded her ; she was placed in bed and warmed with hot cloths, and at last began to recover. When the vital warmth had been fully restored, she sat up in the bed and began to sing—she was mad !"—A letter from Issoire (Puy de Dame) states that an inundation, as disas trous as that of 1790, has ravaged that country, reducing the small landholders to the depths of misery. At Brimaget, or Brasrsac, eleven houses have been destroyed and two per sons killed. SPAT .—Tus Comes.—El Espanol of the 21st October, says:—The friends and confidants of the Ministry are unable to say whether the Gm-eta of to-day will publish the dis.solution of the Cortes or of their successors. It ap pears that upon this question, as on many others, differences east in the cabinet. Some of the ministers, constant in their systems of gaining time, are inclined to defer the measure, to insure an increased influence in the elections. GERMANY.—VIENNA, °cr. 20.—Letters from Constantinople, of the ith inst., speak of a victory that north American diplomacy has obtained in that city. Ur. Schmitt, an American missionary at Erzeroum, was lately treated in a very improper manner. Mr. Carr, el:urge d'alfaires of the United States at the Porte, addressed a very energetic note to the Divan, and demanded very categorically and with a threat of North American cannon, immediate indemnifica tion and satisfaction fir this American citizen. The Porte ' seemed to have no mind to become acquainted in this man ner with the American men-of-war, and ordered the pasha of Erzcroum immediately to pay to Dr. Schmitt the required indemnity of 200!. sterling, and to put in prison twelve of the rioters who had so ill-treated the missionary's brother.— Jonathan has learned from his elder brother, John Dull, how such matters are most easily settled. HANIBURG, OCT. 24.—Private letters from Prague of the 21st October announce that his Imperial Highness the Archduke Palatine is no more. BERLIN, Ocr. 23.—The Brazilian Ambassador, Viscount d'Abrantiss, whose presence at Berlin gave hopes of the speedy conclusion of a commercial treaty with that country, has sent in his letters of recall, without any steps having been concerted. M. Ronge, the leader of the Ger man-Catholic sect, arrived at Berlin nu the 21st, on his way to Magdeburg, to assist at the assembly of an important provincial synod. PEhra, ()cr. 18.—Accounts from the Banat men tion a slight reduction in the price of corn, which has not however as yet had any influence on the I'esth market ; a reduction is, however, daily expected, as the increased price is only attributed to speculation, this year's harvest being above the fair average of a good year. Nearly all the produce of last year's harvest has gone from the hands of the producers into the hands of the speculators ; and as the quality of the present year is excellent, the reduction must soon take place. Letters from Lithuania state the property of ten persons has been confiscated for having entertained secret intelligence with France, at the time of the insurrection of Cracow. It was the discovery of this secret intelligence which caused the governments of Vilna,Grodao, and Kowno, to be declared in a state of siege. 'fliE NETHERLANDS.—TnE HAGUE, SEPT. 27. —STATES-0 ENEUAL.-1 n the sitting of this day the chamber commenced the discussion on the draft of the address in an swer to the speech from the throne. The Baron de Gohtein proposed to adjourn the debate till to-morrow, and to cause the King's ministers to he requested to be present at that sitting. This motion being put to the vote, was rejected by a majority of 34 to 13. The general debate on the address then commenced. Messrs. Golstein, Lusac de Kempenaer, and Verney Mrjan spoke against the general tendency of the proposed address. Messrs. Denymaer, Van Tia iss, and Pan huys, members of the committee for drawing up the address, replied to the objections made to it. No other speaker hav ing entered his name, the general debate was closed, and the chamber, by a majority of 37 to 10, declared in favour of the general spirit of the address. The discussion of the para graphs then commenced. The first three paragraphs, which are of the following tenor, were adopted without discussion: " Sire,-1. At the opening of the present session of the States General, the representatives of the nation have learned from roar Majesty, that our relations with foreign countries con tinue to have the character of good understanding. The wel fare of the country requires that particular attention shall be paid to maintain and consolidate this good understanding, in order that the country may see its several interests encouraged, its dignity maintained, and its rights respected.—ll. We cherish the hope that the result of the negotiations with Russia will offer security sufficient for tke interest of the Dutch commerce, which is so active in the ports of that em pire and in the convention concluded with France for the abolition of the duties on the 'navigation of the Rhine, we think that we see a salutary effort towards the entire freedom of that important channel of commerce.—lll. We have learnt with satisfaction that the difficulties which our com merce with the United States of America experienced, in consequence of the high duties imposed on the principal of our colonial productions, have now been removed in the most desirable way."—At the moment of our going to press, M. Ryckevorsel rose to speak on the 9th Article. TURKISH FRONTIER, Ocr. 18.—The precur sors of an insurrectionary movement on the part of the Greek population in Bosnia, Albania, and flerzegowina, manifest themselves in so evident a manner, that they escape only the blindness of the Turkish government. The departure of Prince Michael Obrenowitsch fur Bucharest, on the 14th inst., seems to be connected with the movement. It is stated that the former Prince of Servia wishes to place himself at the head of the movement in the western provinces of Tur key, secretly encouraged by some of the great powers, and there to found a new Christian principality. The pretext of his voyage is the sale of some of his lands near Bucharest. ri:MPKINS FOR Cows.—The South Australian Re sister says : " Many a colonist who had the good fortune to call in at Teneriffe or Rio deJaneiro on the passage from England, will remember the long.keeping pumpkins or melons put on board for the mileh cows, if there were any. A similar sup ply of nutritive change in fodder has been successfully re sorted to by a judicious colonist, who has laid by a store of pit-melons, which he cuts into small pieces, and gives at stated intervals to his cows, by which this change of proven der is devoured with avidity. This artificial method of in- creasing the quantity of milk, when the natural pastures are parched and ►canty, has been found to answer so well that in all probability the example will be extensively followed. Wo need hardly intimate to our rural fellow-colonists what im mense supplies of such kinds of food might be grown even upon sand h ills or spots of ground hitherto considered barren or unprofitable. The pie-melon will keep in high perfection from season to season, or even during a voyage to England. I I , 1 itoollr" hll ! .v: . IV I I 1 I 2 T OAN on DEBENTURES.—WANTED, the dily swal 1.4 BUY of E 2,750, in sums of E5OO or upwards, on Debentures, tags o f ti secured c l othe revenues of the Crown Colony of St. Lucia, redeem- .-, , i able at the end of seven years (the inten,st payable In London every sucn urn six months, beginning the lot July, 1547). under en ordinance sane- nu d e t h e tinned by her Majesty's government. 'fenders, stating the rate of n„., intereet at which parties are sting to take each dntures, to bc afanca addressed, ea or before the li t November, to Mess rs. Joe. Man7st to hav es • 1 and Soon, 2, Laurence Puuntney-lane, of whew, further %Articular' may be obtained. being effe I 9 IIIE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The principle science of 4taigrn th" s; I.Z i Meriting In e ‘'tl" and i ' E I e a r y e rYs g L ' it b t li e P TR°olll7lr, a n ht POLYTECHNIC LNSTITUTION. Dr. Evan's CHEMICAL LEC- dotenrigh ' TURES daily, and on the Evenings of Mender*. Wednesdays , and d• t • • 1 : . Fridays. The prin•iolm and uses of the WORKING MOD E L'S , Sad is " 1 4' M other specimen:la t 6 Useful Arts, are explaumil to t he ors. The d The OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. The OXT-111 DROGLN MICRO- SCOPE, by Ctrs, reproduced with the most interesting Objects. The !MHO a I latest DISSOLVING VIEWS, by Merles Smith, arc of great latetcat Other cat and beauty.—Admissice Is.; Schools, Halt-price. j n RAND HARMONIC HALL, SOUTHWARK I" only BRIDGE ROAD, BOROUGH, Remelt pursuant to Act of rowed fr: i eat. Proprietor, Mr. B. Proem. OP= e'ery night. with travellin) Vocal and Instrumental Concerts, on a wale of grandeur hitherto un- . peecedentul in the mu.oieal Aro' . Id. The Hall (capable of on-omm- 01 wrete I ) dating nearly a thousand persons) has been elegantly painted and embellished by artists of meat celebrity. The whole 01 the arrange. vision of manta of the F.stablishment have given th^ greatest satisfaction to for their I numerous and delighted audiences. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Concert This I to caininence at half-past. Admiedon, Siprnee. Managing Director, Mr. W. WARDE. public be the Dal gilt i r eralrgg• sacr estates. ifice I I MAILS. kill off 'The mails for New South Wales, Van Dieman' s land , will be made pockets up oo the 91st October (to-morrow). keep the The West India mails, including those for Sier.,co, Honduras, and In Lot Havana, wilt be made up on the morning of the 2nd November. Tilt overland wails for Gibraltar, Maim, Greece, the lonian Wands. subdivid , Hasp Aden, cc up y o lo n a 'Al morning ndia , igt -K ong . the iracr`i'ioChreimnteeri' Soutnampton, being a The mails for British North America, Bermuda,. and the United Staten, will be mule up on the evening of the 3d November. Belgian The mails for Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up our own en the morning of the 4th Nov. dairy-far I l k 1 . The mails for Coruntia, Vigo, Oporto,. Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 7th November. learn fro The overland rimed mails, via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt. Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, &c., will be made up ou the comfort, evening of the 7th November.) scales on / viction • 1 P , TO CORRESPONDENTS. W• cannot notice, in any way, any communication that is sent to tia li ngly I anonymously ; but those who choose to addreen twin . noe win fine et , And their conedenoe respected. NEITHER CAN WE UN DERTAkE 1 TO RETURN ANY MANUSCRIPTS WHATEVER. so long ... Advertierments intended for The Brpress, London evening paper, ) 1 ' must be at the °dice by Two o'clock co the day el publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE'. The re him, "th ' I , Tins Dar. Morning, 4o min. pest 9; Afternoon, V min. pest 10. He fili To.nosaow.—Motnieg, 3 min. past 11; Afternoon, 32 min. pest 11. ma i n, ith !I' He do re LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 30 . and w THERE is something affecting, in times l ike these, and mal in the public appearances of the " fine old English younger gentleman." He speculates on things around him their cot with a lack-lustre eye. His enthusiasm is with the re p ea t, ti i . past. He clings to the beliefs of his youth. They remarknl have been turned inside out—they have been written down—exposed—driven out of society — scouted in DECID politics ; they have even outlived t he cla p -tra p sta g e, I 1 11. 1 ' and can no longer win the applause of the gallery. cotter IL be Nothing can conceived more dead than the mottos, ___, nmdern watchwords, maxims, and cries of the later half of 'our in the last century. But the very drearia.em of their not been decay lends a sort of interest to the poor ghosts able to ' who utter them. They have something of the Anglo-A glory that hangs round the conception of Maims "A name among the ruins of Carthage. We must, perforce, `‘ m , e ," eal e respect a belief, though it be in the veriest delusion; an d inch and honour a reverence, if even for the hollowest form inch by i of words that ever led a mob or kept a party together. The higher instincts of humanity, when they reveal the cann the pub themselves in ignoble forms, still speak of the god stronglio within us. Mexican The Duke of NEWCASTLE is one of our best pre- rican Co: served types of a bygone race. It is difficult to over- honourat rate the value of such specimens, when employed for make " , . 1 their proper purposes and kept in their proper places. conquerii The remains of Pompeii, and the contents of the by its ye: . /fusee Bor&onieo have taught us more of the real life And w of later Rome than all the combined scholarship of an Amen i 1 Europe. But an English family would find itself time a M of singularly uncomfortable in the House Sallust. No reason of fossil can be more impressive or invaluable to the corn- victors. partitive anatomist than the skeleton of the mastodon arms ant or megatherium. But even a NIMROD would find durin g w I 1 himself ill at ease in the world in which these huge move sot creatures trampled down the g i gan ti c pa l ms or full time wallowed in the diluvial mud. On similar grounds we may claim much respectful TAYLOR I against 'I attention for the Duke of NEWCASTLE. He is not of conqacro; our time any more than Pompeii, or the mammoth. This e Bat, like them, he has an illustrative and historical— aceminte , : what Sir R. MURCHISON would call a " palmonto- reckoned • logical" value. We may measure, by the hugeness of should th 1 i his delusions, the enormous error of his contempo- or that 111 retries, and see, in the tenacity with which he clings to clarationa i i words, how little of reality sufficed for their comfort Posed to I 1 and satisfaction. American The Duke has exhibited his fossil opinions at the forced to i 4, l meeting to ng of the Retford Agricultural Society. It is Vallee of 1 curious watch public bodies in their choice of The At presidents. Manchester, with its practical industry, place BM its devouring competition, and earnest struggle for the Mexi , self-improvement, summons to its Athenaeum anni- disallows verstuies, the Archbishop of the nineteenth century ; secnte ti ' • the theologian who has postponed dogmatism to resistance science ; the hierarch whose sympathies and pre- in Generi : dilections go with self-government; the Irish Pro- from the ; teatant clergyman, who conceived and mainly American j . 1 II carried out, indeed, national education for Catholic eas y task and Protestant in Ireland. With him it invites spirit oft! to its celebrations the aristocrat who cheers on de- Credits mocratic efforts; the quondam Whig who combines Mexican " ; 41 love of art and cordial gaiety with due reverence of the An for economic truths : the true Young Englander, The gabs whose admiration for the past does not bow him to the inc°n its bigotries, and whose faith in progress has not victory, 1 bred irreverence for old truths and ancient glories. lexica rs Manchester would symbolise itself in WHATELEY courag e t and MORPETH. East Retford finds its representative bein g res i in the Duke of NEWCASTLE. The son of the soil is true to his calling and reverences, above all, stability. ONE c Landed property is the most fixed, farming processes the hope: • the most slow to change, farmers' beliefs the most which th stubborn against experience and repulsive of theory. the hope: There is a harmony between association and Presi- England a dent. This is evident when we read that the show hand, the of stock was indifferent. Probably it was what a hopes art show of stock would have been many years ago. people, s: Improved breeds find small favour with these haters pressing t I of innovation. A new bull is booked upon with the prod something of the same coldness as a new principle. the govei • The Retford men of a peat day no doubt held out tive for t: against short-horns, as those of the present time pie and I • i against free-trade. A Duke of NEWCASTLE probably cares of a wept over the big-boned, coarse-fleshed variety of the alms! 1 . horned beasts, as they slowly disappeared with other That t vestiges of the past. scanty n The Duke spoke to the Association hopefully and and sur I manfully, after his antediluvian fashion. He brought invoke t forward that mysterious belief (sometimes vented by feed hin Lord GEORGE BENTINCE), that the existence of Eng- nothing • land depends on her farmers. We have the fullest tress and conviction of their valuable qualities, but we have political never been able to discover why or when the pallet. of fabuli , I I • dium of England was entrusted to the keeping of the citement gentlemen in gaiters. hopes of The Duke recommended them "o keep together." brought "It was the fashion with some people at present to that the l i ili . run down the farmers, and to effect that mischief patient, : which the overthrow of the agriculturist must bring Whilsi with it. He hoped, however, that in their usual, of the I peaceable, legal, and quiet manner, they would keep and emu well together, and not be deceived by specious pre. the task( tenses of any kind." them, wt The Duke has great faith in this plan of " keeping mouthpi: well together." It is, we presume, suggested by the being me practice of sheep, which are notorious for it. It in- visions, s wolves one mischief. To keep together you mast act in a seas as one body, and that in wrong as well as in right. most unf • • Thus, the sheep, "keeping well together," will jump efforts of into a pond and drown, through sheer confidence in the eloq: their leader. He took fright and so did they. The in a mild agriculturists hare kept well together. They are not indeed, t particularly well satisfied with the result, according to with cer 1 ' their own notions. and inst The Duke has very shrewd suspicions of chemistry. preservin A sharp eye ought to be kept, he thinks, on guano same arg and other outlandish manures, which come professing But then I i to treble produce and halve expense. A common guides a / bait of swindlers, thinks the Duke, bat not to be rea- unfortuni I • .... - . ,; —, _ Wparregg. AILS. The mails for New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, will be made up on the 31st October (to-morrow). The West India mails, including those for Mer. Mia, Honduras, and Havana, wilt be made up on the morning of the 2nd November. Tlri overland nails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Wanda, Egypt, Aden, Ceyloa, India, Hong-Kong, and China, Ma Soutnamptmt, will be made up on the morning of the 3rd November. The mails for British North America, Bermuda, and the United Staters will be made up on the evening of the 3d November. The mails for Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the morning of the ith Nov. The mails for Cerumm, Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 7th November. The overland closed mails, via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, &c., will be made up on the evening of the 7th November.) TO CORRESPONDENTS. W• cannot notice, in any may, any communication that is sent to us anonymously • but those who charm to address us in conAdenoe will End their oonSdence respected. NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RF:TURN ANY MANUSCRIPTS WIIATEVER. e o e Advertisements intended for The Erpress, London evening paper, must be at the °dice by Two o'clock on the day et publication. mon WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tins DAT. Morning, 4 min. put 9; Afternoon, 27 min. put 10. To-nonnow.-2dotning, 3 min. put 11; Afternoon, 32 min. peat 11. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 30. THERE is something affecting, in times like these, is the public appearances of the "fine old English gentleman." He speculates on things around him with a lack-lustre eye. His enthusiasm is with the past. He clings to the beliefs of his youth. They have been turned inside out—they have been written down—exposed—driven out of society—routed in politics ; they have even outlived the clap•:rap stage, and can no longer win the applause of the gallery. Nothing can be conceived more dead than the mottos, watchwords, maxims, and cries of the later half of the last century. But the very dreariness of their decay lends a sort of interest to the poor ghosts who utter them. They have something of the glory that hangs round the conception of hlsorus among the ruins of Carthage. We must, perforce, respect a belief, though it be in the veriest delusion; and honour a reverence, if even for the hollowest form of words that ever led a mob or kept a party together. The higher instincts of humanity, when they reveal themselves in ignoble forms, still speak of the god within us. . . The Duke of NEWCASTLE is one of our best pre served types of a bygone race. It is difficult to over rate the value of such specimens, when employed for their proper purposes and kept in their proper places. The remains of Pompeii, and the contents of the /fusee Bort.usico have taught us more of the real life of later Rome than all the combined scholarship of Europe. But an English family would find itself' singularly uncomfortable in the House of Sallust. No fossil can be more impressive or invaluable to the com parative anatomist than the skeleton of the mastodon or megatherium. But even a NIMROD would find himself ill at case in the world in which these huge creatures trampled down the gigantic palms or wallowed in the diluvial mud. _ _ On similar grounds wo may claim much respectful attention for the Duke of NEWCASTLE. He is not of our time any more than Pompeii, or the mammoth. Bat, like them, he has an illustrative and historical— what Sir It. MURCHISON would call a " paleonto logical" value. We may measure, by the hugeness of his delusions, the enormous error of his contempo raries, and see, in the tenacity with which he clings to words, how little of reality sufficed for their comfort and satkfaction. The Duke has exhibited his fossil opinions at the meeting of the Rctford Agricultural Society. It is curious to watch public bodies in their choice of presidents. Manchester, with its practical industry, its devouring competition, and earnest struggle for self-improvement, summons to its Athenteum anni versaries, the Archbishop of the nineteenth century ; the theologian who has postponed dogmatism to science ; the hierarch whose sympathies and pre dilections go with self-government; the Irish Pro testant clergyman, who conceived and mainly carried out, indeed, national education for Catholic and Protestant in Ireland. With him it invites to its celebrations the aristocrat who cheers on de mocratic efforts; the quondam Whig who combines love of art and cordial gaiety with due reverence for economic truths : the true Young Englander, whose admiration for the past does not bow him to its bigotries, and whose faith in progress has not bred irreverence for old truths and ancient glories. Manchester would symbolise itself in WnAvELEy and MORPETH. East Retford finds its representative in the Duke of NEWCASTLE. The son of the soil is true to his calling and reverences, above all, stability. Landed property is the most fixed, farming processes the most slow to change, farmers' beliefs the most stubborn against experience and repulsive of theory. There is a harmony between association and Presi dent. This is evident when we read that the show of stock was indifferent. Probably it was what a show of stock would have been many years ago. Improved breeds find small favour with these haters of innovation. A new bull is loooked upon with something of the same coldness as a new principle. The Retford men of a past day no doubt held out against short-horns, as those of the present time against free-trade. A Duke of NEWCASTLE probably wept over the big-boned, coarse-fleshed variety of horned beasts, as they slowly disappeared with other vestiges of the past. The Duke spoke to the Association hopefully and manfully, after his antediluvian fashion. He brought forward that mysterious belief (sometimes vented by Lord GEORGE BENvitccx), that the existence of Eng land depends on her farmers. We have the fullest conviction of their valuable qualities, but we have never been able to discover why or when the palla dium of England was entrusted to the keeping of the gentlemen in gaiters. The Duke recommended them "to keep together." "It was the fashion with some people at present to run down the farmers, and to effect that mischief which the overthrow of the agriculturist must bring with it. He hoped, however, that in their usual, peaceable, legal, and quiet manner, they would keep well together, and not be deceived by specious pre- tences of any kind." The Duke has great faith in this plan of " keeping well together." It is, we presume, suggested by the practice of sheep, which are notorious for it. It in volves one mischief. To keep together you mast act as one body, and that in wrong as well as in right. Thus, the sheep, "keeping well together," will jump into a pond and drown, through sheer confidence in their leader. He took fright and so did they. The agriculturists hare kept well together. They are not particularly well satisfied with the result, according to their own notions. The Duke has very shrewd suspicions of chemistry. A sharp eye ought to be kept, he thinks, on guano and other outlandish manures, which come professing to treble produce and halve expense. A common bait of swindlers, thinks the Duke, bat not to be rea- . defended *TA' R aftel oRW:liinDstaEltut, ObeFiril.:4loNi•::::,rom AMERICA AlislExicij --__ arrived at Live r rpoo esteharn l vi. y n We have received by the Hibernia t eo ,.._ -- "' chief feat a the important intelligence of the sur rem ,,, Qll t 's city of Monterey to General Ta I 7, (1 y or OD Lot obstinacy for three days. The term. ..,..," General Ampudia were of the - " u 4 m os t li k _, including an armistice of eight -- " L we e k, q v York papers state that this • C annulled at Washington, and an order Lidice --"' Taylor to advance immediate! • sent to e n add, also, that instructions immediate )} upon Mexico. ' d b e „ f General Wool to move on Chihuah for ua, elicitor to be made on Tampico. sal The domestic news of the United States a o important character. In the elec t . hi - ions te eh lad r ,„ taken place the Whir , „s had gained a decided a fact which is attributable to the dissae fo rt „,,,, -77 rally felt respecting the new tariff is -- 'I war. and th e li t . The following account of the surrender f ab. given in the New Orleans Picayune extra of 111 1,7, d BbY e yeo s e pr ttheemth Greatbthee cation rt - l o 1 the operation eg s sThte : We have selected it in preference to the officio) of t e ,„,,,, - " General Taylor, as affording a clearer and a- more e x 4 On the 19th Sept. Gen. Taylor arrived before 11 e„„ which time he was fired u a force of about 6,000 men. After reconneitrins%"; about 1,500 er 1,600 yards from the Cathedral - 0,t7,„' a s h : o pi rt rothn iff iedi t age h b e ye • tte l; was encamped at the Walnut Springs, thre e ~ the city. This was the nearest petition at whisk th; could obtain a supply of water, and beyond tee • teries. The remainder of the 19th was occupietni, gineers in making reconnoissances of the env lise',,, mending the heights. On the 20th, Gen. Werth ti : with his division to move by a circuitous route In '-, to gain the Saltillo road, beyond the writ i. 4 thi and to storm the heights above the liiikep ti , s' strangely y n the morning o C f irc th u e ma 2 t l a st ne i ti nst. ealabi h in fte: which vital point to the enemy appears to i., - , s ti t o ra n n . ht d io f re n orti o p f ul fi th sed ed e hatehniegdaho;secwauiliotkpivedelom.it,,Tt:hedo f.o:l6:iii,' d oterthtra hohnninieneedeti enemy's through ii,h,hyehneei,hasgatnot heights, battery been incessant . and a camped, covering the pattage of the Seine° end t an here discovered, that besides the fort it the biehopik mending eminences on the opposite side of the Seri heights were then stormed and earned ; the smash, ' fort that was carried, being immediately maw , plunging fire upon the bi s hop's palace. On the red Mg, the first division of regular troops under k Worth, and the volunteer division under G ' were ordered under arms to make a diversion tithe the town in favour of the important °per:inanities Worth. The 10 in. mortars and the two it lb beim been put in battery the night of the 20th, on Inez: yards distant from the cathedral fort, ereitide,w, supported by the fourth regiment of infantry. At 8, a.m., on the llst, the order was given hta.) tery to open upon the citadel and town. And nose after, the first division, with the 3rd and 4th inferno Vance, under Col. Garland, were ordered to musk, skirmish with the enemy on the extreme left of thee, should prospect of success offer, to carry the mall; battery. This attack was directed by Major Meade gli . seer ; Capt. Williams, topographical engineer ; nil Kinney, quarter-master to the Texas division. Ake from the first battery was immediately opened spew trance, but the troops soon turned it, entering and ere with the enemy in the streets from the city, heist s turned, and the rime and second batteries, and front the infantry wleass parapets, streets, and house tops of the city. Th e I of the troops through the gorge of the moors, i or dislodged the artillery and infantry, sod the i ing occupied by . the infanery immolistely in in The first division was followed sad repperts the Mississippi , Tennessee, and Ohio regiments. Ti former regiments ' being the first to scale and seamy It the success of the day stopped. The Mississippi, It see, and Ohio . regiments, though warmly eagimi i streets of the city for some time after the capture of tis battery, and its adjoining defences, were %instate" ' haustion, and the loss they had sustained, to Male vantage. A heavy shower of rain also cue atom ' suspension of the hostilities before the close of their 3rd, 4th, and Ist infantry and the Baltimore hiMa rained as the garrison of the captured position irk Garland, resisted by the Ridgley batteries. To pounders, one 4-pounder, and one howitzer, Teem in this fort, 3 officers, and some 20 or :A mentalism One of the 12-pounders was served against the keel fended with captured ammunition during the day by Capt. Itidgley. The storming parties of Gee It division also captured two 9-pounders which venial diately turned against their former owner.. Gatiew of the 22nd Gen. Worth continued his operatics.* Lions of his division stormed and carried sues heights above the Bishop's palace. Botk were eak command under Cap:. Vinton, 3rd Artillery. lei operations the company of Louisiana troops usiee Blanchard performed effective and gallant sena' part of Capt. Vinton's command. Four Meese( eel with a gored supply of ammunition, were mond I Bishop's palace this day, some of which vein awl turned upon the enemy's defences in the city. 01: evening of the 22nd, Col. Garland and his cowl , relieved as the garrison of the captured forts, by Gei man, with the Mississippi end Tennessee regime/sr companies of the Kentucky regiment. Early eating of the 23rd Gen. Quitman from his position diesel the 2nd and 3rd forts and defences east of the cigkii entirely abandoned by the enemy, who, sppreheadione assault on the night of the Tend, had retired trend` fences to the main Plaza and its immediate riae, command of two companies of Mississippi and mil nessee troops was then thrown into the street tore! and soon became hotly engaged with the enemy. I were soon supported by Col. Wood's regiment it rangers, dismounted;; by Bragg's light battery Ea b fantrv, who kept upon the enemy's fort a coastaat mil terrtipted tire from the streets, house tops, bank& &c., in the vicinity of the Plaza. The pieces 0 f B nd tery were also used with much effect fez into the hear city. This cosingement lasted the best part of to Our troops having driven the scattered parties I enemy and penetrated quite to the detentes ti main Plaza, the advantage thus gained it 7! considered necessary to hold, as the enemy et • ty, and its defenco , manently abandoned the ci , . the main Plaza, its immediate vicinity, and thedral fort, or citadel. Early in the afternoon of* day, Gen. Worth assaulted from the Bishop's pgat sic of the city, and succeeded in driving the es_t!! maintaining his position within a short distance eta; Plaza on that side of the city, towards evening. Tan,, had also been pleated in the cemetry enclosure, odd the night did great execution in the circumscribe , the enemy in the Plaza. Thus ended the operator r 23rd, tamunislii Early on the morning of the 24th, a ec , s .._. sent to Gen. Taylor from Gen. Ampudia, under ors . ing an offer of capitulation, • ' to which the former n: accede, as it asked more than the American ems! At the mine would under any consideration grant. lis, demand to surrender was in reply made upon Gol and 12 o'clock at noon was the hour at which the era', ,kt I. was to be communicated to the American General. _, the Mexican General sent, requesting a personal tt'r with Gen. Taylor which was granted, the prieepx 9 on either side accompanying their Generals. Arta offers in relation to the capitulation of the My r either side and refused, at half-past 4 P.M. Gehlg ° and saying he would give Gen. Ampu dia one hoer o eider, to accept or refuse, left the conference officers. At the expiration of the hour the dirchgl mortars was to be the signal for the reottexio_7„ hostilities. Before the expiration of the hour, Ise; officer was sent on the part of Gen. Ampuslia, to ' I L American General, that to avoid the further mie blood, the national honour being satisfied by th e run , the Mexican troops, he had after consultation r - , general officers, decided to capitulate, acreptioP ine . : the American General. We subjoin the oridia ll ''' the capitulation:- . tel d Terms of capitulation of the city of Monterey, the ern , ... Leon, weed upon by the undersigned commissioners, n neral Worth, of the tinted States army, General If ',.,1 Texan volunteers, and Coked Davis, a the MWas'it d on the part of Major• General Taylor, eommostisrt, c United States forces, and General Haquena awl bon, N. flaws Fe es the army of Mexico, and Senor Manuel . • __,.., 14 Nuevo Leon, on the part of Senor Gearmsl Dos !T. , ' commanding in chief th e army of the north of Nell' s , dc ART. 1. As the legitimate result of the operation! 7".._...de, and the persons position of the contending armies, it issip7,,.. cite, the fortifications, cannon, the niunitions of Wil:, putt is property, with the undermentioned exeMin"..,,,, dered to the commanding general of the Unitesl i.., now at Montetcy.- 2. That the Mexican fom 9 _.,,,,,, to retain the following arms, to wit: the 1:7";,„ offlixns their side arms, the infantry their arms and r;;; the cavalry their arms and accoutrements. the nrUl k n o .- tery, not to exceed 6 pieces. with 21 round , of amniffiu,..„„.* the blexie.an armed forces retire within seven mr '" -- 1 Woman% beyond the line formed by the PL. of the c a,i e Linares, and San Fernando * de Prows.-4. That the _,_ , Wry,* be evacuated by the Mexican, and occupied 4 '2 . ,,i., forces, to-morrow morning, at ten o'clock.-5. To? i , ..... and for mutual convenience, that the troops of the lip er . ,, - , not occupy the city until the Mexican forces haveinD°4„; for hospital and storage ptuyoses.-S. That the forces ._, " I . 1 states will not advance beyond the line nPf .c 7,l * , g "3rd; article before the expiration of eight fr _...,,, ri the orders or instructions of the respective llnve^r;oi received.-7. That the public property to be . _ , ~,,, *. be Virried over and received by °Seers ainnnar,,,y; 0 manding generals of the two armies.-S. Thai 41 , 1 0 ,Zi h, ..a ^ meaning of any of the preceding article. , shall be is ...,,,,, Me construction, and on principles of liberality to the . n '..•:,,,, -9. That the Mexican flag, when struck at tlie eitad . , l , oust by its own batter7.-Done at Monterey, Sept. '2.. , r* W. J. W oars, Brigadier General, I. s• • v0 :g0.. , J. P. llrsinaisorr, Mai. Gen. Comdg. the 'ICAO J. Davis, Cool. Mississippi knifemen. MARCEL M. LLASO, T. ROGIVERA, ORTIGA. .. A. D o? , Approved.-P. ARIPUDIA, Z. TAYLOR, Maj. Gen. r. ° . ~ (From the New York Courier and Enguirer,4l The New York Courier and Enqaurer, _ 1)1 o f I inst., makes the following remarks on the coP n Ty_;, e terry. General Taylor seems to have been , T.'? city when the capitulation was effected. 1 1 . a .f, , his advantage the entire Mexican force, nunt?erl9.spo e 7000 men, would doubtless have been comp lleaw nwthasceerowinnonf2seoanoupotitnthrnrytne,e-brtr,fd:fromaninyn 1 ajaceo,le_ciuli:tatt._les,Ltiellp.eliterii,,tii., 7