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THE PRESS, JANUARY 16, 1858. . _ would have been brought back to their friends at the expense of their country. For the above reasons, which appear to my mind quite sufficient, I have disarmed and sent to the United States Gen. Wm. Walker awl his outlawed and piratical followers, for trial, or for whatever action the Government in its wis dom may think proper to pursue. A despatch from Washington, Dec. 28th, says : The Cabinet hail the matter before them to-day. Al though the arrest of General 'Walker is not strictly justified by the instrucions to Commodore Paulding, it 1 is conceived that the case is very much palliated by the circumstances under which, as explained by him, it was effected. The excitement in the south is very intense. A despatch from New ()cleans, of the 29th ult., says : The receipt of the news of General Walker's capture caused general indignation in this city. The announce ment was made at Spaulding and Rogers' Amphitheatre, and the St- Charles Theatre, causing great excitement. A meeting to express the fet-lings of the community is called fur twelve o'clock to-morrow. The feeling in favour of the reinforcement of Col. Anderson is intense. that Captain Omma nne y , of her Britannic Majesty's ship ßruns wick, wished to take pa rt in the ca p ture of - Walker and his men ; but they were Americans, and Commodo re Paulding reserved the right of °punishment to himself. Walker asserted on board the Wabash that if the English had landed a force he would have fought them, doing all the damage he could, and then taking to the bush, or, to use his own expression, " If you had landed with red coats o e I would have done you a great deal of damage. I would have fought to the last man." The Fulton was to remain at Greytown and arrest Anderson's party. The Susquehanna was also there. The news of Walker's arrest had created intense excitement in New York. According to the Washing ton correspondent of the New York Times, Commo dore Paulding's energetic proceedings did not meet with the approval of the Government, his instruc tions being intended only to prevent Walker landing. The correspondent says : The Administration is very emphatic in repudiating the action of Commodore Paulding, and denouncing it as a v i o l a ti o n of the sovereignty of Nicaragua and of the Ameri can c onstitution. Our power over the filibusters, it is held, ceased the moment they had entered upon the juris dicti3n of a foreign power. There is no doubt that Com modore Paulding will ba at once ordered home for trial. Walker's friends express the conviction that Commodore Paulding acted under secret instructions. In proof of this they cite the fact that it has been repeatedly predicted that England and the United States would pursue him upon Nicaraguan soil. I learn also that a week ago the British Minister, in conversation with a gentleman, suggested as a suppositious case precisely what has happened through Paulding's act, at the same time agreeing that it would be a violation of international law, but saying that Nicaragua would not complain. Nevertheless, the Administration positively denounces Paulding's course, denying that it was even anticipated. Walker on his arrival in New York was accom panied by Marshal Rynders, T. F. Meagher, and Malcolm C ampbell : He was received with cheers by a large concourse of people as he entered his quarters at Brown's Hotel. Walker and Rynders called at the State Department this evening. General Casa said that the Executive Depart ment of the Government did not recognise Walker as a prisoner, and that it was only throngh the action of the judiciary that he could be lawfully held to answer any charge against him. Marshal Rynders then informed Walker that he had no authority to detain him further, and both withdrew. But this is not all. A later despatch from New York of Dec. 31st states that Commodore Paulding had been ordered home, to be tried by court-martial for his violation of the Nicaraguan territory. The excitement was declared to be " increasing through out the States." The enlistment of filibusters was " progressing with much spirit ;" 800 men had left Texas for Nicaragua, and there were about 1,400 more at New York awaiting shipment. Finally, a despatch from Washington says that Walker demands that Government shall convey him back to Nicaragua in a national vessel, and salute his flag on arriving at the isthmus ! Walker himself is about to proceed to New Orleans, where " the excitement in his favour is intense." The following is the commodore's explanation of PRUSSIA. his conduct, dated Aspinwall, Dec. 15 : The Chambers were opened on the 13th by the I could not regard General Walker and his followers in President of the Council of Ministers, M. de Man any other light than as outlaws who had escaped from the teuffel, who made allusion in the Royal Speech to the vigilance of the officers of the Government, and left our malady of the King, adding that he hoped soon to shores for the purpose of rapine and murder, and I saw no see his Majesty completely re-established. The other way to vindicate the law and redeem the honour of Minister also mentioned the approaching marriage the country than by the disarming and sending them of Prince Frederick William ; and in reference to the home. In doing so lam sensible of the responsibility 1 Holstein-Lauenhurg question, said that Prussia, in have incurred, and confidently look to the Government for my justification. Regarded in its true light, the case common with the . other German Governments, would appears to me a clear one, and the points few and strong. persist in maintaining the rights and interests of Walker came to Point Arenas from the United States, Germany. In addition to the Budget, the Speech having in violation of laws set on foot a military organise- announced the presentation of Projets de Loi upon tion to make war upon a people with whom we are at peace. the subjects of Banks, some commercial Treaties, He landed there with armed men and munitions of war, in and the suspension of ths law on usury. The defiance of the guard of a ship of-war placed there to pre- Revenue had so far increased, that, independently of vent his landing. With nothing to show that he acted by the amount required to meet certain extraordinary authority, he formed a camp, hoisted the Nicaraguan flag, exenses, it would permit of an augmentation of the called it the head-quarters of the army of N i ca ra g ua, and salaries signed himself commanderin-chief. With this pretension of some minor employes of the Government. he claimed the right of a lawful government over all per- SPAIN. persons and things within sight of his flag. Without right or authority be landed fifty men at the month of the River Her Majesty the Queen opened the Cortes on the Colorado ; seized the Port of Castillo in the San Juan 10th in a speech of great length, announcing River, captured steamers and the goods of merchants in measures of compensation for the sale of the Church transit to the interior, killed men and made prisoners of lands, for the improvement of the navy, great public the peaceful inhabitants, sending to the harbour of San works and railways, &c. Extraordinary credits will Juan del Norte some thirty or forty men, women, and be avoided, and the Cortes are urged to vote the children in the steamer Morgan. budget of 1859 this session if possible. In doing these things without the show of authority M. Bravo Murillo was elected President of the they were guilty of rapine and murder, and must be re- Chamber of Deputies the next day, defeating the ganled as outlaws and pirates. They can have no claim to be regarded in any other light. H u manity, as well as law, Government candidate, M. Mayans , by e i g ht votes. The followin da Ministers tendered to the Queen justice and n ational honour, demanded the dispersio n of g y these l aw l ess men . The remnant of the miserable beings their resignations, which were not accepted. who surrendered at Rivas were conveyed in this ship last TURKEY. summer to New York, and their sufferings are yet fresh in A telegraphic despatch, dated Constant i n o p le, Jan the memory of all on board. 11th, says that in consequence of the death of Red Besides the sufferings that must necessarily be inflicted schid Pacha, Aali Pacha has been appointed Grand upon an innocent and nnoffending people, these lawless Vizier ; Fuad Minister of Foreign Affairs ; followers of General Walker, misguided and deceived into and Mehemet Kiprili Pacha to the head of the I an a course of ?crime, would doubtless have perished in Central America, or their mutilated and festered bodies zimai. 4orttgn anb (Colonial Intelligent. FRANCE. The Moniteur publishes the text of a treaty of commerce concluded with Siam. The funeral of Mlle. Rachel took place on Monday last. An immense crowd attended. Jules Janin delivered an eloquent speech over the grave. AUSTRIA. A Vienna correspondent of the Frankfort Journal writes as follows upon the recent assertion of the Paris Spectateur, that a secret treaty had been agreed upon between Austria and England : Almost all the journals are now more or less engaged in discussing the statement made by the Spectateur of Paris, that about the middle of last year a protocol was signed here between Austria and England, drawn up in four articles, by which those two powers mutually engaged to defend each other in case of either being attacked, and to undertake nothing without previous concert. I refrain from inquiring whether or not such a protocol does exist ; but in either case it is evident that those powers have acted as if they had concluded such a convention. This has been clearly observable in the disputes upon Eastern affairs, as well as upon many other questions. The pressure which had been brought to bear on the Italian States has ceased, and in the Holstein affair England has taken the side of Germany. Austria, on the other hand, has warmly vindicated the position of the other power at a time when it was pretended at Paris that Great Britain would be reduced by the Indian revolt to a second-rate or third-rate power. It is stated that the Austrian Cabinet is drawing up a memoir to be submitted to the Congress of Paris, in which the question of the conference having the right to examine, and give its approval to, the treaty of navigation of the Danube, is set forth at length. The convention, we believe, is signed. The Emperor of Austria has issued an order of the day expressive of his profound grief at the loss he has experienced by the death of Radetzky. ANIEftICA. The arrest of Walker, and his transference to New York by the American authoiities, are detailed in full elsewhere. The Kansas question has recetvellea new compli cation by the adoption of the slavery clause by a large majority. It appears that the tree•atate men did not vote. In Lawrence, for instance, not a single vote was cast. The territorial militia has been placed in charge of General Lane, and the peolle were beginning to arm. The Mormon war presents no new features. Col. Johnstone, by last dates, 7th November, was only 150 miles from the Great Salt Lake city. ditttion Intelligtnte. &arm NORTllkmrroNsmisE.—Earl Spencer, on re tiring from the representation of this county, has issued a farewell address to the electors. Lord Spencer remarks : I shall ever feel proud that the Liberal electors of the division thought me worthy of their suffrages, and now that I am removed from the position in which they placed me I cannot but express gratification that an abler man (Lord Henley) than myself is desirous of obtaining the same honour, and has wisely placed himself at once before them. REIGATE.—Sir Henry Rawlinson addressed the electors of Reigate on Wednesday. Sir Henry, having briefly gone through the various public ques- tions, came to the great one of the day, the revolt in India. Sir Henry Rawlinson said the question was such a vast and important one that he oould not undertake on that occasion to examine it in detail. He could not go into the question of the origin of the present mutiny, or of the means which bad been taken to suppress it. He could not discuss the pre. sent state or future prospects of the country, but he expressed as his firm conviction that the revolt was not military, but national: — It was a far more serious question than any oar rulers ever disposed of. lie had been fiiiiy impressed with that opinion from the commencement, and had done everything he could to induce others to adopt that opinion. It was evident to him that the outbreak never was whet is called a military mutiny ; it deserved more the name of a national movement. It must be remembered that a military mutiny was a mutiny for military purposes ; bet the sepoys had been acting for others, and had been used as instruments for carrying out the designs of those par ties, the object being no doubt to drive us from the country. That was the real state of things. It was no mutiny of a few soldiers, but a far graver question—that Of the security of our Indian empire. With respect to the future government of India, Sir Henry Rawlinson said he was by no means an advocate for the present system of double go vernment:— He knew all its evils, and wished to do everything in his power to simplify it. It was only those who had been mixed up with the system who could thoroughly appre ciate the great evils which arose from that system, by which even in an emergency, on the receipt of a de spatch, it took two months to get an answer to send out to India. Stich a a stem was destructiveto everything like vigour in administration, but that was the system which Parliament inaugurated in the first instance, and whish had been kept up ever since by the acquiescence and approval of Parliament. Their eyes were at last opened, and he hoped they would in their wisdom—the wisdom of Parliament being, as the meeting was aware, omnipotent — he loped they would devise some means of making the government of India more efficient without placing that power in the hands of the Crown, which would be looked upon as so dangerous to the rights of Englishmen. The great question of introducing Christianity into that country was a point of extreme difficulty, be cause feeling was on one side, and what had been hitherto supposed to be the interest of England on the other. Anything that could be done without the direct influence of Government should be done, and he had no doubt would be done, and every one who had a voice in the direction of affairs in England would promote it; but he strongly condemned the inauguration of any great measure for that object being supported by the State. PROSTITUTION IN THE METROPOLIS has given rise to several meetings of late in the parish of St. James's. After much discussion, the appoiutment of a deputation from the leading metropolitan parishes to wait upon her Majesty's Government, and request that immediate steps might be taken for putting down these practices, has been resolved upon ; and also, " that such deputation be instructed to urge upon the Government the following measures, whereby it is believed that the evil complained of may be effectually controlled :-1. The enforcement upon a systematic plan, and by means of a depart ment of police specially appointed and instructed for that purpose, of the provisions of the 2nd and 3rd Vict., c. 47, in reference to this matter; 2. For passing an act for licensing and placing under proper regulations as to supervision and closing of all houses o f entertainment, or for the supply of refreshments, J intended to be open to the public after a certain hour," IP ■