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t) Papeiti, hastened to put a stop to these unhappy pro ueedings by ordering the embarkation and departure of Mr. Pritchard. The King's Government does not hesi tate to express to the Government of her Britannic Ma jesty, as it has made known at Otaheite itself, its regret at, and disapprobation of, the circumstances I have just mentioned. The King's Government has given in the Society Islands undeniable proofs of the spirit of moderation and equity which has influenced its conduct. It has co'a stand), taken care to assure to foreigners, as well as its own, countrymen, an entire liberty of worship and tlie most efficacious protection. This equality of ',ro tect ion for every religious belief is the common right gin& the honour of France. The King's Gover. nenent has, consecrated this principle, and applied it where ev er its authority is exercised. The English mission tries themselves have acknowledged it, for ti:in greater part among them have held back from the, 'intrigues of Mr. Pritchard, and many have given ur,cful aid to the French authorities. The King's Gov:gement will scru pulously maintain this liberty of conscience and their respect for all rights, and at t l ,,e same time it will also maintain and enforce respect to the rights indispens able for the maintenance. of order at Otaheite as Ix ell as for the surety of thr:, french who reside there, and the authorities investf.:(;iwith the exercise of the protectorate. We trust tl , . fi t the intentions of the British Cabinet agree with our own, and that, actuated by a proper esteem tb., one for the other, the two Governments have the ny; - .-ual desire of inspiring their agents with the same sene.ments that animate themselves, to interdict in them ev e ry act that may compromise the relations between the 'two States, and to strengthen, by an equal respect of their dignity and their mutual rights, the good intelli gence which happily reigns between them. I beg of you to communicate to Lord Aberdeen this dispatch, and leave him a copy of it. NO. 17.-31. GUIZOT TO THE COUNT s DR JARNAC. Paris, Sopt. 2, 1844. Monsieur le Comte,—ln expressing to the Govern ment of her Bri:annic Majesty its regret and disapproval of certain circumstances which preceded the sending Mr. Pritchard out of the island of Otaheite, the King's Go vernment showed itself desirous to grant Mr. Pritchard an equitable indemnity for the damage and suffc-ring which he sustained under such circumstances. We have not here the means of ascertaining what might be the amount of this indemnity, and we cannot rely upon the assertions alone of Mr. Pritchard. It appears to us, consequently, to be as well to place the appreciation of it to the twu commanders of the French and English sta tions in the Pacific Ocean—Admiral Hamelin and Ad miral Seymour. I beg of you to make this proposition, tuft our side, to the Government of her Britannic Majenty, 'and to let me know immediately its answer. Lord Aberdeen's instructions to Lord Cowley, upon the receipt of these dispatches, are in the following - terms : NO. 18.-LORD ♦BERDEEN TO LORD COWLEY Foreign-office, Sept. 6, 1844. My Lord,—l subjoin here, for the information of your Excellency, the copies of two dispatches addressed by M. Guizot to the Count de Jarnac, and which have been put into my hands by the French Charge d'Affaires. - Your Excellency will see by the first of thesis dis patches that M. Guizot, although complaining of the conduct of Mr. Pritchard at Otaheite, and justifying his expulsion from the island on account of the acts of hos tility to the French authorities imputed to him, does not hesitate to express the sincere regret of the French Go vernment for the circumstances which accompanied this affair : and M. Guizot adds that these proceedings have already incurred the blame of the French Government. In the second dispatch M. Gutzot announces that, in consequence of the damage and injury which the pro ceedings in question may have occasioned Mr. Pritchard, the French Government is disposed to give him an .equitable indemnity. He suggests that the exact sum should be fixed by the two Admirals commanding the French and English squadrons in the Pacific Ocean. and desires to know the opinion of her Majesty's Government in answer to this proposition. In order to enable your Excellency to conform. your self to the demand of M. Guizot, I consider that I can not do better than to refer you to the terms of the speech pronounced yesterday in the two Houses of Parliament by the Lords Commissioners, in the name of the Queen, as expressing the entire satisfaction experienced by her Majesty's Government at the result of the discussions which have recently taken place between us. My conviction is that the sincere desire of the two Governments to cultivate the best and most cordial un derstanding renders it almost impossible for incide nts of this nature, when viewed dispassionately, and trea to d i❑ a spirit of justice and moderation, ever to terminate otherwise than in an amicable and fortunate issue. As to Mr. Pritchard, it is due to him to say, tinat he has constantly denied the truth of the accusations brought against him, and that he demands the strictest investigation into his conduct. But, as he rcct•ived another destination before the events to which we allude, and as this nomination has been since confirmed, her Majesty's Government has not considered it necessary to enter into a stricter examination of his conduct ut Otaheite. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera Soria, called THE DAUMITER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Corns ro, Mr. Borrant ; Moncenigo, Mr. Wei+ s ; Adolphe de Courcy, .Mi. W. Harrison; Catarina (Arturo, Liliss Poole To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequinade, callHt PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND ROILINSON CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin. Mr. Wieland; Clown , Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. ,+-Lowell ; Columbine, Miss Carson. The Box.ottice is open aily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, arid Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. SI rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathei‘ s ; Tom Coke Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. warren; The Countess of t owpion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hsiwthorn, Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorious, Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Graciosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC. fORIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. Pnvate Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. rickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will betepeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, Mr. 0. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilkin son ; Sir Joseph Rowley , Bart , Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalkcr, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which, NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul I3ed ford, Mr. Wright, and Misa Reynolds will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the Ring of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss Loris dale; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. Sanders. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter sir. Pitt ; Leader of the M Band, Mr. M ellon. —Box-odice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MONSEIGNEUR ; or, PARIS IN 1720. Monseigneur, Mr. Wallack; Germaine, Mr. °sherry ; Rosaline, Miss Emma Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall. To be succeeded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by a new Divertissement, called ILE SALON DF, BAL Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, M,,s Marshall, Mdlle. Teresine, M. J. Rousset, Mr. .Marshall, and Mr. Gilbert. After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather - teratic Burlesque Extravaganza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS EN. Grindoll Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry ; Kelmar, Mr. Granby ; Riber, Mr. Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine , Miss E. Stan ley ; Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, 56. ; Bosse, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallo Is. Half-price at Pine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 26. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, tid. Ptivate Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce aium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Halt. past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Maesingh sm. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. HEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING _ . Will he repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Collier, Emery, Turner. and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and NI rs. Keeley. After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows. and Stoker, Miss Arden,and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Histericil, Romantic Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; .Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Kee!ey , Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grovc, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF A DMISSION.—Baicony Boxes, 44.. Upper Boxes. :is. • PR, 2s. Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Nixes, as. ; Upper Boises,f Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the itnicony Tier (bolding eight-persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the F3cond tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a.. Half. Private Boxes on the Pit flex (holding six persons), One Guirea. The Box.otficei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr. ti•n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Nightly Overflows to the Grand Christmas Holiday Noveltie , P a - ira I reble Rotation of Entertainments at ASTLF.Y'S ti.ol AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed ; introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fox and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse manship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, c fled HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the ➢lack Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury ; Johnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells. Acting and stage.manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. A. Smith daily. DA VIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the best Pantomime of the Semen ! A more brilliant triumph than ever before achieved ! ! Laughter, Wonder, and Delight!! ! The Fitst Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and Everything New!!!! THIS EVENINti Will bo repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or ' En d of E d of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corri ( fr out t he Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R. Honner ' I ewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. H o n n e r, M rs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss Martin. To be followed by THE WET NURSE. Supported by Me - srs. Neville, W. Smith, and Lewis, Miss Martin, &c. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN L. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. cake, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Extraordinary Success of " Marianne: or, The Child of Charity," and the NEW Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARIANNE; or, the Child of Charity. Sup- Oi' ported. by Mr. Osbaldiston, Henry Howard, J. T. Johnson, T. H. Male, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent Miss E. :!' Terrey, and Miss Treble. , ?OW' After which, an Original Extravaganza, entitled THE PALACE ;li9t; OF GENEVA. Characters h i y Messrs. Herbert and J. T. John ilen, Miss E. Terry, and Miss reble. ' To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled 'HARLEQUIN HOT CODIANS ' • or, The Little Old W omau an d ,/ j i lts ,Dlmon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapluo ; Clown, xi. -silanchard ; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney ; Columbitie. ja Vitt. ( (, 7 T StTN, LoNDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY l s l _ 18.i5. NOW READY, COLONEL MAXWELL'S " ADVENTURES." meaning, and equivocal letters from archbishops and bishops. It is of these very men that the Church has so much reason to complain. They have winked at, nay, cherished dangerous and wide spreading heresy ! they have, in defiance of all the rules of prudence, and in utter contempt of Christian precepts, and the example of the great Founder of Christianity, attempted to force upon their flocks ceremonies and practices which they admit are of no importance, but which they know the people detest as the emblems and harbingers of Popery. What has been the result ? There have been meetings of laity and clergy. The former unanimous, and the latter divided in their opinions. Many staunch Protestants have been forced to desert their parish churches ; pe titions from large assemblies have been prepared for presentation to the Head of the Church, and to both Houses of Parliament. A universal combination ap peared all at once, as if by natural impulse, to be formed throughout the country toresist the innovations and at the same time the insolent authority of the bishops. No one cried them " GOD speed." It was then, and not till then, that they saw the danger, and orders were issued from head-quarters—not to yield, but simply to stop proceedings till the " present diversities (a gentle phrase) should be adjusted by some general measure which shall have the sanction of the whole Church." Now, what is meant by the whole Church ? The people, the aggrieved party are not regarded as the Church, and will not be heard, nor will the deans and , chapters—much less the clergy, or deputations from the clergy, be admitted into the council which is to adjust the "present diversities"—in act, the Church is a very snug, small body, consisting of twenty-six individuals, who will meet privately at Lambeth Palace, talk over the questions of the surplice, the offertory, genuflexions and burning tapers, and then issue an episcopal bull for the edification of their obstinate and misguided flocks. But the people can have no confidence in such a conclave, nor do they virtually care one straw about the mummeries which the Puseyite bishops would re-establish. Were all the orders issued by CHARLESJAMES LONDON and HENavExeirEst,and other Puseyite bishops, declared null and void, the great grievance would remain intact. A large body of cler gymen exist in the Established Reformed Church, who are professed followers of men that have denounced the Reformation as a great crime, and openly professed their ardent wish to be again united to the Roman see, in defiance of their ordination vows by which they renounced the Romish doctrines con e:ming purgatory, pardons, worshipping and adora tion, as well of images as of reliques ; and also invo cation of saints ; and above all, transubstantiation, declared repugnant to the plain words of Scripture But even these Romish doctrines are not so alien to the minds of Protestants as the spirit of that religion of which they are outward signs, whose object is to bind the human will in fetters, to crush free inquiry, and smother that liberty and independence which have wrought such wonders in England and Holland. These are the real grounds of apprehension, and the very general anxiety on the subject speaks well for the country, and does immortal honour to the laity who have had the courage to rebel against their teachers, and think for themselves. What have these teachers done ? While publications, which are a dis grace to the Protestant Church, have have been written and circulated—while men holding valuable livings, and the professed teachers of Protestant youth, have openly renounced their faith, the bench of bishops remained silent, apparently watching with interest the progress of the scheme, and never inter fered till the people roused them to a sense of danger. Contrast this supineness with the lively interest they display in things temporal. When a Bill was brought into Parliament for the better management of Church lands, whereby provision might have been made for the repair and maintenance of churches and glebe-houses, and church-rates been abolished, in a few days afterwards a conclave of bishops as sembled at Lambeth, denounced the plan, and thereby kept up one of the most unseemly causes of strife in a Christian community. " They are greedy dogs, which never can have enough," says the Prophet, when describing the degenerated sons of the Levites, " and they are shepherds that cannot understand ; they all look to their own way, every one for his gala from his quarter." If self-interest, or love of ease, or the natural longing of the human mind for power and authority, have prevented the bishops from beginning at the right end—if they have stood by while the bul warks of Protestantism were undermined by traitors at Oxford, and the majority of the Bench is now justly suspected of favouring the new doctrines, do they vainly imagine that the people will be lulled to security 'by a few unmeaning phrases about the surplice and the offertory, or the indiscreet zeal of the Bishops of OXFORD, LONDON, and EXETER ? The very letter of the last Bishop, pro fessing penitence, is only a specimen of what they may expect from the whole body. The principles of Church authority he will maintain to the last, and he stops his innovations only "in the prospect of these principles being, ere long, practically asserted and en forced by our Reverend Primate." Does this show any symptoms of yielding ? Does he thus give up the surplice or the offertory, or any one clause of the rubric, which he evidently regards as more sacred than Holy Writ ? What absurdity to infer from his Jesuitical letter that the affair is settled. According to accounts just received from Exeter, some of his young Puseyite clergymen have taken him at his word, and " continued the services in their churches as they now are." The church of one of these hope. ful sycophants has in consequence been deserted, and he has been hooted and "mobbed" in the streets. Such are the effects of the Bishop's letter, yet he is said by his humility and repentance to have cast oil on the troubled waters. 2 Vols., with Portraits, 21s. bound. . , " My Adventures' is, for the most part, a tra is - cript from the Journal kept by Cot. Maxwell, and to that may he attributed the rich, racy, riotous spirit that pervades it. It is instinct with life, fun, and vivid impressions of men and things. Two more amusing volumes have seldom fallen into our hands. In his personal sketches Colonel Maxwell is very felicitous. Murat and his Court, the Princess Charlotte of Wales and her Suite, and Napoleon and his Court at Elba—and, indeed, most of the extraordinary characters who, at that period, were to be encountered in that quarter of the world, are etched with rare skill."—Morning Post. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 14. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 47 ; Noon, 40. BAROMETER, 29.72.-WIND, E. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. 'Water freezes at 32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. IThrning 41 minutes after 6 I Evening 2 minutes after 7. Judging from the proceedings in the Committees in both French Chambers, the leading and most in teresting subject in the discussions on the Address will be the right of search. The public mind appears to be bent on annulling the treaties of 1831 and 1833 ; and the Chamber of Deputies so far concurs in the general wish, as to insert paragraphs similar to those adopted at the commencement of the two last sessions and expressing a strong hope that negotiations on the subject with England may in time lead to the happy result of placing French commerce under the protec tion of its own flag—in other words, abolish the treaties concluded between the two Powers for the suppression of the slave trade. The Americans have successfully objected to all such treaties, and the French see no reason why their flag should be treated differently. The paragraphs, however, are of the mildest character, merely expressing wishes in which the Chamber, and, perhaps, the Ministers themselves, cordially concur. The paragraphs are as follow : "Struck with the inconvenience revealed by expo. rience, and even for the advantage of the good intelli gence so necessary to the accomplishment of the common object, we shall hail with all our wishes the moment when our commerce shall be replaced under the exclusive guardianship of our flag. " This good understanding will no doubt aid in tl - e success of those negotiations which, whilst they gua rantee the repression of an infamous traffic, must tend to replace our commerce under the exclusive guardian ship of our flag." _ _ According to the Presse, the Marquis Da Boissr presented a similar amendment to the House of Peers, but without any hope of its adoption. It runs thus : —" The Chamber of Peers invokes and anticipates with all its wishes the day on which a negotiation so long commenced shall have the effect of replacing our marine under the exclusive protection of our flag." The affairs of Otaheite will form another subject of discussion. A long list of documents on this subject had been laid before the Chambers, and the more im portant of them have appeared in the Government journals. The following paragraph, in one of M. Guizor's letters to the Count de JARNAC, will afford the Opposition an opportunity of renewing the charge that in everything the Foreign Minister yields to England :—" As to the circumstances which have accompanied the sending away of Mr. PRITCHARD, I cannot pretend that they can all and entirely be jus tified, and that there are not connected with them certain proceedings and expressions which are con trary to all equity, humanity, and propriety." The Paris papers contain no news ; and the interest in the fate of the Ministry is evidently dying away—for the best reason in the world:—All know that a change of Ministry will not lead to a change of policy. No business was done in the Funds at TORTONI'S on Sunday. The Queen has approved of the sum of 4,000/. per annum, as the salary of his Excellency the Lieutenant- Governa of Van Diemen's Land,—Hobart Town Courier, AMERICAN NEWS. EIGHT DAYS LATER FROM AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA. By the Mail Steam-packet Acadia, which arrived at Liverpool yesterday morning, we have received American papers to the 31st ultimo. The Anti-Rent outrages still continued. The discussion in Congress on the subject of the annexation of Texas was fixed for Monday, Jan. 6. Colonel William Polk, the brother of the President elect, had arrived at Washington from Nashville. These papers contain copies of the documents con cerning the relations of the Unites State with Mexico, transmitted by the President to both Houses of Congress. . The following is from the New York Commercial Advertiser : LATE FROM MEXICO. The barque Eugenia, Captain Biscoe, arrived this morning from Vera Cruz, whence she sailed on the 12th inst. Mr. Cushing, late Commissioner to China, was a passenger. Captain Biscoe reports that most of the principal towns throughout the Republic, and a very large pro portion of the people, have joined the insurrection against Santa Anna, which has become a successful and bloodless revolution, no serious resistance being made in any quarter. Santa Anna was at Queretaro, with a small force of yet faithful adherents ; but moat of the troops had gone over to the party of Paredes. The condition of the markets was very unpromis ing. The British frigates, Spartan and Inconstant, and two French brigs of war, were lying at Sacri ficios. Mr. Cushing sailed from Vera Cruz on the 12th instant, and has irld a fine passage of eighteen days. Mr. C. has brought but few newspapers, having had all his newspapers stolen while in Mexico, saving only his official documents, which he happened to have about his person. We have been favoured by Mr. Cushing with the subjoined notes, which he prepared while on his pas sage from Vera Cruz : The revolution of Mexico was rapidly approaching a decisive crisis, and the utmost confusion and dis order exist in all parts of the Republic. The great object of the revolution is to decide whether Santa Anna shall be precipitated from power, or whether, on the other hand, he shall be the perma nent Dictator and arbitrary master of the Government. In order to understand well the actual state of things, it is necessary, in the first place, to give a brief explanation of the previous state of things. At the head of the Government in 1811 was Gene ral Anastasio Bustamente, under the constitution which then regulated the Mexican Republic. In August, 1841, General Paredea and the Department of Jalisco pronounced against the Government of Bustamente. _ _ . _____ ...... ..... A civil war of brief duration ensued, which was terminated on the 28th of September, 1841, by an arrangement, in virtue of which the pre-existing constitution was abolished, and General Santa Anna was invested with the powers of Dictator, for the purpose of re-organising the constitution and the Government. _ _ Texas, set out for Mexico, being invested by the Pre sident ad interim with the conduct of the war against Paredes. He set out for Jalapa on the 7th ofNovember, at the head of 8,500 men, crossed rapidly the depart ment of Puebla, where he received some additional troops, and on the 18th arrived at Guadaloupe, a town near Mexico, where he fixed his head-quarters, He had left the departments of Vera Cruz and Puebla full of professions of loyalty to his Govern ment ; and he found the same professions in that of Mexico, and similar professions came to him there from Queretaro and Guanajuato; and he prepared to march from Guadaloupe, and to assemble at Quere taro a force of 13,000, with which to overwhelm the little army of Paredes. But, even at this moment, all powerful as he appeared, at the head of a great army, and with all the departments behind him loyal, symptoms began to appear of the uncertainty of his cause ; for though the Congress did not pro.• fessedly support Paredes, yet it insisted that Santa Anna should proceed constitutionally, which the latter was unable or indisposed to do. The Mexican constitution provides expressly that the President cannot command in person the military force either by land or sea without the previous per mission of Congress. Santa Anna had taken the command without even pretending to ask the consent of Congress ; and in so doing had himself performed a revolutionary act quite as positive and serious as that of Paredes. Nevertheless, on the 22d he pro ceeded on his march to Queretaro, and on the same day the Chamber of Deputies voted the impeachment of the .Minister of War, General Reyes, for signing the order under which Santa Anna held the com mand of the troops. Congress also voted to receive and print the pronunciamentos of the revolutionised department, in all this indicating a disposition, not to be mistaken, of hostility to Santa Anna. On arriving at Queretaro, Santa Anna found that, although the military authorities were professedly in his favour, yet the junto departamental had pronounced for the initiative of Jalisco. Therefore, he make known in the members that if they did not repronounce in his favour, he would send them prisoners to Perote. They refused, and three of them were immediately arrested by his order, and sent oft; under a strong guard, in the direction of Mexico and Perote. When the report of these proceedings reached Mexico, the Congress immediately summoned before it the Minis ters of War and of Government, to know whether they had authorised General Santa Anna to imprison the members of the junta departmental of Queretaro. This subject occupied the Chambers on the 29th and 30th of November, and their attitude had now become so menacing, that the President ad interim, Canalizo (after consultation with Santa Anna), took the high handed step of deciding to close the session of Con gress by force, and declare Santa Anna Dictator of the Republic. Accordingly, on repairing to the Palace on the Ist of December the members found the doors shut against them, and guarded by soldiers ; and on the 2d appeared the proclamation of Canalizo, as Presi dento interino, declaring the Chamber dissolved in and conferring all the powers of Govern ment, legislative as well as executive, on Santa Anna, as Presidento proprietario, the same to be exercised by Canalizo as Presidento interino, until otherwise ordered by Santa Anna. For some days this forcible demolition of the constitutional Government by the creatures of Santa Anna remained without pro clueing any apparent effect in Mexico. But on the very day when the news reached Puebla, Ge neral Inclan, Commandante -General of that depart ment, in concert with the civil authority, pro nounced against Santa Anna; and in a few days (on the 6th) the garrison and people of Mexico rose against the Government, imprisoned Canalizo and his Ministers—Congress re-assembled—the President of the Council of Government, General Herrera, as sumed the exercise of the functions of President according to the constitution, and new Ministers were appointed the next day, whose authority was imme diately acknowledged in Vera Cruz. At the latest dates there from Vera Cruz (Dec. 12) affairs stood thus : This temporary arrangement is known by the name of the Basis of Tacubaya and the Agreements of La Estanzuela. Under the auspices of Santa Anna, a Congress assembled in June, 1842, and proceeded to deliberate on a new constitution. Santa Anna himself retired to Manga de Clavo, leaving General Bravo as Presi dent ad interim; and the proceedings of Congress not being agreeable to Santa Anna, it was dissolved by General Bravo in December, 1842, and a National Junta, or Assembly of Notables, was convened in its place. On the 12th of June, 1843, a new constitution was completed and made public, by which (among other things) the supreme power was lodged in the hands of a President, to be elected for five years; of an elective body called the Council of Government, and of a Congress composed of a Senate and Chamber of Deputies • and Santa Anna himself was immediately elected President under the new constitution. The departments of Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Zacatecas and Aguaicalientes were in a state of re volution, and in military possession of Gen. Paredes. Gen. Santa Anna (with Cortazar) had military possession of the departments of Guanajuato and During this period the Republic had been dis tracted, not only by the civil war which displaced Bustamente and elevated Santa Anna to power, but also by the insurrection of Yucatan and the long civil war which ensued in that quarter—by an extensive rising of the Indians in the extreme South—by in cursions of the Indians in the North—by controver sies with foreign Powers—by the question of Texas —and, above all, by incompetency and corruption in all members of the Government. By the sixth of the Basis of Tucubaya it was provided that " the pro visional Executive shall answer for his acts before the first constitutional Congress ;" and this was confirmed by the agreement of La Estanzuela. Nevertheless, by a decree of Santa Anna, issued on the 3d of October, 1843 (before assuming the office of constitutional President), it was declared that, as the power exercised by him under the Basis of Tacubaya was, by its very tenor, without limitation, the respon sibility referred to in the sixth of the said Basis was merely a responsibility of opinion ; that all the acts of his Dictatorship were of the same permanent force as if performed by a constitutional Government, and must be observed as such by the first constitutional Congress. The new Government was completed and installed in January, 1844, when the first Congress under the new Constitution assembled. Its early acts seem to have been in accordance with the views of Santa Anna, for it voted an extraordinary contribu tion of four millions with which to prosecute the war against Texas. But, on his requiring authority for a loan of i ten millions, the Congress hesi tated to give its assent; though it was notorious that but a small portion of the extraordi nary contribution had been realised, and that the Treasury, so far from being competent to supply the means for carrying on a war against Texas, was in fact incompetent for the ordinary daily neces sities of the Government. Meanwhile, as affairs proceeded, a heavy opp os iti on t o S an t a A nna b egan to manifest itself in Congress and throughout the Republic. He had been raised to power, though apparently with great unanimity, yet, as the event has shown, by a military revolution, rather than by the spontaneous general choice of the people ; for, on his expressing a wish to retire a short time to Manga de Clavo for the care of Queretaro. Santa Anna's President interino, Canalizo, and his Ministers, were imprisoned in Mexico. Congress had re-ass-mbled, and a temporary constitutional Government was installed there, composed as follows, viz. :- his private affairs (as he had done in the year 1842), in which c a se th e n ew con stitution required that the Senate should make choice of a President ad interim, to officiate during his ab sence from the seat of Government, the Ministerial candidate, General Valentin Canalize, prevailed by one vote only over his opponent, General Rine4m. Such, then, was the position o f thi ngs i n O c t o b er , 1844 ; Santa Anna being President proprietario ; Ca nalizo President interzno, and the Congress assembled in special session, occupied with the foreign relations and the financial embarrassments of the Republic, when the revolution broke out in the large and power ful department of Jalisco. On the Ist of November, 1844, the Departmental Assembly of Jalisco adopted and published what is called an Initiative, being an Act provided for by the constitution, in virtue of which the Assembly submitted the proposition fol lowing :- 1. The National Congress will make effective the re sponsibility of the provisional Government, to which it was subjected by the 6th of the Basis of Tacubaya, which it swore to mad caused to be swore to by the nation. 2. The law of Aug. 21, 1844, imposing extraordinary contributions, is repealed. 3. The Congress will occupy itself by preference in reforming the articles of the constitution, which expe rience has demonstrated to be contrary to the prosperity of the departments. This act was adopted by all the authorities of the department, civil and military, and made known by public documents issued under the signatures of the civil governor Escovado, and of the commandant-ge neral Galindo, with his principal officers ; and thus far it was in Mexico a constitutional and not a revo lutionary act—for in Mexico the military participate equally with the civil authorities in all political proceed ings. But though nominally a constitutional act it was in reality a revolutionary one, skilfully arranged and combined for the overthrow of Santa Anna. To this intent, General Mariano Paredes, who had com menced the revolution of 1841 in the same depart ment of Jalisco, and who had since that time acted with Santa Anna, was pitched upon to be the agent of his overthrow. The secret movers of the new revolution obtained for General Paredes the command of the department of Sonora, to reach which it is necessary to march through that of Jalisco. On the way to his government, Paredes stopped at Guadala jara, the capital of Jalisco, with the troops under his command, and there pronounced openly and directly against Santa Anna, and assumed the functions of military chief of the revolution. The four depart ments of Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Sinalva, and Sonora, concurred at once in the pronunciamento of Jalisco ; and thus the five north-western departments were in arms at once against Santa Anna. Between these and Mexico, there in tervene the two departments of Quanajuato and Que retaro. Paredes advanced to Lagos, on the frontier of Jalisco, and there established his head-quarters, with an army of 1,400 men, to await the progress of events. In the contiguous department of Guanajuato was General Cortazar with 2,000 men, on whom Paredes depended for support ; but the rapid move ments of Santa Anna himself prevented Cortazar from joining Paredes (if he had the intention) and corn pulled him (for the present at least) to declare for Santa Anna. For, instantly on hearing what had taken place in Guadalajara, Santa Anna, who was then at Manga da Clavo, in the department of Vera Cruz, and in whose neighbourhood was a large body of troops, professedly collected for an expedition against General Jose Joaquim de Herrera, President of the Council of Government, charged temporarily with the supreme executive authority. D. Luis Gonzaga Cuevas, Minister of Foreign Rela tions, State, and Police. D. Mariano Riva Palacios, Minister of Justice, Public Instruction, and Industry. D. Pedro J. Echeverria, Minister of Finance. D. Pedro Garcio Conde, Minister of War. And it was already known that the departments of Puebla and of Vera Cruz had declared their adhesion to the provisional Government ; and there is no doubt that most of the other departments will also support the Congress. Meanwhile, Santa Anna is constitutionally Presi dent of the Republic, but unconstitutionally in com mand of the troops employed against Paredes. The new Minister of War has ordered him to give up this command. If he refuses he becomes undoubtedly a rebel and a traitor ; because the new provisional Government in Mexico is constitutionally constituted. If he con sents, he ceases to have any troops for his support ; he is placed at the mercy of his enemies. His position is now an extremely critical one therefore. Everything depends on whether his troops adhere to him again• t the Congress and the constitutional Government. If they do he becomes the military Dictator of the country. Reports were current at Vera Cruz that a party of his troops had already proclaimed him Dictator, and that another part had declared against him ; but upon this point no information in authentic form had reached the public ear. If any sufficient portion of troops adheres to him, to enable him to continue the war, still he is sur rounded with difficulties, being in the very heart of the Republic, with Jalisco and its coocurrent de partments to the Pacific against him on the one hand, and Mexico, with its concurrent departments to the Gulf, against him on the other hand. He may recover himself by some netz turn in the wheel of fortune, and resume his place as constitu tional President proprietario of the Republic ; but this is hardly probable, as the public sentiment is almost unanimous against him in nearly all the departments. It seems more likely that he will have to yield to the storm ; and, if not deprived of his life, he may escape to the United States by a sudden march on Tampico, or to South America, by way of the Pacific. ----------- termination, as well as an ability, to preserve order completing lines of rails in Ireland, but public opinions throughout the Republic. generally right in such matters, and there appettor..4 P.S —Nov. 20.—Additional information has come be, among other lines, a decided feeling in favour r t:... in from Lexama, by which we learn that the force ofand if good tags P Newry and Enniskillen scheme in the City. There a ",, the insurgents amounted to about 400, and that they veexrhailbeitt exhibited linesother tb i b ri s progresso are of formation,most anxious to see Irelt were subsequently encountered by the constitutional , benefited ilsuch . ma ‘ t . ters, and they really" act cP cint f • - 0 o troops and driven into the mountains. ' square," the results will be incalculable in all pole , After the death of their leaders, Centeno and Alva- ' view. In all legitimate and well-digested plans f( . ?l' rg''' . . l rado, they were headed by two of the sons of Cen- ! ways in Ireland ~ go on and prosper ' i e l' il ' s teno. Many of them have been killed, and the re- we. A fine field will be opened for the ecap lo 3 l . l l4 bellion is now considered at an end. of thousands of the poor of Ireland, . 0 " 0 1 TERRIBLE STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT— the resources of that rich and beautiful island &veld THIRTY-ONE LIVES LOST. to an extent that the most sanguine scarcely dream (From the Louisville Journal of Dec. 20.) at the present writing. Without doubt it is constava We are again called on to record a most melon- the Commissioners of the Railway Board ought ti e d choly occurrence on the Mississippi river, by which to Ireland, particularly in the respect ell sib ,bl as there are political reasons not to be roc more than thirty lives were lost. of. England has been pretty well inte .A 1 About twelve o'clock on Saturday night, the 14th jb y railways already. Wi t h reference to tic) instant, as the Belle ot Clarksville, from New Orleans topic.it is worth while to . refer to one or two lines w'.o for Nashville, was rounding the bar below the Horse- ha is been revived, and which were proh ibited 13 ' 0 7 e ; shoe Cut-off, she come in collision with the Louisiana, years ago. The first is the Sambre and Meuse, Pri,aldr from Memphis, on her way to New Orleans. The ted in 1834, and it is now introduced with r airl -clell Belle of Clarksville did not obey her helm, but sheered tional advanta g es, and concessions, we are tolchrtol' roe off, by which she came directly across the bow of the the Government of Belgium. The line propo s ii s buri' Louisiana. nect the Great Western Railway with P.' yet The engines of both boats were immediately Exeter Falmouth &c., has been reported ug eir as alreadystated, but still it has bee l L g ool stopped, but not in time to prevent collision. The termined to a 1 to the House of C ° '7..11 11 Belle of Clarksville was entirely demolished—the upon the subject. ppe T a here is a growing opinion -0 hull parting from the cabin, and the cabin breaking City that the Commissioners have an inkling 0 ,9 into two pieces. The hull instantly went down, and monopoly, as respects the main lines already form Atli` the cabin floated to Old Town landing, about twenty- rivalry almost always tends to benefit the public ,top five miles below Helena. This ought not to be forgott&n by a Board of •n or itt The Louisiana took from the fragments all the the decision ot which, as to lines laid befor!!6ol _ opinion, will, in eight out of ten cases, be 00 01. ,,g It persons on them. As far as can be ascertained thirty one lives were lost. Below we give a list of them. doubt, by Parliament. Undue invasion a e-v 5 0 7 4 01 4: ter i e , sts, however, we should be as sorry as anyaouvre#l Names of passengers lost, nearly all of whom were he English Stocks have been rather au, .„1 residents of West Tennessee. W. 'rabb, P. Linn, W. Linn, J. Ryan, R. Malisle, Consols for present transfer have realised 10 0 ; '''' hell and for Time 1001 to 100 k. Exche uer-bills bol e 0 N. Sils, W. Jones, T. Whitley, N. T. Allen, A. marked 645. to 60s. premium. It wouldq certainlY.l'lO Kirkland, J. Askew, G. Hyer, son of J. W. Hull , J. that inoney has been in more request within the 1 7 1 ,0 Peay, John Holliday (assistant engineer), four days, anti hence the disposition to sell Excbec h e e fr o l e negroes belonging to J. Peay, twelve negro hands Bank Stock ,has been firm at 211 to 212. ko d I belonging to the boat—thirty-one. Three - and - a - Quarte r pe r Cen t s . have been war AI The survivors lost all their baggage. There were to I Oil, and the Three per Cents. 1001 11". 1 . . Se P ili six valuable race-horses on board, all of which were The Foreign Stocks are wholly neglecteu,nts, . lost, among them the celebrated mare Ann Hayes. Five per Cents. realise 26k; and the Thr_ee o per_r ueo q,;, The cargo, consisting of sugar, salt, coffee, and to gt , ed th b e av l t at b te e r ea being rk ra e t d heLlie t t b ter s . 9 P r.tFgi. is 9 molasses, was all lost. The iron chest, containing e v a er t , w nicu il; ier. Mexican Bonds ma havebeen 4 quoted 3-- . , 12,000 dolls. was saved. The cargo was insured for T - w s o-a ' nd- a-Half per Cents. have realise 4011 if 23,000 dolls., and the boat for 8,000 dolls. The Railway Shares have been compa - we i . , rs init I SUPPOSED PIRATE.—The ship John Marshall, ar rived from Rotterdam on Tuesday evening, fell in with a vessel whose appearance and movements were very suspicious. The log-book of the John Marshall gives the following account : " Nov. 9th, lat. 37 64, lon. 16, at 8 A. M., saw a ;lected, though held firmly, and in some 'tiller rates. PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE 0 11 - ° (From the Official List.) 21 1 Bank Stock 2 12 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOt 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 10! 'I6X brig and schooner to the leeward—the brig with her starboard tacks aboard ; the schooner hove to, with her fore-topsail to the mast; next morning saw the same schooner—she came near our lee quarter, then lulled up and came within four miles of us ; she hoisted Genoese colours ; at the same time she had a black flag hoisted at her main ; we hoisted colours, when she hauled down her black flag ; see lulled across our stern, and went hull down to windward, and kept in sight of us on the same tack ; at ten o'clock P.M., saw a light to leeward ; in half an hour, she coming up with us very fast, called all on deck at half-past eleven o'clock ; she crossed our stern and went out of sight to wind ward, and hoisted a light ; we tacked ship and stood N.E. for fours hours. Fortunately a breeze sprung up, cloudy and squalls ; at four A.m. tacked to the westward ; at daylight could not see her ; on the 12th, saw a schooner which we took to be the same; she was a long, low, black schooner of 130 or 145 tons burden ; appeared to be an American built ; vessel's hull and sails new; saw a great many men on deck, and apparently a battery. Captain Poythress, passengers, and crew, have no doubt she was a pirate ; they suppose she had boarded the brig and in tended to board the John Marshall in the morning had they not made their escape in the night."—.New York Advertiser, Dec. 26. WASHINGTON, DEC. 23, 1844.—The Circuit Court of this district have had under consideration a slave case of some interest, growing out of the application to carry back to Virginia a woman slave who was brought here voluntarily some years since. By , an old law of Maryland, which continues in force in this portion of the district, every slave brought into the district by its owner with the view of residing here becomes free. In the pending case, a justice of the peace granted authority to the owner of the slave, or rather the administrator, to return with his slave. The Circuit Court decided that the justice of the peace had no power to grant such authority. The case was argued by able counsel, and excited a good deal of in terest.—Baltimore American. MORMON AND INDIAN OUTRAGE.—The Warsaw Signal of the 4th instant confirms a rumour, put forth the week previous, in relation to Lyman Wricht and his band of Mormons. It appears that Wright's band were suffering for want of provisions, but he would not let them disperse over the country to find employ ment. In order to relieve them, he went to the traders, and finding that they had flour, he tried to get some on credit, but was refused. He then took thirty men, and told the traders if they did not let him have the flour he would take it. He was defied, and made the attack on the store. The French and Indians fired on his men, and killed four on the spot, and it is supposed that nearly all fell in the retreat. — New York Advertiser. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET DEC. 28. $4,000 NY. State 7, 1849 lO6 500 Ohio 6s, 1850 1,000 Penn. 5s 744 40 shares Bank of Corn. full 99 150 shares Del. and Hud b 10 118 10 shares N. A. Trust 350 shares Farmers' Trust 3 54 50 shares Canton Co 43 10 shares Banhattan Bank 200 shares Morris Canal. 150 shares Erie R. R 6O 28 50 shares Mohawk R. R. 59 575 shares Long Isl. R. opg 20 shares New Jersey R. R. 100 shares Stonington R. R. 53 shares Paterson R. R. .. 75 shares Nor. and Wor. s 30 66 At the Board this morning, Farmer's Trust Co. de. clined 1; Bank of Commerce i; and Ohio Sixes and Stonington Railroad 4; Canton Co. advanced 4; and Erie Railroad 4. NEW YORK MARKETS, DEC. 28. Asuts.—The sales of the week embrace about 700 barrels of pots at 3 dolls. 874 c. to 3 dolls. 75c., closing at the latter rate; and 400 barrels of pearls at 4 dolls. 124 c. to 4 dolls. 61c., with some few small lots at 4 dolls. COTTON.—The sales for the week ending last evening amounted to 3,700 bales, principally towards its close, including 2,500 bales Upland and Florida, ordinary to middling at 4ic. to 5c., middling fair to fair 51c. to 54c., and fully fair to good fair si-c. to 61c. ; and 1,200 Mobile and New Orleans, ordinary to middling 4ic. to 5/c., and middling fair to fair sfc. to 61c. FLOUR AND GRAlN.—There is very little business doing in flour, prices remain about the same, and the market generally affords but few features of interest. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE WS New 34 per Cent. Annuties l OO Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860.- , I# 4 -• ,i Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859..• " Os Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 1860 l' India Stock 0 p m' India Bonds 1,0001 1 r Ditto under 1,0001 75 10 Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills. 134 d. 1 1 4 ti• ..,0. 1,0004 500/. .. Ditto Small Ditto Advertised ..... ... - --. 'I,F rv o PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE v 4 Mexican Bonds 1837, 5 per Cent. 4 ''' Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent...... . --- 11$ 69 Ditto Converted ; Ditto for the Account. 59 11 9 ) , Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 126 1 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 6 Ditto Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent 65 Dutch 216 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...... 99 Ditto 5 per Cents PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'Cl' $l/4 - RAILWAYS. PAID. YO ' tO / Bristol and Exeter Cambridge and Lincoln Eastern Counties Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3% — ..... Ditto, ditto, No. 2. Great North of England.. 10 0 150 ..... 0 4 Great Western - ... . 0 / Ditto, Half Shares Lancaster and Carlisle London and 8right0n......... 50 London and Greenwich ...... 123/4 lo J 4.••' ', 00 Ditto Preference London and South Western.. 41% 76 ..".• 00 Ditto, New London and Croydon London and York 21,6... .. 3 4,l,i . '''''lo Midland - 100 l2O 1 ; 4 '''. 0/ Newcastle &Darlington Jnnc. 24 .... 64 •"''' 0 / North British Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip .." ti/' North Kent - Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm South Eastern and Dover ... 33A 42 'Pe; w/ Ditto New 4 - York and North Midland ... 50 - ~ i-' Ditto % Shares Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. 0/ Great Northern of France ... 4 /fr"../ . Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 Paris and Lyons Pans and Rouen • 20 • MANCHESTER Srodx. EXCHANGE, 1141 I . , demand for Railway Stock continues good, i l ' il 1 0 able business has been done at full prices :-- ,A I Manchester and Birmingham ....... . 4 , ......... ~ Ditto Quarter Shares ....................... ' , , Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, ..... '. O 4 Sheffield and Manchester ~ i i 11arnsley- Junction Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chesh. XI : , Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington ••••'' 71, it Cambridge and Lincoln ....................... Churnet Valley ................................... .., iT i l Direct Northern ....... . ... . 0, a't Leeds and Bradford , New Shares, ......•• ... 9, Leeds and West Riding Junction ...... . ... ".„ s ti Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston ••'' , London and York ..'':: 1 Manchester, Bury, and Roseendale ...... '.. 1 1 Manchester and Buxton ..................... '''.• I L North British . ,..."' , West Yorkshire ............................... •,: or Boulogne and Amiens ........................ ",.. , 'Union Bank of Manchester ............. . .... " . CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. It Bank Stock ........ - ........ 1 3 per Cent. Reduced ........... ••••• 00/ 3 per Cent. Consols ................. ioiit New 34 per Cent ..8.; i rrl i Long Annuities to expire Jan 1 1- I Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ..• 0 , Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 589 India Stock for Account... .•••••' / India Bonds, 1,0001- Ditto under 1,0001........ .... ...21 0 Bank Stock for Account ..... ..•' 1 1 Consols Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d• •"" 6 5 0 Ditto 500/. ... .................. Ditto Small ..................... ... FOREIGN FUNDS. 62 Brazilian Bonds . ....... •.."*. r, Peruvian Bonds, 6 . Per Cents ...... r Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. . ....... ,14 SHARES. ..", I Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid ............. :„..:, it Cambridge and Lincoln, 1% paid ..... ,„.',, / Churnet Valley, 2 paid .................... ...,...., . I I'lrect Northern, 2 1 ,4 paid ................. „1, / ! Eastern Counties, 25 paid... .......... :,;_l4 o ' .„ f, A ! Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, 28- pa1 — . ....",,.'f I Great Western, 75 paid.................. .. .„. 0 ., /,: Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid............. ..... „ 0 0 /1 Ditto Fifths, 20 paid ... ........................... 1 London and Brighton, 50 paid .....••••' ..,..., $1,.1 Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid ........... ...',,„::,., ' l 4l London and York. 2% paid •.. ............. ' 0. 6 i Manchester and Birmingham, 40 Pa l ..; s IP, 5 I Midland, 100 paid ... ................... ~„, t,i l Newcastle and Darlington:Junction,' .... ..,.„ fi: Neweasi to and Berwick, 1% paid ••• .. 01, il l ‘, North British, 7% paid ........... ..."..;,,,' ..,. 1 I, Northern and Eastern, 45 paid ......... ..,,.:,/ i Ditto Scrip, 30 paid .:„,...„: 141 Portsmouth Direct, 2% paid "...••••'' ...''',...' 1 Rugby, I paid .......................... ":„...'.,„. A ' South Eastern and Dover, 33i pai d .......... 11' Ditto New Shares, 4 paid ls • .„ ; Il i FRENCH RAILWA Y Boulogne and A nliens, 2 paid .... . ...•'':,,, Ii Great Northern of France, 4 pata ''.....,..' Ali Lyons and Avignon, 2 paid .......... " 1 .„.• ,„:: r,I Orleans and Borde ia x. 2 paid .•••" •::,...:..., ~0 aris and Lyons, -: paid .............. ..... 4, ‘ Paris and Orleans, 20 paid ....................... V COURSE OF EXCHANGE!V, ..',,:, r i Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar.* • :„.:oo.o g Ditto, at sight l2 6 Leg ' I. • .„.. il Rotterdam 2U. 12 fii Genoa .... .. ........' s ,0 Antwerp 26 0 14 iL azi ,;' . . • '',./. I Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Vew, c ,.. - :::....,14 , „ Altona l3 14 NaPil'• oe ... i Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Pale ... 0 „ ~ d Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon • ~ .:...„ , ' 1 Marseilles 25 . 5 °Pe rt° , n ee '. ../. . Bourdeaux 26 5 Rio ' 4l- • ‘ ./ .1 / is "' 4 1 . , '" ' Frankfort on Maine 122 B g ab uen - _, o , ;C k f ,;.: 4 .. .... d„I l d Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 New I 1 ~t.f -i , p 1 Trieste,ye..a, di eff tto ec. fl. 3 M 99 58 59 P r h i i t l y s f;';e ., 4fi r ' › / I t Madri Cadiz Bilbao 36 Se w ‘);,1!1:;;;• ' i 36 Ne w ~ ' lb .... Barcelona .........Silver op Seville iti V stia ,„„, 1)11 ~ l i t e of ASYLUM FOR THE DEAF A." a )1 Ar , a general meeting. of the supporter,n:yertes,V, tution was held at the Londohnling _ d tii O' f i e f, street, for the purpose of aPP °I deaf `pd J ' ensuing year, and I.dmitting thirtf uni. '.i .. . - 0 p i yr dren to the benefits ~f the el se of il :, 0 0 ° O t t/ Evans presided, and, in t h e el be ci.- tio p , i announced that, pursuant th t- „stip; s ir o d., Princess Sophia Matilda, the so y* , , 0 1 J enriched by two portraits of their r r _ ote n ot s . „4. i Duke and Duchess of Gloucestec:„.lllo ast ; ,'ii! , William Beechey. The officers L l ' lle vlih t F t be d oo!, elected. Amongst them were the w 4ic ha , 41 .047, the Duchess of Gloucester ; Ff!: the I.ll o o lg , Buccleuch ; and Vice-Presitlehst.% t he "',l d f vCaisnetoerubnutrsyi,dtgnheoulla,rLquoirsdocf aßillti:nrpselrLtillitivor_.J,.. Thomas Turton, Bart., Aldell:?t,us vve ry ~0. &c. The poll having closed , t 12 _7 0( 1. Cillr i V, Chairman, and the meeting seP s t„ Ariee,:fe, Poi Mr. Horace Twiss, the newait„4l,lctiet , the Duchy ,t Laneastur, hlks aFI)LOOOO4.i i citor, Commissioner for Newcastle., affidavits in the Courts at l' aliw ik/ CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The English Market has sustained no change since the morning. Consols remained at 1004- 4-, and New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 104 to . Reduced Three per Cents. were, perhaps, a shade easier, being 100- a ; Bank Stock realised 211 to 212 ; Exchequer Bills were 60s. to 625. premium. There was a slight increase of business in the Foreign Market. Spanish Actives brought only 26:'1 -a- ; hut the Three per Cents. maintained the rates of 371 to a. Mexican Bonds were worth 344 a ; and the Greek Bonds, without the overdue Coupons, 124 1. Peruvian were 284. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Bristol and I:loucester were 12 ; Cam bridge and Lincoln, ; Churnet Valley, 2 ; Great Western, Hall, 47 ; Ditto, Fifths, 181 a ; Brighton Loan Notes, 24 ; South-Western, Eighths, 19 ; London and York, 1* ; Manchester and Birmingham, 131 to 13 ; Midland, 214 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 404 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 7 to 74 ; North British, 21; Northern and Eastern 144 ; Ditto, Scrip, 124 ; Rugby, ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, -a ; South- Eastern, New, 114 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 24 4- ; Great Northern of France, 14 4 ; Lyons and Avignon, Orleans and Bordeaux, 6 to 4 ; Paris and Orleans, 23k ; and Paris and Lyons, 1-1- premium. Portsmouth Direct were ; and Stevenson's Portsmouth, a discount. Direct Northern were 4 discount to par. The Exchange on Amsterdam, Hamburgh, Paris, and Trieste, was barely so high as on last post-day, but on Antwerp and Frankfort it was steady. The following is the official return of the Exports of Bullion from tke Port of London for the week ending Thursday last : Silver Coin to China Silver Coin to Belgium (Fron - The Sun of Last Night.) A good business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday. Sales, 6,000 bales, at full rates. A large business was done in Shares, and generally at full rates. Bristol and Gloucester, 42 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 36 4 3 - 374 38 ; Dublin and Belfast, 44 ; Eastern Counties, l ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Half, 154 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 235.; Glasgow and Greenock. 12/4-; Grand June tion,2273 ; Ditto,Half,ll34 ; Great North of England,lsl ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 384 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 264 ; Ditto and South- Western, 764 ; London and York, 4/1 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 61s. 661., 655. ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 12 13 ; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenths, 44 Midland Counties, 120 1 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 4 ; North British, 91 4 ; North \Vales, 81- ; North Kent, 68s. 6d. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 98, E 9 ; South-Eastern, 421 2 ; ditto New, 15 ; Trent Valley, 9„t 2 ; York and North Midland, 381 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 74 ; Northern of France, 54 We yesterday adverted to the rivalry which exists in some parts of Ireland for obtaining the advantages of railway communication in the principal sectional districts of that part of the United Kingdom, and, as whatever tends to augment the facilities of intercommunication— which is beneficial to all—it will be our duty as occasion serves, to refer to the many projects in contemplation, by which industry must be increased, and wealth added to the labourers of Ireland. True it is, that conflict of opinion and party spirit may for a time mar the full development of the good work of ' kti .. • . . 04 4---t,. .14 .. ~.., ~. .0 . IR ," 1,., , 4 , 5 0,T.1• . ..f . , 4, _.,, ' 4 1 %;Z . . '• Ellr - 4,.• ... JIY: r ..IL ....; i . 4 : .. ,: 7 12 ,) . x 4l 024 3: 111111111111) ;,.. ,* 0 ", kr:: :. 1 .14 :-x - ' 4vni . ":7- 4211016 4 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1845. Together with the second and " special " Message of Mr. President TYLER on the subject of the tone assumed by the Minister of Mexico, in his corre spondence with the Minister of the United States, accredited to that Power, we yesterday published, from the New York Herald, a curious article headed " European Interference in American Affairs." It will lee remembered that this correspondence regarded what Mr. TYLER is pleased to call " the extraordi nary and highly offensive language which the _lexicon Government has thought proper to employ in reply to the remonstrance of the (United States') Executive, through Mr. SHANNON, against the renewal of the war with Texas, whilst the ' question' of annexation' was pending before (the United States') Congress and the people." What the nature of the Mexican Minister's language may have been is one question. What the proceedings have been, in reference to Mexico, and of the Ame rican Legislature and Executive, is another and very different one. The first involves considerations merely of the good or bad taste with which Senor Itteoe may have given utterance to the views entertained by his Government in relation to the underhanded in trigues of Mr. TYLER with certain Mexican sub jects, for the dismemberment of a large section of the Mexican empire. The second question is nothing less than one of absolute wholesale spoliation, by the stronger upon the weaker of the two Governments concerned, in appropriating, under the mockery of a Legislative sanction from the representa tives of its own population, of that dismem bered territory, and incorporating it into its own dominions, in open defiance of the protests and recla mations of the despoiled State. Is Mexico an in dependent Government, or a federal member of the United States, or a tributary and dependent Power in relation to them ? If she were a federal member of the United States, she would be justified in resenting, if she thought proper, the proposed annexation of Texas to the Uuion. If she were a tributary and a dependent, then, indeed, her repudiation of the project, " in language unknown to the courtesy of diplomatic intercourse, and offen sive, in the highest degree to the (United States') Government and people," might properly have called for and sufficiently justified Mr. TYLER'S violent philippic against a bearing and a tone that independent nations only can he permitted to assume. But Mexico is an independent nation. All the cunning and trickery developed in the PRESIDENT'S Message cannot grapple with or escape from this fact. So far from it, he complains that " she has added insult to injury," in her dealings with the American Minister, charged to remonstrate with the Mrxican Government "in re spectful though decided terms"—by " not even deign ing, fur months together, to return any answer to such representations;" and by other acts, both of commission and omission, which all combine to prove at least this :—that any defect, either in her character of independence, or any feebleness of tone in her mode of vindicating it—has never once occurred to the American Minister or the meddling President to suggest. Now, Mexico being thus, in fact, de jure, and, by the acknowledgment of the United States, recognised as an independent Power; what degree of blame or astonishment can it excite that she should have indignantly and vehemently re sented so intolerable an intervention with her rights and her dignity as the cool and impudent pretension of another Government to dispose, by an act of / its own Legislature, and to itself, of an enormous portion of the Mexican dominions ? It is, indeed, " to add insult to injury"—on the part of the United States' executive—to talk of the question of annexa tion of the territory of an independent and friendly Power, "as pending before their Congress and people," in the teeth of that Power's decisive and urgent pro testations against such a proceeding. Mr. TYLER, who seems to be about as bad a jurist as he is an un principled politician and moralist, affects to put the defence of this enormous violation of National Inde pendence, on the plea that Mexico had avowed her determination to recommence that horrible mode of making war, against which our readers will remember we have so often, in the name of humanity, indignantly appealed to the execration of all civilised na tions. " The war," writes Mr. TYLER, in that peculiar style and language the nationality of which it is al ways so difficult to determine, " the war thus threat ened to be renewed was promulgated by edicts and decrees, which ordered on the part of the Mexican military, the desolation of whole tracts of country, , and the destruction, without discrimination, of all ages, sexes, and condition of existence.' " Horrible decrees, indeed, neither to be excused on the ground of the Mexican irritation, nor of the defensive re action they might in execution effect on the secret intrigues of the American " annexers," diplomatic and other, with Mexican subjects; nor yet to be jus tified by the example of those previous unatoned excesses of wanton and wholesale extermi nation in which the " United States' military" had indulged in their wars upon the red men of their western and north-western frontiers. But the wolf was a sorry casuist with the lamb, from all time ; and President TYLER talks more angrily than logically of Senor REJON. The plea about the Mexican cruelty would have been all very well, if it had been entered in time ; if it could have been shown that the annexation project was the consequences of these " edicts and decrees,"—that it was post hoc; ergo, propter hoc. The President has admitted in a former part of his Message that, previously " Texas," (i. e. the annexation party in it) " had entered into the treaty of annexation, upon the invitation of the American Executive," and " was, for that act, threatened (by Mexico) with this renewal of the war," &c. The plea of Mexican cruelty operating on the sympathising tenderness of American humanity is, thererefore, as worthless—and as out of date—as a Pennsylvanian bond. Coupling this flimsy complaint of this " Special Message" with the strange article in the New York Herald, we can detect something like, we think, a " foregone conclusion." Is it meant, in the event of the good sense and sound principle of the calmer sections of the American public rejecting a proposi tion founded on such a palpable reliance on mere physical strength to accomplish the ends of a faction's ambition, to alarm their good sense out of its pro priety by raising this phantom of European interven tion ? We feel more confidence in the good sense of our American brethren,—we have less doubt of their inherent sagacity—than to feel much alarm about the accomplishment of Mr. President TYLER'S annexation policy, or the success of his _Message mystifications ! Some well-meaning people and Puseyites, in the disguise of Protestants, look upon the " EXETER agi tation" as settled. The Primate has directed Dr. ?HILL- Pons to retrace his steps ; the Bishop has apparently yielded obedience, and all again is in the right train. The real friends of the Reformed Religion, however, are not to be deceived by . such shall ow pretences, nor to be stopped in their right course, by vague, un- INSURRECTION OF VENEZUELA. (Correspondence of the United States Gazette, per Orion.) L♦ GUAYRA, Nov. 15, 1844.—An insurrection of rather a serious character has recently broken out in the neighbourhood of Lezama, in this province, some sixty or seventy miles from Caraccas. A body of troops was immediately dispatched by the Government to the camp of the insurgents, for the purpose of restoring order ; on their arrival a flag of truce was sent to the hostile army, with offers of par don and protection to all who would return peaceably to their homes. These offers were, however, rejected, and a battle ensued, which resulted in the com plete overthrow of the revolters, and the death of their leaders, Conteno and Alvarado. We have as yet no information as to the force of the insurgents, or the number they lost in the battle. The following translation of an " Extra," issued yesterday from the office of the Liberal, in Caraccas, contains all the official information which has transpired on the subject:-- IMPORTANT MILITARY ENGAGEMENT OF LEZAMA. Communication of the Judge of the Court of Orituco to the Secretary of War of the Republic of Vexeruela:— Orituco, Nov. 8, 1844. Mr. Secretary,—l have been authorised by General Jose Maria Zamora, Commandant of Arms of the Pro vince, to communicate to you the interesting news of the quelling of the rebellion, headed by Colonel Celestine Centeno and Captain Jose Maria Alvarado. At Oruz, about two leagues distant from the town of Lezama, the valiant Zamora engaged the factionists to day, leaving dead on the field both Centeno and Alva rado, and completely dispersing the whole body of their followers. I have been directed by the General to inform you that a detailed account of this successful engagement will be furnished as soon as a plan of following up the dispersed revolters can be arranged. I congratulate the nation on so complete a triumph obtained by the valour and intrepidity of its faithful soldiers.—l am your obedient servant, (Signed) RAMON ALCAN TARA. Communication of the Mayor to the Governor:— Orituco, Nov. 8, 1844, 11 o'clock, P.M. This day, at three o'clock, A.M., the Commander-in- General of the Forces of the Province, with 300 men, marched from this place to the town of Oruz, where the revolters held their encampment, and at one P.M. they were completely routed, and the principal leaders, Cot. Celestino Centeno and Capt. Jose Maria Alvarado, were killed. Many of the insurgents were wounded, and among them was found the infamous Puerta. Of our party there were four or five slightly wounded, one danger ously, and one killed. To the courage of, our General, and the bravery and intrepidity of all the officers and men, is to be attributed the fortunate success of the engagement; and I have the honour to congratulate the Government of the province and that of the nation, on so happy a result. The details of this encounter will be given as soon as the authorities may be put in possession of the necessary information.—l am, &c. _ _ ... ... (S'gne 1) JOSE ANTOIO PERALTA. The promptness and efficiency with which the Government has acted on this occasion, indicate a de-