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which they would of course capture
they left the port. + So
The United 'States steam-friga.° Aop
twenty-four days from Japan, arrive'..l,
of October. , She would take in her e 7
proceed to the United States by 0,1
cisco. She had on board of her eau ,
gold, late commander of the surveYt
to Behring's Straits &;c. He was re
sick. The expedition was broken gib
reported that the Vincennes, and I//, •
, belonging to the expedition, bad bee
I•having been found, unseaworthy. vni
The talk about annexation to the
had entirely ceased. ftbz
Mention is made in these advice °f 41,
at the Sandwich Islands of the fore
States vessels of war :—The Sustlet
frigate), the Mississippi, and the bj-tes
Portsmouth (sloops). The United Stt
Southampton arrived there on the Otneu,,,,
and the Decatur was saki to be eAlrga:
presence of this powerful force had
-
derable sensation.

(1
ST. DOMII\Te(O. rae
The American journals afford sie
iormation as to the attempt made 130
Envoy to the Domixican Iteribiabsti.
footing for the United States on se
letter dated " St. Domingo, Dec' Tildtati:
" The treaty concluded between the 'it'll ,
the Dominican Republic, signed on theptll_l6/:
was printed and laid before the public -09'5,
vember. This negotiation has been ec'esoeii
greatest mystery. The plenipotentiarPd to
in his designs on Samana, threatelle ,
Washington. Seeing that no notice' Iriso'
~°4Ol
threat, he became resigned, and for tbi6;0;01
gave up the main point forming .Article*'"
jected treaty. This article would bd'
il'l'•,)o'sl
United States, under the form of a 2 0 rtv , ft.
of land on the Bay of Samana, fel
4c11151,1;
~v3d
maritime establishment, with the "to
jurisdiction over American colonists "
near the said establishment. The, Ot`'o
bay are almost a desert, and are se' ,
Domingo by several days' journeY.alo
)
not less barren. The plan of estsu'-cors
steamers between this point and Nele,
one putforward to justify a demand soso
naturally attract the attention of the •
Governments, who, alone, for severs,
tually protected the Dominican Rep'
radon from Hayti. Samana, by its
not only Porto Rico and Cuba, but a
"Tbe Cazneau treaty, as signed,
ratification shall be exchanged at S 1
in the period of ten months, or bef'
August, 1855 ; and he was anxious
ratified before its presentation to
Congress. An extra session of the
gress was called for the 13th Novara!
at first occupied with a plan of a
Mr. Cazneau became furious, accusin
English Consuls of hindering the '
treaty. Three vessels belonging to
station of the Antilles having at this
in the harbour of St. Domingo, Mr.
a letter, in the form of a protest, to th
lish Consuls, accusing them of interfe
exclusively American, and charging ti•
ing the action of the Dominican Goverioni,
naval force. To this message, marko ,elO
almost threatening, an answer was retara"
„v
terms as brief as they deserved.
,ourbr,
"Meanwhile public opinion, quite fa,' eidri
treatyuntil i t 3 purport was known, becarneu,ette
to it, when the people were convinced that
of treatment, secured to the citizens' oreit'e OOP
soil of the other, provided they submitted Vie 9°0
,
and customs, would be only a lure for t.b.tbs
because of the colour of nineteen-twentli'reali,
pelation. People began to say that 110 ecipr°,
honourable to the country without real r,O t 5;
that such reciprocity was impossible "eilistooll;
States, because of their local laws and e
recounted the exclusions, the contemPt, Are e
to which Blacks and people of colour
whateier may be their fortune and pert t 0
to p 0
"From that time Mr. Cazneati's linoTY„ifyor34
treaty to the Dominican Congress ere Pre'.
and before long lie pretended to adjourn 'ode'
in the hope of seeing this counter-xi the
His measures to effect this not having a ale ?
desired, he sent, on the 23d of NorefupT
note to the local Government to noraP-, days 'd
went. The Government answered fbu'„ prese-i/
it had only yielded to his importunitidlibatavo.
treaty to Congress immediately, au it ,
Cazneau should withdraw the treat9t; be coil`,
'Principle of international law by wc,bl,,cooe°Bnutiel
this presentation at that time. gr. L'310,„0"-•-''
message to President Santanakrig-' rola c
off be regarded ►as 'OlO bas •
i
newer to be an lie ela
would break o all correepondence• te
a much better opportunity than I laso—
lines, to his Government for instructional that
for a naval force. His new friends otoburi
complained bitterly of Sir. Robert °C i
English consul, but more particularly °ef e
ral ,
Raybaud, charge d'affaires and consul-g
v,,loiog%i
in Hayti, who chanced to be at St. plea,
way to Paris, on leave of absence, and Ppot ooillilet
character. M. Raybaud crossed to St • A f 0 °
the idea of attempting, merely as a Men:, for
-GIyDA,
c
the last difficulties in the way of a tr
period, between the two portions of the lc
chief of these difficulties was none otbeLo -,531e
minence of an American establishment is oeeni
which the Haytian Government and poop
and with good cause, singularly alarmsn• to
" The treaty will be submitted to-norfficil oist
sideration of the Dominican Congress, wt'ivf V
its opinion after three readings, there bel"e'pers
of two days between the readings, It iiigypelf
posed that it will be rejected ; but Mr. `"steot
to be able to dispose of such p biersuasive roe
sary, that conjectures on this subject are oci,
certain ;. still it is impossible to discover a°lol'
in this convention, except for the greale
tracting parties."

TEE WOODEN BousEsi 701;
ÜBIMEA.

ciorr.
OUTHAM W
PTON, Jan. 17.—The ship vnopde,o
;his morning with a large number of
18-09
for the French troops in the Crimea.
by the Enniskillen steamer. The Royal
Avon and Severn, the former just returli be/
Black Sea, and the latter from Brazils, 113,/r, ebe
up by the Government. The Avon
about a fortnight, and the Severn almost i',-80010til
Each of these paddle-wheel steamers will 1,31'..,c1
eleven hundred troops. The Peninsular %roe)
Company's screw-steamer, Candid, just re t tae)
the Black SE:I, and now in London rigeßrod
has been to? up by the Government, '6101;0
ready for Sc. in about a fortnight. The acr
first-class troop steamer. The Peninsular,;oll.-i
Company's new steamer, Alma, 2,200 tone
completin, at Liverpool, will be ready for lover;
night, and. will probably be chartered 14- JO,
for war purposes. The housing for 31° if)
board her Majesty's gigantic steamer, otclef
now in Southampton Docks, has bees,thag
be taken down sad more substantial stab oeo
This shows that the Himalaya is to be pera!„-0,
ployed in conveying cavalry to the seat of "'„oso'
the present time 490 wooden huts have beeilsii
Southampton to the Crimea for the
there. Everything complete has been se':
these houses—felt for covering them, nails,;
together, stoves with funnels, windows, I"
repair the windows when broken, doors' ',be
be placed round the huts for the soldiers t 0 I 110
I,'
kits upon. These 490 huts will be suffici: °tea
nearly 15,000 soldiers. 348 of these he-00:01
to house nearly 11,000 soldiers, must hays,Bo
Crimea by this time, even allowing a $T rßtoll
three weeks to get there, as the last o',boOrappil
steamers, with 348 huts on board, left 50t1,1,-Litlfrips,
the 11a December. The Crcems, now in tb;fig,
Docks repairing, in order to go to PortsolvrtleP„'gio,
in 1,000 troops for the Crimea will not be • e'ec'
the 31st instant, as the Messrs. 'Mares, Ni'heL,lo°
for tte repairs of the Crcesus, are busy in m-
boats for the Government. cf

0,00,
SOUTH AIISTRALIA.—Papers from .3-."-Arld
Australia, have been brought by the 4060° rrg4l
the 6th of October, eight days later than theseoelidot
received. Business is still reported as axitrer,te
arid, although the imports had been ineul,e,J.,,sl'
Me period, the markets continued overstoeo."7 0;1
of Government land had been held, at whieilio;
been received. Flour is quoted at 281. 10 toei.4o,
Burra Burra shares, 1581. each. Money, I
cent. on freehold property ; 20 per cent. Ae-forig
and for small loans. The Adelaide City ar,,beeCort'
way was making satisfactory progress. 00e$
ported as being in good supply, and, altbollg tit°
convenience appeared likely to result frerativ
being an immediate demand, for it, it was %Af
that the land fund, which is availaide for
Collr
should be expended as it accrues, so that
stream of arrivals may be kept up. Piro :1
THE IRON TRADE.—WOLVERHADIPTO-) bit' a
The adjourned meeting of the Staff°tas tbiO,
masters was held at the Swan Hotel, le deriey,l
this morning-, for the purpose of re-eenside ntri
subject mooted at the trade assembly last
namely, the propriety of reducing the an113:a101;/
iron. Mr. Philip Williams occupied tui:teo.ol)
about four-fifths of the trade were represe; it?iftir
was a general concurrence as to the
clueing the make, but in consequence of 501:13-ern,ii
members of the trade having sufficientwas,,Wor
hand to last them through the quarter-"erg tPee-
too, that a feeling existed on the part of bil-to
proposed arrangement was a combination
the price of pigs—it was consequently found abjecM
to come to any formal resolution on the edgy/
meeting accordingly adjourned with the 11n4.. be ott,
that the proposed arrangement will in effect ode e'2ll,
out. To this we may add, that since theor, gi
in;; last week feveral furnaces have been
The embarras, ,i:nts of a mine a,ent in oQtaf a 6,
bourhoti, nfinE.,i Owen, have led -to bae%gllr"o,/r
petition was op,aied in the court at Biro'vveizoll)
terclay by Mr. }tortgnon, at tie instance/4,rd'
formed, of the Midland Waggon Coin/),:r; tA!
ham. The debts amount to about 18,00'
are put down at 5,9091,

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