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their internal trade, , he will practically, to that
extent, enrich the co untry ; he will set free so much
bullion for pinches( :s from abroad, while at home
the notes receivable; for taxes, and legal tender for
all the Government needs to buy, and all that one
citizen needs to buy of ‘another will be practically
as valuable as the clonal. itself. The Banks of the
States who make a profit-
by issuing their own notes
may not like it any mo le than the Monopolist
Bank and the country Lank 'l3 would here. But the
country is a gainer to the ex tent to which taxation
is lightened. The only point' to be resolutely ad-
hered to is, that not a note must be issued—when
the note would purchase less than the silver dollar.
Inconvertible paper is not th,t clanger, but excess
of it. Mr. CITASE must avoid this. Excessive
issueis the shoal on which most needy Governments,
Austria, Russia, and France in her revolution, have
wrecked their Finance.

Some in America already perm live that recourse
must be pi omptly had to " immet liate," by which,
we suppose, they mean direct tax ation. Nothing
seems to be more certain. It has plt lased the manu-
facturers of the North to destroy custom-house
revenue by protective legislation. N othing remains,
therefore, but heavy assessed taxes, stamp duties,
excise, and income tax. The separate States are
already taxed pretty heavily for State purposes in
most of these ways; and there seems to be no alter-
native but putting on the screw in the direct and
odious shape of income tax. Loans will be, we sup-
pose, no longer obtainable. The resort must be there-
fore to taxation, unless Mr. CHASE should go on to
issue his notes till he has destroyed their value. This
would probably soon cure itself. The army would
mutiny if paid in depreciated paper.
We must confess, however, our suspicions that
North Americans will not bear taxation. It will
open their eyes more than anything else to the
real character of the struggle on which they have
entered. They had hoped to crush the South with-
out making the contest one for universal liberty, and
with comparative immunity from taxation. They
will find that it must be one or the other. If they
will not fight with emancipation for their chief
weapon, they must fight beneath a heavy and
rapidly increasing load of taxation. They
must make their choice freedom for the
slave, or a heavy burden for themselves; and thus
we trust they will be driven to accept justice to
the negro, as the only condition of ending an
otherwise interminable war, and escaping present
taxation such as they will have no heart to bear.
When they clearly see that they are to be mulcted
so heavily, only that slavery, the origin of the
war, may be spared—will not the universal cry be
immediate, unconditional abolition ?

All classes, all localities, have manifested the
most loyal eagerness--so soon as any voice might
be raised without indecorum—in hastening to
assure their beloved and bereaved SOVEREIGN of
the profound sympathy with which her MAJESTY'S
late affliction is regarded throughout her MAJESTY'S
empire, and by all ranks and sections of her MA-
JESTY'S subjects. Municipal corporations, learned
societies, representatives even of the different pro-
fessions—one after another these and kindred
assemblies have anticipated by their echoes of the
national grief, those impressive resolutions to a like
effect which will now, before many more weeks
shall have elapsed, be passed with a solemn and
affecting unanimity by the two houses of the
Imperial Parliament. The London Gazette has
already—while printing in extenso the more re-
markable of these addresses of condolence—filled
up many a column with a mere catalogue of the
names of the different public bodies who have thus
evidenced their loyal sympathy with the QUEEN.
The City of London has at length taken its part
also in this melancholy procession of mourners,
pressing forward to lay the documents, expressive of
their participation in her MAJESTY'S recent sorrow,
at the foot of the Throne. It had been wisely delayed,
this assemblage of the citizens of the metropolis,
until a few more, at least of the leaders of society,
should have returned to the capital from their holi-
day rambles either in the provinces or on the
continent. 'Yesterday, however, the meeting took
place according to announcement. The scene being,
as a matter of course, the Egyptian Hall at the
Mansion House—the chairman presiding over the
assemblage, the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR.
Dignitaries of the Church, conspicuous among
them the Bishop of LONDON and the
Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral—distinguished
members of the House of Lords and of Diplo-
macy, including among them the Marquis
of SALISBURY and Viscount STRATFORD DE RED-
CLlFFE—enainent lawyers such as Lord KINGS-
DOWN and Sir HUGH CAlRNS—leading statesmen
like Mr. WALPOLE—great moneyed Chiefs of the
Commercial World like the head (in England) of
the House of ROTHSCHILD, the Governor of the
Bank of England, and a throng of the principal
merchants in this the greatest trading community
upon the globe—these and a crowd of other mis
cellaneous citizens gathered yesterday afternoon,
eagerly, yet most sorrowfully, together in the re-
ception hall of the Mansion-house, in answer
to the summons of his lordship the Chief Magis-
trate of the City of London. And when, almost
immediately after the proceedings had been opened
by a few preliminary remarks from the LORD
MAYOR, the First Resolution had been read to the
meeting by the Lord Bishop of LONDON—it would
hardly be extravagant to assert that not another
syllable need then have been articulated; Those
who were assembled together were but of one mind
—they were animated but with one single feeling,
namely, one of earnest solicitude to lay the
simple assurances of their loyalty and affection
before the SOVEREIGN in this hour of her anguish.
That first and really all-sufficient resolution said
everything that there was any need 'whatever should
be said, when it remarked—" That this meeting,
deeply deploring the irreparable loss the country
has sustained by the lamented death of his late
Royal Highness the PRINCE CONSORT, whose
powerful and well-regulated mind and great abili-
ties have for more than 20 years been unceasingly
devoted to improving the condition of the humbler
classes and to the development and extension of
science and art, and to the judicious education and
training of the royal family, is of opinion that a
lasting memorial should be erected, commemorative
of bis many virtues and expressive of the gratitude
of the people." How this was to be effected was
manifest to all upon an instant's consideration.
It was to be effected, then, simply and obviously
by the erection of a suitable monument
w:thiu the limits of the City—a monument that
may attest to after times, in a fitting manner,
the love, respect, and gratitude with which the
memory of his late Royal Highness was regarded
by his own immediate contemporaries—by those
who were, therefore, the best qualified to appre-
ciate his noble, useful, and virtuous life, and to
honour, as they were entitled to be honoured, his
many splendid personal gifts and rare accom-
plishments. As the right reverend mover of this
first and principal resolution observed, however,
while putting it, " Doubtless, it must occur to
many that there are other ways in which the
sense of our great bereavement might be expressed.
It might not have been unnatural," said the Bishop

of LONDON, "to wait for the quickly coming
assembly of the representatives of the nation ; and
nothing could be more becoming than that they
should testify by some greet public act their sense,
as the representatives of the nation, of what it has
pleased God to bring upon us. But still, perhaps,"
said his lordship, " it is something more congenial
to the feelings of Englishmen that the first move-
ment in this matter should come from ourselves—
that it should not have that formal appearance
which a vote in the Houses of Parliament would
necessarily present—that it should not be merely
that the representatives of the people should pro-
pose that a monument should be erected to an illus-
trious Prince, but that the youngest and the poorest
in the land, as well as those who are our chiefs in
wealth and in rank, should have the opportunity of
joining spontaneously to testify what it is they feel
in this calamity." Acting upon this very natural
impulse under the circumstances the citizens of
the metropolis have now (delaying the expression
of their loyal sympathy no longer) formally resolved
that a monument, such as the one suggested, shall
be raised, and the cost of it provided for by public
subscription. A numerous committee has been at
once formed, in order to carry out the necessary
arrangements. Four thousand pounds sterling was
collected yesterday afternoon before the meeting in
the Egyptian Hall, at the Mansion House, had dis-
persed. And as a guarantee that the Testimonial
about to be erected, by national subscription, in the
City of London, in honour of his late Royal High-
ness, shall be such as could best be wished in its
character—the plan of it, before being carried out,
is to be submitted to our widowed QUEEN for her
MAJESTY'S approval. It was yesterday beautifully
and most touchingly remarked by the Bishop of
LONDON that this projected monument will tell
to our children, in times to come, and to their
children's children" the story of a young man who
came to this country from a foreign land, unknown
—and Englishmen are peculiarly unwilling to learn
lessons from foreigners—who soon won his way to
the best affections of the country into which he
came—who, knowing that nothing was so dear to
Englishmen as the due discharge of duty in domestic
life, first won our hearts in this simple way, and
then was able to go forth also into a wider sphere
and perform great public duties, the advantage of
which we shall reap for many generations." In
that one brief, and simple, and elounent sentence
the whole grace and nobility of that too short life
is admirably summarised. In uttering those few
words the Bishop of LONDON was pronouncing
upon the departed PRINCE a lofty and truly
enviable panegyric.
As to the abundant reason there is for
the manifestation of a particular respect
and affection towards the memory of the late
PRINCE CONSORT by the City of London, it is suf
ficient to remember what was saidyehsitserdloarydushpiopn,
that subject by the Lord STRATFORD DE RED
CLIFFE. "It is becoming," said
" that this metropolis, which represents more com-
pletely than any other part of the country the
whole various range of the arts and industry of
the country, which are seated on the foundations of
our national prosperity, should be early in the
field doing honour to that PRINCE whose
memory is so much endeared to us by the double
tie of his perfect domestic conduct, and the con-
stant sympathy ho showed with all the interests,
institutions, and prosperity of the country, and
especially with the welfare and advancement of the
working classes. These," added Lord STRATFORD,
" were the titles which particularly recommended
him to our esteem and reverence, but they came
home to our feelings—Rot dryly addressed to our
principles and convictions, but accompanied with
all that could engage our sentiments, exhibited by
him in the most intimate connexion with the
SOVEREIGN of the land—with a lady who, indepen-
dent of her high station, has fixed her seat in
the hearts of the people as a pattern of un-
exampled virtue and maternal affection —in
whose conduct some, perhaps, from political motives
might have rejoiced to find a flaw, but none could
be discovered, while under her beneficent sceptre we
enjoy all that dignity, honour, and prosperity which
so happily mark the present era." Let us hope that
for once the monument that is now about to be raised
in the City of London will be one that Englishmen
may not have reason to blush for when looked at by
intelligent foreigners. It is due to the memory of
His Royal Highness, as one of the most illustrious
Patrons of Modern Art, that the monument now
meditated shall be, as far as possible, worthy of the
age of whose gratitude it will be the attestation,
and of the Princely, and Knightly, and Noble, and
Stainless name that is to be inscribed upon it.

Lord RUSSELL has closed the correspondence on
the Trent affair in a style quite worthy of that
with which he commenced it. His countrymen

will, to a man, be proud of their Foreign Secretary.
It is impossible to conceive a happier combination
of dignified urbanity and desire to put the best
construction on an opponent's language, with im-
movable firmness on what was needful for his
country's honour, than bas been shown by Lord
RUSSELL in this correspondence.

The account of his interview with Mr. ADAMS
over the unlucky despatch of Mr. SEWARD to the
latter, dated the 30th of November, is interesting.
Mr. ADAMS appears to us to have been unbecom-
ingly desirous to ascertain what the British Govern-
ment would do if the prisoner were not given up.
Lord RUSSELL declined to satisfy him. But the
questions represented Mr. ADAMS as viewing the
subject in the light of a bargaining affair rather
than one of right and justice. His questions pointed
to the American conclusion that if the penalty of
wrong-doing were not too great the wrong might
be adhered to. Lord RUSSELL, on the contrary,
would do nothing to interfere with their freedom of
action—nothing which should seem like a threat.
It is impossible not to notice with pleasure his happy
retort on the American Ambassador. Mr. ADAMS
said that the French Government had always been
very consistent in their maintenanre of the rights
of neutrals. "He added that he could not pay our
Government the same compliment. I said I would
dispense with compliments if this matter could be
amicably arranged."
The most important now of the despatches is the
last in reply to Mr. SEWARD'S, forwarded to Lord
RUSSELL by Lord LYONS on the:27th,of December.
It is dated the 11th of January. Lord RUSSELL
had the task before him of accepting a despatch
filled with sadly faulty reasonings, finished off by
by a very acceptable conclusion. He regards,
therefore, as he had informed Mr. ADAMS he
should, the disavowal of the act of Capt. WILKES
by the Government as an apology, and accepts the
unconditional liberation of the prisoners as a
substantial compliance with the British demands.
I, Her MAJESTY'S Government having carefully
taken into their consideration the liberation of the
prisoners, the delivery of them into our hands, and
the explanations to which I have just referred,
have arrived at the conclusion that they constitute
the reparation which her MAJESTY and the Britis'i
nation had a right to expect."

All the rest Lord RUssELL leaves for future
discussion. His Lordship seems unwilling to mar
the good feeling with which he desires to write, by

entering on the theoretical questions foolishly raised
by Mr, SEWARD'S despatch, he only quietly re-
marks :—" It is necessary that I should say that
her Majesty's government differ from Mr. SEWARD
in some of the conclusions at which he has
arrived. And it may lead to a better under-
standing between the two nations on sevesal
points of international law which may during
the present contest or at some future time be
brought into question, that I should state to you,
for communication to the Secretary of State, wherein
those differences consist; I hope to do so in a few
daps." And then with a hint that it would be as
well to instruct American cruisers not to repeat acts
which might require of the British Government to
ask redress, he closes this long anxious, and to Eng-
land, costly affair. We have but little fear that he
will soon have to make another similar demand.

SANDHURST COLLEGE.

The following is the officia? list of successful can-
didates for admission to the Royal Military College,
Sandhurst, December, 1861 :

Order of
Merit. Names. Marks.
1 Morris, G T 6,500
2 Davidson, 5,103
3 Randolph, E H.„ 4,708
4 Wood, H '
5 Gordon, F A 4,241
6 Brereton, W P B 4,190
7 Pratt, J
8 Stringer, F 4,15
9 Waring, T 3,554
10 Boultbee, J E L 3,359
11 Stillwell, T F 3,348
12 Levert, A L F 3,330
13 Brown, T H M
14 Kirkwood, J K 2,960
15 Louis, W
16 Blundell, J E
17 Gregson, J D 2,933
18 Hincks, F
19 Smith, J 2,815
20 Carleton, F R 2,784
21 Hazlerigg, C C 2,780
22 Baker, G E B
23 Tidy, F J
24 Gore, F A
25 Turner, J
26 M'Causland, C K 2,683
27 Brydon, W 2,587
28 Brooke, R O'S
29 Elliot, J M 2,525
30 Hutton, F W 2,519
31 Brock, M W 2,497
32 Butler, WS . , 2,473
33 Smart, H J de. B 2,455

The following gentlem
cadetships:—

Order of

Merit. Name. Marks.
34 Simons, J J M 2,420
35 Bunbury, C H 2,405
36 Shirley, R
37 Dunlop, S J
38 Bevan, J F 2,280
39 Vousden, W J
40 Porter, G
41 Barton, C
42 Fisher, A T
43 Voyle, F S R
44 Calland, C F
45 Gubbins, A W
46 St George, H H 1,975
47 Ilbert, S P 1,973
48 Campbell, F 1,955
49 Hill, R W 1,950
50 Johnston, E J 1,925
51 Logan, A A 1,900
52 Cox, A C W 1,870
53 Watkins, J 1,857
54 Hearsey, G P 1,832
55 Phibbs, Wr 1,770
56 Phibbs, G
57 Barton, J E 1,745
58 Gordon, H S 1,643
59 Cary, B P 1,525
60 Talbot, H
61 Hutton, J C 1,417
62 Fisher, A M .... 1,410
63 Mitchell. H H 1,382
64 Dickson, R L .. 1,315
65 Holy, C
166 Apthorpe, F E
!la also passed for Queen's

Order of

Merit. Names. Marks.
1 Oldfield, Thomas 2,411
2 Gahan, M C .... 1,685

Order of
Merit. Names, Marks.
3 Constantine, W N 1,515

THE LATE LADY BYRON.—A tablet has recently
been erected in the Red Lodge Reformatory, at Bristol,
with the following inscription :—" Sacred to the memory
of Anne Isabella Noel, Dowager Lady Byron, who, over
devoting the many talents entrusted to her to the service of
her Master, purchased these premises in September, 1854,
for the purpose of rescuing young girls from sin and misery,
and bringing them back to the paths of holiness. She was
born May 17, 1792, and departed this life May 16, 1860,
faithful unto death."

COMPLIMENT TO GARIBALDI.—The steam-ship
Thetis is about to sail from the Clyde with a general cargo
for Genoa. Among the articles on boo dis a two -gallon
jar containing 2,500 salmon ova, the gift of Mr. John
M'Adam, of Glasgow, to General Garibaldi, for distribution
in the waters of Caprera. They have been procured from
Ireland.—Glasgow Herald.
ANOTHER FATAL CRINOLINE ACClDENT.—Yes-
terday morning a fatal accident happened to Miss Mary
Jones, residing et Woolwich. The deceased was standing
before the fire combing her hair, when her crinoline took
fire. Her screams brought assistance, and with great diffi-
culty the flames were extinguished. She was then taken to
Guy's Hospital, where she expired.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT WHILE WINDOW-CLEAN-
iNG.—Yesterday, as a young woman named Esther Milnes,
in the service of Mr. Stevenson, corn and coal dealer,
Crawley-street, Oakley-square, St. Pancras, was on the till
of the second floor, cleaning the window, she suddenly fell
from her position into the back garden, a height of nearly
30 feet. Upon the alarm tang given she was picked up
and attended to by three medical men, who advised her
removal to the University College Hospital, as she had
received serious internal injuries besides a broken arm. The
house surgeon will not give an opinion as to the result of
the injuries.

SATURDAY'S GALE IN THE CHANNEL.—The mail
steamer Courier, Captain H. B. Harvey, which runs be-
tween Southampton and ate Chanua iida.ds. encountered
a terrific hurricane on her passage across on Saturday morn-
ing. She left Southampton about midnight on Friday, and
at six in the morning it began to blow hard, continuing to
increase in violence, with a mountainous sea running, till
about half-past 11, when a heavy sea struck the ship with
a fearful crash. Bulwarks, stancheons, rigging, and boats
were stove in or lost, the lifeboat and all her gear 'washed
away, and the mainmast swinging to and fro with the roll of
the ship. The mast, however, was soon again Secured in its
place. A passenger was thrown out of his berth on the star-
board side of the ship, and pitched across, the saloon table,
faling against another passenger on the port side,' and
injuring his shoulder. Others on board were more or less
injured. The gallant little steamer rode out the gale ad-
mirably, and reached Guernsey at 1 30 p.m., where her
damages were temporarily repaired, and she left for Jersey
at 6 10 a.m. on Sunday, returning again to Southampton
on Monday evening. Captain Harvey and others of his
crew, who have been on the passage for many years, state
that they never knew it to blow harder, or witnessed so
heavy a sea in the Channel. At Guernsey the storm baro-
meter rose during the hurricane from 1 to 8, which was the
same indication as when the Royal Charter was lost. The
hurricane did not moderate till past four o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon. The steamship Aquila, which left Wey-
mouth on Saturday morning at seven o'clock, was cam-
pelled to return to Portland, after being out about five
hours.

ATTEMPT TO SHOOT,—On Monday night about
7 o'clock, an elderly man, named Edward Lister, whose
home is sad to be at New Wortley, near Leeas, appeared
before the shc,p of Mr. Geo. Frank, draper, Barker-end-
road, Bradford, and attempted to shoot him with a pistol.
The sbr,,p door was open, and Mr. Frank, who was in the
plaee, observed Lister cock a pistol and prepare to fire at
him. Instantly he got to the door and closed it, and the
quickness with which this was done in all probability saved
his life, for Lister discharged the pistol, and the contents
(shot) lodged in the door. A person in the street saw the
pistol fired, and Lister afterwards threw it down on the
road, where it was found. Lister was arrested on the spot,
and was placed in the police lock up, to await his exami-
nation before the magistrates, which will probably take
place on Wednesday. He has a wife, but she has not re-
sided with him for some time. She is at present, it is said,
conducting a respectable hotel at Bradford. The motive
for shooting at Mr. Frank is not at present known.

THE GALLOWS AT LAST.—The Australian papers
record the trial and condemnation of Robert Thos. Paplin,
for having burglariously entered the dwelling-house of
Samuel Harding, of Fremantle, and committed an assault
by force of arms. The offence was clearly proved ; the pri-
soner threatenedMrs.Harding that he would blow her brains
out if she made any noise, and the property carried off was
found in his house. After the judge had passed sentence of
death in a most impressive manner, the prisoner said he was
not the first man who had been condemned to death while
innocent, and that he could die but once. The dread sen-
tence was carried into effect a few days after.

DESPERATE AFFRAY.—ALNWICK, Jan. 12.—A
desperate affray took place between a number of salmon I
poachers and five of the Northumberland County Con-
stabulary,
at Bramsheugh, near Felton, on the Coquet,
on Saturday night, and it is supposed that one of the
poachers has lost his life by drowning. It seems that
(in consequence of information having come to the ears
of the authorities that extensive salmon poaching was
going on upon the Coquet, the county police were in-
structed to keep a lock out ; and upon Saturday night I
five police officers on the watch came upon twelve men 1
in the act of taking salmon from the river. The river was
much flooded, and the poachers, who were consequently all
on land, fled on seeing the officers. They gave chase, but
were immediately confronted with another gang of poachers)
and a fierce contest with staves and sticks ensued. After
a hard battle four of the latter gang were captured
by the police, and they have been Lrcught here
in carts in custody. It seems that part of that
first gang of poachers, in their endeavours to escape from
the police, took to the flooded river, which was sweeping-
down with great violence. Two of the men actually escaped
by swimming across, but a third person in this gang is
supposed to have been swept away and drowned. Cries of
distress were heard to come from the river while the affray
was going on between the second gang and the police, and !
then gradually die away, and the person known as the third I
in the first gang has not been heard of since. He was a I
shoemaker belonging to Felten. Thirteen salmon were
taken from the poachers.

BARBAROUS ASSAULT.—An assault of a most
barbarous character was brought to the notice of the Man—
chester city police magistrate on Monday. Three men, it
appears, went into a public-house in Cumberland-street on
Saturday night, and because the waiter said the sixpence
they gave him was a bad one they assaulted him violently,
and attempted to thrust his head into the fire. Zhewaiter
was severely burnt about the hands before help came to

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA AND MEXICO.

LONDONDERRY, JAN. 15.

The Canadian screw steamer Nova Scotian,•which
arrived here this morning from Portland, brought
40,000 doll. in specie.

NEW YORK, JAN. 3.

Messrs. Mason and Slidell, and their Secretaries,
embarked on the Ist inst., at Providence-town,
on board the British steamer Rinaldo, for England.
Their departure caused scarcely any excitement.
The comments of the New York press on the sub-
ject are unimportant.
The uneasy feeling in the public mind in regard
to the relations with England still continues. The
belligerent tone of the English press and the
British warlike preparations have caused the im-
pression to gain ground that England will shortly
make the subject of the blockade, or the fact of ves-
sels being sunk in the Southern harbours, a pretext
for war with America.

The Senate has agreed to Mr. Sumner's resolu-
tion, asking the President to transmit to the
Senate all the correspondence which has taken
place since the Paris Congress in relation to
neutral and belligerent rights upon the ocean.
It is reported that a strong effort will be made
to repeal the Canadian Reciprocity Act.
General M'Clellan's health has much improved.
A Federal steamer has been despatched to the
coast of Europe for the protection of American
commerce. Others are expected to leave shortly.

The New York Chamber of Commerce has re-
monstrated against the instructions of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury regarding the immediate
action of the new tariff.

(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO PORTLAND.)

NEW YORK, JAN. 4.

The New York Tribune states that Messrs. Mason
and Slidell will only proceed to Halifax in the
British steamer Rinaldo, and that from Halifax they
will proceed to Europe in the next Cunard steamer.
The New York press generally considers that there
will be no American interference in Mexican affairs
unless a permanent Spanish occupation should be
attempted.

The financial plans of the Federal Government
attract much attention. The press continues to urge
heavy taxation as the only legitimate means of relief.

Active measures continue to be taken in Canada
for the formation of effective Volunteer Corps.
The New York press is again speculating on an
early advance of the Federal army.
The Confederates in Kentucky have destroyed a
large portion of the railway between Louisville and
Nashville.

The Charleston Mercury states that a large Fede-
ral force had landed on North Edisto and seized the
railway station and some war vessels.
It is reported at Ship Island that Fort Pickens
opened fire on Pensacola en the Ist inst. The result
is unknown.

A destructive fire has taken place at Richmond.
The steamer Asia has arrived out.
The Bohemian passed Cape Race on the 3d.
The Persia will sail from Halifax for Liverpo6
on the 6th inst.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YOhK, JAN. 4.
Exchange—Bankers' bills, 113; gold, 2 per cent

premium.

Stocks firm and active. New York Central, 80
Illinois, 62 ; Erie, 32i. Cotton quiet, but firm.
Breadstuffs and corn steady.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, JAN. 3, AFTERNOON.

The Spanish steamer Francisco d'Assis arrived at
Havannah on the 28th ult. She reports that the
Spanish expedition arrived at Vera Cruz on the
Bth, and that the Governor of that city had 24
hours to decide if he would abandon it.

The Governor replied that he had instructions to
abandon the city as soon as he perceived that he
could not resist the force brought against it, and
then, with the troops, withdrew to the interior.
On the 17th the Spanish troops disembarked and
hoisted the Spanish flag on the fortress of San
Juan d'Ulloa and in the principal squares of Vera
Cruz.

One hundred guns were found in San Juan
d'Ulloa.

The Mario Marino says that the municipal
authorities and the people of Vera Cruz received
the Spaniards with shouts of welcome.
The Governor, before evacuating the city, issued
a proclamation forbidding all communication with,
or supplies being give to, the Spaniards, and declar-
ing that all Mexicans who failed to take up arms in
defence of Mexico, or who remained in the Spanish
army, would be treated as traitors.
The Spanish Commander, Gassett, on landing,
issued a stirring address to the troops, in which he
says :

" Your mission has only now commenced. It
will only be finished when all Spain can say,
' These are the troops who have avenged in Mexico
the insults offered to the Spanish flag, and have
again won the affection of those wbo in other
days were our brothers.' "
Commander Gassett also issued a proclamation to
the inhabitants, which says :
" The Spanish troops come with no mission of
conquest ; they come solely to demand satisfaction
for the non fulfilment of treaties and for violence
committed against Spaniards, and to obtain guaran-
tees against the repetition of similar outrages.
Peaceful inhabitants will receive protection, but
diliturbers of order will be tried by a military

c cxmmission."
Commander Gassett urges the inhabitants to re-
turn to their occupations, and says he is confident
that the greatest satisfaction to the Spanish army,
after having fulfilled the mission of the Queen, will
be to return to Spain with the certainty of having
merited the affection of the Mexicans.
The frigates Guerriere, Ardente, Massena, and
Astree arrived at Havannah on the 27th ult,, under
the command of Admiral de la Graviere.
General Prim arrived at Havannah on the 23d,

and was received with intense enthusiasm. The
city was illuminated, and the streets festooned with
flags.

The British steamer Spiteful arrived at Havannah
on the 27th with despatches for Commodore Dunlop.
It is rumoured that these despatches have reference
to the American imbroglio.

OPENING OF THE PRUSSIAN
CHAMBERS.
SPEECH OF THE KING.
BERLIN, JAN. 14.
The Prussian Chambers were opened to-day by
the King in person, who, in his speech from the
throne, said :
" I deplore the irreparable loss which Providence
has inflicted upon a great friendly state and Royal
house, allied to my own by the def.rest tics of re-
lationship.
" The bills which will be laid before the Cham-
bers will show that I remain true to my principles

and keep steadily in view the development of the
constitution.

" The Budg►et will show an increase in the public
revenue, which will serve to diminish the addi-
tional credit required for military reform."
Ilis Majesty then dwelt on the happy issue of the
Anglo-American difficulty, and continued .
" My interview with the Emperor of the French
has already had the effect of placing the friendly
relations between Prussia and France upon a more
intimate footing. The negotiations for the regula-
tion of commerce between the Zollverein and France
are still in progress.

" My Government is continually employed in
preparing the way for the uniform military organi-
sation of all the German States and in caring for
the defence of the German seaboard and the deve-
lopment of the national fleet.

" Prussia will be indefatigable in endeavouring
to introduce reforms into the Federal constitution
corresponding with the actual proportions of
strength and the interests of the entire father-
land."

The King regretted that the constitutional con-
flict in Electoral Hesse continued, and said that he
still had hopes of the re-establishment of the con-
stitution of 1831.

His Majesty announced that Prussia, conjointly
with Austria, had entered into confidential nego-
tiations with the Danish Government in reference
to the Duchies, and said :
"In common with all other members of the
German Confederation, Prussia will uphold the
rights of the Confederation and the principle of
international union.

" The development of our institutions must be
subordinate to the strength and power of the
country. I can never permit that the progressive
development of interior political life should ques-
tion or endanger the rights of the Crown and the
power and security of Prussia.

" The political state of Europe requires har-
monious co-operation between myself and my
people, and I reckon with confidence upon the
patriotic support of the representatives."