The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,FTJTESDA.-Y__,,M 0:11 NI N JTr N 28, IM.

ment—the Committee in both Howes ; it has pro-
ceeded, likewise, with similar success through the
first and second reading in the Peers : this
evening the " Corn Importation Bill" will be in-
trodUeed to the legi'lative aristocracy for its
third and final reading, having passed which,
the signature of our beloved and gracious Sovz: .ox.
will render free-trade the presiding genius of British
commerce. Then, but not until then, the popular
silence will terminate—the voices of the people will
resound throughout the land expr€s live of their exul-
, tation at an achievement of such an inestimable
importance, and the reverberation of those voices
; cannot fail, in time, to find an echo in the council-
; chambers of the most remote among the civilised
I nations of the globe. Such assemblies as that of the
Cuckfield farmers, on Friday evening, will still con-
tinue the intermittent throes of monopoly, while
I assemblies, even more influential than the Marylebone
Vestry, on Saturday, will testify, not that " fifteen
thousand," but that fifteen thousand thousand souls
are grateful for the boon of JUSTICE !

THE NEW POPE.

Letters from Alexandria of the Bth state that
MEIMILT Am has determined to accept the invita-
tion of the SULTAN to visit Constantinople. He will
be the guest of HosREIT Pacua, during his stay in
the Turkish capital.

M. SAVELL/ assumed the functions of Apostelical
Legate for the four Legations at Bologna on the 11th of
June. Cardinal MICA.IIA, the President of the Sacred
College, and the popular candidate for the Popedom, is
dead ; it is said of apoplexy.

Madrid papers of the 14th and 15th have been re-
ceived. The Duke DE RIANZARES is expected shortly
to set out for Paris. Senor AZPEITA has been dispatched
by the Spanish Government to Rome ; he is said to be
the bearer of important dispatches. Should the choice
of the Conclave in the election of Pope be unfavour-
able to the views of Spain, the Spanish Government
will, it is rumoured, exercise its right of veto, and
nullify the election. The Espanol contradicts a report
which had been circulated in Madrid that the cholera
had broken out in Andalusia.

MADRID BOLSA, JUNE 15.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 33 9-16 for cash, find 3334 for paper; the Five per
Cents. at 20% for cash ; the Debt. without Interest, 6% for
cash ; the Shares of the Bank of San Fernando at 385; and
those of Isabel at 96.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.

In the Chamber of Peers, on Friday, the Prince. DE
La. MOSKOWA, the son of Marshal NEY, protested in
the most indignant language against the too• celebrated
allusion made by Duke PASQUIER to the circumstances
attending the death of the " bravest of the brave."
Duke PASQUIER avoided discussion or explanation by
raising a technical point of order, and thus the matter
ended. The scene, which was most exciting, is thus
graphically described by the National—
" The son of the victim, unable to suppress his indigna-
tion, excl.-dined, turning half-round towards the President,
'You have dared to talk of his degradation, Monsieur le
Due ! Ah, indeed, his enemies killed l:im, but they could
never degrade him!' At this burst of the heart an ir-
resistible impulse produced powerful and almost unani-
mous cheers from the assembly responsive to the pene-
trating accents of the Prince. M. Pasquier, at first un-
shaken, at length dropped his head upon his desk, and,
when he raised it, his eye was dimmed, his countenance
pale and- flaccid, and his attitude was that of a man
listening to his sentence, the wrinkles of his face from time
to time flushed with a sanguine hue. The torture he under-
went must have appeared to him very much lengthened,
and the- evident sympathy of the Chamber with the
member who inflicted the chastisement must have ren-
dered it still more cruel. However, M. de Castellane
got up from his seat, and the Prince de la Moskowa,
fixing his eyes upon him, said aloud, ' I hear some one
demanding permission to speak. If there be any one in
this Chamber whti wishes to become an accomplice in an
infamous judgment, let him rise, and I will give him credit
for a singular mark of courage I' M. de Castellane then
rose, and, having made one half turn, sat down again.
The Prince continued his accusation of M. Pasquier with
increasing force. He recalled all that passed in 1834, when
Excelmans characterised the execution of Marshal Nev as a
judicial murder. This lesson ought to have made the Presi-
dent reflect, but it seemed to have had no effect. M. de In
Moskowa hopes at least that this protest will be the last. In
answer to observations made by us, M. de la Moskowa ex-
plained why he remained silent at the moment when M.
Pasquier adduced the degradation of his father as a prece-
dent for that of Lecomte. The words were so unexpected,
that he was struck as by a thunderbolt. and deprived
of all power of speech or thought. The affectionate atten-
tions of his colleagues, who pressed around him, were
insufficient to restore . to him his faculties of ex-
pressing himself. He was, in fact, crushed by this unex-
pected and odious provocation, which violated the most
ordinary consideration for himself; and was not only a
deadly outrage upon the heart of a son, but a no less
insolent and violent offence against public opinion. Still
M. de Castellane moved to the tribune ; but soon
felt that all recollections had been revived by the speech
of M. de la Moskowa. M. de Castellane bad not ascended
the t. ps of the tribune before there arose cries from all sides
of the Chamber of `No, no !'—' The order of the day!'—
The President declared that M. de Castellane had received
permission to speak, but numerous voices exclaimed, 'He
shall not have it.' He, however, though pale, was intrepid
enough to speak. The storm increased, and raged on every
bench. He opened his mouth, but the tumult extinguislaeii
his words. He made gestures, showing that he was deter-
mined to maintain the responsibility he had assumed in
bravado. He was seen, but not heard. Nothing could be
distinguished but a confused noise, such as the rep,uagenary
vanits had never before given out. Amidst the rappings
made with the paper knives upon the desks, the stampings of
feet on the floor, and the vociferation of ' The order of the
day,' three or four generals rose, and cried out in indignant
terms, 'lt is infamous.' One said, 'lt is abominable 1
' Come down from the tribune l" Enough ! enough!" Too
much !' General Roguet, who was below us, could not re-
sist his feelings; his eyes flamed as if he were in battle; his
old blood was up, and his voice, as if in the midst of con-
flicting armies. We more than once thought he would rush
forward as if mounting to the assault, and make a breach
in the dress of his colleague. This extraordinary scene
lasted more than ten minutes ; all the dignity of the
Chamber was lost. During this time M."Pasquier stood be-
hind M. de Castellane, now addressing himself to him, now
appearing to be struck dumb by the tremendous explosion.
He endeavoured to obtain silence, but all his authority was
gone—t he Chamber would not allow any one of its Members
to exhibit the scandalous attempt to show an adhesion, how-
ever remote, to the infamous deed of which it had been re-
minded. When M. de Castellane came down from the tri-
bune there was silence for a moment, the Peers evidently
wishing to afford its President an opportunity fin- giving an
explaLation. But what explanation could he give? What
could he say for himself? M. Pasquier endeavoured to get
out of his difficulty by making a pititut tirade agairst the vio-
lation of secrecy I Iset hint ponder upon the lesson he has
received; and it in doing so he recalls the course of his
lite, and the part he has taken -in history, be, perhaps, will
feel that the time is come for him to retire and seek in soli-
tude, or in the leisure of private life, reflection and repent-

1~.... _ ......

sonlogne and Amien.sr.°.l":•l.(lB..'4lA2ll.l.V.A. YIS.
2.%
~ast In liar, •• • • • • • •. ss. •
.ouvain and Joneppe • .
,ixeffllonr4 • • " • ' •• t •• •• 21%
•yon.s and Avixnon • • • • •• 2
i,rthern or Franeti Constituted.. 5
['arts and Rouen • • • • • • • • 20 38
4torthre and :NI euse • • • • •• 8 4
..........
West Flanders • • • • • • • 6
MINES.
:dal dcl Noute,, unregistered -

:Ince." •
The Constitutionnel has a long article on this subject.
Speaking of the scene presented by the Chamber iltn-4ig
the attempt made by M. DE CASTELLANE to obtain a
hearing, it says:—" This scene was not Wit/AMU, its

COUNTIES RAILWAY.

grandeur. It was a homage paid to the memor) of
Martshat:Br ; a revision of his sentence by acelaml-

ion."

The Ministerial Journal des Debate contents itself
with the following observatkns:—
"We Shall merely mention that explanations took place
yesterday, before the Chamber t;f Peers, between the l'iince
de la Moskowa and Cuar,cellor Pasquier. They referred to
an incident which, it is said, took place in the secret com-
mittee of the Court of Peers, after the condemnation of the
regicide Lecomte. The Prince de is Moakowa, yielding to a
sentiment, natural and honourable in its source, but perhaps
exaggerated under the circumstances, protested in moderate
and suitable terms, which the Chamber listened to with
favour. On his side, Duke Pasquier used the incontestible
right, which the regulations gave him, of refusing to enter on
a discussion foreign to the order of the day and to the legis-
lative deliberations of the Chamber. The explanations of
the President met with universal assent."
The Courrier Francais has an article on the refusal of
the Government to authorise the formation of a free-
trade league in Paris, in imitation of the one which has
been formed in Bordeaux. The Courrier considers that
the. application for the authorisation ought not
to have been made at all, inasmuch as al-
though the Ministry could not identify itself
with the League by granting it authorisation, yet it the
League had been once formed without authorisation, the
Ministry would hardly have ventured on such a hazardous
display of authority as an attempt to put it down by force,
The proposition of M. DE ST. PRIEST, for the in•
troduction of a uniform rate, of postage of 20 centimes,
was on Thursday rejected by the Chamber of Deputies.
Teorltllyinister of Finance promised that next session he
would re-introduce the Government Bill on this subject.
i sb eet
posti
o f orderedA m b
at
so s a rdeopra
fromi repair to
St.vr Petersburgh to rasumheahs
Baron DE BARANTE
nee,iannid,ariMs.
in the
will, it is said, arrive
La Pa'etr2ide, thejul Chamberanßduosioa
published announcing
Aob\-recacodoiril dissolved ve eel do
willon theb rnthDAe
emitbuhatiasessraodwyoiarlll.
the creation
of a new batch of Peers.
according to the returns of the fabrication and con-
eumption of beet-root sugar during the last season,
a3s2 , 37 97,07310,755;4
andtduties kilogrammes
levied ;that
there were 306 manufactories in operation on the Ist of
June last, or twelve more than at the corresponding
period of 1845. The quantity of sugar manufactured
he
d.psn to .that
The Three per C.entths.eclo;vdeopnerthecPenartsis., Time
3osnc.Satur-
day at 83f. Sc. ,_.
Paris and Strasburg, mpt dateio nll,'
0 ,__A !eon, 881 f. 25c.;
Bordeaux, 5971'. 5Ue. 9 Troyes and Mon-
12‘.2,50f4ic.Rou.evn,
Vierzon, 62-7 f. 50c.;
tereaa, 375 f. ; •
Basle, 2181 1 , g, 501 f.
Orleans Railroad shares, 1,2501.
75c..
25c; Tours and Nantes, 5161. zac.
753 f.; Great Northern, 7331. ,
Paris and Lyons,
^I ; Spanish Three per Cents.,
5371. 50c.; Boulogne, 470 •
.177 i ; ditto, Domestic Debt, 2
505 f • Bordeaux and
3 and Avim ions definitives, ~
Lyon . t, ?
Cette, dofiiiitips? 495 f,
• !pie f0110y41,,....• ay9 the quotations 3.. in the new lines:—

LTOIts, Jlllll 18.—Paris and -Orleans, 1,246 f. 25e. ; Great A M ERICAN Nll-47,W
Northern,. 735.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TLIF;
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNZ 20.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11 %----Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), l —Central of Spain, 114--East Indian, ?—Lou-
vain and Jemappe, 1% es d.—Luxemtourg. 1 Namur find Liege.
3%—Northern of France Constituted, 14—Orleans and Vierzon, 14%
—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 6%

The French G-;vernment received on Saturday a
telegraphic dispatch from Marseilles, announcing
that Cardinal Ferret', Bishop of Imola, had been pro-
claimed by the Conclave successor to Gregory XVI.
The new Pope was born in 1792.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,
(From The Sun of Last Night )
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 2,500
bales. Prices were without alteration. Shares were dull.
An intense degree of interest 13 shown in the City this
morning to have the result of the division in the House of
Commons this evening or to-morrow morning on the MAI
Coercion Bill, as there appears to be some grounds for the
presumption that the lengthened debate upon it will not
longer be procrasinatcd, but if so, the factious opposition
must daily be of :esa effect than at the present miment. Tile
Corn Bill is held to be safe among merchants and capitalists,
and the royal assent being given to those vital changes in
the tariff, little is cared fir amongst commercial men at the
fate of the Coercion Bill, as the intention of Government
in introducing it has already had almost the intended effect,
by reducing the amount of crime in those districts whe-e the
most horrid scenes were witnessed of late.

There are accounts from Ceylon this morning, but little
of importance is conveyed in them. It is said upon autho-
rity, that were the protective duties removed, the best
lands alone would yield a remunerative profit. This is the
constant theme of the protectionists in this country, not a
scintilla of allowance being made for improvements that
must be made under a more liberal order of things. By the
aid of scientific exertions, there is no doubt that lands at
home, as well as in the colonies, will be brought into pro-
fitable cultivation, where now there may be a temporary
loss. _

The grain markets are looking up, notwithstanding the
prevalence of the most magnificent weather for maturing
the crops. In the last week, the sales in the markets enu-
merated by Act of Parliament, the average prices paid in
which regulate the duty on foreign corn released from bond,
were, of wheat, 87,508 quarters ;.of barley, 7,6.0 quarters;
of oats, 23,231 quarters; and of beans, 5,851 quarters.
Consuls for the Account have been very steady this morn-
ing, at 9.5% i ; end precisely the' same values have ruled
for the Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities. The New Three-
and -a-Quarter per Cents. have been heavy, at 963. -Ex-
chequer-bills have been sold at the very low premium ,4 55.,
both for the 1,0001. and the 500/. bills. India Bonds are lower
also, fetching but 20s. premium.
Portuguese Four per Cents. have been sold at 4984,
Spanish at 24%, Mexican at 273 A, the Deferred at 16,
the Three per Cetit. Spanish at 371/x, the Dutch Two-and-a-
half per Cents. at 6018, and the Four per Cents. at 9218.
• In the Share Market the business done to-day has not
been of much importance. The rejection of the Dublin and
Galway Bill has created soine disappointment.

BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. • • 051.4 % 25
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 97 96% 96:1i
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1860 .. 10 3-16 10 3-16
India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. .. .. ..
Ditto. under 1,000/. .. .. • • • • 20 20
`...ionsols for Opening .. .. .. .. .. 95!‘i % 95%

Exchequer Bills. l%d.
1,0001. 5 pm.
5001. -.— 10 S pm. 10
Ditto. Small 5 10 pm. 10

ONE cLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Equador Bonds .. .. 3%
Grenada, I per Cent .. 20% 20%
Ditto, Deferred .. 4% 4%
Mexican toilets, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 27% 27%
Ditto, Deferred 16% 16'74
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 3 per Cent .. •• • • 49
Ditto, for the Account .. • • 49% 50
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • 41% 49
Ditto, toi- the Account .. 50 50
Fpanish Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account • • .. 24% 24%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. 37%
Dividends on the above payable in Loudon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 60% 60%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. certificates .. 92% 9ls
Ditto, for the Account .. • • .. 92% . 92%
BUSI
PRICES OF CLOSING
PALO. DON NESS E
AT PRICES,
RAILWAY SH.A.RES. ONE O'CLOCK.
Birmingham and Gloucester.. ..100 127% .. ••• • • • 127%
Ditto New (lased at 7% dis.) 17% ... 31% • • 31%
Caledonian ..• 10 .... 10%%%.... • lO%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • 1%hi••• • • • • •
Ditto, Extension .. .. • • 1% • .
Derby and Crewe .. .... 674%
Direct Northern .. .. •.... I% l%
Eastern Counties 141. 14... 24% 24%
Do. Forget., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. I3s. 4d. •
Ditto, York Extension 10s. .... 1 14%••
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2%.... IN3 2%
Goole, Doncast., and s•liattield, &c. 425. % dis. •... • • % dis.
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... 22% . 2214
Great North o: England . ..100 ....221} 221 221
Ditto, New . - -
Ditto, New .. .
Great Western ..

143

Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .......... 151
Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmoth 5 .... 4% .
Hull and Selby .. .. 50 .... -
Ditto IA Shares .. . 12% . • • • .. 21
Leeds and Bradford • . .. 26 .... 55% •••••• •• •• 551,i
Leiee:ater and liethorcl 225..... di5.•..... dis.
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 425. • • .. dis.•- di .
London an Birmingham . ..100 •• • • 224
Ditto Thirds .. 24 •.. • ...... 63
Ditto Quarters .. 2 .... .......... 21.1%

Ditto Pift .. 2 .... 25
London and Biackwall 161. 13s. 4d. .......... 714
London and Brighton .. 50 .. ..... 65
London and Croydon •• • . 131. 15s 9d... .•........ 22!,
Lo/Alon and South• Western 411. Cs. 10d.— 78 77 .. • • .... 77
Ditto. New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... 57%.......... 58
Ditto, New .. • • .. I .... 29 ..
hondon and York .. 25.2 144;54.. •• I
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil
_2% ..........

Manchester and Leeds 82- .• .. - ..........- 122
Ditto, Quarters .. .. 2 .... - ..........
Ditto, Fifths .. 3 .... - ...... 12
Ditto, Sixteenths. .. • • 6% - .......... Sty
Manchester aud 4.) .. 83 83
Ditto, Quarter Shares, (B) • • 4 .... 13% %• • .... • • 13%
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 •• • • 9% .. ••..• • • • 9%
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 13,8%•• 1%
Midia•id ..100 _15,0 150
Ditto, New .•
24 .... 3734 ...... 371
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 103 .... ...... 123
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 -
Ditto, New • • • • • • • 1 .... ..... 9%
Ditto, New, Brandi:lig • • •• 25 ••.. 45 .......... 45
Newcastle aim Berwick • • •• 15 •• • • 21%1- ........ 24%
Norfolk .. • • • • • • • • •• 20 •• • - 23% •••. • • • ... 25%
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • 5 • • • 7% 71,4
Ditto, Tenths • • • • • • 2 •• • • 2%% •• • •. • .
Ditto, Extension.. • • • • • 2 •• • • 1% 2
North British .. • • • • •" •
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • •• • • 11% '• • .... 11%
Ditto, Catfish) Extension ........
1•7
North Kent and Direct Dover • . ..........
1
North Staffordshire • • • • • • 428. •• • • 314 4 4 p
Portsmouth Direct • • • • " 3% •• • • 4% 4%
Richmond • • • • • • ' • • • •• • • 16% ••,••• .. .. 1636
Scottish Midland .. • • .. 10 7 7
Shropshire Union .. • • • • • • .
7tii
.it)°Duu
O.AI ,Midland niwk
s.n. )
0. 431. :225625s ▪ --192: 11131::▪ (
outh Eastern and Dovor • • • • 33% 39%
401,4
%
Do., New (d 0.331. 66..8.3.).. 0..2..
41205. 13% 123 p
jii'ezttielactidhinagoUdniso,
Ditto. Extension • • • •• 15 34 ▪ 4374
°DrKittamo.aSlCcaurrtbohroUlgialli'lirdanc.h. .0
7- .
25
Do. E. and W. Riding Extent
• 12 •
1: 34.

121
• ••
...
1%
I'i

Vera Cruz, May 19, 1846.

0.4

3%

THE MIDLAND AND EASTERN

An adjourned special meeting of this Company took place
yesterday, in cons( queilce of there not having been a :sufficient
quantity of scrip repress-nted at the previous meeting. J. C.
Cobbold, Esq., took the chair.
The Secretary having read the advertisement convening
she ineetiu:4, the vote. 4 were proceeded with, when there was
found a large nvijority in favour of proceeding with the Bill.

ARRIVAL of the GREAT BRITAIN.
IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.
CAPTURE OF LIATAMORAS, AND BLOCKADE OF
VEIfA CRUZ, BY THE AMERICANS.
(From our Liverpool Correspondent.)
• - . LIVERPOOL, MoteriAT.
The steam. ship Great Britain, Captain Hosken, arrived
here this morning, after a rapid passage of thirteen days
and a quarter from New She sailed from that city at
three o'clock on the Bth, passed Sandy Honk in two hours,
and arrived off the N.W. Lightship, at Liverpool,
this morning, at . four o'clock. She brings forty-five
passengers, all of whom were delighted with the easy and
beautiful:voyage of this noble ship. Captain Hoslten, when
of Liverpeol, was presented with a complimentary actirs.7,
signed by all his passengers. Just' before the Gr. ie. Britain
got away from New York, a special messenger arrived there
with dispatches from Mr. Packeoham, at Washineten,
Shortly after the Great Britain arrived,'Captein linsken
started for London with these dispatches, which are said to
be of an important. character.
Our advices by this arrival contain accounts from Mexico
down to the- Nth, •from Vera Cruz to the 20th, and from
Nevi Orleans to the 31st; and the principal feature of interest
which this arrival e.rferdesis that the Americans had, wiz hout
resistance, invested Matamoros, and that the port of Vera
Cruz was under a rigid blockade by the American squadron.
The accounts by this arrival state that on the 17th ult.
a large portion of General Taylor's army moved up the rtver
for the purpose of crossing, General Taylor remaining at the
fortification with about 300 men. As the army were seen by
the Mexicans on the opposite side to leave the encamp-
ment and approach the ford, Arista sent a flag of truce
to General Taylor, requesting an armistice for six
weeks; giving as a reason for-his request, that he desired
to communicate with his Government. General Taylor
answered that he would give him till eight o'clock
the next morning to evacuate the city of Mate-
mores, and would permit him to take the public
property under his charge. The flag then returned. On
the next day, the 18th ult., the army crossed on flats of their
own construction, and the bodies of wagons caulked. -The
passage was made about four miles above Fort Brown. On
arriving at the city it was discovered that Arista with his
forces had departed,leaving only the mounted batteries. All
the mortars and such of the military apparatus as could not
be moved, in their haste to escaps, were thrown into the
wells. A party from the American army went out to recon-
noitre immediately after the entrance into Matamoras, and
overtook a party of the retreating Mexicans, twenty-two of
whom were made prisoners. It is understood that Arieta's
head• quarters were at San FeTnado, about ninety miles distant
-from Matamoras.
Of the United States squadron, lately off the Rio Grande,
the Cumberland flag=ship, Baritan, St. Mary's, Lawrence,
and Somers had gone to Pensacola to refit. The Mexican
soldiers, it is said, refused to defend Matamoras against the
American army, having had no rations served out to them
for five days. Commander Conner, as the report went at the
seat of war, intended to take down with him, in his contem-
plated attack on San Juan de Ulloa, two or three line-of-
battle ships with the squadron he is refitting at Pensacola.
According to the accounts thus received, it appears that
the Mexicans are straining every nerve to carry on the war,
and Paredes will probably continue to do so, till perhaps he
hears of the severe defeats his troops -have suffered at the
bends of the Americans, in order to sustain his administra-
tion. To do this, he has resorted to extraordinary measures
to replenish the National treasury, by extorting front the
people and the clergy. Peredee reached leis
.present poiltion
by inflaming the minds of the Mexicans against the
United States; and as he acquired power by promising to
enter into a war, for the purpos;,, of recovering the depart-
ment of Texas, there is no doubt that he will. do his utmost
to protract it as long as he can, or until a new revolution
shall break out, which places some other man in his place.
- Our advices from New Orleans are to the 30th, giVee in the
Commer ciai Tines.
The barque Thnlens, Captain Murrell, from Vera Cruz,
arrived in New Orleans on the 30th ult., with papers from
the city of Mexico to the 15th, and from Vera Cruz to the
20th ult.
We learn that the United States steam frigate Mississippi
arrived at Vera Cruz on the 18th, with the news of the bril-
liant. battles of the Bth and 9th ult.
The greatest care was taken to keep it from the Mexi-
cans, yet the fact leaked out.
The port of Vera Cruz has been rigidly blockaded by the
eteam frigate Mississippi and sloop of war Falmouth. The
'frigate Raritan was hourly expected to join the Mississippi
and Falmouth.
The Mexican Government had annulled the powers of the
American Consuls,
Ordes had been received from the city of Mexico, directing
all Americans to leave -Vera Cruz by the 24th ult. Mr.
Dimond, the American consul, was preparing to go on board
one of the United States vessels of war.
It was generally thought that the American vessels left
in port, the barque Louisiana and the brig Helen McLeod;
would be seized by the Mex'cans.
The contractor of supplies for the American squadron
had been forbidden, by the Vera Cruz authorities to furnish
th, m.
The Thalius was boarded off the harbour of Vera Cruz
by the United States sloop Falmouth, and a letter bag sent
by her.
The brig St. Peteraburgh sailed on the 19111 for New York.
The &pat/Venn°, of the city of Mexico, of the 13th, says
that the intention of the Governmentswas to send their war
steamers Guadeloupe arid Montezuma to Havannah to be
sold at auction. On arriving at the latter port, the steamers
were to hoist the Mexican flag and tire a salute. The
Mexican sailors refused to sail under these conditions, and
the steamers were to leave the river Alvarado, where they
had been laid up in ordinary under the British flag, and
commanded by a British officer. They have since arrived at
Havannab.
We have been permitted to make the following extract
from a letter received' &Om -a highly respectable Mexican
house in this city

A circular has been issued by the Government, stating
that alt American Consuls cease immediately from being
recognise , and ordering all American citizens to embark for
the interior within eight. days.
The steamer Mississippi yesterday ordered cff a vest el
from the poi t. but she came in during the night—thus
proving the port to be blockaded, at least to national ve.scels,
a step which has generally compromised the American ves-
sels in the harbour, and we are very much afraid, that we
shall not be allowed to dispatch the Thalens.
The Government is making every effort to carry out the
war with success, and has replenished the treasury by carry
ing through some very strong measures.
The castle of San Juan d'Ulloa and the city are in an ex-
cellent state 'of defence, and would require a very strong
three to be succe.;sfully attacked.
The Repullicano of the city of Mexico contains an article
against the Government, in which it. animadverts upon the
actual state of the country, attacked as it is by a strong
enemy and with a prospect of a local revolution, it avers that
in case of a revolution, the troops engaged in repelling the
enemy would be ordered to act in support of either one party
or the other, claiming a local supremacy as a proof of the
discipline and manner in which the Mexican troops are
trained by their officers.
Jon Jose, Maria has been named as the Governor of Chi-
huahua in the defeat of Sonora,

The Apach Indians have attacked the town of Arlo,
where they killed thirty. two 11Ixicans, the Indians stealing.
evervthin; :lo could lay their hands upon.
Tr)e. Ap s .re uniformed in a broadcloth frcck covered
with red taf and pantalocns of the same stuff with caps,
and they are tit Led with. rides.
The whole department is in a dreadful state of misery and
consternation.

Several robberies on a large scale have been lately com-
mitted in the city of Mexico and its neighbourhood.
In speaking of the American army, a dispatAt from the
Mexican commandant of the engineers at Matamoras says—
"- The American :any iA not more than 4,001) strong, arid is
in a state of demoralisation; that there is no union among
them, without any desire thr glory ; the' its officers are good,
hut then there are many of them who have come to fight
against their will, If we have no local revolution, the Ame-
rican army will either capitulate, 6r be entirely defeated in
twil:tv days."
The eXportsfrom Vera Cruz in the mo:lth of April amounted
:o 241,35t3 (lois., of which 195,127 &Is. AN.ps is specie.

A numerous private tw-eting of Preteetionist Peers
was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Earl of Eglintoun's
apartments, at the Clarendon Hotel. Their Lordships were
in deliberation for nearly two hours in reference to the third
reading of the Corn Bill, to-morrow evening, in the House
of Lg. Os.

TUE HORSE -CHARMER.—D.-mbtless, our readers
must have heard of the extraordinary gift said to be pos-
ses,ed by an Irishman named Sullivan, who exercised a
power over horses that no other horse-breaker in the United
Kingdom ever obtained by means of whisperinq. He is,
therefore, better known in the sporting circles by the sobri-
quet of " the Whisperer." It may not be known that the
grandson of this extraordinary man (George Church), who
practises the art of horse-breaking and training in Sydney,
possesses the secret of charming this noble animal
which gained for his grandsire so much celebrity. We
have had frequent opportunities lately of witnessing his per-
formances, and can confidently vouch for his skill. He will
take a wild, unbroken colt, from the bush, and in twenty-
four hours make him so docile and obedient, without
severe treatment, that the animal, at command, will lie
down under him, feigning death, remain until roused from
the apparent stupor in which he has been thrown, by ines•
meric passes and slight manipulation (as it appears to us)
on the nervous system, by a slight touch of a rattan. The
animal will then iick the face of the operator, put his tongue
in his mouth, and whisr.er in his ear at a signal.
Church will then lie down on the broad of his back, and
place the animal's fore-foot on the pit of his stomach, Aso
his hind-foot in his teeth, without danger of being pressed too
hard. When the horse is relieved from the stupor into which
he appears to have been thrown, he resists a repetition of the
operation as long as he can, until, subdued by the irresistible
charm of the extraordinary man, he relapses into the mes-
meric state, and is then passively obedient to his will.—
* Sydney Sentinel.
SCUOLASTIC REFORM.—On Saturday, a preliminary
meeting of about forty schoolmasters was held at the Free-
mmon., Tavern, for the purpose of forming a Society, or
College, to impose a test of qualification upon all individuals
who should hereafter enter into the scholastic profess ion. There
were present, Messrs. Turrell, Parker, Butler, and Lee, of
Brighton ; Hall, of the King's-road ; and Stok,s, of Ongar.
Mr. Terrell, was called to the chair. After the first
ir.e5,,,,h,t,-1
tion was proposed and seconded, Mr. Harris, P. a
a strain of bitter sarcasm. exposed the fallacies
the sel:eine
argu-
ments of the preceding speakers, and condemned Ifni:cas being utterly impracticable. He then ptrhoep ::Vial,,,,
would be
to the effect, that any attempt of
„pdr,olniefirseinagd
a tax upon the intellection e
young man; and to confirm t
was published thirty years
cb3enc'tferatialin.
h en (iv? e",:vins
an extract rom a letter
. which
n by a distinguished li»guist, who,
eight languages, in Oiler to
age, and which was
dwsreavt,:h
or
after he had acquired seven
of
schoolmaster, applied him.
they office
Exercises, and improved
qualify himself tor t
self to the study of. The of
•ttimette. promoters the scheme per-
ceivinghimself in ari cause, interrupted the weakness of their
throughout his speech, and passed another resolution to the
exclusion of the proposed amendment. Several gentlemen
ho caring
wever, claimed for Mr. Harris a (air and impartial h • ' '
,
but were at length so disgusted with the proceedings of the
committee that they instantly left the room. The meeting
I
then broke up somewhat abruptly,
ptly, aud altogether exhibited
a wretched failure.