The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-27 00:00:00

THE 817 N, tiONDON,_MONDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1846.

THE PRINCE ALEXANDER I. OF

GONZAGA, DUKE OF MANTUA.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

In the midst of the moral and intellectual enervation
which has overcome the political world, and has
caused all heads to bend before the power of Might,
it is a consoling spectacle to behold a man, illustrious
equally by birth and qualities, opposing himself with
the noble daring of Right, alone against all, yo contra

todos; in the face of astonished Europe demanding
compensation for the evils caused by revolutions
to one of the most distinguished families of
princes—the illustrious house of the Gonzagas; and
addressing to all personages of influence and power
protestations drawn up in the most emphatic terms,
and exclaiming with resolute voice, " I am the only
and legitimate heir of all the glory, of all the misfor-
fortunes, and of all the rights of the sovereign house
of Gonzaga, which heretofore ruled over Mantua,
Castiglione, and Guastalla. My ancestors reigned in
the East—at Jerusalem. The royal houses of Eu-
rope anxiously sought alliance with the Gonzagas,
and my ancestresses have been seated on the greatest
thrones of the world. Unnumbered times our blood

has flowed for the defence of Christianity, and even in
fighting for Austria, who seems to-day willing to
contest my rights, in spite of the loyalty with which
we have hitherto sustained her power. And what
has been the recompense of so much devotion and of
so many combats ? My family has seen itself un-
justly spoiled of its legitimate possessions ; all our
services have been forgotten, and our faults illegally
judged, in the person of the Duke of Mantua, my
ancestor, punished without reason and without
mercy. Advantage was taken of my father's minority
and of mine to effect our ruin and spoliation in the
treaties of Vienna and of Paris, neither has my per-
son been spared. Divine protection alone has pre-
served me from the snares prepared for me ; but I
despise alike menaces and dangers, and while a spark
of life remains to me, I will not cease protesting in
the face of heaven and earth against the un-
worthy spoliations of which I am the vic-
tim, and demanding my reinstation in my
hereditary principalities; my cause is the cause of all
sovereigns, its justice cannot be called in question ;
my rights are neither obscure nor doubtful, and I
ought to rely upon the assistance of the great Powers
and the influence of all lovers of equity."
Such is the purport of all the protestations of his
Highness the Prince of Gonzaga. His perseverance
and his courage entitle him to sympathy, and deserve
a speedy triumph. It is to be hoped that the great
Powers who signed the treaties of Paris and Vienna
will at length give earnest attention to demands so
worthy of their regard, and thus afford a striking
example of their respect for legitimate rights. All
crowned heads are more or less interested in repair-
ing so great, though perhaps involuntary, an injustice ;
and surely political probity is a more solid base for
thrones than either ingratitude or indifference ! The
following protestation has been recently issued by the
Prince, and appropriately issued at the present time,
in consequence of an attempt lately made at Paris to
deprive him of his family papers :
" We, Alexander 1., of Gonzaga, by the grace of
God, Prince of Castiglione (delle Stiviere), of the
Roman Empire and of Bozzolo; Duke of Mantua, of
Guastalla, of Solferino and of Sabbionetta; Marquis
of Meiola, and of Luzzara, &c., &c.; descendant of
the Emperor Charlemagne and of Lothaire 1., Em-
peror of the East and King of Italy, &c. ; Grand
Master of the Order of Redemption and of Devotion,
&c., &c ,

" To all Kings, Princes, and Potentates,
" Declare, publicly, that our legitimate protesta-
tions against the treaties of Vienna, in 1815, having
been, by the most iniquitous means, rendered un-
availing, and we ourselves prevented from passing the
Austrian frontiers, excepting once in 1836, by the per-
mission of Prince Metternich, we believe it necessary,
to maintain our undoubted rights, before God and
man, by a SOLEMN PROTESTATION against all that has
been done to our prejudice relative to our duchies of
Mantua, Guastalla, Castiglione, and Solferino, &c., as
heir in direct line of those territories, by virtue of the
Salic law established during seven centuries in our
sovereign house of Gonzaga, and by the diplome of the
Emperor Sigismond, dated Sept 22, 1433, confirming
our ancestor, Jean-Francois de Gonzaga, a perpetuite
for him and his male descendants, in all branches,
in the titles and privileges of Sovereign, 11/largrave of
Mantua, and Prince of the Roman empire,' as long as
there should exist a Gonzaga upon the earth.
" 1. By this present declaration we formally retract
all concessions offered to the article of the treaty of
Ratisbon, concerning our sovereign duchy of Mantua,
in our protestation of October 12, 1841, addressed to
Prince Metternich, Minister of his Majesty Ferdi-
nand I. Emperor of Austria. In consequence of a
profound examination of all the deeds and treaties
(vid4 notammant art. 31 of the treaty of Radstadt, in
1714, and art. 2 of the preliminaries of the treaty of
Vienna, November 18, 1738), an intimate knowledge
of the acts of our predecessor the Prince of Gonzaga,
Duke of Guastalla, until his death in 1746, and the
testimony of impartial historians upon the illegality of
the sentence pronounced again,st the last Duke of
Mantua, by a tribunal acknowledged incompetent to
judge him in his quality of Prince of the empire
and before which he was neither cited nor heard:
having died at Padua, poisoned.
"2. We protest in like manner, and we declare
null and void, all that was done prejudicial to our in-
terests during onr minority in 1815 and 1817, and
during the minority of our father Prince Joseph
Louis de Gonzaga, in 1722, by the secret and odious
compact, which disposed of our direct hereditary
possessions of Castiglione, Solferino, and Medola,
moyennant an annual pension of 10,000 florins
and which was signed by the Empress Maria The-
resa and our cousin Prince Luigi de Gonzaga Cas-
tiglione, who died in 1819.
" 3. We declare that Prince Luigi had no right
whatever to give up these territories, under no con-
ditions, in the absence and during the minority of
the true heirs, neither had he any title to act without
their consent, the marriage of his grandfather having
been declared invalid, and he being aware that the
lineal descendant of his ancestor, Prince Ferdinand
VI. of Gonzaga, Prince of Castiglione, existed in
Spain in the person of our father, Prince Joseph
Louis, then a minor, of the age of eleven years, and
chief of the family, of Gonzaga Mantoue Castiglione,
and that, in consequence, the concurrence of the col.
lateral branch of Gonzaga di Vescovado in the ar-
rangement concluded with the Empress was illegal.
" 4. We formally demand compensation for those
acts by which, in the treaties of Vienna in 1815, the
great powers disposed of our Duchy of Guastalla,
without the consent of our family, and more partici'.
larly of our father, the next heir of the Prince of
Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla, who died without chil-
dren.
" 5. We recommend to the consideration of the
Powers, who, with the exception of Austria, have
acted, we are convinced, in ignorance of these startling
facts, the reparation of the injuries that have been
done to us, and the restitution of Guastalla in our
favour, in accordance with the privilege which they
reserved to themselves (article 99 of the treaty of
June 9, 1815).
"6. The confederated potentates cannot, in effect,
sanction either the monstrous usurpation of Mantua,
Castiglione and Guastalla, which is not countenanced
by the rights of nations or of conquest; or the aliena-
tion of our family from those duchies where we had

reigned during seven centuries, without establishing,
by such an infraction of the rights of minors, a pre-
cedent dangerous to their interests, and entirely op-
posed to the monarchical principles which rule the
destinies of Europe, and which in its consequences
may become fatal to their kingdoms and their heirs.
" 7. We renew the declaration contained in our

protestation addressed to Prince Metternich, October
12th, 1841, dated from Baden-Baden, relative to the

person who, by order of the Austrian Government, in
the month of September, 1836, counterfeited our

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signature to a paper declaring our intention not again
to enter Austria or our possessions in Italy. We
protest that we have never either seen or read
this paper, and that we could not have affixed our
signature to such an act at a time when
family affairs rendered our presence at Vienna abso-
lutely necessary ; and also we have affirmed this fact,
when in the power of an armed force at Trieste, in
1839, in the apartment of the Governor of that
town, the Count de Stadion, commissioned by order
of Prince Metternich to obtain from us this renuncia-
tion of our Italian rights.
" B.With extreme indignation we protest against the
ignoble attempt, recently made at Paris by the agents
of a French Administration, at the instigation of the
Austrian Government, to carry off our family docu-
ments and title-deeds, November 27th, 1845, after a
residence of eight years in Trance; and although by a
providential hazard, our most important original papers
remain in security, we rely upon the aid of the great
Powers to take some measure which may put an
end to such unworthy acts. Our ruin and our
spoliation have been effected by treaties, profiting of
the minority of our grandfather, of our father, and
of ourselves; OUR CAUSE, we proclaim it boldy, Is
TIIE CAUSE OF ALL SOVEREIGNS !

" 9. Finally, we peremptorily demand the invalida-
tion of the treaties of 1815 and 1817, in so far as

they regard our estates; and in waiting for our re-
storation to our territories, an INDEMNITY conform-
able to our birth, and to our close alliance with al-
most all the sovereign families reigning in Europe.
" This protestation is signed by us, and sealed with
our family arms.
" London, June 21, 1846.
"ALEXANDER,
(LS.) Prince de Gonzaga-Castiglione,
Duke of Mantuts."

PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND.

Count Valerian Kresire-lzi deliVered his second lec-
ture on this so ject at Willis's Rooms on Saturday last.
His attention was chiefly occupied with the condition of
literature and the political state of the people in Poland,
during the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth cen-
tury, over which his previous lecture extended. It ap-
pears that the art of printing had been introduced into
Poland very soon at ter its discovery, for we find that a
commentary on the Book of Psalms was printed and
published in 1465, and in 1491 a Prayer Book in the
Sclavonic language. In 1539 the liberty of the press was
secured by royal decree, at which time there were
sixty presses in Poland, some of them, however,
were the private property of noblemen. In the
course of his prelection, the Count quoted the
eulogium recorded by De Thou of the nobles who
formed the embassy to France after the election,
of Henry of Valois, where, after describing the splen-
dour of their equipment, the historian says that many of
these nobles spoke Latin—many of them the German
and Italian languages—and many more the French, and
with such purity that they seemed rather the inhabitants
of the banks of the Seine and the Loire than of the Vis-
tula. The lecturer went into the particulars of the bio •
graphy of John Alaski and Stanislaus Rosen, both of
them eminent individuals, but divided in their attach-
ment to party, and opponents in the great religious
struggles of the times. The former is well known in
this country, where he resided for some time, in the
reign of Edward VI., a leader among the English Re-
formers, closely allied to Cranmer, and generally es-
teemed by all who were not blinded by sectarian preju-
dice. Count Krasinski lamented the ill-regulated forms,
or rather the entire want of form and law under which
his countrymen proceeded to the most important act in
their civil existence, the election of a King, and ascribed
to this a great measure of the ruin which has ultimately
befallen his country.

THE LATE LAMENTABLE ACCI-

DENT ON TIIE RIVER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—Observing the report of a lamentable accident in
the morning papers, I am anxious to contradict a part of
that report, so far as my infant daughter is concerned. I
hasten to inform you that the unfortunate child is the
daughter of Mr. Rathbone, one of the people in my service,
and who lives at my house, 454, Strand.
The gentlemen who contribute intelligence of this sort to
the press ought more carefully to ascertain the names of the
unfortunate parties before they unceremoniously write what
must cause much unnecessary suffering to a large circle of
friends.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., JAMES WYLD.

The following are the circumstances of the case :

On Saturday evening a melancholy accident, resulting in
the deaths of a Miss Wiltshire and the infant daughter of
Mr. Rathbone, took place at Vauxhall-bridge Pier. It ap-
pears from what information could be collected that about
ten minutes past six on the evening in question, George
Maynard,
,the pier-man, observed a large skiff, in which
there were six men, three women, and a child, as it was
attempting to pass through the fourth arch of Vauxhall-
bridge, strike against the buttress of the arch. The boat
then shot out, and the two men rowing, although told to
keep clear of the pier, brought her in fearful collision with
the triangular piling driven in front of the dummy; the tide
was then running down very strong. The Lightning, Put-
ney boat, which was on its upward trip, noticed the perilous
situation of those in the boat prior to the collision, and
the captain eased and stopped the steamer, and brought her
to a dead stand. Instantly that the skiff hit the pier, the
rowers jumped up, and fell upon the sitters. This action,
together with the collision, caused the skiff to swing round,
and in doing so she fell against the curtain-board, or bot-
tom of the paddle-box of the Lightning, and immediately
filled. Captain Sherman and the crew of the Lightning
saved three men and two women. The captain of the Citizen,
letter G, by the judicious use of his life lines, saved two
more men, and the Bachelor rescued the eighth; but, un-
fortunately, Miss Wiltshire and the child perished.
All the passengers in the Lightning unite in stating that no
blame could possibly attach to Captain Sherman, but, on
the contrary, he is to be commended for his precaution, and
the activity afterwards displayed by him and his crew. The
captains of the Citizen, letter G, and the Bachelor, are alike
deserving praise. There appeared to b e no precise know-
ledge who the other parties than those drowned were. It
seems, however, that the skiff is the property of Mr. Mehew,
of the Tivoli Gargens, Battersea, and was used to convey
passengers to and from the Citizen steam-boats. It is said

that the master of the ceremonies at the Tivoli Gardens was
one of the passengers, and that the remainder were con-
nected with those and Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea. Up to
last night neither of the bodies had been found. A reward
has been offered for the recovery of both bodies.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.—On Saturday there was a
meeting of the Court of Aldermen, at which the recent dis-
cussions relative to the respective powers, rights, and pri-
vileges of the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council
was resumed. Mr. Alderman Wilson asserted the indepen-
dence of the Court of Aldermen, and its uncontrolled power
to expend the funds of the Corporatior. in the prosecution of
it duties, without interference by the Court of Common
Council. After some discussion, it appeared that there were
not sufficient members present to make a Court, where-
upon the Lord Mayor stated that he would immediately
call a Court, in order to discus so important a question.
Alderman Wilson said, although there was no Court, he
should call the attention of the members to the attack
made by Lord Brougham upon the Court in the House of
Lords on the preceding night. He referred to the speech of
Lord Brougham respecting a petition from a person of the
name of O'Flaberty, who had been committed from the
Mansion House. It appeared that in consequence of an error
in the wording of the commitment, O'Flaherty, who had
been accused upon undeniable evidence of having forged a
letter in order to procure himself a situation in the coast
guard, was wrongly imprisoned. That the case had been
taken in hand by some attorney, and that the attempts made
by the attorney to induce the City to pay largely fur the
mistake in the shapeof compensation having failed, a peti-
tion was drawn up and put into the hands of Lord Brougham
to present to their Lordships, animadverting upon the con-
duct of the Alderman as magistrate, and praying the House
to improve the administration of justice in the City of Lon-
don, by immediate measures which should exclude the
aldermen from any participation in the performance of the
legal duties. A long conversation took place on the subject,
and the aldermen resolved, as a committee, to leave it to the
Lord Mayor and the City Solicitor to pursue what course
they might think expedient.
The inhabitants of the town of Elbing (Prussia) have
sent the following letter to Sir Robert Peel :—" Measures
t
which aim at the happiness of a nation belong to all nations;he triumph of intelligence in one people ensures the advance-
ment of the interests of humanity in all. A statesman,
worthy of the name, is the man of all countries. England
owes to your administration three great reforms, relating to
taxation, banking establishment; and the tariffs. The esta-
blishment of the income-tax proclaimed this axiom, that
taxation ought to fall on men who are in possession of
property, and not on the means of acquiring it. The
Bill relating to banking has put an end to the deceit-
ful fluctuations of the value of money, regulated
the circulation of paper money, and brought a remedy
to the crisis with which the commercial world found
itself at each moment menaced. It has given, as it were, an
invitation to our Government to profit by your example, for
the purpose of endowing our country with a wiser legislation,
and more in conformity with our wants. The reform of the
tariffs inaugurates in Europe the era of commercial liberty.
Nations, in following the impulse which you have just given,
will draw closer to each other as the citizens of one and the
same country. Their interests will be more and inure com-
mingled, and will constitute so many guarantees of peace.
The statesmen who govern Prussia, it they have not preceded
you, are ready to follow you in the path you have chosen.
We hail with delight the measure which admits corn free
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into England ; and it is not our interest alone which prompts
us to say so, for we are convirced that this measure will be
profitable to the English people. Your name will pass to
posterity loaded with blessings?,
GRAND CALEDONIAN FETE AT VAUXUALL.—This
file, which is announced for Wednesday next, will be under
the immediate patronage of the noblemen and gentlemen of
the Highland Society of London, including the chief, his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, the president, the Duke of
Buccleuch, and the vice-presidents, the Earl of March,
Viscount Belhaven, Sir James J. R. Mackenzie, of Scatwell,
Bart., Lieutenant-General Sir John Macdonald, adjutant-
general of the forces, the Chisholm, of Chisholm, &c., &c. A
number of Highland chieftains and others have expressed
their intention of appearing in the various costumes of the
several clans.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.—Dr. William Baly,
physician to the Penitentiary, Millbank, and Dr. James Ris-
don Bennett, physician to Sr. Thomas's Hospital, have been
elected Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians.
THE WATEnatEtes PIER, GREENWlClL—Considerable
excitement was manifested in Greenwich on Saturday even-
ing, at the appearance of a paper affixed to the flag-staff on
the Watermen's Steam-boat pier, signed by Mr. Saunders,
Sub-Conservator and Water Bailiff, giving notice to Wilkins
and sixteen others that he intended to take possession of,
and remove all the barges, chains, &c., composing the pier.
The notice caused great surprise, as it was generally under-
stood that the pier had been so altered and re-constructed as
to do away with all cause of complaint, and consequently
that no further steps would be taken in the matter.
LAUNCHING OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAMERS ANTE-
LOPE AND SHARPSHOOTER.--On Saturday afternoon, shortly
' after three o'clock, two superior iron steamers, named the
Antelope and Sharpshooter, intended for her ifajesty's ser-
vice, were launched from the ship-building dep6t of Messrs.
Ditchburn and Mare, Blackwell. The novelty of a double
The Antelope
launch excited considerable interest, and a number of spec-
tatorsit 1s uinderstood, in conveying
assembled to witness the ceremony.
will be employed principally,
the mails to and from the lonia!' 1... ands and other parts of
feet, breadth for tonnage 28
the Mediterranean. Her length net_ bween perpendiculars is
170 feet, keel for tonnage 155 e
feet, depth of hold 18 feet, burthen
be fitted with engines of 260-horse power, by mauds,
y.
e The
Sharpshooter is destined for the coast of
: Africa, and will
mount six guns, two on pivot. She IS somewhat smaller
than the former vessel, and been built, it appears, has
ex-
pressly for the peculiar traffic encountered on the coast. She
is 489 tons burthen, length between perpendiculars 150 feet,
keel for tonnage 132 feet, breadth for
_feorr tonnage 26 feet, and
'enginAest aNnvilelerbley 200-
horsehoerand liavenhill
depth of hold 15 let t 9 inctes.. I-1
with. the *Admiralty flag, the
power, by Miller
both steamers were decorated
union jack, and others of as national a character, and on
l:igh water drawing nigh, the vessels, while on the slips,
were inspected by several gentlemen connected with the Ad-
miralty. The order was then given to launch them, and
they glided into their future element amid the cheering of the
spectators and other demonstrations usual on such occasions.
Viscount Morpeth, as Chiel. Commissioner of Woods
and Forests, has appointed Mr., It J. Mackintosh, son of the
late Sir James Mackintosh, to ° his Private Secretary. Sir
John Cam Hobhouse, as presidentr. of the Board of Control,
has appointed his brother, 131_. Hobhouse, to be his Private
Secretary. The Marquis f
o Gustavus Cornwall his Private
Secretary.—Sunday Paper.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the
receipt of 3/. from an anonymous correspondent, on account
of assessed taxes, legacy alt.)", and interest at five per cent.
Sir William 11,1oleswolth has paired off with Mr.
Goring for the remainder of the session, having been ordered
oat of town by his medical attendant, in consequence of a
violent inflammation of the eye, from Which he is just re-
oovoring.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY::: T11E! packet-ship Joshua
Ba-es, Captain Murdock, arrived in the Mersey this
morning, from Boston, bringing advices from that city
to the 6th instant, from New York to the 4th, and from
Washington to the 3d, inclusive.

These accounts add little to the intelligence received
by the Montezuma, and are chiefly engrossed with the
details of the revolt in Mexico, and with the proceedings
of the lower branch of Congress upon the Tariff Bill.
No final or decisive vote had been come to upon this
measure ; the discussion, in accordance with the pre-
vious resolution of the House, terminated on the 2d, and
the votes were at once taken upon the various amend-
ments and ,•chedules proposed. Up to the dispatch of
the latest accounts from Washington, however, no vote
upon its adoption or rejection had been taken. We
a:Alex an outline of the proceedings. A private letter
expresses a belief that the Bill would pass the House of
Representatives, though without the duties upon tea and
coffee.

The accounts from the Mexican frontiers by this
arrival are unimportant ; and, with the exception of
a slight collision at Tampico, nothing had occurred
to disturb the momentary quiescence of the war. The
affair at Tampico arose from the Mexicans, under cover
of the three gunboats lying in the river, having at-
tempted to ertct an additional battery on the northern
bank. The commander of the United States vessel St.
Mary, observing this, began cannonading the works, the
fire beirg returned by the gun-boats. Afterwards an
ill-conducted and unsuccessful attempt was made to cut
out the three gun-boats. From Matamoros we learn
that General Taylor still remained in position near that
town. The numbers, position, and condition of the
Mexican troops remain still a matter of uncertainty.
Accounts from Missouri state that, according to the
rumours there afloat, the Mexican commander at Santa
FS, New Mexico, had advanced with a considerable
force towards the frontiers to repel the projected expe-
dition under Colonel Kearney.
The domestic affairs of the States are uninteresting.
The Washington Union publishes the articles of im-
peachment framed by the Executive against General
Gaines. Their effect has been previously stated.
Commercial letters from New York of the 4th state that
there was a fair degree of activity in that cotton market
on the 3d, which closed at firm prices. The sales for
the week were 6,900 bales, at the following prices,
namely :

4,000 bales of 2,900 bales
Upland and New Orleans
Florida. and Mobile.
Inferior None. None.
Ordinary to good ord. GO. to 7id. 6Zd. to 7/Id.
Middling to good.mid nil. to Md. -76 d. to 84d.
Middling faits to fair... 7id. to Sid. 81d. to 9d.
Fully fair to good fair 841 to 84d. Did. to 10d.
Money remained at about the same value as by the
steamer. In regard to exchange, this being a Boston packet,
little or nothing was negotiated by her.
The adviccs from New Orleans come down to the 25th
June. The sales of cotton for the three days ending on the
24th, amounted to 6,000 bales, nearly the whole of which
were taken for England. On the 23d the sales only reached
about 200 bales, the receipt of the news by the Great Western
rather tending to unsettle the market, but no alteration was
made in the quotation of prices. Freights were SI. in Ame-
rican, and 11-16 d. in Btitish vessels. Exchange on London
sto 74 premium. The receipts of cotton for the last four
days amounted only to 1,654 bales.
Tl:e journals publish a statement of the amount of Go-
vernment deposits in the banks on the 29th June. The sum
deposited is stated at 12,484,888 dollars, of which 3,014,630
dollars had been drawn for, but the draughts had not been
presented.

Our accounts from Canada are meagre. A report had
reached New York of a conflagration having occurred at
Gaspe, resulting in the destruction of from 40 to 50
houses. The report is, however, unauthenticated. The
Rochester Democrat says,—
"The wheat-dealers in Montreal feel the pressure as keenly
as their fellow-sufferers in the city of New York. We
understand several failures have already taken place, and
others are likely to follow. 'We are informed that there are
over 2,000,000 dolls. due at the Montreal bank, the present
month, and that most of the produce upon which dependence
was placed to meet this amount is still in the warehouses of
that city."
The New York papers contain the following para-
graph :
" Application having been made to the Canadian Govern-
ment to permit the importation of American wheat for
grinding, under bond, the Inspector-General answered, that
under the circumstances under which was enacted the Act 6
Victoria, chap. 38, and which the Bill introduced this session,
if sanctioned by the Imperial Government, will materially
effect, it has not been considered expedient to advise his
Excellency to anticipate the course which the home Govern-
ment may think fit to adopt."
The accounts from Vera Cruz reach to the IGth ult.
The blockade still remained in force. The position and
intentions of Paredes were unknown. Symptoms of dis-
Iffection against his rule are reported as existing in
Vera Cruz, and to all appearances the revolution was
involving the whole country, and his fall was certain
The new Congress had assembled. According to the
New Orleans journals, Paredes immediately transmitted
to the assembly a message strongly recommending an
immediate declaration of war against the United States.
The result was unknown.

Letters from Mazatlan, to the 20th of May, add, that
the garrison had on the 7th pronounced in favour of
Santa Anna.
Havannah advices of the 20th ult. state that the
steamers Montezuma and Guadaloupe were about to
leave for England to effect repairs. They had been re-
quired by the Governor to land their guns.