The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-16 00:00:00

NIJAY MORNING. FEBRUARI 16, 1846

LATEST FROM AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE lIIBERNIA.
The royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, arrived at Liver-
pool at 4 P.m. on Saturday. She left Boston on the Ist
inst., and Halifax on the 31. By this packet we have
received New York papers to the 31st ult. The war
fever, we are happy to say, appears to be subsiding.
' OREGON.
The New York' Herald gives the following account of
the state of parties in Congress :
We have received from our special correspondent, whom
we sent to Washington for the purpose, and also through
stveral other private sources, and letters from persons well
acquainted with the state of parties in Congress, the pro-
bable result of the present condition of things in 'he capitol,
se regards the foreign policy of this country, and also the
prospect relative to the succession to the presidency in 1818.
During the present session, both 1-I'uses of Congress
have been prineipally occupied in skirmishing or pre-
liminary debates on our foreign policy, on the Oregon con-
troversy, or on the affairs of Mexico. These debates have
terminated in no (bath ct vote, but merely in approaching
what may be the probable sentiments of Congress on the
issues involved. partieulady in respect to the Oregon ques-
tion. Several preliminary votes have been taken, expressive
of these sentiments, such as that on General Cass's mntien,
on the subject of inquiring into the military and naval re-
sources of the country, which seemed to he rather warlike
in the result, until that was effaced by the votes on the
motions of Senator Allen, which assumed a different com-
plexion. The debates on these motions were very warm and
very warlike, and very curious ; but the speeches were princi-
pally addressed to what we call " Buncombe." or in other
words, were merely intended to operate nn the floating portion
of the population, and to make capital for the elections. Yet
beneath this turbulent ocean of words there has been a groat
deal of distinct and positive arrangements made among the
parties at Washington, which will have a most important
bearing on our foreign and domestic policy, as well as other
measures, and which are all mixed up with the succession to
the Presidency.
We mean now to give a programme of the state of things. as
indicated by facts that have come to the knowledge of our cor-
respondents ; and communicated to us.
The parties in Congress may be divided into three sections.
the Whigs forming a very important body ; the Democrats the
other most important body of men, having also the reins of
government in their hands; and, in addition to these two par..
ties, there is a distinct party, which may be called the
" Independents," being those members who are principally
attached to the fortunes of John C. Calhoun. During
the last two months, the Whigs, after a great many
consultations, have very generally agreed among their
leaders to bring foward for the next Presidency
Winfield Scott, Major-General of the United States Army.
There has been an effort made among them, to make Judge
M'Lean the candidate of that party; but the effort died, and
was Annulled by the supposed greater popularity and availabi-
lity of General Scott. On the other hand, the democrats, or
those attached to the fortunes of the Administration, are divided
into a number of separate Presieential cliques. comprehended
under the names of Wright. Denton, Cass, Walker, Buchanan,
Dallas, and some others. Mr. Polk, the present chief magis-
trate, from his official position, if necessity should require it,
will be the candidate of his party, although he must of coarse
deny at present that he has any wish for the office again. Lastly,
the independents, who may be called the "free trade" party,
the Girondists of the present day, the juste milieu, look on
John C. Calhoun as their leader, and mean to support him for
the next Presidency at all hazards, without respect to conven-
tions or nominations from any quarter. The determination of
the Independents over the country is a great and important fact,
possessing a great control on the next Presidency, and perhaps
decisive of the particular result.
The strength of these three parties in Congress varies very
; mech. In the Senate, the Independents, or friends of Mr
Calhoun, can give a majority to either the Democrats or
Whigs as they list. They number some six or eight votes.
In the House these balance-of-power men have not yet suffi-
ciently revealed their strength to enable any one to determine
what influrnce they possess. It is probable, however, that the
Democrats, or exclusive supporters of the Administration,
have a small majority in the House.
The influence of these private and secret arrangements
among the leading po:iticians at Washington will be very great
on the issues of our foreign and domestic policy, com-
prehending the Oregon controversy, the Sub-Treasury, the
Tariff, and perhaps other measures. We are perfectly sa-
tisfied, from what we have seen, and what we know, first, that
nn absolute " notice" relative to the Oregon question
will pass the Senate, and therefore it cannot get the sanc-
tion of both houses. The . passing of such a notice
cannot be accomplished at the present session, because
the Independents, or friends of Mr. Calhoun--being friendly
to negociation—will be a sufficient cheek to the war party
in the Senate, even if the war party in the House have a
large majority. Again, it is highly probable, judging from
the same data, that—Secondly, a modification of the tariff of
1842 will take place by a union of the Democrats and Inde-
pendents in the two houses ; and also —Thirdly and lastly,
that the same majority will be able to pass the Sub-
Treasury Bill proposed by the President in his late message.
These are the most accurate conjectures that we can now
form of the present state of parties and their results in
Congress. The most recent intelligence of the probable
return of Mr. Calhoun to the State Department will not
vary much these results, but rather give strength to the
presumption that the Oregon question will be settled by
negotiation, and the Tariff modified, and the Sub-Treasury
Bill I
passed the results ; thus far so unexpected at the be-
ginning of the session of Congress, have, in a measure, been
brought about by the independent position and moral power ex-
hibited by Mr. Calhoun and his friends, in resisting and op•
posing all those who supported ultra measures relative to our
relations with Great Britain.
The probable prospect, therefore, of the present state of
things in Washington is highly favourab'e to a peaceable ter-
mination of our difficulties with England—of the success of
liberal principles in commerce and currency, and the probable
triumph of the measures brought forward by Mr. Polk. How
the. question of the next Presidency may be, will be a matter of
speculation hereafter.
The New York Journal of Commerce, in commenting on the
probability of England renewing the offer made to her for the
settlement of the Oregon question by Mr. Gallattin, under the
Presidency of Mr. Adams, observes, that, " it breathes peace,
conciliation, concession, in every line. Let but the same spirit
prevail in our own councils, and all will be well. It is easy to
meet when the approach is mutual. We do not ourselves per-
ceive any great objection to the free navigation of the Colum-
bia, in time of peace. In some respects it would be an ad-
vantage to our people. Wherever an Englishman goes, he
carries money ; and wherever he carries money, he leaves
a portion of it. As both shores of the river up to lat.
49 would be ours, and inhabited by our own people, the pre-
sence of British vessels and merchants would be a constant
source of profit. Mr. Gallatin's proposi'ion, as presented in
his recent numbers, is very similar to the above—only he thinks
we must have the free navigation of the St. Lawrence by way
of offset. This, we presume, is out of the question ; but it is
plain, from the near approximation of the two propositions, and
from other indications which meet us daily, that the current
is gradually working clear, and that the prospect of a peaceful
and satisfactory adjustment of the dispute is becoming brighter.
The people will ratify any concessions which the Government
may deem it proper to make."
The following is the latest from Washington :
Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.
WASHINGTON, JAN. 29.—The city is rife with rumours of
Cabinet changes; but I do not, as yet, see any ground for
them. There are also rumours of intelligence from Mexico, of
a hostile kind, said to have been received from the South, by
the Government, last night. There was no mail to-day from
beyond Richmond, but news is anxiously expected from that
quarter.
Mr. Webster's resolution calling for the correspondence
which may have taken place between the Government of Great
Britain and that of the United States, on the subject of
Oregon, since the date of the President's late message, was
adopted.
The Navy Bill was taken up, and Mr. Speight of Missis-
sippi spoke egoist it, and, in course of his remarks, declared his
opposition to the notice, and his opinion that our title to Ore-
gon was neither clear nor unquestionable.
The Senate adjourned over to Monday.
The House was engaged to-day upon the Oregon debate as
usual ; but, as a proof that it will not be long continued, it
may be remarked that the interest in it has entirely subsided,
and that the hall has been thinly attended during this week,
and is less orderly than heretofore.
But the House is unprepared to take the question ; perhaps
because the members have not made up their mind which way
to vote. They must take the question before the 10th Fe-
bruary, for that is the day assigned for taking up the subject
in the Senate.
The House, however, refused, to-day, to adopt a resolution
for terminating the debate on the 7th February, by a vote of
85 to 53.
Mr. Holmes, of S. C., made a speech of one hour against
the notice, and presented the subject in a vivid and original
light.

CLOSING
l'H IC EA..

He denied the allegation that our title to Oregon was clear
and unquestionable ; or that the United States had any title
to Oregon from discovery, exploration, or contiguity, that
Great Britain did not also possess, to an equal extent. Our
claim under the treaty with Spain, of 1819, did not confer upon
us the exclusive title to the soil of Oregon, because it was
not possessed by Spain. Great Britain had always
claimed a right to the unsettled portions of Oregon for the
purposes of fishing, hunting, commerce, &c., and never assented
to the exclusive pretensions of Spain. When the question was
brought nearly to a war, it was settled by the treaty of Nootka
Sound, which acknowledged the rights of England in the ter-
ritory. The Secretary of State had endeavoured to get over
this by an assumption that was wholly untrue, viz. that the treaty
of 1790 was abrogated by the subsequent war between Great
Britain and Spain. It was one of those treaties that conld never
be annulled by war, because it conceded mutual rights, instead
of merely conferring a privilege. He illustrated the difference
by reference to the treaty by which we purchased Louisiana. A
war with France would not annul it, for the treaty conferred on
us a right.
But, in regard to the treaty with Great Britain, by which
we were allowed to fish on the banks of Newfoundland, war
would annul it, because it was a privilege.
Mr. H. dwelt with great force on the destructive conse-
quences of a war, especially in our present unprepared state.
Even supposing that England would wait for the expiration of
the year's notice, he did not believe we would be able to send
a vessel out of our ports, either on the Atlantic er the lakes,
for they would be immediately taken; and he asserted that no
military man in the country would haeard his reputation by
saying that we could take Oregon; and he denied also that we
could take Canada.
The debate was continued by Mr. Ewing of Indiana and
Mr. Baker of Illinois, in favour of the notice.
The Washington Union, the organ of the Government, in
speaking of the report that an offer was likely to be made by
Great Britain to settle the Oregon question, on the basis pro-
posed during the Presidency of Mr. Adams, says, "
That such
a proposal as that on the part of the Briti-h Government, made
in the mariner, and carried out in the spirit which we have in-
dicated, would make every friend ofjust and honourable peace,
both in this country and in England, and throughout the
world, ' breathe freer and deeper,' with a good hope for civili-
sation, for free institutions, and for mankind. It would not
then be unreasonable to hope that on such a proposal, so made
and so carried out to the more ample recognition of our just BAREADOES RAILWAY.— the liarbadoeS papers, ra.
claims, further negotiation might yet build a peaceful monu-
ment ceived by the packet, are full of the railway. A public
to the enlightened moderation and justice of two great meeting, which was most numerously attended, and presided
nations. We say this, of course, in view of the fact that the over by the Honourable the Attorney-General, had been
i avigation of the Columbia, by Great Britain. through five held; a provisional committee, consisting of eightv-four
hundred miles of American territory, could, in the present state island proprietors and leading merchants, had been formed,
of the question, be hardly urged with seriousness by the British
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and a managing committee elected. Although no allotment
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had yet been made, about 1,000 shares had been prornply
Mr. Hannegan, however, in a debate in the Senate on the subscribed for, and the Government were expected to take
28th January, said that he knew the article had not been sub- up 1,0001. to aid the project, as they had a surplus revenue,
mitred to the President_prior to insertion, and that it did not
meet his views, and the Union, in an article on the same sub-
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ject, on the following day, says, in regard to the free navigation public roads. The Company's engineer had arrived out, and
of the Columbia :—" We spoke of the navigation of the Co-1
lumbia as a proposition which could not be seriously urged i very of coal had been made in the hilly districts of the island,
the present state of this question, by the British Government. which had been favourably reported on Sir
Whether urged or not, such a proposition we deem wholly in- burgk, and analyzed by Mr. Herepath, by
of Bri Robert Schom•
Bristol.
Cork
admissable by our Government, as in fact it is declared to be by
the President, in his message." ALTERATION /N THE CORN -LAWS, 1842. A
mercantile firm, D. Lane and Son, have netted 17,0001. by the mis-
A VT!. take made by Sir Robert Peel in the day
upon which his corn-law of
(Front the New York Journal of Commerce, Feb. a )
1842 took effect.
Latest information from Cuba mentions the arrival at News has reached EnglanC; by the overland mail from
Havannah of an unusual number of Spanish ships of war. India of the total loss of the East India Company's brig QC war Cote,
From the Journal of Port au Prince we translate the follow. near Calicat, The ofacers and crew Were saved,

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, JAN. 31.—FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool, arc
rather quicker, though the packets recently have filled up with
much difficulty. To London, they are not active, and we
slightly reduce our quotations. To Havre, there continues to
be a very small amount offering. To Antwerp, 15,000 bushels
of corn have been engaged, at 20 cents per bushel.
ExcHANcx.—There has not, as yet, been much done in
foreign, for transmission by the Boston steamer to-morrow.
We qw.te bills on London 81/t to 81.41 per cent. premium--
though sales have in some instances been made below the
lowest, and above the highest of these rates; Paris, sf. 2834 c. to
sf. 271/2c. ; Amsterdam, 391/2 to 3914 ; Antwerp, 32% to 39%
nominal, there having been nothing done; Hamburgh, 3534 ;
and Bremen, 781/2 to 7814 cents.
OCEAN STEAM NAVIGATION.—We seem suddenly to have
waked up to the importance of increasing our steam marine.
In a day or two, the Postmaster-General will conclude one or
more contracts, for (mining the mails to Europe in steam •
vessels ; on the 27th instant a Bill for the incorporation of a
Company to be called the Ocean Steam Navigation Company.
was introduced into the House of Assembly of this State. It
was stated that as soon as the Company could procure an Act
of Incorporation, they would proceed immediately to build four
steamers of the largest class, capable of making the passage
between New York and Havre in nine or ten days.
It thus appears evident that we are likely soon to have two or
three lines of ocean steamers for the merchant marine, exclu-
sive of those that Congress may have built. It is right and
proper that all this should be done.
There will probably be ten or a dozen steam-ships in the
Atlantic trade before this year runs its course. Four. and
perhaps five, will run to Boston, and four or five to New York.
In ten years there will be as many ocean steamers as packet
ships ; and it is not unlikely that our packets will, in that time,
be turned into propellers.

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ing, which may see" as an explanation of the views of the
Spanish shir_:•___
" There haserrived at St. Domingo a Spanish fleet, destined
to take under it.protection the Dominican Republic. A letter
from St. Doming), published in the Manifeste, says that the
Spanish Protectoate has been desired by the President
Santana, and the 'Bishop Portes ; and the same paper ex
presses an opinion, 'hat Spain will not limit its exertions to
the exercise of the limple right of suzerainete over her
ancient colony, to whith is reserved all the rights of proprietor-
ship, by the treaty of 1815. This will explain the motive of
the extraordinary congregation of Spanish ships, of which in-
formation has recently been had,'n the harbour of Havannah."
The other papers state, that it aas expected a conflict would
take place between the Spanish and`he Haytian parties during
the month of February, and that them was every expectation
that the Dominicians, who were comnanded by Spanish offi-
cers, would prove victorious.
CANADA.
The Montreal papers are to the 27th of January. Intelli-
gence had been received in Canada of the apsointment of Earl
Cathcart as Governor-General. There was a tumour that the
militia was to be immediately embodied.
MEXICO.
The latest intelligence received at New York visa, from
Vera Cruz to the 3d, of Tampico to the sth January. Paredes
had completely succeeded in his revolution, had entered Mexico,
and was forming his Ministry. The following account of the
revolution from the pen of an (slicer in the United States Navy,
who was an eye .witness of what he describes, appears in the
Pensacola Gazette:—
As several very important changes have recently taken
place in Mexico, having more or less bearing upon our rela-
tions with that country, I propose to give you a brief account
of them. which cannot fail to interest your readers, as well as
the public generally. We took down to Vera Cruz, Mr.
William S. Parrot, our Mexican Secretary of Legation, who
bore dispatches for the Minister. Upon our arrival at Sacri-
ficios, we found that Mr. Slidell (our Moister) had pi eceded
us some ten days. He had been received with every demon-
stration of respe •.t by the authorities at Vera Crus, and
had proceeded on his way to the capital. Lieut. Kenneday, of
the St. Mary's, accompanied him with a view of bringing
back his dispatches for the Government. After Mr.
Slidell had been some days in the capital, he was
formally notified by the Mexican Government, that
it could not receive him in the capacity in which he came,
which was that of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary—the Government not considering itself bound by
the promise it had made us of receiving a special Minister,
charged with the negotiation of the Texian difficulty, to receive
the usual Minister resident sent from one friendly power to an-
other, as the reception of the latter would imply a state of
friendly and pacific intercourse which does not exist. The Go.
vernment, however, did not require that Mr. Slidell should
withdraw from the country—on the contrary, it gave him per-
mission to retire to Jalapa, a pleasant little town some sixty
miles from Vera Cruz—there to await the further instructions
of his Government. Such was the state of things when
the St. Mary's sailed, and the above was, no doubt,
the substance of Mr. Slidell's dispatch to the Govern-
ment by that vessel. In the mean time the country was on
the eve of a revolution, which broke out the next day after
the St. Mary's left. It will be recollected, that General
Paredes commanded a division of the army, called the " Army
of reserve," and stationed in the Department of San Luis Po-
tosi—the Department adjoining Tamaulipas, in which latter
Department Tampico is situated ; which army was destined
to second any movement that might be made by Gen. Arista,
who commanded the Northern fr. ntier. if we may judge by
the tone of the correspondence which bad passed between
Gen. Paredes and the Minister of War, and which has been
published in all the Vera Crue papers, his troops as
well as those of Arista were exceedingly anxious to com-
mence the war upon Texas ; to enable him to do
which, he importuned the Government for the necessary sup-
plies, which it denied him, under one pretext or other, although
it had, as Paredes alleges, ample funds for the purpose in the five
million loan authorised by Congress. The army, grown tired
of the state of inactivity to which the Government had reduced
it, naturally became disaffected. The opposition press fanned
the mark of disaffection into a flame. The most vehement and
bitter denunciations were every day launched against the Ad-
ministration, charging it with every species of corruption
fraud, peculation, and even treason—in entertaining the design
of re-opening negotiations with the United States for the sale
of Texas, New Mexico, and California; and after the arrival
of Mr. Slidell, it alleged that this gentleman came among them
empowered to offer a corrupt bribe of five millions of dollars, the
price of their dishonour and treason. These attacks followed
each other in quick succession and were written with warmth
and ability. The following extracts from the Veracrusano
Libre will give you a just idea of the tone of the opposition
press, generally, which, as they say, is the tone of the whole
Mexican people :
" No ! The sale of Texas shall not be consummated, neither
under the pretext of settling boundaries shall the perfidious
Yankees extend their rapacity to other departments, not less
rich and precious. Let them keep their infamous bribe of five
or six millions of dollars, as the valiant Mexican army does not
deal in such opprobrious transactions with the enemies of its
country, and is resolved to defend to the life of the las' veteran
the intagrity of the territory and the national honour."
The disaffection which had been thus gathering head, broke
out into open rebellion and revolution as soon as t e arrival of
Mr. Slidell was made known at the head quarters of General
Paredes, who forthwith issued his pronunriamento, or manifesto
against the Government. The pronunciamento was re-echoed
by the fortifications and garrisoned towns as soon as received—
the train having been well laid, and the match no sooner ap-
plied than the explosion took place almost simultaneously all
over the country. The city of Mexico, even the very seat of the
Government, throwing wide its gates as soon as Paredes
sounded his first bugle in its spacious valley—notwithstanding
Herrera had taken all the precautions in his power for the de-
fence of this last stronghold of his party. Indeed, he used his
authority so arbitrarily as to give just cause of offence to the
eitizens, seizing upon the public money without warrant of law,
suspending the liberty of the press, levying forced contribu-
tions, and maltreating and arresting many of the principal in-
dividuals. Among others, the Archbishop was forced to take
refuge in Tacubaya, and Almonte secreted himself in the city.
The news of the revolution reached Vera Cruz on the morn-
ing of the 23,1 of December, and in a few hours thereafter we
were astounded by the reports of the heavy guns of the Castle,
as they gave a hearty response to the grito of their companions
of Potosi. The fleets followed the example of the Castle ; and
a salute from the steamer Montezuma, with the English flag at
her fore, and the Spanish at her mizen, announced its determi-
nation also to adhere to the pronunciamento. In the city of
Vera Cruz occurred the only resistance we have heard
of This city is garrisoned by two thousand troops. One
hundred of this number, with a colonel at their head,
stood fast by the government, took up their arms and
marched out of their barracks. firing a volley as they passed
upon those who remained, and killinga captain anti two soldiers,
They then formed in a public square to consider what course
they should pursue ; but finding themselves alone in their strug-
gle against the popular current, they continued their march, and
strange to say, were permitted to du so, unmolested, into the
open country.
Paredes is now master of the capital and of the country. The
administrationof Gen. Herrera, who succeeded Santa Anna,
having continued just one year. To show you how much the
arrival of Mr. Slidell had to do with bringing things to a crisis,
I extract the following paragraph from the manifest of the gar-
rison at Tampico, announcing their adhesion to the movement
of Paredes :
' The officers here assembled are convinced that the adminis-
tration does not intend to prosecute the war against Texas,_
thus setting at defiance the will of the nation, and that, with
the greatest assurance in the face of the whole people, it is
actually treating with the Government of the United States for
the sale of Texas, and for aught we know the Californias also,
and that therefore it behoves the army and the people to dis-
pose an administration which has so little regard for the national
honour, &e. Etc.
A rumour was current in our streets to day that Mr. Slidell
had been murdered in Mexico by the troops of General Pa-
redes. It was said at first to have been transmitted by the
telegraph from Baltimore. We can find no foundation for
the rumour. In fact, it was stated three days ago, but not
thrown into general circulation till this morning.
—/Yuslting-
ton Union, Thursday.
The American naval forces in the Gulf had been increased
by the junction of the frigates Cumberland and Potemac ;
and the army on the Rio Grande was kept in good fighting
condition. It was considered probably that the President would
recommend decisive measures to be adopted towards Mexico.
TEXAS.
(From the New Orleans Picayune, Jan. 18. )
LATEST FROM TEXAS. —By the arrival since our last of the
steamship New York, Captain Phillips, we have Galveston
dates to the 11th, and Corpus Christi to the 7th.
It would appear that General Darnell has been elected Lieu-
tenant-Governor of the new state by a small majority. The
majority of General Henderson for Governor is very heavy.
The news from the frontiers is of little interest. Emigration
continued, the roads being filled with waggons, &c., &c.
Washington Union, Thursday.
An extensive fire had occurred at Philadelphia on Jan. 18,
which had destroyed several stores, and property to the amount
of 125,000 dollars. It was supposed to have been the work of
an incendiary
MONEY MARKET, JAN. 31, 1 ?.M.
There was very little doing in stocks to-day. The sales
principally for cash, and at an advance on yesterday's prices of
one and two per cent. Long Island went up 2 per cent. ;
Canton, I ; Norwich and Worcester, 2; Harlem, li; Morris
Canol, ; Reading Railroad, 14 ; Farmers Loan, *.
The
premium. for sterling exchange were Bto more
cent. The demand for bills this morning was limited than anticipated. _

THURSDAY AFTERNOON._AbOUt ten o'clock this
morning news reached Peririth, by express, that about
500 Irish were on their road to the town from the North.
The yeomanry and magi-trate went out to meet them,
and atter much to do a reconciliation was effected, by
arranging that the Irish should have their monthly pay.
During this time scouts from the English party were
busily employed al,ng the line in collecting additional
forces from Shap, &c. Mr. Mould, however, proceeded
thither, and sucoeeded in keepng them back. Detach-
ments of the cavalry, of twelve, were placed at
Brougham-bridge, Eamont-bridge, Tevil foot-bridge, as
I well as at other places, to prevent the
English from again entering Penrith. Every shop in
the town was closed, and business at a stand. The Irish
were all armed. several having guns, scythes, pitchforks,
&c., and seemed very determined. The Occupiers of the
huts at Yanwath are at present removing their furni-
ture, &c., in anticpation of their dwellings being de-
stroyed. The Kendal troop of cavalry has also been
called out to suppress the tumult which has arisen at
Kendal.

FRIDAY MORNING.—AII is peaceable and quiet. The
cavalry and policemen are still under ants. The coun-
ties of Westmoreland and Cumberland have been put
into the greatest excitement. The wounded men, with
two excepti,ms, are doing well. Those two are still
dangerous.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASES.
Acceptances for the Handicap of 20 soya. each. 10 fotfeit, &c.
Firefly, aged, 12st 81b—Cureall, aged, 12st 41b—Switcher,
5 yrs, V2st 41b—St. Leger, 6 yrs, 12st—Lycurgus, aged, llst
121b—Pioneer, 6 yrs, list 121b—Regalia, aged, list 121 b
Eagle, aged, list 121b—Crcesus, aged, list 121b—Golden
Pippin, aged, list 121b—Alice Gray aged, list 121b—Little
John, list 101b—The Hawk, aged, list 71b—Major A, 6 yrs,
list 61b—Coiner, aged, list 61b—Troubadour, aged, list 61b
—Culverthorpe, aged, 1 Ist 41b—Carlow, I Ist 41b—Brenda,
aged, Ilst 41b—Tinderbox; agrd, llst 41b—Peter Simple, aged,
list 21b—Boxkeeper, 1 lst—Homihiharri:u. aged, list—Eu-
gene Sue list 121 b —Mameluke, lOst 121b—Wiverton lOst 121 b
—Pickwick, lOst 101b—The Artist, 6 yrs, 10st 81b—Peram-
bulator, 6 yrs, lOst I.4lb—Wilton, aged, lOst 61b— Velute,
6 yrs, lOst 61b—Scavenger, 6 yrs, lOst 21b—br g by Oliver
Cromwell dam by Strephon, lOst—and Lady Grey, 10st.
The rest declared forfeit.
The Free Handicap Hurdle Race Stakes of 10 soya. each, &c.
Pedlar, aged, 12st—New Brighton, 6 yrs, list 101b—Clear
the Kitchen, aged, list 71b—Everton, 6 yrs, list 41b—
Quicksilver, 6 yrs, list—Chintz Print, 6 yrs, lOst 101 b
Single Peeper, aged, 10st 81b—Sands, 6 yrs, lOst 61b—The
Artist, 6 3 rs. lOst 61b—Sir Edward, aged, lOst 21b—Grace
Darling, aged, lOst—Alice, 9st 111b—Artful Dodger, aged,
9st 101 b—and Violet, Ost 91b.
HEREFORD GRAND STEEPLE-CHASE.—THURSDAY.
A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 miles, was won by Mr.
J. Moseley's Jerry, boating Gipsey Queen and The Mer-
chant.
The Sweepstakes, of 3 sovs. each, were won in three heats
by Mr. Turner's Brewood, beating Delamere and two others.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
CUESTER Cur.-500 to 25 agst Best Bower-22 to 1 agst
Whinstone-25 to 1 agst The Baron-35 to 1 agst Fitzallen
(take 50)-500 to 10 each eget Discord, Inheritress, Lothario,
and Lady 'Midair.
DERRY.-5 to 1 agst Sting-500 to 15 agat Tibthorpe.
The above are all the bets laid since Tuesday.
COURSING.—NEWMAIKET, FRIDAY.
The Derby was won by Mr. Debede's Dunkirk.
The Cup was won by Lord Stradbroke's Miles, beating
Mr. Fryson's Figaro.
The Oaks was won by Lord Stradbroke's Meg; Mr. Fysores
Fenella ran up.
The Port Stakes were won by Lord Stradbroke'e
tonian

NEWCASTLE MEETING, FEB. 10 AND 11.
The Champion Stakes were won by Mr. Herron's Toting
Champion; Mr. Charlton's Tyneside ran up.

Dori FRANCISCO HlDALGO.—Another novelty of the
dwarf species, rejoicing in the above euphonious title, has
just arrived in London, and is now exhibiting at the Cosmo-
rama rooms. The little personage is a native of Madrid,
and differs from the dmarfs who have before been exhibited
in London, in that he has arrived at years of maturity. The
Don, though only 29 inches high, just three-and-a-half spans
of an ordinary men, is 42 years of age. He possesses an ex-
tremely animated and intellectual countenance, and those
who can converse with him in his native tongue, in Portu-
guese, or in French, find him a witty and agreeable compa-
nion. He is an accomplished Spaniard, and, in addition to
his other qualifications, he sings several popular airs in a
flue manly voice, putting one, in fact, a good deal in mind of
the great Lablache in miniature.
RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER TUE MENAI STRAITS
The Government having refused to sanction the use of the
suspension-bridge of Telford, for the very good reason
that its security, for such a use, was by no means
satisfactorily established, or rather, that the opposite
was certainly proved ; a new bridge of two arches, at
a different point of the strait, was therefore deter-
mined on, where, however, one of the arches must
inevitably have a span of not less than 450 feet. For
this object the engineer originally proposed a cast-iron
arch, of a circular segment, in nearly the usual form,
but it was decidedly ohj•cted to by the Admiralty,
as not affording sufficient head-way, near the spring
of the arch, for ships under full sail. A bridge per-
fectly fiat from one side of the arch to the other was
thus rendered imperative, and the engineer had to set his wits
to work to accomplish one of the most difficult problems. yet
unsolved in railway history. Mr. It. Stephenson has already
carried out the use of iron in railway-bridges to a greater
extent than most other engineers; and for this purpose he is
to adopt the favourite material, and is about to lay across
the Menai Straits an iron beam 450 feet long, supported on
stele pillars at both ends. The proposal is hold; but the
method proposed for executing it is ingenious. This great iron
beam, 450 feet long, is to be 30feet deep and 15 feet wide, with
a hollow in the centre, and this hollow is to be so large, that
the railway train shall pass along in the heart or centre
of the beam. This beam will simply be laid across
the 3fenai Straits : one end joining the railway on
one side of the straits, and the other end joining the
railway at the other side of the straits ; so that pas-
sengers going along the line will simply be whirled
through the heart of the beam without any perceptible dif-
feren.:e between this and any other part of the lin9 which
may happen to be covered in or arched over. It is, in short,
to be an iron tunnel hung up in the air across an arm of the
sea,—.Railway Chronicle.

ALARMING RIOT.
Upon the Lar caster and Carlisle railway, now under
construction, several hundred Irish labourers have been
employed since the commencement ; but, in consequence
of the ill-feeling that exists in the breasts of the Eng-
lish labourers towards them, each party has been employed
in separate classes to prevent disturbances. Occasionally,
however, from the rancorous animosity entertained by
both, affrays have broken out, but up to Monday last
have all happily been quelled without any serious re-
sults. That day was the beginning of a riot of the
most alarming character, and which has been attend: d
with disastrous consequences. In the morning a slight
broil took place between the English and Irish naviga-
tors, in the employ of Mr. Morris, whose contract lies
about two miles south of Penrith, in which the Irish
were beaten. No further disturbance occurred, until
the following afternoon, when the English came to the
determination to drive the Irish from the works alto-
gether ; and accordingly a large body mustered, and
commenced an attack upon those engaged under Messrs.
Moss and Taylor, in number about 130, who being the
weaker party, after a futile resistance, were driven across
the river Eamont within a short distance. This, their
first effort accomplished, they next went to the works cf
Mr. Young, but the Irish in his employ having notice
of their intention, were prepsred to receive them. A
desperate conflict ensued, which lasted for some time.
At length the Irish were successful in forcing their as-
sailants to retreat, with little injury on either side. All
work for several miles on the line was suspended.
About seven o'clock in the evening, the Irish on the
north side of Penrith, dated with their comrades' pre-
vious victory, to the number of 400, marched through
the town to Yarwath, near the scene of the former con-
test, where they entered the huts of the English, and
pillaged them of everything worth taking. In the mean-
time, E. W. Hasell, Esq., of Dailmain, Joseph Salkeld,
Esq., of Penrith, and other magistrates arrived, who after
remonstrating with the men, induced them at a late
hour to return to their homes. The English navigators,
vexed at their defeat, and still more irritated by the loss
they had sustained from their huts having been plun
tiered the previous night, rose next morning en masse.
The intelligence being quickly communicated along the
line, numbers left Kendal, near thirty miles distant, to
join their fellow workmen, entisteg all they met with on
their way. The collected body on reaching Eminent
Bridge amounted to not less than 2,000, which number
kept hourly increasing. From here they marchs& on
the turnpike-road to Penrith, where utmostconsternation
prevailed, armed with bludgeons and such other suitable
weapons as they could lay hands upon, and ransacked
every house in the town in which they suspected any of
the Irish were harboured, breaking in the doors and
windows where their admittance was refused. What
Irish were in the town, on ascertaining the movement of
the English, skulked away through bye-streets, as
they best could. Two poor fellows, descried making
their escape, fell into the hands ot their enemies, and
would, doubtless have been killed had not a
timekeeper, at the risk of his own life, stepped in to their
assistance, and rescued them. It is to be regretted that
they are both severely bruised, and of the recovery ot
one of them but slight hopes are entertained. The
greatest number of the labourers employed on the line,
north of Penrith, being Irish, the Enelish left the
town and proceeded in that direction, driving the Irish
before them as far as Plurnpton, a villsge a few miles
distant ; at which place they set fire to and destroyed
several huts. Meanwhile, the Edenhall, Lowther, and
Dailman troops of the Westmoreland and Cumberland
Yeomanry Cavalry were called out, and the principal
part arriving at Penrith early in the day, were despatched
at once after the belligerents. The Irish having col-
lected, to the number of several hundreds, were about
to engage the English when then cavalry reached them anti
place 4 themselves between the parties, and with much dif-
ficulty kept them at bsv. During this titne some of the Eng
lish who had not left Penrith discovered thirteen Irishmen
secreted in a lodging house, whom they set upon with
the greatest fury ; and we are sorry to add that they
all, after manfully defendi.tg themselves, were beaten to
the ground almost lifeless. Affairs having here assumed
so very serious an aspect, the Riot Act was read, and
the cavalry recalled, the English proceeding with them.
The appearance of the soldiers having partially quelled
the rioters, Mr. Ilasell and others addressed the crowd
from the windows of the George Inn, which, combined
with a promise from Mr. Mould, one of the principal
contractors, to regale each with bread and cheese and a
quart of ale on their returning to their work, produced a
beneficial effete, and a good many • f the men lea the
town immediately. The fifteen men that htd been so
cruelly treated were con,eyed to an mu by desire of the
magistrates, arid attended by three medical gentlemen.
Three of them, from the wounds and contusions they
have received, are not expected to survive, and all are
unable to leave their beds. At present (Thursday morn-
big) all is tranquil, but what a few hours may bring
forth it is difficult to predict. The cavalry and police-
men are still parading the town. At one time it is sup-
posed that not less than 3,000 navigators were assembled
in the town of Penrith.