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authorities having cognisance of such offence by the laws of
Great Britain.

" Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, that provision shall
hereafter be made by law to secure:and grant to every white
person, male or female, over the age of 18 years, 320 acres of
land; and to every white person, male or female, under
the age of 18 years, 160 acres of land, who shall have resided
in the said territory described in the fitit section of this Act

for five consecutive years-, to commence within three years
from the passage of this Act; provided, the said land shall
be located in said territory.
"Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, that there shall be ap.
pointed, in the manner provided by law for similar officers,
a superintendent of Indian affairs, and such Indian agents
and sub- agents as shall be necessary for the public interests,
to whom may be entrusted, under the direction of the Presi-
dent, and in accordance with the existing laws, so far as they
may be consistent with the purport of this Act, the regula-
tion of trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and the
execution of the laws herein extended over the country de-
scribed in the first section of this Act.
"Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, that the President be,
and he is hereby authorised to cause to be erected such block-
houses, stockades, or military posts, as shall be necessary to
protect emigrants, settlers, and traders, on the route to and in
the territory of Oregon, against Indian depredations and
aggressions, and to furnish such ammunition and supplies as
shall be necessary to their defence.
" Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, that a post route he esta-
blished from Fort Leavenworth, via' Grand Island, on the
Platte river, Fort Laramie, the South Pass of the Rocky
Mountains, Fort hall, Fort Boise, Fort Wallawalla, and
Oregon city, on the Willamette river, to Astoria, at the
mouth of the Columbia river, on the Pacific Ocean.
" Sec. 8. And he it further enacted, that it shall be the
duty of the Postmaster General to cause the United States
mail to be transported on the said route from Fort Leaven-
worth to Astoria and back, at least once a month, by such
means of conveyance as he may deem most advantageous to
the public service, and on the best terms that can be obtained
by contract, in the mode now provided by law for the trans-
portation of the United States mail. Provided, that if, in
the opinion of the President of the United States, it be expe-
dient to cause the mail on the route aforesaid to be carried
by detachments of mounted men in the service of the United
States, he may order the said mail to be carried in that way,
instead of having it transported by contract, as above provided.
" Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, that the sum of
100,000 dolls. be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to
carry the provisions of this Act into effect."
The charges against Mr. Webster had fallen into universal
discredit, and had recoiled upon Mr. Ingersoll with most
damaging effect. On the 20th ult. a message was received
from the President, in the Hous;, in response to the resolution
calling for the accounts of the disbursements of the secret
service fund, which Mr. Webster was accused of having
appropriated in part to his own use, and in part applied to
improper purposes. The President refused to send
the accounts' vouchers, and replied that by a law
of 1810 this fund had been used by the President,
upon his certificate only, without any account or
statement of the object ; that the amount used
during Mr. Webster's administration of the State Depart-
ment was only 5,169 dolls.; that he could send President
Tyler's certificates, upon which the money was drawn, but
that they would furnish no means whatever of judging of
the propriety of the expenditure, or even of its objects. In
a case of impeachment a Committee could examine the con-
fidential papers, but the executive would not, upon any light
occasion, allow them to be published, for it would destroy
the object of the fund. He had not yet used any of the fund.
but should not hesitate to do it if occasion required. No
President would use the fund except in extreme cases.
Mr. Ingersoll then alleged that Mr. Webster proposed a
special mission to settle the Oregon question and make a
commercial treaty. Mr. Webster had denied this, and Mr.
Adams, being appealed to declared as chairman at that time
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, that Mr. Ingersoll's
allegations were utterly untrue and unfounded. The affair
ended in the President's message establishing the failure of
Mr. Ingersoll's charges being printed.
The President, in a message communicated to the House
of Representatives on the 20th, had declined to furnish the
information in relation to the Secret Service Fund called for
by Mr. Ingersoll.
The prospects of the Sub- Treasury Bill in the Senate had
assumed a doubtful aspect ; and it was thought that, should
it pass that body, it would be in an amended and ame-
liorated form. The New York Chamber of Commerce had
petitioned against it.
No advance had been made with the Tariff Bill.

The Americanjournals publish, in extenso, the correspond-
ence which has passed between the Mexican Executive and
Mr. Slidell. The documents add nothing to material to the
information we already possess.
"By the latest accounts from the army of Occupation,"
says the New York Herald of the 23d ult.:—
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" We learn that the Mexican army is now 8,000 strong
and continually increasing. To oppose this large force we
have about 3,000 men, who, by daily desertion and sickness,
are decreasing fast. To increase our difficulties, the Mexican
authorities have committed an act which, in all probability,
will lead to a general engagement between the two armies.
It appears that two men, who were the videttes thrown out
by the advanced guard of dragoons, have been captured by
the Mexicans ; and, on being demanded by General Worth,
who proceeded with a flag of truce for the purpose, the
Mexican officers who answered him declined to convey any
propositions to their commander until the American army
should withdraw from its present position. This, of course,
was not done. Meanwhile the greatest activity appeared to
prevail in the Mexican camp. Four redoubts were thrown
up in one day and one night, in expectation, no doubt, of a
general engagement."
The New Orleans papers mention a rumour that General
Taylor, in an action with the Mexican forces, had sustained
a defeat. The statement was entirely discredited.
The Caldedonia had arrived at Boston on the 20th ult.

The Unicorn had left that port for Halifax on the preceding
day.

Lake Champlain was clear of ice, and navigation will
shortly be resumed.
Our accounts from Canada are of much importance, and
bring reports of a probable resignation of the Ministry,
in consequence of an adverse majority in the House of
Assembly. The House was in Committee on the proposed
repeal of the duty of 3s. per quarter now levied on wheat
from the United States, such repeal having been suggested
in a dispatch from the home Government. The Ministry
advocated the repeal. A postponement of the subject, moved
by Mr. Merritt, was opposed by the Ministry, but carried by
a majority of 7 ; whereupon Mr. Draper, the Attorney-
General, moved that the House adjourn, in order that he
might have time to consult with his colleagues as to the
course they should pursue. The papers anticipate a resig-
nation, as we have said, but those which support the Ministry
express their belief that it will not be accepted by Lord
Cathcart.

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.
SALES AT STOCK BOARD, APRIL 22,
1000 IJ S 6's 62 - -
10000 Illinois spel. -
1000 Indiana bds.
1000 Ditto (new) -
5000 Penna. s's- -
21100 Readg. bds. -
50 Bk. Comp. Sep. -
5 Am. Ex. Bank -
30 Ohio L. and T. -
150 Nor Can d
50 E. Boston - -
50 Farm Trust -
650 L. Island IL -
275 Nor. and Wor.
50 Stonniagton It. -
150 Harlem R. -
100 Reading R.

- 107%

- - 66%
- a 71

- b6O 14
- s 3 23%
- 32%
- ch. 53 34

- ch.

SECOND BOARD.

45000 Ohio 6's '6O
91
50 Morris Canal - ... 13
200 Harlem R. "
150 Nor. and Wor.
At the Bonr.l to-day Reading Railroad advanced 1 ; Morris Canal
Company 34 ; Canton Company and Norwich and Worcester Rail-
road 34 ; Long Island Railroad 34 ; and Pennsylvania bonds and
Harlem Railroad M .-17. S. Sixes closed at yesterday's prices.
At the Public Board, Norwich and Worcester Railroad advanced
%, and Farmers' Trust closed at yesterday's prices.
EXCHANGE—Foreign—We quote bills on London at 1091,0109.7 i ;
Paris 5E27% a26M ; Amsterdam 391,ia39% ; Hamburg 354a35% ;
Bremen 7814a787834a78%.
NEW YORK MARKETS, APRIL 22.
Sales of about 50 bbls potash at 3 dols. 87% c., and 50 bbls pearls
at 4 dots. 183( c.
Flour is dull. Holders ask 4 dots 37Y5 c. for Genesee, but we hear
of no sales. In grain no transactions are reported.
Sales of from 600 to 960 bales cotton are reported to-day, a portion
to fill orders for French account. Some sales have been made at old
prices, and others at Y 5 c. to Mc. per lb. lower.
The market for previsions is without animation, and we do not hear
of any transactions worth reporting.

HENLEY-ON-THAMES REGATTA.—The Oxford Uni-
versity Boat-Club have presented 501., and Lords Lyndhurst and
Camoys five guineas each, towards this festival in June next.
SOLDIERS IN THE EAST INDIES.—A return has just
been printed by order of the Parliament, from which it is shown
that the following numbers of men have volunteered to regiments in
India from the last five regiments that have been ordered home from
that country :—From the 13th Foot, 447 men ; the 2d 313 ; the 40th,
421 ; the 57th, 327 ; and from the 39th, 500 ; making a total of 2,007
men. The last two named regiments had not yet arrived from India
at the date of the return being prepared (April 30.)
The ice of the Neva broke up in the night of the 10th
alt., and in the afternoon of the 11th had become so far cleared away,
that the governor of the fortress of St. Petersburgh crossed the river
in a boat under a salvo of artillery, announcing that the navigation
was again open. The river has this season been impassable for only
117 days, being not more than 14 days longer than the shortest period
Within the last 127 years.
FIRES IN LONDON.—The number of fires that have
taken place Li the metropolis and its suburbs since the commence-
ment of the year, according to the records kept by the brigade
authorities, amount to more than 300. The loss of life is happily net
so great as formerly, which is attributed to the judicious course pur-
sued by the superintendent of the force, in providing every con-
stable of the metropolitan police with printed instructions for his
guidance on discovering fire. The most important injunction is that
of keeping all doors and windows closed until the arrival of the
brigademen and engines.
The number of visitors at the Horticultural Gardens
at Chiswick, on Saturday, was 5,022
SERIOUS ACCIDENT WITH l; UNPOWDER.—On Tuesday
afternoon a distressing accident occurred to a lad named Janice
Cooper, aged ten years, the son of respectable parents, residing at
17, Jane-terrace, Isabdla•street, Waterloo-road. It appeared that.-
he was making fireworks, and, while mixing np the combustibles In
a mortar, the whole contents suddenly ignited with a loud report,
forcing out the windows of the room, and frightfully disfiguring the
poor boy, who was taken up quite insensible from the effect of the
explosion.
DEATH OF BENJAMIN WALKER, THE LUDDITE.—
Benjamin Walker was one of the four persons concerned in the
murder of Mr. Ilorsfall, of Marsden, on the 28th of April, 1812.
The other three, viz., Smith, Mellor, and Thorpe, were hanged,
and Walker escaped, by turning King's evidence in the case. Its
died at Cop in 3leltham, on Thursday week, aged 55 years.—Leeds
Mercury,
PRICE OF GOLD..--The premium on gold at Paris is
16% per mine, which at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10%d. per
oz. for standard gold gives an exchange of 25 56 ; and the exchange
at Paris on London at short being 25 70, it follows that gold is 0.54
per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Ham-
burgh, the price of gold is 435% per mark, which at the English
Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10%d. per oz. for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 13s. toga. ; and the exchange at Ilamburgh on London
at short being 13s. 11%c1., it follows that gold is 0.57 per cent. dearer
in London than in Ilamburgh.
THE RIVER NIBBLE.—We understand that on Mon-
day next a Government engineer will inspect the estuary of the river
Ribble, to report whether a lighthouse or a iightship would be more
suitable for the entrance to our river. The erection of either would
be a great boon to coasting and other shippers. and would, no doubt,
prevent many of those disastrous ocenrymees, the frequent recur-
rence of which has rendered the Horse Bank and other sand banks
off Lytham so much feared. Should alight be placed in the Ribble,
the 03.4 of Lancashire will then be well lighted, there being now
these useful beacons,
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