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KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL
The Committee of Management beg to inform the friends of
this Hospital, that his Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY has
consented to take the Chair at a MEETING, to beheld on SATURDAY,
the 27th of June, in the New Hall of Ring's College, for the purpose
of ra sing a fund for the purchase of a site, and for building thereon
a new hospital. The Committee earnestly entreat Noblemen and
Gentlemen who may be friendly to the hospital, and anxious to pro-
mote the religious education of medical men, to lend their aid and
influence in obtaining as large a meeting as possible up,n this im-
portant occasion, not only for the sake of forwarding the object im-
mediately in view, but to show becoming respect to the Most Reve-
rend Prelate who has so kindly consented to preside. The Chair
will be taken a Three o'clock precisely,
The Meeting will be addressed by the Bishops of London and
Oxford, Lord Ashley, the Vice-Chancellor of England, Vice-Chan-
cellor Knight Bruce, Archdeacon Manning, and others.
M. BIGGS, M.A., Chaplain to the Hospital.
King's College, London, June 17.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION
A New and. Interesting LECTURE, by Dr. Ryan, on the
PHENOMENA and EEFECTS of HEAT and COI D, at Half-past
Three .'ally, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, at Nine o'c ock. Professor Bachhnffner's LECTURES on
NATURAL PviILOSOPHY, with brilliant experiments, daily.
MACINTOSH'S REVOLVING ENGINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for ascending and descending Inclined
Planes, FARRELL'S ARCHIMEDIAN RAILWAY. the ATMOS-
PHERIC RAILWAY, all in action. PORTRAITS of Main
guished Men in the GOVERNMENT and ARMY of LAHORE,
magnified by the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. The OXY-HYDROGEN
MICROSCOPE. exhibiting a fine Collection of Living Objects. A
beautiful Picture of the CHAPEL in the CONVENT-Of St. CA-
THERINE'S, Jerusalem, by Smith, is one of the Series of DIS-
SOLVING VIEWS just introduced.
Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

MIDDLESEX and SURREY.

ELIGIBLE INVESTMENTS, LEASEHOLD GROUND-RENT
and ESTATES, for a long Term of Years.
MESSRS. WOOLLAMS and CARPENTER
will SELL by AUCTI N, at Garraway's Coffee-house,
'Change-alley, Cornhill, on WEDNESDAY next, June 24, in Lots,
A LEASEHOLD COTTAGE RESIDENCE and premises, Nun-
head-green, Peckham, and well-secured Ground-Rent from other
property at the same place; Family Residences in Southampton-place,
New-road, and Euston place, Euston-square ; sundry Dwelling-
houses, situate in Drummond-street and Exmouth-street, New-
road ; Johnson-street, Somers-town; and coach-houses and stables,
Southampton-mews, New •road. The respective properties are in
the occupation of highly respectable tenants, on lease and at will, at
annual rents, amounting_ to upwards of three hundred and sixty
pounds.
The premises may be viewed by permission of the respective
tenants.
Particulars may be obtained at the office of Edward White, Esry.,
solicitor, No. 12, Great Marlborough-street; at Garraway's Coffee-
house ; at the Colosseum Tavern, Portland-road ; York and Albany,
Stanhope-street, Regent's Park ; Eyre Arms, St. John's-wood ;
Eagle Tavern, City road; the Rosemary Branch, Peckham Rye;
Mr. Chouniert-place, reckham ; King's Arms, Palace-
yard, Westminster ; and of Messrs. Woollams and Carpenter, No 16,
Old Burlington-street.

REGISTERED PALETOT of LLAWIA
CLOTH, 6 and 7 Victoria, cap. 65.
Patronised by the Prince Consort, Prince George of Cambridge, the
Duke of Wellington, and the following distinguished visitors to this
country :—The Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, the King of
Belgium, the King of Saxony, the King of Holland, Prince William
of Prussia, and further honoured by the continued patronage of all
who seek an unaffected gentlemanly appearance. The cloth is
made of Llama Wool, a fabric , ost agreeably soft and elastic to the
touch, and is one-third the weight of ordinary woollen clothes, but it
corresponds in shades of colour. It is Nery durable, and naturally a
repellent of rain, yet so porous as to admit of a due escape of exces-
sive bodily heat. These advantages, with the very moderate price
charged, renders the Registered Paietot worthy the attention of all.
They can be purchased in London, of the Patentees only, at their
Wareroona4, 114, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhill,

THE DELIGHTFUL COOLNESS of White
Linen, even when exposed to the burning heat of the sun, re-
commends, especially at this sultry season, the GOLDEN FLAX
CRAVAT COLLAR, which is manufactured from a fine linen of a
peculiar snowy whiteness. It needs no additional cravat; in one
article is united both collar and cravat. By this happy ..ombination,
cravat and collar suffer no disarrangement, however loosely tied on
to suit the warm weather, possessing at the same time an easy ele-
gance of appearance. Obtainable through all the linendrapem, hosiers,
and outfitters in London and the country. Each Cravat Collar is
stamped " John Paterson, London, registered."
Merchants and shippers supplied by any of the wholesale houses
in London and Manchester.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ;
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
terests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
rates.

The division of profits is annual,
December of the present year.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary

and the next will be made in

EQUITABLE BON US RE-ASSURANCE.
This system, formerly originated by, the ASYLUM OFFICE,
to meet the circumstances of the favoured 5,000 Equitable Policy-
holders for the bonus of 1830, and since continued for the decennial
period to 1840, is now in operation for 1E.,11._
Further particulars may be obtained by application to the Resi-
dent Director, at the Asylum Company's Office, No. 70, Cornhill,
London.
ASYLUM FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LIFE OFFICE.
70, Cornhill, and 5, Waterloo-place, London.
ESTABLISHED IN 1824.
DIRECTORS.

Major-General Sir James Law Lushington, G.C.8.. Chairman.
Charles William Hallett, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
J. Harvey Astell, Esq. E. Bedweil Kemble, Esq.
Thomas Fenn, Esq. Foster Reynolds, Esq.
Geo. Palmer, Jun., Esq. John Clermont Whiteman, Esq.
W. Edmund Ferrers, Esq. G. Farren, Esq., Resdt. Director.
MEDICAL OFFICEBA IN LONDON.
R. Ferguson, M.D., 9, Queen-street, May-fair.
J. Forbes, M.D., F.R.S., 12, Old Burlington-street.
T. Callaway, Esq., Wellington-street, Borough, Southwark.
Persons in deteriorated health are insured at proportionate rates,
the Asylum being the Company which originally (in 1824) extended
the benefits oflife insurance to such cases.

RENEWABLE TERM INSURANCES FOR HEALTHY LIVES•
The advantages of a whole life Policy are secured by the smallest
necessary outlay in the first instance—the contract being continuous
year by year, whatever the future health of the assured.
Extracts from RENEWABLE TERM rates for select lives.

2d yr. lad yr. 4th yr. I_sthyr. I Gth yr. I 7tha_yr.

30 11 6 411 7 1 11 7 111 1 8 911 9 711

50 12 7 31 2 8 812101 1 2 11 71 2 13 1 1 2 15 11 1 3 0

Extracts from the EVEI,.: RATES for select lives,

AGE. I SO I 30 I 40 I 50 I 60 I 70 I 80

prem. I 1 11 9 1 2 2 012 17 1 1 4 2 0 I 618 9 I 10 18 G j 19 1

ALTERNATIVE.

Two-thirds, only, of the even rates, whether for select or diseased
lives, or for the risks of foreign climates, may be paid, and the
balance, with interest at 4 per cent. deducted from the sum assured.
FOREIGN, AND MILITARY AND NAVAL INSURANCE.
Distinct classifications of places, according to salubrity of climate ;
a specific price for any particular place, voyage, or voyages.
Officers whose destinations are uncertain, insured to all parts of
the world at a small but fixed extra rate of premium.

GEO. FARREN, Resident Director.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.
No. 11, LOMI3IIM-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Poet

office, London.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN LABOUCHERE, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN DIXON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. George Lyall, Esq., M.P.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks,Esq.,M.P.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. John Martin, Esq.. M.P.
Thomson Hankey,jun., Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq.
ehn Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. James Morri-, Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq.
Joh), Loch, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.

AUDITORS.
A. W. Roberts, Esq I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
Ac'rum—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared In June
1829, exceeding one per cent. per annum on the sums insured, on an
average of the different Ages ; and two subsequent divisions of nearly
equal amounts were made up to Christmas 1835 and Christmas 1842.
On an average of the three divisions the Reversionary Bonuses added
to the several Policies at the end of every seven years amotuited to
about 27 per cent. on the total premiums paid thereon during those
seven years, and the whole amount of Bonuses allotted at the three
Septennial divisions exceeded 530,0001.

Loans granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 5Qt.

-In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared
on .the 4th of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies
-which had been in force seven years at Christmas 1844, and the same
is now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted),
between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office ; and
also by the Agents in the Country Districts.
Notice is hereby given, that assurances which expire at Midsum-
mer Day must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or
with Mr. Sams, 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall ; or with
the Company's agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they
become void.

GEORGE KEYS, Secretary.

THE CATHOLIC, LAW, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
8, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square.
T
The Right Hon. the BusuEarloT Shrewsbury, Alton Towers,
Cheadle, Staffordshire.
The Right Lion. the Earl of Traquair, Traquair /louse, Peeble-
store, North Britain.
The Right lion the Lord Stafford, Cossey Hall, Norfolk.
A. 11. Lynch, Esq., Master in Chancery, 33, Queen-square.
Thomas Barnewall, Esq., 15, York-terrace, Regent's Park.
Thomas Eyre, Esq., 62, Pulteney-street, Bath.
DIRECTORS,
The Right Rev. Wm. Morris, D.D., Acton, Middlesex,
The Hon. Edward Pare, 26, Wilton-crescent.
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the lion. East India
Company, and of the London Joint-Stock Bank.
James Reads, E
The Very Rev. Mons. A. Magee, D.D., 9, Romney-terrace,
Westminster.
Rev. Thomas Doyle, D.D., London-road, Southwark.
Hen
3' Clark Duppa, Esq., Quarry House, Boughton.
" ilium SeYmour, Esq.
Francis INl'Donnell, Esq Usk, Monmouthshire.
COEN.."Jerninghatn. Esq
National Bt 8g
13,
AUDITORS.
~...„... Bank of Ireland
'Lower Berkeley-street, Director of th
, Montague-place, Russell-Kulue.
Burlingto=eePta. ralc-I;is—janieBl Cepjlaamnde: 3lM.aDrs.ll,
CoNstaalNG Sum:mole--44i
square. Illam Tee v arll.,REssq:
-n. Esq., 23, Bryanstone-
5, Old

STANDING CODNSEL.
England—Mr. Serjeant Shee, Sergeants' Inn.
Edm. Ueales, Esq., Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn.
Ireland—Sir Colman O'Loughlen, Bart., Merrion-square, Dublin.
SOLICITORS.
England—Messrs. ICOTTIS and Sons, 2, Bedford-row, London.
Ireland—Messrs. P. and D. Mahony, 23, lirdliam-street, Dublin,
CONSULTING ACTUARY—WiIIiam Lewis, Esq.
BANKERS.

The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and Henrietta-street,

Cevent-garden.
The London Joint Stock Bank, 69, Pall •mall.
SEcaETAßT—William Norris, Esq.
The Deed of Settlement of this Company haying been approved
of by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, is now lying for Sig-
nature at this 011 ice, and will remain until Saturday, the lath inst.,
inclusive, from Ton, 04., 19 Four, Y.M.
June 4, 1546,

LEICESTER AND BEDFORD RAILWAY.
Scripholders' Registration-office, 63, Moorgate-street.
Many of the Scripholders in this railway, who are of opinion that
It cannot, in the present state of railway and Government affairs, be
carried out with advantage to the Proprietors, have instructed me to
take measures for stopping the further progress of the Bill in Parlia-
ment, and for putting an end to the enormous expenses which are
now being incurred, and with that view a PETITION has been pre-
pared to the HOUSE of LORDS for the REJECTION of the BILL,
which will LIE for SIGNATURE at this office, between the hours
of Ten and Four o'clock daily, until SATURDAY, the 27th instant, sal
also at the following places, viz.:—
Leicester—Bell Hotel
Derby—Bell Hotel
-Nottingham—White Lion Hotel
Leeds—White Horse Hotel
Bradford—Talbot Hotel
Huddersfield—George Hotel
Halifax—Swan Hotel
Manchester—White Bear, Piccadilly
Liverpool—Mr. Lacy, Bold-street
Birmingham—lien and Chickens
Glasgow—John Miller, Esq., 37, West George-street
Edinburgh—James Pringle, Esq , 79, Princes-street.
The price of Shares, now that the Bill has passed the Committee of
the House of Commons, affords no ground to hope that the market
will be improved if the Bill should eventually pass. All parties in-
terested, who concur in this opinion, will therefore lose no time in
signing the Petition, to put an end to the ruinous responsibility which
will attend the registration of their shares, and the carrying out of
the project W. F. SPACKMAN.

ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY.
The LAST EXHIBITION this season, In the Gardens of
the Society, in the Regent's park, will be HELD on WEDNESDAY,
Jaly 1, and will include FRUIT. _ _ _

Tickets ca'. be obtained at the Gardens, by presenting an order
from a Subscriber,'price ss. ; or on the day of the Exhibition, 78. 6d.
each.

PROMENADES, to which Fellows have the privilege of admitting
their Friends, will continue to be held every Wednesday In June and
July, except July 1. _ .

J. D. C. SOWERBY, Secretary.

PUBLICATIONS.

Now ready, price 6d.
THE BROAD GAUGE THE BANE OF THE
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. With an
Account of the Present and Prospective Liabilities saddled on the
Proprietors by the Promoters of that peeullArCrotchet. By £s. d.
"A bathe de fol, on appren 1 a mire."
[Which, being translated for the benefit of Country Gentlemen,
means]—
. Mr. Brunel has learnt to shave on the chin of the Great Western
Directors."
London : John 011ivler, 59, Pall-inall.

Just published, price 6d.
NATTONAL UNIFORMITY OF GAUGE;
a Short Letter to Lord Dalhousie, submitting Reasons for pre-
ferring the original recommendations of the Gauge Commissioners to
the recent proposals of the Board of Trade.
Published by W. Stephenson, 12 and 13, Parllament-street.

ALETTER to the DIRECTORS of • the
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, showing the
public evils and troubles attendant upon their Break of Gauge, and
pointing oat the remedy. By an OLD CARRIER.

- Manchester: Bradshaw and Blacklock, Brown•street, and all
Booksellers.

THE BRITISH NAVY.
Just published, in Bvo., price 7s. cloth,
THE PAST and FUTURE of the BRITISH
NAVY._

By the Hon. E. PLUNKETT, Commander R.N.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
On the Ist of July will be published, handsomely printed in demy
Bvo., and copiously illustrated by Leach, the First Part of the
C OMIC HISTORY of ENGLAND.
By GILBERT ABBOTT a' BECKETT
The Work will appear in Monthly Parts, price One Shilling each,
illustrated by John Leach, with one large etching, and from six to
twelve wood engravings. It will comprise from Twelve to Twenty
Parts, and will appear regularly with the Monthly Magazines until
its completion.
London : Published at the " Punch" Office, 85, Fleet-street.

On the 30th inst. will be published,
CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL,
Vol. 5, being the numbers from January to June. 111:e
4s. 6d. cloth lettered.

CHAMBERS' MISCELLANY of USEFUL and ENTERTAINING
TRACTS. Vol. 11, price Is., in neat arabesque binding.
3.

CH ‘MBERS' MISCELLANY of USEFUL and ENTERTAINING
TRACTS. Part 21, price 5d., Part 22, price 6d.

KENNY MEADOWS' ILLUSTRATED SITAKSPERE, Vol. 1,
New Edition, with the additional etchings, price one guinea, cloth
lettered.
London : William Orr and Co., Amen-corner, Paternoster-row.

WORKS by ROBERT J. CULVERWELL, M.D. M.R.C.S. &c.
One Shilling each, by post One and Sixpence.
1.
1,1. SINGLE and MARRIED LIFE:
(An Original Medical History.)
CONTENTS:
Analysis of the Affections—Early Conventional Restraint—Mis-
direction—Marital Anticipations and Realities—Laws of Paternity—
Maternal Influence—Phenomena of Gestation—On Infelicitous and
Infertile Unions—lncongruous Alliances— Late Marriages—Love
Matches—Curiosities of Twenty-three Years' Medical Experience
&c. &c.

On CHASTITY and its INFRINGEMENTS
(An Essay for 1846.)
" Of human ills and frailties I discourse,
Those taught by nature, anti by art acquied.
Of gr!efs conceal'd, and disappointments keen,
Which young and gentle, the matured and sage,
The lonely and :he mated—all sustain.
In kindly spirit, herein,counsel's gi v'n,
How health, how hope, how happiness to gain."

WHAT to EAT, DRINK, and AVOID ;
With Diet Tables for all Complaints.

Contents :—Bow to ensure perfect digestiCni, tranquil feelings, a
good night's raat, a eiaar head. and a contented mind. By an ob-
servance of the instructions herein contained, the feeble. the ner-
vously delicate, even to the most shattered constitution, may acquire
the greatest amount of physical happiness, and reach in health the
full period of life allotted to man.
" How wesho❑ld live—what eat, what drink, what shun,
To reach in health full threescore years and ten."

These interesting little volumes, although hearing upon subjects of
very delicate import, as their titles imply, will be found of immea-
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these enlightened times, except that quality promulgated through
questionable channels, is at a very terrible discount.
In the exposition hereby offered of the till now hidden truths of
nature, of human disappointments and their ways of relief, it is not
contended that every reader shall become his or her own physician
any more than their own lawyer, but it is insisted upon that we
should know the simple principles of our owu organization, the laws
whereby our existence and the issue thereof in their several healthy
states depend, the duties that are expected of us in our individual
capacities in the family circle, and the terms on which the health and
happiness of the present and future race of mankind have to rely.
By such knowledge, and which is herein faithfully imparted,
health will be found to he in our own keeping, and happiness
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to follow, and finally by the cultivation of our faculties, which is in-
consistent with degenerate health, the mini as well as the body may
he exalted to the summit of perfection, as best becomes the highest
of God's creations.
The author's Justification for this seeming eulogy of his own writ-
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by their perusal—his accredited qualifications guarantee that the
topics broached involve his legitimate study and pursuit.
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THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on
the Infirmities of the System( n both sexes ; and on the loss
of the reproductive powers, with means of restoration. The baneful
effects of indulge- ce, &c., are fiilly pointed out. Illustrated by Er-
gravings ; followed by observations on Marriage.
By It. and L. PERRY and Co., Consulting surgeons, London.
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TURITYMITIES OF YOUTH AND
WITH TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS.
Just published, Sixteenth Thousand, In a sealed envelope, price
2e. Gd., or post paid, to any address, for 3s. Gd. in Postage Stamps
or Post-office Order.
QELF PRESERVATION: A Medical Treatise
on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity.
Illustrated with Twenty-five Coloured Plates on the Anatomy.
Physiolcgy, and Diseasee of the Urinary and Reproductive Organs,
explaining their various structures, uses, and functions, and showing
the injuries that are produced in them, by solitary habits, and other
excesses. With Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous
Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and other diseases of
the Urethra.

By SAMUEL LA'MERT, CONSULTING SURGEON,
9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London ;
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c.

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AMERICA! S.

ARRIVAL of the GREAT BRITAIN,
IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.
CAPTURE OF MgAMORAS, AND BLOCKADE OF
VERA CR BY THE AMERICANS.
(From our loverpool Correspondent.)
.s LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
The steam. ship Great Britain; Captain Hosken, arrived
here this morning, after a rapid passage of thirteen days
and a quarter from New York. She sailed from that eity at
three o'clock, on the Bth, passed Sandy Hook 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 Hosken, when
off Liverpool, was presented with a complimentary address,
signed by all his passengers. Just before the Great Britain
got away from New York,:a special messenger arrived there
with dispatches from Mr. Pakenham, at Washington.
Shortly after the Great Britain arrived, Captain Hosken
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 16th, from Vera Cruz to the 20th, and from
New Orleans to the 31st ; and the principal feature of interest
which this arrival affords is that the Americans had, without
resistance, invested Matamoras, 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 river
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 waggons 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 net
be moved, in their haste to escape, 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 Arista's
head-quarters were at SanFernnado, about ninetymiles distant
from Matamoras.
Of the United States squadron, lately off the Rio Grande,
the Cumberland flag-ship, Raritan, 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
hands 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 from the
people and the clergy. Paredes reached his present position
by inflaming the minds of the Mexicans against the
United States; and as he acquired power by promising tc,
enter into a war, for the purpose 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, given in the
Commercial Times.
The barque Thalens, 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
steam 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,
Orders 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 Mexicans.
The contractor Of supplies MT the American equadron
bad been forbidden by the Vera Cruz authorities, to furnish
them.
The Thalens was boarded off the harbour of Vera Cruz
by the United States sloop Falmouth, and a letter bag sent
by her.
The brig St. Petersburgh sailed on the 19th for New York.
The Republican°, of the city of Mexico, of the 13th, says
that the intention of the Government was to send their war
steamers Guadaloupe and Montezuma to Havannah to be
sold at auction. On arriving at the latter port, the steamers
were to hoist the Mexican flag and fire 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
Havannah.
We have been permitted to make the following extract
from a letter received from a highly respectable Mexican
house in this city:—

Vera Cruz, May 19, 1846.

A circular has been issued by' the Govermiaent, stating
that all American Consuls cease immediately from being
recognisec', and ordering all American citizens to embark for
the interior within eight days.
The steamer Mississippi yesterday ordered off a vessel
from 'the port, but she came in during the night—thus
proving the port to be blockaded, at least to national vessels,
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 Thaleus.
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 as ex-
cellent state of defence, and would require a very strong
force to be successfully attacked.
The Republicano 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 tn the defeat of Sonora.
The Apachs Indians have attacked the town of Arlo,
where they killed thirty- two Mexicans, the Indians stealing
everything they could lay their hands upon.
The Apaches are uniformed in a broadcloth frock covered
with red facing, and pantaloons of the same stuff with caps,
and they are fitted with rifles.
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 dispatch from the
Mexican commandant of the engineers at Matamoras says—
" The American army is not more Qum 4,000 strong, and is
in a state of demoralisation ; that there is no union among
them, without any desire for glory; that its officers are good,
but 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, or be entirely defeated in
twenty day s."
The exportefrom Vera Cruz in the month of April amounted
to 241,356 dols., of which 195,127 dols. was in specie.

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The course of events since the departure of the last steamer
has been marked by little of importance. The war in
Mexico goes on prosperously for the American arms, and
the disorganization of the American forces sees complete.
On the 19th ult., General Taylor took possession of Mata-
moros without encountering any resistance, and, in like
manner, the operations of the column below on the right bank
of the river have been unimpeded since it entered the small
town of Barra&
We have no tidings yet of any blockade of the Mexican
ports having been declared or instituted, but are in daily
expectation o+ an official notification thereof. Meantime,
while the American squadron had gone from Vera Cruz to
the mouth of the Rio Grande, or rather to Brazos St. lago,
in order to aid General Taylor, the two Mexican steamers,
Montezuma and Guadeloupe, took advantage of their ab-
sence to slip out under English colours and reach H. avannah.
Their right to hoist English colours would certainly have
been questioned if they had been fallen in with by our
cruisers.
The impression seems very general since the arrival of the
Ilibeitia, that Mr. Pakenham has received instructions for
a prompt arfd amicable termination of the Oregon contro-
versy—a result alike desirable and desired, we apprehend, by
both nations.

Our money and produce markets were very little affected
by the Hibernia's accounts. Cotton has been more active,
and considerable sales have been made without any sustained
advance ; and the prices here yet range too high to allow of
any advantageous shipment to Europe at prices prevailing
there at the latest date.
Bread stuffs are declining, and flour is selling at from 461 A
to 37! cents. The receipts here continue large, and, not-
withstanding some croaking, the general prospects of the
growing crop are good.
Rye has been somewhat more in demand, and some 3,000
quarters have been taken for exportation at 65 cents. the
bushel. •
Money is rather more easy. Exchange on London is at
from to 84 premium ;on Paris 5,32 to 5,0
the statement
321/2 cents.
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The United States Treasury, according
of the treasurer on the Ist instant, had on hand some eleven
millions of dollars, which will be reinforced before long by
the issue of some millions of Treasury notes, a form of loan
which, as furnishing a sort of currency of uniform value all
over the Union, has many advantages.
The prices of otocka generally have improved within the