The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-29 00:00:00

TulE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY_EVENING, %TV NI"

This vote has also created ariapnistice. 6112diui-and
Mr. Benton, who have not spoken during the session, have
become warm friends again ; and other mutual civilities long
suspended, have been renewed.
The treaty will be prepared with all possible dispatch, and
will be sent in this week, probably by Wednesday, as I un-
ders'and from a Member of the Cabinet. _

FROM ST. DOMINGO.

AMERICAN NEWS.

MOST IMrORTANT FROM THE UNITED

STATES.

SETTLEMENT OF THE OREGON
DISPUTE.
ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
The Royal Mail Steam-ship Hibernia, Captain
Ryrie, after a splendid passage of twelve and a-half
days, reached the Mersey this day, shortly after
twelve o'clock, bringing 102 passengers, and the
semi-monthly mails from the United States and

The Ultra's (with all deference to their views of the ques-
tion) are much mortified, and will take occasion to speak
their sentiments when the treaty comes in. It may all be
finally concluded within tlu space of ten days.
The above information you may be assured is true to the
letter. PELHAM.

LATEST COMMERCIAL NEWS.
NEW YORK, JUNE Is.—Although it is but a few days
since the sailing of the steamer, yet there is a decided change
in the business prospects and feelings of the community, and
the moneyed concerns of the city and country.
The friendly and pacific overture made through the British
Ministry, and the prompt and decided acceptance by the
Senate of the same, have rut a different complexion on every-
thing. There is r.o longer any doubt resting in the commu-
nity th it the negotiations will be prosecuted to a speedy and
pacific termination. By this settlement all doubtful and
suspended questions with Great Britain are closed up and
finished—a state of peace and the most amicable relations, it
is believed, will exist and be perpetuated between the two
greatest maritime countries for a long period of tune. It is
believed that the war with Mexico must soon terminate.
Singly and alone, without the aid and countenance of any
foreign nation, Mexico cannot, in its prtsent weak state, con-
tinue a contest that must be fatal to its interests.
The settlement cf this question has had a most favourable
influence on stOcks of every description; most of the rail-'
roads have One up from five to ten per cent., and some
even more. State and Government have all improved,and are
better—nor is the present rise deemed to be all that will
take place; as confidence becomes more restored, and as busi-
ness increases, they will gradually go up higher.
The money market has suddenly become quite easy, and
' the banks are discounting again with freedom. Four and
six months' paper is readily.taken, both in and out of the
street. _

Canada.
By her arrival we have received New York,
Washington, Philadelphia, and Canada papers to the
latest date.

The news Contained therein is of a most important
character, as it announces the gratifying intelligence
that the dispute respecting the Oregon question has
been settled ; and that, after all, there shall be no war
for this barren and unprofitable territory. This has
been brought about by the acceptance of the
ultimatum sent out in the steamer of the
19th of May last, and submitted to the
United States Government by the British Minister
at Washington. On receiving the proposition, Mr.
Polk, who was irrevocably pledged to 54 40,
felt he could not adopt the terms contained therein,
and in order to rid himself of the responsibility of
rejecting it he sent a message to the Senate, in
which he enclosed the proposition, and left the
adoption or rejection in their hands. Accordingly,
on the 10th, 11th, and 12th, the Senate took up the
matter in executive session, Ns ith closed doors, and
after three day's deliberation adopted the proposal, by
a vote of 38 to 12, authorising the President to
conclude a treaty on the terms proposed. Since
then a magnetic telegraph has reached New York,
stating that the treaty had been signed by Mr.
Buchanan and Mr. Pakenham, and would be brought
before the Senate for approval On the 15th inst.
The terms of the treaty are to the following
effect :

There is good reason for increased facility, and a more
abundant state of the money market. For some months all
classes of business men have been contracting their debts;
all the tendencies of trade have been to draw in, until the
banks and capitalists have a large amount of funds on hand
remaining idle. As confidence increases, and prospects
brighten, there will be a renewed disposition to invest and
employ the money.
A large amount of specie has been drawn for, to be re-
mitted south, to meet the large expenditures of the Govern-
ment ; and exchange has been against us in this direction.
As, however, the specie still remains in the country, and as
the current of trade will soon turn it back again, it has had
no influence on the market.
Foreigh exchange, particularly that on England, continues
to rule in our favour. Sterling bills are most abundant, at S
to 8 per cent., which is at least 1 per cent. in our favour.
So long as this state of things continues, specie, instead of
going out, will come into the country.
That the exchange will continue, for at least a short time,
in our favour, is probable. There has not been much disposi-
tion to order any large supplies from abroad. Our political
relations have been so unsettled with England—together
with the war with Mexico and the unsettled state of the
tariff—it wi:l still be some weeks before the determination of
Congress can be known in reference to the latter; and it is
not probable that many goods will be ordered before all these
matters are in a better train than at present.
Produce of all descriptions has fallen very low, but parti-
cularly flour and wheat—the two last have touched a point
seldom reached.
The demand for flour for the European market has become
very limited. But the demand for corn and rye has not
diminished. Both these, of a suitable description for the
market, are taken readily for export to England. Freights
have improved, and vessels are in request. All British and
other vessels arriving here with passengers meet with ready
demand and quick dispatch.
It is very early in the season to determine what the con-
dition of the crops will be. In some sections of the south
some complaints are made of injury done to wheat ; but the
accounts from the great wheat-growing districts of the west
are most cheering and favourable. The crop of cotton last
season has proved, although large, to be short of that of the
previous year. The culture of this great staple has kept
pace with the increased consumption in Europe. For-
merly a million of bales, and even a less quantity, was con-
sidered a great yield. Now two millions of bales are
required to meet the demand' The plants are now started,
and it is altogether too early to make any prediction. There
is an abundant time yet for the insect, drought, or freshets,
to affect the growth. The weather, generally, so far through
our extensive country, has been favourable for all other
crops, and from present appearances there will be an abun-
dant yield.
Operators in flour have been kept in suspense, to learn the
fate of the Corn question in the British Parliament. The
admission of our bread stuffs at a nominal duty would tend
materially to sustain prices, and probably to increase our

1. The 49th parellel—'till it strikes the Sound separating
Vancouver's Island from the main—thence along the centre
of that Sound southerly through the Straits of Fuca to the
sea, leaving the navigation of those Straits free to both, and
the whole of Vancouver's Island to Great Britain.
2. The free navigation of the Columbia River to the Hud-
son's Bay Company until tke expiration of their pre-
sent charter—and acknov lading their right of property in
the buildings, improvements, &c., which they own south
of 49.
There are probably other stipulations about a reciprocal
use of the ports in Vancouver's Island, and within the Straits
of Fuca.
The New York Courier and Inquirer has the fol-
lowing :
These are merely conjectural statements of the points of
the arrangement, but they may be near the truth, and this
may be said with certainty, that to any proposition which
the President would submit to the Senate for their advice,
thereby clearly binding himself, if the advice be in favour of
the proposition, to accept them; and in the actual circum-
stances of the country, that body, as now constituted, would
give their sanction.
We may, therefore, we think, congratulate both countries
in the final and peaceful adjustment of this angry and
threatening controversy.
In respect to the Mexican war, there is no new fact to com-
municate concerning the military operations since our last
report. The official dispatches of General Taylor, announc-
ing the capture of Matamoros, show that the Mexican force
was retreating hastily towards the interior, having evacuated
that town on the eve of General Taylor's approach, convey.
ing with them such portion of the munition and ordinance as
they could. General Taylor, however, had captured large
stores and many arms, cannon and small arms, secreted by
the enemy previous to his departure, but easily found after-
wards. The strictest orders, which are strictly enforced,
were issued by General Taylor to his army, to treat private
persons and property with entire respect, and that nothing
should be taken for the army but upon payment.
Vera Cruz has been blockaded by the United States ship
Rieraton and one or two others. 'Notwithstanding a New
York barque contrived to get into port, although chased by
the United States' boats. The following are the official
documents on the subject of the blockade. The notice is as
follows :
"I have the honour to inform you that the port of Vera
Cruz remains blockaded from this day by the naval forces of
the United States on this station. Neutral vessels which
are now in port are at liberty to depart, with or without car-
goes, within the next fifteen days from this date. All
packets carrying correspondence, which are not engaged in
commerce, and under a neutral flag, are at liberty to enter
and depart from the port.
"I have the honour to be, with the greatest respect,
"ANDREW FITZHUGH, Comd'r."
The general Proclamation of Blockade is as follows :
In virtue of authority vested in me by the Government of
the United States of America, I hereby declare the ports of
Vera Cruz, Alvardo, Tampico, and Matamoros, in the Re-
public of Mexico, to be in a state of rigorous blockade by the
ships and vessels under my command.
The blockade will be extended to the remaining porta and
rivers of that Republic on the Gulf of Mexico, tweeers-ete
circumstances will permit—of which due notice will be given:
This proclamation is made for the information of all con-
cerned ; and a copy of the instructions given to the blockad-
ing squadron is annexed.
Given under my hand this fourteenth day of lilsy, A.D.
1846, on board the United States ship Cumberland, off
Brazos Santiago,
(Signed) D. CONNER,
Commanding United States Home Squadron.
Instructions to be observed by the officers commanding
vessels of the Home Squadron, in forcing the blockade of
ports of the east coast of Mexico.
Ist. No neutral vessel proceeding towards the entrance of
the blockaded port shall be captured or detained, if she shall
not previously have received from one of the blockading
squadrons a special notification of the existence of this
blockade. This notification shall moreover be inserted in
writing on the muster roll of the neutral vessel by the
cruiser which meets her, and it shall contain the announce-
ment, together with statements of the day and the latitude
in which it was made.
2. Neutral. vessels which may be already in the port be-
fore the blocrade of it, shall have full liberty to depart, with
or without cargo, during fifteen days after that upon which
the blockade is established.
3. The Ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico will remain
entirely free for the entrance and departure of neutral non-
commercial mail packets.
Mexico boats engaged exclusively in fishing on any part
of the coast, will be allowed to pursue their labours un-
molested.
In its present political condition, the flag of Yucatan is to
be respected. Signed, D. CONNER.
Commanding Home Squadron.
U.S. Ship Cumberland, off Brazos Santiago, May 14,
1846.
In a Vera Cruz paper, El Republicano, a notice is pub-
lished that the British mail steamer Tay was to leave Vera
Cruz for Havanah on the morning of the 2nd instant, and
"would take on board, as heretofore, all specie and cochineal
that should be offered for shipment."
The charges of Mr. Ingersoll against Mr. Webster had been
investigated by a Committee appointed for that purpose, and
reported to the House the opinion that Mr. Webster was
not guilty, thereby disproving the rash and rather malignant
assertion of his accuser.
A long correspondence had passed between General Scott
and the War Department, on the subject of the command of
the army against Mexico. His letters seem to have sunk him
in popular esteem, as he is considered as having been actuated
by wrong feelings in declining the President's nomination of
him as General of the Army of Occupation.
The papers come to hand this afternoon contain a long re-
port from the Committee on Naval affairs, regarding the
project of a line of mail steamers between New York and
Great Britain. The voluminous document concludes by
recommending the project as one of great importance, and
submits the outline of a Bill to carry the same into execu-
tion. Doubts seem to exist whether the Government and
Congress would adopt the provisions of the Bill.
From Canada we have papers to a late date, but they con-
tain no news of importance. The Canada Parliament had
been adjourned from the 9th of May till the 19th of July.
COMMERCIAL.—We have very little news of importance to
the commercial world. The money market at New York was
quiet ; a good business was done on the 13th, but the demand
for Foreign Exchange was limited; quotations on London
were 1083/4 and 10814 ; Paris, 535 and 53614. The cotton
market was steady, and a fair amount of busir.ess. The
flour market was firmer, and provisions steady, with mode
rate sales.

exports.
The sales of cotton on Saturday summed up 4,000 bales.
To-day the market is quiet, dealers not yet having had an
opportunity to digest the news per the Great Western.
The market on Saturday evening closed firm at 4 dols.
12i cents. for Michigan, and 4 dols. 25 cents. for Genessee
flour. Since the arrival of the steamer the market is un-
settled, and holders are looking for higher prices. No sales
are reported.
Mess pork is held at 10 dols. 75 cents., and prime at 8 dols.
Beef at 6 dols. 50 cents. to 7 dols. for city and country mess;
prime 4 dols. 75 cents. There is rather a good feeling in the
market, but we hear of no sales of importance.

CANADA.
On the 10th instant the two Houses of the Provincia
Parliament were prorogued by his Excellency the
Governor-General in the usual form. The following is
his Excellency's speech:—
‘• Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and
Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,
"At this advanced period of the season I could scarcely
have entertained any reasonable expectation that the present
session of Parliament could be sufficiently prolonged to enable
you to dispose of the various measures submitted to your
deliberation with the attentive consideration duo to the
highly-important interests which many of them involved.
" Your indefatigable attention to the laborious duties
which have been imposed upon you has, however, enabled
you to consider and to perfect the business with which you
have been occupied in a manner that, while it affords grati-
fying evidence of the cordial and united efforts of the several
branches of the Legislature, will, I have no doubt, prove
highly beneficial to the best interests of the province.
a. Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,
" I thank ycu in the name of her Dlsjesty for the liberality
with which you have provided the necessary supplies, which
shall be expended with the utmost economy consistent with
the efficiency of the public service.
" I shall immediately take the necessary measures for
raising the loans authorised by you, for the prosecution and
speedy completion of the public works.
Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,
and Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,
" The truly loyal and patriotic spirit in which you have
passed the Militia Bill claims my warmest acknowledgments,
and proves how confidently our gracious Sovereign may al-
ways rely upon the attachment of her Canadian subjects, and
the promptitude and energy with which they would at all
times be ready, should circumstances require it, to come for-
ward in defence of their country, and in support of their con-
nexion with the parent state.
" I have had the satisfaction of assenting. in the Queen's
name, to the greater part of the enactments which you have
passed.
" In regard to the Bills which have been reserved for the
decision of her Majesty's Government, that course has in
each case been required by imperative reasons, over which I
could exercise no control.
" The several addresses which you have voted to the Queen
bays been duly forwarded through the proper department to
be 1 lid at the foot of the throne.
"In returning to your homes, where your presence is so
much required, Gentlemen, I oubt not that you will use
your utmost iufluence to inspire confidence in your respective
districts by encouraging that spirit of loyalty for which the
Canadian people have always been distinguished, and by
promoting as far as may be in your power those branches of
useful and protective industry, as well as of commercial en-
terprise, upon which the welfare of the colony so mainly
depends. For they may be assured that however unfavour-
able the aspect of affairs may have appeared to them, there
exists sufficient power and energy in this noble province, if
well directed, to make the most of the resources it unques-
tionably possesses ; that will, under the blessing of Divine
Providence, create new sources of wealth and prosperity,
should those upon which they have hitherto relied be found
ultimately to fail them."
The Hon. the Speaker of the Legislative Council then
declared that it was the pleasure of his Excellency the
the 18th day of July next.
Governor-General that the Parliament should stand
prorogued to Saturday,
CANADIAN COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
MONTREAL, Jolt's 12.—AsnEs.—There is very little de-
mand for either sort ; pots are worth 225. 6d. to 225. 714 d.,
and pearls 21s. 6d. to 21s. 9d., with few buyers. The stock
is light, and there is a material decrease in the receipts this
season, which on June 1, 1846, were only 8,471 brls. of both
sorts, against 1t',296 brls. to same date last year.
FLOUR.—After the departure of the last steamer the mar-
ket continued in a very depressed state for some days; the
only sales worthy of notice being 1,500 of superfine at 295.,
and 1,200 of extra fine at 275. 6d. The advices received by
the Great Britain caused a farther extreme depression-
-1,500 barrels of a good brand of " fine" were placed at 265.
The Hibernia's news confirmed the decline. For the last
two days there has been a good deal doing, at low prices,
holders having met the views of shippers, as far as possible.
8,000 to 10,000 barrels of " fine" have changed hands at
235. 6d. to 245. ld., according to brand, and this afternoon,
a parcel of " extra fine" at 245. 6d. The market is rather
firm, and the best brands may be quoted at 245. to 245. 3d.
GRAIN.—We have to quote a decline of fully Is. per 601bs.
in wheat during the last ten days. A parcel of 6,000
bushels of very prime white Upper Canada was sold, this
afternoon, at ss. 41d. per 601bs. ex barge. Inferior samples
have been sold at 4s. 10d. to ss. No transactions to note in
other grains.
PROVISIONS.-400 barrels of mess pork changed hands
yesterday, at 1411 dole.—the only sale we hear of.
FREIGHTS.—There is no great want of shipping,, and
freights have advanced rapidly this week. For flour to
Liverpool and London, ss. 6d, per barrel has been paid in
several cases, and 9s. 3d. per quarter for wheat. To Glas-
gow, flour was taken to-day at ss. We hear of no engage-
ments for ashes.
EXCIIANGE.—There is a goad deal offering, and the de-
cline, since last steamer, is 1 to 1 per banks cent.
The Private, 90
days on London, are, to-day, worth 91 to 9i. are
drawing at 11.

WASHINGTON, JUNE 14, 1846.

Everything is quiet here to-day—dreary weather and no
life, except a general congratulation among certain political
parties, at the happy termination of all difficulties with
En Bland—prospectively.
I suppose you have received the ayes and noes, forwarded
on Friday night. I have not much more to add. The debate
on the message of the President was calm and moderate, and
conducted altogether, it may be said, on one side : the ultra
men (so called the 54 40's), said nothing, except to vote.
Nor did the Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs
open his lips. He had not been consulted upon the question.
The message from the President, when made' public, I
think will show him to have been consistent throughout, as
a gentleman, on his own notion of the question of right.
Circumstances have arisen, he says in his message, to make
it proper he should submit this proposition to the Senate,
from the British Government ; and as his precedent, he refers
to the conduct of General Washington in similar cases; and
he says he awaits the action of the Senate whether or not he
shall make a treaty on the terms offered.
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The terms you already know—the 49th line to be the
boundary, as far as the Straits of Fuca—then down to the
Pacific Ocean, with:neutral rights to the Straits—Vancouver's
Island to the British—and the navigation, until 1858, of the
Columbia river. The Hudson Bay Company to be indemni-
fied for property turned over to the United States.
Accompanying this message i a letter from Mr. M'Lane.
He says the question will be settled upon the terms he has
just bad from a late interview with Lord Aberdeen, but
doubts whether the British Government will agree (on one
particular of the terms) to anything short of the full naviga-
tion of the Columbia, as perpetual. Here Mr. M'Lane is
wrong, as the terms proposed only ask it until 1858. The
President then asks the advice of the Senate, whether he
Shall accept the terms.
The above may be considered the ultimatum of the British
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!FROM MEXICO.
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aofwth3ememauradaedr ofa
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child, between Point Isabel and Corpus Christi, by a party
of Mexicans, exceeding in cold-blooded cruelty any of the
previous atrocities of these people. It appears that a party
of fifteen, of whom Mr. Rogers, spoken of above, was one,
left Corpus Christi for Point Isabel, on the 2d or 3d instant.
They arrived at the Little Colorado just previous to the
battle of the Bth ult., where they were surprised by a corn•
pany of Mancheros, and being overpowered by numbers,
were induced by Mexican promises to surrender as
prisoners of war. No sooner had these blood-thirsty
dogs obtained possession of their arms, than they
stripped and robbed their victims, bound them be-
yond the power of resistance, and having ravished
the women before their faces, cut all their throats, one fiend
performing the horrible butchery. Rogers saw his father
and brother butchered before him in this terrible manner
before his own turn came, and his own escape was owing to
the fact that while the wound upon his throat was not
fatal, he bad the presence of mind to feign himself dead, and
was accordingly, with all the balance, thrown into the
Colorado, :where he managed. to escape unseen, and swam
to the ther side of the river, Thence he subsequently
made his escape to the Rio Grande, was taken prisoner, sent
l to the hospital in Mstamoras, and, after the battle ex-
changed.

.16 29, UM.

We learn from CaT,taTnfew Elie schooner Velasco, from
Port-au-Prince, Which place he left on the 20th May, that
it was reported that the Haytien army had been de-
feated near the mountains south of Port-au-Prince, by the
insurgents from, the mountains called the Pignalts. Several
hundreds of the defeated army had been killed. The Hay-
tien fleet, consisting of two barques, one steam-ship, and
three schooners, sailed on the morning of the 28th—destina-
tion unknown. The barque Hector, Hoyt, for New York,
having on board as passenger J. C. Luther, Esq., American
consul, sailed in company with Captain Tew.

FROM HAVANNAH.
By an arrival at New Orleans, from Havannah, we have
advices from the latter place to the 9th inst.
The Mexican steamers Montezuma and Guadeloupe had
arrived at Flavannah, and were delivered up to their builders
in default at payment for the vessels.
English. officers had announced that Commodore Conner
had notified the United States Government that it was use-
less to attempt the taking of the Castle of St. Juan d'Ulloa,
as it war, ;impregnable.
Several failures took place in Baltimore on Saturday, in
consequence of the tightness of the money market.

AFFAIRS of the RIVER PLATE,
(Per the Delphine, arrived off the coast from Antwerp.)
MONTE VIDEO, APRIL 21.—Her Majesty's ship Phi.
lernel sailed from this yesterday direct for England,
having on board Mr. Turner, and M. Chevalier, attaché
to the Baron Deffaudis, sent home for fresh instruc-
tions. The latter, it is said, has stated to his Govern-
ment, that they have only two courses to choose from
for the settlement of this question—viz., the sending out
a powerful expedition, or the abandonment of the ques-
tion altogether ; in either case his services might be dis-
pensed with, as, in the first, the commander-in-chief
would be sufficient ; and, in the second, a now minister
would be requisite ; he therefore requests his recall.
This can be depended upon, and the result of the deli-
berations of the two Cabinets, on this vessel's arrival
home, will consequently be most important. Ex-
change, 47d.
From Buenos Ayres webave dates to the 15th. Every-
thing was perfectly quiet, and no foreigner was molested,
nor was it even anticipated that any would be, whatever
might occur. Exchange, about 2i-d.
MEMORANDUM OF OCCURRENCES AT MONTE
VIDEO, FROM MARCH 14 TO MARCH 31, IN-
CLUSIVE.

14th. Arrived her Majesty's steamer Alecto, bringing
dates from Corrientes to sth March, and having on board
two ministers from Paraguay, said -to be accredited to
this government and the mediating ministers.
The commercial accounts received are most deplorable,
as may be gleaned from the following extracts from a
letter from a most intelligent person at Corrientes :
"With respect to the state of the province in relation
to business, I am sorry to have to draw a very unfa-
vourable picture ; the war, which, as you know, has
continued since the year 1839, had impoverished the
people generally, insomuch that the goods which arrived
here in the year 1844, although a great part of them
were sent on to Paraguay, remain unsold, at least one-
half of them. If such was the state of the province
during the last two years, how much worse must it be at
preseet, when two armies are ravaging it from one
extremity to the other. It is thought by the most in-
telligent people that the invasion of Urquiza will cost
at least 100,000 head of cattle, all of which will
be entirely lost ; for neither army can think of hides,
&c. Add to all this, the people of the country,
upon whom their families depend for subsistence, are out
with the army ; the latter have not wherewithal to
buy the common necessaries of life, much less to
purchase clothing. Under such circumstances the car-
goes of three or four small vessels would have stocked
this place for a year, so that if only one-half of the sixty
vessels that are coming up bring cargoes, they will not
dispose of them in ten years (for it will take Corrientes
ten years of peace to recover the same degree of pros-
perity which it enjoyed before the year 1839); the
wisest course that most of them could take, would be to
return with their cargoes to Monte Video, though they
had to wait five years the opening of Buenos Ayres.
Salt is offering on board at 1 dol. per fanga—what will it
be when large quantities arrive ? The Government, on
the news of the convoy having entered the river,
doubled the duties upon imports and exports ; in short,
the state of this province cannot be worse for busi-
ness than it is at present ; there is much poverty, much
misery, and not a little discontent.
" With respect to the republic of Paraguay, I cannot
give you much information. In the month of November
last a treaty offensive and defensive was concluded with
the Government of Corrientes against Roses, by which
the Paraguay Government bound themselves to place
under the orders of Paz 10,000 men. with as many more
hereafter should they be required ; 14,000 were accord-
ingly sent down, which arrived in the Rincon de Soto, near
Goya, a few days before the invasion of Urquiza, well
armed, but in a miserable state of discipline. It was to
gain time to drill these new allies that Paz retreated be-
fore the former ; 5,000 men more are ready at
present between Nembuco and Villa Franca, and
vessels are gone to bring them. Of the state of
business in `Paraguay, I can only inform you that
(facturas) invoites that have gone from this in the
latter end of the year 1844 are still unsold. Amongst
them, the greater part of the goods of Parlane M'Alos-
tar and Co. It is a miserable business; the government
will not give licence to yerba or tobacco to Nembuco
whilst any remains unsold there; so that you must
either take rotten yerba and tobacco, or remain with
your goods unsold. Special licences are sometimes
given (very few) to go to Asuncion, but even there
Kerr has been four or five months without doing any-
thing, as they all wait the arrival of the convoy. By a
late decree the government has taken the yerba into its
own hands, so that no private person can deal in yerba,
timber, or hides. In short Paraguay will be worth
nothing for business until the government is more li-
beral and the people more enlightened."
Captain Hotham writes that in his opinion nothing
will be done by the contending armies until next Sep-
tember !or October, and it is very evident all parties
engaged in the expedition, both naval and commercial,
are becoming most heartily sick of it.
18th.—Arrived General Rivera from Rio de Janeiro,
in the Spanish brig Fomento. He was immediately con-
veyed on board her Majesty's ship Vernon, in a boat
belonging to that ship. On the 19th he was released,
and again placed on board the Fomento, where ho re-
ceived visits from the town, but was not allowed to land.
He subsequently repaired on board the Spanish frigate
Perla. This Government are determined not to let him
land, and appears to have the support of the Ministers
in this measure, which is much exasperating his partisans.
24th. Arrived her Majesty's ship Resistance, from
England, for the purpose, it is understood, of convey-
ing the 45th Regiment to their original destination,
which tends to damp the spirits of those parties who
confidently expected an overpowering expedition in
support of their views.
26th. To-day the January packet from England has
arrived, but nothing has transpired respecting the ad-
vices she may
.bring relative to this question, if we ex-
cept that it is generally stated that Mr. Ouseley has
been nominated special minister to this republic. The
object of this is not known here.
28th. This morning several arrests have taken place,
amongst them several persons of note, understood to
have been tampering with the troops in order to raise s,
revolution in town in Rivera's favour; to-day (the 29th)
the city has, by public proclamation, been placed under
martial law, and by a decree of the same date Rivera is
ordered to retire to some foreign country, where he is to
receive a pension of 5,000 dollars per annum. Had it
not been for the presence of the two British regiments in
the garrison some serious outbreak would have taken
place, which would have rendered the situation
of foreigners very precarious. It is now generally
stated that the 45th Regiment will not at any rate leave
this for the Cape until after the arrival of the February
packet from England, now daily looked for.
31st—Nothing further new. General Rivera still re-
mains on board the Spanish frigate, and affairs in town
appear tolerably quiets No later dates from the Parana
or Uruguay.

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.
The occurrence of another Ministerial interregnum within
the short space of little more than six months will naturally
excite intense interest in the public mind, and until some
definitive arrangement with regard to a future Ministry be-
comes known, details in reference to the movements of the
leading members of each of the great political parties (if
parties can still be considered to exist), will naturally be
looked for with avidity.
A very general impression prevailed on Friday evening,
owing probably to the absence of the Right Hon. Baronet
from the House of Commons, that Sir Robert Peel had left
town for the Isle of Wight, with the intention of tendering
the resignation of himself and his colleagues to her Majesty
This impression, however, turns out to be incorrect. Sir
Robert only left town on Saturday morning, travelling by
express train on the South-Western Railway en route for her
Majesty's marine residence.
Prior to leaving town Sir Robert had an audience with
Earl Brownlow, and also with several of his colleagues.
The Right Hon. Sir James Graham arrived at the Home-
office shortly before four o'clock yesterday afternoon, and im-
mediately communicated with several of his colleagues, who
shortly afterwards joined the Right Hon. Baronet. The Earl
of Lincoln, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone were among the members of the Ca; ,1
binet who arrived at the Home-office.
Sir George Clerk and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert
called at the residence of Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
The Earl of Ellenborough has adopted the necessary ar-
rangements for removing from his official residence at a day's 11
notice.
A very general impression prevailed at the west-end of
the town last evening. to the effect that her Majesty had re-
fused to accept Sir Robert Peel's resignation, but the ru-
mour could not be traced to any authentic source.
An absurd statement has appeared in some papers to the
effect that Lady Peel had passed through Paris en route for
Italy last week, and this has been quoted as a proof of Sir
Robert Peel's determination to resign. Lady Jane Peel
ce on her
passed through the French capital a few days since
way to Switzerland. Lady Peel is staying at Sir Robert's
mansion in Whitehall-gardens.
The leaders of the Liberal party are up to the present
time perfectly quiescent.
Earl Grey left town on Saturday on a visit to the Right
Hon. W. B. Baring, at Addiscombe farm, near Croydon. The
Noble Earl returns to town to-day.

We regret to learn that the accounts from Italy re
specting the health of Lord William Russell are very unfa•
vourable. _ T,

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A TIPPERATty MAN A NEW ZEALAND CHIEF.-It
is stated that Heki, the New Zealand Chief who has given
such opposition to the British authority in that colony, is a
native of the county of Tipperary; his real name is Hickey.
Ile emigrated from Ireland some years ago, and was ship-
wrecked on the coast of New Zealand, and taken into the in-
terior of the island by a hunting party of the natives, and sold
as a slave to one of the chiefs, who adopted him as his son,
got him tattooed, and gave him his daughter in marriage.
' On the death of the old chief, his Irish son-in-law was chosen
as his successor, on account of his skill in war. Previous to
his elevation to the high rank he now holds, he changed his
name from Hickey to Heki, the latter harmonizing better
with the language of the aborigines.—Tifferary Free rresi.