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with advices from Boston to the 30th ult., and from. ;..,.. (-I:
New York (by telegraph, via Halifax) to the 31st. Al- " S
She brought no specie on freight.
The Royal mail steamship Arabia arrived at
Halifax on the 31st ult., and proceeded to Boston.
The papers do not contain any information re-
specting the differences with England on the enlist •
meat question.

On the 29th the ballot for Speaker stood as fol-
lows :—Banks, 99 ; Orr, 69; Fuller, 34; Scatteray,
8. Necessary to a choice, 106.
In the Senate, on the 28th ult., Mr. Cass de-
livered a speech, which occupied two hours and a
half, on Central American affairs. Alluding to
the remarks of the National Intelligencer, that the
country might be drifting into difficulties, he said
that he did not believe it. He thought the ship
of State was on its true course, and the pilot doing
his duty. Mr. Cass used strong language, denun-
ciatory of the positions assumed ley the British Go-
vernm mt relative to the Protectorate in Central
America, characterising its pretensions in setting
up a king over the Mosquito Indians as mere
mockery, under which England alone exercised
real sovereignty.
Mr. Clayton corrotorated Mr. Cass by reading
extracts from documents, showing that the British
Vice-Consul was the real Governor of Mosquito,
and gave titles to land in his own name.
Mr. Collarner contended that there could lee no
possible prete-:: rrsr the assumption of England,
that the occup4aJou she agreed not to exercise was
only prospective, and had no reference to the occu-
pation which she then held. He, however, thought
the time for legislative action had not arrival, in-
asmuch as the President, in his annual mesa e,
expressed hopes that there might still be an arnica-
isle adjustment of the controversies between this
Government and Great Britain. The subject was
then postponed.
A resolution,. declaring "ally agitation of the
slitvery 41 /teatime unwise and unjust to a portion of
the American people and injurious to every section,
and ought not to be countenanced," had been
adopted by a majority of one in the House of Re •
presentatives.
The Hon. Mc. Dallas is reported to have accepted
the post of Minister to England, vicei\fr. Buchanan.
There was a rumour current that a filibustering
expedition, numbering 500 men, had landed at San
Blas, Lower California.

A shocking affair had oc.curred in Kentucky. A
number of fugitive slaves having taken refuge in a
house the police officers proceeded to arrest them.
The slaves fired and wounded several of the spec-
tators. One slave woman, finding escape impossible,
cut the throats of her children, killing one instantly
and severely wounding two others. Six of the
fugitives were apprehended, bat eight of another
party are said to have escaped. The freezing of the
Ohio river offered great facilities for fugitive slaves.
Two British agents, named Galbr Lith and Gillis-
pie, who had, in default of bail, remained in prison.
at Buffalo since August last on a charge of enlist-
ing soldiers, had been released on providing smu-
rities for their future appearai ce.
Fourteen persons had been drowned in Chesa-
peake-bay by the capsizing of a schooner.
The steam-ship Star of the West had arrived at,
New York with $6t3,446 in California gold. Pas-
sengers by her had crossed the Isthmus of Panama
in 22 hours.

In the Court of Oyer and Terminer, on the 28th
ult., the second trial of Louis Baker, charged with
the !murder of Bill Poole, was postponed until
April next, on motion of the counsel for tl:e
accused. The trials of the other defendants will
not take place until the case of Baker is disposed of.
Advices from Havannah state that General
Concha was to leave the island for Spain, where he
will receive the title of Count of Havannah. His
successor is said tv be General Zabala.
From the New York commercial advices we
learn that the latest European accounts were con-
sidered unsatisfactory, and had caused a decline
in the prices of all the speculative securities.

COM!IERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.
Cotton activeland firm. Ereadstuffs firm ; unchanged
prices, but teed upwaris. Market to-day for fancy
stocks dull. Money-market f asier. Freight easier.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30.
Sales.—Cotton, 7,000 bales ; firm.
WASULNGTON, Jan. 31.

No Speaker elected.