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Captain ALEXANDER G. LAING, of the Royal Atli-
can Corps, arrived at Earl BATIIURST'S Office, Down-
ing-street, this forenoon, with Dispatches from Afilc:T,
containing official details of the late disastrous events
in Ashantee. The following is a list of the killed aud
missing from the Ist to the ‘..!lst January, inclusive:

His Excellency Brigadier-General Sir C. 'l`Cartity,
Coloni tl Staff—Thott. S. Buckle, F.sq. killed; J. Ta,k WiMAIM,
Esq. wounded, taken and ransomed.
Second West ludia liniment—Captain -Pickets, wounded and
escaped ; Ensign Wetherell, killed ; Surgeon Tedlie, killed.

Elyal African Colonial Corps—Captain 12Ebtrange, died of ex-
hausefon ; Ensign Erskine, sVoundeel, and escaped ; Ensign 1111Leau,
died of fever occasioned by fatigue.:

Royal Care ('oast Militia—Captain Illeddle, killed ; Captain
Jones, killed ; Captain Raydon, missing, supposed
Royal Volunteers—Captain Robertson killed; Lieutenant Dc
Graft wounded, and escaped.
Artificers—Lieutenant Cleland died of a coup de Weil.
Ordnance Storekeeper—Mr. J. Brandon nsiedng, supposed killed.

In a preceding column w•e have given some interest-
ing details of this calamitous event, the truth of which
w•e were yesterday enabled to confirm by officitl ac-
counts from Cape Coast.

In a preceding page we have given a copy of the
much discussed and much opposed American Tariff.
When the British Government is :displaying so much
liberality in matters of trade, and doing so much to
place 'commerce on a more liberal 1345, we are sorry
to see the United States acting on a principle so oppo-
site. Every attempt to make a people purchase native
manufactures or produce at a higher rate than it can
be obtained from abroad, is not only a mistaken system of
policy, but defeats itself by the smuggling it encourages.

By the arrival of a Brazil Mail, this morning, we
have received Rio de Janeiro Papers to the IBsh of
April, and the Independente Consiiincional of Bahia to
the 3d of May. They are principally filled with an
account of the ceremonies of the EMPEROR and Est-
PRESS swearing to the Brazilian Constitution, on rho
25th of March, and the accident which took place at
the Theatre, events already known to our Readers. I.:
is not a little remarkable, that although the EmpEnott
swears to maintain the Roman Catholic religion, and
" the integrity and indivisibility" of the Empire, yet
the oath does not contain any pledge as to its indepen-
dence, further than may be implied in the declaration,
that the EMPEROR will observe, and cause to be ob-
served, the Constitution. This omission may perhaps
be compensated for to the Brazilians, by his MAJESTY'S
declared sentiments at the Theatre in the evening, where
he was the Erst to cry ‘1 Long live the Constitution!" and
afterwards, " Our perpetual independence!" The Ex-
PEROR and LA:`RESS had left the Theatre before the fire
which destroy&.l it broke out.
The Diario atGovern°, of Rio de Janeiro, of the
15th rch, contains the EstPetron's Decree, fixing the
25th March for taking the oath to the Constitution,
conformably to the wishes unanimously expressed by
the inhabitants in all parts of the Empire. Accounts of
the proceedings of various cities on this subject ad-
dressed to his Majesty, are contained in these papers.
In the Paper of the 20th March, there is an adver-
tisement from the War-Office, which severely censures
the great inhumanity with which recruits from St.
Paulo were treated, who were sent from that place to
Santo, to be embarked for Rio : they were treated like
the worst of criminals, suffered privations of every kind,
even of mod, which they received in small quantities,
and hardly or.ce in 20 or 21 hours; so that they we:c

obliged to sell their clothes to blry bread: many of them'
peiished from sickness and want, others are disabled
perhaps for life.
His MAJESTY, indignant at this treatment of men
to whom is assigned the most arduous of all the social
duties—that of defending the country—a treatment
contrary to his express commands, orders the Junta of
Government of St. Paulo, the Military Governor of
and the Governor of Santo, to be most
that province,
severely reprimanded for this conduct, which would
be worthy of the most severe punishment if it could be
supposed to have proceeded from an intention of dis-
gusting these citizens who, though poor in fortune, are
rich in loyalty and elevated sentiments.
Ilis MAJESTY orders the most efficacious measures
ta be adopted, to afford the recruits in future every rea-
sonable accommodation on the road.
The following are further extracts:
RIO DE JANEIRO, MARCH 25.

This day being appointed by his Majesty the Empe-
nr for taking the solemn oath to the Constitution, a
„eNre of artillery from all the fortresses, and the ships
cf war in the harbour, announced at sun-rise this auspi-
cious event. The troops were drawn up in the streets
through o !rich their Majesties were to pass, on their
%ray from the Palace to the Imperial Chapel. At ten,
three discharges cf sky rockets, and the artillery of the
f,;its, announced the deptr.ture of their Majesties
ar
fro the Palace, and at t
noon they reached the
Chapel, where all the ceremonies prescribed in the
pr-.gramme published on the occa,ion were observed.
11i, >lajesty then took the oath to the political Consti-
tution of the Empire of Brazil. After this, the grand
:,:andard bearer, Baron Itenhanhem, appeared in the
Tirantla erected for the purpose, and read aloud the
Emperor's oath, on which there was a display of fire-
works and salutes of artillery. The Empress then took
the oath. Their Majesties then set out to return to the
Palace, where they arrived at five o'clock.
They wete everywhere received with demonstrations
,i. joy, and an enthusiasm which we are unequal to de-
sctihe, and which must farther have convinced their
.Majesties that their throne is founded on the affections
if their subjects. In the evening, their Majesties at-
tended the theatre, where they were received with trans-
ports; and his Majesty was the first to cry, " Long
live our Constitution r which he repeated five times,
and was answered by the crowded audience. The or.
chestra played the Nztional Hymn, composed for the
Emperor, after which, his Majesty cried, " Our terpe-
tual Independence I" which was repeated as before.
The piece represented, was the Lift qf St. Hanieggild ;
and at the moment when the Saint a•cends in a glory,
the scenery caught fire, which spread so rapidly, that
there was hardly time for the p:eople to get out; and
the flames bursting out on every side, the theatre was
reduced to ashes in less than two hours. Nobody pe-
rished, and their Majesties were on the way to St.
Christenbad when the fire broke out.—The following is
the oath of the Emperor :

" I swear to maintain the Catlinlic ApnAcilie Roman Religion ;
the integrity and indivisibility of the empire; to observe, and cause
to he observed, as the political Constitution of the Brazilian nation,
the project of a Consti!utiott winch I offered, and which the Nation
accepted, Aid requested that it might be immediately sworn to, as
the Constizution of the empire ; I swear to observe, and cause to
be observed, all the laws of the Empire, and to promote the general
welfare of Brazil, to the utmost of my power. So help me Goa,
and his holy Gospel."

OATH or IHE EXPICESS..

" I swear on the Iluly Gospel to obey and to be faithful to the
Political Constitution of the Brazilian Nation, to all its taws, and to
t!lc Constitutional Emperor, the perpetual defender of Brazil,
Pedro I."

MARCH 27.—Their Majesties have held to-day a
grand Drawing-room, to receive the congratulations of
the nation on the establishment of the Constitution. It
was extremely bi illiant, and the day was observed with,
E.c greatest festivity. The city has been splendidly il-
luminated for three nights, the 25th, 26th, and 27th.
APRIL 3.—A d:cree of his Majesty states, that the
Fanpetor, desiring that his subjects should begin im-
zz,e2iately to enjoy the advantages of the Constitution,
vie of the greatest of which is the remedying of abuses
is the administration of justice, ordains, that hencefor-
ward the Judges of all classes are to state, in the sen-
tence; passed by them, the grounds on which they
found them, that the parties knowing the reasons of the
sentence may either be satisfied, or be enabled to find
grounds for the appeal which they are entitled to make,
APRIL 5.—A Decree of the Emperor, considering
that the Constitution has been sworn to at the teque t
of the majority of the people, and that it is thercfo: e
necessary to elect Deputies for a new Constituent As-
sembly, as prescribed in the Decree of the 17th No-
vembet : his Majesty orders the said Decree to be con-
sidered as of non-effect, and ordains that the people
shall elect Deputies to the Legislative Assembly ac-
cording to the form of the instructions annexed to the
Decree, which are continued in several of the following
Papers.