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mail-.you •will undoubtedly receive notice oche final action
of the. Senate upon that measure.
The third day's proceedings of the Nashville Conven-
tion (slavery) consisted of the presentation, of resolutions,
all embodying exclusively Southern sentiments and some
of the moat ultra character. A general willingness, how-
ever,'was expressed to accept, as a compromise upon the
slavery question between the North and South, the Mis-
souri line of 36.30.
Steamer Cherokee, with dates from California to May
l, arrived on the evening of Wednesday the sth instant.
She brought upwards of one and one-half million dollars
in gold dust, and one hundred and forty-two passengers.
An excited feeling is beginning to manifest itself through-
out,the country at the delay of Congress in admitting the
new state to the union. The Legislative had adjourned.
In the towns, business generally was steadily improving,
and the accounts from the gold districts are quite as en-
couraging as at any previous time. Vast numbers, how-
ever, are returning by every steamer with disappointed
hopes ; and, toolrequently, with broken down consti-
tutions. Provisions were selling at barely remunerative
prices,; but for, timber, hardware, dry goods, clothing,
&c, the markets are overstocked, and prices were ex-
tremely low. The. British steamer Driver was preparing
to sail for Valparaiso with about one million dollars in
gold dust.
A serious riot, involving the lives of several persons,
recently occurred at Panama, and was only suppressed by
the united efforts of the local government and the consuls
of the several governments.
America's news reached New Orleans, per telegraph,
on Wednesday the sth instant, for the three days previous
to which the cotton market had been very inactive, the
sales not exceeding 4,000 bales. The following day sales
amounted to 4,500 bales, at llic. for middling.
The British brig, Ellen and Margaret, from Castle-
town, Ireland, detained at Boston last week, owing to an
infringement of the .passenger act, has been, or speedily
will be, it is said, released by the President of the United
States. _

At a meeting of the citizens of Toronto, Canada, on
the sth, it was decided that the city should not subscribe
for stock in the Huron.. Railroad Company.
Father Mathew, at last accounts, was at Natchez, Miss.,
the guest of Bishop Chance.
Exchange on England had been in fair demand, and
sales had been made at from 1091 to 110* ; the bulk of
the business, however, was at 1091 a 110. Francs were
dull at quotations, the demand being principally confined
to sight drafts.
The news from Europe, or the late advices from the
Tsland of Cuba, had not produced any marked effect upon
the New York money market. Capital is superabundant,
at low rates.
TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH. _ _

NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NooN, JUNE
_l3.

All danger of a rupture between Spain and the United
States has been removed. The questions relative to the
Contoy prisoners are to be settled by Mr. Clayton arid
Senor de Calderon, the Spanish Minister, at Washington.
Nine of the invaders had been shot, and there are thir-
teen prisoners now remaining in Moro. Castle.
The proceedings of Congress and of the Slavery Con-
vention at Nashville, since the departure of the Asia, are
devoid of interest.

Toronto, Canada, June 12.—Sir Allan MacNab's mo-
tion to amend the indemnity losses bill of last session has
been negatived in the House of Assembly by the decisive
vote of 35 to 16.

COMMERCIAL.—The Canada's news, as given in the
telegraph despatch to the Associated Press, yesterday,
has imparted great firmness to our markets, especially for
Cotton. Three thousand bales were sold on Tuesday at
full prices, and in some cases an advance of was paid
over the published quotations that go out by the Asia.
On Wednesday the sales were 3,200 bales, and prices fur-
ther advanced 1. About one-half of the sales were on
speculation.
Our advices from the South this morning continue of a
most disastrous character for the growing cotton crop.
On examination, large portions of seed are found to have
rotted during the long-continued wet weather ; and this
is said, on good authority, to be the case in nearly all
cotton-growing sections, except Middle Florida, where
the prospects are very good, but which will yield only
about 37,000 bales.
Flour continues very firm at the quotations of Tuesday,
with a fair demand.

Indian Corn has receded two cents. per bushel since the
Asia left.

Provisions are unchanged in prices, but are very arm.
Brig Belle Poule, from Monorca, arrived at New York
yesterday.

WEST INDIES.

The West India Mail steamer Severn arrived on Thes.
day at 10 30 a.m, She brings 60,000 dollars on a ccour
of the Mexican Dividends.

JAMAICA, 23rd May.—The markets unchanged. Bu-
siness dull. Exchange on London Jamaica Bank, 90
days, par. The wet season had set in, and the crops ge-
nerally presented an improving appearance.
HAVANNAH, MAY 27.—Cholera very much decreased.
Prices of produce not affected. Business in imports suf-
fered a good deal, and alse from the-excitement oaused by
the landing of General Lopez and his expedition.—
Tobacco crop large, and of good quality; prices moderate.
-About 140 prisoners taken. into Havana by the Spanish
Admiral, were in close confinement. The Captain-
General of Cuba refused to supply their names
to the senior officer of the American squadron, or to per-
mit him to have any intercourse with them. St lago de
Cuba has• been put into thorough repair and state of
defence in the anticipation, it is believed, of an at-
tack from another section of the Lopez expedition.—
No apprehensions for the safety of the city were enter-
tained in Havana. Sugar firmly quoted. Weather in a
great degree unfavourable for grinding, and the crop will
fall considerably short of the original estimate. Trans-
actions in Coffee trifling. Vessels were abundant.—Ex-
change on London, 11 pm.; On Paris 21 dis.

The Archbishop of Lemburgh has prohibited his clergy
from wearing long hair like the peasants, and from smok-
ing in public " like demagogues and sons of Baal."
A Paris letter says, " Louis Napoleon finds that, what
with race-horses, stables, card-playing, Mrs. Howard,
et hoc genus omne, £24,000 is a very poor income for a
man of spirit."
Letters from Leghorn mention that a good deal of
quicksilver is now coming from a mine in the neighbour-
hood of that city. 5,000 cwt. put up in iron bottles had
been sold at lir. 3.17.8, or about 3s. 7kd. sterling per lb.
on board.

Horace Vernet is painting, at Versailles, a most singu-
lar picture. The guillotine occupies a prominent space.
A heap of headless bodies are lying about, but the axe is
at rest, for the executioner is supposed to have beheaded
himself. _ _ _

The health of the Queen of Spain continued satisfac-
tory. Her Majesty, having entered the ninth month of
her pregnancy, had commenced, according to an ancient
usage, a pilgrimage to the nine churches dedicated to the
Virgin Mary.
GOLD MINES IN CENTRAL AMERICA.—The Trinidad
papers state that excitement had been created in Port of
Spain by the receipt of a circular fully confirming previous
accounts of gold in large quantities having been disco-
vered in the Yuruary river, district of Upata, in Angos-
tura, of Columbia, province of Carthagena. A rich mine
is said to have been opened, from which samples had been
obtained in gold dust and grain of various sizes. Of the
latter the average size was that of the coffee berry, and
the standard of fineness was 24 carats.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A JUDGE.—Whilst the Supreme
Court of Denmark was sitting on the 11th at Copenha-
gen, a violent wind suddenly forced open a large window
just behind the president, M. de Louzow. The president
hastened to shut it, but just as he had caught hold of it,
he made a false step, lost his balance, and fell to the
pavement below. The court, being on the first floor, the
height was considerable, and the unfortunate judge frac-
tured his skull. He was conveyed to his residence in a
desperate state. He is 62 years of age, a privy councillor,
and a member of the First Chamber of the Diet.

A SUTTEE.—The Bombay Telegraph just received gives
the. following account of a suttee in the presidency :
"The suttee occurred at a village about 20 miles from the
Cutcherry. The husband was an old man upwards of
60 years of age, and the unfortunate woman quite young
say 22 or 23. The patell of the village came in to the
collector to give information that such an event was to
be apprehended, and expressed a wish to have a guard
sent with him to prevent the sacrifice. The guard was
given to the man at once, who returned immediately and
with all despatch, but found, on his arriving at the village,
that the woman's object bad been effected in his absence,
and all that remained was a heap of ashes. All who were
known to have have been present at the suttee were ap-
prehended and tried by the district Judge ; 19 or 20 were
sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, from ten to
two years. No one seems to have advised the woman—it
was her own act, dictated and carried through of her own
free will. The parties were all of low caste ; the husband of
the woman was a spurious Brahmin, and by no stretch of
the Hindoo law, or rather traditions, could have been en-
titled to such a sacrifice on the part of his widow."
LOVE, MURDER, AND SUICIDE.—The following tragical
incidents are related in the French papers :—About three
years ago a tradesman, inhabiting the Quartier Breda,
destroyed himself in a fit of desperation, after having
written a letter in which he declared that his reason for
making away with himself was that he could not survive
the knowledge'of his dishonour. .A thousand reports were
current at the time as to the precise cause which led to
the catastrophe. When the husband was dead a liaison
sprung up, and was almost publicly acknowledged be-
tween his widow and a young man in the neighbourhood,
but satiety was soon followed by coldness and scenes of
reproach, caused by the jealousy of the widow, whose
lover seemed to neglect her more and more every day.
The intimacy between them still continued, however, not-
withstanding the clouds which so frequently disturbed its
course, and the young man was accustomed to take his
meals almost daily at the house of his mistress. On
Thursday last he had dined there as usual, when, having
scarcely risen from table, he was seized with burning pains
and vomitings, sufficiently alarming in their character to
cause the assistance of a medical man to be called in.
Immediately on his arrival, at the first examination of the
patient's countenance and of the substances vomited by
him, the man of science suipected the case to be one of
poisoning. His treatment was that usually resorted to
in such cases ; 'but in spite of the promptitute and energy
of the measures adopted the patient expired, accusing his
mistress of the deed. As for the individual in question,
as soon as the first symptoms of poison appeared, she be-
came completely wild, and when her lover was dead she
appeared struck with terror, shut herself up in her apart-
ment, and refused all assistance or consolation. She re-
mained thus secluded during two days, when suddenly the
neighbours heard proceeding from her lodging the sound
of an exploded fire:-arm. The doors were broken open.
and the commissary of police summoned. On his arrival
all that was found was a lifeless corpse. The unfortunate
woman had shot herself through the heart with the same
pistol with which three years ago her wretched husband
hid terminated his existence.