The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-03-11

me-, nust 10 10 the mountain. IL the citzens o!
~. yTn,ed states were not allowed practical
.nusi,,v m the USE Of the st Lawrence, they mide
. 81 Lawrence of their own, Is yards instead OF
rs miller vide, nut sutficle to Carry stout barges
loaded with grain and -four. Such small but
useful st. Lawrence there Is, in fact II Is ex-
pensive and tedious; but what Of that, when 1t be-
longs to the Union, and converts Likes Superior,
Michigan, Huron, aud Erie iuto canal docks, No.
], 2, 8, and a, Of New York
II Is an Ingl0riOns sort OF tyranny to deny men
the tree bountles OF nature. and to monopolize a
great highway OF commerce. There are regions
OF the world where We maintain a very different
doctrine, and claim tor mans common use the
arterial streams Ot great continents But We prac-
tically deny the river and the guilt OF the st. Law
renee to our republican neignbors, while We re-
fuse him share in lie principal commerce. Ii is
still more inelorious 10 be braten, and to lind that
a narrow canal, with nearly hundred locks, and
with banks 20 fragile as to allow no greater
speed than three miles an hour, alter all Is a
silver stream Of wealth, tar more useful and
productive than one OF the nOblest river;
in the world The food which flows to this
crowded capital snd To the Vanished hordes o
Ireland through Buffalo aud Albany and the tedious
locks between, and winch is thrice transliIppeC
before It reaches the Atlantic, very far exceed.
the quantity we recrive through the Ontario, the
St Lawrence, and the gigantic ship canals, the
Rideau and the Welland, with which we have
surmounted the natural difficulties of the naviga
tion. The vulgar American canal has beaten the
British rlver, through the fundamentally of ou
own demands. England herself gives the virtual
preference to the canal, by using 1t more than it,
The Canadian authorities differing as they
on the question ut Tree trade, and slightly disagree
ing as to the minor items OF the calculation, agree
an the OPINION that Quebec cannot pretend to vie
with New York, or the Canadian with the Amerl-
can settler unless by repeating the navigation
laws, and 40 reducing the pIce OF freight at Que
bee. Whatever the comparative cost OF transport
from the interior Of New York and Quebec, 1t Is
IL 4, unIn shIa n
freight from Quebec TO this country must seriously
clog the latter in The srduous competition. Asthe
matter now stands. Quebec and all Canada are
wellnIgh beaten 10 The race New York, with Its
forests OF merchantmen within sight OF the ocean,
is above match for Qn-bec, some hundred miles
up difficult river, and further shut up by resrrlc
tive laws. 1t IS now proposed to remove the dis
ability under which It now abors, and to permit
tn, Americans To bring us the produce of the
Interior by our own river, as we'll as by their own
canal.
Cuba and the United States
Ell Naeionui, of CadlZ, OF the 5th ultimo, has the
following statement regarding the rumors preva-
lent few month back, OF contemplated sale OF
the island of Cuba, by the Spanish government, to
the government OF The United States:-
In the eession Of Congress, held ct Madrid on the
3lst Of January. the motisu Of Senior Moysno for
the production Of all which, according
to the proceedings In Congress- Of the United States,
the leland Of Cubs, his Excsenoy Senior Pdsl replied
that NO proposition whstsvsr had been made to govern
m6ut IOr puronos0 OF ls4OQ Cu0a, ana LnAt
the supposed negotiation published in the United
States newspapers. denied by his order, in the
ofhosl Gazette Of Madrid and 1t tho time In the
Psris Journals BY the Duke Of Sotomsyor. Not con.
tent with this the ministry d,rsosd suitable instrus
tions to agents in America that the reports should
be eonIadcted entirely; and in conversations With
In the most emphatic manner, the project impossible
70 the end that ell doubts might ba removed Senior
composed Of Spspiards wonld listen to such .
shemsful PROPOSE. II made. and that We should never
In the senate, also, General Narvses confirmed the
above discussion ana added that the rumors Of
sion entirely nded, and that the island Of
Cuba would always remain Is now, . part Of the
monarchy Of Spain.
The following Is the decree passed on the 9th OF
February by the Roman Constituent Asse mbly, by
which the Pope ls deposed, and the Roman States
erected into a republic the decree has been sent
to all the diplomatic agents and coDsus OF the Ro.
man States. Already the Roman authorities have
adopte the republican torn Of address. Titles are
laid eside, and letters are addressed to CHta-
DINO, &c:-
ROMAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY.
FUNDAMENTAL DECAEE.
Art 1. The Pope Is dsposed in fact and In right from
the temporal governm mt Of the Roman States.
Art 2. The Roman Poptif has ell the guarantees
oesry for the Independence and the exercise of his
Art The form Of the 20 vsrument of tho Roman
States viii be that Of pure democracy and will take
the glorious name Of the Roman republic
Of Italy the relations which the common nationality
February ., ls4e. 1 O'Clock, AM.
9. 0ALErrI, the President.
GioyANNI pENNAccHi
ARiopASrE FABsNrTI, The
ANTONIO ZAMBRAseHi, Secretaries
QyrRIA +. BARILLI,
M. Canutl, who was resIdlR in Pans on a spe-
cial mission from the Roman government, has
written to headquarters to Say that In the event Of
the Pope beng deposed, he should consider his
ml6SOp as terminated
The Capture or Moultan.
Moultan has at length been captured, after one OF
the most obstinate and gallant defences on the part
OF the enemy, ever recorded Ia our annals. The
city, after having been battered and bombar6ed by
nearly 150 pieces OF ordnance for week, was ia
ken on the I'd; the fort was expected to be storm
ed on the 7lh inst. The Bombay troops joined
General WhIsh on the 2lst December. The be-
Selging army now amounted to 1900 British
troops, the allies amounting to about 1000, or
~ 600 In all. The artillery amounted to about $50
pieces OF ordnance, of which nearly One.half were
OF the largest calIbre. On Christmas day and the
day following the force changed ground: on the
9th the troops advanced IN four columns to the
attack, and, clearing the suburbs and driving IN
the enemy ON all sides, established themselves
within 800 yards OF the walls. Batteries were now
ing Of the 18th terrific cannonade and lombard
ment commenced. On the 18th, the heavy guns
were bauering within eighty yards OF the ramparts.
On the morning ef the Both, the principal maya
LluC III tue UcW up Win tcIIiuC cApOblOH-
nearly $780, 600 los of powder are reported to have
been stored in it-blowing a vast column Of dust
thousand feet up into the air. The destruction it
caused all round must have been tremendous. A
mighty confagratlon, supposed to be that OF the
principal stores, was now spreading IN the town.
ESQ, 900 worth OF grain were afterwards found to
have been destroyed. The enemy's artillery slack
ened their fire, but still continued unslenced. On
the next tive days the cannonade continued shell
were thrown sometimes every minute, sometimes
at intervals OF ten minutes, and fearful savos were
from time to time discharged from the heavy
batteries. A furious cannonade having been kept
up all the previous night, thr morning OF the I'd
column Of Bengal troops, commanded by Colonel
Franks, consisting OF her Mtesty's 32d, and the
4Sth and I'D N. l.. pushed forward to a breach
near the Deih gate. Here they found the enemy
determined to oppose them to the LAST the breach,
besidts, proved impraccable, the troops retired
and moved round to the opposite side Of the town,
where the entrance Of the Bombay column had
already been effected. The breach stormed by
them had been much more complete than the other,
and the enemy defending II were driven oG at the
bay onets point The tusi GERS entered first, and
spec Oily pla ced their standard within the walls of
the town. The Bengal column followed them, and