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FROM EUROPE.

Inc steamer Canada arrived at Halifax on Mon
day night, with Liverpool dates to the 18th limo
IN the British Parliament the 9th Lords CLAREN-
Don ana RUSSELL stated that the French and English
phSers at Oonstanunope were acting in concert, and
that the integrity Of the Porte would be maintained Ii
was hoped that Russia would insist on nothing incom
paoe herewith but in the present state Of the question
couu not give any further indication the
of the British Government
The Aeelph Theatre at Edinburgh has been DESTROYED
by fire.
ODonnoghue of the Irish exiles has escaped from
Australia, and is on his way to America
The French fleet has been ordered to the Dardanees
and the fact caused great excitement 10 abe French
funds 1t is supposed that this order has been given to
prevent any attempt the part of Russia to seize or
pass the Straits On the Goth the feet still alamis
The British feet remained at Malta on the 18th
Dispatches to the British Admiral Dundas stated that
Menschikof remained on board the steamer and had
given the Porte eight days longer reconsider his deter
minaon threatening that, if again resisted he vii
finally withdraw. Another despatch, purportng to come
from Vienna the 26th May states that Menschiko had
sailed from Constantinople.
is rumored that the Emperor Napoleon had assured
the Russian Minister that as much as he desired the
peace of Europe he would not hesitate change his
policy if Russia forced measures hostile to France and
the East
At the earnest request of the Emperor of China the
American, French and English shpsowar in the eastern
waters have undertaken to protect Nankin Shanghai,
and the mouths Of the canals against the rebels.
The Austrian Charge has been withdrawn from Swift
zerand and the Swiss Envoy has left Vienna The brave
attitude assumed by the Swiss Government excites much
attention Diplomatic relations totally broken off
between Switzerland and Austria.
1t is reported that the American frgate Cum5erland
with Mr. MARSH board, has demanded PREPARATION from
Greece for the Imprisonment Of Dr. KING.
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coLtNEL BENToN,s LETTER.

Having giytn the greater portion Of the protract-
ed debate in he Senate on the subject Of a Rail
road from the Mississippi to the Pacific, we think
it due to ale vast Importance of that scheme now
to place bfore our readers the views of veteran
statesman who is hardly equalled by any other for
the amount of light which he throws on any subject
that he discusses, and who, we presume, has given
to this particular subject longer and closer study
than any other man. We refer to the Hon. THOMAS
H. BENTON, whose Letter appears in another pnge
of this day. paper.
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POLITICS IN MISSISSIPPI.
Editors Conespoadence.1

Editors C0rrespoadence.l
COLUMBUS, (MIss.) MAY %, 1853.
1t may not be uninterestng to you to hear something
about Mississippi politics.
Governor FooTE addressed large and intelligent
dence in this place Thursday last the 10th instant
He is urging his claims before the People candidate
for the United States SENATE He thinks due justice
and consistency that he should be reelected and that
the resolution of censure passed against him by the State
Legislature in 1850 should be expunged--the People, in
their election of delegates to the Convention 1851 and
also by eecting him to the Gubernatoral Office in the
year, having sanctioned his with regard
the g compromise measures
My opinion that his speech here had considerable
effect in his favor for he assuredy in
stating that experience the best of all tests had proved
the wisdom of the wholesome and pacific Legislation Of
1850
Ex-Governor A. G. Brown is his opponent and is also
speaking the State, but does not meet Gov F. in
debate.
/. SHALL YERGER is spoken of as the Wing candidate
for Congress for the State at large. He of whom
the Wings may feel proud ready to bear their banner
alof in the thickest and the hottest Of the fight
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Power OF FOREIGN OPINIoN-The English, we
notice, are expressing very freely the sentiment,
which is carefully re-echoed by other people, that
the United States will not be able to withstand the
opinion of European nations on the wrong and ig-
nominy Of holding slaves at the South. Why not,
it is replied Has not England, standing in her
own eye at the head Of moral nations in the old
world been able to resist the execraon Of the world
against her treatment Of the Irsb the inhabitants
Of India, and, we may add, the poor Chinese We
see by these historic facts that it takes an enormous
weight of guilt or whatever it may be otherwise
styled to overthrow a nation. England stands pref
ty erect against almost any amount of obloquy that
has been heaped upon her for many ages. Amer-
ca may therefore hope. If American States, into
which England introduced slavery centuries ago
against their WILL now choose to continue it, what is
England going to do about it Much has been said,
and much more can and will be said but, after all
what shall be done, what can be done2 1t is
cheap philanthropy that consumes itself in talking.
Will there ever be time when slavery, any more
than other evils, will not exist if 50, will British
interference hasten or retard that millennium These
proper questions for Americans to ask, and Bri
fish men and women to ponder well.
Nsnc0rk D1ilU Advertiser,
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We should be wanting in ordinary care for the
instruction and qualification of readers, we
to let the occasion pass of commencing to every
class of them, but particularly to those who direct
the literary pursuits of domestic circles, well
to those who are engaged in the charge of colleges,
academies, and even of common schools, she study
of the beautiful Lecture, by of most distin
guished Statesmen, which we have to-day the plea
sure Of spreading before them We have never
read an article of the same character in which his
tory was made more subservient to the purposes O
philosophy and public morality, in which, WI
may add, were grouped more happily facts familiar
to most of US with truths less universally known
combining, as whole, most lucid review of the
discovery and colonization of this continent, and Of
the entire change of the face of the civilized world
mainly if not wholly attributable to it.
The paper containing this Essay is, in brief,
worthy Of being carefully preserved for frequent
perusal and reperusal by the families and associa-
tons into whose hands it may chance to fall
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FAMINE N MADEIRA.-A paragraph purporting
to be an extact from letter written at Madeira
on board tin United States steam frigate Powhatan,
is floating nrough the press, which denies the ex-
istence of ny famine the island, and insinuates
that the prvisions and money sent from this coun-
try would 9th be thrown away, or, at all events,
not applee to the benevolent uses for which they
wore contributed This statement (says the Phila-
dephia North American is wholly without warrant,
for we have seen letters to most respectable mer-
chant of this Gty from parties resident in Madeira
Americans AMI others, in which the writers acknow
ledge with VAIN expressions of gratitude the timely
relief aordedto the suffering poor, whose condition
they say, but br the aid thus afforded, would have
been very destitute and refer to the action of the
Government, Which at once RENTED all duties on
the articles forwarded, and ordered an address Of
thanks to be nhde to the donors through the Anne
rican Consul, bus officially recognising the exist
ence Of the cahmity, and their appreciation of the
means adopted to alleviate it.
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INTERESTING FROM SoUTH AMERIcA.-The Panama pa
per contain few items Of intelligence from South Ame-
rca received by the steamship Bogota passenger
ports that Peru had declared against Bolivia, and
that the Peruvian feet at africa, having landed FIVE
thousand troops.
letter from Lima, dated May u, states that BALYu,
President Of Bolivia had dismissed his Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs, Busto, and expresses hope that this &C
ton will tend to the restoration Of pacific relations be-
tween the two countries.
The republic Of Ecuador had settled its difficulty with
the French republic Its Government sauted the French
ag and expressed its regret for the alleged insult to
Count Monthoon and agreed to pay eight thousand dol
lars claimed for damages to the property Of French
citizen
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Doe Our PLACE-0n the evening of recent Sunday,
the inhabitants Of Ystradganlas South Wales crowd
ing the chapel hear somewhat famous neran preacher
huge dog made sway into the building, boed the pull
stairs and took possession Of the place assigned TO the
tor The unsuspecng inoran walked up to the pulpit in
me but assaulted with fierce grows and Of teeth
like algators he glad to get to the bottom Of the
steps second venured, but only ELECTED additional
grows third sage, thinking discretion the better part Of
valor assembled TO make amcabe settlement with
Tyke lie did not dispute the dogs right of possession but
to charm him from his elevated position with
piece Of candle At this Tyko waxed furious than
deemne the candle insult and at length the pastor took
his place in the small reading desk in which he preached
Tyke all the while remaining perched alo listening to the
discourse with gravity and dccorum worthy Of cassleader
The may be easily imagined than described
Liverpool Standard
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THE AMERICAN JAPANESE EXPEDITION.
FROM THE SINGAPORE rnKn rREss OF ArRIL !.

FROM THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS OF APRIL i.
The United States steam frigate Mississippi, Capt
LEE arrived here on the 25th instant and left this
for China on the 18th This is one of the feet
destined for the expedition to Japan. The result
of this demonstration will be known before the close
of the year. Should it be successful, it will exert
great influence on the commercial and political af
fairs of this part of the world. A large, popuous
and comparatively civilized Empire will be thrown open
to commercial enterprise, and new outlet will thus be
made for European manufactures which cannot fail ul-
matey to become extremely valuable to the commerce of
Europe and America But should the first efforts
of the United States Government to establish relations
with japan prove unsuccessful it is not likely that it will
thereupon relnquish its purpose Further measures will
be adopted and it may assumed that the result desired
will sooner later be brought about Having thus
tered upon different course of policy from that which
has hitherto appeared to characterize the United States
Government viz abstinence from interference in dis
tant quarters, cannot suppose that they will stop
short and content themselves with their operations in
Japan 1t is probable that they will next endeavor to OBJ
tain footing in China, and Chusan which so fool
ishly given up by the English will probably many
years elapse be American settlement There will be
lack OF occasion for quarrel with the Chinese If that
is needed for the accomplishment of the plans Of the
United States. They have Plenpotentiary in China
and he must be i'll versed in the business of his craft if
he cannot find for offence when the proper time has
arrived. In the Indian Archipelago, America has wide
and inviting field for the enterprise of her stirring and
adventurous citizens and in any operaons which they
may undertake in that locality they will be free from the
treaty engagements which have been lound SO restrictive
of English enterprise in this quarter There is nothing
to prevent the Americans from forming settlements and
endeayorng to develop the commercial resources of New
Guinea Borneo Celebes any other quarter of the In
da Archipelago not in actual occupation Of European
Powers. We should not regret seeing the Americans
taking such practical interest in the affairs of the Arch
pelago it is clear that the Dutch will not aid in open
ing the Archipelago to other nations and the English
Government has for many years persisted in vacat
ing and inconsistent but in general obstructive Of
policy that it is evident little expect any eectua
assistance from it. To the enterprise of the Americans
must therefore look for those measures which shall
extend the civilization and of western nations
amongst the islands of the Indian and Papuan Archipe
agoes, whose rich and varied natural productions will
well repay the abors which may be bestowed in making
them available.
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General VILLAMn, Charge dAffarcs from the
Republic of Ecuador to the United States attended
by AARON III. PALMER, Consul General of that Re-
public for the United States was yesterday intro
duced by the Secretary of State to the PRESIDENT,
to whom he delivered the following Address
Commissioned by the President of Ecuador as her
first diplomatic representative to this greatest of all
pubics either of ancient modern times and in which
was my good fortune be born and bred till early
manhood have had the honor deliver into the hands
your Secretary of State the letter which accreds me
in my character of Charge dAaires, and avail myself
of the present OCCASION by the permission you have
kindly accorded to me- to you that the Govern
ment and People of Ecuador animated by sincere
desire to cement and perpetuae the friendly relations
now SO happily subsisting between the two sister
publcs.
Ecuador, by her geographical position is advan
tageously situated for foreign commerce. especially with
AA Iri4Aa SfAfA. Of tLe
resources-mineral vegetable, and agricuural-are in
exhaustlbe, and susceptible of immense development,
embracing great variety of the most valuable CONNER
cal productions, both of the temperate and torrd
Guayaqu, her chief port, the finest the Southern
Pacific, is the mart of extensive and increasing
merce. Manab and Esmeradas, the same coast, are
egbly situated for opening intercourse and trade with
the Storal Provinces the valuable group of the Gala
pagos are her dependencies Quito, her capital in
cent times the seat of the vast empire of the nca and
the most elevated city of the world, is perched like
eagles eye in the Pchinea, of the lofty SUBMITS
of the Andes from whose eastern slopes descend the
estc Napo POSTAGE, Putomayo and other large aurfe
rous and naygabe rivers, raversng many hundreds of
miles the rich and fertile provinces the repub
lic and disemboguing into the mighty Amazon in which
there is uninterrupted navigation for vessels of the
largest burden to its mouth
To unfold and develop the productive of this
new FL Dorado to promote immigration, agriculture,
and trading settlements, along with steam communica-
ton, those waters; and, in fne give impulse
to the commerce of Ecuador with these United States,
are among the chief objects of my mission
In the discharge of the important duties thus devovng
on me, it will be my constant aim all occasions
promote the friendly and cordial understanding be-
tween the two Governments it is equally pleasing
duty to assure you sir personally of the high respect
and admiration entertained by the Government and People
of Ecuador for the Government and People of the United
States for whose prosperity and welfare and the perpe
tuty of the Union they ferventy invoke the Supreme
Ruler of the Universe, and that your administration of
this glorious Republic-sthe land of the free and the
home of the brave-may be characterized by the same
wisdom patriotism and enlightened craftsmanship which
SO pre-eminentiy distinguished that of its immortal
Founder.
To this Address the PRESIDENT made an ap-
propriate reply.
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0scroIA (MnAM.r d

FoRT ScoTT ABAHDoNED--THE ExPosURE OUR WEsT-
ERIN FRONTIER -Those in authority at Washington,
learn, have thought proper to have this Fort aban-
doned and all the troops sent off to Fort, about
to be established in Nebraska Territory, about
the troops from Fort Scott before the removal Of the In
dams bordering Western line calls loudly for just
censure number Of border counties, by this act of
the Government is left exposed to the hieying and bloody
propenstes of some of these Indians who have
TO plumber the citizens of those counties OF
their stock and other property 1t viii be some time yet
before these Indians will be removed and is the duty
of the Government to keep stationed at Fort Scott
nanv Of dragons until this is done few soldiers Mt
fort i known to be the used to deter Indians
from committing depredaons, and keep them in proper
an bieotio on INDEPENDENT
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SAVANNAH COLONIZATION SOCIETY IN AID OF
THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY

The friends and members of this Society assembled at
Savannah Intervening of the Both of May. The Hon.
Judge WAYNE presided and explained in pertinent and
earnest the object of the meeting. Some facts
submitted by the Rev. WILLIAM Nolan, Secretary
of the American Colonization Society and by the Rev.
r. R. GuRLEY who has visited lately several parts of the
State of Georgia. and explained the views and stated the
prospects and of the Society and its African set
Element The constitution Of the Savannah Colonization
Society then adopted and the following gentlemen
appointed officers
Mr.. JOHN SToDDARD President.
| Vice Presidents.--James NJ Wayne, of Savannah; w.
c. Dawson of Greensboro; c. j. Jenkins Henry Cum
ming, Robert Campbell, of Augusta; Z. A. Nisbe n c.
Munroe, l. G. Plant of Macon Rev. DR.. Church, of
Athens Rev. DIR. Talmadge, Of Milledgevlle; Adam
Alexander, of Washington.
Aanqgers.--Anthony Porter J. W. Anderson, Col VIM.
Mcintosh, III. A. Crane.
Corresponding Seeretayy.-Hon. ]. M. Wayne.
Secretary and Treasurr.-Charles Green.
Ladies solicited to cooperate with this Society,
and the annual contribution of any sum will ene them
to vote in person by proxy, at all meetings of the
Society.
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sanctioned by majority Of one II was pretended and
this account it was that his amendment was rejected

sanctioned by majority OF one II was pretended and
on this account it was that his amendment was rejected
by the committee that these DEGREES have the force Of
law. 1t might have been said with propriety,
claimed the orator. that they have olce against the
for he recognises dctaure and knows no plebisctum
that can authorize any person whatever make laws
against right, against property, against conscience As
he viewed this subject the Chamber WAS asked to
concur in what he held to be the gravest attack upon the
principle Of property which had been Witnessed in this
nineteenth century 1t the re-esablshment Of con-
fscation in its most odious form NJ MoSTALEMBERT
continued for minutes in the bold strain and
though Of his speech had effect upon the vote
of the House, it is less that in these diff
fcut times for the professors of parliamentary eoquence
he has succeeded in adding another and perhaps the
brightest flower to the aures which already crown him
orator.
The visit which the King of the Begians is making to
the German soyeregns continues to be subject OF much
conversation and is really of the most important and
significant potca. facts Of the day The Duke Of BRA
BANT of LEOPOLD is sanced Austrian princess,
cousin of the Emperor All this shows the necessity
which the soveregns of Europe feel to be pressing
them close their ranks and cultivate friendly relations
with each other in presence of the French Empire which
they justly consider to be the natural enemy of the order
Of things by virtue of which they what they are.
Our Emperor of the French must feel keeny the sense
of isolation which these events force upon him. He has
found, however, little member of little royal fami
y of Europe who condescends to hold personal relations
with him of the brotherhood of soyereigns; and
Emperor is making the most of it, assure you
The Duke Of GENOA brother of the King of Sardinia il
present in Paris and NAPOLEON Ill. is Rdustri
ousy fetng him. There is end to the attentions hi
is paying to the royal vister
BY the way, the Emperor and Empress left Paris yes
eray to take up their residence at ST. Cloud for the
Of the them and the court pass along thu
Rue de Rivol in four FIVE carriages their way
70 CLOUD. The empress ROCKING very well
1t is understood that they remain at St. Cloud till tn,
latter part of july when they will repair the springs
in the Pyrenees for three four weeks after which they
will return Paris and make ready for the coronation
which is reported to be denitvey fixed for the 10th
of September There is nothing said about the
ing of the Pope to Paris to ocate upon the occasion.
1t is rumored that NAPOLEON III. is about sending
force the Chinese seas in order to be there
the spot ready to seize upon for him lions share of the
spos of the Chinese empire, it is destined to be dis
solved in consequence of the nsurrecton that is
there to the great peril of the dynasty the throne
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FROM NEW MEXICO

BY recent mails from New Mexico former intel
gence to the deploraby depressed state of affairs
there is confirmed. The Santa Fe Gazette, in ac-
knowledging that many of the wealthy citizens are
the point of leaving the country, perhaps forever
argues with them to remain and try what may be
done under the new set of circumstances to grow up
under the anticipated construction of the Pacific
railroad, if it shall pass through the Territory.
Don AMBRosIo ARMIJo is stated to be likely to
enter the lists for the deegateship to Congress with
the present incumbent. ARMIJo is said to be quite
popular amongst his countrymen.
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w A SHINGTlN
:. Libert, and Union, now and forever, one and
inseparaRle.0
SATURDAY, JUNE IL, 1858.

In complying with the request of Ex-senator
TALLMADaE by publishing further exhibition
of his views of Spiritual Intercourse, &c., our
readers will not, we trust, understand us as
yielding up any of the disbelief which we have
hitherto entertained Of both the theory and the
practice of such communications. We Shall, how
ever, abstain from engaging in the discussion of
the matter, since our columns open to the re-
cepton of facts and arguments on the subject from
any respectable and responsible quarter, provided
always that they supported by the proper names
of the writers.