iffistellantous.

A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office on Tuesday, at half-past two o'clock. All the Ministers in town were present.

The Earl of Aberdeen gave his first Cabinet dinner, at Argyll House, on Wednesday evening. The Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Haddingtou, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and Sir Edward Knatchbull were among the guests.

Upwards of one hundred Members of the House of Commons, in- cluding Earl Jermyn, Lord Sandon, Lord Eliot, Lord Norreys, and Lord Ernest Bruce, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General,

Mr. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. S. Herbert, Sir C. Douglas, Sir R. Inglis, Sir Stratford Canning, Sir F. French, and Mr. Emerson Tennent, assembled at three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, at the official resi- dence of Sir Robert Peel, in Downing Street. The meeting broke up at half-past three o'clock.

Tuesday's Gazette announced that the Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Charles Joshua Brown, of Ilminster in Somersetshire, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of,Chancery.

One of the earliest proceedings of the House of Commons after the adjournment, will of necessity be the election of the Chairman of Ways and Means. We believe that Thomas Greene, Esq., the Member for the Borough of Lancaster, will be proposed to the House ; and that, as Mr. Greene is a gentleman in all respects qualified to discharge the arduous and important duties of the office, his election may be regarded as certain. In virtue of orders recently adopted by the House, the Chairman of Ways and Means is also the Chairman of a permanent Committee for the investigation of such private bills as are unopposed, in order to guard the House from the danger of passing bills of this description, which militate against the rights of absent parties or vio- late any existing law. This, it will at once be perceived, has effected an important afteration in the character and duties of the office.—Morn- ing Post. The Morning Post says that Sir R. Gordon, G.C.B., is appointed Ambassador at the Court of Vienba ; and that Lord Burghersh will probably go to Naples as the representative of Great Britain.

Sir William Rae is gazetted Lord-Advocate of Scotland. It is ru- moured that this appointment is temporary ; and that Sir William will shortly be removed to the Governorship of Malta, and Mr. Patrick Robertson promoted to the office of Lord-Advocate. We give the ru- mour as we heard it, without vouching for its truth.—Scottish Guardian.

- The Lord-Advocate has appointed James Tytler, Esq., W. S., to be Crown Agent for Scotland, in room of W. Bell, Esq.—Caledonian Merculy. The Morning Post cannot repress its doting delight at the familiarity of the Tory leaders -with the Court- " We were much pleased with the simplicity and justice of a gentleman's ob- servation when reading the news under the head Court Circular in one of the

morning papers of yesterday. Well,' said he, 'it is delightful to read the Court news this morning, it looks so naturo/P And what was the news ? why, simply that her Majesty and her Royal consort had been taking a drive in Windsor Park, and that her attendants were the Duke of Wellington, Sir .Robert Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Liverpool, and several others of high rank and similar political character."

There is no greater certainty in the accounts of the harvest than for some weeks past. A great deal of wheat has now been housed; and upon the whole, the condition of the corn seems to prove better than it was expected to be. The Tyne Mercury remarks, that the wide range of prices, which it quotes at 428. to 728., proves how the estimate of the produce must have fluctuated. The average price is now at 73s. 2d., mid the duty on foreign wheat at ls., the minimum.

' Sir Frederick Pollock has lately given an opinion that the occupiers - of compound houses, though not assessed to the Poor-rate, have a right to attend the parish vestry and vote on Church-rate questions.—Morn- Lag Chronicle.

We learn, from what we have reason to believe a quarter possessed of good information, that there is no solid ground for the security in which the public have been reposing on the subject of the Penny Post- age, and that the doubling of the postage-rate may be expected as one of the first measures of the new Administration.—Morning Chronicle.

The raris papers of the week, which have been received up to Wed- nesday, are filled with matters of unusual interest. Several events have occurred which show France to be still in a most uneasy state. The.most startling of these was the attempt to assassinate one of Louis Philippe's sons, on Monday. On that day the Seventeenth Regiment of Light -...uiantry, with its Colonel, the Duke of Aumale, Louis Philippe's fourth son, was expected in Paris on its return from Africa. Some riots in the city, on Friday and on Saturday nights, had proved that some agent of disorder was at work ; but they did not attract much general attention at the time. It was observed, however, on Monday morning, that arrange- silents had been made in the route by which the regiment was to pass, such as are usual for the prevention an emente ; sentinels, picquets, patrols, and the like were placed in a connected line along the Bon- levardes. There was, however, no appearance of any public excitement at eleven o'clock. The Seventeenth Regiment had received unusual -honours in several country-towns, and it is said that the distinction had caused a bad feeling in the army. It arrived in the neighbourhood of Paris by the Orleans railroad on the appointed day ; and it was joined, it is not mentioned precisely where, by detachments of the Cuirassiers -.and Municipal Guards. Exactly at noon the column entered Paris by the Gate of Vincennes, with the Duke of Aumale at its head, soda little -behind him two of his brothers, the Duke of Orleans and the Duke of Nemours. The Duke of Aumale looked well, and was much bronzed 1147 his campaign : the soldiers were so much blackened that at the first glance they looked like a band of Negroes ; but, though meagre, they were fine, well-knit men. At the gate they were received by General Pajol and a brilliant staff; and some young ladies presented a nosegay to the Royal Colonel. The troops then proceeded through the Fau- bourg St. Antoine. The streets were a good deal crowded to witness this procession ; which was rendered extremely curious by its being preceded, accompanied, and followed, by several hundred young fellows en Mouse, who, it is believed, were members of the secret societies. First came a sprinkling of them before the detachment of Cuirassiers ; then three or four rows of them, eighteen or twenty abreast ; then platoons of them, and afterwards many mixed up with the soldiers. Just as they reached the Hospice St. Antoine, a man suddenly presented him- self holding two pistols, which he snapped at one of the Princes—it is not certain which, the Duke of Aumale or the Duke of Orleans—the Colonel of the envied regiment or the heir to the throne. Only one of the 5tistols went off. Neither of the Princes was touched ; but Lieutenant. 'Colonel Levaillant, the second officer of the Seventeenth, was slightly wounded in the knee ; and his horse was wounded in the eye, the ear, and the breast, so that it died. The Seventeenth immediately lowered their muskets, and were about to charge the mob ; but the Duke of Orleans rushed to the front and prevented it, ordering the soldiers to ground their arms. The people ran back, bearing the assassin with them ; but one of them seized him by the hair and prevented his escape. He was dressed in a frock-coat, oovered with a short blouse called a Lour- geron—for the purpose probably of concealing his weapons. He was immediately taken to the Conciergerie, where he was examined by M. Bouchy.

The moment the escape of the Princes was ascertained, the people testified their joy by loud, shouts of " Vive le Roi ! Vivent les Princes I" The Duke of Aumale turned to the Duke of Orleans, smiling, and ob- served, " It appears that I begin to be reckoned of some consequence, since they wish to kill me." The troops, after a short delay, proceeded to the Rue de Richelieu ; where the march was stopped for some time. At two, the King, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, the Duke of Saxe Cobourg, the Duke of Montpensier, Marshal Soult, and a nu- merous staff, all on horseback, awaited the arrival of the young Dukes and the Seventeenth in the Court of the Turneries. The Queen, the Queen of the Belgians, the Dutehess of Nemours, the Princess Adelaide, and the Princess Clementine, were placed under the Pavilion de l'Hor- loge. The gate of the Place tin Carrousel opened, and the Duke of Aumale entered on an Arabian horse, followed by some officers. The father and son embraced ; and the King thanked the Prince for his va- liant services in Africa. He then addressed some of the other officers in obliging terms, and gave Colonel Levaillant one of the finest horses in his stables. Soon after the regiment entered the Court, formed in order of battle, and was reviewed by the King in person. At four o'clock it resumed the march for Neuilly, to be present at the banquet given to its Colonel by the King and Queen. The 'banquet seems to have been a very splendid affair. The prepa- rations are thus described by a French paper-

" From all points of the immense capital the 5,000 guests had already as- sembled in the great park of the Royal domain ; infantry, cavalry, artillery, Municipal Guard; invalids, deputations from the regiments from Africa, and from those who had only served France under the sky of Europe, all con- founded in patriotic fraternity. The place for the banquet was an open space amid the wooded alleys of the park, near the gate Des Deux Pavilions. In this immense space, on a plan drawn by the ingenious pencil of General Atha- lin, were fifty rows of tables, some parallel, some perpendicular, to the scaffold on which the King's table was placed. In face of the scaffold was an immense tent for the Queen. All were adorned with military trophies ; an enormous trophy was behind the King's seat. All the tables were served with the same viands and fruit. The sweetmeats represented the combats and sieges of the army of Africa. There were 5,300 places, the tables covering 2,500 yards. There were 1,559 dishes, 500 chickens, 300 turkies, 200 pcites, 210 pieces of veal and as many of beef, 63 Compeigne cakes, 60 pieces of confectionary, 5,500 bottles of red wine, 3,000 bottles of champagne, Bcc."

The King arrived and took his seat about five o'clock. His Royal guests, the Princes, and the Marsha), and General Officers, sat at his table. After dinner Marshal Soult, proposed the health of the King. In his brief reply, Louis Philippe said-

" I was anxious to gather round me all the corps of the army now within reach, in order that you might be all alike associated in the expression of satis- faction which my fourth son the Due d'Aumale, has received on his return through France, at the head of the brave regiment which he has had the honour of commanding in Algeria ; that land where for the last eleven years our troops have rivalled each other in valour, and where they have all acquired so many claims to the gratitude of the country, and my own. I was desirous by this meeting that this expression should extend, without distinction, to "those who in France give us so many proofs of their firm devotion to our insti- tutions, as well as to those who so honourably sustain in Africa the struggle in which we are engaged. I feel confident that their perseverance will definitively confirm our establishment in Algeria, which is now one of our great national interests, and that we may soon be able to spread there the benefits of civiliza- tion, guarantee the security of the inhabitants, and open new sources of pros- perity to all. Thus, my dear comrades, it is as Kin. and as chief of the army, that I propose to all the regiments, to all the corps 'by land and sea who com- pose, it in France or Africa, and beyond seas, this toast of gratitude and satis- faction."

An ordonnance in the Moniteur convokes the Court of Peers to "pro- ceed to the trial of the crime committed against the persons of the Dukes of Orleans, Nemours, and Aumale, on the 13th September." The assassin's name is Pappard. He is a sawyer by trade. What his motive was is as yet unknown. Some suppose him to be connected with the secret societies ; others think that he was a tool for the jea- lousy of the Seventeenth already mentioned ; and another story attri- butes the act to merely personal motives. The National says that he was a soldier in the Seventeenth, and that he was sentenced to death for attempting to murder his Captain, but was subsequently pardoned; that the Captain whose life he sought is now the Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment ; and that it was he, Colonel Levaillant, whom he attempted to shoot. Another account says that this is an error, and that Pappard is a man who has long been known to the Police ; that he has been tried twice for robbery, once for breaking prison, and once for riot, and is otherwise of brutal and licentious habits.

It was not until after the attack on the Princes that the disturbances at the end of last week attracted much attention. During several days, men known to belong to secret associations were seen to mix with the groups of workmen who usually meet to take their meals on the Quai de Gevres, and in the adjoining streets. The authorities at first confined

themselves to watching their gt on Friday the language held by those persons was of so seditious a nature that the jPolice thought proper to interfere, and arrested two of them. On Saturday matters as- sumed a still more important character : towards eight o'clock in the eved-t• ing, about three hundred individuals, between sixteen and twenty years of age, all dressed in blouses, assembled on the Place du Chatelet, and began to cry "Down with Louis Philippe ! " "The Republic for ever !" "Down with Guizot !" This band was immediately dispersed by a brigade of Police ; not, however, without meeting opposition. Stones were thrown at the Police, several of whom were struck, and the officer in command of the brigade was dangerously wounded in the head and knee. From the Place du Chatelet, the rioters, directed by chiefs wearing blouses and caps, ascended the Rue St. Denis, singing the " Marseillaise," and crying 1" Down with Louis Philippe—the Republic for ever! Blood ! we must have blood !" They then turned into the Rue Alauconseil, and marched through the streets De Ponceau and St. Martin, the Boulevard Si. Martin, and the Rue du Temple, vo-

ciferating the same cries. The rioters entered several mercers' shops itnd carried off pieces of red cloth, which they fixed to the ends of sticks to serve as banners. They then returned to the Rae St. Denis, and thence to the Place da Chatelet, where they formed into dole columns, with the intention of assailing the Police ; but the moment they per- ceived them they took to flight, abandoning their sticks and red flags.

At midnight all was tranquil. There were also some rassemblentens on the Place du Chatelet on Sunday evening, but they consisted mostly of

the curious, whom the Police easily dispersed. At midnight again quiet was quite restored—until next day, as we have seen. On Monday and Tuesday evenings, the riots were renewed in the Place du Chatelet ; and the people were charged by the cavalry and infantry of the Muni- cipal Guard ; but the tumult was repressed without calling out any troops of the Line or National Guard.

The military do not appear to have been called out till Wednesday, during a disturbance in the Faubourg St. Antoine. M. Yver, a Com-

missary of Police, having to execute the warrants of the Prefect for the arrest of four men accused of being accomplices of Pappart, the Com- missary was dreadfully injured by stones, and had to be rescued by the

military. Several arrests took place in addition to the capture of the four individuals in question. A man of the name of Fombertause, one of the printers of the Afoniteur Republican, is in custody.

The resurvey of the taxes has been the cause of serious disorders in Auvergne. A seditious movement has taken place at Clermont Ferrand.

For some time, says the Moniteur, "emissaries of the anarchical parties" -were labouring to excite the people to revolt. The operations of the surveyors began early on the 9th. The Council-General and the Muni-

cipal Council had issued declarations in favour of the survey, and the respectable inhabitants are said not to have been opposed to it: they opened their doors to the fiscal officers; but crowds collected in the

streets, and the tax-officers and municipal authorities were assailed with stones. The survey was interrupted and several arrests were made. At one o'clock it was resumed, and with it the rioting. The military were called out, but remained passive until several of them were hurt. They were then ordered to fire, and many rioters were wounded. The disturbance, however, was not quelled; barricades were raised ; two gunsmiths' shops were rifled; after a truce during the night, the tumult was continued on the 10th, when four soldiers were killed, and fifteen or sixteen wounded, the "rebels" at the same time "sustaining a considerable loss." The house of the Mayor was destroyed, and the Paris mail was detained. The firing ceased at eight in the evening. On the 11th all was quiet; and on the 12th the authorities had the com- mand of the town. The Lyons papers represent the destruction during the riot as excessive: all the papers at the civil offices as well as the furniture were burned, and the Prefecture was only saved by discharges of grape. Some accounts speak of artillery having swept the streets, and say that nearly a hundred citizens were wounded. The Gazette d' Auvergne was seized for having given a "perfidious report" of the events. On Sunday reinforcements of troops were sent to Clermont from Paris. The peasants of the department of the Upper Alps are said to be in open opposition to the resurvey. A kind of club has been seized at Vizelle.

A riot occurred at Magon-on-Saiine on Friday last. The disturbances arose from the refusal of the porters engaged in the shipping of wine to allow other persons, who had been licensed by the Mayor, to share in their work. It was not suppressed until the military had fired upon the rioters. A woman was killed by them ; two porters were shot by the troops ; another person was killed ; two more were so severely wounded as to be without hope of recovery ; and six others were very severely injured. Several arrests have been made.

The Cabinet, which sat almost all Thursday, was occupied, it is said, with the question of disarming. Lord Aberdeen had already been able to signify how pleased his Government would be to receive Count St. Aulaire as French Ambassador in London ; and it is guessed that that intimation was accompanied by proposals connected with the disarming. There were even rumours in Paris that there was to be a solemn and immediate agreement between France and England on all points, and that the English Cabinet had offered to sign the commercial treaty with France on the basis laid down by the Commissioners.

The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 8th instant has a letter from Toulon of the 6th, stating that the ship Genereux had been ordered to be held in readiness to put to sea, for the purpose, it was supposed, of joining the Trident and Hercules, which sailed on the 3d and 4th. The destination of those vessels was not known, but it was now believed that they were going to Tunis. The commander of that station, M. Leraz, had been informed by the captain of the brig Palinure, whom he had sent to Malta, that a Turkish division of from 10,000 to 12,000 troops was on the point of departing for Tunis. The correspondent of the Semaphore adds, that "it was believed that England would partici- pate in the expedition, with a view to ruin the French influence in that Regency." The French force at Tunis, after the junction of those three ships, would consist of five sail of the line, a frigate, a brig, and a steamer.

Commercial distress is said to be spreading throughout France. In Paris it was peculiarly observable ; and in an especial manner in the Palais Royal, which, "in a commercial sense, was running to utter rain."

Madrid letters of the 8th instant have been received.

Queen Christina having addressed several letters to her daughter through the medium of the French Chargé d' Affaires, M. Pageot, the latter called for an audience of Queen Isabella, to deliver them in per- son. M. Arguelles, before returning a reply, thought proper to refer the matter to the Council of Ministers ; who, after considering it, re- solved that the French Charge d'Affaires might present and receive any letters from the Queen Mother, in the presence of M. Gonzales, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M. Arguelles, her guardian.

The Cabinet, however, afterwards procured that resolution to be rescinded, and decided that the correspondence between the Queen and her mother should hereafter pass through the hands of Spanish agents. In a conference which took place between M. Pageot and S. Gonzales, the latter apprised the French Minister of that determination. M. Pageot expressed a desire that the matter should be treated in a diplomatic manner, and an interchange of notes on the subject was begun.

The Gazette promulgates the law of the Cortes declaring all the pro- perty of the secular clergy to be annexed to the national domain.

The Athens Gazette of the 23d August publishes an extraordinary Supplement, announcing the change of the Greek Cabinet ; M. Mime- cordato having tendered his resignation, which the King immediately accepted. M. Valettas had also resigned. M. Melas had been dis- missed, without being even allowed time to give in his resignation. M. Christides, the Minister of the King's Household and of Foreign Affairs, had been appointed Minister of the Interior, in the room of M. Mavro- cordato. M. Rizo had been named to the offices held by M. Christides, and was to direct ad interim the departments of Eccleeiastic Affairs and Public Instruction, vacated by M. Valettas.

The Levant mail has brought intelligence from Constantinople to the 28th August, and from Alexandria to the 20th. The Porte bad relinquished for the present the projected expedition against Tunie. Tahlr Pasha, who was appointed to command it, having completed his mission at Candle, was to return to Constantinople. Diplomacy will now have time to reconcile the dispute between the Sultan and the Bey of Tunis. The Government had despatched the Kolowrat steamer to Syria with firmans, announcing that the Sultan diminishes the tribute of the inhabitants of the mountains to 3,500 purses, (1,750,000 piastres, or about 17,2001.0 which amount is to be divided by their own muni- cipalities. The merchants are to be allowed to pay in kind the custom- house-duties on the export of silk.

Lord Ponsouby- was to leave Constantinople for England as soon as a steamer had arrived from Malta to convey him.

Two fires had broken out at Constantinople—one in the Vlanga quarter, destroying one hundred and eighty to two hundred houses, with a loss of five or six persons, and another at Fern, where little da- mage was done.

The Columbia, Halifax mail steamer, arrived at Liverpool on Tues- day night, having left Halifax on the 3d and Boston on the 1st. She encountered strong easterly gales on the passage. She brings papers from New York to the 31st.

President Tyler had vetoed the Bank Bill. He had stated his reasons for the veto in a message to Congress. First, he recalls the general difference of opinion on the subject. "Congress have differed. The approval of one President has been followed by the disapproval of another. The people at different times have acquiesced in decisions both for and against" For twenty-five years he had expressed opi- nions against such an institution in the Legislature of his native State, in the House of Representatives, in the Senate, in public assemblies ; and he had been elected Vice-President in the full knowledge of the people as to his opinion of the subject-

" In looking to the powers of this Government to collect, safely keep, and disburse the public revenue, and incidentally regulate the commerce and ex- changes, I have not been able to satisfy myself that the establishment by this Government of a bank of discount, in the ordinary acceptation of that term, was a necessary means, or one demanded by propriety, to execute those powers. What can the local discounts of a bank have to do with the collecting, safe- keeping, and disbursing of the revenue ? So far as the mere discounting of paper is concerned, it is quite immaterial to this question whether the discount is obtained at a States Bank or a United States Bank. They are both equally local—both beginning and both ending in a local accommodation. What in- fluence have local discounts, granted by any form of banks, in the regulating of the currency and the exchanges ? Let the history of the late United Statss Bank aid us in answering this inquiry?'

Mr. Tyler briefly reviews the history of that bank, with the disas- trous issue of its speculations ; which were chiefly in exchanges, and

not in local discounts ; while in the time of discounts, its powers were a pregnant means of corruption and favouritism. But he especially ob- jects to the power assumed by Congress to override the authority of the States- " The assent or dissent is to be expressed unconditionally at the first session of the Legislature by some formal legislative act; and if not so expressed, its assent

is to be implied, and the Directors are therefore invested with power, at such

time thereafter as they may please, to establish branches, which cannot after- wards be withdrawn except by resolve of Congress : no matter what may be the cause which may operate with the Legislature, which either prevents it from speaking or addresses itself to its wisdom to induce delay, its assent is to be implied—binding and inflexible. It is the lawgiver of the master to the vassal : an unconditional answer is claimed forthwith, and delay, postpone- ment, or incapacity to answer, produces an implied assent, which s ever after irrevocable.

"Many of the State elections have already taken place without any know- ledge on the part of the people that such a question was to come up. The representatives may desire a submission of the question to their constituents preparatory to final action upon it ; but this high privilege is denied : whatever may be the motives and views entertained by the representatives of the people

to induce delay, their assent is to be presumed, and is ever afterwards binding, unless their assent shall be unconditionally expressed at their first session after the passage of this bill into a law.

"They may by formal resolution declare the question of assent or dissent to be undecided and postponed; and yet, in opposition to their express declaration

to the contrary, their assent is to be implied. Cases innumerable might be cited to manifest the irrationality of such an inference. Let one or two in addition suffice. The Popular branch of the Legislature may express the dissent by an unanimous vote, and its resolution may be defeated by the vote of the Senate; and yet the assent is to be implied. Both branches of the Legislature may concur in a resolution of decided dissent, and yet the Governor may exert the veto power conferred on him by the State constitution, and the legislative action may be defeated ; and yet the assent of the legislative authority is im- plied." Mr. Tyler asks whether any State would be likely to submit to such a condition of things ? In fact, he regards the bill as asserting for Con- gress the right to establish offices of discount in a State "not only

without its assent, but against its dissent " ; and so regarding it, he cannot sanction it.

This veto had almost provoked the House of Representatives to throw out the bills for distributing the proceeds of public land-sales among the States, and for establishing a uniform bankrupt law through- out the Union : but more temperate counsels prevailed ; the latter had formally passed, and had received the signature of the President. The law comes in force on the 1st of February next The bill for the distri- bution of the proceeds of the sales of the public bonds had passed the

Senate, and was before the House of Representatives, in consequence of an amendment introduced into it in the other Chamber ; to which, how- ever, the House was expected to anent.

Out of doors Mr. Tyler's veto had created the utmost indignation ; and he was accused of" treachery," and of running counter to the prin. ciples that raised General Harrison and himself to power. A variety of rumours are afloat ; and among them two—that the Ministry will resign, and that Mr. Tyler will dismiss them.

Another bill, for creating a bank under the name of a fiscal corpora. lion, which is prohibited from discounting promissory notes, and is limited to dealings in foreign and domestic exchanges, had passed the House of Representatives, and was under the consideration of the Senate. The bank is to have a capital of 21,000,000 dollars, of which one-third is to be Rubscribed by the Government ; and it is to be the depository of the monies and perform the duties of "fiscal agent" of the United States. It was thought certain that the bill would receive the sanction of the Senate ; but whether it would find more favour with the Pre- sideat than the preceding bill, remained to be seen. The prevalent opinion was, seeing that the points to which he objected in the former are omitted in the present bill, that he would sign it.

The extra session of Congress was expected to close about the middle of this month.

Nothing new had transpired respecting Mr. M`Leod's case.

The money-market was dull. -The accounts from England of distress and dear corn had depressed the cotton-market and raised the price of flour throughout the Union. Exchange on England was 9 to 9i pre- mium ; on Paris 5 francs 16 centimes to 22i centimes.

Another panic had occurred in the Shares of the Bank of the United States. They had fallen from 14k, the price at the date of the previous itecounts, to 8i : not unfrequently the price had varied 1 to 2 per cent. in the course of the day. They rallied a little before the sailing of the colitmbia, the closing price on the 31st having been 11.

A vessel arrived at New York from Matanzas brought information of the arrest of Mr. Cross, the American Consul at that port, by the order of the Governor-General of Cuba. The .National Gazette says- " All we can learn in regard to the arrest of Mr. Cross, the United States Consul, is that the misunderstanding between the Spanish Government and Mr. Cross grew out of the matter of an estate he had recently received autho- rity to claim. It appears that about twelve mouths since a female named An- geline Smith, a native of Maine, died suddenly without a will, leaving consi- derable property. There being no authorized claimant, a good deal of plunder- ing followed, and several persons were arrested. The Spanish authorities then took possession of the remainder of the property, and now refuse to give it up to the claimants."

A shocking accident had occurred at Syracuse. A fire broke out in a store in which there were twenty-five barrels of gunpowder concealed. The kegs containing the powder exploded, and killed several men who were assisting to extinguish the flames. One account says that twenty- five men were killed ; another, that thirty-one persons were killed and fifty-seven wounded, several of the latter mortally. A Government paper, the Washington National Intelligences, expresses a belief that the concealed powder had connexion with some secret conspiracy to invade Canada.

There had been tremendous losses among the steam-boats. On the Mississippi the steamers Missouri and Marmion have been burnt acci- dentally, the Caroline sunk, and the Louisiana exploded ; causing the death of sixteen United States aoldiers who were on board and of five of the crew, and eleven persons were scalded. The Swan exploded below New Orleans on the 17th, when four persons were killed and thirteen wounded.

The section of country above and below the mouth of White River, on the Mississippi, says an American paper, has been for years infested with gangs of gamblers and counterfeiters [forgers of bank-notes.] Asian& 67, 68, and 69 were notorious resorts for them. The people of Coaboma County, Mississippi, and from the opposite side of the river, determined to rid themselves of such pests; and they succeeded in cap- tnring from fifty to seventy-five of them. On the 3d August, they placed them on board a trading. boat, took her to an unfrequented place, so that there might be no witnesses, and shot and drowned them all; and afterwards they went and burned their houses.

Three or four seamen of the William Brown had been arrested for murder on the high seas. Holmes, the man who was first arrested, is said to be a Swede, not far from thirty years of age, with a countenance fierce and unprepossessing. He arrived at Richmond in the same ship with a girl and boy named Corr, who testified that he was the most active in throwing the passengers overboard.

The latest gate from Montreal, in Canada, is August 29th. There is no very important news.

The Municipal Bill, opposed by Mr. Baldwin, had been carried through the House of Assembly, by 41 to 31. The Governor-General bad sent to the House a message recommending for the consideration of the members divers works of internal improvement ; the total cost of which was estimated at 1,470,0001., to be spread over a period of five years. As Canada has no funds in hand, the Governor-General pro- poses that the money be borrowed ; and that the Provincial Parliament make provision for the interest, about 90,000/. per annum, which he proposes to accomplish in part by the establishment of a Government Bank. The message produced a great sensation, and two thousand copies were ordered to be printed in French and English.

The neighbourhood of St. John's New Brunswick, already more than once scourged by fire, has suffered another terrible visitation. A ship- carpenter by chance dropped a red- hot bolt on some shavings which Jay against the bows of a freshly-tarred vessel ; the ship was instantly enveloped in flames ; and the sheds of the dockyard presently taking light, the *hole village of Portland was shortly on fire. Fifty-three houses have been entirely consumed, worth 17,5001.; a Wesleyan chapel worth 2,0001,; a ship on the stocks, partly rigged, 7,0001.; a mass of rigging in the yard, 1,0001.; and furniture and goods to the value of 2,5001.; or in the whole, 30,0001. worth of property. Two hundred families, counting 1,150 people have been driven into the streets ; 600, of these may be said to be ruined, and without any means Of Staving off want from day to day. A letter on the state of Greece under the European Guarantee, and several other com- munications, are in type, waiting the opportunity of insertion.