forego mai Colonial.

FRANCE.—The Government continues its war against journals. We mentioned last week the sentence of fine and imprisonment against the second son of M. Victor Hugo, and his eollaborateur on the Ectinement, and also the temporary suppression of the-newspaper itself. As soon as the sentence was known, the proprietors (tithe Beinement resolved to dis- continue that paper. Other parties, however, fired by the injustice of the sentence, stood up in seeming defiance of it : they prepared themselves with extraordinary energy, and on the day the Evenentent ceased to exist, they published the first number of a paper on similar principles, under the title of the ..4o6tement dee Peuple. In the first number appeared a letter from M. Victor Hugo, protesting, in moderate language, against the blow struck at his son. La Presse also published the letter; and each paper added comments which in the eyes of the Government were deemed sedi- tious. Both were seized, and their responsible editors—M. Vacquer of the ,feenement the Peinde, and M. Renq of La .Presse—wero prosecuted. The docile or timid jury found verdicts against the editors, which were followed by sentences of imprisonment for six months and fine of 1000 francs each. The persons of the writer of the letter, hi. Victor Hugo, and of the writer of the comments in la Prone, M. Girardin, were inviolable, they being representatives of the people ; so they escape till the Assembly shall permit their prosecution.

Towards the close of lastweek, there spread abroad a new flood of those rumours of a coup d'etat which regularly find vent in Paris when other topics are few or dull. In this instance the excitement reached the Bcrurse, and caused a great fall in the Funds. But on Monday there appeared a reassuring paragraph in the semi-official Patric, stating that no divisions existed in the Cabinet on the subject of the law of May 31: whereupon the Funds rose nearly a franc and a quarter per cent. The extreme hostility of the Government, however,,to any portion of the prose not Anti-Republican, causes a very general feeling c :irritation and anxiety.

M. Leon Faucher has been paying a visit to his department, the Maine; and has delivered a speech at the Concours Agricole of Chalons- sur-Marne, one sentence of which has attracted much attention, from its supposed advice to the country to disregard the obstacle against the re- election of LOIlin Napoleon made by the 45th article of the Consti- tution—

"From Chalons came, after 1849, the first cry of revision ; that cry which in 1861 was echoed by the signatures of 1,700,000 petitioners and the votes of eighty Councils-General. You have, gentlemen, clearly indicated the end; and, according to your custom, you have not allowed yourselves to be diverted from your purpose. You have done this, without either agitation. or excite- ment, like men who know that France has attained her majority, and no obstacle can atop nor any bond enchain her will." A Paris letter says on Wednesday—"M. Proudhon, who is permitted from time to time to emerge from the confinement of his prison, was present last night with his young wife at the representation of the The- atre Francais."

Bziorux.—The commemoration of the "three glorious days" of the Revolution of 1830 in Brussels has been more enthusiastic and brilliant this year than in any former year. The young Monarchy has now attained its majority, and the event has seemed a fit one for unparalleled celebrations. Correspondents say that the city was crowded on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, beyond all experience ; "so much so, that even thousands of English, who usually give to the upper town so unmis- takeable an air, are missed in the throng."

The military review by the King, on Wednesday, was one of the most imposing parts of the festival. About twenty thousand men were mar- shalled, and put through manceuvres. The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle says- " Just when the last corps of cavalry bad pissed, the crowd, which the gendarmes on horseback had kept till then at a distance, overflowed the place, and surrounded the King and Princes, completely separated from their staff, shouting vociferously 'Vise le Bei !"Vieent let Princes t' Among the most enthusiastic were a certain number 'of French National Guards, who seemed willing to indemnify themselves -for their long want of an opportunity to imam:Use a popular king- The King -seemed coin- pletely at ease among this crowd -waving their hats and easqueta in. his hondu ; and I was told by one of the offieera of the staff,: wha :remained- there a passive spectator of the scene; that no gendarme; or policeman,: would dare to order these people to go back. I overheard the little Count*, Pismires, a boy of some fourteen years, who haa already the reputation of ai wit, saying to ,a man of the people, who leaned' ou his stirrup, shouting louder than anybody die, 'Long -live the Princes," Thank you for your' good wishes,. but don't kilk_ree by pulling me down.' The King thanked the crowd by *owe and gesticulation,' arid received with the gre:tett amenity the petitions which-some 'women- presented to -him; In the evening, 'a sin- gular and -very interesting ectacle was afforded—a grand ',retreat,' to the light of flambeaux, of a body of cavalry,- who passed. rapidly , through the main streets ; thus giving the good Bruxellois a lively idea of 4101318 of those vicissitudes of war of wineh their omintzy has eo often been the scene..". 'AIIBTRIA.—The Italian- correspondents of our .daily journals- describe the progress of tha young ;Emperor through: the:Lombard towns. Vast preparations seem- to have been made-by the authorities, to give the visit the appearance of a joyous progress -through cities exuberant with affec- tion-and delight ; but mowhere were the:people themselves moved from a gloomy taciturnity. At Venice, along the waters near the Doge's palace, the gondolas were scattered and few ;: instead of .being; as in 1838, when Ferdinand paid a visit to Venice, an impassably dense fleet. At Verona, the whole of the festivities were so completely military and martial,,that the inhabitants seemed unwelcome as well as unwilling spectators. At Mantua, the iniaabitante wens ordered to display flowers in a lively man- ner ' • and they complied with the order in such mood that an old Major cursed them in the hearing of the correspondent of the Horning Chronicle.

" Why, any criminal on his road to prison creates a greater sensation than the presence of their Emperor and master amongst them, and has a larger and more respectable assemblage to accompany him to his place of captivity than his Majesty yesterday had on his way to his palace : and yet, who Can. look at the noble young man and not be won by his graceful appearance? The whole army would, to a MIN die for him." The Duke of Modena, Jellaehicli the Ban of Croatia, and the marvel- lous old General Radetzky, accompany the Emperor on his route. .

eIIBA.—The report last week that the Cuban invasion had been sup- pressed was true. Accounts' from-Havannah to the 1st instant describe the annihilation of the band under Lope.s, the capture of Lopez himself, and his public execution in Havannah, by the g,aroto. The general incidents of the expedition are now described officially. Commodore Platt, of the United States Navy, on the '27th August—"the followers of Lopez being entirely dispersed"—applied for leave to visit the American prisoners whom the authorities had placed in the Castle of the Punta. The . Captain-General of the island, General Concha, gave him leave " to-hold the interview, and- to remain with the prisoners as long as he might find convenient." Commodore Platt and Lieutenant Taylor held the interview on the 30th August; and the former has de- scribed it to his Government in a despatch, from which extracts were published in the official Washington _Republic, of the 9th instant.

The prisoners were fifty-seven in number, and of these about thirty-five were officers. The Commandant of the Castle was present at the interview. ''.Another gentleman, who was introduced as Inspector of Prisons, came in dinieg its continuance, and remained until its close. The prisoners were heavily ironed, were clad in a prison uniform, and had their hair closely cut. They were confined in an arched gallery, to which necess was had through two grated doors, the inner one being entirely of iron. In the little ante- room between the two doors lay the garments worn by the prisoners at the time of their confinement." .

When the American naval officers entered, "the Americans were Or- dered to advance to the front, and all foreigners were sent to the other end of the cell." The officers were then called for. Captain Kelly, and Lieutenants Glider and Baker, stepped forward ; and these gentlemen, in the hearing of the other prisoners, replied to all the queries. Commodore Platt first informed them, that he had obtained permission to visit them, in order to take any information they might choose to give to the Government of the 'United States, that perhaps might be "the means of deterring others of their countrymen from placing themselves in the same deplorable position." "They were told distinctly that they were in the power of the Spanish Government, and that nothing could be done . for them as Americans, inasmuch as the President's proclamation had de- clared that any persons joining an invading force would thereby forfeit the protection of theGovernment of the United States. This was said to pre- vent their forming any false hopes from my visit." The officers then made i their statement aloud, n the hearing of the other prisoners, who adopted it.

". They thought the number of the expedition was 487 ; it certainly did not amount to 500. Before landing at Cuba, they anchored near Key Wept, where they remained several hours, and were visited by some citizens of that place. They landed in Cuba about two o'clock in the morning of the 12th of Au- gust. Their first fight took place on the 13th. From that period they had lost all recollection of dates. They had five engagements, but could not tell how many of their number had been killed. They were armed with con- demned muskets.—had no rifles; but many individuals had revolvers and knives. They brought with them 80,000 cartridges' and captured many more after landing. They had no artillery. Soon after landing, they found they had been deceived and became anxious to return home. They had been in- formed, before sailing, that fourteen towns were in possession of the Patriots,' (to use their own language,) and that the whoje island was in a state of revolution. They suppose that the fifty men,s4tured with Colonel Critten- den were endeavouring. to make their escape. They so infer from the fact that they were all dispirited by the reception they met with and disgusted, as they said, with the 'lies and deception' practised towards them. The country-people generally fled at their approach, and none joined them. Worn out with hunger and fatigue, the men composing this body threw away their arms a week or ten days previously ; they could not distinctly remember when. They had not at that time heard of the offer of life to such as would give themselves np, but their intention was to throw themselves upon the mercy of the Spanish Government. They did not come in all together, but in small parties and at different times. They had subsided chiefly upon kruit, and the lad - meat that sonic of them had eaten wars portion of -their General's horse.- There was no lack of ammunition when they threw away their arms, though much of what they brought had been damaged by rain. Lieutenant Grider stated that he carried a musket, though an officer, and that he had twenty-eight rounds of cartridges in Ins box when he threw it away. "Captain Kelly stated that the editor of the New Orleans _Delta, Mr. Si- , was instrumental in persuading hint to join the expedition, having ad-

dressed personally upon the subject. He has reason to believe that he persuaded many others also. The whole party manifested much indignation

towards General Lopez and Mr.,Sigur. ; and many of them asserted that it would be worse for the latter if they should live to return home. On being tottl4hatiGinferaTorziwellettalaPpriatinthyok ery”11: joy auf exultation ran thieve:4044014v eeri000n dem io &WO RE nteraWILbliZtlegitiVedled.1951"161:1144(fil 91(11141,11*M10441461011Lirlilrei .1? .4).rit, "Colonel de Lao relents,. ma the 28th, thatrhe lied learned fm prisoners that opq iiight a- the 24th; Ileiki'!distpeafedifitin theaerearia bind withl and that previoua to that he had: enclidiatinr41 w:thale his iniY the 'South. Lieutenant-Governor Zequiraotatskolthatoeto the , 28th, Loper,'•Witkoilly six'folloivers; was seeking to maker all miSsibln means. Colonel Morales de Rade, oil the dime dayotpotteittrat a young mountaineer lied come into his camp, andfinfornicdAtimiliattwe ham= before he had seen Lopez with six maanned followers; antlithit helitd offered hini-200 dollars, beside- a'draft, for 2000 dollars, -payablentilalnat. Havarinah, if -he would guidelif plantation Of Diego, derlapinfthtit

that suddenly,. a few minutes' iyelatif doubting hisldelityieLopsis ortlered hfin to go away, and keparatedfrint'Wfollowere, and itionewithla- Mulatto

boy disappeared. When taken.' wander:Mg' abciutthe-cointry:altine. Some say he was capthred by dogs. AnOther4 report that the weiatjto a farm-house and asked for something. to and permission !at'', lindevni; which was granted him:- His fell asleep; during which tideothe owner of the place obtained the assiatance of fOur men, who bound.J1openiind and foot, and then des.patehed a person to the nearest rendczvouif.,

he was made secure."

The execution of Lopez at Havannah took place onthe' letinstant, the day on which the latest inteiligemic, darted for'Aineitien. From the ac- count in the Xew Yerk Herald, w1,4ch paperdivfni`nlilf-Priiginally unfixour- able to the expedition; it appear a ;that the -Aeciftfokiviis

which gratified thngeneral public,feel:in.g, an exhiLition • .

"Ilaeannah for the lost three days previous to the sailinfi 4,the Empr City has been the theatre of the moat intense excitement eves ,witnessed Li the island of Cuba. On Saturday the ,30th ulthno, the newrajl Revd.. nah of-the capture of General Lopez and his forces; and nevein'eft,news re.: calved with more joy and ,apparent satisfaction. , It was a dayeljab efand

rejoicing.. :In the evening, the principal buildings in the city gin mi-

nded, torch-light processions formed, ,The next day, (S . )laich is-generally a holyday there, was doubly fp now, in honour, is tnev said, of the victory, of the Spanish troops. Gunnwere fired from niorning'thl night. Shouts and visas for ,Concha and the Queen' were continually offered. Lopez was shot in effigy in different parts of the town. He was dressed in the full • uniform of a general, and "under his left' mim was a game-cock, and in his right hand a pack of cards.. The rabble amused themselves by shooting at

the effigy all day. . •

"At hdf-past six o'clock on the let of September, the troops were as- sembled at the place of execution,. which was at the Panto, at the entrance of the harbour,- directly opposite the Moro. There were on the ground at the time 5000 troops, 3000 infantry an& 1000 cavalry; and about 8000 citi- zens.- .A few -minutes before seven. Lopez was brought forward, and as- cended a platform about fifteen feet high, . on which was the chair of execu- tion. - He turned, and facing the multitude assembled, addressed them with . a short speech, the conclusion of which was I die for my beloved Cuba!' He then took his seat, the machine was adjusted, and at one turn of the. screw his head dropped forward; then all that remained of him who hail so., Ion g been the terror and dread of the -Cuban Government wets a cold, black, lifeless body. He evinced not the slightest trembling or fear ; his step was proud and firm, and his voice clear and distinct. A few hisses and groans were heard from the crowd after the execution ; save that, everything was .

orderly and quiet .

Later accounts from Cuba communicate the intelligence, that General. Concha, the Captain-General of the island, has freely pardoned three of the officers of the suppressed expedition,. and paid their passages home te New 'York. One of the officers liberated is Lieutenant Van Vechten, whu has written a long aceount of the whole affair. He describes the chief. combats. In each instance the Americans seed to have been "surprised" by the Spanish troops, while at breakfast ; the peasants keeping the troops fully informed of all the most detailed movements of the invaders. In one of the first combats, the Americans killed seven men and took a pri- soner and much ammunition; in a subsequent fight the Spaniards were made to retreat with a loss of '323 men. -But at the -Very outset, the stores: and reserve ammunition Were' lost by the -defeat of 'Colonel Crittenden's detached party ; and at the end of a week the terribly stormy weather had destroyed all the remaining ammunition, and rendered the muskets use- less as fire-ann.s. Lieutenant Van Veehten accounts in detail for the whole of the force which landed from the PamPero. "With Lopez ended not 4nly this expedition, but, I sincerely trust, all expeditions to Cuba. Up to the time I left, 4th September,) the- Spaniard§ could account for 271 Americans, including Crittenden's command, whom they had billed, that is, in action; wounded men who were left on the field, and sick and fatigued men, who .gave out on the march and were left behind, and men whom, they hunted down in the mountains with dogs, Those,. with the 160 taken prisoners, make a total of 431 men,aecounted fop —leaving a balance of 22 men whose fate is yet unknonm;;.the total force- lauded being 453 men. Of these. 22 probably the greater portion are yet alive and in the mountains; and,. as the troops have all been- recalled to Havanna]; it is probable some of .them may yet succeed in getting hornet Out of the whole number made prisoners, but tivo others besidelnyeelf have been pardoned : those are Colonel Haynes and- Captain Kelly,; whom the Captain-General pardoned and sent home unsolicited. My own release was

granted as a special favour to Captain Charles T. .Platt, of the United States ship.Albany ; on board of which I was conveyed by an aide of the Captain- General at eleven o'clock on Wednesday night, the ship proceeding to sea immediately. . His Excellency sent a Government Ow-boat and pilot to take her out. Lopez was caught with bloodhounds in the mountains, on morning of-Friday the 29th of August. The clogs being some distance.i. advance of the men, bit him badly in the left leg. There were sevc countrymen in the party who captured him, each of whom was publicly pre seated with 1000 dollars and a cross of honour immediately after his e49 cution."

The immediate causes of failure of the expedition are explained.

"Lopez did not desert Crittenden, [as had been stated in some publish letterset prisoners, which Lieutenant Van Veohten thinka unauthentic in leaving him, n dividing his command, he committed one of those err which eventually cost him his life : but had Crittenden, [than whom, the writer, "a nobler, braver, or more honourable man, never breathe 3 on the morning of the 13th August, gone and joined Lopez at Las Posae r stead of retreating to the sea, all would have been well; then he would lost only the stores; as it was, he lost all. Why he did so, is inexp]ie and must ever remain involved in mystery. Had Lopez carried out his ginal intention of lending near Puerto Principe, the result Might pe have been different—he might there, perhaps, have found•friends, and a force sufficient to sustain itself until reinforcementswere sent out fro he States, In landing where be did, Lopez without doubt acted, us he the4hti for the best; but there, as in many other instances, he erred. Of hittersonal courage there is no doubt ; but when we speak of military knoallgei

e, of judgment, of his ability to lead an expedition, I say at once he had neither. Lopez was probably as much or more deceived than any man in the expedition. His ambition led him to be the tool and victim of heartless speculators : avarice, not philanthropy, was the main-spring of this expedi- tion." Tbe general causes and results of the expedition are exposed.

" I now distinctly, openly assert, that all those letters purporting to be from Cuba, which were published during the month of July last, and copied throughout the Union, were base forgeries, for the express purpose of de- ceiviug the citizens of the United States, and advancing the sale of Cuban bonds. Knowing the ambition of Lopez, and that strong disposition to ex- tend, the glorious boon of freedom which fills the breast of every American citizen, these speculators in human blood took advantage of their knowledge to further their Own end. They well knew how little effort was required to start and keep alive this excitement. They thought, or at least they fondly hoped, that more men would go out to join this little band, and that eventually the island would be free. Cuban bonds were worth, or were eel- Beg at, from ten to twenty cents on a dollar, when this expedition left. Naturally, they would increase in value as the prospect of liberating Cuba be- came more eertain s and if this expedition succeeded, as they pretended to think it would, Cuba, when liberated from what they denominated the ty- ranny of Spain, would have been burdened with a debt of from fifty to a hundred millions of dollars at least fifty per cent of which would have been in the poekets of these would-be philanthropists, who, active as they wished to be thought in the holy cause of liberty, took the best of good care to peril neither life nor their own precious liberty its its behalf. At the expiration of the war, and after Cuba should have "become free, then it was to be an- nexed to the United States ; and, as a matter of course, the payment of these Cuban bonds was to be assumed by that Government. What do they care for the mothers, wives, and sisters of the gallant men who formed this ill- fated expedition, who have been rendered utterly wretched and miserable for ever ? They do not feel the chains, the anguish, borne by those 160 noble' fellows, doomed to spend the best ten years of their lives in a Spanish prison. hlo,- they feel the blood-money in their pockets, and Laugh over the result of their speculation. They are the men to be punished : it is on them the shades

of our murdered countrymen 'all for vengeance." -

Lieutenant Van Vechten defends the execution of the fifty men under Colonel Crittenden ; says they deserved their fate ; and confesses that he himself kith deserved and expected the same fate. He declares that the conduct of the Spanish troops was most generous.

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A biographical notice of Lopez has been published, which, though written throughout in a tone of enthusiastic admiration is understood in Traders well informed to give -'a trathfulliistory of his picturesquelife,

and 'a fair view of his character and objects. - •

'Narciso Lopez Was not born in Cuba, but in Venezuela, while it was still a Spanish colony, about the year 1798. His tither's immense estates were lost to him in the Patriot war under:Bolivar, which ended in the evacuation of the Caracess by the Spanish army, in 1823. In that war Lopez was a combatant On the 'Spanish. side ; and it should be remembered that Spain was then under the Democratic Charter of 1812. He distinguished himself beyond every ,'Man in the airily by his extraordinary ability as a' cavalry commander, and his unsurpassed bravery. During the whole of that war, the military cross of Sin' Fernando, of the highest degree—" a reward not bestowed at pleaSure, 'Which it to be obtained only by a pablic demand be r thd.person Claiming and: on the institution of a formal process for and agannit his 'right, ev isody being free to interpose an objection, or to depre- ciate the merit of the act for which it is demanded "—was conferred only on two claimants, and -qst them :Lopez wee the one most honoured anksitt- questioned. He was as modest as brave and was forced to make the claim by Murillo, his commanding officer. His character stood so high even with the Patriots, against whom he fought, that when the Spaniards retired, the yours Government invited him to enter their service with the rank he held in the Spanish army ; but frdm a nice 'sense of honour he declined the offer. In 1828 he married a Cuban lady, and became a resident in Cuba. Being in Madrid at the death of King Ferdinand the - Seventh, lie threw himself into the Christine and Carlist war, on the popular side, and was of such eminent service, that just before the regency of Espartero, he was made Commander-in-chief of the National Guard , of the kingdom—a- post created especially for him at the critical period—and Governor of Ma- drid. But the post was always distasteful to hire, because it might have brought him into collision with the people themselves, in repression of tumults. Ile three times offered his resignation; and it was at last accepted by his personal friend Espartero, on his determination otherwise to throw up Ins coMmission. The Liberal city of Seville chose him to represent it in the Senate; and then turning himself to the study of the whole field of Spanish colonial polities. he became possessed with an irrepressible desire to set free his adopted-Cuba from the mesh-work of corrupt administration which the Govirnment of Spain had used in the ruling of that last remnant of its American empire. His hopes in this direction were encouraged by the fact that the Captain-General of Cuba was then his own bosom friend, General Valdes, whom noble Spaniards have described as "the most virtuous man breathing." On his return to Cuba, important offices were conferred on him; and these he held till the moment when he himself resigned them, Just before the completion of his schemes for a patriotic revolution in Cuba, Similar to those on the South American main-land, which lie had seen Bolivar carry out successfully. These schemes were discovered before they were completed, and he had to escape to the United States. The details of his un- successful attempt on Cuba in 1848 at the town of Cardenas are still remem- bered. His enthusiastic temperament seems to have misled him, both in reference to the disposition of the Creoles to rise in arms against Spanish Misrule, and in reference to the defection from the army which his immense personal popularity with the troops encouraged him to expect. The second attempt at Bahia Honda has now terminated more fatally than the first. Whatever were the miscellaneous and in many instances nationally dishon- nimble -objects of those Americans who organized the popular manifestations n favour of Lopez, and furnished him with the men and means to prosecute is enterprise, all the antecedents of Lopez himself go to set the seal of mth on his last words—"I die for my beloved Cuba."

UNrrEn STATES.—The political news is confined to points in connexion ith the Cuban expedition. Public opinion had begun to flow in a calmer .neam. The most respectable organs of opinion were calling the public t account for their late excitement : the Government was dismissing 'crcers who had been lax in preventing the departure of the expedition; ad lastly, the generous conduct of the Spanish authorities towards the drturecl officers whom they have liberated was exercising a strong in- fiance.

terrible storm had visited thetouthern States • entirely destroying „sugar and cotton crops in several parts of Florida, Georgia, South Ca- nna., and Alabama.

' 'Assn Itsma ISLANDS.—Great injuries have been suffered by some of tliWind.ward Islands, English and foreign, from hurricanes and con- Ds of the earth. The advices extend to the end of last month. A ssts -s 1 hurricane has done great damage in Antigua ; the highways being so in- jured that grants will be required of the Legislature for their repair. At St. Kitts, a number of disasters by wreck are described ; several of them involving loss of life. At Montserrat, there were many wrecks, but for- tunately little loss of life. In St. Lucia, the hurricane raged fearfully' driving the sea to such a height that a large portion of Castries was sub- merged, and at one time the whole town seemed likely to be engulphed. At Martinique, volcanic mountains continued in a state of active erup- tion. The town of Prficheur was entirely deserted. All the surrounding plantations were covered with ashes.

Barmen GUIANA.—Earl Grey has instructed Governor Darkly to sub-

mit to the Court of Policy some little improvement in their colonial con- stitution. He sent his notions prefaced—" Victoria It., Instructions," &e. ; and Governor Barkly submitted them to the Court of Policy on the 25th June. Earl Grey proposes no radical change, such as the substitu- tion of an elective Council and a popular House of Assembly, in place of the present official-ridden bodies. He proposes only to increase the num- bers of the College of Electors, and of the Financial Representatives— respectively from seven to eleven, and from six to ten ; to make the elec- tive members in the Combined Court six in place of five; to take away the Governor's power to veto the introduction of measures and control their progress ; and to give the Court of Policy the power of regulating its own adjournments. The Court of Policy received the proposals, and adjourned.

AUSTEALIA.—The Australian Anti-Convict League pursues its objects

with spirit and dignity. At a general conference of the delegates, held in Melbourne last January, resolutions were adopted, which, after a justifying historical recapitulation, pledged the members of the League to these common engagements-

" 1. They engage not to employ any persons hereafter arriving under sen- tence of transportation for crime committed in Europe. "2. That they will use all the powers they possess—official, electoral, and legislative—to prevent the establishment ot English prisons, or penal set- tlements, within their bounds ; that they will refuse assent to any projects to facilitate the administration of such penal systems ; and that they will seek the repeal of all regulations, and the removal of all establishments, for such purposes. "Lastly, They solemnly engage with each other to support, by their ad- vice, their money, and their countenance, all who may suffer in the lawful promotion of this cause." The arrival, on the 20th May, of the convict-ships Lady Kennaway from Portsmouth and the Black Friar from Kingstown, has caused the League to forward to Earl Grey the following protest. Hobart Town, May 29, 1851. " My Lord—You will have learnt ere this, that the disregard of the

moral, religious, and social welfare of this colony evinced by you in continu- ing to inundate it with the crime of the British empire, has spread alarm and indignation throughout the Australian Colonies. Dermotie rulers have often invaded the temporal interests of their subjects, but it remained for your Lordship and the Ministry of which you are a member to present the first example of a constitutional government invading and destroying the moral interests of a community. But you have not only done this, you have iolated a solemn promise, and have thus disregarded the honour of our Sovereign. Our petitions and prayers have been treated with contempt ; misrepresentation of our wishes has been added to insult, and through you the name of Tasmania has become a byeword among all nations. But Englishmen, by emigrating, have neither forgotten their rights nor have they become indifferent to the honour of their Sovereign and their country. The Australian Colonies have therefore formed ti league, and they are pledged to each other by their mutual interests—their future destinies—their fellowship of weal and wo—and now by their solemn engagement, not to rest until transportation to their shores be abandoned for ever. As the Council of a branch of this great confederation, the undersigned have just witnessed with feelings of indignation the arrival in the harbour of Hobart Town of the Lady K. ennaway from England, and the Black Friar from Ireland, the former with 249 male, and the latter with '260 female convicts; and they herewith solemnly protest, the name of Tasmania and of all the Australian Colo- nies, against the introduction of these criminals into this community, as a violation of the pledge given by her Majesty's Government in 1847, that transportation to these shores should cease." (The signatures are T. D. Chap- man, A. M•Naughtan, J. Allport, W. Crooke, W. Root, R. Officer, J. Dann, F. Haller.)

NEw ZEALAND.--We have intelligence from New Zealand to the 21st

of June. The subjects occupying public attention were the Provincial Councils Bill, which the Governor-in-chief, Sir George Grey, had intro- duced into the Legislative Council at Wellington ; and certain imputations thrown out against the Canterbury Association by Sir George Grey. The general nature of the new enactment was, to erest Provincial Legislatures of a single chamber, containing one-third of Crown nominees, and two- thirds needing no property qualification, to be chosen by voters who will from the nature of the qualification include nearly all the European po- pulation and some of the Maories. The debates on the bill were only re- markable for the speech of Lieutenant-Governor Eyre. Mr. Eyre ex- pressed much regret that the measure had not been passed in 1848, when it would have been received as a boon ; but he now felt that it falls wholly behind the demands of public opinion, which will no longer tole- rate any remnant of what is called " nomineemm," in any shape. Gover- nor Grey replied to this frank avowal of the fact, with a scolding speech at his insubordinate subordinate ; which has brought out the independent press in strong laudation of the latter for his truthful representation of public opinion. In reference to the Canterbury Asso- ciation Governor Grey declared, " from his own personal knowledge," that the Canterbury Association was contemplating an application for an extension of its block of land; and the editor of the Wellington Independ- ent gives point to this insinuation by describing it as intended to create hostility between Canterbury and the other settlements—Nelson for in-

stance. The journalist pronounces Sir George Grey's statement exag-

gerated, and devotes an article to correcting it and rebuking the reprehen- sible spirit of his insinuations. [We may add, -that at a meeting of in- tending colonists, in the rooms of the Canterbury Association in London, this week, Mr. Sewell stated expressly that there was no foundation for Sir George Grey's declarations or assumptions.]

An Auckland letter, dated the 20th April, describes an emente of the

Maories, which had startled the town, but been promptly suppressed by the authorities. Many of the Auckland police are aborigines. In a street scuffle to arrest a thief, a great chief, rendered sacred for the time by the " tapu," was knocked down by the baton of one of the police, and was hurried to the lock-up. The policeman was one of the lowest class of natives—" in fact a slave," and the insult of his touching the chief when he was rendered untouchable by the mystical " tapu " was a sacrilege. The tribes in the neighbourhood of Auckland assembled in immense force, danced their war-dance, and demanded the Maori policeman to be ad- judged to death and executed according to their law. Sir George Grey promptly called out all his forces, ordered in her Majesty's ship Fly to be ready for action, and notified to the savages that if they did not embark in their canoes in two hours he would give them the Fly's whole broad- side. They felt that they were overmatched, and so cleared off in a single hour. On two subsequent days they again congregated, but were again overawed and dispersed. At the date of the letter it was felt that the crisis VMS past.