_Miscellaneous.

A scandalous story about Prince George of Cambridge, which we have not yet noticed, has been current lately. The gist of it was, that circumstances had occurred which made it incumbent on the Prince to marry Lady Augusta Somerset ; but that the Duke of Cambridge, or, according to other accounts, the Queen, refused assent to the marriage. The Morning Chronicle points out a mistake in the Court Circular, which stated that the Dutchess of Cambridge was attended during her visit to Windsor by the Baroness Ahlefeldt ; whereas Lady Augusta Somerset attended the Dutchess ; and the Chronicle adds—" We are in- duced to correct this report in consequence of certain malicious reports having found their way into some portion of the public press, to which the above is a complete refutation." The Tbnes this morning denies the truth of the reports in more ab- solute terms ; being "authorised, on the very highest authority, to give these calumnies the fullest and most peremptory contradiction which language admits of."

Although Lord Melbourne has in some measure recovered from his late indisposition, that indisposition had been much more serious than the public had reason to suppose. We regret to say that his Lordship's illness arose from an attack of paralysis in the side, that also affected his speech ; but from which, as we have already stated, his Lordship has partially recovered.—Standard.

The Lord Chancellor has been suffering under severe indisposition ; but for the last three weeks his medical attendants have not considered it necessary to continue their visits, and his Lordship has resumed his regular diet. We may also state, and we can do so confidently, that there is no foundation whatever for the reports which have appeared in the newspapers relating to his Lordship's intention of resigning the great The Sheffidd Iris says that Lord Morpeth is preparing his observa- tions on the Americans for the press. The Court of East India Proprietors have presented Dwarkanauth Tagore with a gold medal, in token of their esteem for his munificence and liberal encouragement in the promotion of charity, education, and the arts and sciences. In returning thanks to the Chairman, by letter, Dwarkananth Tagore acknowledges with emphasis the advantage which India derives from the protection and example of England in civilized advancement.

The Tyne Pilot suggests that a public subscription should be raised in place of the pension which Miss Martineau has declined. To that there could be no possible objection : it is recognized in Miss Martineau's own principle. We should be glad to see the suggestion carried into effect.

The Reverend Dr. Solomon Hirschel, Chief Rabbi of the Jews in England, died at his residence, in Bury Court, St. Mary Axe, on Mon.. day. He was in his eighty-third year ; and for forty-one years he had been Chief Rabbi of the Great Synagogue. About eighteen months ago he sprained his ankle in stepping off the steps of an omnibus, and since that he dislocated his arm in falling against a bedpost ; accidents which seriously affected his health. He enjoyed the respect of all classes without regard to religious opinions. Although he gave large sums in charity, he has left 20,000/. and a quantity of plate to his family. On Wednesday the body was carried to the Synagogue, and thence to the Jewish burial-ground at Mile-end ; the funeral being at- tended by Sir Moses Montefiore, the Barons Rothschild, Mr. D. Salo- mons, Mr. D. W. Wire, Sir I. L. Goldsmid, and other leading Jews ; upwards of a hundred carriages composing the cavalcade.

Mr. Sergeant Spankie, whose name has been so long before the public that few of the present generation remember when it was not, died on Wednesday, at his house in Russell Square. Mr. Spankie began life as a reporter to the Morning Chronicle about half-a-century since ; he was afterwards editor of the Chronicle in its best days ; and he resigned that post on being called to the bar in 1808. He married the daughter of Mr. Manning, a London merchant ; and his marriage procured him strong interest at the India House, so that he was appointed Attorney- General of Bengal. A liver complaint drove him back to England, and he became standing counsel to the East India Company. He supported the Reform Bill, and was returned for Finsbury with Mr. R. Grant ; but in 1835 he was defeatel by Mr. Thomas Duncombe. Although a Re- form-Bill Reformer, he had always leaned towards Conservatism.

Very general regret has been created by the death of Mr. Allan Cun- ningham, which took place on Saturday night. In the morning he was conscious of his approaching death, the whole of his right arm and side having been struck with paralysis. For some time his health had been in a precarious state. He had completed the life of Sir David Wilkie but two nights before his death.

A very unfair advantage has been taken of a witness to some re- cent facts. The Captain of the French ship l'Aigle complrined lately that two English officers from the Cygnet boarded him in a style of dress resembling that of a French storekeeper. In a letter to the Times, Mr. John Hughes gave other instances of slovenly dressing on the part of British officers when upon official duty ; especially the land- ing of a Captain Kellett to see the Governor of Bissao, in a blanket coat, dirty blue trousers, straw hat, and dirty shoes. The Governor had put on full dress ; but on descrying Captain Kellett's trim, he kept the Captain waiting at the door while he pat on gown and slippers to receive his visiter in. Mr. Hughes recommended instructions to naval officers to be more civil on the coast of Africa. For this plain sense he was assailed with much vituperation. Colonel Nicolls impugned his veracity ; speaking all the time, says Mr. Hughes, of another Captain Kellett, or Killett. The Standard next called him a Negro ; and quoted passages in his evidence before the West African Committee of the House of Commons, to show that he had sold a ship to a notorious Portuguese slave-dealer, which was captured on its first trip. Mr. Hughes meets his new adversary. He is no Negro, but a man of Colour : though, indeed, the darker the colour of his skin, according to our present notions, the greater the credit to him for his intelligence. He quotes the evidence touching the sale of the ship in extenso; showing, from suppressed passages, that he had used the ship in question for a long time in legitimate trade ; she was damaged, and he sold her, just as our own Government at Sierra Leone sell condemned slavers, to the highest bidder. He had removed his papers, and before the new owner had got on board with his papers, a Portuguese war- ship hove in sight ; and the officers seized the recently-sold vessel, upon the pretext of its having no papers on board, but really because they wanted a vessel for their own purposes. After all, Mr. Hughes's evidence touching naval etiquette, and his timely hint, remain un- touched.

We learn by intelligence from Berlin of the 26th, that the memo- randum of the Prussian Government, laid before the Assembly of the Committees of the States, has been published ; and it throws farther light on the specific objects of the meeting. After some introductory para- graphs, the memorandum proceeds thus-

" It has been considered that a diminution of the legal price of salt would be the most advisable way of effecting the promised reduction in the public burdens, as peculiarly calculated to effect a sensible relief to the poorer classes, and at the same time as an important step towards an equalization of the price of salt in all the states of the Customs Union. Thus will a prospect be held eat that a stop will be put to the demoralizing practice of smuggling salt into the kingdom, from the States belonging to the Customs Union that border on Prussia; and that it will become possible to put an end to all the onerous regulations at present in force for the protection of the salt-monopoly. For these reasons, his Majesty has determined that the reduction of taxes for which a wish has been expressed by an overwhelming majority of the States, 'shall begin on the 1st January 1843; and that it shall consist chiefly of a redaction in the legal price of salt, and that this reduction shall be made in such a manner as shall be likely at the same time to effect a diminution of the price at which the article will be retailed."

The proposed reductions are to amount to 2,00G,000 dollars, (660,0001); including 20,000 dollars of hackney-coach-duty, 20,000 dollars fees from certain provincial and medical colleges, and 1,920,000 dollars salt: the price of salt is to be lowered from 15 dollars the ton of 405 lib. to 12 dollars, and the proportion of the wholesale and retail price is to be altered so as to increase the reduction. Railroads form the next subject of 64 memorial— `.

" Independently of the Prussian railroads already in full activity, the fol- lowing are the only ones, the completion of which, at an early period, can be looked upon as certain-

" From Berlin to Stettin ; From Berlin to Frankfort on the Oder ; From Magdeburg to Halberstadt; From Cologne to Bonn ; From Breslau to Freiburg; and From Breslau to Oppeln.

"In addition to the foregoing, in order to connect all the provinces of the monarchy by a system of railroads, it would be requisite, or at least desirable, to Construct— "A railroad from Cologne to the Hanoverian frontier near Minden ; "One from Halle, through Thuringia, towards the central part of the Rhine; "An extension of the railroad to Frankfort, as far as Konigsberg, with a branch-road to Dautzic, and, under certain circumstances, to the Russian frontier ; "A railroad from Frankfort to Breslau, and from Oppeln to the Austrian frontier; and

"A railroad to connect Posen on the one side with the line to Prussia, and on the other side with the line running through Silesia."

The total length of the proposed additional railroads would be 220 German miles. The total cost of the whole, with a single line of rails, "which will be sufficient until such time as there may be a prospect that the income of each railroad will suffice to its independent existence," is estimated at 55,000,000 dollars, at an interest to be gua- ranteed by Government of 3 per cent, or 2,000,000/. That burden would most likely never be fully imposed, because revenue would accrue from each railroad as it came into operation. But a variety of events, such as war, or other national contingencies, might make it necessary to augment the taxation again ; and therefore Government reserves to itself the right again to raise the price of salt. The Committees of the States were therefore to consider these questions- " 1. Whether they recognize the execution of so comprehensive a system of railroads as a national want.

"2. Whether they deem it necessary or expedient that the state should en- deavour to effect the realization of such a system, by guaranteeing a certain amount of dividend on the capital invested.

"3. Whether they are of opinion that such a guarantee, subject to the con- tingency of an augmentation hereafter of the price of salt, would be consonant to the general wishes of the country."

The general scheme had been approved by the Assembly, but details remained for deliberation.

The rumour of Louis Philippe's abdication in favour of the Duke of Nemours, which never received much credit, is contradicted by the French papers. Referring to the Morning Herald, the Courrier Frangais says- " We can reassure the paper in question, that Louis Philippe has not the slightest idea of abdicating ; and if an abdication were possible it would not take place in favour of the Duke de Nemours. We do not live under an absolute Government, and it does not depend upon the King to choose a suc- cessor. The Charter has fixed the order of succession to the Crown; and in this constitutional order the Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres precede the Duke de Nemours."

Much dissatisfaction has been created in Paris by the abrupt dis- missal of General Pajol from the command of the First Military Divi- sion' of which General Sebastiani took the command on Monday. Ge- neral Pajol is placed upon half-pay. In an angry letter to Marshal Soult, the veteran soldier of half-a-century complains of his dismissal as " unmerited disgrace."

Several manufacturing-towns have sent delegates to Paris to remou- strate against the contemplated Customs Union with Belgium. The current report is that the project is indefinitely postponed.

The Vienna correspondence of the Times, dated the 22d October, an- nounces the receipt of letters from Belgrade of the 17th, stating that all doubt on the result of the late revolution in Servia had ceased; the Sultan having issued his hatti-scheriff confirming Prince Alexander Georgewitsch as Oberhnes or Governor of Servia. The writer adds, that the effect of the measure would be to convert Servia from an in- dependent state into an elective principality ; by which change the people of Servia would not gain any advantage, whilst Russia would not be a loser.

The Augsburg Gazette of the 27th October says that Persia had ac- cepted the mediation of this country to arrange the differences which it had with the Ottoman Government.

The Nuremberg Correspondent of the 25th publishes a letter from Berlin, confirming a previous report that the Russians had ceased to act on the offensive in the Caucasus. The pretended plan of surrounding the Circassians in their vallies and " blockading " them, was said to be a mere boast by which the Russians were endeavouring to mask their retreat.

The Columbia mail-steamer, which left Halifax on the 18th October arrived at Liverpool on Saturday night, with papers from Quebec to the 12th, and letters from Kingston to the 10th. The chief subject in the papers is the elections of the newly-appointed Ministers. Mr. Lafontaine, although confined by sickness at Kingston, had been returned for the Third Riding of York, by 435 votes ; having a majority of 210 over his opponent, Mr. Roe, called a Conservative. In the address which he issued to the electors before the election Mr. Lafontaine says-

" By the Union of the two Provinces, the inhabitants of each are brought to participate in one common Legislature. In despite of the difference of language, of customs, and of laws, upon which some had founded hopes of fomenting discord between the population of the different sections of Canada, to the injury of all, we are yet linked together by an identity of interest. "Apart from considerations of social order, from the love of peace and poli- tical freedom, our common interests would alone establish sympathies which sooner or later must have rendered the mutual cooperation of the mass of the two populations necessary to the march of governmedt. " Without such cooperation, neither peace, welfare, nor good government can exist in the two United Provinces. • • • "The political contest commenced at the last session has resulted in a thorough union in Parliament between the members who represent the ma- jority of both populations. That union secures to the Provincial Government

solid support in carrying out those measures which are required to establish peace and contentment.

a In the present state of public affairs, I now see realized views in which I

have fondly indulged, which I have long fostered, and which I expressed publicly in my address to the electors of Terrebonne of the 25th August 1840. a All parties have at last united to declare that the cooperation of the French Canadian population is necessary to the working of the Government." At Hastings, Mr. Baldwin was, for the time, defeated. At the close of the six days' poll, his antagonist, Mr. Murney, a violent Tory, had a majority of 49; the numbers being, for Mnrney 482, Baldwin 433. (Other accounts give Mr. Murney a majority of 41 or 18.) The elec- tion, however, had been interrupted by the greatest violences, and it was expected that it would be set aside.

Mr. Dunscomb had resigned his seat for the county of Beauharnois, stating to the electors that a seat in the House of Assembly at Kingston would be incompatible with his commercial avocations at Montreal. It was thought that Mr. Gibbon Wakefield, who has resided at Beau- harnois, or at Montreal and Kingston, for the last nine or ten months, would be returned for the vacant seat.

It is stated that Mr. Morin had been offered the office of Commissioner of Crown Lands, which had been offered to Mr. Gironard and declined ; and that Mr. Morin had accepted the place, which would vacate the district Judgeship of Kamouraska. It does not, however, yet appear to be certain that Mr. Girouard had finally declined.

A correspondent of the Times shows, that Sir Charles Bagot was pre- ceded by Lord Sydenham in offering place to Mr. Lafontaine ; but in how different a manner, and for how different a purpose I- " The Union Act was hurried on and the details conceived and carried out in the same party-spirit from which so many evils had arisen. Eight counties, which in all human probability would have returned Canadian representatives, were to be allowed to return only five members; and every precaution was taken to swamp the Canadian population. They were freely called in the House of Commons a race hostile to British connexion; and even those who had not in any way been inveigled into any kind of connexion with the rebel- lion found themselves, merely because of their race, treated differently from those of another race connected with the rebellion in Upper Canada. But the Governor-General became alarmed : it soon became evident that as the vio- lence of party-feeling gradually subsided, the wretched and invidious distinc- tions of races, so unwisely kept up, were not likely to be supported by any unless an Ultra and violent minority on either side ; and that even the cities of Quebec and Montreal would return the whole of their representatives to the new House of Assembly, although some of them of the Anglo-Saxon race, and all of them opposed to the measures that had been adopted ; and it even be- came doubtful if the first act of the new House of Assembly might not be that of suicide. Under these circumstances took place an event not very different from what has lately occurred in Canada. Lord Syden- ham requested an interview with Mr. Lafontaine ; and the result I shall give on no less an authority than that of Mr. Lafontaine's memorandum. 'His object was evidently to secure my support to his Administration ; all the acts of which, with the solitary exception of Mr. Baldwin's appoint- ment as Solicitor-General of Upper Canada, I then openly condemned. This appointment he frequently adverted to, assuring me that hereafter he would call none but Reformers to office." I am most desirous, Mr. Lafontaine,' said Lord Sydenham, 'that you should feel persuaded of this. The same situation, as well as that of Judge, is yet vacant in Lower Canada: and I am desirous of conferring it upon a person of your abilities, provided he is pre- pared to sustain my Administration; for I intend carrying out the principle of responsible government. Your Montreal Tories are extreme in their violence; but I will crush them as I crushed those of Upper Canada.' "This attempt to throw overboard the Montreal Tories, as they are here called, (but who,lin point of fact, are the same party made use of by Lord Dur- ham as Reformers of the Anglo-Saxon race,) having failed, the Union was pro- claimed. The means used to attempt to obtain a Sydenham majority are no- torious: 'corruption and intimidation stalked boldly through the land ' ; by a stretch of power, the suburbs of the cities of Quebec and Montreal were dis- franchised; and, as a consequence, two Sydenham members returned for the latter city without opposition, and a Government officer by a small majority as one of the members for the city of Quebec."

The following letter from Lord Stanley to Sir Charles Begot, on the subject of the wheat-duties, had been communicated to the Provincial Parliament-

" Downing Street. 2d March 1812.

" Sir—In the anxious consideration which it has been the duty of her Majesty's Government to give to the important and complicated question of the importation of corn into this country, they have of course not overlooked the interest which is felt in this question by the province of Canada, and which has been expressed in memorials from the Legislative body, and from other parties, addressed to her Majesty and to the Legislature of this country ; and although in present circumstances her Majesty's Government have not felt themselves justified in recommending to Parliament a compliance with the general request of the various memorials that Canadian corn and flour should be imported, at a nominal duty, into the United Kingdom' I trust that the steps which we have taken, and the ground upon which we have declined to advance further in the same direction, will convince the people of Canada that the course which we have pursued has been dictated by no unfriendly feeling towards the interests of Canada, and especially of Canadian agriculture. "The steps which have been taken, so far as they go, have been decidedly in favour of those interests. By the law as it has hitherto stood, Canadian wheat, and wheat flour, have been admissible into Great Britain at a rate of duty estimated at Sc. per quarter, until the price in the English market reached 67s., at which amount the duty fell to 6d. By the bill which is now before Parliament, the duty of 5s. is leviable only while the price is below 55s., and at 58s. falls to Is. only. But in addition to this reduction in the amount of price at which the lower duty becomes payable, it is purposed to take off the restriction which has hitherto been imposed upon the importation of Canadian flow into Ireland, and thus to open a new market to that which may justly be considered as one of the manufactures of Canada. "In the measures which they have adopted, not without the most anxious attention to the various interests involved, her Majesty's Government have been desirous, while they gave a general facility of admission to the British market, of disturbing as little as possible the relative advantages possessed by the colonial and foreign supplies of that market. In this sense, while they have continued to the Channel Islands the facilities which they have hereto- fore enjoyed, of a free importation of their own produce (limited as it neces- sarily is in extent) into Great Britain, together with the means which they at present enjoy of having their own supplies furnished from the neighbouring and cheaper market, they have not felt themselves called upon to remove from the Isle of Man the restrictions which have been recently imposed on that island as to its foreign imports, while it possesses the advantages of an un- restricted commerce with Great Britain. The same principle has guided her Majesty's Government in the course which they have felt it their duty to pur- sue with regard to Canada.

"It is impossible to be more fully convinced than are the members of her

Majesty's Government, of the importance to the interests both of the Colony and of the Mother-country of maintaining between the two the most un- restricted freedom of commercial intercourse. Even a cursory examination of facts and figures must demonstrate the value to be attached in a commercial, and much more in a moral and political. point of view, to the continuance and improvement of that rapidly increasing intercourse; and her Majesty's Government would have had much less difficulty in approaching the question of an unrestricted admission of Canadian wheat and flour into the British markets, if it had been in their power to look on that question as one of in- tercourse between Great Britain and her most important colony, and inde- pendent of all considerations of foreign trade. "But it was impossible for her hiajesty's Government so to regard it. It was impossible that they should not advert to the geographical position of Canada, in reference to the great corn-growing States of the West of America. It was impossible not to see that, however desirable it might be even to en- courage the transit through Canada of the produce of those States, with the advantage to Canada of any manufacturing process which it might undergo in the transit, a relaxation of duty to the extent of free or nearly free admission would have been a relaxation not limited as in this case it ought to be, to the produce of a British colony. " It is true that the Imperial Parliament, at the time that they admitted Cana- dian produce at a nominal duty, might constitutionally have Imposed a corral- pending duty upon the import of American wheat into Canada, and might thus have placed a check upon the undue influx of foreign under the name of Cana- dian produce: but whatever might be the view taken by her Majesty's Govern- ment, under a different state of circumstances, in which a tax imposed by colo- nial authority and of course receivable into the Colonial treasury, upon wheat imported from the United States might secure the agriculturists of England against the competition of foreign growers, they have been unwilling to impose such a tax, by the authority of Parliament, upon a raw article which might be required for home consumption in Canada and in the absence of such a tax, have felt it impossible to propose to Parliament a further reduction than that which they have submitted in favour of wheat and wheat-flour shipped from the ports of Canada.

" I. have, &c. (Signed) STANLEY. "The Right Honourable Sir Charles13agot, G.C.B., &e. &c. &c."

In accordance with this suggestion, a resolution was moved in the House of Assembly by Mr. Mocks, to impose a duty of 3s. sterling per imperial quarter upon American wheat imported into Canada—such duty to go into effect on the 5th of July next. The preamble expresses confidence, that upon the imposition of a duty in Canada upon American wheat imported into the Province, such wheat will be admitted duty-free, or rather as Canadian wheat, into the ports of Great Britain. The reso- lution was carried, and a bill was afterwards introduced embracing the substance of the resolutions and there was no doubt that it would be- come law.

On this project ; the Kingston Chronicle observes— "The English Government offers to the Province to repeal the Imperial duties levied in England upon wheat imported into England from Canada, if the Provincial Parliament will impose a duty on wheat from the United States. The Provincial Administration has agreed to accept the offer, and proposes to fix the duty at about 3s. sterling per quarter, or 5id. currency per bushel. Sup- posing the importation from the United States to be about 1,000,000 bushels, this offer will add to the Provincial revenue about 370,000/. sterling. If it shall only amount to 200,0001., it will be an enormous addition to the provincial revenue; which will no doubt be applied to public works, to the erection of public buildings, in which, as contrasted with those in every great town in the United States, this Province is greatly deficient, and, it is to be hoped, to the erection of schools.

"To some extent the duty will be a tax on the inhabitants of the Province,— namely, upon so much of the wheat imported as is consumed here. If the duty was merely on wheat, treating it as Canadian wheat when exported, it would amount to the duty levied on Canadian wheat in England; but the amount will be much more ; and as the wheat will be manufactured into flour for exportation, the Province will have the profit of the manufacture. This is the first time that the Imperial Government -has given up to a colony the duties it thinks proper to impose in England on Colonial imports for the regulation of its own trade."

The Parliament was prorogued on the 12th by Sir Charles Bagot, with a short speech, simply thanking the Legislature for the zeal and assiduity with which they had considered and perfected the measures of the session, as well as for the supplies they had voted, and exhorting the members to use their personal influence in the several districts to pro- mote the harmony and good feeling which it had been his endeavour to establish.

The Columbia left Boston on the 16th, and conveys intelligence from New York to the 15th.

The principal event was the death of Dr. Channing, announced by the Boston papers. He expired at Bennington, in Vermont, on the evening of Sunday the 2d October, of typhus fever ; in the sixty- second year of his age. He had long been in a feeble state of health which had compelled him to relinquish active pastoral duties. His death was acknowledged to be a national bereavement.

There had been great public rejoicing and festivities in New York on the occasion of the city being supplied with pure fresh water from the Croton river, by means of a stupendous aqueduct.

No material change had occurred in the markets of New York. The exchange on London was 7i to Si premium ; on France, 5 franca 30 to 11 centimes. We quote the money-article of the New York Daily Express- " The abundance of money has continued as great as ever since our last, and there is at this time as large an amount of unemployed capital in our banks, and with capitalists, as we have ever known. The banks seldom if ever discount paper, however good, at lees than six per cent, and prefer to let their money lie idle rather than take under the customary rate ; but capitalists have and are discounting very choice notes at five per cent per annum. This excess of unemployed capital is no evidence of the prosperity or revival of trade; on the contrary, it is a strong demonstration of the continuance of the depressed state of business that has continued for a long period. The produce of our country ranges at so very low rates, that it requires but a comparatively small amount of money to make the ordinary transfers of property. "The great cotton crop of our country is now being gathered, and front nearly every section of the country where the staple is raised the &deices are uniformly favourable. The hands are actively engaged in picking. The wea- ther has been tine. The quality turns out to be good ; which is always the case when the yield is large. There is every reason to believe that the crop will exceed that of any former year, and that it will be over two millions of bales. The crop of wheat and every kind of bread-stuffs turns out to be superabundant ; and with a very small foreign demand, prices are lower than they have been for many years. Flour is selling at less than four dollars and a half a barrel, wheat under ninety cents a bushel, beef and pork at very reduced rates, and every thing proportionably low."

The New Orleans papers transmit the intelligence of a fresh Mexican invasion of Texas. The Galveston Times of September 20th, quoted by the New Orleans Bulletin, gives the following as a kind of postscript-

" San Antonio was completely surprised on the 1 lth instant, by 1,300 Mexi- cans under General Wall Fifty-three of the principal citizens taken. The proclamation of the President, headed • The Enemy again,' orders the march- ing forthwith of the militia of Brazoria, Austin, Fort Bend, Colorado, Victoria, Gonzales, Jackson, and Matagorda counties, against ban Antonio; and the counties of the upper Brasos and Colorado to march to Austin, and the citi- zens of the other counties to hold themselves in instant readiness. The orders of the Executive direct that, in the event of the evacuation of San Antonio by the Mexicans, they arc to be pursued beyond the Rio Grande, and chastised as their audacity deserves.' In the event of a formal invasion, the Western counties are to hold them in check until the rest of the Republic can rally to the rescue.

P.S. Vilien San Antonio was taken, the Circuit Court was in session, and the Judge and officers of the Court were made prisoners."

The Belgian steamer British Queen arrived at Cowes on Thursday, from New York. She had been twenty-six days on the passage, and fears began to be entertained for her safety. She had been obliged to turn aside to the Western Isles for a fresh supply of coals.