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eae ens NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. [rom the New Orleans Picayune, April 24.] THE CHANCES OF PEACE. We saw a private letter from a very intelligent officer era Cruz, dated the 10th instant, in which he says that several of the States of the Mexican confederacy have denounced the war with the United States, and threatened to secede unless peace should be mad ny Mexicans predicted a peace within sixt: cay eorpmana dans puts little fuith in au; rable, He thinks the great diMeulty in the way of a peace is the fact that Santa Anna is 80 nearly crushed that he dare not make a treaty, Nor does there appear to be any one else in Mexico strong enough to incur the great responsibility. None of the old politicians will venture upon the step. Our correspondent adds; “Some man now unknown to fame, with nothing to lose and every thing to gain, may arise, and advocate a peace policy successfull His want of ambition, or the little chance of his ob- taining power, may prevent him from becoming obnox- ious to the jealousies of parties. and gain for him adhe- rents generally. He may succeed in making a peace which every body will be glad of; but how long before it will he usedas an element of political warfare? ‘The Legislature of the State of Vera Cruz, sitting at Jalupa, was said to be deliberating, at last accounts, up- on the propriety of making peace, independent of the seneral government. The State of Zacatecas has declared itself indepen- dent—so writes us an intelligent correspondent, APFAIRS IN THE CITY OF MEXICO. (From the New Orleans Patria, April 23.) Mextco, April I, 1 Affairs are every day growing so complex and confused in this capital, that [ ain now utterly unable to Understand what the present infernal state of things in Mexico willlead to, Never did you see a country ina more distressing situation than this unfortunate Mexican Re- public, nor one more miserably managed. You have heard of the results of the late revolution from the pe- riodicals which I have regularly forwarded you, and you may perhaps be able to form some idea of the atrocitios I scandajs of which this city is at present the theatre. I should not be able to find paper sufficient to describe all that has occurred here, It would be necessary to go back to the news of the battle of Buena Vista, an extra- ordinary battle—one which we impartials cannot well understand—as to its stupendous results, its incompre- ble organization, and especially the pretended vie- 'y of Santa Anna, which obliged him to retire from the fel with a loss of 1600 men, and his whole army disor- ganized, This is truly a new fashioned victory. But i to understand the present condition of “parties is necessary to take a calm review of affairs. parties which are at present, like moths, inces- santly feeding on the prosperity of Mexico, may be divi- vided into tive or six factions. ‘There is the war party, who are not only in favor of a war, but of one conducted with decision, energy and real earnest. There is the peace party, which is desirous of effecting an accommo- tation with the United States, even at the sacrifice of a large portion of their territory. Another party—that of the clergy-—hate the Americans as heretics and Jews, but they aro unwilling to open the purses of the church to contribute to prosecute the war against the “ ene- mies of their religion.” Gomez Farias has a party, which is in fayor of hypothecating the property of the church, to raise funds to earry ou the war. | ‘his party is weak, for Santa Anna publicly repudiates it, thoug! i ho secretly encourages their design. Lastly, isa party, which has always existed to a conside- able extentsn Mexico, intent upon selfish purposes, disregarding the circumstances of the State—in peace or in war, regarding nothing but the promotion of their own self-interest and ambition, ‘This party has setzed the present occasion as affording an opportunity of pro- moting their interests, entirely oblivious of the calls of patriotien Pecanta Anna Teayes to-day (April 1) for Jalapa, where he will unite his force with that of Gen. La Vega, who is now at the defences of the National Bridge. Santa Anna says that he goes to conquer or die; but this he has said so often, that we cannot put much reliance on the threat. He ‘takes with him about 20,000 men of all arms, the greater part of them being taken from (jaro- chada) the lowest class of the people, who are very good for fighting. They will, however, have no other advantage over the army whieh ‘marched from San Luis, except that they will not be compelled to the same dreary march through vast wildernesses, and exposed to con- tinual cold andrain. But they are equally destitute of resources and means, having no provisions, and no mo- ney with which to buy any. We have, therefore, no reasons for expecting any other results than have cha- ructerized the former enterprises, It is said that if the Americans pass the National Bridge, and march towards the capital, the whole people of Mexico will rise en masse against the invaders. But we donot doubt that a force of 10,000 or 12.000 Americans will not encounter on the march,’ Mexican army sufficiently large or determined to resist their onward progress. What do the Mexicans hope for, when, during a whole , they have permitted 40 many favorable opportuni. lies of repelling the invaders to pass by unimproved?— Witness the battles of Monterey and Buena Vista—the deburkation of the American troops in the very face of Vera Cruz, and when the expedition had become so uni- yersally known and so constantly expected. Santa Anna says there shall never be peace as long as thece is one American in Mexico. But Santa Anna is, in truth, most desirous of all other persons for peace, and willbe the first to recommend it, when it is safe to do so. There are many persons in’ Mexico, who have learned to understand and appreciate the Americans, their laws, government and institutions—but there are many Mexicans who thoroughly despise the Yankeos, their manners and customs. ‘Thus are these people di- vided and confused, and yet they call themselves free- men, and mockingly style their nation @ republic ! FROM VERA CRUZ. Heapquantens or THe Ansty, Camp Washington, before Vera Cruz, March 28. xenat, Onvens, No, 76—1. The detachment of the U.S. Marine Corps, now serving with the 3d Regiment of U. 8. Artillery, will return to the naval squadron, un- der Commodore Ferry to-morrow, and will assemble on the beach at 8 o'clock, A.M. for that purpose. The general-in-chief tenders his thanks to Captain Edson for the effvetive services rendered by himself, of- ficers and men, during the siege. By command of Major Gen. Seott, 1. 8. SCOTT, A.A Heapquanrers, Briaavé mp Washington, near Vera Cruz, March 28. xenat Onvens, No. 16,—The general of brigade avails himself of the occasion, on nem my | from Capt. Edson, his officers and men, to express his high appreci- ation of the energy, zeal and thorough soldiership which marked their effective co-operation during our associn- tion, and also to tender his cordial thanks and respects. By order of Brig, Gen. Worth, 'W. W.MACKALL, A.A.G. Extract from aletter of Capt, Hughes, of the Corps of ‘Topographical Engineers. Vera Cruz, April 14, 1847, “ Yesterday despatches were received here from Gen. Twiggs, at Plano del Rio, dated 12th instant, statin, that Santa Anna, with about 15,000 men, had oceupie the strong pass of Cerro Gorro, (five miles in his ad- vance.) about fifteen miles from Julapa, where he had an additional force ot 7,000 or 8,000 men. Gen. Patterson being ill, Gen, ‘Twiggs proposed to attack the enemy to- day, (4th instant,) but I presume orders have been sent him to defer it until the arrival of the commander-in- chief, who will reach the place to-day. It is now belley- ed that a great battle will be fought soon at Jalapa, or a few miles the other side, at a formidable pass, called La Hoya, which, if gained, opens to us the road to Perote and to Puebla. “It is not thought that anything serious will oceur at Cerro Gordo, a8 it is represented that the position may be turned, Iam sorry to tell you that Capt. Johnson, of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, (recently ap- pointed lieutenant colonel of voltigeurs,) was very dan- gerously wounded in two places, while reconnoitring the enemy's position on the 12th instant. His wounds had been dressed, one of the balls extracte pronounced not to be mortal. God Juable life may be spared to his family,bis friends and his country !”” NEWS FROM THE RIO GRANDE. (From the New Orleans Picayune, April 24. ‘The Trumbull has arrived from the Brazos, sailed on the 18th inst, Gen. Taylor was at Monterey on the 5th inst., while army remained at its old position under Gen. Wool. ». Taylor was pushing up supplies from Camargo to tillo with all rapidity, and with a view to a forward movement upon San Luis, Men oaly will be wanting for lant purpose. vine voluntecrs are returning towards the mouth of tho Rio Grande as. their terms of service are expiring. ‘The right wing of the Kentucky Legion had reached the Brazos, wad was awaiting there the srrival of the other prior to soiling for this port, We learn that none scarcely are re-enlisting letters from our correspondent, from the Matamoras Flag of AG. having tt arolina rogiment, as we learn from one of eutenants, Staton, is at San Francisco, jles this side of Camargo. On the 8th inst. they ined by their commander, Col. Paine. Capt. Wil- son, Our readers will recollect, has been appointed colo- nel of infantry, but prefers remaining with the Edge- combe boys, whose inothers constituted him their guard- ian dwring the war, Lieut, Staton, of the North Carolina regiment, came came down the iver on Friday last in charge of sick vol- unteers belonging to his regiment, On the passage dewn two of them died, viz: Geo, W. Barns, Ist sergeant, com- pany A; J. J. F, Stokes, 3d corporal, company Col, Cushing has issued the following stringent ord vith «view to put an end to the disturbances whic prevailed so long in Matamoros : Order—No, 71, Hrap-Quantens, Matamoros, April 13, 1847. tor the better maintenance of safety and good morals at this post, ent in special regard to the well being of the troops stitioned here, also in execution of previous orders emanating from the commanding general, and trom omeers in immediate command at the post, it is orderod | 1, All houses or other places of gambling of whatever name or Pehl or of public dancing, at this post, are hereby closed. 2. Al sale or traffic In distilled spirits at this post is prohibited eee Tue proprietors of all buildings or other places in 1 gambling or public daneing occurs, ov distilled spirits are sold, as well a8 the oceupante or other per yng engaged or employed in and about the sane, will be held severally responsible after the present date for any infraction of this order, and will be summarily dealt with according to fnartial law. & Mates Aetnets te changed with the cepantlon ef thie order. By order of C. C ina, Col. Comd’g : W. W. H. DAVIS, Adj’t. Passencens wy tHe Tuumavnn, Colquit, J Grabbs, Wm. Davis, Lieut. Rogers, J. W. Kinney, L J. Slion, Dr. W. B. Herrick, Mr. Call. ‘The Milledgeville Recorder of the 27th ult., contains the following order from Gov. Crawford:— Heap Qvantens, Milledgeville, Geo., April 23d, 1847 The Commander-in-Chief, having received a quisition from the President ‘of the United States for a battalion of Infantry, and also a company of Mounted Volunteers, again appeals to the patriotism of Ci orgin, Extracts from the letter from the War Department are annexed as explanatory of the mode of organization, the term of service, the place of rendezvous, and other sub- jects relating to the required battalion and company Companies, when organized for the proposed service, will report directly to the Hend Quarters, to the end that they may bo forthwith ordered tothe general rendezvous, inspected, and mustered into the service of the United States. By order of the Commander-in-Chief. JNO. H. BROWN, Aid-de-Camp. From the letter from the Wer Department, which is appended to the order, we glean the following intelli- nee:— Strive companies of infantry and one company of mounted volunteers are called for, to serve during the war, unless sooner discharged. If the entire number of companies ean be promptly raisod, they will at once be organized into a battalion, and the Governor will commission the Field and com: pany offleers. If it is necessary to order off the companies as fast as they are‘raised, they. will bo organized into. battalions and rogiments on reaching their place of destination. Columbus is designated ax the place of rendezvous, where the companies will be inspected and mustered into service by a United States officer sent for the purpose. MILITARY MO Orricr, ‘Trerox, N, J., April 27, 1847. His Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief, to the Volunteer Companies and citizens of that a requisition has been made by the President of the United States, dated the 19th of April inst., for five companies of Infantry, of eighty privates each, to serve during the war with Mexico, unless sooner discharged, on the conditions stated .in’ the requisition, a copy of which is annexed. ‘Trenton is designated as the place of rendezvous for the several companies, as fast as they shall be organized. The field and company officers will be elected and com- missioned agreeably to the laws of this State. Each captain or commissioned officer will be required to Hi hi? tothe Adjutant General's office,at Trenton, and take rank agreeably to the order in which they shall report their companies, in conformity with the re- quisition. By order of the Commander-in-Chief. T. CADWALADER, Adj’t Gen'l. Wan Deranry ‘April 19th, 151 Sm—The President has directed that u volunteer force be accepted for the war with Mexico, in addition those already in service, As it is desirable that no tit should be lost in raising this additional fores, it is pr posed to accept and muster the volunteers by com- panies. Your Excellency is therefore requested to cause to be organized in your state five companies of Infantry, to serve during the war with Mexico, unless sooncr discharged. Each company will consist of 1 captain; 1 first lieutenant; 2 second licutenants; 4 sergeants; 4 corporals; 2 musicians, and 80 privates. "A battalion will consist of 1 lieutenant colonel or major; 1 adjutant, (a lieutenant of one of the companies, but not in addition); 1 sergeant major; 1 quartermaster sergeant; 1 drwn major, and 6 companies. Should the number of companies here called for be raised, they will be at once organized into a battalic and your Excellency is requested to commission the field ‘and company Officers, lt may become necessary to order the several companies to the scene of action as fast as they are raised and mustered into service, in which case they would be organized into battalions und regiments on reaching the place of destination. ‘Trenton is designated as the place of rendezvous for the several companies, as fast as they shall be organized, where they will be inspected and mustered into service by an officer or officers of the United States Army, who will, in every case, be instructed to receive no man who is, in years apparently over forty-five or under eighteen, of whois not of physical strength and vigor. ‘To this end the Inspector will be accompanied by a medical officer of the army, and the volunteers will be submitted. to his examination. As all the field and company officers, with volunteers taken into the service of the United States, under the act of 11th May, 1846, a copy of which is enclosed, must be appointed and commissioned, or such as have been appointed and commissioned in accordance with the laws of the State from whence they are taken, | beg to suggest the extreme importance to the public service that the officers for the additional force, here requested, be judiciously selected. ‘The law provides for the pay, clothing (in money.) and subsistence to the non commissioned officers, musicians and privates of voluntecrs when received into the service of the United States. In respect to clothing, the law requires that the ,vol- unteers shall furnish their own clothing, for which pur- pose it allows to cach non commissioned officer, musician and private, three dollars and fifty cents per month di ing the time he shall be in the service of the United States. In order that the volunteers who shall be mustered into service under this requisition may be enabled to provide themselves with good and suflicient clothing, the commutation allowance for six months, (twenty-one dollars.) will be advanced to each non-co missioned officer, musician and private, after being mustered into service, but only with the express con- dition that the volunteer has already furnished himself with six menths’ clothing—this fact to be certified to the paymaster by the captain of the company—or that the amount, thus advanced shall be applied, under the super- vision of his captain, to the object contemplated by law. In this latter case the advance commutation for cloth- ing will be paid on the captain’s certificate that he is satisfied it will be so applied. In respect to subsistence before arriving at the place of rendezvous, and for travelling home from the place of discharge, the allowance is fifly cents for every twenty miles distance. ‘The proper offlecrs of the Staff Departments will be im- madiately sent to the place of rendezvous, with funds to defray the necessary expenses which may be incurred, agreeably to law. Very respectfully, Your ob’t servant, WoL. MARCY, Secretary of War. His Excellency, Cuanues C. Strattox, Governor of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J Apsutaxt Generar's Orrick, ? Washington, April 26,1847. 5 Cuances C, Stratton, Goverabr of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J. Sin—I have the honor to inform your Excellency that Captain Miner Knowiton, Ist Artillery, city of New York, has been designated to muster the volunteer force called from the State of New Jersey, by the requisition of the War Department ofthe 19th instant. Ham sir, with great respect, ‘our ob’t servant, R. JONES, Adj't Gen’. ptain Vandeventer’s company of infantry, enlisted in Michigan, were to leave Detroit for the seat of war on the 28th ult. They are said to be a fine looking body of men, and well officered. Col. MeIntosh, of the U. 8. Army, has arrived in Sa- vannah in fmproved health. Maj. John C. Mason, of Kentucky, recently appointed quartermaster in the army, left yesterday for the Bra- x08, on the propeller Washington, He was accompanied by hia secretary, Mr. Todd.—N. O. Pic., 26th April. The mail steamer Curtis Peck, Capt. John Davis, brought down from Richmond yesterday 104 passengers amongst them Capt. John Tyler and a part of his com- pany, landed at Old Point. We are indebted to Mr. Shanks, of the C. P., for Richmond papers of yesterday morning.—Norfolk Beacon, May Ist. The steam propeller Washington is expected to start to-day at twelve o'clock for the Brazos. The Washing- ton will touch at the Brazos and proceed, it is said, from thence to Vera Cruz. Capt. Walker's company, now at the barracks, will probably start some time next week for the seat of war. Capt. Walker hopes to have his command ready for the “ good fight” that is soon to take place, before our troops revel in the “Halls of the Montezumas.”’ We understand that several military gentlemen in this eity are making movements for th purpose of raising a regiment, to be composed of perso: who are inured to the yellow fever, to serve as soldiers to garrison those places in Mexico subject to the vomito ‘This movement is highly ‘creditable to its originators, if carried out will prove of almost incalculable ben- efit, An open enemy may be met by all, but an insi- dious foe, like the yellow fever, must be opposed by m of experience in Southern climates, and te the diseases incidental thereto.—N. O. Delta, 24th, Capt, Wofford’s company of U, 8. troops passed through Marietta, Ga., on the 26th inst., on their way to the seat of war. ‘Theso troops are principally from Cass county, His Excellen: NAVAL INT! GENCE. U.S. ship Saratoga sailed from the Bahamas for Vera Cruz on the 18th ult, ‘The U. 8. ship St. Mary, Com. Saunders, at Pensacola, weighed anchor on Friday, with the intention of pro. ceeding to Vera Cruz, She was detained at the bar. however, for twenty-four hours, on account of head winds; when a large addition being made to the sick list, 70 men in all, and but one lieutenant capable of rforming duty, Com, 8. determined to return to the Navy Yard, and there remain until the health of his crew improves. During the last twelve months no vessel of the Home Squadron has been more actively engaged than the St. Mary; and to this cause may be attributed tho siekness of hererew.—Mobile Register § Jour. 26th, Oregon Territory. SENATOR BENTON 't@ THE PE OF OREGON. Wasninaron Crry, March, 1847, My Frrexps—for such | may call many of you from personal acquaintance, and all of you from my thirty years devotion to the interests of your country—I think it right to make this communication to you at the present moment, when the adjournment of Con- grees, without passing the bill for your government case. You are not abandoned! nor will you be denied protection for not agreeing to admit slavery. 1, aman of the South, and a slaveholder, tell you this. ‘The House of Representatives, as ‘early as the middle of January, had passed the bill to give you a territorial government, and in that bill had sanctioned and legal- ized your Provisional Organic Aet, one of the clauses of which prohibits forever the existence of slavery in Ore- gon. An amendment from the Senate’s committee, to which this bill was referred, proposed to abrogate that prohibition ; and in the delays and yvexations to which that amendment gave rise, the whole bill was laid upon the table, and lost for the session, ‘This will be a great disappointment to you, and a real calamity ; already five years without law, or legal institution for the pro- tection of life, liberty and property! and now doomed to wait a year longer. ‘This is a strange and anomalous tion! almost’ incredible to contemplate, and most e to endure! acolony of free men, 4000 miles from the metropolitan government, and without laws or go- Vernment to preserve them ! ‘But do not be alarmed or desperate, you will not be outlawed for not admitting slavery. Your fundamental act against that institution, copied from the ordinance of 1787—(the work of the great inen of the South, in the great day of the South. prohibiting slavery ina territory far less northern than yours)—will’ not be abrogated! nor is that the intention of the prime mover of the amendment. Upon the record, the Judiciary Committee of the Senate is the author of that amendment; but not so the fact! ‘That committee is only midwife to it. Its author is the sane mind that generated the “firebrand resolutions,” of which | send you a copy, and of which the amend- ment is the legitimate derivation. Oregon is not the object. The most rabid propagandist of slavery cannot to plant it on the shores of the Pacitic inthe lati- pf Wisconsin and the Lake of the Woods, A home agitation, for election and disunion purposes, is all that is intended by thrusting this firebrand question into your bill! and, at the next session, when it is thrust in again, we will scourge it out! and pass your bill as it ought tobe. I promise you this in the name ofthe South. as well as of the North; andthe event will not deceive me, In the meantime the President willgive you all the protection, which existing laws, and detachments of the army and navy, can enable him to extend to you ; and, until Congress has time to act, your friends mus rely upon you to continue to govern yourselves, as you have heretofore done, under the provisions of your own voluntary compact, and with the justice, harmony and is due to your own character and to the honor of the American name. Tend you by Mr. Shinely a copy of the bill of the late session, both as it passed the House of Representa tives, and as proposed to be amended in the Senate, with the Senate's vote upon laying it on the table, and acopy of Mr. Calhoun’s resolutions— (posterior in date to the amendment, but, nevertheless, father to it) -also & copy of your own provisional organic act, as printed by order of the Senate : all which will put you com- pletely in possession of the proceedings of Congress on your petition for a territorial government, and for the Protection and security of your rights. In conclusion, | have to aisure you that the same spirit which has made me the friend of Oregon for thirty years —which led me to denounce the joint occupation treaty the day it was made, and to oppose its renewal in 1826, and to labour for its abrogation until it was terminated; the same spirit which led me to reveal the grand destiny ef Oregon, in articles written in 1818, and to support ever meusure for her benefit since—this samo spirit still ani- mates me, and will continue to do so while I live; whic! T hope, will be long enough to see an emporium of Asiat! commerce at the mouth’ of your river, and a stream of Asiatic trade pouring into the valley of the Mississippi through the channl of Oregon. Your friend and fellow-citizen, THOMAS H¥BED 'ON. Atnany, May 1, 1847. Affairs in the Legislature. House this morning. Mr, Sickles, from the se- mittee of nine, to whom was referred the bill for the RH fees of the Excise law of 1843, reported in favor of the passage of the bill, and recommended that it be again referred to a select committee, with instrue- tions to report it to the House complete. The recom- mendation of the select committee, alter « little. discus. sion, was non-concurred in by the following vote :— Aves—Alling, Atwater, Baker, Balcom, Barber, Beck- with, Beers, Bowie, Boyden, Brown, Carpenter, Carpen- tier, Chandler, Chatfield, Crocker. J. Davis, 8. J. Davis, Dean, Develin, Emmans, Fenno, Fuller, Garrison, Gray, Haring, Keyser, Lakin, Marshall, McFarlan, Miller, Peck, Prindle, Rutherford, Shaw, Sickles, Small, J. Lawrence Smith, N. B. Smith, Speaker, Stewart, Temple—4l, Yays—Adams, Allaben. Bascom, Benedict, Bloss, Bur- chard, Burnell, Butrick. Caw, Cornwell, Crowley, Curry. Daniels, Diven, Earl, Flanders, Gould, 0. J. Green, T Green, Gregory, Hammond, Henderson, Howe, Hubbard, Hunter, Landon, Lawrenee, Leavens, Lee, Maxwell, Me. Doual, McGonegal, McNamara, MeWhorter, Montanye, 8. Moore, Peirce, W. H. Pratt, Raplee, Russell, Sage Shumway, Sill, Skeele, T. Smith, Southard, Taylor, 'T' linghast, Upham, Van $Valkenburg, Weeden, Wenman i. It will be seen that; thirty-four members were absent, Many of the members who voted against the motion toreter the bill, in order that it might be reported com. plete, are in favor of the repealof the Excise law; but they desire to defer any action upon it until the extra session, so that they may have an opportunity to feel the pepular pulse, Caution is a prominent characteristic of these men. It is, however, not probable that the bill will be suffered to pass over to the fall seseion. The Senate bas been busy all day debating Mr. Hand's bill for the organization of the Courts, Mr. Spencer has just retnrned, and. is looking finely. His presence brings dignity, and weight, nd life to the Senato, "The 30th section of the bill pretends that in part of the common law actions, where all the defendants reside in the county, and the amount claimed does not exceed a certain amount. that original civil jurisdiction should be conferred upon the county courts. Messrs. Spencer and Barlow are in favor of this clause. Mr. 8. persisted, as a member of the judiciary committee, upon its incorpora- tion into the bill, and he has defended it in the Senate with indomitable resolution. He defined original civil jurisdiction this morning, and said it was conferred on the mmon pleas of England. Mr. 8. said the special cases in which the constitution authorized the legislature to con+ fer original civil jurisdiction on county eourts, meant nothing else than those cases which are in theirnature of original civil jurisdiction. Mr. 8. made some remarks in respect to the expediency of conferring t tant power upon county courts. Who is there, he said, that. does not know that when you give a court high and iin- portant jurisdiction. that you add to its usefulness and dignity ? the character of the county courts had fallen off of Inte ; if you will select men of talents and learn- ing, and confer upon them dignities of honor and impor- tance, then you will restore the character of these courts, Mr. 8. made a technical, practical, and power- ful spee inst the allies. The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee (Mr. Hand) is opposed to the section, and left a principle to be settled in the Senate which should have been adjusted before the committe reported the bill; he did this for the sake of despatch, The Senate did not vote upon the section, Mr. Srexcen was elaborate; the bill is a stupendous monument of legal learning, but it is constructed upon principles which the world must eschew before men can be happy, 7 ‘The Senate has crept along, like a viper in the grass, afraid to show its metal, until it has arrived almost at the day of adjournment. What has it done? Not a matter worth printing—not an act of mercy, of policy, or wisdom, or justice ; ah! its materials are rotten, and it is well that its powers are contracted into @ apace 80 narrow as to be contemptible ; it is acknowledged that sessions of it should be separated by quarters of eentu- riag, This morning Senator Clark, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported in favor of the passage House ‘bill, for ‘the organization of the first divi the New York State militia, Miscellaneous. On Saturday, 10 schooners caine in from Oswego, being the regular spring fleet. Yesterday the destined for Toledo, that had been kept in Buffalo by ice, arrived, and with the shipping before in the harbor, give it a highly commercial appearance. This morning we counted 40 sail vessels and steamers in port,—T'oledo Blade, 28th ult, Aa the steamer Rochester, bound up, was coming into ort this afternoon, she ran’ against the pier and stove in her starboard bow nearly to the water’s edge, —Cleve- and protection, seems to have left you in a st of aban- donment by your mother country. But such is not the land Democrat 28th ult. {The Mad River railroad is completed to within 20 miles of the Little Miami railrond, Passengers le this city on [ h Ne days, for about $2¢ road and steamboat, over a delightful country. On the route to Sandusky, 216 miles in all, 184 is by railpoad— then by steamboat and railroad to Albany, to Boston, or New York, The age is improving,—Cincinnati Com- mercial. Capt. Walker's new boat now building at St. Clair for the navigation of the Lakes, will be the mammoth of our inland seas. Her tonnage being 1.705 tons, length of keel 300 feet, breadth of beam 36 feet, and depth of hold 15 feet. Some ght barges and lighters were sunk within a few days on the Lower Rapids of the Mississippi, above St, Louis, many of them heavily freighted with produce. ‘The steamers now make the trip from New Orleans to St, Louis, in a fraction over five days, On Sunday, the 11th ult, a solemn Te Dewm was cole- brated in the Catholic Churches of Natchitoches, in commemoration of our recent triumphs in Mexico. The church was crowded to overflowing with people both of the Catholic and Protestant faith ‘The ladies of the St. Francis strect Methodist Episco- pal Church, at Mobile, lately gave a strawberry and ice cream party, from which they realized $1,181 11, A pret- ty fair busivess miles by rail- In this section of the country the rapid progress of ve- getation has been somewhat checked by the cool and un- seasonable weather experienced during the last ten days, and states it as its impression, that cotton planted since the 19th ult., will do equally as well, if not better, than that planted sooner. In many parts of the district the recent heavy rains washed the light lands severely, and did considerable injury to both cotton and corn.—Lau- rensville(S Herald. Some rogues lately stole a carpet bag from Iron’s Ho- tel, at Kingston, Canada. $34,000 had just been removed from the bag. When it was stolen, the thieves, no doubt, thought they had this snug little sum, when, in fact, the bundle of cloths was all they obtained for their pains, ‘The requisite amount of stock haying been taken in that city, Charleston will be one of the intermediate points through whieh a line of magnetic telegraph will pass between New York and New Orleans. Stwps will be taken to carry out the enterprise forthwith. oF THE DANIEL WEBSTER, COMPLIMENTARY DINNER IN RICHMOND, api, 297i, 1847. Mr. W. H. Macrantann, President on the occasio having introduced Mr. Webster to the meeting with the following sentiment :— “ Hovor to the statesman and jurist who is an honor to his country.” Mr, Wenst en rose and said: Before I proceed to make any remarks in answer to the sentiment that has been given, you will allow me to say that I am for the first time hoping to make a visit among my fellow citizens of the Southern States, Owing to the circumstance that ut the seasons suitable for such a visit, my duties have confined me elsewhere, | have been no traveller in- my own country. When I pass the James River I shall be beyond all iny previous journeyings and undertakings 1 am desirous to endeayor to see a portion of the country Ihave never yet seen; to travel, to see the people in the most unceremonious, freest manner, in which fellow citi- zens may meet and interchange civilities. It is not my purpose to make any tour for addressing multitudes, or discussing political questions. ‘There is but little of me; that little is well known, | have no new lights, and don’t belong to the school of new lights. 1 am’ pleased to HON. ara meet so many persona in this growing and beautiful city, yi to see their faces and show mine, and exchange with them the sqntinents and feelings that belong to men of the same generation and the same country. After the complimentary allusion of the President, al- low me to say.in the wholé course of my publie life, I ac- knowledge with pride, and avow, that I have looked to the institutions of this country, and to that first and chief of them all, the Constitution of the United States as the great production of the age that preceded us. | honor as much as any man the military achievements of the men of the revolution. old revolution,— ‘They trusted to the hazards . ‘They hazarded every thing for the independence of the old thi: States, But what at last ave military achievement: is true, they have fiwed the fate of nations, turned the tide of human affairs. But,” after all, what is their end but to establish free government and promote public prosperity? Beyond that, there is no rai tian object in civil wa Its only just object is to establish civil and religious liberty, to raise wan to the standard of human rights. If these be not their objects. then military achievements are unworthy of hwnan re- gard. From the constitution itself. | have looked to the era of the constitution, the period when the country threw off its dependence, (which, it iy true, it accomplished by military achievements.) We look to a narrow part of the theatre in which we are acting, if we think the con- stitution a matter of isolated interest. Let us look back to the period of 1775. What was there then that exhi- bited the practical utility of such a constitution? Was it the existence of large, growing, confederated, free re- publics? ‘There was nowhere such a republic. There was indeed the constitutional monarchy of England.— There was the incorporation in it of certain important principles favorable to liberty, and great limitations upon the prerogative of the federal sovereign. But one need not say—every body knows—that there was no government founded on the principles of representative liberty —no government of any extent, respectability, or importance. Whilst, therefore, | honor, as much as any man, the other works of our ancestors, I have always consi ny the establishment of the constitution In 1789, their greatest and noble achievement. When}! consider the Lime of its formation, its excellent fabric, and am con- stantly more convinoed that it is a wise constitution, I cannot ay oid believing that it was founded in Providen- tial arrangement. With all the new lights of our age, give us one who can say that we could make such a con- stitution. I desire to thank Almighty Providence that it was not left to our day to make it. It evinces deep reflection, deep study of the nature of human govern- ment. Let us take it asan inheritance come down to us from men at least as wise as ourselves, and acting un- ‘der circumstances more favorable than ours. ‘Two obvious views may be taken of this constitution. ‘The first is its effects upon ourselves, upon the country. We are 80 prosperous, so happy, every interest is so well preserved, we are apt to be regardless of that human cause to which these blessings are due. Had we gone on under the old confederation, what would Virginia and Massachusetts now be? Who would have respected them or cared for them! But when the constitution was adopted—when that “ E pluribus unum’? spread over them all, it gave them a new character, a new destiny.— Who now asks whether a man is from Virginia, New York, Alabama or ‘Texas? It is enough to say he is a citizen of the United States of America. ‘The constitu- tion gave our country what the lawyers call a“ stand- ing in court,” a right to be heard in the tribunals of the world. An American is not said to live on Massachu- setts Bay, or James River, but he is a citizen of this great republican government. What, then, has given this momentum to the prospe- rity of the country? We can find no human cause but our united governinent, It is true, in party strife rors may have been committed, and the national pro- gress retarded; but let us look to the aggregate result. Let us go back for sixty years, or to the time of the re- volution. Since that period, in other parts of the world, thrones have trembled, tottered and jen; convulsions: shaken nations; flowed—but have not property and liberty in this country been secured? Has tyran- nous power trampled on Our rights? Property, life, li- berty, have been as well secured as in the best govern: ments of Europe. It may be said we are the great un- taxed among nations. Our government has not been au expensive government. A few thousands, or hundred thousands, Iuny have been improperly appropriated; but who can say that the government has oppressed the people by weight of taxation? Whilst taxation is not the great end of government, | think every government is cailed on to collect taxes for the good of the nation, In all countries, and: in this country especially, there are certain objects which government may accomplish, and which cannot be oe otherwise. | look upon the government as the leader, the conductor, whose duty it is to lead on the country. 7'h always thought the improvement of harbor: . within the constitutional view of the Government; and Ithink the Government is bound to take the lead in the: matters of substantial importance. ‘The government w pears to me to be like the conductor on @ railroad, whose business it is to go forward and draw the train after him; and if ho neglect his duty, or ge wrong in any way, itis no wonder if the train ‘push forward and throw him off the track, (Much laughter and applause.) ‘The most pressing purpose of the framers of the Con- stitution in this respect, was doubtless the regulation ef commerce with foreign nations; but they cut the cloth broad enough and wide enough to embrace these subjects also. Ido uotascribe to Washington, Madison,and their companions.the force of intellect to contemplate all the contingencies, which should arise in the country after them. They aid not imagine that there would be 2 or 300 els on the lakes, or that the great Mi ippi mouth to its source, would be ours,eonstituting @ sort of great “inland sea,” (Laughter and applause. } But their work providesfor it all. ‘The constitution they left justities,and present circumstances require,the execu tion of that policy which shall comprise the whole country as one country,both as to internal and external commerce They did not mean that the powers of the government should be determined by the taste of the water, whether sh or salt, or by the circumstances of the position of some paltry port of entry. In this branch, the constitu. tion is ample and largé enough to accomplish these ends with the observance of a just economy, | know of no true economy but the just proportion of expenditure to object. Absolute saving is mere meanness. In a coun- try of such extent as this, the objects of government should be to give variety to labor, to bring out the ac- tive energies of the people, and develope its peculiar abundance, In Massachusetts we cultivate a barren soil. learned friend here (Dr. Hitcheock) knows tl it, Itis hard, sterile granite, of coal, no substratum: My whole of It has no Virginia beds iron, no salt springs. if 1 may so apeak) of subi are these advantages mot ly conferred than upon the happy inhabitants of Virginia. Within fourteen miles of your city (as my learned friend tells me) there isa geological phenomenon, a bed of coal thirty feet thick, resting on granite rock. Our New England granite knows no such company. Now it always appeared to me that labor and enterprii needed just, not excessive, protection,from the govern. ment, in order to draw these sources of miners! wealth from the earth, I have, too, always been a man for ca- nals and railroads to a just extent. When Louis XIV established his grandson op the throne of Spain, he said “The no longer Pyrenees.” But I trust we may soon use the phrase in’ more useful and proper sense, and that we shall proceed with our canals and railroads until we can say * There are no longer Alleghonies.”’ Under these general impressions of the constitution, 1 believe that our ancestors set us an example of great things, We have had no battles of liberty to engage in er other battles it may have been the policy of rs to undertake.) [Iaughter,] nor were we born to the work of making a constitution. ‘The maintenance of justice and right, the observance of the precepts of law, religion and morality—these are the objects to which we have to look, Ourgovernment in designed less for achievement than for perseverance in the maintenance of public onder, the public good, the conservation of the public institutions We may look with pride and exultation abroad, to seo where this constitution has placed us in the eyes ‘of the world. It is not egotistical to say, while we take no pre- eminence, that though we may conquer and subjugat nowhere, this great republic is the observed of ail obwer- vers, We cannot say that it is our work or even the work of our great forefathers. ‘The great result has followed, because sentiments and prineiples, inherent in the people of the old thirteen States, fitted them to be free; wenti- ments aud principles acquired by long practice under the colonial governments. We should not deny our ances- try. or repudiate the principles of liberty we derived from them. We should rather hold to those principles as an inheritance, When | think of Hampden,und Shiney, and Vane, and Burke, and Chatham, | often imagine it would bo grateful to ‘them, if, from heaven above, they eould look down, and see their principles illustrated ii the United States of America. |t was the introduction of these principles, from the infusion of liberty into the “nglish constitution, the sentiments of liberty, indepen- dence, and personal right, tranamitted here, and the Practice and deep imbibing of those sentiments by the colonists, which fitted them to establish and carry on free government. The habeas corpus, the right of trial by Jury, the petition of right ; there eontain the great elements of liberty, and were acknowledged here. It was this previous preparation, whieh fitted the peopl for those great achievements, the Declaration of In pendence and the establishment of the constitution, Let us contrast with this result the introduction of 1i- berty elsewhere. If we examine the source and origin NEW YORK, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1847. of our liberty, we will find that it came from England. We have the dominion of law over the will of indivi- duals, But how is it with others who have made the same experiment’ Look at the neighboring govern- ment of Mexico ; & mere military anarchy; with no se- curity of life, person or property. The man who hap- pens to be the leader of the army is the head of the State, and the army rules the roast. To the disgrace of liberty, Mexico is infinitely worse governed than it was under the vieeroys of old Spain. Has her public peace been secured! Her roads improved? ‘The government of Mexico has coll lred millions of dol- lars from imposts. en done with it? It bas been used to pay armies, to make and unmake pronun- ciamentos, to put up this man and put down that. Mexico has tly sustained a larger army to keep, or break the p than this great republic has raised to invade her soil. Does not all this reflect light‘on the House of Bar- gesses of Virginia and the G Court of Massachu- setts, who understood the principles of liberty, and were therefore prepared to institute a free government The s ess Of our government brings us out in honora- ble contrast with Mexico and all other republics. Who cares for these Spanish governments? Son tuay be respectable enough, may have the sense to he the peace ; but they differ widely from the American na- tion, Itis in our chavacter, ingrained, in-wrought, to know and understand liberty We ought, therefore, to unite in sustaining the consti- tution, We shall thus go far to show that it is practical for nations to govern themselves, that popular govern- ment possesses enough of wisdom, prudence, forbear- ance, to get on without any power not conferred by it- sel silt has been my habit to give my time, which was not Secupied in professional business, to public duties under the general government. I never held any State offi xcept for a fortnight, when 1 was a member of the Legislature of Massachusetts, (and I believe the only law, which in that capacity I aided in passing, was for the benefit of fishermen.) “(Much laughter ) My studies have ever been connected with the constitution, as the great and extraordinary product of the age. After a public life of thirty years, I can say with sincerity, that, though sometimes my course has excited clamour, | feel conscious of having always wished it well; and if noth- ing remain of me fit to be remembered, but a general ac- knowledgment, recorded on my tombstone, which all iny countrymen will admit to be ‘true, that * Here lies who wished well to the Constitution of his country”— the great object of my Ilfe will have been accomplished. —Richmond Times § Compiler. The Morals of Monarchies——The § Danseuse Lola Montes and the Bavaria—The Queen of Spain and her Loves {From the Paris Jou ‘The resignation of M. Abel, t terior, and of his colleagues, had given rise to numerous commentaries, and occasioned considerable excitement. The university or Jesuitical party succeeded in oxpelling all the professors suspected of Liberalism, to replace them by men devoted to the late Ministry. ‘The pro- fessors held an extraordinary meeting, and discussed the expediency of making a public demonstration, and of proceeding in a body to the residence of M. Abel, to ex- press their regret at his resignation, ‘The majority de- termined that such demonstration should be made, “The Government having been informed that four professors had on that occasion exhibted a strong feeling of hostility to the King, dismissed them. One of those persons, M Lasseaux, the professor of theology, posted a notic the interior of the University, announce’ ceased to lecture, and taken leave of his pupils. ‘This notice produced a great sensation, particularly amongst the students in theology, who determined ‘that t would proceed to the residence of their professor, and mark their respect for him. A considerable number « the populace joined them, and proceeded to the pro-- fessor’s residence, shouting “ vivat Lusteaux!”” ‘This det moustration would have produced no effect had no some of the students mentioned the name of Lola Montes, urging their comrades to make » new de- monstration under the windows of her dwelling-house Some of the principal inhabitants endeavoured to dis- suade the students from their purpose, but the thusiasm was so great that, towards 6 o'clock in th afternoon, more than 6,000 persons assembled before th residence of the too-celebrated opera-dancer, raising the most menacing and seditious cries. ‘The streets were frozen, and the mob hurled lumps of ice, in default of stones, against the windows of the house, ‘The troops, which were called to arms, failed to put an end to the disturbance, which continued the greater part of the night. ‘The rioters broke a great number of the street lamps, as well ax the windows of several public establish- ments. Even the Royal palace wasnot spared. On the following day, the 2d of March, a large multitude crowd- ed the public streets, uttering seditious cries. The Gove nt adopted energetic measures, the troops were confined to their barracks, the urban guard was called, and the scenes of the preceding day were not r newed, It is expected that public order will not again be disturbed. As a precautionary measure .the Govern- in ing that he had ment has recalled all the military belonging to the garrison of Munich absent without leave nonneed that the King. who had intended to ay Abel President of th cy of Passau, has nor him Minister Plenipotentiary to the twe Hague and Brussels, with orders to proceed immediately to his post. [From the London ‘Times.] We regret to say that the intelligence we received from Bavaria is such as to cause us very great concern, ‘The and proverbial propriety of Munich is sadly outrage the domestls politics of Southern Germany bit fair to be apeedily revolutionized, by the unexpected ascendancy of a'stranger. LolaMontes—the famous Spanish danseuse who visited the London stage some three or four seasons back, and in the course of her subsequent trips 1 visit to Warsaw, where she excited suspicio patriotic a pas seul,and tore out the sent to apprehend her—has at length i boleros, and bounded per saltum from the p er of provinein! patronage into a Royal a King’s favor. Inthe twenty-third year of his Royal experience, His Majesty Louis-Charlés has been carried by storm, and h rgetic conqueror shows few symptoms of resigning her prize, She reigns supreme at Munich, dispenses all dignities, and bestows all favors; taking toll, of course, of the bounties of which she is the distributor. She has just bespoken a countess’s title and a fine domain, and is clearly not at all inclined to ap- preciate or reward herself illiberally. Unhappily {or the tranquillity of the kingdom, the good Ba- varians, however they might tolerate the estrange- ment the King’s love, are sorely wounded at the alienation of his money, and the Ministry murred at a generosity which showered bonquots of crown | d coronets upon a stage wh I wen thankfnlly res , however, were no more a match for Lola than the Russian General had been; and though rumor does not mention that on this occasion she flew in their faces otherwise than metaphorically, yet dissolution did speedily follow. and a Ministry which had directed the Bavarian councils for ten years, has been shattered to pieces by the destructive effects of this new Spanish match. Our last despatches mentioned that Prince WOettingen Wellerstein had been summoned from his post at Paris to assume the presidency of the new Coun- cil, and to steer it clear of the rock on which his prede- cessors had split, The fallen functi Th have the entire sympathy of nation. t Il as the economy of the Germans is seandalized by the transaction, and unpopularity of the importation is materially ag- ated by the contempt with which the home produce as been Le tert in its favor. Other things besid arity might begin at home. Our George |. had more reason in his excursiveness. A king who could apeak no English might not geri) be pardoned for import- ing his own society, and yet the country was dreadful; exasperated by the malicious observations of the Jn. cobites, that the Duchess of Kendal, in addition to being over 12 stone weight, was not an English woman born. — King Louis has no stich excuse for bis bitter reflections upon Munich, and the indignation of hi pro- portionately great at the way in which the money is | out of thefamily, ‘Throe or four riots have already o curred, and our reports state that Bavaria has been no such ferment since those ominous convulsions which succeeded a rise in the price of beer We cannot conclude our remarks without alluding to circumstances in these proceedings which really tend to compromise the character of our own peculiar craft. ‘The last time that King Louis appeared ‘con. spicuously on the European stage, was in the capacity which he had just assumed of sole journalist for his own dominions, He is not only Bavaria rh but he is patentee and editor of the State Gazeti and he should remember that he has n reputation to sustain. M. Alexandre Dumas against editorial morality are illustrated by such examples in so conspicuous and emi nent a quarter, our professional character will be ru in the eyes of the world; people will identify rome wa double rri- fie establishment as a house of call for editors, and will really believe that fefes-a-fetes in coupes, and smail sup- pers with Andalusian figurantes, are the regular and recognized recreations of our laborious lives, For the sake of hia new profession bis Majesty must be cautious, If w king can do no wrong, an editor can do a great deal, | and we can assure him that he will find no such impani- ty accorded to him in his latter capacity as tradition and loyalty secure him in his former In addition to the above, the following fact is stated in a paper of later date Letters from Munich of the 22d ult, mention, that the populace of that capital was so exasperated against the ex-Parisian lionne Senora Lola Montes, that the autho- rities had been obliged to order her out of the city. She left the night before for the village of Staremberg, and her carriage was escorted by a strong detachment of oons of the garrison dragoons of tom the Paris National.) ren, March 16th.—The city of Munich has been f consternation, for the last two months, on ‘aceount of inexplicable and constantly increasing favor @ftho celebrated Lola Montes, She has become the channel of all the graces and disgraces, But this is not all ¢ fortunate than Lord Normanby at Paris, she has succeeded in overturning the Ministry, because of ite opposition to her being appointed Countess de Staren- borg and presented, by the King with one of the finest | estates of the crown. Count de Bray, Minister for for- eign affairs, had tendered his resignation sooner tham countersign a rescript which appeared to him unworthy of the King, and his colleagues have followed his exam- ple. The King accepted some of those resignations and rejected others. He has sent Count de Bray, en conge to Naples, but everybody wonders at the alacrity with which he accepted the resignation of M. Abel, the Minis- ter of the Interior, who was during many years his fa- | willend. ‘The Di | | | yorite and devoted Minister. God knows’ how all this barrys are now out of fashion, ‘The people are irritated, the nobility displeased. ‘The King is openly #tated to be insane; and persons inalat on the necessity ef interdicting him, and appobad, ing the Prince Royal regent of the ifngdom. 7 r To the Editor of the Times: Sir:—Having bad a copy of your paper of the 2 sent to me, I trust you will, in justlee to phe the following short account of the real state of affairs here, and which at the same time will be a. contradie: tion to the numerous articles which have lately appeared in the French papers:— Tleft Paris in June last on a professional trip, and, amongst other arrangements, decided upon visiting Mu. nich, where for the first time I had the honor of appear- ing before His Majesty, and receiving from him marks of approbation, which you are aware is not a very unusual thing for a professional person to receive at a foreign court | had not been here a week before | discovered that there was a plot existing in the town to get me out of it, and that the party was the Jesuit party. Of course you are aware that Bavaria has long been their stronghold, and Munich their head-quarters. This naturally, to a person brought up and instructed from her earliest youth to detest this party, (I think you will say justly) Irritated me not a little. When t t I was not likely to leave them, they com nother tack, and tried what bri- bery would do, and actually offered me 50,000f yearly if 1 would quit Bavaria and promise never to return. This, asy ou may imagine, opened my eyes; and, as I indig- nently refused their offer, they have since then notleft a stone unturned to get rid of me,and have never for an in- stant ceased persecuting me. | may mention as one in- stance, that within this last week a Jesuit professor of philosophy in the University here, of the name of Las- sault, was removed from his professorship, upon which the urty paid and hired a mob to insult me, the windows of my house, and also to attack the pa- but, thanks to the better feeling of the other party, and the devotedness of the soldiers to his Majesty and his authority, this plot likewise failed ‘The late change in the Ministry that you allude to was a spontaneous act of his Majesty's, and you pay me too great a compliment in supposing that | was a party ure: but, from what | have seen and heard, Majesty, | should think he had very just grounds for taking the st n piel Since my resi I can safely say that | have in any affairs not. concerning my- d making it my future abode, it is particularly annoying to me, hearing so many seanda lous and unfounded reports which ure daily propagated, and in justice to myself and my future prospects in life, I trust that you will not hesitate to insert this letter in your widely circulated journal, and show my friends and the public how unjustly and cruelly | have bun treated by the Jesuit party in Munich Knowing that your columns are always open to protect, unjustly accused, and more especially when that an unprotected female, makes me rely upon you for the insertion of this, and I have the honor to subseribe myself, Your obliged servant, LOLA MONTEZ. in uo way inte self; and as | int Mesten, Mareb 11, 1847, The letter of re nation sent by the ministers of the King of Bavaria, is as follow KE There are occasions in whieh men, sharing the t confidence of their sovereign and entrusted with lof public affairs, are driven to the asing to discharge those sacred ies to which they are hound by their oaths, their their love, and their gratitude, or for the sake e fearlessly to expore themeclves to. the ard of displeasing their beloved sovereign. Such ia painful necessity under which the undersigned find themselves placed by the royal decision conferring upon Signora Lola Montes, Bavarian citizenship, We cannot violate our oaths to your Majesty,and our resolution was taken without moment of hesitation At the meeting of the council of stat uthe eighth of the present month, this question of citizenship was termod by the Secretary of State, M. de Maurner, “the most disastrous affair that could ever happen to Bavaria.” is the sentiment of all the members of the council, d this is the opinion of all your Majesty's faithful sub- ; hor was a mnecting of the council necessary to eauso nviction to be unreservedly entertained by us. Ever since the month of October the eyes of the nation have been tured upon Munich. In every province of Bavaria all are anxious to learn what is taking place here, and it becomes almost the only subject of private and public conversation, and the opinions manifested are alarming. The respect entertamed for their sovereign is di- minished in every borom, and on either hand nothing is heard but keen réproaches and indignant disapprobation. Still more keenly is the public fecling wounded by the general belief that Bavaria is governed by a foreigner whose reputation is blemished; and unfortunately the facts are too many to allow this opinion to be removed Such men as the Archbishop of Augsburg.whose loyal- ty to yourjMajesty cannot be questioned, daily weep at what is pussing before their eyes. The Ministers of the Interior and of Finance are the witucsses of the depth of his sorrow and the keenness of his regrets. The Bishop of Breslau, learning that a report had spread here that he was disposed to exeuse this state of things, hastened to write to al persons in Munich praying them to y inthe most formal manner, this report, and to crt,on the contrary, that he wholly disapproved of what was passing. ‘Phis letter is no secret. It will soon be published; and what will be its effect ? ‘The newspapers of the neighboring kingdoms are daily filled with Uke most alous stories and infamous ks upon your majesty. Of this the fifth number of Chronicle Jim isan instance, It is im vain that the police attempt to exclude these papers from Bavaria. P irculated in every piace i with n_be no doubt of the impression which in Pe d daily, and soon nothing This opinion is the “same in all the pro- It ix the same throughout Europe, and whether of the poor or the palace of the rich it is alike. not alone the glory and rity of your majosty’s i) the Very istetiee OF y inati Joy with all e whos yrone and abolish the y of fd despondency in all your faithfal It is also the cause rest grief subjects, who cannot close their eyes to the dangers which were Letore so impending over their country. Admid such circumstances it is not within the power of to prevent, sooner or later, the most violent re. action in the army; and if this misfortune should happen, if this fortress should waver, nothing will be left to sustain us. This statement which the undersigned, with sorrowing hearts, present toyour Majesty, is not the tale of an affrighted imagination, but the result of our daily ob- servation during many months, It can be easily for ow the next session of parliament will terminate, ler such influences, undersigned is ready at any moment to give up, in the service of your Majesty, his life and his fortune, They trust that they have manifested sufficient proof of their faithfulness and affection, and it thus be- s with them a duty doubly sacred to warn your jesty of the dangers that daily ‘tower around, hoping that in great condesce: this prayer may be acceded to, and that not for 4 moment the thought may be enter- tained that it proceeds from passion or opposition to that august wil, so long as this opposition is directed If the spiteful insinuations of | against what, in the view of ever loyal Bavarian, now Jered most, seriously and fa step which thei the con- sciousness duced them to take, They are © Majesty cannot accede to their wishes that it is their duty to retire from those high stations to whieh the generosity and confidence of their sovereign had called them, and they therefore most respectfully pray your Majesty to receive again the important trusts confided to their hands Signed—D' ABE, MPE: Minister de I’ Interior. BERG, Minister of War. ister of Justic KE, Minister of Finance (From the,Paris Nati it SEREN Madrid, but decent how can we re guage stories which are not “ of Bavaria one is naturally le Male royalty is not scrupulous as to modest: the annals of courts are frequently the scandal of alcoves; but female royalty has generally more cireumspection. ‘It is true we wight cite examples of & contrary nature from Naples, Spain, the King and else Isabella Il. i¢ daughter of Ferdinand Vil, granddaughter of e of Naples, and worthy in ts of the noble blood of the house of Bourbon, Serrano at present occupies the entire Madrid rumors of all sorts relating to him are rife. A al crisis is announced on his account. Paeheco, errano, is sent for by the Queen to form a press wishes that the present Ministers should firet resign: the latter will not. ‘Let the Queen require it, my the journals, ‘The had not, at the de- parture of the last mail, given decision; but General Serrano had excaped from his persecutors. Ha is con- vineed that if he had proceeded to Navarre, an order to arrest him would bave followed him, and that he would have been thrown into an obseure tower. resisted; @ superior force supports and encourages him, and it is not known whether the General pers Hed the p eceding day will not enter the Ministry triumphantly to-morrow. to her ancient rature, complicated « intrigues, mysterious surprises, and un- cidents, Such is the policy which hax govern- (that country + we have taken herin hand, M, Guizot prays to Heaven that Isabella may produce an’ heir, M. ‘Thiers joined his fervent devotion to that of his rival, ‘Th not ungrateful—she knows what she owes to France, and ifshe can render if agree- able to us, she will do so. [From another account. ] marriage of the Queen and Don Franeisco de Axsis b t unhappy reeults; for a complete nent has taken place between them, and she re- estrang ds h Jars him with mixed feelings of hatred and contempt The king consort, who generally pastes the day in solitude, is kno nto give faith tothe prophecies of a nan,who hat nirendy been detected in. religious feuds | and’ it are ported that he believes himself to be favored with visions hy the Holy Ghost. ‘The queen takes the greatest care to avoid meeting her husband, whose hour of retiring to rest is that at which her evening amusements begin, and seeks, by 4 continued round of balls ond parties, to di vert her thoughts from the recollection of # man whom she despisoe becatse she considers him an idiot, aud hates because she was forced to marry him, ‘This aver sion of the queen for her consort appears to have lately inereased by a sudden partial ity whieh she shown for General errno, a young and handscune man, and « loader of she progresslsta party, upon whoi she ow lavished such extraordinary sod inirecrons mate of favor av to raise the jealousies of her husband, | Gxcite the most lively apprebensions in the minds of hes | moderado ministers