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eee ‘NITED STATES MAIL STRAMERS BETWEEN NEW U York amd Liverpoul.—The ships composing Line are DRIATC ‘arat having been Gi to Liverpool An expeicnsel ba Sete. rary COLLINS, 74 South Ww'D K. orto BROWN, SHIPLEY & CO... Liver bw be eee a ea x Atlantic H is t be aceountabl , jewelry, precious stones or me! tre'sinned therefor, and the value Hes UNITED STATES MAIL STRAM- COLLINS, 74 South streot. Yof, ured till paid for. T MW LINK 0 CabtFORNIA, VIA CHAGRES— the United States Mail.—Monday, May 13th, from Toot of Warronsireot, N. R. 10 steamship GEO! will be despatched » aa only number rienced surgeon is attached te Hons fon pence: 9 of aah olnas ship afloat. passengers for are transferred ut Havana to the superior double ine steamship FALCON aad proceed from yaaa direst Or oe 0 Chagros:— “aves t from New York of ‘or! State ou flr . $m bed and te table. 150 nie ‘Te N. Orjeans. f 7 ‘i 1 ht oF M45, ROBERTS, 118 rpunovcn LINE FOR SAN FRANCISCO, Via CHA. new and favoris # ee Le LADELP'A..1,100 tor form tho only direct li N heeres, in connection with the United States Mail Steam Parke ¢ Pacific, & semi-conshiy Line through te San y roa 70 CHAGRIN. Bepvom Bares Ov vACherekes. Fhiledelphis, \fter Saloon Vtare Kooms.....$125 sy Lower Ca by . AM the abo ble, and have the priv Sage of the Saloon. Reeerags (found with matrese- es aud board,(... .. te $05 PE RR find pit yd ie caply te POWLAND & ASPIR WALD ¢ 4 South street, New York. hay hr on Steamship Company.—The Unitod States Mail Capt. David G. Bailes pb. Carlisle P. Pi . Thos. A Badd, 2 Capt. George A. Cole. @0tone... — form s semi-isonthly fornia. Passengers i vi "Ben “Diego No stores te be landed will be taken aa Charee as ‘snd all personal port charges, boat hi paid by gl my 33 No passage secured until [-- ‘or. Apply at the office She Companys t4 South street, New York. B FOR, SAN FRANCISGO VIA tom HITADELTILLAL wit ents " River, tor e direot,, the day previews, oid {D ASPINW ALL, 51 and 88 South streak, slave and aia steerage. per Geot steerage, per Ohio; it Sarah Sande. For sale b: ene SE class, per Rapin Cy eT hk Conte Broadway. ‘4 CALITORNIS TWO, THROCGH rece ote in BM. O. Roderte’ line, May 2%, pe jv Apply VANDENBURG & ROOT, Me Sees ‘No. 19 Ama strect. » oy AD LAER CK ETS.—ONE CLASS TICK sama Threegh Ticket Line, for Monte line, we Btecrage, Mbertx i bgt Yor sale by F. WHITE, 25 Wall sirect. NIA TIC! KR SALE.—TWO FIRST Aciane th t cherskcs, middve ot Maye Apply te B stairs 8 THK PAST-SAILING YACHT RICHARD OBA E sri tenes Can ternon a0 the fost of Seohoog sing east River. Inquire at the corner of Jackson and ith streets. City Intelligence. Leerunn on Bray. wy Rev Da. Orwne Fine at tom Hroraptic Docs —At 4 o'clock Thare- ay *® Gre broke ont at the Hydreulle Deck, near 3 Market stip, originating in a pitch pot, whieh ited, “—. communicated tus for raising: weseels, ae ee vy ceded in hing the eon’ The bowsprit, }idvcom, ‘Siretoy ~4 foremest am jot of the are #0 deatro) that they murt be replaced. ia. jury to the deck is not very great. Presen Natiowan Bavquet at toe Coumerm —The residents of New York = to- nl at | i fi ii 4 i at 4 # & z Fe 55, i: =F ; \ : sand Leder Go, No. 4 be sey that Hore Co. C : onuse continued for the appellee, and for the appellant. From Vener nes The schooner dunbram arrived Boston, edimerday t. from Porte Cabello, ‘cb ates to. the Oh ule. The enptatn Tet as he left, Gem. Pace was being on the Vener, for Vanish: nt to 8t, Thomas, ” aw ree ‘a | TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. \SP/EECH OF MR. WILMOT., BE MORSE’S MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. Wasninatom, May 8, 1860. ‘The Senate is not in session to-day. House of Representatives. BY BAIN’S ELECTRO-CHEMICAL TELEGRAPE. Wasnrnaton, May 3, 1860, ATTORNEY GENERALS AND THE PUBLIC LAWS. Mr. Featuenston asked leave to offer a resolution re- questing the President to have prepared and delivered to the House, at the next session, all the opinions of | the Attorney Generals of the United States, delivered trom March, eightcen hundred and forty-one, which give construction to public laws not of a temporary eboracter. Objection was made, The House refused, by yeas and nays, to adjourn te Monday, and went into Committeo on the CENSUS MILL, After consuming three hours on amendments, Mr. Witnor, (free soil.) of Pennsylvania, asked that the committee take up the California message, to ena- , ble him to make some remarks. By the unanimous consent of the House, the consus Dill was luid aside. THE CALIFORNIA MESSAOR—SPERCH OF MR. WiLMoT) The members around the gentleman, and the con- fusion which prevailed, subsided into respectful atten- tion, Mr. Witmor said that the debate on the subject of the admission of Calitornia and questions, connected with xt, bad, in bis judgement, produced wonderful | results. The settled and fixed purpose of the Southera men had been disclosed. ‘There was now no room for doubt as ta the termination of the conflict. It was to extend slavery over the territories, If there was any room for doubt heretofore, there was doubt no longer, ‘There was no question ‘more fraught with couso- quenees. than Ue ultimate decision of that now in hand. and which is to determine the character and po- sition ef the Southern portion of the country. It will settle another question—namely, whothor the government is to be administered ‘in the spirit which gave it birth, or whether an aristocracy, based on tlave property and slave representation, shail con- trol it. 1m this aspect it has been viewed by the South, and on the part of Southern men, bordering almost on madness, They are bound by no sacred tivs to the Union ; but are banded together a4 one man fi the accumpiiehment of their object, and that is, the per- petuation of slavery There is no disguise, The exis- tence ot the Union, and the stability of the goverument, is threatened by the South. In his judgment, their spirit of threatening and defance must be resisted, or the North are the greatest of slaves, What, he asked, shell the line of our duty be prescribed under the preseure of treasonable threats’ Shali we be told Whut we shall or sball not do, at the peril of the exist- | ence of the government itrelf? If we submit to this any longer, our freedom here and the funda- | mental principles of the constitution are undermined. ‘The rights of the majority must be respected. or we are the vilert of slaves. ‘These gentlemen not only as- sume to inverpret the constitution fur us, but todictate our line of duty. “Congress may admit new Statos,”” is the clear and unequivocal language of the constita- tion; aud yet we are told ifwe presume to exercise this clear and admitted power without making cortain concessions to slavery, measures of @ revolutionary character will be reserted to, and the ordinary supplies of government withheld, and the yeas and nays called, in defiance of parliamentary law and usage, until the end of tho present session of Congress. Is this the | ape in which freemen must be placed. or, as Saves, be tanght their duties and obli- gations! ball the acknowledged power of this govern- ment be exercised, or shall a band of comspiratore set it at defiance? On the question of California, this de- fiance is hurled im our teeth. He had made up bis mind not to obey. It sounds like the crack of the whip. He who rubmnite is better fitted for the planta- tion than fer service in this Hall. [A yoico—" That's true.”}] What! Is not this aristocracy of slaveholders content with their share of power under the constitu- tution, without claiming absolute control of the govern- ment? What is more arbitrary and improper than to make the existence of this government depend on (he acquiescence in the behests of a minority’ The Houth say that there is po power to pass the proviso— the North think thore is. The latter tnd their opinions fortified. We believe, under God, that it is our duty to pases prohibition against slavery, yot we are told it we dare do it the government must be over- thrown. If the power to rule should be given to the minority, this would be a despotin The great stat man of bouth Carolina (Mr. Caluoun) scorned all indi- rection. He marched up to the object, aud proposed amendu nts to the constitution, to place the govera- micnt in the Lauds of & minority. 0 ohject could be seen and understood. Demands are now made upon us more objectionable, Ifthe great fund®mental priuciples are to be subverted, let it be put down in writing. Let our masters print itin the constitution. | tenure by which we hold our liberties! and is the go- t to be preserved, by submitting to certain in- ho strive to force them North will dare stand up to # conscientious discharge of their duty. and whether this position of the South is to drive men from * povition deliberately assumed! Whatever Le the fact now, time was whon the North | Were united om this question. When we asrembied ia December last. I believed there were not five individuals | who were in favor of mixing up Calfornia with other ques tions; there wae thou but one rentiment atthe North, x How stands the mutter to-day !@God ouly jut, if the declaration of the South cau be friends of California are in ® minority, torms of her ad- lavery over the territories. | I trast in God this will not be done. If the Nerth jon, where, let maask, do is danger of genorsl rout, The allies 7 at the North all at coce discovered that the agitation thelr attachment to rred to the change mong them to war) the dodge was net original he did not think {t feir in Mas- with all the new inveations. i an te delegation voted for it, except were not here. He re- 0 the two million bill in the proviso, Bvery party into . They made the candidate of the ee Sweet speak, pest, and poe words tn tis moumh ta the a v— olive, Ke would follow po sation based cnopert avery, cod Southern men bed declared that their slaves thither, Further re marks were made by him ans Wiernnor, (whig), of Massachusetts, obtained ‘The Cwarnman said thet the census bill had been laid aside by unanimous consent, snd it was now be- fore the committees, The gentleman, however, would entitled tothe Soor when the President's message Cusaresron, May 1, 1860. ‘The steamer Ohio, from your port, touched of the | ber yesterdey Is this the | | officers of the MORNING EDITION- --SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1850. From Savannah. Perensnuno, May 8, 1860. DEATH OF A FORMER NEW YORK MERCHANT. Mr. Edward Wiley, « morohant, formerly of your city, hes died at Savanoah. SENATOR BERRIEN. ‘The Savannah papers announce that the Hon. J. M. Berrien is detained home by the illness of his son, From Boston. Bostow, May 3, 1850. ATTACK ON MR. WERSTER’S POSITION. A pungent address from Mr. Mann, to his consti- tuents, im which Mr. Webster's position is attacked, will appear in the papers of this city to-morrow, ARREST FOR MURDER AND ROBBERY. AtSaco. Me., on the lat inst., Henry J. Wentworth and Ara Wentworth, brothers, were arrested for the N. HL The examination will take place at South Berwick. the first of next week. They are the same persons who were arrested with Dr. Smith, now in jail for the murder of Miss Caswell, and examined at Saco for the sama offence, little more than one year ago, It is also report- ed that Dr. Smith gave the information which led to the above arrest. Our New Haven Correspondence, New Haves, Conn., May 2, 1850. Election and Inauguration of State Officere—Parade— Railroads—Campbell’s Minatreis—The Governor's Mes- soge, $e. Ot the election of Col. Thomas H. Seymour.as Gover- nor of this State, you have already been advised by telegraph. The reception with which he met in this city to-day, must have been flattering to him and his friends in the extreme. About one o'clock, this after- noon, he was escorted from his residence, in the city of Martford, by the Ist company Governor's Foot Guards, with Lothian’s New York band; the Hartford Light Guard, with Dodworth’s New York band. (which com- pany Governor Seymour for many years commanded, and which has, from its formation. been literally ts company, and made what itis by his drills.) and that well-diseiplined and noble band of young men, the Now Britain Grays, to a special train of cars for New Haven, ‘These companies also accompanied bim to New Haven, assisted in the eseort duties in that city, which were also participated in by Col Arnold aud the fleld id regigment, the 2d company Go- vernor’s Foot Guards of New Haven, the New Ha- ven Grays.and the New Haven Blues. besides seve- ral bundred fremen of New Haven and Bridgeport, who were out with their best rigsand machines. The mon, women, girls. boys, complexions and shades, from the purest aln xion of the bellas of Connecticut, to the deeper than India black Afrienn; end of chi ter from the sacred divines, with their white cravats. to the flash gentlemen with their gold chains, rings, breast pine, and greased eurly locks, and patent leather boots, Tho weatherWas fine—the troons never locked in better discipline or trim—save the clouds of dust which enveloped them and the specta- tors, ‘The Governor was mounted on that well known New Haven charger, called Tiger, which was richly capericoned with a Mexican saddle. &e., brought from Mexico by a Connecticut voluntecr, from the late war. The Governor ie a spare man in flosh, of usual stature. but looked rather pale. All who know the man, « 1 sympethize with him, from his aversion to bel» ‘he object of aneh parades. But on no br. do onc ‘ more fitly belong. ‘The railroads centring here 1 with m Hart * ind of all parrengers, Even in one of the » ford, there were twenty-three cv uot far from fifteen hundred passengers; on th road, one train of about eight hundred passen War an extra steamboat hither from London. the Cleopatra. Never befor: dle personage, * the oldest inhabitant, at the election parades in this city, such a dust kicked up, euch a tumult and confusion. such a general pour- ing in of the country cousins, such a large military and firemen’s procession, such ® general good feeling and burreh, a# bas here come off to-day. The streets and green Were so throvged, that thrice during the after- noon the Temple was fled to by hundreds upon bun dreds, from the outside pressure to one still more dense, where the Campbell Miustrols were sen forth rounds harmonious to the ears of their auditors end their individual pocket The mersage of Gov. Seymour (like previous messages {a Cona: eticut) would not filltwo columnsof the Herold He recommends the revision of our state coastitution, which bas become 20 years old. The expenses of the State have been, the past year, $12,720 54. Reewipte, 111.191 73. But the State owns some $200,000 in 5 to 10 per cent. dividend paying bank stocks. Tho ju dial expunees of the Shots fer ols. years past have greased st the rate of $3.000 per annum. He recom- mendes the peering of prisoners after c: jetion by the counties, Instead tate paying their board, be counties time reevlving the pay Prisoners, Ile recommends that should be e: t from local taxa- rect tax for the State should be le- railroad propert: tie, but that a di ied ther i & general revision of our | prosend pe of tenation. “The ‘expenses of the Quartermaster General, and —. military equip- to only $1.81802. The $2.070.002 85, vis $58.21245; mortgages in Connecticut Stater, $1,064 251 48; im stock of 25 banks, $520500 ; cach on hand $15 442 08 ; inlandseultiva- dings, $06,723 ; im wild lands, $40.122 8, The rehoo! {und income, the pest year. has been $196.60. which has been divided up in the school dis- )triets of the State. (00.700 seholars.) at the rate of $150 | tocach scholar. The past year enumeration of chil- dren shows an Increase of 1,780 The State Normal Fehool has been established at New Britain the past year, the citizens of that enterprising village having iven, In bullding*, apparatus, and library, $16000, 0 jarger bid therefor ‘hen any other loeality, He rex commends the placing of the militia system upon « Just and firm basis, He recommends the repeal of all usury laws, also, system of free banking. and the exercise of caution in granting charters or special ivileges; also. the substitution of life imprisonment Jor thedeath penalty. He recommends the homestead exemption; the repeal of all restrictive liguer lows; the legalizing ten houre ar » day's work, to ail persons employed in or on works chartered by law; nixo, the usual appropriations to the indigent blind. mute aud insane of our State, He attributes the stability of oar national affairs to the conservative influence of the Independent Loe ye | fyrtem, and congratulates all upon the prospect speedy settlement of the slavery question. From the carious state of parvies in the House of Representativer, there will be plenty of fun, bargain- ing and deviltry concocted and transacted in the dis- tribution of the spells, from United Blates Benator down to Justices of the peace Breokiyn ony ety 7 Owing t com! about the buildings, the flames epread rapidly, # bed made great fa betore the arrival f the Fire Department. Jidings were en: eonsum: together with the adjoining once, on both siden, ‘The furniture etore. on the corner of Fulton and Market city of a Brash, in the for the manufao- dure and sole of furnitere, end ia the lower by Mr jewelry store. Ww . teh Williem Wire, jun., a9 © wa ro 4 were aleo alm Froon m rHe Manarnta ‘We mentioned thas BH Vere fresbet wae being experienced in 7 pehire. Later te from Concord. reeeived in thie seeounts city, ay that the water is failing, and that ne further pa dhe, . The rise commenced on Mon- dey. The w down morning trains passed over the Boston, and Boston. Concord eon Genel an ae it contents of « mill of the abutments. traine ‘od ‘the . Sep ga ninjured. The down train of the Montreal eame ae si is iz t i 7 i i ‘i Hl i ae i lt 5 i i EE Ff 3 5 e & ANOTHER ARRIVAL FROM EUROPE. THE NEW STEAMSHIP CITY OF GLASGOW, INCREASE OF STEAMERS ON THE ATLANTIC, TRADE WITH GLASGOW, “ &e., &e., &o, Another steamship arrived yesterday, from Ruropo, pamely, the City of Glasgow, Capt. Matihows, from Glasgow. She sailed thence on the léth ult., and has made the passage in a little over sixteen days, notwith- standing the icebergs she encountered en route ‘This is the third steamer this week from Europe. ‘The Cambria arrived at this port on Thursday and the Canada at Boston, and City of Glasgow at this port yes- terday. There are three still due—the British Quoon and Helena Sloman from Hamburg, and the Washing- ton from Bremen and Southampton. ‘The City of Glasgow, commanded by the old favorite: Capt. Matthews, formerly of the Great Western, isa fine propellor sreamship. The Glasgow Courier, of the 16th ult., gives the following description of her : plevdid steamship, (the City of Glasgow), which obec 80 recently as the 28th Febraary, sets ont atone o'clock, aa our readers ure aware, ou ws the Atlantic—being the first attempt to e: oem communication between this city and the commerc capital of the United States. Although the City of Glass only left the building yard at the perind spevined, she has, to acertain extent, ent pplied the character of a tried ship, at work for which the with the construction of ‘as being prepared in (| Macgregor, tho builders; was up within little m f hull, the dry of Mesers. Tod sequence, the sti 0 Big p left the stocks. She was immediately ent & private but offectual trial trip; and for seve and well withstood, all the wild blawt quincs, which were felt so smartly along the * , during the middle and elose of March. The pro felling performances of the serew far exceeded expectation; ut, as the eailing qualitias of the ship are now to be tesied by thesweep acrors the Atlantic, it will be well to walt for ‘as it will be narrated in the } if Cy Since the return of the City, she t completing Ber it ‘and taki ing im carr last few days, the shi; sunds of our every contingency of acel thrown bodily upon the rocks. k has been e: ‘ap the Atlantic $0 times as an offic mander of the favorite Great W b (with lim, is entitled ¥ ds to be ample medi 3 who in in the meantime kep kgrouad, , conceived that any one can be, or should be, ill, when ao hand to keep them well. ‘The City of it for 110 berths, v 2 of rat before ihe from Mr. Lang~ y gers of b doms, but prinesp: la © )Wreage money ir 20 guineas for th 2 rthesecond. After acoom us room for 1,00 tons of pied by manufactured make all rafe as procan at are comm he ga which in all The inten nie up rich Wainscot ponsiling-—the er Paisance aiyle Lal er leaves Livery smptom, both direct fer re « with Tights sleek a fey, ewutifu Each th wots, There are also two each, which can be darmask copoly Jooond elas passe traction of the City of 6 : the. we oman ing Se all of finely polished The wal reed with we a foltowtog views, , Killarney: € ited Biaten: the Clyde re deser m= boon executed in the the saloon to aad lined ar ree side- ite marble ve ted with, at and riebly carved gilt if saloon, are of sofas, cover: Ctrecht velvet plosh, with tea and card tabi: the rudder case iss richly carved and gilt ty of Glarao' 4 in fr lower. val oak rail and balustrade, and « the head of the dining ta' arm chair ahi oem f the furaiture. 7 he second clase sate-rocme, «hie re able, are arranged op each sisie of the main dock, infront the funnel, a hi Reing bark-rigged, with which rhe shows she Ae we have formerly Stated. the ship hes ne horse- power, a screw of 13 feet diameter, with » pitch of ne less than IS feet. Some disturbances took piace at Tarin on the Sth ult,, but the military soon enppreseed them. a1 of the ringleaders were arrested Cries were uttered o “ Down with the priests!’ Jeliachich is said to be betrothed to # Countess Btockan. The bridegroom is about 60, the bride 16 years of age. Banvard’s Panorama of the Mississippi, and Mr Ma- eready, wore in Glasgow. Madame Duleken, the accomplished pianist, le dead and therefore better calc uia' — 4H several bry ships bare nee the ani Present between hg einen and the United ployed in such voyages cloeed ti rele. There ie sve reason to belleve thet, for the tare, thie trade ive regular employment to a oe: bl aed veerela of between 60 and dimementa, and It is amid that ee on with- drawing the prees There wre pantie at the Bourse on the 12th, oprercntty fy abi couse, The fire per cents opened at 80f, 250., but shortly afterwards a quentit of money stock having been olfured for sale, they fell gradually to 88f. Oc.. and closed at S6f. 6c. ; the three per cents closed at b4f. 900. ‘Tho account of the Bank of France of tho 11th, shows thnt the cash in hand has decreased by 6,000,000f. ; the commercial bills discounted have de. creased by 2.600 0U0F, ; the protested bills have decroased by 100.000f ; the bank notes in eiroulation havo do- creased by 400.000; the balance to the credit of the Treasury has diminished by 2600 000f ; and the sun- dry credite have diminished by 2 250.0008, rop Priaire, one of the oldeat generals of the Eu- ire, died in Paris on the 11th ult., in the 8Tth year of ia He served as aide-de-eamp to Prince Bugéne Beaubarnais during the campaign of Russia, and re- mained with the Prince's family at Munich until the year 1882, when he returned to France. Italy. Our advices from Turin aro of April 9. A signal Victory has Just beon gained here in favor of the lib- ¢ral cause, not only in Piedmont and in [taly, but al- 80, though indirectly, in Europe. An assembiy, com- posed of elemonte essentially conservative (the sonate of Turin.) has nobly broken through the trammels of superstitious illiberality, and bas boldly proclaimed, as ithae candidly admittet, the abandoument of an odious system of privilege hithertotn use The senate, in its sitting of yostorday, adopted, by a majority of 22 votes, (61 against 29) the law proposed by ministers, and yiready voted by the Chamber of Deputies, by an immense majority—that of the aboli- tion of exceptional and special tribunals for the clergy, and on the right of asylum in places of rofage, where the guilty were sercened from punishment under cover of an inviolable shelter in certain religious cstablishmments, churches. convents, and the like. Spain. We have received journals and correspondence from Madrid. dated the ih ult., from which we extract the following : We have received, from a certain source, precise !n- formation respecting the arcangement, through tho good offices of the King of the Belgians, of the diffor- ences tbat had arison betweeu England and Spain, [a ite official note, the Spanish government, without vaming Mr, Bulwer, declares that in whatever lad been done by it, it had ao intention to offend England, and that if the ‘British government desired « renewal ct amicable relations with that of Spain, the latter were willing to recetve tho person whom Queen Vie- toria might be pleased to send to represent her at the Court ot Queen Isabelia and the reception which would be given him by the Spaniah Court. and the dent desire of the government of Spain to dra the bonds of cordial friendship, would prove British government the great eatisfaction which Sp promised to hervelf from a renewal of those relati ‘The note of the British government is conceived alike friendly eplrit, Being pertectly willing to ac credit aminister to be near the person of Queen Tna- helin, end fully convinced of the profound attachmout of Mr. Bulwer to the Queen and the Spauish nation, it would have preferred sending him to Madrid, but that be was engaged in an important mission to the United States; Queen Vie ould. therefore, send another person asher minister to Spain. Ru A iottor from St, Petershi states that the cara van which transports the gold extracted in the moun- {uins of the Altai had arrived in that capital. [¢ brought 7.172 kilogrammes equivalent in value 5, 200,000f, Out of this quantity 6,000 kilogrammes o: from the mines of Siberia, The number of minos the chain of the moun! sof Altai is 80; in Kastern Siberia there are 54. The above is the second caravan thet bas arrived since the winter set in, Affairs of Grecee, [Prom the U nfted Service Ganctts Our sources ¢f information lead us to the eonclu- ion that, if not absolutely settled, the affairs of ce have nssumed so mild and pacific an « daily expect to hear of the return of to Matte At all events, so confident are the government of the spoedy termination of the dispute with Greece. that the reduction of the fleet is immediately ordered, and the Howe. 120. Captain Sir James Stirling, and the Vengoance, 84, Captain I, M Blackwood, are to come home forthwith, to be paid off; one line-of-battle ship, the Saperb, 80.’ relieving the ‘The Odin steam frigate is also ordered home im- mediately, to be paid off tho Terrible, steam frigate, at Lisvon, relieving her. ‘The Banks of the Clyde, [From the Glasgow Mail, April 6.) Yerterday afiernoon. large party of the most reepectable and influential citizens of Glasgow assem. died at dinner in the Trades’ Hall, to pay a tribute of Teepeet to the Hon. Adam Ferrie, through whose en- lightened and disinterested exertions the beautiful worked like those at Liege. by endless cables and ater Uonary engines. but iu the present case moved Ta water power derived from the torrente, + The most remarkable part of the project, however, ke the newly devised machinery and motive power which the Chevalier Maus proposes to bore the area tunnel. It is as Ingenious as it is new, prosomti fome extraordinary facts in mechanics which oould hardly have been anticipated. but the truth of which bas been tested and verified by practical essays made with working models of the natural size before the government commission already mentioned. But these and the consideration of the immense regal focial, commercial. and political, that may be expec to flow from such « gigantic undertaking, ant gd which the Thames Tunnel and tl ome seCONdar ‘ots, may form tho sul joot of another article.” . a THE CANADA'S NEWS. Our English Papers by Special Messengers. THE MAREOTS. The steamship Canada arrived at Boston about 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Our agont in that olty despatched our packages by special messenger over the New Haven railroad. They reached our offloe at 12 o'clock, last night. The telegraphic summary, published in the Mew York Herald of yesterday, embraced nearly all the news brought by the ©., but we think it of sufficient interes: to our readers to give the annexed items of commer- cial and political iut igence. The European Times of the th ult., contains th following, relative to Mr. Calhoun’s death:— ‘Tho news of Mr. Ca)houn’s death arrived this week, event was partially an- in which the last ac left’ him, yet xit is.too important im iteelf. and bears too closely upon conflict wtilt pending between the Northern the Southern States, to pass away without attracting considerable attention. Mr. Calhoun has been a loading politician during the greater part of two generations, His public talents brought him prominently befsre his countrymen; @ad the distinguished part which be played in t questions of the day, combined with the impetu of hia temperament, rendered bim, par excedlence, the embodiment of Southern char and, although the melanche ticipated by the hopeless s 2 eh always felt that, durlog his lifetin on the « question was pe What effect bis disapp co may have on the sta of parties. cannot, of * imme Northera: ed; but the tone of the pa ra cities induces us to believe that the siave party, de= prived of a leader in whose abilities they placed iin phieit confidence, may desire, as fer ax possible, to mar- row the breach with their northern fellow-citizens. We hope st ma wit the authorities on whieh wo base this opinion aro not t st roliablein a quea- tion «o delieate and excitable asthe question of slavery. Whatever diference of opinion may prevail respecting the views of the late A n stateeman, we happen to know, through a © ntial eba #o many amiable traits in his private life, ae to make us feel ® deep personul respect for the mon The Union has produced some great men, and, amongst them, cer tainly not tho least able and respected was J. 0. houn, The same paper publishes the following brief sam- mary of news:— oh i Spain. i The letters from Madrid expresses the froatest anxiety respecting the final result of the pending me- gotiations for a renewal of friendly relations with Hag- land. Some delay is occurring in the arrival of Lord Palmerston’s reply to the Spanish cabinet, M. Isturtts is rendy to start from Madrid to resume his post ia London, and various diplomatic changes will take place at the other European courts. The much talked of Count Trapani was married at Florence, oa the 10th inst., to the Archduchess Isabella of Tuscany. Germany. Turning to Germany, matters continue In a ory ume fatisfactory state The comedy of accepting the char netitutionen blec, as agreed upon et Br- j* joins in the humor at has beon dons. Ia Dunks of our nobie river ar o the public, Thore 100 gentlemen pres Mitchell, Eaq.. eustai upperted on the right the Hon. Adam Fer on the left by Keq., of Morriston, The Croupier's ehalr by David Bell, Rxq. the duties being shared by Mr. Harvey and Mr. M'Letland ter wed the duties of the the guost of the tes of America, Gen- ‘othe rapid commu between thia country xtension of it to Ame- remark, thet America K quarter of the world arising coustry, and almost the whole of the nd manners being Kuglish, they could not he deepest Interest in the prosperity of the | United States. He was sorry to see that the President | was ro much dispored to maintain the du an) should have much rather d the duties altogether; It » that country not leset he cholee of the people 4 be hoped he would always be as accepta- ‘1 them as he had hitherto been, (Cheers) All onors. ” Yankoe Doodle.’ sin Grins ‘The Governor-G: Lof Bigin,” remarked that particularly aware of what great good the Earl had as Yet done, but aa thie ® compilmentary dinner ra- ther then « a be would say nothing of hi fm re that Lord Elgin did the best interests of the colony over which he gain to disturb the peace Le quite prepared for the interfe more to brin | All the neo he Duchies concur in repro- | senting matters to be daily growing worse. The Da are preparing for @ renewal of the war, K proves, wore end more, how fatally the Bra tere ore bent upow a rupture of « Their refusal to bring the Danish Burope. nee of Kusste once it of discord. im sotion, will bring tributive v noe, Aw ut about the France. and Austria m he subject, it seams # yon ke madness for Prussia to attempt to Europe upon the smalie the aubje: especially when of justicg assumed by R completely realize upon this quertion ; and we etill fally bel atinir will only be settiod by rome such mearures aa are now in preparation Wo have news from India and China by, the Overs lond Mail. with dates from Bombay to the Lith Mareb, and from Hong Kong to t t¥ebruary, On the frontiers at Peshawur, Sir Colin Campbell has had some trouble with the predatory hordes on the bills, aud im the direction of Kohat there seems to have been « ‘nl of fighting ip the parses of the hills, and oar ing done much towards ottheenemy. Ine dangerous defile, of thirteen miles im length, our They would, therefore, oll the honors . ink his good (Applause) All the ho- {The Great Tunnel of the Alps (From the Low ‘imes of April 15.) To complete a direct f railroad communication between Houlogne and Ancona. and, eo! the Adriatic hain of Mont nd present, with insurmountable bar to continous railway don, at far Chambery. by the Lyons ratl- nay, het rail can and will, travellers, who direeted their steps along ley of the Are, towards Lanslebourg), and, by erior effort, it will yet reach higher. as far as #, at the foot of tho northern crest of the Graian to th troope suffered consideratly from the constant fire of the matchiock men. Two European officers and 15@ billed. The whole of the rest of (udin the dominions of the Nisam are fast lat aud political crisis § Bvery~ jet im the various Chinese ports. ~ _Euypt. We learn, by way of Egypt, thet Mr. Layard and hie RGzLY,are carrying om their successtul excavations a ‘od aud Nineveh, and a vast number of copper beautifully eograved, and fine slabs, iias | trative of the rule, conquests, domestic lite, aad arte of the anelonts, are dally brought to light, pected. The news from for settlers as the previous 7 | bas been actually under the consideration of the Bar- dinian goveroment since Angust, 1845 Ite sota- tion ie jonger a matter of doubt. The possibility | of boring through the heart of Mount Genevre, and of | linking Chambery with Sasa, north and south of that range, isa demonstrated truth. The great tunnel of the Alps la sbout to beeome a reality, under the aus. joes of Vietor Bmmauuel and the Piedmontese Par- tement | The author of this gigantic scheme ie the Chevalier Henry Mave, Hon Inspector of the Génie Cres, the rame who devised and Tonecuted the great works om the Liege railroad After incessant e 7, ot thie question, and many and celculations, including invention of new machinery for boring the mountain, this offleer made his final report to the government on the Sth of Febr vary, 1649, A commission wae thereupon named, on the 18th of July, 1849, commiat! of several distinguished civil en- Tactical expert ‘and give their opinion on the ‘natute sod hecibuity of ry Maus’ project. That comminsion, on the let @f November last, one then under the presidency of the Minister of Public Works, the Chevalier Paisoeape, decided unanimously and entirely ip favor of the pro: . report, t with that of Chevalier and striking project events pr | A ication fore part of the fande required to in the great sunnel will be made to the Chambers aeoeeee Review. ines, Apeti 39.) (commensal Guise me with- markets for imported ‘tnd In London, still present, in the of instances, a drooping appearance. ness has been transact: nd where d, twas genorally in favor. of the bayer, 0 only purcha-es to meet immediate wants. At the same time. although the value of pro~ duce generally is lower ( int e average of former ears, there is not the slightest symptom of » «pecula- ve demand. et opened with considarnble ft ese this week, and on the errival of the Niagara advices from New York to the 2d inst. » decided im~ alee wae ven to the trade American descriptions (a. ors, being sold at an advance of one but our present quotations are now fully @ penny per ib @ those quoted last week. In Boutha descriptions a pretty extensive business American been cotter t land 6%4.. Mobile Td, the tater of the week are LI) bales, againat a Im ort of us redue' estimated atock om oy we 670 620 f = that oe 49 Se an excess of 6.010 clones afternoon: firmness, the sales of the day being extimated at 6.000 bales at the currency uoted ja another of our . Of the foregoing ators [000 bales were taken by advices of

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