The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1852, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 7110. SALES BY AUCTION. AUCTIONEER.--TUESDAY, APRIL ‘at No. 8 Macdougal «tree! S, a variety of mahogavy and maple 3 Je ce at 10 proc No. 17 Eldridg 8, HovGH 1). 20 at Wu AL niture, Beds, &e. dnesday, tho Furniture of the hou: tment. Particulars in time. COLTON, AUCTIONEER —GENTE! + hold Furnituro.—F. ( ¢ halt-p: botweon Sixth and of the hguse, comprising lor, Bedroom; and Kitchon Furniture, Centre and Sofa Table: arpets and Oil Cloths. China and ; Hall and Solar Lamps, Basoment Furniture, &0., & ositive, without regard to weather. On Tnosday, nt Furniture, at 166 East Broadway. More articulars ‘alogues early on Tuosday 0 Pineapple street, Brooklyn. LEEDS, AUCTIONEER, & CHAMBERS streot.—Sale of Wines, Brandies, Sogars, Tons, & ale was postponed from Saturday, on account of tl petioneer bing out of town, and will positively taki ay). at 10s o'clock, and i Winer, Brandies, Si T well wor! » and Grocers. ont warranted ENRY T. LEEDS, AUCTIONEER, WILL SELL, TO- morrow, (Tuesday,) at 103¢ o’cloc! house 369 Pacific ., South Brooklyn, all the genteel Furniture contained in fie above house, consisting of So , Chairs, Carpets, Brus- 1, Ty ‘and. Sply Carpets,’ Pianoforte, or Also, leigh Robes, Robes For further & Enquirer or Express. Sale positive, so8, Co Courier ENRY H. LEEDS & CO., AUCTIONEERS, WILL well at auction, on Monday, April 19, Household Pu ‘loel ‘ fadison street, consisting carpets, mahogany sofas ia hair olo¥l ‘king-glasses, mantel ornament! &e.; mahogany Hanotorte, mado by Worvest, 0, enteel bedroom fur~ iture im mahogany; oil cloth, kitchen furniture, &e. ENRY Hl. LEDDS & CO., AUCTIONBERS, WILL a@1 at auction, on Monday, April 19—vlogant first lass Cabinet Furniture, at 10 o'cloek, at the Cabinet Waro- jooms of J. Dixen, Baq., 523 Broadway, the entire stock of he above gentleman, who is About to Temove his extabtia ° C Dg door elegant contre od and mohagony; sofa bed~ ‘oriptions of furniture, in oak, black all of which is made ia the latest style and arranted in every particular. BNRY H. LEEDS & CO., AUCTIONEERS, WILL sell a ion, on Tuesday, April 20,nt 11 o'clock, om the 116th ar Harlem—exton ¢ entire stock of exotie pl a Mr. T. Dunlap, (who is obliged to isting Of suricana excolsa; acacias, large and iety,cinncrariasericas,hy: mn house and 1 Be alae: 1,000 Ailanthus trees hawthorn for he ‘and 20,000 Eng- edges; with y artiolos in thab @ALES BY AUCTION. Re AAA UCTION NOTICB.—THOMAS BELL, AUCTIONBER. z,W. L. Van Zandd—Large sale of Liquors, Boor ‘ounters, &o. On Thursday, at 10% o’olook, at ‘anal street, will be sold, without reserve, the ontire Fixtures of le Liquor ator took of choice a Seren UCTION SALE—J. MoCORMACK, AUCTIONBER— On 20th of April—By |. W. Hi T< Ane ok of Ornai 240 Way, consisting elegant Spring Chairs, Pior and Centre Tablos, wit aud iron tops, Motaliio ease Clooks, Nixht Clocks, Pi Beds, folding Bodsteads, Cribs and Cradles, &o, quantities to suit purehascrs, by 1, W. HAVENS. UCTION NOTICE.CRETAIL GROCERIES, CHAM. 0, Segars, Raisins, aialoale Men hitek cornes Green wien steel: Gaon Black Toas, Coffee, Coooa, Sweet Chocolate, Jujube Paste, Su; Soap, Candles, Staroh, Rice, Sogars, Tobacco, Snuff, Macoaroni, Swoet Oil, Mackerel, Codfish, Soale isha, English Beor &eo. W. A. CARTER, Aucti: Fe NOTICE.—C, CASSIDY, B; his day, at bi |. N. Bush. ortable tr 7 the sales room, 10 North Willi: f mort fase ‘ale of Furniture, Desks, Bookcases, Groceries, Vit ins, Watches, Jewelry, &o. Also, Organs and Pianofortes, K. D. SMITH, Salesman, Acoe CTIOe: TEOMA BELL, AUCTIONEER. an —By W. L. Vai —Large sale, this day (Monday), half-past 10 0’ in the etion rooms, wy by ae street, of an e1 gant and valuable stoc! f woll-n: id Gi sorted Dry Goods, Clothing, F men's Furnishing Goods, five Books, Boots, Hosicry, &c. 51 BY JOHN, SNIFFEN GROCERY STOCK, THIS DAY, at 10 o'clock, at 67 Dolancy streot, eonsisting of every variety of Dry ‘and Wet Groceri Scales, Measures, &o. BX J: BEGEMAN, AUCTIONEER.—TURSDAY, APRIL 20, at 9 o'clock A. M., at 33 Pineapple street, noar Wil- low street, Brooklyn, genteo! Parlor, Chamber and Kitchen Furniture. Also, One good Piano. Catalogue at the ales . room, Y CORLIES, HAYDOCK liam streot—Tuesday, 204 oy Articles, lendid Watch RE, 35 WIL 10 o'olook, at the ry the Amori- ton, comprising & varioty of roduced in thismarket, The ithout reserve, WESTCOTT, AUCTIONEER. » Taos J morning, at ten o'clock, achinery, &0., con: WILL SELL, ON at 147 Woat Twenty- sisting in part of Lathe &e., contained on ¢ R sixth stroet, Vices, Shafting, Benches, Tools, sbove premises. Sale positive, without regard to weathe: FINANCIAL. eee AN Ae IFE INSURANCB.—NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE Assurance Society, of London; General Agent's Office, treet, Je City “ene above sompany eon- ives of resident in and 0 - bards, ah fale tated of pe Sadk ferns, &o., plen ab apply as sed J. LEANDBR STARR, General Ageat. ENRY H. LEEDS & CO., AUCTIONRERS, WILL SELL at auotion, on April 20, Household Furniture, lool way. bet Bond and ith marble top, Card Tables, Girandole: elle Bedateads, mahogany marble top Dressin, Oll Cloth, and » re rtment of Kitchon Fut Crookery and Glass re, China Vases, &e., &0. Also, o1 Fosewood seven octave Piano, made by Gilbert, of Boston, ‘Deen used but @ short time and cost ENRY H. LEEDS & CO., AUCTIONEERS, WILL SELL at auction, on Tuesday, April 20, Genteel Household Furniture—nt 10 o'clock, at No. W C near Fifth satin da- mt do, rosewood Parlor with pI arm ‘and Parl re Tables, firat ola ‘wood Pianoforte, mado by Barmore; Clocks, V1 Also, s gonoral assortment of Bedroom Furnit Carpets, armoir a glace, black walnut Wardrobes, Dreasin, Bureaus and glass, washstands, marblo tops, Bedsteads, in= grain Carpets, Chairs, Shaving Stand, Oil Cloths, &., &c. ENRY H. LEEDS & CO., AUCTIONEERS, WILL sell at auction, on Tuesday, April 20—Gentoel House- hold Furviture—at No. 97 Eleventh street, near Fifth ave- nue, at 1036 o'clock, consisting of Bi 8’ Carpots, maho- fa Chi » &e.,in hair cloth; atre Table, lace Curtai: bronze and ormulu Clook, Dining Tables, handsomely carved Book Case, crimson wilk, mantel Pict and Engravings, a ver: ‘Also, plated ware, ta, ingrain do., Beds, Bed: indow Curtains, Washstands, mence withkitehen furniture. POHN LEVISON, AUCTIONEER. 19th, at 10! o'slock, at 115 Adams street, Brooklyn. Splendid’ Household Furniture, consisting of Pier Glassen, Royal Wilton, Bru is and Ingrain ae Carved Rose- yood Chairs; Sofas, Rocking is jahogany French &o., pee eth Ee ae Recaro gallery 0 ain e- and well worthy th peendion of positive, to the highe: RAND SALE OF ro Paintings, Furniture contained in the treet, Brooklyn, on Monday, April Ju0 yards royal, Wilton Carpet ‘ood Chair: a, nd rocker ‘e Centre Table, French m: marble to case of prepared Bird Bodsten 0.5 8 » Brus Dre: jedronm Furniture, Bra eads, Dressing B &c. Sale to com- Jour, LEVISON, splendid ¥ Mr. Levie over 40 superb Oil Paintings; originals by Talbot, y, Boutello, Cafferty, Hazan, Mr. F.C. Green, and er eminent American artists; one genuine Salrata Rosa, rat | and a fire at night, 400 ars old. Sale to 11 4. M. House open to vVititers at7 in the VANDEWATER, AUCTIONEER—TUESDAY ai 7; April 20 and 21, at 11 o'elock, at ale ‘arble Joux L, and Wedn room, 12 Wall of the importation 1 id suporb collection 0 Statuary, Fancy Goods, &0., i—Comprising & ubjects. jadno, Mosos in firat aud second,) Venu 1 of Canova, and sever- tastefully carved in alto Pompeii urns and vases, admirably parlors, niches, &c., large Roman ted with grape, Tene rn vases, es; joo vasos and urns; Jarge sizo vostal temples. sortment of rich and elaborate mosaic elesant centre and library tables, richly. i in_various styles; temples; ‘watch cases d eandle-stioks ; oblisk for flowers; tazzas of Adrianna ported by dolp large open work arkets ; modols of the Leaning Tower of Pu lorentine baskets inketands, and a greatrarioty of other fancy articles, useful and ornamental. The works are all most beautifully executed, under the superintendence of & talented Artist, lly finely finished copies of eelebarted antique ptnre, with s variety of original works of rtment of China and Bohemian The above are now on exhibition. ANDEWATER, AUC .—WEDNES- y, April 21, at 10! o'clock, at the warerooms of Mr. Francis Elleau, corner of Bros d Spring stre Splendid French Furniture—P’ —Con sisting of a eplendid assortment of rosew lor, and dining room frites in muslin, to be sold with choice of brocatelle or plush, Comfortables in muslin, Couches, Arm Chairs, Fauti did carved Sofas, Medallion a grat tot C) Chairs, reclining Chairs. also, rosews ntique hi Tablos, | marble cornucop! ves, Light Stand, XVI.), Elizabethan dining library Arm Chairs, &o. lendidly carved rosewood, black walnut, and mahogany ads; Buroaus; Washstands, with Italian marble top robes, with French plate mirror doors; Armor a Glac ageres, Ladies’ Secretaries, Quartette Tabi &e. Also, a line of splendid imported Papier Macho goods, All of the shove fneniture is of the first class, and fully war- ‘The repubation of Mr. Elloan, as one of the oldest mi imperters, is a eufficiont guaranty to who desire to. purch Goods can remain on the prem! free of charge till the Ist of May. RENCE BOYLE, and Fixturos on Tuosday Port! stroot consisting of Teas, Coffoo, Rice Barley, 8 Yiswr, Molscses, Oil and Oil Cans, Platform Seal Weights, Wegon, ond everything appertaining to # grocery store. a HOMAS AST&N, AU TT onscreen: house ‘plants sell, this dry, at 10% o’olock, at Tunble collection of standar moss and perpetual Noses, &e.; the grontest variety offered this season, From the lishment of J. B. Mantd, Forty-sixth \d Brond way LVAIN, AUCTIONEER.—AUC some and fashionable F 1) 80M ry & Son will precisel, a at #6 [iamorsiey the ontire Parnit hich wi or by A firet class cabinets ‘er, consisting of elegant fas, Mabogany Chairs, Contre lox, two splendid Mir- Emb: red Window Curtains, Booket 4, O11 Clothe; with every article u family. Has been in use but » fow months. Also, 20 Cabinet Paintings in vate frames. Also, ® valuable wate Library of eho! taodard works. Also. superior fine-toned ri ood Pinnoforte, Also, Bedstends, Beds, Matrasses, Bedding, Bureaus, &c., togothor with an it assorti f good Kitchen Furniture. Sale po- ry for oash. in elty funds. N. B. Catalogues, with tiption, will be ready on Monday morning, when tho Furniture, Paintings, &o., can be examined. McILVAIN, AUCTIONE! ha and fashionable —M. Hi . at 10 o’olock precisely, at No. 46 Hamersley, Stroot, the ontire Furniture, which was all ma Arm Ch Chairs, cco leather snd ploso AUCTIONEER.—GROCERIR 20th, at 10 o'clock, at No. 43 gER—STANDARD Nowell & Co, will inet maker, consisting of elogant Sofas, Bentrany Chairs, Contre: Tables, two splondid: Mirrors Lace and Embroi: ry Laer ph ate! Si a } othe: for sey veel family. Has boon in use bu a few months, Alto, twonty Cabinct Paintings in gilt framos. Private Library of choice standard wor! toned, oeawacd Pianoforte, Al Bedding, Bureans, 89, to: rtmont of good Kitchen Far for ash, in city funds. N. B. ‘Also, # valuable ry gether with an ox itare. Sale perem ‘Catalogues, wi ‘a 0 me ‘whon tho Fi 10, % superior fi toad, Bi OTICE.—ALL PERSONS HAVING PURCHASED goods at tho auction sale of od seers ee age fancy art! & h, Sth, 9th and 10th ins J. Stouve: No, 504 Broadway, ues Il and settlo their it 8. Specutully Wait the ‘attention of their. numerous oust ie aa a J. STOUYENBL, & CO., 64 Broadway. MONDAY, APRIL | joription, will bo ready on Monday niture, Paintings, &0,, can be ox: an next to Niblo’s, J. 8, & Co. ro- somors, now and elegant stook in thoir line, a RAFTS ON ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND. —We are by special authority authorized to issue bills on the Union Bank of London, Belfast Banking Co., Irel and the National Bank of Scotland, payable ai pia ‘ TAYLOR BRO 3, sums from £1 upwards. 16 Wall street, corner Poarl. W. BYRNES & OO. 69 SOUTH STREET, NRW P. York tna We, 8 Weterne Road, Liverpool, issue Sight Drafts, ble throughout England, Ireland, Sco land and Wal 40 agents for the Empire ed Star, of Liverpool Packets, and jotterdam, ‘weekly. je. Line: nd ew Lino from Certificates for above Ii for RAFTS ON IRELAND, &0.—THE SUBSCRIBERS D draw Sight Drafts on various banks and bankers in Bagland, Ireland and Sootland, in sums to 2 WILLIAMS & GUION, 40 Fulton street. Passage oan be sooured by she old Black Star Line of Livor- ol packets, sailing let, 6th, 11th, 16%h, 2lst, and 26th of ¢very month. ea CnS, 5 Saeed eRow ely Woh etting oe a y y y Bent al in any town throughout Great in wi ie undersigne: Ie rv ‘ail tines of Lond an Pa FOR AN ACTIVE nor with the above eet in the manufacturing of me- $5,000.-A.BAtz cHayen Smount of eapi tallic marble chimney pieces, is sought by an artist, who gan give satisfactory proof that he anders his ‘busi- Fy Inquire of WM. A. CENDROTH, Ji 117 Beek- ‘man streot. 2. O00. WANTED To PURCHASE, ABOUT TWO 3 thousand dollars worth of good left off lotidng in large or emall quantities, for which th Will begiven, in current money, on applicatio: ally cr through por to JAMES MORONEY Orange street, & doors from Chath N ONEY.—THE ADVERTISER HAS ration in this city, a fall rio Qu: Proves entirely successful. He now wants manufacture them. Has already some ordors juarta Crushor, this offic MONEY-Moner May BE OB from $1 to $1,000, on Wat gars, Dry Goods, Horses, Carriag NOW IN OPR- tx Crusher, which Evy co to on hand. Ad- AINED IN SUMS Plate, Jowelr, oF any othor personal propert: tho ‘al Agency Office, No. Ilt ‘and cornorof Broadway, over the Pacite Bank. The etri con! nce and honor may be relied upo: WANSTEDIA PERSON WITH $3,000 CASH CAPITAL, to join the advertiser, who has an cqual amount, in an exclusive and Very profitable manufacturing business,’ With Proper attention, $10,000 to $15,000 per annum ma; zed. Address, with real name, M. E. B., Broadway Office, when all particulars willbe made known. WITH A CASH CAPITAL OF to $550, to well and pack goods, to take orders to the manufactory, which is about 100 miles from the city, by railroad or steamboat, Such a person will be liberally treated, and a permanont situation or a sharo of the profits Will be secured to him. The business has been in operation siz years. Addross 0., Horald office. re: + ANTED—A PARTNER, WITH A CAPITAL OF Three or Feur Thousand Dollars.—Tho advertiser wishes to connect himsolf wi i i n. He must be a» tleman, and free from all trickery, No others nee poly ‘ho business is well established, and none before it in this city, and in # first-rate location. Ad- dress F. it the office of this paper, where an interview can be had. HORSES, CARRIAGES, dc. 1 CROSBY ST Harn: ry Monday a1 ing property to Pl tered, JOHN H. GATFIELD, PAIR OF SPLENDID CREAM HORSE: white manes and tails, 7 yoars old this spring, kind in single and double harnoss, excellent travellers, one of them very gay and easy under tho saddle, aro offered for salo vory cheap, at the stablo of Mesers. READ & TRUESDELL, Mer- cer street, near Bleecker. They will be sold very low, if app! is day, or Tuesday, the 20th inst. FP SALE—A BAY HORSE, SEVEN YEARS OLD, fiftoen hands high, d kind in all harness, and a beautiful em M Fe A BAY SADDLE MARE, FIVE YEARS old this spring, near Sftoen, hands high. Very quict in lwrness. ‘To be seen at MILES'S Livery Stabl Tatayette place. j}OR SALE—AN ELEGANT CALASH, BUILT BY LAW- rence & Collis, in the most substantial manner, nearly oqual to new, and in complete order, intended to be olosed up oF opened, being @ aty! Apply at the stable, No. 72 Eighth street, n a i OR SALE—A BLACK HORSE, 15g HANDS HIGH, young, kind, and sound; a stylish driver, and suited for the saddle. Also, a» Ti atte wagon, with shifting top, pole and shafts; a superior article, 0 new; with it a set of light double harness. Apply ble, No. 72 Kighth street, near Fifth avenuc. OR SALE~A SORREL HORSE, 144 HANDS HIGH, Pony built; oan trot in 33g minutos, sound and kinds Alea & Lop wagon, ® light wagon, harness, blankoe rob saddle, & iL be sold together very oheap. To be eon at Polhemus's Livery Stable, Grand atroet, betwoon First and Second streets, Williamsburg. OR SALE, OR EXCHANGE—A HORSE OF GREAT speed aad end ; 7 years old; color boaatiful dark ry found in tho city. Any ono reqdiring superior hora the at: REIS, two dc Broadway and Ho 4 ton street, or at the store. 436 Broadway. Also, for #1 beantifal light Baggy and Harness, nearly now, bolonging to one or two hors lor country backing “god running order; also a double sont Funping order, Can be seon at the stable TRUESDELL, 172, 174, and 176 Mercer street. VINE SADDLES, HARNESS, AND TRUNKS.—P. TRAINOR, 878 Broadway, corner of White stroot, im: porter and manufacturor, invites tho attention of gentlomen to his atoek of ting Harness, Indies’ and gontlomon’s Saddios, Bridles, Whips, Trunks, &c.; English Saddios, by the best London makers; Pronch spring Saddles, patent whalebone and steel spring Trunks, suitable for Europoan travel; horse clothing of every desgription, N. B,—Goods sons by oxpross to all parts of the country. HE CNEAPRST AND Bi i 2 _DR. TOBIAS'S V TRELE HOTEL, BoP way.—The undersigned. gri continuation of the patron Circle, His Wines, Liquors, Al le; and his ra Rooms at 26 0 EARL STRERT, NEAR BROA H; knowledges d in open u $1 2a wook, with meal pa WILLIAM WRIGHT, 519 ‘ORK FAMILY HOTEL, NEW BRIDGR STRE! Ludgate Hill, London.—The above howso 1s oen ly rival ity bedrooms, baths always 1g room; WwArin, vad» tht porter in at dance; & fixed eharge for sor- jw York Herald is fled. Thomas Quartermaino arateful thanks to his Amorioax frivnds, for the ae me at thoir hands, and solicits atronage and recommendation. de PAPER HANGINGS. pass HANGINGS, OF NEW AND BRAUTIFUL designs, justimported, by Francis Paces & © 4 Voarl atreet, solocted expressly to dovorate the ii Apartmente of the most costly mansions. @.d oan bo © jor workmen, aro offered at whocgale or to the very lowest prices, a up iy ab + By \y J. Qh MORNING EDITION-----MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1852. “ARRIVAL OF THH ARCTIC. FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. IMPERIAL AFFAIRS IN FRANCE. Terrible Disaster to the British Steam Frigate Birk enhead. OVER FOUR MUNDRED AND FIFTY LIVES LOST, The Rich Gold Discoveries in Eastern Australia. THE CAFFRE WAR NOT YET ENDED. DEATH OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRIA. The French in Favor of the Japan Expedition. Special English and French Ministers to La Plata. STATE OF THE MARKETS. &e., &e., &o. Tho American mail steamship Arotic, Capt, Luce, ar- rived yesterday morning, after a passage of ton days and eighteen hours across tho Atlantie. She left Liverpoo, on Wednesday, tho 7th inst, The steam screw ship Sarah Sands, Capt. Thompson, left Liverpool on the same day, for New York. The advices from Europe and Australia are four days later than our previous accounts, and two or three weeks later from the Cape of Good Hope. Annoxed aro the latest dates, telegraphic and othorwise, brought by the Aretic:— Liverpool. sere Maroh 31 wae « % «3 « 3% «2 Cape Town, 5 nl Melbourne, N. 8. W., Dee, 22 Adolaide, 8. 20 Sydney, N.S. “19 The news embraced in these advices is not of much apparent importance, but under the surface of tho news- paper accounts, there is a great deal of information of the highest interest to the world, The steamship Asia, Captain Judkins, which left New York on the 2th ult, arrived In the Mersey on Tuosday morning, the 6th inst., at half-past nine o'clock. The wreck of the British steam frigate Birkenhead, at the Cape, was a dreadful affair. Over four hundred and fifty Lives wore lost. ‘The Paris Patrie, of the 1st inst., contains a semi-offi- clal article in favor of the American expedition to Ja- pan. Tho Paris Patrie states that two envoys extraordinary from England and France, are about to visit Brazil and La Plata—the object of their mission being to open to the commerce of the world the river La Plata and its tribu- tary streams, the Parana and the Uruguay. Sovoral vea- sels of war have been ordered by the French Minister of Marine to proceed to La Plata for tho protection of the interests of the French, in the events which may arise through the defeat and flight of Rosas. ‘The Swiss government has replied to the French note, showing that, without violating the right of asylum, it had complied, as far as possible, with the demands of the French governmont, by sending away thirty Frenchmen and twenty Germans, and had removed twonty to the in- terior. The French chambers met for a short time on the 5th, and thon adjourned for a week. Some of the journals begin tecapress a desire for the empire. There was no improvomen in business ; the corm market was declining in conse quence of rein. The Senate of Bromen. in accordance with the federa commissioner, auspended the liberty of the press and the right of meeting, and had also dissolved the Chamber, A now Chamber will be convoked, under a difforent form of election. ‘The Russian nowspapers contain official reports of grea victories achieved by the imperial arms over tho Cauca- sian tribes. Intelligence from Corfu states that 22 bankruptcies had taken place at Zante, to the amount of ubout 1,120,- 000f., and that others were expected. Austria, of her own aceord, had offered full satisfaction to the Canton of Ticino for the violation of its territory, some time ago, by three Austrian soldiers. According to arrangements, the squadron of vessels fitting for a searching expedition to the Arctic regions, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C. B., would leave Woolwich on Saturday, tho 10th inst., and be ready to leave Greenhithe on the 15th, on their enterprising voyage. The Fadrelandet announces the demise of the Sonior Queen Dowager, Maria Sophia Fredorika, of Denmark, née Princess of Hesse Cassel, who expired on the 22d ult., at the ago of 84. Hor Majosty was the daughter of the late Charles, Landgravo of IHosse Cassel, and married, on tho Slat of July, 1790, King Frederic VI., who died in Decom- ber, 1839. The Dutchess Ida, of Saxe- Weimar, mother of Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, and sister of the late Queen Dowager of England, died, very suddonly, at 2 P.M. on Saturday, the 3d inst., at Weimar. The celebrated Marshal Radetsky is not doad, as re- ported by the America, on Saturday. Professor de Gasparis, of the Royal Observatory at Naples, announces his discovery of another small planet on the evening of March 17. It is stated to bo equal in brightness to a star of between tho 10th and 11th magni- tude. The King of Denmark has granted a genoral amnesty at Holstein, except to the officers who served in the Royal army in March, 1848, when the insurrection broke out, They, as well as the Ducal family, are banishod from Augustenburg. A letter from Hanover, of the 27th ult., states that the duty on imported corn is to remain suspended in that country until the end of April. Welearn that several arrests took place at Seville on the 23d ult.; amongst the parties arrested wore Messrs, Juan Antonio Fe and Julian Pelton, ‘Two pirate vessels have appeared in the Mediterranean, between the island of Samos and the ooast of Asia, and two Austrian voasels, which happened to be in the port of Samos, anda Greek corvette, are in pursuit of them. Americans in England. The Countess of Derby held her second reception in London, on the 2d inst., at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing street. The ré- union was literally thronged with members of the aristo- cratic world. The corps diplomatique were present almost without an exception, and a groat many members of the House of Commons were also present. Among the com. any was the American Minister, accompanied by Colonel Fremont and Mrs, Frefhont.and Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll. The Liverpool Times says :— “Col, Fremont, the first of tho Californian millionaires, has reached England from the United States, after a tem- pestuons voyage. The object of Col, Fremont's visit is to set at rest the vexed queetion of his own title as free- holder of the Mariposa estate, and to adjust the leases of the various companies formed here for the purpose of working the mines, ‘The Colonel has engaged for his fa- mily an extensive suite of apartments at the Clarendon Hotel; and, looking at his past history and sudden acqui- sition of enormous wealth, he may justly be regarded as one of the “lions” of the day. It is understood that ho has not yet recovered from the fatigue of the land and sea ing—no slight matter—from San Franciseo; but of the first visits paid has been to Mr. Ex-Seeretary Walker, who has been residing at Reigate for the benefit of his somewhat impaired health.” Challenge to American Shipbullders. [From the United Service Journal } We understand that Mr. Mare. of Blackwall. has in- vited the commodore of the New York Yankee Club. or any gentleman in America, to compute with # vessel which he will construct, in a contest simitar to that in which the America was successful last year, to come off at Cowes, in next August or September ; the conditions can be referred to umpires chosen by the respootive par- t Mr. Mage stakes £100 on the result, The Amori- can yatchingn must be aware that the America, built al- moet entarely for speed, came to England to contend with yachts already constructed, to combine as mueh speed as would be c¢ it with comfort, hitherto a sina gua non in lsvitivh yachts; and Mr. Mars, in the same spirit of courtesy and geneous rivalry, as charactorized the pro- ceedings at Cowes on the late ocoasion. invites the Aig. ricans to the trial ; and although Mr. Mare by no t,oans provusnes, that the British yacht will be muooos iui. yot ventures ‘to think » bettor teat of tbe ro-.pect yo yossels will be obtained when they are both F,uilt gor the same purpore. France. APPROACH OF THE EMPIRE—THE DOTATION TO THB PRESIDENT—TRADK IN FRANCE—THB FIVE PER OENTS-—-AN AMERICAN GENERAL IN PARIS, RTO. bon latest advices from Puris are of Tuesday, the Oth ‘The empiro was rapidly approaching. The Moniteur is filled with accounts of the presentation of the Cardinal's hat to the Archbishop of Bordeaux, and of the taking of the oath of allegiance, last night, at the Elyzée. All the judges, with the exception of two or three who were absent from illness, took the oaths. On Sunday night the members of the Court of Cassation and the Cour des Comptes, the first President and the Proou- reurs-Gén¢éraux of the Court of Appeal, took tho oath reroribed Ly the constitution, in the’ prasonao of the resident of the republic ‘The following was the remarkable reply of the Prinoe President:— Mossiours the Magistratos—Although I rocetvo your oath mith pasere, yet the obligation on all constituted bodies to take it ap 8 less necessary on the part of th hy noble mis 0 make law prevail and be respected. The more aut Tests upon an ines ought it to be defended naturally by that the dogma of tho sovereignty of the that of right divine, it may bo said that no government has over ‘boon Ko leitimate as mind, Jn 104 four, millions of agen, on proclatming the hereditary poiver in my Samily, ted me us Acir of tho empire.” In ISMN noatly. ak millions called me to the head of the republic, In. 1851 nearly cight millions maintained me there, ‘Thus in taking oath you do not swear merely to bo faithful to ® man, but toa principle, to » cause, to the national will itself Tho Sicle is ovidently of opinion that the empire is at hand. “The whole ministerial press throughout the de- parments give utterance,” it says, “to the same cry— “Vive VEmpereur.’”” ‘Tho following extract from tho basis, the more people has replac Bulletin de Pavis, a government paper, rather sustains this view:— Let France be onee more cons ted, and tho empire will 2d and 2th Decomber, ion, however, set There is no © in hiding it—thia quo aside for some hours, is uppormost in the mind of France, n its heing solves for it is that depend the prosperity of of tho future. ' Amiens is still more explicit:— An Emperor! Let uslave an Emperor at once. That is to aay, lot him deliver us from all disquistude regarding tho faturo; let hie re: ous from political prattle and prate, which is to us without meaning—f ties, and from revolutions whi have an Emperor! itis definitive; for = ten yours’ Pi - dentehipis only provirional, even with preserved tran- eg How much less solid, in cage of the aggressions of artien. PaThe Pays, too, makes broad allusions to tho time when the President of the republic may change the title ho as- sumos for the prevent. ‘The Paris Siécle vtates that Piorre Bonaparte, the cousin of Louis Napoleon, haa refused to accept tho post of Consul at Charleston, with 15.000 francs a year, which had been offered to him. Poor as Pierre Bonaparte is, it was not probable that he would accept #0 mean a post. Prince Pierre expected to be a Senator, with the 30,000 francs a year that the President of the ropublic has the wer of granting, or at least a Councillor of State, with .000 france a year; and ft has excited somo surprise that ho is neither one nor the other; for although ho was a member of tho mountain in the National Assembly, he was nover in opon hostility to his cousin, the President. We suhjoin the particulars respecting the question of the dotation of the Prince President, on the occasion of the consideration of that question by the Senate, in its sitting on the Ist inst. : M. Mesnard presided. The Senate decided the question of the dotation. The following is the proposition made by the Commission :— Ist.—An anuual dotation of 12.000,000f, 2d.—The uxo Of all the royal palaces, the maintenance of which shall be at the expense of the State, 3d.—The President not to enjoy therevenucs of the forests of the crown, but to enjoy exclusively tho right of sporting in the forosts of Marly, St. Germain, Compiegne, Versailles, and Fon- tainebleau. The above was unanimously taken into con- sideration, and the senators rotired to, the committee rooms to appoint a commission of five £¢ report on tho preposition. _M. Fould waa named reporter. ‘Tho report Tecommended the adoption of the bill. and a project of a. Senatus Consultum was presented, which modified tho original proposition, only so far as to spocify that the royal palaces devoted to useful purposes should not be comprised in the number of those allotted to the Presi- dent. M. ould proposed that an inventory should be mado of the articles of furniture in these palaces. M. do Lawoestein opposed the proposition of the inventory, on the ground of its having the appearance of a want of con- fidenco. The question of the use of the jewels formerly belonging to the crown is reserved. ‘The Senate will decide hereafter on that question, in the evont of the marriage of tho President of the republio, or of a change in his position. ‘Tho palaces which are to bo kept up at the exponsc of the state, for the enjoyment of Louis Napoleon, are the Tuilericr. tho Louvre. Fontainebleau, Compelzne, Vor- suilles, Trianon, St Cloud, Mendon, the Elysce, and Pau. By adecree in the Moniteur, the sugar dntics are thus H native «ugar equal to the first type, 45f . ign 57f. the 100 kilogrammes; superior sugar to pay Sf, more; colonial sugar to pay during four years 7f. les: than native; refined sugar to pay 10 per cent more than sugar roperior to the first type; foreign refined sugar is ph rom the intrigues of p&r- h profit us nothing. Lot us Phe stondiews wre coviaine & deoies videring Uke ov struction of an edifice on the system of the Crystal Palace, in the great rquare of the Champs Elysées, destined to receive the national exhibition. and capable of serving for public ceremonies and civil and military fetes, The inauguration of the new Jewish Synagogue took place on Thureday, the first inst.. with the greatest solem- nity. The Synagogue was brilliantly illuminated, and decorated with the greatest elegance, The “American General, Peyster Watt,” has arrive in Paris, on a mission from the government of the United. States. to study the weapons of the French army, and es- pecially the rifles of the chasseurs of Vincennes. It is raid that a corps of riflemen upon the game principle is about to be established in the United States. ‘The spirit of speculation appears never to have heen carried to 2 greater excess at the Bourse of Paris than in the week ending on the 6th inst. It was crowded to ex- cess, and the stockbrokers could with difficulty exocute the orders of their clients, The slight improvement in the commorce of Paris men- tioned last week, had not made much progress since then. It is true that the manufacturers and shopkeepers of Pa- ris experienced a similar disappointment at the corres- ponding period of last year, but it was then thought that the commireion agents had suspended their purchases un- til after the opening of the Crystal Palace in London. As no such cause exists at present, the manufacturers are beginning to feel uneasy at_the slackness of trade. Tho last mails from North and South America have brought but few orders, to the no small disappointment of those who had manufactured largely in anticipation of # brisk demand for exportation. The accounts from Lyons and Saint-Etienne are equally unfuvorable. The slight i provement which was observable in the silk trade has completely subsided, and all objects of luxury are quite neglected. It is still hoped, however, that a portion, at least. of the 200.000,000f. about to be expended on public works will find its way into general circulation and give new impetus to trade. Commercial letters received from Rouen, Roubaix, and Mulho are more satisfactory. They state that woollen stuffs and cotton cloths are in good demand at a remunerating price, and that the manufacturers are consequently fully employed The heavy rain which fell here on Monday and Tuesday last, ‘after nearly six weeks of dry weather, has con- siderably improved the appearance of the young wheat, ‘and removed all immediate apprehensions of a failure of the crop. This fact, coupled with the absence of all demand from abroad, has occasioned a con- siderable decline in the price of wheat and flour in Paris and the country marketa, The choicest samples of flour are to be had at from 52f. to 53f. the sack of 157 kilogram- mer; inferior quality from 49f. to 52f., with very little de- mand. Wheat has fallen full one franc the hectolitre. ‘The cattle fairs are still deficient in buyers, and the quo- tations of beef and mutton are lower, The demand for raw silk continues to be dull in the southern provinces; superior quality, however. is scarce, and the last quotations are maintained. Although |: consignments of wine ar- rive at Bercy, there is not smoked doing in the markets, pur- chasers preferring to hold back until the Ist of May next, when the deereo of Louis Napoleon modifying the ociroi duties will come into operation. The roduotion under the new system will amount to 5 francs 45 centimes the heetolitre. or about one halfpenny the bottle, being much less than was expected. ‘That important financial operation, the reduction ofin- terest on the French Five per Cents,, which was announe- ed by the decree of the 14th of March, to take place with- in 20 days, may now be considered to have succeeded; for the demands of reimbursement at par are understood to have been comparatively small in unt, and the period of notice allowed to fandholders in the French territories has expired, It is unnounced by decrees just published, that 35 mil- lions worth of timber of the Inte Orleans preperty annexed to the State is to be sold, and of the proc 500,000. rentes four anda half per eent, to be attached to the Legion of Honor, The Chateau Rambouillet is to be ap- propriated asa seminary for the daughters of the mem- Pers of the order created by the decree of Jan. 22. Spain. The report of the interesting | ome of Queen Isabelle appears to be confirmed. Her injesty was to proceed to the royal chapel of Atocha, to place on the heads of the statuce of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus the pre- cious crowns made with the jewels she wore on the 2d of February, the day of the attempt against her lifo. One of the secret ice, Pedro Aguso, the lieutenant of Chico. the Spanish Vidoog, has been arrested for hav- ing. with his son’s help, forgod a mass of treasonable eor- respondence, with the signatures of many of the most dis- tinguished public men in the country, implicating them in a pretended conspiracy with the regicide Martin Mo The wretch tas given proof, in his forged let- tera,of @ marvellous inventive faculty. Tt was only by tho merest aceident that the whole affair was brought to light. This villain has been reeently dismissed from the service, but like taany other ex-polide agents, had ooca- sionel jobs given him to do, by way of flading out crimi- nals difcult to get at, ‘The Queen bas pardoned the whole of the prisoners (taken on the veeasion of the Cuban invasion. with the exception of the Hungarians and native Cubans, The other for algners, who went to Cuba from the United States (che American citizens had been pardoned some time # tice), have lately been set at liberty, and sent to their udopted country, at the expense of the American g0¥ ernment. Aho Hon, Mr. Barringer, American Minister. was to ‘cave hadan audience of the Queen, on the S1+t vili., to pre- rent a letter of congratulation on the birth of On the 234, the war steamer Fernando el Cai ed from Cadis for Havana, having on board Gonorals Cunedo and Medinilla, who are going to replace Generals Concha and Leimerick. Gonoral N . Intely appointed Captain Gonoral of Puerto Rico, had arrived at Madrid, to receive hia in- structions from the government. e The American E: ition to Japan, in a French tof View.” i (Tramlated from La Patrie, of Paris, April 1.] The expedition directed by the United States against which can excite the distruat or the jealousy of civilized nations, They must, on the contrary, make vows in or- der that the expedition realizes all ‘tho hopes which it gives to tho other side of the Atlantic. In England, the most influential organs of the press have applauded that great idea; and in that wo can say they havo answered the sentiments of all the learned men of the United States. It cannot be otherwise in France. All thone who attach any value to the extension of relations among the general well-being. will follow with the liveliest in- terest, and will give all their sympathies to those bold navigators who are going to try to opon ® new and vast people, but for all the nations of the universe. It is known, indeed, that the entry of Japan is cloacd in an absolute manner to the foreigners of all nations It is thus a will of the jealous and suspicious policy of the government of that country, as 4 faithful imitator of the traditions followed in the empire of China. For several centuries this interdiction against foreigners has subsisted, and is maintained with the most extreme rigor, Sometimes the zeal of Catholic missionarios has bafllod the vigilance of the Japanese authorities; but they hay been nearly all sacrificed, and tho exertions of the dauntless apostles of civilization could not break or raiso the bariiers established by a policy which originated in the most barbarous religious fanaticism, Asingie people of Europe—the Dutch—have beon admit- ted to trafic with the Japanese, and this trade was but for the entry of two vessels, every year, in the port of Nangasaki.” The $200.000, black pepper. cloves. lead,firwood, cloths, wools, camblets, and a quantity of other articlos, of less importance, In return, these vessels took cargoes of brass and cam- phor. It ix known on what shameful conditions the Daten merchants had the power to obtain this exclusive privilege, ‘They could not put their foot on the Japanose foil without denying their religion, by trampling over the imago of the cross Now, that obligation is no more ob- swerved, either because the Dutch havo refused to sub- mit any longer to it, or that the Japanese govern- ment has considered it as uxcless, ‘The exclusive policy of Japan was not only diroctod against the Weatern people, but the Eastern people, (with the exception of the Chinese,) were equally put under the ban of theempire. ‘Tho Chinese junks are admittod tm the port of Nangasaki, We have already romarked, in announcing the depar- ture of the American expedition, the importance of ita results to the commerce of the world. Ono may judge of ita importance, when he thinks that the Japanosa Ar- chipelago has a population estimated by the moss mode- rate of travellers to be 30,000,000 of inhabitants (som say 45,000,000); that that country is rich in produo of every kind, which constitute vast means of exchange in the commerce of nations, What England did in China, twelvo years ogo, the United States are going to attempt in Japan. Now- n-dayr—thanks to the success of the expedition of Admiral Cochrane—the principal ports of China are opened to the verecls of all nations of the world; and thatevor wore the motives for the English policy, in iat case, we cannot do less than applaud, in the name of the inte- rests of commerce and civilization, the advantages that us obtained for them, and which have been enjoyed ince, ‘Wo have stated the forces which will compose the Ame- rican expedition, ‘The United States journals do not ap- pear to have'the least doubt of its sucecss, ‘That is alio the opinion of the English newspapers, Indeed," says the London Times, e Japanese aro & more c¢, they could not doany- thing against the cannons of the three frigates. And ‘ain, the shores are well known to the American whalers, and also the Strait of Sangara, which separates Niphon from eso, the two principal islands of the Japanese ein- ire.” It ix possible that Commodore Perry may encounter, in the execution ot the enterprise confided to him, unfore- reen obstacles; but they cannot stop a great nation like America, ‘Tho immense resources which she has at her disporal will permit her to happily end. sooner or later, an expedition, the success of which interests hor commerce to #0 high’a degree. It is asserted that, fearing the dangers which threaten it, the Japenese government has asked tho aid of the Lower Countries, in order to obtain their mediation with tho United States. We strongly doubt whother or not the Lower Countries wish to take charge of such negotiations, To accept it, they would aet agaiust their own interest, for the Dutch commerce can but profit by the removal of the interdiction which falls upon the flags of other na- tions in the Japanese ports, We repcat it, the civilized nations can only sco with plearure the success of an entofrise, in the issue of which they have a direct, incontestable advantage; and France, in hervelf. must desire its success, and prepare herself t) take a part in its immenso results, The Australian Gold Mines. THR INCREASED YIELD—NBW DISCOVERIES—THE ANNUAL PRODUOT OF TMU MEATS. @ Advices from Adelaide to the 20th, Port Pnillip bo tue | 22d. Melbourne to the 20th, and Sydney to tho 19th of December, have been received, via bingland, ‘They con- firm all previous accounts of the richness of . the gold imines in New South Wales. No discoveries havo yet been made in either West or South Australis, According to a careful return compiled by one of the Melbourne papers, it appears that from the 29th of Sop- tember, when the news of the discovery of the gold field w yunced, up to the 19th November, thore had been obtained from the diggings 67,000 ounces of gold; which, with the subsequent reeeipts by government excort, to the 17th December. amounting to 68,161 ounces, at estimated to have been brought by private hands, 28,353 ounces, added to that in the possession of the diggers on the gold fields, 80,000 ounces—made # total of 243,414 ounces, equal to 20,282 Ibs. 10 o7,, or 202 owt. 82 Lbs. 10 o7., 10 tons, 2 ewt, 26 Ibs, 10 on. valued at £730.22, or three million and five hundred thousand dollars. There were suppored to be about 20.000 to 30,000 persons at the Ballarat and Mount Alexander diggings. The Melbourne Argus of the 20th December says : The field ia reported to be illimitable, the indications of gold extending over scores of miles, and each new found Gigaing apparently eclipsing all previous discoverios, AIL accounts agree that the auriferous grounds which can be profitably worked will never bo dug for years to come, by any number of people that can by possibility reach them, There was a report that a new and equally rich field to those of Ballarat and Lodden had been discovered within forty-five milesof Geelong. Several ships had sailed from Melbourne and Geelong for London, with large amounts of gold on board ; but great.diffieulty was experienced in obtaining hands, and many vessels had been obliged to lay up in consequence. Scamen were offered £80 for the run home, and many wanted £90 and £105, Labor, and many of the necessaries of life, were rising to exorbitant prices. ‘The follow! the colony : Dggjs a table of the rates of wages current in Per Annum. +. £45 to 250 to 45 Married couples, without family and rations Ditto with family and rations, Laborers faestrabert Shepherds............ General useful servant Gardeners... 2... 40 A OE : 6 - 20s: to 253. por weok. ‘The following is an extract from Mr. D, Hill Young's letter, dated Melbourne, Dee, 22, 1861 :— You will seo by tho newspapers the extraordinary suocoss of the miners in this district. I enclose you 8 memorand of the quantitios and value rec ment escort began, to the presont time, b which you will see that it is increasing Weekly, and is likely to goon toames- | the tent which no one can poss en in Melbourne to 57s. per o., and Lexpect it will go still lower, from the large quantity that will be thrown upon the market by hundgeds of diggers who are now coming to town to erend their Christmas holidays, Business is very are alLungottled by the gold discovery—the work~ 0 allmad, Goods are lying on the wharfs, an be got to remove them, I fear it wil be im- to get tho ships away, as they aro all desortod by the crews, ‘The banks heon advancing 40s. per on. on gold, Dut it Ia expected that they will cease altogether to maky , Sdvances, in contonnence, of the quantities likely to » thrown upon the market. Exchange has fallen te 8 por ow at discount. Account oy Gonn Recetyen sy Govennmanr Esce iro Muuounns, PROM OcroaEn 6, 1861, 7 Dace ai 17, 1851. Pr fit Totatog Value rom four ‘otal 0, Date. atlarat. Alez- Ounces. Bip. Amount, ander. . Ounces. Ouncee. bd £2,529 4:31 3/202 1 20 0 ings may now be probably put down at £1000 ator ql jetoria district, which gives an aggregate for the your of £5,200,000, From the evidence afforded by there statemor ss, and thore previously received, it may be fairly estim aod that at the present rate of production, the azgreg ae yearly value of the gold found in the Australian colonies sill proba- bly amount to from £7,000,000 (0 £8,000,000, oF thirty-five to Sorty millions of dollars. ‘The advicesfrom Adelaide, South Austr alia, state that the harvest had proved favorable, and alt) soagh labor was fcarce, owing to the emigration to the goid regions in Victoria and New South Wales, the Wb ole crop would bo tin, One or two vessels had been ¢ eiained for want of ands, The Sea Queen, which had commenced loadin, for London, bad subsequently dive aarged, and was about to take passengers to the mines. ‘he departures to which, both by land and water, are #2 4 to have increased. 4 report had been current that old had been found at Mount Gambier, but it was aot confirmed by the latest accounts, A reward of £7,000 hax been offered by the government for the desco,yery of a protitable gold field within the territory of “outh Australia. In reference to the ¢ietoria gold fields, the Melbourne Herald of Deo. 10, 88,95 Letters were + aovived in town yosterday from the police magistrate at Gipps Land, stating that the whole dividing rango betwe oy Sydney and Victoria, and known a te | 0 Snowy Mo'yntains, for 200 milos in extent, is ono vaay field.” 7 gere wos upwards of a ton and a half of gold in ) Comm sioner Powlett’s tent, waiting for the excort, w Sat arday Inst, and it is expected that to-day's osoort tae Mount will not be able to bring down ono balf the to rom ply calculate. The price has fall- tit; | heve the Japanese empire is not one of those onterprisos | the different peoplea of the carth, ax means of increasing | value of both ecargoea wax about | ‘They consisted of sugars, tin, cotton thread. | field to the spirit of enterprise, not only for the Amorican | Crclock im the morming of the 20t 4D. discoverer of the minos, Mr. Hargreat had returned to Sydney on the 12th December, ater ae absence of six months ona tour of exploration, during which he had gone over about 3,000 or 4.000 miles. His report war in the hands of the Governor, but its nature had not transpired. _[¢ will be recoliceted that tho mines. were discovered in January, 1850. but the fact was not | made known to the public till September 17 of that year. Total Wreck of the British Steam Frigate Birkenhead, LOGS OF FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-POUR LIVBG— WONDERFUL DISCIPLINE OF THE BRITISH TROOPS. (From the London Times, April 7.] Anothor terrible divaster has happened at sea, At ® of Febru: her majesty's steamer, the Birkenhead, was wrecked | be- tween two and three miles from the shore of Southern Africa, The exact spot at which the calamity happened | was Point Danger. Off this point she struck upon a reef of sunken rocks, The ship was steaming cight and a half knots at the time. The water was smooth, and the sky terene, but the peed at which the vessel was passi through the water proved her dostruction. ‘The Too penetiuted through her bottom just aft the foremast, | and in twenty minutes time there were a fow foating spars and a few miserable creatures olinging to them, a1 this was all that remained of the Birkenhead. Of 638 persons who had left Simon's Bay in the gallant ship but a few hours before, only 184 remain to tell the tale, No leas than 454 Englishmen have come to so lamentable an end. There is no mystery wbout the calamity. We are not | left, a# in the cage of the Amazon, to conjecture the orl- | gin of the disuster, Just what happoncd to the Orion off the Scottish coast. or to tho Great Liverpool off Finis terre. has happened now. Cu Salmond, tho officer in command, anxious to shorven tho run to Algoa Bay much as was possible. and more than was prudent, hug- ged the shore too clovely. Four hundred and fifty-four | persons have lost their lives in consequence of hia te- merity, As soon 4s the vessel struck upon the rocks’ the rush of water was so great that the men on the lower troop-deck were drowned in their hammocks. ‘Theirs wax the happier futo; at least spared the terrible ageny of the next twenty pinutes. At least the manner of death was less painful than with others. who were first crushed boneath the fall ing spars and funnel, and then «wept away to be devoured by the sharks, who were prowling round the wreck, Frome the moment the rhip struck, all appears to have beem done that human courage or coolness could effeot. The soldiers were mustered on the ufterdeck. Tho instinct of discipline was stronger even than the instinct of life. ‘The men fell into place as coolly as on the parado gr: ‘They were told-off info reliefs, and sent—some tothe pumps, some to the puddle-box boats. Captain Wrigh ofthe ninety-first regiment, who survives to relate the dreadful scene. tells usf:— Every man did ax ho was diroctod, and thore wasnot « ery or & murmur among them until the voesel made hor final plunge. uld not name any individual officer, who did more than another, All received their orders, and had them carried out as if the men were embarking insteud of go the bottom; there was only this differe any embarketion conducted with so little n Poor fellows! Had they died in battle-field, and im their country’s cause, (> fate would have excited leew poignant regret; but there is something inexpressibly touching in the quiet, unflinching resolution of #0 brave hearts struggling manfully to the last against am inevitable dieaster. It is gratifying, also, to find that the women ond children were all saved, They had been quiel collected under the poop awning, and Were as quiotly over the ship's side, and passed into the cutter, boat stood off about 160 yards from the ill-starred Birken- head, and all were saved, There is not the name of » single woman or child upon the list of persons who por- ished, Tho other boats, a4 is usual in such cases, wore not forthcoming in the hour of need, One gig and two cutters were all that could be rendered available, In one account we find that when tho men wero ordered to gee the paddle-bex boats out, the pin of the davits was rusted in, and could not be got out. Captain Wright, on the other hand, tells us that when the funnel went over the side it carried away the starboard paddte-box and boat, und that the other paddle-box boat capsized ar it was being lowered. Of the 184 persons who were saved, 116 made their eseape in the threo boats which succeeded im getting clear of the wreck, Annexed ure the names of tho military officers drown- ed: Major Seaton, Lieuta. G. W. Robinson, A. H. Booth, En- Rite pyland, Mnsign Modford, Bnsign Ki i, and Cornet 3 ‘The following aro the names of tho naval offloers lost:— Mr. R. Salmond, master commanding; Mr. W. Brodig master; Mr. KR. D. weer, second master; Mr. J.0.D. Davies, vecond master; M Cat chief engineer; Mr. C. We Hare, master’s assistan’ . Jawes M'Clymont, assistant ongineer; Mr. Dee Mr. T. boatswain; Mr. Ja erts, carpente: Never was dest more sudden or more complete. Within fifteen minutes after the vessel struck, the bow broke short off, Five minutes more clapsed, and the hull. of the versel went in two, crossways, just abaft the on- gine-room. The stern part of the Vessel immediately surged. filled, and went down, The only hope of the apn vivors iny in the main topmast and main topenil yard, sistant engin Harris, which still showed above water. There some frag- te of the forveustle deck still fionting about, there mete a Sow spars, and drvliwood forty-five people clung to the yard. and, air remaining there until 2 o'clock the following afternoon, wore picked off by tho Lionces, a schooner which was provi- dentially at hand, Captain Wright asserts, that of the 200 persons, more or lees, who were clinging to the drift- wood when he got away, nearly every man might have teen saved had one of the ship's boats done her duty. | unexampled perils, | haaards the authority which had just Into thir bont the assistant surgeon had got, with eight men. They immediately pulled away, and landed about 15 miles from the vessel.” ‘The fact appears to have been, that the poor creatures who were clinging to the drift- wood bad been carried by the swell in the direction of Point Danger. There they got ontangled among the scaweed, which at this point of the const is thick and of immense length, Captain Wright's opinion is, that had not the ase tant-eurgeon carried off the boat, or even had the boat pulled back to the scene of the disaster, after landing the medical gentleman in safety, the majority of these persons might have been picked off the seawoed. Jt only remains for ua to mention here that Captain Sal mond, who appears to have done his duty after tho ves- sel struck, has not survived the calamity. When last scen alive. he was kwimming from the stern-post of the ship, which had just gone down. to a portion of the fore- cawtle-deek, whieh was floating about 20 yards from the main body of the wreck; something struck him on the back of the head, and ho never rose again, Death of Prince Schwarzenberg, the Prime Minister of Austria. {¥rom the London Times, April 7.) The intelligence of the sudden death of Prince Schwar- zepterg, which took place at Vienna on Monday last, (April 5) from a stroke of apoplexy, reached this country yesterday afternoon. Tn presonce of so abrupt and dis- . Which has swept away a stateaman rkable emfmmec, trom the pride of empire and the vigor of mauhood, the barsher judgments of poli- tical Ufo are hushed. and we eal! most willingly to mind those qualities of the late Imperial Minister which ena- bled biém to reeeua his sovereign and his eountry from ‘Those qualities of unwearied devo- tion to the publie service, of unshaken resolution in the hour of danger, and of determination to vestore at all shaken and overthrown by the revolution, enabled Prince, Sehwai derg to perform a task which would have failed in any feebler or wore gentle hand, He found the Empire im ruins, and he leaves it entire. He found of the Imperial Court atits lowest ebb—ettacks rejected in Hungary, derided in Vi Frankfurt—insoes bob that the Tyrol seemed the only vod hero sinoe the govern- |, possession which the House of Hapsburg could call its own, He left that authority absolute throughout dominions of the crovin, and as intluentiak as it has ever been in the councils of Europe. i e achieved that work in three years and a half part of no ordivary man}; and although the means employed by Prince Schwarzenberg were not unfrequently tainted with the spirit of military despot. | ism, and dictated by his own imperions character, he has | given his life to the duty he had undertaken to perform ; and like Count Brandenburg, who succeeded under simi- lar circumstances in ktemming the torrent of the revolu- tion in Prussia, he exhausted the last powers of nature in the moment of success, ‘Tho cabinot has its victims as | well as the Senate or the field of battlo. Prince Felix Schwarzenberg was born on the 2d of Oc= tober. 1800, apd it was on the Sist of November, 1848 that he was raixed to the high office wnich he continu to hold ill the hour of his death. His earlier years had been devoted to pleasure, to gallantry. aud at times to military life, for he heid the rank of Lieutenant Field Marshal in the imperial army, and served with distine- tion under Marshal Radetzky in Italy. He had filled the diplomatic ports of Austrian Minister at Turin and at Naples. which latter appointment he still held on the out~ break of the revolution in March, 1848. But nothing “ 9 “seemed as yet to have marked him ont for the highest 9 office in the empire, After the fall of Prince Metternich 0 | the old adherents of the former government were suc~ © | cerkively called upon to mount the breach, Count Fic- Q — quelmont and Barou Wessenberg sttempted the duties ery = of ministers, end an appeal was also made to the leading 2100034 72 ORAS O08. £254,530 10 membom of the Uberel party, who had suddenly become int» consideration the quantity recvived by conspicuous members of the State. The failure of alt , and aleo that received at Geelong, the we ely there expedionta was rapid and completo, The history of the wretched governments that existed in Austria during the summer of 1848, ean only be compared to the ministerial combinations of Louis XVI. in 1791, which gave ure warning of the dissolution of the monarchy. But in Austria the army was still faithfut and independent. In Cetober, Vienna itself was in a state of total anareby, followed by military conquest and ection, Italy bad already obtained truce by the, valor and skill of Marshal Kadetzky, Butin Hungary tho preparations for civil wor bad just assumed a more deadiy character, The Slavonian elements wore in ac- tive fermentation in many other provinees of the em- pire, The union of Austria with Germany, which had Leen for centuries the true secret of her ascendancy over the less civilized races of hor subjects, was openly me- naced by the new schemes for the reorganization ot the Germanic body. Add to these external and internal dangers that the finanees of the empire were in s de plorable condition, and that the organisation of the army was by no means equal to the triple duty it had to perform. and we may form an ides of the state of the nation when Prince Schwarzenberg accepted the first cffice im the government. With a ng teoncity und courage, which seemed to take no account of the dangers before him, he at once repudiated all concession, tnd compromize, and reolved to suffer no abatement of the imperial power as long as he was its a Furope had anticipated that the hold of Austria on Italy | was weakened or shaken her disasters at home, off (uite the reverse—the imperial by 1G" aunt away ove Prt o the Fea bert