The New York Herald Newspaper, April 1, 1854, Page 2

ee ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA’S MAILS. eer ‘Pho Preparations for the Great Buropean Struggle. THE ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC AT LIVERPOOL. Martin Van Buren at the Carnival at Rome, | &e., dey &e. The steamship Canada arrived at Boston yesterday morning. On the way up she ran ashore on George's Island, where she grounded about six o’clock, and re- Mained fast till balf past nine, when she got off, and to her dock. The agent dospatched a steam tug for her mails, but she returned too late for the eight e’clock northern train. The government despatches were forwarded by the early train in the morning; but the mails did not arrive till after midnight. The English papers contain no news of interest addi- tional to that telegraphed from Halifax. § At midnight on Wednesday the 29th inst., the Canada ame in collision with the brig Belle,Captain Mayer, from Boston, bound for Halifax, and sunk her almost immoedi- ely. Mrs. Keefler, a lady passenger, and the steward ef the brig were drowned; all others on board were rescued by the Canada’s boats, and at 9A. M. on the 80th | were put on board the steamship Arabia, bound for Halifax. ed other damage by the collision. The stoamship Canada reports, (as it waa anticipated | ghe would on her arrival here,) that she exchanged sig- nalsat 834 P. M., on Saturday, the 18th inst., near Holyhead, witha large steamer supposed to be the Col- ling steamer Baltic. ‘The advices from Buenos Ayres to Feb. 2, received in England, state that the government of Brazil had deter- wined to interfere in the affairs of Montevideo, and it was said that Montevideo would be occupied by a Bra- silian army of 4,000 men. All was quiet at Buenos Ayres. The last anniversery of the birthday of Washington Was observed in Constantinople for the first time, with | smposing ceremonies. In the harbor were several Turkish, | English, French, Dutch and Austrian vessels of war, also the U.S. ship Levant. In tho morning each ship | displayed the American ensign at the masthead. At noon the Levant fired a salute of twenty-one guns, which was immediately followed by a similar salute from all the other ships of war in port, In the afternoon, Captain Turner, of the Levant, had a levee on board his ship, E A letter from Rome, dated the 9th ult., say The carnival moecolo went out on in the Ete innumerab! Tite, many crush bal de Reyneval, gave a Nor buve good berk Last week, te , there was a large ent by Mr. Hooker, pariner in the bank of Maquay & Pakenham, to the late ‘President of the United States, Mr. Martin Van Buren, at which the most @ guished “residents and st Rome ‘assisted.’’ The Duke of W been enjoying the carnival here, wa Cardinal Al Prince Massimo, Sir Alexa the Duke of But now all the excep) ce over, and tho gnitie P correct Romans given up to fasting and saying their | prayers. Annexed is a list of Ameri house of Livingston & Wells, Paris:— New Yorr—Jules Punke W. Corning, J. H. Rat! hone, A. B. Bullions, R. B. Kimball, James Hognet, Smith, J. L. Jernegan, D. J. G. Adams, W. R. Donaghe, A. Van Bergen, R. Bainbridge, J. H. Herrick, G. H. Hop- pock, D. kles and family, Thos. A. Patteson, Capt. Asa Eldridge, August Belmont, E. B. Abbott. Connzcricur—Charles M. Bliss. Kewrocky—H. C. Morgan. Massacnusetm—E. M. Rollins, G. W. Tilden, J. B. Glo- ver, W. B. Bacon. Omo—W. E. Johnston. PRNNSYLVANIA—H. L. Fassitt, Charles Pepper, T. W. Ryans. Ruop Istaxp—Mrs. S. B. Eaton and family, G. B. Rag- jles, Mrs. Amassa Mason. Viroixta—Charles Grisham, D. H. Gordon, W. F, Tur- yer. Advices from Umea, dated Feb. 25, state that the Hed- Wig Sofie, Larsen, from Limerick, which arrived at Con- atantinople Jan. 13, was hailed by a pirate on the 12th January, off the Sea of Marmora, which, under the plea of obtaining a supply of water, ranged up alongside, but na entered at the banking finding the crew armed and ready to defend themselves, | sheered off again. The Commonwealth, Captain Garribaldi, cleared at London on the 16th ult. for Newcastle and Genoa. Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, March 13, 1854. French Enthusiasm for the War—The Preparations made by the London Times—St. Petersburg Manifesto—Fulse Report of the Morning Herald—Sir Charles Napier’s Flag Ship—The Guides—Banner for the Czar—Recall Of M. de Turgot—Combined Fleets in the Black Sea— Verses to the Empress, dc. The enthusiasm and excitement which hitherto have seemed to be limited to the other side of the Channel, is gradually producing unmistakeable effects on this. The Czar’s mocking allusion to the disasters of 1812, the happy diction in which Napoleon has clothed his various communications, (always indirectly intended for the French people, no matter to whom ad- dressed,) on the casus belli—his seasonable identification of the Legislative Assembly with himself, aa the sclected of the people, when that body accompanied him en masse to the palace—their assent to the war loan, and now the new and socialistic mode of raising the loan, indicating po much aympathy for and trust in the masses—all are events which are daily producing fruits which no one | better than Napoleon will know how to take advan- tage of. ‘The business-like movements among the military, the stirring bustle which indicates the near approach of ac- tive hostilities, have visibly operated # change in the manners of those who love ‘“‘the streets and the market places.’’ War songs and war chants are at all corners offered for sale, and find ready purchasers. And nothing is more striking to a foreignerthan the | fscute manner in which persons who are allowed the rudi- mentary elements of education, "discuss the subject of the war in its geographical and political bearings. Why Prussia should hold aloof, and Austria should trim and hesitate, seem no mystery to these folk, and the rea- sons they assign would do no discredit to many who claim eredit for more than ordinary political sagacity. ‘The London Times, in expection of important events in the Black Sea, has dispatched an agent to Marseilles, to su- perintend telegraphic despatches, &e. It may give your Teaders some idea of the expenses to which this journal puts itself to obtain information, when they know that | its correspondent here receives £1,000 a year, besides the accommodation of large and extensive offices—that ho ia assisted by two others, who reecive, each, £300 a year—and that for a first copy, such as, perhaps, the Emperor's speech to his Chambers, they give £00 and 100. = ‘The article, or manifesto, published from St. Peters- burg, copies of which you will doubtless receive by the game mail which brings you this, has had no effect on the public mind here, beyond’ producing a belief in the | shakiness of the Autocrat. It does indeed seem strange that a man, whose repa- | tation for astuteness was certainly not undeserved, should lay himself so thoroughly open as he doos. It is yery probable that before long the English Cabinet will favor the world with the ‘(written evidence’? of his good faith which he accuses it of possessing, end which it is wellknown is nothing more than an unofficial corres- pondence between Sir Horace Seymour and the English | Cabinet, in which the Emperor of Russia’s views of the The Canada lost her bowsprit, and sustain- | cured, and hi for Germany, via Brussels, yesterday. The franknegs and Loar ig manners have won hiss golden opinions at the French court. The regiment of Guides, whose brilliant uniforms are 40 generally admired, are soon to be converted into with all the privileges which household troops in Europe are accustomed to. The new corps de garde, the uniform of which the Emperor wore at the late bab costume, is to be limited to a hundred persons. A gorgeous banner is being worked at goes, on which the Holy Virgin is portrayed. It is said to be by order of the Fmperor Nicholas, before whose person it is to be carried, ‘The Emperor, it seems, does not permit the dissemina- tion of Bibles in his dominions; the Bible Society in London, who probably would have cared little about his | possessing himself of the Provinces, is ull fire and flame Ror tmiting him with the sharp edge. It iyamusing to see how the expeditionary army has gradually swollen, First it was to be forty thousand, then sixty thousand, now it is one hundred thousand al least, who from France and Algiers are to do bat- tle in this question of the East. giers, eighteen thousand of which are at once to be sent, are in an éxtraordinary state of working disciplin Marshal St. Arnaud will be at Toulon on the 21st, when thirty-six thousand will be ready for embarkation. Everything has been done to dissuade the hero of the 2d of December from accepting the command. His health, in fact, unfits him for it. wife to take charge of him. Minister of War in his room. | Prince Bepcioon is to command the reserve; but accord- | ing to the onstitutionnel he is to be afforded tho earliest | opportunity of accomplishing the wish expressed in his | letter to the Emperor, of being placed the nearest to the | enemy. | _ The Moniteur of this morning announces the arrival of | Prince Hohenzollern at the Tuileries, on Marshal Vaillant will be Cour is appointed Minister at Naples. Monsigneur Bedini, lately residing in the United States, ia to be the Pope’s | Nuncio at Spain. M. de Turgot is to be recalled from | that Court by the Emperor of the French. His leg is not manners are said not to be conciliatory. The suppression of the Assemblée Nationale is considered to be another striking proof of the unflinching courage of | the Emperor. The journal is known to have many power. | fulfriends, whore funds were readily at its command, and | who are in terrible dudgeon at so peremptory » cheek | given to their ory an. A division of the French and English fleets, under Sir | Edmond Lyons, on the 12th of February, while taking a cruive in the Black Sea, was caught in’a heavy gale of wind, which dispersed it, and caused considerable damago to several of the vessels. The result sufficiently proved | that the French and English admirals acted perfectly | right in resisting the injunctions of the ambassadors, | who wished to send them back into the Black Sea with- | out assignining to them any precise object. The most cordial feeling continues to exist between the officers and crews of the French and English vessels. The betrothal of Princess Fathme, aged fourteen, with | Reschid Pacha’s son, aged twenty-one, was celebrated on the 23d, Tt was a great day for Constantinople. Young Turkish ladies turned out in orientalized broughams, veiled, of course; but the pretty ones wore their veils of | slight texture. | 4 were preceded by men bearin, trays of fruit, flowers and brocade, as presents. Reschid Pacha expends six million piastres in jewelry for the oc- sion, and the Sultan forty millions. s to be presumed, is to include the other three daughters he gives a The Abbe Lemenais, a short biography of whom T late- ly sent you, has left a large number of the most interest- i nuscripts, for the greater part, unfortunately, un- hed. a translation of the “Divine ff most important and written in the ‘au, but more In this most are revealed all the of the writer—his aspi iF The ten- 8 of all cur style of the “C in the tone and fecling of § ‘ession”? of J. dency is decidedly democrat : with all the rest of (he property of Mf. de Lam nd sole legatee, is shall not be published within ten thof the wri t which must ioxity to a great extent, nt verses and o(her literary homages ad- to the Empress amounts to not less than fifteen nity pieces ad . Panis, Tuesday, March 14, 1854. Grand Steeple Chase—Empress’s Toiletle—Concerts—Ru- Vini—Jenny Lind—Theatres—Emperor’s Care of Ille- gitimate Children—Dangerous Slate of the New Palais | deVIndustric—Mr. Mason. Prince Lucien Bonaparte has been despatched to Turin, where he arrived on the 12th instant. The ambiguous position which Austria is now, however reluctantly, as- suming, is eaid to be the cause of this mission. ‘There are persons in the Cabinet, and a great many out of it, who would not be sorry for any occasion which | afforded a motive for interfering with Austria. Asa power, she is eyen less popular in France than Russia; | and to establish a feoting in her Italian dominions would please the French more than the evacuation of a dozen Danubian provinces. The Constitulionnel, with scmi-official authority, has lately been commenting with undisguised jealousy on | Austria’s inclination, under cover of serving the Sultan, to interfere in the insurrectional movements now going on in Greece, by investing certain Greek provinces, such | as Bosnia, Herzgovine and Servia. It roundly asserts its belicf that the insurrection, embarrassing as it may be, is nothing compared to such interference, and that Aus- tria must not be allowed to think of it—that if she has any misgivings about her own frontiers, her resource is to keep a sufficient force there ; but she must take care | not to complicate matters further than they are at | present. The new and entirely original mode of raising the loan of two hundred and fifty millions of francs seems likely to be received with the greatest satisfaction. Registers will be opened at the chief places and arron- dissements, at the offices of the private and general re- ceivers, and in Paris at the treasury, on the 14th of March, at nine o’clock in the morning, and clap on the 26th, at six in the evening. The subscribers have the choice between the four and a half per cents and the threes. The former will be is- | sued at 92f. 50c., with interest from the 22d of March inst.; and the latter, the threes, at 65f. 25c., with in- terest from the 22d December, 1853. ‘The payments are to be made in the following mannor: One-tenth on subscribing, and the remainder in fifteen equal instalments, payable on the 7th of each month until the 7th of July, 1855, inclusive. In order to enable the humblest fortunes to take part in the loan, the minimum of subscription is fixed at 10f. of rente. For some time past the habit of placing sav- ings in the public funds has become general among all classes of the people. Inscriptions of rent are divided ad infinitum. | _ Instead of reserving, says the Moniteur, to private in- } dividuals, or to companies, those advantages which have | always been considered necessary to secure the success | of such a negotiation, the Emperor was desirous that | the public should be called on to enjoy it, and he ad- | dressed himself to the whole of France. | Every one has, therefore, the power of taking a direct | part in this national loan. ‘The most humble artizan, and even the workman, may avail himself of this opportunity | of placing bis savings on the Grand Livre of the Public | Debt. The interest guaranteed is 5 cents, and 4% per cent for the these stocks is below its nominal value, the subscribers have almost tho certainty of soon seeing their capital increase, while enjoying comparatively a high income. For the interest is to paid at once on the totality, er cent for the 41% por Tees, and ag each Of | though the payment of that totality is spread over a pe- dismemberment of Turkey was, by his special desire, put forward, and peremptorily repufiated by the Foreign Minister, then Lord John Russell. It was ia January, athe report circulated by the Morning Herald, of Lan- @on, that Kalefat was taken and = garrison massacred the Russians, excited such intefise interest that the government was obliged to placard the walls im all parts of the town with the contradiction. But the feelings stirred up were slow to die away. It was the Morning ‘commonly spoken of in England as “My Grand which published the spurious letter of tho Duchess of Orleans on the fusion. Palmerston’s speeches at the Napicr banquet have Bighied the French. "Ever thing connected with the gi- Pon vies ‘was said the other day about the disturbance on board the ship, J » they think the is manned by devils in human gui The sottish brutality of the English soldier and sailor i terrible blot on the national character, men of Sir Charles Napier's ship have been selected more for their fire-eating than their moral qualifications. The Duke of Cambridge, Lord Roglan, and several off cers of distinction, will arrive here on the Zist, en route to the Fast. Great preparations are being made to re- ceive the Duke at the Tuileries. Lord Raglan will be at te givin Eaubaery. The Duke of Saxe Gotha set out fleet for the Baltic is full of attraction to them. But | the Duke of Wellington, I believe | and no doubt the | riod of fifteen months. Thus, says the government organ, whilst our fleets and our armies will, by their courage, add to the influ- ence and glory of the country, the rest of the nation will join in their efforts, and. contribute its part to the suc- cessful and prompt issue of the struggle. This financial operation will thus become a striking manifestation, | which will materially weigh in tke scale into which France has thrown her sword. On Sunday took place at Ville d’Avray, about four s from Paris, one of those English imitations which have lately eo caught the fancy of the French, called a steeple chase. The weather more resembled that of July than March, and all Paris seemed disposed to tak van’ of it. About one o’clock the Champs Elysées and the | avenne St. Cloud resembled the Surrey side of London on an Fpsom day, except that the vehicles might be said to be almost more diversified. Every species of voiture, from the ancient to the most modern French, was char- | te d for the cecasion. ‘Ihe old diligence, with its ponderous roll, its motley postillion and eight horses, came thundering, cracking rial carriage, with its dainty , its majestic emblazonry Eng- | along by the side of an im: hammereloth, its brilliant lany and mirror-like varnish. Tandems and dog carts, lish and French drags, with four spicy bright b dapple grays, were to be seen “thick as flowers in as well as the oli lumbering French barouche, with cab- riclet en arriere, drawn by four heavy posters, managed by one driver riding the rear horse at the wheel. ‘The course was five miles in length, and comprised es, with the necessary accompaniment, y were about twenty in number. The 's wae seventeen, and of these not fewer than fifteen started. Such a number of starters is un exompled in Frence, andes very rare, indeed, even in flat races for the gr st stakes. Only four ‘gentlemen riders’ went to the sca.es; the rest werg professionals, and, with one exception, English. This was the Viscomte de Laurist The start was a fair one, but at the first fence a good many bolted in different directions, and some refused. There were no broken backs or broken legs, no duckings in the brook, no mangled foums and bloody corpses, to give incressed piquancy to the scene. Only four horses were placed,’ and amongst these tho one ridden by the Froach Viscompt, who was third, M. Delamaire’s horse, Waleman. Up the Lill Hopeful made the running, followed by Rebecca, Waleman, and Mameluke, No other change took place, and Hopeful won easily. But the interest of the race ia greatly deteriorated by the men and horses being English. The French, it must be confessed, are such abominable riders, in the | “© crose country” sense of the term, that rome genera- | tions must probably pass away ere they are able to take the field. It is certainly singular that while they are raid to excel the Anglo-Faxon in the lighter physical accomplish- ments, they should be the clumsiest and most awk- ward horsemen in the world ‘The Emperor and Empress, the Prin the Prince Murat, honored the Peete | pence, The Ew press loo ked remarkab) ce Napoleon, and ‘vith thelr’ pre- The troops from Al- | rle’s Mission to Turin—Austria’s | | the renewal of the treaties between Russia and the Porte; He is to be accompanied by his | pecial and | confidential mission from the King of Prussia. M. dela | | tations for peace, but of fresh But this sum, it | more brilliant than ever. ‘This is the great season for concerts, and the difficulty is to get one’s musical digestion sufficiently fresh for the innumerable harmonious morceaux which are hourly ted toone’s taste. News has reached us of the leath of that once most celebrated of tenors, Rubini, at the age of 60. ‘A concert given by the King of Prussia, a short time since, derived much éclat from the presence of Jenny Lind, who executed several Lacey rorgy 3 them, the air with’ the accompaniment of two tiutes, from the “Camp of Silesia,’ which M. Meyerbeer has also introduced into “1 Etoile du Nord,’’ which is still attracting overflowing houses nightly. Jenny Lind’s success, it is needless to say, was immense. At the theatres thore is little ron Seb notice. The close of the Carnival at the Palais Royal was cele- brated by a piece called ‘Les Deux Profonds Scelerats.’” A peaceful bourgeois, having indul in potations somewhat too frequent, is picked up by the police and lodged in the station house, already tenanted by another prisoner precisely in the same condition as himself. Each of these worthies, however, fancies his companion a can- didate for the gallows and in order to himself in his neighbor’s estimation, charges himself with crimes of the dee hue—each seasoning his narrative with all the argot the perusal of the “ ‘eries of Paris’? has Bu) plat ia wi The effect of hens Sealy oyna sations is, that the; apeadily bests e great: eat dread of one me er, and their error has arrived av its utmost pitch when the arrival of daylight putsan end to their @Musion by showing the pair of unfortunate scoundrels that they have only succeeded in making dupes as well as fools of themselves. smart affair, by Messrs. Lahiehe and Vsrin, was received with all the honors, and was indebtea not a little to the indescribable comicality of that excelleat actor, Levassor. The Emperor, whose philant ic interests are inex- to do with the dogmas of n haustible, will ‘have n litical economists in respect to illegitimate ol 6 “tut boxes’? are to continue open as when first constituted in 1811 under the Emperor, and little ‘love pledges’? are to be received with food and raiment, as sacred charges on the poteruits of the State. Ee CENA of =< ce of Neel? a Beas I iscoemed you lately were rapidly progre: wards completion, are suddenly arrested’ by a most unlooked for ee stance. ‘Ihe foundation shows symptoms of moving. A bed of sand is said to be underneath, anc hence the malheur. At present it is propped Wa with A reaped and nothing is going on. In avery few weeks its fairy arches would have received the roof. Mr. Mason, the United States Minister, is liked for the Urkanlly of his manners. He receivea always on Satur- a, THE EUROPEAN WAR. MORE RUMORED PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. fee the London Times, March 17. Rumors there undoubtedly are, both in this and other countries, we can hardly say of the resumption of nego- propositions tending to suggest some means of bringing The impending rupture in Europe and the existing war in the East to an amica- ble termination. It becomes, therefore, our duty to | | notice the existence of these rumors, although we are | unacquainted with the form or the substance of any such propositions, if, indced, they have actually been Gur correspondent at’ Vienna has trans- | to us, with some reservation, a sketch of some such proposals, but we can discover nothing in this communication different from tho essential conditions rejected by Austria he | last. meetings of ‘the Vienna | think, therefore, that any proposals of now proceeding from Russia, must be reeei ith the | utmost distrust and incredulity, and we can only regard them as means employed to suspend the energ»tic prepa- ions of E Jand France, and, above all, to detach, possible, the German Powers from the alliance of the Weetern governments. That scheme is so otvious that we can hardly suppose any cabinet in Europe to be the | dupe of it; and it will require much stronger evidence’ to convince ws that the Gérman Powers have already been s0 incautions as to adopt it. It is improbable that any such propositions should have proceeded from Russia, for they do not materially differ from the terms she has ropeat- edly rejected, The draught proposed by theTurkish govern- ment on the 12th of last December,contained the clavse for and Louis Napoleon's letter to the Czar conceded the point of the withdrawal of the flects from the Black Sea, Ih exchange fot the evacuation of the Principalities. All these points have been discussed for months, and, if Russia chose to conclude peace on these terms, it was _ open to her to do so; but she has invariably rejected | them, and we have no reacon to suppose that she is now at all more disposed to submit. But, even if she were | disposed to accept the terms offered to her three months | ago, with a period of forty daysin which to signify her , compliance, we should still entertain great doubts | whether it'is now for the true interest of Europe, of the Ottoman empire, or of this country, to pur- | chase peace on such conditions. This war has not arisen, as Russia would have us believe, out cf a misap- | prehension or an exaggerated incident. It is a conflict etween those influences which already diyide the East, and must, ere long, divide Europe. Russia herself has declared in one of her recent documents that the reform of the government of the Porte, which has been vigor- ously promoted by English and French envoys, is, in re- ality, the destruction of the Turkish power, ‘and that, without hastening that inevitable event, she is prepared to take advantage of it. The Western Powers, ontthe contrary, still look to this reform of the Sultan’s govern- ment as the best practicable means for restoring to the empire a certain amount of force and vitality. According to one class of physicians the pationt is dying of the treatment—according to another, of the disease which they hope to subdue. But, if we are to avoid the recur- rence of those evils which have in the last few years been constantly impending over us, it is not enough, at the stage at which we are now arrived, to patch up a hollow peuce, Ample opportunity has been given to Russia to withdraw from the position she has wrongfully assumed; but every fresh proposal has been repelled with fresh scorn. ‘Those offers were made to avert war; but we aro now entitled to require more solid pledges and a more ef- fectual settlement, for they must be regarded as the resuit of impending hostilities." Since the former treaties be- tween Russia and the Porte, which were all extorted by de- feat from the weaker of those two Powers, have proved to be the fruitful cause of dissension, and even to afford | Pepe for further iuterference, no arrangement can less satisfactory than one which includes the renewat _ of such engagements. We might have assented to that sacrifice three months ago for the preservation of peace, but we cannot make it on the brink of action. Two pow- erful fleets have already left our shores, and will soon,” in conjunction with the naval forces of France, be watch- in the portals of the Bosphorus and the Sound. An army ison its way to the Sultan’s territories. Trade with Ruseia is suspended, and is already finding new channels of supply. The Union of England and France is powerfully strengthencd by eir joint ac- tion in a just cause; and all the rest of Europe has acknowledged the’ rectitude of our intentions and the importance of our objects. To restore the state of things which existed twelve months ago, before this uestion began, is undesirable even if it were possible, for we have the recorded opinion of Russia that this state of things was actually leading to the speedy and | inovitable dissolution of the Ottoman empire; so that, if | intimation. | monstrance of a friendly Power, wavering behind the | | andespecially Prussia, are singularly mistaken if they we restored what existed before, we should only restore | that which Russia had already condemned as indefensible and marked for her prey. | There is an honet and sagacious instinct among the — English nation that no such adjustment would be more than a temporary check to Russia, a heavy blow to the Ot- toman empire, and a disgrace to ourselves; nor do we be- lieve that the British and French governments are disposed to throw away a single moment on the discussion of such proposals. Their ultimatum is the communication which left Vienna about twelve days ago; and the only practical result to which it is worth while to devote much attention is the reply; which may now shortly be Cena from the Emperor Nicholas to that ith reference to this point, we may here repeat that we never asserted that Prossia and Austria had signed tl document. Prussia, in fact, did not concur in it y"Austria publicly expressed her assent to the principles laid down by it; but she for- warded to her own minister at St. Petersburg her representations upon the case: for there is this ob- vious difference between our position towards R sia and thatgof Austria—that ‘her diplomatic rel tions have not get been interrupted, and that ours | are at an end. Our language is, therefore, simply that of antagonists demanding redreas; her’s is still the re- feeble defences of a neutral policy, The German courts, imagine that a State can mediate with effect if it has un- happily ceased to inspire confidence and respect; and if they have taken any pert in urging these fresh proposals upon France and England at the request of Russia, they should at least have satisfied themselves that these terms are consistent with all the propositions adopted at Vien- na, and with the concessions the Porte is prepared to make. The failure of Prince Hohenzollern at Paris is a sufficient indication of the resolution of the Western Powers; and General Groeben will doubtless convey back to the King of Prussia the unanimous determination of this country to adhere, without any surrender or devia tion, to the cause it has once espoused. MUIUAL PROTECTION OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH INTERESTS. The following isa copy of the cireular addressed by | Lord Clarendon to her Majesty’s ministers and consois | | what England and France were abroad: — Forricy Orrick, Feb, 23, 1854. Sm,—The communication which has lately been made to you of the correspondence on Fastern affairs, which has been laid before both Houses of Parliament, will | haye skown you that there is every probability of an | early corgmencement of hostilities between Great Britain and France on one side, and Russia on the other. That correspondence will have shown you that the British and French governments throughout the difficult and com- plicated negotiations which have preceded the existing state of aflairs, have earnestly and cordially acted toge ther, with a view to avert the calamity of war, and that they are equally prepared to.nct with the same earnest. ness and cordiality for the preservation of the Ottoman empire, if the Emperor of Russia should still be unwil- ling to negotiate for peace on fair and reasonable terms. The time has now arrived when it is incumbent on the two governments to prepare for all the contingencies of war; and among those contingencies it has been impossi- ble for them to overlook the danger to which their snb jects and their commerce on the high seas may be cx posed by the machinations of their enemy, who, though unable from his own resources materially to injure either, may seek to devise means of offence from countries whose governments take no part in the contest which he hae provoked. si But it is a necessary consequence of the strict union | and allisnce which exist between Great Britain and | France that, in the event of a war, their conjoint action should be felt by Russia in all parts of the world; that not only in the Baltic and in the waters and territory of ir armies, and their ficets, their councils, their be united either for offensive or defensive pur- pores against Russia, but that the same spirit of union thould provail in quarters of the world, and that, whether for offence or defence, the civil, military, an naval resources of the British and French empires should be directed to the common objects of protec’ the sub- ly well, Hor coe | jects and commerce of England and France from Russiag | ive subjects as hay- inst Russian hostility, ¥ or in conjunction with for the support and de- ing equal claim to protection a and for this purpose, either sing! each other, to act indifferently fence of British and French interests. It may be that in a given locality one only of the Powers is represented by a civil functionary or by a naval force; but in such a case the influence and the power of that one must be exerted as zealously and efficiently for the protection of the sub- jects and interests of the other anit thoee subjects and interests Were its own. T have accordii nigy instruct you to act in conformi- ty with this principle. You will consider it your duty to protect, as far as possible, against the consequences of the hostilities in which he hep and France may shortly be engaged With Russia, the subjects and interests of France equally with those of England; and you will make known, without reserve, to the French civil and naval au- thorities with whom you may have means of communi- cation, any dangers to which the interests of either coun- try may be exposed, or any opportunities with which you may have become acquainted of inflicting injury op the common enemy. « Instructions to the same effect will be sent by the gov- spnent of Pog eis civil and naval authorities in foreign parts; an ity’s government concur, with that of France, in anticipating the most favorable results from this decided manifestation of the intimate upion which prevails between them, and which it is their earnest desire should influence their agents in all parts of the world, at a moment when they are about to en- in a contest with the empire of Russia, for an ob- ject of such unt interest to Europe as the main- tenance of the Turkish empire. I am, &c. CLARENDON. TRADE WITH RUSSIA. The following communication from the English Board St/Frade, RENY @ Sie leunensaiion 0 Russian goods, is po _ Ornicz oy Commrrrzs or Privy CouNctL FOR ‘Traps, Wurrmmatt, March 14, 1854. Guyrzuex—In reply to your letter of the 24th of Febra- ary, meses tng to informed whether, in the event of war between this country and Russia, Russian goods im- ted from neutral ports would be considered contra- and, or would be admissible into ay 1am directed by the Lords of the Comm\ttee of Privy Council for Trade to inforth you that, in the event of wur, every indirect attempt to carry on’ trade with the enemy's country will be illegal; but, on the other hand, bona fide trade, not subject to the objections above stated, will not become illegal merely because the arti- cles which form the subject matter of that trade were orininally produced in an enemy’s Gas Iam, gen- tlemen, your obedient servant, 3, EMERSO! TENN) Messrs. Martin, Levin and Adler. DEPARTURE OF REAR ADMIRAL CORREY Byes NEPTUNE, 120, FOR THE NORTH ‘ortemouth Letter, March 16, in London Standard.] is morning, at 11 o'clock, Her Majesty, the Queen, in the elegant little Fairy, was perceived approaching Spit- head from Osborne House. Immediately afterwards com- menced a royal salute from the Neptune, followed by the Frolic, Prince Regent, and Boscawen. _In a few minutes the Fairy was passing through the squadron, which man- ned rigging, and cheered. The Fairy then ran down to the Cutwater, and hove to, during’ which period Nep- tune weighed anchor, ran up the jib, let fall top- rails; canted round, ‘and was off ‘with smart top- gallant breeze from SW; topgallant sails were the | work of on instant, royals by magic, then the | manning of the rigging tops and trucks by the est crew we ever witnessed. The cheering have before described as that could come throats. She passed her Majesty to then kept wit Neptune then set starboard topgallant dently to show the Queen what her | Landsmen have scen pocket-hand- | ‘Was such as wi only from Priti leeward. The Fai. Nab light vessel. etudding sails, ¢ tars were made of. kerchiefs fung out on a clothes Une. The studding | eails of the Neptune were as quickly ect. Again did the | gallant crew inan rigging tops, and beat our friend Charley, in the Duke of Wellington, by Pack, a man, | standing om the trucks, holding on by the nave with one hand, and cheering with the other. ‘The Bulldog was now approaching in the wake of the | Neptune. Her crew also manned the rigging, and cheered their Queen with the same enthusiasm. Her Majesty bowed her acknowledgments, and instantly went below, for her heart and her eyes were overfilled. The Fairy returned to Osborne. Neptune shortly after took in ainading sails, and hoisted a demand. The number shown, in answer, was the Penelope, with the flag of Rear Admiral Brace, who instantly saluted the flag of Rear Admiral Corry, which was duly acknowledged =by Neptune. We could | only count by the flash of the guns, as both vessels were nearly hull-down, and entirely out of hearing. THE SPECIAL EOS FROM PRUSSIA TO [From the Paris Correspondence, March 15, of the London e 8. Tam in a position to confirm the factI yesterday an- nounced, of the failure of the mission of Prince Hohen- her till long past the | yy, zollern-Sigmaringen. That mission was intended to re- move the unfavorable Pe oa caused by the weak- ness and yacillation of the Berlin Cabinet peapecteng the alliance of the Western Powers; to assure t] vern- ment that the neutrality prociaimed by Prussia, and forced upon her by_ the Peculiarity ‘of her position with reference to Russia, and the compares Tey slight interest she possessed in the East, meant nothing whatever, hostile to France or England, nor favorable to Russia; and that even in this late stage of ‘the affair, Prussia was still animated by the desire, and did not entirely give up the hope, of being in some mea- sure useful in preventing the peace of the world from being disturbed. To these and other arguments of a | similar kind the reply was, that it was impossible to in- terpret the declaration of the neutrality of Prussia in the sense which Prince Hohenzollern gave to it, namel; that it implied no favor and no leaning to Russis. was known that on two important occasions Russia had demanded from Prassia a. declaration of neu- trality, and Prussia having made that declaration, it could not now be eaid that no concesston had been grant- ed to that Power, and that nothing hostile to the allied Powers had been done. Prussia was not asked by France and Jand to put her army in movement, or to send any portion of it to co-operate with the allied forces; all (hat had been required was that, as she had joined , hitherto in the conference, she should now do nothing | which would have the srpeaances of making a concession to Russia. This Prussia has not done, and no explana- tion could do away with the facts which were before the world. With respect to the gen! of Prussia to serve peace, the best proof would be to give the same adherence she had hitherto done to the policy of the ier. alluded yesterday to what was said respecting another part of the missjon of the Prince, relating to certain | escaped bel ich the Emperor of Russia might be lisposed to accede. Accord ng to this account, the Prince was to represent to the ror Napoleon that, asEngland and France were resolved to require from duct is s repetition of the which inflicted years of this century. We can only hope that this in her will to be amoee in e play Prove of ‘a short and Setting aside the interest which Prussia may not have in the fate of the Ottoman emplze, she crust ty, totally blind not to perceive that the question assumed a shape which touches her more nearly, The seat of war will, probably, in a gew days be in the Baltic as well as in the Black Sea, and our fleets will be within sight of the Prussian coasts, which are entire. ly at the mercy of any maritime power occupying those waters. Her treaty of 1781 with Russia, if, that is still in force, would bind her not’ only to concur in all the prineiples of the armed neutrality, which Russia herself has since abandoned, but to close the Baltic altogether. These considerations, however, are of secondary importance in comparison with the effect of the late determination of Prussia on her own internal condition, on her relations to her German confederates, and on her relations with the Western Powers. In the internal politics of Prus- sia this change is a signal triumph of the inched party which is identified with Russia, and, ind Halone ub tel py gt rye nea over 188 a er nius of the Prussian posi The Hore liberal institu tions which had shaken its Boia on the government are naturally the objects of ita detestation; for, in endeavor- ing to defeat at all hazards the contingency of foreign war, the statesmen of this school are a farther step to extinguish what remains of the Pru: consti- tution, and to overthrow the Minister who has remained faithful to cause of national ind lence and Eu- ropean imfterests. We fear it must acknowledged that the most constant and invariable iple of Prus- sia is her rivs of Austria, ly in comnection with the other Germanic States. The influence of Rus- sia and, the dread of, war are most powerfully felt in the minor States, which Prussia and estranged t cy in 1840 and 1850. She has seized this op) iy tor ngth- bibeperers ts them, an he te influ- ence ; but portion as the. Prussia fdentides himseif with the petty sovereigns of Wurtem. berg, Hesse, and Bavaria, he forfeits the confidence of the most intelligent and national classes of the German people. The immediate effect of his conduct at the most critical moment of the late Bagosiations, has undoubted- ly been to weaken considearbly the tles which united him to Englend and France, and to place his own charac- ter ina very disadvantageous point of view. We that consequence of his policy as a serious evil for Pras- sia and for Europe. It is be regretted that her co- operation should be withdrawn from the active de- fence of a cause which she herself acknowledges to be that of justice and right. But it is still more to be regretted that Prussia should think fit to isolate herself from the alliances which have connected her with the most enlightened States of Europe. Her long extended territory, at once conterminous with the dominions of Russia and with those of France—her exposed centre and her undefended coasts—give her a paramount interest in the maintenance of the treaties on which the balance of power is established, and the best sceurity for the permanence of those arrangements is in a firmand active concurrence of all the Powers inter ested in their preservation. To lose sight of those ob- jects under the influence of an exaggerated dread of hos- tilities with Russia is, as it seems to us, to mistake the true position and interests of the Prussian monarchy, and the bolder is also the safer course. The present evasive conduct of the Prussian government can only lead to discontent at home, to division in the heart of | Germany, and tothe injury of its alliances with the Western Powers. STATE OF SIEGE IN RUSSIA. The Paris Monifevr of the 16th, under the date of St. Petersburg, March 7, gives copies of five official docu- ments, declaring various parts of the Russian dominions to be in a state of siege. Fach document is in the form of an imperial ukage, dated March 5. ‘the first states that, under present circumstances, his sty thinks it necestary to declare the government of Fkathérinowsla and the arrondissement of Taganrog to be inastate of siege, and places those localities under | the orders of the Gencral of Cavalry, M. Khomouloff, with the privileges granted by the regulations issued on the Sth December, 1846. The second ukase declares St. Petersburg to be ina state of siege, and places the government under the a thority of the Grand Duke, heir to the throne, Com- mender-in-Chief of the Guards and Grenadiers, with the prerogatives accorded to the Commander-in-Chief of the Amy. By the third ukase, the government of Esthonia and Livonia aap in a state of siege; Esthonia to be under the orders of General Aide-de-Camp Berg, and Li- Yonia under those of the Aide-de-Camp General, Prince Sipltaly, Count Suwaroff Kiminsky, Military Governor of The next ukase declares the government of Archangel to bein a state of siege, under the orders of Vice Admiral Boel, Military Governor of the place. By the 5th ukase, the kingom of Poland and the gov- ornments of Courland, Kowno, Wilna, Grodno, Volhynia, and Podolia, are declared to be ina state of siege. The tikase also states that the government of Bessarabia, and that part of the government of Cherson situated on the right bank of the Bug, which were declared to be in a state of siege by the ukase of the 19th of November, 1858, are to be now ia a similar position; and that all these places are to be under the authority of the Field Marshal, General Prince of Warsaw, Count Paskewitsh @’Erivan, Commancer-in-Chief of the active army. The ukase, in addition, states that the Em r ordaing that the government of Podolia, the part of the govern- ment of Cherson, situated on the right bank of the Bug, and the province of Bessarabia, shall at the same time be laced under the authority of Aid-de-Camp General Piince Gortsehakoff, commander of the troops of the 3d, 4th and 5th corps of infantry, who is to have the prero- gatives granted to the commanders of detached corps by the ukase of December 5, 1846. The ukase then tabi that the kingdom of Poland and the governments of Courland, Kowno, Volhynia, and Grodno, during the absence of the Field Marshal, shall be under the authority of General Aide-de-Camp Count Rudiger, and that Aide-de-Camp General Baron Osten- Sacken shall retain in Bessarabia and in the government | of Cherson the powers granted to the commanders of de- tached corps by the ukase of November 19, 1853. MARTIAL LAW IN RUSSIA—THE WAR MOVEMENT. (From the London Standard, March 17.] ‘The Crar has declared the whole of European Russia in a state of siege. The declaration is made piecemeal but the whole European division of the empire is thi proclaimed. We suppose the expedient is resorted to in order to evade the humiliating confession that the whole of a great empire is placed in circumstances of unusual difficulty. We confess that wedo not understand what the terms of ‘‘a state of siege’? can mean in Russia. The usual interpretation—a greater or less suspension of the ordinary laws—cannot apply to a count which there is no law but the will of a tyrant, ‘What, then, does the Russian declaration of a ‘‘state of siege’? mean, or what can we infer from it? The memorandum of the are | which appears inthe St. Petersburg Journal of the durkey a which would guarantee the rights and immunities of Christian su the Porte, and | place them on a footing of equalit ith the Turks, there existed no fui cause of war; that the Emperor other pretensions than [Sire his creed demand for all the Christians; and that Russia would be prepared to sign a collective treaty with the two great Western Powers in that sense, which should, moreover, includes stipulation for ships of war belonging to all nations to enter and navigate the Black Sea. I cannot affirm that such propo- sitions were put forward by the Prussian envoy; I men- tioned yesterday that the fact was, if not absolutely of Rursia ‘never had an, to secure to those who denied,’ at least much doubted in a quarter that — ought to be well informed. But there is reason to believe that, independent of the explanations of Prussian neutrality already adverted to, a project of mediation on the part of Prussia formed part of that mission. But it is certain that neither the project, of whatever kind it _ ‘be, nor the explanations were found satisfactory; and while Prince Hohenzollern was ing to urge them, the Emperor took hold of his d, shook it in a very friendly manner, and said:— “Prine I am most happy to see you as a friend, but, as respects the object of your mission, I have only to say, it is too late.”? From this it may be inferred that the project of mediation was as little satisfactory as the rest. THE POLICY OF PRUSSIA. the London Times, March 16.} An address, si Chambers, has at 1 been presented to that govern- ment, ing upon Baron Manteuffel to give some ex- planation as to the position of Prussia in the impending war, to state whether its intimate relations with the Cabinets of Vienna, Londen and Paris, are maintained, ond to establish by a frank declaration that confidence which can alone oppose ‘the illegitimate voices’ that seek to present themselves 28 3 of the beak To this requisition Daron Manteutfel replied, on -Monday last, that the government would shortly make some communication to the Chamber in explanation of its 1 olicy, and that the fleets about to enter the Black Sea ore thore of Powers with which Prussia is on good terms ond at per However incomplete this intimation of the Prussian Cabinet may be, the King of Prussia has ready given another indisputabie proof that he admits the necessity of offering some explanation of the recent change in bis policy, for he has despatched Prince Hohen- zollern Sigmmaringen to Paris on a confidential miesion for that purpose; he bas sent GeneralGroeboen here on the seme errand; and he has caused the official journal of Berlin, entitled the Prussian Correspondence, »to ublish a direct answer to our own remarks on this sub- Ject. We trust the explanations of Prince Hohenzollern to the Emperor of the French, and those of General Groe- ben to the British Cabinet, have been somewhat more satisfactory than those which thé official organ of the Cabinet of Berlin has condescended to throw away upon | ourselves; but, if we are correctly informed, the recep- tion of the Prussian Fnyoy in Paris has been cold and in- creduloua, and we shall be surprised to learn that General Groeben has made a more favorable impression in this | country. It is impossible for these personages, any more than for the journals of the Prussian government, to deny that the policy of their esbinet has undergone a total change within the last fortnight or three weeks. The Kreuz Zeitung, which is the organ of the high tory and Russian party in North Germany, boasts triumphantly of the success whfch has just crowned the efforts of its friends; and the only defence attempted by the govern- ment against this charge of duplicity and tergiversa- n is, that in reality it never had any other course in view. The part taken by Prussia in the labors of the Vienna Conference was no more than a pretence, if, in the event of a failure of this negotiation, she was unprepared,to teke any other steps; and it would have becn more consistent with her real intention: she had sulsided at once into the attitude of a passive spectator of this great controversy, in which she déclares herself inen peble of performing any higher duty. Whatever the y of the Prussian cabinet may ‘now bo, it is cor- nly the reverse of that followed till within a short time both at Vienna and elsewhere; and we may venture to acs, that although no great reliance could ever be placed op. the intentions of that Power, she has just proved ey amore variable than her own reputation, The Con- vention which even Austria proposed Prussia has reject- ed, that concert of the Powers of Central Europe which wes (he main element of their cies Fo she has impaired; eb. bes assumption of @ peutral aud separate line of gen. ed by severa] members of the Prussian — inst., may perhaps throw some light upon that subject. In that memorandum, less considered than it ought to be, the tyrant owns that the disorganized condition of the Turkial empire, inseparable from its present state of transition, formed with him a principal motive for inter- ference, as the process of transition would probably lead to the prevalence of principles and opinions adverse to the settled establishment of neighboring States. In other words, Turkey is advancing so far in the road of European civilization that a horrible vision of constitutional gov- ernment, perhaps of religious reform, menaces in the future, and therefore it is necessary to interrupt her i provement by anarmed hand. * * * *% # We believe, in truth, that the Czar has forced forward that great srisis in the affairs of Europe that was sure to arrive sooner or later—that crisis, when the mmments of the continent must be reformed—reformed prudently ; reformed as we hope by themselves from the recesses 0! their cabinets; but, if not, reformed, to borrow Lord Chatbam’s words, ‘‘with a vengeance from without.” ‘The people of Europe will not become Cossack—will not subject themselves to the univeréal state of siege, to the knout, and to Siberia; and let Emperors and Kings, assured of this truth, look to their own inter- ests. Is resistance to Russian aggression sufficient, now that we bave a confession that the aggression 18 merely a war against the principle of constitutional ii everywhere and anywhere? No, it behoves ever: state which cherishes the principles of free government, of civiland religious liberty, not merely to resist the Corl but to disable him from future ion. 'e shall not think the war properly terminated if Russia be not compelled te di all her robberies of the last century—Finland, Bessarabia, the Crimea, the plunder of Asiatic Tarkey, and above all, the kingdom of Poland. This would be really less than France was divested of in 1814, and oh, how much more for the benefit of mankind would be the restitution of Russia’s ill-won possessions. THE GREEK INSURRECTION. he Paris Détats bas the following on the Greek insur- rection :-— We are altogether of the opinion lately expressed by the London Times. We believe that the Greeks, and in general the Christian population of the East, have nothing better to do than to hand over their cause into the hands of the Western Powers. Enrope will save the Christian Fast better than the Christian East can save itself. We even gofurther. We think that, if the insurrection in Epirus ought to be repressed, it is the interest of that in- surrection to le repressed _by a European intervention rather than Wy the Turks and ins. A European interven- tion, whatever may be the power charged with it, Austria, France, or England, will moderate the repression which iteffects. It will restrain with the same blow the Tarks and the Greeks; it will establish the true peace, that brought about by force which is just and equitable; it will not forget that the Greeks of Epirus are Christians and that it ought to protect them at the same time that it brings them under subjection. The intervention in Epirus will be an image, on a reduced scale, of the in- tervention in the East; it will be at the same time politi- cal and Christian—political, to come to the aid of the Ottoman empire, now shaken on its base; and Christian, to insure tothe Christians of the East a suitable posi- tiow. Such is the distinctive character of the roe intervention, and it ison that account that Lord Pal merston, at the dinner of the Reform Club, ex- pressed ‘his satisfaction at seeing the navies of France and England united, these Powers not havin, boon associated together, he observed, since the time of the crusades. The allusion to the crusades was appro- priate in the witty speeches of the noble lord, only be- couse the Christiane of the Fast will be protected at the seme time that the Ottcman empire will be defended. What induces us to wish that the Ottoman insurrection of Epirus may be repressed by the Western Powers rather than by the Turks is, that as soon as the European offi- cers have set foot in’ Epirus, they will on the instant re- cognize the cause of the insurrection. That insurrec- tion may, by its coincidence with the war of the East, annoy Europe, put by its cause it cannot displease her. Ehrope has twotangers and two enemies which she fears equally, and from which she has equally to protect hor- —Kinesia and socialism. But the insurrection of the Fy irotes is neither Russian nor socialist, as is evident to any one who has the slightest knowledge of the moral state of the Christian population of the East. RUSSIA. ernment is said to be making at this The Russian g moment extraordinary levies of seamen. A recent ukase obliges all the sons of free sailors who are oe in the merchant navy to serve fifteen years in he im navy from the date of the said ukase. Boys fifteen years old are to enter the service immediately, ‘and those duly eight years of ege are to be placed at the diapoval ¢ the Governor of who = Seeboctrod is to send thoes PRIV ATEERING. A special meeting of Liverpool Com. merce was held Gn the 14th instant, Thomen Bagee, Gquaieiztn the ilies ce lglion cent od va were read and pe The fol are the resolutions of the committee». That no letters.of marque or commissions of privateering should be henceforth granted by the ee this bogs ; that among other precautions © abuses of privat issued by ft pemelyrnt tase cl gate spp, iy vessel sailing nation after declaration Tirate by the laws of Sp tae lar hap be deemed the principle proclaimed the ‘government United States of America during fhe Mexicen 1846; and that public notification thereof shall to all nations. That it is of the United States of America, and other nat view to obtain their concurrence in secant ith ‘a sailing under letters of marque or commission of priya. teering against the pronecty of any subject or sul of any nation so declaring to be, af all and under all circumstances, piracy. That the foregoing be laid before the council, with a recommendation that ppt ppg |, BDK ie that steps may be taken at ‘once for ihe stininmnen the ends therein suggested, sofar as her Majesty’s governmest pon ars practicable. A memorial to the Privy Council, embodying the above, was submitted and agreed to. Arrival of the Curlew. NEWS FROM BERMUDA, TURKS ISLAND, TOBAGO, BTO. By the arrival of the steamship Curlew, we have files of Bermuda papers dated the 24th inst, H. B. M. steamer Brisk, Commander Seymonr, left Ber- muda en Thursday, 16th instant, for Halifax and England, to join the fleet destined for the Baltic, H. B. M. schooner Bermudas, Commander Jolly, was ex- 5 from pope’ fe Bermudian of March 224, has the following:— learn that F- B. Wells, Haq., of New York, han teen tee pointed by the Prosident of the United States, to the at- t'ce of consul at these islands. Mr. Wells was the Ameei- gan consul here during the Prosldency of the late Mr. Ol, OUR BERMUDA CORRESPONDENCE. Hamitton, Bermuda, March 24, 1864. Produce and Shipment of Arrowroot—Other Crops, am& Provision Rates—Ship Building—Government Appoint- ments. Shipments of arrowroot are being made by every vessel leaving for America, The crop has yielded very well in the root, but on making up is found not to afford ag much starch as usual. This may probably be accounted for by the unusual quantity of rain that fell during the past year. ‘The crop of tomatoes, will not, I believe, be as large this ss in previous seagons, owing to many of the plants having been killed by the wind. ‘A less quontity of potatoes is planted this year than last. They are looking very well, though; the first ship- ment of them to America will take place about the mid: le of April. ‘The ruling high priee of provisions will cause muck more land to be planted out this year than heretofore. An impetus Las been given to ship building in these islands, and the keels of two good size’ vessels are.about being laid. The hands are busy with their axes cutting down the timber for them, on lands which will by thia means be brought into cultivation. ‘The 56th Regiment will probably remain here somo time longer. The 44th Regiment, which was to have been sent to relieve them, is ordered’ from Gibraltar to Malta, to join the British contingent fleet. We do not yet learn of & Governor being appointed to these islands. Lieut. Colonel Williams, R. S., is adminia- secice the government to the satisfaction of tho oa ple. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. A proclamation from the Acting-Governor announces the commencement of a new postage tax (from 23d) of one penny British on all newspapers sent to England. British colonists were heretofore free from this charge, and the public feel annoyed at its imposition now. DISCONTINUANCE OF A PORT CHARGE, (From the Bermudian, March 22.) We are enabled to announce that the fee heretoforo paid into the public treasury of these islands, by ship- ping, for the use of the Governor, has altogether ceased to be charged; and the only fee now paid by vessels, u their clearance from these islands, is a small one for use of the Colonial Secretary. Many years ago our Legislature entirely wiped off what our fellow colonists in the West Indies unwisely retain—a heavy tonnage duty; and now (with the excep- tion of the Secretary’s fee of a few shillings on the clear- ance of a vessel,) the only eat re poyad by shipping at these islands, are pilotage and light-house dues. - muda is behind none, and very far ahead of most, of the British colonies, in its scale of charges on vessels enter- ing its waters from abroad—a fact that cannot be too widely promulgated in these days of extensive maritime ntercourse, =~ TURKS ISLANDS. ‘We have papers from the colony to the 4th inst. His honor President Forth, with his family, took his depar- ture for England, via Philadelphia, on the 8d. The Hon. Mr. Misick, senior Member of Counoil, was sworn in Ad- ministrator of the Government until the arrivalof Mr. Inglis, the new President. Salt-raking was about to be commenced, and the prod- , ect was most encouraging. WEST INDIES. ® The schooner Phoenix, at Bermuda, had papers from, ‘t. Vincent and Barbadoes to the Ist of March, from which we extract later news from the West Indies :— At Granada the Governor had been through the island on a tour, and there was # promise of a better crop than last year. At Tobago, the Legislature was busily engaged in the ways and means to support an adequate police. At St. Vincent, the disturbances amongst the laborers had ceased. The ree with Governor Elliot on board, had ar- rived at -badoes from Bermuda. His Excellency was the guest of Sir William Colebrooke, and would leave im a few days for Trinidad. The inidadian newspaper had retired from the literary field, the press and material having been sold to the proprietors of the Gazette, of St. Vint The last number of the jou: says, ‘that it leaves a Popul tion of 70,000 people, two-thirds of whom cannot speak English, seven-eighths of whom can neither read or write, and nine-tenths of whom are barefoot from poverty, so that the colony cannot maintain a second newspaper.’” From the British Provinces. We have papers from St. John, N. B., to the 27th of rch. A correspondent of the Ch: Visiter, writing from Prince Edward Island, undef date of 7th March, states that the weather has been extremely cold on the island, and numbers have been frozen. ¢ Hon. Mr. Colonial Treasurer, lost his way on the preceding Thura- oF night, in o fearful storm, and was badly frozen. All of his fingers are to be eut off. ‘Three horned cattle and one Weoins ay Eke ye on ina barn. janes all standing up like benches ¢ morning when the owner went to feed them. In the New Brunswick Legislature, the question of re- ducing the duties on articles imported from the United States was debated. It was proposed to abolish the duty on flour and meal, molasses and coals; and that the dut on Poe should ne reduced to seven and a half per beh on te a of husbandry to seven and a half or cent. Along debate ensued, in which the were opposed on the ground that the Be se on time to make radical alterations in the revenue laws, as England was just entering upon a war which mi ae riously affect their trade. Several members, in de bate, avowed themselves to be ultra free traders. Final- yy a motion to continue the present revenue regulations for one year was carried, by ayes 20, noes 19, The St. John Free Press says of the proposals:— They Cl api the repeal of the act which imposes r cent duty on allimports—in order to the payment of the funded debt—a debt which no longor exists but as a matter of history; the abolition of the duty om ‘our and meal—an absurd, unnatural, and suicidal im- omg on the prime necessaries of life, the injurious ef- fect of which has been cruelly apparent during the past winter; the abolition of the duty on s08—‘an Ar t cle of general consumption among {fie poor saat on coals, which have risen enormously in value, while they } ave become an indispensable article of fuel. Lieut. Gov. Head has issued his proclamation, in pur- suance of orders from the Home government, enjoining upon the people of New Brunswick to afford ‘pro! to French en ad and commerce during the pending war with Russia. Bills for the construction of railroads have pagged both: branches of the Legislature; but Mr. Jackson declines to undertake their construction at present. The Messrs. Sykes propose to contract to build them under the bills. A prohibitory liquor law would be acted upon by the La- gislature, and would probably pass. Ex-Presipest Friivore’s Tovr 70 THe Sourm anp West.—Mr. Fillmore reached Memphis on Wednea- day, the 22d March. He was expected at 8 o'clock A. M., and the military and fire companies were out the streets with bands of music; their bright colors gay plumes waving in the breezo, presented a soul-stir- ring and beautiful display, while splendid equipages, filled with the fairest of the fair, dashed through the streets, and the pavements were thronged with men, women, children. «The boat, however, did not arrive till 6 o’cloak | P.M. when a salute of twenty-one guns was fired from the Navy Yard, and thousands were collected om theless and bluff. Having landed, Mr, Fillmore and Mr. Kennedy were immediately conducted to the carriages in waiting. The procession, consisting of the military end fire com~ panies, and tliousands of gentlemen and ladies, in car- riages and on foot, then moved upto City Hall, in Ex change Building, Where our distinguished guests wore re- ceived by Leroy Pope, Jr., Eaq-, and by him presented to the vast throng congregated in the ball. Messrs, Fill- more and Kennedy appropriately acknowledged the honor done them, in brief addresses, and were introduced to the | hundreds of ladies gud geathomen in attendance. After a very pleasant ieterview, they were escorted to the camer at 9 o'clock, and proceeded on their way down the rivet separations were insking at New Orloans to re- ceive Mr. Fillmore. Tue Fraos Cartoren sy Wasnatox.—The rable George Washington Parke Custis has addressed, tter to General Pierce, informing him of his desire, through his excelloncy, to deposit in the national ar- chives the flaga captured by the illustrious Sie tronkee in the days of the revolution. These invaluable were presented to General Washington as the highest mark of respect which could be bestowed on him by Con- Soci coremgnies of prosentation will take place !