The New York Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1854, Page 2

THE JAPANESE EMPIRE. LCO-CHOO ISLANDS—DEPENDENCIES OF JAPAN. The Loo-Choe Archipelago i# situated on the Pacife Ocean, between 26 and 28 degrees north latitude, and 126.50 and 128.20 east longitude, nearly midway be- tween Japan and Formosa. fix islands. Great Loo-Choo, the largest, lying in the THE entre of the group, is about seventy miles in length by | fifteen in breadth, and is divided into three provinces. Mount Oomdake, rising 1,000 feot, is the highest peak Wok the range of hills which runs through the island Tengthwise. Mount Sumai, called Shooe, on which the @apitol, or Vouching (‘royal city’) i built, is about 540 feet high; and about three miles from Napakiang is the Fesidence of the Prince, or Regen’ of the island, who re- Ceives his investiture from the Prince of Satzuma, the Suzerain of this Archipelago. The entire population of the islands is estimated at about 80,000. The climate is aid to be mild and delightful, and the soil exceedingly fertile, producing the fruits and vegetables of the tem- porate regions. The inhabitants appear to be of the Fame race as the Japanese, and have not only adopted the costume but speak a dialect of the language of that people. They may be divided into three distinct clssses First—the rulers, who understand the Chinese lan- guage. Second—the natives, who are educated, and write the Japanese and Chinese characters. Third—a class who are superior to coolies. Their religion is a species of Budhism. The Soobhooans, like the Kunelians, are not permited to have any kind of arms ‘or ammunition. : They are governed by officers sent from Shoo#, and re moved every five years. Crimes of magnitude are sent for trial to the capital, except adultery, which 1s held in such abhorrence that summary vengeance is inflicted, The houses are built according to an established law. ‘There are generally ten or twelve enclosed by a wall, and again sub-divided into separate dwellings, firm and com- | octly built. Great Loo-Choo is productive and well cultivated. Their Pode of tillage resembles the Chinese, particularly im the ground. ranuring and irriga: They cultivate tes, Pice, sugar cane, tobac orn, peas, millet, sweet potatoes, taro, capsicum, cu: Jumbers, cocoa nuts, plantains, carrots, lettuce, onions, pom ates, oranges and a variety of fruits, and raiso horses, asses, horned cattle, swine, goats, fowls; aud the wild animals are bears, 13 and wolves. Among the productions of the islands are sulphur, salt, brass, zinc, marine shells of various kinds, pepper, cardamans, sapan wood, cabinet woods, anda variety of dye-woods, silk, cotton, a species of hemp, and banana tree, from the fibres of which they manufacture their ordinary garments; They also manufacture silk ture, a great quantity of cott similar to that of China, f nd the bark of t 8 variety of colors, and make cate inferior red pottery, pipes, hairpins, and wicke: baskets; two sorts of spirits, distilled from grain; aris, brass instruments, gold and silver ornaments, brass, pewter, saddles, bridles, and sheaths, which they manufacture with’ considerable taste and neatuess, and which form part of their tribute to China and Japan They collect 1a shell, of which munufacture salt in la NAPaKiANG, situated tos north, longitude 127 degrees 25 minutes 57 secouds east, on the southwest part of Great Loo Choo, is the port most frequented by foreign vessels. It is about 400 miles east of Puchan, and 370 south southwest from Nangasa- ki. Abby’s Point forms the southwest boundary of the port, and is a high coral reef, extending about a quarter of a mile into the sea. From this a long coral and sandy beach proceeds in agentle curve towards the entrance of the estuary that passes through the town. The road af- fords a good anchorage. There are two fortifications Rituated at the entrance of the port, built of coral stone. shells and tortoise and Port Mgtvi1x—called by the natives Outring or Vouch- | ing—is situated on a bay of the same name, ia the same rovince with Napakiang, on the western coast of the Yoisnd, and north from the capital” and ia larger, safer, snd more commodious than the other port. At its en: trance is an island from which rises a high conical moun- tain, called by the natives Eegouchkound, or ‘the Castic,”” which is visible twenty-five miles at sea, and is & prominent landmark for navigators. It is covered from the bage to near one-third of its height with Souses, and resembles a garden in the midst of the sea. ‘The entrance is narrow, but will admit the largest ships. ‘The bay is two miles in extent; has a good, safe anchor- age in nineteen to twenty fathoms water, protected from all winds. It would be an excellent place of resort for American whalers in want of refreshments; and it Offers peculiar advantages and facilities for carecnin, ‘Jud repairing vessels, so uch wanted in those seas, and x coaling depot for American trans-Pacific steamers. shores ave studded with populous villages, and the untry around is fertile and well cultivated. ost eligibly situated as an entrepot for an indirect American trade with that empire. Commerce between Japan and Loo @ncted entirely in Japanese vessels, and is roe Stricted to the ports of Kagosima, in the principality | of Satzuna and Napakiang. They bring iron, cop- per, pewter, hemp, culinary utensils, laquered far- niture, excellent hones, and oceasionally rice, which is sometimes brought from the island of Oo-sina, near the const of Niphon. The exports of Lvo-Choo are salt, Brain, sugar, tobacco, samchu spirits, rice, coarse silk and grass hemp, hemp, cotton and paper cloth, coarse paper, a sort of perfume, drugs, ambergris, sulphur, sine, , brass, cowries, and large and fiat shells that are used in Japan for windows instead of glass. The ox- of sugar {from 1.0-Choo to Satzuma are stated by . Parker to amount to 175,000 peculs annually. In re. turn for these, they bring from China different kinds of porcelain, a variety of European goods and American cotton cloths, glass, furniture, medicines, gold, « iron nails, tools, silks and tea, as that grown’ in the islond is of an inferior quality. ’ This trade ia conducted in junks belonging to the Loo-Chooans, built after Chi- | nese models, and is a source of considerable profit to em Leo-Choo, since A. D. 1872, has paid tribute to China; it is vent by an envoy yearly to Pekin. Among the articles of which if generally consists, are swords, brass, pewter, saddles, bridles, an 3, which they manufacture with considerable taste and neatness, By means of this intercourse with China, carried on’ exclusively through Napakiang and Fachau in two privileged junks, the Japanese merchants of Kagosima are indi- xeetly supplied with a considerable amount of the pro- ducts and manufactures of China, India and the Western ie junks conducting the tribute have free ac- cess to Fuchan, and all the goods they export and im- The Chinese are not allowed to rade in the islands, and the only act of sovereignty the Emperor exercises is to send a delegate to sanction a new incumbent to the government of the islands The principal object of the two privileged jun! bring over the tribute; but, in addition, they are to be filled up wit’ merchandise for sale, of which a list, almost always containing the same particulars, is handed fn to the Chinese mandarins, The tribute junks for 1850 arrived in November, and the tribute bearer, after hav- ing peld certain visits of ceremony, and been entertained by the Mandarins, started for Pekin with the presents for the Emperor, of which a list in appended.” ‘The list is ‘more interesting as containing the tributes of usage on the elevation of a new Emperor to the throne. During this journey to and from the eapital, which occupies from five to six months, the import cargo is sold, and an | one shipped on board the junks. ¢ business is carried on by a Hong monopoly, con sisting of ten persons, who have their authority from the Emperor, the office generally descending from’ father to son. These parties are responsible forthe junks, and everything connected with them and their cargoes. As in former times, the Canton Hong merchants were for the East Indig Company's vessels and cargoes. On receiving the invoice of the ds on board, and the indent for a return cargo, the Hong brokers decide what prices they ‘will give for the import, and what charge for the export cargo. This matter being settled, Fuchan not being a lace of much trade, they are compelled to dispose of the ports, and purchase the exports along the whole Geast of Ont. Troma Canton to Stanghes. Ae the value of their inward is much less than their outward cargo, the tribute put aside,) the Loo-Chooans have to bring | over the blaance in hard cash They make use of gold and silver coin of their own,and fometimes ure the copper coin of China and Japan; in addition to which, the specie they bring to purchase the balance of the cargo, not met by the sale of their own Produce, is in the form of small square Japanese gold coins, containing so large an smount of alloy as to give it & coppery appearance. This coin not circulating in China, is melted down by the parties who buy it at different porte where the brokers resort to make their rehases. ‘The em! of 1850had a double duty to perform, viz. pay the tribute and arrearage for the investiture of the zs king of LooChoo, The late king died in 1949, it no investiture could take'place, in consequence'of the | it monarch not baving attained is majority—the | Euan , seventeen—in 1852, anda high mandarin was 2 ‘with two war junks, to accompany the next Fv oak pom with a suitable retinue and about five ho It is is estimated that this gracious gmark of the Emperor of China will have cost the Loo- Choo treasury $40,000. Some idea of the vegetable and mineral productions, these islands may be obtained ‘Mmanvfactures, &c., Trom the following list of articles constituting the in- ward cargo, including presents of congratulation, &c., imported on board junks presented for the inspection of the authorities of , by Chin-hia hiai, linguist su- percargo from Loo-Choo. Juxx No. 1—AnNNvAL TRIBUTE —Indigenous Produce:— Zefined brimstone, brass, refined white pewter. Presents of congratulation on the occasiontof the ac- @ession of the new Emperor.—Indigenous Prodace and ‘Manufactures-—Gold vases, silver vases, swords with gilt Beal sworde with silver scabbards, superfine light. P Ney Ao ive grase cloth, superfine white ditto ditto, ine delicate native cloth; door screens, painte! and orna- Soeene paar, Weuans Pa of superior make; Boreen pa) wi 7 Prevents ot to nape tad Empress.— ses tnt toeee for face i 40. 40; super Bine prepa’ t yellow grass cloth; w ps fine delicate ‘and ‘‘season’”’ cloth; paper fans of jor make. ts for the offering of incense at the tomb of the | Peceased Emperor.—silver ingots. Merchandise for sale.—Largo water boilers, small do., hand boxes, clothes trunks, leather do., copper cauldrons, — pans, = fins, deal trunk: bls te mer, bir Is, paow-yu (ish), ; mal drug), kia-soo yu (aol), eh uw (do), Fe Co), salt soy, wheat do., spurts, bean soy, salted meat, Pi etstones, pork fat. Tees*ace beovglt for purchase of goods out of the It is composed of thirty- | », colton, wheat, barley, Indian | Until the | pening of the Japanese ports to foreign commerce, it is | Choo is con- 1 Coffer, 6,000 tacls; sent by the group of the Royal Coffer, 6,00th and. south, 20,000 taele—-the iat amount comprising the sums brought by the officers of the junk. | or tated thats part of the return c: of | junks was not for home consumption, but as a portion of ihe tribute which Loo Choo has to send to the Court of Yedo, annually, and includes among other articles— horses, a sort of perfume, with vases for it, ambergris, silk stuffs, wicker baskets, ered tables inlaid with | ren shells and mother of ‘pearl, a red dye, and. spark- ing wine. They receive in return, five hundred pieces of Iver money and five packages of ‘warded silk. The en- y receives two hundred pieces of money and ten dresses i other persons of his suite, three pieces of money, each. According to Japanese accounts, confirmed by Kleproth, | the connection between China and Loo © ! Choo is merely nominal, or commercial; the whole group, together with the Meiacosimas and all the islands south of For- moea, are Japanese posse: depending immediately on the Prince of Satzuma. Their subjugation to Japanese rule began by conquest in 160%, and the whole policy of the government of Loo Choo has ever since been dictated by the rules, and modelled after the fashion, of Japan. e natives ‘aro of a very diminutive stature—their average height does not exceed five feet five inches. Be- ing descendants of the Japanese, and numerous families from China having settled on the island, there is a union of the dispositions and of the mamners, as well as of the features, of both countries. They appear to be a more | amiable people than either the Chinese or Japanese, possessing all the politeness. affability and coremony o' | the Chinese, with more honesty and ingenuousness is generally possessed by these people; and | they are less war.ike, cruel and obsequious | than the Japanese, and less suspicious of for eigners than those people appear to be. | They are exceedingly effeminate and timorous in thelr | intercourse with strangers, and their conduct appears to be governed by the same artful policy as that of China or Japan. They would readily open trade but for the rigid interdiction of their Japanese masters. They are as well clothed, and possess as many of the comforts and clegancies of life, as the natives of Japan. The lan- guage is the same, with unimportant dialectical varia- e letters and literature are cultivated tions; and Chir by the higher classes. A college is established at Slyooe for their education, in h the court dialect of China is taught, and is the medium of official correspondence with strapgers. A French squadron, under the com- mand of Kear-Admiral Cecile, touched at Napakiang in | 1846. He met with # kind and hospitable reception by | the natives; spent some time in exploring the group, | and left there the Rey. Mr. Foreade, Catholic Missionary Apostolic to Loo Choo, subject to the titular Bishop of Japan and its dependencies, since appointed by the Holy See. | _ The reverend missionary, in a letter to Gated Bonzery of Ameekee, Great Loo Choo 1845, states that he had succeeded, and opposition from the Mandarins, in acquiring a | knowledge—and he had compiled a dictionary of more | than six thousand words. He says :—At 1 | nothing is Chin erything is Japanese. nobles, cities and towns have thier Chinese names, these are used only in the presence of Chinese and Europeans. The Japanese names of men and places are the | only ones current and understoed ‘The worship, la i supsriors, inda, who are des he former dynasty, differ, I have every r in nothing from the worship, language, dwelling 8, manners and customs of Japan. Ihave in my possession the letters of St. Francis Xavier,the history of Father Charlevoix, extracts from Malte Brun and Balbi on Japan, and every time that I read these works Tam tempted to believe that they are speaking of Loo-Coo, 80 great a resemblance is there between what I see and what they describe. A large number of Japanese words quoted and translated by these different anthors, are to De found with the same pronunciation, and the same sig- nification, in the Loo-Choo tongue. Moreover, I have not as yet perceived a single Chinese junk in the port of Napa, while there are constantly at anchor from ten to fifteen se vessels. Now, it is forbidden the latter, pub lished in 1087, to sail towards a ; they can only engage in the coasing strange count trade, or go to. the Islands depending on the empire. In fino, it is unfortunately certain, and thisI | have seen over and over again with’ my own eyes, that a cross is cut ona stone, in order to be trampled under foot, at the end of the rampart of Gama-ee, pre- cisely where they always make the Europeans who come to Loo-Choo land, and every one knows that it is not from China but from Japan that this infernal idea must have come. It is therefore proved, at least tomy mind, that they are Chinese only inname, and that in point of fact they are Japanese. What cannot be disputed is that they know at least by name our holy religion. T have even observed that two of them, in a conversation with me, called it not the religion of the Master of Heaven, the name which they give it in China, but the religion of Somns, ghich it ie called in Japan.”? Dr. Betelheim, M@@ical Missionary of the Beitich Naval Mission at Loo-Choo, in his report for 1860-1851, states thatone of his guards, an intelligent young man, of | about 22 or 23 year of age, called Satchi Hama, a Chris- | tian convert, and nephew and namesake of a professor of Christianity, whose fate is recorded in the reports of the Loo Choo Naval Mission, was imprisoned 24th of November, 18: his feet put in stocks and corded to s heavy beam on the ground, so as | not to allow him to chan, his position. He was repeatedly beaten with a stick, and struck with the fist on the head, by order of the mandarins; his food, of the worst condition, was gradually diminished, and he ingering, ignominious death, by rvation, for avowing his faithand | 'y. He continued to linger in this | concition until early in March, 1851, when he was | squeezed to death by the mandarins, under the pretence | | of curing bim of madness. Was condemned to a Leating and gradual belief in Christiani li tt Herald, hefin siates that several cases came to his knowlodj sin Loo Choo secretly removed ned, in consequence of their fav religion, the instance above cited justifying the suspicion lint those persons likewise have undergone, or wero still ignominious severities on account of their faith. peak , ‘of the hovel population | at large, among whom, by persevering boldness, the mls- sionary has found it possible at all times to maintain a of intercourse, and among whom there are a »Sbanghae, of the 24th January, 1862, Dr. Betel- | ol number of individuals who, though well instructed and confessing themeelyes’ believe before two Christian witnesses, yet cannot mako open profession of their fuith, because of the terror of the torture. There have been during nearly five years upwards of two hundred of the class of Liberati serving by rotation in the guard huts, and also as Zodzies—apies. interpreters, purveyors, agents, &. Among this body likewise there are a good number of well informed Chris- tians—some of them confidentials—who own the fate of some of their less cautious companions the sole obstacle to their assuming the name of Christians. “England’s far stretching power will soon reach this | distant corner, and see to it that the object of our so- | ciety be not wronged, and above all that our converts— our only aim, honor, and glory—be not ili used, vexed, | ruined and murdered at the’ caprice of unfeeling semi- | barbarous Japanese and mandarins.’’ The Committee of the Loo-Choo Naval Mission in Lon- don, cordially wishing success to the United States mi | sion to Japan, hax announced its intention to take advan- tage of the opening prospect for the advancemeat of Christianity in that remote region, by sending out ano- ther missionary immediately, to assist Dr. Betelheim in his iabors. | Captain Shadwell, of H.B. M. 8. Sphinx, visited Loo Choo on the 6th February, 1852. The principal object of his mission to that place was to deliver to the autho ties a letter from Lord Palmerston, her Majesty's Prin pal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in answer toa comm' nication which those functionaries had previously ad dressed to his lordship; also to inquire generally into the position of the missionary, Dr. Betelheim. Captain Shadwell was desirous of delivering his com- munication within the walls of the royal city of Shooe. ‘The authorities at first demurred to this, and wished to receive it at Napa, the seaport. After some negotiation, however, the latter gave way, and it was ultimately ar- ranged that it should be received at Shooe, as proposed. On the 11th, Captain Shadwell, accompanied by his of- ficers and a guard of seamen and marines, ianded in staie, and proceeded to Shooe, a salute of seven guns be- ing fired, and the national colors displayed at the n head as Lord Palmersten’s letter left the ship. Napa is connected w oe by a good paved road. On arrival at the gates of the citadel, the guard, after presenting arms, remained outside, the officers only proceed ing ‘inside the walls, On passing within the recond wall, they were received by the Regent, | the Ministers, and a large retinue, and conducted by them tothe hall of audience, where Lord Palmerston’s letter was formally presented and respectfully received. A conference then ensued, having reference chiefly to the of Dr. Betelheim, in the course of which the Loo ilies repeatedly expressed most friendly ret him. At (he termination of the intervie , which was given st his residence, outside the walls of the citadel. Refreshments were also at the same time supplied to the seamen and marines; after which the rly returned to the ship. ‘Tie Sphinx remained at Loo Choo until the 17th. Dur- ing their stay the officers were allowed to roam about the island wherever they pleased, and alway? met with the greatest civility from the inhabitants. They found the | country exceedingly well cultivated, producing sugar, rice, grain and tobacco, and a great variety of vegetables | it is intersected by numerous good paved roads, the | streams are crossed by good bridges; the houses and the | walls around the enclosures are exceedingly well built, and the place is evidently in an advanced state of semi- civilization. The country is undulating and well wooded, and the scenery in many places remarkably picturesque. During the Sphinx’s stay liberal presents of frosh pro visions were sent on two occasions by the suthoritics, and although the boisterous state of the weather pre. vented the it returning Captain Shadwell’s visit on board the Sphinx—the invitation to which had been ac- copted—presents were mutually interchanged. Or. Betelheim reports that since the visit of H. B. M *hip Reynard, in October, 1850, his position has been much improved, and that his medical labora were emi- nently successful during the prevalence of the small por. | _ TreaeNpous CoNFLAGRATION IN FRANKFORT, | | Ky.—A letterin the Cincinnati Gazette, dated Frankfort, | April 29, gives the following account of the late destruc- | tive fire in that place —Last night, at 10 0’clock, a fire was discovered in the confectionary of Gray & Todd. The wind was high, andin three anda half hours every house on Main street, from Capitol Hotel to the Mansion House, was consumed. Four dry goods stores, two jew elry shops, two drug stores, twelve business Houses, and | in all about fifteen buildings were destroyed. The exer- tions of the fire companies and citizens were rendered in amanner useless from want of water. The following persons were sufferers :-—Gray & Todd, $10,000, insur: Ance; logs $7,000; Meke & Milam, loss unknown. The safe, containing valuables, bas not been oxtracted from the | . C. Chiles, almost total loss, partially in- :J. M. Mills, total loss, fully insured, John L. Moore, | partially insured, some goods saved; 0. & I. Belt, no in surance; almost {otal loss; J. Loomis was insured, near- ly all the jewelry was saved; Evans & Co. were partially Insured, part of the stock saved; Canno & Gaines wore in- siured for $2,000, part of the drags were saved in a great ly dam ged condition; I. P. Blackwell was partially in- | sured, and part of the stock saved. The goods saved are i te ‘od ia heap in the | os confusion, ® promiscuous heap | introduce the modes for the coming season. Tho last In a communication to the editor of the North China | Thy | site band of the Guides from time to time poured forth de- | practical commentary on the well-known motto of the | something worse, of the now re-united and affectionate Our Paris Correspondence. Paras, Monday, April 17, 1854. Origin of Longchamps—Brilliancy of the Present Year's -Emthusiastic the Emperor and Empress—Grana Dinner at the English Embassy, in Honor of the Duke of Cambridge—Develop-ment of the Russian System of Defence—Russian Intriguesin Portu- gal in Favor of Don Miguel—Similar Movements in Spain. Tt was in the year 1750 thats gay party of the Court of Louis the Fifteenth, while wandering in the Bois de | Boulogne, was struck with the soft and elevating strains of music, which were found, on inquiry, to issue from the Abbaye de Longchamp. For 500 years that venerable pile had unremittingly offered up its orisons, and filled the air with its pious harmony. But it was not till par | hazard the shade of the forest which surrounded it was sought, pour se distraire, by these wearied children of | luxury, that the world ever condescended to notice it It was the week consecrated by the sufferings of Him | whose life an¢ teaching had produced so wondrous arevo- | lution among mankind; sind courtiers, even in those li- centious days, sometimes, perhaps, condescended to be | impressed by the soleranity of such an epoch. Be that it may, from this accidental circumstance others of the privileged classes were induced to seek the grove where such heavenly music was heard; and “Passion Week” returned, year after year, so the num- ber of silk-clad pilgrims increased; till at last, a pilgrim- age to the Abbaye de Longchamps became an established canon among the vetaries of fashion. Hence the proces- sion of Longchamps. The revolution came, and swept from the scene, among many other things, the Abbey | and its venerable inhabitants. The gay voyageurs to the Bois de Boulogne ceased their annual visits; and it was only after the celebrated 18th Brumaire, that, under the auspices of the great Napoleon, the fashionable monde again bent their footsteps towards their ancient haunt. But how changed the object! Then, a sentimental piety flung its light gauze, as a mantle, over the rich brocade and embroidered ruff. Now, no such veil is thought necesvary. The revolution was a wonderful thing for calling matters by their truenames, Since the 18th Brumaire, the avowed object of Longchamps is to bonnet, the newest visite, the most artistic parasol; and, among the stronger sex, the latest purchase, in horse or equipage, figures on the oceasion. And, per- hep never since the revival of this procession has its eqnal in aplendor and magnificence been witnessed, com- pared with that of Thursday and Good Friday. From the are of St. Denis, on the Boulevards, to the entrance of the Bois de Boulogne, a distance of more than four English miles, from three o’clock until six ‘was one unbroken line of equipages. Whether it were the extraordinary brilliancy of the weather, or the in- creasing luxury of the times, I know not, but no one who had remarked similar processions in former years, could fail to observe the manifest improvement in the style of their equipages. It was quite equal to anything seon in Hyde Park on its most galaday. The Duke of Cambridge, who was seated by the Emperor himself, more than once pronounced it to be so. As the Emperor and Empress moved down at foots pace the centre of the avenue of the Champs Elysies, the assembled thousands of spectators which lined tho broad walks on either side, seemed at last to have found lungs of brass to express their feelings, Loud and long continued vivas burst from among them, and Napoleon must have been deeply gratified that his distinguished guest should be an eye wi y,all the more valuable from the grow’ There must have been many there who could remember greetings of a much less enthusiastic charac- | ter. ‘he imperial cortege consisted, as usual, of two carriages and four, with outriders and grenadiers’ before, and others following at a distance. But Napoleon was in the midst of the people, and the most unpracticed hand might easily have taken away a life on which the fate of France—with more reason it may be said that of Europe—just now depends. ‘The English Prince continues to be the subject of una- bated inte Wherever he moves untiring crowds hang on his footsteps. When visiting tue Grand Opera on Wednesday, in company with Lord. lan, to witness the representation of the ‘ Vestale,” and the batiet of ‘Jovita,”” he was received, on entering the imperial bor, by cries’ of ‘ Vivent les Anglais,” and “ Vive? Em eur!” ‘God Save the Queen” was struck up by the orchestra, the audience standing the whole time. On Thursday there was a banquet in his honor, at the English Embassy, of extraordinary magnificence, at which were present the élite of French society, with- out distinction of party, and a few of the high aris- tocracy of England—aimong othors the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, the Duke and Duchess of Welling- ton, &c. ‘The magnificent ball room of the Embassy was, _ on ihis cccasion, converted into a salle a manzer. Ite © covered with yellow damask silk, and at the extremity, divided off by some Doric pillars, fe seen ¢ throne room, where, overhanging a superb chair of state, is suspended the full length portrait of Queen Victoria, | ¢ long French windows of the ball room, now a banquet hall, ook into a beautiful orangery and conservatory, the odors of whose exotics mingled gratefully with the fra- grance of viands suchas are seen only in Paris. e exqui- licious airs; and the oceasion considered—that of the pre- sence of a prince of the blood, who was there to ratify a | solemn leagve and covenant between two nations for | centuries estronged—a more m; te cannot well be imagined. The guests were about in number. ‘ Partant pour ls Syrie’’—the now na- tional air of France—and ‘God Save the Queen,’’ were nificent reception of each played, and the Duke of Cambridge, ina apeech of | tall trees to be visible, which added greatly to the effect. singular tact and neatness, pro the heaith of his | The night was co still that but for a twinkling star which | Imyerial Majesty, Napoleon the No more striking here and there shone above, you might have feared a | evidence of the times is necessary than such a toast from | storm. Nota breath moved the leaves, or discom- the lips of a prince of the house of Hanover, and that on ‘the tender Prince a grandsen of George the Third. On Good Friday, the Duke of Peat MI Lord Raglan, and all the officers of his suite, attended Divine service at the chapel of the British Embassy; and considering that -| the whole party were on their way to do battle for the | Turka, the prayer, or collect, especially set apart by the English liturgy for that day certainly read rather oddly. “Haye mercy upon Jews, Turks, infidels and heretics” aro the words: and though the author doubtless meant and desired that the petition should be granted, it is evident heconsidered all the four parties as tasking the Divine deneficence to the extreme. Prince Napoleon, en route to the Fast, stopped at Va- ence, and visited the room formerly, in 1785, inhabited hy the great Napoleon, when a young artillery officer. If is atill pet apart for’the same’ corps. The woman, it ms, yet lives who used to bring the young officer his ly meal, and who received from him, on his departure, daily a present of twelve francs, The good woman invested the same in a gown, which, when the great hero be- came Emperor, she wore, and still wears on St. Napo- leon’s day. She has now a pension of 600 francs. The Prince has already embarked for Toulon. The Turkish Ambassador accompanied him. In his speech at the public dinner given him at Marseilies, he produce: lively sensation by his emphatic declaration that the ‘ould forever be open aud free It appears that the Russian system is gradually de- veloping itself. As the works erected on the coast of the | island of Aland are evacuated in the presence of the English fleet, so letters, dated the 6th of April, from Stockholm, inform us that the Emperor had also ordered all the pilots, and all men le of bearing arma, to emigrate to the main land in Finland, and when vossels cannot be removed, to sink and destroy them, so that not & vestige shall remain, This is to be the system through- out the whole extent of the Russian shore, from Helsing- to Crenstadt, and on the other part to Sebastopol- Yor the last six weeks a certain nunber of Russian travellers, among whom are several officers, have been arriving at Lisbon, from whence some have proceeded to the north, and others to the south of Portugal. Those agents have been found to be engaged in all kinds of in- trigues in favor of Don Miguel. ‘The same symptoms are being manifested in Spain. In fact, as the semi-official French organ—the Pays—observes, the wholo Iberian peninsula is, just now, a prey to Muscovite intrigue. ling to the Madrid journals of the 11th of April, nd children of about one hundred Turkish {smilies are expected at Cadiz from Constantinople, where they are to roside till the termination of the war. They will probably have abundant time to perfect them: selves in Spanish The Duke of Cambridge was escorted yesterday, after divine service at the Embassy, to Versailles, in three of the Emperor's private carriages, each with four posters, and outriders with jack boots and cocked hats. Th great fountains played in honor of the occasion. I reception by the people was most enthusiastic. ‘The Em. peror himself was not present The Empress bas taken to driving a beautiful pheton end four poses. At present she does not venture farther than the limits of the park atSt. Cloud. Pants, Thursday, April 20, 1854. Departure of the Duke of Cambridge—Impationce of the Turks at the Delay in the Despatch of Troops from France —Progress of the Greek Insurrection—Curious Political Disclosures—Grand Féte at the Elyse. The Duke of Cambridge has gone; and as if to make a “Land of Cakes’’—“Happy to meet, happy to part?” — Paris, not content with uttering vias on his arrival, has celebrated his departure by a slight rise of the funds. ‘The secret of this is, that the Duke goos to the East via Vienna, and the circumstance is eagerly seized upon as a favorable omen tending toa probable solution of the Austrian enigma. Every letter from Constantinople is replote with fever: ish impationce at the non-arrival of moro tangible sup- port from its allies, Omer Pacha is said to be growing gloomy; and men say that the conduct of the Western Powers toward their colossal adversary, bespeaks a fear of giving unecessary offeace—a supreme refinement of hostility, which looks as if they were much more intent upon finding an excuse for shaking hands than exchang- ing shots. They argue that the knowledge of this is quite sufficient to explain the hesitation of Austria and Prussia, who perhaps think their active interference would hereafter be visited upon them much after the fashion of matrimonial modiators, whose well meant services are generally re-paid by the cordial abuse, if not disputanta, The Groek insurrection is every day assuming propor. tions of greater magnitude, and the excitement produced | amount of one-third, would make a diversion in their | | favor. the Union, the great organ of the legitimist: | deny the imputation; onthe ate says: | into which that whisper invited Dupin to enter, he would | Elysée. But great cha he | cies and numerous quaint devices, around which were | Emperor thought, probably, | Surveyor General of the United States for the district of | among the many thousands of Greeks domesticated at who are now placed in the invidious posi- tion of either declaring themselves subjects of the Sul- tan or immediate claimants for their passports, does not diminish the general embarrassment. Tho indiscrimi- nate cruelties, too, exercised by the corps of Albanians sent to put down the insurrection, are loudly reprobated. Some idea of the estimation in which the respective | belligerent powers are held by the Greeks may be col- | lected from the fact that a gentleman on the Sth, en route to Constantinople, passed a few hours in Syra, and was addressed by the boatmen, with every appearance of | hearty sincerity, in these words :—“ If oa Sor a Nae. sian, we would pull you by your vessel gratis; but who- ther you are English or French, you may thank heaven we don’t throw you into the sea.”? The Poles are diligent in pressing their services upon the Sultan. Itseems there are vast numbers of Polish officers at Constantinople, who are anxiously awsiting the issue of @ firman for a levy of their countrymen. With their usual sanguine spirit, they declare that if allowed to wear their national uniform, and display their national flag, that an immense proportion of the Rus- sian army, consisting as it does of Polish officers to the | It appears that the report of the death of Colonel Dieu, the officer sent by the French government to assist Omer Pacha, was without foundation, a" M. de la Guéronniere, whom I pointed out not long since as a writer especially called upon by the govern- | ment for its semi-oficial journals, when des ticularly attracting public attention, has, in an arti published by both the Pays and Constitutionnel, headed | “La Guerre sans L’Empire,”” positively asserted that it was the design of the restoration under Charles the Tenth to cede the “Empire of Turkey” to Russia, on the condition that Russia was to support France in appro- priating ‘‘ the province of Belgium; and it is fact that joes not “Was there not something noble, grand, and trul popular in desiring the abrogation of the treaties of 1815, and a return to the glorious limits of old France? It was not merely @ province that we thus received—it was our ascendancy, our rank, and our glory; it was the invasion eflaccd—it was the set-off against 1815.’” Language such as this, if England had not already learned the folly of her interference for the benefit of kings, must be full of instruction for her; and it is possi- ble that it was with a view to call it forth--having the proofs, in the shape of some “secret correspondence’? — that the government of Napoleon has thus been employ- ing their pet writer. But Napoleon's star is evidently sufficiently manifest in its present ascendancy, without the aid of the lowring shadows of that old House of France, which, for four- teen centuries, held its predominance, and which was— from its own Minguage—the first in Europe, and held the kceptre when the other sovereigns were vassels or depen- dents. Could the most fertile imagination have depicted @ success more complete than his present position? Two years and perhaps a hundred days have, at the foot of time, scarce deposited their strangeeventful rolls, | since that memorable night, the first of December, 1851, when Napoleon, in the halis of the Elysée, feasted the | magnates of the republic. The north wind then howled omun ly through the gardens of the palace, and the Republican Guard, as they paced their nightly watch in the front of the Faubourg St. Honore, hugged closer to their persons their long and ample cloaks. Within the palace all was that admired disorder which betokened an | animation not the less aieiiiog that no one could account | for it. But whether it were the gale that whistled, as it | came from the heights of Challich, or that all men saw | “through @ glass darkly” the events which throw their shadows before them, it boots not bargain; but that there was a humid gaiety—a feverish agitation—on that event- ful evening, nobody who now look: upon it will fail | to remember. , Then, as the party melted away, and here and there an individual flitted across the brilliant salon preparatory to his departure, who docs not remember the unaccustomed animation of the President, as he bent his head to the ear of Dupin, the President of the Assembly Nationale ! And who at that time dreamed that from the Cabinet, not be suffered to emerge till, like Othello’s, ‘! his occu- pation was gone?” “Stay here, M. Dupin,}» were Na- | polecn’s words; “write to your family, if you will—here are pen andnk, and also & bed, and to-morrow morning I cannot object to Ayod knowing the reason why!” But how changed the scene! Could some Eastern ma- gician have held to Napoleon’s eyes the success of that night’s experiment, could he have himself believed it? tg as he has such faith in his star, he could. But the future must have been enough to startle the most ranguine. ‘On Monday last Napoleon once more entertained at the es haye been made in the palace | itself since the last ion. Anew front replaces the old barrack facade. ve have been pushed out of either | side the former modest building, which ncw forms the centre of an imperial pile. No less than twa thousand | workmon weve euddesly urdered TO The a e' and desired to clear away every obstacle in the half-finished palace, | and to prepare it in three days for a fete to be given by the Empress to the English Prince and his staf, @ None but Frenchmen can effect these wonderful trans- mogrifications. None but those who witnessed that scene of enchantment could have believed that the wonderful spectacle presented to their eyes was but a few hours before a half finished building, in all the necessary con- fusion of brick and stone and mortar and mud. The rden, with its lofty trees, just unfolding their early * aves, was hung with m; is of many colored lamps, exquisitely formed to resemble large and luscious fruits, In the centre was a grotte ornamented with transparen- trees and azalias and exotics, each con- tending with the other in rarity and beauty. The beautiful band of the Guides from time to time filled the air with selections from the best operas, and it was such a night as rarely indeed is given to mortals for such festivals. The cflect was really that of perfect en- chantment. Eeautiful as was the arrangement of the salle de danse, which is only slightly raised above the garden, it was impossible to restrain the visiters within’ the walls. By common consent all rush forth to that bowery scene of fairy illumination. ‘The slight advance which the foliage had made por- mitted the graceful lines of the ramification of the clustered rat e pened the softened lights which hung ughs. The deep, dark blue of tho sky was as if it had been purposely created for it; but not content with this, mortals must needs keep burning in the retirement of the garden Bengal lights, which, flinging up their deep | tints of indigo and crimson, spread over the whole scene such a character of witchery that the whole company could not contain their enthusiastic admiration. and again was the Empress ‘tulated on her taste and her admirable success. Duke of Cambri: Feo? declared that such a housewarming would m: him Wish for anew house day of his life, and t! his last entertainment in | December, 185: Appointments by the President, | BY AND WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE. Charles K- Gardiner, of the District of Columbia, to be Oregon, vice John B. Preston, removed. John Westcott, of Florida, ‘to be Surveyor General of the United States for the district of Florida, vice Benja- min A. Putnam, removed. Eugene Nartelle, of Louisiana, to be Receiver of Pub- lic Moneys at Opelousas, Louisiana, vice Henry L. Gar- land, resigned. Patrick Quigley, of ‘Towa, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Dubuque, Towa, vice Mordecai Mobley, re- moved. George McHenry, of Iowa, to be Register of the Land se, at Dub.que, Iowa, vice Thomas McKnight, re- moved. John N. Culbertson, of Iowa, to be Receiver of Public | Moneys at Fairfield, fowa, vice William H. Wallace, ro- moved. James Thompton, of Iowa, to be Register of the Land Office at Fairfield, lowa, viee Francis Springer, removed. Thomas A. Walker, of Iowa, to be Register of the Land Office at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, vice Robert L. Tidrick, resigned. Phineas M. Cassaday, of Iowa, to be Receiver of Pub- lic Moneys at Kort Des Moines, Iowa, vico Thomas A. Walker: Borton A. James, of Missouri, to be Agent for the Orage River Sacs and Foxes, Ottawas, and Swan Creok snd Black River Chippewas, ‘vice John’ R, Chenault, re- moved. DesPERATE StRvGGLE wiTh a BoroLar.—The usvally quiet village of West Newton was thrown into « great excitement this morning by a singular affair, tho articulars of which, as we are informed, are as fol- lows :—Between three and four o’clock this morning, the house of Mr. Elias B, Paine was entered by a stranger, the noise of whose movements aroused Mr. Joseph Paine, a eon of Mr. E. B. Paine, a young man of twenty five o: twenty-six y of age, who was sleeping in the lower yart of the house. Young Paine sprang from his bed and concealed himself in the corner of the room ju: the intruder entered. The man went directly to the bed, and seemed disappointed to find it unoccupied, uttering alight ejaculation. As he turned away Young Paine apieng upon him, and was immediately assailed with « dirk knife and stabbed in several places. Paine at last succeeded in wrenching the knife from the hands of his assailant, when the latter drew a pistol, which Paine asped, and by extraordinar fortune his little Koger was between thé cap and the hammer just as the fellow drew the tri, 5 e hammer of the pistol took a small of flesh ont of the . The fellow made @ second attempt to discharge t! struck his arm, and the ball entered the ceiling of the room. The struggle was then renewed, Paine in turn being the assailant, inflicting upon the fellow two stabs with the knife, The man succeeded, however, in getting out of the house, but closely followed by Paine, and the faked was renewed in the . Paine, finding himself growing weaker and fearing that the man would escape, tri him over a terrace back of the house and rol down an embankment of ten feet. when the stranger succeeded in himself, and escaped just as the —) who aroused by the report of the pistol which was fired dur- ing the stages in the house, arrived at the spot. ‘oung ine, who is of slender frame and has |i been somewhat feeble in bodily health, was severely bu' not He was much exhausted from loss of blood when the family reached the spot, and had been severely bruised by tne fall over the embankment. bly be confined to the house for many days by the injuries he |. No seven slabs were inflicted on his person, on hie side and arms, some of which are quite severe and very It is believed that assassination the object of the intruder, affair is involved in Cig “e Mr. Paine is one of the editors of the Yankee Blade. had Religions Intelligence. SERMONS, ‘The annval sermon before the American and Foreign Christian Union will be preached this evening by Rev. Dr. Cleaveland, of Northampton, Maas., in the Reformed Dutch church, Washington square, The annua! sermon in behalf of the American Home Missionary Society will be preached by Rey. Henry Smith, D. D., President of Marietta College, Obio, in the Church of the Puritans, Union square, corner of Fifteenth street, this evening. The annual sermon before the New York Bible Society will be preached by the Rey. Win. W. Halloway, of the Reformed Dutch Church, Brooklyn, this evening, at the Rev. Dr. Alexander’s church, Fifth avenue, coruer of Nineteenth street. Rey. Dr, Cheever will repeat his sermon delivered be- fore the New York and Brooklyn Foreign Missionary So- ciety, in the South Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, this evenirg. The reports of the Corresponding Secretary and the Treasurer will be presented. Services to commence at half past seven. An address will be delivered before the Society of In- quiry, of Union Theological Seminary this evening, by v. Wm. 8. Curtis, tat the church of Dr. Asa D. Smith, corner of Fourteenth street and Second avenue. The Sixth Associate Presbyterian congregation, for- nerly worshipping in Manhattan Hall, Fourth street, having removed to the church in Eleventh street, be- tween Second and Third avenues, Divine service to-day at 103g A. M., by the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Dinsmore, and at 81¢P.M.. by the Rev. Mr. Thomas, and in the evening, at 734 o'clock, by the Rey. Mr. Blair, Rey. John M. Macauley will preach in the South Dutch Church, Fifth avenue, corner of Twenty-first street, this evening, at 734 o’clock, on ‘‘The Evils of Excessive Devo- tion to Business.”” Religious services this eveni Scotch Presbyterian Church, (Rev. Dr. McElroy’s,) on Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue. Abstract of the annual report of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis- sions will be read by one of the secretaries. Sermon by J. N. McLeod, D. D, Address on Missions by . Duff. , at THs o’clock, in the INVITATIONS. Rev. Dr. Coit, of Trinity College, Hartford, who recent- ly received call from St. Paul’s Church in Troy, has accepted that call. Rey. R. N. Dodge, of Springfield, has received an invi- tation to accept the Chair of Languages in McDonough College, at Macomb, Illinois. Rev. Myron Barrett, of Dutchess cdunty, N. ¥., has ac- cepted the call of the Presbyterian Church in Newton, N. J., and will preach his first sermon to-day. INSTALLATIONS. Rev, Dr. FE. P. Rogers. was installed pastor over the Seventh Presbyterian Church, Penn aquare, Broad street, Philadelphia, on the 3d inst. Rey. Dr. Richards, formerly of Morristown, was received ato the Presbytery of Louisiana on the 14th ult., and nstalled pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church,’ New Orleans, on the following Sabbath, in the presence of a large congregation. DEATHS IN THE MINISTRY. In New York onthe 30th ult., Rev. William R. Stock- ing, late Missionary of the A. B. C.F. M. at Oroomiah, Persia, aged 44 years. Rey. Abner Chase, a highly esteemed minister of tho Methodist Church, died at Penn Yan, N. ¥., on the 23th ult., at the age of 80 years. Rey. William Matthews died in Washington City on the 20th ult., aged 84 years. He was for the last fifty years pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, in Washington, NEW CHURCHES. Tho new house of worship erected by the Broadway Baptist Church, on Twenty-third street, between Fift and Sixth avenues, will be dedicated to the service of Almighty God this forenoon. The religious exercises of laying the corner stone for the First Constitutional Presbyterian Church of Balti- more took place on the 2d instant, on the southeast corner of Green and German streets. The church recently erected in Taunton, Mass. Second Methodist encased Society, will be dedicated on Tuesday next, the 9th instant. The sermon, wo learn, is to be delivered by Rev. Dr. Peck, of New York. ‘The congregation of the Methodist Tabernacle Church, Philadelphia, dedicated a frame building on Sunday last. It is situated on Mervine street, above Jefferson, in the district of Penn. The building has been put up for use temporarily, the congregation intending to erect in a peor ae) ‘an edifice on the lot fronting upon Eleventh street. ‘The new church edifice on Broad street, between Spruce end Pine, Philadelphia, erected for the co} tion of the First. Reformed Presbyterian Church, was dedicated on the 80th ult. , for the MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev Mr. McKenuas, r of St. James’ Church, Sosneke James street, has recently purchased the Pro- nt mi house in Roosevelt street, known as the Mariners’ Church, or Bethel, for $20,000, This buildi is to be converted into a schoolhouse for the children St. James’ parish. The 0. 8. Presbytery of Dane, Wis., have resolved to overture the next General Assembly to ca gh oo Hymn Book a portion of ‘Rouse’s Version” of the Psalms of David. At the late meeting of the Second Presbytery of Phila- delphia, the Dutch Reformed Church of Roxborough, Philadelphia, at their own request, was received into Presbytery as an integral part. Rev. Mr. Maxwell, rector of St. Paul's Chureh, Tren- ton, has been appointed chaplain to the New Jersey State prison. The convention of the Protestant Episcopal Chureh for the diocess of Virginia, will be held this year at Lynch- burg, commencing on Wednesday, the 17th of May. The General Convention of the New Chureh (Sweden- Lorgian) in the United States will hold its thirty sixth an. nual meeting in Portland, Me., commencing on the 21st of June next, and continuing probably for a week. Dele- gates and visiters are expected from all sections of the country. THE ANNIVERSARY MEBTINGS. The following list comprises the varioug sociction which are to hold their anniversaries in this city during the present month :— SUNDAY, MAY 7. American Female Guardian Society, at the Mercer street Chureh, at 754 o'clock. Addresses by Rev. Presbyterian | Mr. Cuyler and others. MONDAY, MAY 8. Fifteenth Anniversary of the General Synod’s Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Dutch Church, in the after- noon, at the church corner of Fourth street and Lafay- ette place, and corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-arst street. American Seamen’s Friend Society, at the Broadway Tabernacle, at 734 o'clock P. M. Institute for the Blind, at the Tabernacle, in the afternoon. Anniversary of Union Theological Seminary, Mercer street Church, at 745 P. M. ich TUESDAY, MAY 9. Anniversary of tho American and Foreign Christian Union, at the Tabernacle, in the morning. foreign and Christian Union, at the Broad- way Tabernacle, at 103 A. M. Addresses by Rey. Dr. Green, . President of Hampden Sidne; College; Rev. Mr. Kirk, Rev. Dr. Bethune, and Rev. br. Dutt. Anniversary of the New York Sunday School Union Society, at the Broadway Tabernacle.” New York Colonization Society, in the Dutch Reformed Church in Lafayette place, at 73¢ o’clock. Addresses from R. R. Gurley, Rev. Mr. Peterson, lately from Africa, others. Anniversary of the American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society, at 8 o’clock in the evening, at the Eleventh street Church. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10. Annual meeting of the American Society for Ameliorat- ing the Condition of the Jews, for the election of officers and directors, in the afternoon, at the American Bible House. Anniversary of the Prison Association, in the evening, at the church in Union square. Addresses by the Hon. Richard Vaux, of Philadelphia; Rey. Dr. Tyng, New York; Cortlandt Parker, Esq. Newark, N.J.; John Thempson, Esq., Poughkeepsie; Rev. Mr. Fox, Brooidyn. American Tract Society, at the Tabernacle, at 10 o'clock A. M. Addresses by Rev. Dr. Duff; Rev. Mr. Oncken, of Germany; Rev. Dr. Green, President of the Hampden Sydney College, Va., and Rey. Dr. Brooke, of Baltimore. American Home Missionary Society, at 7% o'clock, P. M., in the Mercer street Presbyterian Church. Anniversary of American AntiSlavery Society, Mr. Chapin’s Church, Broadway. Anniversary (1st) of American Congregational Union, in Brookiyn. American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, at the Broadway Tabernacle, at 744 P. M. Five Points House of Industry, in the Broadway Taber- nacle, at 8 o'clock P.M. THURSDAY, MAY 11. Eighteenth Anniv; of the American Tem Union, in the evening, at the Broadway Tabernacle. American Bible Society, in the Broadway Tabernacle, at10 o'clock A. M. Business meeting at the Bible House at9 A.M, name day; after which the society and ite for the Tabernacle. ual friends will take . Anni sermon, Sunday, 7th at 734 o'clock, in Rev. Dr. ‘Aiexander's church. : FRIDAY, MAY 12. American Board of for Foreign Missions, in the Tabernacle, Addresses from at 10 o’clock A. M. several returned missionaries and others. Now York Anti Slavery Society, in the Tabernacle, at Thy P.M a SUNDAY, MAY 14. aaretns Bae os the Ms winged of Jewa, in Reformed Lafayet * at73¢ P.M. Address by Rev. John Forsyth, of Nevvasg. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN INDIA. Madras Examinér, Jan. The Madras Catholic > merl for the rading the Mala clading yan ‘There are nineteen of our tholic Church and 12,400 to 15,668. Dui stood at 14,106. The ministered in a year averages adults in fourteen years to the have amounted to 8,574, of whom Heathenism and 968 from Protestantism. from 1848 to 1853 inclusively, 5,075. ‘The compilers of the Madras Catholic Directory for ‘1854 have not been favored with any statistics of the. Secunderabad Vicariate, ond the estimated amount the Catholic population and the number and names of the clergy, Onreterence tothe Catholic fer 1853 we find that during tne year 1850, thirty-five adults from Paganism and Protestantism were baptised, 1,348 Catholics made their Paschal Communion, that the annual communicants in 1861 were 1,160, have looked into a series of Directories, 1849 to 1 and we find that our ® We without any n, gets & local habitation at the in the others. In the Madras le itor, for January 1852, we find that on some occasion there were six con- poe hee Protestantism, eight from Heathenism, an@ e from J In the Vicariate Apostolic of there were 115 conversions in 1852, viz.: taal oes Protea ene and 103 from heathenism. In Sonradah, at the foot is the Cuda hills, 200 natives have been converted the beginning of June last. In the year 1851 there were 68 conversions, of which 60 were from heathenism and 8 from Protestantism. We learn from the ‘< Bengal Di- ”? that there were 64 conversions in 1! viz.: & from Protestantism and 59 from heathenism. tal im four years, 447—viz.: 422 from heathenism and 25 from Protestantism. There are no returns of communions or communicants from this Vicariate. oe years of conversions or communi- cants in the Vicariate Apostolic of Pondicherry. The compilers of the Bengal Directory have omitted Pondi- cherry in 1851, and are no better informed in other years than our friends of the benighted. Adult baptisms during the year 1853 in the Vicariate stolic of Mysore are set down as exceeding 200, without any distinction of the classes from whi ish they are taken. We have looked back to the Madras Directory for the three preceding years, and find no re- cord of conversions. We find that the Mysore Vicariate has been alto, rr omitted five successive years in the Bengal Catholic Directory. In the Madras’ Catholic Ea- pacilor we find that ins period of six yéay® aiid three months, ended the Ist of March, 1844; there were 355 adult baptisms ia the cantonment of Bangalore; vis., 60. from Protestantism, and 205 from Paganism, and that the conversions from Paganism within the same period in the surrounding villages within a clrcuit of 60 miles, were 216, In the Vicariate Apostolic of Coimbatore the conver- sions during the year 1853 are set down at 200, all from heathenism. In three years ended the 30th of November, 1851, three hundred ‘conversions are recorded, prinei- pally from heathenism. We can find no return of com- versions in 1852. The Vicariate Apostolic of Coimbatore Inallogether omitted in the Bengal. Catholic Directory for In the Vicariate Apostolic of Madura during the year 1858, there were 83 converts from Protestan! and 166 from heathenism. In the year 1849 there were 200 converts from Protestantism, afid 400 from heat 5 No returns for the three intermodiate years. We have looked also into the Bengal Directory, but without suc- cess. In the year 1853 the number unions ad- ministered to the 20th of October wes 62,912, and the number of persons confirmed to the same date was 2,050. No return of the number of communicants. Fer the Vicariates of Quilon, Vera ‘and Mangalore we find no returns in the Madras o Directory for the last four ogee of conversions, comm or com- municants, We have examined the Di- rectory too, with no better success. In the ri a lic Expositor, while these three vicariates oti united under one head, we -find that in twelve months, re, from. ended the first of June, 1844, the conversions wei eoiies and from neath 663, In the follow le convé ions era) vin? fiom Pootestantion 49, fron tye ectociantea Sat, and from heathenism 985. In the following year the titm 80, conversions were 1,585, viz. : from Protestant’ from Syro Nestorianism $30, and from heathonism 1,025, In the following year the conversions were 1,799, viz: from. Protestantism 34, from Syro Nostorianism 813, and from heathenism 1,453. Total conversions in six 6,969, viz.: from Protestantism 232, from Syro Nesto 1.148, and from heathenimm 4,660 We find also in the itor @ record of annual or paschal Lgetinge | amounting in four years to 608,386, _ oe a eur pat hes sat ont a. en 1 uise"a ‘sons were con! tl ; ner firmed duriag same four ti of Beptersver 1853, wore 100, viz., from Protestantism 28, from heathenism and Mabometanism 72. No returns ‘of for former years, nor of commuuions or communicants. In the Vicariate there were 70 sions, and in the 1862, 30 conversions; total, vis., from Protestantism. 77, snd from eathonis a8 there were 10 conversions; the year 1851, 28; total, 47, viz., ism 20, and from heathenism 18. No record of conversions in the year 1850 nor in’ the two lpst years. No record of “nthe Vicariate Apostole of Western Bengal in ican ‘postolic ‘estern in four Years ended with November 1851, there were 72 conver- sions, and in the year 1852 12, total in five years 84, viz.: from Protestantiam 65, from Heathenism 18, from panes p as = can! be A Heretico-schismatie rmenians 4. From the lic Herald of the 19th of November last, we infer that in the four pees to 1848 there were 180 conversions, vis.: 2. ‘otestantiem 98, and from heathenism 82. | During the above mentioned nine years 141 children of heathen pa- rents were baptized, besides 17 children of Protestants conditionally. Our brother of the Herald must have find a whole taken up with the record of sions in that . In the years 1850 and 1851, three hundred and forty-three ns were and in the oa 1852 ninety-one. The communions ministered in paschal time in the several chi chapels have amounted in four years to 18,832, an average of 4,798 a year. This return gives an aj mate idea of the annual communicants of the though it gannot be perfectly accurate where or may be many frequent communicant Bengal the re- its. In the Vicariate Apostolic of astern corded conversions are thirteen, viz.:—In the rr 1848 six, in the year 1850 six, and in the year 1853 one; of which three are from Protestantism, and the rest from heathenism. No record of communions or communi- cants, nor of confirmations. In the Vicariate Apostolic of Ava and Pegu we find no records of conversions, communions, or communicants, except that 360 ms were converted in two years, ending June 80, 1860, its In the Bengal Catholic that in the yaer 1850 210 persons were cont Vicariate Apostolic of the Mala; yond the names and stations of mated amount of Catholi population, number of pupils in the have no further information on this toose statement in the Bengal Catholic that the yearly conversions are from 200 to 300, In the Vicariate Apostolie of Jaffna in the there were 501 conversions, and in the year Sad a eee, es heathenism with a few ex- ceptions. year the registered ba; were pes oer bom ch lo return of pliner 1m 5 In the Vicariate Apostolic of Colombo, the Madras tholic Directory has no record of communions, esl nicants, or conversions. The Bengal Catholic ‘Director; hasa record of 2,201 conversions in this Vicariate in and 1851, viz., from Protestantism, 1,247, and from hea- ve a total conversions to the Catholic faith the. 4 ‘ears. of 17,398 souls, vis. theniem 054. The foregoing ieperfect returns uring the last heathenism 11,717, Tow ayee Ieee ER from Mahometaniam 8, and from the Armenians 4, nondescripts 805. Affairs in Washington. (Correspondence oft the Journal Ka ong Wasurncton, May 4, Thc Mexican treaty will b sont, on : via New gre ited Mr. At BE, se Le