The New York Herald Newspaper, December 25, 1855, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1855. INDEX TO THE YEAR 1855, Chronology of Remarkable Events in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South and Central America. Progress of the World Outside of the United States, ESPECIALLY PREPARED FROM THE FILES OF THE NEW YORK HERALD, ‘We give in the fellowing chronolegy the remarkable events outside of the United States, except those of the war between Russia and the Western Powerr. We intend to throw those together in a separate chronology, and publish it in a day or two. JANUARY, 1.—tThe Foreign Enlistment bill of England, passed dn Parliament on 224 of December, 1854, went into ope- vation....The city of Vienna was visited by a destruo- ive hurricane... Admiral Laugerre, of the French navy, dombaried the city of Shanghae, (China,) with the ships Wolbert end Saint Jean d’Acre, im order to punish the in- surgents,..,A new Copyright Convention between France aad Spain came into force... The Austrian railways ceded to French capitalists in guarantee of a loan of two hun- rei millions of florins,...A new postal treaty between Brgland and France was put in gperation, and the post- age of ten pence redupsd to four pence on prepaid tvtiers ‘of vot more than one-quarter of an ounce wi te 9,—The King Regen’ of Portugal opened the legislative mension with a sativiactory speech....A destructive ever- flow of the waters of the river Elbe occurred, and the flood tide rere to the extraordinary height of 20 feet 1 due, less by three inches enly of that state of high water whieh cansed such enormous losses in January, 1825, havirg then rose to 20 fect 4 inches. The damage done at Homburg was estimated a* four millions of marks, and tm Hanover many of the dykes gave way, flooding the land for miles and carrying off pereonaand property in the tor- yeni. The New York and Hamborg packet ship George Can- ming was lost, with ail on board, at the rnouth of the Elbe. veeeThe subscription to the French Joan of 500,000,000 of frones ordered by the Emperor, was opencdia Paris... A grand Imperial reception tou t the Taillevies, when the Princesses Baseano and a) bore up the train of the Kmprese Pug 3.—Announced in Paris that the Inst outstanding city of Algeria had surrendered to the French arms on the 4 of Lost Vecombe 4.—The Logivtature of New Mexico met in sossiony and Hon. Jose Autonio Boca Y Kino was elected Pr dest of the Conncii,,.,Mevting of capitalists in Madrid Mo concert messnrer fora Bons ot reals, in order to cov ef San Ferrando «uh Rothachild 6,000 001 gether, 23,000,000. &—The Diet of Saxony met in session....A battle wou fought near the gates of Lima, (Ieru,) between the wmoops of General Castilla and the government forces, wader General Echenique, when the latter was routed and Castilla entered the city in triumph, after which the castic and squadron were surrendered to him Ameri- con whip Ringleader arrived in Hobson’s bay, (Aus trali,) from Boston, in geventy-eight days, afver a de tention at Pernambucv. She 1am three hundred aad thirty six miles in one day. 6.—The Bavarian army was placed ona war footing... The reported reristance of the United States government to the payment of the Sound Dues, first known io Cypen bagen, causing much alarm, Sunpay, 7.—The town of Jachitan (Mexico) pro. nooneed against the government of San‘a Auna, and the revolusiun, which ended in his flight, was commenced. 9.—the brig Corinthian, feom Livecpyel to Cateulta, was rundown in the Mersey by the Ur steams ty Hacitic, from New York tion of many ¢ stork the tranyier of } to the crown, brought ino the Sarcisian Legislature, Sardinia had joined the Wost- place vecnment Joan of forty zatl- it, whoa the Bank 00, the house of cf the termination of the New Granada and the overthrow of Melo—on the 4th of New York. General 4 in i... ‘The Spanish ship Pri Oriesns for Barcelona, he lipper Typh soa ‘alcutta in ninety day the Uhird buried with great pomp i scriptions to the ¥ t hundred and ninety millions of fro weeding the derant (600,000,0001.) vastly | King ehameha the Fourth sworn in as King of the Sand mera de Cateiune, wrecked on Green Key nd the 2 government loan Property bill... Messrs. Reed and Dougherty, American merchants, seiled from Monolalu (*. 1.) tor Hikedadt (Japan) in erder to rettle t under the Perry treaty. 13.—A new constitution fur Spain was submitted to the Chambers of Cortes. The main features were, that sove- reignty emana‘es from the nation; that the religion of the nation is Roman Cathoiic, but that toleration will be al- Jowed; that the press shal be free; that the coptiveation of property and the death penalty for political offenses wre abolished; the National Guard is established; tho Legislature shall be compored of two Chambers; Sen» tors are to be elected for life, on property qualifications; one Representative for every fifty tuousend citizens; the Cor- tes eball meet annually, in October, for tour months; the Cortes shail regula‘e the strengih of the army, give as- sent to royal marriages, #od appoint a vegency when oe- easion requires. 16.—An imperial decree, regulating the passage of emigrants from and into France, published in Paris. 18,—The Mexican schooner Bonita landed one hundred and five Yucatan Indians io Havana, were they were ail sold into slavery, although on'y prisoners of wat of Santa Anna’s officer, Colouel Jimenez. 19.—The Mexican papers aunouvesd that the Uaited Btates roment had taken formal pageession of the Merilla +++e,4 motion for a vote of want of conti- dense in the Spanish ministry debated in Cortes, and los Dy 158 to 60 votes. 20.—The French loan all taken in France, and Peglish Geposits, of six millions of pounds sterling. to be r A by Baring Brothers... neral Jose Tadeo Monagas ¢: meneed his Presir (four years) in Venezuela, in ploce of his brother, Jove Gregorio Monagas. tunpay, 21.—The Queea of Naples waa delivere! of a won. 22.—Pius the Ninth condemned the Sardinian gyvern- ment in an allocu’ion eneral Concha reviewed these thourand Spanish troops—colored and white —in Cuba ‘3.—Two thousand men of Santa Anna's army baving Geserted afd joined Alvarez, in revolution, a large body of them entered the - The British Par Mament met, after av, New Year. 24.—An international copyright law between Eng- Jand and Pelgiam ratified. h.—Severa dred revolutionary soldiers of New Grapada, tollowers of Melo, arrived at i’anama, to work 1» wenvicts. 27.—Senor Portilla, of the Spanish Cortes, democra'is seotion, Vice-i’ragident of the body by 112 to 107 votes over the ministerial candidate. ; 28 —Tho first train of railroad cars passed over the Panama railroad, from Asptowall to Pana.ca, and thus connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Me, pplied for bis passports as United States Minister 4 40.—The first lot ot passengers from New York to Caliiornia were carried over the Panama rail vey, thus mating the en'ire transit by s'¢xm. 31 —The cities of Cosenza and Potenza @d by severe shocks of earthquake....Major W Emory, on part of United States, and Don Jose Salazar, for the Mexican government, fixed the initial point of ‘the boundary line between the two countries, as follows: fe, the undersignod, have this day assembled fo witness ying of the toundation of the monurnent which is to mark he inital print of the boundary between the United Sta‘es wud Mexico; on the part of be United States by William Hensley Binary riof Mexico by Joseph Salazar, Lat, 3! if Its. 4 no. q XANDER, Com’g at Port Bins CALEB SHERWOOD, Collecior. ¥, K. SMITH, Commanding Escort, JORE SALAZAR, Commissioner. JOUN SANCHEZ Perfecto ANTONIO LOPRI Oornmandante. GUADALOUPE MIRANDA, Vice Consul. VICENTE AGUIERRE, Adminis rador, «++. Two bundred and thirty-eight Driush veevels were wrecked during the month. YEBRUARY. 1.—The United States steamer Water Witch, engaget ion of the Tred into from the Parsguayan battery cf the Guardia Carracho at the Paso del Rey, Tne shot cut the whee; oper, disabled the steering wheel, ant mortally woun!- cd the man atthe helm. The fir reterned from the sicamer and considerable execution done by the Shrap nell shells and grape, as the distance was short. The steamer returned to Corrientes, the shallowness of the water, or the want of knowledge of the pilot, only prevent. ing her from reaching the uppet waters of the Parana... A large detachment of the Britich Wert India fleet arrived at Havana....The Congress of New Granada elected General Mosquira President....The cities ef Vera Cruz and Mexico much damaged by shocks of earthquake... Mognetic telegraph communication between Bombay, ‘Madras and Calcutta, (E. I.,) opened. This enterprise embraces a distance of over 2,000 miles, and was com. Bri in # little more than a year. The distance from ae ree 170 miles, so that, with the com- r Jeut. jon of 3.—Four Spanish war ships left Cuba on an anti-fili- Dustero eruize. SUNDAY, 4—General Alyarer entered the eity of Aca: prepare for a warch to- yuo from Southern Mexico ward the geri. Conamet Sine i alty British Larisa “to Polish Jews denished from Russian by royal order. 6.—The tellowing persons were arrested im Havana, owing to the dread cf another invasion from the Unived States:—Senor Ramon Pinto, Director of the Liceo, (Ly- ceum); Senor Echevarrin, Managing Direstor of the Car- ceves Railroad; the Chief Engineer of the same; Dr. Joas Frurilles; Senors Barbia, father and two sons; Senor Cadalzo; two passengers of the Crescent City steamship were alro taken as prisoners, 8.— General Alvares established a provisional govern- ment in the city nf Acapuleo, Mexico, adverse to Santa Apna..,, Attempt made on Geveral Concha’s life ia Havana, The pslace was illuminated with gas, which was suddenly torned off, whon the supposed conapiracs imcovered and eighty of the leaders in it arrested, ine ettag Conthe secre ary and two Americans, 12.—The steamship Petrél, chastered by the French government, was burned in the harbor of Bona... Severe earthquske shock in New Zealand. 13.—The American schooner Caroline E. Foote sailed from Honolulu for Japan via the Bonin Islands. 14,--Mr. Soulé, late Minister at Madrid, left England «mn _reute to New York... The Spanish Cortes, by vote of 210 to 21, passed an indemnity to the Ministry for their action in expeliing the Queen mothe .--Cuba was declared in a slate of siege by the authori‘ies....The French frigate Semmillante, from Toulon, was lestin the Straits of Bonifacio, and four hundred seldiers with two hundred sailors drowned. 16.--The Britith Parliaunent met after prorogation -Mr. A. H, Helsted, of the American schooners Flying Dart, wan seized by the Mexican anthorities at Colima for travelling without a passport. 17.—The perts of Ancona and Civita Vecchia declared free porta by the Pepe. ScnpaY, 18.—The populace of San Juan del Norte, ex- cited against the Americans, at‘acked Cap‘ain de Brissot, who had te fly to the United Sta*es Consulate for shelter. 20,—The Charleroi and Louvain Rail-oad, Belgium, opened... .City of Florence, Italy, iaundated by an over- flow of the river Arno, and. much done to rail- reads, cattle and food supplio#....Toe Tiber overflowed its banks at Reme aad damsged the city badly....A Bra- zitian squadron, under Admiral Ferreira, reached Tres- docas, a port near the junstion of the rivers Paraguay and Parana, where a communication was received from the Commander of the Fluvial Potive of Barsgaey; tothe effect that he waa ready to forward to President Lopez a request that the ordinary diplomatic courtesies sould Ye given to the Brazilian plenipotentiary. £1.—American treaty with Japan ratified at Simoda,,. ‘Tremendous food riots ceeurred in Liverpool and London, whee great distress ¢xisted.,,.Since 1813 there had not been #0 cold a winter 1n Great Britaia, ani the Thames and Liffey were frozerover....The President of Paraguay addrereed the people and ary on the subject of the in- vaston of their territory by Brazil. 22.— Washington’s birthday celebrated in Paris..., Geversls Thomas and Francisco Moreno defeated near Buena Vista by Sante Anna’s cavalry, and the latter made prisoners, 26 --Sonta Arma left the city of Mexico suddenly, at- tended by a body of troops.,..The cities of Rome and Rolegna connected by electric telegraph, and Pius the Ninth transmitied his blessing along the line from Saint Peters... Treaty of peace, commerce and extradition of i between Spain and fan Domingo, signe’l at Formation of the new State of Panama voted ot New Granada at Bogota, and approved of by the Vice President ...The ci! y of Broussa (Tarkey), visited by two shocks of earthquake, the first of whiok destroyed four hundred ard forty-five lives, and tho se- ecnd two hundied snd four, whilst one-sixth’ part of the city was burned by a fire caused by the falling of hoases, leva broke out in Tuseany with violence... One hundred and sixty-four vessels (British) were wreck- ed ducing the month, 78. — MARCH, 1.—Peruvian war steamer Rimac, from Callao, ked on the rock %f Saint Johns, where about four hundred natives and soldiers perished... Marringe of Prince Czarteryski with one of the daughters ofQaeea Christina and the Duke of Rianzares celebrated in the chapel of the Chatean of Malmaison, Frange, The Cardi nal Archbishop of Bordeaux offi 1. Que caused herseli to be represented on the oe royal mother, and the King Don Fr de Riavzeres. A great wany Spaniards and Poles of the highest distinction were present. 5.—The Empress of Austria delivered of a daughter ia Viewn €.—United States mail steamer Fl D fired into and brought to by the Span'sh war frigate Forrolana, when off Gape San Antonio, ine voyage to Havana from Aspinwall,...M. Reybaud, Consul General of France at i General amnesty for politi- sequence of the ace.ucho- at of the Kmprest,...'the Novaro and Vercelli Railway mont) opened. Hawaiio Legislature mst at Honolulu > held her fourth levee f n txabells cal offences in Austria, in rr Queen the season... Oaptain incoln, of the American bark Maria, stabbed oy a rentry on duty at Buenos Ayres when in & dificulty with bim. ona (New Gran’ ‘ortes voted the exlst to 155 votes... Sens tor, eame time ennounced ihe e isicy to annex the island to the Unite niion of nent to liberate the slaves ) Railroad opened. ce of & Legislative ariaga, Fo- etokea by the impertalists of 2 returned to the cil ts of Ramo Pivw, Mevana bi vol family of F where the Emperor re ship Falmouth,.,.Port of Marseiiles visited by a fulstorm, and rouch damage dene to the shipping, any lives los 14.-Farl rd Lieutenant left Dublin, a by Dart of € le. 15-4 enravan cf pilgsims left Marseilles for the Holy and. of Ireland, sph line between Spain ani Piedmont, £0, OF , ish ship Countess of Seafield lost off tho Pra- tax Shoal, when runzing trom Shaoghae to London ‘The Japatese Govercor of Hakodadi ordered all Am cans to quit the city, except those rick or after shi wreck,...Severe street fighticg in Tehuantepec between the Mexican pronuncieudas und the government troops. The United States Consuler flag was insulted by the Jat logived. amon Pinto, a Cuban patriot, garrotted in Ta- Mis. H. M. 'Doty, of Virginia, wnd Mrs. W. C. York, American ladies, (the fixst,) landed UNDAY, 26.—The folowing persons were arrested in Havana on charges of treason, disaflestion, &e. : tillo, casbier of the bank (‘ caja de on al es’ate broker of the same inati , 4 vol th ‘ nteer oflicer; Franciseo and Aug a), and a Senor Aragon (Christian. not reny ).” Two priests brought fa privone from the country and put in the royal jail....Conspiracy to overthrow tlie existing govera neat of San Dowingo dureovered 20.— Newspaper Stamp Duties bill real a soon’ time Engtish Commons by vote of 215 to 161 members. Sania Auna’s army deleated—Afteen hundred in- gente under General Thomas Moreno, on the Costa ps routed the insurgents unter o, at Cruz Grande. ainpes, a naturalized citizen of the a States, was gurrotted at Havyana..., Fourteen ican whalors wore Iovt at Honolula during the sea- ne hundred aud forty-nine Britiske vessels lost the month. APRIL 2.—The American ship George Hurlbut, from Antwerp, for New York, came in collision with H, B. M. ship Dake of Wellington, sailiyg from the Solent for the I ic. Both vessels much damaged. 4—Santa Anna left Mexico cily for Tacubaya, and re- fused to receive Senor Juan Autonio y Yayes ax Minis from Spain. b 5.—Amerioan steamer North Carolina, from Philadel phia for Liverpool, lost near the Tuskar lights, by colli sien with the rhip Robert, for New Orkans, Hans saved. 6.—Act of Congress of New Granada, ere: rate State of the provinces of the ‘xthmu:, namely—lana- tia, Aruero, Veraguas, and Chiriqui, under the nemo of the State of Panamea—was published. Ite toun tarts on the west are t w Granada ant Coata Rica and a future law Is to d mite which will sepa errilory of the republis. ‘Tne that which is peraited by }, OXe in the following tnstances, fn which it is dealared to depend upon New Granada:— 1. Ryerything relative to fo 2 ‘The org ion aud ser aval affairs & National cred & Naturaliza ing a n affairs. ce of the standing army and of foreigners, 5, Nenional r teand disbursamente. 6. The wre of tbe ‘lag and arms of the ropubite, i Au Teiative to We wasie lands that the nauon reserves to tive &. Welghte and measures. The Asser)! to consist of thirty one members, to be spp Chiriqui. Panama Varaguas..... 1.—Col, Wheeler, 0. & Min sented bis credentials ‘0 lresider 9 —tieneral Corral e'ected I’re 10 —The Spanish government lc Peale ren'ized in Madrid... , Cit visited by another earthqua! the stone buildings, while the wooden ones were barnet up. The Jews’ quarter of the city was buried under Luge mastes of earth and rock, detached from the adjassn: movntain. The village of Zikindjl, one loague fr Broussa, was totally dee'royed, The earthquake appen ed to be o 160 whe having oocurred within 24 hours. of life waa not kuowa..,.Jamaica, Legislature proregaed, 11.—Two hundred Yueatan Indians rol! in Cuba by the Mexican government, at arrangec contract pri sp American reLooner Caroline BE, Foote sailed frow (Japan,) for Kamechatka, taking away « crew of the wrecked Rtvrian frigate Diaua 12.—Vive the Ninth, with many bishops ont! officers, while dfuing at tac monestery of yin near Rome, were precipitated to the groun! the tir giving way, aud narrowly escaped death, 18.—Revelt of the Spamieh troops in St. J. )ne (Porto Rico,) and the Castle of San Crixtoval seid by { T.—A geverpment opn of £15,000,000 p= Pie Petersborg. to ber capitatists...,Oholera raged intens:- 16 —Napoteon with the Empress Euzenie, ived in ‘att to hilt ee SE Hewilen Minister of Marine of France, and dated the paper at Windsor Mw—Louia Baker, monrder of Wiliam Foole, was arrested of New York, 4 with the Grand Ca- Farthquake felt at Falmouth and hoek Jameica,... Don Felipe Molina, late Minister from Cusia Rica to e United States, was buried at San Jose... The Densig (steamer), of Danzig, from Stettin, with many isn passengers, and a crew of eight hands, thee at Memel, struck upon the south side, and sunk; two parsengers only raved. ve in order to treat with the Captat 20,—Comunodore MeCauley, in the San Jacinto, fiag'ship of the Gulf squadron U.S. Navy, arrived at Ha- sin General of Cubs on the Sees existing between the Spanish and United States governments. 21 the Emperor and Empresa of France landed at Bowtogne on their return from England. finanelal budget of the The chief points were as follows : produce ££3,259,000, and the pablic Sunpay, 22. in review in Hi ral Concha passed the 9 troo: ana before Commodore MéCauley, U. 8. ‘28.—The English Parliament discussed and ace, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, ho existing taxes will neceseitt amount to £86,359, 000. for the following purposes :—Charge fur the debt (including th the army, £16,214,477 1 din., £3,000,000 for the navy, £16,663,012; for the ordaance, £7,803 042; for the civil vervies, £6 500.(0 present loan), £27,074,000; for 4 do., £3, for Sardinian loan, £1,000,000; on genaclidated fond anornnt, 21,750,000; to rep'ace Savings Pank stock, £1,000, ti cieney is £28,000, quer propores to eupply it from the following source ngencies, margia for con. 501. The doi. , and the Chancellor of the Exsbe- £4,400,000-—-Total, £86 Gm. aCcitional du'y per cwt. on sugar, estimated to yteld £1,200,060; 1d. ner Ib. do, on ooflen, £150,000; 3d. do! on tea. spirits and cent additional on income tax, £2 000.000; 1d = Ib, £750,000; 1s. 104. additional tax on Setch s, do. on Inich epivits, 21,000,000; 21 ver on bankers? cheques, £200,000—Total, £5,200.000.... Messrs. Roths- chil upon @ basis valuin copsols, and 1s, 6d, had taken the new Evglish loan of £16,000,000, @eprols at 80, viz.:—at £100 in the ehape of snoaity, terminable in thirty years, 25,.—Fent ors Tinelo and Cadalza embarked at Hayana for Spain, on bani-bment. ' 26.--Ceneral Concha entertained Commodore McCauley, U.S. N., with his officers, at dinner, ia Havana. 28,—Thirty Spanish war vessels, with 2,948 men and 208 guna, were erulsing in the Cuban waters Cavour and all the Sardinian Cxbinet hod res! the King had sppointed General Durando Peombsr. Prince Louis Lucien Benaparte fract by an accidental {a2 in London discharged two pistol riding near the Chateau de Viours in the . Count ‘ed one of hin iegs novi, an Italian, Japoleon, when mps Elyséea, at the and was arrested, tebere on the Quic Journey from Sam Fra Brit to pre sive against the Shah of sight heavily armed steamehips, six » river boats wel! armed, and twelve gun ih was to be commen. commander in chit Sonpay, —At coed 4.—Bank ot Kegland reduced the rate of fat from 43g to 4 percent..,.The ehiy G. 1, Lav Cept. Cobb, of New York, was burned h expedition, consistin 20,—American steamship Gollen Age rau ra reef, near Paoama, when on her iseo. , an important and powerful of 15,000 men, were resdy f and commence the oifea- hat territory. Tb Bonbay, to the Persian G MAY. crew, and twelve passengers, were rescued by Cortages, of Amsterdarm, and landed at Mymouh..., Ter rifle eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 5.—Colonel William Walker sailed from Sen Pranclise in the brig Vesta en route tv > cratic army against Cty men with him, including A. L ford, (nephew of Gen. Pate of Lieut. Meriiman, of the Unite cy:) Edward Riegs, Chor Fdward Raw), of New ¢ Williamson, F. Anderson. nard, Jopn Marevm, Col Chas, Brog Cuban expedition, under Loy denas, with 19 Americans; he at West. war; Col. Hornsby was also ic nearly aliof the revolution against Gen. Naneve, Lordy, a Feries of resoln fons to princip'e of adwinistr: ( down of Nap Ia Republi 15,—Napoleon opened the } favorable ‘eireumsta Mr. 14.—1 ord 18. Zapienea, The revoluticnists, uncer taken in the evening, when Lieut conveyed standards take more than 2,000 pri and death cries f lowers for ook bf Three fi and their bodies the prikoners, #1 tro, were hot t seming in 1g. iv was perceived nove eld. 16 —fur ‘The m ), James Sands Williamson was 4 id orm) in d HMenborongh mova, in tie ‘1 to 71 votes was gullic as the plank tu and deriege’ Ze view of amor, the will re ry g the river Duero fi sn immense le DM swamp whi » a distance of move than a lego suitable distance rtillery waa pla to b ant pte hy es wee tarown into! ¢ following morning, kirh feast of the Ramazan commenced north side of Jamaica, W. 1, w m, and by floods, which wert ¥ to property op thw extates, and in the especially. Acres of canes we ‘ the soil. 5 Kave, the ay gator, c é journey to Upe. Igus ng h “ travelling ecmmenced a correspondence with € of Customs, on the jollowing subj inland tax upon tea, in its tran uth of the river; ofan i te tle ma count of from 20 to 27 per cent was i them with the Spanish or Carolus dollars,’ s were of equal, er nearly equal non-existence of bucys or sigua’s the river, and a! pom's were setth 25.—New Income M'sx bill of England re ‘The old one was passed in 1842. fter aban gh Spa 4,—Mr. rthe n bet one big, which y #, and being exp ur days nish revelation in Sars Marphy, United States cond of Mexican and other dollars, on wh sed, to ¢ Jue; i factlitics to ne favorably 10 Amer bundred and fifty,thousand bales were sold in Liverpool during ‘a week, being the leegest hiwo trade ever knowa. thousand men, in otker officers, with ether musint Santa Anna lef: Patzenaro ¥ r to attack Gen Comonf Monterey city (Mexico) taken Gen, Cardena, with sixty: en prioners. ‘Twenty-rix on of war, fell tuto the hands rs, Wer opponents of the government P ¥8.—Defeat of Curlist iovurgent cnn inourgents, un itseyuca b at Valanquiza.. .Mext der i Ant Santa kigned by the Kin, Minister to Spain, ceived by tue Fmpe They we: by the Hon. Jchn Y. Mason, United States Mini 31 —Corlist insurrection in Spain quelled... terial crisis vegan in Madrid. Madox, Lugan, Luzuriaga, Aguerre and Santa Cruz baving resigoed, were euscemied by Broil, Martinez, Zahola, Fuente, Andras and Haclver, A cowpulsory loan’ of 200,000,000 reals, in anticipation of taxes had been imposed. ma elected... 1.—Depn JUNE. ties to the Congress of the State of Pana- The Spanish government had thirty-tive thousand ecldiexs in Cuba, made up as follows:—Infunte; and caval Catalan regiment, pasved fiom Po:to Rtco to the Havana; 2,000 negroes, whom the government authorized the Cap tain General to enlst; abody of Gallegos—soldiers who have served out their time 15,000 men, to Which was added 1,090 of the & battalion of marines from Ca iz, 700 reeruite, who railed at the same time for the rae place, with ¢.C60 cons . Sidi Mah 3e7 of Tunis n of the late Ahmed, ascended the throne. see New cabinet of Sardinia, composed of Cavour, 1 cent; Cidiaria, Minisier of Foreig Instriction; Ratarzi, Luterfor Ws rj 1 Affsirs; La Detoresta, Jus nlevenssa, Public works, structive gele (commenced n'ght befwre) in the harbor of Maratian, Mexico, destroyed forty li vessels end €5,000,600 worth of Te arp shewed ihe revenue ot I ave Deed £10,200,000, and the expeudi rfog th ch war eteamer Colbert lost at Nangasaki, D —Colonial Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope ex- einpted ste erica Whalers from wha: fage duties, for rechipraent, by jaw. Svxpay, 16.— Launch of the nex Ruseiana at Japan, in w rt north. ner Heda by the they sailed for 11.—Cugliari, Italy, visited by an earthquake. Nave 13,—Commedore Rodgers, U.S eo. inter rived in Simo- ayy aa with the North Pacific sy and hid an ew with the chief rulers on the violation of the Perry treaty. The Commodore was «Applied with wood and water after rome trouble. 16,—-King Kamehameha the Fourth suddealy dissolved the Sindwich Islands Legislature, a¢ mombers refased to ‘ plies. npaY, 17—Ton. Aogustua C. Dodgo, 0. 8. Minister to Spain, prevented his credentials to Queen Isabella in Mae i Park, Lengot racteg Di.” ¥ a Sunpay, —Lord Howden, British Mini » left Madrid for a Serious popular demonstration in Hyde ee Lora Robert Grosvenor's Suntay ny peers were forced to leave theic to church. ‘eabody entertained ex President Fill. many other distinguished Arericans, at din- a. m Walker arrived at El Gigante Bay, 24. hips Styx, Encounter and Tartar ars rived et Hokedeci (Japan) feom Potropaulowski and Gas! be in th f of Tartary. The French were nego- with the Japanese, at Nangasaki. The Tad not been ratified though it was in pos- Ginival Stirling, who intended to exchange it, g (eieted the york ke Lad om bag g the defeated ‘k om Rivas. north. Admfral rene. oo Se Tostonel Welker snd party artived ot Tula, und =, ae party of cavalry, which they 29.—Colonel Wolker fought the battle of Rivas, dnd war defeated by the governinent troops with a loss of ten men killed and nine wounded. The list 15 ofcers and French Guiana, and raj cf August, durieg which time the civil and mi wervice of eluding 113 men of x and 27 sailors. The convicts, amoun'iog in July to 8,280, had 263 deaths among them. 18 gendarmes 160 men.... Yellow infantry, artil! wernment army fever broke out in with it violence to the 17th number of victims ia og colons medi, in- ‘The epi- demic was peculiarly maliguant at the Isles Royal and St. uorefined av, Joseph, r Bring yearend on this ay Gaited Kington, were iw) im 145,180 ewt. retained for home consumption. Or aD these 3,150,200 ewt. were the produce of the Wet I 1,237,678 cwt, ib the produce of dye. ewt, luce of 233,696 crt. of Til and ait, a6b ow’, frsign pre. iia, 3, cws. The quantity of refined sugar and ean ed amounted to 358,909 ewt. (actual weign') imported wan 892,050 owt., and the gregaie of the entries for home eonsumpti ‘The quantity of rum imported was 8,622,701 gal- dy porte ly unpor' The quantity of molasses ion, 969,176 Jore, and the quantity entered for heme consumption, ‘The amount of duty received in the 3.290.845 gallons. United Kingdom was, on unrefined sagar, £4,804.213: refined sugar and candy, £310 620; on molasves, £215, ; 00 234; on svgar and molasees together, £5,350,067; and on rum, £1,984,119, JULY. Sunpay, 1.—Fearful popular demonstration in Hyde Park, Loudon, against the ‘Sunday Trading bill? of Lord Grosvenor, which had to be withirawn from Pariia- ment, 2.—The Senate and LegisJature of France eonvokel by the loan ef one hunéred and fifty miMions of dolla: Federal Aseembly of Swi:zerland met in session. $.——The King and Queen of Belgium arriyed m England ++4-The Poliee Court of Havre sentenced to two years im- prisonwent and # fine of 200 francs each fif een American ‘flora convieted of having taken part in a riot. Params met for the firet time. 19.—-The Santhals of British India commenced a serions revolt against the authorities in the Rujmebal Hills, pear Caleutta. ror to arrange for the negotiation cf another . The DAY, 16.—Constituent Assembly of the new State of 20-—M, Franchi, the Pope’s Nuncio, left Madeid in consequence ot the passage of a Church Property bill! by the Covter, and its enforcement b: tal of Puesla and the efties of Vera Cruz, for ae the “three cities,” Mexioo, pronounced for San'a Anna’s troop abandoned the eity of Cencral Gonzales, with a troop of insurgents, AUG! the ministryy...The espi ly kaown 2.—-The sailors of the U. §. ship Powhatan fought a des- perate battle with ¢ hirese pirates, and, warship, defeated them, The followin killed and wounded:—Nitled—Joneph A. Hulsey, Isaac Coe and Joha Pepper. and Rolando, R. Ad ‘Tingwell. Woun meson, J dod by @ British 3 Pegram lergart, $. Mullard, H. Hounnell, R. Waldersshmid:, J, Lewis, W. Taylor and C. ‘The officers empl-yed estimate the number ef guns taken at 200, large amd mall, and the pirates at yal Sania Anna dented a rumor of his iatended in a proclamation to the Mexican people, —Senor Zay ss, Spanish Minister, was received by the Mexican government,,.,Santhal insurcection io British india roged in Moorshedabad, Beerthoom and other dis- triets, 8.—Colonel Walker loft Chinaudag retyeat through Cor 2 cvcres from the city of Mexivo d of Vera Cruz, 1 amicg the fo lo power, in accor’ the execut® posed of his Excelleney th: Court of Justice of the na! ion Don Generals of Div’ Carrera, Itone or or their place shail eral of Division. x the ne my Jud of Te: sormsiy with or © dained Ana: * de and Sigth Brit dent ‘a sm for Havana, cent of sige d Attnire Of hi cae Gen Caren cen Victeria, escorted by England to Holougne to visi: Napsleo ‘ont Blane was made from Chamounix ta Rica... .¢ Preside fari ai both 6 be o ned by h Dow & 1 7 Jge suflici arin; th gates ye equesio® th revi ion enl ove s Anse arrived da they ma enter the pail Feveral eh rah ish milo Diaz de le Hency the Genersi of T Jomil, in the ordez in. wi fur ix months. bd upon by the po d farama conn nizatin of the it lajo after a | Sasste Anna issued to the Governor cer of snecession to h the Stato paper of Mareh 16, 1854:—An exeovlive power is named, com- of the Supreme Lxcntlencies the ‘and Don Martin is Kx |, oF declares, hy ac o destinations, where Tur § thove Generals should die, bis lency the and his jon Don Ygoacis Mora y ch they are named, These Hall enter into the exercise of their fanctieny actual President di signed with his hand, that he can no longw tho supreme command, from any trap diaee t....Prom July 4 vai he Fox. dear -8 federal government no fewer t © he ha? received from his eourt irected against vari " ity of Mextos, in ional govern: Tae stat Hd r at mt the palace. reme agh the They elvitated thy which was at on, aud in the ired the com- © Act ot people of Mexico, recwering the use of thelr inaliena*ie usurped by Antonio Lopez de Sania Anno and his per- administration, solemnly deciared, in the tave of the hel articles:— fof the movement will immediately organ. nal Coard, ns the preserver of public order. sp Wolverine lost of the Mos- variiamen: proregud by commis- Fillmore intreduco’ to the Emperor avi nna arrived at Veva Cruz from Pe- Jker at San Juan del Sur, and began Santa Anna embarked at Vera Cruz before day and i 2 ell _powerfal in Mexi- yy six ships of war, cross- W. Heard, of Boston, aud Mr, J. A. Chapman, from Eng- land. 1S8.— excorted be poleon the cans from J on the fro: Md ruled at r price in Lo fer, in which ‘They wanted to force the passage nf the £4 per ounce at Sy nilon wasenly £3 74. 10350, Yeon met Queen Vietor!a at Boulogne, and she visited the tom) of Nw ct between a party of Ameri- Lrasilian garrison of Tabatings, ix Americans were killed. Amazon river. y in Ausiwalia, 22,—New York end Newfoundland Telegraph Com| began to wy a rubmarine cable, in order to connect te Ray and Breton. 24 —General Santa Anna arrived in Havana with his family....Saint Croix, W. I, vieited by vere hurri- cane, in Which the French bark Content, with all hands, war lost. 8 Angers... nirg to 8.= ceney of Uruguay. rd of all its houses Hy, a dreadful Santa Anna left Havana for Caraccas..., of Frenchmen, belonging to the ‘+ Mari- Society, attempted to, plunder the elt City of San Domingo visit <ricane,’ and one thi Tax own down, and wost of the crops in the neighborhood destroyed. ‘Dur- iog the honrs of the hurrisane, the wiad blew with ox- traordinary velocity. The clouds were very low, threat- uch the tops of the buildings; and the sea was feet higher than the surface ot the earth. eral Flores, of Muntevideo, resigned the Prost- 20.—Catle of the New York and Newfoundland Com- pany broke after forty miles of it bad the deputation hed to return home Newfoundland, Paria, presented bis’ credentials to the Emperor. cording to Dritish rhipping revurns the tonnage of id out, and ‘the coast of °1.—Mehemed Bey, the new Ottoman Ambassador ia ‘Ac. veerels entered inwards during the month was 427,464; t 708, a States, 126,792; other countries, ; Cleared—B:itish ; 120 807; other countries, ‘ug. o03, nine British ves els were lost during the month, 54,000—total, United States One hundred an: 1.—Arrah and Soane railway (East Indies) commenced, Sennay, 2.—Colonel Walker, with all his force, crossed from San Juan to Virgin Bay by the transit route, $.—Alino Perra, a Honduras revolutionist, was de- feated when marching on Truxillo, with fifty men..., Rattle of Virgin Bay, in which General Walker defeated the native troops of Nicaragua, numbering five hundeed and fifty men, The Americans did not lose a single man, and had but two wounded—Lieut. B. T, Williamson and private J. Small. The natives had five missing and three wourded; of the enemy ninety were buried at Virgin Bay, and about forty wounded,...The Fast Indian Moplahs were destroyed. 4 Mr. H. V. Connolly, English collector at Malabar, tin, the first Emperor of Hayti, opened the 0 4 Islative reasion, .—A waterspout of a dettructive charne near Maseling, in Germany. There were sons missing, and forty persons found drowned, ter occurred Bridges, mills and houses seventy to eighty per- (.—the Bank of England raised ‘the rate of discount to four per cent red against t wneho and ¥ and General Alyaver, at clation in Hondoras, The departments which Presiden’, Gabanos, had yieded, 1 i Napoleon tn Parls..., government, BuNpay, 9.—General took command of the forees in Uruguay, when peace was proclaimed and a na- ticnal guard called out. 70. Tek gvah from Constantinople to Chums (Tar. hey) opened,,..Fxeeution of Chinese rebels in Canton, It appeared by a report that over 70,000 had been pno- licly executed since February 15th, or Chinese new year. ‘About 27,600 were put to death’ at Shanking-fa, and 25,000 at the toking of the fort at Blenheim Reach. UL—A terrible accident oceurred on the St. Petersburg and Zarekeje-felo railway. The train got off the rails near the canal which surrounds the capital, and ran against rome locomotive sheds. shock was such that ¢ first earriage was crushed to pisces; eleven were kalled on the and forty were more or 88. verely injured. | Amon “the | latter were the Princess By iotyneka, Pr cern, Gk , Gene fimowi! Pax ‘0i....Senor Bustamente went Alexander Tri peed i Uruguay, and General Flores into cflice as President dcelared deserving of his country on account of the = tonie\y and patriotism wiih which, for the good of his fellow siiStoay be renounced the high post with which ne war honored, 12,—The Mexican revolutionists took ion of San Luis Potosi, and Gen. Carrera intimat inclination to resign the Presidency of a cone ..Dr. Kane, the ‘American Arctic navigator, reached the north of Green- Jond, snd was relieved by Capt. Hartstein, U.S. N., who brought bi 3 i eRe Uf dizcount in London advanced to four-and- if per cent.... The Mexican chiefs accepted Carre: resignation of the Presidency, and installed Gen. Vega as cee) head of revolution. 14. —Fever reged among the shippingat Port an Prince, Tayth, and forty-five captains and crews, mostly Amori- cane, oi 15/— Honduras troops egain attacked Pena’s bani near Tivxiilo, and the robbers were defeated with consideratle lors. ‘Vhe leader, Peua, was taken prisoner and immea- diately ehot, and afterwards had his and right hand cutoff, The slarm in Truxillo was such that a number of the inhabitants sent their families and much of their operty to the Ivle of Ratepy,...The American back melia arrive! at Port au Princa, Hayti. Suspay, 16,—Don Pedro the Firth ougarated as King of Portugal....fenta Anns arrived wt St. Thomas from Havana..,.Revolutim broke out in the north and south of Bolivia, when Colonel Gutierrez, Dr. Tapis, General Longa and Colonels Montalvo, Yanes, Marin, and many others, raiced the standard in Puearina, Genera} Molena, with a force of about oxe hundred men and two guns, marched to attack the revolutionists, but Lanza, hyaring of his approach, left the town. 17.—Sessicn Of the Dutch Chambers opened at the Hnyne,,..Prinee Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at Calais, from a vielt to Woolwich, England... Captain Budding- ton, of the American whaler George Henry, tov posses rion of the British Arctic ship Resolute, oY Caya Morey. She hod been sbandoned by fir Kiward Beleher end toptain Kellett, near Melville Istana, in 1868, 1),—Sinking of the cable (telegraph) to comuest Al geria end Ye dinia commenced at Cagdart, 22.—Amei lean bark Amelia seized by the aathorities at Vort au Prince. —Colonel Kinney disvolved the Graytovra pd recigned office as ite head. noiversaty of the inauguration of the i celebrated osion elippar Cloopat from the Chincha Islands, longitude of Iii. | 27,—the Danish Volsthing passed a new consti law by a vote of fifty-four to forty-four. £8.—Accicent on the Madrid and Aranguez Railway, in x persons killed. Suxpay, 20.—Ameriean ship William Penn, from “ho Chinchas, wrecked off Capo Hatteras Shoals, and fiiteon wen loe OCTOBER. 2.—Government notices were published at Warsaw, under the signature ef the Civil Goveruor, Loszerynski, announcing the abvtition of the restrictions on the sale cf salt. Lieutenant vel Gilman, Captain Davideoo, and thinty-five reer alts for (he Welker army, avrivet in Sen Juan from San ++ A bill was read in the Span ish Cortes fixing the coc\ingent of the army for 1859 at Vie Cortes npproved # bill admitting yo- f Praeeie laid tho fe now bridge mtenda +) span the Rhine ab eo mininhy of Greece xworn into oftivs, coups Prawitut #f the Connell,...Uolonel Zeli 4x on Auietisnn brig J. 8. Bethings, at ed by foxeo by order ut Gene. 1 on board the Mexican war with Tr: ng, parse ¥y MAG OD, we val Li oa. stongre: Dajeeas 4. Tht ow eometitution of Denmark was promulgated, } ; nt io wn Great crain of gold 3 nd the rave of inte: yonnts half per cont, crits entered the city of Mata- ' toons had capftaleted wes cleoted avez 16, Qome Alva:ez formed a minis. nor Ocampo, Minister of neral Comonfort, Minister of Wi ister of Interior and Justice; Senor Prieto, bintsier of Finane>, General Conde was appoint- Commandant General in pluce of Vega, resigned, and the ¢ te é in Western India, ch, Tombay. helers raged ia Madsid, and fifty-one persons om thin day. —Fa‘tie of Granada, in Central America, when Col. my took the city witha rush, Whea ebarg- rusby led the Awerican battalion, and kept jv the van, being the first on the plaza, aud hatist powderon the enemy. Gen. Walker, n+) coolness and bravery, was everywhere When the fighting was over, @ few Amcri- their attention drawn towards the San Fra: ) by a few shots fired out of the belfry, Upon ing on'the spot, they foond about eighty priconera children in ine most abject ptate of noy of the republic of Nicaraugua tendered to (now General) Walker, and declined by bim. A committee of citizens, joined by the priests and Juan Ruiz, late Minister of War, with Mateo Mayor. za, Inte Minister of Foreiga Relations, called upon the American Minister, Col. Wheeler, and requested that he would procecd to Kivas, whore General Corral was, with #1 fous of peace, 15,—Several French exiles banished trom Jersey by order ofthe Enpli-h sutkorities, 38.. p f England incressed the rate of dis yer cent for sixty days’ bills, and to seven alenger date. A commercial panic Cholera rged violently at Puerto count to per cent for paper 9 took place in Fugiond Cabello. 1y.—The government forces from Rivas (Wearauguar made a murdercus attack upon returning Calilornia pas- sengers at Virgin Bay, killing four of ihe and severely wounding eight others... .Sixty California soldiers arrived at Virgin Bay to join er’s a ith Fry in command of the battalion; the other officers were Maj, E. Sanders, Captains San. Astin, Chas. Lumbull and Jesse Hambleton, and Lieutenants Sashbrook, Rudler, Jones and Archibald. 20.—An cfiicial return showed that the commerce of Spain, exporte and imports.) in 1854, amounted in value to 1,609,250,196 reals, which was 498,134,121 reals more than the average annual value of the four preceding ears. SUNDAY, 21.—General Alvarez, President of Mexico, haa the seat of bis government at Cuernavaca, and the ministers of France, Englacd, Guatemala, Prussia and Spain, with the Sardinian de Affaires and the Apostolic Nuncio, had left Mexico for that place, as well as the Minisier from the United Stater, who preceded them,.., Accident on the Lyons (france) railway, and sixteen persons killed, with six wounded. 22,—1n Nicaragua, General Corral, commander of the forces of the late government, surrendered to Walker at Grapaca,...Don Fruto Mayorza, late Secretary of State of the former ipovernmuent, and a prisoner on parole in the city of Granade, was detected in correspondence with the enemy outside; and having been tried by a Court Martial and found guilty, was shot on the public plaza on this morning. é 23. —General Mak tos as baiggm a otal Me the emovratic army of Nicaragua, # & treaty of peace with General Corral, late commander of the Chashorre troops, in Granada. “The first article of the treaty de- clared that hostilities are sasponded, and that there hall be henceforth perce and frien: ship between the belligerent armies. The vecond named Patricio Rivas pi al President of the republic for the term of fourteen months, The fifth declared a general oblivion of all past political offences, and in the next the contracting and the provisional President engaged to all debts contracted by the belligerent armies. The twelfth and last provided that the governments theretofore existing in N — during the war, shall cease #0 soon as the generals shall notity them of the said treaty. By addi tional articles it was declared thet General Wa'ker be ro- cognized as General-in-Chief of the armies of the republic; thet Corral deliver up the cannon and munitions of war, and that government have ita residence in Granada. & — prevailed in the island of San Antonio, Cape je Verde, 1 ; Marianne conspirators tried and convicted in ance. ‘evere gale swept over the British coast. Revolution in north and*south of Ayres. 5 —Sir Jobn Dean Paul, William &ti Makin Rates, eminent bankers, were guilty of the offence of disporing of securities which were in- trusted an rng pak them as berry phe mrpose of being ke their which te a ine ts transportation appropriated. 'y were sentenced to for fourteen years. 20,—The ship Mary E. Wi New York, from Bos- Hehe aie cen fonder Havana, i og ie were lost on Abaco reef, Babamas. hands saved. ‘1.—From February to this day, 25,941 perrons died of cholera in Tuscany. NOVEMBER. 1.—The London Zimes published an article hostile to the United States, and produced a great war excitement. ++».Senor Bermudez was elected President of the Con- gress of Venezuela at Caraccas. 3. Patrick Jordan, « soldier of the American battalion, was shot by court martial in Granada (Nicaragua) for the murder of a native boy. 6.--A court martial was held in Granada (Nicaragua) by order of Uencral Walker, for the trial of General Corral, Minister at War, on the following charges :— Charge 1. That enid Corral ts guilty of high treason. Specifiention—That he has invited General D, Santos Guardiola and Col, D. Pedro Xatrach to come with arms Ni Charge 2. in the plaza of Granada, safes tevperg he a . jon for directing the cut. ‘thycugh the Isthmus of Suez, left Paris for Alex: ria 10.—Colonel Wheeler, United States Minister to Nica. rage, was received by President Rivas....John Rose, a jored cook, wax taken off the American bark bgt 4 dy British officials at St. John’s, gua. Suxpay, 11.—Serious food riots in Saragossa, Spain. 12,—Leginia‘ive Coamber of Sardinia red «+ Greek Porliament opeced.,.,Earthquake shock io Valais, Swit- verland. <0 « y the King.... Rig Dundee, 13.—Legi-lature of Belgium Schooner Gecrgina lost, with all hands, near Scotland. ay iene ey ne Tae fg exhibition... ly, vie! a dre storm, which swept ay villages and killed many people.” ited Suxpay, 18.~ Great fire in Paris, which destroyed an immense army bread bakery, with @ great stock of grain. The building 1s aii to have cost 2,000,000f,, and the ma- terial and flour it contained are estimated to have been worth » similar sum,,..A fearful water spout burst over the hartor of Tunis, and five vessels foundered. 19.—Commodore Breeze, United States navy, had a sight difficulty on the official etiquette of salute with an English Adri. 20.—A naticpal Conference on the Danish Sound Dues ted to assemble in Copenhagen, but difficulty, was expe it did not meet... President Mora, of Costa Rica, issued, Fi an anti-filivustero proclamation. 21.—Foreign buile vessels permitted to ‘ave ‘a French register, and the American ahip Equator named the Gea, Caurobert, at Havre. 22.— King of Surcinia at- Marseilles, en rou'e to Paris. «+.-Officert of the U, 3. ship Massachusetts waited on Genera) Walker, in Granada, £8.—Colore! Parker H. French resigned his seat in the Walker Cabiset, in Granada, and was appointed Minister Plevipotentiosy, wiih extraordinary powers, to the govern- menis of the United states and Englund, He set sail next doy for New Yo -General Walker, the commander in Granada, is ® native of Tennessee, of middle age, and respectab © tanily. He was educated for the medical pro- fession, wud en a journalist. Those who know him say be isa man of exeseding modesty, viriue and absti- nence, During the whole campaign he recuived no money from the party for whom he actel, His men pafd for their own uth! aud transportation. The outfit and pas- sage of the reintoreument under Liout, Col. Gilman was palt by morey advanced by parties in San Francises. The men bed received no pay, vor clothiog, nor rations, ex- cept what wav volunterily given thtm by friendly natives. 24.—Spanich Cortes deciared ip favor of free trade. ONDAY, 26.—hing of Surdiviu in Paris. —Ameriesn war feeling had died awey in London,. .,. King of Saxcinis arrived ax Windsor Castle, England. DECEMBER. 1.—English consuls stood 8034. 5.—Great exeoutive contaslon, with mach popular ¢oxm- motion, prevailed in Mexico, A conspiracy discovered, ihe object being to make General Uroga Prerident. “Neagle, Padre Missnda, and Aswilo had basn av resied, Cotorel Robles had beea appointed to anccesd Senor Almonte as Micister 10 Washington. ...Tho ehip Conetitution, of Sew York, was burned and scuttled at Liverpeo!.,...The air of “ Yankee Doodle” was pliyed Tendon, lnat evening, in hones of the ten Minister, ato dinner given to the Kiag of ia Mexico the Alvarez nrinistry was dissolved, and Cotoonfor! sbandoned the ex-Yrevident, wao intentsd vo Crescent City, of New York, Ave lost op Babnina ress m4 §.—huperial Commercial Bank, of 02: wa, had failed, 10 ~-Sabreription Jist for tho Ait lan Credit Mobitice Pank opened at Vienna, E 16.— English: Poeltarcom stood adjoatied ta 1856, that fon: eclipees~-fvo of the sur and two of the moon—ocourted daring the year, 81 During the racing sean of 1855, 41> races were contested on the dierent conrses in F amounting together to 040,605%, These p by los horres. M. Alexandre Aumont } rha: 4 latachs de ay, 78,0767. vau, 89,576 M. Relset, 0,640f ; child, 19,Cb0f ; end the Conant d’sécouville, 16,5808, The saleries ot the British executive governmint olt« od as fellows on this éay:—Oueen, coyal family purtenances, £600,166. The Cabinet—Firsr Lard Treasury, £5,600; Chanrellor of the Bxeheqner, ; Home Secretary, £5,000; Foreign Secretary, ‘wlontal Secretary, Seretary-a Wary £4,500; Lard Chan- £5, 000 £2,480} First Lord of the Admiei celior (including his salary as SpeaFor uf the Howse of Lords), £14,600; Lord President of Sopnail, £2,000; Lord Privy Seal, £2,000; Chancellor ¢f the Guety of Lan: caster, £4 060; Chief Commissioner of Woods tind Forests, £2,000; Premdent of the Board of Trade, 22,000; Postmas- ter Goueral, £2,500; Presi¢ent of the Board of Control, £5,500. ...<the directors of the Catholic University of Ire- land published the following statement of accounta:— ‘That institution has already obtained funds amount to above £58,000, of which £27,600 was contributed in Ira- land, £4,100 in Engiand and Seo land, 201 £16,200 in th» United. states of America. Of this amount near) £47,000 ia lodged in government stock and other fands, The Pacific Raiirved and the Virginia Legis- luture=.The South->rnttoae Tec immoeded. Ju the Virginia Regia tive, on the 19th iowt, Mr. Bure WELL, of Becford, offered the foil owtug series of resolu. tione, which cn kismotion, was laid upon the table aud ng oe to eh i wived, in the opistfon of the Legi-liture of Va., the more perfect unicn of the Atlantic and Pacific Statag, and the wore important distribution of the mineal aad commercial advanteges of Colifornia, requires the com> struction of a railrcad to the Pacific Ovean. Fesolved, That the ryiiroad hould consist of separate and continuous sections, incorporated and controlled oy the State ond Territorial Legirlatures within whose juris- ae bso bey ba road hall Tie, Kesolved, That the exerci-e of any power of ineorpora- tion, construction, supervision or pe de by the federa! ffm a ‘on the said road, or any section thersef is, in the opinion of many, unconstitutional, and of others, improper, and should not therefore be exercised upon any pretence whateorver, Resolved, That considerations of comparative grade, climate and economy of constructing, maintaining and: woik'ng the proposed road, as well as the direct and indi- vicunl sdvantegen of trade and deve! , indioate the following route as the most ‘cligibie:—Commanciag at such int west of ‘he Siiesiscppi as may unite the system of So@hern and South-Western raitreada, thence by a com- won trunk parsing theongh Northern Texas, crossing the Rio Grande at or vear £1 Favo, tu tue Toerttory of New Mexico, and thence by such route south, o” the rlver Gila, toscine tertninus port upon the Guitof California or the Pacific O-ean. x4 may bo deemed most adrau'ageous, Keselved, That the conairuction of «uch & road can be ect efiectem by the combined patronage of the varioag States and Rallvond Companies wt the Sotth gad South. West, to be applied at such tines aud iu such mannee ag they sha?! Ceein compatible wen their duty and iaterests And whiist in the present tnocanplate noncitlon of the im. rovements of Viiginia nny subeeription to the Pacific ‘ailroad, on the part of thie State, would be premature and improper, the Legislature cordially recommend ita construction, as Ee ees Mower ‘of a commercial and political character, alike important to the South and the preservation of the Union. Obituary. The Pott Tobaceo, Maryland, Zimes of the 29th instant contains the following announcement of the death of the Hon. Danna Jexren:—We are calle? upon to announces the death of one of our most usefal, respectable and honored citizens. Colonel Jenifer, at an advanced age, breathed his last at Mulberry Grove, near this vi'lage, about four o'elcck P. M. on Tuesday last. Cofonel Jeni- fer has filled high and honorable stations both in the national and State Legislatures, which honors were eon- ferred upon bim repeatedly by an enlightened and highly intehigent constituency, whose interests he was alwaya found guarding with the most caretul industry. Subse- > he was sent as Minister to Austria ‘under the ‘a‘ministration of General Harrison, and falfilled hie da- Wes faith’ully during the time he represented the eoun- try at the Court of Vienna. After his return home he filled otber useful and og trae stations, in all of which Bis acts fully attest bis ability and faithfulness as a pub- lis servant. In private life he always exhibited the marks cfa bates ntleman. His demeanor was most an ness of any kind. tality his kindness to all was eminently ve few, ifany, enemies His — bie tie. % attack ‘fu; tal whi) ibe funerals of two deoecsed trleeds on who knew him best will ever revere memo Miss M. Lovisa Crrrwoop, a young laty whose ta tion as & poetess ix familiar o the Mtevary wovld, ated ge oe a her residence in Mount Carmel, Ind., om the Suockina ArFarR IN atter Shee eres Sas is ther, ni street, near Te Ma x chamber of his x other, armed with # hatehot ‘weapon, end the son attempted to cut off her hand. cries finally it her husband to her assistance, and: the son oscaped half dressed from the house during the Mra. received two wounds in the one in the but neither is considered dangerous. A ‘was current di the the EoPMad Neen her snjurite but Chere ie ne troth te ane story. The son was subsequently found wanderi: ‘Was atrested and placed in the lockup atthe (ty Hal ra bat mm it throngh the taf ce of aptrituadsm, for two influen - seemed more wild than usual, ‘and tool ha the as 4 rent Li G. We of citizens of was shot bai ee marsoees ee Joep Wien bos cuede tevanty ave anes ar 4 the oe aced with his murder are }'resaly Niven Phi . hia von, and Dr. John Rose and a re Wass OF 68,00 ts suered ive thei appreueuivg ‘and with one General» R ‘and sentenced to: |. Lapin, 41.206; the Prince’ de Bern.” Daron de Rothe