The New York Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1856, Page 2

2 ne ee NTERESTING FROM EUROPE AND ASIA, | Oar Paris Correspondence, Panis, April 28, 18°, 4 street and Oe Paris Rowrse—Operacions o the Laber-~ The Paris Brokers—Siock Gambling Among the Pari Han-—Mania for Speculation Amongs all Class Soctely, cbe., de The geveral 2 snows a6 brokers and stool jobbers, are preity much the ewe in all parts of the world where thai hazardous Amusement called speculating in stocks and secn:ities provails, In Wail street, New York, you ace nearly the ame sort of looking people aa you encounter in the Place de la Bourne. There is a difference in languags, a ba- w racteristies of that class of Indtv: dance of cunning abrewdness in favor of the Amarican, | and greater neatness of attire in favor of the Frenchman, Apart from these indications, you could not distinguish between them. Wall street operators are divided into several classes, Firet comes the broker in good s and- img, i. ¢, able to pay his contracts, Hie belonga to the Board, wears @ dress coat and white choker, coues dowa ‘to his office in bis private carriage, has clerks and ser- vants running about the different panks all day (tho | brokers’ day), keepsanxious mea waiting ip an an‘e-rcom wptil it sui's his pleasure to reosive them, and is a reat man altogether. Tuis goes on aatil he meets some- ‘body too sharp for hira, or uctil be makes a series of bed fmvestmenta, and all at once discovers that he caonct pay ‘the piper, He then tinds that nobody has aay sympathy for # ruined epeoulator, and least of ail ‘‘ the Board,’ ia which until now he bas been, perhaps, a ruling spirit. He is at once ousted from his position in that august ody, and descends one step om the broker's ladder, until de oan pay up, when he is cnce more welevmed davk inty fhe folé—or, shoulé I not way, lair? Be now takes to the ‘street’? and joins the soclety of | was arraigned at the bar ot the British Parliament for *hove gentlemen 0 be sean evary day standing about the | corners of the Custom Houve, in the neighborhood of the Merobanta’ Fxchange. He hires desk-z00m in some weighborirg alley, avd is = bumble suitor to bia former emvociaves tor euch sera of dusiaess a6 he san obtain, ox he gets bold of green stoek-buyers and pervades tham that be baa still great influence, and possesses wurivalied opportunities for inves ing their money advantagsously. The last cless of New Vork brokers, is the “ouisiders,’ who osoupy pretty mush the saae relstiys positon t) ‘ths feo nd cises ae the storm. to 1 sbemwith tha ex ception tha’ they have cever belonged to the of Brokers, snd never expess to enjoy that exaite! hon Boa, Ja France, we have v seurly the same s‘ate o! things, 4: the Bourse, per, all the busingss fetrexscied by the regular Board of Brokers, sud mone but thecselves are permitted to buy ani | | we) upe. ibe grousd tho eofmimmon. To | Abe ge leit asvat, however, pe cly ami tod; put Uke entire business of the afo pie eben st avail itselt cf tne privileg k town in sUent awacement at tao scene beiow. gree’, elzugg'icg, barsheaded crowd, the roa of & mand ¥C ice, ™ the litt: 8, aae eepied by frantically 8 beac The tao. | fog at. wild and imextricable confusi va, paes fenced off in the middle, and o9- | Bosrd, che gentlemen rushing around, ex'og situe bits of astped paper over thatr | va uting until they are aimost black in ths fece; the jostli: g, crowding, stamping, corn-pinchisg, | aspolcgizing, (a Frenchman is never tod busy to apoio- | ) anc the wild ¢xeltement, are things only to be ged vpun from the galleries of the Paris Bourse, and when czee seen are not hkely to be forgotten. ‘The Bourse is open every Gay, except Sunday. I won- der that any distinction should be made ia favor of the Sabbath, as the business people of Paris genera'ly do more trade upon that cay than any gther; put I pre. game even brokers must evjoy a li:tle relaxaiion, ant Rave therefore agreed upon that day for the purpoze. The hours of busmess, at the Bourse, are from one @eock until three in the afternoon. Some time before | the hour of opeciog. numerous incividuals make thei: appearance on he marble steps, and form » queue or Yine before the doors which open into the hall. Guards, zome of whom etstioned at every public bailding in Prance, (ani very nesessarily, too), mainiaia order in what, were it not for this wholesome res:raint, would De an exceedingly riotous assemblage. Even in #pita of the soldiers, some of tne impatient ones pash their neighbors or tread upm each otuer’s tes; whereupon consicerable leui talking is ind 8 are tapped nor crauiums | a ip, Dough no no braided. At lest cne clock s'1ikes, the doors are | thrown eye to the moment, and the crowd | rushes into the building, the brokers tase their piucss in the enclosure, the crier appears at his deck, and | operations commsnce. Tce brokers in the square apurt- ment to whieh I have siluded, are the great men of che piece. They are ail appcinted by tne Empsror, an} are ‘obbiged to give beavy pouds to the government ior ihe eorrect cischarge of their business. The Board being thus relect, to pelong t it ie @ sure icriune, and, of ecaxse, all its memners are wea'thy. These geatie are distinguished em the he-d by the sppella opente de change, oni most of them wear the ¢ the Legion of Honor—though, by the way, tha very great dietixe ion now a- ays. courtiers, or ordinary Beokers~thoee who direc ly into contact wiih outsiders, (the ay change never disgracing themselves by such cu may be eeen scattered over ai! parts of the imme: umeovered, ike (heir superiors, in order to she dene in politeness, or perhap ca ontuat hey ‘belong to the es- | From these people, as I nave sald, arise such # clamor snd sock ntusion of crise tant the ‘stranger who witnesses the speciscie very naturally in- quires how, in the uame of Babel, ali tnese f:ilows can 4 each other. Il is not verye the brokers theweeives, to penstrate the der the floor. A Tammany Hall meecing is nothivg to it People purh end shove, and elbow and tread ou each other's corns; but there triting desagremens are produc- tive of no Ul ocnsequences, wherein the pisce dil Sera from Tammasy Hail very considerably. Pisat your foot accidenta!y on Jim Sykes’ toes, and the chances are eminently in favor of your getting a punch in ihe hoad | vhat pugnacious genueman, ia return. At the | - 186 n> One thinks of quarreling for such trifles —it is against the rules, and wold take up too mued time. ‘In several groups, the looker on n0'i3¢s even inore nc- tivity to prevail than elsewhere. These groaps are wha: fare called marchés particuliers, where particular ani | g stocks are bought and sold, aud itis trom there that the loudest cries are heard. They a-e o°c%- | ed by the courtiers, who are yelling out the names of _ztooke which they bave been commissioned to buy or well. 4% every moment the crowd is penetrazed by men who Work their way throngh with wonderfal rapldity, throw: @ word here and there to persons in of thropg, and who reply only by # nod of the bead. The Airst are the clerks, or some'imes, the silent of the agents de change, scting in the capacity of ‘aides-de-camp, running abou: for riers, or to announce the execstion See have been previously Bao The to whom they speak aze outside, apeculators, Daher may readily be distinguished from the rest. great mass of them are cool, calm and indifferent leaning against the walls or pillars, and with esen other in a low tone. But, whilst those gemtiemenare thus quietly conversing together, they distin- gish with marvellous ‘acility, in the midst o: the gaaerat poise, all that is cf interest to thom. They Lear the offered for their sts follow the procecdings of . ‘feular brokers, and are fully alive to ov*rything ‘transpiring so which they are interested e The s de change have little to do with anything bat penile’ stocks, ¥-encn and foreign, of standiug and real werth, fut s+ railroad shares, those of the Baok of Frence, real oviste, the crédit mot tionally, inaustrial stocks. They rece of 3 upon all transactions in the toll Shave, “he Prussian loan of 1832, Spanish tuguese ditto, Haytien otligations, Austrisn fund:, and shares of all the stock companies in which they choose to mterest themselves. They receive >; per cont oo sales of French funds= those of the city of Paris; trea- aury drafts, debt of the city of Paris, shares of the Bank of Franoe, the canals, raiircads, salt works, assurance companies, the Bank’ of Belgium, aod the Boigian 4)- waeté Genérale, Neapolitan funds, Roman debt, Belgian fends, Dutch, Austrian ard Sardinian ditto. Ja sli these’ ‘hey erjoy » monopoly of the Bourse trade, and it will be readily understood why they make Nevertheless, it must not be imegi mileman ows their places ey to the will of the Emperor, who appoints them, it ée true, but they are still obliged to pay an imme ase suca of money to the ont tor the privilege oeiug #0 pointed. Intact, the business of »roker ix sold, in 08, a8 is alo the right to pursue the occupation of a notary, Jawyer, ke. The courtiers, Licknawel “ marrons,” owe their post: tone solely to their intelligence, their nctivity, thetr ge- eral business qualifications and the coafidence of tueir ehents, as well as to the noed experiene:a by the pudiie agents to negotiate the numerous * fancies’? with the agents de change will have nothiog t» do. ‘The courtiers aio buy and sell, for speculators and ot vers, such of the standard public stocks as may be required. ordinarily % per oent upon thelr sai-r and yhen the amount reaches feanes. Vor a transaetion they make & speomi bargain. gales wise mace in pretty much the ame weanuer ‘ai) street, or at the London Exchange. times women were admitted tw the door of on the same Jevel with mele stock pum lers; course of time it was found that the tender ‘was constituted of materials altogether too excttable admit of their direot partisipation in Boarse altirs the President of the Tribunal of Commerce twened s: t that the Indien should thenceforward be exeladec, that ly impolite decres has over siccs bern 4 m fui force; swll the beau sexe does not leas participste aiation than in former times. Every day ban- aredn of ladien may be seen lounging aboutbe vicial:y of ‘the temple at which they wonld fain worship; bet they are oplige to transac’ ali thetz bustnass through the iaterme- dia\ion of an agent de changa ot courtier, and are nomo- times uufortuna’e in their choices. 1% is iapoambie for them to keep a personal ¢7@ upon the operations of treiz Broker, and if so cispored, toa’ individual has unrival'e! opportunities of stealing, and rome of these unseru pious ntry Bie no: vow to avell thomsvives of the chasoss, « Woman’s sights” have very listle attention paid them in these parts. There ars uo distaterested \iresteys or Garrisons at prevent existing in France. So much for the Boarre. Sock 8 it ed HE F Fs bE ‘Those wo cannot debile in rpesuls.ion a: tue grand | ‘still anoher remuroe. On the Boulevards, the Passage de )upera, and io the prstage ftwelf, mey every 4 ‘which atronce reruicds the Arerloan of a almiiat wtherirg ho has sen elsewhere. Indeed, exorp’ the peop o w! Jawdbering tcp ether ference between pirekate the peve ‘a fortiga incguage, there ia no dif i] on) the Knot of me who nent of (all etreet het-veen the heurw | | | paneed. | consed and Indignant ni | tharders of tke bovy alhsnce slumber, b comp se this motley crowisre all | | aiming at seif portzaitus of zine and three o’slock. The same physlognomtes, the seme dress, the sawe gesticulation. Tain a senblage is termed the pelle bourse, end it hes sometimes suc- ereced in aileotirg the operations of the fountain { The persons y usee are al! street broke: their customers, There is no ¢3rem nv, ao excinsion body who choorss may ‘go ia,” but ic is mo | ant NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1856. 1 of » Cotach ‘nent of the Foriy-sigh &. Tho Phicty- four b native inf.n ry, wich has berm ordered to ie elie Ved, 1e0¢ived counter orders, and will now bere. ” your sosshman, your itis raid that the distrie’s are ip s distur! ate. your ovtler, your chamb-rniaid, your cook, all ia. | Here m Loebnow we see nothiag of the hind. y one small wey, in sick gemoting, ‘'Snould | is «esatiefed, but qalet. Toe territory of Oade in to be them durivg the and = woncer | divided ino four provincee—Luexnow, Beraisoh, Khyra- what bas become of them, vi i petite bourse | bad ard Malmudes: and erl ghten yourself as to their whereabouts, They Ir will be seco'lected (hat thess statements sre mide are mingling amocgst the ‘“Dulls’ and ‘“‘bears’’ of tae famous lessage ce] Opera, and are talking Aausse and Ludese, three per cents and emprun!, chemin de fer aad Cre du Mobiluer, With the rest of the throng. o’ers in France ronet be very particalar in their cealings with costomers, The Iswe are framed in scsore ance with the capacity of the individual. You are s courtier, and @ stranger come)sto you with ins’rustto to buy twenty shares 'n the Orleans Reiiroas. do so, end when the cay of transfer comas © down, and your enstomer cannot pay the ditl “ You sue him. ‘ What is your busingsr’’’ demands the Court, ‘Tam a house por er,” replies your costomer. ‘No ground for action,” says the Court; and you must accept the decision. ; ‘The French are a great peop'e, and stock gemDiing ts their profit—or less. The British Knle In Inaia--The Annexation of Oaae, INTBMESTING LETTER FROM AN OLD CALCUTTA RESIDENT. The Sick Man of Oude?—Political Parallels—The Pe- culéar Institution of Torture im India—Testrmony tm British Blue Books—Partiamentary Investigation— The British Version of the Annexation of Oude from the Indian Papers—Movement for Inquiry in the British Parliament, de. ‘the Directors dealt with India as the Church, in the good old times, cealt wih a heretic. They delivered the vieum over to the executioners, with an earnest requatt that all possible tenderness might be shown.—Macaulay, Seventy years have elapsed since Warren Hastings high erhnes and mlsdemeanore in his government of Inéla, on # trial rendered famous at the tims by the elaborate eloquence of Burke aad the tmpastioned ora- tory of Sheridan, sud sikce embalmed in the amber of nlay’s petical prose, All who are fauillar with remember that one of the gravest cha-ges wh pro-consul was his treatment of the Begaus, or dowsg. Onde, in conformiiy with a secret compact between bim. self aud the Nebdod, the son and granison of those hap- less women, The soheme of apoliation wes carried oat by the high so: tracting parties; the tardy penitence of the Nabob being overruled by the iron will of his civil zed ally, who Jorbore plunderieg him on those terms slne, On the pages of Bu tks, Sleridan and Macaulay ihe of that tra rth, Bot the respite then giver has not proved a rieve, for Oude is now proclaimed @ British prorinee, aud Hastiogs sar- le on!y wrung from the selfish fears of the Nabeb a reluctant consent; and extorted, by to: servants, from unprotected women, £1,200,000 the hoardsd wealth of the former Nabob; whe: at one fell swoop, his successor aunexes the entire tercl- tory, sppcinta Britich funstionsries to rule it in the name of the company, and insists that the King shall abdicate aud accept « pension. In view of thia proceeding, and the action had thereon in the Bri {sh Pariiamsot, i¢ would soem that the Tinws newspaper, in a recent arliclecn Russian aggression, was e. Toua speaks tae British ois ally 6 oracle :— None wo ready to yleld to the temptations of selfish ness as they who flatier themselves they ars the cham- picns of light and truth. The greatest crimes are tho: that have been o:mmitted in the name of legitimacy, religion, créer, and such bigh sounting namex. vanity soon in! relf at the grandeur of such a tack, acd mistakes ‘or szcred oracles the hallacinations of pure pei-hvess, It was, indeed, a busiliating epectacte to nee Russia appealing to Heaven, to her sats, te her ro- collections, to ber relies, and even to the vision of ber own acvereigrs, and endeavoring to kindle » religious wariare In defenee of ‘an act of brigaudage” and “ap uncirguised plan of domixion. Strong languare this; but doeu It not equally app'y to ‘ithe act of Drigangage’’ in Ouce, which annexes a new empire to the Britis dominions in Indi, against the will ler andi ite people; or the “uncirgaised plan of has induoed the forcidie seizure ané where vessels of war ment against the {a- en, and where no Musquito Kirg even can be found to give a show of justice to the procecdizg? Tbe werlc cannot ree tue ¢iff- rence between the cases of “the cick man’’ of Tarkey and ‘ihe sice reap” of Oude; nor understand why fire and sword and slaughter should follow the one act, and sept of nations the other, evea though deuoun Parliament of the ressor. Rureie hed committed no overt act when the a.jied armies oxcupied ber tercitory, Datiered down ber forts, cestroyed ter fleet, and wagel meicile:s war. She kad only enunciated a policy, with the tacit aseent of Great Liitain, while kept esccet; nad Tat Sircpe was but the pretext tor the in- itiation of the new poltey of European alllance against But whi’ this very controv: is pending, Great Ses out the very raw against another in the East—the King of Ouce—and the Lore Dalhousie | signalizes the termination of his official career by an act worthy of Clive or Hastings, aud the great cffeace avarcos scarce an echo, eave withia the waile of the British Parliament: while the foreible seizore of Aden has pever even excited more than a passing observation. The ;hraré “annexaticn.”’ which once exci’ed so much the sensibilities of the Bcitish public, is the one now used to express this ‘act cf brigandage.”” Ths Presi- éent of the Board cf Control, Mr. Verron Smith, admit- ted thet ‘it would be; mere folly—a p'ay up... worda— | to rsy that ail those acquiritions were uot, to a cortain extent, annexation.” Dow, at the rtek of falling ucder the banof M- V, Smith, we may odserve that American annexatiou ni ever been a very different thing from the forcib’e seizur and cceupation’ of foreign t¢fritory, against the wishes and the will of the inhabitants there word “acquisition” ruita the case just « Times gives the better word, ‘“brigendage”—i_r “liu: tering” ia much too gocd for it; been bear wen FT divicual, not s government specniation, uns: sport = by | the moral or potitionl zesourcss of the nati = to whick | the adventurers nay Dave o7 Ly belonged. ‘The trapsaction is annoucced in tle Brisisn papers in the coolest way. For example; [Correspoudenee of Times, Catcu'ta, January 24] Tequize! to prot The aticn annexing Ovds bas not +et ppear- ; but the orcer has heen pastes, ena vt 3 are arming into Cawapcore. The hoxe eutu. | «4 left the Governor General a carts b ‘and, a>. ael, be has adopted the moat cowplete and defiulte «f ae two lines of policy eae . Oude is to be.anu:xed, not sequestrated. The difference is, that ins soyucstrated vince the surplus, instead of swe! toegeneral re- Fenue of the emp! re ena be spent ts ‘Ee province Then follows the list of appointments of persons for the government of the province (Englishmen all), and an est'mate of the rurplus revenue, after payment of all : pringesses of the royal honss of | | i dy tbe Fnglish correspondents of Engich journals in Jncia, It 1s the old wiory of the the lioa, bat how gross sn” monstrous the ast must be when the most tavcracie tile of che piste presents such sombre tinte! Couto we but tee the statements trom the pems of "he un- Depry perpie cf the ecurtry thus formbly reduced into # state cf peovage by Briieh pbiac'bcopy, masket in Kane, (azker stil would the shadow be, as the hints al- reauy given show {From the Lucknow Correspontence of the Pombey papers. The king is reaty to cede al is poscessions to the East India Company, simply because he hes no power nor de- sire to resis: the force brought, against bia; out ne will not uything at their bande, nor subnit to be their pensioner, or rather prieoser, ‘wishin the walls of his palace it ia generally beloved het teo separate treaties have been prepared, with a view to toe «mine | waich has nom \»kex pleet—oae beivg for Lis Ma- j rier ature and tho o'her only to be earcivd out in the event of@ refusal being given to the first propcsal. Comncn report aesigns this dey as the final limit of time perwitied for the Keg’s Cesition, and if he «till per- aint in his present determica'ion, then matters will be setileg witheut ube royal evncurrence; much sevarer conditions will be exacted in this ease, and {far move atrin- gent messures carried out. Un Satarday list the Resident paid » visit to the Queen Motter, at her own request, and for upwards of an bour war General Outram engeged in this interview, duit g which time the oid lady exnauated her yocabu- Yary O! preyers and snpplications in beavechizg his intor- Jerence for the preservation of ber son’a kingdom aa independent State. She is said to have asked for one year’s celay cnly, ard to have soemaly promised that it & sirge ocmplaint ct nirguversment daring tbat period war heard. then the British au'herities wonld be wal- come w take immediate and extire poseesion of tre country. The only reply which the Rerident conld wake was, of course, bis inability to mtertere or avert the impending weasvre, whien has been finally deter- mined on by the Governor General of Inois with the concurrence of the Court of Directors, whose servant he War, sno whose orders on the subject he wes bound to carry ovt. Thus closed the prinful scene which, tow man of General Gutram’s amiabe character sud diad . Must bave been tar from @ pleasant oue. 0a Moa- the 4th in stant, arother Durber wat held, at which the Resivent anc spvain Hayes were present; bu bot! on thia occasion also, the proceedings appear wo have been proc vctive of no use" result, nor could the King’s avers'on to the actual signing of the treaty be gut cver, even although his minteter, All Nacki Khan, otded his en'reaties ani remonetraniees to those of the Ro- trident. It is believd that three days were then fixed for ihe final cecision cf the King, und that he Was warned, of the conreqaencee which would remult from hie persistence in this line of condnet—s fictence which woud not cansé eny change » ths sr- ravgements tor the better government of his xingiom, while ic mght seriously injure himef personal y. Thus do sflairs 1: main here. In reacing this sin ple carrative one is irr: sistibly re- minced of the impeachment ot Warren Heatiogs for simt- lar uffences, nud the imparstoned utterances of Edmusd Burke revourd In cur ears. Was there ever a adder pic- ture drawn than that of the ethroned king, prrerioss to Tésist or resent the wrorgs aud insa'ie offered hia by an invader too strong to be scocessfally opposed; bat with O.i-mtal stcictsm, wrapping himself in his wantle of kiog- stip, and relying on the tarcy penivence of his enems! And the old Queen Mother, too, ‘‘exhauiting ber vocabu- Jary of prayers and rupp ications’’ on the repre-eatative of that Yewer who haa cleplaced her son, and who must de of ‘‘sterner stuff’ 2 most men, i ers did not awaken some pang i which bis position eompeiled bia to act. to acd that the supp ications of rhe Queen Mother availed ‘as little as the stubborn pagsive endurance of the son. 7 India gove:zment 18 a corporatiin—one of those cowbinations which, in the language of Curran. “have neither bedies to be kicked nor souls to be damued.’’ Bat Debied thet ocrporation sits a power competent to oum- pe! jurtiee and vindicate the sights of man and the laws Of naticns, roth of which have begn trampied in the cvet by this sct of unparalleled aggres:ion and outrage ‘The British Parliament has the power,as it isite duty, to com- pel restitution and satistac d if it fails todo so, on the goverzment, not on the icresponsible corporation, will rest the weight of the scandal end shame, acd the pensity of the retribution with which Providence ever viiis ihe wrong doer in the end. A mcvement for vestigation hes alreeay been msde in the Bri ish Parlia- ment, frm which we ex ract these proocedings Hover or ONS, Merch 4.—Mr. Conpgn aeks1 the Presi¢ent of the Board of Control whether it was his in- tention to lsy on the table sny papers relating to the an- nexaticn cf the ancient Mcbammedan territory of Oude to our Fast Incian territory, or whether he was prepared to ofier any explanation on the subject to the House * Mr. V. Sacru said that the papers were not complete, but as soon as they were, he would lay them on the ta: ot the Bouse. Attention bad been cailed to the mal- teuistration of the affairs of Oute, anda despatca been sent out to the Marqris of Dathouris, directing bim to take siepr cn the subject; but as no detgateh hud been received in reply, it woulu not de converient, at present, to lay the papers on the tabie of the House. Mr. Orway pré tested against the dcctrine that because & king whom we bad set upon the throne conducted him- reifiu an impreper and immoral manner. we were enti tied to dethrone him ard aruex bia terrl'ory to our own, more especially where it wes proposed to anvex them to a portion the most favored of the whole Indian empire. He shoud like to know whetter they intended to repay | to ihe Kizg of Oude the two millions ania half eteriicg which we had compelled him to advance, ia return for which we had ceded to him the worthless piece cf terri ey. that had been taken from the Rajah of Nepaul. He be-ieved that the ccmpany would find it almost imp3ssi- bie to collect the revenue, for the King of Oude ~iuself found the greatest difficulty ia doing #0. The p .'* had shown no desire to come wnder our rule; im fart, they had ezlalrited the greatest disinclination to submit themselves to the government of a which had used torture to eatort the payment of revenue, He hoped that tho right honorable gentleman vould use his influence with the gcverrment that a day might be given fur the >ussion of Indian matter act ef this drama. If vou heave ‘Thus ends the Our Canton Correspondence. Canon, Jan. 4, 1856. First. Impressions of Canton—The Boatwomen of the Port—Chinee Bloomerts—New Year's Catls—The Licns— The Clubs—Chinese Lingo—Political Restraints—Com- ‘merce of Canton—The Parsees of the Factories, dc. Another port has been struck off my visiting list, for I have sent you my impressions of Hong Kong, and for the last few days have been roaming abut this highly inter- ‘esting place—the ne plus ulira of my early ideas of the Fast. Leaving Hong Kong in one of the several steamers that dally ply ap and down the river, ten hours gy0d work carried us by the Bogue forts, whose formida.ie front looked grim death to the intruder, but which, not. expenses of every hind, which tbia correspondent fixss atthe nest litle sum of £2,500,000—two milfion five hurdred thousand pounds steriing annum—edding very naively, ‘Oude is one of the richest countries in Asis, The sot] ts as fertile ae that of the Dob, while the eastern distriets are as rich iv minerals as Cornwall.”’ Now. what {a the pretext for this wholesale assamp- tion of power on the part of» foreign government /—thi annexation, as they ceintity term it, of the possessions ofa Power with which Great Britain is at pease, and egainst whom no declaration of war has ever been made? 6 exploi's of Lord Da'housie remind one of Corte, with the exception of the dauger, ani the despoiled King of Onde, unable to resist the disciplined force brought against him, and overawed by the terror which the British name has inapied in India, by meana which Burke, in former, and Macaulay, io ister days, bave de- picted, sulleniy submits to bis fate, but spurns the bribs ‘which waa offered to buy his consent, and opposes pas- sive resis'anoe by refusing to sign the paper of abdication prepared for him. ‘Lhe timid and unwarlike character of the natives of India rencers these acte of wholessie annexation easy. The vistories ate usually bloodiess, or if they resist, as the Santhals did, it is butebery, not warfare—the su- periority of European arms and discipline making the con- test one of mur¢érous character. The city of Lucknow coniaion @ population lit le short of & million of bitants; yet Lord Dalhousie considered 16,000 men suffi. cient te garrison {t; amino it sppears, This one fact + peaks volumes. ‘The only reason ass'gned for this act {s the misgovern- mert of the country by the present King; but guaran- tees have been offorea by the Queen Dowager on that point, on pain of forfeiture; and the right of the (over- nor Geneial of India to interiexo Js more than equivocal. In fact, the only right ipvoke’ by the Governor General appears to have been the rigat of the strengest—a de- fined in that we!l known fable of -Esop, for though the latter are not lambs, yet the returns of a recent Pariis- mentary bige book abow thet the cruelty of the native ro'ers never reached the same pitch of refined torture aa that which has signalized the B.itish role in India. For procts, we cite the recently published blee book | screeching and gestioulatin “Torture in India,” aed the deba'e therson in the House of Peers, Fobramy 20, 1880, The theme {s sug. gentive: bat not to tre munch on space which velaable, the neked history of this transection, coliaved from Iedian papers, is annexed—a bistory atrange, in- deed, for tne nineteenth centary — [From (he Delbi Gazette, of Feb. 21. Lucknow, Feb. 18, 1856.—fhs annexstion of Luckmow at least is not looked upon 11 favo abie light. The thousands of disappointed seekers of office are clamoring Jondly againa’ is, and alleging tbat it is unjust on the part of government to employ natives of al) other terri- tories but Oude. The servants of the late king, with + exception of a favored few, bave ail been turned adrift. They were tolé that their claims would be taten iato son. sideration at an carly date, but meanwhile they are dis. totened and discontented. ‘The King excites general sympathy. Bin Inte conduct withstanding, were knocked about the guards’ hess and ears when the English turned their shot towards them; by the several pagodas, reaching high in air; by the le- gion ef boais, and barren mountains and hills, but calti- vated valleye, on the river’s benks; by the rice fielis, the lichee greves ard the banyan forest; by the Whampoa reach, the shipping, the well arranged docks, and the few foreign houses there; by the countless junks and lorchas, and vessels of every possible shape and rig—odd and strangely picturesque—tiil the facto.ies burt upon uf from behind the garden forest trees, where the [og lish, the French and the American figs were floating side by aide in the most friendly and neighborly manner, as they should always co, ‘At last Iam in sight of Canton, the grand cspital of China trade, where heads of houses most do congregste— where money is obtained from wealthy Chinamen, middie- men, brckers, &o., who get it from bankers in the interior— where orders are given to the honses and agents up and down the coast—wires are puile¢--secret expedilions fit- ted out—teas and eilke and imports are talked on an ex- tensive sosle—where so many merchants have m27e ins few years of acilve labor fortunes in the trade—where hospitality abound: kind attentions upon the stranger. Yes, this is far-famed Canton, known to every schoolboy and every young mershant who ever learned to talk ship—Canton, the centre of all Master: exchanges, the grand bourse of Chinese Asia. ‘The eabmen of Albany—the hack drivers of M ntreal —ibe kling boatmen cf Singapore, must retire in favor of the boatwomen that came near smothering our boat in order to get a fare to the pier; such an infernal yelling and jabbering, pulling and hauling, rowing and sculling, ¢an be found nowhere else, Why, it is enough to drive one intos lunatic asylam, Tt cught not to be tolerated, for some:ines it is positive- ly dangeroup when the tide is running » perfect since. Seme of the women are very comely, aad in their pecu- Har Bloomer oosturae and strikingly original style of head dress, you can but be attracted, As in Hong Kong, twenty-five cents is all they expect for rowing ashore a boat load, After paying im some cases from $10 to $15 in Melbourne, I really felt ashamed to give the girls here ro little; but I was cautioned against introducing bad habtts by glving them more, These poor ereatnres live entize y upon the river, snd how { cannot tell, for ia the vicini'y of Canton there must be at least from 60,000 to 60,000. A typhoon or a fire, I should think, would com- lies beon praised as well as censured. Submission was | plotely sweep them sway, for they ie huddied together the beat polity, and he wisely followed it. Bat others were indignant at it, and one of the most refractory Yernindars, it is samored, sent hin ® woman's petticoat, vith a mearage that his quiet submission entitled bim to showlog some fighting. The Hrglish ehsracter hee, ainco the arrival of: the European regimenta of ber Majesty's Fifty-aocond foot be seea @ throng of people, | acd theartiliery, euffered much in the ertimation of the ratives ot Lucknow. Meoy of the common » Idiers, roam. ing about the streets in state of drunkenness, com- witied nelwcf vir lenee and indeooney of a disgrace'al kod, Mwny of the Locknowess who beve bren to other British territories, koew the differen:e between ee like 80 mech firewood, Arriving on New Year's morning, I was mont fortunate; for, in accerdence with our time-honsred custom, calle were being exchanged, and I was just in time to pay my gambling pervates all ranks of rociety Ju Parti. | wear it, for no man would have yielded without ot least | respects and wish the plesssnt returns of the year to the eighteen Waropeen, English snd American then in Canton. Beautifai houses, large and eommodioun, all joired a or only separated by a small alleyway, splendidly fo: 4, and nore without engravi or pictures; Chinese ornaments, and ‘pes. of every kind of Chinere ingenuity met your and ever; thing reemed fresh and new to me—all olfferent from the the | Wemern world, The rew omer delivers bia lettess, and cali nnon thore whore acinsiotance he wishes to make; (2'diews; but others, burn end breaia the | and then, if properly introduced, come a°tentione om >_< — i —_— etty, for ihe fret time beheld of the lewest owey side, Broeklosting, tiffin! diniag, excarcion clare apd the women arnot diserininate det seen off: rties to the White hills, to the Honan temp'«, the cers axdrolciers. Last Ftcay there was » dispoei ion parree ua, the curiority shops, musié in the evening, ad | in Lucknow to rive, Ont it was ppeedity quetiea by the | or boris, cr billiards. or boone, or papers—you may take lee; but your time will soon fy awe 0 only try to an'i-ipate yo The bil iard ‘room and bowling alley aro private well maveged ané wo!l atienced: good tools to work with and Crinese markers. At the resding roow you find boots snd papers, anc all the priated gossip of the day, ar ct the Horg Kong Clb. You oan som do v0 the } f the pisee, alter you have goze rund the cit) and :un the rick’ of getting your move puxc by s bamboo for your bolines in looking in at the gate. Afer Jim have looked into the enops ia old and ne ina streets, walked round the factory garden, where foreigners are s)lowed the entire spsco of ‘vont 800 iest im levgin by 120 deep, for trees and plants, Achasch, a locge and besebes, and paths, for a yaolic enade ana nothing more, aad you have been once Touad to shore you may know, and in one week’s time mcst Nkely you kvow thera ell, for knowing one it secures the chirée to the rest. Aiter you have deen through the hongs, and godowas ; reen the tea prepared for shipment, and the way it is got Up, ard taiked with some of the Chinese merchant: who insis: upon your takizg with them a cup of tea, without mik or suger, the grounds tn the cups, each made ex- prestly for each pecton; after you bave cbia-chianed several of there Hong merchavts and heard them expound commercia! sflairs; after you have beea over the Dutea folly. the pavilion of tbe fixe genii. the Lyre pagoda at Wham poa; the wonderful gardens— wonderful beca se £0 singular and novel; af.er you have seen the duck-ha ck ing up the river, waere the young ducks sre traced in a'l their stages; a ter you bave been to the White bills ov your Chinese pony, or carried up by your Oninere cooly, ta your Chinese chair, and looked down upon the city of Canton, with i 6 124 temples and hati«, pavillons and pa- goous; after youbave perfec'ly watisfied your curio-ity by looking at the flower boais aod gazing at the curions speenmens of Chinese so fantastically dresse!; after you bave seen ail these, you will havea right to say of Cauton. Itrakes but ist, and when ouce sesn over the ground « second time, ‘The city of Canton is about one thousand ye but no foreigners bave ever had the entrée to ite inte Notwi batanding the treaty provides for going into Can- tou, By diplomacy anc intrigue the Chinese officials have miabaged to brenk faith, and keep out all outsiders. How uch lorger this will last remains to be seen. The fo- reign pcpvlation of the Horgs oesusy about fifteen acres of land, nore of which can be owaga by the residents. Some of the bongs rent for $4,000, end #0 on down to $1,200 per srnum. In 1822 most ot these buildings were destroyed by fire. The residents are eslled factors; hence the name factorier, On every al¢e of you, Pigeon Enz- lirh— that borib’e jargon of mutilated bady talk whica om has made lew—meets you. From boatyomen to men—house boy to compadore—you hear aothing olre. I enceavored to get a coy of Hemlet’s soliloquy, which was translated into Pigeon English, but I have foiird to do it. Iocan only remember its commencem=ut. “To be er not to be” reads : mo ean do.” Sand for your hat, and this would be the style : “Go top side —rabe—that hat—pay my.” A ncise in heard in an ac- joiping streot; the cause, cayn the servant, is ‘Chin>y ‘woman kave cateby one piece buil ehil, In other words, it woald resd: ‘Mex. Piginil of & boy.” eatled upon some ladies : boy returns: ‘No man caa seo,” intimsting probably that they were not ui home. For ‘yes,’ read can do.'?” How many to Ginrer thir evening?” My boy promptly replies : «Four pieve man—two piece missie.”” Of course I have iii ins geod stock cf Chinese presents; Iphoutd be cousidered the veriest barbarien Cid I not. I hava been through all the shops: seen randalwood fans and card cases, ivo.y chess men and whist counters, purses aud boxes, stuvs ané Jade stove, bronze ornaments, bamboo wor! vel necklaces anc walnuts, and bracelets and rings, vec and copper ornaments, sn¢® thou:and other i1'rle vo- tiors which will soon reduse your loose casb, especially where your sovereign or pound s‘erling is worth but $4. It makes a wide difference. Since the rebvelii.n, Canton bas beea very inactive, acd its sister portr—younger in experience, younger in oom- merce, ycunger in yearr—are gradualiy taking avsy ho: pres'ige. Foo Chow is getiing the Diack teas, while Shanghai takes the silks in Jarge quantities, aud the greens; but Canton, nevertheless, bas the wea! h, tho capital, the beadwork, the experience and the exc she is stil hard to beat, and ray yet de able to head as bigh as her nor'hern branches. We m' I was much rurprised to find such battalions of F promepa< ing in the factory gardens, all speaking under- wienésble English. high toned merchants are takirg off the best share of the opium tra‘e; and now a clipper steamer, the Lightning, plies be:weem Cel- cutta and Cumsing-moon— and advices her caly ‘'pigeon.” Some of the names of these men seemed t) have been given them purely for the amusement of the ‘Western merchant, for they have a strange sound. mix- Ing up common snd amcommon names, sariptucal an: sectional. My few days? viet has gone, I'can bardiy tell where, but to-morrow I am bound to the north, and my next chit-ebat you may expect from Saenghal cr Fo> OW. More of the Vivo Revelations, We continue our extracta from Senor Vivo’s conf 9 tions. Our Madrid translator bas rendered thea ro literally that he has preserved all the verbiage and i § fistion of style which eharacterize the original. Not- withetauding these defects, our readers will be en ibied to appreciate all the points of this curious narrative:— Ishall not repeat to your Excallensy the opinion which they bave formed and the grounds on which both Sen 4 Castillo and Senor Pacheco establish the same, as tha. would be tantamount to reproducing the memorandum. but I wil state certain basis aa a corollary of what bas been derconstrated by those gentlemen, Frgland will not lend any assistance to Mexico», not even a moral one, because its interests and symps‘hies Jean to the ride of the United States, a ne’ion sprang from its Joins, and the representative of its race and ita pria- ciples in America. France, of a character more generous and #>:+ “hat Jets a tached to ihe material advantages of the mo» ent, and the represent , im the firet place, of the /stin race in Europe, bas a greater sympathy for Mexleo and the Spazish- American States, ard it will be better able than any other nation toact up to those sympathies if the republic offers it some advantages which the gov ~ ment of the Emperor Napoleon II. may present vo his people as a compensation for the sacrifices which 1: will necessarily have to make towards the support of the Spanish-American cause; and for the upholding of the statu quo in our hemisphere, these advantages wo. i de a powerful auxilia"y ofthe generous aud knightly -enti- ments of the Frerch people. In case Franze should be induced to act, fgland would probably respect its determina‘ions, bu: would observe a strict neutrality, Spain, chiefly cesupied in internal questions, ard bath in the bosom of its political parties, and even in the ‘bosom of its government, germinating seeds of conrtitu- tional alterations, its treasury mot very buoyant and not very independent in external aciion as regards the Frenoh and British governments, chiefly interested in the affairs of America, and with frequent and serious fears for possessions in that Ceol gf of theglobe, more or jess openly threatened, woul deciced step of the French Cabinet cou'd only draw it from an excessively timid line of politics in this particular. Picks pega) xieo igi aoe etait ower which ixieo m' aay ox in the question, is far fecm favorable; the dificulties aug: ment, end unfortunately become almost unsurmountavle in the actual state of Europe. ‘Our legations in London and Paris keep Y. E. complete- ly informed of the great question whish is just now agi- tated in the Cabineta of the Western Powers, and ia which the faie of Europe depends, of the various steps taken by them; of the first battles fought on the Danubs, on the Kuxine ond in Asiatic Turkey, and of how the Gipk macy and the aims of France and England are at rerent employed in giving a solation to the great pro- Siem whether Europe shall be Cossack or repub ican. Under scch circums'ances the European governments esnnot thivk of any object whieh may draw their stten- tion from interests of so vital s nature. On the other band, » treaty of alliance, offen vo and de’ensive, between Mexico and oe even supposing that it could be made to-day and without reekoning upon the obstacles before enumerated, would give the :!arm to the United States, which would not fail to take surantage of it, a eee a pretext foryrew motivs of dis- leasure, in which event France will not be a: ‘o inter- Kre, being cooupied in affairn of po much grea..r impor tance to her own interests. The isolated action of Spain would then be useless; and this was my foeli: ¢ when I decided upon sending to London and Paris Sonus: Esteve. Sympathy and a gocd dispsition towards Mexico nes- tiorably exist in Spain, and are entertained by thd pre. sent Cabinet of Count fan Lewis, But could :uch dispo- sition and such sympathy be converted into ships, troops and cannon in oanty 6 teed sl i nad ee ae had an opportas of portraying to to your Exce.lency the trresolute character of the person who occupies the De it of State in the present administration of her Mojesty. Your ExceHency knows him personally, and bnows the jue; it, perhaps biased, which his long rosi- dence im Wael m, and even his ly connections with persons of jlo-Saxon race, have caused him to form respecting the power of the United States. In the mission of Senor Esteva I have looked for ® support to my pretensions near this Minister, whic’ « uid piace him in disposition to set; but the memoirs. .um, the result of the mission above mentioned, confirming in a ey measure my fears respecting England ar | Frauce, ras already atrergthened the opinion which I now submit to the juégment cf your Excellency. I think without pretending to advance (for that Feule perhaps De useless aod prejudicial,) in the impor- tant affsir which your Excellency has done us the bonor to confide to us, we ought—bis ellency, Mr. Pachsco and myself, einen in unison as hitherto— ‘to wait till the political horizon of Europe is cleared up, and to tabe treater in our respective missions of the favorable opportunit Uo Mra will not fail to present it. self, and which we will jook for, ot making tive and reducing to practical results the favorab:e sentiments which, se organs of their respective gov ents, have teen «mployed towards us by Messiears Drouin de }’Huys ard Calkeron. T trust that your Excellency will have the goodness to submit the contents of this ecommunicatior ite ante- ‘o the bnowledge of his Serene Higl the Pre- nd to be likewise no good an to acquaint me with reme resolution, and with what your Excellency, ent of the same, may think proper to determine, BUENAVENTURA VIVO, Mesnwhile, the politica’ events in Spain aemmed an alarming sspect. The dissolution of the Cortes, decreed with too much imprudence by the mintatry of Count St. Lewis, the repressive measures of Big geod banish. ment, and even the privation cf rank snd office, dictated with unjustifiable arrcgacce sgainst the first men of the opporition, amor g whom figured the Generals Den Manuel ard Don Joseph de la Concha, Infante, U’Doneil, Menneno. ord other bigb'y aletogrished std ¢ eeaued military men, formed » eomDinat of causes wolcb bis su) ip ful must precuce s tempest the proximity whereot was feen by everybody except the government, producing at let the rerelntica of Jniy, with all ita uoplesmumt ck anges. To tuldwen my vart with the ioftietion of tue p Bo Of Wy ge vert ment duciow Usose ua vetunsle olroam- stances would have been as imprudent as it was usoleae; sra hence m that time determinaiton to suapend for every qoee iow re'ati: gc! et affa-. The zevoluticn having uluoiphed, another gover was cpeutulee upon be basi of Edpartero wad 0 presided over by the Grmer or those gentlemen Don Josquin Francisco ischaco, Preside! of the Counel :f Mioistera in 1847, was intrusted wich Ho of State, He waa a public man, of respectable an 9+- Cents, a sawyer of uncommon es pacity, of a character full of trepkpess, and as eflictert mod decided in the offive of the frst Secretary of State ex hie predecessor waa timld sad ixeapable, He insptred me with the hove that his wey of ccnsidering the ex ernai questions, and above all toat | coneernirg the race, would make him aopt « more Jesi- tive course in all those matters which might bear directly upon it. I take pleasure in statirg that my hopes wero not iutory. Sencr Pacheco thared the whole of my ideas respeciing ‘be American question, and acknowledge? tha necessity of checking the a nbiticus views of the United States, evidently shown in the expeci both to the Idand ofCuba ard to the Mexican territory; bai yhilst he cid not ferget the necersity that existed for providing sgainst tbat event, as he bad already done in part, it was not possible for bim at that momeat, not- witbetar ding bis gocd will, to take into consideration the idea of a defensive alliance, which'l proposed to him in the pame of my government. Sonor Pacheco was of opi- nici that we should wait, in order tkat the political equi- librium, momentarily disturbed by the revo.ution, shuld again aequire ite wonted stabihty. ‘Meanwhile the Minister of Relations of the republic, under cate of the Ist June, addressed the followieg com: monication to me-— Most Excellent Sir—Notwithstanéing what you have stated to me concersing the difficulties which stand In the way of the completion of a treaty of allance betweeu the repudlic avd Spain, his Sereno High- nesa the General President, in oonsideration of tha exint ing cireumstances in which Kurope finds iteel¢ sna of those by which Spain ia threatened, viz : against the United Steies—thinks that this is tho fittes moment to conclude that eorspact which is des.ined to preéuce # combined and powerful force for the two na- ticns, with which they might sat eguinst and perhups impede the machinations of the United Siates, which ft ia evident will take adventage of the actus] situation of Bu- rope, to atternpt to seize the island of Guba snd after- wares our territory. These ideus, which the haste wherewith I write the pretent note Yoes not allow me time to enlarge upon mt which your Excellency, with your known talent will appreciate, his Serene Highness recommends to yeu to meditate upon and to bear in mind, in crder not :0 loss a men.ent in inducing the government of He: Cutholio Ma- jeaty to celobre.te » secret treaty of alliance on the terms which have ieen suggested to your Exoellency, wging that it should be dene as goon as possible, iu order ta: the prerent favorable oppor‘unities should not be lost BONILLA, in the month of Novewber, for reasons whieh it 1s wo- necessery to specify in this chapter, Senor Pachec fered to be & Mivister of State, and was succeeded by Sexcr Don Ciaudio Anton de Lusuriaga, a member of the | pregrestiaia perty, an ancient magsitra‘e, of high repulx- tiou, and 8 zealous in the fulfilment of hiv duty as thovgt itul in his acts, eneregetic enough, notwithstand- irg his advanced oge and his inexperience in diplocatiec effvirs. A few deys afier this gentleman had taken pos- eessi'n of his new post, I conversed with him about the weighty affair which cccupied my mind, acd although | Titnd tn his Fxceliency the same prepftious éispostticns wrich Ihave perecived in bis worthy predecessor, for idevtical reasons s1d causes the opision of the newly elected minister waa the saice as that of Senor Pasheco, namely—that we should vaii till the political situation ot Spain was ccnsciidated, in order that they might cevote all their aitention to ner external poltoy. Persuaded that at that conjuncture 1; was not s-47 to obtain the flattering rerult which I promised myseif, and beirg derirous to take a vantage of the time which that anavoidable interregnum in my step offered, 1 thought it oppertune to inquire from the Mexican representatives in London ond Paris what was the s:ate of their proceet- irge rear the governments to whom they wore accredited in the inportunt affair reeommenaed to us by the Supreme Govercment, as also ia others waich indirectly had eon- necticn with It. To that effect I commissioned the clerk of the Legation, Don Joré Maria Pastor, to go to London ard Paris with tne samer wsicn I had conferred some months be'ore on the Secretary Esteva, giving him the ametiuetious which will be seen in apecdix No. 6, and communicating to the Ministers of the republic in Leadon and Paris the chief object cf Senor Pastcr’s journey in the cfficial communiz cation which I addressed to them under date 19:h Deoembér, 1654, and which ran thus :— Most Excniast &m: The government of hts Serene Hiphress, although acquiescing in the force of the ob- serva‘ione which. after the piission near your Excellency entrusted to tke first Secretary of this Legs‘ion, Don Ma- riano Esteva y Viibarri, I thought it convenient to sub- mit to bis superior eousiceration, reepectirg the negoti- ations which bad been confided to me for conclucing treaty with the government of Her Catholio Mejesty, and | not forgotten rion be mey perbaps bsve heen the faithfu? inter; of his g. verament, even although aesording to the te mation .f pere me only authorized there ie aot tha mm cb bw eoy te ween Lord Clarendon, the Mini of State of her Britannic Mejosty, aud her represeay ip Macrid, But be thin as it moy I believe that inell tat is tok plece there are very wel! founded motives a ny peloe to elear the situs ton, and to porltive weener how far 1. will be opport ‘at pre tr geaume the vegotiation. The enemy is but too mud tobe jesred on acsount of his Goring, not to pro wilh tbo mest exquisite caution; but this alYords me reseon ibe wore not to loro sight of the 6oavemence setting by 8 to Lisac fou, by the means which mao easily ani saveniezecully may lead to tne rein t, your Fxsevency knows my opiaion that if those m Were pot to be found in the treaty reeommended, Ovher means tencing to the ssme end showd a0) thai fore be ejected. dn order to obtain the came, Lreskon upon thes >iliti aciivi'y end zeal of the two worthy representatives of republic in Paris and London, wiore busaness it is to swer to the questions contained in the wstrucsi ons gt to Sencr Pastor—~auawers which will serve mo 3 bat and starting points fur my proceedings. BUENAVENIURA VITO. Senor Pastor returned from his journey to London Paris before the month of his depariure from Madi ‘was over, end by the following ¢erpatch adders-4 to hy Px elecey, the Mivia‘er of Foreign Reladtons of .he r public, dated January 23, 1855, tue result «f nis coisui will be seen:— Most KxcELLENT SiR—Under date of the 23d of month, anda in a private officis! communied'iou, V9, 3, bac the honor to state to your Excellency the moth which induced me ‘0 ceromission the second Secretary this Legation, Don Jose Maria Pastor. near tue represer tatives of the republic in Parts and London, for (19 pu) pose of obtaining eure data to en'ighten me as to the o} portuneness of takirg rome decided steps towhide regotiaticns about the treaty, which, with so moch pel sisleney, sre recommended to me by the His Sereze Highness, and whose recommen: single moment since I begs charge intrurted to me. Your Excellency wi lloe so obliging as to exawiue, firs] acopy cf thenemorandum whisn Senor aster bat ad liveréd to me on his revuin, (appendix » ) ly avd thirely, copies of the communicstions sh th Exes lencies Senores fn J. Xamon Pacheeo and Don Ji quin cel Castillo y Lanzas thougat it omvenient to ad dress tome. By all cf them your Exco'lesey will pais to observe that the information woica | odtsing the watter is not mucu more than wha ! alread porsersed, as your Excelievcy will porseiva by ti quoted ocmmunication of the 23d of Ise! smth, of thio} © cupliontes, av well as of the ias:ruc‘ione silui ow, at the very moment whon I reserved the answa which I sovght to get py tho commission asted Sencr Pastor, I have learnt that the govern mon’ of hel Catholic M+ jen y was busy in ariseging, in an adeuntal gecus mavner, the quer ion ‘ante Domiog>, Vou Exeelicrcy kuows thas the Uni Statee wes enceavorin| to acquire of ‘his last republic, act acknowtadgad yet | Syain, the penineule of Seciaua, a mos: importa’ milf tuiy station in the sea of the Aviles, and om the racaip of ibe prevent your I'xceliency wil sireaiy kaow thet th] efforts of Ger ere] Cazneau aul bis Jady, to %no a appa rently the Argo. Amrrisan mi. 02 he bese ont-tsced have mttcarried entucly. Whllas tne negoi'» loa wal going on, a commercial agent, sppointec by hy gow ernment of her Catholic Mee ty, sarived and al though somewhat lave, he sive! nave exeroiies ¥s ‘mpol taut influence on that res! ws I baliaer, to thy earnest arsistance of the French and B Tecate I] view cf thir the government of he Catby, ty da reeclyed, eveordirg to the information f have been ablet gaiher (as this effair is carried on wih gress secresy’ thst to invest the ccmmercial agent with the que uy | Plepipotentiary fur the negotiation of the tre." ot reac rition, peace and fifencehip. tu whios the common pre iectcraie Is to be screpted— aa idea which ought not ¢| be ditagrerab'e, conside. ing the cession of the exclusiy right mace by Spain. “Year Excellency must koow better than I that thoi steps of the government of her Catholis Msjesiy are the greatest copsequence to the which ‘we prop to curselves. I have reacon to believe that #f 8 jala ead nct cbtain the sanc:ion of the two great nations to w protectoraie by means ot a publi treaty, it ill accept q it by meats of a cecret treaty, which on this aocount not !cre the interest which I attribute to it. “These simple hints wil! demonswrate to your Excelley cy thit it would be entirely fruitiess that 1shou!d ose: iayseif at this moment wich the project which w. have i band whilst an affair of 80 much consequence as ‘18 0n which the government of her Catholio Majesty {1 proad cuting is percing. I conmder it preferable to make m self thoroughly acquainted with this affsir, te follow track and see the imioect éraw from 1t, and Itrust thay the go rene Higbners, and more especially your Rxzel perceive the venefite that will resals from m opportunity of atudving all the bearirgs of this «a2stior| of which your Excellency had the necessary knowledge, recommenced very earnestly to ms not to lose sight for a moment cf the high expediency of realizing that project, and in furtherance of the seme, to take advantage of any faycrable opportunity. Your Excellency must feel that I bave reason to ho exceedingly anxious re:pecting an affair in my opinion the moet weighty and important that oonld be entrusted to us, and at the same time how much alive I must bs to the necessity of not takirg any step without the most @xast knowledge pcssibie of everything that may affect the result aud success of the atiocs. And 28 in this reepect I have always thought that uothicg could + cre ocntribute to enligh er me than the extreme ootn- icns of the repre entatives of the government of th re- yublic meer their imperial and Bri:anois M-jestes, I ve decided to ccmmissi.n, a; my expense, the sesond eecretary of this legetion, Don Jo: Maria Pastor. to your Fxcellency, and bis Kxcellency the S:nor Don Joa- ‘quin cel Cas:ilio y Laxzas, to whom he will present tae instructions with wnich 1 bave furnished him, wherein the pciata uvon which it is most important’ that ha shculd hear the welghty opinion of your Exeeliency are set down. ‘As it is @ question of the servica of the republic to ty high pour Mecslicney devoiea bimseli with so much veal, I might well omit to Jay betore your Excellency an- other consideration in support of my design. It is, that the special goodness wherewith your Excellency has al- abown yourself disposed to assist me wiih your }, Oonfirms me in the belief that Sevor Pastor find in your Excellency as well the good will waich is necessary to him to carry his instructions into effect, se'the favorable reception to whieh his exoclent qualities entitle him. BUEVAVENTURA VIVO. To their Excellencies the Mimisters of the republic in Paris snd London. : At the same time I gave sn account to my government of the missions ent a to Senor Pastor, under date of 284 December. It is as follows:— Most Excmest Sm—I think that I should not respond in # wor-hy manner te the twist reposed in me by the government of your Serene Bi 3 if for a moment I should that one of the most serious charges confided me is to profit of porcunity that may offer to enter iato ich may lead vo the realization of a treaty wil of the nature specified. I entertem the that the government of your e Highness will oa ao Ihave pot —_ to her ca fora al lay with a preject of so much ‘mportance, eon- cerning which Ihave been on the look-out, both before end atter the memorandum which I had the honor to ad- dress your Fxcellescy, as the result of the commission which I entrusted in April last to the first cecretar this legation, Don Mariano Esteva y Viibarri, near Excellencies the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the repubiic in London and Paris. Tn view of the chan; effected in this country, an} taking into ascount the events that have lately taten plaee in Europe and America, and a'so the influence that some of them must have exerted in the relations of France ard Le wih the United States, and with this country, I have ju¢ged that it was time to take some step in order to make sure if this would bes good op- portunity to address myself in a decided manner, sketch ing the question In the way that I understand ft, and in conformity with the ideas which I have repeatedly had the hcnor to present to your Excellency. Under this supposition I ate Just given = commis- sion, at my expense, to the legetion, Don Jone Maria Pastor, who deserves a!l my confidence, in order that, in communicating with rs Pacheco and Castillo, he may obtain from these distinguished representatives of the republic the requisite information on the several points on which it is of great importance / to me to be tened in a proper manner. I honor to forward you with this a copy of the instruc:ions which I bave given to Senor Pastor, and by it my govern- ment will see tbat it is most im nt to the proper fal- filment of my charge to obtain data sufficiently accurate respecting the questions treated therein, as without this it is not possible to determine perfectly the position of the nations to which it "my opfhion, of the greatest im- portance, sxd which, in my opfhion, requires the most careful study in order to avcid all m conclusicns. The acknowledged talents and delion‘e tact of the minis. ter to whom I have the honor to address myself, induce, me to hope that hie Fxcellency will ceign to spprove this proceeding on my part, and to recommend its is to the penetration of his Serene Highness, whose high views I endeavor to realize, without sparing eactifices to obtain them, One of the points comprehended in the instructions re- garding the relations between England and this country, the negotiation which {s said to be established for organization of @ Spanish legion, destined for tho Fast. This idea has been lately cocfirmed here in a be 4 ‘that induces us to believe it is well led; and although this force would be paid by the government of her Britao- nie Majesty (who bas just obtained from Parliament a bill © keep a jegion of fifteen thousand men), it will be evi- dent to your Excellency that the mere permissioe for the enlistment of volunteers imposes upon Spain obligations whieh eall for a recompense. And what may this be? But on the other band, how are we to com! with the meaning of this event the question which, sceording to wi ‘inermed persons, made the ror obrerve Ww a friend, after he had been communicating with Lord Pal- bel orl vis; Why will not Spain sel at once the island of Cuba? This may be exaggerated; it is posmble that the Empe- ror may persist in bis former ideas; but from the old ones entertained by Lord Palmerston, your Excellency will ea- sly understand how far the doubts awakened by a resent factin whieh we cannot help seeing somethi than the offictousness of lomatist, may be legit I mesn to fay, most + sir, how important was the proposition of Senor Olozaga, in the session of the Copnitnent Assembly of Monday, 18th iust., in reply to the interpretation Mien ected deputy Maria’ made to her Majesty’s government respecting the sof 9 athe tbe United States, on the subject of the odin ot Cubs, and whereof I give your Excellency an acsount more at large in the political review which I forward to Excellency with this. your It is no Jess important to inform hin Serene Highn through your Excellency, that on the evening of the ‘ap when the above mentioned session took place, Senor Olo- 2age received a letter trom Lord Howden, representative of her Britasnic ’s government in this Court, oon- gratulating him on his and on the brilliant wuccers of the same. is fact, known to very few per- sons, Will serve to show the personal sympathies of the noble Icrd with the Spanish eeuse. There is no doubt *hat Lor Howden 1¢ ok friend to the Spanish cause, oreo? he kas recently given proof, but on this cova ‘You may rest arsured that I sha!l on no account despir ner forget whatever “here may be of utility !n the ulvic¢ of Biesar8. Pacheco and Castillo, “1 nee? net enter here isto any disquisttion about t)| secepiance cf ihe pro ectorebip in the threet bi forr since by this means the question of the tafluense of tif European nations upon Amerisa, to which the Unit] States show themee!ves so mach av/rse, being an «530lu, dexia} ot the doctrines laia down by Mr. Monroe wiald ¥ provoked. Your Excaliency is too well informed in the! tbinga to require more expisnativns, 4 BUENAVENTURA VIV9 DOCUMENTS ANNEXED TO THE PRECEDING COMIX NICATION. < Lacation or Msxico m Fravyce, Pais January 10, 1855. To His Excellency Senor D n BusNAVENTURA Vryo, Minister Plempotentiary «f the Repudiic in Ma trid:- Fenor Don Jore Moria Pastor delivered to me the coz, municaticn of ycur Excet'sroy, dated 19 h last Deeambs)| which smounted to a sort of credent'al, toge:her with th nstiucticns which you were pleased to giva him a.| which he sbowed me, the whole means ‘to giving him, {| order to be trao:mittes to your Ex informati | regarcing the feeling of this imperial courvia rebpect a he wegotiativps which were recommended to us by on cvernment, viz., to obtain the support, phyzicalor mora of the governments of Euro;e, in te insure th) nationshity and independence of the republic. In th’ atep I see the untiring zeal of your Exesi im its se] ‘vice, and the importance which your Excellecey attach with so much reason to sach an affair, at well as you! constant vigilance in availing yourielf of the oppoztuni(] of setting it on foot. Before his ceparture for England, I gave Senor Pastc| all 3 per ee unite he asked of me and wotsh ecnsidered necesrary, ard upon a separate paper I wrot| for him some details following the srder of the questior which your Excellency lays down in hia instructions| which might cerve as a memorandum of what I explsine| verbally to pes be tranemitted to your Excellency. In gene-al, situation with respect to thiy court {} the same as when the secretary ef your Excellency can with the same mission, as you may see ‘the padi papers ; ite attention is much more eng! now by th checks and difficulties which the alifed armies have expe perfenced in the Crimea. But in the event of tre rumors of peace that h Deen lately circulated coming to be realized, so as to les" ‘vernment disencumbered from the war of the Fé and to allow it the means to turn its attention to th West, I recommend agsin to Senor Pastor what I bay advised you cf tl Senor Esteva ; in they do net move wi:hout being d’accord with France Englaid, the Minister for Foreign afisire hee asked m constantly how we are with iting or i ‘he would lie Majesty would it to be understood, that in that the government of her Cat the initiative, snd as impelied, eet upon 1; In Franq they in¢er the im) that they see the P|} who are at the head of the Latin race, threatened by th Argo Sexon race. Spain is justly considered the heed the people who have made the independence of the nation in America, and in the Queen of the Antilles she hay gq the key of the Gulf. This bint and what I have mors amply impressed o Senor Pastor, will make you acquainted with the stat of this affaiz, and with this 1 have the honor to an your communiestion. Mexican Lagation near H. 8 M., Lonpon, 4th Jam 7, 1805. To cae the Minister Plenipotentiary of Mexi: The clerk of the legation of Y.F., Senor Don Jo Maria Pastor y Landero, has delivared fo me the note Y.E. of 20th December last, and whereof as well as the instructions which Y.E. thought fit to dictate Senor Pastor for the best success in the Lee eet he talataat Ihave made myself acquainted with dx attention. 1 answer now inthe part which concerns me wit the utmos: possible brevity, yet with as much clearne: 2 LN in order not to Jeave any doubt in the mind Ist. Respecting the question of Cuba, I believe I sure you to-dey that ibe opinion of thie govern ia nct changed. Ido not know that on the part of En land there bave beeu apy proposals, official ox otherwis| wade to Spain, to send s military expedition to the E Besides, I can nardly consider that, even supposing suq proposals to have been ee he) British govern ld urdertake to guarantee conserva and st the same time to defray the charges of the s expedition. This last condition, ‘tory to the 2 nish government, would suffice of iteelf, if 1 mistake ao to frustraie the project of its co-operation. Tae 5; ambaseador left this capital a few days ag). 24. Mr. Soulé.—Kverything referr! to what to: place respecting gentleman to to France iets in the correspondense between the Ministry of F ign Afiairs of France and the Minuter of the Uni which has already cireulated in the el rope. By this correspondence it is ne jat the has terminated sai . | 8d. The bembardment of Greytown furnisd oceasion for claims from this country for loases and « meges. Iam not aware that the govermmems may bs gone beyond this. ind & cting the questions of the Pen and the Sandwich y ppcrirg iteelt to tha,views of the government of vaited States or to make observations about them, fi Minister of the United States in this Court is the on! person who will have certain knowledge, {fo be continued.) A French Refugee to the United state Bankruptcy of bis Estate. 8 Messeoger, Apri 20 bsonty yeaa etzger, of Sarreguomines, notary name ir, Ol u {vd to the United. States ta 1844, after corsa tting merous forgerics and fraudulest ‘The bankruptey. | government demanded that he should be given up by t United States, but after lengthened different ovurts in the States, the demand was Im Mey, 1860, Metzger for bis crimes wan semtenood fault by the Court of Assizes of the Moselle to hard for ife, awd to 10,000f, fine. In 1865, as there spp to be no Hikelthood of his return to Franee, bis ct bad bim declared viding , - reprerente then demanded thet before the 4tvision was made th shoud be 4, first, 10,000t, the amoumt of the fi reeond)y, 17,610", 90c., the expense to which i: hed ut ty the ‘proceedings: ogatoat the man {n tho Us ftgien; and. Rhiraly, ; the sum paid for {oscr jon ct mortgege which by way of precaudon Ath) cauced to be p'aced on Dia real property, The sasipud