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tae adjacent little valleys, the abodes and even of luasury The population of Got ftemburg 1s 40,000, and its commerce exeeeds that of an} other city in Sweden. not eren excepting Sioczho!m tiseif. Besider & large leet of ships, sohoomers and sloops. engag ed in the fore'gn and coasting trade, there aro no loss than alaty steamers, engaged ainc in the coating irede for the sh run on thecanal, of which burg, with Londc: Tn my former visits to Goitenburg I saw much of Mr, Olap W: k and his charming wifo—the havdsomest womsn, in her young cays, whom | have ever seen in Sweden. Mr. W. hae recenily dies, leaving s large fortune to nis family, He used to speak muob of tne Henry Clay, ‘who was one of the Commissioners appoinied by our gov- erument to wake a tvesly, which terminated our last war with Fagland, wes owirg to tho Intorference of ‘Alexander of Russia that the atompt at megotia- on was made at moaarch named Gotten >varg as ihe place for the negotiation o be made, and ¥r. Clay was Sent by Mr Madison. Uwing to unforeseen «ficulties in the assombiiug of tho Commistioaors at tha: point, the Empe- Tor was induced to Zame the city of Guent as the place for negolstion. Thither Mr. Clay repaired, after having eral weeks with Mr. Wyk, who ever spoke of ms of the greaiest re! oct berg was founded by Grsteroe Adolphus, and within a few years the citizens bare orecied a supero brovze etatne of that cistineutebed man. It stands in front of the Exchange, snd near one of tho several canals by which the upper part of the city is traversed. Afier spending ® day and a halt at Gotienburg I em barked in the beautifui little steamboat Sicckholm for the = whore pame ft bears, end from which I direct this etter. Toe Stockholm is a propelier, and is nz fine a ver- he sort as | Amye Over FeeN—in Shape, KcomModa- movement. We left at half past one on the mora. ing of the 14to, and arrived bere at half past nine yester day forescon, The distance ts 420 Fogtish miles. Wo had gers, too many, and set | board not one ore, BOr FAW One Cisegreseble got. To cap tain is a perfect gentioman tn bis manne-t, was formerly ea officer in the nary, for which he was educated, and is @ man of science and much general knowledge. Aaritg syent three years in tho Enghiah parr, bo speaks Engit:h ‘with gremt facility and perfection. Tania is ihe care, I may tn parsing, with many moro Swedes, Norweginus and Danes iban moat reopie 1a our country are aware of. Quz course, upon leaving Gottenburg, was aimoat due north, op the Govha river o Lake Wenir. A’ter passing ‘three iocka in the conrse of the river we came to the cele- brated Falls of Troibw by far tre most resting in ‘i Europe. There our boat had to pass cleson focks, aud iso torough a cans} of about t7o miles in loogth, Thess locks are new, the oli ones cut ia the solid rock, having been fernd too smal! in theee times. Tuese locks cod abont ® million of our dollars Wo bad ample time to seo the Falls whilst the boat was making tts way up through the locke. Msaving reached Lake Wenor our courses was up to the vortheasiern end of tt, some eighty miles. Thence by canal and small ‘axes wo reached lake Vikgn, consiterabie expansion of water That is the highost point between the North Sea nd the Baltic, and is 308 feet above both From that lako wo desconded into Lako Wottor, und from that lake by cara! end 8 series of lakes, tho most impo-tant of whica are Foren and Roxen, we reached at Sodje kioping, an estuary of the Paliic ca'led Sistbacken Taen coasting along between the {siends and the main !and for one hun dred miles we entered Lake Ms by means of # short cama at Sodertelje, which connects two Cords. Thence we came down to Stockholm, waith romantically stands mt the lower end of the jake. just where It fails into a large ford, flied like the lake with islan ‘This, in my opinion, {sone of the most interesting and proturesqno voy: which can be mado. The sconery is beavtifa! in the exireme—net grand orsublimo At very moment almost It varies, but is every ag-eeadle. This next interza! improvement was finished in 1832. A part ‘was made sixty or seventy yearsago. The amount of ca maliing does not exceed fifty-five English miles. fhe ea- tire coms of the work bas been not muon short of 96,000,009. =r not, Anguat 19, 1857, Picturesque Situation ef Stockhelm—Costume of the Dale- cartian Women=The Church of the Riddarholm Birger Jarl, the Founder of Storkholm—Swedish Staiuary—Agri cultyral and Mineral Resources of the Soandinavian Pe nincula—Beligious Labertye The Temperance Movemeni— Railroads, dc , de. Btockholm te a gem ef acity, with a populalion of only ‘110,000 tnbabitants. It psesessee greater attractions than many a city of fer greater size, It is the residence of the Court of Sweden, and during the winter is a piace of much gaicty. The porition of Siockholm is ringularly piota renque, If I may so speak. It sands at the outlet of Lake Milar, partly on the lake aod partly on the ford whicn rass up from the Baltic and unites with the lake. Those eheots of water are inebape line to fans partiy opened, with the epoxes toucbing cach other, The city stands partiy on the southern or right shores of these #nerts of waler, partly on tbe northern, and partly on the leiaude ve- tween, some of which are in the lower oni of the iake and some in the upper end of we ford. Twese islands are said to be seven in Dumber, and in the summer insu! bie boats, rowed by Dalecariian womee.fin their sirizing neoares dresses, and boil with beavy shoes, which have beels that are under the middle of the foot, ply moog thom, and between them and either shore ‘This city has been called the “ Venice of the North,” ‘ovt cortalply not wih much propriety. The south part of the city Is mush more elevated than the northern, bat is mach lees extensive. In the central portions the houres ars built of brick and pinslerod ovtt!: at firet right be mistaken for stone hocecs. berbe there are many woodes houses, painted all the houres in the villager of Swoden pare, color. The country around the southern py: granite hills, parily covered with stunted pine , aed might around the northern portion is more level, bet is almort equally rock; With the exception of a iew Gi gerdens a direction, Sockhoim rtacds in a w peas, rocky and desolate. There are, beaatifcl couniry residences up the laxe ford, looking out cpoo thove sheote of water, and mak (oat exeursions on them in weather uipgvlarly pl ‘al mott enchanting ‘Approaching Stockholm from Lake Wicler in ® steamer, you will be landed om Riddarkolm, » mali isfand cetnplotoly eovored — wi honees early in the contro of it stands « singularly chorch, with several projecting chapels on ite icromned bye lofty tower, the uoper part of which js of castiron. That church is the Init lie the cofllas of reveral of tne them that of the top of frort of this church ts « am 1854 ‘his Birger Jarl was administrator of Sweden when the fo onion with or rather in aulje-tivs to, the kipgdom of Denma: The captinl in there days wi Oredro, some miles westward of the upper end of Lak i in whic be was told the eet found ane * capiial,and that be would fed a proper tite for it if he would cut downs tro and throw k Of it into the lake and follow |i rit should ron sgroand and stick was direciod by beaver to build bis newchy. Birger obeyed the vision, aod as the Ing ran agai cet the is'and of ich Lam speaking, be jomped aabere and jaid 126 f 2 of the fatare captisl, Which early took the Of Siockhols—that te, the island of the iog—from the words “holm” (island,) and ‘stock.’ («log or trang of a four branches ci the Swedie Diet or Congrese. meetr— the olber threo meeting in @ builting in tbe rear of the eburch on the isiand of Riddarhoim, of which! bave just PTake i all in all, Siockbolm is a very interesting piace, and would be far more so to strangers If \t pressed ® ft, and mecn in branch of the outlet of the Mriar, whick side of the island on whict the palace beaotifa) statce of Castarvue Adoipar the er dest of modern princes. [t i im the midst of on the most jorely spot in Sockhoim. fhe thestrs on the onstera tide of thi open focare, le that is which Govteros [ll was seeassinated st a ball in Me ant to the cantar! ‘of the palace, clote to txe water's edge, stants a statco of that prince, erected, accord: Westminster | every other city to the U g0 for religious iber:y, always and ovi ‘Or A’chbithon Hughes does or not. that Roman Catholica onght to have satire religious liberty in our bapy country; bat he ie far enough from boiag in favor of pA Aer baving religions hiborty tn Italy, ‘Thero is a decided religious moroment hore in § eoden, Drowght shout ne by a “rect,” as thor are called, bul they are oo soot at all—of “Readers.” 5 0 low waa the atate of religion io both Norway, with ile 420 Proiestant misister?, and Sweden, wita iw 3.000, (and this ws osing tothe sad infiaence of a unioa of Charch and re ) that ptoos agiooend often plain end bow wip Peopie, in many places, some years ago myetings in cach other's fousoe, to read tho Bible and other religious books, pray, and uae other mess of mu toal edit ation, but not at pevzs which inerfered with tne public worahts of the churches, This has soroad greatly, und is spreading. Aenco the name of ‘Roadera’’ ard “Non readeri:m,”’ as it is called, is becoming au el ment of importance. and cannot be overlooked Of course the worldiy and un savoried por ion of tae clergy of the na tiona! churob, (which ts the oaly churca reoognz.4 by Jaw, spd from which, {f a man depart to become auytt ing else ~ Bs ptist, Presbyterian, Methodist or Ro.aan Catholio— be ig 'iabie to {mprisoament for twonty years, or daaish mont from the country.) aro greatly opsosst to all this,and do all the: cap to pret the spreading of the “delusion,” fs they cull it; bot all Is fn valn; and go far bave matiors gene tha: the King recommended to the liet to pawsan ac cf toleraiion. Somothing will be done, bus not muca, by a A similar, but far less id powerful, ement bas beea going for- ward ip Norway. In both of thes® countries the tempsranor reformation hae mede great progress, and has undoubtedly beea ous of the causes of the great proaverity which they are now enjoy ng, end have been es joyivg for the iast theee years. The government bas done mush to break mp tho litle dia Dlleries, and dimipieh the consumption of “brandy,” as they here call thelr “potato whiskey”? by impoiing aheavy texor the manufacturing of tho article, sud gaother oa tho rate of it. In both cruntries the attea ‘ion of the goveruments is be- ginp!ug to be torned to the waking of rairoads = Norway has duished one from Onristianis to the Mion ake, forty- two intles ia length, and in Sweden ope of tea miles, from Malmo to Lend, has baen opened: another, from the upper r to Orebro, is completed—some forty miles long. Sovn nearly fifty miles of the road botwoon Gottenvurg snd Steckhoim will beopen Ciher roads are n progress. the most important of which wil! be froa Getie, on ‘lie Gulf of Bothnia, to Fablan,in the mining district. In my noxt I shall epeak of tho forma of govern- ment lo each ball of sbe Svaudivavian poaiasula, the ad- ministration of justice, & fhe Kedeilion ti India, INDIA REVSNUSS AND FINANCRS. (From the Londen Economist, August 16.) In many quarters there has for some time past boon & disposition io disparego the financial povition of India, and to ex» ggerate tte temporary difficulties to which {i has been nd tt ences prodcced neon the public mind by the vague impressions thus cirsuisied have recontly produced s powerfu! effect upon our market for public se- Surities in councction wilh the calamity which has eud. Geuly failea upon India. Ite pevertho eas a fact which may teach us ak important leeson at the preseat crisis that throughout all the difficulics to whit from tims to time the government of India bas been exposed, in gain ing #04 maintaining tbe vast territories utder its rule, |: bas cever been a burden directly upoa the floances of Eogisnd. Ai the same tima, and especially sisce the passing of the act of 1834, it may fairly be ad. mitted that the view teken by Sir Robert Peel in his budget speech of 1842. in comeidering the finances of Tadia as closely asscciaied with those of Engiaad, and, in the case of creat Con as even identical, cannot be ea tire'y ignored. The real question, hor inlereate both of Eogland and India carefully t0 Consider, and upon which we are called upon to arrive at a fair and dispatsionate judgment, is the means which India possesses iadependent of this country to support the great efforts which undeubted)y aust be mado in order to restore irasquiiity. This question, ia ordor to be satisfac Urily determiied, must be considered In all its bearings, and ip relation to entire sources of the tpcome of India apd ils labilitics. In the drst place, then, we would coniter from the most recent and authemtio documents, what are tho or accordieg dinary sources of Indien revenuo, the acconns mate op for the the gross revenue collected in India, excl: payments snd drawbesks, am*uated to £25,$ OE to clucing, however, allownn chierly ovt of the land ri tremies and othor engagements was 00 lege than 25,004,760, wi Interest on Towl.. 2 —cCaARaas IN 1. Mviderds to proprietors . +» £882,686 Interest on home bani det +... 152,007 General charges, home eatabiien ments, penaiont, So. eponever Stores to Ladia.. ‘ Other mundry pay! Total charger... ‘Thes, agenst a charges of the year amounted to $23 Ceficiency of £972,191 added to the debt of the ina ernmeni in shat year. ov i, however, we make allowsece del oa public works, which mutt be ¢ ligh\ of aa investment, ihe conte be to Improve ths chief source of in raver than #4 aD expepdtare ot rpment— then, in piace of @ dedciency dencies, £1,911,10 1; monopaly, ‘of opiom, aud “475.571 from stamps, mating e fources: gees than £21,219,263 ] | yence of the mutiny in the Bengal army, 6 cou may be said to be strictly confined to #0 no porione of north wert provinors, and it te therefore \mportent to exa mine what proportion of the waoe is collected in those districts. In the year 1865-58 the eollectiogs in those pro: vinees, not ielev ing the Pusjacb, were as follows. — REVERUS OY SORIEWERT FaOvinc New Land revence... £4,074,402 Cortome. 67,615 Salt... Pom Office Stampa... Owbers sources T oseyo y 4,786 541 moat |mportant considerations which pre- rent themeeircs at frst eight in relation to there accounts, and which Sppete exsentil'y 10 affect the security of the Goasces of | 1, That #0 large & po of whole ie derived from A fource #0 secure, #0 permanent, well defned a« the rents of land; andy That of ail the other sources of income, 20 large & proportion ip ooliecied | im thore parte of India where Rritish role it most secure, Im the nort! inces, where alone up to thie time we an inscription om the redertal, by the people of Stockbolm | two years before that tray ca'cooerrenss. | may add that oa ¢ small isinod in the branch of the outlet of the Maelar, whieh flows along the southern #146 of the island on © the King’s palace stands, is « nobis equestrian riate ereoied — present King to the memory of bie father, Charles in XIV {better known as Pernadons Gut, atrixing om it {#, {t if not equal io tant of Geveral Jack ron tw rout ef the President # boure at Weeaingion city Sweden is & much larger cooniry than Norway, ant combired they bave a population of only five m touabditaate, Norway having one midion aod « be Swede th: 00 millions and 2 half. Both oonnt the eame geological and geograptical cbarac evs They both abound in Horde. islands, \skes, forerts, and mounte os and bills of granite or goeive Toe tourthern ona ci each contain the greater part of (he land thet Ir susceptible of cultivation. Both bave immense qusntivee of timber and exbaustloes mines of iron Tne people of both area light baired, bine eyed, ‘air-tkinced rave, poe seesing! many One avaiitier, among whore virives may be placed incomitable conrage. As | have sirenay ‘ta'ed, the thie «great Scandinevian peninsula are almost wholly Proveetant thelr religiows faith. Bar tne Reformation was far from oes a2 compleie and vhorough ‘Onghi to have been. Thi work das et!!! to be done ‘cn re poor reformers jn religion a1 wel ae (o affare of State. Wherever ‘he reformation was wrovgb’ on ancer thelr (\rection and control, a+ |i was in | og Norway and Fin jere i one Roman pbabitante of oberch at Obristiania, f post last yoarmom the 2448 of August, the day which vttwremorabie is the Protestant calendar for the massa tm rivolomew in France. Rome ought to have soother any for founding oF comsecrating & chape! or of | | | | | | ed that of a net ,074,192 eonniete of the rent of the land; apd it is a moe: important fac. in re- sion to thie, that of late years tne whole of these Isod revences bave been upon terme at ono: adres. ba Sod satisfactory to ine callivavore of the soil not ltely to be considerable, in the © reveuve at the ordinary period when due, there \e every certainty that a’ ce remote time the arrears wil! be o lected, ud that to permanent lose ie therefore likely to be incurred from this touros. Tt le a undaunted anurce of strepeth to the finencer of Indie, thet the rerence ceriyea from 80 few, bar eech well averiained aud ple roareee, and that the mats portion !1 obtained no! Lhe fort o payment for the beneficial or supation of land bot the next point sbet we have to consider it, wha: are the permanent charger for which the revences of india fre linvle’ Firat, there te the sapitel stock of the off Feat India Company, which originally stood at 9,000,060), bat which is redeemable ander the aot of 1854 only by a pay ent of £19.0C0,000 For thie stook the rerennes of India srechargenble with the sum Of £652,0008 year. Next there if the bome bond beot, amounting to £3 894 499, bearing Interest of 4 per cent, and chargeahle anon the Indian revenues wader the same act. And lati, there is ‘a taxes strictly epenking, bot (a the ehape of ihe Cebit in India, which tm every shape emonnts to 50.48) 69 upon which interest is payable to tbe amount Of £2,140,077. Iti, however, mecomary to remark with so liabilities, viz, the Bork of the that the act of 1456 provided for rote of the mercantile ore”! ° + tn he abollanad, the Gov et # gamer FA(60¢ money har airerdy boos 1 Comamisrionars of the Netter! 4, which, of Course, mutt be re lites of The £19 856,609 | entire capiial debi for which the revenues of India are lable, may be (has stated: — £68, 811 209 482,608 Upon these liabilities the annual obarge |: as follow: entire amount of interest being payable on the ae ‘stook, while that upon the guaraniee fund ts allows: ‘socomulate until {t reaches £12,000,000:— ANBCAL CUARGI 1, Caottal stock, 10 per cent. 2. Interest of bonds, 4 per 8. Indian debs. Total annual charge. The net Indian re ' year, are thus burdened with a debs of 1.92.02) 175—bear- ipg 0 apnval net charge of £4,924,577 If we sompare tus Condition cf the income ef (ndia with that of the obief Roropean State, and partioulariy with ou* own, ‘ho oom parison must be convidered as extromoly favorable to lud!a. “The spaual roveaues of the United Kiagdom ma; ‘ve said to be tn round figar 60,000,009 @ yoar; ourdedt + mounts to abou! },000, and the annual charge to £25,000,000. Our debt, theret Le mon greater than our anpuai revi taoual charge is equal toe eum ueariy one come, In Indis, on the contrary, the wholo cob! amoauis ton som leea tisa threo times the amount of tho revenue, and the annual charge ig less than one seventh of the to come Looking, them, to tae actaal rosouress of the Indian Koverpment in re'aiion to ita fiavilities, there |s aot, wo believe, a single Earopean goveramen; wish so email 6 portion of tts sotval iucome eagage 4 for the security of its obligations. So far av regards the tmmediste wants of Company, # nm from the spoo’ t there © no [mn mediate a bi the 2 Oni ad looking 10 the f. n ml provabiti 6 no doubt that, both on the Fag: India avthorites, the posai- so being required, hax boon ma tareiy co: lered: becar se, if there was any chance what ever o uree being had to the goverament for ald, « could pot ba granted without the consent of Parliament; ‘anc the {act (hat vo such application ts about to be made is the beat gi eo that if is pot expected that any such aid will pe required least before next year if at all. ‘To say neiblog of tho means which tho las [ada bas of reorniimg its home treawry by drafis vernment aad of lity of ae” such ary porsible amonnt at thistime, it appearathe’ a the Ist of May it possoseed furs in the shape of mo y. exchequer billt and bonds, aad stook fa the pubite funds, all ai iis Gisposal, amounting to £3,969,654, oF close upoa four m'iilous; sod we pnderstand that’ the compaay havo 4 power of issuing bonis to the extsnt of £3.000,000 more, Inéppendent, therefore, of any reliance upon Lodia at al, the Fest Indie Com oany {n this way inay be conidere’ to have at its disporal a sum of about £70,000,000, or fully double the amount usually required for meeting the annua! home charges, If funds are requires! in India for tho suppression of the motiny fi is probable in the first olaco that the oubdlic Works wi!l be temporarily suspended, which stop of itecil will place pearly £2,000 000 in tho year at tho disposal of the goveromont for other purporos, Again, if the Fast India Compayy cap, by fell!ng back upon {ts resources at home, ciminieh ite drafte by one balf, that will places furiber sum of 1,600,000 at the disposal of the government in india for locai expenditure. lastly, if 11 be required fariher to recratt the duences tn Iodia in connsqueace of the unusgal expenditure, or in consequence of somo tem forery declipe in the land revenue collec tons, there oan oe n0 doubt that tae government nid be adie to raiso without apy cifionlty very large sams, by giving a soifl the spot. There probaviy lo history of India when thore ex- ited £0 large a9 amount of accumulated and even of cnom- ployed capital ae ai this moment. So far, thon, as the Kogish meney market, there appears to bo two dis- tinct grounds upon wich the pphappy events in India are not hkely to exercise any very perceptible or prejidicial ioflaemce:—First, the origis in India ia not a financial but a military difficulty; and, noxt, so far as Indian finances may be snaironsiy siiccted, there aro gcod grounds for believing that the Iadian govornmont can safely rely upon ita own reroarces on the spot, witbout resorting to this country for Aid Or aeaittance of that description TER AMBRICAN PYNACSA POR THB INDIAN MUTINY. [From tan Manchomrer, (Eog.) Guardian, Angust 19 | Toe New York Hegarty Gtscusser our [odian diticulty from an Americen point of view in the ineffsbly ooot tem- por with which a javeniio ‘fast man” of that practical cocmrg might be suprosed to calcuiaie the comteqnences to bimmelf cf ibe desth of bis elder brother. Ii {s satiafac- tory to find that travelant ec interents, as taterp-eted by this organ, are found io be in favor of the continuance a our supremancy in the East The course of reasoning by which this conclusion is reached ix two fold, Tho first | piaze in regard in aczorded to tho cirenmatance, which has been aoverted by Mr. Bright, tha’ ifthe mut'ny should not be suppressed, [lin tostan will relapse into barbarisa: and thatthe commercial interests of ihe Usited States, prospective if not actoal, would thereby be (ujartousiy affected. The argument which is somewhat superilously employed to eke out the strength of this appeal to the pocket is more henorable both to us wh: to proit by itand to thowe to whom it ts addressed. Eugiwud is the | foliary refuge of iiverty among the natlous of Harope, and Af Wahould fail to the level of a fourth-rate power, a we aro \ole \t must if deprived of ts hold on India,a somsi- able shock would be imparted to the political sympathies ay an honourable and gratifying stmission of a commus- ity of priaeipic, if a0t of practice, betwena tho snciont Brivth monarchy and the stupendous young republic, eee ee ree Trough the article ia not a little tinged with the spirit In which “the kind world” is accurtomed to trestihe case of apy of its members who are overtaken by misfortunes, it does justice tn fairly ratiefactory terma ts what wo havo done for civilirstion ip India, and to what we are doing ia the \lveree, for the boned of all nations which expe xt to eS by the advance of tee human race in cultivation aad appiness But tbat which gives it a complexicn that might be offevtive if it were pot amusing, ie a pavsage beartng allution to certain spendid conditions on which we may hope to obtain what is vulgerly cailed ‘‘a leg uo’ from the Unite? States. | i¢ nol usually cone\fered a very gen- erous proceeding to take the opportunity afforded by a» friene’s pecuniary asouny, Order to try to get hold of An eafate that be bss long been loath to part with, or any otber porgession whick the prosperous ncighbor may cov- ‘et, butbas seen 20 chapee of laving bold of watil the pe iod | Of the owner's sore distroes. Yet this ts the way in which oar business like cousins prejec! the turning of au Lonest penny out of the presumed present need of Eagiant, ater ex; aliatiog somewhat profesely on the moral obligation which reeit pon themaeives to maintain and succor the tree of liberty wherever (t is planted — Were proper means taken to place the contest ia Tndia tna = light hetare the people of the United Statog, tts highly vere for the Indian govern: n who are ready a fy this comm: 4, the English wer Wid proper ineasures and a yald be enlisted in a few o ¥ thousand men ¢ week To thie brilliant offer we presume there can be no hesi- tation in aneweripg, on bebsif of the logieh people, thai we would rather be excuse! telves under ihe stern pocessity of | Jewels in the cre | of courte, that the more approprively deposited do ot catimate our presest dio. lose * unbend politicta: ‘a have no doubt, be ready to reply that wo think we good aceount of the Iacian mudny without the ‘ance of America, and that. sarter, we really could not afiord to accept it om the propored. RUSSIAN INTRIGUE IN THE from the Par: When we find our- or Are OW fullering the terrible Consequenses of a situation y bad not created, certainly merit some symouihy sy are paying with their lives, with ie boy WY ‘acir Da their wives siavghtered afer enduring the rilost treat. meat. aod beve teep \Leir obiidrea peri#h am’ borrivie \ortures. Kren bad these officers fa: ter for criticiam, the present moment would be leme them, and we must the more abstain from 19 8 Our conviction, there exists no grounda of lever, we believe, Bas the staff of the Anglo Iudiane army, which has prednced to many men of rave morii—we may say, without exaggeration, so many herces—bees better composed sham at the pre. sent moment. Ip the two or three coin! of \ettere from India ed dally by the Fag lich journale letters, written im the midat of the most appaling scence, om the vory spot where the most abominabe barbarities are being com mitted, not A movement of werienees, not a boastful ox preesion \s bewayed. Many of these officers have beso put to death ancer circumstances where the victims reqoired a far different courage from tha: of the soldier oxicaied by the hope of glory. And bae a single man than aa a Dero siriving to perform bit dug gatp’ Perhaps we fail to take into accoun’, here ip Farope, the extraordinary onergy developed iv these men by the sentiment of their moral superiority over the debaret population which surrounds them. [a India, amidst (hove barbariane, tue moto ' Nobles oblige” ie warmped in the bearts of Feropence. The suceeseore of Cireand Malcolm are worthy of thowe who precoted trem, & fact © ‘@ proved by the namber 0° distin goished mon who tened from their ranks within inte en Who were the two Pottingers, Colonel Barns and Brigndies Mayee? Who are Wajor Kiiwavdes, the two Law- renoes, Brigadier Chamberlayne, Colone! Jacob and Gon. Ootram, Who #0 #k ‘Tally Couducted the Persian Wer! Are not a!! three eminent man. and many others whore names we canno, be expected to Enow, oificera or former officers of the Baa India Company's service . . The opinion \s widely spread in India tat the long train of powder which bas exploded under the feet of the Bri tish at Teheran, Delhi and Canton proceeds from « con corted plan prepared by Russia during the lato wa’, and pot abandoned by her afar the ornclusion 0° peace. Io India # eincere belief reigns with respect to ihe power of Intrigue and (h¢ diplomatic skill of [agsia, notwihstand. ing the oromis of the Ina} fow years ought to have proved to the mort prejudioed that this #xill baa been vastly ex aggersied, and that the power of intrigae chielly os tain the credulity of the public, Did we not, in ‘aot, witness during (he inte war the utter impotency of |assia to pro. doce an explosion in countri dormined by her Inia ence, much ae Bolgaria, Servia and Montenegro? Pot, if we 10 Furope are aware of tho reality, people in India sro not 80 far advanced tral Asia i. matter of certalaty, and doubtiens thelr mia- tion (@ to rage onomies to Eng! if we wanted sid from | tone gatbe: rerd to tho fivazces, the army, the condition of the country &c,, from Greek or Armenian merchants establisl Calcutta or Bombay. * * * It is thorofore neither in foretgn intyigues nor in the faults of the officers of the Bengal army that must be sought the causes oi the Sepoy revolt, THE STRENGTH OF DELHI. [Froin the Parts Pays j Dethi, at ths momen: cf tha breaking out of the insur- rection comtained {mn depot tue prodacts of the caanon foundries of Ksasifoure, and the gun carriages and arti! lery madertel manefactured al Fatiohghar, and thore of tee celeerated powder milis of Ichopovre, Independent of the beavy ordnauce ca the ramparts, {t bad ta ttore 610 heary guns, of the calldre of from 18 to 24, intendod to suppiy the aifterent forts of ihe nortneast provincs of she Caiculta presidewvy, besides 450 pieces of floid ar allery of the calibre of from 7 to 9, and 96 ob uses and 70 mortars. ‘Toe aiore of projectiles snd munitions was aiso very oon el ‘ble. Toe Tudian arililery basa well meriied reps- tation, and all theee guns were in excellent condiilon. At the timo of tho inyurrestion there was not a single Kagtl.b rogiment in Delhi, The native regiments of arililery and epginesrs did garrison duty, and this explains Row tt hap 9 of ths place is organ‘zed in such a enerai Barnard wrote,a fow be. 2} cannot diaguise from myself tha: laa a new Sebasiop: Career of an Adv er in Europe and America, Av og (ho most adventurous lives of which the annels of crime have transmitted us the record, wo Gnd bu: few ag fortiio in crimes of ail kinds as that of an adventurer after whom the police of London and laris wore looking years, and whose death bas just bees mon- from San Franciso, This man, whose true origin bas ever been sacertained, but who is sap. ith av Freoch: thoroughly eluoated, he excollet inal kinds of bodily exercise; he waa riee! gentleman. To several iostances be took tht and name of Mer. quia do S———, azd had eyon in bis possession papors wwatify 2g to Dia Identity om tat subject. Oae of ine mem bers of shat family cixappenrod a long time ago, during bis travels in Switzorland, and the most minate investiga tions did not lead to obtaining any irformation of what becamo cf bim Has thie young gentleman bad any ro lation with ovr advonturer’ This may havo kiiled him to cb'ain posseaaica of his gold and pspors; or did he perith by ax acsideat in one of his oxcursions in the Alps? The fact will probably remain a my: forever: but ihe man ef wht m we speak was perfect!y qaalified to commit | & murder. as will be shown by the following:— (From La Patrie, of Paris, August 23 | | They woutd admit it was a hard cate. Ta 1847 our adventurer was in ono of the most importect cities of Fagland, under tho namo of tho Marquis de § . Several bonorable families received nobie | foreigner witb assiduous ationtion. 0901 manners ond bis title turned the heat of a young caugbter of @ rich brewer. She married nim, notwith- star ding the romonstravces of ber parents, and some months aftorwards the pretended Marquis broke, on a cor- iain night, into the of bls fabber ia law, and disap. peared with a large amoont. | Lesa than s year after wards, under the name of Forster, | ty va! was married in America for the second time, to the daughter of a reverend gontioman who was | also ‘in an bovoradie position, Ho succeeded in gaining nome respectability and became intimate with two rich Amorican gentiomen. Thoy invited him to g> with thom on | an excursicu near to Lake Ontario, where they had some business to transact. The pretended Foreter went with m, The two American gentlemen received from their } and divided a Jarge amount of money: on their re jurn tbey decided to travel osastwiseaiong the pictaresque | borders of tbe St. Lawrence. They were mounted on horseback for this long trip. While en route one of the Americans proposed to bet that be could cross one of the rapide of the river by swimalpg. His companion objected | that it was a deogerous nndortaxing ; but tho othor lasisted #0 much that the bet was taken up. The movey which | they had received was to be tho stakes, aad they were of /he stars ana ttripes. Woe accept this tender confaesion | pomorsan agents fn 1s ‘That Rornia n Oem. | into this without very good ad Some of tnose agents, | ghoorfully reepond to give a mao | sourtes to please bim, and the | sai! handed over to Forster The one who had to | Det jumped immediatly in tne water; be swaun a certain distance, but was soon carried away by the curreat “Oa Ged! | belive be ts going to sink,” exslaimed the se- cond American with anaiety. “I think so algo,’ was the cool answor of Forster. “We must go to his hel; said the other. Former dia not answer, aud remained unmoved. ‘The companion of the drowning man did not hesita's for ‘& moment to throw bimtelf tuto the water, but found him- telf in such great peril that he soon swam back. When he reached tho shore exhausted, ho was shot in the shoulder | and rema ned lifeless on the sbore. This crime was the | ‘work of Forster, who being rid of bis two companions, ap- propriated the amountentrasted (0 him; bat the victim | Seid ‘and is is througa him that the details of tne kcown afterwards. Some time afterwards Consequences of the ailair, left New with him the diamonds of bis wife and mothor-in law. rom that momert up to 1853 all traces of our adven- turer were lost, What became of him daring that period, or the orimes ho may have committed, is unknown, In | = Snare ws Ce san wo tee — Bar- ett. an tourist. began awind) 6,000 france from s hotel keeper of St. Germain, with whom he ‘was boarding for some time One day when the latter went to Parts ow business, he gave bim s bank noto to oxchang: ee or he asked @ favor from | Be Fie: was going lo the races of Is Marcho and wanted 6,000 fraver, in French coin, fora large bet. He loft ans pleige a larger amount m bank notes, similar to the ce be bad given to exchange before. The landlord, who bed fa! conidence in his guest, getherod al! bis ro- When the botel keeper, loog wanted to ozo the bank notes deposiiet with bim, he por. celved that they were merely business cards of | onden merch ints. ‘Ont Proteus reappeared eighteen mosths aflerwar(e ia one of tho large cities of the South of France, with bis title | of Marquis de S°*"", and there he was on tne eve of | delng married to qemme and noble Dut tne gen: armen, who bad bis ‘ption, arrosted him and brought him before the ‘or of avillage He sacceeded, how ever, in Inducing the magistraio lo believe that he was the victim ofa and the family to which yas going to be allied was the first to claim bim. An f008 recovered his liberty our adventurer disap: es ag he toot refuge tn & village of the Hautes ‘yrénées, where he garo bimse!f out a+ « politics! refa- gee by the name of Adelezzio: sere he sedaced a rich orphan of the country, and ieft witli a large share of bor fortune. He conceived finally that F 2rope was a dangerous abode for him, and wailed for California, tho promised innd of adventurers. He keops the name of Adelezzio and applies himeeif to industrial operations. He ts seen ofien in com: peay with Lola Mones, bat nothing of his former life comes to light Be wes to find at inet the reward of his crimos. be timputed to epirit of revenge or to the cagidl y of walefactors who had attacked bim for plunder? It ise mystery which bas not yot been cleared up. Theatricals tn Ireinnd, SPOLLEN'S PRRGONAL NARRATIVE—SCENES IN THE THEATRE—THS PROBABILITY OF HIB COMING TO HEW YORK. ETO., BTC. | Oubiim (at Correspondence of London Post | Spoilen’s are delivered twice yesierday, morn. og and evening, according to his advertisements, in a third Cinaa Dabiln theatre. It was canvassed pretiy freely by ihe groups who crowded to read the placards whica ‘ared on tho walls, whether the personal narrative would | teinde any confession of St onogest 3 that Spotion ht the Gro alto m1 to apply to Soulcuat Tor tne instruments with which the ortme w perpetrated, and for the towel found in Mr. Littie’s room, ip order to make ibe shamelets exbibi\lse as complete as aeibie. before one o'clock 8 number of ied near the theatre in the bope of reeing rive, but \d already taken hit place in the interior. ‘Ver Tew, it te pleasing 10 record, felt dispoeed to visit hia there Those w turned and went up a steep ttairs to 8 lobby a bole, they were dosired groiiy to “pa: Withio the cvabier’s box eat James Spolien, Jr., + th the same olen Aive, repulsive ex ‘which wad observed when at (ue pression police oflice be unwittingly Coolirmed to mach of tbe evidenee of his sister and younger brother, Haring paid In. at this point, another figh: of unpleasant rtaire con: ducted the visiter to a sort of dirty, ill lighted lofi, almost ‘without seats, and totally withoal ceiling. At one end of this wretched piace were a small stage, some three feet avove the {i ,or, and & miserable atlempi at a prosceniam. There wat no curtain, and the back reene, some four fect from where the footlights would hare bern, represented an lerpeenibie interior, gaodily painted in all the colore of the rainbow. (pon the le were & rickety table and a deal ebair, Upto one o'clock Spotlen did not appear, bat night be heard bebind the scenes walking steadily to and fro. To the honor of the city be tt raid that scarcely twonty persons visited this mitorablo oft during the morning, and there were mainly compored of the repreventalives of the press, of members of the police force, and of two or three others who came to protest against the audacity of the maa who bad solicited their attendance. Short vf the appointed time Spoijen came npon the 6, ing in bie hand a sli>of paper. He looked fur: tively round for & moment, and turned « newspaper which Igy upon the table over and over. In expression and beat- ing be was altogether unchaoged since the day of his ar Feet and he wore the great coat whoh he hai om at toe police eilice Afer a moment he sald: — You all kaow the position in which 1am placed. I bare gone through s dreadful of deal, it # tree, Sitonted ag 1 am, without moans, you may say without character—that word ‘character,’ { think, will draw from you & degree o” aympathy that any poor man May de entitled to—! need not ‘enter [ato much della con Heoted with my present circumstances; but my object fm | coming before yon Is for the simple aa obtaining the meane of lonying the country, In Dublin it wor'd be diMecalt enough to obtain employment. | « tema with & portien of my femily—a young man ’ cluded now by the mother, She is deverm ine! >of) anything for him. That, you will admit, w ‘weight upon me, Of course I will not be pats Shoe png hyd bardon without I obtain thoso mo. ” my exit from this coun Thave nol vc ad even fom tome chanical portion of society, knowing that the pat! would uy ving the | | and to compete w country. 1 aad in « private a! Scere St Sorat ast f ine fete aid ey dom.” ig talerrapod 6 ‘a Mr. Fispetriaa soko ald he thought the airsor dahl Cates 0 fod exam to Ireland: Por tuts maa, if allowed to make hb there, and obiain mo- Mr Firzvarsiox—As all events the Dub! should denoonce such a thing. The “7 oause the public were disgusted. They wou!d not oome in to to this man, and be proteste i they encouraged this, 1s would be holding out ity to 75 to He came there, although be had busi- Ress which should have been done elee- here. was t allow that man to but it snowed what he was, Branded as id he @are to come before the world? here used some (beervations whton, ho 100 gtropg for publication) “You bay in. dignant gentleman, addressing Spolien, who uke marbic usmoved vpea lege, “you have plenty of mone7, snd you are able to go wherever you wish, but you bac tho ausacisy to 0 ¢he othor day to the othr rail- Toad to ask for employ mont, shat you might take the op- portupity"*—— ‘SPOLLEN—That I deay. Mr Firzearaick 1 won! to visit the oottago—— Here James Spolien, Jin., rasbed into the room, and at- tomptad to pnt Mr. Fitzpaattele out. Mr. Frrevaraicx, after aome further observations to the fame etfect, waa about to leave, whea Spoliea, who re- mained calm sud o90! durlve thls stormy episode, sald, | “ @ul you ana ser one queation?”” Mr, Frrzvaraiox—Not a word, and Tope ao citizen will | bear you Srollan—Have the Biadas: suppose I was the moss golliy man ia existence, would you run me into a hols te starve? Suppose I did commit the murder, would you atsrve me? Mr, Frrzvaraicx—Upoa my word,! would rau you lato a hole Where you would bo away from the public and the powor of dolng misoniof. If you are employed again you wl Srot.2"—That is not a Christian fooling, at all even's. Mr Firavaraicx—I will walt upon the Lord Mayor to #09 whether you can not be put down, and [ hops no one will give you any money Mr. Fi zpairick having retired, ‘Svotian sald that bis ebuillition of temper was lu no way Christian or feeling, but he Inid bis case before she pubic, What was he to do? Ifthe was not encumbered with a portion of his family ho would retire to the pourh use and oke ont ox istence {n it. He would imagine {t would be the object of any bumano gontloman lo assist him in leaving the coun- try, and not show the feeling that Mr. Fitzpatrick had. Ho than proceeded to request the pross to put his case fa. vorabiy to the public, and comitmuod to say that his prosont fo hear me Now, even | atep could not add to the notoriety he got during nis{trial. to bave been a nativo of Piedmont, lialy, was gifted | Pith tbe mort seducing exterior. He spoke Italian, Eng. | V9 though be bad been the guilty man, it vas an ewful and dr ] thing that that sac:ed bondage of matrimony should be destroyed by a wife. He had no more to say, except that Lis object was to appeal! to their sympathies. A Gaytiuewan—How do you explain thrt your wife know where the money was! Spoi.zy—It would be bard to kuow what the police could not Sad ont. Another Visirxz—Yoa did not say you wore innocent | yet Svousn—Ok, [always held forth my insocoacs. Visitaz—You did not oven do that ia tho dock. Another Viewaxe Who put the moaey where it was foond? Did you know anything of ii? Spouixn— Nothing whatever. Vicitsa—Bave you @ suspicion of aay one? tro. aN— No suspicion whatever. There may be domes- fie faults that it would not be very right for mo to cater into and explain, Perhaps it is better that [ should hold them tn silence, My position is a very severe ono. Vourea—Tt does not appear to annoy you much Your conduct surpasses in audaciiy all lever heard of. | paid Is. to come in; you ask « furimer subscription; If teere subreription g up to buy you a ropo [ will give anoth ilieg. Browias (exbmissively)—Of oonrss, there must be dis- es. I want barely enough tv icaye tho coumry. A Gar rxay—You got eight sovereigns, and why did you Dot Ko? Srouzy—What would you have me do with my son? Visiten—flo is as woll able to work as you are, You Could get out to America, at all events, for £0 each. Sroiias—Will my yl work in tis country? Would you went mao to land ia New Yerk without # shilltag ia A little thing will serve ms. iy len then rétired bebind the scones, and tue audioace withdrew. ening, from six until ten, Spollen continued to Htors. As might he & somewhat \ t Dut regard asthe depos tory ¢f a secret, big never to be more fnily revesied. He evaded every atiempt to entrap him intoa copfersion, and bis observations bad ee little the character of a parrative as those reported above. He stated that bad bad m Wan ove ofer to exbibit himself, but in substance and fact be though; he could make aire of it himaeif, and he refesed to give any informstion as to who the man was to whom he had referred in his speech afier the trial. When asked to give the promised narrative he that none to give; that tho advertisement bad been drat ip for him by ® young man oonnected with the place, and that he knew nothing of giving a narrative. only wanted io get an expression sympathy, and . Probably the proceeds of to £5 on the whole, Steeple Chases at Dieppe, France. T Pros Parte Gallguas's degass $8 } 7. the day were from £4 steopiochases at Dieppe came of! yesterday |, 18 whe extensive meadows of Kouxmemil, at some distance from tbe town. Favored by magniticent weathor, they attracted nearly all ihe fashioaable commu- Bity, French and English, now staying at Dieppe for the , together with the townspeople on masic, ‘asi Dumber of curtous from the neighboring and for miles aroend. They also attracted a largo cro! Englian of the lower class from London and Brighton, who were brought over in steamers which rae expreesiy for the oovasion at the exiraordinarily reduced = sien abillings. Bg im the stands, 0a foot, in carriagon, on horne- back, caused the groand to present a brilliant appearance. ‘The various entrances to the course were tastefally decoraied with tricolors and Koglish flags. Tho day's business was 8 fairone, but uot quite what had boon expected. Im the first event several Fogiith borece bad been entored, ba: only two were brought over; ich them only three French horses were taken to the post. As then only Gve horses startod, the takes, though nominally of 7,000f,, wero roslly only 6,000f ‘Ihe running presented no partioular (noidon}, and the resuii was what was predicted by tho freqaenters of tho Froveh turf—tho victory of the famous Franc Pioard. It was observed that the Fngiieh horses did not ip well; tnd this was raid to be owing to the fact that toey were ac. far silffer obstacies than were here provided Tn the second event, three out of the five horses that started were brought over from England, and {t was one of these, Il will be seen, who was the winner. Tne which |a the frat afar were aboat twenty five ia im the second Gfteen or tixtecn, wore tae net much betting on either event. M.C. Laffitte, M.A. don Brossoa,and Raron de Malartic acted as stewards. The attendance of French and oy ‘sporting characters waa conriderabio, though not so nume- rows aa is generally witnessed on important occasions Affairs In Kansas THA STATE OF PARTIRG. | Lorrespondence of the St. Loula R+pablicen Daiawans, KT, Augast 28, 1857 ‘Yesterday the delegates returned from tae Grasshopper Convention, report that said Convention resolved that free Sate men might beallowed by their own friends to ‘vote, inarmuch aa no disporiiion in shown by the border refiane to interfere with the election. Marcus J Parrott, who bat already been elected as Ro- Naruravizep Crvizers in Kenrvcey—Imron- foreigners, and that thie right belongs oxclasively to the Covris of the United States. He also decided thal where ‘® person brings naturalization papers State, the papers must have the certificate of the United States Court of that State, Ther formed, have caused considera)’ the demooracy of Kentucky. A Waewn ror Anourrionnets.— A Misotanippian fends the folowing proposition (9 the New Oricans Dr!*~ »- I wilt wager tom regro men Jere, thet Casro tw net an Dixon's Ninu tat om tpdaee the tom te promiecs, and go wih bim ton free Stat thom ove full hour at aight in the woods by & be chooses to tark, , persuade or hire Dotting Js warring with 3 religions soruple ate myself to emanc! pate the Regro men, jour’s talk, he can induoe them to leay If be fails, | am to make them tar and ono. | will weg 00 threats vor force to make the) twelve Our Naval Correspondence. Usrrwe Stares Sarr Powra Azawas, Costa Rica, Faly ae isbt. F International OourtesiesOffvial Vist’ to San Jotem®. Oarey Jones and Tom Edwards—Costa Rican Wishes Re- garding the Transit Rovte— Wounded Filsbusters—Oesta Rican Loses in the Late Wars Present Government of Nicaragua—Sailors Pranks on Shore, dc , dc, On arriving at this piace, our commander, H. K. Thatem. er, went ashore, ‘and visited Colone! Canas, commandant of the place, and brother to General Canas who acted so pro- minent a part in the late Nicaraguan war. In his inter- view with the commandast OCaptein Thatcher proposed te fire a aalute to the Costa Risay flag, but remarked that im 80 doing he would expect the honor to be duly recipro- Oaled gan for gun, To this Colonel Canas ropiled that the want of guns would rondar such a return mpossibis om his part, and that furthermore, oi @ late ocoasion of oale- brating the triumph of Coste Rican arms over filibuster. fem, tn obedience to a State proclamation, two of his mem Jost {Hotr lives from tho {li timed discharge ofa gua, The commandant thankei Captain Thatchor for the proposed Compliment, and stated that he should consider the salute ss baving been fired, and make a report to that eifest to the aathorities at San Jose. Soon atter arriving 8} Ponta Arenas, our commander, accompanied by Lieutouant R. W. Soot, made a visit to Ban Jeso, the capital of Costs Rica, Taney travelled upom mulss—the prinotpal moans of !scomotion tn this countey. ‘Tne description of the badness of the roads and the hard- ahips of the route would Joxd one to infer that travelling iB not resorted to as a means of pleasure in Costa Rica. They found Saw Jose to be an tasignidcant place, and in itd exterior preenting but few features which would entitle tb to the position of a cliy. Captain nad, as the objeot of his visit, to make inquiten, a. relation to certain. Americans, who, while on- Penoeable upon Lake Oe compe:! to do service without compensation. Oa ar- civing at San Jose Captain Thatcher beid an interview with Proaideat Mors upou ‘he subject, by whom be was osaf- deatiy assured that the men were not in orison, nor was ther? any wages due them which they bad not received. Whilst Oapiela Thatcher was at the capital W. Carey Jones, Erq., United States dipis ic egomt to Coutrat ‘Amarioa, was robbed of a congiderable amount of money by ap American, known here by the nano of Tom Ed- wards, Said Edwards enjoys the roputation of « man of uncertain morals, yet seema to have insinuates himeeif foto the confidence of Mr. Jonos immediately sher tue arrival of the latter at Punta Arenas, whence be accompepied him to San Jose, Said Kawards wee originally from Cal'foraia, but during the reign of the ‘svigitantz,”? for bia owa Denelflt as well as that of the ‘State, be iwok his depart theace, and next turned up ia the camp of Walk ‘Ho was finally advised thas his presence was 30 longer neaded 1m that qasrier, when be made his exodue to Costa Rica, but svems to have drovght his unenyiadlo antoselents with bim. this final act be was, at the instance of Mr. Jones, lodged ia the prison ai wan Jose In reference to the much canvassed polzt of the 4 tion of the Ban Juan river, I learned thet many of most influential Costa Kicans would muck prefer that is abould be made free to the world. This measure, they ‘tnlvk, would favor the detection and suppression of filtbustering movement which might arise in future. There are now some fifty Amoricans at Punta Arenas who were formerty connetted with the cause of Walker, but on the issuing of prociamations by the Costa Ricaa authorities, assuring them of protection, and that all who Sotcoenraie se telce pas a a nevol sy on 7 as been carried {nto effec! In oer ail oumber of desortors, and said to bave bad its origin io advios of Captain Spenoer, aj rs to be less strictly adhered to since the expulsion of Gen. Walker. The most of ther mea at Punta Arenas have been there several months, and are reduced to ihe lowest grade of destitution. Seve- ral ere laboring uncer chronic dizeases, contracted ia the ccuauy, Some two weeks after our arrival in pori, ihe roal (125% cesta) which bad been appropriated as the cally support for each cf shoso individuals, was ordered te be discontinued. A fow days provious to the timo which had beon fixed for our leaving this place, a small vessel, named the Ros- ‘an, Commanded by an {tallan, entered the harbor, briag- tpg the leat wrecks of Walker's army, who, at the period of tho capitulation, wore lof; at Rivas, a: thelr wounds ‘wore of auch a character at io render thelr removal tm- possible. When Gen. Walker left Nicaragua, this ‘some eighteen tn number, were lef under the chi & Dr. Royston, formerty of Mobile, who had ocoo; prominent porition in the medical corps of the Nicaraguam vices to this until they # sxitiolently proved to dealt ee thetr removal home. Ino this were the following officers: - Major Dolan, Capt. ot img been in the immediate range of minie pecially so the unfortunate Mejor, who has gereh wonnds cf so formidaole a character that Bary circumstances, each world have produced They embarked on board the Rostan at San J Sur for this place, and report that dur! euge hp A were exceedingly {ll treated, m put on the shortest possible allowaacs food and water. Gad it not beon for the rain that they caught at times, the surgeon in charge of think they would all of ‘perished of thirat. One of icfi company died oon after tho arrival of the veesel at Arenas, bis death being atiribated 1» inscfficieut the i ear, Tho expenses jon of company to this aisted with an allowance of foo! or Whoogh sot lavish in laxros, still was safflctomt for T bave learned from roliable sources, that in the Nicaragoan difficcitien Cosa Rica lost about 20,000 men, a9 even horg their ie cholera; the remain- were im battle. cee large ocntage ihe whole population, which amounts im al, to about 150,000 souis. ated towards Genorsl Walker. her orders, & fectded reduction in re during the late forays which have desoiated this unfor- tunate country. Whilst we lay at anchor before Punta Arenas, of eur crew were permitted to go arhore on II of these, a marine, whilst intoxicated, wae committed to the guard bonso, and a notice of tho caso, written im Span ah, was gent the following day (o our commander, signed by an official styling Ihineelt the “Judge of Firat Instance.’* The following offensive charges were pr against the marine, viz:—That of being drunk, ‘and whilst in that state of baving broken a door and the end of some one’s abirt—a more literal rendering might be pg the fo eae a that om the payment of the }, ae well ae 8 fol! indemnity for the done, the prisoner should be Nberated. Notwithstanding the damages wore paid according to the Seusment, yet he was not tatis ‘ed, but forwarded @@ accoant of tne matter to the authorities at making bitter complaints against our reamen; Dut thorities to have paid no special attention matter. Whatever indiscretions our men may have been gullty of, the place was more than inde nnified in the large barveet of er eure L] dh \@ ctroulation by their presence, enough Im fact, to or: rand im the Coanoial statue of the town. tba 2a mber z Affairs at Panama, OUR NAVAL CORRESPONDENCE. Uniren States Suir Deoatcr, Paxama, N. @., August 18, 1867, } Trip Y le United States Ship Decatur——Her Comsorts tn Port—Momments of the Squadron—Divtrivution and Detination of the Filibusters—Colone! Fremont—Heath of the United States Sailort—Heat of the Weather. After & most delightful voyage of cight days we arrived at Panama, We found that the Independence, fig ship of the equad- rem, had pailed the day previously for San Francisoo. The United States ship John Adams js here, baying returned from & cruise along the southern oosst. On the arrival of the John Adams her commander, Captain Fairfax, was detached from her and ordered to proceed with the Inde pendence, whilst Captain H. K. Holl, previously connected with: the | lence, waa ordered to take commend of the John Adams. This "* expected, will return home soon by way of Cape ‘ Ber Mi manded py in Curry. She i cruise slong northern const, a is. Of the filibusters who were brooght by the Deostur from Ponta Arenas seron, at (heir widh, were sentby the Inet stesmer to California; aa to the remainder \here hae bome Re provision made, ‘Tho stonmers from clined to diacontinue the business of 1 ng ponntiore filtbusters to their homes, eed natnrally Cay | from the amount of profit which is likely to be inwall to New York appear in- from bosiness. Doctor Coleman, Iately the acting Surgeon Gonoral of my, arrived by the Columbus a fow from Ponta Arenas, and returns by the present steamer Colifornia. Colone! J. 0. Fremont passed here en roule for Ovlifornia, The health of the crews of the Decatur and John Adame is rot #0 ta hitherto, owing to the prevalense of @ catarrhal epidemic, whiob, for a few days, incapacitated many of them from doing duty. ‘The thermometer ranges from 18 to 88 Aingulariy exempt from rain, though thie is the wsaal feasn. Weare reloy Axornan Braves Oves rar Mise Creat Norhwesern Railroed Comyn tenot for beiiging tha Miscinalpy | sboat seventaen mila Selaw tela oloned on tho <éh teat, Upon san Piseoll, tho ongineer in {30 omy ry Ro oity, promptly laformed the to > tnteront epoe thelr proceedings immediate forpended for the prosent, and t Company left for the Kaat to obtain farther the matter before commencing the bridge, Louw Oe mocral, Sax. Ty er gincer of te inetragtions

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