The New York Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1859, Page 1

MORNING EDITION—THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1859. K HERALD. PRICE TWO CENTS. MAILS OF THE AMERICA. President’s Message and Fort Duquesne Letter. French Sac mendl that Porto Rico, ba and Mexico be Made Monarchies. IRISH REVOLUT IONARY MOVEMENT. British Government Against the Sixty-ninth New York Regiment. eting of the Atlantic Telegraph Shareholders, &e., &e., &@. mails of the America, which left Boston early on day morning, were delivered in this city at five last evemng. The delay was caused, a; already ! ced, by the express train on which they were con- ed having become embedded and almost covered up a snow bank in the neighborhood of Worcester, Muas., ben en route. Four ties a9 Gated in Paris on the 17th and in London the 18th of December, Te papers contain some very ing extracts in addition (9 the mews summary phed from Halifax, which was ubjished in the last Monday morning. ‘The steamship Prince Albert, of the Galway line, from Johns, Newfoundland, bas made the most rapid pas- e on record between the shores of Europe and nerica. She left St. Johns at night on the 10th ultimo, was off Arran Islands on the night of the 16th of the month, thug running from shore to shore in five days ‘and sixteen and a half hours. She brought a synopsis of ‘Phe President's Message, a full news summary, and the ; Yatest commercial reports from this side, all of which were published in Dublin on the evening of the 17th, and in * London on the morning of the 18th of December. ‘The Peninsular Correspondence of Madrid, of the 11th ultimo, remarks:— slap eijomntion ; ent journals say in General le ‘of Guba, ‘Don Jose de la Concha, has written to that though he has offered his re- et he is unwilling to re- n question is settled, ‘The Shea nt, overnment, signation on account of his health, turn to the Peninsula till the Mexi ‘and that he wishes to take in the war, in case it should be declared against that country, if the govern- ment should consider his services useful there. The ‘Monarquia, whose hatred against the Captain General of Cuba is made manifest on every ocaasion, 's that Concha will endeavor to remain in order to gain the same rapk as his brother, the Marshal. ‘The Paris Débats of the 15th ult., speaking of financial peed 1, industrial and foundation of our financial, indust and commer- cial calice is 80 solid that the crisis which raged in the two worlds with such unexampled intensity could not even shake us. Whilst the great commercial natious of the world—the United States, England and Germany— were aprey to the most frightful perturbation; when the Dest houses were there suspending their pay- ments, the bankr with us did not exceed their ugual average. ll the difficulties which caused so much alarm have got over naturaily, and in the ordinary course of things, and we have now resumed our upward progress. Money is abundant, disposable capital flows in, the rate of interest bas fallen to the lowest point, the Rente has risen beyond 73; and what proves that specula- tion has nothing to do with this upward movement is ‘that it was the da: y before yesterday quoted as high for cash ‘as for the end of the month. Everything presages ares. period of activity aud developement, which is only yet at its commencement. Tho meeting at Paris for the purpose of regularly con- stituting the Suez Canal Company was to be held on Mon- day, 20th ultimo. It was positively stated and generally Delieved that bona fide subscriptions had been obtained for the full amount of nominal capital. ‘The London Times of the 17th ultimo remarks:— ‘When we add that Mr. Reed and the British authorities are working harmoniously together upon the subject of the tariff, we believe we have epitomized all tho information which our letters bring us from China, and we may con. tinue to congratulate the English public that affairs there are proceeding so prosperously and promise to terminate 80 epeedily. ‘The London News of the 17th ultimo has the follow ing:— As attention is directed to the threatened hostilitie between Peru and Ecuador, we give below, withou ‘vouching for the accuracy of the statements made, an extract of a private letter from Venezuela, dated Novem der 21, and brought by the steamer La Plata. I hear that , Cope, English Minister at Guayaquil, has offered his mediation between Peru and Ecuador, which I hope will vent their coming to extremities. Privately Ihave d that if Peru refuses his mediation he shall offer pro- tection, and have the British admiral at Guayaquil to prevent the Peruvian vessels from destroying the town. The London Post of the 18th ult. says:— Russia must be looked on as a country ina state of transition, both for Czar, boyars and people. People and ‘boyars may both acquire much that they have long lost, and the Czar may surrender in course of time some por- tion of that thorough autocracy which would be incom- patible witha higher civilization. ‘The King of Prussia’s health has not been improved; the air of Florence does not seem to agree withhim. He never goes out, and the Queen is seldom seen in public. ‘The news from Berlin fulfils the expectation of the suc- cess of the liberal party. Accounts from all portions of the empire favor the success of the liberal candidates. ‘The accouchement of Princess Frederick William was ex- pected about the middle of January, and much disappoint- ment was manifested that Queen Victoria had not arrived to be present on the occasion, as was her expressed de- sire. ‘The return of the Bank of England for the week ending Wednesday, Dec. 15, compared with the previous weekly return, shows the following results:— Circulation issue. £32,852,470 Circulation active 19,746,255 Public deposits 9,526,771 Other deposits. 12,606,131 Governmert securiti banking department... 10,808,501 Other securities in banking Without alterat'n, depaytment. 15,988,603 Increase, 482,772 Coin and bullion in both de- partments............-. 10,024,360 Increase. .103,198 763,862 Decrease... 30,306 3,100,444 Increase,. 3,511 Notes in reserve. 13,106,215 Increase. .874,955 Total reserve (notes and coin) in banking depart- MEME .... ce ceeecseees+> 18,758,114 Increase. .395,853 ‘The bank’s discount business has largely increased, as ‘we foe by the movement in the “ other’’ securities; yet so rapid bas been the influx of deposits, that the ‘ reserve” has experienced a considerable increase. Notwithstand ing the withdrawal of £120,000 in gold, on account of the new Chilean loan, the coin and bullion have increased. At this period of the quarter considerable quantities of coin ususlly flow in from the country. Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, Dec. 16, 1859. Consultation between the Emperor and the British Ambasea dor—Rumored Conciliatory Tone of Napoleon—Greater Reciprocity of Commerce to be Conceded—The Emperor is Conscious of the Mistrust of the English Middle Classes— Are His Promises of Conciliation Sincere?—The Army Wanting Something to Do. Yesterday a long and close conference took place bo tween Lord Cowley, the English Ambassador, and the Em- peror, The British Earl attended by the special command of his Majesty, and remained at the Tuileries from eleven o’clock till between twelve and one. The interview was so entirely private that no Minister or Secretary was Present. Of course conjecture is on tip-toe to know what it is all about; and from the proverbial reserve of tho principal parties it is not very easy for conjecture to satisfy itgelf. Ican only repeat certain whispers which, though ‘they issue from a source almost authentic, must be re- Ceived with limitation. Tt is said that Napoleon, rendered extremely anxious by the ferment which has attended the prosecution of Montalembert, and by the troublesome position in which it ‘bas resulted, was desirous of informing the British Envoy that, come what would, the unfortunate affair would now be dropped—be, in fact, heard no moro of, It is also add- ed that the Emperor, at this particular conference, did ‘ll he could, consistently with his dignity, to wash his own hands of the mattor, by stating the absolute necessity he lay under of occasionally yielding his own judgment to that of his council. On Lord Cowley deferentially ro marking that Notwithstanding the perfect disposition of the Faglish government to do his Majesty justice on all and every occasion, certain foeling of mistrust had assuredly began to prevail among the middie ciaeses, from which, since the Reform bill of 1832, 60 much of its power was derived; his Majesty is said to have declared with unwonted emotion ‘that he knew it,” agt his ‘object was at present to learn from the ae what means he could suggest for reviving a confidence on which he had never ceased t lu.» the highest value. is understood that th Ambassador’s answer was to the effect that there wa: ut one means of restoring the former confidence, namely, a greater reciprocity of commerce; and that the Emperor’s rejoinder was that nothing should prevent his government from availing itself of that means. “Armed I must be, and continue to be, under whatever circumstances,” his Majesty said, ‘but greater reciprocity of exchange will convince men in England that it is with no hostile yiew to her.”” This will, perhaps, tend to re- duce her expenditure. Jt was arranged that Lord Cowley should immediately communicate with Lord Derby, Except that I have this from very reliable authority T should hesitate to give it. Personally Iam not much in- clined to put any great faith either in the Emperor's sin- cerity-or—that being granted—his power, great as it is, to break down the protective barriers of French commerce, Should, however, any efforts be made to do 80, and some- thing like an earnest of success given to John Bull, in the removal of one or two important restrictions, there can- not be a doubt that much would be effected towards stay- ing the gallophobia, Which, across the Channel, is so sensi bly on the increase. In military circles there is'a predominant faith, on the other hand, that the Emperor intends to find something for the army to do. It is impossible toenter any society where the “services” congregate without finding that one subject absorbs every other—the possibility of measuring swords with England. The presence of an Englishman, as far as I have been able to judge, docs uot deter them. TBE CENTRAL AMERICAN QUESTION. Threats of France—Opinions of the French Press~ Monarchies Recommended for Porto Rico, Cuba and Mexico—The President’s Message in Europe, &., &€. [Translated from the Courrier de Paris (Dec. 14) for the New York Herat. The latest news from the United States, announcing that the government at Washin; \d taken into serious con- sideration the energetic tations of France and Fngland, and bad dedided to put a stop to the expedition of Walker, gives us only an incomplete soon, as to the fate of Nicaragua. That bold adventurer (Walker) has shown that in cage of need he is able to deceive the com- plaigant watch (surveillance) of the American police, and we should not be surprised to learn by subse- quent despatches that he has succeeded in leaving Mobile. Mr. Buchanan’s administration will not be embarrassed in roving that it has on this occasion used all the means al- lowed it by the constitution to prevent the guilty enter- prise, and it would thus shelter its responsibility towards the two great European Powers. But even admitting that the government of the Union sincerely wishes to keep its cnzagements, and that it suc- ceeds in enting the sailing of the filibuster, the fears concelved about Nicaragua and the other small States of Central America will remain the same. One cannot deny that the schemes of Walker inspire lively and almost an unanimous sympathy beyond the Atlantic, where they do not care much it what constitutes our old international laws. The federal government itself, by its neglect to punish the fibusters, or rather by its evident connivance with them, fully shown how it looke upon them. If now it resolves to oppose them, it is, we believe, because of the firm attitude of the Paris and London Cabinets— it does not consider it lent. to do otherwise. But we would be wrong to from the former President of the Ostend Congress greater eal than’ he has hitherto shown on this question. Besides, there, more than on any other point of the American’ continent, the policy of annexation is a neces- sity for the United States. The discovery of gold iu Cali- fornia renders a débouché tor them on the Pacitic coast indispensable It is no longer sufficient for them to ob- tain it, as they have done hitherto with the lands in the West, simply by improving them. They ought, at every sacrifice, and with little delay, to establish swre and easy communications between the new State aiul the rest of the Union. Thus, they should now relinquish the pickaxe of the pioneer and the hatchet of the woodsman—their ordi- nary instruments of conquest—to take in their stead the dangerous, perhaps, but expeditious modo, of a coup de main. Europe, meanwhile, cannot tolerate the semblance % such fede! nie The same considerations which led to wu the war in the East exist here with an equal force, and they are sustained by motives of general interest which there would be danger in forgetting. By her sicvation Cen- tral America is destined to become the point of the concen- tration of the commerce of the world, and to Lt the United States take possestion of it would be to yield to them the mo- Pag oe Future transactions between Europe and the en- ire Orient. ‘On the other hand, ought. France and England to deter- mine upon keeping themselves in those latitudes forces suf ient to oppose every act of piracy? That step would creat» incessant causes of conflict, and thus render the mainte mance of pace alvays precarious. What tis necetary to do, then, is to strengthen little States, to show them how to protect themseltes by themselves. Ik has been said for some days past there is @ project @ mixed monarch; for the land of Cuba, and of Porto Rico, whicl would give to those’ possessions an nt existence, 0. nationality of which they have always been de- prived. Yt ispossible, also, that in the near future Mexi- co—alas! for her internal convulsions—will become more calm; sho can then follow their example, and an intimate alliance between the three suffice to protect them against the ions of their powerful neighbors. This pian is said to be irresistible, and Spain, the first who has takey the initiative, would not hesitate a moment to put it in practice. Perhaps for herself it is not to be re- grettod, for she does not at present succeed in maintain- ing her dominion over Cuba by example, but has to aid it by a display of force which renders that rich colony a burdensome charge upon the mother country. There has been a question, likewise, but with more foun- dation it cei asto a confederation between the diverse States of ral America; and it is also added that the Presidents of those five republics ought to assemble in Con- gress at Guatemala, at the end of this month, for the purpose of laying the bases of that union. France boldly encourages Lala amen and will even name a delegate to assist at 1e conference. We make these observations, since no obstacle ap- a to hinder the realization of this idea. Those tes ought to cast aside all rivalry, and remember that their isolation only makes them feeble, and leaves them without defence against the attempts of invasion by the United States. Jt is contracting vay | them- Hiss d contttarodionunontieeiame items ince they will their ti and arrive to the degree of prosperity which the near future promises them, Under the influence of a grand international movement, which plans for itself cach day, an importani réle is re served in reality to Central America. The centre of the world, from the point of geographical view, i seems that she ought to be one day the centre of the commerce of the Orient and Occident. The space which she occupies, com- pared to the two vast continents which she connects, is relatively exceedingly small, being oniy 155,000 miles square, or 475,000 kilometres. ler population does not exceed altogether two thillions of | inhabitants, who are divided between the States as follows;—Guatema- Ja, 486,000; San Salvador, 394,000; Honduras, 360 ,000; Ni caragua, 300,000; Costa Rica, 125,000. . That is only an average of thirteen inhabitants for four square kilometres, and if it is remembered that France, which is far from being the country least populous in Eu- rope, contains in it sixty-eight, one will be struck with the smaliness of that proportion.’ But the vicious and de- moralizing system of Spanish colonization and the anarchy which hag reigned there for a long time since their eman. cipation, has contributed to keep those beautiful regions in the condition of solitude in which they were found. Nevertheless,a calm political situationand the construction Gf, he projected canal through Nicaragua, of which M. jelly has obtained the concession, will create a commercial activity which will rapidly draw there the current of Euro- pean emigration which hitherto has been borne towards]the United State, and there is no doubt that the population ought rapidly to acquire an increase, go that in seyeral years it would be found to be doubled or trebled, ‘This predilection of Europe for the United States has only been too largely justified heretofore. There life is active, fruitful, powertul; it astonishes by its incompara- ble prosperity; it attractg, consequently, the floods of emi. grants who go to seek with their homes the liberty, work, reward and property which they miss in their native land, In the old Spanish colonies of America life does not seem to have activity, but, om the contrary, to be destroyed. It’ was evident that the attention of the Old World should bear itself in preference towards the laboring and rich people, contact with whom regenerates and strengthens. But commerce and industry will resort promptly to Central America, 80 admirably situated to serve for a transit and emporium to the transactions of the universo— the rival and competitor of the Amorica of the North. It is through them that she will to recover from the peti in which she remains enslaved; they surely con. tain the germ of strength, of richness, of deur, of civilization—in short, of life; of that life in which in their impatient folly the inhabitants have too frequently de manded in the anarchy which brings enly ruin and pre pares only regrets. From the Paris Sidcle, Dec. 14.] After dwelling on the views explained several years back by the present Emperor of the French, when de. tained at Ham, as to the advantages of uniting the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean by means of a ship canal, as now propored, a writer in the Siécle observes — To comprehend the vast utility of the plan, all that is required is to give aglance at the map. It will be then seen that the narrowest fhe the isthmus separati the two seas is called Panama. There, one woul imagine, the canal ought to be cut; but an attentive ox. amination has proved that the natural obstacles are such ag to render the execution in that part a matter of the greatest diMoulty, whilst by ascending northwards it will be seen that nature herself seems to havo provided for tho enterprise which might be attempted. A series of lakes, the principal of which is that of Nicaragua, com. munieate with a river, the Rio San Juan, Theee lakes, ag well as the river, can be canaliged, and cutting to be made between the two seas is thus clearly indicated, ‘Tho plan now put forward by M. Bolly shortens consider. ably the line proposed for the Napoleon Canal, which went from the Rio San Juan to Realejo, whereas the piber ie come out @# Salinas, The States over we terri- tory of which this latter canal is to well comprehended one point of great ly, that the establishment of a great seaway across Tathmus would of necessity rescue that rt of the world from the anarchy into w! it has been plunged for years. Central America, becoming the route of the two oceans, will rn ent daca Por aa cna he met fact be by thousands that vessels will annually ee the rqute of Central America, generating enterpr wealth everywhere. We can to ourselves those parts which are now solitary filled with towns and vil- jages; the lakes, which aré now silent and melan- choly, traversed by vessels; uncultivated land fertilized, and the rivers which flow into the lakes and into San Juan. carrying civilization into the heart of the country. These consequences have not escaped the governments of Nica- Tagua and Costa Rica. In decreeing the Belly Convention they decreed the independence and prosperity of Central America, But it is not only as Fregards that part of the world that the canal of Nicaragua is advantageous; the maritime commerce of all countries cannot fail to gain by it, As the canal of Suez will reduce hy more than 3,009 inne. the distance from Mareei!les, London and Paris, to Calcutta and Bombay, the passage through the Isthmus of Panama will abridge by 3,200 leagues the voyage from Bordeaux to San Francisco. It suppresses half thedistance which separates us and our neighbors from Australia, and places Japan and China within reach of the com mercial companies of North America, OPINIONS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS. THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE IN. BUROPE—LORD PAL MERSTON’S OPINION ON THE CENTRAL AMERICAN AND CUBAN QUESTIONS. {From the London Post, Dec. 18.) The President's Meesage—the substance of which has been transmitted by telegraph from Galway—fully con- firms the anticipations which the public in this country have been led to entertain respecting the forei y of Mr. Buchanan's administration. In the first place, we muet observe that nothing can be more natural than the feeling of congratulation which the President expresses on the subject of the abandonment of the right of search by England. This ohict the government of the United States, almost from the foundation of the republic, has strenuously labored to accomplish; and feelings of mari- time fealoury’ and a genera) disinclination to act honestly and loyally against the slave trade, have ever induced the statesmen of America to declare that the police of American ships on the high seas should exclusively be ettforced by means of the national vessels of the ib- lic. Td this cause is to be attributed the failure of the negotiations at Ghent in 1815, and at Washington in 1846 on which occasions disputes of great gravity (one of which had actually provoked war) were settled, but not the right of search—a matter with respect to which Ame- rica, having never made @ conceggion, has now achieved acomplete though procrastipated triumph. In the late Russian war England, ag in alliance with France, adopted the American rule of ‘‘free ships, free goods;’”’ and a brief period has only elapsed since the important payin. We ae & still Legh commercial Seale, it ey = Some ‘of Mexico, ig more than doubtful whether the annexation of Mexico would not weaken rather than strengthen the Vniou. Yor there are two ways in which this anmxation might be accomplished. The first is by right d conquest. The country when conquered must be held bylorce of arms, a proctas which involves an increase of tamtion, to which the Americans would be il inclined to stbmit, unless, indeed, its impoverished inhabitants coulde made to bear the burden themselves, which is umlikely, The other way would be through a demand on the jart of the Mexicans themselves to be joined to the Uni. In this case, the mostnatural of the two, a number of half-Spanish States will beeome integral Parts of the Union,and be entitled to the same rights, the same control over themselves, the same share in the federal governmint, as the States of English ori- gin tothe north if in, We know what the American character is, an¢ what the Mexican. The American has alread: pom; altered from the English type, and is doubtiees: of still further alteration, under the influences of amixture of race, or change of climate. In the case we have assumed, it must some cay come to that Americas will mix freely with Mexicans, and fexicans with Anericans. Now it has been assumed on all hands that theUnion would absorb Mexico, What if the reverse shou happen, and Mexico absorb the Union? Doubtless in any @se the Saxon element would predomi- nate, but we ver} much fear that the gradual amalgama- tion that would etsue, the infusion of river of degene- rate Spanish blool, would sap at the very foundations of American greatnes, and deal to the power of the Union a blow from whichit would never recover. It is well for ow yg ted England that the blood of ber sons, in its lard Northern energy, is kept free from admixture by th¢ barrier of surrounding seas, It is well for our brethren ¢f Canada that a whole continent of rivals is stretched betwien them and the South. Let the Ameri- cans keep at from Mexico, let them avoid it as they would the Upas tiee, if they would wish to remain as they are, Bat if they must have Mexico—it is possible, in- deed, that they may acquire it without interference on the part of Euro) y have good cause to fear that the sin of unrighteous conquest will bring its penalty, in the of that deadence which history so often records as ie! fate of hardyraces who baye overrun enervated na- ne, The French Slave Trade. OPINIONS OF TIE IMMIGRATION COMMISSIONER3 IN maritime declaration annexed to the treaty of Paris— PARIS. which announced several large and salutar mitiga- [Paris (Dec. 15) jormnoatience of the London Times.) tions of the English prize code, as well as the In my letter of y last. occurs the following short abolition of presi e § all the great Powers of | paragraph:—‘I an informed that the commissioners ap- Europe—has been followed up by the abandonment | pointed by the to make a report on the subject of aright which never lawfully exisved in peace inde- negroes in the French colonies pendently of treaty. ‘The public jurisprudence of Bape! have declared in flv the system of immigration as at Having in at least two important particulars been present conducted)’ ye of your m contempora- ed so as to meet the views of America, Mr. Buchanan and his advisers might gracefully reciprocate the con- cession which England has made by placing the odious and barbarous system of privateering under the ban of the law, and by maintaining on the coast of Africa and in the seas pero Cuba squadrons suflicient to prevent the American flag from being used, as it now frequently is, to cover the most detestable and’ iniquitous traffic that has ever afficted and outraged humanity. ‘The United States have at the present time upon their bands a distant and expensive war. They bave fitted out a fleet for the purpose of coercing the weak republic of Paraguay. Many _per- sons have thought that this ilcet was intended to stop half way—to call in at Central America, to enforee American interests and influence in that quarter ‘of the world, or to be ready to act against Mexico. Mr. Buchanan, however, auticipates that the Krag os he Paraguay may be settled without bloodshed, “through the friendly offices of Fngland and France’’—an antici; tion in which every person must cordially concur. The condition of Mexico next occupies the attention of the President. He hopes ‘‘that the liberal party will soon re- gain power‘and establish a stable government in the re- public.” England, Spain, and the United States have se- parately to de! redress for injuries which have been inflicted upon their subjects by the revolutionary chiefs who have attained the temporary. of power in Mexi- co. Mr. Buchanan believes that the difference with iy will speedily be adjnsted, ‘‘as the present new ter of Spain has full power to settle all troubles with Mexico.” But if the United States citizens should not be indemnified for the losses which they have sus- tained, then Mr. Buchanan announces that he is prepared to take military possession of a portion of the Mexican territory, of course as a prelude to that policy of formai annexation whieh is 80 congenial to the great massof the ‘American people. Cuba is claimed for the United States precisely in accordance with the spirit of the celebrated Ostend manifesto, to which Mr, Buchanan a few years ago set bis hand. It isto be purchased if Spain will barter away “the Queen of the Antilles’”’—the last relic of the mighty empire which the most Catholic Crown once pos- sessed in the Western hemisphere. This is the assertion Of the Monroe doctrine im its most lawless and offensive form. Upon the same principle England might be required tognrrender her North American provinces; but Spain is weak, exceptin the moral support of Europe, which, we believe, would never permit an act of such whole sale international robbery to be perpetrated with success- ful impunity. ‘The Monroe doctrine is, we are told also, to be enforced in the negotiations which are in pr in Central America, The Monroe doctrine is practically a mere byword. It gratifies the self love of the American people to tell them that the power of the republic is des- tined to reach, at no distant day, from the St. Lawrence to the mainiand of South America. But have the Powers Europe no voice in the matter? Can it be a matter of in- ifference to them that the most important military and commercial position in the world should fall under the ex. clusive control of the United States? The true policy of Mr. Buchanan would be to build up the weak States which occupy the Isthmus, to place the neutrality of the route under the guarantee of the great commercial Pow- ers of the world, and not to covet territories which can only be more valuable to the United States than to other countries, just as they afford facilities for the extension of the degolating curee of slavery. Upon the whole the message is aggressive anc threaten. ing in iw character, 80 far as Cuba, Mexico and Central America are concerned. However, it must be judged not by the standard of European public opinion, but by the interests and feelings of the people to whom it is more immediately addressed. Judged by this test, it conveys in a, only a re-assertion of that doctrine which Mr. Monroe laid down in 18283—a doctrine which the United States has never from that period to the succeeded in @ single instance in enforcing against the plomacy or the protets of any European Does Mr. Buchanan ope to counteract possible disunion at home by a policy of lawless aggression abroad? The Crisis in Mextco—W1ll the United States Absorb the Republic and Profit by it? [From the London Chronicle, Deo. 17.) * * * * * * * * The Mexicans have altered an old proverb. Their motto is, “Each man for himself,’’ but not “God for us all.’ In the country around the seaport of Vera Cruz the so-called constitutional chieftain Juarez is in power. Like the rest, he is much in want of money, and it is re rted in New York, apparently on good authority, that @ is about to negotiate with some leading American capitalists a loan of five millions of dollars, for which he offers as security the lands of the Territory of Sonora. To this wretched man, who would barter his country for epee sympathies of the American people appear to incline. Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagies be gathered. The armaments of three European nations are in the waters of Mexico. With Spain, the motherland, whose allegiance she cast off when she firet made a misera- bie attempt at governing herself, Mexico has a quarrel of some standing. More recently, the French flag has been insulted, and French subjects muleted of forced loane to defray the expenses of a savage internecine war. Tired for the moment of cutting one anothers’ throats, the guerilla leaders have recklessly turned upon the subjects of foreign Powers, and of England among the rest. We have not forgotten—we cannotforget—the flagrant outrage at Tampico, where the sanctity of consular protection ‘was violated by an armed force, the British flag trampled on, an wnofiending British subject hauled off to a nolsome dangeon, and confined until he had paid a sum of money that had been lawlessly levied upon the representatives of foreign merchants. It is to avenge this outrage, and to seck redress for other similar wronge—notto intervene in the afluirs of the fallen republic, or to insult a people who are their own worst enemies—that the British and French allied squad- ron has sought the Guif of Mexico. We may also safely predicate of the Spanish wnment, which has for some time past been backward in demanding redress, that it seeks for nothing more, and bas no intention of occupying one rood of Mexiean ground, In this gathering of angry Powors, the fleet of the United States of America ag yet no place. But the people of that country are regarding the pending question with a feeling of anything rather than indifference, Republics are as much Pays to conquest as monarchies, and in each the mass of the people is frequently more warlike than its rulers, ere has for some time past been a strong and growing ten- dency in the American mind towards foreign jon, and extension, by military means, of the al ly enor- mous territories of the great republic. And, if we may {udee, from accounts that bave just been recoived from lew York, this feeling, in that’ be mig ‘at least, is now tending most strongly in the direct of Mexico. The President, it is said, is to be urgently pressed to declare himself, in his forthcoming message, in favor of the ac- quisition, by force of arms if need be, of the remainder of jorning ries observes on ‘his:— The statement {s altogether in- correct; there is ot, indeed, the least foundation for it.’? I bave referral to the paragraph, with the assertien that there was not the least foundation for it, tomy original informant. He states as follows:— ‘ith respect te the denial as to the proceedings of the Commission, I afirm that the majority, if not the whole of the French offices who have given evidence before the Commission dechred in favor of maintaining the immi- gration, and the mme was done Py, the former nore of the colonies. tis true that ‘ irregularities” have oc- curred in the mamer of carrying out the immigration, but it was at the sam» time admitted that it was easy to rem- edy these irregularities. There isa wo the immigration vho has not yet been heard in su} of bis views; and finally, as it is necessary to send tions to the colovial governors and to the officers com- manding stations whose instructions are at an end, the provisional mainteaance of the immigration was resolved on, with recommendations to observe strict vigilance in carrying itout. Imay add that the final decision rests with the Emperor, whatever be the views or the recom- mendations of the Commigsion. THE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE FRENCH PLANTERS AND THE AFRICAN NEGROES. {From the London Shipping Gazette, Dec. 17.) The following is the torm of contract entered into ‘between factors, on thepart of the employers and free Africans, under the authority of the French government, a ima ony ‘by a correspondent on the west coast of ica Art, 1, The immigrant herein named engages for every description of labor connected with the culture and fabri- cation of sugar, &c., a8 wellas for any agricuitural or in- dustrial enterprize in whicb his employer may see fit to engage him, and genérally for every description whatever of domestic work, Art. 2. The present engagement is for six ears, to commence from the day of entering the service of the empbyer. The employed is expected to give bar complde working days every month—no more; the 8 workto be regulated by the custom existing in the colony. Te employed will be held to labor, without in- crease of wages, according to the wavts of the establish. ment whertin may be employed. Art. 3. ‘he emptoyer shall have the right of surrender- ing or assigning, under the control of the administration, this contrart, entered into his own protit. Art. 4. The employed to be lodged on the establishinent where he it engaged. He shal! bave the right to obtain from his employer medical care and nourishment, agree- ably to the regulations and usage adopted in the er with reference to the working people of the country—it deing un that every Mites contracted by his own act, Whetier in the works or in his occupation, shall be at his’ prope cost Art. 5. The wages of an immigrant are 12 francs for men, and6 francs for women, and 8 francs for children of from 6 tol4 years, month of 26 days’ work (see Art. 2), to conmentce eight days after his “arrival in the colo- ny. Onehalf of the es to be paid at the end of each month, ajd one half at the end of each year. Art. 6 telates simply to the form of receipt prescribed for gee | for advance of wages. Art. 7binds the employer to submit to the regulations fae ae colony with regard to the works and immi- gration police. Art. 8, At the expiration of his terms of engagement the net ee to his country will be given to the immigrant for himself, his wife and his children, on con- dition thit he contributes monthly the tenth of his wages tcthe gration chest. If he agrees to renounce his return » the entire sum contributed by him will be refunded, In the event of re-engagement, the con- ditions will be fixed by mutual arrangement between the immuigraat and his employer. These articles of it are drawn up before the Commissary of the inch government, ion conformity with the decree of March 27, 1852, and certified by that functiosary, and signed in “good faith” by the captain of the immigrant veseel, the on the coast, and ap employe at the factory. Wha A at English Think—Mr. Buchanan’s e Festival Letter. {From the London Post, Dec. 17.] Mr. Buchavan has written, from the White House, at Washbirgton, a letter, the contents of which at the present time possess unusual importance on both sides of the At- Jantic. Mr. Buchanan haying by pressure of business been compelled to decline taking part in the centennial celebrition of the occupation of Forts Duquesne and Pitt, recentiy held at Pittsburg, sent a letter of excuse, which, if it expressed nothing beyond complimentary phrases usual m such occasions, would in England at least fairly escape criticisra and notice. Mr. Buchanan, however, has tought it bis duty to make observations upon the existing condition of affairs in the American Union which, we believe, many of his fellow citi- zens will not receive either in a very complacent or thankful spirit. It is only natural that an Amerean statesman, in recording a gallant exploit performed by provincial troops a century ago, should contrast the state of affairs which then existed in North America with the magnificent progress in population and de- velopement of power which a hundred years—a brief period in the history of @ nation’s existehce—has since Brought forth. It {s \nstrnetive to notice that the principle of confedera- tion, which in the case of the United States has so largel; tended to the extension of republican institutions in N America, should now, by a large section of the commu- nity, be treated with scarcely a particle of that vencration and respect which animated the exertions of the founders of American freedom and independence. Mr. Buchanan asks, “Will our country, a century hence, compose one united vation, more populous, powerful and free than any other which has ever existea? or will the federacy pave been rent asunder and divided into groups of hostile and jealous States?’ The answer which Mr. Bua- chanan himself supplies evinces that he views the future of his country with considerable doubt and apprehension. He writes:—"I regret to say that the present omens are far from propitious. In the last age of the republic it was considered almost treasonable to pronounce the word sdisunion.’ ‘Times have since sadly changed, and now disunion is freely ibed asthe remedy for evancs- cent evils, real or imaginary, which, if left to themselves, would speedily vanish away in the progress of events.”’ Surely some great and almost irresistible cause has occa- sioned this el in the public opinion of America. On this point Mr. is wisoly silent; but every body knows that the existence of slavery has produced that estrangement between the Northern and the Southern States, the result of which at no distant period may be the dismemberment of the powerful re- wublic which Waabin; , Hancock, Adams and the other amors ef the Amer! constitution so consistently In- pored toestablish. It cannot be denied that the interests and policy of the free States have little in common with those of the South, where slavery is not only considered an jnvamable Institution, but is ht to be extended by ‘is unhappy State. We trust, however, that he will do | the acquisition of new elave holding ‘itories. But thero no such thee We trust that those who at prosent re- | is one point in Mr. Buchanan's letter which wo must re- commend this course will quickly come to a senso of the | commend to the attention of those persons in this country foolishness of their counsels, ‘and of the injury which ita | who are not disposed to accept as absolute truth or abao- rash adoption would be sure to inflict upon their country. | Inte wisdom every statement which Mr. Bright may have ‘There aro many things which wo are ready to admit at | the rashness, not to say the audacity to make, when his gree. Without any wish to concede what is called the | object isto vilify Kngland by his hyper Jaudation of every- ‘‘Monroe doctrine,” we confess that if any foreign nation | thing American. it ir. Buchanan of that is to occupy and possess itself of the lands of tho ‘sick man” of tho West, the United States haye the best right to doit. Tho country borders upon theirs. It intervenes between them and the Isthmus. They must pass round It on their way to their own State of California. They have already once conquered it, and occupied for some period ite capital city. Their ships do its coasting trade, their steamboats go to and fro on its rivers, their merchants are busy in ite trafic. The State owes them fifteen mil- Hong of dollars, which it bag shown no intention of re E geveral system of corruption which is an incident, if not the necessary consequence, of the system of univer- sal suffrage which exists in the United States? “In the last age,’” be observes, “although our fathers were di vided into political parties which often had severe con- fliets with each other, yet we never heard until within a recent period of any employment of money to corrupt elector®, Should this practice increase wniil the voters and their representatives in the State and national logis Jatures shall become infected, the fountain of free govern. ta It might tend ; ment will become poisoned at its source, and will end, as | history shows, in a military despotism.” This 13 a most remarkable declaration, Preventing as it Joes, from | the head of a nation in which for ay yours the | experiment of democracy has been t upon the | largest, the grandest,and the most imposing scale. It | @ppears therefore that bribery and corry; ‘acoom- | paby universal suifrage in that country which Sr. Bright selected as the model according to which the repre- sentative institutions of England should be moulded aod |. We place the deliberate opinion expressed by the head of the American republic in opposition to the Jooge and ignorant assertions of Mr. Bright, and we ask €very man of common sense and of candid mind in this country to decide between the two. [From the London Globe, Dec. 11.) * * President Buehanan’s little pilot balloon, preceding his expected lengthy message, in the shape of a lqgter of excuse for non-atendance at the centennial © hel the oecupation of forts Duquesne and Pit! burg on the 25th ult., may of course be t special aims and tmeaviies which do not show on the surfoce, We ebail bave better opportunity of reading there pregeatly by the broad flambeau of the message. In the meantime we are entitled to take Presiaeut Buchanau’y statements of fact au pied de la lettre; and certainly they are poteworthy statements, as put forward by the res ponsible Chief of a greatrepublic. President Buchanan to have says — tb the last age of the republic it was considered almost trea- Ie to prouovnce the word “disnnion,” ‘Times have sin>: wacly Shapers, and now disunion is freely. prescribed as the remedy for evanescent evils. real or imaginary, which, if Jeft to themselves, would speedily vanish away inthe progress of events. ‘The epecial circumstance, in present American politics, which bs Mg apg really to be at the bottom of President general dissatisfaction with them, is the leas even balance, and more decided division of par- ties which seems taking place, in spite of the temporising policy between North aud South held by his administra- tion. It ig ggldom that statesmen ina seat of authority, and grown gray in affairs, indulge in generalities of this desponding cast, without some nearer motive for it than that of preaching a lay sermon against the spread of modern degeneracy aud corruption. It may be permitted to conjecture that President Buchanan means to improve his alarms of disunion and disorganization into enforcing the recommendation of some new diversion from the ques- tions which divide opiuion—holding up interrorem the dis- solution of the Union as the only probable alternative. However, as we said, President Buchanan’s statements of fact, in their general bearings, are fair matter for our foreign comment. And it is rather a grave statement from a chief magistrate, that “the employment af money to carry elections”” has become a notorious, and threatens to become an increasing practice in the American Union. ‘The system of wholesale corruption in the municipal sys- tem has long been flagrant on what we may term the me- jitan arena of New York, and there is certainly ing to excite surprise if the like corruption should epread further and reach higher. The Irish Revolutionary Societies. ANNEXATION TO THE UNITED STATES THE OBJECT— COLONEL RYAN’S INTENDED VISIT THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF THE TREASON—A REGIMENT OF NEW YORK MILITIA ALARMS THE GOVERNMENT, AL- THOUGH STILL IN NEW YORK—MORE ARRESTS. Dublin (Dec. 14) correspondence of London Times. } {was currently rumored yesterday that a special com- mission would be issued for the immediate trial of the ons arrested in the South and North on tbe charge of ing members of an illegal society. Nothing, however, prem ke on this head is likely to be known for some days, or until the preliminary investigation before the police ‘Magistrates is completed. Late yesterday evening tt was reported that several arrests were about to be made in the city of Cork, but no confirmation of the intelligence bas yet reached Dublin. Of the nine persone captured in Kenmare three are assistants in the empioyment of Mr. Garrett Riordan, draper; Denis Shea, assistant, in the em- ployment of Mr. Daniel O’Brien Corkery, also a draper; Downing, son to former confidential steward in the employment of Mr. Hickcon, late agent of the Marquis of Lansdowne, and four others. ’ They are ali young men. If ae the treadmill might suificiently cure them of their filibustering propensities. {From the Beifast Mercury, Dec. 14.} is little doubt that the new organization is en- tirely seditious, and made up out of the dregs of Young Trelandism. It’ is perfectly ridiculous to aWach any im: portance to the secret and criminal association of such elements. To endeavor to magnify the incoherent schemes ofa few madmen into a formidable conspiracy is a rank absurdity. Respecting the objects of this Phoenix Club the Belfast wT gives the following information: Pope club was preparing to receive with open arms the regiment of American militia which we lately heard so much about as coming to Ireland to see once more their native land. This was the ostensible object for such an unprecedented visit from the American militia; but, coupling their avowed intention to come with the fact of an illegal society being established in Ireland to receive them, it is evident to us that they only wished to feel their way. ‘Colonel Ryan’? was to command . and their ve bey Ireland was to be ‘about six weeks. During that time they were to encamp (that was the mili- tary word employed) in the south and in the north. Great things were, no doubt, expected from these Yankee invaders, who would have endeavored to spread as much dis- affection'and disloyalcy «4 possible in the breasts of the igno- rant people who would have flocked round them. In fact. be adoubt of the object of their intended there cannot visit, and the result now proves it. The Bri govern- ment ming; and bas very properly put a stop to their since they have been stopped the Lord-Lieutenant of Ire- Jand bas issued a proclamation against illega! societies, and the recent arrests of the members of the Phoonix Club have closely followed the mation. The number of persons now in prison charged with being members of an illegal society is seventeen, one having been late on Sunday night in nis owa house. I understand that the information which applied to the lodge meeting in Widow M’Kay’s public house in- cluded the names of two other persons who have rot yet been taken into custody, and the police are supposed not to be unaware of members of other lodges meeting in the neighborhood of Smithfield and the Pound, The | arent excitement prevailed in these districts when it eo known that arrests had been made, and the more 80, as the precision with which the police acted in making the arrest leads almost irresistibly to the conclusion that the informer must have been an active member, when he could take not only the names of those who would be resent, but also their residences. The prisoners all ived within a few minutes’ walk of the public house in which they held their Sunday evenings’ as- sembly, and ‘it is therefore presumed that the lodge, ‘whose deliberations were so unceremonious- ly interrupted, is but one of several with which wore favored in the “Northern Athens.’” The most ab- surd rumors are in circulation regarding the affair, but most of themare utterly unworthy of notice. It is a ro- markable fact, however, that both here and in Skibbe- reen wer clerks were found to be moet deeply impli- cated. Iam informed that one of the Roman Catholic priests warned the people in St. Michael’s Chapel on Sun- day evening, after thearrests were made, against having anything to do with such fllegal societies. ‘It is almost iin- pogsible to believe that a society, with ramifications so ex- tensive as the Phoenix, could exist unknown to the priests, but, in this town at least, they never hinted at it until it was no longer a mystery. they be in earnest, such combinations cannot exist contrary to their permission. At the police court this morning Mr. Tracy, resident ma- gistrate, who made out the committals, mentioned that a great deal of the crime of Belfast was to be attributed to drink, and that this was the cause of the trouble into which so many people had got on the previous night, and out of | which they were not likely, to get in haste. No further | examination has yet taken place that I am aware of. [From the Cork.Constitution, Dec. 14.] ‘There have been nightiy and daily drillings, pikes have | been manufactured, arms have been imported, and the | use of them has been taught. All this was not for nothing, and government was not a minute too carly in interfering; but it did wisely in waiting until satisfactory evidence was obtained. The very day after the arrests, however, a arty of about sixty men were observed in a field near Barres. As a person approached in his gig they lay down, but when he had passed, and was supposed not to be observing them, they resumed the attitude out of which they had been frightened, and went on with their manceu- yres. If rumor be correct, shopmen in Bantry and Skib- | berecn are not the only shopmen who were awareof what was going on, and people who until Thursday last sup posed themselves safe feel very uncomfortable in the rospect of disclosures that may affect them. A Rindeed militia left yesterday for Bantry, and a body of militia or of military wili, for the mt, be dis- tributed through the west of the county. Bat why should this arrangement be temporary? Would it not be well tor the magistrates to memorialize for the permanent location of a military force? Except at Kinsale, there is not a sol- dior in that vast tract of country. The police are fow, and the coastguard fewer. And see the consequences. Arms have, we understand, been securely landed from Ameri- ca, and a few weeks ago a vessel, it is stated, ran into Dun- manway bay and landed a cargo of tobacco, which was carried off, and the ultimate destination of it has not, we believe, been ascertained. We cannot blame either coast- guard or police for this; for they are too few in number, ‘and too far apart, for the duty to be done. Now, how: ever, that preparations for an insurrection have shown vernment how little a ances are to be relied on ia Freiand, and that they find a portion of the population. in treasonous correspondence with brother disaffectionists in America, the country ought not to be left dependent on so feeble a protection. ‘ (From the Cork Reporter, Dec, 14.) A large detachment of the Staffordshire militia, about 120 men, will proceed from Cork this day, to occupy the \emporary barrack recently hired at Bantry. We under stand the army contractors for provisions have been no. iced to be ready with large supplies for the western towns ‘upon the shortest notice. The artillery at Ballincollig are held in preparation for movement, should necessity ariso at an hour’s warning. [From the London Post, Dec. 18.) ‘Whence comes this Phonix Society, the object ofwhich is said to be the invasion of Ireland by Irish filibusters from the Bnited States? Between the years 1820 and 1856 no less than 1,747,080 emigrants from Ireland havo ar- rived in the United States. These men foe! their position in the country of their adoption far from agreeable. The native Americans have a secret society of their own— “The Know Nothings’’—the object of which is to iguore in America both the political and religious influence of the Irish population. Under these circwmstances the Trish emi. grants have banded themselves together, have their secret Societies and their separate militia regiments, and, under the leadership of such men as Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Meagher, they hope once nore to return to their country in the character of sncceesful traitors, We believe tbat the Pheonix Socigty is an inspiration from across the At- lantic, and a proof of the inveterate hostility to England which still animater a large portion of the Irish race. The origin of the digadection must be traced to the Irish quarters of the large cities of the American Union, any general confederacy of the population of Ireland. reverting to the repressive power of the law, the meeting at Dubey, we God tat they io cannon eeting al we fin y are am to crush out the first spark of that foolish HA agitation which a few crack-brained Pe men hope to raise. The Peace Preservation Act is still in force, and under its provisions districts may not only be proclaimed, but the ibitants may not possess arms without a license from the government authorities. . STILL LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN AT HALIFAX not to But, The Publication in Full of the President’s Message. Opinions of the English Press on the Territorial Agzrandisement of the United States. THE CASE OF MONTALEMBERT. MITIGATION OF HIS PUNISHMENT. Extensive African Immigration Scheme in France. Trouble Between France and Swit- zerland. HEAVINESS IN THE LONDON MONEY MARKET, Ker ke, &e. Haurax, Jan. 5, 1850. The ecrew steamship North American, Capt. McMaster, from Liverpool at ten o’ciock on the morning of the 224 ult., bound to Portland, put into Halifax on the afternoon of the 5th inst., short of coals. She experienced boisterous weather during the whole passage. On the night of the Ist inst., during a heavy enow storm, the North American struck a rock off Cape Race. She is leaking considerably, and her fore compartment is full of water. The North American is awaiting instructions from her owners in Montreal, and will probably proceed to Portland on Friday. The English papers received by the North American state that the steamship Weser sailed from Bremerhaven for New York on the 4th of December. The steamship City of Manchester left Liverpool for New York at the same hour with the North American. The Cunard steamship Africa, from New York on the 8th ult., arrived at Liverpo! at half-past seven A.M. of the 19th. The North American brings the United States mails, and the City of Manchester a ship's mail. ‘The steamer Bavaria, of the Hamburg line, from New ‘York for Southampton, put into Queenstown on the 20th, disabled. The United States frigate Wabash was at Malta No- vember 24, GREAT BRITAIN. OPINIONS OF THE BRITISH PRESS ON THE PRBEI- DENT’S MESSAGE, ETC. President Buchanan’s Message was printed in iull in most of the leading English journals, and variously com- mented upon. The London Times says:—There is nothing in the Mes- sage that can be called more than usually interesting. Whether the chief magistrate of the United States dis- cusses domestic or foreign affairs, we hear only— what we might have expected—at home, material Progress, and abroad, visions of territorial aggran- dizement make up the substance of his communication. It then briefly criticises its prominent points, and says, in regard to external affairs:—For a peaceful nation the * United States are certainly most unfortunate in their poli- tical relations. A quarrel with the United States on some subject or other is a matter of course; without one, « President's Message would read tame and meager. Mr. Buchanan, therefore, evinces a laudable anxiety to keep one in reserve. Great Britain having given ap the right of search, Mr. Buchanan pays us many compliments upon our moderation, but declines to suggest any means by which Spanish or South American ships hoisting the United States flag can be interfered with.” It then refers to Mr. Buchanan’s reference to theslave trade, and his original proposition for its suppression, and says that his arguments in regard to the cession of Cuba are such as Haman might have used when he wanted to purchase the vineyard, which was nigh to his palace, and that it would ‘be superfluous to point out the exact force of the argu- ment. The 7imes then sketches the President's views in regard to Mexico and Central America, and concludes as follows:—“It is evident that the utter decrepitude of the Spanish race, both North and South of the Isthmus, is about to lead to the virtual supremacy of the Anglo-Americans in the whole of the tropical regions. There is no need of affected moderation on their part, and philanthropy which few will credit. The fact is plain enough that Mexico and Central Ameriva, and the great Spanish island, will soon be under their sway, direct or in- direct. For our own part we see little to regret in the prospect, except the extension and perpetuation of slavery in Mexico and the other new Territories. But that the Americans might gain in the end by forming States under the Equator we do not believe. The European race be- comes not only enfeebled, but demoralized, by a residence between the tropics, and the republic has already suffered enough from the men of the South to make it cautious how it turns the Spanish Main into the home of American citizens.”” ‘The London Daily News reviews the Message in connec- tion with Mr. Buchanan’s recent letter to the Committeo of the Celebration at Pittsburg. It argues that the Presi- dent’s policy in regard to Cuba and Mexico is intended as a conciliation to the South, and predicts that nothing will be done at present towards the annexation of Mexico. It takes exception to the view taken of England's supposed concessions about the searching of suspected slavers, and concIndes by hoping that the people will accept the admo- nitions in the Pittsburg letter, not by holding their tongues about a particular form of danger, but by dealing with the causes of disunion and corruption, and by recovering the principles and spirit of their constitution rather than by falee idolatry of its form. ‘The London Morning Post confines its remarks to the President’s policy in regard to Cuba, and denounces it in strong terms. ‘The London Star refers to the Central American ques- tion, deprecates the President's request to be allowed to employ force in the protection of the Transit route, and doubts whether the European Powers would quietly per- mit the exercise of an exclusive protectorate by America over the Isthmus. The rest of the London papers comment on the docu- ment with a mixture of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, ‘The Manchester Guardian, in objecting to the proposi- tion that the President should be armed with power to use force in the protection of the Isthmus, says:—That be tween the expeditions of Walker and his filibusters and the proposed invasion of the regular forces of the United States, there is not a pin to choose so far as the indepen- dence of Nicaragua is concerned.’ The same journa likewise condemns the effrontery of the President in re gard to Mexico, The Liverpool Albion characterizes the message as dis- honest in tone and filled with braggadocia and filibuater- ing. The London Zimes, in an article on submarine tele. graphs, says, that since the laying of the cable at lcast cight or ten fresh plans have been put forth, and draws special attention to the “Great Ocean Telegraph Com- pany,” which proposes to submerge a cable direct from Land’s End, in England, to Halifax. It is proposed that the cable shall be constructed on Allen’s system, which does away entirely with the outside covering of wire, and makes the conductor of the cable its main strength, thereby reducing its weight to ten cwt. per mile, The excitement in Ireland as to the arrest of the mem- vers of the Phoenix Club is dying out, Two Or three ad: ditional arrests haye been made, but nothing “of moment transpired. Acclub is said, to have been .established in CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE