17 MAY 1845, Page 6

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FRANCE.—The debates in the Chamber of Deputies on the bill providing arms fro the fortification of Paris closed on Friday. The Chamber had previously adopted a clause recommended by the Committee on the bill, enacting that the distend should be kept at Bourges, and only removed to Paris in case of war. An amendment proposed by M. Bethmont, further requiring that it should at no time be removed from 13onrges without a special law passed for that purpose by the Legislature, was negatived, by 206 to 178. Finally, the whole bill was passed, by g27 to 13t ; majority, 96.

Several reports of royal visits are current in Paris,—namely, that ring Louis pe will go to the chateau of Pau in a month or two, and thence proceed to jl penile to have an interview with the Queen of Spain; that the Ring and Queen Of Holland will visit the King and Queen of the French; and that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert will pay another visit to the chateau of Eu.

M. Guizots health is said to beperfectly reestablished, and on Sunday he was received by the King and Royal Family. He is represented, in fact, as better than before his late attack. Nevertheless, his medical advisers are opposed to his tik:ing part in the approaching debate on the budget, or even being present at it.

AwEara.—The news from Algiers, which comes down to the beginning of May, is untoward, and it is said to be more serious than the Government will avow; but that is always said. Marshal Bugeand was preparing an expedition for an inroad into the interior, to be accompanied by the Due De Montpensier ; whose presence was by many regarded as rather embarrassing to the commander,

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since it involved precautions for the sake of his safety not very consistent with the-headlong career of a determined invasion. Abd-el-Kader had reappeared on the frontier; Ben Nini, a chief who had lately abandoned the French service, and made an attack, equally treacherous and successful, on a convoy at Orleansville, was in open hostility; and Colonel ClaNrede, who had completed an excursion from Tenez to chastise the revolted tribes and make prisoners, did not do so without sustaining some severe conflicts.

General Helaine was on his way from Paris to Algiers: it is understood that the fit of his mission was to call upon the Emperor of Morocco to fulfil that part of the treaty relating to Abd-el-Kader.

Poirreom--Lishon letters, of the 6th instant, state that Costa Cabral, the Minister of the Interior, had been obliged to retire from office for a time, on account of ill-health. His place had been filled, ad interim, by his brother, Jose Ballard° Cabral, Civil Governor of Lisbon; who was suspected of aspiring to a

rent occupation of the Ministry, and was the object of an increasing popu- clial 0. The receipts of the customhouses of the kingdom in the month of April had fallen off sixty-eight contos compared with the corresponding period of 1844. The Government had effected another loan of 1,600 contos.

The amount of wines exported for foreign ports from Lisbon in 1844 was. 19,135 pipes, and the estimated value 229,0001. sterling.

UNITED Sraren—The Caledonian steamer, which left Boston on the 1st in- stant and Halifax on the 3d, arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday night. There is very little additional intelligence on the subject of the Oregon dispute, of any distinct kind; newspaper articles being still the only manifestation of public opinion in the Union. There is still the same diversity; the Democratic and more violent jommals being belligerent, the commercial and more intelligent pacific in their language.

The Washington Globe, regarded as a semi-official paper, belongs to the war- like class; and speaks thus, in limper headed " War with England .—" Nothing was ever more true than the sentiment expressed by Mr. Polk in his inaugural address, that every extension of our empire gave an additional security of peace to the world. Yet have we been forced at times, and that too under the nffidest Of oar rulers, from this the settled policy of our Government; and it is our Wee= conviction that we shall soon be called on to take up arms against our Thriller and only adversary. It is perfectly manifest that they regard this as a f,avourable moment to renew the system of aggression upon us which has resulted to war heretofore; which to submit to is only to invite new wrongs—wrongs pre- meditated, not for the advantage which accrues to them, but arranged and settled upon merely as the means of bringing on the conflict of arms or an entire aban- donment of our rights as a nation. The only mode to avoid this is, the- firm ad- limence by the President to the letter and spirit of his inaugural address. lie will be sustained by the nation in that; for,. notwithstanding the English Ministers choose to level their lances at Mr. Polk, it to not to be forgotten that the previous action of the House of Representatives bad, by an immense majority, given their easetion to his language. By the trucklingabandonment of our rights. by Mr. Webster in the Ashburton treaty, we lost the subject of controversy, forfeited the respect of the world and of ourselves, and invited new and unfoundeti pretensions from, our adversary." The New Pork Courier and Euirer comments on the foregoingpassage In some remarks which area very go specimen of the opposite class—" This, so far as it goes, certainly indicates a disposition, on the part of the dominant party, to insist upon our whole claim to Oregon, even at the hazard of war. We do not believe any such action will be sustained by the people. The question is pre- - eminently one for arbitration. If our claim is not j i

,lust, we ought not to insist upon it. Great Britain has heretofore offered to submit it to such arbitration under the most liberal conditions. This proffer of peace was rejected—with more emphasis than dignity—by our Government. Should it be renewed, we have no hesitation in saying that ft should be at once accepted. We shall ran no risk of losing anything to which we have a right; and when rights are conflicting, mutual concessions—conceseions which a neutral party would deem just—should, reconcile them. If we should be plunged by madness or folly into war with England or with the world, we should do all in our power to insure its vigorous prosecution and successful issue; but we trust the country will not become en- gaged in such a contest without having exhausted all honourable efforts for the preservation of peace."

There are some ramous of official movements: the most probable of which are, that the President would imitate the proceeding of the English Government in respect to the Maine boundary, is

and send a special Commissioner across the At- lantic • and that the Commissioner would be Mr. Van Buren. Another rumour is, that an extra session of Congress would be held.

It is stated that several meetings of the Cabinet had been held, to consult OIL the state of relations with Mexico; but the result had not transpired.

A traveller from Nauvoo, or the Holy City, of the Mormons, had brought ac- counts of a revelation received in relation to the temple. The work on that strue- ture was to be almost entirely suspended for the present, and the whole enern of the saints was to be devoted to the buildiof a wall or rampart around the edifice. This wall was to enclose six acres, the temple being in the centre. it was to be fourteen feet high, six feet thick, and composed of solid stone masonry:. The work had already been commenced, and hundreds of hands were employed ut • carrying it forward.

The flowery Theatre at New York had been destroyed by fire, for the fourth': time!

Maxieo.—Intelligence has been received by the Caledonia, from Vera Cruz, to the 12th April. There had been some further correspondence between Mr. Shan- non, the United States Minister at Mexico, and Seiler Cuevas, the Foreign Minis- ter; but it had been definitively cut short by Seiler Cuevas; and Mr. Shannon - had withdrawn to Tacubaya, on his way home.

Senor Cnevas had presented to the Chambers a long memorial on affairs. appertaining to his department. He appears to place strong confidence in the interference of European Powers; which, although assenting to Texan independ- ence, may, he trusts, oppose the further enlargement of the United States terrace:T.. . He says—" Texas declared independent would not care to be annexed to the United States; but not so the latter. The recognition of the independence of Texas would not lead us into a war with the United States- but, annexation malt. As an independent state, European Powers will prevent Texas from forming part of the American. Republic.

Meanwhile, the Government continued preparations for active warfare.

Santa Anna's trial was making progress, but slowly; and he was suffering- from ill health.

The people of the department of the Chihuahua positively refused to pay all direct taxes levied by the Government; on the ground that the irruptions of the Aapache Indians had reduced them to extreme want, and that they-needed succour from the Government, instead of being compelled to contribute to its support

The city, of Mexico had been shaken by an alarming earthquake, on the 7th April, a little before four o'clock in the afternoon. The shocks only lasted for about two minutes, but they were very severe. The flag-stones in the pavements separated; many houses were cracked, and others were quite thrown down; the inagmficent chapel of St. Theresa and the hospital of St. Lazarus were in ruins; while the churches of St. Lawrence and St. Ferdinand were much damaged. About six o'clock, and again about seven, two slighter shocks were felt. A writer who was in the great square at the time of the earlier earthquake mentions a,. striking sight—in an instant the whole enmher of people there were on their knees, praying.

Hama.--The French part of Hayti was in a state of ferment. The ex-Pre-. sident Herrera had bought a schooner, in which he Ieft Jamaica; and he was cruising about his native island to attempt a landing; while the people were everywhere on the alert to repulse him.

It was rumoured at Port Republican that a revolution had taken place at San Domingo, which had resulted in the expulsion of General Santana from the Pre- sidency, and the elevation to that office of Regla Mote, a member of the numerous' and highly respectable family of the Alvares de Zaguate.