gorrign anti giolonial.

Feassce.—The reports of a " Ministerial crisis " and of an " intrigue' between Count Mold's section of the Conservatives and the Opposition to upset M. Guizot have continued, and have supplied flatter for allusion in the Chamber of Peers. One of the most distinct reports of the kind is furnished by the correspondent of the Times, as the result of e. conversation between Louis Philippe and M. Guizot on the 8th instant; after which the King " sent for Count Mold, and fully approved of the sketch of an Ad- ministration made out on the instant by that eminent person "—

" According to this plan, (as my informant states,) Marshal Soult would, as at present, be President of the Council and Minister of War,—Count Mold, in respect for the venerable Marshal, waiving all claim to be considered the head of the Government; Count Mole would be the Minister for Foreign • Affairs; M. Billault, Minister of the Interior, or of Public Works; M. Vivien, Minister of Justice; M. Passy, Minister of Finance. M. Dufaure, Count Monts- livet, and others, would also enter into the Cabinet; but of B. Thiers no mention

is made in this alleged progranune. The first and leading principle of the new Ministry would be,' I am told, to maintain the alliance Anglaise • for without contemplatine_a the maintenance of that alliance no man in his right mind would take office.' This achievement—notwithstanding the Anglophone of the French press—the new Cabinet persuade themselves is practicable without incurring the - imputation of being submissive or even partial to England. "lhe right of search' would be got lid of by a compromise. it would not be required that Lord Aber- deen exchange the treaties of 1831 and 1833 for a treaty of commerce, for example, although that idea was for a moment entertained ; but it is expected that if bond fide resolve and pledge to concur in the suppression of the slave-trade were tendered to the British Government by that of France, an inquiry into the opera- tion would not be refused them. Of Tahiti it would be absurd to say an additional word. The two Governments understand each other perfectly on the matter."

The general discussion on the address in reply to the King's speech began in the Chamber of Peers on Monday.

Count Mole read a speech, which was heard with deep silence and attention. He said that he had for four years kept silence in that Chamber, because he feared to create disunion in the ranks of the Conservative majority, and also to appear actuated by a wish for revenge. The challenge to explain himself, how- ever, thrown out every morning by the accredited organs of the Foreign Minister, and the insinuations of " coalition " and " intrigue " obliged him to break silence. Whence came all this noise and wrath ? The embarrassment which the Ministry created for itself it was that had affected the minds, nay, the ranks of the majo- rity. The word " iutrigue" was nothing more than it cry of alarm. Ile must justify what he saki by laying his whole olea of the system of policy before the Chamber. "If I were to characterize the policy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in one word, I should say that it is everywhere and at all times a policy ti l'outrance; it is a policy of extremes even in its weaknesses. From the moment that the Minister of Foreign Affiiirs adopts a principle, he exaggerates it. He allows himself to be drawn rapidly over to the extreme consequences; as if a mind such as his could be ig,norstra that the extreme consequences of a principle are surely exhausted by provoking an inevitable reaction against it." Thus, the Minister of Foreign Affairs wishes for peace; and all France wishes for it an much : but he showed so much moiety for it, and seemed ready to make such sacrifices, that the most pacific could hardly consider themselves so pacific as he was. He wished for the English alliance ; and there was not in France a well- wisher to his country, a sensible man, a politic man, who did not wish for it tee: bat the Minister spoke of it in such a manner as to rouse the national suscepti- bility and. excite-dislike to the alliance. Two questions were alluded. to in the King s. speeeh as. haying created some difficulties in the English alliance—the right of search, and Tahiti. "Who is the most dangerous enemy of the right of search? My God! it is the Minister of Foreign Affitirs himself. his his con- vention of 1841, to extend the operation of that right, which hats brought about the reaction of the public mind and of the Chambers against the right itself." The Minister has placed himself in such a position that he will neither be able to make England yield nor will he be able to make the Chamber give w.iy. In Tahiti the Minister had been guilty at least of levity. "It is so warm a partisan of the English alliance who ha.s chosen to form an establishment in that part of the globe, which ix so remote from us, without interest for us, and from which the first caunca-shot fired upon the sea would force us to retire: it is he who has chosen to place the Protectorate of France in the face of the Protectorate of the English Missionaries, who for so many years have ruled the population and the country—who were the veritable Government." He ought to have remembered, that in England the Government is obliged to act with the religions, men and the. religious feeling of the country, and that no Cabinet can refuse its. supportto thew efforts to propagate the faith. The war with Morocco is the only one of the difficulties that could' not have been avoided ; but the difficulties which the Minister for Foreign Affairs has accumulated-round himself are so great, that it is not to ba • thon,ght that. he will he able to resolve them.

"Lee uns, parte gulls sent michans et malfaisans, Et les autres, pour tire aux medians complaisant', Et n'avoir pas pour eux ees Manes vigottrewes Que lc vice fait mitre sax ames vertueuses."

'The Prince of 3foskowa—" There are neither medians nor complaisans here.'

N. Cousin—" There is no hatred here."

it Mole—" You should name the mdchans, the haters. Name them."

M. Guizot said, that he had no intention of making any personal application. g If hatred exists, it is not in this assembly, but outside its walls. The present situation is said by many to be difficult; but 1 find no one able to prove it. I de- clare that, on the contrary, all the difficult questions have been arranged. With whom is the position one of difficulty? In all the assertions made on this point

I see nothing but factitious emotion in men's minds and factitious tumult in the public journals." He should be able to vindicate the policy of Government in Tahiti and Morocco.

Count Mole reiterated his attacks on Ministers. M. Guizot, he observed, asked what he himself would do after the assumption of power? He had no idea of that kind when he spoke. IL Guizot designated as opposition every thing that obstructed his personal policy.

M. Guizot renewed his defence.

The general discussion closed without any thing more of a striking kind ; fwd. the Chamber proceeded to consider the separate paragraphs.

On Tuesday, the discussion turned incidentally on the reorganization of the Polytechnic School; and some attempt was made to obtain favour for seventeen students who had been dismissed. The Count De Montalivet mentioned as an argument in favour of clemency, that he himself and the Marquis of Dalmatia (Marshal Souk's son) had been expelled from the school, and afterwards restored ; and he did not think that the clemency extended to them had made them the worse citizens. Marshal Sault, however, was inexorable, and avowed his full adoption of the measure.

Morocco came under discussion on Wednesday; when the Prince de la Moskowa attacked the results of the negotiations as "unsatisfactory." In reply, M. Guizot emphatically acknowledged the good faith of England throughout the affair.

In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 9th instant, Marshal Soult intro-. duced a bill for giving a pension of 15,000 francs (6001.) a year to M..

Several diplomatic documents relating to the proceedings of the French in Tahiti and Morocco have been laid before the committee on the address appointed by the Chamber of Deputies, and published. They consist of correspondence that passed at the time between the officials, French and English,—letters from M. Bruat to M. Guizot, written in February and March last, and reporting the extradition of Mr. Pritchard; from the Comte De Jarnac, the French Charge d'Affaires in London, to M. Guizot, beginning in August, with M. Guizot's replies; a letter from Lord Aberdeen to Lord Cowley; and letters between the Prince De Joinville and other French officers, Ministers, and the authorities of Morocco.

M. De Jarnac describes to his chief the effect of the news from Tahiti, and especially the treatment of Mr. Pritchard, on the public mind in England, as evidenced in the angry tone of the press and the increasing mistrust discerned in the bearing of Lord Aberdeen and Sir Robert Peel; the writer's description growing more animated as the correspondence proceeds. Lord Aberdeen did not positively demand satisfaction, but hinted that he should have no scruple to disavow conduct such as that of the French officers in Tahiti; and ultimately, IL De Jarnac gathers that a pecuniary compensation to Mr. Pritchard, with some expression by the French Minister of regret at the transactions, would probably satisfy the English Government. In the midst of this correspondence arrives the intelligence that Tangier had been attacked; increasing the irritation in England, and imparting greater urgency to IL De Jarnac's suggestions of accommodation. At first M. Ginzot advises the Charge d'Affaires to use reserve, neither promising too much nor closing the door against accommodation by premature refusal; the Minister desiring further time for inquiry and consideration. Meanwhile, it is remarkable that he writes to N. Brunt a hearty approval of that officer's conduct, and expresses full concurrence in the reasons for sending Mr. Pritchard away. Addressing N. De Jarnac, N. Guizot insists on the right of N. Bruat to expel Mr. Pritchardla private individual detected in fomenting disorder, as a right pertain- ing to all colonial" governments; but he does admit that part of the treatment a Mr. Pritchard was objectionable. Eventually., he offers the terms suggested by N. De Jarnac; and they are accepted by the British Government: it being under- stood that the precise amount of compensation awarded to Mr. Pritchard for his loss and trouble shall be fixed by Admiral Hamelin and Admiral Seymour, the naval commanders on the Pacific station.

The correspondence about Morocco discloses little that is new as to the facts. It strengthens the impression that, from the first, the French Government did not desire to make any aggression on the Emperor Ifuley Abd-er-Rahman, but only to. prevent his subjects from abetting Abd-el-Kader. The Prince De Joinville, so far from wishing to retain any post in Morocco, was anxious to conclude a peace, as his forces were limited; and he says that it would be easier to retake any post on a renewal of the war in the spring, if necessary, than to hold it through the winter.]

M. G. Aillet, the commander of the Josephine Marie, recently arrived at Marseilles, has complained that, when passing Algesiras with seven other vessels the flotilla was fired at from the Spanish forts; and that he had before been similarly treated at the same place.

Swirzsataxn.—The uneasy feeling about the Jesuits and their pro- tection by the canton of Lucerne continues. The Grand Council of that canton has refused to reply to a communication from Zurich on the subject; has ordered the invaders from other cantons who joined the late revolt to be shot; and has decreed a religious service to be performed every 8th December, to celebrate the triumph over the rebels. Lucerne and the Stitagonist canton of Argon go on collecting armed forces. new means to put down the slave-trade—means which will be equally efficacious, or more efficacious even than the right of search. The question is thus as far ad- vanced as it can be at the present moment." But did Count Mole forget that the policy of the Cabinet had had to encounter obstacles and opposition, from national prejudices, from revolutionary factions who found in the Cabinet an ob- struction to their designs? M. Guizot was at a loss to conceive the Count's rea- sons for having committed an act of opposition; thus risking the very policy he ampported. He could understand those who disapprove of the Ministerial policy— those who say that other alliances are more natural for France than that with England, or that there should be an alliance, but cold and not so intimate; though he believed that both deceive themselves. But to tell those who since 1830 have supported the peace policy, that it is they who compromise it—to tell the men who have compassed Queen Victoria's journey to Eu and King Louis Philippe's journey to Windsor that it is they who have compromised the English alliance, is really not a matter worth refutation. There are two parties who compromise the Eng- lish alliance,—those who seize upon every difficulty to exasperate the two coun- tries; and those who meet the others half-way, or but half repel the attacks of the apposition.

SPAIN.—In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 8th 'instant, Senor Mon in- troduced the Budget. The general receipts are estimated at 1,250,635,353. reels, and the expenses at 1,205,522,688 reels. Among the expenses, the Civil List figures for 4,350,000 reale ; the War for 323,419,845; the Navy, 91,056,181 : the Finance department, 362,558,540; the Foreign depart- ment, 11,721,220; Grace and Justice, 21,654,336; the Interior, 126,021,863; the Coja d'Amortizacion, .95,115,629; and the secular clergy and nuns, 125,495,449. The following is the second article of a project of law an- nexed to the Budget- " The Government is authorized to proceed to the arrangement of the National Debt, both foreign and domestic; and to satisfy, according to that arrangement, the interest of that not comprehended in the estimates of expenditure for 1845,, with the exams of public revenues and contributions, and with a prudent increase of the same. An account to be given in due time to the Cortes of the use made of this authority." The Senate had passed a bill, introduced by Senor Vallejo, for the sup- pression of the slave-trade under the Spanish flag.

Ponruosi..—Lisbon letters, of the 8th instant, state that the Cortes were opened by commission on the 2d; the Queen being unable to attend on account of her approaching confinement. The Chambers were occupied with preliminary matters of routine.:

Irasv.—Another sentence on political prisoners, pronounced by the Military Commission sitting at Bologna, was published in that city on the 23d December : nineteen persons, among whom were several physicians, lawyers, or proprietors, implicated in the conspiracy of 1843, were brought to trial before that tribunal in the beginning of November; five were ac- quitted, and the fourteen others condemned to imprisonment for terms ranging from five to fifteen years. Signor Violi, a proprietor who was visited with the highest penalty, had been delivered into the hands of the Papal police by the Tuscan authorities.

Gesscs.—Letters from Athens, of the 31st December, state that a note had been communicated by Austria to the other Great Powers, directing their attention to Greek affairs, and suggesting that the following resolu- tions should be agreed to between them- " 1. That, considering the dispositions obligatory which established the Hellenic kingdom, the 40th article of the Constitution should be suppressed, which re- quires that the heir to the Throne should be of the Greek Church. "2. That the Powers, being determined to regard the present boundaries of Greece as decidedly fixed, disapprove any attempt to extend them. "3. That, desiring the consolidation of the Greek Monarchy, they should see with displeasure any attempt to disturb the tranquillity of the interior." The Chamber of Deputies had closed the inquiry into the elections; having excluded almost all Mavrocordato's friends. Some measures of re- form were promised.

UNITED SrArns.—The mail-steamer Acadia, which left Boston on the 1st instant and Halifax on the 3d, arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday morn- ing. Intelligence from New York to the 24th December had previously been received by the packet-ship Liverpool, which arrived in the Mersey on Saturday morning. The papers contain a new message from President Tyler to Congress, ott., the subject of Mexico. Communicating the correspondence between Mr. Shannon, the American Minister, and Senor Rejon, the Foreign Secretary At Mexico, Mr. Tyler adopts the language and arguments of Mr. Shannon; which, it will be remembered, were of a very overbearing description. ht this message Mr. Tyler states, that "Texas had entered into the treaty of annexation upon the invitations of the [American] Executive " ; though he had before declared that the project originated with Mexico. He in- ssists upon the perfect right of Texas, as an independent state, to treat. The conduct of Mexico, he says, "might well justify the United States in a resort to any measure to vindicate their national honour; but, actuated by a sincere desire to preserve the general peace, and in view of the present condition of Mexico, the Executive, resting upon its integrity, and not fear- ing but that the judgment of the world will duly appreciate its motives, abstains from recommending to Congress a resort to measures of redress, and contents itself with reurging upon that body prompt and immediate action on the subject of annexation."

Various measures to provide for the annexation were before Congress, with doubtful prospects of success. The House of Representatives had applied for information as to the bearing of existing treaties upon the sub- ject.

The Committee on Territories had reported in favour of a bill, intro- duced by Mr. Brown, to organize a Government in the territory of Oregon, which was committed to a Committee of the whole. This bill establishes a Government over all the country lying West of the summit of the Rocky Mountains, bounded on the South by latitude 420 and on the North by 54° 49' of North latitude. It also provides for the appointment of a Go- vemor, Judges, and all other necessary civil officers, courts &c.; and in like manner for the establishment of forts, barracks, &c. within an on the main routes leading to the territory. The Washington correspondent of a New York journal confidently announces that "the negotiations for the settlement of the Oregon boundary with England are nearly brought to a close, and that the termination will be satisfactory to both countries." Little reliance is placed upon this statement.

Mr. Caleb Cushing had arrived in the Union from China; having tra- velled across the Pacific and Mexico. He had been robbed on his way over the American Continent.

A Locofoco North Carolina Senator had been expelled from his seat, for taking it upon a forged certificate.

The Ohio Legislature had passed resolutions opposing the annexation of Texas, as unconstitutional, as involving the country in an unjust war with Mexico, as rendering the United States liable for the debts of Texas, and as involving their country m guilt, and subjecting it to the reproach of cherishing, sustaining, and perpetuating the evils of slavery. The vote was 38 to 31. lie House of Representatives of Alabama State , by an almost unani- mous vote, a seriesof resolutions denouncing the repudiation debts by the States- " Publicus," the writer in the Morning Chronicle, mentions a remarkable ru- mour. "A State convention is to be held in Missouri (now a large Slave-State,) for the purpose of forming a new constitution for Missouri, commonwealth. This meeting will convene in the spring; and it is expected that Mr. Benton will there bring forward a scheme for the abolition of slavery in Missouri. Should he suc- ceed, it is probable that Kentucky, Virginia, and Delaware, will soon follow the example; also, that Texas, if admitted into the Union, will then (if not before) be accepted only as a free and not a slave-country. • • • I cannot help re- marking, in addition, that the unprecedented low price of cotton will naturally de- crease the demand for slaves, and greatly lower their value in the Southern States. I give this intelligence, however, as a very prevalent rumour merely, but at the

.same time remark that it is an event extremely probable. Doubtless, the inten- .tion of France and Denmark to free their slaves by gradual and equitable (to the owners) emancipation in the West India Islands and in French Guiana, will not he without a moral influence in this country."

The people of the Southern Slave-holding States seem determined to check the Abolitionists entering their territories. Miss Delia Webster had been convicted of aiding slaves to escape, at Lexington in Kentucky, and sentenced to two years' confinement in the Penitentiary; the Reverend Mr. Tony, at Baltimore, convicted of a similar act, had been condemned to several terms of confinement, amounting in the whole to seven years and three months; and Mr. Walker in Missouri, and Mr. Kelly_ in Virginia, have had the like sentences passed upon them. The Re- verend Mr. Fairbank, in custody at Lexington on a similar charge, had not yet been tried.

The Cincinnati Gazette, of the 21st December, contains an account of a disas- trous collision between two steam-boats, the one bound from New Orleans for Nashville, the other from Memphis for that place, by which the former was en- tirely demolished. Her hall parted from her cabin, and sank immediately; the cabin floated off with the persons in it, and was landed a short distance from the scene of the disaster: thirty-one lives are said to have been lost.

The New York Herald narrates one of the most brutal attempts at murder ever recorded. Catherine Hardin the wife of a man who lived in a little shanty to the North of Fifteenth Street, had a squabble with Andrew Klein, an Irishman; and afterwards, on a Sunday morning while she was standing at her door, he threw stones at her, and hurt her. On Monday morning her husband went out to Ids work, leaving her in the hut with two children. She was awakened from her sleep by a hammering at the door; and on looking up she saw a part of the door burst in by the blows of an axe, while smoke came through the aperture. "Dreadfully alarmed, she sprang from the bed, with the child in her arms, and rushed to the door, which was the only means of exit from the house, except the window. In her terror she saw Klem in front of the door, piling up burning straw, wood, and shavings against the door; and on attempting to go out, he took

long pole which he held, and thrust it at her with both hands. She imme- diately felt a sharp instrument pierce her thigh. Seeing that Klem was perfectly sober, she became suddenly convinced that his intention was to bum her and her children to death; and in this awful situation, with the prospect of a terrible death before her' she frantically screamed " Murder! " and rushing to the window, en- deavoured to escape there. Klem, however, perceived her intention, and, jump- ing upon a barrel that was in front of the window, with a large piece of board in his hand, brandished it in such a manner that she dared not attempt to get out. The smoke by this time had filled the room so that she could scarcely breathe; and the child was screaming in agony, and gasping as if in the last struggle. With the strong feeling of a mother for its offspring, and as a last hope of sanng its life she covered it up in a feather-bed, and immediately after fell down insensi- ble." 'Her screams, however, had alarmed some neighbours, who came to the spot and rescued her; carrying her and the infant, who was not expected to survive, to the hospital. Near the house was found a pike made of a pole and a file sharpened to a point. Klem was arrested, and was about to be examined.

Cssans.—The mail brings advices from Quebec to the 21st Decem- ber. The Provincial Parliament had adjourned from the 20th, for seven- teen days. On the last day, three interesting communications were made to the House,—that the Crown issued the necessary instructions relative to the change of the seat of Government, in conformity with the wishes of the House; that the Royal assent was given to the Independence of Parlia- ment Bill, her Majesty intimating her regret that such a measure was deemed advisable by the Local Legislature; and that the Royal assent was withheld from the Secret Societies Suppression Bill, on the ground of its being arbitrary and unconstitutional; and a hope was expressed that secret -associations would be voluntarily terminated under the influence and ex- hortations of the Executive.

According to a Canadian paper, Mr. J. L. Pal keen had never intended to return to the province- " A report got into circulation here that the Mr. Papineau, who now resides in Trance, was about to return to Canada, and had signified his approval of the present Administration. There is not a word of truth in it. Mr. Papineau has published a letter in the New York Courier denying the report in tab; and has expressed deep regret that his brother, Mr. D. B. Papineau, should have sacrificed the prin- ciples for which they have ever contended, by taking office."

TExAs.—Intelligence from Galveston comes down to the 11th Decem- ber. President Houston sent his annual message to Congress on the 5th. Ile alludes with satisfaction to the relations of Texas with England and France, as well as with the United States, and also to commercial regulations with some of the German States. He considers that the war with Mexico is at an end in all but name. The expenditure of Texas for the last three - years, to 1st December 1844, was 460,209 dollars; the revenue, 466,158 -dollars.

MEXIC0.—The disorders in the republic, whence we have intelligence to the middle of December, have become very complicated. The five North- western departments were in arms against Santa Anna. Between those de- partments and Mexico there intervene the two departments of Guanajuato and Queretaro. Paredes, the Revolutionary leader, had established himself lit Lagos, on the frontiers of Jalisco, with an army stated by some at 10,000 men; but more probably, by Mr. Cushing, at 1,400. General Cortazar, with 2,000 men, was understood to have been prevented from joining Paredes by the rapid movements of Santa Anna, who had cut off his path, and had thus forcibly obtained his adhesion.

Santa Anna, with 13,000 men, was at Queretaro. He had issued a very long address to the people, declaring that he meant to govern constitutionally, denying that he had misappropriated monies, and pro- mising to persevere in the reconquering of Texas. But his position was very precarious. Even at Queretaro the Junta Departmental had pronounced for the "institution of Jalisco,"—that is, for the revolution and for Paredes as President.

But at Mexico matters were still worse. Senor Canalize, whom Santa Anna had left as Provisional President, on the 15th November urged the Congress to take measures for the repression of disturbances. On the 18th, at the instance of a memorial by Paredes, they passed a resolution calling the Provisional Government to account as responsible to the Legislature and the country. After angry debates, Canalizo forcibly closed the palace of the Congress on the let December, and declared Santa Anna Dictator of the Republic. On the 6th, the garrison and people of Mexico rose against the Government, and imprisoned Canalize) and his Ministers; Congress re- assembled; the President of the Council of Government, General Herrera, assumed the functions of President, according to the constitution; and new Ministers were appointed the next day. Some of them refused to act, and three of them were placed under arrest. Meanwhile, the Minister of War called upon Santa Anna to relinquish his command of the troops, which he held unconstitutionally.

ht Vera Cruz, the feeling against Santa Anna was very strong-

" His portrait, which was once so much respected, has been thrown from the balcony, of the palace, and the mob tore it immediately into pieces. The indivi- dual who threw it exclaimed, at the same time, ' * • • • I' Even the fa- mous leg, once belonging to Santa Anna, and which was buried in the city of Mexico with so much pomp, has again been restored to the atmosphere, and in- sulted in every way imaginable. His bust, which had a conspicuous place in the new and beautiful Theatre of Santa Anna,' (El Teatro de Santa Anna,) was broken into a thousand pieces. Another large statue of him at Puebla was de- stroyed in rather a curious manner; first they hang him by the neck, then they cut off his head, and afterwards spat in his face; and at last left poor Santa Anna in the hands of a charitable Mexican mob."

The New York Sun declares the existence of a secret society in Mexico, having for its ultimate object the annexation of that country to the United States; in which the most influential men of Mexico, together with Santa. Anna, are joined. The object of the project is said to be, to borrow the strength of the United States in order to repress internal disorder in Mexico, to repel foreign aggression, and to improve the undeveloped resources of the republic.