ffortign ants Colonial. FRANCE.-The general result of the elections was

summed up as follows by the Journal des Debats on Tuesday, and no modification of importance has since occurred-

" Thirty-eight departments have elected candidates who all belong to the Mo- derate party. They have returned 347 representatives. Fifteen departments have named candidates who all belong to the Socialist Opposition,-namely, 116. Thirty departments have returned candidates belonging to the two parties,- namely, Moderates, 164; Socialists, 101. Three departments have not yet sent in returns, but will give 11. Algeria will also give 11. There axe in all eighty- Votes.

1. Lucien Murat 134,825 15. Wilton Barint 112,675 2. Ledm-Rollin 129,068 16. Theo. Bac 112,259 3. Lagrange 128,087 17. Cavaignac 111,308 4. Boichot 127,998 18. Wolowski 110,636 5. Bedean 125,101 19. Rattier 110,482 6. Lamoriciere 121,632 20. Coquerel 110,450 7. Dafaure 119,373 21. Considerant 110,241 8. Moreau 118,146 22. Pierre Leroux 110,127 9. Hippolyte Passy 117,138 23. Feupin 109,560 10. Victor Hugo 117,069 24. Garnon 109,162 11. Felix Pyat 116,185 25. Roger (do Nord) 108,309 12. Vavin 114,993 26. Fend. Lasteyrie 107,870 13. De Lamennais 113,331 27. Perdignier 107,838 14. Bale 112,917 28. Rapatel 107,825

Rdected Candidates.

29. Bugeaud 107,435 36. Nap. Lebon 102,539

30. Marie •

106,912 37. Falloux 102,517 31. Boissel 104,777 38. Ribeyrolles 101,598 32. Demay 104,609 39. Herve 101,181 33. Proudhon 103,813 40. Thiers 99,098 34. Mon Faucher 103,333 41. Vidal 98,865 35. A. Langlois 103,137

Of the successful candidates ten are Socialists,-LedruaRollin, Boichot Lagrange, Felix Pyat, Lamennais, Bac, Rattier, Pierre Leroux, Conside- rant, and Perdlguier. The other eighteen candidates all figured on the list of the Committee of the Rue de Poitiers. No candidate from the list of the National succeeded unless he was also included on the Socialist or Moderate list. Five Moderates whose names were substituted by the Club de Poitiers in place of Dufaure, Cavaignac, Lamoriciere, Lasteyrie, and Marie, on the ground that the latter are too Republican, were all rejected. The successful candidates are in general men who, though moderate sup- porters of the present Cabinet, are not compromised in its policy; while such men as MM. Ldon Faucher, Falloux, Thiers, Mold, and Bugeand, have been rejected, as well as MM. de Montalembert, Achille Fould, and Chambolle. A remarkable result of the elections is M. de Lamartine's total desertion by all the constituencies: he was unsuccessful even in his own department of Macon.

The French Ministry have been several times beaten by the refractory' Assembly. On Saturday, the subject of General Changarnier's joint com- mand of the Army of Paris and the National Guard was discussed; the bill of the Committee for legalizing the joint command was supported by Ministers. First, a motion to adjourn the debate, which they supported , was rejected by 294 to 254; and afterwards, the 'report of the Committee was rejected by 293 to 210. Government then gave the command of the Guard to General Perrot.

On Tuesday, M. Sarrans interpellated the Ministry on the subject of Rome and Hungary. He denounced the entry of Hungary by Russia, as a march six departments, and 750 representatives." The Paris returns are worthy of more particular notice. Successful Candidates for the Department of the Seine. Totes.

in the direction of France and a menace to the French Republic; and he called for a league of" traditional" allies. The Minister for Foreign Affairs admitted the gravity of the occasion; and said that Government had deter- mined upon forwarding remonstrances against the Russian interference in Hungary to the courts of London, Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburg. M. Joly thought these measures too feeble. Recurring to the Italian question, he moved a resolution enjoining the Government to adopt immediately the most energetic measures to enforce respect for the principle of the independence of the Roman Republic. General Cavaiguac said, he had opposed the inter- vention, and he would now oppose this resolution, as equivalent to a de- claration of war. The Assembly adjourned while General Cavaignao, M. Joly, and others, drew up a less belligerent resolution. In the evening their amended motion was substituted; a motion by which the Assembly directed the serious attention of Government to the movement of troops taking place in Europe; and, "preoccupied with the dangers which menace the country," called the Government to adopt the measures necessary for "energetic protection." M. Odilon Barrot opposed both the original and amended motion: he announced that the Emperor of Russia had just acknowledged the Republic; and he denounced M. Joly's manifesto, as springing from a plain desire to draw the Assembly into war. "But," he asked, "would they have the courage to say that?" This caused great excitement, and tumultuous cries of "We have said it!" /11. Ledru-Rollin exhorted the Assembly to take up the gage thrown down by the Emperor.

"He now recognizes the peril, and is resolved to combat it—is not that a de- claration of war?" (Assents.) The sword drawn to crush Roman democracy and Italian liberty would not be sheathed while their own Republic stood. An eternal enemy had sent them an insulting challenge: the Ministers would be the basest of men if they did not throw back the insult aimed at their country. On a division, M. Odilon Barrot's motion, to proceed to the order of the day, was rejected, by 459 to 53. This decision raised great alarm in Paris. The discussion was resumed on Wednesday, and terminated in the carry- ing of General Cavaignads motion, by 436 to 148.

Ireav.—The Roman expedition remains without change of position or of relation to the Republican Government.

It is once more stated, through official journals of Naples, that Palermo was entered by Filangieri and his troops on the 13th instant; the National Guard having overcome the momentary resistance raised by the fighting party, and sent deputations once more to deliver up their city. The Milan Gazette of the 18th announces the surrender of Bologna by capitulation on the 16th, aftei an almost uninterrupted conflict of eight days. Among the articles of capitulation, is one by which the Austrians engage not to molest any citizen for whatever he may have done up to the moment of surrender. Marshal Radetzky immediately sent off a special messenger to lay the keys of the city at the Pope's feet.

Rini:STA.—The Emperor Nicholas has formally declared the nature of the active help he is about to give to Austria in the Hungarian war: through the medium of an ukase issued from St. Petersburg on the 26th of April, he makes known to all the following matters—

"In our manifest of the 14th (26th) of May, of last year, we informed our dear subjects of the turmoils which had visited Western Europe. At the same time, we signified our intention to oppose our enemies, wherever they might show them- selves, and in our own person, n an indissoluble bond with our sacred Russia, to defend the honour of the Russian name and the inviolability of our frontier. Since then, the disorders and disturbances in the West have not diminished. Cri- minal seductions have carried away a credulous multitude by holding out deceit- ful hopes of a happiness which never arose from licentiousness and waywardness, and have spread to the East, to the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, sub- ject to the 'Turkish Government, and bordering on our States." His armies, (*Operating with those of the Porte, have restored and preserve order. Bat in Hungary and Transylvania disorder has increased to an alarming extent, from the influence of our Polish traitors of 1831, and swarms of deserters and vagabonds from other lands. "in the midst of these disastrous events, his Majesty the Emperor of Austria has addressed himself to us, demanding assist- ance against the common enemy. We shall not refuse the aid demanded. After having invoked the great Leader of Battles and the Lord of Armies to protect our just cease, we have issued orders to our army to commence its march to put down the insurrection and annihilate the reckless men who also threaten to dis- turb the quiet of our provinces. If God be with us, none can resist us."

Gnstaraitv.—On the 16th May, the Frankfort Assembly retorted on the Berlin Cabinet with a resolution that its late resolution recalling the Prus- sian Deputies was null and of 130 effect—Ayes 287, Noes 2.

Bavanre.—It is announced by Frankfort letters of the 21st, that the Bavarian Chambers have been dissolved, after the Second had passed by a considerable majority a petition to the King, that he would be pleased to acknowledge the Frankfort Constitution. Munich was quiet. But several districts even in the South of that kingdom seemed to be in a feverish ex- citement.

Hmtainv.—It is now some time since we gave publicity to a detailed account of the military force of the Hungarians, of the material resources of their country, and their free-trade tendencies, to their claims on the ground of constitutional right, and to their determined opposition to the centralizing plans of the Vienna Cabinet. We gave the ease as stated by the Hungarians themselves: that the results have borne out the anticipa- tions, as far as matters of fact are concerned, is maintained in a communi- cation which we receive from the same source.

Stadion's Constitution has not proved palatable to any one of the populations which composed the Austrian Empire, but has been a prime agent in hastening the dissolution of that state; has rendered all amicable settlement of differences impossible; and led to the alternative of yielding to the popular demands, or in- voking Russian intervention. The Russian intervention was preferred. The mask of paternal government has been thrown off, and now barbarism and military des- pohsm on the one hand are arrayed against civilization and liberty on the other. There can be now no mistake as to the nature of the contest.

"The military forces of the Hungarians were, as we anticipated, fully equal to cope with the Austrians. At that time their cause seemed almost hopeless in the eyes of Europe; but the series of brilliant victories which they have since achieved has fully justified the correctness of our assertions. The Russian inter- vention again renders their position, though not desperate, one of extreme danger and difficulty. The war which is now commencing can only be terminated by the Russians being defeated, or induced by mediation to withdraw their troops; or, at a distant period, after a death struggle, by the extermination of the Hungarians, the utter devastation of the Danubian countries, and their relapse into a state of barbarism. The Hungarians have taken the extreme step of declaring the house of Hapsburg-Lorraine to have forfeited the throne. This step was indeed in great measure necessitated by technicalities of their constitutional law, but does not the less preclude all possibility of reconciliation. 'Victory or annihila- tion' most henceforth be their motto.

"Oar exposition of the manner in which the Hungarian Diet always asserted the principles of free trade against the restrictive policy of the Austrian Govern- ment is equally confirmed by the latest news from that quarter. The Provisional Government has determined on a most liberal tariff. Not merely arms and other articles of war, but also colonial wares, are admitted entirely free: woollen and cotton goods on the payment of a moderate ad valorem duty levied only for the purpose of revenue. " The Hungarians have, it is true, still to reconquer their ports on the Adriatic. But this is an event which may be looked for within no very distant period. The Hungarian arms in the South of Hungary have been completely successful. Though the victories gained in that quarter have been less brilliant than in the main seat of war, this only arises from the circumstance that in the South they have had less formidable enemies to contend with: but the results are not the less important. The latest but far from recent &deices mention the defeat of Jel- lachich a corps by the Hungarians at Warasdin. Witrasdin is only 160 English miles distant from the Adriatic, byway of Agmm and Carlstadt. No great re- sistance to the march of the Hungarians is to be expected. The Liberal party in Croatia are ready to throw off the military rule of Jellachich, and to receive the Hungarians with open arms. Still greater transports of delight on the part of the inhabitants would hail their entry into Fiume."

INDIA AND Cniria.—The Bombay mail of the 17th April arrived in London on Tuesday. The despatches are of great military interest, and great political moment: the war in Lahore is completely finished, and the Punjaub is annexed.

The military events are comprised in the brief statement that Sir Wal- ter Gilbert continued his pursuit of Dost Mahommed as far as Peshawar: the Affghan gained distance in the retreat, his destitute condition as an enemy facilitating the movements of his flight. In the race from Attook to Peshawur, he gained some twenty hours' march on our force, and, leaving Peshawur on the 19th March, he gained the mouth of the Khyber Pass on the 21st, about the moment Sir Walter's force could have left Peshawur in pursuit. The hill tribes were favourable to him; he entered, the defile and traversed it unmolested; and so he became safe from further pursuit.

As soon as the possession of Peshawur was notified to Lord Dalhousie, the act of political annexation was formally commenced. The Durbar at Lahore was assembled; the subjugation of the country was announced; and Dhuleep Singh, "whose boyish thoughts were plainly wandering to his favourite hawk," willingly signed his abdication of the crown. The ceremony was performed gravely and in a dignified taste of forbearance; and the whole was viewed in Darbar with concurrence and apparent satis- faction. The following proclamation, issued on the 29th of March, an- nounced to the Sikh people that they had become British subjects.

"PROCLAMATION.

"For many years, in the time of Maharajah Runjeet Singh, peace and friend- ship prevailed between the British nation and the Sikhs. When Runjeet Singh was dead, and his wisdom no longer guided the counsels of the state, the Sirdars and the Khalsa army, without provocation and without cause, suddenly invaded the British territories. Their army was again and again defeated. They were driven with slaughter and in shame from the country they had invaded ; and at the gates of Lahore the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh tendered to the Governor- General the submission of himself and his chiefs, and solicited the clemency of the British Government.

"The Governor-General extended the clemency of his Government to the state of Labors; he generously spared the kingdom which he had acquired a just right to subvert; and the Maharajah having been replaced on the throne, treaties of friendship were formed between the states. "The British have faithfully kept their word, and have scrupulously observed every obligation which the treaties Imposed upon them. "But the Sikh people and their chiefs have on their part grossly and faith- lessly violated the promises by which they were bound. Of their annual tribute no portion whatever has at any time been paid, and large loans advanced to them by the Government of India have never been repaid. The control of the British Government, to which they voluntarily submitted themselves, has been resisted by arms. Peace has been cast aside. British officers have been murdered when acting for the state; others engaged in the like employment have treacherously been thrown into captivity. Finally, the army of the state and the whole Sikk people, joined by many of the Sirdars in the Punjaub who signed the treaties, and led by a member of the Regency itself, have risen in arms against us, and have waged a fierce and bloody war for the proclaimed purpose of destroying the Bri- tish and their power.

"The Government of India formerly declared that it desired no farther con- quest, and it proved by its acts the sincerity of its professions. The Government of India has no desire for conquest now; but it is bound, in its duty, to provide fully for its own security, and to guard the interests of those committed to its charge. "To that end, and as the only sure mode of protecting the state from the per- petual recurrence of unprovoked and wasting wars, the Governor-General is compelled to resolve upon the entire subjection of a people whom their own Go- vernment has long been unable to control, and whom (as events have now shown) no punishment can deter from violence, no acts of friendship can conciliate to peace. "Wherefore, the Governor-General of India has declared, and hereby pro- claims, that the kingdom of the Punjaub is at an end; and that all the territories of Maharajah Dhuleep Singh are now and henceforth a portion of the Britisli empire in India.

'His Highness the Maharajah shall be treated with consideration and with honour.

"The few chiefs who have not engaged in hostilities against the British shall retain their property and their rank.

"The Bridal Government will leave to all the people, whether Mussulman, Hindoo, or Sikh, the free exercise of their own religions; but it will not permit any man to interfere with others in the observance of such forms and customs as their respective religions may either enjoin or permit.

"The jagheers, and all the property of Sirdars or others who have been in arms against the British, shall be confiscated to the state. "The defences of every fortified place in the Punjaub which is not occupied by British troops shall be totally destroyed, and effectual measures shall be taken to deprive the people of the means of renewing either tumult or war. "The Governor-General calls upon all the inhabitants of the Punjaub, Sirdars and people, to submit themselves peaceably to the authority of the British Go- vernment, which has hereby been proclaimed. "Over those who shall live as obedient and peaceful subjects of the state the British Government will rule with mildness and beneficence. But if resistance to constituted authority shall again be attempted—if violence and turbulence be renewed—the Governor-General warns the people of the Punjaub that the time for leniency will then have passed away, and that their offence will be punished with prompt and most rigorous severity.

'By order of the Right Honourable the Governor-General of India, "ii. M. ELLIOT,

"Secretary to the Government of India, with the Governor-General." It is said that Dhuleep Singh has been promised a pension of five lacs of rupees (40,0001.); and that his future residence will probably be fixed at Poonah.

An order by the Governor-General returns especial thanks to Captain James Abbott, for the gallant stand be had made in the hills of Ilazareh; and to Lieutenant Taylor, for his judicious and persevering efforts, which regained and have held the province of Brunnoo: it also states that "the sustained defence of the fort of Attock, which was made by Lieutenant Herbert under circumstances of great difficulty, has been viewed by the Government of India with admiration, and entitled him to their warmest praise." A medal, bearing the word " Punjaub," will be given to every officer and soldier who has been employed within the Punjaub in the cam- paign; and the same word is to be borne on standards, colours, and ap- pointments. The first Sunday in May was appointed to be kept as a day of thanksgiving.

Sir Walter Gilbert will assume the command of the Punjaub division of the Bombay army; with head-quarters at Lahore. Lord Gough has taken leave of the Army of the Punjaub, with an ad- dress of characteristic warmth, which he thus winds up- " To every general, to every individual officer and soldier, European and Na- tive, of fhe Army of the Punjaub, Lord Gough finally repeats his cordial and af- fectionate farewell. Their persons and services are engraven in his heart and affections; and to those among them who may hereafter, within the brief span of life yet before him, revisit their native country, he tenders the unaffected renewal

of that intercourse and friendship which mutual esteem and regard, and mutual

dangers and exertions, have produced and established." "Report has it that Sir W. Cotton, the Commander-in-chief of Bombay, intended to send hor]e his resignation by this mail, rather than serve under ajunior—Sir C. Napier."

It is said that the case against Moolraj, the bravo and skilful defender of Mooltan, has become very grave, and that both he and Narrain Singh will probably be hanged for their share in bringing about the murder of Mr. Anderson and Mr. Agnew.

The news from Hongkong is to the 31st of March. Considerable excite- ment was felt as the day approached (the 6th of April) for the fulfilment of the last arrangements relating to the admission of the British to Can- ton. The dealers in the different descriptions of goods had entered into an agreement not to make purchases from foreigners until they abandoned their intention of entering the city, or the question relative thereto was definitively settled. The merchants and shopkeepers had organized a force ostensibly for the purpose of protecting their property against the numerous disorderly characters with whom the city is now crowded. Inflammatory placards against the "barbarians" continued to be posted up in the neigh- bourhood of the factories, and the gentry and elders remonstrated against the attempt of foreigners to enter the city. The belief gained ground, however, that Mr. Bonham and his suite would obtain peaceable admission under Seu's protection at the day agreed.

Captain Da Costa and Lieutenant Dwyer had been killed in a quarrel with the Chinese,—victims, it is said, to their own rash behaviour. In the course of a walk in the villages near Canton, on the 25th of February, they seem to have been playful and familiar with some young women; the men were vexed, and the Englishmen persisted even to violence; which at last grew to a fatal affray, that cost both their lives.

Canal:A.—The Cambria, which arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday morn- ing, has brought news from Montreal to the 8th instant. It is of the same mixed tenour with the news of the last packet. Great regret is very gene- rally expressed at the excesses of the rioters in Montreal; but a strong ex- citement is still felt at the political cause of those excesses and great blame is attributed to the Government for its vacillating and feeble mode of carry- ing out its own policy. Some fuller account of the transaction of arming and then disarming the special constables is given, with no improved effect on the mind of the reader; and other measures of a similar character are narrated. It is stated that a meeting was assembled on Friday the 27th April, calmly discussing the recall of Lord Elgin; Conservative speakers being present, and counselling the most moderate courses. Mr. Ermaitin- ger, a Magistrate, demanded a military force to disperse this meeting by force. Sir Benjamin D'Urban refused the request, and the authorities re- solved on organizing a special. constabulary. A correspondent of the Times writes- " They had recourse to the worst quarter of the Irish part of the town: a force of 250 ofthe lowest description of Roman Catholic Irish was collected, and joined with a body of the same number of French Canadians, also of the lowest order. In order to exasperate them against the opposite party, the cry of religion was employed, and an alarm raised that the Roman Catholic churches were to be set on fire on that night. The last was actually put forth in La Minerre news- paper, the French Ministerial organ." Against Sir Benjamin D'Urban's solemn protest, these men were supplied each with a pistol and cutlass from the Ordnance stores. "The effects of this measure were too soon apparent Two young Eng- lishmen were fired at and wounded in the Place d'Armes by some of the new le- vies. The news spread like wildfire. The streets were immediately thronged with men excited to madness; and it is a significant fact, that those composing the crowd of this evening were of a higher description than the men by whom the previous acts of violence bad been perpetrated. The English, as they call them- selves, were soon supplied, each man with an axe-handle and a pocket full of stones, and marched directly on the place where the special constables were drawn up. It was only by the greatest exertions of two gentlemen who had influence with them that a bloody collision was prevented; they were pacified with the assurance that the constables should be disarmed. The night accordingly passed without any actual disturbance, though the streets were thronged by an excited multitude. On Saturday morning I found violent excitement among the English party, arising from the knowledge that the special constables had not been disarmed ; there was a settled determination to attack them, and great numbers of fire-arms were pur- chased in preparation, for hitherto the English had carried no arms. Fortunately, however, for the peace of the town, the Executive ordered their retainers to be disarmed. The process was carried on in a house opposite to the main guard, and adjoining Government House; the arms were carried thence into Government House by soldiers, in the arm-chests, as they were filled. The constables emerged by twos and threes from the house, looking thoroughly crestfallen, and slunk away in the presence of a crowd which was too contemptuous even to hoot at them. . . . A little later on the same day, the four individuals who had been arrested on the charge of having been concerned in the destruction of the Parliament House were liberated on bail. They had been examined on Thursday, and re- manded and sent to gaol. Their detention had a great effect in exciting the mob to the acts of violence and incendiarism of Thursday evening. Their liberation was hailed by the rioters as another concession made by the apprehensions of the authorities; but beyond a triumphal procession, conspicuous above which waved the Union Jack, there was no further excitement apparent on Saturday.

"On Monday the 50th, Lord Elgin came to Montreal, for the purpose of re- ceiving an address from the House of Assembly on the late events. He was se- corted by a troop of provincial Dragoons. His coming was expected, and a crowd gathered in the streets through which he must pass on his way to Government House. When his carriage appeared, it was assailed with Tellies of stones: one of

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these struck Lord Elgin on his chest, which, if it bad struck his head, would probably have terminated his mortal and political career at the same time. Ar- rived at Government House, the address, which was expressive of indignation at the late disgraceful proceedings and of confidence in the Governor-General, and passed by a majority of 36 to 16, was presented and answered. The troops had been called out, and guarded all the avenues to Government House. His Lord- ship entered his carriage and drove off; taking, in order to avoid bloodshed, a different road from that by which be had entered the town on which last the crowd still remained with the intention of again assailing Min. Some ruffians,

however, and, to their shame be it spoken, among them were well-dressed ruf- fians, intercepted him, and again murderous collies of stones were fired at his

carriage, smashing the panels and injuring several of the escort. Colonel Bruce, Lord Elgin's brother, amongst others, received a severe blow on the head." His Lordship alighted from his carriage, with a very large atone in his hand taken from the floor of the carriage. The writer adds—" Such atrocious and cowardly proceedings are a disgrace for ever on the inhabitants of this city; and sorry I am to say that the heads of the

Conservative and soi-disant Loyal party have not testified that sense of indigo*_

tion which they should have done on this occasion ; every gentleman in Montreal should have turned out to defend the Queen from insult in the person of her re- presentative. A meeting was, indeed, called on Tuesday, and an address or pro- clamation to the rioters signed by all the most influential and respectable mem- bers of the Conservative party, exhorting to keep the peace: but no indignation

was expressed. The troops are extremely exasperated: they feel the insult as offered to themselves; and should, unhappily, a similar occasion recur for their ap- pearing in the streets, bloodshed will follow."

The subsequent accounts state,that there were no more actual disturb- ances; "the people seeming disposed to wait for an intimation of the course

the English Government will pursue." The latest indications are given in these brief telegraphic messages transmitted from Montreal, on the 8th in- stant—

" The Parliament was not in session today: it will convene on Monday next, and bold its sessions in the new building owned by Mr. Hayes, called the Free- masons' Hall; but it is said that the seat of Government is to alternate four years at Quebec and Toronto."

"The agitation still continues in the Eastern Townships. All is quiet in Montreal."

"Some of the late prisoners are about to start on a tour of agitation to the Eastern Townships."

The Legislative Library, Montreal, was insured for 48,000 dollars; the Parliament Buildings for 72,000 dollars. The bills assented to on the 25th wets all Eland, and are now in force as laws.--Montreal Herald.

WEST INDIES.—The mail-steamer Conway arrived at Southampton on Tuesday, with advices Irons Jamaica to the 22d, Demerara to the 18th,

Honduras to the 12th, and Trinidad to the 20th of April. The principal feature of the news is a continuance of the agitation for political and finan- cial reform. • The Jamaica papers report a large and very influential meeting at Fal- mouth on the 14th March, at which the chief planters and merchants were present. The re4o1ntions were mildly expressed, but very firm: oneepf them shovied diet in 1841--and1848 the spenditure of the colony had exceeded itis receipt by the sum of 48,406/. and 57,2871.-abou a fifth of

each year's revenue: another expressed the approbation- of the meeting "at

the firm stand which has been made by the House of Assembly in with- holding the full supplies until the retrenchment bills shall have become law." The "Colonial League" was looked forward to with anxiety and hope; and there appeared a disposition to establish a " Colonial Associa- tion" of delegates from the various British West India Colonies, to meet at St. Thomas's and agitate in their favour.

At Demerara, the business of the Combined Court was proceeding. The estimates had been entered upon, but the spirit of reform had been carried unexpectedly far: no single item on the estimate submitted to the mem- bers remained untouched; a few of the items being cut down at the rate of 25 per cent, while the majority of the items were reduced by no less than 50 per cent, and some were wholly expunged from the estimates.

At Honduras, reductions in the local expenditure had been proposed. At Trinidad, some movement had also been made in retrenchment. At Antigua, a bill to reorganize the treasury of the Wand had been passed by a large majority.

BUENOS Araas.—In an article on the subject of the war in the River Plate, the Times confirms and enlarges a statement inaudibly made to the

House of Lords on Tuesday night, and very meagrely reported. Although, for reasons of diplomatic etiquette, Mr. Southern had not been received by the Dictator of the Argentine Republic in the formal capacity of British

Minister, every facility for the negotiation of a treaty had been afforded by

General Roses to the British Envoy. Improving these opportunities, and through the aid of the complete knowledge of the Spanish character ac- quired during a long residence in the Peninsula, Mr. Southern has accom- pl shed that which has cost so many bootless errands in the last few years. "In consequence of these personal conferences carried on between Mr.

Southern and General Roses, a treaty has been arranged," says the Times, "subject to the approval of the British Government, upon the bases sug- gested by Mr. Hood, without any material departure from the terms to which the British and French agents have uniformly adhered.

"Although we are not in possession of the precise terms of these treaties, yet, as it is positively stated that they are framed on the basis of Mr. Hood's articles, it may not be without utility to recall those propositions to the recollection of our readers. They provided that General Roses should at once unite with France and England to put an end to the hostilities between the city of Monte Video and the besieging forces, by an armistice; that the foreigners bearing arms in Monte Video should be at once disarmed; and that the whole of the Argentine troops, officers, and soldiers, should be simultaneously withdrawn from every part of the Oriental territory. The blockade was to be raised, (which has already been done,) the island of Martin Garcia evacuated, the Argentine flag saluted, prizes restored, and the navigation of the river Parana admitted to be an inland naviga- tion of the Argentine Confederation, so long as the Republic continues to occupy both banks of the river. After these conditions are fulfilled, a new election for the Presidency of the Banda Oriental is to take place, according to the forms prescribed by the constitution, and without influence or restraint; General Oribe agreeing to abide by the result, with a general amnesty."