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SPAIN AND Fruercw.—The Due de Montpensier left Paris for Madrid at six o'clock on Monday morning, with a suite so numerous that fifteen postillions and forty-two horses were ordered at each stage. He was ac- companied by his brother the Dec d'Aumale, General Baron Athalin, first aide-de-camp to the King; Colonel Fioreck, aide-de-camp to the Prince; his secretary, physician, surgeon, and others. He arrived at Bordeaux on Tuesday morning; and set out again in the evening for Bayonne.

Remarkable precautions have been observed in various parts of France. Domiciliary visits were paid, on Friday and Saturday, to the Spaniards in Paris; among others, to Prim. At Bordeaux, strict watch is kept over General Rodil and the Marques de Santa Cruz, formerly aide-de-camp to Espartero. General Seoane had escaped from that city. On Thursday last week, fourteen Spaniards were removed from Bayonne, under escort, for the interior of France. French troops on the Spanish border have been strengthened, to prevent the Carlists from crossing into Spain.

The Constitutionnel states, that when Cabrera paid a visit to Count de Montemolia, some twenty days ago, he was bearer of a passport permitting him to repair from Lyons to Paris, without limiting him to any fixed itine- rary, and delivered to him by M. Duchatel. He accordingly had a right to pass through Bourges, and stop in that town.

The great subject of discussion in Paris has been a communication made by Lord Normanby, the British Ambassador, to M. Guizot, on Friday. The most conflicting statements prevail as to the nature of the communi- cation. The correspondent of the Times, who professes to be well-informed, gives this description of it. It expressed in the most energetic terms the hostility of the British Government to the Montpensier marriage as being in direct contravention of the treaty of Utrecht; it declared that even if the treaty of Utrecht had ceased to exist, or had never had existence, the British Government would protest with equal energy against the marriage, on the broad general ground that it would affect the interests of all Europe, and disturb the balance of power; and concluded with the expression of a fear that "the marriage is calculated injuriously to affect the relations sub- sisting between Franck and Great Britain." The anti-Ministerial party in- sist that the note was a very sufficient "p atvst "; the Ministerial party assert that it was no protest in a hostile sen -e, and that it made no de- mands: one party avers that, after the interview, both M. Guizot and Lord Normanby looked unusually flashed; the others say, that M. Guizot looked and spoke as if he were pleased, and that the King else looked pleased when he read the note. The Journal des Debate authoritatively states that the

note contained nothing to compromise the pacific relations between the Go- vernments of France, England, and Spain.

A council of Ministers was held on Sunday, and a reply to the note was arranged; to be drawn out and transmitted by M. Guizot through the Count de Jarnac, in London.

A dispute is still kept up as to the manner in which Queen Isabella's consent to her own marriage was obtained. The Journal des Debats is very indignant at calumnies, borrowed from other days, which have been applied to this event; and it professes to give an unvarnished account of what really took place. " The evening of the 26th and that of the 27th of August were exclusively devoted by the Queen of Spain to her usual consultations with her Ministers; and, according to her custom, her Majesty, before she withdrew to her private apartments, received at an advanced hoar of the night some persons of her House- hold. Those who pretend to be well-informed on the customs of the Spanish Court, ought to know that the habit of the Queen, as it was that of her mother, Queen Christina, is to consult her Ministers during the evening, and to give re.. °options [hold a drawingronm] during the night. It was some hours after quitting her Ministers that the Queen, who received only 31. Donoso Cortes, and afterwards waited on her mother, recalled her Ministers to announce to them her resolution. Several amongst them were still in the palace, at the office of the First Secretary of State. The others had withdrawn. All immediately assem- bled in her Majesty's presence. They quitted her after having received her orders, and it was during that evening that the Queen signed the convocation of the Cortes. The French Ambassador did not interfere in the slightest degree."

The Times replies— "All this is in the customary style of moderation of the Journal des Debuts. So far as our contemporary appears to have been instructed, it speaks truth. The Queen did recall her Ministers on the night in question; but it was after weeping bitterly and continuously for two hours in her Majesty's private apartment, whoa, worn out by solicitation and tearing, she descended, and said to the Queen-mother, Do as you will; I accept Don Francisco.' The Ministers were immediately re- called. The Royal assent was given. The marriage of the Infanta to the Duo' de Montpensier was, in that moment of excitement, urged upon her, and ao- quiesced in. M. Bresson was produced, and had the satisfiletion of learning that his mission had, through the all-powerful aid of the Queen-mother, succeeded. These are truths which the Debate will no doubt, in its next number, add to the details it published on Tuesday."

At Madrid, Mr. Bulwer had presented a fourth note, under direct in- struction from Lord Palmerston : some say this note was more, some less energetic, than those which preceded it.

A correspondence has taken place between Mr. Bulwer and General Semno on the subject of an assertion made by Set-tor Isturitz in the Cortes, to the effect that the opposition of England was not so much to the mar-

riage of the Infanta as to that of the Queen. Mr. Bulwer emphatically denies the truth of M. Isturitz's words, and declares that the English

Government not only sees with pleasure that the choice of the Queen has fallen on a Spanish Prince but that the formal protest presented by him shows that the opposition Of the English Government was directed solely against the marriage of the Infanta with the Due de Montpensier.

Mr. Bulwer had an audience of Queen Isabella and her mother, on the 22d September, to congratulate them on the Queen's marriage: no mention was made of the Infanta's marriage; and she was absent,—being opportunely "unwell."

On the 19th, a deputation from the Congreso congratulated the Queens, the Infanta, and Don Francisco de Assiz, on the two marriages. Don Fran- cisco replied with a most liberal declaration of political opinions.

Meanwhile, the preparations for the marriage continued without inter- ruption. The Pope's dispensation had been received in Madrid. Thirty thousand dollars had been expended in unpaving and barricading the Plant' Mayor for a bull-fight, as part of the festival: the performers in the circus were to be grandees of Spain, aided and protected by professional bull- fighters.

On the 25th of September, the French ambassador went in state to the Palace formally to demand the hand of the Infanta for the Duo do Mont- pensier. It was formally given, by the Queen, the Queen-Mother, and the Infanta herself—now quite well.

The Congreso closed an important discussion on the 23d September, on the report of a committee recommending that Ministers be authorized DA

continue the collection of the taxes. The result was virtually a vote of confidence. The opposition, by a few Moderado Deputies and the single Progresista, Senor Orense, was energetic; but eventually the motion was affirmed by 134 to 13.

Ramon Narvaez, Duke of Valencia, had arrived in Madrid, and had visited the Queen. There were reports, but quite unauthenticateci of his probable return to power, with Bravo Murillo and, perhaps, Manuel Conchs, for colleagues.

The state of Catalonia is as doubtful as ever; some declaring that it is in revolt, others that it is quite tranquil. Perhaps the truth is to be found in the letter of an English reporter, who states that the Captain-General was making preparations at Barcelona for a canmaigu in the inotintein districts—probably against the Carlists.

The domestic state of France is most distressing. It Is said that trade of all kinds was never so bad. Throughout the country the prices of wheat, flour, and bread, were continually rising; even in the South, in the face of large importations of grain from the Black Sea. Wheat ranges from 33 centimes to 2 francs per hectolitre; bread, from 40 to 60 centimes per kilogramme. The working classes begin to suffer severely. The Municipal Council of Metz has granted 80,000 franca to supply the indi- gent with bread a halfpenny a pound below the regulated price. Incen- diary fires devastate the kingdom Burgundy in particular. Seven villages of the district of Morvand had been almost entirely consumed during the last three weeks; and notwithstanding the vigilance of the police and the inhabitants, it had been impossible to seize the incendiaries. The whole population had been ever since on the watch, day and night; and it was dangerous for strangers to traverse the country. In the districts of Mont- argis and Gien the agitation was extreme. The inhabitants everywhere mounted guard; and several persons mistaken for malefactors had been either killed or wounded by the armed peasantry.

The 3foniteur Algerien of the 20th instant states that Abd-el-Kader ap- peared to have renounced for the present all intention of again invading the territory of Algeria, in consequence of the misery to which the last War- motion had seduced the tribes who had joined in it.

• ROsim.—A letter from Leghorn of the 20th September, in the Journal dee Mats, speaks very cheeringly of the moral effects produced by the *he and liberal policy of Pope Pius the Ninth. The enthusiasm with which he is regarded by his subjects continues to be unabated. The only enemies of peace and order in the Papal States are now the retrograde party, who wish to alarm the Government and hinder it from pursuing a course of reform. These men try especially to work upon the popular animosity against the Swiss; but their objects are well known; audit is to be hoped that no one will suffer himself to be entrapped by them. A broil between the Pontifical troops and the Austrian soldiers took place lately at Ferrara. The Count de Taxis and the General-in-chief, Count Radetski, had repaired to Ferrara, and had a long interview with Cardinal Ugolini, who is said to be opposed to reform.

"Foreign emissaries," writes the correspondent of the Journal des Dibats, are now traversing the legations' endeavouring to excite discontent among the population; whose attachment for Pius the Ninth is daily increasing.

At Modena, the centre and focus of Italian Jesuitism, a clergyman preached a few days ago a sermon.' On the great dangers that menace the Holy See.' The Jesuits and the Paradisians a sect composed of the ultra-Retrogrades, refuse to give Pius the Ninth the title of Pope; they merely call him Count Mastai. The Pontifical Government, in the mean time, goes on with its work of reform. It has gradually removed the late members of the Police, and filled their places with other men; and it has recommended the censors of the press to be less rigorous. We are assured that a promotion of Cardinals will shortly take place; and among those about to be elevated to that high dignity are Messrs. Bo-

fondi, Baluffi, and Grasselini, who are distinguished for thew moderation and en- lightened minds. On the whole, our future prospects are most auspicious, pro- vided the moderate party be able to maintain order and tranquillity, and oppose a strong barrier to the attempts and suggestions of the enemies of prudent and ra- tional program."

Accounts from Rome state that many members of the College of Cardi- nals are opposed to the alterations the Pope has proposed respecting con- vents; every convent being under the protection of a Cardinal : but the Pope is not disposed to be turned from his purpose by these difficulties. The Governor, Marini, it is not unlikely, will be displaced. Hitherto, the

Pope has yielded to a high personage in his favour; but Marini, continuing to resist, is evidently an enemy to reform. The Pope had allowed women to attend the audiences he gives at the Vatican; but he has been forced to return to the old order of things.

A letter from Rome, September 16, published in the Nuremberg Corre- spondent, states that a soldier lately presented to the Pope a loaf of the worst quality, as a sample of the bread distributed to the soldiers. Next morning, the Minister of War was invited to breakfast with his Holiness, and found a plate of soldier's bread set before him. The Minister turned pale, and could not touch it. Pius IX. then said to him, "You do not eat! you find the bread too bad! and yet it is the same as given to my soldiers." The Minister declared he was ignorant of the fact. "But I know it," re- plied the Pope. "I know that the complaints of the soldiers are not lis- tened to because the officers are corrupt." The Minister withdrew in con- sternation. An inquiry was instituted. The friend of Count N., who bad the distribution of the bread, the contractor, and the baker, were arrested

and taken to the castle of St. Angelo. "Today," says the writer' "every soldier had four bajocohi given him to buy his own bread; and this is to

be continued until further orders." From another source we learn that the money is charged to the account of the offending parties • and that the Pope bas extended his special protection to the soldier who Made the 'appeal to bin; so that the man may not be exposed to any bad consequences.

Some young men, probably belonging to the party of Young Italy, have come across the frontier, and endeavoured to excite the inhabitants of Naples to revolt, by telling them that the institutions of the Roman States are more liberal than thoso of Naples. But the majority of the inhabitants being averse to all disorder, the authorities were able, by calm and well-conceived measures, to prevent any disastrous consequences. —Augsburg Gazette.

The Scientific Congress, lately assembled at Genoa, appointed Rome for its next place of meeting, subject to the approval of the Papal Govern- ment. On the resolution being submitted to Pins IX., he immediately gave it his full sanction!

BonNE0.—Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane's despatches, published in Tuesday's Gazette, supply further details of the proceedings against the Sultan of Borneo. It was on the 9th of July the fleet ascended to Brune, the Sultan's capital, which lies nine miles up a very picturesque river. We may compress the substance into the shortest possible space.

The Admiral was accompanied by Mr. Brooke from Sarawak. "On approach- ing Polo Bungore, five forts opened to view, admirably placed for denying a passage beyond them; two were erected on the right hand, one on the left shore over the narrow formed by Palo Bungore and the main, and the largest of the whole on the side of a hill, elevated about one hundred feet, (immediately in front of the narrows,) and which sand-banks compel you to stand directly for, and to pass within from seventy to eighty yards; the fitth battery was further up. the river on the same side." Besides these forts there was a heavy battery a fieur d'eau, which was found to consist of eight' brass and two iron guns from 68 to 9- pounders; another upon the heights immediately above it, of four guns, 9 and 6- pounders; and four more upon another height commanding the latter, and one hundred yards in the rear of it. All these forts and batteries were carried in the course of the day; and the guns, thirty-eight in number, were spiked or carried off. A quantity of ammunition of all kinds was destroyed, and the forts were burnt. The loss on our side amounted to two men killed and seven wounded. The Sultan fled into the interior, attended, it was said, by a large body of men and several guns. An expedition, consisting of eight boats, carrying 472 men, under command of Captain Mundy of the Ins, was sent into the Interior, to cap- ture the Sultan. After six days of intense exertion, it returned without having effected its purpose, but not without having destroyed a great quantity of arms, ammunition and valuable property belonging to the Sultan and to his illegitimate son, Hadji

ammunition, the man who had instigated him to the murder of Muds

Hassim, Budruddeen, and their families. This man had married the daughter of Pangeran Usop, a notorious pirate, whom Admiral Cochrane attacked last year at the Sultan's special desire, and drove from the city; and who was subsequently put to death by Budruddeen in consequence of an attack he made on the city after the Admiral's departure. Hadji Hassim, partaking of his father-in-law's }moti- lity to the English and disposition to piracy, as well as deeply resenting his fall, had exercised the very great influence he had over the mind of the Sultan, and in conjunction with a very clever and artful man named Hefei Samoad, had at last brought his Highness to consent to this deed of revenge. Mr. Brooke accompanied Captain Mundy on his expedition. Great care was taken to spare the houses and property not connected with the Sultan.

The Admiral now managed to opens communication with the nobles of Brune who were friendly to the English. The Sultan having fled, and there being, in feet, no government, they were invited to come to some determination for the

future; but they appeared to be entirely paralyzed. " The massacre had been of that sweeping character as cut off every man of weight or intelligence, and to leave the survivors in an irrevocable state of helplessness and dismay. "In the mean time, the common people had recovered from their panic, and commenced returning to the town; and by the fourth or fifth day nearly every house was inhabited, and the same busy scene presented itself as on ordinary occasions, the boats flocking in the ships to sell or exchange their produce as

with as much confidence n any English port; and I am persuaded nothing would have been more gratifying to them than to have learnt from me that I was authorized to establish an Englishman (such an one, for instance, as Mr. Brooke) as their governor and chief, under whom they would have felt confident of the undisturbed enjoyment of the produce of their industry, and of protection from uncertain and despotic exactions."

After remaining eleven days at the city without any prospect of securing a satisfactory arrangement, the Admiral sailed for China, leaving the Iris and Hazard to remain on the coast as long as circumstances might render necessary. Before his departure, he says, " Mr. Brooke concerned with me in thinking that the effect might be good were I to address a sort of proclamation to the chief persons actually in the place, to be given to the Sultan on his return, detailing the whole of the proceedings that had taken place between us during the last twelve months; pointing out the unprincipled and dishonest conduct of the Sultan—show- ing how entirely he and they were at my mercy—yet still holding out the olive- branch to him, but declaring my determination to act with the extreme of vigour should he ever again evince hostility to Great Britain." The Admiral did so, and set sail.

The Staadts Courant (the Hague) of the 25th September pub- lishes an official account of the Dutch expedition to Bali. It appears to have been entirely successful. The Natives, who are said to have pos- sessed sixty pieces of cannon, and to have been capable of bringing thirty thousand men into the field, do not seem to have offered any serious resist- ance. The Prince took refuge in the mountains. The Dutch remained masters of Beliling and the capital Singe Radja; and their troops are to re- main in Bali until the entire payment of the expenses of the war, as stipm- lated by the treaty of peace, which was concluded on the 9th July by the Dutch Commissioner at Beliling with the Princes of Beliling and Karang Assam.

" The principal stipulations of these treaties are—besides the renewal of the declaration that the territory of those two Princes forms a part of the Dutch possessions in the Indies—acknowledging his Majesty the King of the Netherlands as Sovereign; promising to protect the Dutch commerce; engaging to oppose piracy; and not only to abolish the custom of declaring shipwrecked vessels and their cargoes to be good prizes, but in each cases to afford aid and assistance, with a certain rate of salvage for having taken care to preserve the cargo of the shipwrecked vessel; and, lastly, to assist the Dutch Government to the utmost of their power in its efforts to put down piracy and the slave-trade. "The Dutch Government engages on its part that if these Princes faithfully execute the conventions made with them it will not interfere in the internal ad- ministration of their country, which is left to them without a restriction. "By another treaty, the Prince of Beliling acknowledges that he is indebted to the forgiveness and generosity of the Dutch Government for the restoration of Ins country, the Government of which had become entirely the master by the right of conquest; and he engages, in the first place, to pay the expenses of the ex- pedition as well as those of erecting and maintaining a fort, and of the garrison, which remain there as a security for the entire payment of the expenses of the war- and, in the second, to destroy in the space of three months the fortifica Sons weiii.h he had erected, and not to construct any others on the same places."

"This victory," says the Staadts Courant, "cannot fail to have great moral influence on the population of the Indian Archipelago. The island of Bali is situated in the centre of our possessions in those seas, and close to Java. In a commercial point of view the result will be equally im- • portant, because Bali is very productive and populous." The ostensible grounds for the late hostilities were stated in the Dutch Government's ulti- matum to the Rajah of Bali to be: 1. His having violated the conventions he had signed in November 1842 and May 1843, and repeatedly refused to " COIIfill111 his previous declarations that his empire of Beliling forms part of the Dutch possessions in the East Indies; 2. His not having made re- - paration for the plunder of a vessel under the Dutch flag in 1844 by the people of Gjembruna, a dependency of Beliling; 3. His not having re- ceived with due honour the diplomatic agents of the Government; 4. Nor answered a letter of the Governor-General; 5. Nor hoisted the Dutch flag at the places and in the manner required. But the Government of the • Netherlands is supposed to have been actuated by other motives, more cogent, though not avowed. These are very plainly indicated in the follow- ing article taken from the Overland Singapore Free Press, August 4— " It would appear from the statement of Captain Griffen' of the Fair Barbadian,

which arrived here on the 8th instant, that the Dutch are making strenuous efforts to secure an exclusive intercourse with, and control over, the islands lying

at the East end of Java-' and which they seem in a fair way of accomplishing. Captain Griffen reports that he anchored in the Bay of Sumbawa Bezar in De- cember last, and immediately sent his mate on shore to inform the Rajah that his vessel was a British ship in search of a cargo of hides, rice, katchang, or other produce, and that to pay for such produce he had the current money of the island —China cash. The Rajah would appear not to have raised any objection at first to Captain Griffin's proceedings' and accordingly next day a quantity of ketch- ang was purchased, and ballast, &c., discharged to make room for cargo. On the following day, Captain Griffen was somewhat taken aback by being informed by/ the person of whom he had purchased the katchang, that he could not deliver it,. as the vessel was English, the Dutch having prohibited the Sumbawa people from trading with vessels of that nation; and that on a previous occasion a fine had been inflicted on the trader on account of his having had dealings with an English ves- sel! The Fair Barbadisur was therefore obliged to leave Sumbawa, and pro- ceeded to a place on the island of Bali called Leby, in the kingdom of Giouger, where she was received in a very friendly manner, and experienced no difficulty in- obtaining a cargo. The Natives are stated to be very anxious to trade with the English. "Although we do not look upon what occurred to Captain Griffen at Sumbawa as by any means conclusive proof that the Dutch had really gone so far as was asserted, seeing their name may have been made use of as the easiest means of getting rid of the vessel, with which, for some cause or other, it was not wished to trade; yet it may reasonably be inferred that there must have been some pre- vious communings on the subject between the Dutch and the Rajah of Sumbawa which led the latter to make the statement so readily as he did. Any direci proposition by the Dutch to a Native Power to exclude the English from trade, would be a violation of the treaty of 1824, which by Art. 3 states= The high contracting parties engage, that no treaty hereafter made by either with any Na- tive Power in the Eastern Seas shall contain any article tending, either ex- pressly or by the imposition of unequal duties, to exclude the trade of the other party from the ports of such Native Power • and that if in any such treaty. now existing on either part, any article to that effect has been admitted, such article shall be abrogated upon the conclusion of the present treaty.' It by no means follows, however, that because the exclusion of English trade can--

- not be accomplished directly and openly, other means of a more indirect nature may not be made use of to effect this purpose. Suggestions may be made as to the satisfaction which the Dutch Government would feel at such a course, and hints may be given as to the disadvantage and danger of trading with the English. It is _well known that the Dutch view with jealous eyes the extension of English commerce and influence in the Archipelago. Their efforts have ever been strenuously applied to prevent it; and their ehagrin is boundless when they find their endeavours have been fruitless. Witness the ex- citement which has been caused by our intention of colonizing a small island [La- bean] on the coast of Kalamantan [Borneo]. Not only have extensive changes been made in the internal management of the Dutch affairs in Kalamantan, with the view of meeting and counteracting the anticipated extension of English influ- ence in that island,—not only is it suspected that Dutch influence has been co- vertly used in exciting an unfavourable feeling against our projects of colonization in Kalamantan, by filling the minds of weak and imbecile rajahs with unfounded and ridiculous apprehensions,—but the press of Holland itself is now ringing out the alarm, and trying to stir up the most active opposition in the mother-country; and which has already found utterance in the States General, where the denuncia- tions of English perfidy and aggression were received with applause. It is natural that the Dutch should view with suspicion and dislike the extension of a friendly intercourse and trade between the 'British and places so near to Java as Bali, Lombock, and Sumbawa. The increase which has taken place in the trade be- tween these places and Singapore and China has had the effect of rendering the Natives less dependent on the Dutch, and more than aver averse to the establish- ment of exclusive and particular relations with them. That the Dutch are desirous of having the exclusive trade of these places we do not at all doubt; and in regard to Bali and Lombock, in particular, we believe theta very strong reason exists for their anxiety to have a controlling and permanent influence there. "For many years past the rapidly-increasing culture in Java of indigo, sugar, &c., has been year after year more and more curtailing the production of rice; the land being appropriated to these other (to the Dutch Government) more re- munerating products. The consequence is, that the quantity of rice now raised in Java is inadequate to supply the population, and several very severe scarcities have already occurred. It would be most inconvenient and disadvantageous for the Dutch to supply this deficiency from the British and French possessions, as they would not be able to find a market for their goods there, the greater cheap- ness of English manufactures completely ring the way; and they would, rice therefore, be compelled to purchase their in such places for hard cash. In

Bali and Lombock, on the contrary, they would be able to find the article they were in search of on their own terms—they would be able to sell their manufac- tures—they would be considerable gainers in the difference of freight, arising from the shortness of the voyage between these places and Java—and their power over these fertile and beautiful islands would be more established. To accom- plish this, however, it is necessary that they should, in the first place, render the Natives averse and indisposed to intercourse with other foreigners. Where this is not to be accomplished by gentle means, a quarrel must be picked—as with the unfortunate Rajah of Beliling—and then, as a consequence, follows chastisement and submission by which the object in view is accomplished. It is not of their own undirected free will that the natives of these islands will relinquish their trade with foreigners since it is by such trade that they are furnished not only with their currency—China cash—but with nearly all the articles of luxury and con venience which they require, such as opium, raw silk, roll-silk, tinsel, gold-thread, crockery-ware, &c. &a., all which, by means of rice, cocoa-nuts, and other pro- duce, they obtain from our trade much cheaper than they would be supplied by the Dutch."

NEW ZEALAND.—Intelligence has been received from Wellington to the end of April. The Lieutenant-Governor had not attacked the Natives at Porirna, because it was doubtful whether the murderers of the Gillespies were harboured among them. A large military force was however, sta- tioned there, and the district was proclaimed as being under martial law, excluding the town of Wellington. The Karori settlers were afraid of an attack from the Natives, but had been promised adequate protection A military road was to be formed. A considerable number of the Natives were still in rebellion, but they were not committing any acts of violence.

CAPE OF GOOD HorE.—Accounts have been received from Cape Town to the 21st of July. The Kaffirs continued their depredations on a small scale; but after the cheek they had received, nothing very serious was apprehended.

UNITED STATES AND MEMIC0.—The American news brought by the Hibernia is of no great importance. The accounts are to the 16th Sep- tember. The Mexican war was jogging on; a small advance only having been made by the troops under General Taylor, owing to the difficulty of transport. Funds were running low. The landing of Santa Anna at Santa Cruz had been attended with great demonstrations of joy, and that chief had taken his departure inland; but of his arrival in the capital there arc no accounts.

The United States brig-of-war Truxton had been totally wrecked on the 15th, near the mouth of the river Tuppan. Two lieutenants and nineteen men reached the squadron at Vera Cruz in boats; the remainder of the officers and crew, including also the captain, landed with the intention of surrendering themselves prisoners of war.

At Washington, Mr. Bancroft, the statesman and historian, had been appointed Minister to London. Mr. Mason had received the vacant Navy Department; and the journals mention Mr. Pickens, of South Carolina, for the French Embassy.

On the 7th September, the merchants of New York presented a compli- mentary address to Mr. M‘Lane on his services in the Oregon negotiation. Mr. M‘Lane's reply is somewhat lengthy; but the tone is statesmanlike, and eminently calculated to maintain a good understanding between Ame- rica and England.

Disgraceful riots had taken place among the volunteers encamped at Burka, arising from a feud existing between an Irish company and two of the Georgian corps. The affair took place on board of a steam-boat which was anchored near the shore. Guns, swords, and bayonets, were used with reckless violence. The colonel of a regiment of Illinois volunteers, who, at the head of two of his companies, attempted to quell the disturbance, WAS wounded, and his men were driven back; and when at length the rioters submitted, a considerable number of men had been either killed or wounded.

The correspendent of the Morning Chronicle describes a curious spec- tacle—

" One of the 'lions' of New York is the encampment of the Californians on one of the small islands of the bay. Boats, filled with curious visiters, ply in con- stant fleets between the city and the camp, and the future adventures of the picked men, now looking so well in their new uniforms, and the real intentions of the Government with regard to them, are stuff for a great deal of busy speculation. Theregiment consists of a thousand men, mostly mechanics, and officered by men of education, possessed of the knowledge of some profession. They are soon to em- bark, and to go round Cape Horn to California, to serve as Government troops for three years, and then to receive grants of land, and settle. But as they cannot reach their destination before next spring; and as, before that time, a peace with Mexico is promised, King Public Opinion is asking by what provision of the con- stitution the President is authorized to raise and equip this private regiment, send them thither, and give them land? Meantime the gentleman in command, Colonel Stevenson, is beset by his creditors, and a se ezzat has been served upon him; which, it is thought, he will find a difficulty in evading, to proceed on his expedition."

Rua DE LA PLATA.—Letters from &MOS Ayres up to the 13th July declare with confidence that satisfactory progress has been made by Mr. Hood in his mission of peace. The writer says—" We are now ena- bled to state that, so far as this Government is concerned, all matters in dispute are arranged. The Devastation will proceed in a few days to the Buceo, conveying Mr. Hood to arrange matters with General Oribe; with whom and this Government communications have passed as regards Mr. Hood's mission, and a favourable result need not for a moment be doubted."

kdvices from Monte Video, dated two days later, contain a congratula- tory letter written by Roses, in his private capacity, to King Louis Philippe, on his last escape from asgsgsination.