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Pompoms—The civil war may be considered as virtually at an end. Advices from both Lisbon and Oporto mention, that on the 9th instant, it was known that the Junta had accepted the amnesty and the four articles originally proposed by Colonel Wylde. The Queen was well disposed to make every concession required by the representatives of the three Powers, who were acting in harmony.

The English and French missions were doing their best to check the further advance of the Spanish army of intervention. General Mendez Vigo, however, had reinforced the Portuguese fortress of Valencia. He had issued a pompous proclamation, in which he speaks of his troops as "models of valour and discipline"; calling on the Portuguese to submit to the con stituted authorities of her most faithful Majesty.

All was tranquil at Oporto. The English Consul had caused the blockade to be raised in favour of the British, Spanish, and French flags. Saldanha, calculating on the cooperation of the Spanish army, had advanced his force; and the Junta, alarmed by his menaces, were increasing the de- fences of the Sierra Convent and of Villa Nova. No insult or injury had been offered to any British subject.

SPAIN.—By adviees from Madrid, to the 11th instant, it appears that no change had taken place in the Royal relations. Some sensation had been caused by an article in the Tiempo, in which the Queen's objections to marrying her cousin are spoken of without reserve, as well as the difficulty there was in persuading her to consent to the union. The Faro, exceed- ingly indignant, denies the truth of the assertion; which it ascribes to Seiler Pacheco.

La Sanaine reports very imprudent conduct of the Duke de Glucksbeag, the acting French Minister at the Court of S. The story is this. In- stead of observing a proper neutrality, the Duke has espoused the cause of Don Francisco. His visits to the Pardo are open and constant. At an interview, the Queen reproached him with his conduct; and the Duke made no reply; but on his return to the Embassy, he addressed a menacing note to Sehor Pacheco, threatening to demand his passports. After two days spent in correspondence and interviews, the affair was settled so as to stop further scandal. The Queen is said to have declared, that unless measures be adopted to relieve her from the state of domestic misery in which she has been in- volved by her marriage, she will abdicate.

FRANCE.—The principal incident in Paris has been the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Portuguese intervention; which was, how- ever, disposed of in two hours. The question was raised by M. Cremienx; who contended that France had no interest in intervention and had only done so to curry favour with England. M. Guizot refused to follow M. Cremieux into the history of Donna Maria's administration—

The Queen had certainly brought on the civil war by illegal acts: constitu- tional sovereigns would deceive themselves if they imagined that they could affect to use the language of absolute power with impunity. When they do so, they draw upon themselves the dangers and misfortunes belonging to absolute power. When the insurrection broke out, the French policy was nonintervention, because

the difference appeared to be purely a domestic one, between the partisans of two charters: but when the movement ,took a Mignelite character, the case MS altered, and intervention became necessary for the interests of France. By that interest M. Guizot was alone swayed, and not by any desire of truckling to England.

In the Chamber of Peers, an interesting discussion arose on a petition from Prince Jerome Bonaparte, to be allowed to return to France.. The petition had been referred to the Committee, of which the report was brought up by M. Charles Dupin. The report recommended that the Chamber should remain neuter, leaving the matter to the Crown. Ulti- mately, the report was referred to the Board of Information. A curious addition has been made by the National to the documents illustrating the charges of corruption, in the shape of a letter which was ad- dressed by the Prefect of Montpellier to a Conservative Deputy, M. Benoit Fould. M. Fould appears to have been very urgent that the Prefect should demand a cross of the Legion of Honour for a certain M. Albert,

The Prefect reminds M. Fould, that he has already demanded three crosses for three of his friends, and advises him to be satisfied. A hint is at the Same time given, that when the gentry of St. Pons (51. Fould's con- stituents) find that he has nothing more to give, they may turn ungrateful, and oust him.

Queen Christina has arrived in Paris, and gone for the present to reside at Malmaison. She remained four days, from the let to the 4th instant,

at Rome, on her route from Naples, and had a private audience of the Pope. It is understood that her brother of Naples gave her no welcome, and even refused to see her.

PERSIA.—Serious frontier differences which have long existed between the Turkish Sultan and the Persian Shah have at length been amicably settled, by the mediation of England and Russia.

UNITED STATES AND MEXIC0.—The accounts brought by the Britan- nia, which left Boston on the 1st instant, contain nothing striking in the

way of novelty. The Mexican war was prosecuted with all due activity, though without any fresh success in the field. Indeed, there was no enemy to impede the march of the American troops. General Scott had issued a proclamation to the Mexicans and was advancing rapidly upon

Mexico. A column had been advance to Puebla, the second city of the republic, styled "the unconquered"; but no resistance was anticipated. General Worth had taken possession of Perote. All the divisions were suf-

fering an inconvenient diminution of numbers from the departure of the volunteers. The extent to which this had gone with General Taylor's army was so great as to nail him to his position at Walnutt Springs. The Mexicans seemed to have abandoned the open field, and to have commenced in earnest a guerilla warfare. Santa Anna and Canales were stirring up the people to organize guerilla bands. Commissions were pro- mised to the chiefs chosen by parties of not less than twenty men; and the orders were to proceed .at once to massacre the stray United States men sparing neither age nor condition. In aid of this movement, it is also stated that General Alvariez was marching from the North of Mexico with more than 25,000 troops, who will be scattered in guerilla parties between. Ja- lapa and Puebla and towards Vera Cruz; and that a general disposition exists among the inhabitants of many villages to arm and accompany the General as guerillas. In the capital of Mexico everything was in confusion, with little or no preparation for defending the city. Deputy President Anaya had declared the city under martial law, apparently more for the repression of internal depredators than of defence. His term of office would expire on the 15th instant. The proclamations issued by the Government, written in language absurdly vigorous, failed to move the people, and the Administration was preparing to depart for Morelia. The Mexican families of the wealthier class were also removing, bag and baggage, to their distant estates.

The domestic news from the United States is unimportant. The Pre- sident had gone to North Carolina, with his family. Grain continued to pour in from the West. The emigrant-vessels from Great Britain were arriving in unusual numbers; and, as might be expected, had brought fever with them. The fever-hospitals of New York and Baltimore were full; and the infection is reputed to have spread among the medical men.

The accounts from Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, all speak of the panic caused by the extent to which fever was raging on board the emigrant-vessels from Ireland.