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Apoents.—The Paris Mcmiteur of Saturday published the following imperfect telegraphic despatch.

"The General commanding the Twenty-first Military Division to the Marshal Minister of War.

"The Labrador, after having landed the troops which she conveyed to Oran, left that place on the 21st, and arrived at Port Vendres this afternoon. "General Lamoriciare was actively engaged with the enemy during the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th: Abd-el-Kader, with 2,000 cavalry, remained a spectator. On the 13th, seeing a defile forced, he fled. The insurgents, driven to the sea- coast, surrendered at discretion. Colonel Gery has been successful against the Kabyles in the environs of Mascara. General de Boarjolly and Colonel Saint-

Arnaud had effected a junction, and were waiting for reinforcements to act. " [a Interrupted by the night," says the Moniteur.] The residue of this despatch was looked for with much anxiety in Paris; and it was hastily assumed that there had been some intentional suppres- sion of bad news. The sequel did not appear till Monday; when it was published by the Moniteur, in these terms- ' General Bourailly and Colonel Saint-Arnaud had effected their junction and were awaiting reinforcements previous to commencing operations. Bon junction, with three hundred cavalry, had attacked, on the 18th instant, a tribe under the very walls of Mostaganem. Lieutenant-Colonel Mellinet, with the troops which were in that town, had repulsed him. Daring the night of the 18th, three tribes of the subdivision of Oran had revolted. They are the first of that subdivision which have failed in their allegiance. The seven hundred men embarked at Port Vendres on board the Labrador are the first troops which have arrived at Oran from France. Their arrival has produced the best effect, and will contribute to maintain the fidelity of the tribes which as yet have not revolted."

On Tuesday was published in Paris an official despatch from General Lamoriciare; but it does not add much to the telegraphic despatch. Ac- cording to his account, he attacked the Kabyles on the 13th October, in their mountains, and made himself master of a very difficult defile, which the Natives do not appear to have defended with any vigour; for the two following days a sort of running fight was kept up; in which Abd-el-Kader, who was in sight during the first day, and at the head of 2,800 cavalry, did not take part: instead of fighting, the Emir retreated, amidst the jeering and hooting of allies whom he had induced to rise in his favour, and then sacrificed at the moment when they were fighting his battle.

A letter had been received from Colonel De Cog-nord, who was supposed to have been one of those killed with Colonel Montagnac; from which it appears that the whole of the troops forming that column were not slain, as was originally stated. Ninety-six of them were taken prisoners by the Arabs under Abd-el-Kader. Colonel De Cognord speaks highly of the humanity and kindness with which they were treated by the Emir.

The Moniteur Algdrien of the 20th October informs us, that on the morn- ing of the 18th the Governor-General left Algiers for Milianah, to place himself at the head of a column of 4,000 men collected there for the purpose of acting to the East of Oran.

Feawce.—There is scarcely any important domestic news hi the Paris papers this week. The rtimours of Marshal Souk's intended retirement continue. King Louis Philippe, at the request of Queen Isabella the Se- cond, has invested the Duke of Aumale with the insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The Duke of Saxe Coburg Kohari and his son Leopold have arrived at St. Cloud, on a visit to the King.

The papers have been busied with a journalist dispute. The Times of Saturday last, while professing to urge the strict observance of the Nankin treaty by the British, and deprecating any attempt to retain Chnsan, in- sinuated that M. Lag,rene had inserted in the treaty which he concluded with the Chinese a secret article for the cession of Chusan to the French. The Times treated our retention of that island as a thing of no great im- portance, since if war should break out between France and England, we could take it from them with the utmost ease. The French papers are of course very angry, and even the moderate Journal des Debats displays great soreness. However, it ridicules the idea of the secret article.

'max.—Letters from Naples and Malta make it appear probable that the report of a "yellow lever" or " plague " in that island is a mere pre- text adopted by the Neapolitan Government to cut off communication with the British territories in the Levant. The two cases of fever which are mentioned occurred on board a Maltese schooner, which arrived in the Ionian Islands on the 28th September: the disease in one case was a gastric fever, caused by bad food and intemperate drinking of wine and water to allay thirst; the other was a similar fever caught by the man's companion and attendant: the wine-bibber died, the other recovered. In Malta itself occurred a case of fever resembling that called " yellow " the patient being Lieutenant Cunningham of the Forty-second Highlanders: but that was nearly two months ago. Having stated these facts, the Morning Chronicle obsetves-

" There is not the least doubt that the measure resorted to by the Neapolitan Government has in view political objects, and that these cases of fever have been used merely to give another colour to the same. It is notorious that several Italian towns are in a state of insurrection; and suspecting, as the Government does, that Malta and the Ionian Islands give harbour to many of the disaffected, it is desirous to throw impedimenta in the way of five communication with these places."

A letter from Rome of the 18th Oe+lber mentions that the Government Was still uneasy respecting the ction of its subjects. The state Pri6ODZ were filled with 7,000 pris Many of them of the first families.

The Conatitutiotmel says that the Roman Government has resolved oe raising another loan, in order to take into its pay two more Swissregimente; thereby increasing the Swiss corps in its service to 10,000 men.

GeamArria—Government are experiencing some troubles in the Chain-. herof Deputies. Contrary to their wishes, the Chamber has resolved to present, in conjunction with the Upper Chamber, an address responding to the speech from the throne. A paragraph in this address implied distrust in the Government. In the course of the debates upon it, M. Karrenetz, one of the Ministry, disclaimed for the Cabinet all ideas of reaction against the new Reformation; professing equal tolerance for all persuasions in ta. state.

The King of Prussia received, on the 17th October, several delegates of the Catholic Dissenters of Potsdam; who presented to him a petition, praying that a place might be assigned to them for the celebration of divine worship; their application to the authorities having met with a refusal. The King read the petition, and then said, " Gentlemen, what my autho- rities were unable to grant you a few days ago, I can now grant: I have purchased, as private property, two large buildings contiguous to each other, with a view of appropriating them to purposes of public utility. You will certainly find room in them for the celebration of religioue worship."

A letter from Munster, of the 21st, states that, by a royal order, a cri- minal prosecution has been instituted at Breslau against the Abbe llonge, for offensive observations upon the Catholic religion, in a little work re- cently published by him, entitled " Narcruf" (Epilogue).

The Journal de Franefort states, that since the let October 1844, not less than seven millions of Prussian dollars has been given by the King of Prussia or the state towards the relief of sufferers by the inundations and. other calamities which have visited parts of Silesia, Pomerania, &c.

INDIA.—An over-land Bombay mail to the let October has been re- ceived; and the most remarkable thing about it is the channel by which it has come. Mr. Waghorn, under the auspices of the Austrian Government, has attempted a new route: he left Bombay by the English steamer, and came by the usual way as far as Alexandria; thence he started in an Atts- triam steamer for Trieste; and, travelling through Germany, he has reached London before the arrival of the express through France.

The news by this mail is very scanty. India was generally tranquil; and so was Scinde. In the Punjaub, Peshora Singh had been compelled, or induced, to evacuate the fort of Attock ; and was marching for Lahore, in order, it was supposed, to wrest the Viziership from Jowahir Singh. Meanwhile, the Governor-General had left Calcutta for the Upper Provin- ces about the appointed time—namely, on the 221 September; and he was attended by an army of 32,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry, with 140 guns!

Sir T. H. Maddock was to be Deputy-Governor of Bengal in the absence of Sir Henry Hardinge.

The fall of rain had been unsatisfactory: in parts of the Bengal Presi- dency too much, and in the greater portions of that of Bombay too little. Fearful consequences were anticipated.

CiriNA.—The Paris Mon,iteur announces that the French Government; have received despatches from China of a recent date. The ratifications of the treaty of commerce, concluded on the 24th October 1844, at Whampoa, between the plenipotentiaries of the King of the French and the Emperor of China, were exchanged on the 25th August last at Taipauhui, near the Bog-ue, in the palace of the Admiral who commands the Chinese forces ie the Canton river. At the same time M. Lagre'ne received an official copy of a decree by which the Emperor of China revoked the penalties in force against the Chinese who had embraced Christianity, and authorized theme to profess their religion publicly.

A file of the China Mail which we have received, (to the 3d July, with one number for the 28th August,) mentions measures in progress for facili- tating the settlement of native Chinese merchants at Hong-kong. The same journal reports the arrival of several trading-junks at the island from thus to time; the small but promising beginning of a rising trade.

PoLvxema.—The American papers contain intelligence from the Sand- wich Islands to the 20th May. A new constitution had been established; and a "Legislative Council," composed of a" House of Nobles" and "House of Representatives," had entered on the first session. The opening of this Council was conducted with all the formality of the opening of the British Parliament: guns were fired from the forts, and the foreign vessels re- sponded. The King's speech is in imitation of that of the Kings of Europe: peace is announced with all nations, and the attention of the Legislature is directed to all matters of local or public concern, including several new laws and reforms. The two Houses duly returned an address in reply to the speech.

UNITED STATES.—The mail-steamer Cambria arrived at Liverpool on Monday, having left Boston on the 18th October. There is very little political news, except rumours,—of a scheme for making California " inde- pendent " of Mexico; of pacific despatches sent to Mexico in the steamer Princeton; of President Polk's intention to revert to the Compromise Act, a tariff with ad valorem duties of 20 per cent: in all which gossip there is nothing specific or trustworthy.

The New York Journal of Commerce contains an analysis of the probable political composition of the next Congress. The result is, that in the Senate there will be 30 Democrats and 24 Whigs; in the House of Repre- sentatives, 138 Democrats, 78 Whigs, and 6 Natives; leaving one or two vacancies to be filled up.

The Anti-Rent troubles in New York State were drawing to a close. Two of the prisoners, charged with causing a riot and killing a Sheriff, had been found guilty of murder, and sentenced to be hanged on the 29th November; four were sentenced to the state prison for life, and thirteen others to confinement for various periods from two to seven years.

The " Genevese Traveller" who corresponds with the Times relates a =ions trial. "Cassius M. Clay, whose printing-office, in which the True American, an Abolition paper, was printed, in Kentucky, lias prosecuted a number of citizens for having taken possession of his office by violence, and transported it into the State of Ohio. The parties charged admitted the fact of taking and transporting the printing-materials, but justified, alleging that the paper was a nuisance. Use testimony had been closed, the Court instructed the Jury upon the law of the ease. The defendants then asked the following instructions-1. That as the proceeding was quasi criminal, the Jury were the judges of the law and fact: 2. That the people have a right to abate a nuisance, and in its abatement to use just so much force as might be necessary for that purpose. The Court gave the first instruction asked by the defendants, with the qualification , that although not legally, the Jury were morally bound to decide according to the law given them by the Court. The second instruction asked by them the Court refused. The defendants then asked the following instruction—That if the Jury believed that the True American Press was a public nuisance, and could not exist in its then location and condition without being a nuisance, the defendants were justifiable in abating it: which the Court gave, and the cause went to the Jury. The definition of a nuisance, as given by the best common-law writers, was then read to the Jury, in the following terms—'A common nuisance is an offence against the public, either by doing a thing which tends to the annoyance of all the King's subjects, or by neglecting to do a thing which the common good requires.' After full argil ment, the Jury, without hesitation, gave a verdict of Not guilty.'" The Great Britain steam-ship arrived at New York on the 15th October; having been in some trouble on the way. It had lost a foremast at sea. The weather being thick, the vessel became entangled in Nantucket shoals, and got aground. Freed from that perilous position, the commander put into Holmes's Hole, to obtain coals, which were running short; and thence he proceeded to New York. These mischances, however, are not accounted to affect the success of the vessel in material respects.

Cariame.—The Quebec papers come down to the 10th October. Mr. Papineau had reached Montreal; but his arrival bad created no marked sensation.

The subscriptions and contributions in all parts of the world for the relief of the sufferers by the two late destructive fires in Quebec, received up to the 26th September, amounted to the sum of 62,1371., independently of a grant expected from the proviecial treasury of 20,0001. Of this large amount, only 900/. came from the United States.

There had been a very destructive fire at Montreal. It began at a coffee manu- factory and coppersmith's shop on the 4th September; and it destroyed two blocks of houses, and some single houses. The buildings were mostly inhabited by the poor; but among them were a handsome Methodist chapel and several valuable stores."