vres of the vessel or from other sufficient livia. He took with him General Ballicause, he shall have reason to believe, van, an exile from that republic, whose that, although bearing the American flag, pretensions to the Presidency he intended the vessel does not belong to the United to support in opposition to those of Santa States, he is ordered, if the state of the Cruz. The Bolivians, alarmed at his apwind and weather shall admit of it, to go proach, invited Ballivan to assume the ahead of the suspected vessel, after com- reins of government, which he did, and municating his intention by hailing, and immediately turned his arms against his to drop a boat on board of her to ascertain late friend and protector. her nationality, without detaining her if Soon after, Ballivan, at the head of four she shall prove to be really an American thousand men, by a forced march got into vessel. But, should this mode of visiting the rear of Gamarra,- that is, between the vessel be impracticable, he is to re- him and Peru. -attacked him by surquire her to be brought to for this pur prise, and between treachery and panic pose. The officer who boards the vessel the Peruvians were speedily put to the -is merely to satisfy himself of her nation-rout, with a loss of 500 killed, 322 woundality, by her papers or other proofs, and, should she really be an American vessel, he will immediately quit her, offering, wit!. consent of her coinmander, to note on her papers the cause of suspecting her nationality, and the number of minutes she was detained, (if detained at all,) for the object in question. All the particulars are to be immediately entered into the log-book of the cruiser, and a full statement of them to be sent by the first opportunity direct to England.

"These are the precautions taken by her Majesty's Government against the occurrence of abuse in the performance of this service; and they are ready to adopt any others which they may think more effectual for the purpose, and which shall, at the same time, be consistent with the attainment of the main object in view.

"Mr. Stevenson has said, that he had no wish to exempt the fraudulent use of the American flag from detection, and this being the case, the undersigned is unwilling to believe that a Government like that of the United States, professing the same object, and animated by the same motives as Great Britain, should seriously oppose themselves to every possible mode by which their own desire could be really accomplished.

ed, and some 3,000 prisoners. Gamarra was shot by his own troops, and buried on the field of battle by Ballivan. The loss of the Bolivians was trifling.

After this Ballivan invaded Peru in turn, and rapidly gained possession of the southern provinces.

In the meantime Santa Cruz had departed from Guayaquil in an English inerchant vessel. and effected a landing on the coast of Bolivia, whence he advanced to Cobija, the only seaport of that republic, but finding it in possession of the Peruvians, he fled again to Guayaquil, where he remained when last heard from. Subsequently the Peruvians abandoned Cobija.

CHRISTIANA, (Norway) Feb. 25. The royal speech at the opening of the Strothing, was read by the Rigt Statholder of Norway, and it left nothing to regret but the absence of the king. We are aware, that this absence is to be attributed only to the rare phenomenon which has this year deprived us of sleighing, by driving away to the south of France, and even to Algeria, the masses of snow which should naturally have fallen among us. We know, also, that the king is as much disappointed as we. The exposition of the administration of the kingdom affords Foreign Office, Dec. 20, 1841." proofs of the regular progressive PERU AND BOLIVIA. We have not for prosperity which the last royal discourse some months published any details of the promised US. In the front of the disorders now wasting these unhappy re-happy results of the constant solicitude publics. After the suppression of the rev- of the government, is what concerns olution of Vivanco, (Mon. Chron. Vol the public instruction. The number of 11. p. 325,) the exertions of Santa Cruz in schools of every kind is increased; an inthe northern provinces also proved unsuc-stitution has been specially designed for cessful, and he attempted to retire into Bolivia, with a view of raising that republic against Gamarra in Peru.

furnishing masters for all the schools; funds are provided for rewarding the discovery of the best modes of instruction, Gamarra did not hesitate to undertake and for printing scientific and classical a campaign against the feeble state of Bo-books. The ecclesiastical chest, destined

to defray the expense of the instruction of the people, and the encouragement of agriculture, possessed at the end of 1840 a sum of 1,320.000 specie rix dollars.

table of the quantity of raw iron annually produced in Europe: Great Britain, 29,632,000 quintals; France, 6,763,900; Russia, including the Ural Provinces, 3,820,400; Belgium, 2.917,350; that part of Gerinany comprehended in the Customs' Union, 2,550,762; the part not included in the Union, 143,500; Austrian monarchy. 1,820.000; Sweden, 1,455.245; Sardinia, 245,000; Tuscany, 120,000; Parma, 28.000; Modena and Naples, 15,000; Spain, 250,000; Poland, 184,000; Norway, 107,420; Luxembourg, 60,000; Switzerland, 14,000; Portugal, 8,400. The bar iron taken immediately from the mines may be estimated at 236,565 quintals.

TEXAS. Since the publication of the last Number of the Chronicle, intelligence has been received of a Mexican invasion of Texas, which has excited great interest in the southwestern States. Accounts of the numbers of the Mexican force vary greatly, from 2 to 20,000 men. There seems to be a full determination, however, on the part of the Government of Texas, to raise as large a force as possible to defend the country, and retaliate by attacking Mexico Considerable bodies of volunteers have gathered in the southwestern States for the assistance of the Texans.

The increase of commerce, navigation, and various branches of industry, affords results not less satisfactory. The export of herring amounted to an average, in the 3 last years, of 779,000 tons; that of fish oil, 41,000; that of planks exceeded 260,000 lasts per annum. The number of ves. sels from foreign ports in 1839 was 7,332, and in 1840, 7,707. The value of houses insured against fire has progressively increased from 17,000,000 to 26,000,000 dollars. The mine of Konigsberg continues to enrich the state to the amount of 200,000 specie dollars per annum. The public debt amounts at the present time to only 2,800,000 specie doliars, and the state has 2,000,000 on hand, or to its credit. We are on the point of being able to liquidate the whole of our public debt, and meet the expenses of the state for the ensuing three years, without the necessity of reestablishing the land tax, from which we have been exempt since 1836. NEW GRENADA, March 1. Under this date President Herran announces, that the recent rebellions are at an end, and that tranquillity is restored. Obando [see Mon. Chron. Vol. 11. p. 466] was some time since defeated in the southwest, and President Herran's operations against the rebels on the northern seacoast have at length proved successful. We infer, RHODE ISLAND. The Constitution prehowever, that he does not intend to in-pared for this state by the regular authorclude Panama among the provinces re-ity having been rejected by a small maconciled to the central government. jority of the people, (Mon. Chron Vol. PARIS, March 20. THE FRENCH COIN-111. p. 145,) the government still existed AGE. The silver pieces of 15 and 30 sous, under the old form, and the friends of the those of six liards, and those of two sous 66 Suffrage or People's" Constitution bearing the letter N, (coined in the Hun- felt emboldened to proceed farther in their dred Days.) and the copper and bell-metal measures. It must be understood, that pieces of one and two liards, of one and on the question of the acceptance of the five centimes, and of one decime, (two authorized State Constitution, which, as sous.) are to be called in. The latter are we have said, was rejected, all persons to be replaced by a bronze coin, composed were permitted to vote, who would be of copper and alloy, of one, two, and five voters under its provisions, that is, all centimes, and one decime each. The white male citizens of the United States, bronze money about to be issued will who should have resided two years in amount to 40.000,000 of francs. The Rhode Island. This constitution had been silver pieces of 25 centimes (five sous,) rejected by the votes of the supporters of are to be likewise withdrawn from circu- the unauthorized constitution, of those lation, and pieces of 20 centimes to be who thought blacks should vote, and also substituted in their stead. This operation of such of the adherents to the old charter will cost the state, according to the Min- form of government as were opposed to isterial valuation, a sum of 13,703,000 any change. francs.

BERLIN, March 21. The Prussian State Gazette gives the following statistical

DOMESTIC.

On the rejection of this instrument, and as the period appointed hy the Suffrage Constitution for the election approached,

the General Assembly resolved on de- the Union a republican form of govern cisive measures for sustaining the legal ment, and to protect each of them against authority. They passed a series of reso-invasion, and against domestic violence. lutions declaring their purpose to maintain the existing constitution and laws, and passed an act, declaring it a misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to serve as presiding officer or clerk of any town or ward meeting for the choice of officers under the pretended constitution, and still heavier penalties for consenting to be a candidate for office under the said constitution. To accept and to attempt to exercise the functions of office under the said constitution, was declared to be treason, punishable by imprisonment for life.

In accordance with one of these resolutions of the General Assembly, Gov. King, on the 4th of April, issued a proclamation admonishing all faithful citizens to yield no allegiance to the pretended authority of the other new constitution, and enjoining on all officers of the state to be firm and vigilant in detecting and bringing to punishment all persons con cerned in attempting to carry it into effect.

In order to have a sufficient force in preparation for the enforcement of the requisitions of this proclamation, general orders were issued the same day, calling on the members of all the chartered military companies in the State to be ready for service at thirty minutes' warning.

He quotes also the acts of Congress of Feb. 28, 1795, and March 3, 1807, which prescribe the duties of the President of the United States, in case of "an insurrection in any State against the govern ment thereof." He then proceeds to state the view which he takes of his duty in the present exigency, and in such as has been apprehended may occur, of actual insurrection against the government of Rhode Island, in the following terms:

"By a careful consideration of the above recited acts of Congress, your Excellency will not fail to see, that no power is vested in the Executive of the United States to anticipate insurrectionary movements against the government of Rhode Island, so as to sanction the interposition of the military authority; but that there must be an actual insurrection manifested by lawless assemblages of the people or otherwise, to whom a proclamation may be addressed, and who may be required to betake themselves to their respective abodes. I have, however, to assure your Excellency, that should the time arrive, and my fervent prayer is that it may never come, when an insurrection shall exist against the Government of Rhode Island, and a requisition shall be made upon the Executive of the United States, to furnish that protection which is guaranteed to each State by the Constitution and laws, I shall not be found to shrink from the performance of a duty, which, while it would be the most painful, is at the same time the most imperative. I have also to say, that in such a contingency, the Executive could not look into real or supBoth parties sent messengers to Wash posed defects of the existing government, ington, calling for the interference of the in order to ascertain whether some other General Government. In reply, the plan of government proposed for adoption President addressed an official letter to was better suited to the wants and more Governor King, in which he informs the in accordance with the wishes of any Governor of Ruode Island, that in any portion of her citizens. To throw the interposition in which he may be called Executive power of this government into on to make between the Government of any such controversy, would be to make a State, and any portion of its citizens the President the armed arbitrator bewho may assail it with violence, or may tween the people of the different States be in actual insurrection against it, he and their constituted authorities, and can only look to the Constitution and laws might lead to an usurped power, dangerof the United States, which plainly de- ous alike to the stability of the State Govclare the obligations of the Executive De-ernments and the liberties of the people. partment, and leave it no alternative as to the course it shall pursue.

The leaders of the so called Suffrage Constitution" party, paid little heed to these documents, but nominated a ticket for their election on the 18th, and occupied themselves in procuring pledges and drilling troops for the support of their

constitution.

He quotes the provision of the constitution which makes it the duty of the United States to guaranty to every State in

It will be my duty, on the contrary, to respect the requisitions of that government which has been recognized as the existing Government of the State through all time past, until I shall be a vised in

regular manner, that it has been altered and abolished and other substituted in its place, by legal and peaceable proceedings, adopted and pursued by the authorities' and people of the State."

The President proceeds to express his conviction, that no contingency will arise which will render the interference of the National Government necessary, and that the people of Rhode Island, so long distinguished for their love of order, will not rush into revolution for the redress of grievances, real or supposed.

loans and post notes, and to redeem their pledged bonds, on a pledge of all the resources of the Company.

ROCHESTER, (N. Y.) March 31. James Sheridan Hogan, supposed to have been engaged in the attack on the steamboat Caroline, [see Mon Chr. Vol III p. 142,] having again crossed the frontier, was a second time arrested and subjected to examination, on a charge of participation in causing the death of Amos Durfee. After an examination before the proper authorities, he was discharged, on the 5th of April, for want of testimony to justify his detention.

lady on the American side of the lines.

This decision of the General Government, in which, as it appeared, the whole Cabinet concurred, somewhat damped the It was understood that the object of his ardor of the great niass of the "Suffrage" "visit was a love affair; that he is engaged party. Several of their candidates declin- to be married in June next, to a young ed serving on their ticket, which had been made up with some difficulty in the first instance, as there were few prominent men who cared to make themselves more prominent by assuming the danger and responsibility as well as the fame of attaching themselves to a revolutionary movement of this nature.

The election under this new instrument was held, however, on the 18th of April. Although the right of suffrage, which it grants is almost unlimited, and although the number of votes given for it when proposed for adoption was said to be more than 12.000, [Mon. Chron. Vol. III. p 46,] little more than half that number (6,359) voted under it at its first election.

Two days after, on the 20th, the regular election under the charter being held, 7,080 persons voted, Governor King being reelected by a decided majority The return of this number of votes of persons who still recognized the charter as the supreme law, shows, in comparison with the vote first mentioned, a decided majority against the revolution-born constitution; particularly as the charter admits but a limited right of suffrage.

These are the latest movements; there are, of course, two sets of officers elect of Rhode Island.

WASHINGTON, (D. C) April 4. Lord Ashburton, the special British Minister, who has been expected for some weeks, arrived and took possession of the residence provided for him. The Warspite frigate, in which his Lordship crossed the Atlantic, arrived at Annapolis on the 2d, after a passage of 45 days from the Isle of Wight.

On the 5th, Lord Ashburton called at the Department of State, and on the 6th he was presented to the President, and delivered his official letter from the Queen. He entered at once upon the business of the mission, spending three hours with the Secretary of State on the 6th.

April 5. The new steam frigate Mis sissippi arrived at the Navy Yard. The Missouri and Mississippi sailed from New York on the 1st. The distance by water between the two cities is about 600 miles. The Missouri in going up the Potomac, by an error of the pilot, ran aground. Every effort was immediately made to get her off. and in the course of these exertions, the launch and life-boat were sent out lashed together with an anchor and sixty fathoms of heavy chain, for the purpose of heaving her off. Unfortunately, as they were preparing to drop anchor, RICHMOND, (Va.) March 26. The Leg. the chain cable broke loose from its stopislature adjourned sine die, after passing pers, and carried two boats down with It had refused to receive the it. Lieutenant Borden, with seventeen share of the proceeds of the public lands, persons of the crews of these boats, was which, under the distribution law would unfortunately lost; several of them being fall to the state. It left the State finances severely injured by the chain, and this in some confusion, but passed, notwith- number being drowned before they could standing, a bill, granting a loan of $250,000, of six per cent. State stock, to the James River and Kanawha Company, to enable them to pay off their temporary

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receive assistance. Eleven others were saved by boats from the frigate. The vessel was got afloat on the 7th, without injury, after lightening her, and by the

assistance of the Mississippi in towing her off the bank.

HARTFORD, April 4. The State elec tion took place this day. Governor Ellsworth was the Whig candidate for reelection, and Chauncey F. Cleveland was the Democratic candidate. There were also two other candidates, one supported by a small party called Conservatives, and the other by abolitionists. There was no choice of Governor, but the highest number of votes was obtained by Mr. Cleveland, and nearly sufficient to make a choice. The Democratic party obtain ed a majority of members, in both branches of the legislature. In many towns, in consequence of the large number of votes given by persons supporting a third, and even a fourth party, there was no choice of Representatives.

one hundred persons were on board by invitation of the directors, the day being fine, and a pleasant trip anticipated. The engine had not, however, made its second revolution in backing the boat from the wharf, when the boiler exploded with great noise, carrying with it a considerable portion of the upper deck, and throwing the smoke stacks into the air. The main force of the explosion was almost exclusively toward the head of the boat, and the portions of the boat around the boiler were torn to pieces. The boiler itself, an immense one of iron, was thrown crosswise on the deck.

The boat was instantly enveloped in in a cloud of scalding steam, which was inhaled by some with fatal consequences, while others suffered externally in their persons from its effects Our informant NEW YORK, April 12. The char- was in the after part of the boat, where ter election in this city resulted in the the steam had no injurious effect. He re-election of Robert H. Morris as Mayor, states that several persons jumped overby nearly 2,000 majority over Mr. Phe-board, and that one of them was drowned. nix, the Whig candidate. In the Com- The boat immediately settled in the water mon Council, nine Whigs and eight Dem- until her hull rested on the bottom of the ocrats were chosen to each board. river.

In Albany, the election was held on the same day. Dr. Staats, the Democratic candidate, was chosen by 2,861 votes, over Mr. Townshend, who had 2.262. In the Board of Aldermen, 11 Democrats and 9 Whigs were chosen.

ALBANY, April 12. The Legislature of New York adjourned after a session of 98 days, in which it passed 323 laws. The act of greatest general interest was that imposing a tax to meet the interest of the State debt, and stopping all farther operations in the construction of the public works of internal improvement. There will be an extra session in Angust.

In the centre and forward part of the boat, there was a fearful destruction of life and limb. Some of those on board were blown high in the air, and fell on shore, in the water, and on the boats lying near by. Others were crushed with the splintered timbers; others scalded with the steam; while those below the decks, not having time to escape, were either suffocated by the steam, or drowned when the boat sunk.

Twenty-three persons were killed, or died shortly afterwards of their wounds, and many more were severely wounded and scalded, some of them dangerously. The cause of the explosion was stated to be the placing of an additional weight upon the safety valve, by a person not entrusted with the management of the

COLUMBIA, (S. C.) April 12. A desolating fire broke out this morning, at 1 o'clock, and burned until daylight, consuming the most beautiful and the principal business part of Columbia. Twenty-engine. nine stores and dwellings, with numerous PROVIDENCE, April 20. The regular out-buildings, are in ruins. The loss in election under the old constitution was buildings and goods cannot fall much short of $200,000.

SAG HARBOR, (L. I.) April 14. The Havre packet Louis Philippe went on shore and was entirely lost. She had on board a hundred passengers, all of whom with the crew were saved.

BALTIMORE, April 14. The new and splendid steamboat Medora, which was just finished, was to make a trial excursion from Baltimore on this day. About

held throughout Rhode Island this day. Governor King was reëlected by a large majority, and also the Whig candidates of the Senate, together with a large number of Whigs to the House of Representatives.

ALBANY, April 20. The enlarged canal was opened this day from Albany to the Lower Aqueduct, a distance of about 14 miles. Two boats, with parties on board, including the acting commissioner for the