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TH£ M\>S\^UV,U. LATEST FROM EUROPE. By the arrival of the ship Othello, from Bordeaux, French pa pen are re ceived to the 25t'u April. At that time nothing very important had trans pired. The l)o'ke of Angoulcme had crossed the Fbro on his way to Mad rid. The inhabitants abandoned their homes out he approach of the invaders and no attempts had been wade to check their progress. A despatch from Bayonne, States that the French troops continue to meet with the most flut ter in;* reception in Spain. A young man, a Spaniard by birth, has been condemned at ‘I oulousc to 9 years imprisonment for exciting the French soldiers to desert. 450 Span ish prisoners had arrived at that place; they are a part of 700 taken in an ac tion near near Santos Ladron. It is generality supposed that the duke of Angouicme will await Burgos the operations of the army of Catalonia,-and the arrival of the cav alry w hich remains behind. Madrid papers state that the Royal ist general Morales had been taken in an action atCarneja. The troops crossed the Perthus and entered Catalonia on the 15th, without meeting any opposition. The Consti tutional troops are atOlot. The port and citadel of Guetaria, and 200 prisoners were taken on the 19th. Lograno, which was occupied bv 7 or 800 troops, was carried by assault on the 18th, and a Gen. Sanchez and a few prisoners taken. The consti tutionalists made an orderly retreat of a league before they could be broken. Liverpool, April 25. French papers of Friday bring vari ous details. They contain a gratify ing official statement of a total defeat on the 2d inst. sustained by the rebel Spaniards who threatened Valencia, after a short but decisive action with a division of the Constitutionalists.— The despatch (published at Madrid, Adril 4,) says —“ The gallant Coionel Don Antonia Bazan, provisional com mander of the province of Castellon, while on his march from that point on Valencia, encountered between Mur viedro and Almanara the rebels as sembled to the number of 5,000 men, with three pieces so artillery, and rin ged in order of battle, with the avowed intention of disputing the passage.— The Colonel had only 1,000 men un der his command, but all of tried va lour. In less than ten minutes, he gained complete victory perhaps un parallelled in the course of the event ful struggle which Spain is now ma lting for the defence of her liberties.— The result of this memorable day has been 800 of the enemy’s force killed, and 200 taken prisoners, with 1,000 muskets and eight ammunition wag gons. Rut perhaps the greatest ad vantage which we shall derive from the victory is, that the remnant of the faction were struck with panic, and dispersed in all directions. 7’liis af fair took place atnine in the morning $■ and at eight this evening this victori ous column arrived, and assembled round the stone of the constitution, where it raised its songs of triumph.” This bulletin is dated Valencia, April 2, and signed by the political chief of the province, ‘ J. Abisbal.’ Mina's Movements —M ina’s designs are veiled in darkness, and seem to have filled the French Ultras with more misgivings than they are desi rous to avow. Even the Ktoile bears witness to the formidable preparations made at Barcelona to receive the in vaders : the cannon are mounted—the ditches filled with water—and, in aid of a small corps of regulars, 15,000 militia have undertaken the defence of the place. The Duchess u'Angoulemc was, on the 13th April at Bordeaux, where she was busied in reviewing the French troops, receiving Generals, and other officers, and courting popularity by visiting the public seminaries and in stitutions ot the place. The corps of Baron d’E.oles continued to receive from the French stores 8000 rations a day, but desertion bad diminished their numbers. These, together with the cavalry of the Faith, to the number of *OO, are represented to be in a mis erable condition. These honourable Royalists have, it is said, been traffick ing very probably by selling their ra tions. A letter from Pat is, of the 18th March, relates the following remark able story ; —“ At Perpignan, a few days ago, a Spanish refuge Monk of the army ofthe Faith, entered a ta vern, where several French Officers ware seated. One of them, at sight of the Monk, discovered great agitation, started from his seat, drew sword and pursued the Monk, with j the evident intention of putting him to death. lie inflicted a severe wound on the ecclesiastic, before he could be rescued from his fury.—W hen ques tinned by the commanding officer res pecting the cause of this voilent con duct, he said that during the last war he had been taken prisoner by a party of Guerillas, and that a sort of Milita- I V Council, at which this individual Monk presided, had subsequently condemned him to the horible death of crucifixion, from which he was only preserved by the opportune approach of a party French troops. The officer fhen exhibited one of hands, to show by a scar which remained, that the drvadful work of torture had actually commenced —It was found necessary in consequence of this explanation, to overlook the act of aggression comuiit cd on the Monk. FROM PORTUGAL. Captain Crabtree, of the ship Gen. Lingan, arrived at Baltimore from St Übes,states that on the 11 th of April, that town was illumiated in consequence of a victory obtained by the Constitutionalists over the Royal partv in the district of 1 ras Montes, near Oporto. It was said that the general of the Royal party was taken prisoner, and that most of his forces had gone over to the side of the Constitutionalists. This battle was regarded as putting an end to the civil war in P ortugal FROM AFRICA. The U. States ship Cyane, capt. Spence, was at Sierra Leone, March 6th, where she arrived on the 24th ofFeb. Capt. S. had been ill but was on the recovery. The residue of the officers and crew, were in good health. A letter published in the New York Daily Advertiser, states that the colonists at Cape Mesurado, had been repeatedly attacked by the natives, and were in a critical state. Capt. S. on recieving this intelligence, decided to repair and fit out for their relief and security, the United States’ schooner Augusta. Lieut Dashieil was ordered to command her, ha ving two midshipmen and 12 sai lors ; and she will doubtless prove essentially useful, until orders from the government on the subject are recieved. The preservation of even the lives of the remaining col onists demands the most prompt expeditions, and decisive measures ; and every friend to humanity must approve ol the steps taken on this occaision. Every officer and man of the Cyane are in requisition to foreword the equipment, &c. of the Augusta, and the moment she was sea-worthy, both vessels would pro ceed sot Mesurado, where it would appear the colonists has e acted wth firmness and bravery, while con tending against very superior num bers, and with limited means cf defence. Latest from Lima. Notwithstanding the defeat of the independent army by the Spanish force, it still was maintaining its ground at Aiiea : That in consequence ol this defeat, the army in Luna and its citizens have proclaimed a Repub lican Government and dissolved the former, which was obnoxious. The President is Mr. Rivas Agnero, acting at the same time as President of the Directory.—Aid and leinforcements were expected at Lima from Bolivar, in order to continue the war. The N. Y. Mercantile Adverti ser contains several particulars of the late engagement between the Colombian and Spanish fleets.— They are interesting, because they show that the loss sustained is not by any means irreparable, and in spire a just confidence in the brave ry ot the Colombian navy, from whom, under more favorable cir cumstances much may be expected. The battle fought by Commodore Daniel, was, on his side as gallant an action as ever took place at sea. It excited even the admiration of the Spaniards themselvs so far that the commandant of Puerto Cabello wrote a complimentary letter to General Soublette the lntendant of Caiaccas, extolling the gallant con duct of Commodore D. and pro mising to treat him with every re spect. His wounds are not danger ous, and there are even letters ar j rived from him to his family. When lhe recognized the Spanish sqnad \ ron to be enemies, he bore down and boarded the fiigate in a superi or style, and the damage the Span ish vessels sustained is so great, that it is doubtful whether they will ever be able to quit Puerto Cabel io, they were so disabled that the Bolivar, which came up at the close of the action, far from sheering off", chased the Spanish corvette, which ran into Puerto Cabello with diffi culty. The brig Mosquito, which was on shore, and which Com. D. ’ was occupied in getting ofl at the time the Spanish squadron came up, was not captured, but run into Cu racoa for repairs. The Bolivar is vet cruizing off Porto Cavello, and the Mosquito would soon join her. This is the state of things: and as the corvette Maria Francisca w r as a prize, the only loss of the Colom bians, is the corvette Carabobo. — Considering the disabled state ot the Spanish vessels and their pri zes, it may well he remarked in the words of Sir i hos. Cochrane, com mander of the British squadron in the Antilles, such a loss to the Colombians, is tantamount to a vic tory. It appears, by late accounts from Vera Cruz, that Spanish commission ers had arrived at that place, having full powers to treat with the Mexican Congress for a total emancipation ot that empire. LORD COCHRANE. By late intelligence from Rio Ja neiro, we learn that Lord Cochrane hail arrived at that port, and entered into the Imperial lirazillian service. He had taken the command of a fleet consisting of a seventy-four, some fri gates, smaller vessels and fire slvps, and had sailed for St. Salvador f r the purpose of destroying 1 the king’s fleet lying there. The manning <4 Coch rane’s fleet was the cause of the im pressment of sailors—and the embrgo of which we have heard was doubtless laidao prevent a knowledge of the oh ject.Wf the expedition reaching St. Sal vador. Damaged Cargo. —Capt. Dawson, of the schr. Mexican, arrived at i Philadelphia, from Alvarado, states ; that the English ship Rollins, with Uhe Ex-Emperor, family and suite j on board for Italy, was to leave Ve !ra Cruz, in a few days after the Mexican’s departure from Alva rado. An extract from a letter dated at St. Croix,May s,say You have no idea of the distress which has prevailed at St. Croix since you left; the unfavorable weather has reduced the craps of the country so considerably, to which is added the low price of sugars,which have been sold at S3 per Danish 100 lbs. The distress is general, and abso lutely many respectable families are notable to obtain their regu lar meals, but are oh.cn in want of bread.” A letter from Port au Prince, dated 23d April last, says—“ An drew Armstrong, esq. U. S. Con sul here, has just informed me, that no American vessels will be ad mi ted to an entry in Hayti, after having touched at a Westward Isle, after the Ist of May next. PENSACOLA. We have had a conversation with a gentleman who states, that at the time he left that country, the town was in the enjoyment of perfect health, and enlivened by buisness and social intercourse. No apprehensions were entertained by the inhabitants, either Spanish or American, of a return at the coming season of the fever of last year : on the contrary, the opinion there was general that the dread! ul sickness with which the place was afflicted last autumn proceeded from accidental cause, most of which may not exist again in a huudred years. The cargo of putrid fish and fruit and the great influx or persons, and their conse quent and confined accomodation, the former particularly, are consi dered by all as the main causes ofthe sickness referred to. The American part of the population appear to think that the bad state of the police also assisted to produce it. The Board of Health and other authorities of the place are taking every means in their power to prevent its recurence. The Spanish population is repre sented to be warmly attached to the United States’ government, as being a very interesting people. The greatest harmony prevailed between the different authorities, civil and military. The military, it is said, entertained great defer ence and respect for the individuals who filled the various civil authori ties, ami people well sa tidied w ith the prsence of the troops, at Pensacola,and at the llurancas that they would view their removal from that place as a calamity. In deed, the citizens, hearing by re port, that their removal was con templated, have lately got up a petition to the government against that measure. Our informant speaks of the corps stationed near Pensa cola as fine bodies of men, com manded by able slicers, and under excellent police and discipline. An affray took place the day be fore our informant left Pensacola between two individuals. The dis turbers of the peace were arrested, and all the evidence of the witness es taken on the same day, and the sentence of the final court was to be had in 8 or 10 days afterwards. Civil suits are decided, in that infant teritory, with equal dispatch, and both are decided with so small a tax by way of fees and cost as to be scarcely worth mentioning. All this is done under anew code of laws, framed snd adopted by a small, local legislature or council, which has been no expense to the people of the territory, and a very trifling one to the government. The same gentleman speaks highly of the towns of Mobile and Blakely, in Alabama, as places of business. They are rising fast into great importance. Front these two ports alone, which are yet scarcely known to the people of the U. States generally, were shipped, during the last year about 70,000 bales of cotton. On the day our informant left Blakely there was an arrival at that port of a very fine vessel from Cadiz: on the day pre vious,there was one at-Mobile from Vera Cruz. There had lately been several other foreign arrivals, be sides vessels from our own ports, and coasting and inland vessels al most without number—New Or leans he describes as a little world, and as greatly increasing in impor tance. Nat. Jntell. From the Norwich, Conn. Courier. VIOLENT TEMPEST. About two o’clock on Sunday last, we witnessed an unusually violent tempest, accompanied with lightning, thunder and rain—in which the most awful grandeur of him who rideth in the whirlwind, and directeth the storm, are seldom manifested. In this and the neighbouring towns, several barns and sheds were unroofed, and many fences and trees laid prostrate. But these should not be mentioned, before we speak of the awful calamity which has befallen our friends and neigh bors in Montville. Asa singular coincident, we would remark, that no sooner had their Rev. Pastor finished reading a hymn at the opening of Divine Service, beginning with these words: “ Metliinks the last great day has come, Metliinks I hear the trumpet sound : That shakes the earth, rends every tomb, And wakes the prisoners under ground.” than a stroke of lightning struck the top of the Cupola of the Pres byterian Meeting House—shat tered the belfry—entered the body of the house—split to shivers seve ral posts —broke most of the glass, and several window sashes—shiv ered to atoms several pews ; and in stantly sent two human beings into eternity. Several other persons were seriously wounded; among them were two young ladies who were so severely injured as to ren der it necessary to carry them home on beds. We are happy to state that they are on the recovery. The consternation in which the congre gation was thrown, on this awful occasion, can be more easily imagi ned than described. We understoncl that a barn be longing to Jonah Witter, Esq. of Preston, in which were his son and a black man, was blown down ; the latter, in attempting to escape out of the door, was instantly killed bv the falling of the rooi-~the former we learn escaped uninjured. The tempest continued but a lew mo ments. Its direction was from west to east, and its extent from north to south, we believe not to have exceeded ten or twelve miles. alarming riot. We understand, says the Rend ing Chronicle of the Times, that at the battalion training, on VVcil". > day last at Hamburg, in this couu ty, a serious fracas occurred be tween the citizens and the work men employed on the Canal. I* seems the managers endeavored to keep those in their employ at work, until the training should be ove?, fearing from certain indications their riotous disposition but the citizens having assembled in the taverns of the village, the Canal men marched in a body of 30 or 40 to the attack, armed with clubs stones, and such missiles ns they could lay their hands upon ; they were met by the citizens in a si mi. iar manner, when a furious contest ensued, eventuating in the defeat of the assailants. A number were severely wounded on both sides, some of whom lie at the point oi death. A bloody week. —We learn that on Saturday last, William Bin ion, jr. and Golding Williams, between whom there had for some time been a difference, met a few miles from this place, where several men were assembled. Williams had his rifle, and had, as it is said, previously made some threats against Binion; who, on seeing the other with his gun, got a stick, and avowed his determination to give Williams a beating, and advanced to put it into execution. Williams warned him of the fatal consequence of his rashness, if persisted in, and re treated backward some distance, till the other came so near as to make a stroke at him with his stick, when he drew trigger and lodged a ball in the body of his antagonist, who expired in a few hours. On hearing the tidings, his brother, Martin Binion, seized his rifle, and swearig to avenge his brother’s death, hastened to the house of a widow whither, Williams aad assisted to carry his wounded adversary, where he did avenge it by shooting him. He died on Mon day. Binion has fled. Another. —On Tuesday of last week a Mr. Tatum, hearing a quarrel near his house, took his rifle and went to the spot, where he found a man some what intoxicated disputing with a ne gro. On Mr. T’s reproving him, ho seized a club and assaulted him vritli violent threats. Mr. T’s son,who was present, prevented his father from shooting him, until he was within reach of the rifle, from which he recei ved a blow, of which lie has since died., And another —A Mr. McGehee, a few days since murdered one of his negro men in a most cruel manner, and has fled from justice. Tuscaloosa Mirror. Melancholy Occurrence. —Mr. Sa muel H Skinner, formerly editor of the Charleston Times, on his passage to Nevv-York jumped over board from the sloop Venus, on the 28th ult. in a state of mental de-. rangement, and was drowned. Mr. Lvford, of Norfolk, in a let-’ ter to a corref-pondent in Richmond, under date ofthe 27th ult. says:— u I am sorry to inform you, that I have understood from the best au thority, that the negotiations be tween our government and that of the British, relative to the tonnage ot vessels belonging to the latter, and the trade between the United States and the British West-India Islands, is suspended at least—and it is not improbable that our ves sels will soon by an order of Coun cil, be excluded from the British Islands.” Two Chinese youths left Phila delphia on the 30th ult. on their way to the Foreign Mission School, in Cornwall, Conn, where they are to be educated. It appears by translations pub lished in the National Intelligencer, that the Supreme Director, O’Hig gins, has abdicated his power, and that a Provisional Junta for the government of Chili has been sub stituted. This step has been taken by the Supreme Director because he thinks “ that in the present con juncture, it may contribute to the country’s acquiring tranquility.”— 1 he Junta is composed ci the citi zens D. Augustin Eyzaguirre, D Jose Miguel Infante,” and D. Fer nando Eriazuris, who are appoint ed for six months. Dr. 1). Mari ano Kgano lias been appointed Mi nister of State and Marine, Dr. D- Augustin Vial, of Finance and war.