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PERSONAL.
Commodore Tattnall. —The following item
appeared in a Hong-Kong paper on the 12th of
May: “We regret to learn that Commodore
Tattnall is severely indisposed, on board the
United States steam fngate Powliattan. Her
stay will be short, as Gen. Ward is anxious
to proceed to Pekin as soon as possible.
Mr. Lamar, our Minister to Nicaragua, has
informed the President that he will return home
by the next steamer. That is the most benefi
cial act to this country of his mission.
Boston, July 22.—The private funeral ser
vices of the late Rufus Choate, were held to-day
at his late residence in Winthrop Place, at half
past ten. At the conclusion of these services,
the family delivered the remains to the Commit
tee from the Bar, and the pall bearers, who took
them to the church of Dr. Adams in Essex street,
where the public services were held. An ad
dress was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Adams, and
appropriate exercises were had. At the conclu
sion of fne services in the church, a procession
of citizens was formed, and accompanied the
body to the Cambridge bridge, where it was de
livered to the family, under whose charge it was
conveyed to Mount Auburn.
During the passage of the funeral procession
through the streets, minute guns were fired and
the bells tolled. '
Sam Suck in Parliament. —The most notable
man that the general election has sent up to
Parliament is unquestionably Mr. Justice Hali
burton, the Conservative member for Launces
ton. Mr. Haliburton has lived the greater part
of his life in America, but he is not a Yankee,
for he is of Scottish extraction, and was bom in
Nova Scotia. He is about fifty-four years old.
In 1842, Mr. Haliburton came to England on
diplomatic business, and on his return to Ameri
ca, was made Justice of Nova Scotia. By profes
sion he is a lawyer; but if he had never stepped
ped out of his profession, he would never have
been known to us, and, in all probability, would
nefer have been a member of Parliament. His
fame rests upon the authorship of certain well
known works which he has published under the
nomme de plume of “ Sam Slick, the Clockmaker
of Slickville.” Mr. Haliburton made his first ap
pearance in the House last week, to be sworn. He
is in person tall and portly, rather bald, and the
hair that he has is grey. Ilis face is full and some
what florid, and he wears neither whiskers nor
beard ; and, on the whole, he appears, to a casu
al observer at a distance, a common-place, plod
ding man, and might be taken for a farmer of
the better class, or a respectable tradesman.
This was our impression of Haliburton, alias
“Sam Slick,’’ when from thegallory we saw him
walk into the House, take his seat, on the Min.
ißtcrial side, and afterwards come up to the ta
ble to be sworn ; and we said to ourselves, “So
this is the immortal Sam! Well, he is not all
the man that we have imagined. Is it possible
there can be so much humor, archness and
waggery in that stolid looking man ? But af
terwards we had an opportunity of seeing him
closer, and then he looked somewhat different.
And when in the course of conversation, his
face lighted up with a smile, we saw at onco in
dications of his peculiar power; his small eyes
seemed to twinkle and get closer together, and
and there was an expression about the mouth,
full of that archness and roguery which abounds
in his book. At a distance he seems Mr. Justice
Haliburton, but closer, and when his face was
lit up, we could easily imagine him to be Sam
Slick. It is said that when he attended an Ox
ford Commemoration, and was greeted with
cheering from the under-graduates, he threw up
to his admirers one of his arch glances, and set
the whole of the gallery in a roar of laughter.
On Tuesday wo again saw Mr. Haliburton on the
benches of the peering through his small
eyes into the curious scene before him, and we
thought of one of his “Wise Saws “I’ll toll
you what, President, seein’ is beleevin, but it
am t them that star? the most who so? ih? best
always,” Well, we have at last now got a gen
uine iinmorist in the House. We have had wits
before, but no humorist—at least, not in modem
times.
Whether Mr. Haliburton will speak, and if ho
should, whether he will make an impression,
must remain doubtful at present; but there can
be no question that ho'will observe narrowly,
and, perhaps, will give the world the result of
his observations; and therefore we advise mem
bers to take care, and—
“lf there's hole In a’ your coats,
Wc rede you tent It;
A chield's among you takin’ notes,
And perhaps lie’ll prent It.”
Whon Sam Slick was an attache in England, he
Went to the House, and he has given us his no
tion of some of the speeches heard there, which
wo quote: “A night or two afore I left town I
went to the House of Commons. I aint often
there. It’s stupid work, and more than half the
time routine business, and the other half of it is
a rehash of old speeches. Twice laid dishes I can
stand—salt fish and corn beef twice laid I can
sometimes cohsait is as good as when first cooked
ed—blit old speeches served over and over again
go again the appetite.” Hear, hear, Mr. Slick I
and we wish you could thoroughly inoculate the
members with the notion; for the hashing and
rehashing of old speeches, and setting them be
fore us as something new, is one of the most
characteristic faults of our House, and if you
can remove this evil, or even mitigate it, though
you claim to be a Conservative, you will be a
great Parliamentary Reformer.— London News
Mr. Strakosch sailed for Europe in the Asia,
on Wednesday, and will bring out something
great, if he can get it, for the next Opera season.
Griso and Mario, perhaps. His letter of credit
furnished by the Academy stockholders is close
on to $20,000.
Rev. 0. L. SMITH, for several years past Pre
sident of the Wesleyan Female College, at Ma
con, has resigned, and Rev. John M. Bonnell
has been elected to supply his place,
Bisiiop PtfiftCß in CALiFOitHU. The San
Francisco Times says: Tho Rc v . Bishop Pierce,
having lately arrived ove?\and, preached his first
sermon on Sunday, 0 f j uno , at the Pine
street Methodist Episcopal Church, in the fore
noon, and in the evening at Calvary Church, on
Bush street.
Stephen C. Singletary, the well known an
cient typo, was in the lower part of Georgia
last week. He appears to meet with a hearty
welcome wherever he journeys.
Mr. Mozier, an. American sculptor in Romo,
hasjust completed a statue 0 f Esther presenting
her petition n the Ring
T IIE d aaahter' of Joseph Charles, recently
?. ssas? .mated at St. Louis, carrying out the inten
*! on . other father, has given $20,000 to endow
ae Professorship of Physical Science in West
minster college, a Presbyterian institution, locat
ed at Fulton, Missouri.
Mr. Rogers, to whom the task 6f completing
Crawford’s designs for the pediments to the Rew
wings of the Capitol at Washington, was intrust
ed, has most of the figures ready for casting.
m 80VVX8BS EXJKX.D MU BXIUBBXINS.
DOMESTIC SUMMARY.
Kansas.—A Bill of Rights, containing twen
ty-three sections, has been reported to the Con
stitutional Convention of Kansas. It sets out
with the declaration that all political power is in
herent in the people; prohibits slavery in the
State; proclaims religious toleration; defends the
soundness of the writ of habeas corpus ; protects
the freedom of legislative debate; forbids the
transportation from the State of any party for
any offonce committed within the limits; prohib
its imprisonment for debt; insures to naturalized
citizens the full privileges accorded to natives;
and declares that no citizen of the State shall be
held to appear before the Supreme Court of the
United States on an appeal from the Supreme
Court of the State, but that when appeals are tak
en on questions of inter-State law they shall
only be through or from the District Courts of
the United States. A preamble, which precedes
the Bill of Rights recites the fundamental laws
of the body politic, declares the purpose of the
instrument, and defines the boundaries of the
State of Kansas. At the latest date the Con
vention had not acted upon it.
Baltimore American. July 23.
The Emigration Across the Plains. —Up to
the 25th of June, no less than one thousand eight
hundred and seven wagons, twenty hand carts,
five thousand four hundred and one men, four
hundred and twenty-four women, four hundred
and eighty children, one thousand six hundred
and ten horses, four hundred and six mules, six
thousand one hundred and ten oxen, and six
thousand sheep had crossed the ferry this season
at Loup Fork. This includes no portion of the
Mormon emigration, but merely California, Ore
gon, and Pike’s Peak emigrants and their stock,
all going westward. The returning Pike’s Peak
emigration crossed at Shinn’s Ferry, somo fifteen
miles below the confluence of the Loup Fork
with the Platte. Many of the outward bound
emigrants also crossed at the same point, so that
it is probable that not less than four thousand
wagons crossed over the military road westward
from Omaha, since the 20th of March.
Cleveland Commercial Gazette, July 10.
The U. S. sloop-of-war Constellation, Com
mander Nichols, bearing the broad pennant of
Commodore Inman, sailed from this port yester
day, to take her place as the U. S. flag-ship on
the African station.
Passports Refused to U. S. Officers. —The
Richmond Enquirer, of Wednesday, says that
private letters from the continent of Europe in
timate the American officers, who had been per
mitted by the United States to go to the seat of
war in order to gain military insight into war
tactics, by observation of the contending pow
ers, have been refused passports to travel thith
er. They consequently returned to England, to
await further diplomatic consideration of the
matter and causes of objection.
Affairs in Utah. —It is said that affairs in
Utah, agricultural, mercantile, and moral, are
improving. The number of strangers who have
lately resided there has had a beneficial effect
upon the Mormons themselves; polygamy is
fast becoming unpopular; the women begin to
see the true position in which they are placed;
they find that their Gentile sisters look with
abhorrence upc» the system, and many of them
who have been deluded into their present mode
of living are about throwing off the chains of
sin, abandoning their husbands, and boldly re
turning to their former homes, habits, and names.
Even Brigham Young himself has spoken
against any more “sealing" or giving more
wives than one; he is constantly besieged with
appeals for divorce.
South Carolina haptist Convention.—The
Sumter (S. C.) Watchman has the following:
“ This body will assemble in this place on Fri
day, the 29th inst. We learn that there will be
ample accommodation for all its members. As
usual, our hospitable citizens, of the different de
nominations, will throw wide open their doors
for their reception. This wo greatly admire. It
wiii, doubtless, prove an occasion of much inter
est”
St. Louis, July 5.-— The overland mail from
San Francisco to the 10th of June, has been re
ceived.
Lieut. Stone’s surveying party has been driven
from Sonora by the Pesquiera Indians.
The Indians are in a state of revolt in Sonora,
and have defeated the troops in four engage
ments, and are threatening Guaymas. Foreign
ers are seeking refuge on board of ships.
Rights of Adopted Citizens. —The Secreta
ry of State has given an official explanation and
decision of great interest and importance to all
naturalized citizens who may leave the limits of
the United States;
“Department of State, )
Washington, June 14, 1859. )
“Sir —In answer to your letter of the 6th
inst., I have to inform you that the brief letter
from this Department, to which you refer, dated
the 17th of May last, and addressed to Mr. Felix
Le Clerc, was in reply to an application for in
formation, and was principally intended to re
commend cafltion to our naturalised fellow-citi
zens, natives of France, in returning to that
country, as the operations of the French con
scription law were not precisely KltoWn here,
and might bear injuriously upon that class of
American citizens. Most of the continental Eu
ropean nations have a system of military or
ganization by which their citizens are compelled
to serve in the army, by conscription as in France,
where the duty is designated by lot, or by draft
as in Prussia, where every person is required to
take his turn as a soldier. The condition ot
American naturalized citizens, returning to their
native country, where the system of compulsory
service prevails, and who had left before per
forming such service, has frequently been the
subject of discussion with some of the European
poW6fS.
Quito recently it has arisen between the United
States and Prussia, and the representative of this
country at the court of Berlin lias brought the
matter to the attention of the Prussian govom-
Wwtit. In the instructions which were sent to
'him, dated May 12, 1859, it was explicitly stated
that this government is opposed to the doctrine
of perpetual allegiance, and maintains the right
of expatriation and the right to form new politi
cal ties elsewhere. Upon this subject it is ob
served, that “in this age of the world, the idea of
controlling the citizen in the choice of a home,
and binding him by a mere political theory to in
habit for his lifetimo a country which he con
stantly desires to leave, can hardly be entertained
by any government whatever.” The posi
tionof the United States as communicated to the
Minister at Berlin for the information of the
Prussian Government, is, that native-born Prus
sians, naturalized in the United States and re
turning to the country of their birth, are not lia
ble to any duties or penalties except such as
were existing at the period of their emigration.
If, at that time, they wore in the army, or ac
tually called into it, such emigration and natural
ization do not exempt them from the legal pen
alty which they incurred by their desertion, but
this penalty may be enforced against them
whenever they shall voluntarily place themselves
within the local jurisdiction of their native coun
try, and shall be proceeded against according to
law. But when no present liabilities exist
against them, at the period of their emigration,
the law of nations, in the opinion of this Gov
ernment, gives no right to any country to inter
fere with naturalized American citizens, and the
attempt to do so would be considered an act un
just in itself and unfriendly towards the United.
States. This question cannot, of course, arise
in the case of a naturalized citizen who remains
in the United States. It is only when he vol
untarily returns to his native country that its
local laws can be enforced against him.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Lewis Cass.
To A. V. Hofer, Esq., Cincinnati, Ohio.
■Washington, July 14,1859. —The Constitution.
this morning, contains the copy of a dispatch
from the State Department, recently sent “to our
Minister at Berlin,” on the subject of naturali
zation. The case is that of a naturalized citizen
of the United States, who is a native of Hanover,
and who, when he left his native country, was
neither in actual service in the Hanoverian army,
nor had been drafted to serve in it, but who has
yet upon his return to Hanover been deprived
of his liberty, and compelled to perform military
service.
The President and Cabinet concur in the views
expressed, taking the ground that the moment a
foreigner becomes naturalized, his allegiance to
his native country is severed. He is no more re
sponsible for anything he may say or do, after
assuming his new character, than if he had been
in the United States.. Should he return to his na
tive country he returns as an American citizen,
and in no other character. I a order to entitle his
original Government to punish him for an offence,
this must have been committed while he was a
subject and owed allegiance to that Govern
ment The offence must have been complete be
fore his expatriation. It must have been of such
a character that he might have been tried and
punished for it at the moment of his departure.
Our Minister is instructed to demand the release
of the naturalized citizen in question.
Jacksonville, Fla., July 21, 1859.— Messrs.
Editors : Our city has been visited by another
destructive conflagration. On Tuesday morn
ing last, about one o’clock, our citizens were
aroused from their slumbers by the cry of “fire!
fire!” The flames soon communicated with the
residence of Mr. William Grothe, which was
soon destroyed by the devouring element. From
thence the flames soon spread both to the West
and North, and the Custom House, the Buffing
ton house (Hotel,) the private residence of Cap
tain Paul B. Canova, the law office of Messrs.
Sanderson and Forward, the dwelling house of
CoL J. B. Sanderson, a building owned by Col.
S. Buffington, known as the “California house,”
the Buffington House livery stable, and some
other small buildings adjoining, were all con
sumed. The total loss is estimated at twenty
thousand dollars, on which there was an insur
ance of five thousand four hundred dollars ; five
thousand dollars on the Buffington Hofei, and
four hundred dollars on the residence of Mr.
Grothe —both in the Southern Mutual, Athens,
Ga. — Savannah Republican.
The exercises of the Georgia Military Institute
at Marietta, will be resumed on the Btli of Au
gust.
Frozen to Death. —A letter from Auraria,
Kansas territory, dated 19th June, says : “The
remains, at least the guns and hats of two young
men from Georgia, belonging to Green Russell’s
mining company, who were frozen to death on
the 24th May last, while out hunting, were
brought in yesterday. Friends have gone, or
will go out, and gather up their bonoe and give
them burial.— St, Louis Republican.
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FOREIGN SUMMARY.
Farther Point, July 24.—The steamship
North Briton, from Liverpool at half past nine
o’clock on the morning of the 13th inst, arrived
off this point at a very early hour this morning.
Her dates are four days later than those already
received.
The Emperor Napoleon has issued the follow
ing order of the day:
Vallegio, July 10, 1859.— Soldiers : An ar
mistice was concluded on the Bth inst., between
the belligerent parties to extend to the 15th of
August. This truce will permit you to rest after
your glorious labors, and to recover, if necessary,
new strength to conclude the work which you
have so gloriously inaugurated by your courage
and resolution, lam about to return to Paris,
and shall leave the provisional command of the
army to Marshal Vaillant; but as soon as the
hour of combat will have struck, you will see
mo again in your midst to partake of your dan
gers.
TURIN, July 11, I&s&.—An official bulletin
publishes the text of the armistice. Besides
the articles already known, it is stated that the
belligerent armies will keep the positions they
now occupy. The railways to Verona, Pes
chiera, and'ilantua, may, during the armistice,
be used to carry provisions to those fortresses.
Peschiera and Mantua are being provisioned,
and the provisioning of Verona will be completed
in two days.
The works, offensive and defensive, of Pes
chiera are to remain in their present state.
The Convention is signed by Marshal Vaillant
and Generals Martinprey, Della Rocca, Hess
and Murdorf.
The Paris Moniteur, in publishing the official
despatch, appends the following remarks:
“It is necessary that the public should not
misunderstand the extent of the armistice. It
is limited merely to a relaxation of hostilities
between the belligerent armies, which, though
leaving the field open for negotiations, do not
enable us for the present to see how the war
may be terminated.”
The Paris Moniteur gives the following ex
planation of the circumstances attending the
armistice between France and Austria:
“ The great neutral powers exchanged com
munications with WW object of offering their
mediation to the rents, whose first act
wa9 to be an armistice'; but the endeavor to bring
about this result was not successful until some
days ago, when the French fleet was about to
begin hostilities against Venice, and a new con
flict before Verona was imminent. The Emperor
of Franco, faithful to his sentiments of modera
tion, and anxious to prevent the useless effusion
of blood, did not hesitate to assure himself
whether ths disposition of the Emperor of
Austria was conformable to his own. it was a
sacred duty for the two Empcroih immediately
to suspend hostilities, which mediation could
render objectless. The Thupetor of Austria
having shown similafr intentions, the armistice
was concluded.” ...
The campaign in Italy has given to this pro
ject the sanction of a victory; therefore, if the
negotiations take place, they can only have as a
basis the complete independence of Italy.
The Presse explains the note of the Moniteur
and the official communication as intended to put
the public on their guard against being led
away hy visions of peace.
All the other papers express the same opinion.
The Times' Vienna correspondent says that
it was believed there that the British Govern
ment had brought about the armistice.
Another authority says that the Prince Re
gent of Prussia took the initiatory in suggesting
the armistice.
The Vienna Gazette says of the armistice, that
an autograph letter, addressed by the Emperor
, Napoleon to the Emperor of Austria, led to the
negotiations, the result of which was a five week’s
armistice.
A Verona telegraphic despatch says that the
armistice was concluded after repeated requests
from the French, and after their consent had
been obtained to all the conditions asked by
Austria.
The armistice had given rise to a variety of
speculations in the English papers.
The London Times believes in peace, and re
marks that “before the truce has ended, the
French army will be refreshed and re-inforced.
A fleot of gun-boats will be launched upon the
lake that surrounds Mantua, and a great army
will be ready to make its descent upon the shores
of Northern Italy. Broken and dispirited as
Austria now is, she is better able to fight at this
moment than she will be at any future time.”
We believe, therefore, in peace, and we be
lieve that the path to peace will be made smooth
to her, for the Emperor has won the advantage
which for the moment ho proposes to himself.
If this war between France and Austria is end
ed, France comes, tremendous in power, out of
the conflict, and Austria and Europe will look
on with still increasing interest, much meditating
upon the future, while she rests upon her arms.
The London Post inclines to think that tho
proposition for an armistice came from the mod
eration of the French, and is of opinion that Aus
tria will consent to sacrifice her Italian sway,
and thus end the war.
The Daily News says it would be interesting
to know whether the propositions for an armis
tice came from Austria or from a third power,
for no one will suppose that it was made by
France. By whosoever, it can have been ac
cepted only for the purpose of giving scope to
negotiations.
The Glolw interprets the armistice as a pre
lude of peace.
Position of the Armies at the time of the
Armistice. —Although the armistice which has
been concluded between the French and tho
Austrian Emperors and their armies, for a time,
at least, greatly diminishes the interest of all
military movements, yet it may be well briefly
to point out the present position of the armies
which have recently been contending in Italy,
and also the positions of tho armies which were
assembling at the time when the armistice was
concluded, on the opposite banks of the Rhine.
The position of the French army is as follows:
It holds the whole of the kingdom of Lombardy,
from the Ticino to the Mincio, and from the
Alps to the River Po. In addition to this it
possesses the entire control of the kingdom
of Piedmont and of the Grand Duchies of Tus
cany, Parma, and Modena.
It also has the power at any time, either to oc
cupy the Papal territory or to raise an insurrec
tion in tliat territory against the Pope and the
Cardinals. France thus possesses or controls
tho whole of Italy, with the exception of the
kingdom of Naples and the territory of Venice.
It even possesses a small portion of the Venetian
territory between the river Mincio and the
Adige.
The population of the districts of Italy now
under the influence of France is as follows:
Piedmont, 4,368,972; Tuscany, 1,779,338; Par
ma, 508,784; Modena, 606,139; and Lombardy,
3,009,585, making a total of 10,672,846 inhabi
tan to, withoni cvnnittllg nujr post •£ papulo
tion of the Papal States, amounting to upwards
0f2,000,000 more.
The Austrians, on the other hand, who were
recently the rulers of the whole of Italy, with
the exception of Piedmont, now possess nothing
except the territory of Venice, containing a pop
ulation of 2,493,968 inhabitants, and not the
whole of that, as they retain nothing between
tho Mincio and the Adige except the four great
fortresses so often mentioned.
France, therefore, is vastly more powerful in
Italy than Austria, and is entitled to have a
much greater influence in the settlement of Ital
ian affairs. But France comes into Italy, ac
cording to her own professions, as a liberator,
not as a conqueror, and has no right to claim
anything for herself in that country.
The two Emperors had an interview at Villa
Franca on the morning of the 11th. The Em
peror of Austria was accompanied by Generals
Hess, Gramme, Kellner, Kolloustein, Roming,
Schlitter, and others of his staff.
The result of the Interview between the Em
peror of France and the Emperor of Austria
W 39 the concluding of a peace. The following
is the dispatch from Napoleon to the Empress,
announcing the fact:
Vallegio, July 11, 1859. —Peace is signed
between the Emperor of Austria and myself.
The bases of the peace are : The Italian con
federation under the honorary presidency of the
Pope; the Emperor of Austria concedes his
rights in Lombardy to the Emperor of the
French, who transfers them to the King of Sar
dinia ; the Emperor of Austria preserves Ven
ice, but she will form an integral part of tho
Italian confederation.
The Times says that Venice inust hope that
her independence will hot be a mere name, and
that the influence Os France and Austria united,
will not be mbfC unbearable than that of Austria
singly. The Romans must hope that the Italian
Confederacy, under the honorary Presidency of
the Pope, will be nothing like any government
they have hitherto known. The Papal States
are left as they were, but with a master some
what greater than before. He is honorary Pre
sident <Jf the Italian Confederation, and General
Guyon holds the sword at his side.
The King of Naples is made a member of the
Confederation, and has to learn the worth of that
honor and its import. Europe has to welcome a
now power—the Gernwh Confederation, older in
dignity, if not in time. England has nothing to
do but to look oil. Austria is somewhat humbWd,
but relieved of a difficulty. Sardinia is aggran
dized with a province that mistrusts her, and a
neighbor that has earned an imperishable and
inexhaustible claim to her gratitude
The Grand Dukes, we suppose, ore once more
j to be re-instated on their thrones. France has
I now the game in her own hands. She has Europe
before her. She can raise all Italy and half the
Austrian empire against those Germans whom
she has so often beaten; yet, on the very sum
mit of her ambition she renounces. France has
spent fifty millions sterling, and fifty thousand
men, only to give Milan a Piedmontese, instead
of an Austrian master, and to establish the 1 ope
in a temporal dignity, even beyond hisimagma
tion, and capable of extension. Is all this real
The Emperor's game must be a very long one.
Halifax, Jtdy 26.— The steamship Europa
arrived to-day. and her news was sent off by
horse express to SackviUe. She brings Liver
pool advi<?&3 to Saturday, July 16th.
The Princes of Tuscany and Modena had re
turned to their States.
The result of the treaty is generally mistrust
ed in England. .
Count Cavour had again left Turin for the
head-quarters of the allied armies.
The Sardinian Ministry had resigned, and
Count Arese'liad been charged to form a new
Cabinet
Count Cavour is reported to have resigned on
account of the terms on which the peace was
obtained being unsatisfactory to him.
It was said that Napoleon’s plan for revolu
tionising Hungary and Transylvania was disap
proved of by Russia.
The Times' Paris correspondent says that the
typhus fever raged in both the camps in Italy,
and that ten to eleven thousand were attacked
with it in the allied army.
Napoleon expected to reach Paris on the 18th
inst., when farther details would he afforded.
In his address to the soldiers, he says that
peace was concluded because the contest was
about to assume proportions which were no
longer in keeping with the interest which
France had in the war.
THe Emperor of Austria was on his way to
Vienna. He says, in his order of the day, that
he yielded on account of his unfavorable po
litical position; and because his natural allies
did not come to his assistance, as he expected
they would.
Letters from Paris note much discontent
concerning tho terms of the peace, and that
Austrian influence is still suffered to remain in
Italy.
The Paris Siecle calls for the expulsion of the
petty Italian princes, who are only confederates
of the Emperor of Austria.
Napoleon declines making an official entree
into Paris, until he makes it at the head of his
army.
Austrian correspondence officially announces
the conditions of peace.
Thus France and Austria will support the
Italian confederation ; Lombardy, as far as tho
line of tho Mincio, is to be given up by Austria ;
while Mantua, Peschiera, and the whole of
Verona, remain as Austrian possessions. The
Princes of Tuscany and Modena return to their
States. And a universal amnesty is granted.
The Vienna correspondent of the London
Times says that three applications were made
by Napoleon, to Austria, before tho latter con
sented to tho armistice. The same correspond
ent says that the Pope was burnt in effigy at
Milan; and that unfriendly feelings existed be
tween Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel. The
latter had issued a proclamation to tho people of
Lombardy, announcing the annexation of that
State to Sardinia. He made a triumphant entry
into Milan on tho 13th inst.
Latest dispatches from Paris, on Friday, re
port that great agitation prevailed in Milan; that
the Parisian population was indignant at the
Emperor for his failure to fulfill his promises.
Great Britain. —ln tho House of Lords, the
peace was discussed. Attention was called to
the formidable French fleet at Cherbourg and
Brest, together with gunboats for landing troops.
On the 12th, Lord Wadehouse, in the House
of Lords, and Lord Russell, in the House of
Commons, read Napoleon’s dispatch announcing
peace. The latter added, that, although there
was an idea that tho Emperor of the French
would demand Savoy as a compensation for the
expenses of the war, he had made no demand,
and desired no addition to France. Loud and
prolonged cheers greeted this announcement.
General Peel announced that the entire mili
tary force in the country, on the first of June,
was one hundred thousand six hundred men,
including the embodied militia.
Washington, July 24.—The Juarez govern
iu u»i oo has concluded contracts for a
largo supply of breech, loading and Minnie guns,
and rifled cannon, deliverable in Mexico in Sep
tember.
An extraordinary Cabinet meeting was held
yesterday on the subject of Minister McLane’s
dispatches. The result is unknown.
The Church has declared in favor ofMarqueza.
The followiug is the recent decree of the Jua
rez Mexican Government, by which the church - .
property of the Republic has been “national
ized.” It is preceded by a preamble, which de
clares that this property, the great bone of con
tention among all parties, has been the prin
cipal cause of the prolongatioii, as it was the or
igin, of the civil war: that by means of it the
clergy have been able to maintain themselves in
dependent of, and in antagonism to, the civil
authority; vnd, finally, that the manner in
which it has been administered has been detri
mental, not only to the peace of the Republic,
but to the cause of true religion.
The decree, it will be seen, is a radical one,
doing away at once with the whole national
church establishment, and placing all religions
sects on the same footing throughout the Re
public. It consists of twenty-five articles, as
follows :
1. All the property which the secular and
regular clergy have been administering under
divers titles, whether it be real or personal, or
whatever its name and application, is henceforth
the property of the nation.
2. A special law shall determine the form
and manner in which the property spoken of in
the preceding article, shall be brought into the
national treasury.
3. There shall be perfect independence be
tween the affairs of the State and those purely
ecclesiastical. The Government will limit it
self to the protection, with its authority, of the
public worship of the Catholic religion, as well
as of every other.
4. The ministers of religioh may receive, for
the administration of the sacrament and other
functions of tlicir office, such offerings as may
be made them, ahd freely contract with those
who employ them for the cojnpensotion of their
services. But neither offerings nor compensa
tion shall be converted into landed property.
5. fteligiofiS orders throughout the Republic
are Suppressed, whatever be their name or the
object w«lh which they were founded, as well as
all fraternities, arch-fraternities, or brotherhoods,
attached to religious communities, cathedrals,
parishes, or what church soever.
6 Tho foundation or erection of now con
vents, fraternities, arch-fraternities, or religious
brotherhoods, of whatever form or denomina
tion, is henceforth prohibited. Also, the use of
the habits or garbs of the orders suppressed.
14. The female convents, actually in existence
shall continue tp exist, under the management
of their chapters. Those of them subject to
the spiritual jurisdiction of anyone of the orders
suppressed shall be under the direct authority
of their respective Bishops.
. 20. The religieuses who remain in the cloister,
may dispose of their respective endowments by
free will according to the form prescribed by
the laws. In case they do not dispose of it by
will, or that they have no relative capable of in
heriting it ab intestato. the endowment shall go
into the public treasury.
21. All female convent novitiates are hence
forth perpetually closed. Actual novices are
also dismissed, and on leaving, the novitiate
shall receive back that with which she entered
the convent.
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