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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. hi « 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. 77