..y.RE.....su.YTtijA,) , -,......•04..:NNy..R....•••-•:.:-.,Ap.yocATE. prambyterlius IMumiaer, Vol. Vlliplie•l3. PrellbYterlsa Advosatill Vela W. Its, S s I DAVID MeiMEV, Editor and Proprietor. fERMIL-IN ADVANOB. Original Vattrg, A 'Psalm of Isaiah.* 0 Lard, my Saviour and my King, My faithful Shepherd, oonstant Friend; To-thee my song of praise I bring, The grateful knee thee I bend. Though long thine anger fiercely burned; And long thy fade was hid, from me, 0, sweetest grace I thy wrath is turned, And now thy pronenon ooraforts Behold I the Lord my Saviour is ; JEHOVAH is my strength and song; My fears, henoeforth, will I dismiss, And trust the love I've proved so strong lionoeforth, with Joy my thirsty soul Shall draw .9 dvation from those wells— Whose living waters, pure and cool, Cleanse all my guilt, sooth all mine ills. 0, join with me to praise the Lord His deeds through all the earth proolaim ; And that his power may be adored, Make mention of his glorious name ! Sing to the Lord, ye nations sing I Great things, and wondrous bath he done ; Let all the earth his praises ring, For all the earth hie Works bath known I Sing to the Lord, ye ransom'd throng That dwell on Ziou's sacred hill! The grateful melody prolong • Till earth and heaven his praises frill Sing to the Lord, the living God, The Holy One of Israel ; Who makes our Zion his abode, And In her midst shall ever dwell! *lsaiah, chapter all. Steubenville, Ohio. From our London Correspondent. The Bishop of London's Visitation—The Charge to the Clergy—lts Leading Topics—Extent of the Diocese—Church Rates—Ritualistic Practices— The Confessional—Tustification by Faith—The Tercentenary of Protestantism—The Bishop of Ripon on the Social Blessings of the Reformation —The Presbytery of London and its action--The Dissenters and their Silence—A. Quaker Revolu tion—The Evangelization of London—Lord Brougham and the Religious Press—Memorial to Lord Derby, on India—The "Funny Pulpit"— Mr. Spurgeon's Recovery—Postscript. LoNDox, November 18th, 1858. THE PRIMARY CHARGE of the Bishop of London has excited, this week, much public interest. I went to the Cathedral of St. Paul's, and found some Episcopal clerical friends there to give me a seat on one ofthe chairs set apart _for the Metropolitan Pres byters, and was doubtless regarded by all the clergy around me as one of the " clergy " of the diocese. If so,. this was a mistake ; but _thinking of _thep_natalioity_of -Presiqr— terian ordinatiou,'•l ventured to think that I was as really and truly a Presbyter as any of them. The Bishop's charge was delivered under the mighty dcme in the vast area of the nave, which has just been fitted up most admirably and comfortably for the intending Sabbath evening sermons to the working classes. The unto/ mode has been for the Bishop to address the clergy in the choir of the Oatl , edral, in batches, so to speak, for four or five days in succession, reading to them the same charge. But on this occasion the Bishop summoned and addressed the whole of the clergy of his diocese at once, and there were at least one thousand present, inoludina t " rectors, vicars, and curates, not to speak of canons and prebendaries connected with the Cathedral Itself. The Bishop walked up the church, fol lowed by his chaplains and a body of the clergy. Immediately after they were seated, the Litany was gone through, two precentors intoning it, and the organ choristers and the assembly (including a large background of laity, male and female,) giving the responses. Several collects and forms of prayer were added, but the whole service did not occupy more than half an hour. Dr. Tait entered the temporary desk, and after a short prayer, proceeded at once to the delivery of his Charge. It was q most elaborate document, and comprehensive, also, as well as weighty and impressive. Its delivery occupied not less than four hours. He commenced by noticing the fact that the day on which he spake (17th No. vember,) was the 300th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth, and of the consequent cesaatron of Romish persecution, and of the establishment of the Protestant religion in England. He next passed a eulogium on his predecessor, Bishop Blom field, especially in his having consecrated one hundred and ninety-eight churches, of the building of which, for the meaner, he had been the = chief promoter. He ad verted, in this part. of the charge; to the vast population in the diocese of London. It comprises the East, North, and West side of the Thames and of the metropolis. (The Bishop of Winchester is diocesan on the Surrey and Southern side of the river ) This area, with rural suburban parishes, comprises a population of about two millions four hundred thousand souls. Of these ; a large proportion frequent no place of worship whatever. The Bishop referred to the vexed ques tion of Church Rates, and the probability of a settlement of it next session of Parliament. The great lesson which these secular matters taught, was that the days were gone by when the Church of England could look to be Propped up by the adventitious aid, of aeon las authority, if it was not true to its mis sion and its Great. Head. " Above all things, it is important for us to remember that our strength is not in the temporal, but the spiritual." On Ritualistic Observances, the Bishop spoke out fully and strongly. This part .of the charge was listened to with 'great inter eat. On the one hand, he depreeated the " morose . Puritanism" which ignored all architectural beauty in church arohiteoture, and the bringing , in of music the moat solemnly beautiful into the service of the house of the Lord. But if any man's love of the beautiful lends him to think more of good singing than of faithful preaching, 'or if he resolutely insist' on his own views, his zeal proceeds to a dangerous extreme. Then, as, to Romanizing 'practices, it was asked, " Why should any Clergyman make his church such that a common man, placed suddenly within it, would not be.able to say whether he was in a Church of England, or in a Romish place of worship ? Excessive floral '.decorations, and continual bowings and genuflections, and candles lighted in broad day, and peculiar scarfs and vest• meets, and the other mimicry of the outeide 'of _Rome, may be acceptable to a few of the laity, but the mass of religious persons 'among common sense Englishmen look upon snob things as folly, at the best " The great body of the educated cannot endure them, because they are trifling with holy worship, and in miserable taste; while the common sort of, the well.disposed and religious are not only irritated by them, but rendered suspicious, not without ground, that something really dangerous lurks be hind." Your readers can conceive how the Evangelical clergy looked—smiling and nodding—at one another, at such pithy passages as these, and how the Tractarians would look blaok as Erebus. I saw only a few, in the out of whose dress, and in the parting.in the middle of whose hair, to well as that priestly aspect of the face which Tractarianism gives, whom I could identify as of the party. The mass of faces were of the honest, open, English type. Some of these Tra.etarian gentry had to hand in, last week, with others, their pa pers, proving their titles to their parishes or incumbencies. One of these, (I have it on good clerical authority,) a notorious Tree tarian, near Oxford Street, came up to the Bishop, who said : "Mr. R, I am told you have candles burning on the communion table during Divine service." "Yes, my Lord." " Are you aware, sir, that it is legal ?" After a pause—" Yes, my. Lord." " You will remove them, then ?" " Yes, Loy Lord I" The influence of these priests over women, is greatly to be deplored. I know a lady, the widow of a Presbyterian and a Sootchman, (born herself in the English Church,) _who settled, after her husband's death, near a Traotarian church, in the North-West of London. She is now a devotee; spent, last Christmas, large sums for floral decorations for "'the altar;" and, though left well off, is actually embarrassed in circumstances by her excessive gifts. When her son was lately ill of fever, (her residence is next door to the church,) the clergy and people offered prayer in front of the house, for his recovery. Thus the whole family is being perverted. The exaggerated idea of the authority of the Presbyter, in the Bishop's opinion, finds its full development in the attempt to set up the Confessional. He dwelt with great power on the silence of the Church of England formularies, as, compared with those_ of Rome, in treating of systematic confession. Here he read extracts from_ the Tridentine Catechism, in the original Latin. Never have I heard Latin;read so well, and so distinctly. It was hardly possible for any one who - knew the language moderately - well, not to be able to follow the meaning. He also showed the marked difference be tween the first prayer book of Edward VI., (1549,) and the revised prayer-book of 1552. He also quoted from the Book of Homilies, the famous passage in which, on the text, "Confess your faults one to another," it is 'distinctly said, that "if this binds the laity to confess to the clergy, .it equally binds the clergy to confeme to the laity," showing that the Reformers did not believe in the priestly and absorbing power of the Presbyter. The danger now is, lest a mode of teachifig should gain ground, which will exalt the sacraments into superstitious charms, and would make the clergy spiritual despots over the laity." " Depend upon it, that real faith in the Lard Jesus Christ, such as our Church teaches, is the effectual cause of the soul's ealvation, is not strengthened by teaching our people thus to lean on the unauthorized mediation of man." That the Bishop thus holds justification by faith only, " the artieu/us atantis, vel cadentis ecclesice," is very satisfactory. He seems to me, how ever, too ready to recognize the piety and soundness of faith, in the main, of the Romanizers. This .is the weakness of his position as a consistent Bishop of a " com promise" Church. The Evangelicals as a body, do not go with him here, and his attempts to fuse the parties together will necessarily fail. I must leave other parts of the charge un noticed, for the present. The TERCENTENAItY OV TEE REFORMA TION, (on the 17th November) has been celebrated in different parishes and dia• triots, both metropolitan and country. Dr. Hugh McNeil preached very eloquently on the subject, before the Lord Mayor,Sheriffs, and the officers and pupils of ing Ed ward's School, in Christ church, Newgate Street, while Dr. Trench preached at West minster Abbey.. Dr. Cumming also gave two - discourses on the subject. The Bishop of Ripon, the previous even ing, opened the Winter Series of Lectures, in Exeter Hall, before the Young Men's Christian Association, by.a stirring address on "The Social Blessings of the Reforma tion." The results which flowed from it, he: eaid, were three told—political, social, and religious. "There is not an inhabitant of the Kingdom, who does -not at this hour reap benefit, directly or indirectly, from the Reformatien—not a noble, not a peasant, not a ROClit9l Catholic, not a. Churchman, or a Dissenter, who was not freer and happier than he would have been, had not the great conflict of 'the sixteenth century issued in the downfall of the Papal domination in this country." This- statement was received with great enthusiasm. The Bishop also quoted the Duke of Wellington to the same effect, who said, in. 1844, "not only our whole system of religion, but of toleration, depi3nded on the Reformation." In enumerating the " social benefits," the first mentioned was, the -deliverance of the country from that tyranny of. the Papacy, which had, by its bulls, rt ade monarchs tremble on their thrones, and plunged - whole nations into cofusion and ansrohy. The effects of a papal interdict, as described by - Hume, were here quoted with great effect. Another menial benefit, was, deliverance from the terrors of excommunication,- exer cised on a superstitious` and priest-ridden population. - Deliverance also from obliga tion to engage in foreign wars to further Papal designs—from the -power of Rome to present .to _vacent benefiees--from the error.. moos expense—from appeals to the Pdpe in judicial;i3ases—the suppreasion of Monne 11.C.M ke " ONE THING. IS. NEEDFUL:" "ONE THING HAYS I DESIRED OF THE LORD:" "THIS ONE THING I DO." PUBLICATION OFFICE, GAZETTE BUILDING, FIFTH: STREET, ABOVE SMITHFIELD, PITTSBURGH, PA. FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER Is,. 1858, teries, (cant lining fifty thousand idle per eenß, preying on the people in the reign of Henry VIII ;) ell these were among the neg ative, yet important'benefits of the Reforma tion. But the benefits of a positive kind were immense. The human intellect was disco chained, and the diffusion of philosophy and science were not'to be forgotten. Here the Bishop quoted a powerful passage from Rab• ert Hall's writings, adding, that had that 'great man lived now, and have seen the as• tonishing mental activity that prevailed, and the rich-rdsults of the list twenty five years, it would have put his imagination and eloquence. to the teat, to depic their glory: Again : to the-Reformation was to be, at tributed the elevation of public morality. Before the Reformation the clergy were dis solute in their Hires, and the inople very_ wicked. Seventy-two thousand thiev.ets were executed in one reign. The Bishop of Ripon concluded by a de• nunciation'of the Confessional,'and of the at tempts recently made to unprotestantize England. The, religious conflict of the day turned on the question, "Shall we cling te naciously 'to the principles of the Reforma tion, or, one by one, shall we surrender those principles, till, at length, the distinc tion between the two creeds is lost, and Protestant England, faithless to the Reforms tion, is folded again into the embrace of the Papacy ?" This well.timed lecture was received with great enthusiasm, and was worthy of the nephew of the lamented Edward Bicker. stetb. - The manifold testimony this week lifted up on behalf of the Reformation, throughout the country, is most providen tially seasonable, and I trust and believe will be crowned with a blessing. The PRESBYTERIANS OF LONDON have had a demonstration of. their, own, in com memoration of Elizabeth's, aocession. It was agreed that a public meeting shOuld.be held, in one of our churches in-the West End. Dr. MeCrie read a paper:on " Eliza beth and the Reformation," and Dr. Hamil. ton, and other members of the Presbytery, addressed the Assembly. Of course the Presbytery knew well, and did not hesitate to condemn the act, that Elizabeth perse cuted the Puritans: But looking at the death of Bloody Mary, in connexion with the inauguration.of a new era in England's history, they expressed their thankfulness to God accordingly. Even Neale, the Puri tan Historian, acknowledges how greatly the country was indebted to Elizabeth. She was the firm supporter of the Protestant Lords of the Congregation in Scotland against Mary of Guise, and the designs of France, and the foreign- Protestant; also shared in her practical -sympathy and sup. port. The destruction of the Spanish arma. da in her reign, makes that reign - immortal to all haters of spiritual desp t otism. The Dissenters, as a body, have...not joined., in - 'thin -ooarmemerataire — allhougE4 strong appeal was made to them by Sir Culling Eardley. There were, however, a number of exceptional° the general statement which I have made, and it is 'not to be supposed that the English Nonconformists do not love the prineiples of the Reformation be cause of their silence on this occasion. The truth'is, that while the Puritanism` of the Church of. England now furnishes the party which commemorates Elizabeth's accession, she was the - pe.rsecutor -of the Puritan clergy. Nay, she suspended an Archbishop who favored the " prophesyings " of the clergy, (meetings for the study of the Scrip tures,) and she declared that one preacher was enough for a whole county Turning to a very quiet body of people, THE QUAKERS, it may not be uninteresting, to Pennsylvanians to be informed that a conference of three hundred of the members has been held in London, at which it has been agreed so far to section marriages be• tween individuals,of the community, (though not in membership,) as to allow them to take place in religious meetings. Besides this, all restrictions in regard to what is called plainness of speech, behavior, and apparel, may also be discontinued, bat confirming its ancient testimony in favor of Christian moderation in these matters. le is thus that the Society of Friends finds it necessary to yield to the spirit of the age,- and is un dergoing a gradual revolution. The dimi nution of the numbers of this excellent body of citizens is considerable, and -a very large number, of essays have been sent in, in connexion with the prizes offered for the best solution of the causes which have ar rested the progress of Quakerism in Eng land. The EVANGELIZATION Or LONDON oc cupies the increasing attention of Protestant Nonconformists. The idea of individual responsibility is beenning to be solemnly realized. "-A contribution," said S. Mor. ley, Esq., at a recent meeting, "toward the support of a City Missionary, would not com pound for individual neglect,- and free a man from responsibility. If a man or woman could not go'beyond the household to call upon.siek persons, work at home might be found among domeatic servants." The im portance of bringing individual effort to bear on'young men in warehouses, and upon the working men, was also dwelt upon. This very week a conference has been held at Birnaingham, as to the best 'mode of spiritual access to , the males of the working classes. THE Kra:MMUS PRESS has been harshly animadverted on by Lord Broug,ham, and in return, he' has received seal severe' hand ling from Dr. Campbell, of the British Standard, that he (Lord B ,) referred to the matter a second time, in the way of self justification. Be made no answerto the just accusation that .he -had once affirmed, before the studepts,of Glasgow, that a. man was no more Tempontible for his belief than for, the color his skin or the height of his .stature.. Once on- a time he had presented the Socialist, Robert Owen, to the Queen; that he does not deny; but he "only intro• dined him as the Father of Infantßchools," and he (Lard 8.,) had nothing to do with Owen's "'opinions ' At the same time, he takes occasion to bespatter with ,praise the Bishop 'of Oxford, and with abuse those who hissed him at Bradford The real truth of the matter is, that Lord Brougham was always a Secularist, even in his philanthropy—hates "Evangelism, and has no. sympathy, Ifear, with Bible..Chris tianitY. This is much to be deplore& A Timm tarzioßTA on India has 'been , presented to .oid Derby, and a ,ineeting, at which the LI, 10 of Argyle presided, has been held at Efoubur g h, urging on the Gov ernment the adnption of the Christian policy suggested_ andiiiitvocated by . Sir John LaW. 1 , ,y tense. The " Pima PimPrai," as =it has been called, has co ,- ~. need a fresh Winter cam paign. Thuk ;r: Mureell has lectured at Manchester, t ~. list two Sabbaths, on ; "Stand at Easi "."-Pand "Lodgings to Let." 24.. This is going 4:1 , Its far enough out of the beaten track..' ,till greater flippancy •is shown in the A le of lectures at Rudders field, 44 Breach ii promise," and .at Halifai, I where a Rev. Mv'W,alters his taken as sub. jests, "Love's Llbbrl)st," and 44 Light of. Other Days." t. . Ma. Sruno ~. is recovering from his illness, and pr. heiVin !thefSurry Music , Hall, last Lord's ; ay,_on the, teat,." Though for- a - sea h , if need be, ye are in, heaviness, thron e manifold teiriptations." . There - is a fine;?"ealthy conservatism his mind, whit ;of the true Saxon style, and better stil4 liefullizess of the Gospel is grayed and, pre * ad by him. J. W. It P. S.—Count 'Alembert's trial is post poned till the 24' t inst. Lords Palmer ,ti and • Clarendon are on a visit to the Einp, .isr, - at Compiegne, for four i days. He cultitares the society of Ex- Ministers, not kiitiwing but that some day they may be in o ce again. Preside.' 's r Message.. dFenow-pitizens oft s , mate , . aile . i.House of ßept esentiVitleB When we compamihe , condition of the coin try at the present dit with what it was one year ago, at the meeting fi,(iongress, we have much reasontfor gratitude-Wl* Almighty Providence, which has never failed to interpose for.oue re lief, at the most Alail`periods of our history. One year ago; the artional strife between the North and South, onAe, dangerous subjeet of slavery, had again 41othe so intense ea to threat en the peace and per tietiaity of the,confederacy. The application for s the,ndmission of Karim:Urns a Ir State Into the nioq:, 'fostered thie unhappy-ag itation,and brottgliSAlie whole subject once more efore Congrat : It was the desire of et-. ery patriot that 6 h measureti,of legislation might be adopted ' ' Mild reniove the excite i r meat from the State and confine it to the Ter-- ritory where it legt innately belonged. Much has been done, I artOliaPpy to nay, tdivards the accomplishment,of thiaobjeot, during the last session of Congress. ' The Supreme Cotillt!Of: the United Stateif had previously decided, et at all 'American citizens ' - have an equal rightlfiVtke intri the Tarkilories, whatever is held ass operty : under the - laws: of any, of the States, a'• to, hold such ,prOperty . there under the viand - 171.ship: of the tederalpon- X , con stitution, so long till hi territoitalc. doriditifin . shall remain. "sit„.- , This is now a wellz.eitablished fosition, tend the proceedings of '4,ti' ;-•Tivitt Session *ere alone ' wanting to give it lit' '' al. ,effect: 'Elm princi-; pie has been.remigniz . i in some feint iii%other„ by an almost unanim tevai-of bittle , •-hbusee Of. . Congress that a-- ' ' .. - ' -,e .- tot'llilniL — TritTatiirernion either as a free or-a s ave State, • according to the will of its people. The just equality of all the States has, been thus vindica- , ted, and a fruitful source of dangerous dissen sions among them has been removed. Whilst such has been the beneficial tendency of your legislative proceedings outside of Kan- sae, their influence has' nowhere been so 'happy as within that Territory itself. . Left to manage and control its own affairs in itn own way, with- out the pressure of external the revo lutionary Topeka organization and all resistance' to the Territorial Government established by Con gress, have been finally abandoned, As a natu ral consequence, that fine Territory now appears to be tranquil and prosperous, and is attracting increasing: thousands of immigrants to make it . their happy home. • The past- unfortunate experience of Kansas has enforced the lesson, so often already taught, that resistance to: lawful authority, under our - form of government, cannot fail in the end to prove disastrous to its authors. Had the peo ple of the Territory yielded obedience to the laws enacted by theii legislature, it would at the present moment have contained a large addition al population 'of industrions and enterprising citizens; who hitie been - deterred frinn entering, its borders.by the existence of civil strife and or ganized rebellion. It was-the resistance to rightful authority and the persevering - attempts to 'establish a revolu tionary government under the Topeka Conklin tion,ivhieh caused the peoplmof Kansas to com mit the grave error of refusing to vote for dele gates to the convention to frame a constitution, ' under a law not denied to be fair and just in its provisions. - This refusal to vote. has been the prolific source of all the evils which have follow ed. In their hoitility to the Territorial Govern ment, they disregarded the principle, abeolutely, essential to the working of our form of govern ment, that a majority of those who vote—not the majority. who may remain at borne, from 'whatever cause—must decide the result of an election. For this reason, seeking to take ad vantage of their own error, they. -denied the au thority of the Convention thus elected to frame a constitution. ' -The Convention, notwithstanding, proceeded to adopt a Constitution unexceptionable in its general features, and . providing for the sabmission of the Blavery question to a vote of the people, which, in my opinion, they were bound to doiunder the, iiftllolB end Nebraska act. This was the all-important question which hail alone convulsed the Ter ritory; and yet the opponents of the lawful Government, persisting in their first error, refrained from exercising their right to voteiand preferred that - slavery should con tinue; rather than autoloader their revolutionary Topeka or- A wiser and better spirit seemed to prevail before the first Monday, fJanuary fastorhenan election was held un der the constitution. A maturity of the people then voted foraGovernor and other State oaken . for a "ember of Congress, and members of the State ' Legislature. This ''election was warmly contested by , the two, polhicaPparties in Hamm% and a greater vote was polled than at any, pre vious election. A forge majority .of the menabers of the legislature elect belonged to that patty.which hid previous. ly. iefused-to vote. The anti slavery party were tilde placed' in the ascendant, and the political power of the State was in their own hands. Cad Congress admitted Kansas into the Union under the Lecornpton consthutien. the Legisla ture might, at its very fifth session, have inbmitted the question to a vote of the people, whether they'would - or -would not have a convention to amend their. Constitution - either on.the slavery : or any other question, and 'have adopted all necessary means for giving speedy effect to the wilt of the majority. Thus the Kansas question would have been immediateitand finally settled. . Under these circumstances, I submitted to Congress the Constitution thus framed, with all the Officers already elect ed necessary to put the State government into operation, accompanied by a strong recommendation in favor of the admission of Kansas as a State In the courre of my long public liferhave never performed env official act which, ire , the retrospect, bus afforded me mere heartfelt satisfaction. Its admission could have'nflicted no poesible Injury on any human being, whilst it Would, within a brief period, have restored palm° to Kansas and harmony to the Union. in that event.;tbe slavery gumtion would ere this Wive been finally settled, according to the legally Oxpreised will of a majority of the voters, and popular sovereignty would thus have been vindicated hi a constitutional manner. . . . With my deep convictions of duty, I couldhave pursued no other course. at is true, that, as an individual, I had expressed ad opinion; both before and during the melon of the Convention, in favor of sitbriihting the remaining clauses of the Constitution, sa well, as tliatcougerning shive ry, to .tbe people. Bat, acting as an Wilda character, wither myself nor any humaa authority hat the power' to rejudgo the proceedings of the Convention, Mid declare the. Constitution which it had framed as a naility..To have done this would have been a violation of the Kansas :atid Ne braska aqt,-which left the:people of the Territory "perfectly` free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, . subject only to , the constitution of the lhilted Mates. It would equally have violated the great principle of poptilar sovereignty, at the foundation pf bur 'institu tions, -to deprive the people of thp power, if they thought, proper tp exorcise it,:cif :confiding, to delegates elected by themselves the trust of framing a ClineLittttion, ivithont quit lug them to suhject their constituents: to the trouble, expense and delay of a tee indeleetion. It would have been in opposition to many precedents in bur tilstory, commeno. fug in the very besfage of the Republic, of the adMission of Territories as States into the Union; without a previous vote of the people approviog Ltn it Constitution. . . - it is to' be lamented that' questroneo Hung . nifteant when-viewed in Rat practical on - the people of .Ransae whether decided one or the , other., shot ld 'have • kindled such a llama of excitement throughout the country. This re flection may prove to bi; a'lesson of wisdom and of warning for our future guidance. Practi cally considered, the question' whether the people of that Territory should" first come into the Union and then change any= proviSion in their Constitution not, agreeable to. themselves, or accomplish the very same °bled, hi.remain ing Out of the Union and framing onother•Bon stittition itti adcordance with their will? either ease, the - result would be Precisely, the some. The only difference in point of fact is, that= the object would have ,been much seeder attained, and the pacification 'of Kansas more SPCeditY effected,. Mid it been admitted tie 'a State during the last seas:Loa of Congress. My redommendation;'fihiveVer, .for the Jaime . date admission- of 'Causes,. failed to meet the approbation of Congress. . ffhey,deemed it wiser. to adopt a different measure d for the Settletlient "of the question:, ' my ' d own part,'l should. havi been willing to :yield my `assent to almost : any conatitntionaPmeasnre to accomplish,this object., li, therefore, -:cordially ; itequieseeff :,.What' . has z beett, English ,Com profit is e; - and approval the 4 .c/bit fOr':thte &dad*** of-• the - _ State! p c. Kansas into the trnionktiponitt4 terms prescribed: , under the 'ordinance which- accompanied the Lecomi ton constitution, tie people of Kane= had claimed dimble the quad ty or public lands for the eupport of common schools, which have ever been .previously granted to any - State upon entering, the Union;'and aisothe alternate sections of land .for twelve miles on "Mott side of two-rail roads, proposed to be constructed from the northern to the Southern boundary, and from the eastern to the western boundary of the State. Congrem; -deeming these claims unreasonable, provided, by the act of May 4, 1248; to which I have just referred, for the' admission of the State on an, equal footing _ with the original States, but "upon, the fundamental condition precedent" that a Majority of the people thereof; at an election: to be held for that pur pose, should, in.the _place of the very large grants or pnb- Me Lands which they tid•deraanded under the ordinance accept - such grants as had been made to .lifinnesota and other new, states. Under this sot Should a =jolty reJoet the Proposition offered them,-"it shall-be deemed Midfield that , the people of Kansas do umdesireadmission into thettnion' with said Oonstittitibri under the cenditiolis Sot forth in said preposition" TA that:event, the ^ act 'authorizae the: -people of the Territory toelect delegates:to form a gmisti,j tutioa and state - geverninent - fer themselves, "whenever,- .3 and not before, it aseertatioed brit - census, duly and , le t gaily taken, tharthe population of said Territory equals - or exceeds the ratio of 'representation required for a =ant her of the liouse of Representatives of the Congressof the, UnitedStates."The deleaatioithria assembled "shall first determine bY a iota whether it lethe wish of the people : of the proposed State to be admitted Into the Union at that tine, and, if so, shall proceed' to form a .06nstitutlon, and take all necessary steps "bribe establishment eta Stste government in cenformity with Me federal constitu tion." After this 'Coestitution Motif hare been formed, . Congress, carrying mit the prineiplee ort.opulareovereiMi ty and non-intervention, have left the "mole and manner of its approVii -or ratification by the people of the oroPosed fitate".to be "prescribed by.law, , ' and , they "Mani then be admittiotinto the Union as a Stateunder such: Oonetitatiod thus fairly and legally Made, with orwithoirt Slavery, • said Con stitution may prescribe An 'election elion was held ".threngheut Kansas; in . . , . pursuance - of the-provisions of ibis on the second day of August.lasit, and.it resulted intlie rejection, by a large_ majority, of the tion.submitted to the people. by Congress. This being the case, they are authorisedto form another - Constitution; priparatory to admission into - the Union,-but not until their 'number, as ascertained by a census,-,- shill equal ;or t exceed the ._ratio,reguired elect a member to the - House of Representatives. , It is , not probable,llepresent 'state-of. the easi, - that !Lind' onetittition ,cin - laWfully, framed and presented to Congress , : by it ammo, befOreltcpopulationrshall have reached the deg-, .ignated..number. Nor• is it to, be.presumed that; ,after their sad experience in resisting the Terri ifelJaWS, they will atte'Opeto adopt 'a'CO n lion irr express violation of the 'previsions of an act of f eongresi.q During the'session... of 1850; "much of the time'of CongretilL was' 000upied.oni the question pf-admittine Kansas underthe.To-. ; pelts constitution. Again nearly the witch 'of" the jaikiestitote was "deLfotted tine qLiestion oft Atlinc. - Ktirely itis not nnienscinable to require Ate peo pre -of Kau saw to wait, lieforw making a third at tempt, untit . the- number : of their inhabitants shall amount Le ninety,three thousand-four hun dred . atidrtwenty:' this brief period, the harmony of the States; r es well ns "the great•bu sinessictterests of the cciantry, demand that the Uniowshall.not for a .third ,time be convulsed by another agitation on the Kansas quest ioU,—T- By waiting for.a short , time and-acting in <Amit e:me to law, Kansaa.wiii ' glide into, the Union, withent the 'slightest imPediment NEW STATES. This excellent provision, which Congress have applied to Kangas, ought to be extended, and rendered' applicable to - all - Territories which may hereafter seek admission , into the Union. Whilst. Congrese possesses the undoubted power of admitting new State inta the Union, however small may -be the number if inhabi tants, yet this power ought not, in my opinion to be exercised before the population shall amount to the ratio required by the act for the admission of Kansas. Had this been previous ly the rule, the country would haver escaped all the evils and misfortunes to which it has been exposed by the Kansas question. Of 'course, it - would' be unjust to give this rule a retrospective application, and exclude a State which, acting upon the Past practice of the government; has already formetlits Constitution, elected its Legislature' and other officers, and is now to enter the Uhion.. The rule might. to be adopted, whether we consider its bearing on: the people of the TerH tories.or upon the people of the existing States. Many of the, serious, dissensions which have pre vailed in Congress: and throughout the country, would have beeh avoided, had this rule been established at an, earlier period of the Govern ment. Immediately upon the. formation of a new Territory people from different. States and from foreign countries rush' into it, for the laudable purpose -of- improving their - condition. Their • first duty to themselvesie -to open and cultivate farms to construct roads, to eitablieh schools, to erect places of religious worship and to devote their energies generally to-reclaim .the wilder ness and to lay the foundations of a flourishing and:prosperoueCommonwealtit. If, in this'll).- cipihnt condition,. with a population- of a few thousand, they should prematurely enter the -Union, they are oppressed by the - burden of State taxation; and the means necessary for the , improvement of the-Territory and the advance-. merit of 'their own in crests, are thus diverted to very different purposes. - • ' The Federal Government has ever beenttliberal perorate the Territories, and a generens contribitsii_te thee-usefill en terprises of the early settlers. It has paid the expenses of their governments and- legialative assemblies mit of the corn , mon treasury, and thus relieved them from a heavy charge. Under theseeircu'mstances, nothing can he better calculated to retard their. material progress,, tban to divert them from their Morel employmemts; by prematurely exciting' angry political contests ameng themeelves, for the le nett of , tapir- ing leaders. It Is surely no hardship for embryo Goverriors, -Senators, anstmembers of Congrees, to wait until the ADM. ber.of inhabitints Isbell equal those of a single congreasion. at distriet.: - They surely ought not to be permitted to rush into the Union, with a population lees than one-half of sev eral- of the l e rge counties In the;interior of some of -the States. This was the conditiOn of Kansas when it made application to' be admitted.under the Topeka, constitution. Besides, it requires some time to render the mass of a pope, Wien collected in a new Territory,. at all homogeneous, and' to unite them on any thing like a fixed policy. Estiblish • the ruttr,attd anvil' look' forward to it and goiern them selves accordingly, Bat ,Instice to the - people of the several States requires 'that tins rule should be established by Congress. Should the people of the States fail to elect a Vice •President, the power devolves upon Use Senate to select this officer from the two highest candidates on the list. In Ma of the death of tlse President, the Vice President thus elected by the Sen ate, becomes President of the United' States. On all ques tions of legialation. the Senators from the smallest States,ot the Union have ars-equal vote with- those from' the largest. The same may be said in regard to the ratification of tree the, and of Executive appointments. All this has worked admirably in practice, whilst it conforms in principle with the character of a' government instituted iby sovereign States. I presnmo no . American citizen wonld- desire the slightent change in the arrangement.- Still is it not unjust and unequal .to the existing States to invest some forty ,or fifty thou./ma pa cottecte4 into a Territory with tbe tributes of sovereignty, and place them on an equal looting with Virginia and New York In -the Senate Of the United - . For these reasons, I earnestly recommend, the passage of a general act, which shall proiide- that' upon the application of a Territorial legislature, de claring their belief that theVerritory contains a nuns bar of inhabitants which, if in a State,,would enti tle them to elect a member of Congress,'it shalt be the duty of the President to cause a census of.the inhabitants to.be taken, and if found sufficient then by the terms of this act to authorize them to proceed "in their own way" to frame a State constitution' preparatory to admission into the 'Union. .I- also recommend that an appropriation may.l t e made, ,to enable the President to take a census of. the people of - ICansas. - - The pre,sent condition of the Teif:itaiy. of Titah; . . Philadelphia; &M b , West Corner of Seventh and Chestnut Streets- when.oontrasted with -what it was one year. ago, is a subjeot for coegratnlation. It was then in a state 'of open rebellion, and cost what it might, the char . 'acter of tho government required, that this rebellion should be suppressed and the Mormons compelled toy field obedience to the . Constitution and the laws. In order to accomplish this object, and es I inform ed yeti in my last annual message, I appointed a new Governor instead of Brigham Young, and other federal officers to take the place of 'those 'she, con sulting their peraontil safety, hiid found it necessary to withdraw from the Territory. TO protect these civil officers, and to aid them as 4. poisci cond. tutus, in the execution of the laws in :ease of need, I ordered a detachment of the army to accompany them to Utah. The necessity for adopting these measures is now demonstrated. , s On the 15th September,,lBs7, Governor Young issued his proclamation, in the style of ad lade pandent sovereign, - announning his plirPori, sis to resist by foroe of arms the entry of. the United ; States. troops into our own Territory el ; Irish. BY'this he required all' the forces ill the 'Terri ifliold 'themselves in readiness to march ,:aata.-momen't's notice' to repel any, an.d 'all !Utah: .11,prwiitin,"'and established martial law from its date throughout the Territory. Thetie proved to be no idle threats: Forts Bridges add Supply were vacated and burnt down by the ldormena, • f,o'deprive our troops of &shelter after their Tong and fatiguing march. Orders were belied by /ullet H. Wells, styling himself "Lieutenant General, Nativoo Legion," to stampede the ani- Male of the United State troops on their march 'te set fire .to their trains, to burn. the . grass and .the *hole country-before them and on their peeks, to keep them froorsteeping by night surprisei, and to blockade the road 11 felling trees, and .tiestroyieg:the fordo of rivers, Ste , Ste., gc. 'These. orders were, 'promptly and effectually 'Obeyed. On the 4th' October, 1857, the Moe. 'pions capiered and tinned oti Green River, three of Oursupply trains, consisting of seventy-five 'wagons, loaded With provisions and tents for' the ..army, and carried. away , several hundred animals./ This diminished the suppTY of provisions Immo, : terially that Genertillohistoir'wns'Obliged 'duee the ration, and even withlhls • prectintlitil l 2 • ...there was only suffiniemL:left to subsiat thelteciope until the first. of June. - .Our•little army•hehaved admirably in theirin-: earnpmeet 'et For‘leiidgiii, - Under these trying "privations. - In the inidet of the mountains, in a dreary, unsettled, and lnhitspitable region, more thodeand miles from ihoine, they 'passed . the severe and inclement winter without a mur 7; Jane.' They look fin:ward with eonfidence for relief from, their country id due e'easotr, an,d in this they were not disappointed. , . .the Secretary of *;111: employed all his energies,to' r forward-at - 0m s h e necessary inipplies; andlos:musta and Beall such-a miltary force,to Utah as woUld Ten, — der ieaistance on 'the part of thsi Brormomi hope- less' andlhus terminate the war ,Without,thiseffushin of bleed. In his efforts he was efficiently eurtained •by Congress. They griiited'afpprofsriationiatifficient fo Over the delleieney Abu!! nectossarily,oreated, and also provided for raisingtwo regimenie of"voluinteerßc for the pniptise - of • quelling distil-WM(IBS iiintlitiVar:. *Dry of,Utah, for the protection of supply. arid grant trains,and the suppression of lisd4iis hostili-ss ties on the rontiersfi 'llappily,,there was =nu dtea-A. • sion to call i these.reginsents, into ,service. If them 'bed Veen, Tstibilld'fitiv4 felt serious embarrassment in eeleiting. them, : do•krt4t, -Was ;the- riember:of •-• , brave and. patriotic, citizens ankh:suer to serve Asks C'ount'ry 1n airs' diatertf and - apparently' dimgermil expedition. Thus it JIM ever been,and - thus-mayAr . i ever be , The wisdom add Coonoilly 6t sopditYg sufficient ref inforeementa to -Utah, are established not,ohly by the event, bet'in the onidiOn of 'those who, from their positiors^and Opportunities, are-the: ;mos . ! , cepa , bits of forming . It correct_ judgment. General (Johns ' tens, the commander of the forces, in addriesing the 7 Secretary of: War.froin Fort Bridger, •nntlertdate of Ocitelmlll,'ll367; tiaprosleithe opiraop - that "unifies. "._-.*„" sefir 'herb; fronO•the Ctiature gf the country; - .a - protracted war on their (the:Ver.,' ramie) part is inevitable." This he considered ne-- canary, to terminate the war "speedily end more economically than if attempted by insufficient means" • " In the meantime, it was myenxibus desire that thelformons should yield obedience to,the Constite-• tion and the laws, Without rendering' it necessary to resort to military force. To aid in-aeronsplishing this object, I deemed it advisable, - in Apnl last, • to dispatch two distinguished citizens.of the ,United States, Messrs. Powell and M'Cullocb, to Utah. They bore with them a - Proclamation addressed by'myself to the inhabitants of Utah, dated on, the:sixth day of that month, warning them of their true oonditiou, and how hopeless it was on their part to persist in rebellion against the United. States, and offering all those who should submit to the laws a full pardon for their past sedition& and treasons. At tie same time, I assured, those who should persist in rebellion against the'United States, that they mist expect no further lenity,.but look to be rigorously dealt with according to their deserts.. The instructions to these, agents, as well as a copy of-the Proclamation, and their -reports, aro herewith submitted. It-will be seen by their report of the 3d of July last, that they have •fulli-eonfirmed the opinion. expressed by ; Gen. Johnston ia the previous October, as to...the necessity of sending reinforcements to Utah. In this they state,.that they "aro firmly impressed with the belief that the presence of the army here and the largo ad ditional force that bad been ordered to this Territory, were the chief inducements that ceased the Morm6ns to abandon the idea of resisting the authority of the- United States. A loss decisive policy would probably have resulted in a long, bloody,and exPensiveWae. These gentlemen conducted themselves to my OD.. tire satisfaction, and rendered useful services-in axeT• cutting the humane intentions of the government. . It also affords me great satisfaction to state that Governor Cumming has performed his duty in en able and conciliatory manner, and with the happiest effect. I cannot,. in thie d gennection, -refrain from mentioning the valuabldrifFices of Col. Thomas-L. Kane, who, frdin motives - of pure benevolence, and without any official °brio:der or pecuniary compen sation, visited Utah (airing the last inclement winter, for the purpose of contributing to the paciflontion of the Territory. - I am happy to inform you that the goveinor and other civil officers of Utah are now perform ing their appropriate functions without •resist ance. Tha r authority of the Constitution and the , • laws has been fully restored, and peace prevailsa throughout the Territory. A portion of the troops sent to Utah are now . encamped in Cedar valley, forty-four, miles: Southwest of'Salt Lake City, and the remaindei have been ordered to (Oregon to suppress ;Inaiati . The march of the armj o Salt Lake City, through .the Indian territoil l hastad a power- ful effect in restraining the hostile feelings against the United Stales, which existediainong the Indians in that region, and in securing emi grants -to the Far West against their depreda tions. This will also be the means of establish ing military poste tad. _promoting, settlements along the route. , I recommend that' the iginefits of our Land laws and pre-emption•• system be extended to the people of Utah, by the establishment of a Land office in that Territory. • CHINA. I have occasion, also, to congratulate you on the result of the negotiations with China. ~ You were informed , by my last annual message that our Minititer had been instructed to occupy a neutral position in the hostilities conducted by Great Britain and France against Canton.. Ile was, however, at the same time, directed to co operate cordially with the British and; French -Ministers.iu all peaceful measures to.securc by, :treaty those just concessions to foreign com merce which the nations of the world-had a right to demand. It was impossible for. me to prodeed further than this, on my own authority, without usurping the war-matting. power, which, under ' the Constitution; belongs eiclusively. to Con gress. , Besides, after a.careful examination of the nature and extent of our grievances, I.did not believe-they-were ofineh,a pressing, and ag gravated 'character, as would4eiye justified 'Congress in declaring Noir Chinege . 'Empire, without brat. Taking" an earnest at tempt to adjust them .by peaceful :ne gotiation.. , I wits the more inclined to :thia . ' opinion, be=' cause of the severe chnetisentent •which.had • then but reeently-beettinflieted upon the Chi ': •itese. by our scputdronr-itt -- the. - capture ,and destruction of the Barrier farts, to avenge an alleged insult to our flag.- The event has 'prove& the Arisdoin of our -neutrality ; Our ~111inistur.4. 1 3 executed his . instructions With isnoinetrit gicillend ability. In conjunetion4itl , thei ritilesdah- - plettipeteutiam' he has peiensfully,lukeilhotually, colperated . • By Nall, Orit.the Mee, $1.50 per Year, / SEE PROSPECTUS. Delivered in the City, 1,75 " " WHOLE NO. 825 with the Englishand Frenchplempotentiaries; and each of the four powers - has concluded a .separate treaty with China, of a highly satis factory character. Tho treaty concluded by our-own plenipotentiary will immediately -be submitted to the Senate, lam happy to announce that, through the energetic yet conciliatory efforts of our Consu l in Japan, a new treaty has bCen con cluded with that Empire, which may : , be ex pected materially to augment our trade and intercourse in that quarter and remove from our countrymen the disabilities which have. lieftitefore been imposed upon the exercise of ,their religion., treaty shall be submitted to the'Sertatei tor approval without 'delay. GRIIIIT BRITAIN. 'lt is-my earnest desire that every inlinnderstand ing with the government of Great Britain; should be amicably and speedily. adjusted. It has been the misfortune of both countries, almost ever sinee the period - of thirTfkirdtatior - 7 - 0, ;nave been annoyed by a Suet:tendon 'cif irritating and dangerous questions, threatening their friendly relations. This has par tially prevented the full development of those .feel ` ingi, of mutual friendship between the people of the two-countries, so natural in themselves and so con ducive to their oommoo interest. Any serieue inter ruption, of the commerce between the United States and Great Brittairr, would be equally injurious to both. In fact, no two nations have ever existed on theifaccof the putt', which could do each other so much good or, so Mitch harm. ' Entertaining these sentiments, I am gratified to inform you, that the-long -pending controversy be- Eweon thertwo Governments, in relation to the quer lion of visitatioirand search, has been amicably ad justed. The claim on the part of Great Britain, for _ cibly to Visit - American vessels on the high seas in . tiptenf peeee„obiald tnot:be sustained under the law of nations, and ft had been overruled by her own most eminentjuriste‘--- -This question wait recently,bronght to-an issue, by the . repeatedaefsnf'British - ernizerl,l6 . lloarding and •searehing ouransirehartt vesselalii th&Galrof Alex .locrand Ike adjacent eau. These acts were.the more 'injurious add annoying, al those waters area travers- UM by. a large portion: of; the cOmmerce'and naviga ;,.tion•of the United States, and their free andunre '"iiiiided tteirie 436;66:tri0 the Seenfity-of the coast* ••,w)sibtriellisbetwifrenrclifferent States of the Union.— Such.vexatious.interriipliorie 'mina riot fail excite the feelings' f , the - conntryiand..to.risquire the inter position of_the,p,oiriment. Remonstrances were addressed to the British Government against these violations'of- our righte of sovereignty, and a naval pferpernas.at the same time ordered to the Cuban . waters, with direitions "to protect all vessels of the United:States on the high seas, from eteireh or de . tention by the vessels of war of any _other nation."— ' , These measures received ' the unqualified and even enthiutialitic , ..aPprebation of :the Artierioaq people. Most fortunatly,however, no collision took place, arid the'Britisti Efoveineent,promptly avowed its re cognition of -the.principles ;of international law up on this subject, ai laid doWn by the Government of the United-States, in the nate of the Secotary of State .to the, British Minister it Washington,of -April 10,1858, which secure the vessels of the Uni ted Statek•tipoii.tlie'.ltigli seas fromillisitation or search - i¢ .tiree of peace,. under -any circumstan ces whatever. The'claim has been abandoned fd a man ner reflecting honor;ori the.Brit:Leh ',Govern:Rent, and rl evincing eine. : itegtt{d for the law of nations, and baited fairt'd t stienktbeetheamicabie refitting be ',Lipson tyrocppnweiy. The t ßritiah Government at the same time, ".lifopodecartiTe Unired 'Stales that lorne mode sh d Ebetadopled, Ty. arrangement be tween „the two • countrieNof a character which niatAbe feadiffiEtiii withiout -tieing offensive, for verifying the nationality of veescle sespectcd on goad-grounds.ot.carrying false colors. They have also invited. the United States to take the initiative, and propose - measures for this pur pose.: Whilst:declining to isstimeetiiorgreat a le ..P.RoSsibilitY, „Ater Seerelar,y .of jtate,has in formed tlie'Briffidi Government that wenre ready AO rioefitratiy proposals which: they may feel disposed to,offer, having this object in view, and to consider. them in an amicable spirit. A strong opioion is however expressed that the oc casional abuse of the flag of any nation, is an evil far lees to be deprecated, than would be the establishment of any regulations which might be -incompatible with the freedom of the seas. This Government has yet received no communi cation specifying the manner in which the Brit ish Government' would propose to carry out their suggestion ; end I:ani inelinedic believe that no plan which can be dcvieed, will be free from grave embarrasments. Still, I shall form no de cided opinion on the subject, until I shall have • carefully and in the best spirit examined any proposals which they may think proptr to make. I air truly-sorry I cannot also inform you that the complications between Great Britain [writhe United States, arising out of the Clayton and Bulwer4resty of April, 1850, have been finally adjusted. At the commencement of your last session, I had reason to hope that, emancipating them selves frem further unavailing discussions, the two Governments would proceed to settle the Central American questions in a practical man ner, alike honorable and satisfactory to both ; and this hope I have not yet abandoned. In my Jest annual message, I stated that overtures had been made by the British Government for this purpose, in a friendly spirit which I cordially reciprocated. Their proposal was to withdraw these questions from direct negotiation between the two Governments ; but to accomplish' the same object by a negotiation between the British Government and each of the Central American Republics whose TerritOrial interests are imme diately involved. The settlement was to be made in-accordance with the general tenor of the in terpretation placed upon the Clayton and Bul wer treaty by the United States, with certain modifications. As negotiations are still pending upon this basis; it would not be proper for me to communicate their present condition. A final settlement of these questions is greatly to be de aired, as' this would wipe out the last remaining subject of dipute between the two countries. ' TRANCE AND RUSSIA. Ouixelatlons with the great empires of France and Rus sia, wi well as with all other Governments On the Conti coat of Europe, except that of Spain, continues to be of the most friendly character. . . SPA With Spain our relations remain in on unsallifactory con dition. In my message of December bud, I informed you that our Envoy Extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary to Madrid had asked for bin recall ; and it wee my put ruse, to sendnut a new Misdater to that GOurt., wtthepecia 1 in structions on all questions pending between the two Gov ernments, and with a determination to have them speedily and amicably adjusted, if that werepoesible. This plums° Las been hitherto defeated by causes which I need not enumerate. The mission l 0 Spite bee been entrusted to a distinguish ed citizen of:Kentucky, who , will proceed to Madrid with out delay, and make another and a final attempt to obtain justice from that Government Spanish officials, ender the direst contrditof the Captain- General of Cuba, have insulted our national flag, and. in re peated Instances, have from time to time inflicted injuries on the pennies and prope•ty of our citizens. These Lave given birth to numerous claims against ihe'Spanish Gov ernment, the merits of which have been ably discussed for a eeriea of yews, by our atIOCEOSITe diplomatic represents- - tires. Notwithstanding this, we have not arrived at • prac- Mal result In any single instance, soles we may except the case of the Black Warrior under the late administration; - and that presented ontrag. of each a characterns would have jtistida an immediate resort to war. All out attempts to obtain redress have boon baffled and defeated. The fro- Tient and ofbracurileg changes the Spanish ministry, have been employed as reasons t r delay; We have been compelled to wait again and again, until the new minister shall have bad time to Juireatigate the justice of our de mends. Even what have been denominated the "Cu :ban claims," in which more than a hundred of our citizens are direotly interested have furn ished no exception. Thisiclaime were for the re funding of ,duties unjustly enacted from Ameri can vessels at different custom-houses in Cuba, so long ago as the year 1844. The principles upon which they rest, are so manifestly equita .ble and .just,. that after a period of nearly ten wears, in 1854; they were recognized by the Spanish Government. Proceedings were after yards instituted to ascertain their amount. and this was finally 'flied according to their own itiatement (with • which we were satisfied) at tha snm of one hundred and twenty-,eight, thousand .Bix,hundred and ,thirty-five dollars and fifty-four cents. Just it the moment, after a delay of fourteen years, , ,when we had reason to expect, that this sum would be repaid with interest, we have received a Propclial offering to refund one third of that amount (forty-two 'thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars and forty-one cents,) but without interest, if we would accept thiesin full satisfaction. The offer is, also, ac companied by a declaration, that this indemnifi . cation is not founded on any reason of strict jnatioe ; but isrmsde as a special favor. [OONCIODID ON TOURVI PAWL)
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